Transcription of Chick Corea’s piano solo on Morning Sprite, with brief analysis Morning Sprite is one of my favourite Chick Corea’s composition, for his acoustic trio. Here’s a live video of Chick Corea’s Akoustic Band performing Morning Sprite on youtube. [youtube:Chick Corea’s improvised piano solo in this clip is nothing short of amazing. Here’s the transcription I did on the piano solo part only, in the usual PDF format. QUARTALS Quartal chords are very useful tools, not just for voicings purposes, but also during jazz solo improvisation. First, lets see the choices of quartal chords available over an A dorian harmony. We can see that for a harmony based on a certain dorian scale, there will be 5 sets of quartals available to us. Here’s an example of the master Chick Corea applying quartals in his solo. Observe bar 53 of the transcription. The quartal observed here, over an F#m7, is equivalent to the second quartal for the A dorian example shown earlier. Observe also bar 146 of the transcription. The quartal observed here, over a G#m7 is equivalent to the third quartal for the A dorian example shown earlier. ![]() Chick corea transcription pdf Chick corea transcription pdf Chick corea transcription pdf DOWNLOAD! DIRECT DOWNLOAD! Chick Corea piano solo 'Spain' from The best of Bobby Mcferrin Chick Corea (p) Bobby Mcferrin (v) Download Transcription Audio (Spotify). Spain by Chick Corea. View Download PDF: Spain on improvisation (5 pages - 788.07 Ko)6927x⬇. This sheet music is part of the collection of ilya-kogan. Every jazz musicians should practise using these 5 quartals, until he/she is comfortable applying them over any set of dorian harmony. Enjoy and have fun. Here are the first three choruses of Brad Mehldau’s solo from his most recent album recorded at the Village Vanguard in New York City, Brad Mehldau Trio (Live). I always loved this solo. When I first heard it, I was somewhat floored. Brad’s seemingly dissonant yet wonderfully melodic lines had developed to an entirely new level. As usual, the solo itself also developed and unfolded flawlessly. Although I only got around to transcribing the first three choruses, I feel that there is a wealth of information that one can learn from these three alone. To sum up how I interpret what Brad is doing, I believe he is essentially taking the elements that make up the average melodic bebop line and applying them through different cycles, as well as simply interpolating different keys over the harmony of C.T.A. The tune, C.T.A., is very similar to a rhythm changes tune, however, the A section is slightly different at the beginning. Got A Match Chick Corea Transcription![]() Windows Chick Corea Transcription(Let me add that I also think he simply hears this way at this point after a great deal of practicing). First of all, what makes a good bebop line? As my former teacher Hal Galper coined the term, “Forward Motion.” Basically, the idea that every line is leading to a strong melodic tone (root, 3rd, 5th, 7th) that falls on beat 1 or 3. (I highly suggest that you go to halgalper.com and learn more about Forward Motion.) If you listen carefully, you can hear that Brad’s dissonant sounding lines often use forward motion, but sometimes the “melodic” tones are actually led to in a different key than the original key of the tune. That’s my theory. Hope it helps. Enjoy the transcription, and please feel free to contact me with any questions you have.
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