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What a beautiful tutorial! So glad I discovered this and have fallen in love with Blue in Green all over again.

Tom, you are an inspiration. I took about 3 yrs of lessons 50 yrs ago. That got me into some garage bands (most fun ever) and I have been playing non-professionally ever since. Folks seem to think I am a really good player but the truth is I can barely get through a beginner tutorial. And if someone asks me to "play it like the record" I usually balk and secretely feel exposed as a fraud of sorts. But give me a few minutes to work out the basic progression and I can "interpret" a song, throw in a few jazz chords, play with the tempo, create variations and textures to make it interesting, revisiting the basic progression to sort of restate the motif and moving to new variations. It is endlessly fun and rewarding even if purists would (perhaps rightly) not approve. The inspiration I get from you is the license to play with freedom. When i sit at the piano I never know what's gonna happen - and that is the best part I like the best.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

10 ай бұрын

Keep playing your music on your own path, you are obviously doing the right thing, but even more so, look for more ways to not play like it sounds like on the record, look for more ways to vary, create new sounds, harmonies, and textures. If the piano to you is a creative freedom venture, then keep it that way, truth be told, that's how the music we love and play was created.

@JaramilloAF

10 ай бұрын

Ha!!! It actually seems like you are the true artist, friend. Let the purists stew in their "purism". You are doing what we all REALLY want to do!

@b4time718

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the nice comments from both of you. I really like the vibe of this cool channel.

@Harriet-Jesamine

10 ай бұрын

Totally relate to your experiences. I am also a dillitante piano player, and often feel like a fraud, due to learning what I've learnt on my entirely own terms, And will run a mile if you stick any notation in front of me, and also have done the bulk of my learning with the ear from Records, BUT there are those rare moments when my left brain seems to totally go into hibernation and the right brain takes over, and my hands go to places on the keyboard where I would never think of going.. It's insane, but they're the moments which make me decide to keep going.. I agree with what you said about Tom, he has a demeanour that is so encouraging and agreable, like no one else on KZread. And I am so grateful to him.

Impressive playing Jazz piano tutorial ❤

Great lesson. I love that you demonstrated that a relatively simple chord progression can be interpreted in so many ways, and that some of these interpretations were sprinkled with more "classical" textures. It's really inspirational. Thank you!

Hi Tom, you are amazing, thanks. This is far above my ability, but I’m learning so much from you. I’ve actually written lots of songs mostly on guitar, but now focusing much more on key’s. Music is an inspiration to me!

This song blew me away when I first heard it. Such an incredible piece

Great teacher always

Nice to have you back! Always so refreshing to hear your perspective on music creation/interpretations, it must be so frustrating for you to see the endlessly robotic content in theory that usually amounts to quite unoriginal playing. That being said I recently listened to your F minor sonata improv...where can we get the transcription for that haha....Keep up the inspirational work and thanks for sharing your gift with us plebs!!

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

10 ай бұрын

Haha, many thanks. Transcriptions can be requested for any of my improvisations! They might take some time, but we have a few that are already done.

Your videos are so wonderful. Thanks for these amazing tutorials

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

10 ай бұрын

Many thanks! Many more to come as well!

Ohhhh yeahhhhhhhhh

Amazing 🎉 THANK YOU SIR 🎉

Wish Evan's didn't get his credit taken away from this piece, if you've heard him play, it becomes so apparent he crafted the song.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

8 ай бұрын

Yes it was a show of Bill Evans dedication to the group and Miles vision, though this piece stands out as the harmonic/chord oriented track on the record rather than the modal jazz approach, and in that sense its a dead give away that it's Bill Evans composition.

i like your approch tom, you are right about academics, and i stead think about textures...jarrett always said, that european mucisiens are to interlectual...thanks mikael

Good lesson, thank you very much. Personally I learned the song on another very good tutorial (kzread.info/dash/bejne/gZmo0pNxecbHiNrX.htmli=aysewW4tqYScqxov) that taught me an easy-enough (intermediate) version of the piece and the basics for soloing on the chords. Your point of view is different (and technically more demanding, I'd say...) which is very interesting for people like me, wishing to improve their playing. Your approach with the chords in different octaves (6:35 - 7:07), for example, seems a fantastic exercise that surely could improve my way of playing this tune, thank you very much again. I'll surely subscribe to the channel 😊.

Gosh that’s a lot of talking.

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

8 ай бұрын

You'll find less talking on this version of the piece : kzread.info/dash/bejne/hoB4yM6hmMe2c8o.htmlsi=-xi0i7kOO_PBQtQa

I hope you don't take this personally and think I am being rude. You keep saying "jazz" but you sound like a classical pianist. It is OK knowing the theory of harmony but you are missing the two other elements of jazz, namely melody and rhythm. You mention textures but you are missing melodic colour and rhythmic feel. Hence it sounds "stiff". Just my very humble opinion 😊

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

2 ай бұрын

No offense taken at all. I'm not using any swing at all in this version of the piece, so I think this what you are more than likely referring to. Which brings us to a deeper question, what is jazz?? Does it have to swing. Whilst I love the sounds of McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Theolonius Monk. In recent years I've enjoyed the more triad and texture driven approaches to jazz that you hear from the likes of Keith Jarrett (check out his albums like Dark Intervals and Vienna Concert for reference) and Brad Meldhau whom often uses the non swing as well in his language. Some see it as classical jazz, some see it as free improv, some see it as part of jazz, some see it as a departure. Record labels like ECM have definitely taken this non blues non swing approach to jazz to the extreme. I'm not entirely consumed by that but I have to admit, it's influenced me alot. Improvisation can move in many ways, does it really have to be a swing to be jazz. I have a tutorial on this channel on Miles Davis So What, I can promise you. It swings!!.

Useless !!

@contemporaryschoolofpiano

8 ай бұрын

The best keyboard warriors do it on a piano 🎹