Moments Notice

[Lot2learn]

@Eddabed I appreciate your comment, thanks.

[strathers]

Great stuff! where did you get this backing track? I would love to get my hands on it.

Keep up the lovely playing

[Lot2learn]

@strathers It is from the Jamie Aebersold collection - you can do a search for it.

[Nibbity]

Thanks so much for an overhead view of this, it's a favorite piece of mine.

[Lot2learn]

@Nibbity I appreciate your comment.

[MattMurdockCZ]

Omg, this is fantastic! I just started to learn this song, but I absolutely can't understand your playing

[orqsilva]

Excellent playing! I notice you don't use the 5th finger on your LH very often. Thanks for posting. Seems a little slow.

[hanojekcim]

i hope you've got the sheet music, because i need it for my piano teacher! please answer soon. really good play bro.

greetings from germany

[90vinnie]

Very nice playing :D

I'm a drummer, but this evening I tried to play along with the theme.. very hard but extremely nice to do!

[dewmikester1]

Sounds really great to me, and I'm not the flattering type...Your solos over the tough chord changes were right on and fluid...also like your overhead video approach...Cheers!

[Lot2learn]

@dewmikester1 I appreciate your comment Mike.

[rowanhudsonmusic]

Brilliant. How long have you been improvising for out of interest?

[Lot2learn]

@rowanhudsonmusic Thanks. 30 years or so.

[handdancin]

@Lot2learn yup sounds about right

[goldenalarm]

This is awesome - very musical and a great way for newbie jazz pianists like myself to see what you're doing. Amazing comping!

[claragary]

Boy, some practice exercise!!! Great job.

[Lot2learn]

@claragary Thanks for your comment.

[Domingojazz]

Very good job, I stole many ideas from you... ;-)

[LeonardandPaul]

Love your playing!

[paxwallacejazz]

yo bro nice last 8 what you doin anyway nice Pax Wallace

[danstraka]

One of best jazzy song on youtube! Thanks, great! Dan.

[Lot2learn]

I appreciate your comment.

[sutaddoresu]

very nice!

[Jedum]

nice man, keep it up

[lcndrumline]

this is gnarly. your solo really swings. keep it up

[Lot2learn]

I appreciate the comment.

[panmansid]

great playing

[Lot2learn]

Thank you.

[augustopalma]

Very nice approach!! Congrats man!

[ACDSEVEN]

this is master class,teacher.than you for the video.

[ScottBradleeLovesYa]

Great playing on an incredibly difficult tune!! I've really enjoyed your videos

[rubberbandballs]

i really like this because you are so musical in what you play and it makes sense, ill hear a lot of players nowadays that will play the changes but just over-play and make no musical sense. i like your phrasing a lot as well

[Lot2learn]

Thanks. Your comment is much appreciated. I admit I've been known to do my share of over-playing, but playing relaxed, and keeping the phrasing musical is usually a goal of mine.

[thedevilssaints]

hey dude. really nice job. i play this differently or maybe i just have a different arrangement but right before the second time after the repeat of measure 27, right before the next two measure rest part that is either filled with piano ad lib or a drum solo for us and other instruments solo, how did you get those dissonant chords? the phrase is like dat--dahhhhh, dat--dahhhh, dat--dahhhhh, dat--dahhh, dahh,dahh,dahh,dahh then the two measure cut. youre a good piano player i just want to know

[thedevilssaints]

(contd.) wether we have a different arrangemet. mines the only one availabe from J.W. pepper (dot) com. congrats on your work. im about at your same level in playing ability but im probably vastly inferior in the very complex constructions of jazz and blues but blues is kinda simple. but yeah i know a decently large amount of jazz chords and voicing constructions like rootless 4 chords and shelled but other than that all ive got is a decent sense of general music theory. nice job.

[thedevilssaints]

dude also i know you almost defenitely have but pick up a real book if you dont have one. those real book sixth editions are like the jazz and blues david. also nice job on solar.

[Modes9]

Did he throw you off in the Bb dominant pedal vamp section? Try playing chords from Bb altered dominant (a harmonized B ascending melodic minor scale), chords from Bb dorian b2 (a harmonized Ab ascending melodic minor scale), and especially Db, E, and G major triads from the Bb dominant diminished half-whole scale. I think those things are happening there. If that doesn't make sense, send me a private message!

[Lotrompetista]

oh! you're so good

[pietrantonio56]

che sound e che groove...complimenti

[ReneAristyo]

Nice comping and great improvisation!!

[Symons90]

WOw Smooth dude real smooth!

[bojankx]

i can dig it...really nice left hand touch in the solo, and the right as well of course!...we all know these changes are hard

[GOTIRES]

you are always on point

[Iceman9121]

Wow! You really do sound like a jazz great.

amazing rendition.

[najdorf]

improvisation. so nice mate, i really like it, so beautiful song!

John should be proud of you mate! keep playing, learning and living!

Peace, love, Respect, Freedom.

Naj

[craigjazz23x]

How long have you been playing? You sound good. Especially your solo. I wish I could solo like that on this song.

[samuso86]

nice one! great improv, i uploaded one myself for solo piano but next time I think I'll try my hands with a backing track lol keep at it sounds good!

[fanning23x]

You sound like one of the jazz greats in your solo

[gadjoproject]

Incredible improvisation. I like how you took a vacation from the melody and made an interesting solo over some difficult changes :)

[Lot2learn]

Thanks for the comment. I like your description - vacation. ;-)

[WiRedNERV4]

nice improv!

i wish i could improv. for my jazz band.

[gin5354]

Great! (Got yourself out of that nicely in the end.)

I'll send the link to some jazz students of mine.

[hungrydave197]

nice improv. This track is a real bugger to improvise over as well coz the chords change so fast. I've just posted my version of this on here, but yours is much better. I'm still training to improvise on this! I can just about manage on slower jazz.

Do you improvise on the chord arpegio's and passing notes or scales on the key centre? Or do you have another technique?

Keep up the good work

[sajirobert]

is it an improvisation?

[keyvGeTT]

OH MY GOD... please teach me MASTER... I wish I could play like that... :(

[BrandynBoyles]

wow , i need a jazz teacher, cause this puts me to shame

[Grippowitz]

One of the most chalanging chord progressions. Fine job.

[bassist1627]

I like the 7#9 chords in there, especially in some of the turnarounds. Very nice (atleast I think I'm hearing the 7#9- I'm a bassist, not a pianist, so I can't read the voicings your doing)

[zyg22]

is the accompaniment coming from the piano??

[Lot2learn]

No. Aebersold backing tracks from jazzbooks dot com

[vibeman27]

Man, I like what you are doing. I too use a lot of backing tracks, (no band available), and they really stand in for the real thing, sometimes better.

[volvoxburger]

Unfamiliar? I ain't buying it. Another smashing performance.

[Lot2learn]

You're right. Darn, I thought I'd slip that past you. I edited the text to reflect a more accurate statement. Thanks for keeping me honest bro'.

[volvoxburger]

Alfonso busted you first.

[dariusagoodwin]

really good man:-)

[7notemode]

Great playing! Left hand particularly strong in this tune. Loved the LH figures at 1:10 and at 1:50.

[PianistaItaliano]

The changes look's to your playing more familiar than unfamiliar and this makes this tune very Musical.

BRAVO