Doctor Wu (Better Angle)

[loowood2]

That's it! Excellent. I was singing along. Maximum Respect

[vanhalen5150z]

i must obtain sheet music for this, or at minimum a tutorial video. Anyone know where i can find it? those tutorials that show where your fingers go would be enormously helpful

[logosthedestroyer]

@vanhalen5150z Hi, I have emailed you

[nickster181]

anyone know what kind of piano this is?

[PaulSchellinger]

Fantastic Job! Learned this great Steely Dan song from your tutorial and its the best song we do in our family band. Can you post any other Steely Dan songs as tutorials with a good angle? Kid Charlemagne anything...... These guys are the tightest band I have ever heard.

[wrjstuka]

i dont know why i always clap after this guy plays i now he cant here me but feel compeled to after such an exclent play of the sd music truly awesome comendeble  keep up the good work dude ! YOU HAVE DEFINITLY PASSED THE AUDITION! THANKS FOR POSTIN! CHEERS

[78brownchevycamaro]

I want to learn to play like that, song and all. Logos where do I start, I love the way you play that!!!

[overtime2005]

plays with the hands og god.

[martinofm]

Could you please tell the chords during the sax break?

The music I have doesn't cover that part.

[martinofm]

Brilliant! The sax part was smooth. Fantastic.

[mdtileguy]

very refreshing, thank you

[in2fitness]

Such a beautiful piece, great job!

[autoforthepeople]

Really nice to listen to on its own!!! Would love to learn to play it like this one day!

[TheCoherentSolutions]

Being a pianoman myself, I appreciate your great skill. One of my favorite Dan songs btw. Goede keuze!

[countdown2xstacy]

WOW  DAN-TASTIC !!!

[maartenvanderpoll]

wow ! very well played. compliments !!

[logosthedestroyer]

@maartenvanderpoll Hartelijk dank :)

[maartenvanderpoll]

@logosthedestroyer: oh je komt uit Nederland ?

Waar kom je ergens vandaan ? ik uit Breda.

En is dat een yamaha waar je op speelt ?

[logosthedestroyer]

@maartenvanderpoll Oh nee, ik niet, ik wil alleen maar om beleefd te zijn! Ik uit England, Stourbridge. Ja, het is een Yamaha ik speel, een p-120's, dat is ongeveer 10 jaar oud.

[maartenvanderpoll]

@logosthedestroyer Ah ! ok :-)

and the Dutch is your own or the translater's ? :-))

Anyway, nice sound and well played. I wish to play like that some day, but i have just started with my keyboard

[lesceptique]

This is wonderful. I was looking thru some Steely Dan vids and came across your instrumental. Beautiful. Thanks.

[Darwinknows]

Hey Logo,

Always such a joy to hear you play those masterpieces man!

You're the best on the net! By far!

Let me know when you come to Paris.

'Til then,be safe and keep playing.

[logosthedestroyer]

@Darwinknows Sent you a message.. check your inbox!

[crw3688]

EXCELLENT



[aandjwynn]

Nice, great voicings but I cant seem to find them . Any help? Thanks!

[theivory1]

I have been working on this one for awhile. I have the music less the bridge. What is going on with bridge?

[TriDamian]

Awesome! I love your interpretations of SD's stuff. Thought I had this stuff figured out right, but I hear sonorities in your interpretations that I don't have covered....damn! Thanks for posting!

[thecat029]

sorry but you guys have no clue what you're talking about. I only have one answer for you......."11 Tracks of Whack"

[logosthedestroyer]

Hmm to be honest I think all the solo Becker stuff is pretty awful! sorry :D

[djs495]

It took me 10 years to give 11 TOW a fair listen, and I have spun it pretty regularly for the past five. As much as I really wanted to like Morph The Cat, it's truly a collection of songs I don't need to hear.

[logosthedestroyer]

I doubt that

[stopthrm]

@logosthedestroyer Extremely picky listener?

[anymajordude74]

The mu major chord is used in this song...Donald Fagen used it in every album...at the :35 second mark (the lyrics are "you walked in") and the mu major chord used is GABD as you used it...very unique chords they chose

[davidtn]

Love the keyboard skills. My all time favorite group so this was very enjoyable.

[DrJoo68]

Well done my friend - liked this a lot. I am a huge Dan fan but play the guitar. Watching this made me realise how satisfying it must be to be able to play Dan on the keys. Jeese - I wish I could play the piano. You can get the whole tune out. Great stuff and thanks for this - much appreciated.

[TShane0423]

I think this song truly captures the essence of steely dan (the cleaner side of the dan). It speaks clear and deep about the souls of Don and Walt i think. Not only the lyrics, but the music reminds me most of the dan...

[ejt00b]

Please let me know what the "Walt" side of this song is, or most of Dan's COMPOSITIONS. When you see Fagen and Becker side by side, you realize where the strength of this band lies. Becker could have been any decent guitarist (sorry, Walt!)

[TShane0423]

ya, good point, it seems like the strength lies in fagen, but they supposedly write the lyrics together...how do you know who mainly writes the lyrics? but i definitely think fagen is the man between the two in the music...

[ejt00b]

Hey - thanks for responding... I'm not intimately acquainted with each of their solo material, but every time I saw the Dan live the contrast shone through sharply. The first time was at SPAC a number of years back from that show I just remember how weak Becker's solo material was. More recently at the Beacon, he tried to sing one of the songs and it just wilted. Anyway - kudos to Becker, he has some great guitar work in there. But good players are far more common than great writers.

[TShane0423]

ya, i'm not intimately aquainted with becker's solo stuff either. But, i know Fagen is a great writer, from being intimately aquainted with his solo work. THe becker solo work is not as lyrically compelling, intriguing, interesting, or as captivating as fagens. becker has more of a "blue collar" sense of writing, like a simple blues kind of style. Fagen is a deep storyteller. But the point i was making about dr. wu is that the lyrics are humble, sorrowful, desparate for a better way of life...

[TShane0423]

instead of the party excess lifestyle seen in such songs as hey nineteen, time out of mind, babylon sisters, gaslighting abbie, janie runaway, josie, etc. West of hollywood is another sorrowful one. But the music itself in dr. wu seems to relate to sorrow, desparation and the melody of hey nineteen for instance seems to be one of party excess and no feelings of guilt. it's amazing how they can do that. What's the SPAC?

[ejt00b]

Interesting - see, I would argue that most of those songs are about much more than "the party excess lifestyle" - that's all subjective anyway, what is "excess...."

Less important in a sense than the story itself sometimes is how it's told - and as you said, Fagen is a deep storyteller; he is a poet and an artist.

[ejt00b]

Dr. Wu to me is not really sad - to me it's a picture of two worlds - reality and a heroin fueled utopia - and the border line in between the two. Sometimes in the chorus here, I am pulled into the opium den...that's good writing.

[logosthedestroyer]

From what I gather, Walter is more a psychological counterbalance to Fagen

[Antoinetheman]

I'm learning this song on piano, and I really have to say I'm impressed with your playing. Fantastic!

[doctorbuzzard10]

this is brilliant, i love the babylon sisters clip aswell. nice purdie shuffle on the drums if that was you!

my favourite is 'any major dude' if you could do that it'd be great.

[logosthedestroyer]

I will certainly try! Yeah thanks I appreciate that its one of my favourite beats. Thanks v much for the kind words :)

[trickshottim]

Nice! Great version of a great song!

[Vibratone]

Absolutely wonderful (as are the rest of your videos) - thank you for sharing your talent with the world!

[logosthedestroyer]

Thank you for being so kind ^^

[sprocketman14]

Very nicely done!! I'm always envious of people that can play an instrument so well. Quite a talent.

[bassalltheway]

donald would be proud im sure!

[dagga36]

Wonderful! thank you :)

[logosthedestroyer]

No, thank you for the kind words! :)

[trojanjoe]

I sang, and I almost cried, because this is the Perfect song. The piano, the lyrics ... DAMN GOOD Song!

[logosthedestroyer]

I know what you mean man, its one of my favourite songs too. I kind of wish I knew what the lyrics were about though!

[franjon]

I think you're the guy I responded to some time ago regarding the Josie part on Rhodes? Once again you've done a fantastic job and even included some horn parts into the melody. Fantastic effort. Shame you're so far away because a lot of the stuff I write is similarly based chordally, although a little more modern, and thankfully I'm a guitar player. Wouldn't be able to compete with that. :-)

[logosthedestroyer]

Hey thanks man I appreciate that! Yeah Australia is quite far for a collaboration I guess lol, but you never know! It would be great to hear some of your stuff, why not upload some? :)

[logosthedestroyer]

Hey ust been looking at some of your vids, great stuff! Will certainly be checking it out on CdBaby!

[w1av]

Un believable man! Even the MU MAJOR chords are in there!!!!!! This is so damn GOOD!!!!

[logosthedestroyer]

Haha yeah the moos! Lol I love em, they give anything the steely dan sound! Thanks v much :)

[logosthedestroyer]

Thankyou! Haha yeah I'd love to play them all too, there's so many though! Hopefully I will be putting Babylon Sisters on next week sometime..

[Hgclaw]

This is just absolutely excellent. Thank you so much for the upload.

[logosthedestroyer]

Thanks very much, I appreciate that

[MikesMusic123]

yes!

thanks for that .

[logosthedestroyer]

Haha thanks :D

[CTruman5]

can you post the chords please logos. i could learn from watching your hands but that would take awhile. sweet vid man. im totally into steely dan myself. you might already know it but i could tell you all the chords and how to play peg. thanks again.

[logosthedestroyer]

I would if I had the time CTruman, unfortunately I have my dissertation (in history lol) to get done this month but maybe after that! The thing is the 'chords' and tune are the same in this, so just giving the chords might not be much help. Thanks for the offer on peg though!

[CTruman5]

ok i gotcha. thanks anyways man. your welcome for the offer. by the way saw that vid for too high, good stuff. stevie is really good to learn from and listen to. well keep on doing your thing logos and have fun.

[15maday]

Excellent; and you're doing us a service showing us how you play it - that's me sorted for the next few days/weeks - thanks.

[logosthedestroyer]

Well thanks, that is the idea :) I have learned much from YT so its nice to give something back. Thanks again!

[rebirthoftheflesh]

This rocks man. It's as if DF himself is playing it!

[logosthedestroyer]

Wow thanks, I don't think complements come any better than that! :)

[timandjesus]

Let's see a video for Home at Last, Please.

[logosthedestroyer]

Actually... I'm just about to put one up :)

[lapwiz]

Super!

[logosthedestroyer]

Thanks! :)

[gatofresco]

Thanks, bro. Much better angle.

[logosthedestroyer]

Thanks very much :)