I was told about 100 years ago to practice arpeggios by using chromatic notes to arrive at each chord tone/target note; any and all directions. It transformed my improvisation in weeks. I still do it as part of my daily routine. Sounds simple and kinda obvious; and I spose it is. But it really works.....

@lanceclark12

4 жыл бұрын

Boy Bergs...Would like your input on this as I am at that stage of learning improvisation by focusing a lot of my practice time on arpeggios. Could you suggest something a bit mor specific (patterns/ note choices or whatever you think could beter detail your practice routine) that I as a relative improv beginner could understand how you incorporate chromaticism into your arpeggio practice? Thanks much!

@MrBoybergs

4 жыл бұрын

@@lanceclark12 First get very well acquainted with the arpeggio (maj 7, diminished, aug. etc) you're working on in all 12 keys using different shapes/patterns; not just up and down. Once your comfortable with that just use your imagination to add chromatic links to the chord tones. Adding a semi tone approach note either above or below each chord tone is a nice place to start. More tricky is to enclose each chord tone with the note a semi tone above it, followed by a semi tone below it. Eg. Say you're approaching the 3rd of C major (e) .... you'd play f. eb. e. If you haven't tried this sort of thing before, that's plenty enough to be getting on with but you can invent countless different exercise ideas of your own..... They're all valid and useful.

@taliassa383

8 ай бұрын

Sounds great, could you post one of these?

You guys kill me...."a chromatic scale has bailed me out more times than a designated driver"....that's a really good one PM!

@michaeldean9338

4 жыл бұрын

lol...I know! That was funny as hell! Just stumbled across this channel. Definite LIKE! Thanks, fellas ;)

One of Django Reinhardt’s most famous runs was him running up the chromatic scale, every single note, at breathtaking speed. It was extremely musical.

@marcoevans2155

Жыл бұрын

with only his 1st and 2nd fingers ( all others disabled...

Whew, that’s a relief. I’ve been doing this for decades anyhow!

Good subject. Nice way to begin the week. Seven stars!

Great episode! This is not only functionally useful as an improvisation tool, but equally as important as a compositional tool. Excellent advice, dudes.

Here's a request for a future installment of analysis Wednesdays: Joe Henderson on Red Clay. Can't get enough of that whole track.

@teflo2

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! I'm addicted too!

you guys rock, especially Peter - way awesome - skills and the ability to articulate it all, amazing!

Such a great channel. Thanks much for all you guys do

Thanks guys as always!!

what is the intro? original? rendition? I freaking lvoe it so much

Great video! You've given me some serious homework!

Would be really appreciated if you would actually play some examples a bit more in the future. Now it is like 98% talking. If that were 60/40 that would mean that one could actually... hear it.

@seriousramius

4 жыл бұрын

Agree, they should it do like "Pianote"

@venusspacey9685

Жыл бұрын

They aren't actual that great of players. They're good a teaching you things you don't know, not telling you the truth which you don't need any of this to play like Corey Henry, an actual player who can transform your playing if he feels the need to tell you the true secret to playing better

@m4x358

Жыл бұрын

What the fuck? Have you even heard these guys play? Peter Martin was a part of Roy Hargrove's band, man. Not everyone is a genius like Henry. That doesn't mean they can't make good music.

@savonliquide7677

11 ай бұрын

It is unfair, they don t have the usual keyboard. Anyway fit the chromatic scale it is not so neaded to play it over and over lol

Use Paderewski’s fingering 123 & 1234 Very rarely use the standard 12 & 123 which I find awkward

Pure quality. Thanks.

Great video guys, loving the podcast

Excellent post, but what's with the scarves? Do you record this in a walk-in beer cooler?

@OpenStudioJazz

4 жыл бұрын

They wish!

@TheOrganiston9th

4 жыл бұрын

Bob DeRosa Well, it may actually have been recorded in a walk-in beer cooler. And why not...

@WhosonKeyz

3 жыл бұрын

It’s mandatory jazz attire

New subscriber. Really enjoy listening to you guys. Entertaining and of course very informative.

Merci for this. I'm a Nooby and plowing through Faber, and turned the page today and saw they want me to do a Chromatic Scale. I already looked at some videos and knew about it...but hey, Nooby's gotta Nooby. So now? How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice Chromatic scales, practice chromatic scales, practice chromatic scales.

The bald guy is hilarious!

Watched the vid but what was missing was "tutorial" B

It just occurred to me, your names stand for day and night, ie., am/pm.

@pedrofuster9161

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful comment

A great song for Barry Harris's sixs is White Christmas. I think I start with a 6 in first inversion.

Yes. The Chromatic scale. Thank you for the friendly reminder. I was a freak about chromatic scales in the college days, but after decades of gigging and shows, you forget. 😅

I can see the versatility of doing all 12 chromatic scales. One thing is it will help with seeing 1/2 steps and whole steps. The 3 to 4 and 7 to 8 are the only 1/2 steps in the major scale. Great Video.. I wrote of my experience of learning the min 3s. It is indepth but it should help an advancing beginner. The best.

Thanks for a very practical lesson...will add that to my daily regimen. Your sessions are very enjoyable. I'm an intermediate player who has been studying jazz for a couple of years, though I'm not a jazz musician. A lesson I would like to see is what/how to practice adding extended chords [easy to hard.....] to various chord progressions to enrich the piano accompaniment to songs. I am practicing the chords and inversions themselves, but the goal is to be able to PLAY them, something like you demonstrated in this lesson. I keep thinking there is a formula of some kind to know which chord to insert somewhere, but maybe it's freer than that. Any thoughts/ideas on the subject would be gratefully appreciated. Cheers.....and thanks again for all your effort for us cyberstudents.......

@14.1guy2

4 жыл бұрын

Stride will automatically teach you where to place the chords and usually reveals what inversions to use - completely determined by the fingering of the right hand. I'm intermediate level as well.

@nhaezer5121

4 жыл бұрын

Major 7th, 9th, add 2, (occasional 6/9) on the I ie the tonic and the IV. Maj dominant 7th, 9th, add 2 on the V. Minor dom 7th (plus any other extension) on the II, III. VII is half-diminished/ min7b5. Any chord that's a passing chord can use much extension as possible esp the altered notes,and play II and III as a maj dom if they're passing, V as minor 7, I as maj dom 7th. I might make a video about this if I have a strong inspiration.

@paulpulati9613

4 жыл бұрын

@@nhaezer5121 👍

Tenor madness theme on the minor chord is a chromatism like phrase I love. Show the geniucy of sonny

Wow! What goofballs! Never played the scale or showed it!

@TokyoScarab

Жыл бұрын

Runs of the scale were done at 7:46.

Great show! Glad i found it 😅

😄Great vid. I taught myself the min 3 chromatic scale forward and reverse.. I learned so many things. The fingering was.unatural..now I do it fast and effortlessly. It is amazing for confidence. I probably did it hundreds of times for almost.a year. It has so many side benefits. I instantly know all min 3rds forwards and backwards. If I see Eb..min 3rds are Gb up and C down.. dim Eb triad for starters. In the extensions.. So one day I realized I instantly knew the 13th of all 13 keys. That is empowering for a musician. It.helps for 🎸 too. [[ I know you know all this but pardon me if I explain this at a entry level for newer musicians.. C-C is an octave the notes above the octave can be types of 9s 11ths and 13ths. To be accurate a dominant 13 must have a root ,major 3, 6 and b7.]] Enough backgroun. So one day I was playing in one of 12 keys. I don't remember which. I am going to use the key of C for easy explanation. So I needed the 13 of C..Now after playing litererally. thousands of hours; I of.course knew that.the A was the 13th . (7 + 6 = 13) ..It came immediately.. My mind was realizing that I could go down a minor 3rd in the key of.C or up a major 6. It was an aha moment. That would be CDEFGA or CBA. But.I realized that I did not have to count I knew 13s in all 12 keys. Doesn't sound so great. Try Gb13..up. 6 Gb Ab Bb Cb Db Eb Wow or .down a.minor 3fd. Gb F Eb (NO NEED YO COUNT UP A.MAJ 6.OR.DOWN A MIN.SIX. It ok can know it. I knew instantly that it was the Eb. If I want to do a progression. like a 1 3 6 .Easy enough in C. C Em Am.. But let's use Ab..the min 3rd down of Ab is F. or of course we can go up in 6 flats AB.Bb C Db Eb F..This elimates.all this work. In the real world we don't have time to. count. Sometimes we are are improvising at a very fast tempo. I texted this on a small 📱. I hope some are helped with it.

@gregschroer2314

4 жыл бұрын

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@PIANOSTYLE100

4 жыл бұрын

THE FOLLOWING SEEMS LONG AND NEEDLESSLY DETAILED. I MADE IT AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE. IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS VIDEO HERE THAT I WAS ABLE TO DO ALL 12 NOTES AND START HEARING THEM. So I am away from any musical instrument. I know the sounds of all the C scale. I first do E D C. . Now I have just the one note C in my mind. I now proceed to do the circle of 5ths.. So here is what I did ( I did many versions of this . I thought EDC and double-checked with ABC. B is the leading to C So now I had encircled the C. They both are the same tone. Now I did the circle of fiths or fouths . (C F (Bb Eb Ab Db) Gb Cb ) Now Cb is just B..So ((BE A D) G. G is the 5 or of C..full circle.. Now to test this I can go around to Db .. remember no guitar or keyboard . and go down one semitone to C. I did this already ..they match. So next I did the descending wholetone scale (C Bb Ab Gb Fb or (E) D C. They matched. Then I did the triad chord form of the root notes. The sounds match.. I am on my way to developing a better ear...or least close.Welcome to Gboard clipboard, any text you copy will be saved here.

I know this is an old video already… But if by some weird chance you guys have not fallen in love with Pianoteq yet, that would be the one to get. That plug-in is now head and shoulders above any other piano plug-in, including the large sample-based ones, and it’s very affordable. The realism and organic behavior is unmatched. There is no going back for me.

Play it! Start with the SCALE!

🔥🔥 🔥

Is there a link to the blog post you're talking about?

@aukofx6393

4 жыл бұрын

i found this: medium.com/@iampetermartin/the-one-scale-you-should-be-practicing-every-day-66fc2532fe9

Thanx, gentlemen.

Who's playing the theme song and what's the name of the tune? AWESOME!!

@biblescriptures9177

2 жыл бұрын

Emotion in Motion By Peter Martin Himself.

Please make triad pairs video which adds 4 and 5 note embellishments

Years of piano playing: Chromatic scales are super easy and fun. Starts on the Recorder: Ah

@ziomatthewmusic4205

4 жыл бұрын

You take tune and accidentals so for granted as a pianist. You see the note you play the note and can blame the keyboard if it is out of tune. On recorder you have to learn the finger pattern for each sharp/flat and a low f# is not identical to high f# and you have to learn exaclty how much to cover the thumb hole for each of the 2nd and a half octave because it exactly half like the finger chart says. Then again is such a relief to only have to read one note at a time on on stave rather than like 7 over two staves which change sometimes. Also easier to play by heart. I love them both for different reasons.

The blog, the blog, the blog...the website, the podcast, the reviews...

3. 28 and still just talk. What a love fest but nary a note!👇👇

In other words, learn the bailout scale in 12 keys!

CP88 Yamaha will blow you away

Try the Ravenscroft pianos. The iOS version is particularly inexpensive, though you need the adapters to work with the keyboard. Or, use the macOS version. www.vilabsaudio.com/ravenscroft275ios

PianoTeq is excellent and inexpensive - it’s piano modeling rather than just sampling

Could you guys make a video where you never talk or try to be funny and stick to playing (preferably old standards at slow to medium-slow tempos - in time with a a real rhythm section) Also, when you improvise with the rhythm section, it would be nice to hear you play eighth notes at a slower tempo instead of double timing or sixteenth notes ...that way we can hear your vocabulary and how you really swing ( I suggest slow tempos because there is no hiding at slower tempos, your real vocabulary comes through. You have to deal with all that space and still make it swing without “skating through the changes” akin double time solos on ballads or slower tempos ) ...thanks Ps- my comment is Barry Harris approved 👍

@warrendoris9669

4 жыл бұрын

@Dr Brian Jude. Lololol Like that s ever going to happen..These clowns are narcissistic to the max. They are here to show off , nothing else. If they had an ounce of creativity they would .ve been in the real music industry making hits instead of being pseudo teachers! 😎😎

@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743

4 жыл бұрын

Warren Doris nailed it !! 🧐👍

@warrendoris9669

4 жыл бұрын

@@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743 I sometimes check out music sites randomly. About a year ago i ran across Peter Martin, s site. He talked about how clear he was going to be for his beginner audience then goes into a flurry of notes totally unrelated to his topic.I came.on today to see if he had gotten over himself_ apparently not! Glad you called them out. Stay agile my brother!👍👍

@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743

4 жыл бұрын

Warren Doris that’s hilarious Warren ... anyways let’s see how they progress in their upcoming videos ... if it’s all talk and no real substance along with mindless noodling based on cliches...

@warrendoris9669

4 жыл бұрын

@@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743 Hahahahahaha😄 Will do!

The Alicia keys piano is super cheap and sounds good enough. The best is keyscape, but that’s pricey and huge file size.

What is the name of the Theme song you guys use.

XLN Audio Addictive Keys

and I only know the C Major Pentatonic Blues Scale ....

Pianoteq. Low file size. Great sound.

Yeah, right. When in doubt, throw in chromaticism. How about some silence? Or is that not part of jazz?

Its the most important scale.

Totally agree with the previous comment. I was quite excited when it started but it became a boring conversation with two boring guys that pissed me off within minutes.Did they actually play something?anything? I couldn't bear to watch more than 5 minutes. PHEW.

I hear what you’re laying down. I’m a writer. Start off every day writing down the alphabet for 30 minutes. Every other day I write “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” about 500 times.

LINK to the blog :www.openstudionetwork.com/blog-one-scale-practicing-every-day/

Too much Blah blah blah .

Great players, great potential, but maybe you guys could write your jokes instead of improvise them, and just a bit more time on the musical examples? You could've killed it on this chromatic scale thing, instead of killing us with all the jabber. Ok, I'm sorry I said all that, just a little word of encouragement ok? You got a good thing going here...

These guys ....must be frustrated actors....because they've been talking for 8 minutes now and still they have not shown us just what that most important scale is. So let me quote a line from Hamlet: "More matter with less art!"

why do you all waste alot of time talking alot of shit before you actually get to the point Thats click baiting

Talk, talk, talk. Guys, Go listen to newjazz.dk, comparatively. And learn from him. He is a wonderful teacher. And, talks only what's NECESSARY.

To much talking, good bye

Lot of talking.

If you're talking about good piano VSTs, there is literally nothing better than Keyscape from Spectrasonics!

fish scales. couldn't see that coming 47 bars in advance.