Hi Hayden,
I was wondering if you could produce lessons on Monk and Powell voicings as well as some more material on reharmonisation, for instance borrowed chords, modulation and deceptive cadences.
Kindest regards,
William
Hi William,
Yes sure thing.
Tuomo created a course that will be published shortly covering the styles of Thelonious Monk, Wynton Kelly, Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, & McCoy Tyner.
I’ll get around to uploading the videos shortly.
Here’s a taster of the course with the lesson on Thelonious Monk’s unique style:
https://vimeo.com/326083885/755552c1be
I’ll post an update here when the course has been published.
Yes… all great suggestions. I have added them to our upcoming lesson schedule.
Any other ideas or questions just let us know.
Talk soon!
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Hi Hayden,
I’ve been enjoying going through Jovino’s new triad improvisation course - thanks again for that!
I don’t know if you’re planning any further lesson series with Jovino at this point, but if you are I have a suggestion/request that might be a good way to continue his focus on Hermeto Pascoal’s music.
It would be interesting to do a series of lessons around Hermeto’s concept of “andares” or “floors” for building chord structures. These go in levels of increasing complexity from 1, 2, 3, or 4 “floors.”
Richard Boukas has a YT lecture in which he discusses 1 and 2-floor chords, but then specifically says about 3 and 4-floor chords, “I defer to Jovino”!
So it would be amazing to see Jovino walk us through the subject, and especially to discuss the upper-level 3 and 4-floor chords structures.
It would probably be too involved for the 5-minute masterclass series, but given his love of teaching about Hermeto’s music I’m guessing Jovino may be interested in doing some longer tutorials on the subject.
It would also be a unique contribution to piano jazz tutorials on the web as far as I know.
Martin
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Brilliant… I will pass this suggestion onto Jovino.
Just checking out the playlist you refer to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhzykqvgWZQ&list=PLwvWYVb7kD7p15DYqbuIkrnezCGsxyQZ9
What a fantastic resource for anyone exploring Hermeto’s music.
I agree this looks in-depth and would be suited to a full course.
Leave it with me 
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Hello Hayden,
How about Speak Low from Kurt Weill?
Thanks,
GP
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Yes! Love it! Esp the lyrics!
Hi Guy 
Yes we can certainly cover that tune.
If there are any particular versions you like please post the YouTube link and I will check them out for inspiration.
Cheers!
H
Hey @martin1503856
I had a recording session with Jovino earlier today and we covered your tune request “Menina Ilza”.
I edited it straight away so you can learn it over the weekend 
… here it is:
I’ve created the lesson page here: Menina Ilza Tutorial | Chords, Vocings, Solo Piano Arrangement - I will populate the whole page when I get a second.
Lead sheet here arranged by Jovino:
Menina Ilza Lead Sheet.pdf (84.7 KB)
I’ll get a transcription produced asap.
We also did a lesson on triads as per your other request, that one will take a little longer to edit though.
I hope you like the arrangement. It’s quite advanced but I know you have worked through most of the PianoGroove syllabus so you should have no problems with the theory 
Enjoy!
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Wow lovely arrangement … and beautiful song Thanks guys ! 
When a pianist of Jovino’s calibre takes the trouble to walk you through music as harmonically complex as this, it’s a rare privilege. This is why I’m a member of Pianogroove - there’s simply nothing even approaching material of this quality in the increasingly crowded piano tutorial scene. Thank you Jovino for your generosity - this is what music education is all about, and you are truly doing Hermeto’s legacy proud. Thank you also Hayden for getting Jovino on board and offering such consistently inspiring videos!
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Glad you like the arrangement Martin. Jovino will be happy to hear that.
He’ll be joining us here in the forum soon, we’re just chatting about some ideas to develop the Brazilian/Bossa/Samba section: https://community.pianogroove.com/c/records-musicians/bossa-samba
And thanks for the kind words. Your support for PianoGroove over the years is much appreciated and it’s a pleasure to honour your tune requests.
Any more just send them over and I will get them scheduled in.
The tune has such a beautiful melody.
I asked Jovino about the voicing Hermeto plays at 2:49
It’s called the “dog bark” and it’s a root position C6 in the left hand C-E-G-A and then a 1st inversion Gb6 chord in the right hand, bottom to top, Bb-Db-Eb-Gb
All of these notes together create the diminished scale C-Db-Eb-E-Gb-G-A-Bb so it’s the whole diminished scale voiced together. Interesting voicing.
I love the impact of such a dissonant voicing which then drops straight back into the pretty melody.
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Haha that dog-bark voicing is awesome! It’s also very reminiscent of the sound of the cuica, the percussion instrument that adds rhythmic accents on a lot of Brazilian tunes - has a stick that runs through the drum skin itself that when moved back and forth across it produces a high pitched sound. You see quite a bit of it in this Baden-Powell session:
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This version by Sarah Vaughan is the best I’ve found.
Thanks,
Guy Philippe
Any chance you could do a tutorial on Everything Must Change?
Hi Wendy
Yes I have added this tune to our upcoming lesson schedule.
If there are any versions you like in particular, you can share the YouTube videos here.
Cheers!
Thank you.
The version I’m most familiar with is Karrin Allyson’s:
https://youtu.be/zi_Rif9SX7U
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How about a top 5 or 10 from the Woody Allen films?
Some great stuff in there
Regards
Bill k
Thanks for the suggestion Bill - if there are any particular songs that you like you can post the YouTube URLs directly into the forum and it will create a nice video embed like above.