THAT is the very best twenty minutes of vocational jazz piano instruction I’ve ever seen. So incredibly simple and so perfectly explained. Quartels have always been fleeting, passing moves for me. This tutorial gives me something to latch onto, to put me into the throws of something broader, ultimately giving birth to both new voice and new rhythm! A watershed moment here and I thank you!!!!

@strat1227

Жыл бұрын

The other 12 minutes must have been practicing at the keyboard 😂

@JohnPaulRiger

Жыл бұрын

Well I had to watch it several times and stop it occasionally to make notes. This is now part of my regular practice routines! ❤️

@hectorhernandez215

Жыл бұрын

Bravo, maestro...!!!

@dpwaldman3145

Жыл бұрын

This is what I consider brilliant educational instruction. He’s always gonna make me work, but with loads of energy, inspiration, and value. That’s Peter Martin. Thanks, brother!

@MAYNOR82

7 ай бұрын

Wow! Now I hear it and understand it! When he said he wasn’t really playing “out” but it sounds like it while sticking to the minor pentatonic I was like 🤯🤯

I think I just broke a tooth

@svensvensson6705

Жыл бұрын

The best feeling

@craigkeller

Жыл бұрын

As long as your ears are ok.

@carlomonterosso5089

Жыл бұрын

LoL!

@jeanlucchapelon

Жыл бұрын

Good idea 👍 I’m gonna work on that,it sounds good !! Thanks 😊

@threefivefivethreeflip7435

Жыл бұрын

Captain Crunch Quartals for raw Gums.

as a guitarist ive been trying to wrap my head around the logic of this sound for a while, thank you!! best jazz channel ever!!

@michaelhenry1167

Жыл бұрын

Same exact experience as you (as a guitar player). I could hear it but had no idea what was happening. This was awesome.

@beeson5450

Жыл бұрын

Man, I know the feeling, this kind of stuff is like magic from another realm as a guitar player. We have an advantage that we can bend, trill and slur to taste but the voicing and substitution aspect is a challenge.

@santibanks

10 ай бұрын

But the nice thing is that these chords come so easy to the guitar as tuning of at least the bottom 4 strings are fourths (or well, if you use a standard tuning that is). The regular quartal voicings can be done with just one finger on those strings. When using the D-string as the starting point it's either 2 fingers (incorporating the B-string) or just three (using the E-string). The crunchy derivatives are not difficult either.

At last - Some detailed left-hand "McCoy Tyner" voicings! I've been practicing, last three days, Peter Martin's 60 second short on Pentatonics (Open Studio) and had started cracking the left hand movements by repeated viewings; but now here it is, all precisely laid out. Everything in this video works with the Eb (or C-) Pent scale, making this the perfect foundation for study in all keys. Thank you Peter!

Great production value! Shoutout to whatever intern is animating the transcription hahaha

Works great on guitar too; very cool. Thanks.

@rolandmueller7218

11 ай бұрын

It works great on any harmonic instrument.

Man, you are so masterful at this. A great player and wonderful teacher. So grateful for you. 🙏🏻

Masterful teaching. As a horn player I’ve only ever recognized that sound. Now I understand it.

I never thought I'd be able to understand the basics of this jazz style. Thanks for that! Happy holidays from Marbella, Spain.

Wow, these are GREAT! I think I usually play them by accident; really helpful to have some structure for practicing more intentionally.

Peter. I could talk for days about how great this is. Love the Crunch o meter! Thank you!

Gonna send you the cleaning bill, Peter... my mind was blown by this lesson! A simple explanation of next-level material! Bravo! 🎹

Hip insider stuff !! Thanks a lot !! All the “crunchy” 4ths appear to act as the original 4ths dominant. So functional and cool. A whole world of possibilities opens !! Great inspiring playing there..!!

@rubenski_415

Жыл бұрын

Yup, it's great because they are the same voicings as the shell for the #9 chord (a lot of them), and since the #9 is in both that chord and the scale of the tonal center, it makes total sense as a sub. So logical while deriving something still inspired-sounding, creative and hip! Which I think are the cross streets jazz lives at

@garfd2

Жыл бұрын

Like Db-G-C is a rootless Eb7(13) which is a sibling of C7b9, and even that C dominant sound gets along with Cmin/Ebmaj pentatonic, because Eb is a blue note to C.

@joegold1001

10 ай бұрын

Just had an ah ha experience. Thanks.

5 crunchy quartals 1. 4:17 2nd, lowering root Db G C 2. 5:25 4th, lowering root Fb Bb Eb 3. 6:00 5th, lowering root Gb C F 4. 6:28 6th, lowering root & 4th Ab Db G 5. 7:22 Root, lowering root Cb F, Bb (aka G7#9) Naturally occurring mini crunchy quartals in Cm dorian 1. 2:51 3rd, Eb A D 2. 3:15 7th, Bb Eb A

@teeteejay

5 ай бұрын

My theory of how these alterations come to be is that they are highlighting Gb7 and its chord scale Gb mixolydian. It doesn't matter if you play C or Cb because C would imply Gb lydian scale

Mind blowing how easy you made this. Brilliant video

I feel like I reached the promised Land!!!!! I have been searching for someone to explain Quartal Harmony to me for years - and more so, how it works. Thank you so much!! I am an Open Studio member and have been doing your courses. Now I have what to work on. Thanks a gazillion!

THIS IS THE SOUND IVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR FOR YEARS AND IT IS SO SIMPLE THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO THE LIGHT GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL

So you can drop the bottom note a half step if it doesn’t land you on another note in the Dorian scale. Neat!

@ALF8892

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, I was wondering why that was what they where playing

Well that is cool. The newly included non - diatonic notes (C# E F# G# B) spell a C#- pentatonic scale which, being up a semitone, account for the chord's 'crunch'.

@JeffCogswell

Жыл бұрын

Good observation!!

@spareplanet

Жыл бұрын

Good observation! I think that may relate to why he made “crunchies” only on select positions (the 2, 4, 5 and 6 I think it was)

@sheilamacdougal4874

10 ай бұрын

Accounting for the crunch isn't the problem. Accounting for why they should be played with C minor pentatonic IS.

@teeteejay

9 ай бұрын

They're also implying the c altered scale (except B which implies c harmonic minor scale)

Absolute gold Peter. You never cease to amaze me. Working on the transcription now....(update 25 years later...still working on it...)

Great One Peter! This is definitely an "Oops All Berries!" Episode

Great Christmas present! Thank you!!

Wonderful, Peter! I wanted to understand this stuff, this McCoy Tyner language, for a long time. You present it clearly and beautifully - you own it! Thank you for this!

I can't stop thinking on GRP All Star Big Band Live In Japan (My Man's gone now), you should make a video on that version!

Great lesson as always. Also your production has gotten so good! I’m happy for your success

I wish this wasn't above me! You're such an excellent teacher.

Gahhhhh my head exploded in the best possible way YAYYYY I say to the YAYYYYE. Thank you Peter. By the way, I love when you say doppio, are you ever gonna do a segment about the whacky grand piano that has the pedals with the second grand piano underneath you play with your feet? Pleeeeeez? That would be dope yo.

Great instructional video ! Straight to the point ! It reminds me of Dave Grusin's soundtrack for the movie "The firm".

Great teaching style, thank you! Could you reveal how you play an actual grand piano but have the keyboard on your video with the played notes highlighted?

Thank you so much for the lesson! Quartals have been a mystery to me until now, can’t wait to practice these crunchy quartals!

Great great video! simple and straight to the point and that's a beautiful way to use those 4th's sonorities. So simple yet sounds excellent, even just this without playing or changing the positions and voicings of the quartal chords. Thanks very much for sharing

Thanks for this. Sounds a lot like the great McCoy Tyner!

Extremely good lesson! Sitting here with a big smile on my face. And what a great piano player you are!!!

This is the BEST short lesson I’ve seen. Will definitely get my fingers working on this.😁

Great insights and well presented concepts! Many thanks for the lesson!

noone ever talks about cool ways to move between these voicings thanks for this Peter !

You are a great instructor. Making seemingly complicated music concepts actually easy to relate to. Encouraging those who hit a titanic musical ice to break through it and find other possibilities…but actually existing already… Thank you so much!

Very informative and clear!

Such a great tutorial... Understandable .. The Mysteries now Lie in Quartal's/4th's Spirit

This is absolutely amazing. Hope to apply to my bass playing!

Wow instantly applicable, rare for something so hip to require such little practice to internalize, good stuff!

Excellent! Very useful and very well explained. Thank you Cap'n Crunch!

thank you ! and happy hollidays !

Absolutely amazing lesson. Just what I needed

This is really great! I now more fully understand what I have been doing instinctively. This will help me apply it more knowledgeably. Thanks!

Peter great stuff , you’ve unlocked a long mystery for me ..many thanks

Yes. To everything that is happening here, I say yes! I’ll be transcribing this for the next month at least to get all the marrow out of it.

@chriswright2553

Жыл бұрын

Get the transcription, it's fantastic. If you're not a Pro member, I bet they will send it to you if you ask nicely. They're good like that.

The crunch meter says guitarist approved!

God answer prayers....thanks for your teachings ...great stuff.........

Great stuff. Interested in the fourth voicings. Polkadots in play 👍

That was great, Peter. Great lesson on the inside quartals. Meaty and crunchy. What I'd love to see next from you is the same lesson but for the eyes-rolling-back-in-the-head outside quartals, -the insane McCoy stuff. I knew there was a structure to the inside quartals, but is there a similar theoretical framework for the eye-rolling demonic possession outside quartals that you can make sense of?

Thank you for explaining a sound I've been hearing for years but never quite been able to put my finger on.

Very Cool video! It makes me wanna go to the storage, take out that grand piano, bring it home and start doing scales again. If it wasn’t because every time I see the piano it scares me so much I can’t even open the lid. Oh well… I did enjoy this video a lot Thank you 🙏

So good! Thank you!

It's interesting, and very useful to some pianists, I'm sure. It fits into straight ahead playing and maybe into some other styles, but it is not for every jazz pianist - there are so many styles!

@pgroove163

Жыл бұрын

just another color in the crayon box..

ok, best jazz piano lesson I´ve ever seen:)

💗🎶 Perfect Force in the Sea of Dorian! Great delivery on this info nice and upbeat, succinct

So useful,thank you.

Love this video. Thank you!!

This was probably my favorite music lesson KZread. Thank you haha Please live in Boston and let me study

Thanks so much. I learn a lot in just one video! Keep up the good work. FF

Your music is great! Nice improvization.

Wow! That’s a nice way to breakout of the limbo of P4 to add tension with the tritone using the Dorian scale

Great lesson...!

New to music studies and curious to learn more at my own pace. Great to be here to learn from this content, and not build relationships or engage in dialogue.

Wow, thanks so much for that lesson, bravo!

I don’t like the modal McCoy, Callderazo, Coltrane thing, but you really are amazing at teaching and playing it …

Wow you could feel the heat🔥🔥🔥

Amazingly usefull!!!! Thanks!

Fantastic!

Love the contect you guys. keep it up, aweosme stuff

Super useful and straight up legit. Thanks!

Thank you, Brother of Grooves.🌹🌹🔥🌲🌹🌹

Yeah I like these quartals, one of the most jazzy sounds ever. I think this happens because of their ambiguity: the ear asks itself "where is the 3rd, if ever?" or viceversa "are they sus chords?", or "are they enharmonically equivalent" and so on. Btw if for the sake of simplicity we admit raw enharmonical interchange the construction of those chords can be traced back to just three combinations: 1) perfect 4th + perfect 4th; 2) augmented 4th + perfect 4th; 3) perfect 4th + augmented 4th. At least, I tend to think this way while I (try to) play those. Great lesson by Peter here!

@russellmills6436

Жыл бұрын

I think you can also try shifting upper notes up... or doing Aug4 + Aug 4. So still with Cmin pentatonic right hand, on the 4 voicing left hand plays F Bnatural Enatural. And that can move chromatically up or down from there all the way down to Db. Then switch the D or second degree voicing to the regular perfect 4th voicing and you can go back to diatonic sound.

@russellmills6436

Жыл бұрын

Sorry not aug4th + Aug fth. That would be tritone and octave. But the aug4th or tritone + the perfect 4th voicing I think could be played chromatically up and down with the Cmin or any minor pentatonic over that. This a sax player learning a bit of piano though. Another way to riff or to get to the 'out' voicing would be to keep the root and move the upper two notes up a half step. This again stretches the lower half of the voicing creating the tri-tone. So another way to think about it is to add a tri-tone to the voicing by shifting pinky down or top two fingers up. I think the piano player for Cannonball uses this sound chromatically on the live in New York or San Fansisco album. Gemini maybe? So not just McCoy.

So good!

Great stuff!

Man, got that hack I've been hungry for. So simple and digestible, but output is sophisticated and elevating to my playing. Got it immediately thanks to clear concise teaching and a great break down. How do you do it? Working through the keys..

There’s almost a flavour of shifting around different Phrygian roots going on

This is spectacular! I love these lessons, they are so helpful to discovering new ideas and theory with jazz. Didn't McCoy Tyner use this in Contemplation?

Nice stuff!!

Great stuff!! 👍🏼

Crazy good!

this is awesome

Thanks!

CRUNCHY baby!!!

Good stuff ...thankx

Fantastic video.

Love it

CRUNCHY!🔥

OMG, I am so far away from this not even having all my major scales down yet. Inspiring but daunting.

@chriswright2553

Жыл бұрын

I was the same not so long ago. Stick with it, it will come.

@rolandmueller7218

11 ай бұрын

Stick to the simpler stuff first. Major scales, minor scales, diminished scales, basic chords…. Then quartals… then crunchy quartals…

I think of these as rootless hendrix chords, or sharp 9 chords. But I like how you show the relation to the quartal diatonic voicings as alterations. For the A D G variant, why do you move the D to C# instead of keeping it at D and just lowering A to G#?

Thank you !!!.awsome !!!!

Merry Christmas 🤩🔥

Thank you Mc Coy Tyner!

Love this. 👏

Absolutely killing

Yikes! Love it!

Ooooh mennnn!!! Thanks a lot sir. I get the concept of the left hand but the right hand, I don't get. Please help. Thanks alot, I love your tutorials.

Listening initially I was like, fuck I really need to sort my left hand out and felt shit. Watched the whole thing and felt better about life. Thanks

Best Lesson ever this was what i heard McCoy do