Ragtime To Stride Lesson - Dick Hyman

[HRWINE]

what is the instrument he is playing?

[torepaasporetpaajord]

3:49, what song is that?

[Blackout987]

You're great! :D

[rocket625]

sure i can do this, geeeze

[16yearoldwhiteboy]

Good job playing man

[Dfrankjazz]

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[orosenberg]

This is awesome. I love stride.

[SirMatt3w]

hey, what is the nema of this music?

[BETSY1951]

OH MY GOODNESS, I CAN'T THINK OR EVEN SEE THAT FAST,, YOU ARE AMAZING!

[bitsysmom2010]

I just discovered this site tonight and am mesmerized. I'll never be able to play like that, but watching it is magic!

[bitsysmom2010]

I just discovered this site tonight and am mesmerized. I'll never be able to play like that, but watching it is magic!.

[vickyarg10]

Thanks! It's been quite useful for me.

[Cillitpeng]

STRIDE SLOWER!!

Want to see, which keys are played...

[pianoguyyy]

man you're amazing 

[trojj]

Ragtime should be slower because of its ragged rhytm and it was dance music...

[valhan364]

@trojj Ragtime was a style, he was playing stride and then the mix of the two and even threw in a boogie thing! Dont try and teach the masters, youll end up looking foolish... "Traditional" Ragtime was for dancers but it also involved banjos, guitars, drums, and other things. Its all a style and interpretation thing! He knows what he is doing and knows the history. Heck he was probably there! Jk...

[kingwoofer]

I wonder if people can hear the super -human aspect of this music and its players?

[Criticalperspective2]

I envy you with your big hands! I which I could do stride with tenth! it just changes everything!

[1phatmaximus]

thank u for this lesson but i find it to fast with the left hand to find out exactly what notes and cord s yr playin but thank u for yr time .

[Shackamaxon]

What is the name of the tune Dick is playing at 3:48?

[stevenkoehler]

@Shackamaxon It almost sounds to me like "There's No Place Like Home"

[odietarceo]

@Shackamaxon maybe "I couldn't come home in the dark" from 1909, which refers to "there's no place like home"?

[Shackamaxon]

@odietarceo I Googled that and found lyrics to "Im afraid to come home in the dark" by Egbert Van Alstyne and Harry Williams (covered by Bessy Sheer and Billy Murray in 1908?). The line "there's no place like home" is in there. The audio clip I found sounds like it may be this tune (with some enhancements by Dick). Its hard to tell. Dick's version sounds very much like a march..

[KawhackitaRag]

@Shackamaxon Hello, what Mr. Hyman is playing near the end is the song "Home, Sweet Home", composed by Henry Bishop (with lyrics, not sung here, by John Howard Payne) from 1852. This tune was already such a standard (nearly a "folk" melody) by 1908 that it is no wonder that pro vaudvillians and prolific hit songwriters Van Alstyne (piano, music) and Williams (vocals, lyrics) used it in one of their songs!

I daresay "Home, Sweet Home" has probably been quoted in hundreds of other songs!!!

[PACHONGA9]

did anyone notice that the name dick hyman is two genitals for a name??

[crazypianolady]

@PACHONGA9 Yes...we are all intelligent enough to realise this...and most of are intelligent to realise that it's not worth posting a comment about...

[druNkwriter]

The master still reigns supreme. Been a fan for years. Glad to see that kids don't have to start out with the darkness we all endured. Ain't the internet grand?

[eezzekiel]

i love this style of music and the piano playing...always makes me feel like im about to watch some looney toons

[paulallen34]

love your piano playing and you explain it in great detail,only gripe i have is the very poor video quality.

[Aahzman26]

An awesome video. It really gave me an insight into much of what I'm trying to do, and how far i have to go. Really awesome improvisation on a song that I feel I know confidently.

[Pianoninja924]

I hate having to play tenth chords.

[guweck]

I watched this video several time on different days and I still enjoy it like the first time.

Simply brilliant.

Thank you very much.

[pianoordie1010]

this guy always gives the best lessons. kudos!

[gibaud]

a tenth?! wtf!

[hellsbells8888]

nice discription and helpful lesson! is my version of the maple leaf rag played right?

[catherineweiwei]

I love this video. It's provides such beautiful music, but more importantly, clarity.

[doofyee]

Wow! Ragtime/Stride is my favorite style to play and listen to, and this video reminds me that I've still got a long way to go. Some day I hope to wrap my head around all of this, especially the part between 2:53 and 3:13.

[xkrunkzombie]

Tenths fuck my life

[KawhackitaRag]

Listen to Willie Eckstein... he had smaller hands than I do, and he rolled all his tenths, but he played quite a lot of them.

If you listen to a lot of 1920s pop piano rolls (with the exception of J. Lawrence Cook and Fats Waller rolls) you will notice there are plenty of filled tenths, but they are almost always broken, usually from the bottom, but occasionally from the top. Broken tenths are a typical early-20s sound that gives a good forward motion to the music.

[FLCL2010]

@xkrunkzombie they will

[kg6iif]

@xkrunkzombie Jelly roll morton played in 13ths they say.

[franzleone]

@xkrunkzombie Hahahahahahha!!

[ajjs02]

You've got to start somewhere,This stuff is actually really complex.If you learn difficult pieces and all through your practicing take breaks and improvise,you'll end up with something that you might call your own thing.Some people will go there and some won't ever. It's a type of personality. I personally love these kinds of lessons. It helps to build a physical memory in the hands and an understanding of the syncopation as well as the theory behind it. All around good thing. Thanks keeps it up

[kg6iif]

@ajjs02 he is good and you dont know what you are talking about lol. time to hit the books

[TysonMS]

Fascinating.

[Jigov]

you didnt get me right. I said Stop Copy - means influence is not a good think, you lose your productive skills and imagination like this. sry but its true. Watch Oscar Peterson Intervew, by Andre Previn somewhere in youtube and you will understand what i am talking about. thank you

[tallandhandsome29]

This is absolute nonsense. Every musician everywhere has influences and some wonderful things have been produced as a result. You have no idea what you're talking about.

[Jigov]

i can say : stop copy Art Tatum so you can create something.

[razz1965]

Unusual comment, he isn't copying rather than explaining. And why wouldn't you try to copy Art Taitum!

Dick Hyman is obviously extremely influenced by all the greats.

[nch103]

those tenths.....wtf!!!!!!

[thirds84]

Tenths?! I might as well quit right now.

[catherineweiwei]

Tenths was referring to what Fats Waller could do. He's one of the greatest stride pianists of all time.

one could also use a single bass note, octave, or seventh interval instead.

I have small hands, can't even reach octaves, and I am still learning stride. Don't give up. :)

Jazz is beautiful no matter how you play it.

[TheRealQwertyMaster]

I play classical. I'm a professional pianist, played Mozart's, Grieg's, etc. piano concertos, etc... Still, I'm having a hard time TRYING to play stride-piano style... All I can do is just to sit down and train my left hand practicing Chopin's Ètude in A minor, Scott Joplin and the like... Hours and hours of this, and I've made lot a progress... Thomas "Fat" Waller? He's got the gift. He's God! Thanks for reading my comment!... See you!

[bluesinorbit]

Funny you should call Fats Waller God. There's a famous story where Fats Waller was playing at a club one night. When he noticed a fellow pianist walk in, he announced to the audience, "I just play the piano, but God is in the house." That pianist was Art Tatum.

I have a few Tatum recording uploaded on my page. Try Jitterbug Waltz. It's a Waller tune.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

You can play 6ths instead. It's a fair substitute.

[josiah566]

@Morahman7vnNo2 Nice to see some Morton fans out there.

[yardy1603]

what's the name of this song? (first he played)

[snailrace7]

Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin

[mortenjespersen]

You are the best! Keep it up, please!

All the best,

M.

[Shackamaxon]

Great video likemyviolin. Makes me wonder if there are any recordings of James P Johnson, Fats Waller, or Art Tatum performing Maple Leaf Rag. I'd love to hear their treatment of it.

[KawhackitaRag]

James P. Johnson did record Maple Leaf on a private recording done in the '30's or '40's. I'm not sure what reissue CD it's available on, if at all. To my knowledge neither Waller nor Tatum ever recorded Maple Leaf Rag. I don't think Donald Lambert did it either, but I could be wrong, he recorded a lot. It is certainly possible that Cliff Jackson, Joe Turner, or Claude Hopkins recorded it though. I'm pretty sure Willie "the Lion" Smith did it as well.

[darrellp]

One of the old recording where they were recording a conversation with Jelly Roll Morton he said he liked Maple Leaf, but here's how he would have done it - at which point he proceeds to play. Not a commercial recording but I know I've heard that.

[KawhackitaRag]

It's in the Morton Library of Congress recordings. Great stuff, thanks for the mention.

[KawhackitaRag]

I just got an mp3 of James P. Johnson playing "Maple Leaf Rag" at Town Hall in 1946, with Baby Dodds on drums. It's absolutely FANTASTIC, completely WONDERFUL, and I'll be happy to email it to you if you message me with your email address. I'd say this recording ties with Willie Eckstein's 1923 rendition (and Robbie Rhodes' version) as my favorite version of Maple Leaf Rag. That is not an easy tie to make, since the other two versions are top-notch.

[BuckshotLaFunke]

It is as if I'm looking at myself...;-)

[blobskool]

Many thanks to "likemyviolin" for posting these Dick Hyman videos. Great stuff!!