I can't tell you how helpful this has been. I've just spent a few minutes practising this and I'm already so much more aware and listening to what I'm playing so much more than comping with the left hand. This is fantastic. Thank you Peter. Your melodic lines on this video are just beautiful. Amazing!
excellent advice i'm trying to advance by getting more complex but getting better at fundamentals makes so much sense i'm trying to play art tatum right hand when i can't play half notes in the left i can even play "berkley" modern voicings in the left but not half notes ! this video totally busted me.
This is SO damn right on, there are so many BS jazz piano videos on UA-cam, every serious student of this great music should be seriously studying these videos! Do you teach by skype or other online medium?
For those interested in learning more from the tune 'What Is This Thing Called Love' played @08:05 Here are songs based on the same progression: Hot House: ua-cam.com/video/-bl9GAcNflk/v-deo.html (with the Bebop Masters themselves Parker & Gillespie) - Leadsheet: imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/377125069/original/9f4713ea28/1607387371 Subconscious-Lee (with the Great East-Coast Cool Jazz Musicians Konitz & Marsh): ua-cam.com/video/QQMSPEi6WPc/v-deo.html - Leadsheet: imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/336609810/original/7e6de83585/1604511741
TubbyGibbonsM9 that’s the thing man, all notes work when soloing, but knowing which notes hold tension and which notes hold resolution is how you can decipher what phrase you want to put together.
Hey peter, I really need your help in a bad way. I've tried broken 3rds, quartals and broken chords and arpeggios but I'm really having a hard time mixing them up to make them sound more like lines. I've taken your online courses temporarily and learned a bit from them. I'm not a member anymore but I was wondering if you could shed some light on this matter.
I'm not Peter but I think I can help. The time old advice that was given to me, that worked, was to transcribe licks, lines, even entire solos. There is plenty of written stuff as well. Solos already transcribed for you. There are even players on UTube who show you some licks and how they do them. It has never been easier to learn jazz. There is nothing wrong with figuring out your own licks and memorising them. After a while you find you can let go of the memorised stuff. When I work out a hot idea at the piano I want to be able to recall it whenever I need to so I will run it through the keys, memorising it in a couple. The idea of playing scales in 3rds and so on is to give your fingers liberty. Scales and arpeggios are your alphabet. One of my favourite exercises is to create a line in my head, then scat sing it, then work out how to play it on the piano. Eventually you get quicker and quicker until you can do it simultainiously. I wish you well. You are going through the same confusion that a lot of us go through when trying to put everything together.
How long should you practice before expecting results? When practicing something like scales, I find myself becoming disheartened because I can't play scales as fast and clean as a pro.
my goodness bro these lines you're playing are FREAKING INSANE BONKERS MAN just stunning. I have spent the last 3 weeks trying to transcribe this whole lesson man (of course mostly using audio, but sometimes cheating with the visuals... :D ) Anyway man, thank you so much for the INCREDIBLE ideas and motifs.... ALSO this is a super lesson man practicing that steady bass line higlighting the root movement has SUPER HELPED me understand my standards better. Somehow this type of practice gets you feeling the true essence and movement of the tunes right??? This is SO SO SO HELPFUL MAN THANK YOU!!!!!!
Thanks very much Peter! I run a soft-seater in Vancouver and I always practice some piano both before and usually after shows. I'm sure I'll be up late tonight! :)
I put this thingie in my practice routine everyday.. or when I don't know what to practice, I'll to this exercise. It's really fun :) Awesome vid, awesome playing. What's the tune 06:55 ?
oh man i was so getting caught with forcefully soloing with the left hand always there comping, when i could be doing simple stuff like this and let the right hand outline the harmony
This is excellent for improvisation which you clearly have mastered(along with an impressive technique) BUT what about complex reharmonizing. THAT would entail a different approach and to begin with an understanding of such things as tritone substitutions.
Yeah, this is one of the all-time best explanations of the tasks involved in practicing Jazz. I truly appreciate this. i wlll use it in my practicing, you can be sure.
Mr. Martin, you my inspiration for tonight... looking forward to see you on Alfa Jazz Fest in Lviv! Thanks for such easy understanding and super effective lessons!
Peter, great lesson! Any chance of you guys putting together a book of standards, easy to not so easy, with walking basslines, suggested scales to improv over?
@Carl Raw Ross I have a copy of Charlie Parker Omnibook and I had to correct a LOT of mistakes of the transcriptions in my copy; they're not accurate, don't sound good and yet many students are learning them by just reading the score, I guess... Better to transcribe from the audio recording IMHO. :-)
It's good not to have a vertical camera for this one. Focusing on the notes he's playing is missing the point of the video. This is about the feel and groove of what you play, that's why he simplifies the left hand. It gives the right hand more room and space to feel the groove. Play something simple that you know and that's in your fingers for this exercise and swing it ;)
Peter is always on fire, but on THIS particular day, he was ON FIRE! Dang! Each improvisation snippet is pure fire.
This is so helpful even ten years later! Timeless wisdom and well conveyed.
I can't tell you how helpful this has been. I've just spent a few minutes practising this and I'm already so much more aware and listening to what I'm playing so much more than comping with the left hand. This is fantastic. Thank you Peter. Your melodic lines on this video are just beautiful. Amazing!
This is my third video, Peter Martin, you're awesome! Thank you.
Its ridiculous how much more I as a listener can hear in even your simplest playing of bass movement and melody. Awesome videos and awesome player!
I was really stressing over this recently. This video has arrived at the perfect time!
Omg THANK YOU more videos like this please. I feel like everything is super beginner or totally over my head. This is what I need !!! Amazing
Thank you! Thank you!! At last you've put context to what I've been searching for. Thank you for giving so much of your knowledge to us.
Nice lesson. Gonna have to share some of these principles with my own students!
funny...that's exactly how I started learning how to improv over 20 years ago!
excellent advice
i'm trying to advance by getting more complex
but getting better at fundamentals makes so much sense
i'm trying to play art tatum right hand when i can't play half notes in the left
i can even play "berkley" modern voicings in the left but not half notes !
this video totally busted me.
Love this video! Even for a pianist with my skill-level (or lack thereof) very useful.
Well explained and clarified!
Thank you for sharing such an interesting inspiration
Hoi dear Martin. Very good, thank you😀I've learned a lot from you in this video, keep on😀..ys Floris (from The Netherlands)
Great Lesson, Peter! Thnx!
..Very beautiful playing !
this guy plays Donna Lee like he's eating a muffin.
@@timothyjensen179 With Streusel.
Great videos! Big fan of "New stars from New Orleans" , peace
This is SO damn right on, there are so many BS jazz piano videos on UA-cam, every serious student of this great music should be seriously studying these videos! Do you teach by skype or other online medium?
radiokid genius jazz is one of them
SO damn Right On !!!
For those interested in learning more from the tune 'What Is This Thing Called Love' played @08:05
Here are songs based on the same progression:
Hot House:
ua-cam.com/video/-bl9GAcNflk/v-deo.html (with the Bebop Masters themselves Parker & Gillespie) - Leadsheet: imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/377125069/original/9f4713ea28/1607387371
Subconscious-Lee (with the Great East-Coast Cool Jazz Musicians Konitz & Marsh):
ua-cam.com/video/QQMSPEi6WPc/v-deo.html - Leadsheet: imgv2-2-f.scribdassets.com/img/document/336609810/original/7e6de83585/1604511741
Excellent I will give this a shot or 8 ;)
Give it a couple hundred shots and i bet you will be amazing at it! haha Andrew Bryant
INCREIBLE LECCIÓN
immensely helpful
Hi Peter what scales are you playing when soloing? How do you know which notes to hit to make it sound so JAZZY!?
TubbyGibbonsM9 that’s the thing man, all notes work when soloing, but knowing which notes hold tension and which notes hold resolution is how you can decipher what phrase you want to put together.
How do you form, what is the theory behind the formation of jazz phrase
Hey peter,
I really need your help in a bad way. I've tried broken 3rds, quartals and broken chords and arpeggios but I'm really having a hard time mixing them up to make them sound more like lines. I've taken your online courses temporarily and learned a bit from them. I'm not a member anymore but I was wondering if you could shed some light on this matter.
I'm not Peter but I think I can help. The time old advice that was given to me, that worked, was to transcribe licks, lines, even entire solos. There is plenty of written stuff as well. Solos already transcribed for you. There are even players on UTube who show you some licks and how they do them. It has never been easier to learn jazz.
There is nothing wrong with figuring out your own licks and memorising them. After a while you find you can let go of the memorised stuff.
When I work out a hot idea at the piano I want to be able to recall it whenever I need to so I will run it through the keys, memorising it in a couple.
The idea of playing scales in 3rds and so on is to give your fingers liberty. Scales and arpeggios are your alphabet.
One of my favourite exercises is to create a line in my head, then scat sing it, then work out how to play it on the piano. Eventually you get quicker and quicker until you can do it simultainiously. I wish you well. You are going through the same confusion that a lot of us go through when trying to put everything together.
Hardtop Harry
Wow! That is some really good advice. Some of the best ive heard yet. You are right, it has never been easier than now to learn music.
solid...
Solid like a rock! Art Guevarra
How long should you practice before expecting results? When practicing something like scales, I find myself becoming disheartened because I can't play scales as fast and clean as a pro.
Just 15 minutes a day, by the end of life, you will be able to play jingle bells.
I meant what's the tune you start playing at 8.10? Anyone any ideas?
What is this thing called love
awesome
3:05
8:50
Great!!
my goodness bro these lines you're playing are FREAKING INSANE BONKERS MAN just stunning. I have spent the last 3 weeks trying to transcribe this whole lesson man (of course mostly using audio, but sometimes cheating with the visuals... :D ) Anyway man, thank you so much for the INCREDIBLE ideas and motifs....
ALSO this is a super lesson man practicing that steady bass line higlighting the root movement has SUPER HELPED me understand my standards better. Somehow this type of practice gets you feeling the true essence and movement of the tunes right??? This is SO SO SO HELPFUL MAN THANK YOU!!!!!!
I’m coming back to this video literally 2 years later and am only more mind blown at how incredible Peter is. My goodness. Those lines were poetry.
Second this, these whol series of ' 2min' tutorial is so helpful, this particular was one of the best among all
This is exactly what I needed right now! Thank you so much for your wisdom
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Are you the Peter Martin that played with Joshua Redman?
the one and only! Plays with mcbride quite a bit too.
Thanks very much Peter! I run a soft-seater in Vancouver and I always practice some piano both before and usually after shows. I'm sure I'll be up late tonight! :)
I put this thingie in my practice routine everyday.. or when I don't know what to practice, I'll to this exercise. It's really fun :) Awesome vid, awesome playing.
What's the tune 06:55 ?
+LeavesLullaby Donna Lee
+Kris G Thanks! Great tune
Wish I can play like that - breakdown them notes and chord- bassline
Great Peter!! thanks a lot
oh man i was so getting caught with forcefully soloing with the left hand always there comping, when i could be doing simple stuff like this and let the right hand outline the harmony
This is excellent for improvisation which you clearly have mastered(along with an impressive technique) BUT what about complex reharmonizing. THAT would entail a different approach and to begin with an understanding of such things as tritone substitutions.
think you might be missing the point of this exercise ;)
Space...simplicity....groove...:)
'We've gotta have groove and swing permeate everything we do..."
AMEN 🙌🏽
The spirit of jazz is strong in this one
Yeah, this is one of the all-time best explanations of the tasks involved in practicing Jazz. I truly appreciate this. i wlll use it in my practicing, you can be sure.
Mr. Martin, you my inspiration for tonight... looking forward to see you on Alfa Jazz Fest in Lviv! Thanks for such easy understanding and super effective lessons!
Definitely, the best jazz videos around. I will take your course, starting next week.
Thank you Sir
Do you do private sessions at all please?
Thank you
Peter, great lesson! Any chance of you guys putting together a book of standards, easy to not so easy, with walking basslines, suggested scales to improv over?
Wow could you break down all your improve scales, rhythmic, and licks...thanks so much
Thnk you so much for this clear explanation.
You're so amazing..very nice playing and best tutorial, thank you.
Excellent advice!! Thanks!
this was a bit to difficult to follow
very good thanks, very helpful
Ajojojojojoj .... I cant do that. Amazing....
diggin these old vids =]
Awesome master.. this video really inspire my limited skills as a beginner thank you peter
Do I play R+5 if the chord is 4 beats instead of two?
We must have chords.
Awesome thank you so much!
How do you develop your ability to solo? How do you practice improvisation? What is the bebop language?
@Carl Raw Ross I have a copy of Charlie Parker Omnibook and I had to correct a LOT of mistakes of the transcriptions in my copy; they're not accurate, don't sound good and yet many students are learning them by just reading the score, I guess... Better to transcribe from the audio recording IMHO. :-)
So good
He makes look and sound so easy.
do you change scales while improvising?
Thanks Man! Great stuff!!!
Thanks a lot Mr.Martin.
you rule
Very gooooood !
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8:24
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i'm missing vertical camera :)
It's good not to have a vertical camera for this one. Focusing on the notes he's playing is missing the point of the video. This is about the feel and groove of what you play, that's why he simplifies the left hand. It gives the right hand more room and space to feel the groove.
Play something simple that you know and that's in your fingers for this exercise and swing it ;)
Name of song at 8:09?
What Is This Thing Called Love
Good stuff Peter and really useful but what's the second song you are playing? Sounds v.familiar but can't remember what it's called.