Summertime - Jazz Piano

[rodi0877]

WONDERFUL SONG !!!

[Lot2learn]

@rodi0877 Thanks for your comment.

[jessroy2004]

wow, 1:29 & 3:18 was real nice! Everything else too! lol

[severelyaddictedgal]

This is so cool. Thank you so much!

-aspiring jazz pianist. :P

[Lot2learn]

@severelyaddictedgal I appreciate your comment, thanks.

[AlfaToTheOmega]

I've bought the pack, love it.

[mcdanny19]

who composed the song?

[rouge0002]

@mcdanny19 the song was composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.

[sarasmilepiano]

This is muy excelente- Thanks!

[Lot2learn]

@sarasmilepiano I appreciate your comment, thanks.

[Waddamattau]

thank you so much. if i could only learn how to play like you, i could die in peace

[Lot2learn]

@Waddamattau Thanks for your comment.

[MegaDreamer1960]

ONLY THIS: DEEP FEELING, HIGH QUALITY, PURE TALENT, ENOUGH SAID PERIOD.

[Mrinstantinduction]

you are going way to fast!!!! for gods sake make a slower version in wich i can actually follow

[Djanurmas]

Great play. 

[localpm]

Great version.

[jaguarcesar]

Maestro!!!!

[jimenemi]

Thank you for a great video, you're an amazing player.

In fact a bought a song from some time ago, that's how much I love your playing.

I'm a little puzzled by some of your chords naming, for instance on 4:04 is shown as playing Ab7, which should be notes Gb Ab C Eb but you are playing notes Gb Bb C F instead.

This happens quite a bit in this video, is it a problem in your software or the chords names are actually correct?

Thanks again,

-MJ

[Lot2learn]

@jimenemi The chords listed are the basic chords from a lead sheet. I use rootless voicings for the chords which usually contain the 9th, 13th and/or other extended harmonies. This is common in jazz. Since the bass player is playing the root of the chord there is no reason for the piano to do the same. The Ab7 chord you reference is voiced 7th-9th-3rd-13th.

[LanaGame]

This might be useful for my jazz composition study! Thank you :)

[crazychickos]

This is so helpful. :// its way too fast dude.

[alejandroulloa1]

Gracias por compartir tus habilidades, un saludo desde Guadalajara mexico.

Alejandro Ulloa

[timmay301]

very good indeed

[maccagrabme]

Great playing but can I just ask, am I right in thinking you almost always add a 6th or 9th to your chords but refer to them as 7ths for convenience? I just want to get a more laid back jazz feel like you have and wonder if this is one of many magic ingredients? thanks

[msdutchess1987]

I can listen you playing 24X7X365...Thank you but I am a beginner how is this going to help me.. I need step by step visual and PDF istructions ;)

[renuj72]

you made it look like it's so simple.. man you're good

[Lot2learn]

@renuj72 Thanks for your comment

[MrJazzito]

this more than a tutorial jazz. It realy help to find new ways to improvise. Than you.

[Lot2learn]

@MrJazzito I appreciate your comment.

[bfulbright]

Well, this is awesome. This is so well done and thought out. Thanks for your planning and efforts to make this available. I hope to fold this into all of my playing - piano, accordion and guitar. so fine.

[Lot2learn]

@bfulbright Thanks much for your comment.

[Excalibur741]

I honestly appreciate your videos. You inspire students of music to study jazz and follow your lead. Great video. Thanks.

[Lot2learn]

@Excalibur741 I appreciate your comment, thanks.

[9ira4]

Thats amazing

[KingCrimson250]

Even though I'm a guitarist, not a pianist, your videos have transformed my way of thinking and have given me a lot of inspiration. Your annotations especially are incredibly helpful. You're a gifted teacher, and thanks for all your hard work. Cheers!

[Lot2learn]

@KingCrimson250 I appreciate your comment - thanks!

[maccagrabme]

If you were teaching the ordinary person, someone fairly motivated, keen to learn jazz but had nothing but a basic knowledge of major/minor chords, basic scales, arps and a few basic songs in their repertoire, how long would you say would be a reasonable time for them to be able to grasp and play this and what training path would they need? thanks

[Lot2learn]

@maccagrabme Possibly 2 - 3 years, but that's just for understanding the concepts. For me, this type of playing is a reflection of one's life experiences - so it is a life-long process and each person's playing reflects their own experiences up until the current point of time that a piece is played. As far as training path - for me it involves intense listening to the masters.

[bazucchini]

Cool color commentary! Thanks for chord notations,

[Lot2learn]

@bazucchini I appreciate your comment.

[VIDzax]

I am so glad someone finally has a good easy to learn tutorial. It sounds amazing, thank you so much.

[Lot2learn]

@VIDzax I appreciate your comment.

[marcosburbano]

that version is the bbox?

[TwinkyAfro]

This is crazy! Wish I could do that!

[GregTyson]

Thanks for this L2L. These changes are brilliant - such a modern take. The changes are just perfect for this modern version. Thanks for all your videos!

[SuperEekster]

i gotta subscribe to you, man!

love this very comprehensible tutorial, although i'm not on par (not even close) with the skills you just show in this vid.

[deinfrank]

Nice sound man

[Lot2learn]

@deinfrank I appreciate your comment.

[bmdu69]

Very very good dude, i want play like you, but hard to learn ..... :/

[777mrpiano777]

I wish i had your knowledge!

thankyou so much for these videos.

i feel like im sort of cheating if ijust copy it.

i guess the idea is to incorporate one idea and build on it in different keys rythms scales etc.

how did you learn?

[Lot2learn]

@777mrpiano777 Thanks for the comment. Yes, it is okay to try to copy because you will never sound exactly like who you are copying and then if you try to copy a whole bunch of different players you will find your own voice in there somewhere eventually. ;-)

[777mrpiano777]

@Lot2learn Cheers mate! :)

[freitasnetuno]

it's one hell of a fight to learn that =D

[Lot2learn]

@freitasnetuno Obrigado...

[pianoniek96]

your amazing dude/dudette!

[jgpanta]

rootless voicings man.....evans would be proud....you rule!

[Lot2learn]

@jgpanta Thanks!

[Pianodrum95]

mhh.. the Original starts with dmi7, doesn't it?!?

Cool... ;)

[florbo73]

Very brilliant version, Great! I see you use D7(#9) as substitute of Dm7(b5), nice so what chords passages, to go outside over Cm7 can use A pentatonic?

thanks a lot Roger

[gqlegacy]

Love it.... you inspire me.

[GospelMusicians]

Hey man...just to let you know...MIDIKeyz can do the keys in different colors. Just go to Preferences to choose the two different colors and you can choose the split key on the main interface.

[7notemode]

Your choice to use a really hard swinging drum track and those bluesy chord subs really put your stamp on this piece. I loved the back and forth between the blues and pentatonic. Great post, Roger!!

[bdtoel]

Love all of your stuff. Thanks!!!

[Lot2learn]

@bdtoel Thanks for your comment!

[Jazzglenn]

WOW O_O

[Lot2learn]

@Jazzglenn I appreciate your comment.

[Jazzglenn]

@Lot2learn i see flares and vectors whenever i close my eyes, the energy slowly building... i just wana dance with somebody whenever i play this in YT :D

[caskigm]

Jazz2511 is good but I can read Lot2learn music much better and I like the idea of him using BIAB as I do , Thanks Roger

[caskigm]

I Think your video is fantastic , Thank You , Chuck

[Lot2learn]

@caskigm Thanks for tour comment.

[43ton]

Thanks!!!

[mihmus]

Wow...

I must see it many times more... :)

THANKS!!!

[Lot2learn]

@mihmus Thanks for your comment!

[TPBass1224]

I always look forward to your videos & they never disappoint!! Thanks!!!

[Lot2learn]

@TPBass1224 I appreciate your comment, thanks!

[PianistaItaliano]

Great version of this song,I enjoy it a lot

[RockHardPianist]

I love this!  I key I use regularly. Now I can steal some incredible licks! :)

[Lot2learn]

@RockHardPianist I appreciate your comment.

[nicholas9999]

Wonderful stuff. Plus, your stuff is also highly educational because you are essentially calling out the chord changes and stuff as they happen and basically giving lots of helpful advice as you go. Best of the piano players on the net, without question.

[1979saxman]

@nicholas9999 With all due respect to Lot 2 Learn, "jazz 2511" is the undisputed king of the jazz piano players on youtube.

[tbcass]

@1979saxman Why? Because You say so? The "undisputed" claim is pretty hard to back up.

[nicholas9999]

@1979saxman - I have listened to jazz2511. Sorry, man, but I just don't agree. It seems to me that Lot2Learn is more "modern" in his conceptions, and sometimes more inventive and more experimental in his playing. Maybe it is more of a style thing.

[Lot2learn]

@nicholas9999 Thanks for your comment!

[bluesforU2]

Outstanding!!!

[Lot2learn]

@bluesforU2 I appreciate your comment.

[localpm]

Great!!

[MrKeys57]

very good, as always, just leaning back and enjoying! by the way, what´s the bacup music from? sounds very live!