Walk That Bass is all about Jazz and Blues. Jazz is a broad and complex genre of music which can be challenging to grasp. It's difficult to even know where to start. This is where this RU-vid channel steps in. It offers free Jazz Piano Tutorials that cover everything you need to play the Blues and Jazz.
My goal in creating this website is to help those who are interested in learning to play and appreciate Jazz. It tries to combine both practical and theoretical aspects, so that you will be able to play Jazz, but also understand why the the thing you are playing sounds good (or bad).
These Jazz tutorials cover everything from Jazz chords, improvisation, Jazz scales, chord substitution, reharmonization, chord voicings, comping and everything else you need to become a competent and professional sounding Jazz musician.
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Good work. This is perhaps the best short introduction to tuning and temperament I've seen so far. Subscribed. Towards the end, you point out that "you just can't win". I like to put it mathematically: no power of two is also a power of three or five. Even God can't change that, if She's logical. Being a tuning freak who mostly plays heptatonic scales, I play around a lot with tuning. Your description of 1/4 tone meantone was right on, but for me, the fact that C to D is 9/8 and D to E is 10/9 is a feature, not a bug. It feels harmonic to sing up a scale of gradually smaller intervals, as I do in the first five notes of my 1, 9/8, 5/4, 11/8, 3/2, 7/4, 15/8 scale. I can even sing the 11th harmonic pretty well in tune by just sort of sliding up that fifth. I haven't played in equal temperament for decades now. I'm perfecty happy to stay in restricted tonalities, I do other stuff to make my music interesting. Not that I have anything against 12TET, it's a wonderful comprimise that's indespensible for lots of music. But singing those thirds is a bitch. cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott
Another way of saying this, is our perception is the same as the overtone series (hearing by peaks, troughs, and nodes). Breaking down the overtone series close to the start, would naturally give you 12 notes. You exclude 5 to get 7 by consonance. What is the "av" in "P8av" for? I'm guessing, Greek or something like that. Oct. is Latin, right?
I hear an industrial beating through my computer, my speakers and through my headphones? Is it possible that my sound driver is manipulating the sound?
Great tutorials, i've been trying to learn funk piano for awhile and I have trouble differentiating between 16th notes and a slower tempo and 8th notes at a faster tempo, but yeah the rests and using the accents and syncopations of the 16th note level is easy to understand
Im a guitarist that wants to learn some piano becouse i love the hammond and use plugins to try to get close to that sound, but also i wanted to learn more about being a musician vs being a guitarist that just plays guitar, i know a decent chunk of "theory" but i just wanna learn more and also put it into a more practical musical workframe, researching "blues piano course/lesson" found this video. I think this is the best i found yet, really great with great examples, and short basic simple explanation of how to put it into context. Could you reccomend me more content strictly about the blues? im not ready to jazzfy my piano playing just yet ;D
Masterful. The best and most complete explanation I have heard, and that should be reviewed more than once. The only significant omission, in my opinion, might be the "why" - argpeggios up and steps down. Ascending and skips tend to create more tension; while descending and steps tend to more resolution. You coul probably do another 18 minutes on articulation.
The well tempered tuning systems may have presented the ideal ratio of "in tune/out of tune" before we sterilised it with out modern mindset. Of course, it was not possible to cripple nature entirely, for even equal temperament is not perfect. An object is only identifiable as this or that because it is more of this than that, or more of that than this, and if it is only this, or only that, it can hardly be distinguished from the other. The well tempered tuning systems kept that character while preserving practical uniformity, mirroring that society in which each soul is a valued one and all souls are part of a greater whole.
This video is very confusing. Why does it not show the things its talking about. You spend 4 minutes talking about a note with a missing fundamental, why not play it to show the difference. You already have audacity open.... so weird.
The part I dont understand is how you name chords throughout the circle of fifths. I understand how to play the scales and chords, but dont know the chord names. Thank you!
I think this is a bit of a stretch. Both songs are electro-swing, so share that same rhythm. If you listen to a lot of music from that genre, you'll notice similarities to Hells Greatest dad as a result. Mimsy being the same vocalist makes them sound closer, but I don't think the song was made as a reference or has any particularly references.
Hi! Thanks for your video, really helpful! Currently I am studying rootless voicings and wonder, does this chance the target notes? Since the 1 is not in the left hand anymore, should I avoid landing on this note? Or is the general idea of 1,3,5,7 as target notes still applicable? TIA for your reply!
as someone with good pitch memory (NOT perfect pitch, yet similar in practice), different keys absolutely have different characteristics. I have memorized the sound of all 12 notes via 12 different songs* across multiple years, so these notes sort of carry the meaning of the songs I learned them from. For example, I learned G from Bach's Little Fugue in G Minor, so songs in G minor remind me of the powerful and regal quality of that fugue. F♯, however, I learned from Caramelldansen, which actually isn't even tuned in A=440hz since it's a nightcore remix. So, songs in F♯ sound very uplifting as I recall listening to Caramelladansen as a child, plus the song is literally tuned higher. *actually 11 songs, since I didn't need a song to learn C
