![]() ![]() Lastly, we look at bars 73 – 75 of the transcription But instead of just plain dotted crotchets, they are each divided into a crotchet and quaver to form a motif, which is repeated in an ascending manner. The basic polyrhythm pattern is exactly similar to the earlier example. ![]() Next, we look at bars 51 – 52 of the transcription And to add more flavor, a keen observer would notice that the string of dotted crotchets notes didn’t start on the first beat, but was actually displaced a quaver after. In applying it, Chick Corea would simply fill the dotted crotchets with appropriate chord tones of each bar. CHICK COREA TRANSCRIPTIONS SERIESWe see a series of dotted crotchets over the 4/4 time signature, giving it a polyrhythm between the original 4/4 time and a 6/8 time. Now we are going to see how the master of keyboard himself applied it in his improvisation.įirst we look at the first four bars of the transcription, We discussed about polyrhythm on an earlier post, you can read it here. I’m sure most of you will be dying to learn this tune after this video, so here is the lead sheet as promised.Īnd here is the transcription of Chick Corea’s piano solo on Humpty Dumpty, which is from 0m49s to 2m05s of the video above.Ĭhick-Corea-Humpty-Dumpty-piano-solo-transcription Here is a youtube clip of Chick Corea’s acoustic band doing a wonderful job on this tune.
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