How to Sound Like Bill Evans [Jazz Piano Tutorial] 

80% of the time you were playing, I felt those familiar heart tugs that Bill's music has been giving me for over 40 years. That's pretty good for a young right-hander!

"How to sound like Bill Evans". Don't do it Noah, don't give me hope

Bill Evans got the greatest compliment possible: "He plays the piano like it was meant to." The last time such a compliment had been given was to Fréderic Chopin in 1832. Evans had a long time coming!

Not sure if you saw my comment, but I did suggest this, and to see it in my recommended was a lovely surprise. Bill is my favourite pianist of all time, nobody compares to his genius. I could fall asleep to his playing, it's so beautiful. Thank you for this.

How you break down and illustrate these complicated Jazz sounds is amazing. This kind of playing is certainly beyond my skill level at the moment but it’s great to know these videos will still be around when I finally get there! Thank you for sharing, as always!

Amazing tips 🤩 Definitely the best Bill Evans tutorial on RU-vid Many thanks for sharing, you rock!

Bill is my favorite jazz pianist so thank you very much for sharing this

Incredible, this inner voice leading movements are amazing

Very good. Great backdown of some technics. Thanks heaps for the share.

So much in this Bill Evans tutorial Noah.. thanks again!

Omg you’re so amazing thanks for your teaching ♥️♥️

A very instructive video, thank you so much.

As I told you, he's my favorite. And not just because we're both from New Jersey.

Man you fullfilled my request! Thanks so much. I am already signed up for the early bird next month. Cant wait

9:07 reminds me of the ending part of Bill Evans' solo recording of "Like Someone in Love"! Great Lesson!

thanks, that was a great synopsis of Bill!

Dude i just watched this and your Brad Mehldau playing out video- these are really good lessons. seriously great work!

You are so good ! Bravo

Excellent. Your videos are just super and the best around.

Great tutorial as always. Thanks

You are so amazing man. Thanks for sharing

Beautiful stuff, thank you!

This is pretty good young man

Ive been waiting for this thanks~~!!

great video Noah !

Great!!i love your teaching video so much ,you help me a lot

3rd time viewed this Noah and not the last I'm sure. Just see things I didn't quite appreciate the first time! Thanks again..

So awesome

Man, I like your style of teaching...

I was just hearing Emily the other day wonder how to sound like the master, thank you Noah! (Another master :) )

Around 8:30, I think of that chord as in inversion of Db Maj with 6 7 9, a six note chord composed of Db Maj 6 and the major triad a fifth above that, which is Ab C Eb. You can put these two chords together in almost any way and it will sound good, because there aren’t any tritones anywhere. You can think of it as the first 6 notes of the Ab major scale. Then you moved triads around the Ab major scale in the middle. You can also flatten the third on the Db Maj 6 chord making the voicings DMaj 6 + A Maj triad, all the notes of Db melodic minor except the fourth note of the scale (Gb). I was very happy to see this for two reasons. One is I very much like seeing ideas involving inner voice movement, and the other it gives me another way of looking at something I’ve looked at in a different way.

Ty so much for this video…🙏

Your skill level is crazy.

Hey Noah! What lesson videos would you recommend as a pre requisite to jumping into something like this? I.e.. building blocks before moving into something like this? I have basic knowledge of piano, but can't read music and tend to learn more by ear.

Great video!

Hi Noah! Incredible, your playing sounds like Bill actualy! I have studyed jazz piano for a many years and I love Bill, but I never sound like him! I'd like to know a bit more.... God bless you, Manuel

Interesting. Seeing you play the block chords with your left hand like that, I just realized how that's the exact way I play. It's my right hand that is a little weaker than my left when it comes to playing. But I think it depends on what I'm doing.

Great stuff :)

Seeing your video and all your through explanation, I have to subscribe for good.

Excellent video Noah! Thank you! Can I ask you what camera you use for filming and what software for editing? Thanks again!

Amazing lesson Noah as usual. Loads to work on. Love your neo soul stuff too. Not enough hours in the day.

Nice one

Everything you upload is very useful..you've got a new subscriber ✔

Thanx, Maestro.

thank you

Please do a video on how to sound like Anomalie. The way he fuses Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Bebop and Gershwin is absolutely insane.

2:28 Awesome. I will work on this this weekend

Gorgeous

Great playing, sounds like Bill! Very informative, but it all goes by way too fast for a novice/beginner! Don't know if this is asking too much, but is it possible to slow it all way down, and/or to just pause from time to time to let us see those green left and right hand notes, and is it possible to also identify the notes?

I've made many test songs only a few them is good. I usually make bad songs. What do you think I should do to get good at writing music? Do you have any videos for total beginners?

8:00 It's a 2-5-1 in Ab right ? But great lesson anyway ! :)

fabulous

What an intro!

Could you explain the movement of the voicings on 8:33? How are you moving the voicing from the 7-3-5 of Bbm?

How do I get your materials?

Noah, did you study at Berklee? I am blown away at your youth and playing with such musical experience and continuing the legacy that is Bull Evans. Takes me back to the late 60s and my father who was a jazz pianist and we had At The Village Vanguard on for my formative years. Thank you for being so generous with us all, I will dig deeper into your teaching courses

u r a god x

HI. really nice. On 7:32 you are moving your left hand on to the "possible" chord but in 4ths, right? how did you thing for building up these chords? thanks

What's going on in that voicing at 9:21 before the Eb7sus? E D F# B F ???

Can you do a tutorial on "Vanotek feat Eneli - come back to me" please? It s a famous song but there aren't any piano tutorials for it

is this the dim 6th scale?

Ahhh he was a left hander.... makes sense now! 😮

Great job! I love would you to teach me. How can I get the resources?

Omg you're a god Player!!! This is just for mystery cause i like this part so much (4:17-4:25)

hey man! thanks for the video. You mention an 2-5-1 in Eb but then play a Bb min - shouldn't it be a dom chord if its the 5 of Eb???

Why do we play a diminished chord in between each diatonic chord? Thanks for the great vid Noah

Noah, I must know - how did you get that 1/4 step bluesy bend at 6:41? On guitar, sort of simple... but piano?

Great

Isn't the first scale you played Barry Harris' 6th dim scale??

I tried to take the chords from the "block chords" part. can someone tell if this is correct? C Eb G A: CmMAJ7 D F Ab B: Dm7b5 (m7b5) Eb G A C: Eb9b5 F Ab B D: Fdim10 G A C Eb:G/Adim7 Ab B D F: Ab dim7 A C Eb G: Adim7 B D F Ab: Bø7 thx!

How to sound like Bill Evans step one: be Bill Evans.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the part of a video where you talk about the comping rythms... it seems like it comes in a split second (1/16th, or 1/3rd for the 3/4 timing )before the melody note ...am I right? And on harmonizing the left and right hands, the 10th (or b3 /#9 for minor sounds) interval IS your friend....

1:54 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo sounding. Good stuff.

Does anyone know the song Noah was playing in the intro? The chord progression sounds very bill evans-esque

I hope you do longer impressions at the start so I can learn your impressions because they sound so good

how can i do to make jazz music?

young god on the keys

@8:40 so thaaaaat's how does that.... I always felt like it sounded like a waterfall

Plz add turkish sutitles

"rhythmically mimicking the right hand (soloing) with your left hand" THIS! I feel like it doesn't get mentioned enough. Usually, he starts doing this at the start of his final chorus...

I immediately recognized the first minute plus as part of the BE improv section of "Here's That Rainy Day" so you're clearly hitting an audible bullseye on the styling. Superb- it would be interesting to hear you similarly dissect the BE take on "The Touch of Your Lips" bc it was done in C and famously dissected in part by Bill himself with Marian McPartland on Piano Jazz, which can still be heard. It would I believe be the first such exercise- if undertaken.

Wait... people play block chords with their right hand? Im left handed and it feels so weird...

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4:09

it's 00:25 for me, wow

BARRY HARRIS SCALE!

ii V I in Ab*?? 8:00

carrie underwood

I think Noah is Bill reincarnated

3:53 He was just built different

Out of all your “how to sound videos” I think you sound the closest to Evans and captured it well ….

how are we supposed to believe you when the piano you're playing is clearly behind you? ;)

Playing = 10 Shirt = 2

Good stuff Sir but you are moving way too fast

I'm sorry but your explanation is too fast. Couldn't catch up the chord you play

Don’t be too hard on yourself if even after much practice trying to learn the technical details of Bill’s playing you still don’t really sound like him. I doubt anyone will ever be able to really do that given that during most if not all of Bill’s live performances and studio recordings he was playing in a heroin, methadone or cocaine induced high and struggling with the physical pain of drug side effects as well as mental illness and continual thoughts of suicide. Bill Evans’ drug addictions began with heroin when he was 29 years old, shortly after he joined Miles Davis’ band in 1958 and lasted, on and off, along with addictions to methadone and cocaine, until his death at age 51 in 1980. His personal life was traumatized over the years by the deaths of close friends, colleagues and family members to the point where he himself didn’t want to live. By 1972 when he recorded Live in Paris his body was already wrecked from the heroin and he was often seen playing with swollen sausage fingers, a painful side effect of the drug. Every time I hear a Bill Evans recording, as beautiful as they are, I always wonder how high he was or how much pain he was dealing with in his mind or his body during the recordings of his material through those years and whether his playing, his sound or his mental health would have been any different if he had been healthy.

Needs more structure at the beginning

Great pianist but teacher?

You show things much too fast!