Intro to the home studio of Jordan Rudess-Part 10

This was a series of promotional videos I produced in January 2001, with Dream Theater keyboardist, Jordan Rudess, on behalf of my then client, Mackie Designs. This was an incredibly popular video series on MusicPlayer.com. Here Jordan performs an amazing piano solo on his Baby Grand in the family living room. For more info, check out www.jordanrudess.com or www.prthatrocks.com

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• Jordan
• Rudess
• Dream
• Theater
• Keyboards
• Synthesizer
• home
• recording
• Kurzweil

[jazzmuzician]

This guy is pretty good at piano yes, but just because he has no sheet music infront of him doesn't mean it's improvised, plus if you listen halfway in theres some underlying chords in the back that's not piano.

[PRThatRocks]

You missed the part where he hit the remote for the accompaniment.

[raymondothedoors]

Professor Rudess

[SparkShredder]

@jazzmuzician

Jordan doesn't need accompaniment...he IS accompaniment himself...;)

[SharmaYelverton]

@Roleren Yes there is truth in what you say certainly but bassed on my own modest observations of the greats and my own experience I would say that his are unusually so. His technique is unconventional certainly but I think he also has unusually large hands and long wrists which may contribute to this. I would recommend adopting this aspect of his technique into your playing unless you have hands similar to his. I certainly don't mean to fault his playing though and it works very well for him.

[Roleren]

@SharmaYelverton When going fast, you need to lower the wrist on Grand pianos, to get connected to each note, It's standard theory ;)

[necroyoli08]

@divyx He attended Juilliard for like 8 years, how strong is that ?

[divyx]

How strong classical background does Jordan have?

[joshcloudz]

@jazzmuzician you are sooooooo funny! and to think that your idname is jazzmuzician! or were you closing your eyes during the whole session??? lolxxxxx

[maxinthesizer1]

amazing jordan...best forever....whith the remote control jaja......AMAZING!!

[OrangeSodaKing]

@Aristowi I wouldn't be surprised if he practices things like Chopin's etudes to keep his chops at tip-top shape.

[SharmaYelverton]

His wrists are so low! If he wasn't playing so well I would say that hand position is bad technique....

[HebbyMetal]

@PsychotikPandora NP dude