Bill Evans Piano Lick (Phrase) Jazz Lesson

[livingmusic37]

I've watched two of your videos and read some of your comments and don't understand why you have so many haters? These people need to learn to shut up and appreciate the fact that you put the time in to not only shed these licks, but gave a damn to share them with the rest of the world. Keep up the good work man. You're growing, they aren't. Remember that.

[foxybrown2]

You guys are funny everybody cops licks that is how you learn to play or speak the language of jazz charlie Parker copped Lester young, Sonny Stit copped charlie Oscar Peterson copped Art Tattum charlie christian copped Benny Goodman and so on and so on.

[crustylion321]

why is ur name barefoot, you a faggot or somethin you like bare foot of men?

[moneymakerisawonderf]

teach slow...you too fast

[MCalixte89]

lol why are you teaching "licks", let them figure it out the way you did. secondly, you dont learn licks, you learn how to create licks. when you were first learning music, you didnt memorizr chords, you learned how to make and compose the chords. thats music bro. lol teaching licks lmao

[MathiasKaizer]

i just gotta ask, why would you want to transcribe all these licks and solos? you don't get anything out of that, expect for sounding like something that's been done a 1000 times before. Try to find your own licks and solos, so you become unique and get your own sound

[hebrewhammershabbat]

@MathiasKaizer Transcribing licks is an integral part of becoming a skilled improvisor. There's absolutely nothing wrong with integrating licks the greats of jazz have used into your own solos. I like to think of each lick as a letter or phrase, everyone has access to the same alphabet, but its the sentences (ie. your solo) you make out of those letters and phrases (ie, licks and patterns) that makes you a unique musician.

[predoje]

thats not write finger numbers...

[pekar5]

@tzrmike: use your ear!if you cant follow some lines just play it by ear that is what music is about, hearing and feeling it

[tzrmike]

this is a lesson?? more like this is how you do it... now work it out yourself!! when you said slower all you done was put a bigger pause between the playing!! slower means every note!!!

[djbot]

@tzrmike jus figure it out by ear. i dont even play piano n i figured it out

[DB1815]

great, I will try and post another great bill evans lick!!

[lpsalsita00]

very nice!!! i like bill evans

[chrisptoast]

sounds like you're doing the french mistake

[igotbluesdevils]

in my opinion, the fingering isn't the best or easiest.. I'd prefer going with a few less thumb passes.. I mean, the index finger shouldn't be passed over the thumb, unless it's necessary, or functional to the rest of the phrase.

watch out: IN MY OPINION!

This may be the best fingering for you, if your comfortable with it

[Janekroll]

your videos are great, but could you please include the chords?

[chackyjazz]

On wath chord or chords do he uses this lick??

[wesnman]

Hey everybody, ferizbo is totally right... check out jpiano's channel..... and look at the videos he favorited... it made me laugh

[wesnman]

laugh as in, it was pathetic... not "laugh with him" kinda funny

[claitontesch]

very nice!!!!!!!!!

[no1use]

0:27

Posting the time for reference

[davekropf]

Harmony has nothing to do with jazz?? This is one of the more ridiculous posts I've read on YouTube in a while.

[pascalray]

i agree , that swhy a lot of jazz standards were reharmonised ;) but harmony dhas nothing to do with jazz ;)

[kapellemeister]

Are you Pascal Ray, drummer with Sylvain Luc?

[TrummerMav]

Yeah Thiaskam is totaly right.. Evans is awsome!!! in which way you look at him doesen`t matter, he`s good on everything.Comping and Soloin`..

[Thiaskam]

Jpiano your an idiot. open your ears!!! Bill Evans could swing like a man. he was one of (if not the most) influential and individual jazz pianist who's lines of soloing influenced so many great pianists, that his lines became staples of jazz soloing.

[MSlapik]

I disagree. His soloing is incredible.

[barefoot55]

I see what you are saying... The funny thing is, Bill could play BeBop flavored lines like a man with his hair on fire. It was not a question of ability, but of preference. The one thing I love about Bill E. is his credo. "...You play for yourself first." Bill was true to himself. He didn't try to imitate McCoy's quartal voicings, or imitate all of Bud's devices. I admire that. On a side note, I love Wynton Kelly with my whole heart! For sure he is a beast.

[ZachRhea2]

Bill's sense of rhythm was ridiculous. Are you kidding me? He could swing hard as hell too. The way his trios would have an open conversation and then once the solo started they would jump right into a sweet swing. Also, how the hell does harmony not have alot to do with jazz? Harmony has alot to do with all music and that's one of the cool things alot of jazz players do is take a popular melody and switch the harmony around. You're weird dude.

[baiken22]

true: comping was amazing he brought out the A form and B form 2-5-1's we all use today

false: his improv sucked... his improv was amazing... you obv haven't listened to any of his songs, waltz for debby, someday... and obv u haven't transcribed any of his stuff... his soloing is pretty ingenious, clever. Harmony has so much to do with jazz, its all in the soloing. MELODY... improv is all built off the melody... and without harmony you have none of that

[ferizbo]

jpiano i went on your profile and i wasnt surprised to find that you had no videos of yourself playing jazz. Get off your high horse. Spending an afternoon on wikipedia doesnt make you a jazz aficionado

[rhenrichs]

I stopped reading when he said that harmony doesn't have a lot to do with Jazz. Obviously the man is ignorant.

[jpiano2158]

Bill Evans is great with chord voicings, but not so much solo stuff. He doesn't swing at all. Swing is one of the key elements of jazz. West coast players seem to be ignorant of that. Check out Wynton Kelley

[bc44987]

Is swing really a key element of jazz? Thanks for the lesson.

Sarcasm aside, Bill Evans plays some of the purest lines I've ever heard and to call him ignorant of anything related to jazz is simply beyond me.

[calicoolboy]

this is the classic underachiever jazz 101 comment!

[mxdblessing]

Evans and Kelly have one significant thing in common: they both played with Miles in what I feel is the golden era of his music. Is it possible, just -possible-, that Miles heard something in Bill's playing that you, or we for that matter, don't? And if so, then is it possible that you should maybe give him another chance and listen more closely?

[jazzdog2]

its cool to see how the great bill evans just uses a simple lick like that and it sounds so great...

[3e3op88]

Hey, Barefoot--Start with your pinky on the F-sharp then again on the G and so on. That way you don't have to cross over your thumb. You're just spelling out a G Maj. 7 chord then an A min 7 chord, etc.

[twherz]

Barefoot,

Thanks for the tip man, you've made an old man happy.

Tom

[twherz]

Great lick by my favorite pianist. I'm having trouble playing it as my ear is not that great and it's too fast even at the slow speed. I'd appreciate the note sequence.

Tom

[ketamoid]

is that an acrosonic??

[Wiestyo]

Wow, you got it dead on

[victuxgt]

Hey, i have recently discover your videos. Thank you, i'm a self-taught jazz pianist. Your videos re very usefull for my learning.

[jazzpsalti]

and also, glad to see another bill evans fan!!!

[jazzpsalti]

LOL, I'm a bill evans freak and have transcribed about 60-70 of his solos. This is the lick in the last A of the first chorus of Nardis from the Montreux sections, with a little thing you added on the end. Those arpeggios are mostly right, except the first one is a minMaj7, with a D sharp.

[barefoot55]

jazz psalti... you rule bro! That is amazing that you would recognize that phrase from that song with my mistakes. I guess from playing, I have unknowingly altered it a tad. But that is really cool that you picked up on this. Would you ever consider sharing the transcriptions? :)

-Sean

[jazzpsalti]

LOL thanks man! I dunno whenever you become such a big fan of someone you can almost tell people how many times they blinked their eyes on such and such an occasion... That's a great solo anyway... he starts it in the last 4 of the 1st A which threw me off for a really long time because the progression felt so different!!! Anyway I have a fingerstyle guitar book which has a lot of them in it, but I can see if I have one that you are looking for...

[ankhaton]

Transcribed - Do you mean

that most of Bill Evans Riffs are

available

for students like me.

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I find this piece here very instructive though I

wished it was in F , the only key I can play in

helas

[TheSUPERDMT]

@jazzpsalti I thought I was an Evans fan

[MrAntonBach]

@jazzpsalti Obviously your ears are great. Is there any way we can stay in touch?

Do you have a transcription of Reflections in D?

[kingro2]

good, but your fingering is a little off.

[mergeband]

i like that! hi can you do some herbie hancock runs.

[Feesharp9er]

YESSSSSSSSSssss