1 Tune, 8 Ways: "Bye Bye Blackbird" in 8 Jazz Piano Styles

[@caseydahl1952]

0:59 Bassline 1:53 LH Shuttle 3:00 Closed-Position 4:09 Stride 5:12 Call & Response 6:23 Ballad 8:38 ECM 9:57 Contrapuntal

[@JeremySiskind]

Thank you for doing the work that I'm too lazy to do!!!!!! Would you mind if I added this to the description?

[@caseydahl1952]

@@JeremySiskind by all means!

[@ivanrego9883]

Greetings from Brisbane Australia. I have devotedly watched you play on KZbin for a little while now, and may I humbly say that you are the best. Your style, touch, sound and musicianship are most appealing. Thank you, Jeremy, for being so generous in teaching us. And were I there where you are, I would undoubtedly have taken lessons under your guidance. Perhaps, one day, you could come and perform for us here at the Brisbane Jazz Club. Thanks again. Ivan

[@JeremySiskind]

I appreciate this note so much! Thank you for writing and for watching all these crazy videos I put out!

[@mudbone7706]

Final Jeopardy! Would love to hear your dissect what you are doing on the contrapuntal version.

[@JeremySiskind]

Here are a couple of videos about that subject: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3TFgqdml7NmbdE kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYHYXpalqc5kjc0

[@jazz2882]

"Final Jeopardy". You're a bad dude, man!

[@JeremySiskind]

I'm super honored. Thanks for checking it out!

[@donm3986]

Nice ending for the stride segment! I also liked the contrapuntal version or ... Bye Bye Bach-bird ;) .

[@JeremySiskind]

Bach-bird, Lol. Well done!

[@BethanyLowe8773]

Incredible! I came here to be dutifully educated, but I succumbed to pure musical enjoyment. The goosebumps came early on and they stayed! It's amazing you do this in one take too. I think my piano confidence might be in some kind of jeopardy except that I can recognise some harmonic skills from the visual keyboard that you already taught us :)

[@JeremySiskind]

I’m glad you enjoyed it and that you’re recognizing more and more of my “tricks”! They can be your tricks too!

[@larry4589]

Final jeopardy Bravo! Last one is great but I enjoyed all

[@JeremySiskind]

Thanks much, Larry! I'm happy you enjoyed it!

[@BrendaBoykin-qz5dj]

Super presentation, Jeremy. Thank you.🌹🌹⭐🌹🌹 FINAL JEOPARDY 😎

[@JeremySiskind]

Many thanks, Brenda! Phew - I'm relieved I made it through all 8! 😅

[@PietroAloi]

Thank you Jeremy! The contrapuntal passage between 10:55 and 11:20 is pure genius.

[@JeremySiskind]

Aw, I'm honored, Pietro! Thanks for watching!

[@Jeremie-b7p]

Love those videos where you really show and apply your piano solo concepts. So instructive

[@JeremySiskind]

I'm so happy! Thank you! I never know whether viewers like it when I'm not actively "teaching" so that feedback is really useful.

[@briclajuly]

So bad ass. Monstrous.

[@JeremySiskind]

Aw, that's very kind! I hope to be a kind, loving monster.

[@pakiaoo7]

I got so much out of this, thank you

[@JeremySiskind]

I'm so happy! Happy practicing!

[@paulrhodesquinn]

If only I’d had you as a teacher when I started to learn Jazz! I played this on a wedding gig yesterday with a singer and sax player and wish I’d seen this before for some inspiration 😀 Love the George Shearing style version! Well, love them all actually. What a wonderful player you are. I have an MA in Jazz and am constantly learning new techniques from your channel. Just bought your solo piano book on Amazon UK.

[@JeremySiskind]

I'm honored, Paul! Thanks so very much and let me know if there's ever a subject you'd like to hear me speak more about.

[@brian106699]

Me: “1 tune, 8 ways!” x 3. I do what Jeremy says. It serves me well.

[@JeremySiskind]

Do it, Brian! It's great training!

[@evelynyturralde4113]

Final Jeopardy! Love your facial expressions and the undisguised glee you feel in playing these excellent examples of each style! I thoroughly enjoyed all of them and hope I'll be able to do some of them someday. Thank you!!

[@JeremySiskind]

Haha, thanks, Evelyn! I don't have a very good poker face...😜

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

Very nice, thanks

[@JeremySiskind]

Thanks for watching! Even if you're a nobody's nobody...

[@GizzyDillespee]

I'd give the prize to "ballad style" out of these versions for this song, if that's what we're doing. Contrapuntal was the most impressive, obviously. And stride, since you don't misfire... yeah, they're all there, with their differing strengths and difficulties. Ballad carried me away the most, I guess is why I gave it "the prize" whatever that means.🤪

[@GizzyDillespee]

Especially "impressive" because you were like, "I haven't really decided what this means yet" like, it could've gone in a few different directions, so that was really cool. I was imagining the LH Bass example with a synth bass. Ah, your nutty viewers!

[@JeremySiskind]

Haha, I didn't realize it was a contents, but I gratefully accept the prize on behalf of ballad style!

[@peterjohnstoltzman]

Just brilliantly stuff man! I’m definitely going to suggest this to my advanced students!

[@JeremySiskind]

Thanks - looking forward to having you on soon. 😉

[@francescomanfredi]

Great lesson and very good audio! Now we need a tutorial for every single style! By the way, did you change anything in the recording process or just lowered the volume? Anyway the piano is perfect. Just add a lav mic for the voice and it will be perfect.

[@JeremySiskind]

I'm so glad the piano playing is good! I tried a lav mic and it was a disaster! Too noisy with the piano coming in. Maybe I got a bad brand, but it didn't work. 😢

[@francescomanfredi]

@@JeremySiskind Yes Jeremy the problem is that almost all lav mics are omnidirectional so they will take the piano too. The solution is to take the audio from the lav mic only for the spoken bits of your video, while keeping a lower volume on the piano mic so that it’s not distorted anymore. This is the more professional way of recording and it doesn’t depend on the make of the mics but on then distances from the sound source. The only inconvenient is that you need a mixer to control the two separate tracks and/or a video editing software. But also iMovie should be enough. Let me know if you need help

[@StreIok737]

Love it, thank you.

[@JeremySiskind]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@tutempopiano]

Awesome demonstration! I believe the contrapuntal style is the most challenging. I wonder how you go about working it out. Final Jeopardy!

[@JeremySiskind]

You could start here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3TFgqdml7NmbdE

[@arpadternei6991]

❤Simply terrific!❤

[@JeremySiskind]

Thanks, much, Arpad! I hope you're well!

[@jacquelinedong7720]

Thank you! This gives me a new direction to spend my practice time.

[@JeremySiskind]

Awesome - enjoy, Jacqueline! You got this!

[@patrickdowd4868]

Final jeopardy! I like the 'ECM' version - what pianists would you associate that with? At points it sounds Keith Jarrett adjacent (and he's pretty much Mr. ECM) but are there other pianists you're referencing?

[@JeremySiskind]

Not particularly! Other pianists on that general style I love include John Taylor and Art Lande, but it could be also music using guitarists…John Abercrombie comes to mind.

[@future62]

Do you have videos on closed position playing? And anything on this big orchestral block chords Ahmad Jamal used? Thanks as always

[@JeremySiskind]

Absolutely - this was one of my first YT videos ever. I was a baby! 😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKKYd5J9ls15nNE

[@JeremySiskind]

There's also a lot about that in Jazz Piano Fundamentals, Book 2.

[@Pooter-it4yg]

Great stuff. The music that appeared on the ECM label did often feature straight 8ths, sure. But you also had free improvisations ranging from Jarrett to Chick to trios like Taylor/Danielsson/Erskine (all notable for being free but not sounding like a fire in a pet shop), Kenny Wheeler's medium and big bands, Scandi (eg Garbarek) and Eastern European (eg Komeda, Stanko) fusion and British folk fusion. I'm sure you know this, I'm just pointing it out for your audience.

[@JeremySiskind]

For sure! The label has had an incredibly long, rich history. And/but when we talk about "ECM style" it usually refers to that super-straight eighth style.

[@Pooter-it4yg]

@@JeremySiskind Sure. I suppose it was the bossa-ish thing that surprised me. Generally in the UK you just call "straight 8s" and expect the band to avoid obvious bossa feel.

[@ImpliedMusic]

great lesson! i bet way too much in final jeopardy...

[@JeremySiskind]

Haha, oh no, you'll never make the Tournament of Champions now. 😂 Thanks for watching!

[@oscarlaredo5035]

Super!

[@eddyduggo]

This is a terrific channel! I’m curious whether your instructional books lay out any recommendations for practicing and hopefully acquiring some degree of proficiency with concepts such as those demonstrated here. Your advice would be much appreciated. My predicament is perhaps interesting although a little frustrating for me because I am impatient with myself and prone to bouts of self doubt from time to time. I have been playing jazz for nearly two decades at this point and have reached an appreciable level as a guitarist. I have a solid intellectual grasp on melody,harmony, rhythm, and have reasonably developed ears. But… piano is a new venture for me. Despite several pianists having having been most inspiring and it being my favorite instrument throughout the past 20 years I’ve only recently worked up the nerve to apply myself to playing it. I’ve made some progress in the past two months since I started “shedding” but I occasionally find myself overwhelmed having to return to such a primitive level of playing and a desire ti improve as quickly as possible. I would thoroughly appreciate any recommendations you might have regarding a good starting place for a person in such circumstances. Thank you very much for your inspiring content!

[@JeremySiskind]

Hi Eddy! I feel you. I actually love guitar and tried to learn to play some...and I found it really frustrating! I'm not sure my books would be a great place to start. It sounds like you have a really big technical gap to fill in before you really think too much about doing anything stylistically specific. Even though the music might not be too interesting to you, I'd start with some method books or "Journey Through the Classics" and get your piano chops down before tackling something like my books. (I love to make a sale...but I'd rather you set reasonable expectations!)

[@eddyduggo]

@@JeremySiskind thank you for the thoughtful response. Ill consider your advice and continue to find my way.

[@alexandros_haralabidis]

"Final Jeopardy" Thanks Jeremy!

[@JeremySiskind]

Thanks for watching, Alexandros!

[@srigato]

But these techniques there are in playing solo piano? I have bought the first version

[@JeremySiskind]

Yep, a lot of this is in there!

[@srigato]

@@JeremySiskind yes i have seen

[@AndreasDelleske]

ECM: LOL... absolutely recognizable! Guilty! Maybe try EDM too!

[@JeremySiskind]

Haha, I'm not sure I could pull of EDM too well on my piano, but that's a good goal.

[@diplamatikjuan3595]

The ECM style reminds me of a slower version of "It's Impossible" by Oscar Peterson

[@JeremySiskind]

Definitely - bossa and ECM are very closely related. They're both straight eighth and focus on offbeats, but the bass is generally more pronounced in Brazilian rhythms.

[@bobbygadourymusic5476]

Final Jeopardy ❤

[@JeremySiskind]

Thanks much for watching, Bobby!

[@donschneider7953]

final jeopardy

[@JeremySiskind]

Thanks for watching, Don! I hope you learned something!

[@bravedave8512]

Final Jeopardy 👍

[@JeremySiskind]

Thanks for checking it out, Brave Dave! Happy practicing!

[@pianostuff191]

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[@JeremySiskind]

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