Also make sure to check out these documentaries I've uploaded: Willie "The Lion" (2004) [Rare Ragtime / Early Jazz Piano / Stride Piano Documentary] by Marc Fields kzread.info/dash/bejne/o2eWk9qtY7maeJs.html The Scott Joplin Documentary by Rudi Blesh 1977 kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWR4urKJZtCwl7A.html Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime Composers Short Documentary 1977 by Amelia Anderson kzread.info/dash/bejne/lIeOxdp6eLHQnKg.html

@abrahamlugo9582

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers for the Video! Forgive me for the intrusion, I would appreciate your opinion. Have you researched - Riddleagan Smart Hands Remedy (google it)? It is a good one off product for learning piano fast without the hard work. Ive heard some super things about it and my best friend Jordan at very last got cool success with it.

@derrickwilliamson8280

5 ай бұрын

Enjoyed every note played . Whatever style wonderful

Dick Hyman is simply the best all around pianist ever ,,and his knowledge is incredible.

The Jazz Professor Dick Hyman has the whole jazz history covered. He's the best person to make this kind of video and is the MUST for every music student and lover. Thanks so much!!!

An absolute reference library 📚 of jazz history, piano techniques, musical insights from a complete musical genius… amazing to see some of Tatum’s runs ‘decoded’ for us mere mortal pianists lol.. Dick Hyman is incredible

What a shame no one thought to stick an overhead camera on some of the greats no longer with us. Art Tatum, Mel Powell, Teddy Wilson,Dodo Marmarosa, Basie etc. A superb video by a master of the idiom and instrument.

@itsRemco

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

The great Dick Hyman, the best of the best !

@opale1572

11 ай бұрын

Yo no sé si es el mejor, pero sí el más completo.

In the upcoming days I'm going to upload each lesson separately as some people may have bad internet connection or don't want to search for specific lessons. So stay tuned! Hope you guys like it 😄 Btw I know that this documentary was uploaded to KZread already but the quality was soooo poor that I just had to upload this one.

@motob4406

4 жыл бұрын

Man thankyou so much, i love the lesson on Earl Hines and Armstrong. Playing trumpet-style, fascinating stuff. Take care

@mariorlanygarcia70

3 жыл бұрын

Nice Video clip! Sorry for butting in, I am interested in your thoughts. Have you heard the talk about - Riddleagan Smart Hands Remedy (just google it)? It is a great one off guide for learning piano fast without the normal expense. Ive heard some great things about it and my GF after many years got excellent results with it.

@itsRemco

Жыл бұрын

@@mariorlanygarcia70 Never heard of it and when searching I grt to obscure sites 😂

I just had pretty much the best lesson of my life and it's only half way through.

@itsRemco

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it so far!

Ok, so now, rather than sight reading 10-20 tunes, I’m actually practicing, trying to learn a fraction of this. Pure gold. Thank you!

@itsRemco

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck! With theory like this you would be able to come up with tunes yourself instead of being dependent on some sheet music. That's why all those pro piano players only ask "yoo what key?"

Very valuable video. Jazz people are not very good at explaining what Jazz is and rely on hype and flowery talk TBH. Finally someone demonstrates all the genres of Jazz.

@itsRemco

11 ай бұрын

Totally agreed!

@opale1572

11 ай бұрын

Yo creo que lo que principalmente ocurre es que hay un secretismo generalizado, similar al de los que hacen trucos de magia y, en general, en cualquier gremio. No es tanto que no sepan explicar lo que hacen y cómo lo hacen, sino que no les da la gana. Pero como en todo, hay excepciones, y Hyman era una de ellas.

The Eroll Garner bit is just so cool.

@itsRemco

7 ай бұрын

Right? Mannn Dick really can impersonate all of them

Pure genius, All of it, the great Originals and Dick Hyman for all his inspiration and explanation .

Amazing piano technique

Love your stuff Dick... a lot of hours on the seat and in the music books. Nice to hear yah.

14k people just had their minds blown with the best jazz piano history lesson they've ever heard. +1....14,001.

Awesome!!! As a non pianist I always marvelled at runs on the piano and always wondered how they do it. Thanks Prof for going slow!!!

@opale1572

11 ай бұрын

Impresionante, por supuesto. Pero si todo consistiese en saber qué notas concretas tocan, sería demasiado fácil, me temo.

Brilliant man.

Thanks mister remco. This one is great. Lesson 8 always nailed it✌️👍✈️

This is an absolute gem!!! Thanks you for uploading this treasure!

I know it was available to purchase in the past. Happy to see he released it on KZread.

@itsRemco

10 ай бұрын

Also make sure to watch the Willie The Lion Smith Stride Piano documentary I uploaded 😁

Wow! Thanks so very much for sharing this. A copious amount of information here!!!

Awesome!!! Thank you so so much.

You are a hero!!!

DUUUDE!, THANK YOU!, ... I’ve always watched the dick Hyman clips that some channels have of this documentary. But you have the whole documentary!!.. THANK YOU MAN... seriously. 🙏🏼

Pure Gold.Thank you very..very much.

What a gold! Thank You!

THANK YO SO MUCH FOR THIS! i have been searching for this full video for a long time

Thank you very much for this one, this is very instructive

This is gold brother 😯👍🏼

Thank you so so much for posting this!

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

No prob! I was thinking about our little convo 2 days ago 😂 and yeah a lesson video like this might be of great help

This is gold!

this is a fantastic resource!

Oh, you're awesome. Seen snippets of these lessons and they seem really good.

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

They are man!

Seeing all the little tricks Art Tatum used come together in that performance of Body and Soul made me shit my pants. That crazy colorful harmony makes so much more sense now, it didn't just appear out of thin air

Oh my gosh thank you so much for posting this! I had the CD-ROMs for this ages ago, and I was only able to rescue some of the MIDI files before obsolescence took over

@itsRemco

3 жыл бұрын

There were midi files included? I only have some .flac files of his performances

How generous it is for you to upload these footages. These are highly informative.

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😁

Thank you!

If you want to pop your jazz cherry, look no further than Dick Hymen!

@xXDimistreoXx

2 жыл бұрын

You dont wanna know what his daughters name is

Thank you so much. This is an absolute treasure.

What a magnificent work of art. You should be congratulated for your time & effort in putting such an enjoyable & Informative history of jazz piano. In your next effort you may consider the addition of Latin Jazz piano Thanks again. Joe Torres

@itsRemco

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Joe! 😁

Phil moore actually invented the block chords that Milt buckner copied from him which george shearing learn from him. But According Barry Harris Bud powell also played block chords like this just not as often as shearing which is where Barris a6th dimished scale comes. Further the block chord arramging technique was used as far back as barbershop quartets and louis Armstrong. Count baisie and duke ellington.

@itsRemco

3 жыл бұрын

Eubie Blake also already used the Block chords technique, not like heavily specific but it's interesting to hear the origins. You can hear it in his Chevy Chase composition

@opale1572

11 ай бұрын

Es que una cosa es "inventar" y otra hacer un uso frecuente y sistemático de lo inventado.

sounds like miles and I had the same experience LOL!! Iordered the cd and was waiting for it then Corona !

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

Ahh 😭😭

This is pure talent oh my godness me

It is interesting how the diatonicism of the early jazz came back in modal jazz but because the mode is the key and not the acrual key itself it has a new sound. So" history does not repeat itself but it does rhyme. "

Obrigado! Thanks!

Holy shit this guy has big hands

@joeycartwright1692

Жыл бұрын

He had to start the Db-F 10th with his other hand, though! Which a lot of players like Tatum and Peterson were fortunate enough to be able to reach.

Also, Franz List’s Stride Piano pieces, like the Hungarian Rhapsodies

@itsRemco

2 ай бұрын

That's more of a Ragtime syncopation, not really Stride Piano

Bro.... you are the GOAT!!!! 💯💯

@opale1572

11 ай бұрын

Menudo elogio. 🤣

I thought of Goliwogs cakewalk by Debusy in the first section before he said cakewalk. I thought that sounds like a simpler version but now I have to go Google when Debusy wrote it.

@itsRemco

2 жыл бұрын

I've uploaded that one

Wow thank you for this!!! What An amazing pianist and so much information!!! I loved it!!! My only question is why thelonious monk and Duke Ellington were not mentioned as they are the 2 most recorded jazz artists

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

That's also my question 😂 but there is another Documentary series James "Jazz - a documentary by Ken Burns" now that one is good 👌🏾 KZread doesn't allow me to upload the series so people would have buy/rent it somewhere

@chrisSkordPiano

4 жыл бұрын

@@itsRemco I really liked that he talked about art and Willie the lion but you can't talk about bebop without thelonious monk haha or talk about jazz piano without Duke Ellington but I guess he wanted to cover the more less known but for me it's a sin to have mc Tyner and not thelonious monk

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

@@chrisSkordPiano yeah I know man, but I think that the purpose of this documentary is to mention the piano styles instead of individual composers. He also didn't mentioned Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane etc. That's why you have to check out the Jazz documentary by Ken Burns 😁

@chrisSkordPiano

4 жыл бұрын

@@itsRemco yes but thelonious monk aproach to the piano was so unique. That's why it's weird he didn't mention his style alot of people were salty about how simple and genius thelonious was

@martinsaltzman5003

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisSkordPiano If you check out the CDs of "A Century of Jazz Piano" on Amazon, you will see many more pianists covered including Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. But you have to buy the CD set.

Nonetheless, this is a very complete overview of Jazz piano history.

@itsRemco

3 жыл бұрын

Personally I find Ken Burns' documentaries more complete about the history, Hyman's DVD is more on the auditive history

i was looking for this cd on youtube.... what the heck are the odds that you are the one who posted it exoticpianoman 😂😂😂 thank you once again! by the way do you know what are the chords being played for the section about erroll garner starting from 1:03:05 to 1:03:21 i cant seem to get it down

I’ve spent the last 2 hours trying to find how to buy the DVD. Any suggestions? 😀 Thanks!

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

Hi! www.amazon.com/Century-Jazz-Piano-5CDs-DVD/dp/B002PHV1GI

@mattreid7421

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I saw that but wasn’t sure the CD and DVD came together.

@kenseidman409

3 жыл бұрын

By now, you probably are aware of the book as well...

@mattreid7421

3 жыл бұрын

Book? Not at all!

I guess Dick isn’t a Monk fan then, would have loved to hear his thoughts on how Monk deconstructed the Harlem stride approach….

@opale1572

11 ай бұрын

Mejor construir que deconstruir.

The intro melody is from any specific music piece?

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

It's Dick Hyman's version of Cheek to Cheek. At the end of the video you can hear it in its entirety

@fabm6724

4 жыл бұрын

exoticpianoman Thanks! By the way, did you that piece on your records?

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

@@fabm6724 I haven't uploaded a Cheek to Cheek yet but I will do so

@fabm6724

4 жыл бұрын

exoticpianoman Would be great!

Who is playing the intro song please ?

@itsRemco

2 ай бұрын

Dick Hyman and probably some of his friends. The title is CHeek to Cheek

23:46 song name? or was the piece just an improvisation

@itsRemco

10 ай бұрын

I think he's explaining and demonstrating the theory on Back Home Again In Indiana

@itsRemco

10 ай бұрын

Yeah at 25:43 he mentions Indiana

@_yxngwxlf_

10 ай бұрын

Thank you , and thank you for uploading this gem@@itsRemco

His section on (another look at block chords) starts woth Barry Harris 6 dimished scale but he doesn't credit him with it. Odd

@xXDimistreoXx

2 жыл бұрын

RIP Barry :(

@opale1572

11 ай бұрын

Qué obsesión con Barry Harris.

@ZeAlfredo

10 ай бұрын

@@opale1572 El era uno de los mejores pianistas de bebop, y incluso mejor maestro. El enseñaba de una manera que la gente pudiera entender mejor la música

@ZeAlfredo

10 ай бұрын

@@opale1572 también, el enseñó de tal manera de que los pianistas aprendieran como MOVER las acordes mientras que ellos acompaña la música. En las escuelas las pianistas dieron "tocadas" o sea cuchilladas y no había mucho movimiento. Más segundo lo que human demostró en el video, movimiento de acordes de bloco es una característica de jazz. Así que esto resulta en el hecho de que Barry Harris y las enseñanzas de el, merece más atención por ser la cartilaje conectativa entre el swing y el bebop

@opale1572

10 ай бұрын

​@@ZeAlfredoSi a usted sólo le interesa el bebop, quizá ese Harris sea "mejor" profesor. Pero a algunos nos gustan los estilos anteriores tanto o más que el bebop, y en eso reside el gran mérito de Hyman: probablemente, es el único pianista que tiene un conocimiento total y absoluto del panorama del jazz. Por otra parte, yo he visto algún video de Harris dando una "lección" y, aunque admito que no domino mucho el inglés, lo entiendo lo suficiente para saber si alguien se explica bien y si es ameno. Y la verdad es que Harris me aburrió.

Just payed $70 CAD for the dvd...

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

Well you also received the .flac files with the DVD, I haven't uploaded those over here

Wow! Thank you very much. Connect to Gjermund Sivertsen for promoting your post. He'll integrate it into his piano lessons.

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! How are you so sure he would do that? And what would be the best way to contact him?

The irony of Art Tatum is that when his playing is transcribed reliably and you start to work out the fingerings, you may hear that you are playing "wrong sounding notes" according to what you might have expected. That, I think, is from the "following through" the phrase where there might be passing chord harmony played. And without that Art Tatum velocity, the passing harmony loses that flow that gives the thrill to the listener. Or so it seems to me.

@itsRemco

Жыл бұрын

That's a thorough analysis 🔥 I think that Art Tatum'a velocity is a big part indeed. With the AI videos I made it waa a strange job to appoint the fingering as some grips made no sense (in slow motion)

@opale1572

11 ай бұрын

Estoy plenamente de acuerdo. En la música clásica ocurre igual: hay ciertas obras que sólo suenan "bien" cuando se tocan a su velocidad normal; pero cuando se están estudiando y, por tanto, se tocan muy lentamente, no parece que tengan sentido ( aunque se toquen las notas correctas ).

According to Barry Harris as well Hank Jones was pretty much playing everything that Bill Evans was playing before bill did it. Im surprised only passing mention is made to Barry harris and none to hank jones.

@Piratebreadstick

3 жыл бұрын

Barry Harris was one of those musicians who was brilliant when he played and was a very great teacher, yet when he spoke, was often full of shit. Hank Jones was one of the best in the business and a gorgeous player, but Evans was a genius. Harris also said terrible things about Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Keith Jarret, which he was entitled to do, as it was his opinion, but it's dangerous when some of the things he said become gospel amongst young musicians.

@xXDimistreoXx

2 жыл бұрын

RIP Barry Harris

@opale1572

11 ай бұрын

Si hubiera que citar a todos los pianistas habidos y por haber y además dar ejemplos, ni Hyman ni nadie habría conseguido todavía completar esa antología.

I think Art Tatum would have approved of your dextrous, and eloquent Body And Soul. He was uniquely gifted. Google André Previn tête-à-tête with Oscar Peterson. I am now 65, played from 3 until Dupeytens Contracture in 4 & 5 on both hands stopped me striding. I would love to hear you play James P. Johnson's "The Charleston". His original QRS piano roll is available from "ItsRemco" on KZread. You are a gifted teacher ... 🖖

@itsRemco

Жыл бұрын

I hope Dick Hyman would read this someday

Underneath the keyboard to the right you see a pianola installation, which is typically American to do and costs as much as the piano itself. I found it absolutely crazy. For the cost of such a useless installation, you could equip a whole band with the latest and best electronics and bass and drums and what not. We got a Yamaha grand of €50000 for free. When asked about the exorbitant price , the answer was that it had a pianola installation costing $28000. The idiots thought we would like that. No no no no. We would have preferred to spend that money on PA, drums, a Yamaha Motif XF8, a Nord, and so on. We have this now for 3 years and I used it only once for reheasal purposes but quit because it was not flexible enough. Completely nuts. We don't live in 1880 any more, although perhaps Americans do, half of them seem to got stuck in 1787.

@itsRemco

4 жыл бұрын

Haahah interesting comment Waarschijnlijk is onze kijk daar heel anders op aangezien we beiden niet uit de VS komen idd 😂

@charlesvanderhoog7056

3 жыл бұрын

@@itsRemco Nou, die Hyman speelt heel wat nummers waarvan ik dacht dat die alleen nog in pianola's te horen waren. Misschien dat ze dat daar leuk vinden omdat het tot hun 'heritage' behoort? Niettemin blijft het zonde van het geld dat ik liever anders had besteed.

@itsRemco

3 жыл бұрын

@@charlesvanderhoog7056 Zou je dan wel bijv zo'n zelf-spelende Yamaha vleugel kopen (die midi bestanden als invoer heeft ipv piano rolls)?

@charlesvanderhoog7056

3 жыл бұрын

@@itsRemco Haha, nee, die tijd is voorbij. Je kunt mijn Knight K-10 piano gebouwd in 1983 kopen als je wilt. Heel fijn instrument. Ik heb al jaren een Roland en sinds kort eindelijk een Motif XF8. Ik treed overigens af en toe nog wel op op een Yamaha vleugel. Mooie bassen heeft die. Maar de laatste keer was 29 februari 2020 als begeleider van zangeressen.

@opale1572

11 ай бұрын

​@@charlesvanderhoog7056Me pregunto qué nos importa todo eso al resto de la gente.

OMG so glad I found this. Thank you

@itsRemco

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found my channel, have fun! 😁