![]() where are the Root, 3, 5, and 7th? Are there chord tensions (9,11,13) on the chords? When do I harmonize the melody? When don't I? The goal here is first for you to write your own arrangement in this style, and then second, for you to improvise an arrangement in this style. Make it a point to know where the chord tones of each harmony are. When learning this arrangement, it's important to notice what choices I made. In essence, the two hands are divided in three roles:ġ) Left hand plays Root + 7th or Root + 3rd/10thĢ) Fifth finger of right hand plays melodyģ) Fingers 1 & 2 of right hand plays chord tones This arrangement is great for intermediate level jazz pianists or non-piano instrumentalists who are looking for a way to play tunes using more open voicings. ![]() Check out the sheet music and the youTube video to hear it played measure by measure. Im having great difficulty finding a transcription of Bills comping on So What. What I've done for you here at the Shed is to write one of those arrangements to get you started. Composed by Miles Davis (introduction allegedly composed by Gil Evans). Now you'll have something new up your sleeve when you flip to a random page in the Real Book and try to "improvise" a new arrangement. Subscribed 1K 71K views 7 years ago 'So What' from the album 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis. But write them in a similar way, in a way that is new to you. That is, write an arrangement of a tune for solo piano. Transcription 1 - 'All The Things You Are' From the Album 'Alone' Bill Evans showcases his signature 8th note lines over the chord changes of the tune All the Things You Are. Take a lesson from Bill Evans and plan ahead. I'm hear to tell you that you don't have to just "know" how to do everything all at once. Jazz is a lot more pre-planned than many of us believe. This transcription is based on the version from the album 'From Left to Right', with orchestra arranged by Michael Leonard. But my Bill Evans discovery changed my thinking - I don't have to know how to improvise solo piano arrangements in that way - Instead, I can PLAN AHEAD and PRACTICE these techniques. I thought, like many of us do, I could NEVER do that. What they were creating was so innovative and mysterious to me that it seemed like they were just pulling it out of thin air. I tell you this because like many jazz pianists, I've always been intimidated by playing solo piano - how do I play the melody/chord/bassline/rhythmic pulse all at once? How do I make the harmony sound as open as Bill Evans? How do I create rhythms as hip as Monk? And so on. (In a similar way, Thelonious Monk was said to plan improvisations for various songs - as he put it, he would plan what his "story" would be) They were the product of practice and careful planning. This made me realize that his creation of beautiful solo piano arrangements was much more intentional than pure improvisation. That is, it was a stroke of pure genius created in a single moment of time, something someone only with the musical mastery of Bill Evans could achieve.īut years later, my thinking changed while I was listening to the Bill Evans solo piano record "Alone." I made an interesting discovery: Take 1 of one song sounds an awful lot like Take 2 - in fact, his statement of the melody was almost the same note-for-note! I was convinced that his work was the purest form of improvisation. He had this way of deconstructing (and then reconstructing) jazz standards in a way that I just loved. Just let us know.As a young student of jazz, I was always mesmerized by the solo piano work of Bill Evans. ![]() If you wish, we will also remove from our Songs For Sale catalog this song and any other songs for which you hold the copyright. We will be happy to pay you industry-standard print royalties, retroactively to our first resale if any of this sheet music. ![]() If so, please contact us and let us know. We make a good-faith effort to identify copyright holders and pay appropriate print royalties for sheet music sales, but it’s possible that for this song we have not identified and paid you fair royalties. A transcription of Bill Evans’ solo on What Is This Thing Called Love (Includes bass part) youtube upvotes r/piano. IF YOU ARE THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER: you are entitled to print royalties from all resales of this sheet music. Note that you are NOT the copyright holder if you performed this song, or if you arranged a song that’s already copyrighted. Tunescribers is committed to paying fair print royalties for all sheet music that we resell through our Songs For Sale service.ĪRE YOU THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER? You hold the copyright to this song if (a) you composed it and retained ownership of copyright, or (b) it’s in the public domain, you arranged it and retained ownership of copyright, or (c) you acquired the copyright from a previous owner. ![]()
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