This INSANE Technique Makes Keith Jarrett Untouchable
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💥 In this video I will discuss Keith Jarrett's insane technique and what sets him apart from everyone else. Be sure to watch this AMAZING performance of Keith's so that you know what I'm talking about :)
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Fantastic explanation and demonstration Pierre! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Rick said it for me! Thanks, Rick! ❤
praise from Rick Beato!
@aerialcombat Yup… I would feel better about myself just because I’ve watched a video that Rick has.
But this IS a really good demonstration/explanation.
Rick made interview with Keith❤.
I did an interview with Keith for Jazz Times and asked him about the "impossible" things he did...he had coherent answer: he said that if your hearing (inner ear) was strong enough that your fingers wouldn't have to be searching and scuffling. That made sense because when my own hearing was really good on a given night, my fingers weren't "worried" about "how" to play. On bad nights, I was "trying" to play and "trying" and "succeeding" are mutually exclusive concepts. Ha!
That’s very insightful. Sounds like the flow from his brain to the fingers was really unrestricted.
It sounds like the great advice in a long essay I downloaded about focus and flow in performance, which is essentially to not think about the mechanics of the process, but instead to "play the ideal music that's in your mind."
But all based on years and years of practicing, playing, listening et cetera. Only "flowing" isn't enough to produce such results as a Köln Concert, hell, even improvise it :)
You’re searching for notes when your ‘inner ear’ isn’t working? Or is it from NOT being able to play the Melodie’s ‘you hear in your head’ fast enough? The best day of my life (at home I have to stop figure it out note for note in my head. Extra finesse, new way approachin a scale?. Seems impossible, As if you haven’t already played same thing ,upside down, backwards, sideways, 30 years hence
wise words from a wise man. When I use my ear I can play jazz. If I have to get cerebral too much then I get jammed up. No wonder Keith needs a quiet venue to play at his best
Keith Jarrett is transcendent. I cannot say that of any other jazz pianist.
Polyrhythmic finger-drumming....percussive-harmonic-melodic gestalt.... improv exploratory open-ended meditations....What an inspiration and thanks for your timely reminder...every drummer-pianist should be doing it daily 🤩
I like how calm and relaxing this video is.
That's the goal-- life is stressful enough!
Ostinato's appear to be related to Stride piano. I wouldn't be surprised if it derived from Stride. Stride, to me, is more difficult cause you are playing and Ostinato with the left along with chord changes. I love Keith but Art Tatum was a master at ostinatos and stride. Listen to Art Tatum play "Begin the Beguine". This is a serious ostinato with blistering piano lines. I believe Keith Jarrett would agree.
Great video! I'm excited to stumble across this because I watched that very Keith Jarrett video about 2 years ago and commented on how amazing it is. Another commenter asked me to describe what was so unusual and this is what I posted:
"Well, first of all, his ability to establish such a rhythmically dynamic ostinato and maintain it throughout the piece is incredible. Then he begins a simple harmonic riff that basically just oscillates between the tonic and dominant. Then he begins the melodic invention, at first diatonic - exploring the whole scale - then venturing into borrowed harmony, and then finally into a full use of chromaticism. Around the middle of the piece, his left hand and right hand completely diverge, as though two different pianists were playing together. That little harmonic refrain from the beginning returns periodically throughout the piece, as if to give the listener something to grab onto. And under all of this, that ostinato never wavers.
Then, as if that wasn't enough, he brings the train into the station (so to speak) with a wonderful decrescendo of tempo, rhythm, and harmony, bringing it all to a perfectly satisfying conclusion.
To think that this is all improvised, on the spot, is simply jaw-dropping to a classically trained musician like me. I don't particularly like jazz music and I certainly don't listen to it regularly. But some performers rise so high in their accomplishments that even those who don't follow that field can recognize and appreciate it. I place Keith Jarrett in that group, along with people like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Yo-Yo Ma, and perhaps Martha Argerich."
Very well said. Yes!
touche..Martha Argerich..well done musical explanation
I love that ostinato by Keith and have been practicing it for a while, thank you for the analysis!
In his interview, in 00s I guess, Keith said he even wanted to let his left hand play free. It's the time when he started to play shorter improvisations than an hour long ones. At the same time, Shostakovich influences were detected in his later solo piano concerts.
I think he's the only person who did Justice to shostakovich
Greatest living musician.
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@TheKristijanFunaric You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but there is no one greatest musician.
I am classical pianist and can play easily most difficult things, but when I see that ostinato I feel humble, that would require dozens of hours of practice for one bar only. Great video, thanks a lot.
I spent hours and hours many years ago trying to learn to improvise over that exact ostinato. A wonderful piece by Jarrett!
Same! ❤
You are a talent as a speaker, teacher and musician. I loved this video!
Made my day. Thanks for the kind comments 🙏🏻
Kieth Jarrett said he never practiced improvisation, so who knows how he approached that particular skill.
So play by ear.
To me it’s his use of legato and non legato in bebop lines that gives him a very unique sound. Most jazz pianists only use non legato for bop lines.
COMPLETELY agree. I listen to that encore AT LEAST once a week. Absolute bliss. 😊
Good points... the way I once heard it explained was "The left and right hand are not independent, they are INTERdependent."
This is the most profound thing any music teacher ever said to me and I never forgot it.
Amazing. Great way to think of it!!
The funny thing is, if you just listen to KJ w/ his trio you might get the impression that his left hand isn't that monstrous. It's really in the solo recordings where you realise what an anomaly he is.
Great point! His left hand is insane.
Congratulations, Pierre - you nailed it. It's funny, I thought about making a video about this issue years ago, too - but never did, so you took the burden from me 😂. Fact is that Keith usually is performing one or two ostinato based improvisations per concert - a huge reservoir! I use many of them just to noodle around in the morning or when teaching improvisation, and it's always a lot of fun!
Ha! Thanks for watching.
More Keith Jarrett content please!
One could create a left-hand ostinato and with the right hand work through Syncopation for the Modern Drummer, by Ted Reed. There are many rhythms and phrases there, all presented in a logical manner. I still use it for building independence as a drummer and I’ve been playing for over 30 years.
Totally!
I heard Keith in Vancouver in June 1974 improvise solo piano, it was mind blowing (Vancouver Sun Jazz critic Bob Smith wrote the same thing then), a religious experience, extremely high energy with thick gospel chords. Another Piano teacher on youtube went further, he said that KJ was the greatest pianist of the recorded era. That particular piece you demonstrated from the Bremen Lausanne album was a more refined version of an earlier improvisation from 1972 in Europe as someone posted below though. Back in the 70's Keith admitted to his brother Scott (guitar player and singer that made an album with Keith) according to my friend Nels Guloien who was his drummer that there were other pianists that were better than him, but Keith did get more and more technical as the years went by although his most creative time may have been the 70's. Rick Beato posted this as the most beautiful 2 minutes of music (the energy is comparable with the Vancouver concert of 1974)... ruclips.net/video/0BgXCDuqZvM/видео.html
Please have a look at this video of Dutch national hero Cor Bakker, another good example of ostinato: ruclips.net/video/fNSMjvP89lI/видео.html.
Cor composed this 'exercise' himself for his conservatory exam. With his right hand he improvises away, mainly Dutch folk songs and fragments of our national anthem.
Technique is one tool to express yourself and many pianists are gifted, Yuja Wang, Martha Argerich,Lang Lang, Keith Jarrett,Brad Meldhau,Chick Corea,Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson and others. In the case of Keith Jarrett is forte is the lyrical playing using ears only and no preconceived pattern except from melodic phrases took from romantic era ,( he did played all the bebop languages at early age and with is trio Jazz standard). Jarrett was also the only pianist being able to play like Ornette Coleman.
Try the exercise: On a Cmin chord play only C D Eb F G B ( avoid A or Ab) and do anything and it will by ear reach a pendulum of melodic Cm G7 Cm G7. Try it on reverse cycle of fiths ( Cmin Gmin Dmin Amin etc…)
My point is you can’t only explain is genius by his only ability to play ostinato ( Meldhau is far way out now )
Jarrett improvisation is a mixture of Rachmaninov-Ornette Coleman- Bud Powell for the diatonic playing.
Jarrett is the Glen Gould of jazz. Lyrical voice to a musical phrase.
Corea was the Picasso cubist pianist
Meldhau is the Jackson Pollock of the piano with a pop rhythm like a drummer in 16th 32th rythmes.
You had me until you compared Mehldau to Jackson Pollock. I don’t understand that comparison.
@@mattpiet239 I am talking about the outside playing ( bebop Powell Triton sub, Coltrane’s changes, Brecker post Coltrane outside playing , Steve Grossman modalism outside playing,Corea diminished scales outside playing, Marsalis triads outside playing,Mike stern bebop outside playing, Hancock -Davis outside playing ,Garbarek chromatic outside playing and at last in the spectrum you have Meldhau with a very stretchy outside playing using something descending runs made of 3 augmented scales divided by a chromatic connector.
As Jarrett and mostly in this ostinato in F he is playing with mostly modal interchange to be able to play outside
F major to F locrian F mixo to F aeolian etc …
As the early Corea with holland and atschul is free jazz is still mathematically constructed as opposed to Paul Bley, Cecil Taylor or Anthony Braxton .
From Kandinsky to pollock in painting.
@@lucbeaugrandJackson Pollock loved jazz,he used to listen to it while he painted, but interestingly enough,he was mainly into dixieland and swing era big bands. I would have thought that he would be all about bebop considering where he was coming from artistically.
Thank you so much for talking about Keith Jarrett and analysis his work (I hope there will be other videos). I work on a lot of transcriptions with audio as a support. This is invaluable musical material. I read in an interview with Keith Jarrett that he considered himself a workaholic. I think that in addition to his innate talent, there is a huge amount of work behind it, which few people imagine (to reach this level). Just subscribed to your channel ✓
Yes, I think that both are often true in the case of artists such as Keith. Absurd natural talent PLUS a great work ethic. Thanks for watching!!
What about Ray Manzarek of the Doors? Playing the Doors Bass lines with his left hand? I don’t know if Ray was playing ostinatos. But this made me think of Ray. Although he may not be way up there in the jazz/keyboard pantheon. He was pretty amazing, and made some enjoyable music.
He was great! I don't see any of this as a "ranking" system. Ray was amazing, Keith was amazing, and Chick Corea was amazing too! Keith and Ray are very different musicians, but both wonderful in their own ways.
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Yes, I don’t consider it ranking system either. But, you don’t usually hear people talking about Ray Manzarek, and I think he deserves some attention. But I knew you would appreciate him. ❤️
You should do a video on Ray! How does he make that rain-like sound on Riders on the Storm, for those of us keyboard beginners. That’s probably an easy one for you guys.
Yeaaah would be great to find, or ask them directly, how they did learn interdepence !
Thanks for this clear explanation of the Ostinato technique. I do definitely share the same view on the artist!
Keith Emerson, Hermeto Paschoal , vieram a minha cabeca como grandes músicos
I would've thought you were going to say Keith's ability to improvise counterpoint. While not on the same level of harmonic complexity, I would say that despite people looking down their noses, George Winston (self-proclaimed as not a jazz musician) was pretty amazing in the category of ostinato left hand while improvising in the right hand. His versions of Holly and the Ivy and his original pieces, Hummingbird, Colors/Dance, February Sea and others by their machine-like and unrelenting character would probably be a good stepping stone towards Jarrett's use of the technique. Then on the classical side you have the Passacaglia of Leopold Godowsky.
Love it. KJ is indeed a legend and I hadn’t seen that performance of his before. Now that we’ve got the left hand down, I’m already looking forward to your next video where you will take us through how to play Keith’s RIGHT hand…
Ok maybe I’ll do that!
@@pierrejpiscitelliI wouldn't, it would just be copying which while hard is doable. better to come up with your own music
@@spiritwanderer777 That is eventually the goal. But, it's important to realize that we need to build up a "vocabulary" of things to say. Transcription of existing phrases is an amazing learning tool, and that "imitation" will eventually lead to "emulation." In other words, when learning a language, we have to read and understand existing works and vocabulary in order to eventually use language in our own original way. But yes, just sitting around and copying Keith's phrases all day without an end goal, wouldn't be the best idea!
Hi Pierre...nice explanation of ostinatos...i ve learned a great ostinato when i began...It s from Emerson 's TARKUS...do you know this Band?? Emerson Lake & Palmer...😊
I've listened to Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery more times than I can remember!
Agradeço a aula. O cérebro tendo movimentos repetidos responde mais rápido aos mesmos.
I've been aware of this ostinato for years, and this is really well explained. It's worth mentioning that the first version of it is on the Bremen and Lausanne concert album from 1973, and that version is more mind boggling than the "Last Solo" one by quite a large degree - it's a superhuman performance. Keith is a stunning musician.
I agree with you. I first heard it on the Bremen double album as well!
@@pierrejpiscitelli Great :) FYI in this bootleg, there's a small excerpt of it somewhere as well, so it seems maybe it evolved out of an improvisation. It wouldn't surprise me though, in a documentary he said the My Song was originally an improvisation....ruclips.net/video/bje4ptrorTk/видео.html
The first version of it was on a solo concert from 1972 in Europe as someone posted on here, the 73 version is more refined and he did it as an encore, so he must have practiced the 72 version which came about from improvising in his reverie, his altered state of consciousness, like a trance. He was doing live composing back then, playing something from nothing in front of an audience, Miles Davis asked how he did that. There has not been any other musician that did that as far as I know.
Bach shall have improvised in church, people were crying. It may be a tale but I can imagine it to be true.
Yes, he played it a few times. I heard it in Antibes in 1978.
Yes! Jarrett is the worlds greatest musician!! INCREDIBLE!!
Beautiful chat 🐱 indeed!❤ Unfortunately, Keith lost his abilities having a stroke 😢poor him and poor us as well. Want to adress whoever didn't watch yet the fabulous interview of Rick beato with Keith. Check it out ❤... Poor us, indeed... I mean it❤
Oh yes, I know it well. Great video!
Wonderful stuff. No doubt.
For me personally, I’ve seen both Hiromi and Chucho Valdes do equally or more mind blowing things… just speaking to what resonates with my soul. Not here to be “competition” guy.
Both amazing and inspiring artists in their own right!
'very difficult' ostinato - very well said - he blows my mind 👍🏼
This is a great explanation! But I think you’re missing the G and A that anticipates the first beat. For me, that’s the biggest difficultly with this particular ostinato.
You're absolutely right. I did it in some takes, and forgot to do it in others for that reason precisely! If you look closely at the thumbnail, I notated it, so should've been playing it!
Even more impressive given that Keith has small hands (I recall reading that he had to stretch his thumbs at unusual angles to reach the notes he wanted to reach). Sad additional thought is the fact that although you rightfully are talking about him in the present tense, he’s now lost the use of his left hand due to a stroke. But Keith’s right hand is better than most peoples both hands so I say: keep playing! (or overdubbing!) But nice explanation. ❤
You are correct about his hands, and use of the present tense, in my opinion! He is still living, and brilliant. Thanks for watching!!
These are really good videos. Clear, and comprehensive, and not too long. Great
I love "The Cure" always been my favorite KJ song, the second you brought up ostinato I was like yea good point, must be why i dig that tune so much
Egberto Gismonti’s piano playing also relies on that!
Absolutely. Egberto is one of my all time favorites.
First time here! Thanks for introducing me to the word ostinato! Are you familiar with George Winston? I've got a great story for you!
I am!! Thanks for watching.
please what presentation software are you using with the on screen music and lit keys and actual keyboard, how many camera's I appreciate this. tu.
Also, what about Art Tatum :) I absolutely appreciate Keith J.
really great lesson! but did you mention boogie woogie piano from the 20's, 30's was one precedent for intricate, rhythmic LH ostinatos. as to how KJ could do this, there is space in his musical brain for understanding much more complex counterpoint than there is in my brain. what was easy for him is hard for me. but with a crippled LH, it's not easy for him to execute anymore sadly.
Yes, definitely boogie boogie as well as Alberti bass in 18th and 19th century music etc... lots of examples! What you're saying about the brain is interesting, but I suspect that he really had to practice this stuff a lot.
To do this you need to have a split brain!
I agree with you, one of the greatest musicians of our time. Thanks for the very interesting video. I bought the Köln Concert on LP twice in a row because I heard it so often. I can't believe he improvised it all, it's great. Good music will survive any time... I'm very happy to subscribe to your channel... thank you
Thank you for watching!
Bonjour Pierre - Very good explanation ! Thanks you very much for sharing it ! Have a great joy of creating in music and life ! Serge
Thank you very much for your answer ! "Music gives wings to the spirit" (have said Platon) - This is true !
Very subjective. Thanks for sharing.
I have recently started playing and have been following your Van Halen jump tutorial and was struggling to get the left hand moving at an independent rhythm to the right. Nicely timed video for me, will definitely look at this as practice and take a break from Jump!
Great to hear and hope it's helpful!
If you think any of those ten 'musicians' would even know who Keith Jarrett is, you need to get out more. Jazz is an insular world, filled with boring, formulaic "note players" who sound like every other jazz "note player" out there. If you want to see real improvisation, go watch an organist.
Ha!! I grew up in NYC and went to jazz school in NYC. I couldn't agree with you more. Spot-on.
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Did the experiment while watching the video with actually 12 graduate mates, all in music different areas, not just piano. We got interesting responses, few of them got more votes but none of us knew about this guy!!! LOL
Practising permutations is a good way to start but an incredible timesink.
Approach that problem from a different level.
Use speech. Try to talk in rhythms over that pattern. Scat vocals basically. Take note when you f... up and then practise specifically these permutations.
Unfortunately Keith can't really play anymore. After 2 strokes he suffers from partial paralysis and forgot most of his immense knowledge of standard and tricks.
His legacy and body of work are incredible. He entirely changed the way people play piano. This doesn't happen so often.
The ostinato parts make we trip every time. He often used this kind of structure as a starting point for encores.
I never noticed the G and A doubled note before.
He can still do some beautiful stuff with one hand, but you are right-- the reality of a stroke is pretty devastating.
@@pierrejpiscitelli My absolute favorite from him is the Encore to the Nagoya concert. It perfectly illustrates your explanation. A 4 minute piece starting with a complex ostinato and a lot of pedal sustain, constructing an entire sonicscape already, even before the right hand enters and delivers the melodic improvisation, a demonstration of absolute freedom that flies far far away from anything and lands back on Earth all by itself.
Keith Jarrett's F/Bflat vamp is based on a Calypso rhythm (albeit super fast!). Its best to practice the left hand slow at first (root-10/ 9-root) with chords in the right hand on the 'ands'. Like the rhythm guitar in Reggae.
Totally disagree … Even when he was healthy , left hand ostinatos don’t make you the “greatest living pianist “.. “Long As You Knkw You’re Living Yours” is nice but it isn’t “Dolphin Dance “.. I would confer that title to Herbie Hancock. Why?
Compositions
Insane metric modulations both while comping and soling .. Nobody could touch Herbie’s superhuman rhythmic sense .
Nobody, not even Keith could approach Herbie’s immense chordal vocabulary .
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Inter-dependence instead of in-dependence
Exactly.
Love this. Fantastic demonstration.
Thanks for watching!
I saw him live at Carnegie years ago. Wonderful, and I hope he recovers from his stroke symptoms.
Lucky you! I wish I had gone to see him...
Such a easy going pace to explain this. What you know and how you bring light to is so refreshing. Clear and so well spoken... you have a true gift for teaching. Do you? Thanks very much for this. One of the most enjoyable Vids I've seen yet. And I'm Picky! all the best.
That’s very kind of you. Thanks for watching! 🙏🏻
Very instructive and useful video! You have very nice approach and motivating way of presentation, moved by your personal love for good sounding music. Congrats!
Thanks so much! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Great point Peter! I loved your explanation as well.
My man is the Rayleigh of jazz
Great video Pierre! A new sub from me. Keep up the great work 👍🏼
Thank you for watching! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Nice ostinato tutorial and info about Keith. I noticed it’s a lot easier to sustain your first ostinato by leaving out the final eighth note on bass C. The same goes for Keith’s ostinato by leaving out the final barred sixteen notes. As far as practice goes, I would start playing very slowly with a METRONONE and very gradually build up speed. You might give Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato a listen. Jeroen van Veen’s solo piano recording is a masterpiece.
sorry that kinda stuff would have most people running for the doors( at least in their heads lol)....never liked that kinda Jazz with so many rambling notes....I'd take the passion and beauty of a Hans Zimmer any day...Keith's ostinato sounded rushed and sloppy...due to the tempo ....All I can get from a performance like that is oh that guy can play fast....I hear no beauty and would be bored to tears quickly...but to each his own....I just listened to him play Danny boy...and that was excellent...he needs to stick with that kinda stuff....I think ostinatos are just great exercises but many times have no musical value in my opinion....arpeggios are the stuff passionate music is made of
I've always loved that technique. Thanks for helping me name it!
Your explanation is a real "eureka" peak point. Thanks Pierre. I believe that Keith is like a miracle,. In boilogy called sometimes a "singularity" . Too much for us, but an eternal nourishing source for all the musicians.
Really Great Teaching Pierre. I hope you get an opportunity to meet Keith in this life.
I also think Keith Jarrett is the most incredible musician, but I guess that his best and untouchable ability is to real-time transferring all the music he channels to, to his instrument. What do you think?
Loved this video! So many music related videos are just clickbait, overtly long, or stuff ive heard before. This was great, mad interesting and a breath of fresh air
It’s true that this ostinato is difficult and improvising a lot on it is even more so. But let’s think about the really great pianist in history. Art Tatum, Joseph Hoffman, Sergei Rachmaninoff, etc. They could do it.
I recall trying to figure out some of these patterns that KJ was using, after hearing the Bremen Lausanne LP. I always loved this method of improvising. As a beginner pianist, a little piece by Vladimir Rebikoff, known as "Hurdy Gurdy" or "Traveling Musicians" was one of my favorites. I also tried the idea of breaking things down by rhythm. For half-notes, though, it's not just playing them on the beat, but trying to also get various offsets working, like an eighth note before beats 1 and 3, or on beats 2 and 4--one can cycle through all the positions. But I suspect equally (if not more) important is mastering the left hand to the point where it takes almost no thought or attention at all to execute the part.
Consider what one goes through learning some of the rhythms in Beethoven, with simultaneous but conflicting tuples. For me, they only became playable when each hand could play the part as a single gesture rather than a sequence of note events.
Some players might be interested in checking out Terry Riley's live keyboard work, such as Persian Surgery Dervishes, in which he also improvises extensively over left-hand ostinatos. He has a piece called Keyboard Studies that I think were important building blocks in developing his technique. I bought a copy years ago for next to nothing. Now I think it's only available in a volume of his collected solo piano works.
I think he does this ostinato on the Bremen-Lausanne disc. And he shreds like crazy on top of it.
Also, I've done that ostinato practice method but I never really figured out a proper routine for it since the combinations are, like you say, endless.
That's exactly right! He did it a number of times, but that's one of the best examples. It takes a long time to master. Clearly, I am far from having mastered it.
He also does foot patterns and his vocalizes play thru his brain simultaneously.I bought the Koln Concert upon it's release in a record shop from a shopkeeper that clearly,did not want to part with his last copy (which was on the turntable)! You also have to go back to the VINYL recording because there's a SKIP in the COMPACT DISC format...uugh.
Jacob Collier is the best contemporary musician as far as I’m concerned
Very popular opinion. I've heard that many times, and it's easy to see why.
Known* musician.
I'm equally amazed by guys who could lay down a walking bass line that's got to swing while accounting for the chord changes of a standard tune every measure or 2. Some Hammond B3 players are good at it (Donald Patterson, Joey DeFrancesco), even on a multiple flat and sharp "scorcher" like "Cherokee." Fats Waller and Art Tatum had hands that could think independently, but that was before 1940 (the year Duke Ellington introduced seminal bassist-prodigy Jimmy Blanton). . Dave McKenna is one later pianist who was renowned for walking his own bass lines and simultaneously improvising in his right hand.
Great video, Love, love love Keith Jaret!!! Another keyboardist (not living) is Keith Emerson of ELP who loved to do (difficult) ostinato in the left while improvising with the right. Many of the albums that ELP did, Tarkus for example, have examples of that. What is less known about Keith Emerson, is that, while known for his progressive rock, and many would put him as the king of progressive rock keyboards, he was also a huge fan of and VERY accomplished jazz pianist. Here is an example of Keith doing jazz ostinato. Start at 2:02 and enjoy!
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very nice video. another tough "guy" of jazz for those kinds of experiments is Dave Brubeck. If anyone plays Dave for a period of time successfully, everything else seams easy.
I learnt Piano for 7 Year's all
Classical from age 13 to age 20 just gone back to it at age 63 I am having SO MUUCH DIFFICULTY especially the bass clef not so much treble clef I always did I'm not very good at playing by ear even though I sign alto if that makes sense thankyou for your explanation at the end Pierre not one of my Teacher's explained it the way you did baci x
Very insightfull , spot on. Still he finds unique chord voicings with polyrythms is just that makes him transcendant and profound muaically.
keith is one of the most unique musicians of the last century
Bravo! Very inspiring - thanksI
Keith Jarrett is amazing his version of all the things you are is mind blowing. Him with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette is incredible. BTW I love all the things you are regardless who play it. But hearing someone play something and watching them play it is a little different.. Ravi Shankar on sitar, Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman on guitar and John Coltrane on saxophone. The same with Keith Jarrett on piano! Their music is amazing but like Coltrane and Hendrix.. I have never seen a pianist like Keith Jarrett other then Thelonious Monk he was different, unorthodox and special..his movements while playing, singing and chanting while playing.. it seemed like Keith Jarrett and the piano became 1 entity.. I love Miles Davis because his imagination and vision was endless..after Herbie Hancock Miles would introduce the world to a young piano genius Keith Jarrett! Excellent explanation, demonstration acknowledgement..🎼🎶🎶👍🏽
Are we sure we can't binary process with the brain? Anyone read Murakami's Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World? Also how do we explain Charlie Hunter or jazz organists playing bass with their feet?
The "ostinato" in left hand style reminds me a lot of Chopin's Berceuse ! Chopin was also known for his improvisational style! And pioneered it, long before jazz came into existence. Listen ! : ruclips.net/video/FZtBwlxL0Aw/видео.html It is one of the jazziest songs I know - before jazz was invented...
What amazing improvisation! However, if we're talking about a perfect ostinato, at 3:23 Keith played the ostinato imprecisely. This shows that Keith is human after all :)
Ha!
Love the Paris Concert tune from Keith. called Blues, a bit different from standard blues piano, but still you recognize certain aspects of his playing
Amazing video -- thanks for the great work. I love Keith Jarrett. This video helps me to better understand the complexity of his compositions.
Thanks for watching!! 🙏🏻
i so agree Pierre..you made me think of his amazing rendition of Summertime which has some ostinatos going with left and lesser degree with right carrying rhythms of a bass & drummer all in one..would love to see a sheet music of that some day as my ear has difficulty picking up all the nuances..jusy adore that piece..thanks for sharing the greatness of KJ
Passionné par Keith Jarrett,et jouant très modestement certains de ces morceaux, bien content d'apprendre par cette vidéo,très explicite !! concernant la technicité de ce génie du piano !! Merci ❤,🎹🇨🇵
I agree but i think Keith use the third finger on the midle C (wich is the good finger for playing a fifth) and use the second finger to play the Bb (sixth) because there is in fact no F in the Bb/D chord. The missing F in Bb/D chord should be hear because it is the F bass first harmonic and perhaps this F bass is maintained with sustenuto pedal. Even if not this is not missing realy and this use of these two different fingers (2 and 3) for two notes chords F/C and Bb/D above a F bass is frequency used in traditionnel boogies. This way it's not so difficult to do this ostinato.
For me a pianist may use normaly the third finger on the fifth exept when he is sure that he won't need to drop higher that an octave upon his bass.
Pardon my english.
Thank you for the vidéo.
Stephen Prutsman impressed me by playing a 9/8 bass riff with his left hand and a 4/4 with his right on Suppers Ready but this guy is just as good.
Well presented, your respect for Keith is heartfelt.
I really appreciate that 🙏🏻
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I think Keith Jarrett is a great pianist - and I personally don't feel the need to discuss artists in terms like "the greatest" - but the one thing that quickly sours me on most of Jarrett's work is his incessant need to hum with a screeching voice while playing. It just distracts wildly. I wonder why nobody ever stood up to him and told him this habit distracts from his brilliance.
Check out Russell Ferrante’s ostinato and soloing on Imperial Strut. It makes this one by Jarrett look easy in comparison.
The linked video is insane. Dude is playing two completely separate, distinct, yet totally complementary songs at the same time.
Many thanks Pierre :) Will you please make a tutorial on the song called "water under bridges" by Gregory Porter ?
Great video! I haven't heard of Keith Jarrett before, but now I have a perfect excuse to discover him. Thanks!
One correction - some people do learn one hand, then the other, then smash it all together. I learn new pieces that way, as I have never been able to sight-read the piano stave, despite graduating music.