Jazz Vocabulary (shortcut revealed)

[@ruslanpiano]

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[@MsPatriciaB]

I'm a relative beginner. My biggest issues are not knowing where the keys are so that I am frequently checking myself and tension that increases the longer I play. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

[@ruslanpiano]

Patricia Bagwell Yes, spend another three to forty seven years playing the piano all the time. Some issues have practical, methodical solutions. Other issues don’t. What you are experiencing is not really a problem. What you are experiencing is a natural condition of any person who hasn’t played a TOOON of piano for a TOOOON of years.

[@AsgerRosendalThorn]

I just shed a tear of joy from discovering this channel. You went straight into my top 5 of great music educators along with Leonard Bernstein, Oscar Peterson, Adam Neely and Oliver Prehn. Plus that hair style is light years ahead of our time.

[@ruslanpiano]

Asger Rosendal Thorn oh my.. that’s quite the compliment. Thank you so much.... I don’t know what to say 😳😳❤️❤️❤️

[@Jazzmaster58]

Oliver is a fraud, he has no place in the list you mention, his piano teachings are on the level of "tab" for guitar, it has nothing to do with music teaching.

[@npnaia]

Mike longo is missing on that list

[@ISKMUSIC1]

In the youtube world of tutorials that mostly concentrate on showing you WHAT to do (without explaining the "why" part), Ruslan concentrates on HOW to do it and why it will make you a more rounded musician instead of someone who "knows more stuff". Great video, man!

[@ruslanpiano]

ISK MUSIC thank you brother

[@riczi.j]

Honestly, you are doing probably the best jazz lessons on KZbin. Unlike other channels, you don't give us the answers, you give us the tools. Thank you so much! brb going to practice The Lick in all modes over every chord

[@ruslanpiano]

Ryszard Jezierski thank you. I really appreciate your words!!

[@kabalayouri419]

That’s so true

[@philippepierrelouis9956]

I can't Mary has a little lamb on the piano but I watch videos all the cause you a dam good teacher. Awesome

[@EnricoDellAquila]

That's great. As a guitarist i find that this shape oriented approach fits perfectly the geometric nature of our fretboard

[@ruslanpiano]

Enrico Dell'Aquila yup, on guitar this concept makes even more sense

[@glebzeppelin]

Большое спасибо! Хорошее упражнение

[@DojoOfCool]

What's the old saying.... Better to know how to play one lick a hundred ways, than to know a hundred licks you can only play one way.

[@riczi.j]

defgecd

[@HerroVincey]

@@riczi.j Dammit, just played this on my bass and YA GOT ME!!

[@michaelfkilleen7390]

I've played for well over 40 years - you just taught me something amazing I'd never thought of! Thank you.

[@ruslanpiano]

Happy to hear this

[@alx3539]

You just opened my musical world. Thank you !

[@davelester1985]

this was a good chance for people to understand not only shapes but motives... nice.

[@pianostuff191]

Great musician/great teacher. Thanks!

[@ronfeggio]

OMG! Combine this with Motivic development & the possibilities are endless. Pure Gold!

[@ruslanpiano]

Ron that is absolutely correct!!

[@justforgame179]

Can you explain what the motivic development concept is please ?

[@ruslanpiano]

just for game Yes. Here is the explanation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJDagY1opa-SpMk

[@samuelkissi6634]

Your lessons are such an eye opener.👍

[@vegetathe4th376]

Another Gold lesson from the generous genius Mr.Sirota 👍

[@terryquinn2042]

Russian, this is an amazing eye opener. Thank you for sharing this. It's such a clever way to expand one vocabulary. It all seems so very obvious yet I have never thought of this before. Once again thank you very much. I can't wait to start exploring. Best wishes to you. Terry

[@danielirilarry]

You Ruslan are an ocean of amazing ideas! You explain those things in a so special way! I'm going to put in practice the concept with the clarinet. This is gold! It's not only the treasures you share with us, it is the way you teach to think! The inspiring way to watch the things we love! I hope I could express what I mean in English, Spanish is my first language. Thanks as many as possible!!!

[@ruslanpiano]

Daniel Irilarry thank you so much for your words. I’m so happy my videos bring something positive to the life of other people. I will contribute to make them and I hope you will find them useful, my friend!!! Thank you...

[@joehernandez5600]

Amazing lesson. Can’t wait to try it on guitar. Thanks.

[@kentcrawley]

I also really dig taking the mirrored version of my licks too!

[@jasneskis]

I am so glad you simplified lyd scale to raised 4. That makes it so easy to remember.

[@davidmanhart2980]

Thank you, Ruslan! Your lessons are wonderfully clear, concise and helpful. Much appreciated.

[@ibrahimsulaimany1126]

Thank you very much Ruslan for this video

[@edwardvivenzio5843]

I love this guy!

[@UrantiaRevelationChannel]

Thank you a lot, so simple but very powerful

[@ivangranitsa6546]

Finally I can remember the name of this channel when I want to find it (the next level thing was practically unsearchable unless you type in the exact name)

[@joaoperes5527]

Great ideas!! Thank You!!!

[@janheinimann7013]

great tutorial - thanks!

[@rodelf.colmenar191]

Thank you so much. This is awesome. More Power!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😃❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I enjoy all your videos.

[@pierrevaneerdewegh4165]

Hi Ruslan, nice video, thanks!

[@rickymolina7390]

Hi Ruslan, I'm an intermediate jazz guitarist and I can't thank you enough for the concepts that you cover in your videos. You just made more sense than some of the best jazz books that I have on my shelf (and some of them are pretty darn good). Thank you.

[@ruslanpiano]

Ricky Molina happy to hear this :)

[@ChoBee333]

Great video! I learned something new.

[@camerongainer1638]

Love this concept! One simple idea can be turned into a thousand things.

[@rdretske1]

Beautiful. You made it so simple and so real...AND so immediately usable. Thank you!

[@psykofarmaka]

Thankyou!! This is immensely useful and easy to apply.

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

Just subscribed.. teaching myself Donna Lee on piano and guitar. The other day I labeled the notes as relative to Ab major. The Ab is 1 , Bb 2 Or 9, C Maj 3, Db 4, Eb 5, F 6 or 13, 7 Lt.. as I went thought it I realized that many of the same patterns we're being played against new chords and those chords we're giving the same licks new sounds because they were actually different places. I like what you are doing here. You are essentially playing a mode of the lick..Of course the more complex a lick , the more flavor it will have. The best

[@paulolevisilveirateixeira2903]

Awesome 😂

[@paulolevisilveirateixeira2903]

thanks for the lesson

[@Jazzmaster58]

I'm still to listen the teachings but for starters you play nice (very good) and my reserve is due to me doing it for almost fifty years. Congrats for the solo.

[@pallhe]

Very cool, stuff. I've only watched the first five minutes -- not only is that shape a great addition to my melodic minor vocabulary, but also altered. But of course, it's the basic principle of shifting shapes around that is most important. Next step: hitting the subscribe button.

[@sigiriabeysekara8723]

Super helpful.....thank you

[@espr7564]

Awesome lesson thabkyou 😎❤

[@louiserichard1729]

I tried it on the guitar and it works It opens up a lot of new ideas thanks a lot

[@davidcox8961]

I was messing around with my keyboard last night. I was going up and down the keys playing minor thirds. I don't play piano. I got the keyboard to help me understand how music works- in theory. I discovered that there was a definite shape in this minor exploration. A while ago I discovered for myself the shapes that the various scales make. Now I have to learn how to transfer those shapes to my flute and sax.

[@davidcox8961]

Here's another clip of my music, as requested. drive.google.com/file/d/13c4ik31uGPqwqUAm2IGEPS4qVvNEIvBq/view?usp=drivesdk

[@future62]

Great stuff! I will have to try it but I think you can reapply any lick to any scale. You just have to change the notes. This looks like an awesome new way to practice scales too.

[@christinesullivan1229]

Thanks xx

[@passage2enBleu]

Subscribed today, after watching a couple of your videos. I'm a novice, so most talk sounds foreign, but when you said 'shape' it felt like I had found the Babel fish of Hitchhiker's Guide. Learning to walk, but nice to watch others run.

[@ruslanpiano]

+Ken Neth thank you very much. I hope i can help you on your journey in any way

[@amosasante4962]

Great lesson

[@DevonTaylorMusic]

Fire. Thank you!

[@larrytaylor5084]

I Just stumbled across one of your videos the other day. As i watch your videos,you make more sense than all of the other jazz tutorials so far. I just subscribed to your channel. Thanks a lot, and keep up the work.

[@ruslanpiano]

larry taylor thank you so much!!!

[@WyattLite-n-inn]

Pure no nonsense lesson.. Top class

[@ruslanpiano]

Charles Telerant Thank you Charles!

[@WyattLite-n-inn]

Ruslan Sirota NP Ruslan. I just sent this to a really good keyboard player I know who would appreciate this. Really great, man

[@TheTralfaz]

Thanks Maestro....great idea

[@victorlaw4256]

Great idea here. Thank you so much.

[@melwynjohnson]

Brilliant approach

[@vukanpotezica1727]

Спасибо Вам!!! Очень хорошо объяснили!

[@MaxwellCasazza]

This is fantastic, thanks!

[@JarodGrieco]

Love this video. Great job and thank you!

[@cesardenis9014]

Muy buena técnica !! Ya la estoy aplicando 🎷 Saludos de Uruguay 🇺🇾

[@Windwalker7]

Definitely well thought out and made super easy to understand! You changed my practice routine and solo style with this video for sure. Amazing!

[@Windwalker7]

I just realized a what I can do after proceeding with a shape in the practice methods you speak of. Play it retrograde (reverse order), and in various rhythms and apply over all the changes of a tune. Wow. Finally I am composing not just fishing for ideas!!! Next is to combine 2 and 3 shape ideas over the changes yeah? Say even take bits and pieces of the melody from the song and make solos with this on the spot after lots of practice. From here I realized I can apply patterns to fit approach notes using chromatic passing tones in the mix to flavor the harmonic structure. We shall see here this takes me...

[@baptistewxpolpodcast3339]

This is not the first time I hear of this approach, but your way of explaining it made it much clearer for me ! Thank you, I'm including it in my practice :)

[@jsw0278]

You could also play the licks backwards on your way back down the scale. A bit like a Hanon exersize

[@ruslanpiano]

+jamie woolaway yup

[@hahabass]

To use an overdone phrase, this is a game-changer. Thank you for this.

[@raybergstrom]

Great lesson, Ruslan. Thanks! Works great for licks containing multiple scales too, like a ii-V-I lick with dorian, alt, and lydian for example. Shift the notes in the shape to fit each chord scale as it goes by. Cool!

[@ruslanpiano]

yup

[@vijaykarthigeyan3910]

Hi sir thank you for your lesson and I learned

[@kristinasaer]

Thanks a lot for sharing this!!

[@umrasangus]

This does surely helps me with my improvising without knowing a shit of what I'm doing. ありがと!!

[@nimblejack]

Ruslan. I am so happy to have found your videos. Because I play mostly diatonic as I am a beginner (but I don't sound like a beginner), but I have a big heart and ear for so much sound. So you are opening things for me because maybe you are the same way. Even when I cannot follow your video (I fall behind because I don't know the scales by heart and my hands are still a little slow), (well no technique, just ear and brain). So my question: What is the best way for me to build my foundation??? I can understand the theory language because I know what intervals are (numbers) (logic + vocabulary) but simply what should I learn for the left hand and drill so I can play around with intentionality (not just surprising myself because something sounds like jazz) .... When did technique and knowledge come together for you to enable like you say "language" to come out... like sharing feeling through the sounds and movements and choices and rhythm? My ultimate goal is pure expression :)

[@kentcrawley]

Great lesson as always ✊

[@MsPatriciaB]

WOW! I'm not quite up to this but it's opening up my mind!

[@MA4TU2]

Very talented - just watched you with Stanley Clarke, good stuff.

[@imanmusic5829]

VERY VERY THANKS .....THE BEST METHOD

[@rillloudmother]

Finally an area where we guitar players have the advantage over the piano players!

[@luapmartin]

Moving step up within the chord scale is not easier on guitar, moving step without respecting the chord scale interval is trivial on guitar.

[@rillloudmother]

@@luapmartin maybe not for you...

[@luapmartin]

@@rillloudmother don’t need to be personal. It’s not because you state something that is nonsense and has no physical justification in the first place that you have to be defensive, you could just explain why you thinks that the guitar is advantageous to move by scale tones. We guitarist are curious to know why...

[@rillloudmother]

@@luapmartin i don't remember what i was thinking about, but i think it was something to do with the fingerings being different for different keys on piano. i'm not sure what you think i was talking about and frankly i don't care.

[@luapmartin]

@@rillloudmother since you replied twice it seems you care. Maybe you haven’t understood the concept exposed in the video... Otherwise I should exchange my faulty guitar...

[@abuventertainment2856]

Awesome lesson man. Thank you for this insightful approach

[@AlexRossiharmonica]

Amazing!!!!

[@michadykban1053]

That's amazing, thank You !

[@CharlesK441]

I’m going to apply this to guitar !! Thanks 😉🙏

[@jeremylarez]

Ruslan, great like always, excellent information, your lessons are very pedagogical. Man, I would like you to include in your planning a lesson about technique or methodology for comping with left hand, how to model while improvising in the right hand. Thanks Ruslan, God bless you.

[@ruslanpiano]

Yea i need to do one on left hand for sure!!

[@ChicoChagasmusica]

Fantastic

[@Th3Princ3P3rcia]

Great content as always! Thanks.

[@Lynkevmusic]

makes sense, thank you for your efforts.

[@AkilHenry]

Amazing vid...subscribed! Also, I LOVED your stuff with Stanley Clarke. Saw you in London in 2010 - my first ever jazz concert, and I never forgot it!

[@ruslanpiano]

Thank you my friend. going back to London soon with Bob Reynolds and his group. Cant Wait.

[@AkilHenry]

@@ruslanpiano Dope! Where's it gonna be? I'll come check it out. If you're around long enough I'd love to get a lesson too!

[@ruslanpiano]

@@AkilHenry March 28th, at Jazz Cafe

[@TheRockdoc3]

Thanks Rusian. This was very helpful to me.

[@FrankGaloni]

awesome!.. thx

[@drcool56]

So cool. Please keep posting.

[@martinmercio2949]

Very useful! Thanks! Amazing!

[@Gusrikh1]

Very interesting

[@shegofittv]

THIS IS GOLD! Thank yooooou!

[@edmond2000]

Wow!

[@pichipachu]

Great lesson... thanks!... already adding color to what I can play! What are the chords and scales of the video's opening piece that you're playing?

[@vijaykarthigeyan3910]

Nice sir 👌👍

[@Chilajuana]

Awesome Tutorial my brother....

[@ruslanpiano]

Jeff Sprankle thank you for checking it out!!

[@donnyawa8870]

Amazing. The content is very helpful to me even though I am a saxophonist. GOD bless you more Ruslan :-)

[@ruslanpiano]

Donny Awa I’m very happy to hear this!! :)

[@orbayakdoganG7]

Yeyyy!!!! Very nice Ruslan!!

[@Julian7alejandro]

master , greeting from Venezuela . do you have 2-5-1 frases ? let me know please. I am interested in it

[@ruslanpiano]

Hmm... thank you my friend! Charlie Parker was much better than me at that. You should probably go to him for that!!

[@damasovergara7198]

Could you make a video about rhythym changes like oleo or i got rhythym? Thanks for share your knowledge.

[@ruslanpiano]

Damaso Vergara sure! What exactly would you like me to cover in that video? To me rhythm changes is just another tune. Just another set of chords which can be used to teach how to comp, how to solo, how to Reharmonize etc. What exactly would you like me to cover in the Rhythm Changes video?

[@damasovergara7198]

Thank you Ruslan. I’d like to know your aprouch on left hand voicings and improvisation over rhythm changes Thanks from Panama!

[@leowright8016]

Very helpful from a saxophonist thank you for sharing 🎶🎶🎶🎷😎✌🏽

[@iykechikwendu722]

Amazing!! I don't know what to say. You've got a great teaching skill. Besides having a simplified system of looking at stuff and handing out the Knowledge of HOW one comes up with a fresh idea, (which is very rare to find out there by the way), you have a great way of explaining them as well. Which is a very vital part of teaching and learning. This makes you stand out. I appreciate what you're doing. Please can you explain what you were playing in the introduction part of this video, I mean before you began to talk about the teaching. What were those scales exactly, and repetitions? Do you have a video that talks about that, or plsss can you explain how you came about those notes and scales and what chords go along in the left hand? Thank you👍

[@andreasdischer7491]

Greetings from Jazznet Spandau !

[@ivanarapov5495]

great !!!

[@joenoia]

i learned something, thank you.

[@K9lover288]

A good next step to this excellent technique might be to teach u how to connect these in-scale licks with chromatic phrases in a real-world context. i.e. in a standard tune. Thanks for helping us get out of the box.

[@paxwallacejazz]

YcrzyMF that's so close to how all virtical organisation has always worked for me. Plus you clearly can play. Anyway subscribed. This shape thing goes in all directions like scale shapes phrase shapes methods for sequestering common tones between different scales as well as scale types. EG melodic minor modes vs major modes vs diminished etc.