Hal Galper's Master Class - Musical Vocabulary

Book: Forward Motion
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Recording: Cubist
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Book: The Touring Musician
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Book: Jazz Piano Voicings: Transcribed Piano Comping
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Hal Galper is accepting appointments for live video lessons for individuals and group coaching via Skype or FaceBook Video Chat. Sign up at www.halgalper.com
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And: forwardmotionpdf.com/
From a clinic at the University of Colorado in Boulder, April 2, 2010

[@coffeemachtspass]

This is gold. I'm a teacher, not even of music, but these are the things that go through my head as I try to help my students see the big picture AND get through their current challenges. Hal is great.

[@ryantogia4440]

coffeemachtspass how has your life changed since this comment?

[@coffeemachtspass]

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[@humberto974]

​@@ryantogia4440how did yours ?

[@littleripper312]

I really wish I had something like this available to me when I was a kid taking the rcm exams. All of my teachers were so obsessed over competitions and high scores on exams they never actually taught me to really play. My buddies in a band asked me to jam once and I couldn't even keep up despite the fact that I was technically at a much higher level than them. They could transpose songs into different keys and they never even had lessons where as I had 12+ years piano and couldn't transpose

[@mightybloko]

1:46 : ya dig

[@toneyam3643]

This man is the wisest and hippest jazz philosopher on KZbin, thankyou Sir for your wisdom, instructions and inspiration.

[@AlecKatz]

Pure gold, thank you Hal and thank you JVG ✨

[@gunthertobias3909]

Hal has insights few ever have had,He is also hilarious/intense and believes in this. Early 1980"s he had a a few articles in Down Beat that changed my world. Went to NYC to study a day with him he changed me as much as anyone for the better. Thank you for posting! Thank YOU, Hal, always and forever.

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

Great player, great teacher. I really appreciate this and all the other Hal Galper teaching posts here on KZbin. Thanks.

[@somaticspirituality]

i am a metal vocalist in the black and death metal traditions and i write guitar and bass parts. No one else has been so singularly important as Hal Galper in terms of shaping my approach to music. I can't overstate how massively influential his videos have been. He's been very kind and generous in responding to some of my emails but he can't relate to the way I hear music. An excellent supplement to this video, by the way, is his lesson on "what is practicing" -- conveys much of the same concepts in a different way. Also highly recommend "attitude is everything" Thanks so much

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Glad you dig!

[@jazz1bro]

I agree with Hal on a number of issues. He has confirmed some things that I discovered on my own.

[@melodiusthud4536]

Straightforward and brilliant!

[@theleavepillows]

i wish this was longer

[@jackman00110101]

then you'd have less time to practice

[@jaywills5776]

You could set it to half speed.

[@Chromatype]

He said exactly what I have been believing for years...better to understand how to wring the MOST out of everything you already know...it's easier to retain and implicitly requires creative processes to achieve such a goal.

[@RoryButler]

Amazing stuff, even from a guitarist's perspective. Very insightful words!

[@bluessax5089]

I just love this stuff!

[@grantreborn]

I found these videos very very useful in my playing, especially when ad libbing solos. When solos change key from major to minor simply there are so many many ways to change with it. Especially with guitar because of the different modal positions and how you can vibrato and bend notes in so many different ways. I found that keeping it simple when changing key and simply bending to the next key change is very powerful

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Glad to help!

[@manoelbueno9997]

Great teacher!

[@SkwisgaarScampini]

Beautiful words, amazing instructor...Watching his videos today gave me so much inspiration to play

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Very happy to learn that Jake.

[@holygroove2]

See...this explanation is seriously bottom line and I really like it...you can never watch one performance or one video when you check out someone. This is a really good explanation.

[@pianobeard6403]

Powerful; the concept of the clue.

[@Pongalandia]

Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. I'm learning a lot. :)

[@mithunselvaratnam4655]

That's really interesting! I've recently started jamming with a friend who's a pretty accomplished cellist, and she said something similar. On the competitive circuit, musicians are trained to be performers, to play certain things the right way. When you sit down with a band with no sheet music, just your instrument and your ears, it takes a completely different mindset. Those technical skills are tools, but that's all they are - it's how you use them that makes you a musician.

[@MicahStott]

@patnorris you on the other hand delivered an outstanding senior recital performance in your college classroom for the 15 family members and friends that showed up. Teach us your ways.

[@keithhodiak1834]

Yeah I really like it it's good stuff. Can't get enough.

[@junka22]

this guy is really awesome

[@life-is-inspiring3953]

Very powerful concept

[@dr05guitar]

wow, deep stuff...thanks for these vids!

[@ThisMichaelBrown]

Superb

[@danielvadillo9002]

Wow, what a lesson !!! Thanks for this

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Glad you liked it!

[@RoryButler]

@hjerthinfarkht I completely agree!

[@dr05guitar]

wow

[@JohnSuttonMusic]

@patnorris yeah, why?

[@GeoffBosco]

"Be Baw-p!"