Your tone in this video is one of the best jazz guitar tones I've ever heard. Clean, just enough brightness and clarity without being too bright. Also your explanation of students having residual damage from jazz school is awesome, I tell my students the same thing haha, nothing wrong with triads! Amazing stuff man, thanks so much.

Great video. Deep dive into this wonderful tune made so easy. Thanks much.

Thanks for sharing your very fine approach on such a classic! I am currently learning this chord melody!

Thanks Mikko, love it! very useful information and very well explained!

Great lesson. Thanks for the pdf too!

thanks a lot for your generous and very useful explanation

Thank you teacher amazing lesson 🙏🎸

thanks mikko great lesson

as usual great lesson

so amazing

Man, thanks for sharing . Also analysing the song from different angles gives you freedom. BTW: I'm sure you will be a good neighbor around here.

What a wealth of info, well explained. Didn’t even hear your neighbors. Thanks for a great lesson Mikko

@lthmptr

4 жыл бұрын

Mikkos great

thanks, great teaching

You have some excellent ideas. I first saw you on the Slonimsky Thesaurus video. I will go over this lesson in detail, with my guitar. Thank you.

@Mikkokosmos

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you like it :D

Love it Mikko, I also like very much the versions of Johnny Smith and Kenny Burrell

Kool man thx....great work

Fantastic lesson!

@Mikkokosmos

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks :D

@JamesSeaberry

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mikkokosmos Thank YOU!!!! You have some great stuff on your Patreon page!

Qué bueno, gracias Mikko.

Wow there is a lot of stuff to find in this lesson. The bass note melody thing is great, and something I guess we naturally work on eventually, but as tool for outlining in the way demonstrated is a great practice. And that voicing at 3:49of Eb minor with with Db bass with the ninth is beautiful. Never played that chord. I'll never be able to forget it now and will probably try to over use it as best I can

I just cought this. Cool. 5:00. Just made my life easy!

Thank for the lesson and " Le petit vingtième".

@Mikkokosmos

4 жыл бұрын

Tintin 🤩

Hi Mikko, love this lesson and made a donation through paypal. was hoping to get the PDF of this. thanks you for all your great lessons

@Mikkokosmos

2 жыл бұрын

hi if that was you that contacted me like a week ago on PP then I sent the PDF to the adress you provided. This was a few days ago

Great video, breakdown, and explanation for this terminal novice. Subscribed and notifications turned on. As a former linguistics professor, at 19:30 ... I like the way you try to describe the 'jazz attitude' as embodied by Monk. I like to call it 'pro-socially subversive' - the direction I think great art and a liberal arts education should aspire. By the way, me coming from a bossa background, I also really like Kenny Rankin's version of the song. My favorite jazz ballad, along with 'Lush Life' (especially Natalie Cole's version).

@Mikkokosmos

4 жыл бұрын

Pro-socially subversive! Very interesting. I have decided to keep politics out of my lessons but this is interesting. I think players like Monk, Miles and others had this dimension to their art. I also feel this this has been lost in todays Jazz. I could be wrong. As a linguist you could give my English lessons 🤓

It the old minor chromatic decending voice the same as My funny Valentine just in eb- instead of c- . The chords eb- eb-/M7 eb-7 to eb-6 which gives you a choice to treat it as c-b5. The other version is just using strong bass motions by treating that harmony as a series of II V bass movement subs. I use both for variety on the repeat “ memories always start etc” most of the time if your listening in ensemble situations the same ideas will fit both you just have watch clashes with the bass line in the two different “routes”. Its a mad tune. Good idea to raise ambiguity for neophytes didactic sake though. Its a great progression to ponder as the counterpoint can be played many different ways on chordophones depending on which voice your going to place the chromatic minor cliche into. Wes plays the melody really low that really set the standard as it binds with feel of the tune.

Very good video. (Couldn't hear the neighbors.. :-). Calm and thoughtful. Like the tune (not the neighbours)

Hi Mikko! What a supercool video- you made it very clear that it’s better to trust your ears than a page of chords out of the realbook ( isn’t that the realbook that has been transcribed by Steve Swallow- sorry Steve!) ... I mean writing down a minor tonic instead of a major tonic is really criminal 👮‍♀️( sorry Steve again)

@Mikkokosmos

4 жыл бұрын

They probably smoked too much when they wrote that book :p I mean..look at the last couple of pages :D

@tinajackel

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

This was quite challenging, might have been a bit more manageable if you just had the lead sheet showing now and again for reference (I just googled it and referenced that as we went thru). It would be really nice on the points where you discuss divergences with the real book. Either way, very helpful video.

Tip: Make a list of topics in the video description. Then we can find the parts of the music more easily.

I think those changes you mentioned in the B section are from Miles' recording of it from the album round about midnight

Mikko thank you for sharing these beatiful changes on this great Monk composition. Is it possible for you to balance the audio recording so volume of your voice is at same level of guitar volume .? I enjoy and learn very much with your videos. !!

@Mikkokosmos

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks glad you like it. This video is like two years old, I was only using one mic at that point so there is nothing to balance 😐 I you watch my latest videos I think you will find that the audio quality has improved. I now use a unidirectional mic for my voice.

12:20 the B section 12:47 the confusing end of the B section

pls consider giving a 26-2 lesson😆😆

Great video. However, the "correct changes" are just alternatives. I spent a few minutes with the tune on the piano. Just throw a finger on another black key and the possibilities become endless.

Just a suggestion, could you position yourself so that the light comes from your left. At the moment all the Important detail is in shadow.

Hey Mikko - I checked out the original with Monk's quartet and for the descending dominants at the end of the B section it sounds like they are playing Db9, B9, Ab-7, Db7/Ab, F-7, Bb7. The video is here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/X62bmcOToKy-gqw.html

@Mikkokosmos

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Thanks. I gotta try those chords. Always good to check out the original changes.

Which version of the real book do you have? I'm looking at hal leonard, sixth edition, and the last 4 bars of the B section are [Ab-7 F-7 Bb7 | C-7b5 F7 | Db9 B9 | Ab-7 F-7 Bb7] whereas at 12:50 you say the real book says [Ab-7 Db7 Gb^7 | B7 Bb7 | Eb7 Db7 | B7 Bb7]. The version I see in the real book is a lot more like what you mention at 12:57, which you aren't sure where it's from, it might be from Monk live at the Blackhawk

@Mikkokosmos

3 жыл бұрын

Can't remember I bought it in the 80s 😀 front page is missing. And it's been used a lot so it's not in good shape 🙄

@johnm5321

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mikkokosmos the hal leonard 6th edition looks much improved!

i think some of the changes at 14:54 come from Chet Baker kzread.info/dash/bejne/f5emk6Otecurl6Q.html at 2:17 where he plays Abm Abm/F# Fm7(b5) Bb(b9) Cm7(b5) F6. Thanks so much for the cool lesson.

Definitely deserve donation, right?

@Mikkokosmos

3 жыл бұрын

🤩

"Round midnight = Thelonious Monk .

@Mikkokosmos

4 жыл бұрын

sorry what's your point?

A bit long winded but the info is solid.

As a reward, I have an inside line tip for you. A young Monk was reading from the fake book, and some of those bizarre accidentals are from the re-harmonization's he did not yet know when reading the stripped down chart. Try it, yet go back in time before you were taught. You will stumble onto the technique he used to good effect later in his career. The accidentals used to reharmonize the melody of the tune are not employed, yet the new chords are, in other words. That sort of disjointed style is not really genius, yet it's sounds like he's from outer space.

Like most tunes with a lyrical tune, if you base your solo around the melodies guide tones and resolve your phases well you wont get too out of shape unless you want to as the the bass line regardless of its approach complements the melody. The tricky bit is Wes delves into the guitars real bass register in his melody. These are the places to be wary of soloing. Luckily Ive never heard it much faster than Sarah Vaughans tempo so you have time and thats why God invented slurs 😂

my realbook is comepletly different chord wise for this song my brain hurts

@Mikkokosmos

11 ай бұрын

What chords do you have? And which Rea Book is it? I go over several variations here. I also have a video on Monks original chords

@Mhooodie

11 ай бұрын

6th edition, I didn't watch to far maybe you got to it later in the vid. Love the vid btw.@@Mikkokosmos

I'm working on this piece from The Real Book, but I have slightly different chords. Key is Ab, but still starts in Ebm. A few other differences. Must have a different version of the book?

@Mikkokosmos

4 жыл бұрын

Ab?! Major? The tune is in minor. 🤔 Strange. Which real book is this?

@jgravy82

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry - I was waaay wrong. It is Eb (but yea, major - ends on Eb6, which I expect is why. Sounds nice at the end, anyway.) - apparently my ability to read key signatures has significantly diminished. I don't have my physical copy, just a pic of the page, so I can't check the publication info. I believe it was published by Hal Leonard, though, for whatever that's worth.

@Mikkokosmos

4 жыл бұрын

@@jgravy82 It should have six flats. Sometimes you write Jazz tunes with no key signatures but this tune is definetily in Eb minor so six flats. If you have Eb major? then you might be looking at an Eb version of the Real Book? Transposed for alto sax? Then the tune would be in C minor which shares the same key signatures as Eb major. I don"t understand why it would be in major the tune is im minor? Even though the last chord is Eb major. You need a concert real book, not a transposed one.

Hei. Nuo sointukulut ovat ne mitä itselleni tuli vastaan kun aloin opettelemaan kappaletta tämän pdf:n avulla: 557-jazz-standards.pdf. -Löytyy kooklaamalla. Tuossa vihossa on lähes kaikki biisit hyvin alkuperäisen oloisia, toisin kuin realbookissa.

@Mikkokosmos

Жыл бұрын

I don't speak Finnish 😐

@lllllllllllllllllllllllllllIl

Жыл бұрын

@@Mikkokosmos my bad. I was just saying that there is a pdf with those chords and overall it has much more accurate chords than the real book. I used it a lot, just because it was the first thing I found back in the day, but later i realised what a piece of gold it actually was.