all i can tell you is learn your scales...melody line will just come to you. And it would help if you listened to alot of music to give you different ideas of things to play.
learn lots of melodies and heads to jazz standards to get a good sense of melodic feel and phrasing and harmony and then transcribe or learn other peoples stuff and then take the bits you like and try them in many different ways, say if you have one short 2 bar idea, play it like with different intervals or in a different key or play it backwards and so on - Melodic Development! get the most out of one idea!
yeah sure i mean first buy a book called 'The Real Book' you can get them on amazon, its just a book full of lead sheets for jazz tunes, and start learning the tunes heads and changes, thats a start. Then you can also get transcriptions or transcribe yourself, i mean a good place to start is to buy the Charlie Parker omnibook, its just full of transcriptions of his solo's if you learn some and see what hes doing over the changes, but i would say transcribe some stuff yourself!
Lots and lots of listening, after a while you'll start hearing those lines that you've heard in recordings in your head over chord changes without even realising it.
Pick a couple of phrases you really like and find them on the keys. Practice practice.
Polished and restrained, but it swings hard. Nice melodic lines, and I really like the open voicings in the left hand. Playing the LH so much softer than the RH gives a really niced layered effect. *****
Good ear. Not a lot of people realize how powerful dynamic control is, especially in the pianisimo register, where the piano sings. I promise to get another less restrained blues by Chris on here. Also, he's got some chops that are hiding on this version.
Learning from this video has been inspiring. As for the scales, besides the blues & bebop, Im thinking of one that starts with a "D" and ends in "ished"! One that i've been working with for a while now...
God I love this....the Powellisms seem so internalized, and being that I love Bud so much, Im actually going to sit down and learn some of the runs from this video, from somebody who speaks Bud as a living language! And I also recognize alot of indiviidual style here too. Awesome!
I gotta learn how to do that.
JmillMoreno 2 months ago
Bravissimooo
maranomarcelo 1 year ago
Cool playing man! Could you tell me the title of the melody? It's a standard song right? I think I heard it in Herbie hancock's album once.....
gastvier 1 year ago
Quality.
Criticalperspective2 1 year ago
Good left-hand. Well built solo
Criticalperspective2 1 year ago
outstanding playing! Tremendous rhythmic drive without the usual left hand bass drivel.
cmartinmusic 2 years ago
how do u learn how to create and play melody lines? anybody please
golden2314 2 years ago
all i can tell you is learn your scales...melody line will just come to you. And it would help if you listened to alot of music to give you different ideas of things to play.
ngbulldog 2 years ago
learn lots of melodies and heads to jazz standards to get a good sense of melodic feel and phrasing and harmony and then transcribe or learn other peoples stuff and then take the bits you like and try them in many different ways, say if you have one short 2 bar idea, play it like with different intervals or in a different key or play it backwards and so on - Melodic Development! get the most out of one idea!
saln 2 years ago
would u mind giving me some names of people who would help me
golden2314 2 years ago
yeah sure i mean first buy a book called 'The Real Book' you can get them on amazon, its just a book full of lead sheets for jazz tunes, and start learning the tunes heads and changes, thats a start. Then you can also get transcriptions or transcribe yourself, i mean a good place to start is to buy the Charlie Parker omnibook, its just full of transcriptions of his solo's if you learn some and see what hes doing over the changes, but i would say transcribe some stuff yourself!
saln 2 years ago
Lots and lots of listening, after a while you'll start hearing those lines that you've heard in recordings in your head over chord changes without even realising it.
Pick a couple of phrases you really like and find them on the keys. Practice practice.
geeride 2 years ago
I think this is wonderful. Great job!
jokester2009 3 years ago
Yes, this vid has really converted me to the use of tenths in the LH - but you need pretty big hands to use them as extensively as this!
pcouvela 3 years ago
Polished and restrained, but it swings hard. Nice melodic lines, and I really like the open voicings in the left hand. Playing the LH so much softer than the RH gives a really niced layered effect. *****
7notemode 3 years ago
Good ear. Not a lot of people realize how powerful dynamic control is, especially in the pianisimo register, where the piano sings. I promise to get another less restrained blues by Chris on here. Also, he's got some chops that are hiding on this version.
aboutjazztime 3 years ago
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petezilla 3 years ago
Learning from this video has been inspiring. As for the scales, besides the blues & bebop, Im thinking of one that starts with a "D" and ends in "ished"! One that i've been working with for a while now...
petezilla 3 years ago
God I love this....the Powellisms seem so internalized, and being that I love Bud so much, Im actually going to sit down and learn some of the runs from this video, from somebody who speaks Bud as a living language! And I also recognize alot of indiviidual style here too. Awesome!
petezilla 3 years ago
nice man!
what scales are you using here besides the blues?
JazzySaxE 3 years ago