Spain (Chick Corea) (click on the image below to view full-size tab) Post navigation. 46 pages that will change the way you think about guitar. Chick Corea - Spain (Official) official by Chick Corea with free online tab player, speed control and loop. Correct version. Added on November 23, 2018. 'Spain' is a jazz fusion composition written in 1971 by the great Chick Corea. It is one of his best known works, recorded in many versions, by Chick and by other artists such as Paco De Lucia - Al Di Meola - John McLaughlin ( the trio ), Bea Fleck, Rosenberg Trio and many more. SPAIN BASS by Chick Corea @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com. Print and download in PDF or MIDI Spain. Arrangement of Spain, originally arranged by Victor Lope. Spain - Chick Corea sheet music for Flute, Violin, Alto Saxophone, Guitar download free in PDF or MIDI. Download Chick Corea Spain sheet music notes and chords for Piano.
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'Spain' is an instrumental jazz fusion composition by jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea. It is likely Corea's most recognized piece, and is considered a jazz standard. 'Spain' was composed in 1971 and appeared in its original (and best-known) rendition on the album Light as a Feather, with performances by Corea (Rhodes electric piano), Airto Moreira (drums), Flora Purim (vocals.
So I’ve been working on finally REALLY learning how to play Chick Corea’s Spain.
This is what I typically do when I really want to learn how to play a song. I gather related videos, resources, tutorials, recordings etc. to help me find the best way (and possible ways to look at the song).
Maybe this can help you too. If you have any questions about the piece, feel free to email me.
This is my recent tutorial video on my process of learning the song. It also includes my scale & arpeggio choices for the piece.
Here’s the original version from Chick:
A tutorial from the composer himself:
A really cool version from Guthrie Govan (this is the main version that I’ve based my left hand fingerings from):
A nice reimagining of the piece, some amazing lines in the guitar solo:
Tom Quayle, nuff said:
And Tom Quayle with other guitar legends!
A brilliant take from Armov (Armen Movsesyan), lot of fast lines in this version:
Rick Beato dissects the scale and arpeggio choices for the piece:
Rick Graham explains his own choices for the piece:
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'Spain' is an instrumentaljazz fusion composition by jazzpianist and composerChick Corea. It is likely Corea's most recognized piece, and is considered a jazz standard.[1]
'Spain' was composed in 1971 and appeared in its original (and best-known) rendition on the album Light as a Feather, with performances by Corea (Rhodes electric piano), Airto Moreira (drums), Flora Purim (vocals and percussion), Stanley Clarke (bass), and Joe Farrell (flute). It has been recorded in several versions, by Corea himself as well as by other artists, including a flamenco version by Paco de Lucía, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin in the 1980s, and a progressive bluegrass version by Béla Fleck in 1979. A version with lyrics by Al Jarreau, 'Spain (I Can Recall)', appeared on the 1980 album This Time. More recently, Corea had performed his composition as a duo with Japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara. A version of 'Spain' was performed by Stevie Wonder at his 2008 Concert in London. The introduction used in the song is from Concierto de Aranjuez, a guitar concerto by the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo.
The Light as a Feather version of 'Spain' received two Grammy nominations, for Best Instrumental Arrangement and for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance by a Group. In 2001, Corea was awarded the Best Instrumental Arrangement Grammy for 'Spain for Sextet and Orchestra'.
Composition[edit]
Spain Chick Corea Guitar
Corea opens the Light as a Feather version of 'Spain' with the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. After the intro, the song switches to a fast, steady samba-like rhythm, in which the main theme and an improvisation part are repeated.
Spain Chick Corea Guitar Solo
The chord progression used during the improvisation part is based on harmonic progressions in Rodrigo's concerto. It runs as follows:
Appearances[edit]
By Chick Corea
- Light as a Feather (1972) - Chick Corea and Return to Forever
- Akoustic Band (1989) - Chick Corea Akoustic Band
- Play (1990) - Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin
- Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology (CD 1996) - Chick Corea, Bill Connors, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White
- Alexia In a Jazz Mood (1996) - Chick Corea and Alexia Vassiliou
- Solo Piano: Originals (2000) - Chick Corea
- Corea.Concerto (2001) - Chick Corea with Origin and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Rendezvous in New York (CD 2003, DVD 2005) - Chick Corea Akoustic Band
- Elektric Band: Live at Montreux 2004 (2004) - Chick Corea Elektric Band
- Akoustic Band 1991 (DVD 2005) - Chick Corea Akoustic Band
- Duet (2009) - Chick Corea and Hiromi Uehara
- Trilogy (2013) - Chick Corea with Christian McBride and Brian Blade
Covers
- Manhattan Wildlife Refuge (1974) - Bill Watrous
- Live and Improvised (1976) - Blood Sweat & Tears
- Something You Got (1977) - Art Farmer
- Crossing the Tracks (1979) - Béla Fleck
- This Time (1980) - Al Jarreau
- Live With Vic Juris (1985) - Bireli Lagrene
- Jaco Pastorius & Bireli Lagrene & Alex Bally (1985) - Bireli Lagrene and Jaco Pastorius
- New Weave (1986) - Rare Silk
- Somewhere Out There (1986) - Airmen of Note
- Naurava Kulkuri (1986) - Vesa-Matti Loiri
- Sensacion (1987) - Tito Puente
- Daybreak (1987) - Béla Fleck
- Thousand Wave (1988) - Takahiro Matsumoto
- GRP All-Star Big Band (1992) - GRP All-Star Big Band
- Rosenberg Trio: Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival (1993) - Rosenberg Trio
- Zlatko (1995) - Zlatko Manojlović
- DGQ-20 (1996) - David Grisman Quintet
- Two Guitars One Passion (1996) - Lara & Reyes
- Tango del Fuego (1999) - James Galway
- Czechmate (1999) - Druha Trava
- Spain (2000) - Michel Camilo & Tomatito
- La Nuit Des Gitans (2001) - Raphael Fays
- Crosscurrent (2005) - Jake Shimabukuro
- Gently Weeps (2006) - Jake Shimabukuro
- Steps (2009) - Cluster
- Live at Last (2008) - Stevie Wonder
- Acoustic Live (2009) - Pegasus (Issei Noro and Tetsuo Sakurai)
- Jazz and the Philharmonic - Chick Corea, Eric Owens, Terence Blanchard, and the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra
- Kind of Spain (2017) - Wolfgang Haffner
- Spain (2017) - Groove for Thought
- Spain (2020) - Dewa 19
References[edit]
- ^'Chick Corea'. Blue Note. Retrieved 25 July 2017.