John Mayer Playing 'Waltz for Debby' by Bill Evans Trio on the Piano on Instagram Live 2019/02/04

[@ChudLife]

Him not knowing what a diminshed triad is really made me feel good about myself.

[@cjsmith8319]

Time stamp?

[@-solidsnake-]

He has to know

[@jonnosaurus]

@@cjsmith8319around 5:20 happy holidays friend

[@violetblack3061]

I took 10+ years of piano and the way he explains a chord is so easy to learn. I absolutely adore this man and his beautiful brain.!

[@jonnyrugg]

As a pianist who has struggled through JM songs on the guitar... This was a joy to watch! The man is human after all

[@bradfordmasters197]

This is real music played in real time from a state of wonder, innocence and joy. Thank you for letting us share your joy of discovery with you.

[@ltran96]

He's got excellent taste. Waltz for Debby is my favorite Bill Evans song

[@trumanandreason7088]

This video makes me so happy. I had no idea John loved Bill as much as me

[@therocknsanta]

Great Mini Master Class John! Back in the early 1980's, I had a gig at the Yale Law School New Haven Ct. at the Yale Law School. I was playing solo classical guitar and just finished playing, "Waltz For Debbie", and a women comes up to me and says, "Hi, Im Debbie", and I said, I'm Robby. She continued and said, "you just finished playing, Waltz For Debbie, and I'm Debbie. My uncle was Bill Evens. ( Bill Lived in Branford CT, ) As a child, I'd be at his house, Bill was always playing the piano in the living room, I was always dancing around his piano. And he wrote that song for me! " Just thought you'd like this aspect of the great tune, Waltz For Debbie... story.

[@M5mejane_SomeoneNew]

👏👏👏 That was lovely John! I’m so glad you’re playing the piano too! Very nice!!! ❤

[@SubtractiveMoves]

I'm not a piano player or even a musician but i enjoy playing and listening to music. He's got a super gentle touch on thoes notes. Isn't that what made Mr. Evans a legend? You're gonna live forever in my sounds like Randy Newman 😊

[@morningglory555]

I absolutely love this Bill Evans. It's one of my faves.

[@rx-heaven8934]

Love Bill Evans, love John Mayer. It's great seeing a world-renowned musician failing and learning as the average person does.

[@yellowmagicdog3350]

Yes! He is just like you and me....but with more talent. But he is so human and I love it. It is infectious how he is just so open....like "here I am...the right notes and wrong". Let's work it out together! I hope he becomes serious about jazz and takes it on for the second half of his life. He deserves to give it serious time to continue studying this music on piano and guitar. I say get the Dead thing out of the way and move completely into jazz. Thank you John Mayer, I see a brand new shining light within your soul today.

[@svensvensson6705]

Miles Davis used to call Evans on the phone just to hear him play. An interesting fact, Bill Evans is the pianist on the most famous jazz album with Miles Davis and Coltrane. But what many people don't know is that Bill Evans wrote Blue in green which miles took credit for.

[@wertymerm]

Miles gave him 2 chords, Bill evans came back the next day with blue in green. Once that was all said and done, evans suggested he may deserve some pay for it, to which miles shot back with an offer of “a check of $25”

[@svensvensson6705]

@@wertymerm that sounds like a tall tale 🤣. Source?

[@rufiooo7]

@@svensvensson6705 Peter Pettinger's biography 'Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings,' good read.

[@bobke114]

@@svensvensson6705 I never read or heard that story...I knew Bill went home and wrote it but never heard he even suggested getting credit for doing so.

[@MelbaToast7117]

For "not playing the piano", his phrasing is exquisite

[@ale_papa]

its not piano he is playing a guitar..

[@Studbeefpile]

I just "discovered" waltz for Debby and came stop listening to it. Im a big Vince guaraldi fan, and somehow it snuck into a radio station based on the great pumpkin waltz, which i love. Waltz for Debbie is just devastating when I first listened. I started learning some Vince during the pandemic, and you working out bill Evans waltz gives me hope that I'll get to a point where it isn't so intimidating. Just got to break it into smaller bites. Cheers John and look forward to another album.

[@Fretlessness]

Great for you, work a lil bit everyday twice a day

[@yellowmagicdog3350]

This is absolutely f*cking beautiful! I never ever knew you had it in you John, where have you been hiding? Get in front of a piano more often because it is lovely and so refreshing. You have it, the jazz is within your soul. I am so happy I found this today! Don't mind if I pick up my guitar and join you, do you? Thank you for this!

[@ciasma_xavi]

Oh, get a room you two!

[@michaelvarney.]

@@ciasma_xaviand you’d be watching through the window.

[@r4b32t11]

One of the greats JOHN MAYER..,,,Genius at work ❤️

[@jimmyclown6043]

My respect for john mayer has increased so much

[@KileyOhl]

Could literally watch him all day... 😌

[@KileyOhl]

I adore JM beyond measure. He gives me such joy! #happylittlechords

[@bobke114]

I am not a musician so I have a bit of an outside looking in, This I know without a doubt Bill Evans is one influential musicians of the 20th century

[@celestaa_]

he also plays Peace Piece by Bill Evans wow

[@cwise7]

Thank you sir 🙏🏾

[@winslowwong9719]

John must have an incredible ear for music to just figure these things out

[@leaveitorsinkit242]

He has the chords...

[@williamlarson2759]

Trying playing as a regular Waltz..it's a trip😘Glad you posted

[@rigelloar7474]

Bill Evans was one of the greatest musicians ever, and my favorite instrumentalist of all time!

[@bernadettedyer4865]

This is amazing! I love it!

[@ldydeb3]

Wish I had your passion/feels when it comes to playing, but I love listening. ❤️ Gorgeous song on the piano.

[@freem0nt]

Nice musicianship as always from Mr. Mayer, whom I admire very much. For the record: the point of confusion, at around 4 minutes, re: 7th chords - John plays the Major 7 note (F# here, in the key of G), and thinks for a bit. I think that he realizes that he has muffed up the explanation some. \:-0 While teaching, you get confused trying to articulate ideas that you've taken for granted... Shit, it happens all the time. No worries. Seriously. That F# over a G major triad (G-B-D) makes G Major 7. Drop the B to Bb, and the F# to F, and you have G Minor 7. Now play the G Major triad with an F on top, and you have: G7, aka G "Dominant" Seven, aka G Seven. Mention "g seven" to any working band and they will play G - B - D - F. In some form. :-) hth!

[@ayushmanbhalla8737]

Paul Thomas you want to fight with mayer ?

[@Chingster22]

but then he freestyled over peace piece around 16:00 that was impressive

[@valerienormand2505]

J'adoore ... hâte d'être au 26/07/19 pour l'écoute à NYC

[@sergiosoza2792]

I always wanted to play like john. Now I know I can :)

[@haydenmoore584]

damn dude, i love the approach to piano, im a guitar play the same. but i find this uncanny ability to just sit with a piano and let the brain and ears tell the hands what todo. its like exploring the guitar again at 16 again, its such a wonderful thing, the art of discovery. i feel like after years and years of studying the same instrument, it becomes.... not bland, because theres always something todo. but its different. theres no longer discovery theres hmmm... inspiration, consolidation and articulation. very different from learning how to speak again. Learning how to speak and say i love you in a different feels different

[@adriaraujo511]

Exercicies great!🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@68caribou]

:: I also see a beautiful artichoke Poulsen in the background!!! Great taste :) ::

[@Jcf97__]

His living room is gorgeous

[@cjadventures8840]

Right?

[@lvl3472]

Its his home studio see the fabric walls its for sound isolation for making good quality music

[@mattya1133]

John McLaughlin’s version is my favorite 👌🏻👌🏻

[@louisea6109]

Enjoyed!

[@christineh3126]

Was fun hanging out ...

[@DucksDeLucks]

G minor7 flat 5 has flat 3, flat 5, flat 7 = G - Bb - Db - F

[@gigglepencil5433]

How did he learn this? Was it sheet music?? Someone please answer!!!

[@coreyjohnston4673]

Great!

[@123cetaphil]

Beautiful! Play on!!

[@rrgalih]

26:55 alternate version of youre gonna live forever in me

[@ThisIsRealSkating]

9:46 lol

[@YoussefRbahi]

Knowing him I'm sure 9:46 was intended

[@davidsantilli3763]

Was I hearing some Kenny Rankin influence…very soulful

[@benjdoc]

14:20

[@sm12hus]

I am confused...is he playing a left handed piano? He always looks right when playing the bass part on Flamenco Sketches

[@Chasseeerrrrr]

Sean H front facing camera probably flipped the image

[@susankelly9278]

8:37 Your piano face is different than your guitar face 😉

[@vicki5811]

One more time!

[@marcelomollomusica7737]

SI BILL SE LEVANTA DE LA TUMBA TE ROMPE EL PIANO EN LA CABEZA

[@flonsdg]

Rezumas envidia amigo

[@marcelomollomusica7737]

@@flonsdg NO SABES LO Q ES DISTINGUIR UN CHISTE...JOHN ES UNO DE LOS MEJORES SALIÓ EN LOS ULTIMOS AÑOS COMO GUITARRISTA CANTAUTOR,

[@inartwetrust1]

Herman hesse

[@adrianmaulanamuhammad7225]

22:30

[@TheyreStillOutThere]

That’s a George Nakashima dining set in the background. Sorry. Not relevant. I’ll see myself out now

[@missunique65]

You spent a year at Berklee and no music theory classes? I had no such luck at Eastman, and an 8 am class at that. Maybe you should call AK - after all she copped half your grammy. She owes you at least one tutorial and a bottle of Stoli (Gaga fuel when she's writing at the piano) cheers

[@TDo280199]

Maybe he was ditching classes all the time lol

[@EL-vy7mh]

I think he did like one semester never went back after the christmas holidays

[@s.webbsentell1411]

flat 3rd

[@LeanneMarie-nz8lv]

Why you no love me, because you’re in love with someone else. John….. I’m so disappointed in you my faith is diminishing

[@ICallTheShots4]

Who?

[@matthewnewton8812]

Do you think you should have possibly listened to this tune like just one time even, before you decided you were going to teach the world how it’s meant to be played? This is not how it’s meant to be played, by the way. And seeing chords as “shapes” is a guitar thing and will stop you from ever really being able to do this^^^^.

[@JS-rp7qb]

Did you listen to any of the video before going full theory snob? If you understand the arrangement of notes in a chord you can pick your way through them, and doing it on a piano lets you see the “shape” of each chord and transpose it in between keys. Don’t be a jackass.

[@EL-vy7mh]

I think he’s just trying to show how he goes about learning something that is out of his skill range rather than imposing his way to play it haha