I can't tell you how helpful this has been. I've just spent a few minutes practising this and I'm already so much more aware and listening to what I'm playing so much more than comping with the left hand. This is fantastic. Thank you Peter. Your melodic lines on this video are just beautiful. Amazing!
my goodness bro these lines you're playing are FREAKING INSANE BONKERS MAN just stunning. I have spent the last 3 weeks trying to transcribe this whole lesson man (of course mostly using audio, but sometimes cheating with the visuals... :D ) Anyway man, thank you so much for the INCREDIBLE ideas and motifs.... ALSO this is a super lesson man practicing that steady bass line higlighting the root movement has SUPER HELPED me understand my standards better. Somehow this type of practice gets you feeling the true essence and movement of the tunes right??? This is SO SO SO HELPFUL MAN THANK YOU!!!!!!
Thanks very much Peter! I run a soft-seater in Vancouver and I always practice some piano both before and usually after shows. I'm sure I'll be up late tonight! :)
Mr. Martin, you my inspiration for tonight... looking forward to see you on Alfa Jazz Fest in Lviv! Thanks for such easy understanding and super effective lessons!
Yeah, this is one of the all-time best explanations of the tasks involved in practicing Jazz. I truly appreciate this. i wlll use it in my practicing, you can be sure.
excellent advice i'm trying to advance by getting more complex but getting better at fundamentals makes so much sense i'm trying to play art tatum right hand when i can't play half notes in the left i can even play "berkley" modern voicings in the left but not half notes ! this video totally busted me.
For those interested in learning more from the tune 'What Is This Thing Called Love' played @08:05 Here are songs based on the same progression: Hot House: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--bl9GAcNflk.html (with the Bebop Masters themselves Parker & Gillespie) - Leadsheet: imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/377125069/original/9f4713ea28/1607387371 Subconscious-Lee (with the Great East-Coast Cool Jazz Musicians Konitz & Marsh): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QQMSPEi6WPc.html - Leadsheet: imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/336609810/original/7e6de83585/1604511741
Peter, great lesson! Any chance of you guys putting together a book of standards, easy to not so easy, with walking basslines, suggested scales to improv over?
This is SO damn right on, there are so many BS jazz piano videos on RU-vid, every serious student of this great music should be seriously studying these videos! Do you teach by skype or other online medium?
oh man i was so getting caught with forcefully soloing with the left hand always there comping, when i could be doing simple stuff like this and let the right hand outline the harmony
This is excellent for improvisation which you clearly have mastered(along with an impressive technique) BUT what about complex reharmonizing. THAT would entail a different approach and to begin with an understanding of such things as tritone substitutions.
@Carl Raw Ross I have a copy of Charlie Parker Omnibook and I had to correct a LOT of mistakes of the transcriptions in my copy; they're not accurate, don't sound good and yet many students are learning them by just reading the score, I guess... Better to transcribe from the audio recording IMHO. :-)
I put this thingie in my practice routine everyday.. or when I don't know what to practice, I'll to this exercise. It's really fun :) Awesome vid, awesome playing. What's the tune 06:55 ?
TubbyGibbonsM9 that’s the thing man, all notes work when soloing, but knowing which notes hold tension and which notes hold resolution is how you can decipher what phrase you want to put together.
How long should you practice before expecting results? When practicing something like scales, I find myself becoming disheartened because I can't play scales as fast and clean as a pro.
Hey peter, I really need your help in a bad way. I've tried broken 3rds, quartals and broken chords and arpeggios but I'm really having a hard time mixing them up to make them sound more like lines. I've taken your online courses temporarily and learned a bit from them. I'm not a member anymore but I was wondering if you could shed some light on this matter.
I'm not Peter but I think I can help. The time old advice that was given to me, that worked, was to transcribe licks, lines, even entire solos. There is plenty of written stuff as well. Solos already transcribed for you. There are even players on UTube who show you some licks and how they do them. It has never been easier to learn jazz. There is nothing wrong with figuring out your own licks and memorising them. After a while you find you can let go of the memorised stuff. When I work out a hot idea at the piano I want to be able to recall it whenever I need to so I will run it through the keys, memorising it in a couple. The idea of playing scales in 3rds and so on is to give your fingers liberty. Scales and arpeggios are your alphabet. One of my favourite exercises is to create a line in my head, then scat sing it, then work out how to play it on the piano. Eventually you get quicker and quicker until you can do it simultainiously. I wish you well. You are going through the same confusion that a lot of us go through when trying to put everything together.
It's good not to have a vertical camera for this one. Focusing on the notes he's playing is missing the point of the video. This is about the feel and groove of what you play, that's why he simplifies the left hand. It gives the right hand more room and space to feel the groove. Play something simple that you know and that's in your fingers for this exercise and swing it ;)
