I was told about 100 years ago to practice arpeggios by using chromatic notes to arrive at each chord tone/target note; any and all directions. It transformed my improvisation in weeks. I still do it as part of my daily routine. Sounds simple and kinda obvious; and I spose it is. But it really works.....
@lanceclark124 жыл бұрын
Boy Bergs...Would like your input on this as I am at that stage of learning improvisation by focusing a lot of my practice time on arpeggios. Could you suggest something a bit mor specific (patterns/ note choices or whatever you think could beter detail your practice routine) that I as a relative improv beginner could understand how you incorporate chromaticism into your arpeggio practice? Thanks much!
@MrBoybergs4 жыл бұрын
@@lanceclark12 First get very well acquainted with the arpeggio (maj 7, diminished, aug. etc) you're working on in all 12 keys using different shapes/patterns; not just up and down. Once your comfortable with that just use your imagination to add chromatic links to the chord tones. Adding a semi tone approach note either above or below each chord tone is a nice place to start. More tricky is to enclose each chord tone with the note a semi tone above it, followed by a semi tone below it. Eg. Say you're approaching the 3rd of C major (e) .... you'd play f. eb. e. If you haven't tried this sort of thing before, that's plenty enough to be getting on with but you can invent countless different exercise ideas of your own..... They're all valid and useful.
@taliassa3838 ай бұрын
Sounds great, could you post one of these?
@april76435 жыл бұрын
You guys kill me...."a chromatic scale has bailed me out more times than a designated driver"....that's a really good one PM!
@michaeldean93384 жыл бұрын
lol...I know! That was funny as hell! Just stumbled across this channel. Definite LIKE! Thanks, fellas ;)
@noi5emaker4 жыл бұрын
Whew, that’s a relief. I’ve been doing this for decades anyhow!
@sholland42 Жыл бұрын
One of Django Reinhardt’s most famous runs was him running up the chromatic scale, every single note, at breathtaking speed. It was extremely musical.
@marcoevans2155 Жыл бұрын
with only his 1st and 2nd fingers ( all others disabled...
@StudioChaland5 жыл бұрын
Good subject. Nice way to begin the week. Seven stars!
@patrickoakes80145 жыл бұрын
Here's a request for a future installment of analysis Wednesdays: Joe Henderson on Red Clay. Can't get enough of that whole track.
@teflo25 жыл бұрын
Absolutely! I'm addicted too!
@michaelandrewnewell4 жыл бұрын
Great episode! This is not only functionally useful as an improvisation tool, but equally as important as a compositional tool. Excellent advice, dudes.
@carlsjoquist42994 жыл бұрын
you guys rock, especially Peter - way awesome - skills and the ability to articulate it all, amazing!
@EliaGaitau5 жыл бұрын
Thanks guys as always!!
@sheskimusic4 жыл бұрын
Such a great channel. Thanks much for all you guys do
@teflo25 жыл бұрын
Great video! You've given me some serious homework!
@robinthomsoncomposer Жыл бұрын
Use Paderewski’s fingering 123 & 1234 Very rarely use the standard 12 & 123 which I find awkward
@RoundCubee2 жыл бұрын
what is the intro? original? rendition? I freaking lvoe it so much
@AnRodz Жыл бұрын
Pure quality. Thanks.
@komoru Жыл бұрын
The bald guy is hilarious!
@arnoldvallar4 жыл бұрын
It just occurred to me, your names stand for day and night, ie., am/pm.
@pedrofuster91613 жыл бұрын
Beautiful comment
@mrblew10064 жыл бұрын
Watched the vid but what was missing was "tutorial" B
@GarenGarson4 жыл бұрын
Wow! What goofballs! Never played the scale or showed it!
@TokyoScarab Жыл бұрын
Runs of the scale were done at 7:46.
@PIANOSTYLE1004 жыл бұрын
A great song for Barry Harris's sixs is White Christmas. I think I start with a 6 in first inversion.
@danielhooglandt16205 жыл бұрын
Great video guys, loving the podcast
@FlorisV824 жыл бұрын
Would be really appreciated if you would actually play some examples a bit more in the future. Now it is like 98% talking. If that were 60/40 that would mean that one could actually... hear it.
@seriousramius4 жыл бұрын
Agree, they should it do like "Pianote"
@venusspacey9685 Жыл бұрын
They aren't actual that great of players. They're good a teaching you things you don't know, not telling you the truth which you don't need any of this to play like Corey Henry, an actual player who can transform your playing if he feels the need to tell you the true secret to playing better
@m4x358 Жыл бұрын
What the fuck? Have you even heard these guys play? Peter Martin was a part of Roy Hargrove's band, man. Not everyone is a genius like Henry. That doesn't mean they can't make good music.
@savonliquide767711 ай бұрын
It is unfair, they don t have the usual keyboard. Anyway fit the chromatic scale it is not so neaded to play it over and over lol
@AnthonyCorradoLalli Жыл бұрын
Yes. The Chromatic scale. Thank you for the friendly reminder. I was a freak about chromatic scales in the college days, but after decades of gigging and shows, you forget. 😅
@paulpulati96134 жыл бұрын
Thanks for a very practical lesson...will add that to my daily regimen. Your sessions are very enjoyable. I'm an intermediate player who has been studying jazz for a couple of years, though I'm not a jazz musician. A lesson I would like to see is what/how to practice adding extended chords [easy to hard.....] to various chord progressions to enrich the piano accompaniment to songs. I am practicing the chords and inversions themselves, but the goal is to be able to PLAY them, something like you demonstrated in this lesson. I keep thinking there is a formula of some kind to know which chord to insert somewhere, but maybe it's freer than that. Any thoughts/ideas on the subject would be gratefully appreciated. Cheers.....and thanks again for all your effort for us cyberstudents.......
@14.1guy24 жыл бұрын
Stride will automatically teach you where to place the chords and usually reveals what inversions to use - completely determined by the fingering of the right hand. I'm intermediate level as well.
@nhaezer51214 жыл бұрын
Major 7th, 9th, add 2, (occasional 6/9) on the I ie the tonic and the IV. Maj dominant 7th, 9th, add 2 on the V. Minor dom 7th (plus any other extension) on the II, III. VII is half-diminished/ min7b5. Any chord that's a passing chord can use much extension as possible esp the altered notes,and play II and III as a maj dom if they're passing, V as minor 7, I as maj dom 7th. I might make a video about this if I have a strong inspiration.
@paulpulati96134 жыл бұрын
@@nhaezer5121 👍
@sheskimusic4 жыл бұрын
New subscriber. Really enjoy listening to you guys. Entertaining and of course very informative.
@PIANOSTYLE1004 жыл бұрын
😄Great vid. I taught myself the min 3 chromatic scale forward and reverse.. I learned so many things. The fingering was.unatural..now I do it fast and effortlessly. It is amazing for confidence. I probably did it hundreds of times for almost.a year. It has so many side benefits. I instantly know all min 3rds forwards and backwards. If I see Eb..min 3rds are Gb up and C down.. dim Eb triad for starters. In the extensions.. So one day I realized I instantly knew the 13th of all 13 keys. That is empowering for a musician. It.helps for 🎸 too. [[ I know you know all this but pardon me if I explain this at a entry level for newer musicians.. C-C is an octave the notes above the octave can be types of 9s 11ths and 13ths. To be accurate a dominant 13 must have a root ,major 3, 6 and b7.]] Enough backgroun. So one day I was playing in one of 12 keys. I don't remember which. I am going to use the key of C for easy explanation. So I needed the 13 of C..Now after playing litererally. thousands of hours; I of.course knew that.the A was the 13th . (7 + 6 = 13) ..It came immediately.. My mind was realizing that I could go down a minor 3rd in the key of.C or up a major 6. It was an aha moment. That would be CDEFGA or CBA. But.I realized that I did not have to count I knew 13s in all 12 keys. Doesn't sound so great. Try Gb13..up. 6 Gb Ab Bb Cb Db Eb Wow or .down a.minor 3fd. Gb F Eb (NO NEED YO COUNT UP A.MAJ 6.OR.DOWN A MIN.SIX. It ok can know it. I knew instantly that it was the Eb. If I want to do a progression. like a 1 3 6 .Easy enough in C. C Em Am.. But let's use Ab..the min 3rd down of Ab is F. or of course we can go up in 6 flats AB.Bb C Db Eb F..This elimates.all this work. In the real world we don't have time to. count. Sometimes we are are improvising at a very fast tempo. I texted this on a small 📱. I hope some are helped with it.
@gregschroer23144 жыл бұрын
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@PIANOSTYLE1004 жыл бұрын
THE FOLLOWING SEEMS LONG AND NEEDLESSLY DETAILED. I MADE IT AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE. IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS VIDEO HERE THAT I WAS ABLE TO DO ALL 12 NOTES AND START HEARING THEM. So I am away from any musical instrument. I know the sounds of all the C scale. I first do E D C. . Now I have just the one note C in my mind. I now proceed to do the circle of 5ths.. So here is what I did ( I did many versions of this . I thought EDC and double-checked with ABC. B is the leading to C So now I had encircled the C. They both are the same tone. Now I did the circle of fiths or fouths . (C F (Bb Eb Ab Db) Gb Cb ) Now Cb is just B..So ((BE A D) G. G is the 5 or of C..full circle.. Now to test this I can go around to Db .. remember no guitar or keyboard . and go down one semitone to C. I did this already ..they match. So next I did the descending wholetone scale (C Bb Ab Gb Fb or (E) D C. They matched. Then I did the triad chord form of the root notes. The sounds match.. I am on my way to developing a better ear...or least close.Welcome to Gboard clipboard, any text you copy will be saved here.
@lawrencetaylor4101 Жыл бұрын
Merci for this. I'm a Nooby and plowing through Faber, and turned the page today and saw they want me to do a Chromatic Scale. I already looked at some videos and knew about it...but hey, Nooby's gotta Nooby. So now? How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice Chromatic scales, practice chromatic scales, practice chromatic scales.
@bensempek20074 жыл бұрын
Play it! Start with the SCALE!
@flober19704 жыл бұрын
Tenor madness theme on the minor chord is a chromatism like phrase I love. Show the geniucy of sonny
@PIANOSTYLE1004 жыл бұрын
I can see the versatility of doing all 12 chromatic scales. One thing is it will help with seeing 1/2 steps and whole steps. The 3 to 4 and 7 to 8 are the only 1/2 steps in the major scale. Great Video.. I wrote of my experience of learning the min 3s. It is indepth but it should help an advancing beginner. The best.
@bobderosa1004 жыл бұрын
Excellent post, but what's with the scarves? Do you record this in a walk-in beer cooler?
@OpenStudioJazz4 жыл бұрын
They wish!
@TheOrganiston9th4 жыл бұрын
Bob DeRosa Well, it may actually have been recorded in a walk-in beer cooler. And why not...
@WhosonKeyz3 жыл бұрын
It’s mandatory jazz attire
@brendaboykin71504 жыл бұрын
Thanx, gentlemen.
@Blacklunaproductions Жыл бұрын
Great show! Glad i found it 😅
@drumbliss Жыл бұрын
I know this is an old video already… But if by some weird chance you guys have not fallen in love with Pianoteq yet, that would be the one to get. That plug-in is now head and shoulders above any other piano plug-in, including the large sample-based ones, and it’s very affordable. The realism and organic behavior is unmatched. There is no going back for me.
@LuizCarlosJesusdosSantos Жыл бұрын
🔥🔥 🔥
@joelbenjamin43074 жыл бұрын
Who's playing the theme song and what's the name of the tune? AWESOME!!
@biblescriptures91772 жыл бұрын
Emotion in Motion By Peter Martin Himself.
@mcrawfs5 жыл бұрын
Is there a link to the blog post you're talking about?
@aukofx63934 жыл бұрын
i found this: medium.com/@iampetermartin/the-one-scale-you-should-be-practicing-every-day-66fc2532fe9
@johnjacquard8634 жыл бұрын
Please make triad pairs video which adds 4 and 5 note embellishments
@mikehenderson90144 жыл бұрын
CP88 Yamaha will blow you away
@davidsummerville3514 жыл бұрын
In other words, learn the bailout scale in 12 keys!
@omegasurf4 жыл бұрын
The blog, the blog, the blog...the website, the podcast, the reviews...
@GoaWay4Sanity4 жыл бұрын
and I only know the C Major Pentatonic Blues Scale ....
@ziomatthewmusic42054 жыл бұрын
Years of piano playing: Chromatic scales are super easy and fun. Starts on the Recorder: Ah
@ziomatthewmusic42054 жыл бұрын
You take tune and accidentals so for granted as a pianist. You see the note you play the note and can blame the keyboard if it is out of tune. On recorder you have to learn the finger pattern for each sharp/flat and a low f# is not identical to high f# and you have to learn exaclty how much to cover the thumb hole for each of the 2nd and a half octave because it exactly half like the finger chart says. Then again is such a relief to only have to read one note at a time on on stave rather than like 7 over two staves which change sometimes. Also easier to play by heart. I love them both for different reasons.
@SaltyMusicOne4 жыл бұрын
PianoTeq is excellent and inexpensive - it’s piano modeling rather than just sampling
@chrisharrison8095 жыл бұрын
The Alicia keys piano is super cheap and sounds good enough. The best is keyscape, but that’s pricey and huge file size.
@bsrobinson4 жыл бұрын
Pianoteq. Low file size. Great sound.
@warrendoris96694 жыл бұрын
3. 28 and still just talk. What a love fest but nary a note!👇👇
@prakashwright21825 жыл бұрын
XLN Audio Addictive Keys
@teach-learn4078 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, right. When in doubt, throw in chromaticism. How about some silence? Or is that not part of jazz?
@JoeMuscara5 жыл бұрын
Try the Ravenscroft pianos. The iOS version is particularly inexpensive, though you need the adapters to work with the keyboard. Or, use the macOS version. www.vilabsaudio.com/ravenscroft275ios
@Kiwi23753 жыл бұрын
What is the name of the Theme song you guys use.
@dr.brianjudedelimaphd7434 жыл бұрын
Could you guys make a video where you never talk or try to be funny and stick to playing (preferably old standards at slow to medium-slow tempos - in time with a a real rhythm section) Also, when you improvise with the rhythm section, it would be nice to hear you play eighth notes at a slower tempo instead of double timing or sixteenth notes ...that way we can hear your vocabulary and how you really swing ( I suggest slow tempos because there is no hiding at slower tempos, your real vocabulary comes through. You have to deal with all that space and still make it swing without “skating through the changes” akin double time solos on ballads or slower tempos ) ...thanks Ps- my comment is Barry Harris approved 👍
@warrendoris96694 жыл бұрын
@Dr Brian Jude. Lololol Like that s ever going to happen..These clowns are narcissistic to the max. They are here to show off , nothing else. If they had an ounce of creativity they would .ve been in the real music industry making hits instead of being pseudo teachers! 😎😎
@dr.brianjudedelimaphd7434 жыл бұрын
Warren Doris nailed it !! 🧐👍
@warrendoris96694 жыл бұрын
@@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743 I sometimes check out music sites randomly. About a year ago i ran across Peter Martin, s site. He talked about how clear he was going to be for his beginner audience then goes into a flurry of notes totally unrelated to his topic.I came.on today to see if he had gotten over himself_ apparently not! Glad you called them out. Stay agile my brother!👍👍
@dr.brianjudedelimaphd7434 жыл бұрын
Warren Doris that’s hilarious Warren ... anyways let’s see how they progress in their upcoming videos ... if it’s all talk and no real substance along with mindless noodling based on cliches...
@warrendoris96694 жыл бұрын
@@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743 Hahahahahaha😄 Will do!
@mudsinkmayor4 жыл бұрын
Its the most important scale.
@harrygarside72134 жыл бұрын
Totally agree with the previous comment. I was quite excited when it started but it became a boring conversation with two boring guys that pissed me off within minutes.Did they actually play something?anything? I couldn't bear to watch more than 5 minutes. PHEW.
@rustOfunk Жыл бұрын
I hear what you’re laying down. I’m a writer. Start off every day writing down the alphabet for 30 minutes. Every other day I write “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” about 500 times.
@Erdalkizilcay04 жыл бұрын
Too much Blah blah blah .
@adammaness5 жыл бұрын
LINK to the blog :www.openstudionetwork.com/blog-one-scale-practicing-every-day/
@benheveroh52754 жыл бұрын
Great players, great potential, but maybe you guys could write your jokes instead of improvise them, and just a bit more time on the musical examples? You could've killed it on this chromatic scale thing, instead of killing us with all the jabber. Ok, I'm sorry I said all that, just a little word of encouragement ok? You got a good thing going here...
@williamaponte13924 жыл бұрын
why do you all waste alot of time talking alot of shit before you actually get to the point Thats click baiting
@GarenGarson4 жыл бұрын
These guys ....must be frustrated actors....because they've been talking for 8 minutes now and still they have not shown us just what that most important scale is. So let me quote a line from Hamlet: "More matter with less art!"
@PaulRodericks4 жыл бұрын
Talk, talk, talk. Guys, Go listen to newjazz.dk, comparatively. And learn from him. He is a wonderful teacher. And, talks only what's NECESSARY.
@MrChoirgirl4 жыл бұрын
To much talking, good bye
@heraldbard4 жыл бұрын
Lot of talking.
@kinggimped10 ай бұрын
If you're talking about good piano VSTs, there is literally nothing better than Keyscape from Spectrasonics!
@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out Жыл бұрын
fish scales. couldn't see that coming 47 bars in advance.