Bebop Piano Legend Walter Bishop, Jr. Explains His Theory of Fourths
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Uploaded by JazzVideoGuy on Jul 18, 2009
Jazz piano legend Walter Bishop, Jr. discusses and demonstrates his Theory of Fourths.
Walter Bishop, Jr. (April 10, 1927 January 24, 1998) was an American bop and hard bop jazz pianist.
He was the son of composer Walter Bishop, Sr..
In high school his friends included Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Art Taylor. He began his musical career after World War II, and played and recorded with Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Oscar Pettiford, Kai Winding, Miles Davis, Jackie McLean, Curtis Fuller, Terry Gibbs, Clark Terry, Blue Mitchell, and Supersax. In the early 1960s he also led his own trio with Jimmy Garrison and G. T. Hogan. He continued performing into the 1990s.
After studying at The Juilliard School with Hall Overton in the late 1960s, he taught music theory at colleges in Los Angeles in the 1970s. In 1983 he began teaching at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford. He also wrote a book, A Study in Fourths, about jazz improvisation based on cycles of fourths and fifths.
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wow, this my new favorite piano player
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Hes great! Only wish his piano was in better tuning.
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run a google search for 'walter bishop, a study in fourths' I found a free pdf file of it some where out in the big electron...
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I love the rawness of this tutorial :)
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@BradBenMusic Thanks for the help, BradBen. Sounds like you know what you're talking about.
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@Bugera369 - He's talking about moving a set of 4ths in minor thirds, like moving through a diminished chord. So in a ii-V-I progression in C, he's doing this: over D-7 play C-F-Bb/Eb-Ab-Db. Over G7 play F#-B-E/A-D-G, and brings you back around to C.
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this is by far the best jazz lesson/video i have ever seen! I'm going to need to teach this one to my guitar...
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@jaythanbishop HEY thanks a lot for the book!!! This is of great value!!!
GUYSSSS if you see his webpage be sure to download bishop's study of fourths!!! I'm so happy i found this for free!!
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Far out!
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Can someone further explain what he starts to say at 10:17? I keep listening to it but I just can't seem to wrap my head around what he's saying..thanks in advance.
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I always wish more jazz musicians would make videos explaining stuff. niiiice.
radio555 2 years ago 21
One of the first jazz educators. Thanks a lot Video guy !
robertojimenez204 2 years ago 13