When You think about Modal Jazz then usually you think about playing on one chord or vamp using the same sound all the time. That is not how Herbie Hancock approaches it in this solo on the Wayne Shorter song Witchhunt off the Speak No Evil album. This Herbie Hancock Lesson breaks down a lot of great surprising rhythms and melodies, moving in and out of the tonality, and adding some Atonal Chromatic ideas as well.
To me, this is one of the greatest Herbie Solos I know, and also a fantastic example of how to play medium swing and play some fantastic rhythmical ideas.
Content:
0:00 Intro
0:09 The Ultimate Modal Solo
0:40 Speak No Evil – 1964
1:14 Four & More + My Funny Valentine
1:20 Example #1
1:32 Shifting Sus4 motifs
2:02 Breaking Down the melodies
2:12 Quartal Arpeggios and Modal Jazz
3:19 Example #1 Slow
3:33 Build up of the phrases
3:56 Witchhunt Analysis – a Minor Blues
4:36 Example #2
4:42 Slow Progressions – Modal
5:22 Super-imposed Altered dom7th
6:23 Example #2 Slow
6:30 Example #3
6:37 Chromatic Melodies – Leading notes
7:10 Chromatic Melodies – Atonal ideas
8:21 Example #3 Slow
8:43 Example #4
8:50 Back to Jazz! Tonal Minor
9:12 Medium Swing? The most difficult tempo in Jazz?
10:14 Example #4 Slow
10:25 Like The Video? Check out My Patreon Page!
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