Adam has a new course! - openstudiojazz.link/maness Adam Maness is gonna teach you the key to emulating Bill Evans on the piano. 🤔 Are you hip to Sugar Chords? • What Are Sugar Chords?
While learning bebop language in college I asked my piano teacher who I should listen to, expecting Garland, Monk or Harris, he told me to listen to a s- load of horn players and steal every little thing I could
that's one of the first things I was taught (from youtube) when learning phrasing on guitar, incredibly useful tool. you can also think of it like singing
Horn player here. I came here to make exactly this comment. In fact, it sometimes drives me crazy when horn players use circular breathing to play really long phrases. I find myself unsettled and gasping for breath.
Many greats would murmur in time with their melodic lines. Similar effect to influence your phrasing in a positive way. I think of Oscar Peterson and Erroll
As a musician, jazz fan, & aspiring "not bad" jazz musician, this channel is such gold - I just learned that the self-comping style I've heard so often is called (at least here) "shadowing"
That is such an accurate description of what a cartoonish Bill Evans style would sound like and what it would take to get that sound. Fantastic. Well done.
Pretty good, I would add little more harmonic simplicity in the left hand. Bill Evans was big on keeping the left hand relatively simple to bring out the melody when he was soloing, lots of 5ths and drop 2s, compared to when he was playing a more through composed section where hed get much more dense. This is really cool though
I'm a member, but you need a mobile app so I can just launch it and have everything OpenStudio in one spot, I can save all my fav piano shorts and play them back, maybe even play them back slower tempo, and A-B repeat? It's complicated using web pages and links to track all the clips and tips i like.
Bill also does a ton of rhythmic displacement, so he'll comp on like, +of 1 instead of +of4 where you might expect, and then shift some stuff around. Always trying to throw off your inner pulse lol
I don’t know if it was intentional but each count in is in fairly close to being in time with the others. Just keep counting when he stops to talk until the next count. Pretty cool
You are right. Bill did that specially at the beginning of his career. But I think his last years harmony was amazing. I play several Bill Evans pieces. He's my all time jazz favorite. Btw, your piano has an amazing sound, which resembles Bill's piano sound. 🎉❤
You thought you could trick us by playing a recording of Israel but I’m not buying it! But seriously what phenomenal playing! I’m working on Nardis right now and I’ll definitely steal some of these ideas for soloing.
Im currently learning Bill Evans "A Time For Love" and these triplets and rhythm is taking me out! Lol! But its do beautiful, im determined to learn it!
