Learn McCoy Tyner Vocabulary in 15 Minutes 

As a 'fan' --aka very deep listener to Coltrane, and saxophone student for the past 55 years . . . your unpacking here is pure absolute platinum gold to me. I thank you.

Thanks a lot for this session! McCoy and Horace Silver are my two favorite pianists. Although Horace is overlooked by youtube jazz educators, I am glad that McCoy's expressions and sense of harmony are taught and explained. I just hope one day, similar attention and care will be brought to Horace's legacy

I've been getting sooo much out of these guided practice sessions that teach solos and phrases from the greats lately. Keep em coming please

It's amazing how McCoy played those power chords together with quartals, minors, dominants etc - all in his left hand!

Man, I've been waiting 20 years for this video. Thank you.

where would we be without these wonderful jazz masters, nothing like it being played today..

What i mostly learned here is your thought process on how to transcribe a song, any song. Thank you

This is great. I love watching transposing done in real time. Let's do more of these 👍🏾🎵🎺🎹🎸🎷🎼🎻

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I hear the Ab. Helps to listen to the sound of F in the previous chord moving as a voice to the Ab. I think the reason he does that is it has that grounded minor 3rd leap instead of the less grounded major second step which takes it more into subdominant/dominant territory if we are being super specific and ridiculously theoretical lol.

The Sonny Rollins Jazz Casual Episode is incredible, Jim Hall on guitar

This is as much a rhythm study, as a melodic study as a harmonic study. It seems that the genius of Mc Coy is the art of juggling simultaneous metamorphoses between these elements. Within each of these musical domains there are subsystems (e.g. how the first 3 notes anticipate the first measure which anticipates the shift to the key center of F-. That is: anticipation of the anticipation) As well, this rhythmic learning can be extrapolated to different musical contexts. E.g., this is in 3/4. This approach can be extrapolated to a 4/4 as a 3:4 parallel cross-rhythm. And this is just 30 seconds of improvised playing from the Heart and Mind of McCoy. Wow.

Great lesson, thank you for zeroing in on such a cool line. McCoy is the s--t!!! Seems like one has to think of very broad strokes - Gb = C :-). If you go to Dizzy Gillepie's "BEBOP" intro line (and way back - Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bachs "Solfegggio" LOL), you get lines that razzle I-V-I-V etc. It helps things stay afloat.

Was always curious about these voicings in the left hand. Often people say “it’s 4ths”. That’s wrong. It’s much more complex than that. Really helpful to have you guys with the golden ear write it down

This is just brilliant. TBH I'm still supposed to be trying to get that Clifford Brien solo you posted at least vaguely right but I think I might take a break and give this a go. It looks like a blast and possibly more my tempo. Thanks so much for doing these videos, they're such a brilliant resource.

bit advanced for me yet, but saving for the future. Love Tyner!

7:31 THIS IS WHAT I WANNA SEE!!! great vid

Why not Gb7 instead of the C7alt starting in the 2nd half of bar 1? The left hand voicing in bar 2 is a standard Gb13 voicing: 7-3-13. The RH outlines a Gb7#11. This fits McCoy’s propensity to move in half steps.

The left hand chord in the second half of bar 4 could be read as a C7b9#5 without the root. It's also Dbmi6, Bbm7b5 or F#9 without the root.

It all works better if you have a guy leaning on the piano with a pipe in his hand wearing a cardigan sweater.

I learned a lot from this episode. Thanks a lot! 🙏

This breakdown is so cool! Incredibly instructional, even for those of us who are ignorant dabblers

More McCoy Adam please! Thank you

oh man Tyner is unreal

So helpful, thanks a lot!

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Awesome video

Thank you man

could we have sessions like that for saxophone in Open Studio ?

Thanx, Adam🌹🌹🌹

Love the guy with the pipe...

Thank you for the video !Diminish chord I think

Highly recommend Aimee Noltle's video 'Anticipatory Pentatonics' which covers Tyner and his solo on Coltrane's 'new' album.

Thanks a lot Profesor!!!!!!

I just auditioned with Impressions so this video could have not come at a better time:)

You rock man

When the camera's autofocus is more interested in the mic than the person speaking into it 😂

14:46 there's nothing, no g or a flat, it's a diminished 5 nicely open to both possibilities

Nice one

Great.

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The Db7 is just a plain Tritone sub at that place, right?

Tremendous, man. The rhythmic placement of that chord on the & of 3 of the 2nd bar is wild. When you play along you're tending to delay that till 1 of the next bar. This is so helpful though, thanks, man.

At the risk of being traditional, the Db7 is a straight ahead It+6, and if you consider the G at the end of bar 3 as anticipation, its a Fr+6.

All i hear is Bb, Db, Fb. But it makes perfect sense to chord it as Gb, Bb, Db, Fb . The Gb is implied but not heard (* It's also in the perfect shape of the surrounding chords for the chromatic slides he's playing). So , no Ab needed

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Fantastic..

How can i make slowly the way you are making!!!!!

It’s Bb half diminished

in the first example Dalt ... not Calt

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Aha! Correct me if wrong, he’s mostly doing a a kind of cross rhythm in the left hand (the 3/2 eg ‘nice cup of tea’ eg his left hand is doing the ‘nice...of’ duple metre... but! He’s thinking of the pulse in triple metre, doing the ‘nice cup ...tea’ part eg 1 2 3/ 4 1 2/ 3 4 1/ 2 3 4/1 2 3/ 4 1 2/ 3 4... Oh! Whoops, the metre is 3/4 🤣

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The chord in question in your sheet music is Rachmaninov subdominant (transposed), this is what Russians know it by. And I don’t hear it, TBH, it’s rather a diminished to me.

I counted 40+ min video

To me It is really a Ab on that chord

You folks think you know. YOU DON'T KNOW. IN FACT, YOU DON'T HAVE A CLUE.

This video like way longer than 15 mins