What an incredible job of transcription, performance, and realization!! I mean, you even have a white clavinet! What’s amazing is how the overhead view really changed how I hear some of these parts. The contrapuntal angularity (I just made that up - it fits) of Kerry’s parts made me remember voices moving in a different direction at times. F-ing brilliant. I’ve always thought that Minnear was the greatest prog keyboard player of them all in concept, versatility, and sensitivity. This song is probably the greatest example of his arrangement skills and his commitment to the center of the song. It is a case study in theme/variation. Gentle Giant where masters of the melt-your-mind / how-did-they-come-up-with-that music, and then… there’s “Aspirations”…. …A whole different dimension of the brilliance of Kerry Minnear. Honestly, if I had to pick only one GG song to listen to going forward, it would be Aspirations.
Thanks for the kind words, John. 👍 Aways great to hear from someone who really appreciates KM and GG. (There are a few other GG vids in my channel. Feel free to check 'em out -- enjoy!) 😎🎹
You're welcome, Mark! Mad props to you. The outer fingers of my left hand won't allow me to play that 16th-note riff in sync with my right anymore. More power to ya! @@ADVENT_MarkPtak
Long term fan of GG. This is a Great and Faithful Rendition of something I always thought was impossible for any other human to play besides Kerry. So there are two of you keyboard Giants in the world.
Out of this world! Absolutely free technique and melody, based on Bach, but very,very much developed. In progression scale beyond a lot even Zappa's or Jimi Hendrix music. EXCELLENT! Thanks a lot !
Thanks, that's great! And I thought, that after 45 years of listening to Gentle Giant, I would have already heard all the melodies of their songs ... but I discovered new ones in your playing. It just never seems to stop.
Kerry Minnear, to me the Ultimate prog rock keyboard player (or best modern keyboard player - period). No one more unique period. He plays syncopated lines over syncopations ! Genius - period. Rick Wakeman etc is masterfully great, but not this unique. Totally in a class of his own..
Wonderful - and just saying : that funky little clavinet thing kills me since I first heard it in Stevie´s "Superstition" - perfectly knacking keyboard sound! And Kerry was the clavinet master in progressive rock. Along with Ray and especially John it helped a lot bringing "de groovy" into their intricate music. That´s just one thing that distinguishes GG from most other "progressives". Yes, I love rhythm. Listen to the live version of "Experience" in Brussels. Here to find on the tube - I could listen to the clavinet part on and on.
That's great! A lot of work. And again I heard musical details in the melodies for the first time (from 2:00 to 2:12) that I hadn't noticed before. Even though I've known and heard this song for over 40 years! That's the beauty and mystery of Gentle Giant. Many Thanks!
Hey Mark, Keith here. Good work. That took some serious thought and good ears to get all of Kerry's parts. Nice set up of keys also. Never heard what was happening under Gary's solo. I'll have to give it a check. Great work again
Hi Keith - 4:39-4:54 is a rough approximation of what Kerry did during the Golders Green show. The rest of the gtr solo section is my own improv, such as it is... 🙂 Cheers!
What can I say? MASTERPIECE! INCREDIBLE! I dropped everything to watch this and enjoy the genius that went into it. Fantastic job, love the music, camera capturing your playing, inserts of classic GG photos. Everything so well done, thank you.
Bravo, Mark! Well done! :-) (For anyone reading this, I have both Advent albums (well, the first two, in case there's anything else)--there's some astonishing stuff on them. Highly recommended.
Play a piece once and it's just distant memory. Play a piece ten times it becomes rehearsed. Play a piece 100 times it becomes habit. Play a piece 1000 times it becomes second nature.
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Excellent!
Whoa dude!
AAAAAAA
A simple "like, subscribe and hit the bell" just doesn't cut it here. The man deserves some superchat cash.
Thanks Gary - but rather, support Gentle Giant and keep their music alive... 😎👍
What an incredible job of transcription, performance, and realization!! I mean, you even have a white clavinet!
What’s amazing is how the overhead view really changed how I hear some of these parts. The contrapuntal angularity (I just made that up - it fits) of Kerry’s parts made me remember voices moving in a different direction at times. F-ing brilliant.
I’ve always thought that Minnear was the greatest prog keyboard player of them all in concept, versatility, and sensitivity. This song is probably the greatest example of his arrangement skills and his commitment to the center of the song. It is a case study in theme/variation.
Gentle Giant where masters of the melt-your-mind / how-did-they-come-up-with-that music, and then… there’s “Aspirations”….
…A whole different dimension of the brilliance of Kerry Minnear.
Honestly, if I had to pick only one GG song to listen to going forward, it would be Aspirations.
Thanks for the kind words, John. 👍 Aways great to hear from someone who really appreciates KM and GG. (There are a few other GG vids in my channel. Feel free to check 'em out -- enjoy!) 😎🎹
You're welcome, Mark! Mad props to you. The outer fingers of my left hand won't allow me to play that 16th-note riff in sync with my right anymore. More power to ya! @@ADVENT_MarkPtak
Long term fan of GG. This is a Great and Faithful Rendition of something I always thought was impossible for any other human to play besides Kerry. So there are two of you keyboard Giants in the world.
Very kind of you to say so, Richard, but Kerry is the real Giant. All I did was try to replicate it, so that others could enjoy his genius. 👍😎
always loved free hand, but now i adore it
Maestro Kerry Minnear , GIANT never sleeps
From a GG mega-fan and musician since the early '70s, you've done an excellent job of working those parts out...Thanks
Out of this world! Absolutely free technique and melody, based on Bach, but very,very much developed. In progression scale beyond a lot even Zappa's or Jimi Hendrix music. EXCELLENT! Thanks a lot !
Thanks, that's great! And I thought, that after 45 years of listening to Gentle Giant, I would have already heard all the melodies of their songs ... but I discovered new ones in your playing. It just never seems to stop.
@@martinbirkhauser3751 Their music is the gift that just keeps on giving, for sure. 😎👍
Kerry Minnear, to me the Ultimate prog rock keyboard player (or best modern keyboard player - period). No one more unique period. He plays syncopated lines over syncopations ! Genius - period. Rick Wakeman etc is masterfully great, but not this unique. Totally in a class of his own..
Forgot to comment on the masterful rendition by Mark. Kudos. I might even attempt it !
Just Awesome !! You got it down : D
Kerry Minnear was so good, in my view belongs up there with Wakeman, Emerson & Banks !
Fantastic rendition! Love the funkiness of Giant and it is captured here perfectly!
Absolutely fantastic - so good to hear it isolated so we can appreciate Kerry's virtuosity even more!
The Genius of Kerry Minnear shine through your "free hands"! Amazing job bro! ❤
That's just awesome!
Excellent job! It's wonderful to get to watch Kerry's work from start to finish with no interruption.
Sooo perfect, friend! Congratulations for your amazing technique and instruments!!! Long live Kerry Minnear and GG!!
Loved it, wonderful rendition of Kerry's unique playing, thank you Sir Mark !!
Isolating Kerry's parts is perfect. It gives GG fans a chance to hear what's going on behind the vocals and other rhythms. Great job.
Nice to see how complex the keyboard part is. Thanx for the insight.
Yeah! The ‘isolated’ Minnear part makes us all enjoy the incredible tastiness of the various harmonic and voicing choices even more - Thanks!
Wonderful - and just saying : that funky little clavinet thing kills me since I first heard it in Stevie´s "Superstition" - perfectly knacking keyboard sound!
And Kerry was the clavinet master in progressive rock. Along with Ray and especially John it helped a lot bringing "de groovy" into their intricate music. That´s just one thing that distinguishes GG from most other "progressives". Yes, I love rhythm. Listen to the live version of "Experience" in Brussels. Here to find on the tube - I could listen to the clavinet part on and on.
That's great! A lot of work. And again I heard musical details in the melodies for the first time (from 2:00 to 2:12) that I hadn't noticed before. Even though I've known and heard this song for over 40 years! That's the beauty and mystery of Gentle Giant. Many Thanks!
as a musician and GG fan from the start...AWESOME..Thanks
Hey Mark, Keith here.
Good work.
That took some serious thought and good ears to get all of Kerry's parts.
Nice set up of keys also.
Never heard what was happening under Gary's solo.
I'll have to give it a check.
Great work again
Hi Keith - 4:39-4:54 is a rough approximation of what Kerry did during the Golders Green show. The rest of the gtr solo section is my own improv, such as it is... 🙂 Cheers!
Maestro!
You are not a human being!!!
Amazing!
Hugs from Brazil!!!
Great! Diciplined and funky at the same time.
Thanks Dan! Appreciate your help!🍺
What can I say? MASTERPIECE! INCREDIBLE! I dropped everything to watch this and enjoy the genius that went into it. Fantastic job, love the music, camera capturing your playing, inserts of classic GG photos. Everything so well done, thank you.
This is just so fantastic to see this and know the chord structures. Kerry you have been such an inspiration to my composing.
Bravo, Mark! Well done! :-)
(For anyone reading this, I have both Advent albums (well, the first two, in case there's anything else)--there's some astonishing stuff on them. Highly recommended.
Thanks a lot, Jeff! (There are 3, btw - which two do you have?)
Mark, that was truly impressive! Great work and thanks for the bird's eye view. I'll view this video often, I think ;-)
That's really impressive. I love Free Hand.
Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
The composition is so creative, so imaginative.
SuPerb!!! BRAvo!!!!! Kerry would be smiling...
Phenomenal.
Psycho Genius keyboard! Amazing! Thanks! 🙂😎
Danke, Mark, das ist wirklich großartig, wie Du das spielt und das Du Dir das überhaupt draufgeschafft hast!
Danke, Martin!! 👍
What a superb performance!
I’m sure Kerry Minnear will be proud of your playing.
Well done!👏🏼
Maestro Minnear was indeed very gracious in his praise...Thanks a lot, Geir-Jakob!
My goodness, this is so immense, and quite amazing!!! Congratulations on the truly great work!!!
Play a piece once and it's just distant memory. Play a piece ten times it becomes rehearsed. Play a piece 100 times it becomes habit. Play a piece 1000 times it becomes second nature.
Well done, sir!
Perhaps my fav GG song - certainly a stellar keyboard part. Fantastic effort, Mark! Thanks for sharing!
Good stuff.
Good job Mark !
Excellent, Mark! Incredible job.
F_ing NAILED it!!!
wow super 👍👍
WHOA .... Freakin' Awesome !!!!!!
Wow! Just excellent!
Thank you so much for this! One of their best songs, too.
Perfect! Amazing!
fuck yes my dude. woo!
Thank You! That was encouraging.
Very cool. Thanks.
Fantastic performance , you are obviously very talented .Thank you for sharing .
Amazing!
Superbly played! Thank you for doing this- now I have a better sense of the synths playing the different keyboard lines.
Superb!
Mark, you’re such a marvel. I keep coming back to this because it’s utterly brilliant. 😎❤️
Thanks so much, my dear - so glad you're enjoying it! (Kerry is the true marvel, tho'... 🙂)
Mark, sure-but I tell you, this is the only prog UA-cam video I’ve ever seen that hasn’t gotten at least one thumbs down. 😂
We're only 3 weeks in --- have faith, Stas... 😂
@@ADVENT_MarkPtak 😂😂😂
AWESOME !
Fabulous!! Really great job, Mark!
Thanks, buddy...appreciate it!
Seriously well done!
I'm tripping over my jaw here. Hearing things I didn't know were there. Great cover
Excellent job my friend! Very impressive.
Thanks Larry! Means a lot coming from you. 😎
Fantastisch! Vielen Dank!
Love it! Great!❤
Great job! What an amazing key part creation!
awesome
Breathtaking. Amazing version, man. Congratulations!
Well done!!
Great job, Mark!
Thanks Russ! :-)
Superb, Mark!!
Thanks Sean! 😎
Bravo. Grazié 1000.
Holy moly. The cover is better than the original? Who does that?
Yo soy guitarrista y hasta hoy excpt nuestro tecladista W no había oído semjnt grossada. Congrats
Brilliant, Mark! :)
Thank you, my dear friend!
Splendid!
nailed it.
straordinario!
Great! Please do a lot more Gentle Giant vids!
Nice work on this difficult piece....
Sounds like something my 5yo would play.
-Mozart's dad probably
Awesome job, Mark! (Now I want to play it together all over again.)
I know, right ?!? 😎🍺👍
@@ADVENT_MarkPtak Yep. I just sat there shedding it again. Great tune!
Oh man that's a thing of beauty. Thankyou.
Sooooo fn good!!!! Wowzers!!!!! Bravo bro!!
Grat job! You are a complete terror on the keyboards.
This is absolutely excellent, my respect!!!
this is insane!
No mean feat. Bravo!
Perfection. Amazing.
Fantastic job!!
Great, Thank you !
Holy smokes!!!
Very cool!!!
way to go, mark! fantastic!
Thank you, my friend...🍺
wow, excellent!
Holly crap!
..wow..
Beastly!