As a piano teacher for 25+years, I am in awe! What a brilliant teacher.

I SO appreciate everything you are doing to bring back improvisation. I had a teacher who taught me to expand hymns, but everything else was "by the book." I'm working to teach my own students to do this from very early on, but I still have so much to learn myself. Looking forward to your book.

this guy is a genius!

Excellent ! Thank you :)

this guy is so inspiring!

Absolutely wonderful watching those kids improvise for the first time.And this Absolutely should be taught in All schools,esp Music dept Schools.Inspiring work you are doing.Musician & Piano Teacher from Tucson.Cheers.

Thank you for sharing this!

The improvisation section was fabulous . thanks

Awesome improv!

Good stuff

Reminds me of Keith Jarrett, Jazz Piano player...checkout documentary on Music and Improvisation...”the Music comes first”

7:01 I've been improvising for almost 10 years now, and when I improvise, I do play notes that fit the chord I am on, or sometimes notes that don't "necessarily" fit. It depends on what vibe I want to produce for myself and the listener. I am aware of each chord that I play, or rather, each chord that I'm "on", but I don't speak in my skull. I don't think in my head. There is no chatter. Perhaps saying the chord in your mind is the first stepping stone, the next may be learning how to shut the fuck up. Who knows? Edit: I recommend checking out some interviews of famous Jazz musicians.

Please let me know where to buy your book. Thank you for this!

The last part made me feel so vindicated in my thinking that every single chamber-music concert must have a group-improvisation section.

Jazz thinking often makes you understand things a lot better ... But some classical teachers don't know jazz harmony all that well ... I remember my teacher telling me to go from a flat 6 when she really meant a flat augmented 6th ... I was looking for an a flat triad with an added 6th, f, in this case. Also the octotonic scale that Stravinsky uses I always thought of as diminished ... One of two types: one starting on a whole tone and another starting on a semitone. The terms in Jazz harmony often causes an ultimate mix up amongst classical instructors and performers ...

Due to echo , I coukd. T understand name if trio

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If my teacher in theory at the conservatory here had asked me to play just those first bars of Wohltemperiertes C-Major in reverse, in F# minor etc. I think I would have softened up and forgot my nerves. I was so tense, I gave up but later got a Master in music.

How do you teach a classical pianist jazz thinking?

What is the prelude at 12:40?

jazz is not the answer. mozart and beethoven did not know jazz and they improvised just fine, nobody trained them, either you've got the gift or you don't. today we have a crisis of composers, not performers. no composers of great renown have come out of a music conservatory.