Brad Mehldau My Favourite Things transcription(jazz a Vienne 2010)

This is for me the best solo piano improvisation from Brad Mehldau. I had lots of work and joy transcribing it all, and I hope you like it.
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[@kwixotic]

He always plunges right outside his "comfort zone" . I once asked him if he could teach me but of course his schedule was obviously too busy but he said you never want to get too comfortable .And he then gave me an example saying play "All the things You Are in 7/4 time in the key of F#. Yeah right as if I could do that!

[@MsMsmak]

He takes this simple, memorable melody to such unbelievable places. Thank you for posting this. I've had to watch it several times to actually be able to follow it.

[@clikyou]

Only those who deeply understand his playing can understand my tears as a result of his playing. Brad Mehldau, you are forever in our hearts.

[@dimitriadishappydog]

What a genius performance. This guy can expand into romantic, classical, modern and jazz genre with great accuracy and talent!

[@MrHidan30]

I've been listening to this recording for awhile, but it's nice to finally have a better idea of what's going on. Some of Brad Mehldau's genius still goes quite a bit over my head. Those metric modulations are just unreal. Thank you so much for transcribing this. I can't image how long it took.

[@noraazemog]

That’s insane. The man can play! I’ve never heard Mehldau do something like this. I probably would have gone into a trance if I heard this live. Incredible job transcribing this, congrats really!

[@Eduaro2U]

Brilliant job. You must have torn your hair out doing that job. Thanks so much for sharing your amazing work - and of course the absolutely brilliant work of Mr. Mehldau.

[@GarySchmidtPianist]

that was insane madness. total genius. . and genius transcription as well.

[@fadideeb6984]

Great piece of art. This composition/ improvisation is unique in every aspect. Intellectually, spiritually, counterpoint wise, harmony and structurally. And hands down to who transcribed it. Have no idea how you did that.

[@kevinworth1713]

Tour de force, a feat of strength. In all that wild scrambling and violent buildup, there is a ton of beauty. Some might call it a “hard beauty”. After this version of Favorite Things, it feels like no more should or could be said about the song. (even though I am always up for new interpretations generally)

[@rgarlinyc]

Perfect rendition and transcription - thank you very much!

[@jeanlucchapelon]

Fantastique performance et transcription incroyable :il faut avoir l’oreille absolue pour cela !! Bravo

[@pasqualescoppettuolo5810]

The link is out of order. Do you have a valid link? Thank you so much!

[@chimichanga1972]

Amazing performance, I wish I had the musical background to appreciate the technical skills demonstrated.

[@jungwoochoi5069]

wow this is truly a masterpiece. Thanks for making this

[@ard-neindanke5590]

Insane! Absolutely

[@user-ow3or9kd2l]

Brad Meldau Is the pianist of labyrimt

[@nicholasmontano7172]

Thank you so much for this!!! Amazing

[@paulwhetstone0473]

Wow, I’m actually more impressed by this transcription than I am the actual performance. If you enjoy this music I suggest you check out the solo piano pieces of Simeon ten Holt as performed by Jeroen van Veen. Canto Ostinato is a classic.

[@muxant_academy]

Magnificent 👾

[@paulocorrea2212]

Awesome work

[@d.c.i.fraterdzwogchenvovi2031]

Hi Martin, could there be a place where Cycle or a Coltrane Change or Shadow Harmony would be possible? Shadow harmony is a technique of Mick Goorick(former reacher of Berkeley who developed both Shadow Harmony(if i remeber the name correctly? as Generoc Modality Compression, together with Tim Miller) it is cloe the 145 125 soltutions of Chick Corea and his tetratone scale's...Shadow Harmony is a technique where a part of the melody is just played at another rate so 2 or 4 bars at will could be played together with the harmony in another key...normally they choose like 4 bars...so that a melody thesis is clearly covered, and than after 4 bars make a nice modulation...if you take It could happen to You and one starts in Eb and go to Gmaj7 after for bars, using this very formular you go from D7- to Gmaj7 in stead of Ebmaj7!! is that Magickal or isn't it!!! something trivial starts to change in something special!!! What A marvelous trick if you want I could send you the changes where but of course for you this is easy to understand this simple formular...Fun is to do this with your own bass player and don't tell him when you "leave" key I once did this with blue Bossa we ended up me playing in Ebminor and he in Cminor and I modulated back every body thought I was doing a Fancy "Out" thing I wasn't!!!### ?? w.t.f. With other words I was using Shadow Harmony on the spot the nice thing is that Dominant for the transmission called transmission Dominants are Ambigious in Nature and there is where the real magick Happens....

[@noraazemog]

Anybody know where to find the original video? Like an actual video of him performing this and not just the audio. This is Mehldau at his finest!

[@Nexon44444]

Wow, the amount of work you had to put into this transcription is unbelievable :o. I tried doing it myself but gave up after the first 16 bars. Is there anyway in which I could get the pdf version of this?

[@martingeyer]

yes it took a long time to finish! for the PDF- send me an email

[@sifcnm]

Already at 8.5 thousand views Mr. Martini, very impressive ;)

[@marcogherardi569]

amazing work! thanks for sharing

[@harmoju]

Nice work !

[@ondrejholas1037]

Well done!

[@kubager]

holy shit dude, nice job! What do you use to transcribe it? Ear only? Or some slowmo programme?

[@martingeyer]

Thanks! I use sometimes amazing slow downer, but almost always only by ear, because when you slow down the quality of the Sound gets very bad.

[@sifcnm]

It's important to take into consideration that this guy is only 19 years old everyone

[@ULSWC]

I cannot put into words how amazing this is and cannot imagine how much work you must have put into this (I've tried transcribing some pieces myself). I checked the link in the description for the PDF but it doesn't work for me. Can you send me the sheet music via email if I send you the money via Paypal beforehand? I would absolutely love to play this wonderful piece of music. Cheers

[@davesax11]

Hi. I purchased the transcription. Very nice. I can only span an octave due to age/arthritis. I see the 8va, how do you adjust the fingering/notes, especially the first few bars? Thanx

[@gabylepoivre]

HOla! i really want the pdf, the link above its not working

[@lucidvoid2528]

me as well!

[@jinjin8754]

Sheet please 😭

[@martingeyer]

@@jinjin8754There was a problem with the website. It's fixed now!

[@c.v.4095]

Hey Martin, the link in your description is dead. Is there any way I can still purchase your transcription?

[@martingeyer]

There's a new link now and its works!

[@shankpeterman]

Intro is basically the Interstellar soundtrack lol

[@uncut125f]

I think that Hans Zimmer's interstellar is also influenced by this performance

[@synthplayer1563]

Very fine transcription. Applauding people in a perfromnace are idiots. What do they want to show? That they know the piece?