Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Vince Guaraldi 🎹 Jazz Piano College 

I'm a real amateur and after a little more than a year of practice (like half an hour a day give or take), I got good at mimicking the original release of this song, so if you want to learn it, you can, if you put the time in! The left hand thing is a "crunch" that he uses the heel of his palm to effect. There is part of a documentary about Vince here on RU-vid that actually shows him doing it. This video is just what people have wanted for quite some time now, thanks for uploading it!

Playing those right-hand triplets against those left-hand offbeat eighths is like rubbing your head while patting your belly and never knew about using the "rough" of the hand. Very informative.

This is the song that that put Vince on the radar for the people working on the first Charley Brown special. Thanks for breaking some of it down for us Tony.

"Just try and you can probably do it" - why you're my jazz teaching hero :)

Thank you Tony! Lot of good tips here. Vince was my gateway to Jazz, so even though his playing is not so complex, he still speaks to me. Plus, this song won a Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition the year I was born. The title is one of my mantras :) Cheers! (Pila)

Thanks for covering Cast Your Fate to the Wind. I didn’t know Vince wrote it, but it makes sense that he did as I re-listen to the ostinato structure.

I always liked that tune. Thanks for posting this!

I'm super happy to know I'm not the only person who can't figure out the rythm correctly! I got to practice for some minutes and I ended up totally confused about what I should exactly do with my left hand, to hold on the rythm. And then, your video appeared in my suggestions which was such a blessing! Thanks for your tips man, it really helps ^^

The problem is that so many posers try and play this song too fast. The song can not be enjoyed unless it's played very slowly, that's what gives the song such a great impact. When I was growing up the slowness of this melody is what gave it all its' impact. I personally never wanted the song to end.

What a coincidence! I was just playing this a few minutes ago! LOL Thanks for the tips

You can really hear how “Linus And Lucy” came out of this.

U don't have a color keyboard notation ? 🎹🎹🎹

The timing of the sound and the video are off, so it’s difficult to follow his hand movements on the keys.

😅😅😅 thanks a lot

Was George Winston really your cousin?

Nice

Where are the rules saying that jazz music has to meet some magic minimum standard of all-too-often capricious and increasing complexity, whatever that complexity is supposed to be, at any given time, just in order to be accepted by also increasingly capricious - and unfortunately also smug and pretentious - so-called jazz musicians?