I LOVE this program, and was a fan of both you guys years before you started the channel. " Splashing ", ( leave it Aaron Parks to come up with such a great term for it) back in the 80s we called it " modal harmony". Not limited to modal music , that approach changed my playing overnight. It not only got me away from chords stacked in thirds, but was the beginning of developing my own harmonic vocabulary. Just had to acknowledge this! You guys are awesome
hey kirkreese, what does it have in common with modal harmony? I thought modal is when you borrow chords from a different mode. If you splash it as Adam and Peter showed here, you use notes from the scale, so it is not modal..? thanks for clearing this out
One way to think about comping is like a big band horn section behind a soloist, except that it's not a written part, but rather a call/response with the soloist.
Splash chords! Omg! This has transformed my playing. I can’t believe the voicing, the creativity, the sounds! It broke me out of the box. You guys are amazing, please keep it going! Thank you forever 😎🤘🎹
I love your videos, I learn so much from them. It was cool how you were using octave melodies in comping, it was really effective! I’ll try to incorporate that in my comping. Also, please keep the theme song, Emotion in Motion is one of my favourite pieces! (I even learnt how to play it and Peter’s solo from the solo version that Max Gimenez transcribed!)
Love this podcast, and think it’s amazing you guys are doing so much to liberate jazz education from the stuffy halls of academia and in sharing it with people (with no money 😂) around the world - helping so many players like myself who often find themselves stuck in a rut either compositionally or just theoretically, even the little side note about drop -2s and drop -3s I found earth-shatteringly useful. Especially thankful for this lesson as I hadn’t realized how much I over-rely on 4ths and fixed shapes in my left hand, hopefully with some practice I can learn to mix it up a bit more. Thanks so much dudes!
Believe it or not this is very useful for guitar players also. I have been experimenting with some of this for a while. Especially playing melodically. Nice stuff!
Cool! This is really close to the intuitive way I've been teaching improv for a few years now. It's based on an intuitive way of "seeing" all 12 keys and then basically thinking in terms of listening for the bass note, the melody note up top, and just throwing in some diatonic notes in the middle for harmonies. I like to avoid leaning too much on thirds, and encourage random mixtures of shapes, clusters, etc. that are based more on an intuitive sense of whether you want the harmony to be "thick" or "thin." Never thought I'd see you guys talking about harmony in this way, super cool to see! (btw, it'd be fun to show you guys how I teach the 12 keys w/o any theory, chords, scales, or note names. Can't imagine you wanting to incorporate it, but you might get a kick out of it... ;-)
This doesn’t have anything to do with the top of this episode. However, I’m wondering. I see cars driving by in the background. I don’t ever remember seeing people walk by. Are you in a shady part of town or something? Also, if someone did walk by could they see in or are there mirrored windows on the outside? Or is your whole backdrop AI generated?
Echo all those about how useful your lessons are. But my question: are those piano sounds embedded in the keyboards, or you triggering samples? Curious the setup.
Hey Guys, I love that random person walking by your window...as if to say, "Now there's something you don't see everyday, two random blokes facing each other playing keyboards in a storefront window..." 🤣🤣
Peter is a baaad dude on the keys!! I just can't deal with how much he wants to talk. He loves talking so much he'll interrupt and talk over Adam. That makes it harder to watch these videos.
Kind of Blue is a great album to practice splashing with. A lot of what Bill plays there feels like splashing; Miles even is quoted around that time saying Bill’s playing sounds like “crystalline water droplets”. I play along with it to practice the modes. And it’s a fucking cool feeling to be piano dueting with Bill f-ing Evans (a fellow New Jerseyan).
I love the theme song, never get rid of it, its like a little kick of dopamine!
DO NOT lose the opening theme. It's a gem 💎
Agree
I LOVE this program, and was a fan of both you guys years before you started the channel. " Splashing ", ( leave it Aaron Parks to come up with such a great term for it) back in the 80s we called it " modal harmony". Not limited to modal music , that approach changed my playing overnight. It not only got me away from chords stacked in thirds, but was the beginning of developing my own harmonic vocabulary. Just had to acknowledge this! You guys are awesome
hey kirkreese, what does it have in common with modal harmony? I thought modal is when you borrow chords from a different mode. If you splash it as Adam and Peter showed here, you use notes from the scale, so it is not modal..? thanks for clearing this out
One way to think about comping is like a big band horn section behind a soloist, except that it's not a written part, but rather a call/response with the soloist.
Peter is so "out the box". Great lesson as always.
some prefer to use the word "bespoke"
@@Kalaish_Stanley xddddddddddddd og's get it
GALA GALA GALA! Thanks guys!
Splash chords! Omg! This has transformed my playing. I can’t believe the voicing, the creativity, the sounds! It broke me out of the box. You guys are amazing, please keep it going! Thank you forever 😎🤘🎹
loved this. there's so few advice on comping, all on soloing. will use it!
This is an amazing video/podcast format!
Delicious AND Nutritious! Thank you Gents!
Had replay this a few times to digest this
I love your videos, I learn so much from them. It was cool how you were using octave melodies in comping, it was really effective! I’ll try to incorporate that in my comping. Also, please keep the theme song, Emotion in Motion is one of my favourite pieces! (I even learnt how to play it and Peter’s solo from the solo version that Max Gimenez transcribed!)
Thank you for putting everything up in both notation and keyboard fingerings!
Why is putting the next octave in CMaj7 considered drop 2?
the theme song is gas
I like your jamming at the beginning
10' counterpoint !
Thank you guys! I learn son much from you, and not only about music. You make it seem so easy! And the best thing is that you spread joy!
Love this podcast, and think it’s amazing you guys are doing so much to liberate jazz education from the stuffy halls of academia and in sharing it with people (with no money 😂) around the world - helping so many players like myself who often find themselves stuck in a rut either compositionally or just theoretically, even the little side note about drop -2s and drop -3s I found earth-shatteringly useful. Especially thankful for this lesson as I hadn’t realized how much I over-rely on 4ths and fixed shapes in my left hand, hopefully with some practice I can learn to mix it up a bit more. Thanks so much dudes!
Loved this. Splashing around doesn't come naturally to me but I'll build it in!
Great episode. Thanks guys. Learned a lot!
7:05 the shade from Adam 😂😂😂
Is it me or does anyone else get the itch to bite into those orange mic filters?
Great lesson!
Loved this!
Believe it or not this is very useful for guitar players also. I have been experimenting with some of this for a while. Especially playing melodically. Nice stuff!
So good you guys :)
The theme say must stay!
Great video
“It’s tricky to splash around to splash around on time that’s right it’s….oh, sorry. Wrong song”.
Can you guys play tangerine as your next opener.
Two Atomic Bombs ❤
I think the two of you should seriously think of doing a two piano duet album....👍
Cool orange mic's!
Is YHI looking to own orange the way Ferrari owns red?
@@thomascordery7951 yes
Cool! This is really close to the intuitive way I've been teaching improv for a few years now. It's based on an intuitive way of "seeing" all 12 keys and then basically thinking in terms of listening for the bass note, the melody note up top, and just throwing in some diatonic notes in the middle for harmonies. I like to avoid leaning too much on thirds, and encourage random mixtures of shapes, clusters, etc. that are based more on an intuitive sense of whether you want the harmony to be "thick" or "thin." Never thought I'd see you guys talking about harmony in this way, super cool to see! (btw, it'd be fun to show you guys how I teach the 12 keys w/o any theory, chords, scales, or note names. Can't imagine you wanting to incorporate it, but you might get a kick out of it... ;-)
GALA!
GALA🎉
This doesn’t have anything to do with the top of this episode. However, I’m wondering. I see cars driving by in the background. I don’t ever remember seeing people walk by. Are you in a shady part of town or something? Also, if someone did walk by could they see in or are there mirrored windows on the outside? Or is your whole backdrop AI generated?
I'll bet Peter was always the smart-ass, class entertainment kid in school 😂
Love clusters! Music theory from the 80’s, is that called pan-diatonic?
Many Thanks!
Echo all those about how useful your lessons are. But my question: are those piano sounds embedded in the keyboards, or you triggering samples? Curious the setup.
Let’s goooooo ⏱️
Hey Guys, I love that random person walking by your window...as if to say, "Now there's something you don't see everyday, two random blokes facing each other playing keyboards in a storefront window..." 🤣🤣
Like seeing two people have an epic conversation in a foreign language
An interval of one whole tone. Peace. ✌️
how high the moon!
please keep the theme song!!
Gala
GALA
Hahahahaha
Do people ever come up to the window and start acting silly???
Peter is a baaad dude on the keys!! I just can't deal with how much he wants to talk. He loves talking so much he'll interrupt and talk over Adam. That makes it harder to watch these videos.
I'm so paranoid; thinking everything is an April Fool's prank.
12.49: Martin is a ventriloquist.
and a mentalist
Splash up, splash up to get down..
Solar 😫😫😫
Looks like a poor version of the muppet show, 🙈
If the Muppets were badass piano players, maybe
Kind of Blue is a great album to practice splashing with. A lot of what Bill plays there feels like splashing; Miles even is quoted around that time saying Bill’s playing sounds like “crystalline water droplets”.
I play along with it to practice the modes. And it’s a fucking cool feeling to be piano dueting with Bill f-ing Evans (a fellow New Jerseyan).
Peter was in a street mood today he pulled that Meek Mill “there’s levels to this shit”. It’s the beanie I think
GALA
GALA
GALA