It's crazy how much of an eduction you can get just from watching youtube nowadays

This guys tells me mindblowing things

"you're not gonna hear the same in 10 years as you're hearing now." Very comforting!

7:22 to 8:20, the starting points of the 2 licks for side-by-side

"You all play exactly the way you hear." That's like dropping an anvil on 99% of musicians' heads.

this is a treasure. I just started practicing this way and I can see now that the notes in my head are like specters or ghosts and I want them to be vivid. What a great abstract concept

Very interesting discussion. Perhaps this will help: "Thought is the enemy of flow" Vinnie Colaiuta.

I felt like I got knocked out by a heavy weight boxer after watching this. It'll take years to get my shit together again. Thanks.

Way way back, when I was studying classical rep with the prodigious Sanford Margolis one day at a lesson struggling with a passage, I said " if I had a direct wire from my mind to my hands I could play this". He replied: " No You Couldn't". He was saying the same thing Hal is in this vid. It would have been a partial smear of the notes I thought but not the complete meaning. Not just shouting the phrase but really hearing (and saying) it. After playing for over 60 yrs I am beginning to get it.

This redirects how I practice. I love this guy. What a generous musician!

some of the most concisely presented concepts on the net.. great

its like anything really , it becomes as you visualise/create it in your head

Fantastic lesson - all the stuff you practice anyway is just as much a way of teaching yourself how to hear certain concepts, groups of notes, harmonies, rhythms and so on, as it is a means of improving your coordination. So I agree with Hal - if you can't hear it you can't play it. I'm now going to work a lot harder on using my practicing to increase the amount of vocabulary my ear can recognise clearly so that I am "compelled" to play what I hear. Many thanks for posting these super lessons!!

This proves the theory I came up with quite some time ago. When I told my students to focus more on actually hearing the melody the way they want it to sound, than just mechnically trying to play it again and again, most of them looked at me like I was high. Now I have the proof I needed and they will practice the proper way until they DIE ;).

This is a way of understanding life, not just movie. Metaphors to live by.

whoever the student is at around 8:20...nice lick!...I'm stealing that lick =)

"You are the instrument." Of everything you perceive. I'm reminded of Krishnamurti's, "There is no thinker, only thought." Getting to the elemental intuitive perception over intellectualizing.

This was one of the most informative videos I have ever seen on youtube and was explained in a way that was very easy to understand. I wont forget what I found out from this video.

man, this gotta be the best series of music lessons ever. thanks so much for posting. this guy is amazing!

That he put this into words is incredible

Every time this lesson pops up on KZfaq I watch and learn. Still learning to let go, but getting easier every day. Thanks Hal for sharing.

A gem! Thanks for the upload.

Mr. Galper I'm jealous of your students. What excellent teaching - what excellent concepts. Just loving it

@batfly Hal is talking about internal hearing, an ability to hear music "in your head" before it actually sounds. Like being able to look at a complicated symphonic score and hear in your head in slightest detail. Beethoven had extraordinary internal hearing, by all accounts.

Thank you for posting these videos! Professor Galper's approach to teaching is incredible. It transcends music!

Awesome energy. A message so simple, yet so real.

Hal is a great player, musician, and teacher. I took a few lessons with him way back when. This lesson conveys a deep understanding of what playing music is really about.

This is how William Adam taught - completely changed my life.

I love this lessons! I watch it every week again to remind me of things I should realise in my own playing, when I have the time I'll take a private lesson with him. Thanks for the vids jazzvideoguy!

his lessons are great, always enjoy it.

WOW! What a revelation! So simple, yet powerful. Thanks for sharing.

Just wonderful! BRAVO!

Wise thoughts, I use to practice on those pianos at Cal State Hayward in the 80s and once saw Hal walking down the hall. He probably heard me struggle and smiled as he passed by.

Love rewatching after years

it's really interesting to think about yourself being the instrument, because then, theoretically no matter what instrument you play, it will sound like you

this is the coolest thing ive ever heard.

Thank you for posting this.

You're the man, JazzVideoGuy. Just found your videos today, you have a new subscriber and admirer.

Very interesting and resonates with my own experience.

love this.

Wow! So inspiring!!

excellent lesson...truth and simplicity is alwasy beautiful

game changer.

This was a great lesson! That young lady was nice on piano too!

What a great clip!

finaly i heat this subject adressed/ i am getting back into playing and this is the best thinbg i ever needed to hear again. Hearing is the most important foundation - thanks for the exercise!

That was friggin awesome

Makes complete and utter sense.

Great lessons. Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic!!! Very inspiring, Thank you very much..

This really is a great lecture...

Very Enlighting...makes a difference !

man..i have been trying to explain this to students for years and years and years. Very few get this until they have been playing for at least 30 yrs...damn..great post! you can ONLY play what u year...and if u hear it..you can play it. Its simple.

For me though I am working on being able to play back a small amount of notes as quickly as possible without thinking much. So I started with my brother/teacher telling me the key and then playing less than 10 notes quickly twice and then I have to immediately try and play it back without thinking. This has help the most and you can increase to more notes once you get good at 10. It took me a while to start seeing a difference though but it has helped a lot.

This video was recommended to me by guitarist Steve Lasner after we discussed how eventually the music you play comes straight out of your brain just like when you sing or speak, that you don’t think about the theory and technique or grammar anymore; it’s just straight mind to music, and so he recommended this video. I’ve only been playing guitar a little over two years. I’m originally a sax player and Berklee alumni, born again musician on guitar. It’s a great experience, but more importantly I feel like I ‘get it’ more now, and I think that’s more about how I’ve changed as a person since then, than simply finding a better medium-and like Steve, Hal Galper, and I said, it’s really not about the instrument at all. I’ll never forget what Miles Davis said, “It’s not about the notes you play; it’s the attitude of the mother f”ker.”

Great work Hal (once again).

YES! YES! YES!

OMG I saw that Andre Watts episode! He played Chopin Revolutionary Etude. It was awesome!!

I actually realised this myself a while back when learning some Bach. I noticed that I tend to not hear some of the less obvious inner voices so I realised all I need to do is first read the score and be aware of them and then I will hear them whilst playing.

Fantastic and real. Thanks

JazzVideoGuy, you rule!

incredibly valuable video again thank you !

Thank you very very very much...!!!!

Man, I wish would've had this guy as my music teacher in high school. My teacher sucked major balls.He never had more than a few seniors in his class. Almost all students quit in the 9th and 10th grades. He was absolutely hated universally.

Thanks Hal.

Awesome!!

this is amazing

Excellent lesson Hal. I was like you. Then one day it came to me. It is always has been about your ears and playing like you mean it. Dom

jaw dropping...I was just reborn!

beautiful

oh man this is awesome, very informative

Fantastic video... Very thought provoking. :-)

Thank you!

Ahhhh it's so on point

@DaveVelo1 This is how I thought all through my playing. It's a great approach. I think he follows on that as well. He just takes that step to help young musicians get the music loud in their head, which is such a hard thing to do.

@batfly It doesn't matter if you would like to use other methods. But for me, I find that "you play exactly the way you hear" is really telling the fact. I try to hear the phrases that I cannot play probably. Then I find that I really cannot "hear" it clearly. Besides, I record my practice and discover that the recorder just records the things happening in my head when I am playing! In the recordings, I can actually tell when I was thinking and when I was "hearing"!

@bijouxmusic Cool. When I was there, I got a nice feeling about the program.

Summary: train the shit out of your ears.

man, heavy class....

@SDRockman That's great. Check out some of his other videos for more.

Thanks!

Wow. Inspiring.

Very interesting!

From what I can gather, the book Hal is discussing is called, "The Art of Piano Playing: A Scientific Approach" by George Kochevitsky

Hal!

@domminasi Thanks so much for these words of wisdom.. Appreciated!

The dissolving piano. Glenn Gould told that he once was practicing and someone came into the room and started to vacuumclean. The tones he played became 'wrapped up' in the noise the vacuumcleaner made. The higher up the keys he played the less he could hear the tones he played. First he had the impression he could still feel the tones vibrating through the keys in his vingers, but the highest tones he cold not. He had 'lost' the instrument and those tones were by far the most beautiful he said. The filter between his inner ear and (....?) had disappeared. What would you suggest to fill in on the dots??? Practice with very good earprotection? ;-)

Thanks Jazz John Goodman 😎

That's so oooo good

incredible

fantastic ! :)

@CanyonTide My goodness, that must be very difficult. So instead of "hearing" music, you just see colors, shapes and textures. Do those change, depending on the rhythm, and the type of music?

@jazz12726 What a concept.

this is so true. if you hear it, you can play it. not the other way round.

That lick at 8 something I literally played yesterday 🤯

@domminasi Dom has seen the light!

@batfly That's exactly what I've said! We all have fun, that's what matters in the end of the day! Keep your sipirit bro! João

When we want to move we move - Bruce Lee

8:05 Like Yoda said: "Do or do not, there is no try"

Thanks