Miles davis lick on tune up all 12 keys miles davis lick on tune up sonny stitt blues walk chorus 12 keys sonny stitt blues walk chorus. Some real books and lead sheets disagree with each other for the changes in bars 16. Overview of harmonic analysis and representation theory. The premier site for the history and analysis of the standards jazz musicians play the most. Below is the beginning to sonny rollins brilliant solo on tune up. What follows is a ramble though the underbrush of musicianly detail, stuff i thought about while working on the general audience essay. Pdf a diachronic analysis of harmonic schemata in jazz. The chords of solar are pretty straightforward, mainly 251s. Cyclic patterns in john coltranes melodic vocabulary as. Primary and secondary documents my new yorker culture desk essay think of monk is a welledited aerial view. John coltranes recording of giant steps in 1959 corresponded to the period of the artists harmonic explorations, most notably symmetrical cycles.
Next lets take a look at the miles davis composition tune up. Continuing with tune up, george demonstrates how to play the tune using everything youve learned in previous lessons. It was held at the fields institute in toronto, canada, from june 2 to june 27, 2003. Here is a backing track you can use to practice improvising over solar. About a decade later he took this interesting 16 measure progression and rewrote it using a harmonic innovation which has since become known among jazz musicians as coltrane. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the socalled coltrane circle, which resembles what any musician will recognize as the circle of fifths, but incorporates coltranes own innovations. Indeed, one must step exclusively into the realm of in. Improvising over the changes in four miles davis question. A major step towards the modern approach to harmonic analysis was made by the work of hugo riemann around the end of the 19th century, whose most important contribution was to introduce the idea of the tonal function of. Miles davis trumpet, bill evans piano, jimmy cobb drums, paul chambers bass, john coltrane tenor saxophone, julian cannonball adderley. For a new periodization of the history of jazz pdf. The finale numerics font was specifically designed to offer all the characters required to produce a thorough harmonic analysis, including zerowidth, stackable characters, horizontal lines, musical characters, and more.
Midlevel analysis is a qualitative annotation system of playing ideas, with nine different main categories, as defined in our paper. With its roots deeply embedded in algebra, analysis, and mathematical physics, harmonic analysis and representation theory is an extremely rich subject for investigation, interacting with. Midlevel analysis is a qualitative annotation system of playing ideas, with nine. Harmonic analysis is a branch of mathematics that looks at the theoretical foundations of digital signal processing. This is not entirely correct because the bass keeps playing a g, while the piano player plays variations of c7. The fact that davis changed his mind radically several times throughout his life appeals to the curiosity. Each worksheet contains the full harmonic analysis of a jazz tune in which you must provide the chord changes. The changes provided below were lifted off of miles davis cookin. Many times in jazz we see the ii v7 without the following i chord. Fourier transforms and fourier series are among the main tools used for signal analysis. Finale allows you to easily enter harmonic analysis using the lyrics tool with the finale numerics font. In 1955, after a few years working with pickup bands and fuelled by a legendary comeback appearance at the newport jazz festival, miles davis assembled the band thats since become known as the first great quintet. It has a fairly slow and funky swing 16ths groove, which ive written in cut time with swung 8ths.
The giant steps progression and cycle diagrams, 155 kb pdf, dan adler. This is the title tune from miles davis 1986 release for warner brothers. Harmonic analysis reports are provided in two formats. Countdown a reharmonization of the miles davis tune up, as well as a superimposed harmonic cycle to improvise on several different iiv based standard song chord progressions. Extended chordal diatonic pitch class is calculated in reference to the underlying chord. On march 2, 1959, miles davis concluded a nearly tenmonth break from working with his sextet in order to return to the studio and begin recording his landmark album, kind of blue. Report manager click on the report manager button to select a format and view harmonic analysis output report. Georges performance is designed for you to see if you can hear the scales and techniques hes taught. Its a simpleish tune with a lot going on, so lets dive in. I am referring to tune up which if you arent already aware of, is a great harmonic vehicle to practice both improvising and comping over major ii.
Kind of blue in 1959, seven nowlegendary musicians in the prime of their careers went into the studio to record five simple compositional sketches. The advantage of this group, however, is how close it is to classical fourier space and for this reason the tools of fourier analysis developed in chapters 3 and 4 are used so successfully. A diachronic analysis of harmonic schemata in jazz. The main goal of the school was to introduce graduate students and young mathematicians to three broad and interrelated areas in the theory of automorphic forms. Tune up chord melody and analysis jazz guitar lessons. As kahn notes, this was the year coltrane truly became coltrane kahn, 9. Coltrane changes coltrane matrix or cycle, also known as chromatic third relations and multitonic changes are a harmonic progression variation using substitute chords over common jazz chord progressions.
Even though it seems pretty clear that he got the idea for tonal centers moving in major thirds from rodgers and harts song, he was the first to use it for reharmonizing existing chord progressions. Miles davis and modal jazz the inevitability of the kind. Today, this field has many uses, which also include quantum mechanics and neuroscience. Listen to how sonny rollins, miles davis, wes montgomery, grant green and. Physicist and saxophonist stephon alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book the jazz of physics that albert einstein and john coltrane had quite a lot in common. Tune up is a great tune that was made popular by miles davis. Harmonic analysis simple english wikipedia, the free. Countdown chord melody jazz guitar lessons richie zellon. This book deals exclusively with this matrix, and aims to offer some different perhaps less typical ways to approach this intriguing chord progression. Both types of harmonic analysis are areas of research in the lsu mathematics department. The piece has come to be associated with pianist bill evans, who recorded it repeatedly. The latter mainly consists of iivi progressions in.
I started this series with solar by miles davis and now i want to show you another miles composition from that same period which is also only 16 measures long. Function spaces appearing in harmonic analysis 443 part 22. Coltrane changes are a harmonic progression variation using substitute chords over common. This is an invaluable resource for all jazz harmony teachers and students. Miles and marcus drop in tasty g minor blues fills all over the place. Note that the bass is tuned a whole step lower than in standard bass tuning. A continuous signal can be drawn as a wave, or as a combination of several waves. His recording of countdown, which constitutes a harmonic contrafact on miles daviss tune up, illustrates the.
Well it so happens that john coltrane was the saxophonist on the recording of that tune. These are the first eight bars of the miles davis composition tune up. Solar miles davis melody and solo jazz guitar online. We also exhibit a chord sequence, solar composed by miles davis, for which the. We note, however, that some of the material that we discuss here can be easily generalised to a more abstract setting. The mode to use on that part of all blues is g dorian. Each lesson consists of a short phrase played over a recurring harmonic progression eg. Learn essential harmonic concepts using actual jazz standard repertoire. This classic miles davis tune is a great way to apply everything youve learned over a iivdifferent elements together.
John coltrane draws a picture illustrating the mathematics. Websters dictionary defines the word analysis as a breaking up of a whole into its parts as to find out their nature this is indicative of one of the most fundamental principles manifesting itself in harmonic analysis, having to do with ecomposing a mathematical object, such as a functiondistribution, or an operator, into simpler entities enjoying certain specialized localization. Well, it so happens that john coltrane was the saxophonist on the recording of that tune. I e7 i a7 i bbmaj7 i e7 a7 ii the bbmaj7 sounds great there. This thesis considers what could be one of the most important and definitive. Miles, subtitled the new miles davis quintet, represents the first complete lp recorded by the band with john coltrane tenor, red garland piano, paul chambers bass and. Though miles is credited for writing the tune, eddie vinson is believed to have written it, possibly for miles davis. This guitar lesson contains 10 miles davis lines with analysis, audio files, standard notation and tabs transcribed from solar, vierd blues and tune up. Nardis is a composition by american jazz musician miles davis. Recall the fourier series that we met in full range fourier series. An overhead view of his playing also helps you to see exactly what he is doing and how he is fingering the notes.
I am referring to tune up which if you arent already aware of, is a great harmonic vehicle to practice both improvising and comping over major iivi cadences. I recently posted a chord melody arrangement and harmonic analysis of tune up by miles davis. The basic guitar mode you can use to improvise over all blues is g mixolydian. This pdf method contains 11 guitar lessons with chord studies, tabs. Bair, jeff, cyclic patterns in john coltranes melodic vocabulary as influenced by nicolas slonimskys thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns. Chapter 2 coverings and cubes we will consider the setting of rnwith the usual euclidean norm jjinducing the standard euclidean metric d ex. It was written in 1958, during daviss modal period, to be played by cannonball adderley for the album portrait of cannonball. When i listen to coltranes playing with the thelonious monk quartet at carnegie hall, i am reminded of stanley crouchs rendering of sonny rollins in performance.
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