The ONLY Solo You Need To Know 

That intro was tight !! 🤟🎹

To paraphrase Chick Corea, “ you know whose solos don’t get highlighted that much for transcription? Miles Davis. And I think it’s a great study, especially the lyrical solos where he uses a lot of space. There are great lessons to be learned there.”

Ellis Marsalis wasn’t into Theolonious Monk at first. Then he heard Monk’s solo on this tune.

You guys are killing it. There's like a million jazz tutorial RU-vid channels, and the content you put out is consistently of a higher quality than pretty much anyone else. Thanks fellas!

Really excellent lesson in listening to the nuance and detail. The difference between OK and great. Thanks Peter.

Such a great solo! I really liked this breakdown. When I learned it, I went ahead and learned the vibraphone and piano solos at the same time. I found it really helpful to compare the approach of three great players on the same tune.

i just started the jazz piano beginners course 4 days ago and this feels like a dungeon i wildly unprepared stumbled into.

This is fantastic video. Really appreciate your deep dive into the subtleties of not only the note choices (much of which is "over my head") but especially the note shaping. I play harmonica, in my 51 st year and was full-time player by age 20 but left music as a career full time. I started in the mid 1970's in Bluegrass Bands, was able to play with some Hall of Fame players and opened for some people like Doc Watson on both coasts. I of course have always played blues but did have a Swing Dance, Jazz, R&B band for 10 years. I have played with many fully realized "Jazz Cats" who have played with people like Duke E. Basie, Ray Charles, Maynard Ferguson, etc. but in my own playing am much more on the blues side of Jazz.......tunes like Freddie Freeloader, Cold Duck Time, Blue Skies, One O'Clock Jump, etc. are more in my lane. I will learn Jazz Standard heads on Chromatic Harp but prefer more modal playing for soloing (I have friends who can hang with Jazz standards in all 12 keys, etc. on only Chromatic harmonica, following after people like Toots Thielman). I have adapted many tunes by horn players like David Sanborn, Koz, Marienthal, Maceo, etc. for harmonica. For harmonica players and blues it is Little Walter where we dig into the subtleties of note attack and phrasing but I listen to all instruments, including your channel, to see what may soak in by osmosis even if I do not understand all the theory. I agree though that going completely inside a solo like you are doing here is so beneficial. Thanks again for you work.......I forward your videos to piano players I know often.

This is wonderful, Peter. This solo seems to have the essence of Mile's vocabulary. Although it truly speaks (sings) for itself, it is wonderful and enlightening to hear the solo through your ears and eyes!

A phrase may be a better term than a lick. Lovin this session. Tom

It is interesting how I never seem to learn the lesson of Miles Davis: He is a giant. Yet, so glad I get to discover this over and over again. Amazing.

I'm guitarist and always learn a lot from you guys, this was awesome, thanks for sharing.

I very much appreciate breaking down a solo like this. Great ear training, and the perfect reminder about singing when you're working on a transcription to get all the nuance and inflection. Great reminder to shoot for the "A" range (about 90%) because as a perfectionist, I trip myself up when I try to record transcriptions. 🤪 Keep 'em coming, Peter!

also check out "Milt Jackson on Bag's Groove - the FIRST jazz vibraphone solo you should learn!" on Tim Collins channel.

Brilliant. Fabulous to hear someone with great ears picking up the nuances.

what stand out for me, like all Miles, is his use of space - pausing between ideas. and his commitment to melody; a blues phrase in bar 9 to F in 10, because of the idea rather than the chord. and bar 11 with the Eb, turning away from the obvious E to F

YES! We do enjoy this! A masterclass! Thanks!

For me this is a timely video as I'm currently in a cognitive miasma about how to modify standard notation to markup the intricacies of wind instruments, which probably started after listening to Beyonce's new album on repeat and getting giddy on the ability of scoops, resonance and dynamics to subtly alter the quality of otherwise elegantly simple melodic motifs. Even for piano, I think standard notation might fail to elegantly render the plurality of motions the hands can employ to create jazz voices like these, as well as the acrobatic but logical motions required by classical composers (I'm obsessed with Liszt right now too, whose music gifts the simplicity of its form only after slaving through the yoga of decoding a Babel of quavers). I have always loved jazz but never knew where to start with "the Greats", so I am thankful to find a single solo that will teach me everything!

So so great! Love this and would be so curious what other solos you find important to break down in this way. Yes more please.

Love the solo breakdown format!

Excellent session, love the intro/outro & solo analysis!

Its summer and all i do is repeat the winter solos i learned. Now i have to go to work again... Thanks alot😂

Peter just casually stole Dan's water bottle...

Right on time! Was looking for a solo for this month

Oh my God, memories are flooding through me, I haven’t looked at this solo since 1991! 😍🥹🥲 This is sparking all kinds of cellular memory ✨🤯🤩

Very enjoyable following the notation. Great insights, too!. Very easy to follow.

Great segment!

That was super fun…and with my extremely limited facility I can kinda follow along…thank U!

Damn! That opening!

It’s all (well, a lot) about the “inner” phrasing! Thanks Peter, would definitely love to see/hear more transcriptions through your lens! Get well soon Adam 😊

Incredible solo! Thx!

Yes more of this please ! Love all the detail articulation scales used. How to translate a trumpet solo to piano Fantastic!

This is so helpful... PLEASE make more videos like this!!!!

Peter: Your enthusiasm is infectious. Do some more of these.

Great stuff❤❤

Real inspiring, gonna shed this

Great stuff

Loved, loved, loved this analysis. If the show only did solo breakdowns like this and the occasional album review for fun, it would be fantastic.

I like figuring out Miles Davis things. I enjoyed your analysis of the Miles Davis solo on Bag's Groove take one. You dealt with the notes/scale/chord/theory stuff thoroughly AND you took time to really dig in to the phrasing/dynamics/note duration details. Well done!

...loved the C. McBride interview/ discussion, thanks

Can't wait to see you guys in Milwaukee, dinners on me

Miles's solo on Trane's Blues is equally as lyrical & "perfect", in my opinion.

Yes please 😊

It's pretty funny, because this is the only jazz solo what I transcribed and learnt several times since I startad to play on different instruments and different levels of understanding :D

This is the sh*t! More of this pleez.

32:25 That's funny because I was thinking I kinda liked the earlier lines a little bit more, too. I think those were the most memorable for many other people as well. Plus the novelty effect of the 1st chorus being the 1st time we heard it, and by the next time around we're already experts (not really experts, but that's a mental tendency I'm always up against. It's a variety of taking familiar things for granted). Thanks for this breakdown - that was really in-depth.

Great

Looking for something new to transcribe! Thanks!

Miles Davis played a concerto on a single note.

Wow bro, the opening... is there a situation for the notes?

i always loved this solo, take 2 is just as good

My man walked back that title like a bassline

And this is just take 1! His solo on take 2 is just as good imo !

Hello Peter and Adam from Turkiye! Thanks for having these videos. I like to learn a bit more about Jazz and discovered your channel. The only problem is it is very hard to understand which video should i watch first. I think it would be nice if there is a video to show an index about an order to watch. Actually if you pinned that anyone can see and know where to start!

I have been always wondering what this “AHH” signifies 😆

i need to learn that intro. does anybody have the sheet music?

Intro was smooth … better than the original…

I want to learn the melody to every tune I know, as a bass player, but it's difficult! Any tips how to do that properly?

Please do a "What Makes This Album Great" on Erykah Badu's "Baduizm"! Ive been listening to it a lot and it is so great.

At last Peter plays intro live!) What's the name of this track btw?

I agree, I don’t much care for ‘lick’. Also don’t care for ‘groove’ as a noun. Somehow sound a bit self-congratulatory when they should just be matter of fact descriptors.

The solo sounds like Miles was improvising all note by note without 'licks'.

definitely agree that "lick" is overused

that intro!!!!!!

According to Apple Music, Monk and Miles had tension in their relationship, which is shown in Monk not comping for Miles on this song.

🎹☕️🎵yes

Miles said some weird stuff, but all of it was the truth. He said "It's not what you play, it's what you don't play". I could not agree more! Don't play too many notes or add nonsense like too many other players did, quality over quantity. But the most important thing is that silence is more important than sound! Miles sound had great phrasing, and the spaces between the notes gave it a sound of another world or outer space feeling. That reminds me of a song I love by Jaki Byard (another great soloist). It is called "There Are Other Worlds".

Adam who? Nice breakdown. Do it again on a Dexter Gordon please.

I'm tired of musical nerds trying to "decode" the harmony rather than listening and learn how to play. The jazz was originally transmitted by oral communication, that's how the old cats learned how to play. Thanks Peter you are a master !!

'Got more?

You need to play a duet with your boy Luka Doncic next video.

This dude🔥🥹👍🏾💯

Yes. Do something like this again. Solo suggestion? How about Lester’s solo on this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6hZUptgtR-Q.htmlsi=5FsHSPZqhmiOSzar

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The Intro is amazong, what is The name of this song?

Miles solo sounds like the solo he would take after listening to Monk. There is a lot of Monk in there. One criticism: Miles plays some triplet phrases that struggle to find the groove. Painful for me to listen to.

I thought it was going To be Monk's Solo. Monk's solo was better.

Sorry, not a fan of this solo. To me his footprints is the best.