1 Tune, 8 Ways: "Bye Bye Blackbird" in 8 Jazz Piano Styles

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Жыл бұрын

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Pianist, author, educator, and obsessive snacker Jeremy Siskind presents America's new favorite gameshow - 1 tune, 8 ways, featuring 8 different solo piano versions of the jazz standard "Bye Bye Blackbird" played in solo piano styles.
The Eight Styles (Thanks to Casey Dahl for the timestamps)
0:59 Bassline
1:53 LH Shuttle
3:00 Closed-Position
4:09 Stride
5:12 Call & Response
6:23 Ballad
8:38 ECM
9:57 Contrapuntal

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@jazz2882 Жыл бұрын

"Final Jeopardy". You're a bad dude, man!

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

I'm super honored. Thanks for checking it out!

@PietroAloi 11 ай бұрын

Thank you Jeremy! The contrapuntal passage between 10:55 and 11:20 is pure genius.

@JeremySiskind 11 ай бұрын

Aw, I'm honored, Pietro! Thanks for watching!

@caseydahl1952 Жыл бұрын

0:59 Bassline 1:53 LH Shuttle 3:00 Closed-Position 4:09 Stride 5:12 Call & Response 6:23 Ballad 8:38 ECM 9:57 Contrapuntal

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing the work that I'm too lazy to do!!!!!! Would you mind if I added this to the description?

@caseydahl1952 Жыл бұрын

@@JeremySiskind by all means!

@BethanyLowe8773 Жыл бұрын

Incredible! I came here to be dutifully educated, but I succumbed to pure musical enjoyment. The goosebumps came early on and they stayed! It's amazing you do this in one take too. I think my piano confidence might be in some kind of jeopardy except that I can recognise some harmonic skills from the visual keyboard that you already taught us :)

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it and that you’re recognizing more and more of my “tricks”! They can be your tricks too!

@user-qw8rs4yb2z Жыл бұрын

Love those videos where you really show and apply your piano solo concepts. So instructive

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy! Thank you! I never know whether viewers like it when I'm not actively "teaching" so that feedback is really useful.

@mudbone7706 Жыл бұрын

Final Jeopardy! Would love to hear your dissect what you are doing on the contrapuntal version.

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Here are a couple of videos about that subject: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d6mShNdhx7SXZ6M.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nbalYMag2c-Vh58.html

@briclajuly Жыл бұрын

So bad ass. Monstrous.

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Aw, that's very kind! I hope to be a kind, loving monster.

@donm3986 Жыл бұрын

Nice ending for the stride segment! I also liked the contrapuntal version or ... Bye Bye Bach-bird ;) .

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Bach-bird, Lol. Well done!

@BrendaBoykin-qz5dj Жыл бұрын

Super presentation, Jeremy. Thank you.🌹🌹⭐🌹🌹 FINAL JEOPARDY 😎

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Many thanks, Brenda! Phew - I'm relieved I made it through all 8! 😅

@larry4589 Жыл бұрын

Final jeopardy Bravo! Last one is great but I enjoyed all

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Thanks much, Larry! I'm happy you enjoyed it!

@arpadternei6991 11 ай бұрын

❤Simply terrific!❤

@JeremySiskind 11 ай бұрын

Thanks, much, Arpad! I hope you're well!

@oscarlaredo5035 4 ай бұрын

Super!

@ImpliedMusic Жыл бұрын

great lesson! i bet way too much in final jeopardy...

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Haha, oh no, you'll never make the Tournament of Champions now. 😂 Thanks for watching!

@a.nobodys.nobody Жыл бұрын

Very nice, thanks

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Even if you're a nobody's nobody...

@pakiaoo7 Жыл бұрын

I got so much out of this, thank you

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy! Happy practicing!

@alexandros_haralabidis 11 ай бұрын

"Final Jeopardy" Thanks Jeremy!

@JeremySiskind 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, Alexandros!

@brian106699 Жыл бұрын

Me: “1 tune, 8 ways!” x 3. I do what Jeremy says. It serves me well.

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Do it, Brian! It's great training!

@StreIok737 Жыл бұрын

Love it, thank you.

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

@AndreasDelleske 7 ай бұрын

ECM: LOL... absolutely recognizable! Guilty! Maybe try EDM too!

@JeremySiskind 7 ай бұрын

Haha, I'm not sure I could pull of EDM too well on my piano, but that's a good goal.

@paulrhodesquinn Жыл бұрын

If only I’d had you as a teacher when I started to learn Jazz! I played this on a wedding gig yesterday with a singer and sax player and wish I’d seen this before for some inspiration 😀 Love the George Shearing style version! Well, love them all actually. What a wonderful player you are. I have an MA in Jazz and am constantly learning new techniques from your channel. Just bought your solo piano book on Amazon UK.

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

I'm honored, Paul! Thanks so very much and let me know if there's ever a subject you'd like to hear me speak more about.

@GizzyDillespee Жыл бұрын

I'd give the prize to "ballad style" out of these versions for this song, if that's what we're doing. Contrapuntal was the most impressive, obviously. And stride, since you don't misfire... yeah, they're all there, with their differing strengths and difficulties. Ballad carried me away the most, I guess is why I gave it "the prize" whatever that means.🤪

@GizzyDillespee Жыл бұрын

Especially "impressive" because you were like, "I haven't really decided what this means yet" like, it could've gone in a few different directions, so that was really cool. I was imagining the LH Bass example with a synth bass. Ah, your nutty viewers!

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Haha, I didn't realize it was a contents, but I gratefully accept the prize on behalf of ballad style!

@evelynyturralde4113 Жыл бұрын

Final Jeopardy! Love your facial expressions and the undisguised glee you feel in playing these excellent examples of each style! I thoroughly enjoyed all of them and hope I'll be able to do some of them someday. Thank you!!

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Haha, thanks, Evelyn! I don't have a very good poker face...😜

@peterjohnstoltzman Жыл бұрын

Just brilliantly stuff man! I’m definitely going to suggest this to my advanced students!

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Thanks - looking forward to having you on soon. 😉

@francescomanfredi Жыл бұрын

Great lesson and very good audio! Now we need a tutorial for every single style! By the way, did you change anything in the recording process or just lowered the volume? Anyway the piano is perfect. Just add a lav mic for the voice and it will be perfect.

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad the piano playing is good! I tried a lav mic and it was a disaster! Too noisy with the piano coming in. Maybe I got a bad brand, but it didn't work. 😢

@francescomanfredi Жыл бұрын

@@JeremySiskind Yes Jeremy the problem is that almost all lav mics are omnidirectional so they will take the piano too. The solution is to take the audio from the lav mic only for the spoken bits of your video, while keeping a lower volume on the piano mic so that it’s not distorted anymore. This is the more professional way of recording and it doesn’t depend on the make of the mics but on then distances from the sound source. The only inconvenient is that you need a mixer to control the two separate tracks and/or a video editing software. But also iMovie should be enough. Let me know if you need help

@jacquelinedong7720 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! This gives me a new direction to spend my practice time.

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Awesome - enjoy, Jacqueline! You got this!

@diplamatikjuan3595 Жыл бұрын

The ECM style reminds me of a slower version of "It's Impossible" by Oscar Peterson

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Definitely - bossa and ECM are very closely related. They're both straight eighth and focus on offbeats, but the bass is generally more pronounced in Brazilian rhythms.

@future62 Жыл бұрын

Do you have videos on closed position playing? And anything on this big orchestral block chords Ahmad Jamal used? Thanks as always

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Absolutely - this was one of my first YT videos ever. I was a baby! 😂 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fNdlecJ4xs6qlqM.html

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

There's also a lot about that in Jazz Piano Fundamentals, Book 2.

@patrickdowd4868 Жыл бұрын

Final jeopardy! I like the 'ECM' version - what pianists would you associate that with? At points it sounds Keith Jarrett adjacent (and he's pretty much Mr. ECM) but are there other pianists you're referencing?

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Not particularly! Other pianists on that general style I love include John Taylor and Art Lande, but it could be also music using guitarists…John Abercrombie comes to mind.

@bobbygadourymusic5476 Жыл бұрын

Final Jeopardy ❤

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

Thanks much for watching, Bobby!

@tutempopiano Жыл бұрын

Awesome demonstration! I believe the contrapuntal style is the most challenging. I wonder how you go about working it out. Final Jeopardy!

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

You could start here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d6mShNdhx7SXZ6M.html

@Pooter-it4yg Жыл бұрын

Great stuff. The music that appeared on the ECM label did often feature straight 8ths, sure. But you also had free improvisations ranging from Jarrett to Chick to trios like Taylor/Danielsson/Erskine (all notable for being free but not sounding like a fire in a pet shop), Kenny Wheeler's medium and big bands, Scandi (eg Garbarek) and Eastern European (eg Komeda, Stanko) fusion and British folk fusion. I'm sure you know this, I'm just pointing it out for your audience.

@JeremySiskind Жыл бұрын

For sure! The label has had an incredibly long, rich history. And/but when we talk about "ECM style" it usually refers to that super-straight eighth style.

@Pooter-it4yg Жыл бұрын

@@JeremySiskind Sure. I suppose it was the bossa-ish thing that surprised me. Generally in the UK you just call "straight 8s" and expect the band to avoid obvious bossa feel.

@eddyduggo 10 ай бұрын

This is a terrific channel! I’m curious whether your instructional books lay out any recommendations for practicing and hopefully acquiring some degree of proficiency with concepts such as those demonstrated here. Your advice would be much appreciated. My predicament is perhaps interesting although a little frustrating for me because I am impatient with myself and prone to bouts of self doubt from time to time. I have been playing jazz for nearly two decades at this point and have reached an appreciable level as a guitarist. I have a solid intellectual grasp on melody,harmony, rhythm, and have reasonably developed ears. But… piano is a new venture for me. Despite several pianists having having been most inspiring and it being my favorite instrument throughout the past 20 years I’ve only recently worked up the nerve to apply myself to playing it. I’ve made some progress in the past two months since I started “shedding” but I occasionally find myself overwhelmed having to return to such a primitive level of playing and a desire ti improve as quickly as possible. I would thoroughly appreciate any recommendations you might have regarding a good starting place for a person in such circumstances. Thank you very much for your inspiring content!

@JeremySiskind 10 ай бұрын

Hi Eddy! I feel you. I actually love guitar and tried to learn to play some...and I found it really frustrating! I'm not sure my books would be a great place to start. It sounds like you have a really big technical gap to fill in before you really think too much about doing anything stylistically specific. Even though the music might not be too interesting to you, I'd start with some method books or "Journey Through the Classics" and get your piano chops down before tackling something like my books. (I love to make a sale...but I'd rather you set reasonable expectations!)

@eddyduggo 10 ай бұрын

@@JeremySiskind thank you for the thoughtful response. Ill consider your advice and continue to find my way.