Matt Savage plays "Blues in 33/8" in New York

This was recorded at The Matt Savage Trio's "Quantum Leap" CD release party in September of 2006 at the Bosendorfer New York showroom.
Matt Savage is now a college graduate and has a new channel with new music:
/ mattsavagejazz
Buy Matt's CDs at:
www.savagerecords.com

[@GarglingMarblesMusic]

I have to say, all those "unnatural" breaks make this song incredibly amazing. It moves my whole body.. I'm sure it looks awful, but I can imagine myself dancing to it

[@mattsavagejazz]

Thanks for all the compliments! You can check out newer videos of me on the channel "mattsavagejazz".

[@Juicymusic1]

I think I've just developed a heart murmur listening to this....

[@GDuBMuSiCk]

my mind has melted

[@djbrown888]

it is so exciting and i can wait to hear what this young man will create. bravo !!!

[@boucoupthick504]

I can't even wrap my head around 33/8 time!

[@mattsavagejazz]

Hey everyone! You can find new videos of me at my new channel: mattsavagejazz (I was 14 in this video; I'm 18 now) Matt P.S. 33/8 = 7/4 + 7/4 + 5/8, just like in the Counting Blues in 33/8 video.

[@NickC_222]

Man, sometimes I almost wish I was born with this so-called "incorrect" neural mapping. It seems his neurons were mapped just right for music! What a prolific prodigious savant brain. Jazz is hard enough to compose as-is, but this is just astounding.

[@MrsSarb]

Wow that's crazy! Never heard anything like this before.

[@hanzorama]

This grooves SO HARD!!!

[@jude4312]

i didn't know this dude was a savant. he's such a nice cooperative kid who is really strict with his schedule. i remember him saying this after a session 'i want to go by 11pm so that i can practice, and i want to get up early in the morning because i want to get an ensemble room to practice' that didn't sound like a savant to me, just a dude who is really determined. God bless this guy.

[@mattsavagejazz]

Hi! Just clarifying the time signature thing. Structure of 33/8 is correct. Sure, it's better to say 7/4 plus 7/4 plus 5/8, but it's just cooler to say 33/8. After all, 33's a bigger number. It's easier to imagine it if you picture the bars of 7/4 as just straight-ahead bars of 7/4 like most jazz musicians play it (4/4 plus 3/4). And the bar of 5/8 doesn't really swing... it's nearly impossible to swing 5/8! Just count to five... it's easier. Hope this helps!

[@MrStrangeSensation]

I got to see Matt play at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in February of...I think 2011. Bobby Watson played with him. It was a spectacular show and is easily one of the best concerts I've ever attended. He has an incredibly bright future. I absolutely his music.

[@keyboardsathya]

simply superb! very inspiring. Let me try it and enjoy this piece.

[@Dewingo]

It sounds really interesting, never heard blues in 33/8 before (must be really rare time). Sounds kind of like it's "skipping" at times but that just makes it sound more intersting :D

[@mootbooxle]

I love it!

[@caseyferns]

HOLY CROW. =O How the heck can ANYONE play something like that?!?!! =O Tried to count it, then laughed at myself for even imagining I could keep count. =P Way to go, mattsavagejazz!! =)

[@Dylz0]

Wow, great tune, but I don't feel it as 33/8. Rather I feel it as two bars of 7/8 and a bar of 5/16 repeated. It still adds up to 33 to be sure, but it's easier for me to conceptualize that way.

[@damaband41]

can anybody actually count this out? If so, please post a vid of it!

[@mattsavagejazz]

Yeah! Let's start a new dance craze!

[@AZNSk8er4lyf]

it feels like it just restarts at one point this is really cool

[@MrErickSong]

ESTE NIÑO ES MI NUEVO IDOLO!!!!!!!

[@QuiteHotBros]

Matt. This tune is sensational. Have you ever heard the song Bulgarian Bulge? It's in very fast 33/8. You'd probably love it, it's by Don Ellis.

[@MrFunkyBeaver]

that is a very good shit, like it like it

[@malefikgirl]

yeah !!! ça groove à mort !! incroyable ce gamin !!

[@lutecore]

3:33 WHAT!? Completely blown away...

[@mattsavagejazz]

Hey everyone! You can find later videos of me at my new channel "mattsavagejazz." I was 14 in this video; I'm 18 now.

[@Criticalperspective2]

Swings like hell!

[@aronizer]

If you listen carefully, it's not that hard to follow. It makes sense

[@kurtilein3]

at the beginning, the rhytm sounds a bit strange, but then after a minute or so you understand the rhytm, and then its a really great song. its funny that people here in the comments dont believe that he has autism while matt says so himself, and while so many scientists and experts consider him to be an autistic savant with very clear symptoms of autism. its great that its getting easier for people in the autism spectrum to become accepted as positive enrichments to society.

[@mvgg]

he is a Savant

[@MrStrangeSensation]

@danielinsporto What's even more mind-blowing is that he's an autistic savant and he's been playing and composing jazz since he was like 8 years old. He absolutely mastered jazz before the age of 10, the kid is seriously gifted. Look into it if you like jazz, he has several albums out already (and a new one coming out in like 2 weeks)

[@lucyisthelight]

It´s just really good music. ;-)

[@ophliablue]

Matt Savage was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, a grouping of 5 different types of developmental disorders (autism being one of them). Hard to diagnose.. the classification or label 'autism' came about fairly recently (I want to say circa 1980 - my mom was a child psychiatric nurse at UCLA at this time, when these disorders were being heavily scrutinized and differentiated from schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder).

[@MyNameIsTango]

O______O OH MY GOD.

[@sauceyboy]

pretty amazing wish i had been a prodigy

[@stoney490]

it just 4/8 time with with a bar of 5/8...adds up to 33 instead of a regular 32, or 16, depending on how you want to count it.

[@manofadventure2000]

This kid is definitely a talented individual... what is appealing to him seems to be keeping others impressed. He needs to learn to relax a little on those lower notes. I understand that his brain is compelled to do things that normal people can't even begin to comprehend... so I can see why they would criticize it. The second time I listened to it is when I heard his brilliance, the timing is really cool.

[@bubsadoozy]

Even more challenging is trying to find any sort of musical pleasure in glitch core.

[@anonymoweb]

Can you believe this kid learned to play in one night ?

[@MikeGipsonUSAF]

Well done kid.

[@mattsavagejazz]

@sebz661 Just found the song in sq(42)/1, by Conlon Nancarrow, from "Studies for Player Piano." It's possible with computers! 5/7 is also theoretically possible as a time signature, but it's impossible to write down with Western notation ('cause the note values are based on powers of 2).

[@IberianInteractive]

que fuerte...

[@ophliablue]

But for now, I don't care. I just really enjoy Matt's music. :)

[@Myluz12]

Wow, deep complex off-beat Jazz O_O He's really good.

[@ronaldmcdonald333]

just split this into 3 sets of 11

[@Maddie01022]

if you just count to 7 twice and then to the and think "short 3" you got it

[@oforsberg]

@ricyarborough So, theoretically you can have the amount of beats in the upper number and the number of n-tuplets in the lower number. Thus, if there is a song in 4/4 time in which is a part where the beats are 7-tuplets and there are 5 of them in a bar, isn't it more logical to consider it in 5/7 time instead of 5/4 or 5/8 with a tempo change? (this sounds like something Zappa would compose)

[@Frymononie]

12 people had trouble coming to terms with the fact that they'll never be this good at anything they try.

[@perdaboy]

Give him a laptop and a sound board.

[@Megatrousers]

It's not about his piano playing skill. Would you have any idea how to compose a piece in 33/8?

[@mattsavagejazz]

@353mileycyrus That's so cool that you're doing a project about me! But technically I was born with autism. People are born with autism but don't show symptoms for a couple of years...

[@auhoward14]

@ronaldmcdonald333 Yeah... that's not how it's phrased at all though

[@KingKarolus222]

reminds me of Occupy Wall Street

[@mattsavagejazz]

Aspergers is a form of ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). And I actually have PDD, a higher-functioning form of autism. Not that I feel like I have it or anything... Matt

[@HerMeggido]

The 9 people who disliked this performance are Babarians. (!)

[@bbking93]

being in 33/8... i think the entire song was about eh.. 12 meansures lol =P

[@username6a]

I think your piano is skipping...

[@drexil14]

he didnt mess up it changed styles or tempo

[@MrIsaacDB]

@zhaoxmmusic lol

[@swiffstep]

weird.. i can barely keep up with this rhythm in my head... sounds like its skipping to me like a scratched cd or something lol

[@Treehamallama]

why cant i be that good at an instrument! its not faiiirrr,

[@jaydude214]

hahaha 3:07 the drummer messes up

[@flamingspinach]

I'm a pianist but I'm actually more impressed with the drummer than the pianist. It's much harder to keep this kind of compound time on the drums than on the piano, because you need a steady hand on the downbeat, whereas a piano can just layer. Anyway, good song - 12-bar blues is always good, haha

[@mattsavagejazz]

@Paulhomes Hahahahaha....

[@IVlr3vil]

He comes off as normal here to me. You got those professionals who don't have Asperger syndrome or autism and they do twelve hours a day with much harder stuff (jazz and classically trained pianist).

[@mattsavagejazz]

@kirknasty Haha no, just a big bottle of water. No drunk could ever play this tune...

[@98Eric98]

33/8 isn't that impressive because the 8th note gets the beat. At my school we play the pep songs in 5/7 while the cheerleaders are trying to dance to them. It messes them all up, which is pretty hilarious.

[@sebz661]

@arulguna sq(42)/1.? no such thing.

[@HotRatsAndTheStooges]

@98Eric98 5/7 doesn't exist.

[@Portlandhardstylers]

epic, now to go try and figurer out the time signiture of a glitch core song.

[@WinnerTV1]

These people are real musician, not the chart Top 100 garbage!

[@JoshuaWillis89]

@oforsberg Agreed, sounds extremely Zappa. But there is no such thing as "playing pep songs in 5/7". The concept of a 7-tuplet is meaningless out of the context you have described. Basically 98Eric98 is full of crap. They might be playing them in 5/8 or 5/4 (or think they are, lol). Incidentally, have you ever studied with Dr. Joseph Klein, he's a Zappa expert?

[@GiGGDDaDDy]

that is jarring to my sense of timing!!

[@arbethobbo]

is it autism or asperger? i think is the second. isn´t it?

[@thepacers]

unbelieveble all the savants. ok 33/8 sounds difficult. but if you listen to this piece its easyier than that . its (matt counts in that way and the drummer plays the whole time) 2 times 7/4 followed by a 5/8 bar. this feeling doesnt change (they dont play other accents). mabe the band is too weak?

[@xeraphon]

Not completely true, he has Asperges, wich is a form of autism. It's like saying someone has "cancer", people don't just have cancer, they have cancer is some part of their body; you don't just have autism, you just have a form of autism since you can't have autism itself.

[@wesboki]

What's the use? Sometimes it just stumbles and sounds like the needle of an old recordplayer is jumpin' across the vinyl.

[@Malkmusianful]

better than miles davis

[@BlackHammondB3]

What's the purpose? Interesting concept, but seems like it's just deep for the sake of being deep. Oscar Peterson and Bobby Timmons were all about groove, which this has none. Atleast not to my "western" ears. Branford Marsalis' "Bulworth" is in 7 and 13 for a little while, but Kenny Kirkland infused the piano with soul as well as a pocket.

[@frankjsosexy]

i dont think it grooves at all- probably would have really liked it had it been in a reasonable time signature it just jars so much you can't hold on to the pocket