Improv on Spain | THE SONG jazzcians MUST know YouTuBorial JPC 

Hello sir. I've been watching your video for about a week. I am enjoying all the different colors you represent in this video. I've been an jazz organist for about 40 years and I seem to have gotten to a place where I am bored. This video has put a spark in me, thank you!

i love how you put Chopin into your improvisation. Makees me want to open up my Chopin books!

A tritone, away then play that pentatonic. How cool!!! I will work on this. In all keys. This is so fun. Thank you!

Hands down most comprehensive lesson I've found for this tune

I was playing saxophone with my band the other day and I applied like 25% of the concepts you gave here and it just expanded my solos greatly. Piano player was impressed. Those diminished scales and pentatonic and alt chord arpeggios just brought it to another level. Usually I just railroad through with D ionian. Thanks again

Never stop, these are great. Perfect for my level. Nice progression.

your tone is so vivid yet warm. Beautiful. The improv is so musical. Talented!

For a song I have been playing for close to 50 years,you gave me some insight into the progressions I never thought of.Thanks for the great tutorial.

This is the most helpful instructional video on improvising this tune. I get it now. Thanks!

Another great lesson Tony. Tons of ideas to explore. Thank you!!

I'm learning to improvise and this is really helpful. Thank you so much

Daaaaaaaaammmn! Thanks Tony! I've been dying to learn how to do improvs on jazz songs especially on spain and you have explained it so good and so detailed that I finally understand how to improv! Thanks Tony!

THIS WAS SO HELPFUL! Thank you so much!

So much in this tutorial. All understandable. I just need to practice applying it. You make everything so manageable. Thank you!

I can just repeat, what many here wrote before: This is the most helpful instructional video for this tune. Thank you very much!

Anytime I have performed this song, I struggled with the improvisation. This gives me some great ideas to use and to internalize in all 12 keys. Great tutorial. Thank you very much.

This video changed the way I think and play ....AMAZING !!! thanks from India

Beautiful and very useful lesson. Thank you, Maestro Tony!

thank you very much toni..your guide helps me alot on spain soloing n improvisations..

fffffffrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiccckkken awesome. I've been trying to do all this with Spain by ear for 20 years now, although a lot of that was learning the tune and a lot of the jazz chords in 12 keys, but still you lay it out and play it so clearly and beautifully I'm sure I won't have any trouble putting it in action right away, thanks. First time I saw you here so I'll look for more.

Just love the song - and you have a great way to teach it - many thanks - must get practicing!!

Very helpful tips presented in an easily understandable format. Superb!

A brilliant & thorough breakdown of Spain, Tony. You've given me a lot to work with and have taught me more about different scales and modes to use, thanks much!

Thank you so much for this! It helps so much, absolutely awesome content!

A genius player and teacher in one! Thank You.

really brill your lessons Tony - with a laid back style. best online.

I may have missed this when you released the video 5 years ago, but this is an utterly brilliant video. I’ve been wanting to learn this tune for a while and having spent a good year or so, working up to it, started this week. This resource is a goldmine. Thank you so much! PS, this is from a guitar player!!!

Muito bom! Gostei do vídeo e principalmente da didática! Ganhou um Fan!!!

Absolutely love that sound Tony. Great video!

Great as usual! Thanks again!

Meat, vegetables, spice with some Ionian seasoning to smarten it up haha! Love that Chopin line, some great ideas here Tony conveyed in a very clear way.

thanks for sharing your talent, great ideas indeed.

I’m really happy to have found this. One of the more helpful instructors for self study.

Thank You so much Mr Winston 👏🏻👏🏻

great video, I found it easy to follow

this is very helpful, thanks a lot for this!

Thanks! I learn a lot.

Very good. Thank you

this was so good.thank you sir.

You are great master. God bless you all time. hugs from Shanghai..

This man said “box voicing” and I was like ah interesting Bach’s voicings

Thank you teacher, good explanation.

This a really good video!

Yeah man! I loved the explanations.

Thank You!

Wonderful, thanks a ton!

Great lesson 👍 Thank you so much )

its so beautifull

Very helpful, thank you

Thank you Sir🙏🏽

I learned so much. Thanks

Good approach in balancing theory, technique and enjoyment in playing the instrument. Glad you didn't use a time meter. Cheers!

This is absolutely fabulous and most instructive. Addding to the fine experience is the fact that Tony's voice has some resemblance to Larry David's, so this becomes like the uttermost relaxed but very instructive mixture of jazz lesson and 'Curb your enthusiasm'. Great!

When you comp with just the fifths, everything is going to sound consonant :P

Very inspiring for a flute player too !

Thank you very much again for your helpful tutorials !! is there a chance to get an example for a kind of this improvisation at the end written in notes... ??

Great video

hello can you make a tutorial on buliding jazz phrases or jus phrases when soloing?

Nice tony

Diminished scaled is the key along with tritone substitution. But the best part of this video is your pants change color many times. Must be a magical piano :D

Nice placed chords

Ah not Bach's voicing... Thanks for this, cool sheet too! That root 4th 5th into 3/6/7 too. Tried figuring out the F#7 with that myself and I seemed to just get a whole tone scale chopped a bit. Will have to read what you got on the sheet. Oh Hmm... That 4 minor is the F#s melodic minor so I can play also the diminished on the 4 minor! Discovered a very nice playing young italian guitarist that played this with Al Dimeola .... Matteo Mancuso ... most players in the genre dont use his pick technique. More common in classical

Thx a lot, it's mean for me

Thank you..

I love you !!!

Yeah Tony! Barry Harris would smile!

I would marry your sound

Sweet!

very nice =)

Marvelous video. Glad I found you. Have you done something like this for Waltz for Debbie? I love the tune but for some reason improve on it has always been a problem. Thanks!

This is a lot of information for someone kinda new to the piano, so I was wondering if I should just try and master one technique at a time or focus on multiple at once.

BRAVO !!!! BISS

5 times! You're a soldier man

I can't thank you enough. This is a million dollar lesson

Sir. What do you warm up with when you practice? and what is box voicing?

Hi you could have used Box chord on Gmaj7#11: G-B-C#-F# or in your improvisationn! A# D E A(I knew this theory and called it modal approach(because and and the same shape oof a chord that could have any function...But your teachings are helping me so much!1 because I am more a theorist than Piano player yet...I am working hard to come over that aspect, that's why I went to two piano teachers, the last one could tell me a few ne things the minor upperstructures but in fact that here the same as the octatonictriad#9's...so I knew them without knowing..I hadn''t realy been focuusing on the Minor Triads 4 of them on the dominants yet (whil;e studying jazz guitar, I also studied to less and a bit to less standards, but still I studied what I could..))

Lovely video. Additional comments on rhythm would be welcome.

So what you're saying is Chick Corea punked all of us with D major scale lol

Hope this had a sheet to sight read on

Hi Tony, thanks a lot, a very useful and pratical tutorial, also so general to be used everywhere. I've got a question on box chord. On left hand I often use ring finger, I see you use it too, someone told me it is a wrong choice. What do You think about it? Many thanks, Domenico

Muito Bom. show 1000

Why does that B7 chord at the end pull so hard back to the Gmaj at the start? It’s not III to I, not V to I so why does the Gmaj feel like a resolution???

Wonderful video, now I have to go back and try to figure out what the hell "box voicings" are again :D

Hello! Have been working on 'Spain'---saw your suggestion for using D Maj. throughout - cool! I have been using the 'Spanish Scale F# ' = H W+ H W H W W . But not quite sure if it all fits together with Bassplayer! Any input?

Chopin had some real lines to consider on his music. Modal, pentatonic are all there along with major and minor scales. Liszt utilized the diminished scale. 🎉❤🎉

I am just getting into jazz playing. Would learning this be ok for a beginner or should I try something else first?

CHOPIN

RIP Chick Corea

Why is it G major if it has 2 sharps? Shouldn't that be B minor which would go with the D major improv?

11:38 crazy

which Chopin waltz in a minor?

Why did you play A B C#.... and call that an A pentatonic? (as opposed to ABC...)

Mmm... spice.

After C#7 i take C7 ( Bb E G - Bass C ) B sus4+5 - single note F# - B _ Thank for that Video

Nice socks

please refrain from using the term "Bach voicing" as that implies that Bach created and implemented those harmonies into music but a more proper term would be Figured Bass Voice Leading as that was very common even before Bachs time due to the nature of composing using figured bass and the corresponding voice leading techniques

Very interesting but you go too fast, lots of information. When you play the impro it would be useful to indicate at which point of the score you are. If you want to be understood by non-english (us) people it would be good to speak a little bit slowlier. Thanks !