Blue Monk -- Jazz Piano Solo

Here I'm just noodling around on a blues piece. No metronome and I went too long, but I was enjoying it.

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• Blue
• monk
• thelonious
• jazz
• solo
• piano
• Raleigh
• Durham
• North
• Carolina

[barit0n3]

simple yet magnificent playing!!

[7notemode]

@barit0n3 Thank you!

[Seii09]

What awesome playing, I feel inspired! Such nice dynamic timing and timbre... Makes me want to dedicate years of my life just for the chance to play like this. Thanks for putting it out there for us. The recording quality was top notch as well.

How long have you been playing Piano?

[7notemode]

@Seii09 Thanks so much.  I've been playing basically all my life.

[mrlachaj]

1 word.... WOW!!!!1

[7notemode]

Thanks!!

[marioduenasmusic]

Your solo playing is unique. Accurate timing, clean & fresh ideas, smooth voicing, impressive melodic material... just wonderful. Congratulations.

[Lucito77]

Hi ... really loved your playing and by all means next time have fun even longer :)

[markmarktarmann]

@metaphoricalcow and i like to think of it sometimes as a chromatic walk down rather than as tritone sub turnaround. simpler and faster to spin off some chromatic patterns or (heaven and berklee forbid !) even a BLUES scale or pattern.

[markmarktarmann]

@metaphoricalcow thanks, but i got all that already. i said "walking down" because he also "walks up" Bb7 I  cm7 ii7 dm7 iii7 (then G7 or Db7) on the way to the ii V turnaround before the iii VI ii V.

[metaphoricalcow]

@markmarktarmann Yeah that makes sense! I normally see "walking down" chords (Bb, A, Ab, G) as equivalent to Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, with tritone subs. Every seventh chord wants to resolve - in classical theory, they want to resolve down a fifth, but us jazz cats can mess around a bit!

[metaphoricalcow]

@markmarktarmann @sahsplishsplash All you need to know to understand what he's doing there is Rhythm Changes, and Tritone Substitution. Both have very good wikipedia articles. :)

[markmarktarmann]

@sahsplishsplash he's also using at the beginning some sharp 11 chords, a monk trademark,

[markmarktarmann]

@sahsplishsplash he does it as a"jazz blues" ,! 7 to VI 7(walking down , 2 beats each from Bb13 to A13 to Ab13 to the G7b9(the Vi 7 chord) chord, and then ii 7 (c min7)and V7 on the turnaround. or subs the III 7b9 for the I 7 (Bb7) etc. (as metaphoricalcow says below)if you don't "get" all that, get a teacher or sign up for a jazz 1a at a Jr. college. that's how i got started w. this guy's block chords beat my shit tho. he's worked at it a lot harder than i have. great playing!

[metaphoricalcow]

@sahsplishsplash He isn't just playing Bb, Eb, and F the whole way through. He's reharmonising parts of it. Looks like instead of the four bars with | Bb7 | Bb7 | F7 | F7 | he goes | Bb7, Eb7 | D7, G7 | Cm7, Gb7 | F7, B7 |.

[MrPeregrines]

brilliant playing ... elegant & beautiful!!!