THE ELUSIVE LOCRIAN SCALE- "The Shadow of Your Smile"- Jazz Tutorial 

Astonishingly, I can always understand your explanation of music theory (why notes relate, or don’t relate to each other). No one else seems to be able to explain theory to me AND have it stick . As a non site-reader, with no music theory education , you somehow manage to articulate your message and have it resonate. By no means am I saying it’s easy, as this is some tough stuff...but it is, at least, understandable. Thank you for sharing. Love your videos!!!

It's good to see you again, I confess that I was amazed by your transcription of "not like this", incredible, it's perfect

So great to hear you play some of these standards Ken. The way you keep stretching the melody across the rhythm to create tension is amazing.

I love the way you play that song! It reminds me of my early days of dating my husband, we always danced to that song. Your fabulous! Thank you!

Thank you for Your Smile!

I remember this fantastic song right in the middle of mid 60s when rock and roll dominate but this stood out so strongly and refreshing. Thank you for helping us to understand how this tune works.

Very practical lesson without a lot of confusing theory !

« Motif » in french. A nod to my country, thank you Sir.

Kent you are the man!

Thank you for this tutorial, great explanation!

Kent, yet again another excellent harmonic explanation of a popular tune. You have a very good knack of demonstrating and explanation of modes and minor7b5 chords, unique I believe on the internet. Keep going buddy, these videos of yours are just wonderful. Thankyou so much. Always enjoyable to watch, I have definitely learnt so much from this video (as your others). And your comments on life and humour are inspirational. I will always attempt to "Swing Loose!" Cheers!

For the past year I keep returning from time to time to your recording because of this hauntingly beautiful chord that you play on the start of the second minute of the video. It's a dominant chord with a major 7th, but the way you played it here is such a little gem that it makes my heart warm every time I listen to your recording. I just felt a need to say that after numerous times of listening this recording through the past year. Thank you so much for everything Kent :)

Really beautiful Jazz Bossa nova style. I love it! Beautiful Chords & Soprano melodies

What a great song and excellent analysis! I immediately loved this song the moment I heard it. way back in 1965. Like a time capsule to my misspent youth. Mad magazine, that pretty strawberry blond haired girl I had a crush on...

Thanks you are the best teacher! Awesome piano player!!!

Thank you Kent for everything, you’re the best teacher!! Have a wonderful year!

You have lightened my heart with your quotes and even more you playing of the tune

You are always a joy to listen to and your playing sends me somewhere heavenly, Thank you.

Lovely 🌹!

Thanks so much, Kent. Always great stuff!!! Have a wonderful year.

Precisely the tutorial I needed. Thank you, Kent! Fantastic as ever

You are STUPENDOUS!! Really enjoy this and how you explain it!! LOVE IT JUST LOVE IT!!!

Замечательно! Огромное спасибо за видео! Amazing! Many thanks for this video!

Listening to you play this beautiful song is a luxury! As usual Kent...your teaching & playing music is "awesome" & I feel very blessed to be learning so much from you...😎😚

brilliant tutorial...very helpful ..thanks!

A great lesson as always. Your books are indispensable.

Timeline: Jeff gets email from "Interesting Facts" about Cleopatra... Jeff reads it, Googles Elizabeth Taylor (who played her in 1963), Liz's movies pop up, "The Sandpiper" pops up, Jeff pushes it on Wikipedia and reads about "The Shadow...", and now my RU-vid is full of "Shadow..." stuff! They are watching, all the time....! My dad had this record (circa 1965), with the "Seagull" (Sandpiper) cover. It always fascinated me for some reason.... way before I started playing music in 1969. I had the record cover in my mind but didn't know what song / movie, etc. it was attached to... until decades later! So, this reminds me of my dad, who died in 1969, shortly after getting me my first instrument - an E-112 Hammond Organ.

One of my all time favorite songs Kent! 👍

Fantastic!!

Love the "Fountain of Joy" quote. Needed to hear that today ;)

Sometimes i feel like i can put scales in both hands and play any tune i desire as long as i know the tune. I feel like i can just sing or hum while i play and it translate through my fingers and my playing sounds a lot solid. I also play the trumpet and when i sing the tune through the brass , things really come alive. Thanks Kent for helping me swing. Most of the time just wacthing you play puts the fire and inspiration under my feet .

This one was really well explained. Thank again for sharing with us.

Very nice, Kent. You had some great ideas on this one. More great stuff!

Mr. Hewitt- Sir, You Are A Jazz Tour De Force ! You Are Jazzification Personified. Thank You For The Great Lessons !

Hard to stop watching this video..the song & lyrics are beautiful & your performance is magic!! You made the scales sound so very interesting....your "shadow" will be next to me Kent as I try to sound like you!!! Beautiful video & a gem of a teacher!!🎹😎 xox

I first learned this in g and then in d when I heard Sara Vaughn and Bob James. James is fantastic. Your version is also very nice and give me some ideas. I love that chord change from the half dimineished to the Tritone dominant sharp 11. I'm getting James version down pretty good.

Great constructive deconstruction lesson. Thanks for the inspiration, will be printing out that section from the Jazz Piano Book for more practice. Swing loose!

Its gonna be a roaring 20s, Kent! Count on it. Thanks for the tune!

Beautiful song, definitely one of my favorites. Love the Astrud Gilberto version...

Lovely

Class act

Bravissimo maestro !)

I'm reminded of The Buena Vista Socal Club ... Nice

This man 👨 is great 👍 musician mr Kent 2020 is your year

Thank you for your analysis of this song. Really just starting to work through the exercise, but am learning much through the journey. I have your book and there is a lifetime worth of information there. BTW, your explanation to the Barry Harris dim scale was great. Lol, I understand intuitively, but it's going to a "minute" to get it under my fingers where I don't have to think about.

I learned this song from my uncle, Tony Pacheco, back in 67, when I was about 16. He was a Django Reinhardt aficiondo guitarist who could Wow people with expertise and improvise endlessly. He recorded an album called ... "I'll Remember Reinhardt" but out of the many covers he did his own take on "The Shadow Of Your Smile" in a Gypsy Jazz slow swing tempo. It became a favorite instantly. Many of us locals of the greater New Bedford area of Massachusetts who were Tony's students were all trying our best to emulate what he did with this incredible beautiful song. Gypsy Jazzers Shred!!! Thanks for your great take....I always learn something from your explanations. 😎👍🏽🎶🔥♥️🔥🎶

The pronunciation is (mO-tEEf). I've played this song ever since it was composed Kent but never understood the structure. Thanks for another great lesson!

one of my favorite songs is by johnny mandel and dave frishburg "you are there " i still remember the first time i heard the song i had to stop the record player and take the lp off to see who wrote it . later in life i met davis frisburg and was able to tell him what a beautiful poem his lyric was . the melody is almost chinese.

This is the most beautiful version I’ve ever heard! Thank you for the practice runs. Great for practice. I’ve been watching this video on rerun many time. Still can’t play like U tho. Lol.

I noticed that he changes the chords in the repeated sections at the end. The first time he uses the half diminished 7, the second and third repetition he uses a minor 7. Also right at the end he changes fron a minor 7 to a dominant 7. It has the effect of brightening the mood at the end.

Bellissime lezioni.

Elusive scale indeed! I needed it last week when a vocalist called September in the Rain (in Ab, no less!). The half dim. chord falls between the IV and the V of the verse. After more studying of your lesson here, I will be able to get some good things going next time I play it. Thank you, Mr. H.; and your playing is beautiful, as always.

Thank you for doing a video on this classic Kent. I'm not sure where to put requests but I'm shocked you haven't done the Gershwin standard I Loves You Porgy. I would love to see a video on it and your version of the song. Thanks

Nice explanation of this tune Sir, thank you! Wondered if you could maybe do video on Errol Garner and possibly explain what it is about his playing that you like him so much. Thanks, keep up the great work!

I'm glad you talked about the b9 and the 9 , it reminds me of when I was always taught the b9 in the locrian scale but the 9 seemed to sound better sometimes especially in a min7b5 chord, guess Stravinsky was right, have to know the rules before you can break them...

Here's what I got from you. Take the Bm7b5 - E7. I hear harmonic minor on that (and I love that tonality. Bach is my boy). But you showed me how to had the Bb from the diminished scale as a juicy tone. Thanks, again. That's jazz. I see you think of it as as Locrian #2. And referring to that same Bm7b5, I think you probably know, it has become popular to refer to that by another of its mode names, D Jazz Minor, FWIW, the song is special to me, in part, because these II-Vs either start or resolve on a tonality that is often a half-step different than what you might expect. The melody only leave G-major for the D# in the relative minor, simple and predictable as Auden say - but the chords are all over the place, cycling around until finally reach back home in an orderly and beautiful way.

I am always amazed by your choice of songs and melodies, there are never any that I do not like and few I don't remember, "The Shadow of Your Smile" is a killer melody. I play around with the locrian scale and land on most of the chords mentioned in my own compositions but not jazz takes, with mixed results, I just hummed the melody to one of my musical mates and he automatically knew it, from a different discipline. If I broke it down the way you do he would be lost :) There are all manner of showtunes that used the locrian scale, its hardly the norm these days I get bored easily, and I go to extremes to make mundane melodies kind of sound better or different at least, More theory helps a great deal, (this is not one of those melodies) tnx for a decent explaination of the locrian scale, I have much to digest I sometimes get asked what sort of keyboard should one buy? I ask the same thing about guitars? Just me I tend to like keyboards that emulate everything well, but even a decent Yamaha weighted keys electonic piano is great just a p45 or 115 feels great It would take me weeks now to use a propper acoustic piano

there are not so much Women who Love Jazz but there lot of them who love guys who love jazz...

I remember hearing that song in that Movie.

Beautifully done, Jazz Brother. 😁😎

Hi Kent, reviewing this great session over again. Great session. What was that classic outtro piece in this episode? Gratefully.

Great Video. Very good quality. I am following this through. Really like the graphics. Pythagoras was the inventor of the Pentatonic Scale. Read an article on it from the University of Connecticut. Super fascinating. I'll try to get the link and send it to you.

curious where I can get the backing track you used. I love this song!

♥♫𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺delightful!!♫♥THANKS!!

Say Kent, I am not finding the Locrian exercise for this tune on your website.. :( (few hours later) I found a work-around. Now transcribing to all keys.

I cannot find a chord chart for Ron Carter's version of The Shadow of Your Smile, so in what key is Ron Carter playing on Shadow of Your Smile? Thanks

The infamous Tristan chord (Used by Bach 200 years earlier)

Рояль стоит не правильно: 2 окна плюс отопление!!!Срочно переставить,а так все Супер брависсимо!!!

you were right. not the roaring 20's 😅

That’s deeper that French fry grease...

You refer to locrian..why is the super locrian named that way.

Confusing. He jumps around too much and too fast. Difficult to follow and absorb. Not helpful.