Can we just take the time to appreciate his playing. He got it going on!! 🔥

I love how he goes saying: nothing wrong playing blues like the blues. Phew!

I've seen this a jillion times; a jillion times I can't even hear what he's saying because his musicianship is so loud. wow. what an artist

Just goddamn . It’s one thing just to play that but to be so articulate and just pull these tools out. So insightful.

Yes. This is the approach Mozart and Beethoven would take often when teaching composition to a private student. Take a theme, or melody, like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Ah! Vous Dirai-je Maman) and have the student compose a set of variations utilizing different textures and stylistic elements but retaining the original form and melodic outline. Just gotta say I love that piano playing. So clean and musically dynamic. Like George Shearing meets Herbie Hancock meets Russ Freeman.

These guy´s SWING!!!!. Crazy good!!!!.

Best course I've ever heard

I’m a guitar player/songwriter who has been writing unpopular popular music for decades. I love watching videos like these despite understanding less than 1/4 of them.

Had never thought of blues in this regard...what a brilliant way to add structure to practise.

Wow, insane Geoff Keezer is giving a lesson here! A+ pianist!

Out there! So much in this lesson example my head hurts. But terrific stuff. And fantastic just to listen and watch Geoffrey play, a real treat.

World class level playing by the two, amazing!

Cool Struttin' is a great example of mixing bebop, blues, and melodic playing.

Great video. What's really interesting is even at the end when you switched styles every 4 bars and said it might sound "all over the place," I actually loved it...it was lively and engaging to me as a listener. That's the way I like my jazz--and as a student of jazz piano being able to fluently switch up like that is an aspiration of mine. One day!

I once heard a guy switch styles on the Wedding March. What you call all-over-the-place made the Blues somewhat interesting again.

What a monster player!

Fantastic ...no more words !!! So much usefull piano jazz lesson thanks a lot Jeffrey

Much to be learned here Geoffrey! Thank you!!!

Great inspiring lesson and wonderful playing! I loved it all but playing melodies like that is my thing.its hard to do as well.gotta see this man live someday!

Sensei Geoffrey Keezer everyone!!!

Great lesson - and from a Master of the modern piano. Much to practice and absorb here re an intro to the fundamental language of blues and bebop. More like this please.

Great advise and great playing also! You can really feel the music! Great job!!

Great introducing in how to combine anything in style and harmonics. This opens the mind - thank you!

Amazing playing and practice concept. Congrats!

Incredible lesson, thanks!

Really cool approach to adding some flavour to solos. Thanks Geoffrey!

Wonderful lesson. Thanks!

That was awesome!!

All great playing, but for me the magic begins with the pentatonic stuff. Thanks Mr. Keezer.

This is excellent and really useful... thanks!

What a great lesson! That’s a really useful approach to bring to my practice - thank you.

Super nice. I'll sing with your melodies .

Great great lesson! Thnks!

Great lesson. Gonna add this concept to my practice.

Amazing video, thank you so much! and superb playing and teaching. I was already adept to trade fours with myself or similar on practice, but in a very simplistical form, this way of changing consciously over several styles and ideas is very refreshing! It works specially well the 4/3 thing, four styles over the three four groups of the blues, so you have to keep changing and aware.

Excellent!!

A pleasure. Thank you so much.

Awesome dude!, thanks a lot!

Really great lesson.

Great stuff from Geoff!

Excellent !

The pentatonics modern approach was the only one of the four styles that sounded very outside of the blues (to me). Great stuff and thx for the transcibing what you were playing!

This is a great lesson thanks

This is one of the most practical jazz education videos on youtube. Thank you so much. 😍

He’s such a great musician

Great exercise!

Great stuff! Thank you!

pure gold..... ty u from italy..... u sound epic man !!!!!!!!!! nice jobbbb

Wonderful!!

Excellent

He makes it look so easy ... :p

Great stuff!!!! Very advanced. You sure swing. Hope to get there or close someday

Amazing video!

Great lesson - this structures endless possibilities very clearly when practicing - restriction brings freedom and ability to act💯👍

Brilliant demo of the options and nice to hear you are continuing your voyage of magnificence!PS I first heard you live with Art Blakey30 odd years ago in Aberdeen,Scotland on Art's 70th birthday and it was STUNNING!

Great lesson and impressive impro! you really shred the Keys Geoffrey.. I really loved that modern pentatonic stuff! That was pretty much playing with fourths and superimposing pentatonics to get that nice outside feeling right? (Just a stupid guitarist here😀)

Fantastic!!! 👍👍

Great tutorial as always.

amazing lesson...!🙏

Great great stuff!!

Everything played here sounds fantastic. Will check out the course mentioned here. Subscription to Open Studio is the best thing I've done for my piano learning adventure. Tried a lot of courses, some great things out there, but OS really clicks for me.

Very good playing ✨

Thank you,mate😎

Keezer is a beast

Excelente. Thank you. Greetings from Madrid. 🎹🔥

What about the way Coltrane played on"Chasin the Trane", which category does that fit into?

Beautiful, I'm a guitar player, but I'm gonna cop those choruses, all have the essence of the Blues despite, the different approaches....'Modern Penta Style' = McCoy Land. Love it, thanks for sharing.

So good! Is there a PDF available for this?

Respect!

Very enjoyable playing. It sounded like the melodic approach felt to be the hardest.

I was mesmerized and dancing along to his groove, and then a most rude ad break interrupted. I hate capitalism and I loved his playing! He’s fantastic

Impressive transcription of your piano playing into written form. It looks like a software app. How is that done?

this s super great

Holy crap this was truly next level... OK... back to the woodshed I guess :D

Excellent software transcription…what is it?

I've played with musicians who when asked to play the blues go right to "blues scales". The outcome has often been, meh. I'll show you a blues by Bill Evans (the pianist) done not with a blues scale that will make you cry. Relying on scales is like a guitarist who plays "in the box". They're tools. Just because you can play a blues scale doesn't mean you are/can play the blues. OF course, what I just wrote is easier said than done. Really playing the blues, like everything else in music, is a learning process.

Nice

damn, so cool

Totally amazing playing and a great lesson! Question for Open Studio: is this the video that you intended for "What is Restrictive Practice....?" I recall a different discussion around that concept from you guys - even if this might be one of Geoffrey's approaches to (somewhat) restrictive practice.

5:31 Okay, NOW we're talking, DAMN

Keezer is krazy

Those double octave sixteenth notes work really well for the bebop. Funnily the conscious effort to produce something melodic is what works least well, perhaps because you are defining the melodic thang as being not the other three thangs, (and not vanilla either) without giving it some positive quality to aspire to .

This is great man! Was I tripping or you've played with your eyes closed 95% of the time!!! If so... I have no words...hahaha!

Interesting how (at least on the first run-through) you grooved on the first and fourth variants, but not as much on the middle two. You can obviously do all four, but it suggested where your musical heart really is. One other comment: you spoke of playing “just pure melody” as one of the variants, but I think a real singing “voice” nearly always must be at the heart core of what we do when we play.

Wow.

3:45 6:10

3:45 pentatonic

Yeah. Just try that.

That bass player is killer

4:00

dude can play

This is great. It’s a bit ‘show-off-ey’ but with the pause button, very useful. Piano Pig gives a nice easier to digest piecemeal approach but this give you the finished product. I definitely prefer the former.

Funny thing that people still call things which are 60 years old (like the McCoy pentatonic stuff here, or for example free jazz) "modern"...

Important learn how to swing first ! +1 +4 ,2+4,.+3

He stopped one note short of playing the lick at like 6:05 lol

He doesn't listen to Bebop much. That's for sure. Otherwise well played and good advise.

Woow, I'm still trying to find my jaw, it's somewhere on the floor 😮

8:28 ornette coleman... very melodic... hmmmm... you mean coleman hawkins?

❤😂❤👍👍👍❤❤❤👍👍

*Plays world class blues masterpiece* So, yeah, nothing wrong with that, but