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Interesting interview, thank you. Fascinating the indepth research into piano technique, especially into the use of the intrinsic hand muscles, a discovery made by Arnold Schulz and described in his book The riddle of the pianists finger. Richard dives deep into the matter and explains it very well on his website. Recommended!
I'm 68 and a lifelong bassist singer.I was and still am a huge EC and the Attractions fan since the late 70s. Bruce stood out to me immediately and I still consider him a inventive and colorful player.I read and was impressed by the Big Wheel,but failed to see that Bruce is an accomplished author and I'll investigate his Bruce Lee offerings. He comes off as a genuine good guy. Great job on the interview! P.S. I revisited your piece here and got more from it the 2nd time around,hence the double comments.I must dig deeper into your offerings.
@@nextlevelpianoinstruction Watching the progress of the song, and differences in early version to later version. Humility shines through. Writing a good song is tough, and takes both work and inspiration. Steely Dan music is akin to broadway sometimes, and your first version reminded of that
@@weissmann7770 Coolio! Thanks for sharing! Probably less humility than that frustration that I get when something could be better! It's a good motivator!
Rhys was one of the first musicians I met when I moved to Los Angeles in 1974. To this day I consider him one of my best friends. He is truly a wonderful soul.
I just started reading Faulkner this summer. I have to push myself, somewhat, to read them. I finished _As I Lay Dying. What I remember most is the grossness of hauling a dead body a great distance. I didn't understand why the husband would try so hard to keep the promise to his wife, yet seemed to be looking for another wife at the same time. He also put his children through a difficult time. Is it any wonder that one burned a barn in the process. I am now pushing through Intruder in the Dust. I will take your advice and read more summaries, etc to try to get a better understanding of Faulkner's books.
@@nextlevelpianoinstruction I'm referring to after she quit writing, herself. She certainly had the opportunity to hear all the singer-songwriters of the '60s and early '70s. After all, Malvina didn't really begin writing songs until 1960 or so, but I can hear parallels in their songwriting styles and approaches. It's to bad Malvina didn't get to hear Connie, too.
@@truermu She made a good number of recordings. Her material was often political or topical. She also wrote a bunch of children's' songs. Two of her most famous songs are "Little Boxes" (a 1963 hit song for Pete Seeger, and later a theme for the TV show "Weeds"), and "What Have They Done To The Rain", a hit in 1967 by the band "The Searchers". She began writing at about age 60 (in about 1960) , and she passed away in 1978. There's a bunch of her stuff on RU-vid.
Hi! Interesting approach. You could try explaining yourself in your own words the very concepts you've learned , so others could also gain some detailed understanding (and you advance your own comprehension even more).
@@Anton_Sh. Well, I have done some of that in other videos. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lz4Ee71IGUA.html and ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zv81gVW8aPg.html plus others under the "Learn About Math" playlist. If there's a particular concept you'd like to see me tackle, I'd love to hear it!
First time you go to a jam just go to listen, meet people and figure out the vibe, level and attitude. It might not be for you or them. Be friendly and modest and if asked, say you're just checking it out and you'll come back next time. Don't be a big shot or needy wannabee, just someone who's trying to work out whether you fit. Or you're just going to come back and buy some beers to support the thing. These events are incredibly difficult to coordinate and the honchos (usually the pianist or guitarist) are generally open but need to trust in competence. A jam is usually a pseudo-paid residency and the house band can lose it if things descend into "make a racket and have fun". There are actually supposed to be punters there who want to hear reasonable music. Which really isn't that difficult to achieve if you just play your part. As a rhythm player you only really need a couple of tunes you know well to cover the extremely unlikely event that there aren't any singers or horn players so you'd have to play a pick up trio number, which can be dicey no matter how well YOU know the number. Or even duo or solo. Just be a reasonable accompanist and have the iReal Book on your phone - everyone uses it. Let's face it, this isn't the olden days and nobody can be expected to just know anything anyone calls. It was the way back in the day because we were always gigging and everyone had the expected repertoire in them, whether we liked any particular tunes or not. That said, don't need to use your phone for really basic stuff... Don't have to read Autumn Leaves, Solar, Canteloupe Island, etc... Basically, pretty much anything on a beginner course curriculum. You probably won't get booted, but it looks bad. If you're a sit in and a singer appears saying things like "find my key" or even worse "just freestyle it" pretend you need the toilet and hand back to the house player. They're used to dealing with the clueless and it really is their job not yours... When your solo comes it's invariably towards the end when the energy and interest have waned. Don't try to spank the people who've gone before - it's not good to do it even if you can. Have some fun but just keep it tidy and above all make sure you get everyone else back in together strongly on the out head - they're often a bit lost. And a bit flushed with their moment and sometimes a bit pissed. Actually that sentiment is general - you're first and foremost a shepherd. Even if you're standing in. So basically, be a safe pair of hands. Most jams attract far more front liners than rhythm players and trust me, they're really happy to hand over so you can chug behind people endlessly waffling - er sorry, learning and gaining experience - over standards for them. Or... and here's a wild idea, learn the basics of bass (especially upright if you can borrow one for a bit). You don't have to be Ron Carter or Scott Lafaro, just be able to hit roots and fifths on reasonable tunes at medium up and walk a bit. Those guys often wind up slogging all night long and will love you even if you have the "second instrument" excuse of only being able to play a bit. If you nail the roots roughly in time most of the time you'll be fine... Bass isn't that hard beyond the physical experience. Don't get fancy, your right hand is a two finger flipper. The open strings are E A D and G but your basic way of playing is the half position with first finger giving F Bb Eb and Ab. Learn the scale fragments up between those and earmark the 5ths of each and you're clubbable for most jazz jam situations. I speak as a pianist who's plucked on occasion. Say you're just doing a favor and don't want a solo but if they insist - or just abandon you for some amorous interest at the bar - start messing around up the neck for visual effect while using your ear. Clue - it's a totally symmetrical instrument so what works down there works up here, over there and pretty much anywhere else. And by this point, nobody's really listening at all. It's not a wasted exercise either - even the most basic experience on any other instrument gives you insight into the way you play with them when you're back on home turf. And finally - the only thing anyone ever got hurt by playing on a jam was their pride. And that's down to you, right? All live music, including jams, seems to be on the decline but it's as important as ever, so if you're inclined give it a shot. Just be a normal reasonable human being or you might become part of eyeroll folklore. Word goes round and people remember idiots for years - usually fondly and people can redeem themselves, but the folklore persists. And they remember your attitude, not your ability. So just be nice.
ForScore and iReal Pro are life savers. Great singers who know their key are fun to accompany... amateurs who think they are singers and have no idea what a key is... are a nightmare.
Thanks for those ideas, I think they are solid. I am a come back trumpet player, practicing 3-4 hrs a day almost at the two year mark. I've been going to some jam sessions here, but just to listen and to soak everything up. I play in a rock band, city concert band, and jam with some people in their garage. I don't quite feel ready to step onto stage and play jazz standards. I'll be watching your future postings for more thoughts. Thank You.
Good on you! If you're practicing that much, you're probably fine to go jam on some jazz! Just know the rules of the game. I did a few videos on jams for piano players, singers and drums/bass which you might find helpful, and they're in this same playlist. What other topics would you like to see? We can have a conversation if I can help you.
Great advice man. There's like a rite of passage budding jazz musicians need to go through where they get their asses handed to them and realise how much more hard work they need to get to what they call great. It's part of the process, happened to me plenty of times before I became more humble about staying in my lane and not trying to punch above my weight. We're all learning, just at different points.
Great comments! There's ways to bring up new players and ways to shut them out. I hear Pittsuburgh is remarkable in the way it has brought them up. I aspire to that.
Hi Adam, Congratulations on the posting streak! I’ve been subscribed to you for quite a while, but just found this video by looking in my subscriptions tab. Looking at your last 90 days I notice that your top videos have very good titles and that definitely helps with the algorithm. “Are you comfortable with your intense feelings?” Is a great title and the subject of emotions evoked by music is very interesting. Have you considered making more videos in this area? Have you ever seen the UC Berkeley interactive map? If not you should be able to find it my googling: “open computing facility at UC Berkeley the emotions evoked by music interactive audio map”.
Fascinating! Because of my neurodivergence I'm actually terrible at reading comprehension but do tremendously better in auditory processing. I can never remember what I read but I can recite what I heard word for word even years ago.
My visual processing was very poor as well. The Feldenkrais Method was invaluable in connecting my visual to a physical sense of myself, which began allowing me to use my eyes. If you'd like more details on that journey, please reach out to me at adam@acole.net
Maybe that's not as easy for everyone. Then again, some people don't need the trick because they have translation skills I don't have. I think it's something everyone might be able to develop, though it could be harder for some than others.
@@truermu i think you are biased from the greko-latin alphabet that many ,if not all , western languages have in common and that the etymology of many many words have the same roots . from that perspective , you are right .
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Great explanation! I believe that, building on that, development in a discipline is often done in an iterative style - so you improve skills, knowledge, etc. to be able to apply them (directly or indirectly, very often the latter), and you proceed to apply them to be able to find some form of feedback and improve your method/abilities at the same time, sort of like the way you might write and debug code for example. It's very hard to perform with few or undeveloped capabilities, but it's also good to review and apply your techniques for these reasons to make sure you can direct your action towards something meaningful, essentially keeping it relevant, focused, and purposeful. Training <----> Development <----> Action and back around. Very interesting discussions, thank you for these videos!
I’ve really enjoyed your discussions so far on the key ideas involved in human behaviour and learning. I think it’d be very interesting to see some more on the specific mechanics of this and how this shapes our lives (and we can shape it). Wonderful videos! Very thought provoking, and I’d like to see more of your interpretations and explanations - very useful :)
I like to think of it as: if its possible/made sense to have fair dice have this many numbers as its base (D6, D10, D20, D7.45, etc.) how many dice would you need to represent this number?
I play by ear. Learning a new tune from scratch depends on " hearing" it correctly in my mind. I'd never be able to even approach it backwards, particularly if I did not previously know the tune.
This is a better strategy for people who learn music by reading. Even so, if you know a tune well enough to play it, and you're having trouble with part of it, you can still figure out how to play that part backwards by ear. You can invent your own way of writing down the music, as well.
Easier for you, and simple for them. But once they've done it, they won't understand why they did it. Then they'll forget and they're back to not knowing.
