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🔥🔥🔥 IMHO This is THE BEST piano tutorial video I’ve ever seen in my life (est.1980) and since RU-vid was founded (14th Feb 2005). I need to donate to you now (otherwise my conscience will eat me alive and I’ll go to hell) 😄🔥🙌🏾😎💫 Giving massive thanks and praise… this is a game-changer for all the jazz standards I wish to play on 🎹 piano and pan 🛢 (Caribbean Steel Drum)
I feel d same too I always wonder how he could dedicate himself to people he doesn’t know He has given us all we need I’ve been studying his complete jazz course for free and yes I feel d same conscience thing and I am going to donate too
freakin gold man. I played classical piano since I was 4 and I've tried many times to learn jazz and I always get discouraged in a week and go back to reading classical sheet music. I had no idea how do you go from a lead sheet with the chords to it actually sounding jazzy. I had the motor skills, coordination and basic music theory, but didnt know the basic rules of jazz to build a piece. With your videos I learned so much! Things seem super obvious and make total sense when you explained them but I would't have figured it out myself in a million years. Thank you so much!
2.75 years into trying to learn how to do this, having paid for some F2F lessons even, this is the hands down the best, most comprehensible and thorough explanation I have ever come across. Thank you so very much!
Good and clear tutorial. In my experience, the biggest and most time consuming problem is to find a reliable music sheet that outlines the basic original harmonic structure (and melody) of a tune. Because jazz is about making something personal, you will find mostly transcriptions with a lot of possibly confusing chord substitutions and arrangements that have to be analysed first. If you don't have the background for this, you are lost and end up doing something you don't understand.
Being exposed to enough songs you actually like is probably good too so yes searching for the sheet music is good. The real books is good but finding a song thats simple enough can be hard but in the real book they do have, for instance, caravan and summertime and mr pc which are not too difficult. Black Orpheus also. All songs that i knew and liked before. Black Orpheus chords are just beautiful without doing anything too fancy
I think you're gonna like the Vanilla Book, by Ralph Patt: www.ralphpatt.com/Song.html I also frequently struggle with this, and I try using at least 3-4 different sources for every new standard I learn. Fake/Real books are usually the worst culprits.
Im a guitarist, but I always struggles with translating my knowledge to the piano. This is the perfect start for me. Within 2 days I was able to play first few steps. Many many thanks!
Thank you for methodically showing the elements and how to piece them together from simple to more complex patterns. Great tutorial, thank you for sharing.
Such a great lesson. Your videos are always so informative and easy to follow. This gives people everything they need to get started playing jazz tunes on the piano.
This helped me so much! The bit about using guide tones was the missing piece I've been looking for to make sense of good sounding improv. Now I finally know what to listen for.
Than you again and again ! - I have been addicted to it now and keep learning and practising for a week now , just stopped to grab something to eat and hurried back to my learning ! 🙏
Simply the best single video I have seen on beginning Jazz piano performance, and I've been studying on RU-vid for about 1.5 years now and near 100 sites. This one is not for watching but studying, re-watching, and practicing. Has anyone followed through and gotten some results? I'm starting now and will post as I go, but if you have would love to hear about it. (Edit: Subscribed and Donated 😊).
Yes. Loud and crystal clear it is indeed. Time frame very well stated. Practice is key to mastery at all levels. So true. Thank you so much. For me March to December 2019 . That is not too bad for beginners.
Just what I needed! I've watched dozens of videos but just can't seem to build the foundation to start playing jazz and be able to self correct. Thanks a lot! This time I really hope to truly start my journey of being able to improvise jazz myself even if it takes me weeks or even months.
Thanks for the steps!! I have two (hopefully quick) questions: 1) When switching between Root and 2nd inversion, should we just be making the decision based on what requires the least finger movement, or is this step more to practice getting in the habit of automatically switching from Root to 2nd? 2) Is it best to stay consistent on where you play a chord, or is it also up to our own decision making? For example, could the E- in Autumn Leaves (Real Book) be played both below or above the B7 depending on it's inversion? Sorry if these are really basic questions! Really am enjoying your videos. I just started piano and am finding your channel to be one of the most helpful for learning. Cheers.
Thanks for demystifying how to get started with lead sheets! RU-vid is a confusing place for learning jazz theory and practice but this video cuts through that!. Any chance you could do more complete song tutorials?
Wonderful fundamental Jazz tutorial. Thank you for this wonderful approach to learning Jazz. This is the very foundation I have been seeking. Appreciate the time you took in presenting this short class. Thanks again!!
Great lesson. As a self-taught lifelong musician (not jazz, and guitar rather than keyboard) I had never before heard of guide tones. Very helpful concept. Also appreciate the realistic time frame -- "a few months" -- which of course varies depending on keyboard familiarity. While I can certainly form chords and inversions on the keyboard, I am not fluent like on guitar. It takes me a bit of practice to find the chords of a song fast enough, let alone trying to pick out just the guide tones. So I probably do have a few months ahead. But then I'll look back and see how far I've come, so that's great too. Thanks again
This video is absolutely terrific. It explains all the basics of how to play jazz from lead sheets in detail, with practice tips in a step-wise fashion. Months of lessons didn't make this as clear as this one 20 minute video. It may take a few months to get all these steps down, but once accomplished, you'll be playing jazz. I am really looking forward into delving deeper into the Walk That Bass website.
Awesome tutorial! and by far the best I have seen. I wish you would outline in more detail exactly where the left hand comping off beats fall. I think it is on : 1 + *2* + 3 *+* 4 +. Beats "2" and the "and" of 3. If this is correct please let me know or please specify. Thanks
In this example it seems to fall on beats 2 and 4. However, don’t forget to go with your instinct and feel the music, doing what’s right for you and developing your own sound and style that satisfies your soul. Don’t forget this important element of jazz music. I’m extremely grateful for the step-by-step formula given by Walk That Bass… just don’t forget to interpolate that with what feels right and works for you. Hope that makes sense and is helpful.
I love clear systematic explanations. Terrific tutorial. Now if only you could do a video on how to compose 80s melodic rock? I imagine it would be a such simpler video.
Oh my god i am a complete beginner (with some music theory because i produce with my laptop) and i pretty much got this in 4 hours. You are the best and i couldn't have asked for a better gift at the end of this terrible 2020 😂
hold down the root note through bar while tap 3, 5, 7 to add syncopated rhythm when in 2nd inversion? ..difficult with pinky 5:58 (btw awesome job overall). just replayed, answer - no, alternating between root and 5th (on 2nd inversion), means always pinky to hold the key down 6:33. Also, would be amazing if adding chapters for play along and replay in slow such as at 8:14 in addition to current chapter 7:58)
What is a good way to get proficient at the guide tones? Learning each individual chord? Learning the intervals? The movements from chord to chord? I struggle here
The guide tones (3 & 7) do a sort of dance as the chords progress. Often the same note will be a common tone as the chord changes and often a semitone away from the previous guide tone. Practicing and noticing the beauty of the patterns is my way of memorising (or really, just getting the feel) so that the movements become natural and automatic. For this, going slowly and appreciating the guide tones is a must. Patience is a virtue… become acquainted (friends) with the guide tones and their movements (yes, I know I’m sad). Proficiency is just another word for patience + practice in my opinion. Hope this helps.
Awesomely structured and great base to build on for non-pros as myself! Thanks so much for putting this together. Question: in this approach, seems like the chords are not part of the "MVP" you are building, only the base line and melody/impro/leading tones. Is this the case? So, the chords are just the "underneath" structure only for support? Or how do you see it? Many thanks
yeah amazing , start working on it , with serious practise l guess it will take atleast a year...the most difficult part here is two hand independence ...
And now I am understanding that other guy that why he so obsessed with playing chromatic scale that too with different fingers or playing scales with just 3 fingers... or this circle of fourth thing with chords.... I think he was a Jazz pianist. ...smile I mean I was finding all those things kinda wierdo but now I started to understand what he was driving at.... he never mentioned him to be jazz guy but sure he was talking blues and this and that.... good I happened to come here. 😃 Only regret I cant do any of this yet... I am absolute beginner currently.
Firstly, my hands are small and I'm struggling with 7ths. Secondly, (while I can really learn to play a song by the year; albeit with a lot of effort) arranging the fingering for the most is a major problem. I guess books or sheet music with fingering is of help, right?
Small hands are no excuse. Development of technique is needed. Some four year old children can play 7ths… are your hands smaller than theirs? You can move your hands when playing 7ths, using the sustain pedal to hold the chord notes if you need to. Hope this helps. Also, it’s better to work out your own fingerings (especially if you think your hands are smaller than most people’s). Patience and practice is needed. Take your time and love the process as mush as (or even more than) the end result.
