4 Flashy Runs (That Are Easier Than You Think)

[@braxtonjackson_]

Wowww! The metronome practice is brilliant! I'm a gospel musician and sir.. thank you so much!

[@BobMazzo]

Adam I want to thank you for sharing these AMAZING piano solo tips. I been playing for many years, but not schooled per se. I'm learning tons here !

[@oscarandgroucho]

I prefer to play these and then walk away from the piano as fast as I can before anybody discovers that's all I got.

[@sammyg805]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@psmith1624]

Fabulous. Wanted these for years.

[@gisellechacon7081]

Some nice runs! But the "block it first" method is worth the price of admission alone! Thanks, I'll definitely use these concepts. 😊

Great stuff!! A neat trick for that first run: since the notes are all in the half/whole (octatonic) scale you can use the same run over 4 different dominant chords. Try playing it over a Db, E and G (sounds best over the G imo). Alternatively you can keep Bb in the bass but transpose the run up/down minor thirds. In fact, everything that's based on the half/whole scale can be used this way (if anyone didn't know about it yet)! Very cool.

[@davidshaw4735]

Thank you so much been wanting to put together some kind of licks that make me sound more sophisticated...👌😌👍

[@lewis2868]

Similarly, #2 with the same notes sounds lush over EbM7, Bb7, BbM7, AbM7#11, Dm7b5, Cm11 and more

[@thezenbum]

play the first run then Db7 into Cmaj9. sounds great

[@whatchrisdoinmusic]

Gold! Thank you for making this video. I’m always curious how to play runs like this. I love how you break it down to be simple to understand

[@bobcosmic]

Charlie Parker got a job as a dishwasher just so he could hear Art Tatum play that’s how great Art was. Go figure !

[@joeog5862]

That is so cool

[@xaxaxa764]

Source?

[@eugenerowland1262]

@@xaxaxa764 What if the source they gave was inaccurate? You still wouldn't know the truth. The "dishwasher job" tale comes from a 1951 Charlie Parker interview in Down Beat magazine. I read it myself in public library archives in 1972 while researching for a college term paper about Charlie Parker.

[@Bruce.-Wayne]

Even the source is asking for sources

[@Qwazim0d00]

Flashing Runs by Kanye West, Nice reference in the beginning music. I think Bud Powell used the first run to set up Over the Rainbow.

[@ATLS702]

Barry Harris uses it on It Could Happen To You as well!

[@tomislavblazevic2742]

Guys, you may also want to try D, Db, C, Bb, G, E. For the C7 chord, works great as sextuplets. Same thing for F7, starting on G. Fingering the same: 4,3,1,3,2,1.

[@FadersAnd]

This needs to be a series

[@stephkirwin1898]

like others I am a self taught foolish me piano player. I have been working on my 2-5 -1 pattern over covid days and I jam often and having new runs to practice is a great thing to help me sound better thanks.

[@rachidvanheyningen]

This guy Aimee Nolte and Noah Kellman might be the best Jazz piano teachers on KZbin rn

[@stephanosioannou1825]

And Jeremy siskind

[@robroth5834]

Big Noah Kellman fan, will check out the others.

[@deaddaedalus]

I love NewJazz as well

[@williamshields7222]

Tony Winston way up there

[@ltrizzle12]

I’ve always used LH 4-3-2, RH 2-3-4 fingering for Ex. #3: the ascending whole tone scale. THEN entirely reverse the sequence to descend. THEN initiate a mixture of 1, 2, 3, 4 or more (any) octave runs both up & down, continually overlapping hands, cascading up & down the piano. Good warm up and dreamy, eerie dope sound, too. 🤘

[@crickcoulee9580]

Tatum loved to use that last Eb run, he would also put the chord tone above with his pinky on the strong beats (G on Eb, C on Bb), which you can hear in many of his recordings, including tiger rag. Hot licks!

[@AAllinsonNN]

As a guitarist this is extra exciting

[@AAllinsonNN]

I really need a guitar in my hand and to not be drunk for this to click better lol as a mediocre pianist, I absolutely see where you’re coming from with all of this

[@richard135b7]

You just elevated my playing to the next level with those runs. Thank you!

[@retox2929]

Classy stuff. Thank You. This is so very fun.

[@clemenskunert2486]

Danke!

[@ingridburnside5505]

I am taught and I teach and you are my favorite this holiday season.

[@martinsa19]

I've done the 4th pattern in the relative minor for years. Great content!

[@martinp001]

Thanks

[@Bashanvibe]

I hear this on a lot of old school records thanks for showing the secret!!! Now I can practice executing the lick when I here it!!!

[@AAllinsonNN]

Music was so good when it was about the feel and vibe over what you saw on a grid

[@deaconblues3964]

When I hear Peter at the end of this tutorial, I realized that you guys just gotta do some more Electric Piano stuff. I've been begging for a while now! Stevie; Tom Canning; Richard (the Man) Tee; Chick Corea; Herbie; Zawinul! It's NOT the same as an acoustic pianot you know!

[@thomasdotson8978]

The beginning of this video with the tone of the greeting and the background music felt like an internet era PBS broadcast. It really captured the beauty of education that we forget as we age

[@PeNdErAg0n]

Really great content! Especially on the last one there are other good (better?) fingerings, in that snippet at the end he uses 4-3-2-1 instead, if you practice the skip from 1-4 that might let you do it faster in the end. Just something to keep in mind for anyone reading this.

[@Flipiano88]

Eppiphany.. I need to work on my RH runs but these two-handed runs are terrific for intros and outros and interludes. Great strength building runs and as warmups to practicing compositions.

[@tomlangmusic9623]

Great stuff Adam, will 'shed those riffs. Your presentation style is great in that it motivates me to practice even more. I'd love to see some arpeggiation up and down on these riffs (I'm also a guitar player and Eric Johnson is my mentor.)

[@BruïnGebakken]

You're just awesome! Thanks a mil.

[@TheBigant40]

I love it!!! you help me soooo much thank you!

[@calebraysilcott9471]

Another great one is to play the one chord and the major 2 overlapping hands all the way up. This reminded me of that. Thanks for the awesome runs!! 🎉❤

[@marianlevy9232]

Thank you , Adam! Mind blowing! Love practicing with you- Art Tatum’s runs have always intrigued me - such great tips 🎹❤️ I have already stolen that whole tone run for my intro to “ Misty”

[@ScarletteFiesci]

So glad I found your channel. This is amazing. I am classically-trained and do you think I can do these runs. I feel that classical training actually can be quite detrimental in many ways. We tend to look at the notation too much perhaps and get totally put off by what looks to be complexity of runs. I know when I have attempted to play Chopin's Etudes etc. Sometimes I think it's better if you don't read notation frankly. So thank you so much for breaking this down in not so scary terms. Shall be recommending your channel to other pianist friends for sure.

[@avoidthesoyXD]

Yes thank you for saying this. I am a piano teacher and teach playing based even though I was classically trained and I tell my students...I don't want you learning the same bad habits I did. There's so much more to music than the page!

[@klaus8456]

Some of the downward runs of Art Tatum are just like automatic machine gun gunfire when you hear the keys percusion.

[@twhobie]

Thanks Adam, love it!

[@gustavoeliasmorales77]

Very cool sick runs inspiring me to try harder as a pianist

[@lumigpictures]

I have an important concert in a few days that includes a song that asks for that really characteristic dreamy whole tone run, only over G7. This helped me a lot figuring out a great way to do it!

[@HernanGnesutta]

Adam!!!!! :- ) Genius!!! Thanks!!!

[@juliusworld]

This is lovely and amazing. Could you please do it also on Key C Majore scale

[@davidwhite2465]

This was very helpful. Thanks!

[@thekeyoflifepiano]

The last 6th chord run can be used with Barry Harris's 6th chord system.

[@jaykay1053]

Yay for Barry Harris!

[@mulattotvc15]

cool mark loved it cant wait to hit the piano tks for your helpful video

[@DanLaDue]

It would be awesome if you had one of those apps that shows the key / chord you were hitting. So much easier to see what keys you’re hitting. Especially when one hand is covering the other.

[@langabeats]

I watch the first 20sec and was obliged to subscribe!!!!!

[@JohnFemijkeyz]

So lovely. Thanks

[@schelsullivan]

For someone like me who is self taught and doesn't read music This is priceless

[@SherMusician]

Once u do the jibbity face technique. Ull read music. Aka find the GBD (jibbity) on the treb and bass clef. And face is always underneath it. F under the g and then ace To me reading music it was always b and d that hassled. Also the treble clef is just a fancy G and the bass clef just a fancy F. On their respective lines

[@chegadesuade]

Self taught and doesn't read music? Those two don't add up, any piano instruction book will teach you how to read

[@havenstanley]

@@chegadesuade well that’s how i’ve done it since i was 7 years old. Grew up with church pianists as parents so it was easy to play by ear with no knowledge of reading music

[@chegadesuade]

@@havenstanley Can you play in any key? Even if you can't identify the key, could you at least figure it out by ear and start playing along? Do you know common turnarounds and chord progressions by ear? Can you compose music that doesn't sound like the songs you've memorized?

[@havenstanley]

@@chegadesuade I can play in any key A little however im best in C major because my mother introduced transposing to me a too young of an age so i unfortunately became dependent on it, everything else..yes.. yes I can.

[@JohnsonkeyzMusicAcademy]

Art Tatum was something else on the 🎹🎵🥰

[@GlennRoberts-qk1rj]

Great ideas, I like that you included the claw technique I do upper extensions on minor chords you know the one.

[@sandalero]

FUN FACT :: Bb13#11b9 and Ab13#11b9 and Eb13#11b9 have the same shapes (right hand min7) and so JUST THREE SHAPES can be used for all DOM7 and ALL dim chords (cause its all symmetrical ). just 3 runs for all

[@craigkeller]

Great lessons, thank you 🙏

[@malcolmzackery3099]

Very well explained Adam! Very useful and helpful!

[@sandalero]

the Bb13#11b9 arp is an instant classic

[@jackcarlsson5527]

If you know the first one starting in Bb they feel exactly the same if you start on Ab and Eb

[@PabloVestory]

Thank you so much, again! Every single time you play the fourth one I feel you're going to follow with I Mean You, by Monk! 😂

[@LeonStanford-wp1ox]

Great runs, like it!!! 😊❤

[@winstonmacmahon9735]

Great video Adam Nice cameo at the end Peter 👌

[@TheMDElder]

Love the cover of Kanye West's Flashing Lights while talking about flashy runs 😎🎹👍🏽

[@dounaldtobing7393]

Easier when we Mastered it.. 🤭 Thank you so much for this video, you are an excellent teacher. I've master the first one anyway..👍

[@MrFedemoral]

I love the ending! and the 90s EP!!!!

[@boogiebegs]

wow… great stuff… thanks…

[@666scroll]

Haha my man at the end using 5421 fingering for the last run. That is actually the good way to play it fast! Thanks for the runs! Any more coming up? It would be great to know where you took them from!

[@trickerknicker1030]

Dang. Great lesson!!!

[@soundofjoybrown]

Love these. Thanx

[@rocknrolsen]

thank you I love this channel

[@MrMikomi]

I prefer the ones that you seem to think are boring.

[@mazriel666]

Thanks!

[@Jack-fs2im]

cool and usable thanx

[@bozovirtuoso]

Love it! ❤ works for guitar players too!

[@robertparkerpiano]

Thanks! Nice work

[@PabloVestory]

Thank you! After some sax practice, I find the first one a great six hexatonic scale too, to improvise over dominant b9 natural13 for example,. Knows anyone how is it called?

[@JoshuaHults]

Actual usable information ty!!

[@MrJeeFreak]

thank u so much for ur videos, ur very sympathic

[@iamyou.2658]

What was the first music played. When introducing openstudio

[@ccoo1559]

You're amazing, thank you so muchhh

[@thekeyoflifepiano]

This is just an idea, but I think the whole tone scale would be even more ergonomic if you start on A flat.

[@jrileycain6220]

Gold!

[@phaserfull]

Mr Adam please explain: in the score the first note is Ab, in the video it begins in Eb, what is happening here? Tks

[@Oscaraha]

Love this

[@Sim-Son]

Can make a session to runs with „crunchy double stops“?

[@CWBella]

Grip it, grip it good! 😃

[@patzimmusic]

love this!

[@MikeTaylorPiano]

Shake and bake, love it.

[@KawhackitaRag]

Quick tip: All flashy runs sound BETTER when you don't over-use them, but just use them once in a while in JUST the right place (your own musical taste should tell you when/where to put them).

[@music7774life]

How do we work on finger technique when modulation runs....

[@DojoOfCool]

That Whole Tone run sounds like Magic Mirror music from some kid TV show.

[@phly23]

Lobster Claw! Thanks Adam!

[@johnmitchelljr]

Thank you.

[@rufusevans7844]

A delight!

[@Ralstro]

This is great but can anyone explain #2 to me? Adam says to play it in any key you only need to find the third and the seventh. The example shows the chord to be Ebmaj7 which I thought was Eb G Bb D. I may be being irredeemably stupid here (it has been known - often) but isn't the seventh D, not C? I notice that when he shifts to C he plays E A E D. Again the A is the sixth? I've been playing from sheet music for years but an trying to understand chord structures to get a bit of spontaneity into my playing. Just when I think I understand it, something like this crops up and baffles me! 🙄

[@zenncatt]

You're shredding!

[@careygoldfine7431]

Pianistic gold!

[@babyzorilla]

THANKS!!!!

[@juanrobles105]

no se ve que teclas pisas por que no usas midiculous?

[@BeauShelbyandFlyy]

I was taken out by the “black & white with transistor pocket radio eq” transitions 😂😂😂😂

[@Laurentio313]

I want more runs! :(

[@sandalero]

i often play Csus4 and Gsus4 and Dsus4 all over tonic Eb

[@Rhekon]

Hey, Adam. You probably don't remember me. I was the pianist at SIUE.

[@adammaness]

Hey RheanKing, hope you’re doing well!

[@Rhekon]

@@adammaness I am. These videos are sick! Great work!

[@sweatshirt4974]

SIUe? Like Edwardsville SIUe? I used to go to school there

[@loladelon5648]

Lopve it!!!!

[@danstringfellow2525]

Keeping a nice greasy wrist then proceeds to play it sloppy is classic 😂😭🤣

[@nuqady]

the first octave sounds like the orarina of time menu