Fantastic explanation and demonstration Pierre! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@mrdavies7894

Ай бұрын

Rick said it for me! Thanks, Rick! ❤

@aerialcombat

Ай бұрын

praise from Rick Beato!

@kevinbush4300

Ай бұрын

@aerialcombat Yup… I would feel better about myself just because I’ve watched a video that Rick has. But this IS a really good demonstration/explanation.

@kipponi

Ай бұрын

Rick made interview with Keith❤.

I did an interview with Keith for Jazz Times and asked him about the "impossible" things he did...he had coherent answer: he said that if your hearing (inner ear) was strong enough that your fingers wouldn't have to be searching and scuffling. That made sense because when my own hearing was really good on a given night, my fingers weren't "worried" about "how" to play. On bad nights, I was "trying" to play and "trying" and "succeeding" are mutually exclusive concepts. Ha!

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

That’s very insightful. Sounds like the flow from his brain to the fingers was really unrestricted.

@tedl7538

26 күн бұрын

It sounds like the great advice in a long essay I downloaded about focus and flow in performance, which is essentially to not think about the mechanics of the process, but instead to "play the ideal music that's in your mind."

@pureeschaap

3 күн бұрын

But all based on years and years of practicing, playing, listening et cetera. Only "flowing" isn't enough to produce such results as a Köln Concert, hell, even improvise it :)

Polyrhythmic finger-drumming....percussive-harmonic-melodic gestalt.... improv exploratory open-ended meditations....What an inspiration and thanks for your timely reminder...every drummer-pianist should be doing it daily 🤩

I like how calm and relaxing this video is.

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

That's the goal-- life is stressful enough!

Keith Jarrett is transcendent. I cannot say that of any other jazz pianist.

Great video! I'm excited to stumble across this because I watched that very Keith Jarrett video about 2 years ago and commented on how amazing it is. Another commenter asked me to describe what was so unusual and this is what I posted: "Well, first of all, his ability to establish such a rhythmically dynamic ostinato and maintain it throughout the piece is incredible. Then he begins a simple harmonic riff that basically just oscillates between the tonic and dominant. Then he begins the melodic invention, at first diatonic - exploring the whole scale - then venturing into borrowed harmony, and then finally into a full use of chromaticism. Around the middle of the piece, his left hand and right hand completely diverge, as though two different pianists were playing together. That little harmonic refrain from the beginning returns periodically throughout the piece, as if to give the listener something to grab onto. And under all of this, that ostinato never wavers. Then, as if that wasn't enough, he brings the train into the station (so to speak) with a wonderful decrescendo of tempo, rhythm, and harmony, bringing it all to a perfectly satisfying conclusion. To think that this is all improvised, on the spot, is simply jaw-dropping to a classically trained musician like me. I don't particularly like jazz music and I certainly don't listen to it regularly. But some performers rise so high in their accomplishments that even those who don't follow that field can recognize and appreciate it. I place Keith Jarrett in that group, along with people like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Yo-Yo Ma, and perhaps Martha Argerich."

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Very well said. Yes!

Greatest living musician.

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

💯

@victoza9232

27 күн бұрын

@TheKristijanFunaric You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but there is no one greatest musician.

COMPLETELY agree. I listen to that encore AT LEAST once a week. Absolute bliss. 😊

I spent hours and hours many years ago trying to learn to improvise over that exact ostinato. A wonderful piece by Jarrett!

@JesseMason

Ай бұрын

Same! ❤

I love that ostinato by Keith and have been practicing it for a while, thank you for the analysis!

Good points... the way I once heard it explained was "The left and right hand are not independent, they are INTERdependent." This is the most profound thing any music teacher ever said to me and I never forgot it.

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Amazing. Great way to think of it!!

In his interview, in 00s I guess, Keith said he even wanted to let his left hand play free. It's the time when he started to play shorter improvisations than an hour long ones. At the same time, Shostakovich influences were detected in his later solo piano concerts.

@quogir1

13 күн бұрын

I think he's the only person who did Justice to shostakovich

Thank you! I’m struggling at piano 😂 Great to see talented people like yourself talk about people like Keith.

Damn. That linked video is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. I was literally speechless for 10 minutes.

Yes! Jarrett is the worlds greatest musician!! INCREDIBLE!!

I am classical pianist and can play easily most difficult things, but when I see that ostinato I feel humble, that would require dozens of hours of practice for one bar only. Great video, thanks a lot.

Bravo! Very inspiring - thanksI

I saw him live at Carnegie years ago. Wonderful, and I hope he recovers from his stroke symptoms.

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Lucky you! I wish I had gone to see him...

Great point Peter! I loved your explanation as well.

Keith Jarrett is a Simply a Genius

Great video! Thanks!!!

I've always loved that technique. Thanks for helping me name it!

I've been aware of this ostinato for years, and this is really well explained. It's worth mentioning that the first version of it is on the Bremen and Lausanne concert album from 1973, and that version is more mind boggling than the "Last Solo" one by quite a large degree - it's a superhuman performance. Keith is a stunning musician.

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

I agree with you. I first heard it on the Bremen double album as well!

@timbruer7318

2 ай бұрын

@@pierrejpiscitelli Great :) FYI in this bootleg, there's a small excerpt of it somewhere as well, so it seems maybe it evolved out of an improvisation. It wouldn't surprise me though, in a documentary he said the My Song was originally an improvisation....kzread.info/dash/bejne/lJ6ZltKtotLYhM4.html

@chartliner

Ай бұрын

The first version of it was on a solo concert from 1972 in Europe as someone posted on here, the 73 version is more refined and he did it as an encore, so he must have practiced the 72 version which came about from improvising in his reverie, his altered state of consciousness, like a trance. He was doing live composing back then, playing something from nothing in front of an audience, Miles Davis asked how he did that. There has not been any other musician that did that as far as I know.

Thank you for the great explanation.

'very difficult' ostinato - very well said - he blows my mind 👍🏼

To me it’s his use of legato and non legato in bebop lines that gives him a very unique sound. Most jazz pianists only use non legato for bop lines.

Thanks for this clear explanation of the Ostinato technique. I do definitely share the same view on the artist!

That sounded so beautiful! I’m an ‘on again off again’ intermediate senior. I’m tired of relearning pieces every couple of years, so this might be a nice model for playing. Just the effort looks like fun.

thanks mate! great to hear about this

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻

Love this. Fantastic demonstration.

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

These are really good videos. Clear, and comprehensive, and not too long. Great

I never heard something similar to Keith playing piano. Thank you!

Great video couldn’t agree more

Thank you for this excellent and inspiring video!

Really Great Teaching Pierre. I hope you get an opportunity to meet Keith in this life.

thanks for the great video!

More Keith Jarrett content please!

Yes indeed!

Keith's solo on that is so amazing. How he cleanly hold LH ostinatos is so remarkable. Great video Pierre.

Great example, well said !Agreed

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Such a easy going pace to explain this. What you know and how you bring light to is so refreshing. Clear and so well spoken... you have a true gift for teaching. Do you? Thanks very much for this. One of the most enjoyable Vids I've seen yet. And I'm Picky! all the best.

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

That’s very kind of you. Thanks for watching! 🙏🏻

The video you're referring to was probably one of my first K Jarret introductions... most probably my first conscious introduction to ostinatos.

Well presented, your respect for Keith is heartfelt.

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

I really appreciate that 🙏🏻

You are a talent as a speaker, teacher and musician. I loved this video!

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Made my day. Thanks for the kind comments 🙏🏻

Terrific video! Thank you Pierre!

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

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very good thanks

Love it. KJ is indeed a legend and I hadn’t seen that performance of his before. Now that we’ve got the left hand down, I’m already looking forward to your next video where you will take us through how to play Keith’s RIGHT hand…

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

Ok maybe I’ll do that!

@spiritwanderer777

2 ай бұрын

​@@pierrejpiscitelliI wouldn't, it would just be copying which while hard is doable. better to come up with your own music

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

​@@spiritwanderer777 That is eventually the goal. But, it's important to realize that we need to build up a "vocabulary" of things to say. Transcription of existing phrases is an amazing learning tool, and that "imitation" will eventually lead to "emulation." In other words, when learning a language, we have to read and understand existing works and vocabulary in order to eventually use language in our own original way. But yes, just sitting around and copying Keith's phrases all day without an end goal, wouldn't be the best idea!

Keith Emerson, Hermeto Paschoal , vieram a minha cabeca como grandes músicos

Best video I’ve seen in a long while. Thanks! 🙏

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!! 🙏🏻

very interesting video thank you

Well explained! I teach piano (and percussion) for more than thirty years. You are a great teacher! 🙂

Very metodik and instructional video. Inspiering to.👍

Great vid, thanks,

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

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Spiral Dance blows me away every listen

Agreed!

aaahhh I love this ostinato by Keith Jarrett as well! So great that you picked this up, very well done 👍

@pierrejpiscitelli

28 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!! 🙏🏻

Great stuff very inspiring! Love the tone on your keyboard too.

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Thanks!!

Very well put video.

@pierrejpiscitelli

25 күн бұрын

Thanks 🙏🏻

His ostinato technique is just out of this world isn't it! Great video, thanks Pierre!

I find that I find a lot of freedom quickly when you also add in continuous dotted eighth notes into the rhythm practice with the ostinato - and also dotted quarter notes. Like a 4:3 and 3:2 polyrhythm.

VERY cool!

The song is you - Live in Philharmonie, Munich, 1986 - Please listen to the first 70 seconds … never heard such an piano intro. It remembers me on your Ostinato explanation.

Very instructive and useful video! You have very nice approach and motivating way of presentation, moved by your personal love for good sounding music. Congrats!

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Amazing video -- thanks for the great work. I love Keith Jarrett. This video helps me to better understand the complexity of his compositions.

@pierrejpiscitelli

28 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!! 🙏🏻

I love "The Cure" always been my favorite KJ song, the second you brought up ostinato I was like yea good point, must be why i dig that tune so much

excellent. enjoyed taking in your understanding & instruction. very helpful practice tips, too. subscription earned. thx, paisan.

@pierrejpiscitelli

3 күн бұрын

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Congratulations, Pierre - you nailed it. It's funny, I thought about making a video about this issue years ago, too - but never did, so you took the burden from me 😂. Fact is that Keith usually is performing one or two ostinato based improvisations per concert - a huge reservoir! I use many of them just to noodle around in the morning or when teaching improvisation, and it's always a lot of fun!

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

Ha! Thanks for watching.

Amazing explanation, this is one of the many reasons I love Keith Jarrett! I think maybe he perceives the left ostinatos as a percussion thing

Such high quality and refreshing topic

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

Congratulations from Rio de Janeiro, Pierre!! I will follow you!!

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Loved this video - you’re good at this KZread stuff.

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!!

You're great Pierre! I'm happy to run across your channel today. I share your love of the piano and of master Keith Jarrett. Thank You!

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Great 😊 thank you🎉

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

You're welcome!

I heard Keith in Vancouver in June 1974 improvise solo piano, it was mind blowing (Vancouver Sun Jazz critic Bob Smith wrote the same thing then), a religious experience, extremely high energy with thick gospel chords. Another Piano teacher on youtube went further, he said that KJ was the greatest pianist of the recorded era. That particular piece you demonstrated from the Bremen Lausanne album was a more refined version of an earlier improvisation from 1972 in Europe as someone posted below though. Back in the 70's Keith admitted to his brother Scott (guitar player and singer that made an album with Keith) according to my friend Nels Guloien who was his drummer that there were other pianists that were better than him, but Keith did get more and more technical as the years went by although his most creative time may have been the 70's. Rick Beato posted this as the most beautiful 2 minutes of music (the energy is comparable with the Vancouver concert of 1974)... kzread.info/dash/bejne/YnabuqV9pdTAprA.html

Nicely done

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Wonderful stuff. No doubt. For me personally, I’ve seen both Hiromi and Chucho Valdes do equally or more mind blowing things… just speaking to what resonates with my soul. Not here to be “competition” guy.

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Both amazing and inspiring artists in their own right!

Clear congrats❤

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

🙏🏻

Lovely playing! ❤Keith❤

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

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@mjm5081

Ай бұрын

@@pierrejpiscitelli 🙏

I agree with you, one of the greatest musicians of our time. Thanks for the very interesting video. I bought the Köln Concert on LP twice in a row because I heard it so often. I can't believe he improvised it all, it's great. Good music will survive any time... I'm very happy to subscribe to your channel... thank you

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Thank you so much for talking about Keith Jarrett and analysis his work (I hope there will be other videos). I work on a lot of transcriptions with audio as a support. This is invaluable musical material. I read in an interview with Keith Jarrett that he considered himself a workaholic. I think that in addition to his innate talent, there is a huge amount of work behind it, which few people imagine (to reach this level). Just subscribed to your channel ✓

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Yes, I think that both are often true in the case of artists such as Keith. Absurd natural talent PLUS a great work ethic. Thanks for watching!!

I love keith, but your coments and ideas love it too

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

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I listen to Keith almost every day .

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

I should start doing that!

The funny thing is, if you just listen to KJ w/ his trio you might get the impression that his left hand isn't that monstrous. It's really in the solo recordings where you realise what an anomaly he is.

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

Great point! His left hand is insane.

I have to shout out Keith's ostinato + improv introduction to "What Is This Thing Called Love", on the Whisper Not album. It's my favorite jazz solo and was a rich subject for months of study and practice---which just made it seem even more amazing.

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah! I actually learned it back in college with one of my teachers! So good.

Nice video! When you said Jarrett + ostinato I immediatly thought of this concert you linked ❤ I think when you're the one coming with your own ostinato ideas / improv it's always easier to play and sync both hands at speed than when trying to reproduce one from another pianist, but I guess that's kind of obvious!

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

I think it's difficult no matter what as you are learning that interdependence wether or not you composed the obstinato 🤣

@BornIntoThis20

Ай бұрын

@@pierrejpiscitelli Obstinacy makes for a good obstinato hehe

Very interesting video!

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

This is indeed the thing I find so fascinating about Keith's playing, not only as a listener, but also a player. I agree that your technique for teaching this can help, as our brains need to literally learn how to execute those physical actions. I have an alternative method for approaching this challenge that I'd be happy to share with you sometime. Maybe a chat if you ever get a minute. Regardless, learning from and being inspired by Keith... Absolutely yes!

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

I'd love to hear more. Send me an email anytime: pierrejpiscitelli@gmail.com

I have recently started playing and have been following your Van Halen jump tutorial and was struggling to get the left hand moving at an independent rhythm to the right. Nicely timed video for me, will definitely look at this as practice and take a break from Jump!

@pierrejpiscitelli

2 ай бұрын

Great to hear and hope it's helpful!

Great video! I haven't heard of Keith Jarrett before, but now I have a perfect excuse to discover him. Thanks! One correction - some people do learn one hand, then the other, then smash it all together. I learn new pieces that way, as I have never been able to sight-read the piano stave, despite graduating music.

It is kind of you to share this, and communicate it well, to piano beginners like me.

One could create a left-hand ostinato and with the right hand work through Syncopation for the Modern Drummer, by Ted Reed. There are many rhythms and phrases there, all presented in a logical manner. I still use it for building independence as a drummer and I’ve been playing for over 30 years.

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Totally!

Kieth Jarrett said he never practiced improvisation, so who knows how he approached that particular skill.

@kipponi

Ай бұрын

So play by ear.

This is a really exciting and good exercise. Do you have any more?

What about Ray Manzarek of the Doors? Playing the Doors Bass lines with his left hand? I don’t know if Ray was playing ostinatos. But this made me think of Ray. Although he may not be way up there in the jazz/keyboard pantheon. He was pretty amazing, and made some enjoyable music.

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

He was great! I don't see any of this as a "ranking" system. Ray was amazing, Keith was amazing, and Chick Corea was amazing too! Keith and Ray are very different musicians, but both wonderful in their own ways.

@JohnParadise-xj1mi

Ай бұрын

@@pierrejpiscitelli Yes, I don’t consider it ranking system either. But, you don’t usually hear people talking about Ray Manzarek, and I think he deserves some attention. But I knew you would appreciate him. ❤️ You should do a video on Ray! How does he make that rain-like sound on Riders on the Storm, for those of us keyboard beginners. That’s probably an easy one for you guys.

I would've thought you were going to say Keith's ability to improvise counterpoint. While not on the same level of harmonic complexity, I would say that despite people looking down their noses, George Winston (self-proclaimed as not a jazz musician) was pretty amazing in the category of ostinato left hand while improvising in the right hand. His versions of Holly and the Ivy and his original pieces, Hummingbird, Colors/Dance, February Sea and others by their machine-like and unrelenting character would probably be a good stepping stone towards Jarrett's use of the technique. Then on the classical side you have the Passacaglia of Leopold Godowsky.

❤ also the intro of The Song is You from Still Live ❤

interestingthanks!

Great video Pierre! A new sub from me. Keep up the great work 👍🏼

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Appreciate it a lot. I think some people are born with easier independence between left and right hand. But you gave us some idea to improve with the exercises you mentioned 👍🏻

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

I'm sure that's a factor. Thanks for watching!

@claudiogarbellini9720

Ай бұрын

Pierre, given that this is an ostinato, do you think that he automatised it at a level that he doesn’t think anymore about it and it’s like playing only the right hand? Or is he aware every single moment of the two hands? I played for long time in a Doors tribute and my way was to automatize the bass line. Not very proud of that, but if you think of both more mistakes popped up. Some exercises/tips to improve?

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

It's hard to say. I think that multiple things are true-- likely a mix of tremendous natural talent as well as tons of practice of all different combinations and permutations so that anything he wants to play in the moment, is manageable when juxtaposed against the left hand.

The keyboard players I performed with in the past, typically had a small repertoire of 1 or 2-bar ostenatos but could use them in multiple keys. Nothing like Jarrett. Great video

@pierrejpiscitelli

Ай бұрын

It’s really hard and takes practice! Thanks for watching.