Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne) - Piano Tutorial and Walkthrough Hope this is helpful! Tips welcome via Venmo: @andrewnorthrocks My band: / andrewnorthandtherangers
dude, you are the man. one of the best piano lessons i've seen in a long time. you've obviously been playing in bands for many moons. the last part where you're playing to the song and voicing the chords is how every band member hopes to learn a the chords from their buddy that just wrote a song.
Great video! I love this song, JB is a profound songwriter. I like the angle you use here to teach, although I prefer seeing the hands on the keyboard from the players POV… but you’re very engaging and this helps, too!
Great tutorial! My only suggestion, for those who may learn the way I do, would be to have the camera behind you so that the viewer can see the keys from the perspective they will be playing from. I find myself wanting to twist my head around to see it from that angle LOL! Very engaging style of teaching, though, well done!
hey! thanks so much for checking it out, I'm glad it was helpful. You are not alone in that feedback! I corrected that with a new camera angle shortly after I made this video, which unfortunately doesn't help for this one, but everything going forward has a nice view of the keys 🎹
in some version the guitar improve over g-minor pentatonic, ... some live-versions sound like in Eb ... in Bb : Eb is fourth and F is fifth ... > and that's the way < ... i believe most good songs swings over three major scales ... just taking two notes more ... 🙂... or leave some unused !!! it's another question how to wrote ... in this point i see the one-four-five as master-major-pattern ... think the guitar-part and other solo-extensions can be in c-minor ,d-minor and g-minor pentatonic when in B ... a-minor, d-minor or g-minor when in F ... give it a try ! ( sorry - english 's not my language ) ... >> in the end : Eb-major gives u the Ab ... and g-minor, f-minor and c-minor ... so in my opinion in Eb-major u will get all u need ...
Haha. Years ago, I actually played a gig (piano) with Jackson Browne and I couldn’t do the left hand the way he did it. I played it in reverse and he laughed saying, “Yeah, most keyboardists play it jazzy-not weird like me.”😅 However, I do remember he/we played it in E though, not F. By the way, he is one cool, mellow cat. Total opposite of the egotistical rock star.
Hey thanks! I'm glad it's useful for you! Yes, it's a CP88 (what a wonderful instrument!). I use the C7 Grand (number 5 under the grand piano options), it's very realistic. It doesn't cut through as well as the Nord pianos do in a band setting, but it's still my preferred piano patch
Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes - live at Glastonbury 2010 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NaqNc2sFO_4.html ... is a version dancing in E-A-D playin' with a Gb-ballon ... from the G-major friendship ... great-stuff !
Because of the Eb? This is actually a great point about this song! I went back and forth for a long time with a bandmate about whether this song should be considered to be in Bb or F. The Eb chord in the riff certainly implies Bb major, but the chord pattern under the verses and chorus is clearly F major. In my opinion the Eb invokes a flat-7 of F major rather than the IV chord of Bb, but it muddies the waters, which makes the song sound more interesting. To my ear F sounds like the home/tonic throughout the whole song, so I would consider it to be in F major.
@andrewnorth1983 You are correct that the song is in F major. The A minor and D minor chords are diatonic in F major. The only non-diatonic chord is the E flat major, which comes from a brief modal mixture: E flat is a diatonic triad of the parallel minor (F minor) or you can get it from the F Mixolydian scale. You can tell it's the "odd chord out" by how the rhythm changes when it's played. You can't derive the A minor chord from a parallel minor of B flat, nor does it makes sense as a modal mixture because it's buried in the verse. The C major chord also shows the key isn't B flat major, for the same reasons.
Love the song. However, from a teaching point of view, my recommendation is play the song through in its entirety prior to the mechanics and music theory of the song. When one begins with narrative and detail and audience is lost in my option. It causes loss of interest. A majority of individuals learn easier and faster by the ole fashion way "watch and learn." This is a method used in humanity prior to the invention of writing! It works today as well and more enjoyable too. Succession.
Hi, this is a great point, thanks so much for sharing it! I thought a lot about how to present this kind of material and ended up deciding to jump right into the song and then do a play-along as the second segment in the video - primarily because I'm not introducing students to the song in most cases. They are seeking out a tutorial by searching RU-vid, so I am presuming they're familiar with how it goes. I think there's a lot of merit to doing the "play along" first, but I also do a lot of Phish/Jamband content and my format is primarily based around that material - people don't find it by accident, they're looking to learn how to play obscure songs they know very well, and the lesson often involves discussion of extended improvisation and we may play along with tracks that are 20 minutes of jamming after learning the basic principals at play. I agree that Jackson Browne and pop music is a different scenario, and I'll give it some thought for future lessons! Thank you so much for checking out the channel and your input, I appreciate the thoughtful comment - cheers!
