'Our Love is Here To Stay' (Gershwin) - jazz piano tutorial

[allanm8888]

This is just too perfect. It hurts

[AlbertGBaierII]

Well done, Doug. You have away with Gershwin. What a great way to start the year.

[p1anosteve]

Hmmm. I have to hand it to you Sir. You really do know what your doing.

[ojarrellpro]

wow... really great piano playing. thanks for the video

[allanm8888]

1:07 what you did with that was sick

[imjazzi2]

How generous of you to share this with us. Love it!

[unagondolaunremo]

thanks a lot for this very interesting and useful video! i guess that i learned a lot!

[allanm8888]

Wow

[allanm8888]

Sigh

[popoqwer]

Thank you! again your playing is exquisite ...you have helped me so much.

[PianobyAngie]

This is one of my favorite tunes to take apart and play over and over again. Thank you for your

gift. I will be chewing on some of your ideas for a few days. Brilliant as well as sensitive.

[AmbuMom50]

wow. Just wow. Thanks so, so much!

[elvin211]

thak you very much Doug!

[radiokid2]

Very cool...Intellectually fascinating but, more importantly, the emotional vibe is really lucid and intense....very mature/

[jazz2511]

@radiokid2 Thank you Marius - and your videos are all those things and more! Check out the instructional videos posted by Marius on Youtube.

[jimbomed]

Great arrangement.Must have it. Patterns that were not even available in the era this poignant song was written

[jerry8022]

smooth

[PianistaItaliano]

Happy New Year Doung, great work(as always)

[jazz2511]

@PianistaItaliano And a happy new year to you Alfonso - and thanks to you for your wonderful 2011 postings. Doug

[Lot2learn]

Beautifully played and annotated. There are some very interesting ideas and techniques to learn from this one Doug - great!

[jazz2511]

@Lot2learn I (and many others) have learned a lot from your postings in 2011 Roger. I especially enjoyed your recent Christmas songs that you posted. Happy New Year!

[fmiglio437]

ho letto molto attentamente le note informative sempre utili ed interessanti - grazie -

questo brano l'ho ascolto per la prima volta e mi piace molto e la tua esecuzione è perfetta

BUON ANNO

[FriPilot]

Thanks for the New Year piece Doug. Happy New Year to you. Here's hoping we hear much from you this year.

Fri

[jazz2511]

@FriPilot Thanks for your comments Fri.

[rfw1503]

Lovely performance.

[gfelter]

Beautiful! You make it look so easy.

[STEELBG]

GREAT !!

[TheMCLat]

breathtakingly cool...luvett:)

[MrBruno1935]

Hi Doug, I am fashioned by the way you are doing this. I used to play this song a lot but only in some medium tempo. Your harmonizing and the way you walk chromatically by changing every 4th beat is marvelous. I may give this song another try, maybe stealing some of your ideas if you don´t mind. Great work to start the New Year with.

Keep swingin´

Bruno

[jazz2511]

@MrBruno1935 Happy New Year Bruno! Thanks for your comments - and your great postings on youtube in 2011!

[fredzeeJazz]

Thank you for all this... I wish you an happy new year !

Fred - France - Paris

[TyphJazz]

Happy New Year great master!

Frank - Italy

[spoddie]

Thank you for our new year present!

[JerryRSun]

How do you learn jazz? I have a bit of basic knowledge about music theory and what I know doesn't really seem connect to something like this. Where do you start out and how do you gradually get better?

[spoddie]

@JerryRSun That's exactly what I've stuggled with. I don't really have a good answer though. Firstly listen to lots of jazz - I had to develop an ear first. Mark Levine's books The Jazz Piano Book and The Jazz Theory Book are the most commonly recommended, (I'm slowly working through the first).

[jazz2511]

@JerryRSun Good advice from @spoddie - especially the advice to listen to lots of jazz

Doug

[popoqwer]

@JerryRSun learn the basic chords first with the melody, intimately , in time.... later, separate the embellishments, isolate them, get a good feel, then integrate them back to a completed form while keeping it flexible.

[JerryRSun]

@popoqwer Thanks so much.

[thomasdosborneii]

Our love for YOU is here to stay! Have a fantastic 2012!

[FitnessBody4L]

you are the coolest person i have never met!

[FitnessBody4L]

you are the coolest person i have never met!

[kaiskorner]

you... are amazing.