A DEEPER dive into Pentatonics Practice - Peter Martin - LONGER VERSION 

I wasn't seeing content like this before. What I remember was prefatory comments, jokes, banter and no content, "see you next time!" -- THIS is what I wanted and who can do it better than Peter Martin? I love this video!

Dude, I could die a happy man if I could play what you show on this video. Thanks, for caring enough to share your knowledge and talent!

Bam! Where's the empty critique now, folks? Criticism helps us grow, but c'mon. Where else on the internet are we getting content like this? Wow! Here's a guy that hasn't just played with local heroes like most of us would wish to do, he's played with the masters. He IS a master. And yet, he still listens to the squabble that we create here in the comment section, and he LISTENS. This video was created in response to the "pandemonium" that the first pentatonic video started. Peter and Adam are actual jazz musicians, and they run Open Studio Jazz. As much as I love Truefire, can they say that? There's a difference when the people that run the show are actual jazz musicians. Ask Christian McBride, ask Dianne Reeves. Had to vent. I don't want the BS posturing of RU-vid to kill content from Peter and Adam. THAT would be the disservice the musical community. Think on that, naysayers. What Pete said about practicing beyond 2 octaves should apply to all instruments; guitarists, I'm looking at you. Playing in position is important, but learning the mechanisms so you can play the entire range of the instrument with more fluidity--that's more freedom. Opens up you line playing as well. Can't wait to try these out on the ol' cigar box.

Love the way you guys (Peter and Adam) talk. "Violently different", "I saw some whack stuff online". So nice to see people who are actually hip without effort.

18'04 = Peter thinking close to the following for those interested: Starts - Cmin pent - Cmin7 chord - C#min pent - C#4th - Bmi 4th voicing (Bmi7 chord or C#mi7 chord to Bmi7 chord) Back to - Cmi pent - Cmi chord (Briefly-ish) - Fmi pent - Gbma7 chord ** - Thinking A7 chord with 4th voicings (mixture of D & A pentatonic but mainly A pentatonic with an added D-C# movement) Back to - Cmin pent - Cmi7 chord ** - Fmi pent over Bb7 changing to Right Hand Bb major triad (Hitting the D octaves ala Chick Corea) - Then smashes a ii-7 V7 alt I line in Eb major Back to - Cmi pent - Cmin chord ** Thinking 'modal playing' over chords means adding extra notes than the straight pentatonic like the 4th degree in A7 (D)

I would love to hear Peter discuss what's going on in his left hand voicings. The reharms are what makes this sound so hip!

Incredibly valuable lesson. I could listen to Peter say "fraghuz" at 17:52 for hours. Thank you, Open Studio!

That first part is so intimidating, almost ended the video 😂😂😂

Peter, you are absolutely a pentatonic master!!..just fantastic!! And thanks for the lesson!!

I want to express my gratitude, Peter, for letting me know some secrets to improve my piano playing, this is really well explained and, over all, awesome. Cheers

Incredibly valuable. Peter Martin delivers! Been scouring Google for exactly THIS. Thank you!

Peter this is golden for all players. You are the Czerny of Pentatonics !! I think pentatonics work so well because they are quartal structure in nature = start on the 3rd of a major pent. chord, lay all the tones out ascending = perfect fourths. So all this horizontal improvisation sizzles in P 4th's (just gorgeous colorings). Thanks PM.

Masters Peter and Adam, thank you for sharing these processes and this objectivity, they have been fantastic to reveal so much sound and to be able to apply it. God bless you

Pleeeeeease keep this coming Mr. Martin!!!!!! I love how you are breaking down secrets to tools that we can use for improvisation and solo techniques that we can use to our advantage. I want to learn & know what you are fluent in on Jazz piano. Keep the great teaching coming sir!... D. DoRohn Gough Sr. #ImAHugeFanOfYourSkill

Thank you, Peter! Your points about fingering make perfect sense!

Yes, please dive deeper! I loved this. Just what I’m trying to learn!

Very helpful Peter. Thank you for sharing your skills with us!!!

The best jazz piano player out there. Brilliant educator. Thank you !!

Thanks so much, Peter! I have never learned pentatonic patterns in my 50 years of playing classical piano ( does sound like some Debussy runs ) Starting at 1A… these patterns and fingerings are very pianistic and fit the hand and really take off after slow practice

I like this! I like that you mentioned start slow and the significance of strengthening the 5th fingers. I noticed a good number of your patterns occur where the hand is in one position allowing the fingers to play several patterns with minimal movement of the hand. That reminds me of when my college piano teacher introduced me to playing scales, in all keys, with both hands. At first, learning scales, like that, was horrible. But when I got it, I loved it, and appreciated the value of "start slow". Thanks Peter!

Absolutely brilliant!

Awesome! Thank you. Sounds so pro when you go down

Absolutely fantastic, exactly what I've been looking for , I think fingering is so important, I'll be subscribing now, so happy with this you are brilliant !

Awesome video Peter. I love the format in which you went further into depth in this video including some practice techniques for pentatonic patterns. I also think the talkshow and conceptual videos are great too (I listen to them most mornings driving to work) but I think this format is absolutely on point for teaching technique. I would love to see your take on practicing slipping, or some of those killer modal licks you played over A Night In Tunisia 🔥🔥🔥

Wow,,,,,Great insights into Pentatonic application. Thank you Mr Peter M

This is great stuff Peter! Thank you for sharing this amazing patterns! I would like to see more of this, it will be great to have them on all keys! Thank you so much.

Amazing breakdown of phrasing and fingering.. thank you! 😎🤟🏼

Ooopph! Brilliant tutorial. Clear instructions and really thorough. Super helpful PDF, too. Many thanks.

This excercise made a big difference on my playing in short amount of time man! thanks!

Thank you so much Peter! Awesome!

Love this video. Thank you.

Peter, you’ve said two things that were enormously important to me: One: to use the fifth and fourth fingers of the right hand to keep the wrist from bending And two: One can conceptualize the walking bass as divided into triplets That greatly helped my rhythm playing So I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you so much!

Peter! This is one of the best videos on RU-vid about pentatonic! Complete, helpful, creative, and nice! Just add the left hand and it will be a full master class that we can learn for years

Awesome lesson. Never had any consistent fingering for pentatonics. You really are a brilliant musician. You bridge the gap between Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. Have learned so much from listening to u alone. Actively working one of your courses now. Has helped me fill in a lot of holes. Thanks again !

thanks for the awesome practice pdf and lesson

Great Playing !!! Thanks for such an in-depth Break down Cya !

Thank you for this lesson!

So good!

Love this!!!!!!

Love it!!! Give me more!!

So useful. Thank You..!

I am left with impression that this class is, chiefly, a discussion of the "Philosophy of musical performance". The piano functions as an instruction aide. This is really helpful. I feel encouraged to try weird, difficult stuff to kill time. Killer.

I grew up practicing scales, chord inversions and arpeggios in 4 octaves too. It was non-negotiable and I'm grateful for it now.

This just opened my ears up on how to execute my soloing and vocabulary. Need more modes to study

You'll best wonderful teacher!!!

Love it

for reference: lvl 1a: 7:50 lvl 1b just triplets lvl 1c just sixteenths lvl 2a: 17:10 lvl 2b just triplets lvl 2c just sixteenths lvl 2 fingering: 22:15

Blessings!!! Thank you

Nice work Pete!. Some of these pentatonic techniques were covered in the Jazz Duet pentatonic shapes video (for saxophone). But you really put it into perspective for the jazz pianist especially with the fingering. Thanks. Will really appreciate more videos like this.

Excelente ! Gracias Peter.

Think you Peter

3 minutes in and I am ready to quit because Peter is such a beast!

This guy is superb. He is an excellent pianist and reminds me of Mckoy Tyner and Kai Akagi. Very Nice

Thanx, Maestro.

Your pentatonic exercises are fascinating! I‘m trying to adopt it for bass-guitar, it‘s hard, but it boosts my musical thinking a lot.

Fascinating

*This is great.*

top video thank you !

Peter! I hope you are reading this. ( Adam, if you're reading this, please bring this to Peters attention ) Please write a book of nothing but pentatonic Etudes. Publish it in ebook format and charge 30$ for a copy of it. I promise, it will become a BIBLE for many of us and I am willing to put 30 down for a copy right this minute. Peter is the only pianist on youtube who clearly has the fire of McCoy Tyner and Phineas Newborn.

Excellent, thank you. Can you do some lessons on your actual soloing using multiple scales, Pentatonic shifting etc and go slow on it?

Nice playing. Very much a prêcis of one, McCoy Tyner.

Love this! So many self-taught pianists only use the first 3 fingers. This is great info.

Yes Please!! Left hand breakdown!

That's some hefty chops you got there

I'm transcribing the line at 26:50 for guitar. I love it!

Thanks for share….

That was great! Fingering is exactly what I’m struggling with. I was specifically wondering should I avoid crossing over the thumb, so this helps!

Very very good😀

I'm probably gonna watch this 100+ times

I LIKE!

Que buen profe y músico Martin desde argentina abrazos por más vídeos como estos para crecer

This is amazing! i am trying these on electric guitar, it is so much fun! can you talk about your left hand comping? :D

Insightful Mr. Pete!! Oh how I wish that U would use a on screen keyboard display (for the old man)... so I can view your unique talent and how U do that thing U do even the more with a midi file to download!! Peace!!

merci

Great thought on starting below middle C

Thank you! Would you also bring it together and cover what you’re doing with your left hand? Also, it would be good to see a similar video for the diminished scale. Love your videos!

6:42 "violently different" I've never heard that phrase before.

Love you Peter. I’m not going to criticise your teaching technique because this is such a wonderful resource…it would be great if you started with the exercise and then built up to your super-fast lines (rather than the other way round). I’m a working jazz pianist and I have learned a few great tips from Open Studios. Lovely resource. Danny.

Two octave pent fingerings should be learned first- here is the minor fingering for D, E, G, A, B, C#, F#, Ab and Eb: 1234 124 1245. And here's one for C and F minor: 123 1234 1245

I’m very interested in learning this concept in the left hand. This should help pick up its speed and accuracy!

I like this .. dexterity phrasing: you got !!

Finally! It's about time to dive deeper. 2 minutes was not enough.

I would love to know a bit more about the key modulation you were doing during some of your playing, is there a video explaining some of your choices there?

Yeah,Peter!!!!!!

Jerry Bergonzi permutations! Keep them coming nice work 👍

I've been going pentatonic crazy lately creating interesting shapes up and down the keyboard, transposing, shifting, etc. knowing they will start to migrate into my soloing just from sheer repetition. Loving the cool major and minor sounds but not sure how to use my left hand yet. It appears PM is just messing around with different quartal voicings moving in and out of the tonality using random rhythmic ideas. If you practice, it will come.

Hola, cual es el criterio que se usa para armar los voicing en la mano izquierda y generar el color y el cromatismo usando la escala pentatónica?

Dude you are from another planet :D

This is such a good lesson. I have a couple questions... 1) were do we find a lesson out there that teaches crossovers for all scales: ascending, descending and patterns? 2) What chords And also what progressions go with what scales and licks?

Great stuff.... Do you offer a PDF with fingering (up and down) ?

anatomically speaker, going inward with the fingers toward our thumbs it’s always easier then sequentially going out

Holy crap. Monster

Master, could you do an example using II V I ?

Excellent tutorials, but do you think it'd be possible to position the light at an angle a bit so we can better see the keys being hit?

Also, I totally agree with your range debate, Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson show the advantage of this aspect too. The other idea I came up with is great to combine later on first with the same on the tritone pair and then explore further from there... as you did..I learned this from a saxophone player, and first played that on guitar for years... the hexatonic scale hidden in the combination is CBA GbF Eb which hides a F# 1 m3 4 b5 and a Cm 1 m3 4 b5 that metamorphs into eachother...actually 6 tones of the octatonic scale...

master! So.. when you change key you change fingerings? Thanks for this class!!!

Hey Peter, wonderful video, could maybe make one one the mixture between the modal Pentatonic sound Mixt with more chromatic bebop enclosures and especially when or HOW to practice "detuning" like you just did to reach that MC COY wish type of Sound? Anyways wonderful work and thank you guys so much for all your work and great video/content!

Great lesson,thanks Peter!

Genio!!.....hace algunos vídeos en español please

You’re awesome! But you said nothing about the left hand chords ! Is there another video that explains them ? Thank you ...!