I'm new to piano but this helped. But you need to get your phone and your earbuds and record your voice and merge them in post you'll get rid of that background hiss. I use smart recorder on Android. Tablet,cheap phone will work. Thanks for the tutorial
Hi WTB, thanks a lot for this One thing I'd love to get your thoughts on is ear training even though I know it's a widely covered topic. I'm really wanting to build more of an aural connection to the piano rather than always following muscle memory/patterns. I don't feel like I'm at a stage where I can relate what I hear directly to the instrument even though I've been playing a couple of years. Anyway sorry for the ramble, I would just like your thoughts, I respect your teaching style a lot. Thanks.
Building an aural connection as you put it is very challenging on any instrument, and is not something you should expect to happen after just a couple years. Truly playing what you hear in your head can take years upon years of practice for even the most talented of musicians. I believe Bill Evans said it took him until his late twenties to build a sense of familiarity with the piano that was strong enough to allow him to play anything that he felt, and he was a genius who'd started at age 5! Best advice I could give is practice regularly and focusedly. Go as slow as you need to. Think of a melody in your head, and take your time to figure out the mechanics of playing it. Sing along with your playing (though pay attention to follow your voice and not the other way around), learn to play simple (e.g. Children's songs) melodies this way, and slowly build it up to more complex music. I've been practising improvisation for about 4 years (with 20 cumulative years of music experience under my belt) and still find true "ear-play" quite challenging. Also technique makes a world of difference. If you can train your hands to the point where they can find the right notes instinctively with minimum effort, you free up mental processing power to be used for your imagination. Take your time and remember Rome wasn't built in a day! ;) Hope this helps you, perhaps Mr. WTB himself will chime in with some thoughts as well.
@@snipperbesfelixje thanks a lot for your reply, appreciate it very much. What is your thoughts on the one fixed key learning method when it comes to ear training? If you're not sure what I mean just put in TH-cam 'Julian Bradley ear training one fixed key'. Thanks.
Hey mobius Yep, I'll try to put together a few videos on ear training soon. I'll try find some time to sit down and plot it out. In the meantime, Yangshensensen is 100% correct. I couldn't have put it more eloquently myself. If you listen to many of the great jazz pianists (Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett) you can often hear them murmuring the improvisation they are playing in the background. They are playing what they hear/sing. So some of the best exercises you can do are: 1. Sing an improvised melody (after playing a reference tone on the piano), then try to replicate that exact melody on the piano (try to do so in one go, but if you make a mistake go and fix it). 2. Play a (shortish) melody on the piano and try and sing it note for note. 3. Sing along with your improvisation simultaneously By practicing to sing what you play and play what you sing, you gradually build up your ability to play what you 'hear' (i.e. sing internally). This also teaches/forces you to play melodically (as it's quite hard to sing a tritone/min7/min9/etc. interval). Obviously, start simple (short, diatonic or blues scale based) then try adding some chromaticism to your melody (gradually!). WTB
Great videos! But it is incorrect to say you can use any voicing anytime anywhere e.g. 42 inversions (or say cadential 64) are not as strong as the first 2 inversions.
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The free jazz is awesome😂
Such good videos, thank you!
I'm new to piano but this helped.
But you need to get your phone and your earbuds and record your voice and merge them in post you'll get rid of that background hiss. I use smart recorder on Android. Tablet,cheap phone will work.
Thanks for the tutorial
Thank you, awesome channel and awesome website. Really helpful!
3:19 fly me to the moon
3:39 girl from ipanema
Maybe you can make those longer and cover it in your channel.
Hi WTB, thanks a lot for this One thing I'd love to get your thoughts on is ear training even though I know it's a widely covered topic. I'm really wanting to build more of an aural connection to the piano rather than always following muscle memory/patterns.
I don't feel like I'm at a stage where I can relate what I hear directly to the instrument even though I've been playing a couple of years.
Anyway sorry for the ramble, I would just like your thoughts, I respect your teaching style a lot. Thanks.
Building an aural connection as you put it is very challenging on any instrument, and is not something you should expect to happen after just a couple years.
Truly playing what you hear in your head can take years upon years of practice for even the most talented of musicians. I believe Bill Evans said it took him until his late twenties to build a sense of familiarity with the piano that was strong enough to allow him to play anything that he felt, and he was a genius who'd started at age 5!
Best advice I could give is practice regularly and focusedly. Go as slow as you need to. Think of a melody in your head, and take your time to figure out the mechanics of playing it. Sing along with your playing (though pay attention to follow your voice and not the other way around), learn to play simple (e.g. Children's songs) melodies this way, and slowly build it up to more complex music. I've been practising improvisation for about 4 years (with 20 cumulative years of music experience under my belt) and still find true "ear-play" quite challenging.
Also technique makes a world of difference. If you can train your hands to the point where they can find the right notes instinctively with minimum effort, you free up mental processing power to be used for your imagination. Take your time and remember Rome wasn't built in a day! ;)
Hope this helps you, perhaps Mr. WTB himself will chime in with some thoughts as well.
@@snipperbesfelixje thanks a lot for your reply, appreciate it very much. What is your thoughts on the one fixed key learning method when it comes to ear training? If you're not sure what I mean just put in TH-cam 'Julian Bradley ear training one fixed key'. Thanks.
Hey mobius
Yep, I'll try to put together a few videos on ear training soon. I'll try find some time to sit down and plot it out. In the meantime, Yangshensensen is 100% correct. I couldn't have put it more eloquently myself.
If you listen to many of the great jazz pianists (Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Keith Jarrett) you can often hear them murmuring the improvisation they are playing in the background. They are playing what they hear/sing. So some of the best exercises you can do are:
1. Sing an improvised melody (after playing a reference tone on the piano), then try to replicate that exact melody on the piano (try to do so in one go, but if you make a mistake go and fix it).
2. Play a (shortish) melody on the piano and try and sing it note for note.
3. Sing along with your improvisation simultaneously
By practicing to sing what you play and play what you sing, you gradually build up your ability to play what you 'hear' (i.e. sing internally). This also teaches/forces you to play melodically (as it's quite hard to sing a tritone/min7/min9/etc. interval).
Obviously, start simple (short, diatonic or blues scale based) then try adding some chromaticism to your melody (gradually!).
WTB
@@WalkThatBass Thank you so much for the detailed response, I'll give some of your suggestions a try and look forward to your further content.
which artist performed So What? Interesting piano lick
Thanks for the overview. Really helps consolidate things so far
You're so dedicated with your videos. Thank you !
this was amazing, thank you so much!
Lots of good wishes to you for 2019. Thank you for your excellent work. Cheers.
Yeah! Thanks you are a great teacher!
very good, now I understand
The bit you did for the quartal blues sounds like Steely Dan- Babylon Sisters
nice video! what happended to your acoustic piano? loved the sound of that one...
Soooooo much to remember and learn!!!! Dag!
How about a video on elbow cluster progressions along the lines of circle of fourths and fifths to bolster elbow technique ha ha
Just go to an MMA gym, you should quickly improve your elbow chord progressions.
Thank you Sir
Wall to wall info.
Can you make a video on arpeggios
Elbow reveal 9:21
Showwww valeu mesmo pela dica.
that free jazz tho ahah
ornette coleman seeing this example of free jazz 🗿
A mazing~
that last one is taking the piss
After hearing your free jazz example I realized that I know way more fluent jazz pianists than I thought, and a lot of them are less than 4 years old!
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Great videos! But it is incorrect to say you can use any voicing anytime anywhere e.g. 42 inversions (or say cadential 64) are not as strong as the first 2 inversions.
Secundal voicing is what it sounds like when your 5 year old gets on the piano
Don’t always says ballad coz it swingin ..holy cow
Your piano needs tuning I think
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i love that version of satin doll