Ein neues,altes Stück, wunderschön! 😊 Danke dafür,WÜNSCHE DIR eine gute Zeit, mit viel Licht und Sonnenschein, bleib gesund und froh¹, dann bleibt alles Gut! Liebe Grüße Christine 😊
This was one of the very first boogies I had in my repertoire. This was about a dozen years ago, so I don't remember how long it took. I was probably playing it at gigs after about 6 months of working on it. But you can probably add a year of general work leading up to that, and at least 2+ years of work to getting that relaxed and more fluid feel in the right hand. My general rule of thumb is that anything worth learning should take at least 3 years. This goes for pieces of music or any other artistic/craft endeavor.
This is a sweet piece. "I've never really thought of the blues and boogie-woogie as two different things." I agree. And I'd throw rock n roll and funk and soul in there. To me, pentatonic is to these genres what the English language is to a northern or southern or British or Australian accent. It's all just English but it sounds a little different. I don't think what Jerry Lee Lewis did is much different than ragtime. Possibly simplified and repeated. That's all. You are ten times the piano player BTW. You are varied. You have a great work ethic. This piece was mmm ... hmmm --so tasty. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Jerry Lee Lewis is a rock star, and I'm a piano nerd :) And i must say, nothing's harder than standing up while playing the piano!! Thanks , as always, for listening and commenting!
@@EthanLeinwand Yes, JLL is a rock star, and it took me well into adulthood to understand the difference between a great musician and a rock star. Great musicians have a great work ethic and rock stars have giant (often narcissistic) egos. I always wanted to be a great musician but it seemed so much like magic. I thought I could never do it. But I loved practice. As an adult I realize that you need desire work ethic, and a bright light to flesh out what's important. I didn't know the difference between a major 7 and a dominant 7 until I was 38. I thought people played music by "ear" or by "reading music". I understood rudimentary concepts of theory, but as an adult I have learned that listening to the sounds of the "theory" and learning those sounds teaches a system. This enables me to play a lot of things. But i's not magic, I must spend lots of time in baby steps coordinating my fingers (left with right), especially at transitions, and somehow I always thought "reading" music or hearing music "by ear" would magically make my fingers do right. Not so. I must practice. A lot. Slowly and repetitively for many hours the same thing. Gradually muscle memories form. This is how I know you work really really hard. I have a tremendous amount of respect for you. Your taste is the part that keeps me here. I'm glad you're not yelling "great balls of fire." But really I'm not even at JLL level. Over the last two years I've begun to understand blues. But those crazy rhythms you play. Wow. So many pieces. Wow. Many "musicians" just know a few songs. You have forgotten more than many will ever learn. You're in that top percentile. And I really dig it.
Truly humbled from the respect, and I wish you all the best in your journey. In some ways it gets easier, and in some ways, it never will ! But it seems like you've got the right approach : enjoying the discoveries and being willing to put in the work. If you're anything like me, or most of the pianists I know, you'll always see 100 ways you could be better. What are you working on these days?
@@EthanLeinwand Let me place a caveat. Since my divorce emotionally I've really felt inferior. This was the dynamic while I was married, and through the divorce I was further villified. I'm 49. And I'm flattered that you'd ask me any questions about my journey. So in 2020 I learned two for church " Joyful Joyful, and What a friend. These were extremely challenging because they required me to read bass clef, and this is like reading spanish or chinese. But I improved a lot reading bass clef just because. This week, I've worked on Ray Charles Shake a Tailfeather, and Taj Mahal She caught the Katy. I'm working on a medley in E with Mony Mony and Dancing in the Streets. One month ago I was learning Take 5, which I perfected, but I'm now rusty. The idea was to help me off the plateau of unable to improvise. I still can't (or I'm weak). I'm really a guitar player, but I find just one voice (my guitar) leaves the music absent of context (rhythm). When I play with others I find their taste in music doesn't match mine. So for three years I've been hitting piano hard. On guitar I spend time trying to integrate theory into my playing. Integrating theory into piano is much easier because I can see the notes. Playing guitar is like being blindfolded except even more confusing because the neck of a guitar has many "equivalents" (inharmomic). Middle C for example occurs approximately 6 times on the neck. So knowing where C is is difficult. Many guitarists don't bother learning the neck, and I really seem to have a block because I've played many years without knowing all the notes on the neck. Many guitarists seem to have this problem, and I believe now that it's absurd to believe that you can master guitar without the thorough knowledge of the neck. But guitarists play with only one hand. They can't play with both, and I can, because I have mad patience. Therefore, piano. I provide my own rhythm (context). I've played something since I was 9, but nothing near your level. I spent a career doing something else. So when my career was tainted by the divorce, I turned inward and began studying theory, which finally opened my eyes to what "the blues" means. Of course, in the evolution of music, blues is a relatively recent implementation of something that had always existed. As a guitar player I never understood blues because using the pentatonic scales seemed aimless (without context). This is why I now prefer the piano. For many years, I'd bang out a delicious rhythm on guitar while some endowed person would solo using the pentatonic scales. I never understood why playing the same scales (on my own) sounded so pointless. When I started a deeper dive on piano, I realized something very important that I never heard a teacher say (not even on youtube). In order to play blues you must rub the minor seven up against the major sixth. Without that--no blues. No magic. You may not agree, but think about this. Even though major/minor is determined by the 3rd, you can play blues ignoring the 3rd all together. But you can't have blues without that dominant seven, and if you play a minor sixth (within the minor scale where the dominant seven properly belongs anyway) you'll just have minor. Of course, the 3rd moving minor to major is beautiful, like the awkwardness of the tritone, but I'd argue that the dominant 7 rubbing against the major 6 is really the magic. So at 49, seldom having had any teacher, I feel on the precipice of where you are. But the difference is my attention deficit disorder. Realistically I have years before I reach your level. That's because playing things like "music box dancer" has showed me that Despite the apparent ease with which a "real" musician plays, they weren't just "born" to do it. It takes a lot of work. It sounds like magic, but it's not magic. It's the result of hours (nay days) of practice. I can see that some things do get easier, but even when you are professional level (like you), the musician must humble herself with the material and work diligently to absorb a specific piece. Sure I can chord within the key of C. I can play an octave bass with just about anything. I can work the fifth into the bass, and I can play in various keys with a blues bass. A layperson may not notice the difference. I sing, which I hope covers up my stunted musicianship. But I know now what I was born to do. I want to spend 8 hours or more per day with a piece that I'll never be able to play. And if it takes a month, I'll play it. But I don't put the hammer on the nail as well as you do. I love and envy what you do. I find it sad that it has become a lost art. I blame thomas edison. This music that became popular in the years that followed the emancipation proclamation is the highest evolution of music. Even bach and mozart would agree, I'm sure. That's why this music (blues) was quickly appropriated by capitalists and people that cared nothing about music. They eventually turned it into rock and roll where musicians took the back seat to the narcissists. But the apex was the rag time era. Jazz is something else altogether with its ii V I pattern. It's all about how much you know, and it's seldom about what you feel. Improvisation is tantamount to bragging. Music must be felt, and I feel rag time better than any other music. I think it's the same as blues with more complex rhythms and melodies. More challenging than what we call blues or rock n roll. It's not simply "respect". I would use the word admiration, or even love. What you're doing for me is like a kid watching MJ play basketball. I covet it. I want it. I am determined to have it. I am open to insight and advice if you're feeling generous, but I know beyond sheet music (and learning to read bass clef) the best advice for me is to spend the time and effort to do it. Hammer on nail, like Ethan and Isto. Three years ago "Shake a Tailfeather" was intimidating. Now, I've learned the main riff to "What'd I say?" and "shake a tailfeather". I can't play all of it because I haven't spent the time it would take to mimic the details. Weighing time v. reward, I just play the main riff over the 1-4-5 (12 bar pattern). Like I mentioned, I like to sing. Playing a basic left and right hand when you're singing can get you a long way with laypersons. In another couple of weeks, I'll be able to play shake a tailfeather. I already know most of it, but haven't quite committed the song aspect to my long term memory. I know that you have crammed these pieces into your long term memory. And that's admirable. Laudable. Enviable. Respect might imply that I can't do it myself. But I believe it's just a matter of effort on my part. An effort that life has prevented me from making, and I am determined that I'll be able to do it, one day. I love it when you're bouncing your left and up and down all around coloring the piece (as it was authored, of course). I imagine 100 years ago when the pianist was writing it. Part formula, part his own voice, part God's magic. I don't believe that we should write any more music. To me, it's all been done. Any songs you hear today have nothing to add to music's evolution (lack of creativity musically), and these lyrics are simply a product of the "artists'" self-indulgence. These days I spend my days alone--semi-retired. Living off savings. Lots of time. Intending to sell my wares in local bars, soon. What you're doing is noble. And you have great taste. If someone was putting Chopin up on youtube, I'd call that noble as well. But it's not exactly my taste. I like the best. Chocolate. Alabama football. Isto. Ethan. I downloaded that lecture you presented at the theatre. It was like listening to a history professor. But instead of wars and politics and religion--music, sweet music. I only knew about Joplin before finding your channel. So all these dead guys have been proliferated by you to me. I'm sure that if they're up there, they really like you. I know I do. As I grew older, I have consistently pondered Life's purpose. My purpose. Now, I think about the bucket list. I don't want to go Egypt to see the pyramids, or australia to see the great barrier reef. I don't use any of my formal education any more, and if I came up with a bucket list, I might as well just make a copy of your channel. Because if the only I do for the rest of my life, is catch up with you, it would be a life well-spent. I've had a nice house and a nice car and a young wife. It's overrated. Nothing feels better than playing piano. Not even guitar. And if I could play anything today, it would be Albert Ammons' boogie woogie blues. But I'm not there yet. What a work ethic, Ethan! They all think it's magic. You are like Houdini, you know. He wasn't REALLY magic. He worked his ass off and even lost his life for his love of performance. You are the 2020 Houdini of ragtime. As magical as possible in reality (over fiction). I wish you were making a lot of money. But I already know you don't care about that part. You are a performer. And you're tip top. Ok. I'm stopping. My coffee is gone.
@@EthanLeinwand Before he became a rock star, Jerry Lee Lewis was a piano nerd and developed an incredibly full and impressive blues based solo piano style, absorbing the rich and fertile piano blues from his local area of Ferriday, Louisiana. His first few recording sessions at Sun records are crammed with invention and sounds which hark back to pre-WWII barrel house.
You did it again. Knocked it out of the park. I could listen to you all day but I have to go and practice my piano
Appreciate it ❤️ ...and yes, would much rather you practice then listen 🙂
(I'd be making more videos myself, but I'm having too much fun practicing)
awesome, love boogie woogie blues. Ammons was truly a musical genius.
Indeed! And he had a power behind his touch that is unmatched.
This is a great tempo, a great groove - and it is rich with ideas. I will be able to learn a lot watching and listening to your performance here.
Love hearing that!
Ein neues,altes Stück, wunderschön! 😊
Danke dafür,WÜNSCHE DIR eine gute Zeit, mit viel Licht und Sonnenschein, bleib gesund und froh¹, dann bleibt alles Gut!
Liebe Grüße Christine 😊
Ethan , you re the best.))
Great rendition and great style as always 🤓
Yeah!!! So good. Miss hearing you play live my friend.
I absolutely love how you play this ❤️ I started learning this with my teacher yesterday ❤️ I’ll never play it as well as you though 😊
I enjoy playing this at a nice easy-going tempo.....though it doesn't really make it any easier.
@@EthanLeinwand I really like your tempo too ❤️🎹 it really suits the piece 😊 I can’t play very fast anyway so it’s just as well 😆
Great music, thanks!
Amazing!! How long did it take you to learn this beautiful tune?
This was one of the very first boogies I had in my repertoire. This was about a dozen years ago, so I don't remember how long it took. I was probably playing it at gigs after about 6 months of working on it. But you can probably add a year of general work leading up to that, and at least 2+ years of work to getting that relaxed and more fluid feel in the right hand.
My general rule of thumb is that anything worth learning should take at least 3 years. This goes for pieces of music or any other artistic/craft endeavor.
@@EthanLeinwand Awesome! Thank you I appreciate it! You have great talent! Thank you for sharing your talent with us❤️
Super blues!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW!
This is a sweet piece. "I've never really thought of the blues and boogie-woogie as two different things." I agree. And I'd throw rock n roll and funk and soul in there. To me, pentatonic is to these genres what the English language is to a northern or southern or British or Australian accent. It's all just English but it sounds a little different. I don't think what Jerry Lee Lewis did is much different than ragtime. Possibly simplified and repeated. That's all. You are ten times the piano player BTW. You are varied. You have a great work ethic. This piece was mmm ... hmmm --so tasty. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Jerry Lee Lewis is a rock star, and I'm a piano nerd :) And i must say, nothing's harder than standing up while playing the piano!!
Thanks , as always, for listening and commenting!
@@EthanLeinwand Yes, JLL is a rock star, and it took me well into adulthood to understand the difference between a great musician and a rock star. Great musicians have a great work ethic and rock stars have giant (often narcissistic) egos. I always wanted to be a great musician but it seemed so much like magic. I thought I could never do it. But I loved practice. As an adult I realize that you need desire work ethic, and a bright light to flesh out what's important. I didn't know the difference between a major 7 and a dominant 7 until I was 38. I thought people played music by "ear" or by "reading music". I understood rudimentary concepts of theory, but as an adult I have learned that listening to the sounds of the "theory" and learning those sounds teaches a system. This enables me to play a lot of things. But i's not magic, I must spend lots of time in baby steps coordinating my fingers (left with right), especially at transitions, and somehow I always thought "reading" music or hearing music "by ear" would magically make my fingers do right. Not so. I must practice. A lot. Slowly and repetitively for many hours the same thing. Gradually muscle memories form. This is how I know you work really really hard. I have a tremendous amount of respect for you. Your taste is the part that keeps me here. I'm glad you're not yelling "great balls of fire." But really I'm not even at JLL level. Over the last two years I've begun to understand blues. But those crazy rhythms you play. Wow. So many pieces. Wow. Many "musicians" just know a few songs. You have forgotten more than many will ever learn. You're in that top percentile. And I really dig it.
Truly humbled from the respect, and I wish you all the best in your journey. In some ways it gets easier, and in some ways, it never will ! But it seems like you've got the right approach : enjoying the discoveries and being willing to put in the work. If you're anything like me, or most of the pianists I know, you'll always see 100 ways you could be better. What are you working on these days?
@@EthanLeinwand Let me place a caveat. Since my divorce emotionally I've really felt inferior. This was the dynamic while I was married, and through the divorce I was further villified. I'm 49.
And I'm flattered that you'd ask me any questions about my journey.
So in 2020 I learned two for church " Joyful Joyful, and What a friend. These were extremely challenging because they required me to read bass clef, and this is like reading spanish or chinese. But I improved a lot reading bass clef just because.
This week, I've worked on Ray Charles Shake a Tailfeather, and Taj Mahal She caught the Katy. I'm working on a medley in E with Mony Mony and Dancing in the Streets.
One month ago I was learning Take 5, which I perfected, but I'm now rusty. The idea was to help me off the plateau of unable to improvise. I still can't (or I'm weak).
I'm really a guitar player, but I find just one voice (my guitar) leaves the music absent of context (rhythm). When I play with others I find their taste in music doesn't match mine.
So for three years I've been hitting piano hard. On guitar I spend time trying to integrate theory into my playing.
Integrating theory into piano is much easier because I can see the notes. Playing guitar is like being blindfolded except even more confusing because the neck of a guitar has many "equivalents" (inharmomic). Middle C for example occurs approximately 6 times on the neck. So knowing where C is is difficult. Many guitarists don't bother learning the neck, and I really seem to have a block because I've played many years without knowing all the notes on the neck. Many guitarists seem to have this problem, and I believe now that it's absurd to believe that you can master guitar without the thorough knowledge of the neck.
But guitarists play with only one hand. They can't play with both, and I can, because I have mad patience. Therefore, piano. I provide my own rhythm (context).
I've played something since I was 9, but nothing near your level. I spent a career doing something else.
So when my career was tainted by the divorce, I turned inward and began studying theory, which finally opened my eyes to what "the blues" means.
Of course, in the evolution of music, blues is a relatively recent implementation of something that had always existed.
As a guitar player I never understood blues because using the pentatonic scales seemed aimless (without context).
This is why I now prefer the piano. For many years, I'd bang out a delicious rhythm on guitar while some endowed person would solo using the pentatonic scales. I never understood why playing the same scales (on my own) sounded so pointless.
When I started a deeper dive on piano, I realized something very important that I never heard a teacher say (not even on youtube). In order to play blues you must rub the minor seven up against the major sixth. Without that--no blues. No magic. You may not agree, but think about this. Even though major/minor is determined by the 3rd, you can play blues ignoring the 3rd all together. But you can't have blues without that dominant seven, and if you play a minor sixth (within the minor scale where the dominant seven properly belongs anyway) you'll just have minor. Of course, the 3rd moving minor to major is beautiful, like the awkwardness of the tritone, but I'd argue that the dominant 7 rubbing against the major 6 is really the magic.
So at 49, seldom having had any teacher, I feel on the precipice of where you are. But the difference is my attention deficit disorder. Realistically I have years before I reach your level.
That's because playing things like "music box dancer" has showed me that Despite the apparent ease with which a "real" musician plays, they weren't just "born" to do it. It takes a lot of work. It sounds like magic, but it's not magic. It's the result of hours (nay days) of practice.
I can see that some things do get easier, but even when you are professional level (like you), the musician must humble herself with the material and work diligently to absorb a specific piece. Sure I can chord within the key of C. I can play an octave bass with just about anything. I can work the fifth into the bass, and I can play in various keys with a blues bass. A layperson may not notice the difference. I sing, which I hope covers up my stunted musicianship. But I know now what I was born to do. I want to spend 8 hours or more per day with a piece that I'll never be able to play. And if it takes a month, I'll play it.
But I don't put the hammer on the nail as well as you do. I love and envy what you do. I find it sad that it has become a lost art. I blame thomas edison.
This music that became popular in the years that followed the emancipation proclamation is the highest evolution of music. Even bach and mozart would agree, I'm sure. That's why this music (blues) was quickly appropriated by capitalists and people that cared nothing about music. They eventually turned it into rock and roll where musicians took the back seat to the narcissists.
But the apex was the rag time era.
Jazz is something else altogether with its ii V I pattern. It's all about how much you know, and it's seldom about what you feel. Improvisation is tantamount to bragging.
Music must be felt, and I feel rag time better than any other music. I think it's the same as blues with more complex rhythms and melodies. More challenging than what we call blues or rock n roll.
It's not simply "respect". I would use the word admiration, or even love. What you're doing for me is like a kid watching MJ play basketball. I covet it. I want it. I am determined to have it.
I am open to insight and advice if you're feeling generous, but I know beyond sheet music (and learning to read bass clef) the best advice for me is to spend the time and effort to do it. Hammer on nail, like Ethan and Isto.
Three years ago "Shake a Tailfeather" was intimidating. Now, I've learned the main riff to "What'd I say?" and "shake a tailfeather". I can't play all of it because I haven't spent the time it would take to mimic the details. Weighing time v. reward, I just play the main riff over the 1-4-5 (12 bar pattern). Like I mentioned, I like to sing. Playing a basic left and right hand when you're singing can get you a long way with laypersons.
In another couple of weeks, I'll be able to play shake a tailfeather. I already know most of it, but haven't quite committed the song aspect to my long term memory.
I know that you have crammed these pieces into your long term memory. And that's admirable. Laudable. Enviable. Respect might imply that I can't do it myself. But I believe it's just a matter of effort on my part. An effort that life has prevented me from making, and I am determined that I'll be able to do it, one day.
I love it when you're bouncing your left and up and down all around coloring the piece (as it was authored, of course). I imagine 100 years ago when the pianist was writing it. Part formula, part his own voice, part God's magic.
I don't believe that we should write any more music. To me, it's all been done. Any songs you hear today have nothing to add to music's evolution (lack of creativity musically), and these lyrics are simply a product of the "artists'" self-indulgence.
These days I spend my days alone--semi-retired. Living off savings. Lots of time. Intending to sell my wares in local bars, soon.
What you're doing is noble. And you have great taste. If someone was putting Chopin up on youtube, I'd call that noble as well. But it's not exactly my taste. I like the best. Chocolate. Alabama football. Isto. Ethan.
I downloaded that lecture you presented at the theatre. It was like listening to a history professor. But instead of wars and politics and religion--music, sweet music.
I only knew about Joplin before finding your channel. So all these dead guys have been proliferated by you to me. I'm sure that if they're up there, they really like you. I know I do.
As I grew older, I have consistently pondered Life's purpose. My purpose. Now, I think about the bucket list. I don't want to go Egypt to see the pyramids, or australia to see the great barrier reef. I don't use any of my formal education any more, and if I came up with a bucket list, I might as well just make a copy of your channel. Because if the only I do for the rest of my life, is catch up with you, it would be a life well-spent. I've had a nice house and a nice car and a young wife. It's overrated. Nothing feels better than playing piano. Not even guitar. And if I could play anything today, it would be Albert Ammons' boogie woogie blues. But I'm not there yet.
What a work ethic, Ethan! They all think it's magic. You are like Houdini, you know. He wasn't REALLY magic. He worked his ass off and even lost his life for his love of performance. You are the 2020 Houdini of ragtime. As magical as possible in reality (over fiction). I wish you were making a lot of money. But I already know you don't care about that part. You are a performer. And you're tip top.
Ok. I'm stopping. My coffee is gone.
@@EthanLeinwand Before he became a rock star, Jerry Lee Lewis was a piano nerd and developed an incredibly full and impressive blues based solo piano style, absorbing the rich and fertile piano blues from his local area of Ferriday, Louisiana. His first few recording sessions at Sun records are crammed with invention and sounds which hark back to pre-WWII barrel house.
One of the first I learned too. A simplified incomplete Ammons transcription was in a boogie instruction book I believe. Anyway great job Ethan.
You da bomb
Oh yeah :0)