@stivenspianos Hola Stivens, es un tema de Sting, "Bring on the night/ When the world is running down", hay varias versiones pero puedes buscar la que tiene el solo de Kenny Kirkland.
@myxamore1 don´t really know, but I was listening the solo part a lot for 2 weeks (like many hours a day), I could sing it. The hands part depends on the techniek of every player, but once you know the melody by heart it comes fast.
Very great! You have a big talent and so much manual possibilities. But sounds this little like... the machine. Try play it one more time please, with less brain, less learned notes, but with more heart and feeling :) Keep cool, it's not Chopin! It's just an entertainment :) Ps. sorry 4my English, I hope You know what I mean. Greetings from Poland.
Dear Monica. This is absolutely fantastic, thank you so much. And you play it nicer than I heard it from other people. Is there _any_ chance to get some kind of MIDI or transcript or whatever. I am trying to learn from your video but have a hard time figuring out the left hand.
I remember hearing this track on the radio in my car in 1986, and being absolutely stunned by it. It is utterly brilliant, as is this reproduction of KK's unbelievable piano solo.
@ProfoundConcept One of my keyboard teachers told me something like that, when he first introduced this tune to me, he was hipnotized by the solo and manually rewinding the tape with a pen in order to play again and again in the car cassette player
Wow!!! Thumbs up. This piano-solo is actually the reason, why I bought the "Bring on the Night"-Album back in 1987. It never ceased to amaze me. It must have been a big peace of work to learn it by heart.
Kenny Kirkland really understood how to fill 4 minutes with a solo that is very complex and doesn´t get boring for one second. I´m sorry, I just found out he died in 1998. Thanx a lot for this impressive clip. Looks like Kenny lives on in folks like you.
Wow!!! Thumbs up. This piano-solo is actually the reason, why I bought the "Bring on the Night"-Album back in 1987. It never ceased to amaze me. It must have been a big peace of work to learn it by heart.
Kenny Kirkland really understood how to fill 4 minutes with a solo that is very complex and doesn´t get boring for one second. I´m sorry, I just found out he died in 1998. Thanx a lot for this impressive clip. Looks like Kenny lives on in folks like you.
@splankytube thank u, I still cannot figure out how the heck he is coming with those melodic/ritmical combinations, he´s mind was far, far away from the earth consciousness. learning was not difficult after listening many times to it, those days I was brain washed by it :S
Excelente!! Great work on one hell of a memorable solo. I've known and listened to the solo for years, but just thinking about working it out or learning it is mind blowing. Feliciaciones!
Wow, amazing!!! you play very well this solo, it's one of the best solo I love, do you played that by hear or you've got a music sheet? Thanks for your work!
Kenny was a pal of mine,and we used to sit down at the piano together and just play.He was very generous with his knowledge,and I only wish i would have hung out with him more. I have a cassette tape of him playing my pianet in my hotel room.He totally destroyed me playing Giant Steps.
Crazy and Amazing indeed ! I would slowly kill pink rabbits with an icepick just to hear you play that supreme motherfucker of a solo over a medium-slow swing feel........ Your strong and delicate fingers legato-gliding over the Yamaha ivory. OH my Dog ! How much money will that cost me?
Kenny uses alot of pentatonic scales (much like McCoy Tyner did before him) Chick Corea does similar harmonic "sidestepping" drifting into other keys by using common tones from different pentatonic scales. Say playing an E- pentatonic scale then jumping to G- using the note D to link the two scales. His main thing is his driving sense of rhythm in his 8th note feel. Very aggresive (listen to him with Wynton) Joey Calderazo is also very similar, but not as harmonically deep as Kenny was.
Very, very good indeed! Thanks so much for posting! The sad thing about it is that I can now see that the left hand is even more complicated to play than I have imagined. Thank you for making this top-down-view video. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for struggling and doing this. This is what's it's all about. I agree with every word you say about the man; his intuition and genius. But I think the next step for you, or eventually, is to try to transcribe at least the right hand and know the chords without an equalizer or time stretcher. It can be done. Just takes ears. =)
Ok, one word: Amazing! I just love this solo and you play it really well! 5 stars!!
And thanks, I can try learn from this video; I can see your fingers, so it will be easier now =]
Oh, and I think I will ask my piano teacher which scales Kirkland used and what is going on o.O Should I send you a message if he's able to tell me something? (if he has time for another lesson soon) =]
Ah yes, alot! I did that too. I found out quite a bit, but he's using so many scales. E; Em; Gm7; E blues (mixed with Em) and I think Cdim once. That guy is crazy, I can't believe how he came up with this!
Wow, excellent work. I saw one of those shows, Sting at Radio City Music Hall, Sept 1985. It was one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Keep up the good work.
Excellent work! You;'ve got a really good ear to be able to figure it out that well!! I totally agree - there will only be one KK - totally on the edge harmonically, but retained a degree of melodic that no one else was able to do - and probably never will again...
Thank you! I have to say that without a computer and software I would never be able to do it. I had to use an equalizer and a time stretcher, and listen to the bars thousand times. I think I woudn´t do it again, they were sick nights
@mnkfdl I know what you mean and that's a great way to put it "sick nights" I have spent a bunch of those on guitar and when that sun comes up it doesn't feel good. The reward is worth it though and I can tell you I am super impressed with your hard work and dedication. Great job.
Really excellent work. That is a real lot of work.man, but you got it down beatifully. It's great to be able to see where Kenny goes nice and out. Full marks!
Absolutely he was a genius. By the way, I love the way you play the solo and your video helped me a lot to figure out some sections, thank you. Next step is analyse what´s happening inside and make our own solo :)
incredible... it amazes me that you managed to play such an accurate transcription of the complete solo. respect to you! wow.
trappedsoul7 1 month ago
hola como se llama la cancion ???
stivenspianos 2 months ago
@stivenspianos Hola Stivens, es un tema de Sting, "Bring on the night/ When the world is running down", hay varias versiones pero puedes buscar la que tiene el solo de Kenny Kirkland.
mnkfdl 2 months ago
brava!!!
39446116 3 months ago
u can play, but with feeling? hmm
meisterly 3 months ago
Amazing
doylefish 4 months ago
so...how much time took you to memorise that SHIT?
myxamore1 7 months ago
@myxamore1 don´t really know, but I was listening the solo part a lot for 2 weeks (like many hours a day), I could sing it. The hands part depends on the techniek of every player, but once you know the melody by heart it comes fast.
mnkfdl 7 months ago
Wonderful! I really enjoyed listening to you play this.
Lot2learn 7 months ago
@Lot2learn ;)
mnkfdl 7 months ago
Very great! You have a big talent and so much manual possibilities. But sounds this little like... the machine. Try play it one more time please, with less brain, less learned notes, but with more heart and feeling :) Keep cool, it's not Chopin! It's just an entertainment :) Ps. sorry 4my English, I hope You know what I mean. Greetings from Poland.
MyszaCapri 7 months ago
@MyszaCapri Thank you, yes music is for makes us happy
mnkfdl 7 months ago
:))))
salebanjac 9 months ago
@salebanjac :))
mnkfdl 7 months ago
Dear Monica. This is absolutely fantastic, thank you so much. And you play it nicer than I heard it from other people. Is there _any_ chance to get some kind of MIDI or transcript or whatever. I am trying to learn from your video but have a hard time figuring out the left hand.
beezesty 9 months ago
Thank you for your nice comments!
mnkfdl 9 months ago
I remember hearing this track on the radio in my car in 1986, and being absolutely stunned by it. It is utterly brilliant, as is this reproduction of KK's unbelievable piano solo.
ProfoundConcept 9 months ago
@ProfoundConcept One of my keyboard teachers told me something like that, when he first introduced this tune to me, he was hipnotized by the solo and manually rewinding the tape with a pen in order to play again and again in the car cassette player
mnkfdl 7 months ago
Excellent playing! Yes, Kenny was a genius!
Lot2learn 1 year ago
Realy great!
Respect for your work! Very good transcription of this amazing solo!
Do you written it on a paper?
mihmus 1 year ago
marry me!!
basicbruno 1 year ago
@basicbruno :)
mnkfdl 9 months ago
amazing ! exactly the right notes at the right time , congratulations !
rixduke 1 year ago
@rixduke thank you
mnkfdl 9 months ago
You're quite talented to pick that solo up. Great job! Also thanks for putting it up on YT.
loonpolice1 1 year ago
@loonpolice1 :)
mnkfdl 9 months ago
It's a classic piano solo! Good job! Every student jazz pianist should learn this!
transformq 1 year ago
It's a classic piano solo! Good job! Every student jazz pianist should learn this!
transformq 1 year ago
Bravissima! Niente da dire, sei riuscita a prendere questo solo alla grande!
muraglione 1 year ago
@muraglione grazie mille
mnkfdl 9 months ago
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Wow!!! Thumbs up. This piano-solo is actually the reason, why I bought the "Bring on the Night"-Album back in 1987. It never ceased to amaze me. It must have been a big peace of work to learn it by heart.
Kenny Kirkland really understood how to fill 4 minutes with a solo that is very complex and doesn´t get boring for one second. I´m sorry, I just found out he died in 1998. Thanx a lot for this impressive clip. Looks like Kenny lives on in folks like you.
splankytube 1 year ago
Wow!!! Thumbs up. This piano-solo is actually the reason, why I bought the "Bring on the Night"-Album back in 1987. It never ceased to amaze me. It must have been a big peace of work to learn it by heart.
Kenny Kirkland really understood how to fill 4 minutes with a solo that is very complex and doesn´t get boring for one second. I´m sorry, I just found out he died in 1998. Thanx a lot for this impressive clip. Looks like Kenny lives on in folks like you.
splankytube 1 year ago
@splankytube thank u, I still cannot figure out how the heck he is coming with those melodic/ritmical combinations, he´s mind was far, far away from the earth consciousness. learning was not difficult after listening many times to it, those days I was brain washed by it :S
mnkfdl 9 months ago
Excelente!! Great work on one hell of a memorable solo. I've known and listened to the solo for years, but just thinking about working it out or learning it is mind blowing. Feliciaciones!
dc2277 1 year ago
@dc2277 Gracias, i admire Kenny
mnkfdl 9 months ago
Impressive!
invisiblebridge 1 year ago
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Well Done! This Solo makes live worth Living
WaltzingTommy 1 year ago
Well Done! This Solo makes live worth Living
WaltzingTommy 1 year ago
The drum and the absence of a bass line aren't helping you for sure...but It's a damn good job anyway.
soulman1967 1 year ago
@soulman1967 thanks :)
mnkfdl 9 months ago
Wow, amazing!!! you play very well this solo, it's one of the best solo I love, do you played that by hear or you've got a music sheet? Thanks for your work!
florbo73 1 year ago
@florbo73 thank u, I memorized it, but I did lots of anotations before.
mnkfdl 9 months ago
Kenny was a pal of mine,and we used to sit down at the piano together and just play.He was very generous with his knowledge,and I only wish i would have hung out with him more. I have a cassette tape of him playing my pianet in my hotel room.He totally destroyed me playing Giant Steps.
funkytweak 1 year ago
@funkytweak keep that cassette! :)
mnkfdl 9 months ago
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decalvus 1 year ago
Crazy and Amazing indeed ! I would slowly kill pink rabbits with an icepick just to hear you play that supreme motherfucker of a solo over a medium-slow swing feel........ Your strong and delicate fingers legato-gliding over the Yamaha ivory. OH my Dog ! How much money will that cost me?
Bratschenator 1 year ago
nice job!
MrHaroldOneal 1 year ago
Is that from a transcription? Sounds very much like a Kenny solo, or are you improvising in his style? Either way, very well played.
KCJazzKeys 1 year ago
Kenny uses alot of pentatonic scales (much like McCoy Tyner did before him) Chick Corea does similar harmonic "sidestepping" drifting into other keys by using common tones from different pentatonic scales. Say playing an E- pentatonic scale then jumping to G- using the note D to link the two scales. His main thing is his driving sense of rhythm in his 8th note feel. Very aggresive (listen to him with Wynton) Joey Calderazo is also very similar, but not as harmonically deep as Kenny was.
KCJazzKeys 1 year ago
BRAVO!
doctorCOPIC 1 year ago
Nice Job!
adrenalinekeepsake 2 years ago
Wow!!. Brilliant!!!. Congratulations!!
alabike 2 years ago
Very, very good indeed! Thanks so much for posting! The sad thing about it is that I can now see that the left hand is even more complicated to play than I have imagined. Thank you for making this top-down-view video. Keep up the good work!
olearo 2 years ago
wow! that's a tour de force solo, it's energic, funky, jazzy and beautiful, congratulations!!!!
stringcordeta 2 years ago
Thanks for struggling and doing this. This is what's it's all about. I agree with every word you say about the man; his intuition and genius. But I think the next step for you, or eventually, is to try to transcribe at least the right hand and know the chords without an equalizer or time stretcher. It can be done. Just takes ears. =)
astroscorp2 2 years ago
Awesome work.
dylancaprotti 2 years ago
Nice work man. Very useful and nice to learn that fantastic solo.
fonquee 2 years ago
Ok, one word: Amazing! I just love this solo and you play it really well! 5 stars!!
And thanks, I can try learn from this video; I can see your fingers, so it will be easier now =]
Oh, and I think I will ask my piano teacher which scales Kirkland used and what is going on o.O Should I send you a message if he's able to tell me something? (if he has time for another lesson soon) =]
mlavik1 2 years ago
Thank you. Of course, please let me know :) I´m also trying to analize that solo (but it goes so slow...) and it´s happening too much things in it
mnkfdl 2 years ago
Ok, I sent him a mail now! =]
Ah yes, alot! I did that too. I found out quite a bit, but he's using so many scales. E; Em; Gm7; E blues (mixed with Em) and I think Cdim once. That guy is crazy, I can't believe how he came up with this!
Good luck analyzing! =]
mlavik1 2 years ago
Wow, excellent work. I saw one of those shows, Sting at Radio City Music Hall, Sept 1985. It was one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Keep up the good work.
Nyaudioguy 2 years ago
Thanks, I can imagine it. You were lucky ;)
It would be cool time-space traveling and go there to have fun.
mnkfdl 2 years ago
Excellent work! You;'ve got a really good ear to be able to figure it out that well!! I totally agree - there will only be one KK - totally on the edge harmonically, but retained a degree of melodic that no one else was able to do - and probably never will again...
v6pete 2 years ago
Thank you! I have to say that without a computer and software I would never be able to do it. I had to use an equalizer and a time stretcher, and listen to the bars thousand times. I think I woudn´t do it again, they were sick nights
mnkfdl 2 years ago
@mnkfdl I know what you mean and that's a great way to put it "sick nights" I have spent a bunch of those on guitar and when that sun comes up it doesn't feel good. The reward is worth it though and I can tell you I am super impressed with your hard work and dedication. Great job.
dustypickups 9 months ago
vaya...te quedó bien chévere!!!! me gusta...
francito77 2 years ago
Really excellent work. That is a real lot of work.man, but you got it down beatifully. It's great to be able to see where Kenny goes nice and out. Full marks!
buntus00 2 years ago
Very nice. Watch Kenny do something different here: youtube[dot]com/watch?v=Ah11-tZlAlI
Join our facebook group: Kenny Kirkland: Jazz Giant.
mwesterholm 2 years ago
thanks! Oh, yes, I will join the group. I tried to see the video from kenny, but I couldn´t open it. It shows something like: incorrect video format
Maybe if you could send me the tags or the title, I could search it
mnkfdl 2 years ago
Nice try and absolutely great work!
urasam381001 2 years ago
thank you ;)
mnkfdl 2 years ago
nice!!
yeah kenny was one of a kind!! he's been a great inspiration to me!!
DaveSolazzo 2 years ago
thanks! hey, you have great things on your channel. I am going to watch your videos in order to learn what you are sharing :)
mnkfdl 2 years ago
Absolutely he was a genius. By the way, I love the way you play the solo and your video helped me a lot to figure out some sections, thank you. Next step is analyse what´s happening inside and make our own solo :)
mnkfdl 2 years ago
Yeah - wasn't Kenny just an absolute genius. This was good 5*
paulwwells 2 years ago