Yes. This is the approach Mozart and Beethoven would take often when teaching composition to a private student. Take a theme, or melody, like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Ah! Vous Dirai-je Maman) and have the student compose a set of variations utilizing different textures and stylistic elements but retaining the original form and melodic outline. Just gotta say I love that piano playing. So clean and musically dynamic. Like George Shearing meets Herbie Hancock meets Russ Freeman.
I’m a guitar player/songwriter who has been writing unpopular popular music for decades. I love watching videos like these despite understanding less than 1/4 of them.
Great video. What's really interesting is even at the end when you switched styles every 4 bars and said it might sound "all over the place," I actually loved it...it was lively and engaging to me as a listener. That's the way I like my jazz--and as a student of jazz piano being able to fluently switch up like that is an aspiration of mine. One day!
Great lesson - and from a Master of the modern piano. Much to practice and absorb here re an intro to the fundamental language of blues and bebop. More like this please.
Something like the 4th category but much more advanced. But still using a lot of pure melody and blues. Trane wasn't doing a "restrictive practice"-type exercise on CTT that I can identify, although he may have been working within certain parameters of his own invention. Who knows? It's an incredible tour de force.
Great inspiring lesson and wonderful playing! I loved it all but playing melodies like that is my thing.its hard to do as well.gotta see this man live someday!
The pentatonics modern approach was the only one of the four styles that sounded very outside of the blues (to me). Great stuff and thx for the transcibing what you were playing!
Brilliant demo of the options and nice to hear you are continuing your voyage of magnificence!PS I first heard you live with Art Blakey30 odd years ago in Aberdeen,Scotland on Art's 70th birthday and it was STUNNING!
Amazing video, thank you so much! and superb playing and teaching. I was already adept to trade fours with myself or similar on practice, but in a very simplistical form, this way of changing consciously over several styles and ideas is very refreshing! It works specially well the 4/3 thing, four styles over the three four groups of the blues, so you have to keep changing and aware.
Beautiful, I'm a guitar player, but I'm gonna cop those choruses, all have the essence of the Blues despite, the different approaches....'Modern Penta Style' = McCoy Land. Love it, thanks for sharing.
Everything played here sounds fantastic. Will check out the course mentioned here. Subscription to Open Studio is the best thing I've done for my piano learning adventure. Tried a lot of courses, some great things out there, but OS really clicks for me.
I've played with musicians who when asked to play the blues go right to "blues scales". The outcome has often been, meh. I'll show you a blues by Bill Evans (the pianist) done not with a blues scale that will make you cry. Relying on scales is like a guitarist who plays "in the box". They're tools. Just because you can play a blues scale doesn't mean you are/can play the blues. OF course, what I just wrote is easier said than done. Really playing the blues, like everything else in music, is a learning process.
Great lesson and impressive impro! you really shred the Keys Geoffrey.. I really loved that modern pentatonic stuff! That was pretty much playing with fourths and superimposing pentatonics to get that nice outside feeling right? (Just a stupid guitarist here😀)
Totally amazing playing and a great lesson! Question for Open Studio: is this the video that you intended for "What is Restrictive Practice....?" I recall a different discussion around that concept from you guys - even if this might be one of Geoffrey's approaches to (somewhat) restrictive practice.
Although I don't use the term "restrictive practice" in video, it is that in the sense that you are focusing (or restricting) yourself to playing one singular way at a time. Does that make sense?
Those double octave sixteenth notes work really well for the bebop. Funnily the conscious effort to produce something melodic is what works least well, perhaps because you are defining the melodic thang as being not the other three thangs, (and not vanilla either) without giving it some positive quality to aspire to .
Interesting how (at least on the first run-through) you grooved on the first and fourth variants, but not as much on the middle two. You can obviously do all four, but it suggested where your musical heart really is. One other comment: you spoke of playing “just pure melody” as one of the variants, but I think a real singing “voice” nearly always must be at the heart core of what we do when we play.
@@magohipnosis It's all old music, not contemporary. I am a professional bebop and beyond player myself, but all these styles are traditional, not modern. And most definitely not contemporary. Nothing which is 6 or 7 decades old is contemporary.
This is great. It’s a bit ‘show-off-ey’ but with the pause button, very useful. Piano Pig gives a nice easier to digest piecemeal approach but this give you the finished product. I definitely prefer the former.
@@afrodiameter not so sure. I’m a prof career pianist - always looking for new tips. Great pianist etc but just commenting that, for me, there are advanced clips with better teaching style, more slow and analytical (eg Piano Pig). I also teach jazz at college level and know the importance of it. My comment was pretty balanced I thought. Comments can be measured and not always fawning too!
This video is a preview of the complete course on openstudiojazz.com which gives you options to slow down the video and a lot more detail/explanation :)
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Can we just take the time to appreciate his playing. He got it going on!! 🔥
I can listen to this all day with a glass of scotch in my hand, chilling.
I've seen this a jillion times; a jillion times I can't even hear what he's saying because his musicianship is so loud. wow. what an artist
Yes. This is the approach Mozart and Beethoven would take often when teaching composition to a private student. Take a theme, or melody, like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Ah! Vous Dirai-je Maman) and have the student compose a set of variations utilizing different textures and stylistic elements but retaining the original form and melodic outline. Just gotta say I love that piano playing. So clean and musically dynamic. Like George Shearing meets Herbie Hancock meets Russ Freeman.
Where can I read more about this (i.e. Mozart and Beethoven’s teaching methods regarding composition)?
Just goddamn . It’s one thing just to play that but to be so articulate and just pull these tools out. So insightful.
I’m a guitar player/songwriter who has been writing unpopular popular music for decades. I love watching videos like these despite understanding less than 1/4 of them.
huh.. im in the same category.. and had the same thought.
I understand them, just can't play them.😉
Best course I've ever heard
These guy´s SWING!!!!. Crazy good!!!!.
Had never thought of blues in this regard...what a brilliant way to add structure to practise.
Cool Struttin' is a great example of mixing bebop, blues, and melodic playing.
Wow, insane Geoff Keezer is giving a lesson here! A+ pianist!
Great video. What's really interesting is even at the end when you switched styles every 4 bars and said it might sound "all over the place," I actually loved it...it was lively and engaging to me as a listener. That's the way I like my jazz--and as a student of jazz piano being able to fluently switch up like that is an aspiration of mine. One day!
What a monster player!
I love how he goes saying: nothing wrong playing blues like the blues.
Phew!
World class level playing by the two, amazing!
I once heard a guy switch styles on the Wedding March. What you call all-over-the-place made the Blues somewhat interesting again.
Super nice. I'll sing with your melodies .
All great playing, but for me the magic begins with the pentatonic stuff. Thanks Mr. Keezer.
Very McCoy Tyner-ish
Out there! So much in this lesson example my head hurts. But terrific stuff. And fantastic just to listen and watch Geoffrey play, a real treat.
Fantastic ...no more words !!! So much usefull piano jazz lesson thanks a lot Jeffrey
Sensei Geoffrey Keezer everyone!!!
He’s such a great musician
Really cool approach to adding some flavour to solos. Thanks Geoffrey!
Excellent
That was awesome!!
Amazing playing and practice concept. Congrats!
Great lesson - and from a Master of the modern piano. Much to practice and absorb here re an intro to the fundamental language of blues and bebop.
More like this please.
This is one of the most practical jazz education videos on youtube. Thank you so much. 😍
A pleasure. Thank you so much.
Excellent!!
What about the way Coltrane played on"Chasin the Trane", which category does that fit into?
Something like the 4th category but much more advanced. But still using a lot of pure melody and blues. Trane wasn't doing a "restrictive practice"-type exercise on CTT that I can identify, although he may have been working within certain parameters of his own invention. Who knows? It's an incredible tour de force.
Great great lesson! Thnks!
Great inspiring lesson and wonderful playing! I loved it all but playing melodies like that is my thing.its hard to do as well.gotta see this man live someday!
Great introducing in how to combine anything in style and harmonics. This opens the mind - thank you!
Great exercise!
pure gold..... ty u from italy..... u sound epic man !!!!!!!!!! nice jobbbb
Keezer is a beast
Wonderful lesson. Thanks!
Incredible lesson, thanks!
The pentatonics modern approach was the only one of the four styles that sounded very outside of the blues (to me). Great stuff and thx for the transcibing what you were playing!
He makes it look so easy ... :p
Great stuff!!!! Very advanced. You sure swing. Hope to get there or close someday
Really great lesson.
This is a great lesson thanks
Great stuff from Geoff!
Wonderful!!
So good! Is there a PDF available for this?
Que buena clase y que pianista🔥
Awesome dude!, thanks a lot!
Great advise and great playing also! You can really feel the music! Great job!!
Impressive transcription of your piano playing into written form. It looks like a software app. How is that done?
This is excellent and really useful... thanks!
I was mesmerized and dancing along to his groove, and then a most rude ad break interrupted. I hate capitalism and I loved his playing! He’s fantastic
Amazing video!
What a great lesson! That’s a really useful approach to bring to my practice - thank you.
Great lesson - this structures endless possibilities very clearly when practicing - restriction brings freedom and ability to act💯👍
Thank you,mate😎
Brilliant demo of the options and nice to hear you are continuing your voyage of magnificence!PS I first heard you live with Art Blakey30 odd years ago in Aberdeen,Scotland on Art's 70th birthday and it was STUNNING!
Amazing video, thank you so much! and superb playing and teaching.
I was already adept to trade fours with myself or similar on practice, but in a very simplistical form, this way of changing consciously over several styles and ideas is very refreshing! It works specially well the 4/3 thing, four styles over the three four groups of the blues, so you have to keep changing and aware.
Beautiful, I'm a guitar player, but I'm gonna cop those choruses, all have the essence of the Blues despite, the different approaches....'Modern Penta Style' = McCoy Land. Love it, thanks for sharing.
5:31 Okay, NOW we're talking, DAMN
Great lesson. Gonna add this concept to my practice.
Excelente.
Thank you.
Greetings from Madrid.
🎹🔥
Everything played here sounds fantastic. Will check out the course mentioned here. Subscription to Open Studio is the best thing I've done for my piano learning adventure. Tried a lot of courses, some great things out there, but OS really clicks for me.
Very good playing ✨
Very enjoyable playing. It sounded like the melodic approach felt to be the hardest.
Great tutorial as always.
Fantastic!!! 👍👍
I've played with musicians who when asked to play the blues go right to "blues scales". The outcome has often been, meh. I'll show you a blues by Bill Evans (the pianist) done not with a blues scale that will make you cry. Relying on scales is like a guitarist who plays "in the box". They're tools. Just because you can play a blues scale doesn't mean you are/can play the blues. OF course, what I just wrote is easier said than done. Really playing the blues, like everything else in music, is a learning process.
Great lesson and impressive impro! you really shred the Keys Geoffrey.. I really loved that modern pentatonic stuff! That was pretty much playing with fourths and superimposing pentatonics to get that nice outside feeling right? (Just a stupid guitarist here😀)
Respect!
amazing lesson...!🙏
Great stuff! Thank you!
Keezer is krazy
This is great man! Was I tripping or you've played with your eyes closed 95% of the time!!! If so... I have no words...hahaha!
Great great stuff!!
Holy crap this was truly next level... OK... back to the woodshed I guess :D
Totally amazing playing and a great lesson!
Question for Open Studio: is this the video that you intended for "What is Restrictive Practice....?" I recall a different discussion around that concept from you guys - even if this might be one of Geoffrey's approaches to (somewhat) restrictive practice.
wondering the same thing. Enjoyed it though.
Although I don't use the term "restrictive practice" in video, it is that in the sense that you are focusing (or restricting) yourself to playing one singular way at a time. Does that make sense?
Geoffrey, yes indeed that makes sense! In any case, this is a truly wonderful lesson. Thank you so much for posting it!
Those double octave sixteenth notes work really well for the bebop. Funnily the conscious effort to produce something melodic is what works least well, perhaps because you are defining the melodic thang as being not the other three thangs, (and not vanilla either) without giving it some positive quality to aspire to .
3:45 pentatonic
Interesting how (at least on the first run-through) you grooved on the first and fourth variants, but not as much on the middle two. You can obviously do all four, but it suggested where your musical heart really is. One other comment: you spoke of playing “just pure melody” as one of the variants, but I think a real singing “voice” nearly always must be at the heart core of what we do when we play.
this s super great
Important learn how to swing first ! +1 +4 ,2+4,.+3
Nice
4:00
That bass player is killer
damn, so cool
3:45 6:10
Yeah. Just try that.
Funny thing that people still call things which are 60 years old (like the McCoy pentatonic stuff here, or for example free jazz) "modern"...
Bebop is modern
Contemporary is different
@@magohipnosis It's all old music, not contemporary.
I am a professional bebop and beyond player myself, but all these styles are traditional, not modern. And most definitely not contemporary. Nothing which is 6 or 7 decades old is contemporary.
@@christophmunch4796 16 seconds in a 'professional' musician spells it out for you th-cam.com/video/mD2FyW2Kd3g/w-d-xo.html
In classical music the same: anything composed after 1900 is considered “modern” 😂
Omg. This argument is the epitome of music nerd and I’m here for it. Reminds me of college.
dude can play
Wow.
This is great. It’s a bit ‘show-off-ey’ but with the pause button, very useful.
Piano Pig gives a nice easier to digest piecemeal approach but this give you the finished product. I definitely prefer the former.
I believe this is aimed at more advanced players, so in that sense it's hardly 'show-off-ey'.
@@afrodiameter not so sure. I’m a prof career pianist - always looking for new tips. Great pianist etc but just commenting that, for me, there are advanced clips with better teaching style, more slow and analytical (eg Piano Pig). I also teach jazz at college level and know the importance of it. My comment was pretty balanced I thought. Comments can be measured and not always fawning too!
This video is a preview of the complete course on openstudiojazz.com which gives you options to slow down the video and a lot more detail/explanation :)
8:28 ornette coleman... very melodic... hmmmm... you mean coleman hawkins?
Ornette Coleman.
He stopped one note short of playing the lick at like 6:05 lol
He doesn't listen to Bebop much. That's for sure. Otherwise well played and good advise.
❤😂❤👍👍👍❤❤❤👍👍
Woow, I'm still trying to find my jaw, it's somewhere on the floor 😮
Afterall, the man's name is pronounced "KEYS-er." just sayin'.
Oscar Peterson fan detected
*Plays world class blues masterpiece*
So, yeah, nothing wrong with that, but