when your hands are long enough for stride piano
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Transcription of Jake Silverman's (a.k.a Buttonmasher) demo of the wing upright from Spectrasonics' Keyscape Pianos. This is one of the most satisfying stride piano playing I've ever transcribed.
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Original video from Spectrasonics:
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Wow dude!
what a delicius!! love you IG btw! Thank Bleu Orb for the beautiful transcription!
Some day I will play like him and make other people happy with my improvisations
same
Same
Chyeah….rotsa ruck
Same !! 🍀🙏
same
2:27 my man jsut combined the mario kart licc and the defgecd licc, what a legend
100% big Erroll Garner influence right here. Love when you really laid back on those ascending eighths!
Hell, if I could play tenths that easily, I would too
His hands are MASSIVE. Some of those stretches are Rachmaninov level!
He also goes by “Button Masher” and arranges video game music
My goodness! This is fantastic! I think I can hear a bit of Erroll Garner in his playing. I enjoyed every second of this!
Love the videos you post, keep ‘em coming!
Ah ye same lol
Buttonmasher is the man
1:23 *feeling it maxx*
Yshsbshxua yeshhh
Love the sound of that piano modeled.....very "clean"
keyscape magic
There are Wing uprights needing saving from the dump, if some of the readers of this comment could each save one and restore it or have it restored. They often have extra pedals for special acoustic effects.
@@andrewbarrett1537 they need saving because us commenters cant afford restoration
It's sampled actually.
I wish I could play like that
Me too man I rlly want to learn jazz it's so cool
yeah
Both of you can. Its just hard work :). Instead of feeling down about it, do something about it. I'm sure you'll sound great in no time!
@@nilskavanagh yeah :) I have been practicing for hours every day and been seeing some insane progress if your interested some of my progress is on my channel but yes I see what u mean I have a dream to a great pianist one day
@@TDuncPiano nice one man congrats, hard work is all it takes
2:04-2:14 is a Gershwin reference ("Nice Work If You Can Get It")
There's a few good references in here! 0:18 is On The Street Where You Live
I switched to this song on accident. Truth be told i was insanely nervous at this session
@@_buttonmasher loving your work from Cornwall UK
Wow what a touch!!! Awesome !!
Great stuff, I love what you do and watch every video!
There's some harmony missing in the (I think first and) second note of the A♭m6 bar (first sheetmusic screenshot). Which I find sad because this is the sweetest harmony of the whole thing. Could you find it?
I think the first eighth note of that bar should have an additional Cb in the right hand, the second eighth note should have an additional Db in the right hand, and the right hand triad on the fourth eighth note should be root Fbmaj rather than 1st inversion Cbmaj.
@@stirlingblackwood That sounds a lot more like it, thank you!
1:36 El Licc
The licc at 1:37 is absolutely fire
‘On the street where you live’. Nice! 👏
Can’t stop thinking bar 8 and 9 are from Rach piano c. 2 and I love it
I am jealous of bis big hands. :D I would love to be able to grap 10th that easily. My hands are so small I cannot even reach a 9th from Eb to F properly.
Yeah.. those are small hands 🤙
Ah yes, the TASTIEST
Mmmmm so tasty
Look at the size of his hands
1:36 is El Lick, LMAOO
Golden ears!
He’s improvising “nice work if you can get it”
On the street where you live.
tune is on the street where you live, he quotes nice work tho
I like this
Großartig! Wenn ich mir etwas wünschen könnte......... Dann DAS!
YES pls transcribe the other spectrasonics video (especially the woody goss one pls)
Beautiful!
It must've been hard to transcribe this
great playing
2:12 definitely gonna steal that
Very Erroll Garner-esque
Delicious!
It’s actually not about the length it’s the width of your hand, longer fingers actually gets in the way because of how you need to curl them more to move under or over them
As always painstaking work. Thank you!
had to subscribe 😎
Love it ❤
Just crazy
nice!
It's like a Kapustin etude but easier! Maybe i need to learn jazz piano to be able to play Kapustin
My god dudes hands are huge
1:36 El lick
I can just barely reach an 11th…. And I can’t pound them out with quickness. Eighths (octaves) yes…. This guy also adds a lot of chord structure and flourishes that don’t require exceptional reach….
"that was good"
anyone knows what song is this?
Do you know if this is made after a song?
2:29 Dolphin Shoals much?
omg yes i knew it!
Shouldn't the chord at 2:58 be labeled as a C7(alt)#9 because of the Eb(#9) on top?
I think Bleu correctly analysed that as C7alt, because it has an Ab (b13) in it as well rather than just a #9.
Altered dominant 7th chords occur in any and all combinations of two or more of these alterations: b9, #9, #11 (b5) & b13 (#5)
It was a weird choice to notate the third as an Fb though.
1:36
i dunno if its just me.. or that, is *el lick*
When I get time I'll go through this and steal two or three licks I can actually play
Come to Brazil 🇧🇷
big hand
Rare to see him not dressed as Timmy Mallet
1:25
EeehhhhhHHhh
0:54 - Cm6*?
0:36 - i think Abm13/C is unreal
Love those chords
I don’t get the title this doesn’t require long arms or long fingers, I thought a stride piano was going to be a piano with 120+ keys or something ??
is the left hand playable? feels like some chords are way too big
His hands are big (asked him and he said he could reach tenths easily)
Tenth are used alot in the left hand in the tradition of jazz piano (art tatum, bud powell, barry harris to name a few)
I have a theory: jazz pianists use a lot of parallel ninths in the left hand because they like that and... because sometimes they are missed tenths... >_
I played it. Its playable.
I can span an 11 but this is making my hand hurt
Is Eddie Higgins considered a stride player? I'm sort of confused with what stride really is.
No, Eddie isn't. He probably could play stride (not familiar with his work, but Wikipedia pegs him as a Bill Evans esque type player), but isn't known for that like Fats Waller or Art Tatum were.
Stride is basically like ragtime but more harmonically complex and "jazzy" for lack of a better term.
The left hand in stride is like the rhythm section of a band. Walking tenths, jumping up from a shell chord up to a chord in the middle register, etc.
I heard Eddie Higgins in person several times and although he could sometimes play “stride” (and composed a really cool rag for his dog called “Magnolia Rag”), I consider him more of a swing piano player like Teddy Wilson, Johnny Varro, etc.
“Stride piano” is shorthand for the Harlem piano style innovated by Luckey Roberts and James P Johnson in the 1910s-1920s. A simple metric would be how close a given pianist is stylistically to Luckey Roberts/James P Johnson. The closer they are, the more it is “stride”. The further away they are, the less it is “stride”. So this is very useful. It is not simply what the left hand is doing, but especially about the RIGHT hand and about what BOTH HANDS DO TOGETHER. I wouldn’t really call this a “stride” performance as the right hand is “blowing” or wailing like a horn, making up entirely new melodies, and not playing patterns or ornamenting the melody as is more common with “stride piano”
I can play “stride” OK although I do not play swing at all. I like swing OK and appreciate it, but have had near zero desire to play this style since there are hundreds of people playing various flavors of it alive today and most can kick my ass around the block, like this guy. Also they’re really expressing themselves this way, and this kind of style is simply not what comes out or what I feel when I want to express myself, no matter how much snarky assholes like so-called “scholar” John Mehegan may proclaim it “superior” to earlier styles (which does a disservice to both JPJ AND Teddy Wilson in my opinion).
This is so tasty… just add some butter notes and it’ll be toasty
What does D+ mean?
That mean D major #5
@@tednav thanks
Erroll Garner??
I don't know how you can say "ya I'll transcribe that." 🤔
What program is he using ?
Keyscape :-)
👌
Can you please tell me in which program do you record transcriptions?
musescore is free
@@amaice thanks for taking the time to answer🙏
I enjoyed. No, delight).
I wish I have his big left hand 🥲
same ;_;
My hands smol but somehow stretch a tenth it's so sketchy
As a classical pianist, if I want to start improvising like this, where would a good place to start be?
Listen, learn, use your ears, transcribe and feel the music. Start off with easy standards until you master them, then move on to more difficult standards. Play slow to play fast, learn jazz vocabulary, recognize what you hear and create your own sound. Good luck!
@@ElJoelitoTV Thanks Joel!
@@Crab_Masher Noah Kellman has some good stride tutorials that can get you started on improvising the basics of stride. As for melodic lines and such, that comes with building a vocabulary from listening and being creative
What the actual fuck? I quit!
just work hard enough to make your fingers longer bro
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Nice transcription! I do think a lot of the staccatos on the LH are inaccurate at a glance. Also some of the chords are and aren't notated above the staff with nomenclature, in an inconsistent way. In some places they are just left out if they are on beat 3, and it looks like you just stopped altogether at bar 98.
When it started i thought it was Jojo theme, but wasn't.
If it weren’t for the occasional Peterson or monk quote this would just be a cheap Garner imitation. Mostly doesn’t even stride…
Lol i usually dont reply to the haters but youre kind of right. Damn :(
@@_buttonmasher no offence meant sir. never heard ur stuff, i just listened and ur an awesome pianist, esp modern sound. see im stuck in the past only listening to 1920s music so i feel like defending dying arts like stride lol. peace
1:36 El lick