I have no idea what you are talking about but sitting in my quiet kitchen having my first coffee at 4.30am I am very much enjoying this tutorial

This is a Be Bach lesson

It is an absolutely correct observation. Parker is the exact equivalent of Bach in classical music - both in the technical sense , and in terms of his role in music history. It just shows that music history goes through cycles. Parker rediscovered the techniques of Bach and reapplied them to jazz, just like Ellington and Bill Evans applied the techniques of Debussy. The entire history of jazz can in fact med mapped to the history of western classical music. Jazz went through the same evolution from simple diatonicity to increasing use of chromatism and harmonic extensions, facing the same harmonic dilemmas between form and chaos. Those are basically cultural life cycles.

Thanks for showing the way for us wannabes. By spending time with videos by you, Aimee Nolte, Adam Neely, and many other skilled and generous-minded KZfaq teachers, I am getting first-class, professional level instruction...for free! All I can offer in return is to tell you I share whatever knowledge I can, whenever I can, in the same spirit that you guys share with me. May good Karma follow us all!

Wow!!!!! Wow. This is so interesting and cool!

4-string bass players do this all the time when they hit the low E but need to play a Eb, D or C next. They go up an octave to hit those notes. So now I know that's called octave displacement. Thanks Rick.

Wow what a blessing in my life you have been Mr Rick Beato! Amazing videos, please keep doing the good work, you have so much to give, thanks, all the way from South Africa!

Rick, YOU are a real treasure. THANK YOU. I think most music teachers and them wanting to teach music should have a close look at your videos. They'd spare us for many many hours of wasted shed time. Even the gifted ones would learn something. Could really copy and paste my comment to most of your videos. I play sax and your octave displacement video has virtually transformed the way I practice scales. Killing lines all over the place! Regards from an Spaniard living Denmark, who's a bit happier today than yesterday ;-)

Hah! Turns out, due to the very limited range of my voice, I'm an expert in octave displacment already.. ;)

Absolutely! All these years of playing Bach (and Parker) I always loved the skips, but nobody ever explained it to me like that before. I always felt they were so similar and now I have a much better idea. Thanks!

after 4 years of hardcore piano training I can finally follow along! Thats just what I needed - thanks Rick!

I found this video incredibly thought-provoking. As a guitarist I really appreciated the part at the end with the demonstrations on the guitar. It gave me my next technique to practice!

Wow! Really mind opening, thank you for posting! This helps us to understand both classical and jazz and the connections shared by both. The first guitar example reminds me of some lines Duane Allman played. Sweet!

Rick, I'd like to thank you so much for these videos. I came from not knowing much about guitar and playing blues to using your vids to better myself, how I'm approaching the industry, and the stuff I play. Seriously, thank you for these vids.

Great stuff Rick! Your lessons are outstanding.

This is an amazing lesson Rick! Thanks a lot! That exercise on guitar toward the end of the lesson is awesome. I have to try that and incorporate it into my practicing.

Rick i like all your stuff, but i must say that this particular technique is very "effective" and useful

Thank you very much Rick, I find it enjoyable, the way you share.

Thank you!!! I’m (finally) making a serious effort to learn walking bass and octave displacement adds a whole new angle to scalar lines. 😊😊😊

This is my favourite channel by far!!! Thanks you so much Rick! You are amazing

Rick, I watch your vids whilst doing cardio on the machines at the gym. Trouble is I always get inspired to try out your ideas and have to rush home to play... Great insights...

Great stuff Rick, thanks! I remember being told, decades ago, that if you sped up a lot of Bach lines they would sound like bebop, now I know a little more about what they might have meant.

Rick is greatest music educator in the world! Thanks.

Kudos to my new found cyber friend! All of your videos have been really great! Thank you!!!

Great lesson, Rick! There's also a great book written by the pianist Hal Galper called Forward Motion - From Bach to Bebop. It's worth a read and he talks a lot about these similarities. The best book I ever read about jazz phrasing.

Sooooo inspiring.Thank you for all these awesome vids.

Awesome video! Thanks for all the great info!

So many great videos... wildly helpful! Thanks!

very interesting stuff, great video man. 👍🏼

Rick, I'm surprised and impressed to hear the Gradus ad Parnassum refererenced here - and cantus firmus. I thought you were more of a rock guy. This is solid musical theory that was very important in the Baroque era where the guide lines were important - Bach learned them at his father's knee before he passed away and later from his brother. A lot of this stuff was more or less forgotten as the Classical era came in and rules of counterpoint were regarded as old-fashioned dogma and the texture of the music changed, I'd say simplified. The sympathy between Bach and Jazz is well documented - I have been listening to a Jazz version of the beautiful G minor Sinfonia this very day. Great to choose the 3rd Sinfonia as an example here. The Sinfonias represent some of Bach's best short pieces and are pretty much ignored most of the time. The C minor and G major are also great works though not easy to play despite their brevity. And of course, the F minor is justly famous for it's extreme chromaticism.

Nice easy lesson for a Sunday afternoon after lunch.! Thanks, Rick.

Your teaching style is much appreciated and hope you continue to gain momentum here. Will continue to watch and learn and pass on to my students as well. Thank You

Fantastic! Such a simple idea, but so effective! Great lesson, thanks!

You are just as passionate about teaching music as my teacher at school, brings back good memories of music classes.

The fundamentals for composition and improvisation, as well as the rules that all musicians should know before breaking them selectively.

Beato your classes are great!!! Thanks a million!!!

Thank you so much Rick!!!

I can't even begin to list all the gaps in my musical knowledge that have been filled by studying your video clips. Thank you so very much!

Eric Dolphy took it further with double octave displacement which works well on sax or bass clarinet.I have tested some of my pupils by playing "happy birthday" on the piano with big displacements of 2 or 3 octaves.They never figure out what the melody is.

You are brilliant as always, well done sir, well done.

really, really interesting. Thank you, Mr. Beato!

Any scaluer Rick, opens up so many things. Thank you for this. Broadens the mind man thank you.

thank you, that guitar bit was incredible, I never thought I could practise this way, it's absolutely amazing!

Your deep knowledge on music never ceases to amaze me, Rick 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

These videos are gold, thanks!!

Another mind-reading video! Have been thinking of re-learning the chromatic scale with displaced octaves. Introduced to me at NGSW. I'd eventually hear it on various records. Vai, Becker, Jarzombek, Kalle Rademaker... and possibly Jarrett on Radiance.

This video has helped me loads, cheers. I've tended to use octave jumps the easy way, same note to same note. This video is forcing me to think of the continuity of the line, and made me realise that I've been lazy with it thus far. Thanks again!

Outstanding video 👏👏👏

The octave-displaced chromatic scale on guitar sounds like something Fripp would do and/or did! Very cool!

Thank you for making this video, so simple yet it makes it so interesting.

..excellent, Rick (bless you!)

Beast of a line indeed! Thank you sir.

Thanks, Mr. Beato. Very insightful, very well explained in layman's term and very inspiring and informative.

Love your channel!

Thanks Rick. I like that you tied it in with rules for creating cantus firmus at the beginning, relating specific application examples that followed to implied wider possibilities to explore. So much bop vocabulary is made more difficult by presentation of licks, often in the absence of sound, without the driving concepts. Nice inspiring illustration. \m/. Best, Daniel

Two thumbs up. Great explanation.

Hi Rick I love all the videos you make and I share it around with my friends and they say you're great. Keep up the good job Rick and hopefully I'd like to meet you soon. I'm from India.

I feel like my head's about to explode. That's a good thing. I wish I'd had Rick teaching my music theory classes fortysomething years ago. Thank you, Rick!

I absolutely love this video! Do more videos on cool exercises, like this!

Thank you for this, Rick!

Super informative content 👍🏻

Great lesson Rick 🤘🏻

That Fux book had so many rules it melted my brain a little when I picked it up 10 years ago. Maybe I'm ready for it now.

Great video again, thanks!

Very informative. Thanks for this!

i enjoy many of yer vids sir Rick and this one is super super duper i do declare!

That's really cool, my thesis in grad school was on Octave Displacement. Awesome Video!

I really love your vids Rick..you are a gem fella

Great Stuff, Rick!

I discovered the essence of Bach's music. The very pattern that threads throughout every single piece he wrote. Weather organ, guitar oboe violin or voice.. Rick is onto something interesting as a talented guy. I grew up studying counterpoint in europe from amazing teachers and know all about gregorian chorals and roots of fugue and other forms with counterpoint as a main source.

Those guitar exercises at the end were awesome! We're gonna have fun in class tomorrow!

This is a sweet lesson! Can't wait to practice it.

i'm impressed when i read the comments section - you're helping so many people: well done i don't even know you and i feel proud of you thanks

It's the sort of thing I do when whistling if I can't reach that high note - go down an octave. Problem is that I don't know if others like it as much as me. You're a wicked musician btw Rick.

Brilliant, as always.

😄😮 kool , you are a fine teacher bro....Tanks

Really cool, Rick!

Fantastic content...Thank you. John

With that descending scale it was easier to grasp what you were talking about/ playing, with displcements. I heard it in my head as a possible part of a walking bass line so it had an association in my thing with say John Paul Jones bass line (i.e.Ramble On, Dazed and Confused.)touching a bit on --'Everyone thinks and learns differently. in your Mindset for Success' Video from yesterday. Keep on your enthusiasm with your knowledge is a great combination.

Amazing! Great video! I love this in Aria from Goldberg Variations.

Good lesson. Another similarity also in the first Bach example is the 2-5 lines. He starts on D maj then hits the b3 of Em, finishes the line with octave displacement, then hits the 3rd of A7, another octave displacement and resolves on the 3rd of D maj. It's a classic 2-5-1 line starting on the 3rd of each chord. G, C#, F#. Bach tends to do those displacement runs off of the 3rd of whatever chord he's using. Like Parker he also plays the b9 on the dominant chords.

You're like the Musical , charismatic uncle i always wanted.

Thank You Rick, Really enjoying Your Lessons:) I watch when I come home from teaching what I Know, and then get the pleasure to learn something New from You:) Vincent Spaulding

Awesome as usual :)

Inspiring as always.

Wonderful lesson. Looking right now for that treatise and ordering it. I really like your studio, I want to build my own Music Cave at my home so my neighbors don`t hate me.

Fantastic as usual! Octave displacement violates the 'no dissonant leaps' rule from Fux and strict species counterpoint that you established at the beginning. A followup maybe? A separate counterpoint video of its own would be awesome!

Maestro, once again I bow to thee.

god these videos are incredible. i cannot wait to play music after each one and have learnt so much. normally watch each at least twice. could you do some more one writing catchy melodies possibly analysing some examples - you do loads on interest and expanding lines but would be great to look at some of the things that are at work in simple melodies and get your take one it. thanks.

Beautiful lesson.

Always teaching me something new, you are...

Great explanation....

I love that I found this channel.

Retalk and play the old natural habits and( later) Rules of melodic developement and a bridge to modern application fills me with calm and joy and satisfaction.

Great video Rick! Your Octave displacement chromatic scale exercise reminded me of Adrian Belew's use of it in 'e' by the Adrian Belew Power Trio. Exercises often become songs :)

Thank you so much this is amazing :)

HI Rick, thanks for sharing this powerful concept. Could you suggest some exercises to kind of get those motions ingrained and more automatic? I would love a follow up lesson on this with more method on how to start applying it in improv.

Haha I remember when Bela Fleck once said that He always connects Back with Charlie, though he wasnt sure why. It makes sense now

Great video!

Thank you very much rick its very educative