Jazz Piano Genius Taylor Eigsti Unveils His Tips for Practice, Improv, & Harmony | Jazz Lab Ep. 8

[@TommyRarivoson]

2 hrs of free master class with Noah and Taylor! What a time to be alive. Thank you for providing us with this amazing content!

[@NoahKellman]

Sure thing, Tommy. Appreciate the comment, and hope you enjoy the episode!

[@jimwin2011]

Your content is so exceptionally valuable to me as a pianist.

[@NoahKellman]

🙏🙏 so glad to hear that

[@kylereilly3259]

Another incredible interview. Taylor Eigsti is one of my favorite musicians and this is an incredible glimpse into how he thinks about music. Appreciate you so much for putting this out :D

[@NoahKellman]

So glad you dug it Kyle! Thanks for the comment and saying hey

[@gitarmats]

I'm a guitarist, but this was super enjoyable and interesting to listen to. Thanks!

[@mondoinc]

golden era to be alive with all this content for free. you're a gift !

[@NoahKellman]

Thanks!! 🙏

[@NoahKellman]

So glad you enjoyed it!

[@seanmonahan]

I just found this video today, and it couldn't have been more timely. My mom passed about 3 weeks ago, and I'm trying to write a song for her. In my head, it's perfect, but I just can't get it out. I am feeling the pressure that I'm putting on myself, which is making things worse. I really really needed to hear everything Taylor said in the Finding Inspiration section. Thank you for this.

[@NoahKellman]

@@seanmonahan sorry for your loss, Sean. Glad this video offered some help

[@chrisfireymusic]

So great, thanks for uploading! Taylor is able to incredibly articulate his ideas.

[@NoahKellman]

Agreed, thanks Chris!

[@samratjpatil]

Beautiful talk

[@mattwilsonguitar]

This was a fascinating interview! Thank you both for your time

[@NoahKellman]

Thanks for listening!

[@TimChernikoffMusic]

Rewatched this. It’s an easier rewatch than Office Hours, appreciate the lesson

[@NoahKellman]

@@TimChernikoffMusic sure thing Tim, glad you’re enjoying it

[@TimChernikoffMusic]

@@NoahKellman I think Taylor should start a trend of making email text larger. It’s weird to write emails with tiny letter lmao, I am surprised he didn’t mention that…

[@veenhond]

fantastic talk, i'm deeply connecting to it. thanks for making these!

[@Abet689]

Thanks Noah!!

[@enc1ner]

Really love the 49 chords exercise, I searched for something like that. I have a hard time knowing when to use a certain voicing, "should I use Kenny Barron here?". This approach is much more fluid. Also, I respect the take on transcription, but as a beginner I feel that transcibing has skyrocketed my playing because it has made it a lot easier find a certain sound on the instrument.

[@CrowClouds]

Top 5 jazz youtube channels for sure. Thank you for this guest and interview

[@NoahKellman]

Thanks appreciate that! Sure thing

[@BauerHouse]

Such a great interview/lesson. Love this

[@Johnwilkinsonofficial]

this was great. for singers horn players composers whatever - really creative ! thank you noah and taylor

[@HankusMaximus]

Incredible interview. A wealth of knowledge. Wow

[@NoahKellman]

Thanks glad you enjoyed it!

[@song4night]

such a great experience! This was amazing! Thanks Noah!

[@NoahKellman]

So glad you liked it! Appreciate the comment 🙏

[@jimzitrone1357]

very inspiring talk. for life and for making music

[@bobbachelor5930]

I've always felt the deeper essence of jazz is the "mistakes" and how well a player uses them. Jazz is not supposed to be anti-septic.

[@NoahKellman]

Agreed, nothing like a good “mistake” to turn into magic

[@bill3837]

The wrong notes. And how many wrong notes? And of course there is rhythm

[@bill3837]

How many kind of really comes down to sentiment as well? You know you can be in a free jazz moment or you can be in a straight classic jazz moment

[@bill3837]

Oh yeah, there's always something to be said by playing by the seat of your pants😊😊

[@cristoffbaloc4231]

Hey, I think I hear Taylor playing an acoustic piano , is it so? Great interview!

[@jackgalloway8314]

Practising those minor harmonic scales. This guy knows his bus. Good old Bill Parcells, like myself a major NY Giants fan. Looking forward to this season. Greetings from the UK

[@NoahKellman]

Sounds like you know your football (american) unlike me!

[@jackgalloway8314]

Might catch you on tour one day, Noah?

[@sandilemgcina2904]

Man ! So much knowledge in 2 hrs 🙌🏽🔥

[@onethousandtwonortheast8848]

Respect. My experience is 180 degrees different because of my personal tastes. Keeping common notes between court movements helps me create more interesting. Sounds with fewer notes and makes things sound more smooth to me.

[@TayjazzProductions]

(Taylor here) - that is super cool and I love that you know what you like!!! Make that work for you!! I’m all for that and I’m just excited to hear that someone has a different approach than me - genuinely. That’s what makes this world a harmonically diverse sonic universe

[@misosalmon2074]

I am a beginner jazz pianist. 49 chord exercise sounds fab and I will definitely be trying it! Just wondered though that it is to practice diatonic harmony but how about altered harmony? Would similar exercise in altered scale or diminished scale on dominant 7th chord effective?

[@mhespeltguitar]

wow wow wow, thank you thank you for this vid!

[@ChrisLeePiano]

Thanks for the masterclass! the 49 chords exercise can also be implemented to harmonize melodies diatonically. Just so many ways of utilizing it.

[@NoahKellman]

100%! Great point, Chris

[@alexcondejazz]

thanks for the video! The exercise at 19:00 I believe is Chopin.

[@pablobear4241]

I believe it’s Lechetizkty

[@Michael_Dominic]

peak content as usual absolute masterclass

[@NoahKellman]

Thanks, Michael 🙏

[@kingg7457]

Taylor is a master. It'd be dope to hear a duet album featuring him and Robert Glasper 🤌🏾

[@Steve-xl1en]

wow what a great video. As someone who is somewhere between beginner and intermediate jazz player this has given me so much to think about. My 3 big take-aways are 1) Play everything slower when practicing to work on my slopiness 2) the 49 Chord exercise and finally 3) the random 1/8 note exercise -this really hit home for me, as I will memorize a solo or phrase, but when i make a mistake i cant recover for a few bars. Hopefully this will help!

[@NoahKellman]

Hey Steve, yeah No. 3 is an issue I see a lot of students have. I think the random 1/8 notes is a great way to work on that. Here's a video I did a while back on vocabulary integration that might help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWe1dZSirrh9r9U

[@Steve-xl1en]

@@NoahKellman Hi Noah thanks much appreciated I will check it out. Love your channel btw I have already bought a few of your packs! :)

[@maramazone]

Some amazing nuggets of information, love his concepts! Always excited what next musician you will interview! ❤ 🔥 ❤️

[@NoahKellman]

Got some great ones coming up!

[@maramazone]

@@NoahKellmanthank you, will definitely tune in, appreciate all the work you put into the interviews ❤🙏

[@ntandoscrayonbox]

Another banger

[@davidfreel1451]

'Slower,slower,slower'. YES ! Alsmost noone ever talks about how to use a metronome properly for accuracy, awareness and security of memorisation. 1 Play as slow as you can 2. Start with metronome at that tempo. 3. Incrementally head down to about 15 BPM. 4. Take a break and gasp at what you have learned.

[@davidfreel1451]

To gain freedom from rote muscle memory take one bar and keep it fixed. Compose half a dozen or so answers either outlilining a different chord or couloring the same chord. Practice as a above to RELISH the point where your fingers are predisposed to take the 'easiest' habitual route and build flexibility slowly. Superb with purely rhythmic material.

[@SuperC55AMG]

Taylor looks like drummer Jeff Hamilton. Great lesson.

[@Yttyyt13-8]

I like your channel helps me a lot，thx so much

[@drcool56]

Just thanks from France ❤

[@pas3202]

Would love to see Sullivan fortner on this series!

[@NoahKellman]

Same! Will try to make it happen

[@wildhorsemusic1111]

Encore!

[@TrummerMav]

Thx so much for sharing this ❤

[@CrowClouds]

I like to start my practice time with some exercises around the specific key or scale that I'm working on, and then after that I play a couple songs I'm learning, then finally I like to do straight improv, just audiate what's in my head and create something random, but centered around the scale or key that I'm learning. Then the depression hits as I realize that piano time is over and I have to live my life

[@NoahKellman]

Sounds like a clear and fun routine! At least there’s always the next piano time to look forward to

[@msh1348]

Thanks bro.

[@NoahKellman]

Sure thing 💪

[@arkeys74]

This is truly amazing and very useful! 😉👍👍

[@NoahKellman]

Really glad to hear that! Thanks for the comment 🙏🙏

[@danielrose6288]

Omg the G major on Autumn Leaves

[@TayjazzProductions]

😂

[@alejandromedina2349]

Could someone summ up this video? I do get how to get the 49th exercise. If I use the same shape diatonically they will not longer a minor if I start that way. Or is he just talking about inversions? Please do explain

[@maciek_d]

Mind = blown

[@blakewhatcott1909]

Loved this! So much knowledge!

[@NoahKellman]

Hey Blake so glad to hear that!

[@davidolahmusic]

Awesome. Thanks a lot! ❤

[@ionbaciu224]

What piano is Taylor playing here?

[@richardreisman5245]

Hi Noah, Can you clarify how the number 49 applies to the chord shapes exeecise? Thanks.

[@NoahKellman]

Hey Richard, basically, 7×7 = 49. There are seven notes in the scale. You create a voicing that uses each note once. Then, you move that voicing diatonically up the scale, which gives you six more voicings, 7 total. So, you pick seven different shapes, or voicings, and do this process. If you take seven different shapes through their seven diatomic scale, that ends up basically giving you 49 voicings in total that you have practiced/learned. Does that make sense?

[@richardreisman5245]

@@NoahKellman got it . Thanks. Great interview!

[@julienpainot8862]

@@NoahKellman so it would be, day1: 49 shapes of minor7 in all 12 keys. Day 2: 49 shapes of maj7th in 12 keys and day 3: dom7 in all 12keys?

[@NoahKellman]

@@julienpainot8862 I think he means: Day 1: Pick a chord or shape, and diatonically run it through its scale, which gives you 7 voicings total. Day 2: Same thing, different shape. Day 3: new shape Etc. 7 days = 7 * 7 voicings = 49

[@julienpainot8862]

I’m not sure because he speaks about a 3days cycle, not a seven days cycle. So where is the 49 coming from?

[@peterjohnstoltzman]

We should all be paying $250 minimum for this. Thanks for offering this to the world, cats!

[@NoahKellman]

Thanks, Peter! We had a great time, and Taylor was an amazing guest, so nice of him to share so much in this format. Hope you are able to learn a lot from this episode!

[@peterjohnstoltzman]

@@NoahKellman I caught the first 30 minutes and then heard Taylor shout out our lesson from 25 years ago…awesome…I still teach the same thing to advanced cats. FYI As a variation: keep the top note in the scale but move the voicing parallel. Any shape like that is dope-quartals, clusters, triads, etc.

[@NoahKellman]

@@peterjohnstoltzman ah cool, Peter! Would you mind explaining that a bit more in depth?

[@brunolacerda4611]

Passa o Pix

[@TayjazzProductions]

Folks should know that this exercise is just a branch/personal version of what I learned from @peterjohnstoltzman years ago!! I was lucky to be inspired early on to internalize these kinds of shapes in the muscle memory from an early age because Peter showed me all this stuff. Folks should know that this is essentially just a version of his exercise that played a game of “telephone” over the years, and for me, morphed into this. Just putting it out there that Peter Stoltzman is the real guru of gurus!!

[@ChicoBlack]

Noah kellman Great improv Video THANK YOU FOR SHARING Producer Chico Black

[@ili626]

36:00 I think he called it the “49 Chord Exercise” because he’s a 49ers fan and thinks of everything on the piano in terms of football (based on his earlier 49ers reference). Also: that’s 7 X 12 not 7 X 7 … so why 49 instead of 84?

[@VincentDBlair]

🔥🔥🔥

[@donovick]

good

[@cashglobe]

Getting permission to not transcribe tooooo too much from Taylor is freaking awesome. My first mentor, who toured with Miles (Herbie, Tony, Wayne) for a brief period and replaced Ron Carter (so he’s a heavy cat) as well as Richie Cole, was very much against transcribing too much for the exact reasons that Taylor described. People start sounding like carbon copies and there is no true music in it. It would be like someone only ever speaking in quotes from Faulkner and Dostoevsky their entire life 😂 it would get old after like 10 minutes

[@carsontanner966]

Are you talking about Marshall Hawkins?

[@charlesperforms]

22:22

[@OneOffization]

Didn't see any free items. I dont mind paying for stuff but if you say you'll offer something for free you should do that'.

[@PCMRvsconsole]

Gundam Thunderbolt.

[@carloscappellini1687]

My dog is a genius.

[@bill3837]

Okay so you find some happy accidents. What not? Do you start to practice that?

[@danielecorbari7033]

Wtf I thought it was an Anthony Jeselniks video

[@CrowClouds]

Bro can TALK holy shit

[@BrianCarter]

If you like jazz, there is a rhythm. And if you edit this shit to keep people interested by eliminating empty space, you’ve deleted a jazz artist’s rhythm. Which is why this interview sounds awkward. Stop it.

[@BrianCarter]

You made it unlistenable. Congrats.

[@CrowClouds]

Bro only American dudes will talk 20 min straight uninterrupted -_-

[@rainerschnelle1]

I find a lot of what he says very interesting but overall he talks way too much. He does't seem to be able to finish a thougth.and leave some space.

[@federicorubin1864]

I agree. Too much talkin

[@dariovicenzo8139]

Agree, few concepts and very fast explained with a lot of talking in the middle not contestual. Very bad organized from Noah in my opinion. We lost an occasion.

[@jacobfuller9532]

This is a podcast that you are watching fo free! Not meant to be a masterclass, the man should charge for that.

[@mayakronfeld4617]

Absolutely stellar interview! amazing educator as well as artist @tayloreigsti

[@poerava]

Some serious audible fellatio in this dudes intro. Really not necessary The monologues though 🤦‍♀️ Man Was this edited? Or does he really monologue this much? It’s very uneasy listening to someone just monologue this long about their own playing.

[@lukaipictures9448]

Really great interview. Thanks

[@NoahKellman]

For sure, glad you liked it