Your version is great. Love the transitions and the chords in the bridge are so creative, especially when modulating back to C. Hope Huey Lewis hears it! 🙂
@Jemma - I was 13 when Back to the Future came out … and we essentially had this song as the summer song of the year. When I realized what you were about to do, I was so excited, and so scared at you “touching” such a sacred piece of history. Frankly, you did REALLY well! I also hope that Huey hears it - he seems to be the kind of artist that would appreciate your take on this song. It brought a completely different feel - and like the producer said, I was a little doubtful that you’d never heard it. Overall, you rocked it!
"Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically." 🤣
Most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
The craziest party is that she tapped into Huey Lewis, but a different song on another album. She somehow managed to combine "Power of Love" with "Do You Believe In Love"
I'm hearing more of a "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips" vibe. Also, anyone reading this: this song is a great example of parallel major & minor, where root note stays the same but the third of the chord moves up or down to make it major/minor. Always cool to hear.
This is a BRILLIANT conceptual take on "reaction" videos. It's a great way to illustrate not only the listening and playing skills of true pros but a great illustration of how melodies can meld into different keys and chord progressions.
I realized how old I'm getting because of this. I'm not sure how old this musician is, but I'm going to guess 20-something. I can understand somebody her age having not seen 'Back To The Future', or haven't heard of "Huey Lewis and The News', but there was a time which is a lot longer ago than I thought where both of those things could be true, but you would for sure 100% have at least heard this song before since it was at the top of the charts forever and played on every radio station and inside of every store for years. She's not even old enough for that experience. Anyway, I really hope she dug this song and seeks out more of Huey Lewis and The News. They really are/were one of the best rock bands of all time.
Just a melodic vocal line and nothing else? Wow! On the spot-composing. 3:32 - The chord progression she came up with for the chorus is actually completely successful. Love it. This is fascinating. 5:05 - By this point she's feeling it. It's now in almost polished jazz-remix territory. I even got a little emotional.
It came out like a Jazzy-blues version ... kept the spirit of the song and she was flying in the dark with very little to go on after all ... very impressive!
every time i watch one of these and the musician reacts to the original like this, i just want to tell them "you WERE RIGHT the WHOLE time.... you just played it differently than the original" this is art.
You are totally right, but totally missing the side of an artist loving art. When you swear something should go one way and it goes another, it is AMAZING, and I bet if HLATN heard her version they would see the same. It is to me the truest beaty of art, the constant creation and the constant appreciation of others creation, even if it is at your own expense.
Jemma rocked this out. This was not an easy song to go in blind like she did, but she really showed her musical abilities to come as close as she did! Thanks for these videos...they're awesome!
@@mantelmann13 It's obvious you are not a musician - given only drums and vocals, she was all over this tune. Huey may come back to re-record it. This girl is an awesome talent !
@@mantelmann13 - She made it something else, which is what's interesting about this. It's not interesting just getting it right, but interesting to see what a person who doesn't know the song at all, will come up with.
Seeing master musicians transcribe songs on the spot is fascinating enough, but transcribing the song with nothing to go on but the singing? She's beyond amazing.
What she did was not transcribing which means to listen to and replay all the notes of a piece of music that are important. It was (re)harmonizing an unknown melody more or less on the spot instead. A case for knowledge of harmony and musical styles. That requires quite a lot, but it's nothing extraterrestrial. Something like this taught at music colleges, among other things.
I don't live in the past living my teen years in the '80s was a gift. Every week you would hear a new song that would reshape your life. (in my mind I still think about the '80s as being 10 years ago)
I grew up in the 60's and the 70's so I'm well familiar with Huey Lewis. Very emotional for me to watch you pick this song up from scratch. Beautiful job! True art!
The degree of difficulty she was confronted with is SO much greater than the drums and bass versions of this challenge I’ve seen, where they just mute the particular instrument the musician plays, but still have all the basic harmonic information. Added to this how relatively static the melody is (songs with more melodic movement would give you much more harmonic information in the melody alone), and she really was marooned at sea with no map and asked to find her way home.
@@JohnSmith-oe5kx Yes, they do: they’re making entertaining content. It’s not a game, fairness doesn’t matter. It’s supposed to be a way to sort of showcase an artist’s ability to write music. I doubt that they would’ve just let her keep going for hours if she wasn’t going anywhere.
@@Tensen01 I disagree, because she proved she didn’t need them. It’s actually a much more interesting experiment this way, and you’re going to end up with something more different from the original. It IS way more difficult, though.
I'm a drummer who's watched a LOT of Drumeo videos like this one. Those are fun. This is the 2nd Pianote video I've seen (Jordan Rudess playing Alicia Keys was the first) and it was awesome. I have nothing but massive respect for musicians like Jemma who can figure out a song like this and make it look effortless! And the solo she played...are you kidding me??? I literally had chills...don't even know why. I guess that's the power of music. I've honestly never heard of Jemma Heigis before, but I'm a huge fan now.
This might have been the most difficult of these sorts of challenges that I've seen. Having to come up with parts over nothing but vocal and drums is INSANE. Great job.
One thing we musicians share is when we hear someone like Jemma whaling, we bust out laughing. It's NOT a humor thing, we laugh when a virtuoso is FLOWING, stream of consciousness artistry. I cracked up at a couple of her riffs--ending with a DAY-um! Good ups on all involved and mad props to this incredibly gifted young lady.
Wow. With just drums and vocals to go off. This was so good. And I always really liked the original too but man, this was a really good take on it. So talented.
It really is incredible how much harmony and groove influences the main melody! It almost sounds like a completely different song! This is more of a songwriting exercise, Gives you a bit of an insight into some of the creative choices that the songwriters would've encountered when writing this classic from he 80s!
I can't believe she never heard the song before! 😆 I think the original arrangement is perfect, but her version turned out to be surprisingly great! She's an incredibly talented musician. 👏
Actually she hit some familiar moments with key changes and changes from minor to major etc... for having no clue what the actual progression was in the song, she did a stellar job.
This video makes me feel - not old, exactly, but more like high school was a looong time ago. Sending best wishes to Huey Lewis, a huge part of my mix tape.
As someone who met her in freshmen year in music school, I'm not at all surprised she's this great still. lol she has perfect pitch and could pretty much imitate anything she had heard 10 years ago and that was a long time ago. even anything her skill after all these years has only fermented and gotten better.
@@JemmaHeigis I'm doing fantastic Jemma, I've been silently enjoying everyone doing amazing things. So proud of you! You seriously have come such a long way and it's been amazing to see!
Jemma never ceases to amaze me, this was so inventive and so refreshing to the original which is already one of my favorite songs of all time. If I had a flux capacitor I would send Jemma back in time so she could add her insane solo to the band. Such a cool video!!
I love it so much more when they have no context!!! Having the pianist come up with something completely original on the spot is the best way to do this!
Jemma is pretty dang awesome, she does a lot of collab work but also has an awesome album entitled "Not Today" that is available on Spotify and pretty much everywhere. As per the norm she killed it!
You sure can tell a true talent this way. Jemma did a amazing job pretty much starting from scratch with only a few key cords. Jemma's sounded as good as Huey's did. Great job!!!
I enjoyed this video the most so far, great harmonization, great feel for the song. The keyboard version of this "game" is infinitely harder than "just" playing drums over an otherwise complete arrangement. Great job!
I love what Jemma did…it took away some of the R&B feel, and made it more jazzy. Her interpretation and the original are both great !! I can’t believe that she had never heard this before….
All i saw was Huey Lewis and i immediately clicked. Thank you TH-cam and Pianote you have a new sub. Music was a craft in the 80's.. That's why bands existed as they all had their own unique take on pop music. I can appreciate the newer generation being introduced to what the generation back then had the pleasure of growing up with. Musicians like Jemma are humble enough to appreciate the song and play for the SONG.
Most people dont realize how incredibly difficult this is to do. Much respect to Jemma for her interpretation without ever hearing thr orginal first. 👏👏👏
With all my years as a musician. And hundreds of thousands of songs I've experienced, maybe even more, maybe Millions. I still discover new music all the time. Some newer stuff that just slipped by me. And sometimes tracks that pre-date me. With my broad taste in music, it would take several lifetimes to discover everything I would like. I'm just thrilled that she's discovering it now. And it sounded like she was pretty close to the original chord progression right from the jump. I would love to hear her play around with some of Stevie Winwood's or Stevie Wonder's stuff. The two greatest "Stevies" lol. I think she is great. It was impressive, and I even enjoyed listening to her for just the few moments that she was playing around with that synh witch I'm not positive, but I think was a "Moag"...
I've been a Huey Lewis and the New fan since they came out in the 80's. I've seen them many many times in concert. I'm sad he can no longer perform because of his hearing. I loved her interpretation!! It was fantastic. I don't think she needs to worry about not exactly matching what they did. Loved her solo. It was all great.
Huey Lewis is.one.of the greatest of the 80s. I remember meeting him at a show in SF. My brother was a special guest that night and got up to do a couple of songs. I was around 12 years in 1986. Gemma, Great job. That's a tough song even knowing it. You've got a great ear. I play but don't know any theory and can't read music so it's impressive to see you when you're like "oh there's a dominate". So cool.
I loved her choices! This exercise immediately brought me back to when I was a teenager in a Barbershop Chorus with my grandfather. One of the exercises we would do was called "woodshedding". The only person who had music was the Lead, and we had to build Barbershop-style harmonies around it. While it was definitely challenging, I have to say we had it easier because the Barbershop style has specific chord structures, whereas Jemma had no such constraints. She did amazing! That is the kind of alternative arrangement that I LOVE hearing in remakes of songs.
Jemma is one of my favorite young keyboard players. Her transcription playing Cory Henry's Lingus solo note for note while her cat is jumping around on her lap is amazing! Fun to see she has never heard "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis. 🎹❤
Awesome version of Power of Love with your chords, Jemma! Huey Lewis and the News are from the San Francisco Bay Area where I live and you smashed it with their style! As a fellow keyboardist, really impressed at what you came up with no chords given. Kudos! 🎹👏
Wow - Jemma you did a great job - loved the keyboard solo too. Huey Lewis and the News (with the Tower of Power horns) was my first concert - amazing show and they really know how to write amazing pop hooks, songs and in particular lyrics. A deeply under-rated band in this day-and-age.
Holy crap, these changes are very clever only hearing a melody. Solid Gen X here and I know the dialogue from back to the future about as well as any movie and this song is permanently etched into my brain - but this is real pro work. Love it.
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"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it."
Ha ha, awesome 🤣
Good one , literally happened in real life
Very good. Ha. 😂
No more cliches (tm)
That's awesome 😂
I was not ready for this one 😂❤ thanks so much to Pianote for having me, I had an amazing time!!
I like your version better than the original.
Your version is great. Love the transitions and the chords in the bridge are so creative, especially when modulating back to C. Hope Huey Lewis hears it! 🙂
You smashed it!
That solo was AMAZING!
@Jemma - I was 13 when Back to the Future came out … and we essentially had this song as the summer song of the year. When I realized what you were about to do, I was so excited, and so scared at you “touching” such a sacred piece of history. Frankly, you did REALLY well! I also hope that Huey hears it - he seems to be the kind of artist that would appreciate your take on this song. It brought a completely different feel - and like the producer said, I was a little doubtful that you’d never heard it. Overall, you rocked it!
Ok, this is a blues riff in B, watch me for the changes, and try to keep up
Your kids are gonna love it..😂 🤟👍🤟
“Chuck! Chuck! It’s me Marvin. Your cousin? MARRVIN Berry? You know that new sound you’ve been looking for? Well listen to THIS!”
Literally made me LOL
@@OoavastoOActually, he did get it from someone else, but it wasn't Michael J. Fox.
@@binxbolling
You are right. It wasn't Michael J Fox, it was Calvin Klein.
It's now a song by Steely Dan sung by Huey Lewis. 10 out of 10.
10 out of 10 reply.
"Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically." 🤣
“Hey Paul….”
“The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost”
Most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
SPORTS was a juggernaut.
Have you seen the Huey Lewis review of American Psycho where he's miming Patrick Bateman and following the form of this? 🔥
The craziest party is that she tapped into Huey Lewis, but a different song on another album. She somehow managed to combine "Power of Love" with "Do You Believe In Love"
I knew i wasnt tripping right on
I'm hearing more of a "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips" vibe.
Also, anyone reading this: this song is a great example of parallel major & minor, where root note stays the same but the third of the chord moves up or down to make it major/minor. Always cool to hear.
She tapped into Mutt since he wrote do you believe in love.
Crap, you’re right! It’s not unexpected, especially by the same group of artists, but it’s wild to hear
This is a BRILLIANT conceptual take on "reaction" videos. It's a great way to illustrate not only the listening and playing skills of true pros but a great illustration of how melodies can meld into different keys and chord progressions.
“You’ve never watched Back To The Future? Great Scott!” Great throw away comment.
I realized how old I'm getting because of this. I'm not sure how old this musician is, but I'm going to guess 20-something. I can understand somebody her age having not seen 'Back To The Future', or haven't heard of "Huey Lewis and The News', but there was a time which is a lot longer ago than I thought where both of those things could be true, but you would for sure 100% have at least heard this song before since it was at the top of the charts forever and played on every radio station and inside of every store for years. She's not even old enough for that experience. Anyway, I really hope she dug this song and seeks out more of Huey Lewis and The News. They really are/were one of the best rock bands of all time.
youth is wasted on the young
@gustafsone yeah, but it's still nuts, though, right? I mean, what kind of upbringing did she have?
@@geoffkeen5234 She developed some incredible skills in her youth. She is not like you.
Chorus sounded like a Bruce Hornsby collaboration while parts of the early verses had a Steely Dan vibe. Nice!!
Nah. Randy Newman (Short People) and Mike Post (St. Elsewhere, Doogie Howser). You're wrong.
My former student! So glad to see her success. I can take no credit.
whoa nice
How is she not educated in this #1 hit from 1985??? Musicology 101 dude..
@@geoffkeen5234 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If u r her teacher and u never did this song with her...u failed...but i know its all scripted bs anyway.
@@petermcnallt12pm 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just a melodic vocal line and nothing else? Wow! On the spot-composing.
3:32 - The chord progression she came up with for the chorus is actually completely successful. Love it. This is fascinating.
5:05 - By this point she's feeling it. It's now in almost polished jazz-remix territory. I even got a little emotional.
It came out like a Jazzy-blues version ... kept the spirit of the song and she was flying in the dark with very little to go on after all ... very impressive!
That was so better, sounds incredible
4:31 that solo SENT me 🔥
Right??🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Her Solo was LIT! It’s the only part of the original track I don’t like. Always seemed a bit aimless. Her solo here was fantastic!
it was AMAZING
It was totally period correct, just not from this song.
every time i watch one of these and the musician reacts to the original like this, i just want to tell them "you WERE RIGHT the WHOLE time.... you just played it differently than the original" this is art.
You are totally right, but totally missing the side of an artist loving art. When you swear something should go one way and it goes another, it is AMAZING, and I bet if HLATN heard her version they would see the same. It is to me the truest beaty of art, the constant creation and the constant appreciation of others creation, even if it is at your own expense.
For sure. There are many ways to harmonize to a melody. Some sound more pleasing than others. What she did was fantastic.
Absolutely! I wish they'd emphasised that she's not "wrong" at all! What she created is beautiful to everyone that loves this song and love music.
@@LeeOadesShe just turned it from a pure rock song to a blues jam.
Jemma rocked this out. This was not an easy song to go in blind like she did, but she really showed her musical abilities to come as close as she did! Thanks for these videos...they're awesome!
Jemma's solo was absolute fire!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Love her version!! She's amazing!! This should be its own TV show with her interpreting other 80s songs!!!
I've seen this done with a young drummer. The drummer was incredible. Bushnell I think her name is?
The main riff she played over the instrumental part is super infectious tbh
Savage Keyboard Shredding
It was just as good 20 years ago as well.
@@RealDonLarsonalmost 40
I don´t care if she was right or not, She f*king nailed it. Aweasome version
She did not. She sucked the liveliness and happyness out of this song.
@@mantelmann13 Nice opinion, too bad I don´t care about it at all
@@mantelmann13 It's obvious you are not a musician - given only drums and vocals, she was all over this tune. Huey may come back to re-record it. This girl is an awesome talent !
@@randybeidelschies - You don't have to be a musician to know whether you like a song or not.
@@mantelmann13 - She made it something else, which is what's interesting about this. It's not interesting just getting it right, but interesting to see what a person who doesn't know the song at all, will come up with.
Seeing master musicians transcribe songs on the spot is fascinating enough, but transcribing the song with nothing to go on but the singing? She's beyond amazing.
What she did was not transcribing which means to listen to and replay all the notes of a piece of music that are important. It was (re)harmonizing an unknown melody more or less on the spot instead. A case for knowledge of harmony and musical styles. That requires quite a lot, but it's nothing extraterrestrial. Something like this taught at music colleges, among other things.
@@maetzchenmusik You're right.
At 2:05 when she says "can we try that?" and then pretty much NAILS the bridge - EXCELLENT!!
This. I was like - yes, you got it, you got that right!
I grateful I was a teenager in the 80s. The music was so fun. 😊
We had NO idea how good we had it. 🥹
I don't live in the past living my teen years in the '80s was a gift. Every week you would hear a new song that would reshape your life. (in my mind I still think about the '80s as being 10 years ago)
This is low key one of the hardest songs they've done this with. Key changes, modulations etc.
thumbnail is legit.🤜
Especially since key changes have all but disappeared from popular music… 🤦🏻♂️
And pitiful vocal melody.
Especially in the verse.
This one is a legit challenge
@@Eric-dd8bk Pretty much all vocals are autotuned these days 🤦🏽
I grew up in the 60's and the 70's so I'm well familiar with Huey Lewis. Very emotional for me to watch you pick this song up from scratch. Beautiful job! True art!
This pianist is incredible! Never heard this song before, and yet she just came up with all this! A very interesting arrangement of this song!
The degree of difficulty she was confronted with is SO much greater than the drums and bass versions of this challenge I’ve seen, where they just mute the particular instrument the musician plays, but still have all the basic harmonic information. Added to this how relatively static the melody is (songs with more melodic movement would give you much more harmonic information in the melody alone), and she really was marooned at sea with no map and asked to find her way home.
Exactly. It makes you wonder if the people who run the channel know what they are doing.
@@JohnSmith-oe5kx Yes, they do: they’re making entertaining content. It’s not a game, fairness doesn’t matter. It’s supposed to be a way to sort of showcase an artist’s ability to write music. I doubt that they would’ve just let her keep going for hours if she wasn’t going anywhere.
Yea this is incredibly challenging. Trying to figure out the bass first was a good move
Yeah I feel like she should have gotten to have the guitars and horns and stuff.
@@Tensen01 I disagree, because she proved she didn’t need them. It’s actually a much more interesting experiment this way, and you’re going to end up with something more different from the original. It IS way more difficult, though.
Her feel for the structure of the song was soooo good.
I'm a drummer who's watched a LOT of Drumeo videos like this one. Those are fun. This is the 2nd Pianote video I've seen (Jordan Rudess playing Alicia Keys was the first) and it was awesome. I have nothing but massive respect for musicians like Jemma who can figure out a song like this and make it look effortless! And the solo she played...are you kidding me??? I literally had chills...don't even know why. I guess that's the power of music. I've honestly never heard of Jemma Heigis before, but I'm a huge fan now.
right there with you brother - started playing piano first, and to me this is SO much more impressive than the drum ones!!
@@aarcurtis I'm the opposite
I just mentioned both pages need to get someone that hasnt heard and see what the drums and keys come up with...
This might have been the most difficult of these sorts of challenges that I've seen. Having to come up with parts over nothing but vocal and drums is INSANE. Great job.
One thing we musicians share is when we hear someone like Jemma whaling, we bust out laughing. It's NOT a humor thing, we laugh when a virtuoso is FLOWING, stream of consciousness artistry. I cracked up at a couple of her riffs--ending with a DAY-um! Good ups on all involved and mad props to this incredibly gifted young lady.
Wow. With just drums and vocals to go off. This was so good. And I always really liked the original too but man, this was a really good take on it. So talented.
Jemma's great. I feel like she was subconsciously hearing some Steve Winwood in there.
Or Mike Post. A "Hill Street Blues" vibe.
I remember my musical teacher said "there is no wrong or right in music. It just how it sounds, good or less good"
Good or less good is meaningless as it is subjective unless you are the writer.
and this one is less good😂😂
That's why they couldn't get a good job in music.
so good would be the equivalent of "good", and bad the equivalent of "less good" then?
Reminds me of an old classical music joke, 'Wagner's music is better than it sounds.' 😅
It really is incredible how much harmony and groove influences the main melody! It almost sounds like a completely different song! This is more of a songwriting exercise, Gives you a bit of an insight into some of the creative choices that the songwriters would've encountered when writing this classic from he 80s!
What a PRO!!! Great Job Jemma!!🏆🏅🏆🏅
I can't believe she never heard the song before! 😆
I think the original arrangement is perfect, but her version turned out to be surprisingly great! She's an incredibly talented musician. 👏
I can believe that. I’m 40 and heard maybe 1 Huey song
@@phildinh852listen to sports and fore!
Actually she hit some familiar moments with key changes and changes from minor to major etc... for having no clue what the actual progression was in the song, she did a stellar job.
my take away from this is that Huey Lewis is an amazing vocalist! This girl is an amazing musician as well!
I seriously want them to rerelease the song with her arrangement. I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Really cool.
Why buy it? It's available here on TH-cam for free. The rest is earhead cinema. Just get started!
wow she is incredible, the modulation, the bass, that solo on top of everything else! also, jemma go watch back to the future please!
Ela tem uma dinâmica excelente ao teclado. Grande pianista essa moça, meus parabéns
Yes! She's an amazing musician!🎹⚡🙌🏼
@JemmaHeigis just nailed it. A completely different sounding version, but just great! Love the solo as well!
This looks so unbelieavable hard to do, and she was pretty good at it!! Such a big talent, I wish I could do that.
Do more with Jemma!! Also, her arrangement gave me 80's Genesis vibes.
Some magnificent chords substitution going on here. It's beautiful to hear it raw.
Of course, if she really had never heard the song before, she's not really doing chord substitution.
This video makes me feel - not old, exactly, but more like high school was a looong time ago.
Sending best wishes to Huey Lewis, a huge part of my mix tape.
Really hard song with Huey's voice sliding all over the place!
Outstanding! Jemma has admirable keyboard skills and has a great 'ear'. This concept of on-the-spot improvisation would make a great series.
As someone who met her in freshmen year in music school, I'm not at all surprised she's this great still. lol she has perfect pitch and could pretty much imitate anything she had heard 10 years ago and that was a long time ago. even anything her skill after all these years has only fermented and gotten better.
Brian!! Thank you!! It’s been a while, hope you’re well 💜🫶
@@JemmaHeigis I'm doing fantastic Jemma, I've been silently enjoying everyone doing amazing things. So proud of you! You seriously have come such a long way and it's been amazing to see!
I thought it was a different and exciting change and not a train wreck as a lot of musicians would do. Great Job!
She's playing "do you believe in love" in some parts! I'm legit impressed
Jemma never ceases to amaze me, this was so inventive and so refreshing to the original which is already one of my favorite songs of all time. If I had a flux capacitor I would send Jemma back in time so she could add her insane solo to the band. Such a cool video!!
Huey Lewis & The News had a very distinct sound.
It would be nice to see the entire reactions to originals, without cuts, uninterrupted!
And btw, her solo was AMAZING!
I love it so much more when they have no context!!! Having the pianist come up with something completely original on the spot is the best way to do this!
Jemma is pretty dang awesome, she does a lot of collab work but also has an awesome album entitled "Not Today" that is available on Spotify and pretty much everywhere.
As per the norm she killed it!
Thanks. I will check it out
Please do more of these. They are really good.
My admiration for the skills of professional musicians ever grows. This is amazing!
You sure can tell a true talent this way. Jemma did a amazing job pretty much starting from scratch with only a few key cords. Jemma's sounded as good as Huey's did. Great job!!!
I enjoyed this video the most so far, great harmonization, great feel for the song. The keyboard version of this "game" is infinitely harder than "just" playing drums over an otherwise complete arrangement. Great job!
I love what Jemma did…it took away some of the R&B feel, and made it more jazzy. Her interpretation and the original are both great !! I can’t believe that she had never heard this before….
This is one of my favorites from my childhood, and by the end of her version, I couldn't remember the original anymore. Truly impressive!
Musical GENIUS! I knew this song from long ago, and I love her rendition just as much!
That solo was epic.
Did she just harmonize the entire song even more beautifully than the original? So fast? I wonder how many hours it will take her to write an album.
It’s definitely not more beautiful than the original but it is good
All i saw was Huey Lewis and i immediately clicked. Thank you TH-cam and Pianote you have a new sub. Music was a craft in the 80's.. That's why bands existed as they all had their own unique take on pop music. I can appreciate the newer generation being introduced to what the generation back then had the pleasure of growing up with.
Musicians like Jemma are humble enough to appreciate the song and play for the SONG.
Blinkin' brilliant job. ...and Jemma's version even sounded '80s... Couldn't stop *grinning* all the way through... 😄🙃😊
Großartige Version!
Very cool. I enjoy hearing you play.
Good lord. Such respect. She even basically got the opening riff, amazing! 🔥 Can't get enough of these videos!
1000% TOTALLY AWESOME. I don't want to hear the song ANY OTHER WAY NOW. BRAVO
She is amazing !! I hope that she doesn't miss the opportunity and watch BTTF ... ASAP.
Well done, Jemma!
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they should get a clip of the og artist reacting to the new takes
omg I would love to see that video for this! So fun! Huey was my first favorite band! I loved BTTF too! MJ Fix for the win!
I fully support this fantastic idea!
Most people dont realize how incredibly difficult this is to do. Much respect to Jemma for her interpretation without ever hearing thr orginal first. 👏👏👏
Her version is great. Hope Huey Lewis hears it!
OM..! I love Jemma, but where was she all this time? under a rock? Love U Jemm!
How has any musician never heard Huey Lewis and the News?
Too young
With all my years as a musician. And hundreds of thousands of songs I've experienced, maybe even more, maybe Millions. I still discover new music all the time. Some newer stuff that just slipped by me. And sometimes tracks that pre-date me. With my broad taste in music, it would take several lifetimes to discover everything I would like. I'm just thrilled that she's discovering it now. And it sounded like she was pretty close to the original chord progression right from the jump.
I would love to hear her play around with some of Stevie Winwood's or Stevie Wonder's stuff. The two greatest "Stevies" lol.
I think she is great. It was impressive, and I even enjoyed listening to her for just the few moments that she was playing around with that synh witch I'm not positive, but I think was a "Moag"...
She's young, bro. Too bad. You're irrelevant.
Um…did she say that ?? I’m pretty sure She just said she didn’t know this song. That ain’t the same as never having heard of the band
Please continue to do this series! It’s amazing and please have Jemma back.
The News is such a talented group of musicians. Everyone should check out 'Four Chords & Several Years Ago' by Huey Lewis & The News.
I've been a Huey Lewis and the New fan since they came out in the 80's. I've seen them many many times in concert. I'm sad he can no longer perform because of his hearing. I loved her interpretation!! It was fantastic. I don't think she needs to worry about not exactly matching what they did. Loved her solo. It was all great.
I love the original song, but Jemma’s version was really good! I really enjoyed this!
🔥🔥🔥. As a fan of the original, I feel like this was awesome. I’d buy the single. 😍🔥🔥🔥
That solo was incredible!!!!!!!!!! I could listen to 4:33 over and over and over again. Sensational!!!
Someone needs to get this to Huey's people and let him hear it. I bet he'd love it.
Huey Lewis is.one.of the greatest of the 80s. I remember meeting him at a show in SF. My brother was a special guest that night and got up to do a couple of songs. I was around 12 years in 1986.
Gemma, Great job. That's a tough song even knowing it. You've got a great ear. I play but don't know any theory and can't read music so it's impressive to see you when you're like "oh there's a dominate". So cool.
Wow. Just so privileged to hear you break down this song. So talented.
that's freakin' awesome, still wondering how didn't she knows this, but damn it what a talent here! amazing
I loved her choices! This exercise immediately brought me back to when I was a teenager in a Barbershop Chorus with my grandfather. One of the exercises we would do was called "woodshedding". The only person who had music was the Lead, and we had to build Barbershop-style harmonies around it. While it was definitely challenging, I have to say we had it easier because the Barbershop style has specific chord structures, whereas Jemma had no such constraints. She did amazing! That is the kind of alternative arrangement that I LOVE hearing in remakes of songs.
Jemma is one of my favorite young keyboard players. Her transcription playing Cory Henry's Lingus solo note for note while her cat is jumping around on her lap is amazing! Fun to see she has never heard "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis. 🎹❤
She did great! Would love to hear more crazy chords
She's amazing! Stay tuned for this week's release, it also features Jemma🔥
Awesome version of Power of Love with your chords, Jemma! Huey Lewis and the News are from the San Francisco Bay Area where I live and you smashed it with their style! As a fellow keyboardist, really impressed at what you came up with no chords given. Kudos! 🎹👏
Whatta beautiful, insanely talented woman
Jemma..
You did fantastic. Its one of my favourites from way back when.❤loved it.
I liked everything she plaid! Nice job. I've covered this song I don't know how many times over my career. I love all of Huey Lewis's material.
I already followed her on Insta and was not even aware of her identity, just enjoyed watching her and drop those wonderful chops! Amazing.
She is so darn good, just WOW.
Wow - Jemma you did a great job - loved the keyboard solo too. Huey Lewis and the News (with the Tower of Power horns) was my first concert - amazing show and they really know how to write amazing pop hooks, songs and in particular lyrics. A deeply under-rated band in this day-and-age.
Holy crap, these changes are very clever only hearing a melody. Solid Gen X here and I know the dialogue from back to the future about as well as any movie and this song is permanently etched into my brain - but this is real pro work. Love it.
What an incredible ear! Well done ma’am. You should totally check out Huey’s albums!