Hal Galper's Master Class - The Illusion of An Instrument

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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[@apzlw5]

It's crazy how much of an eduction you can get just from watching youtube nowadays

[@elaltonkos]

This guys tells me mindblowing things

[@shalaq]

"You all play exactly the way you hear." That's like dropping an anvil on 99% of musicians' heads.

[@coreyshafarman8918]

This video certainly dropped one on my head

[@tallen1628]

Because most suck

[@xFliox]

I suck at it :c

[@johnmc3862]

It’s the other 1% though 😅

[@inspir.edmusic]

"you're not gonna hear the same in 10 years as you're hearing now." Very comforting!

[@bug5654]

7:22 to 8:20, the starting points of the 2 licks for side-by-side

[@jazz12726]

Very interesting discussion. Perhaps this will help: "Thought is the enemy of flow" Vinnie Colaiuta.

[@mikeycon10]

Hal Galper this is great! Thank you so much! Sorry if this is a silly question but do you still hear it loud in your head if you’re playing something quiet/delicate or do you adjust? ( If I understand you correctly you should hear things extra loud like Dizzy did when you’re playing regularly )

[@blasramones4515]

Well... This Really Change Everything!!

[@germangonzales2008]

Right right, the time you spend in indecision, wanting to do something but unable to, whatever it is you're doing, you're doing it as distraction from the thing you REALLY want to do. "Ok I'll clean my room a bit more and THEN, I'll begin reading that novel." Come to decisions as quick as possible. You wanna read that book? do it now. You wanna learn how to draw. Do it now. You know what I mean? don't dawdle on things, your indecision will be your irritant for life if you let your passiveness control your life.

[@LaurentMelnyk]

Hi Hal thank you for the recommandation . For those who are interrested He ( Vinnie ) is talking about this in this interview : kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYOrYnpsj9WogpI

[@willharpur9042]

Yep!!!!

[@hasans]

I felt like I got knocked out by a heavy weight boxer after watching this. It'll take years to get my shit together again. Thanks.

[@Diogolindir]

this is a treasure. I just started practicing this way and I can see now that the notes in my head are like specters or ghosts and I want them to be vivid. What a great abstract concept

[@rezmogm]

Way way back, when I was studying classical rep with the prodigious Sanford Margolis one day at a lesson struggling with a passage, I said " if I had a direct wire from my mind to my hands I could play this". He replied: " No You Couldn't". He was saying the same thing Hal is in this vid. It would have been a partial smear of the notes I thought but not the complete meaning. Not just shouting the phrase but really hearing (and saying) it. After playing for over 60 yrs I am beginning to get it.

[@lemar_soma]

its like anything really , it becomes as you visualise/create it in your head

[@ezadgnirts]

This redirects how I practice. I love this guy. What a generous musician!

[@greggjarvis133]

some of the most concisely presented concepts on the net.. great

[@mariagandcompany]

whoever the student is at around 8:20...nice lick!...I'm stealing that lick =)

[@MrDmorelli]

that's lick number 18 of the patterns for ii-V7-I from the Aebersold book on ii-V7-I progression (volume 3)

[@commonmanofficial_6334]

Dude yeah I just read that lick off a sheet of music...

[@TimFoxbop]

That's the fantastic musician, Annie Booth!!!

[@Clown321321]

A gem! Thanks for the upload.

[@bohigasss]

man, this gotta be the best series of music lessons ever. thanks so much for posting. this guy is amazing!

[@dr05guitar]

his lessons are great, always enjoy it.

[@SDRockman]

This was one of the most informative videos I have ever seen on youtube and was explained in a way that was very easy to understand. I wont forget what I found out from this video.

[@William102582]

I love this lessons! I watch it every week again to remind me of things I should realise in my own playing, when I have the time I'll take a private lesson with him. Thanks for the vids jazzvideoguy!

[@docbop]

Every time this lesson pops up on KZbin I watch and learn. Still learning to let go, but getting easier every day. Thanks Hal for sharing.

[@wyeth1023]

That he put this into words is incredible

[@JimmyBrunoJazz]

Just wonderful! BRAVO!

[@bwmertz]

Mr. Galper I'm jealous of your students. What excellent teaching - what excellent concepts. Just loving it

[@marydye3650]

This is a way of understanding life, not just movie. Metaphors to live by.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

totally agree

[@kennybradshaw2122]

Awesome energy. A message so simple, yet so real.

[@twangbarfly]

Fantastic lesson - all the stuff you practice anyway is just as much a way of teaching yourself how to hear certain concepts, groups of notes, harmonies, rhythms and so on, as it is a means of improving your coordination. So I agree with Hal - if you can't hear it you can't play it. I'm now going to work a lot harder on using my practicing to increase the amount of vocabulary my ear can recognise clearly so that I am "compelled" to play what I hear. Many thanks for posting these super lessons!!

[@HavelP]

This proves the theory I came up with quite some time ago. When I told my students to focus more on actually hearing the melody the way they want it to sound, than just mechnically trying to play it again and again, most of them looked at me like I was high. Now I have the proof I needed and they will practice the proper way until they DIE ;).

[@yoshtakeuchi]

Thank you for posting these videos! Professor Galper's approach to teaching is incredible. It transcends music!

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Glad you dig!

[@loren1283]

this is the coolest thing ive ever heard.

[@joeguitargod]

WOW! What a revelation! So simple, yet powerful. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheMusicmak3r]

Love rewatching after years

[@Herehear49]

YES! YES! YES!

[@SharmaYelverton]

love this.

[@thomasarneson4511]

Wise thoughts, I use to practice on those pianos at Cal State Hayward in the 80s and once saw Hal walking down the hall. He probably heard me struggle and smiled as he passed by.

[@lesgoe8908]

"You are the instrument." Of everything you perceive. I'm reminded of Krishnamurti's, "There is no thinker, only thought." Getting to the elemental intuitive perception over intellectualizing.

[@Dang...]

Thank you for posting this.

[@Mossey5]

Very interesting and resonates with my own experience.

[@Lisanna61]

Wow! So inspiring!!

[@perrykleez]

excellent lesson...truth and simplicity is alwasy beautiful

[@007gumshoe]

finaly i heat this subject adressed/ i am getting back into playing and this is the best thinbg i ever needed to hear again. Hearing is the most important foundation - thanks for the exercise!

[@guitarzen]

Hal is a great player, musician, and teacher. I took a few lessons with him way back when. This lesson conveys a deep understanding of what playing music is really about.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

Hal is a national treasure

[@pencert]

You're the man, JazzVideoGuy. Just found your videos today, you have a new subscriber and admirer.

[@JamesSeawardOfficial]

Makes complete and utter sense.

[@RobEgertonJazzTranscriptions]

What a great clip!

[@Modes9]

This really is a great lecture...

[@dr05guitar]

it's really interesting to think about yourself being the instrument, because then, theoretically no matter what instrument you play, it will sound like you

[@danjohnson7742]

That was friggin awesome

[@gtrs4m]

game changer.

[@saxfish]

Very Enlighting...makes a difference !

[@bajo2continuo]

Great lessons. Thanks for sharing.

[@ChromaticM]

Fantastic!!! Very inspiring, Thank you very much..

[@DeanMccormick]

Awesome!!

[@littleripper312]

For me though I am working on being able to play back a small amount of notes as quickly as possible without thinking much. So I started with my brother/teacher telling me the key and then playing less than 10 notes quickly twice and then I have to immediately try and play it back without thinking. This has help the most and you can increase to more notes once you get good at 10. It took me a while to start seeing a difference though but it has helped a lot.

[@janiceslater5547]

Thanks Hal.

[@marydye3650]

This is how William Adam taught - completely changed my life.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

interesting

[@androidguitar]

JazzVideoGuy, you rule!

[@DarthJonez]

this is amazing

[@Streux]

This was a great lesson! That young lady was nice on piano too!

[@chriscurtis8344]

Streux, and pretty!!!

[@xxmanx1]

man..i have been trying to explain this to students for years and years and years. Very few get this until they have been playing for at least 30 yrs...damn..great post! you can ONLY play what u year...and if u hear it..you can play it. Its simple.

[@greorjazz]

Fantastic and real. Thanks

[@AlexPryrodny]

@batfly Hal is talking about internal hearing, an ability to hear music "in your head" before it actually sounds. Like being able to look at a complicated symphonic score and hear in your head in slightest detail. Beethoven had extraordinary internal hearing, by all accounts.

[@oliverpinelli3334]

Thank you very very very much...!!!!

[@dr05guitar]

oh man this is awesome, very informative

[@LaurentMelnyk]

incredibly valuable video again thank you !

[@JazzVideoGuy]

My pleasure!

[@huhnturr]

Ahhhh it's so on point

[@kimcarig714]

Thank you!

[@salaciousBastard]

Man, I wish would've had this guy as my music teacher in high school. My teacher sucked major balls.He never had more than a few seniors in his class. Almost all students quit in the 9th and 10th grades. He was absolutely hated universally.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

@bijouxmusic Cool. When I was there, I got a nice feeling about the program.

[@stevedarlington278]

beautiful

[@JazzVideoGuy]

@SDRockman That's great. Check out some of his other videos for more.

[@premiermusiclessons]

jaw dropping...I was just reborn!

[@DomMinasi]

Excellent lesson Hal. I was like you. Then one day it came to me. It is always has been about your ears and playing like you mean it. Dom

[@BoxCubeSquare]

Wow. Inspiring.

[@rezmogm]

Great work Hal (once again).

[@lokir]

Fantastic video... Very thought provoking. :-)

[@LetTheMusicFlow1]

OMG I saw that Andre Watts episode! He played Chopin Revolutionary Etude. It was awesome!!

[@tarquin161234]

I actually realised this myself a while back when learning some Bach. I noticed that I tend to not hear some of the less obvious inner voices so I realised all I need to do is first read the score and be aware of them and then I will hear them whilst playing.

[@JazzVideoGuy]

good observation

[@DamienSlingsby]

man, heavy class....

[@TheJazzSwings]

@DaveVelo1 This is how I thought all through my playing. It's a great approach. I think he follows on that as well. He just takes that step to help young musicians get the music loud in their head, which is such a hard thing to do.

[@adamjamessorensen]

Hal!

[@surfj9009]

Thanks!

[@JohnOhkumaThiel]

This video was recommended to me by guitarist Steve Lasner after we discussed how eventually the music you play comes straight out of your brain just like when you sing or speak, that you don’t think about the theory and technique or grammar anymore; it’s just straight mind to music, and so he recommended this video. I’ve only been playing guitar a little over two years. I’m originally a sax player and Berklee alumni, born again musician on guitar. It’s a great experience, but more importantly I feel like I ‘get it’ more now, and I think that’s more about how I’ve changed as a person since then, than simply finding a better medium-and like Steve, Hal Galper, and I said, it’s really not about the instrument at all. I’ll never forget what Miles Davis said, “It’s not about the notes you play; it’s the attitude of the mother f”ker.”

[@larpup]

@domminasi Thanks so much for these words of wisdom.. Appreciated!

[@CanyonTide]

Very interesting!

[@JazzVideoGuy]

@jazz12726 What a concept.

[@gorriamusic]

That's so oooo good

[@Dunielc]

fantastic ! :)

[@localxmedia]

Thanks Jazz John Goodman 😎

[@JazzVideoGuy]

@domminasi Dom has seen the light!

[@leoyucht]

incredible

[@hap2002hello]

@batfly It doesn't matter if you would like to use other methods. But for me, I find that "you play exactly the way you hear" is really telling the fact. I try to hear the phrases that I cannot play probably. Then I find that I really cannot "hear" it clearly. Besides, I record my practice and discover that the recorder just records the things happening in my head when I am playing! In the recordings, I can actually tell when I was thinking and when I was "hearing"!

[@UkuleleAversion]

Summary: train the shit out of your ears.

[@commonmanofficial_6334]

That lick at 8 something I literally played yesterday 🤯

[@Bassfully]

this is so true. if you hear it, you can play it. not the other way round.

[@Drumfusions]

@batfly That's exactly what I've said! We all have fun, that's what matters in the end of the day! Keep your sipirit bro! João

[@drebailey5516]

Thanks

[@helmanfrow]

From what I can gather, the book Hal is discussing is called, "The Art of Piano Playing: A Scientific Approach" by George Kochevitsky

[@littleripper312]

It means you need to practice your ear training. It takes a ton of practice to be able to do that. For me I started with just being able to find the key and chord progressions in songs until I could do it quickly. Now I am working on melody and with each song I get quicker and quicker. Have you ever practiced having someone play notes and being able to tell them it was for example a major 3rd or a perfect 5th? You need to be able to hear the distance between notes and their direction.

[@TheSohanandrei]

If you use them right, yes. :D I completely agree.

[@wendersondias8638]

Ahhh como queria esse vídeo legendado T_T

[@chapeauelesmirriau]

Well, this is what I thought, and I've practiced these things you talk about a lot. However he seems to say that the problem is not CONSCIOUSLY recognising the notes, but to have a "loud" aural image and let the unconscious do the work. This seems to say that I need to focus more on making this aural image as intense as possible (screaming the melody in your head he sais) and letting the unconscious free to do what it knows already how to do...