4 Flashy Runs (That Are Easier Than You Think) 

Wowww! The metronome practice is brilliant! I'm a gospel musician and sir.. thank you so much!

This guy Aimee Nolte and Noah Kellman might be the best Jazz piano teachers on RU-vid rn

This needs to be a series

Some nice runs! But the "block it first" method is worth the price of admission alone! Thanks, I'll definitely use these concepts. 😊

Adam I want to thank you for sharing these AMAZING piano solo tips. I been playing for many years, but not schooled per se. I'm learning tons here !

Guys, you may also want to try D, Db, C, Bb, G, E. For the C7 chord, works great as sextuplets. Same thing for F7, starting on G. Fingering the same: 4,3,1,3,2,1.

Flashing Runs by Kanye West, Nice reference in the beginning music. I think Bud Powell used the first run to set up Over the Rainbow.

Classy stuff. Thank You. This is so very fun.

Gold! Thank you for making this video. I’m always curious how to play runs like this. I love how you break it down to be simple to understand

i came here to learn some runs to play to intro Misty, to my surprise you’re teaching in e flat today, how convenient

Fabulous. Wanted these for years.

You're just awesome! Thanks a mil.

Some of the downward runs of Art Tatum are just like automatic machine gun gunfire when you hear the keys percusion.

Thanks Adam, love it!

Charlie Parker got a job as a dishwasher just so he could hear Art Tatum play that’s how great Art was. Go figure !

You just elevated my playing to the next level with those runs. Thank you!

Great stuff!! A neat trick for that first run: since the notes are all in the half/whole (octatonic) scale you can use the same run over 4 different dominant chords. Try playing it over a Db, E and G (sounds best over the G imo). Alternatively you can keep Bb in the bass but transpose the run up/down minor thirds. In fact, everything that's based on the half/whole scale can be used this way (if anyone didn't know about it yet)! Very cool.

Another great one is to play the one chord and the major 2 overlapping hands all the way up. This reminded me of that. Thanks for the awesome runs!! 🎉❤

As a guitarist this is extra exciting

like others I am a self taught foolish me piano player. I have been working on my 2-5 -1 pattern over covid days and I jam often and having new runs to practice is a great thing to help me sound better thanks.

I’ve always used LH 4-3-2, RH 2-3-4 fingering for Ex. #3: the ascending whole tone scale. THEN entirely reverse the sequence to descend. THEN initiate a mixture of 1, 2, 3, 4 or more (any) octave runs both up & down, continually overlapping hands, cascading up & down the piano. Good warm up and dreamy, eerie dope sound, too. 🤘

Thank you , Adam! Mind blowing! Love practicing with you- Art Tatum’s runs have always intrigued me - such great tips 🎹❤️ I have already stolen that whole tone run for my intro to “ Misty”

Tatum loved to use that last Eb run, he would also put the chord tone above with his pinky on the strong beats (G on Eb, C on Bb), which you can hear in many of his recordings, including tiger rag. Hot licks!

I am taught and I teach and you are my favorite this holiday season.

Great lessons, thank you 🙏

I've done the 4th pattern in the relative minor for years. Great content!

Adam!!!!! :- ) Genius!!! Thanks!!!

the Bb13#11b9 arp is an instant classic

I love it!!! you help me soooo much thank you!

I hear this on a lot of old school records thanks for showing the secret!!! Now I can practice executing the lick when I here it!!!

cool mark loved it cant wait to hit the piano tks for your helpful video

So lovely. Thanks

This was very helpful. Thanks!

When I hear Peter at the end of this tutorial, I realized that you guys just gotta do some more Electric Piano stuff. I've been begging for a while now! Stevie; Tom Canning; Richard (the Man) Tee; Chick Corea; Herbie; Zawinul! It's NOT the same as an acoustic pianot you know!

The beginning of this video with the tone of the greeting and the background music felt like an internet era PBS broadcast. It really captured the beauty of education that we forget as we age

Great ideas, I like that you included the claw technique I do upper extensions on minor chords you know the one.

Make more of these please

Actual usable information ty!!

Thanks! Nice work

Eppiphany.. I need to work on my RH runs but these two-handed runs are terrific for intros and outros and interludes. Great strength building runs and as warmups to practicing compositions.

Great runs, like it!!! 😊❤

Great stuff Adam, will 'shed those riffs. Your presentation style is great in that it motivates me to practice even more. I'd love to see some arpeggiation up and down on these riffs (I'm also a guitar player and Eric Johnson is my mentor.)

Love it! ❤ works for guitar players too!

cool and usable thanx

Dang. Great lesson!!!

Great vid! I definitely recognize the Bb alt chord.

I love the ending! and the 90s EP!!!!

Very cool sick runs inspiring me to try harder as a pianist

love this!

thank u so much for ur videos, ur very sympathic

Really great content! Especially on the last one there are other good (better?) fingerings, in that snippet at the end he uses 4-3-2-1 instead, if you practice the skip from 1-4 that might let you do it faster in the end. Just something to keep in mind for anyone reading this.

Thanks!

Thank you so much, again! Every single time you play the fourth one I feel you're going to follow with I Mean You, by Monk! 😂

Love the cover of Kanye West's Flashing Lights while talking about flashy runs 😎🎹👍🏽

It would be awesome if you had one of those apps that shows the key / chord you were hitting. So much easier to see what keys you’re hitting. Especially when one hand is covering the other.

wow… great stuff… thanks…

Love this

Thank you.

This is lovely and amazing. Could you please do it also on Key C Majore scale

thank you I love this channel

I have an important concert in a few days that includes a song that asks for that really characteristic dreamy whole tone run, only over G7. This helped me a lot figuring out a great way to do it!

The last 6th chord run can be used with Barry Harris's 6th chord system.

You're amazing, thank you so muchhh

Great video Adam Nice cameo at the end Peter 👌

THANKS!!!!

Very well explained Adam! Very useful and helpful!

Art Tatum was something else on the 🎹🎵🥰

Easier when we Mastered it.. 🤭 Thank you so much for this video, you are an excellent teacher. I've master the first one anyway..👍

I prefer to play these and then walk away from the piano as fast as I can before anybody discovers that's all I got.

Danke!

thank you

A delight!

I prefer the ones that you seem to think are boring.

Shake and bake, love it.

Thanks

I watch the first 20sec and was obliged to subscribe!!!!!

For someone like me who is self taught and doesn't read music This is priceless

If you know the first one starting in Bb they feel exactly the same if you start on Ab and Eb

You're shredding!

Gold!

Grip it, grip it good! 😃

So glad I found your channel. This is amazing. I am classically-trained and do you think I can do these runs. I feel that classical training actually can be quite detrimental in many ways. We tend to look at the notation too much perhaps and get totally put off by what looks to be complexity of runs. I know when I have attempted to play Chopin's Etudes etc. Sometimes I think it's better if you don't read notation frankly. So thank you so much for breaking this down in not so scary terms. Shall be recommending your channel to other pianist friends for sure.

Thank you! After some sax practice, I find the first one a great six hexatonic scale too, to improvise over dominant b9 natural13 for example,. Knows anyone how is it called?

That Whole Tone run sounds like Magic Mirror music from some kid TV show.

Lopve it!!!!

FUN FACT :: Bb13#11b9 and Ab13#11b9 and Eb13#11b9 have the same shapes (right hand min7) and so JUST THREE SHAPES can be used for all DOM7 and ALL dim chords (cause its all symmetrical ). just 3 runs for all

Haha my man at the end using 5421 fingering for the last run. That is actually the good way to play it fast! Thanks for the runs! Any more coming up? It would be great to know where you took them from!

Pianistic gold!

This is just an idea, but I think the whole tone scale would be even more ergonomic if you start on A flat.

i want to know more about the badass funky DX7 intro and outro

How do we work on finger technique when modulation runs....

I was taken out by the “black & white with transistor pocket radio eq” transitions 😂😂😂😂

What was the first music played. When introducing openstudio

Lobster Claw! Thanks Adam!

I want more runs! :(

Mr Adam please explain: in the score the first note is Ab, in the video it begins in Eb, what is happening here? Tks

no se ve que teclas pisas por que no usas midiculous?

i often play Csus4 and Gsus4 and Dsus4 all over tonic Eb

Great!!!

Holy cow thanks, i'm lol cause the 1st lick i immediately said i can't do that thinking it had some wild fingering