Left Hand For Jazz Piano (+Free PDF)
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Left hand. Its not talked about as much as it should be, but its very important component in improvising and accompanying.
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Looking forward to the book. Take your time though and make it the best.
Very Nice, try to learn jazz piano.
I can not get the pdf.
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The best advanced lesson ever for beginners, love it THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!!
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You’re actually a king. My grandfather was a Jazz pianist, and I always wanted to play like him. However, my biggest problem was with my left hand, and I never knew what voicing to use. Thanks a lot for this video, it’s really helped me!
Spending time getting back to practicing piano right now and this video is super useful. Thanks dude!
5 views,5 likes.Fair.
Steely Dan were masters at this. Thank you for showing this.
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Mindblowing video!!! thanks a lot Ruslan, this is what i looking for, i need to practice a lot the left hand, and this is a BIG guide.... greetings from Chile!
Hello Ruslan...I'm seeing you here in Brazil...
I Love jazz..but I don't know to play
I'm trying to learn
Thanks a lot
I very like on your classes !!!
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Y Tavera_ thank you!!
Olá Ruslan gostaria muito de ter umas aulas suas mas não falo inglês..
Como faço?
Thanks !
These videos are incredibly helpful. Thank you man ! You break it down into practisable chunks and really demystify what is going on.
Yesterday I wanted to start to understand how to play left hand voicings, and today you posting this. Thank you !!!!
Ruslan how to play like yohan kim left hand
Great! I like the way you explain fundamentals. I'm not piano player but for understanding harmony, voice leading I do use keys. And free pdf is a bonus! As free gift I got title for your future book "Ruthless Left " 👍
I didn't wait that the tutorial were so fast, I don't believe it man, thank you so much, I mentioned it two weeks ago as a suggestion and you do an exceptional job. Amazing work, clear explanation, of great help. Again god's blessings for you, my hero from now.
I'm vastly enjoying your videos!!! Thank you so much for your time and effort!
Another great lesson. I started working on my bucket list and learning to play piano after DECADES of playing guitar and bass. So this video will really help in learning how to get familiar sounds over to the piano. Thanks!
Thanks, Ruslin. Awesome pdf!
Great, thank you! Hug from Bolivia!
I am practicing. I will solo. I don't have a base player. I need cord with root. Other jazz people may not but I do. Thank you.
jasneskis those are two different things. Playing solo piano and what I teach here are two different things.
Ruslan, thank you for such succinct videos about jazz piano. Please keep up the stellar work!!
Not only learned what to do with the left hand, I learned more Jazz. Bravo maestro
I have a question for you ruslan. Why do you use these audio backing track and sounds When could probably i imagine put an extract of badass players demonstrating your teaching. Thanks a lot for showing left hand comping on the blues, you're killin it!
StompL7 because I can’t start hiring people and paying them for their time, and paying a recording studio, every time I want to show people how to play over C7 chord for free
I've heard that sometimes the left hand plays different chords (not just a different voicing or inversion) in a bar ( or more) that is supposed to be just one chord, and it sounds awesome! How do they do that? using different chords rhythmicly in one measure instead of just one? are there some comping tricks?
Annoynymouse Adding substitution posing chords. Sure. That’s a whole other subject.
Thanks so much!!Very helful to me!!!
Wow so glad to see you getting so many subscribers. I subscribed when you were at about 1000. You are a voice of expertise in a sea of wannabes (my opinion). I also love how forthrightly and non judgmentally (is that a word?) you answer some of the comments you get👌thank you for this tutorial. All the best to you! You deserve it!
april thank you so much! I appreciate your supposed from early on. About 1000 subscribers a week now.... I’ll keep on keeping on
I would like to know what is the software you used for the keyboard and the clefs? Thanks Ruslan! I think as long as you persist for your agenda you'll succeed, because there are many intermediate/advanced musicians struggle about all the things you talked about in your videos. Many of us have classical piano and have the knowledge of jazz but do not know the mindset behind. Keep it up!
Edwin Lai thank you my friend. The software is called Chordie. It’s awesome
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Can I use rootless voicings while playing without backing tracks? Will sound weird?
Jhoy Santos will sound a bit weird. Unless you are doing in a context of solo-piano playing. And then you use those chords and you play some bass notes too
Que Dios te bendiga grandemente, te visualizo desde México, te escribe un joven pianista del cual haz sido de mucha ayuda❤️🇲🇽
Thank you my friend!!!!
Hey ruslan i love your content, your way of teaching nevertheless id love to see those vids of yours with less cuts.
StompL7 yea I hope I’ll get there as a presenter one day. I can’t deliver speech and choice of words on this level without pausing frequently.. at least not just yet.
Thanks!
This is godsent
Thanks Ruslan!
amazingly comprehensive and very enlightening... liked it and subscribed!
Hey Ruslan, I met you in California once a long time ago playing at the federal bar with Ron Avant, and its cool to see you succeeding. Thanks for the lessons! Will subscribe :) i have a picture of that night on my insta: musiclove43
Wow thanks for this video man!! Could you pass me the backing track you use???
wow, framing concept really makes sense,thanks soooo much !!
The first part sounds like your playing fourths Blues jazz C7 EgBb or g Bb d give example with jazz tune show close up of notes and chords foolish heart,deadoto soulful strut Gm9 am7 to D7b9 all chords in four left hand the what right hand plays
This is why I use Studiologic bass pedalboard. My left foot plays the bass notes.
very very interesting and useful by a talented pianist and teacher ...thx a lot for sharing :)
Thank you Ruslan, you´re amazing! I´m a guitar player and studying your videos, I found tons of stuff I can apply to guitar.
First time I saw you was on a TH-cam video playing the Ravenscroft 275 by VI Labs and thought "this dude is killin' it". Thanks for what you do. If I could ever get to be a fraction as good as you on your worst day, I'll be happy.
You are the best jazz teacher I have found on TH-cam. Thanks
Great video, thanks. Thanks also for the motivic development series and your videos with Greg Spero on weekly piano. A request, how to develop (modestly) a bit of counterpoint.
Great video! Can you please make a video on left hand bass lines for solo piano if you haven't already?
Another excellent video - Thanks Ruslan!
Excelent jazz vídeo Ruslan!
Very nice video and great info thank you for sharing. You are a very talented piano player.
Great informative video, but what the heck do you have on your head? :D
You, sir, are one of the best teachers I've found! 🤩✨
Thank you again. This is helping me a lot.
Just curious: Why left-hand voicings in PDF written in Treble Clef vis-à-vis the Bass Clef ?
+irProteus Good point. I did it in treble clef because most people don’t read music at all. And of those who DO read music - most don’t read bass clef, only treble. I didn’t want to make the pdf useless for vast majority of my viewers, so I decided to write it in treble clef, even though it technically should be written in bass clef.
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Great lesson, Ruslan. Thank you!
Hi Ruslan, would you use these voicings when playing solo piano? If so, would you have to play them differently? Or would you use different voicings??... or a totally different style? ...I look at a lot of videos like this to try and get my solo piano moving, but mostly the tuition presumes you’ll be playing with a band.. Great video thanks
I would not use them exclusively, but yes.. I would use them! I would maybe slap a bass note underneath some of them, here and there. Because there's not bass player. But yes. Any voicings that outline harmony as useful in any context of playing.
Awesome ...liked and subscribed
Hi Mate,
I was thinking if you could make a video about how to practice playing by ear.
Like you said "we"" always should be in the middle of transcribing song\solo. Id love to see the way you're doing this.
Thank You for your channel, its amazing job and so helpful for musicians !!
Daniel Michałek my friend... I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I still haven’t found a good method to REALLY help people with their relative pitch. I was always lucky. Since I was 6, I can hear intervals clearly and I have great relative pitch. This is what allows me to transcribe easily. I hear everything through intervals. But I have no idea how to teach it to other people, because I never had to learn it. I don’t have perfect pitch but I have very strong relative pitch. And I was just lucky to have it. So if you see a video of me transcribing, all you will see is me pressing play on an MP3, then pressing stop after 4 bars, and then repeating exactly what i heard because i hear it very easily... because I’m a lucky son of a bitch, and I was born with a good ear that I did not deserve and did not work for :-/
I need to be able to teach this to other people!!! I’m going to think about this and ask my colleagues too. Relative pitch is more important than ANYTHING. And I need to figure out how to help people develop it. I’m really sorry I don’t have the right answer for you yet. I wish I had something better to tell you at this point. I apologize.
Awesome lesson bro thank you
Thank you, Ruslan! That rootless voicing opens the door to a secret garden.
saxgrrrl yea I should do a video on how to walk with your left hand and play chords with the right. In that case, basically, your right hand does what I teach here how to do with your left. And the left hand - well, for that transcribing some amazing walking bass lines will be super helpful!
Many thanks for pdf
Nicely done lesson and video!
excellent instructional!!
The BEST!!! Thank you!!
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Hi man another great video. I have recently started transcribing jazz solos. I can tell its going to benefit me as I can now put what I practice into a musical sense. Thank you for suggesting this. I would like to know how to take the licks and vocabulary I learn from these solos and apply them to a different context. I would really appreciate a video where you walk us through transcribing a solo and transforming licks learnt.
First of all, i recommend learning the solo in 3-4 different keys, not just in the original key.
Then you can write out bits of language that you really like and run them across the modes. I explain how to do that in THIS video: th-cam.com/video/0H4W6FweTn8/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for reply!
excellent !
Good info man! Thanks! Do you have any video with exercises for the left hand independence ?
Fernando Lagos I’ll make one!!
Ruslan Sirota thanks very much!!
Awesome
do you give in person lessons in LA?
pickinstone yes I do
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What app does he use to show the grand staff and the piano on the screen?
Bruno Nunes chordie
@@ruslanpiano Thanks!
Hey Ruslan! I have seen a lot of people saying rootless voicings start on the guide tones (3rd or 7th). Why is that ? Is it preferrable to jump to a guide tone or to play an inversions with a weaker chord tone as the lowest note to keep a nice voice leading?
Eden Puder 3 and 7 are just safe bets. They are strong and important tones in every chord. One tells us whether the chord is minor or major. The other tells us whether the chord is of the maj7 variety or of the dominant7 variety. Is it ok to NOT play voicings from those two? Sure it is. It’s just safer to do it that way. If you know what ur doing, you can bend rules, because you will know when to do it and how to. If you don’t really know what ur doing - 3 and 7 are always a safe place to build rootless voicings from. Because it will always “work”.
Eden Puder and voice leading doesn’t have to be SUPER SUPER CRAZY tight in your left hand throughout the piece. So sometimes you will need a weaker bottom tone maybe, but usually it will be fine to ignore it. The focus is after all on your RIGHT hand improvisation. Voice lead the left but.. it’s not THAAAAAT big of a deal
@@ruslanpiano Thanks for the quick response! I didn't mean not playing them I just meant starting from an inversion. If my rootless chord is 3-5-7-9 but the previous chord makes it so that the closest voice leading is 5-7-9-3 for example can i use the 5 as the bottom note or should i always use a guide tone as the lowest one? I'm thinking more about doing it for comping in a group setting rather than for my solo ( not there yet with one hand haha)
Eden Puder for comping you should be playing much richer chords than 4 notes voicing. But sure, it’s ok to start on the 5th too
Thank you so much.
Both hands comping??
Ruslan, thanks so much for the awesome content! I have a question concerning your recent "Left Hand" exercises. For a C dominant 7, you have Bb E and A in the left hand, but the A natural in C is a 6th. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks a million my friend!
Dave Pierce Very good question. The A natural is both the 6th and the 13th! But how do we know when it’s what? Simple! If the chord already has a 7th (Bb), then the A natural above it is considered a 13th. If the chord has no 7th (Bb), then the A natural is considered a 6th in that chord.
@@ruslanpiano then the chords you are calling the 7th (e.g. C7) are not actually 7th but the 13th (C13) which is a reharmonization which can cause problems when there are several instruments keeping harmony (e.g. guitar and piano). If only one of them uses this 13th substitution (unknowingly, just using your voicing advice) and the other for some reason considers different reharmonization or no reharm at all this would be a dissonance, no?
lazyWyde Adding a 13th to a 7 chord is not a substitution. Adding available (i.e. legal) tensions to a chord is not a substitution. It’s just adding proper tensions, and enriching the 7 chord. If one instrument plays C7 and the other plays C7(13), no harmonic clash will occur.
@@SIRUS80 I understand the reasoning and stand corrected, however by that logic you can just play the whole scale on each bar of something like Autumn Leaves and call it "chord with all available tensions". Except the avoid notes, I guess. So, every bar would be the same. I know I'm going to the extremes here, but there's a reason that player when seeing C7 should picture C7 in his mind, enriching it as he sees fit and not because he read that this particular voicing is C7 (when in the meantime it's actually C13)
lazyWyde It sounds counterintuitive, but u can in deed play the whole chord scale on every chord, technically. On C7 you can play any note from Mixolydian. The reason one doesn’t is because of aesthetic preferences, not because the notes are wrong or will clash badly. All the notes are fine to play and it’s just a matter of how much pepper or how much paprika you want to add to the dish, figuratively speaking. There won’t be any negative clashes if the notes ur adding to the chord are from the appropriate chord scale, one that corresponds . No advanced jazz pianist plays “triad + 7” (C E G Bb) at the sight of C7. There’s no need to exaggerate with the additional tensions, but again - that’s a matter of taste not a matter of wrong notes