I relate to your story! I never went to music school but TH-cam has been my school. However you get to a point where the content available online doesn't reach you how to achieve that particular sound you heard in that one album that you really love... So the only option is to transcribe that sound yourself and take it into your own hands. And I listen to jazz piano albums almost exclusively for the last few years, if you expose yourself to more music you learn a lot. It sounds like mumbo jumbo to say you can learn jazz by just istening to it, and yeah you have to do more than just listen, but listening is really important. Finding someone who inspires you to imitate them and just exposing yourself to as much as their music as possible really helps. You start to understand what they're doing even if you're not sitting at the piano working it out.
This not only applies to music but to life in general. Thank you Thembi. You inspired me to keep on with music and with life when I almost want to give up ❤
I do share your obsession with McCoy Tyner. He is a great pianist, has an impressive sense of timing and phrasing and a very distinctive wonderful sound. E. g. I do listen to Bessie's Blues (on the album Crescent) now since about 40 year and still think it's one of the blueprints of what can be played over a Jazz blues. Thanks for this insightful video! Greetings from Germany.
This is one of the thing I like about you most is how honest you are with your journey and how helpful it is to me. Thank you for sharing and I can't wait to hear more!
It is so interesting to hear about your story. Music is often presented as a gift: you have it, or you don’t. It is motivating ta see a musician of your level faced these challenges. Maybe you mentioned it in another video, but I was curious about the reason which pushed you to go from classical to jazz? Were you always interested in jazz, but « forced » to follow a classical curriculum? Or did you discover jazz later?
Jazz was something I always heard played at home and I’ve always loved it. Just never understood the amount of work it would take. In high school (while I was studying classical) we had “jazz band”, which also heightened my love for it, especially the improvisation part of things. But even then I was reading stave notated big band charts. So I was really in for it when I enrolled to for a jazz degree😂
Great video, thank you. Your words help me to go on even when most technics that I learned do not naturally come to the surface the right time when improvising. Some day this will be the case.
Thank you for this video. I also discovered my love for mccoy and pentatonic language recently. Hope you make more videos about his playing in the future, you explain very well. Good luck on your journey!
I have been following your videos for a while now. The way you talk about music, jazz and your life is often touching. You have the ability to bring topics down to earth and steer people away from their possible musical or personal frustrations, while throwing in a lot of great educational tips. Great channel, and you are a wonderful musician.
Good day Thembi, I trust you are well. I'm a singer that is so much in love with jazz and never had the opportunity to have formal education and your understanding and explanation is so incredible. I would like to do a collaboration with you. You play I sing, I'm not yet an established singer or rather a well known one. I would like to do a Collab on a few tracks and see how you would interpret them.
You have an amazing gift, and now the trick is to convert that gift into money. I'm actually am really good at improv music. I have been paid as a musician, comedian, animator, app designer, illustrator, painter, web-designer, composer, writer. My father was assassinated when I was 2. My favorite thing to do is perform. I used to run my own shows in Cape Town until I was falsely accused of SA. My point is just that you got to put on a show. Although large Music is just a small part who you are and what you have to offer. Music is just a medium for you to present yourself. It's just the salt and pepper and spices that season the main course of Thembi Dunjana.
Fantastic video, it's so cool you were able to face jazz school with a healthy ego to get the most out it! I enjoy working through your booklet as well, trying to adopt some of your approaches to things. Is it just me or is the end of the intro (Inception - McCoy Tyner) in this video silent? I'm stuck on a mono headset right now, so maybe it's just the left channel. Rest is fine.
I started focusing on Bebop about a year now as a keyboardist and there is so much to learn. I have started playing big jazz concerts and i am always eager to sound like a Pro. but i make a mess out of my self all the time. How do i overcome this challenge? Also, a few months ago, my jazz music promoter encouraged me and my team to join a professional jazz band to perform on a big page platform at a jazz concert, which is also one of the top rated event in my country. After the show, comments and feed-back from the Pro. Jazz band to our promoter was that as Jazz band, we still got a long way to go. Although it was hard to accept this reality we took it as a motivation to work harder. However the harder we work the more difficult it was especially for me as a keyboardist because i struggle to connect with what am learning. This becomes depressing and discouraging. Also if Pro. Jazz bands keep rating us as such i fear we might not get good gigs as we are getting now. What's your opinons about this issue?
listening to you talk about your music is therapeutic
Truly
Absolutely. It gives so much perspective.
I relate to your story! I never went to music school but TH-cam has been my school. However you get to a point where the content available online doesn't reach you how to achieve that particular sound you heard in that one album that you really love... So the only option is to transcribe that sound yourself and take it into your own hands. And I listen to jazz piano albums almost exclusively for the last few years, if you expose yourself to more music you learn a lot. It sounds like mumbo jumbo to say you can learn jazz by just istening to it, and yeah you have to do more than just listen, but listening is really important. Finding someone who inspires you to imitate them and just exposing yourself to as much as their music as possible really helps. You start to understand what they're doing even if you're not sitting at the piano working it out.
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This not only applies to music but to life in general. Thank you Thembi. You inspired me to keep on with music and with life when I almost want to give up ❤
I do share your obsession with McCoy Tyner. He is a great pianist, has an impressive sense of timing and phrasing and a very distinctive wonderful sound. E. g. I do listen to Bessie's Blues (on the album Crescent) now since about 40 year and still think it's one of the blueprints of what can be played over a Jazz blues. Thanks for this insightful video! Greetings from Germany.
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McCoy Tyner plays on “everytime we say goodbye” and “Central Park west” and his solos are fantastic
This!
@@thembelihledunjana p.s. thanks for uploading, I like the way you explain things
This is one of the thing I like about you most is how honest you are with your journey and how helpful it is to me. Thank you for sharing and I can't wait to hear more!
It is so interesting to hear about your story. Music is often presented as a gift: you have it, or you don’t. It is motivating ta see a musician of your level faced these challenges.
Maybe you mentioned it in another video, but I was curious about the reason which pushed you to go from classical to jazz? Were you always interested in jazz, but « forced » to follow a classical curriculum? Or did you discover jazz later?
Jazz was something I always heard played at home and I’ve always loved it. Just never understood the amount of work it would take. In high school (while I was studying classical) we had “jazz band”, which also heightened my love for it, especially the improvisation part of things. But even then I was reading stave notated big band charts.
So I was really in for it when I enrolled to for a jazz degree😂
Love listening to you think and speak
Great video, thank you. Your words help me to go on even when most technics that I learned do not naturally come to the surface the right time when improvising. Some day this will be the case.
Wow! You're so remarkable
Your lessons are always valuable!💪😎
Thank you for this video. I also discovered my love for mccoy and pentatonic language recently. Hope you make more videos about his playing in the future, you explain very well. Good luck on your journey!
I sure will🫶
Hugely inspiring. Thanks for being in our midst.
Mr Eugene, thanks for your presence🔥
@@thembelihledunjana ❣
Awesome video... Thanks!
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Thanks for sharing☺️
I have been following your videos for a while now. The way you talk about music, jazz and your life is often touching. You have the ability to bring topics down to earth and steer people away from their possible musical or personal frustrations, while throwing in a lot of great educational tips. Great channel, and you are a wonderful musician.
Thank you🫶
Love your story
Thanks for watching
Good day Thembi, I trust you are well. I'm a singer that is so much in love with jazz and never had the opportunity to have formal education and your understanding and explanation is so incredible. I would like to do a collaboration with you. You play I sing, I'm not yet an established singer or rather a well known one. I would like to do a Collab on a few tracks and see how you would interpret them.
Nice one ❤❤🙏🙏🙏
You are so real! Its refreshing
You have an amazing gift, and now the trick is to convert that gift into money.
I'm actually am really good at improv music. I have been paid as a musician, comedian, animator, app designer, illustrator, painter, web-designer, composer, writer. My father was assassinated when I was 2.
My favorite thing to do is perform. I used to run my own shows in Cape Town until I was falsely accused of SA.
My point is just that you got to put on a show. Although large Music is just a small part who you are and what you have to offer. Music is just a medium for you to present yourself. It's just the salt and pepper and spices that season the main course of Thembi Dunjana.
I do perform here in Cape Town
Congrats 🎉 🎉 🎉 I am so glad you didn't quit keep up the amazing work kind regards Worrell Robinson from London
Thanks so much!🙌
Fantastic video, it's so cool you were able to face jazz school with a healthy ego to get the most out it! I enjoy working through your booklet as well, trying to adopt some of your approaches to things.
Is it just me or is the end of the intro (Inception - McCoy Tyner) in this video silent? I'm stuck on a mono headset right now, so maybe it's just the left channel. Rest is fine.
Thanks for this comment so I can quickly fix it, just realised I lost that audio. So I’ve had to trim it out. But I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the video!
😅😅😅 love you much
I started focusing on Bebop about a year now as a keyboardist and there is so much to learn. I have started playing big jazz concerts and i am always eager to sound like a Pro. but i make a mess out of my self all the time. How do i overcome this challenge?
Also, a few months ago, my jazz music promoter encouraged me and my team to join a professional jazz band to perform on a big page platform at a jazz concert, which is also one of the top rated event in my country. After the show, comments and feed-back from the Pro. Jazz band to our promoter was that as Jazz band, we still got a long way to go. Although it was hard to accept this reality we took it as a motivation to work harder. However the harder we work the more difficult it was especially for me as a keyboardist because i struggle to connect with what am learning. This becomes depressing and discouraging. Also if Pro. Jazz bands keep rating us as such i fear we might not get good gigs as we are getting now.
What's your opinons about this issue?
For you, keep practicing.
But by team do you mean band? You and your band should also keep working on it, if you’re really passionate about it.
Okay thanks i really appreciate that.
The team actually is my band. The band is called Meloharm Jazz Band
You’re gorgeous by the way…gorgeous like Jazz chords..appropriate
😅😅😅more tutorial about jazz bebop piano please
You are one talented cat! I can tell you that! If I may ask a favor: Could you write out that lick and put it out please?
Which one?
What are your thoughts on the use of the transpose button??
Only use it if you can transpose/ working on your transposition skills, but in the moment, do what you must😅
That improvisation is hard😢
Yeah, just takes some diligent practice