What I Did To Improve My Failing Jazz Piano Playing.
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- At times you may feel like your jazz playing is failing. In this video I discuss an practicing approach that improved my jazz playing; that helped it go from failing to improving. I focus on the sound I am trying to achieve within the jazz language and practice from that vantage point. If you feel like you are failing, I hope this video has some encouraging jazz and music tips.
00:00 Introduction
00:15 Stop practicing for other people
01:31 Music school and wanting to be the best
03:17 Looking within for your personal musical voice
05:05 Why this approach has helped me
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Greetings from Philadelphia USA. Love your style, and I hear the influence of our local hero McCoy Tyner in your very tasteful playing.
Thank you, I have only been to NY. I really hope to visit Philly one day🩷
My goodness, at such a young age and you are so much enlightened. Took me years to understand what you are talking about. It's all about my happiness not others. Your future looks bright.
yup, you will either practice and play what you enjoy/what challenges you in a fun way, or eventually you'll stop playing
This something I've started to experience, it's really great to practice out of joy and I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in this perspective of being an artist.
Yes, motivation is fuelled by desire. This is what keeps me practicing. I want to do it.
Yeah I love those 4th voicing too😊
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@@thembelihledunjana when I first started to like Jazz and heard Tyner's style I knew I had to learn it. It struck me as so cool and sophisticated.
Yup💯
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Thanks for the sage words of advice as you develop your own "you".
Great advice. The ego can be our greatest enemy.
Yea…
This video made a big difference to me. I'm glad that you made it. It makes me happy to hear you say that you found some phrases that really spoke to you personally and found ways to work them into your playing. I have felt this way for many years, but never ever hurt anyone else say it
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Sound musical advice 🎶
Great advice and playing!
Great ideas!! 💡
Thank you for this beautiful video.
Thank you for your words of wisdom! I'm in my senior year at jazz school and can relate to the burn out!
You’re welcome and all the best🩷
This encompasses an approach to be applied in all music genres. Thanks
Great video
Thanks- I needed to hear that.
Happy to help💯
Great video, great message! Thanks!
thank you for this wisdom! the music we need next is always inside us, and with the right practice we can let it out.
Thank you,Maestra.⭐🌹🌞🌹⭐ Extremely helpful. Right on point: creatively and spiritually.
Wow, beautiful playing, I think you're doing the right thing focusing on what you like to play.
The chanel that ive been longing for. thanks for sharing the good work within you lady T.
You welcome🙏🏾
Thank you so much for saying this. Truly. 🙏
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Thank you, this is for me 🙏🙏🙏
Amazing🩷💯
thanks you！
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❤ thanks for enlightenment sisi, and your consistency
Fo sho🫶
Thanks!
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this is so true 😢
I'm always inspired by you Sis Thembelihle.
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Concise! Profound wisdom! Thank you for the eye opening advice, Thembelihle!
You are welcome💯
@@thembelihledunjana ❤🙏
You are gooood❤
What a great message, and you're a marvelous pianist. I remember my playing improved the day I began playing for my own joy and according to only my own tastes and stopped trying to anticipate or please the tastes of others. Also, I've always been drawn to 4ths too, so I enjoyed hearing about your love of that sound. Play on!
Great to hear Avery. All of the best going forward❤️
This is something I wish I would have done much sooner. The realization that I don't have to be good at everything because that won't make me happy. Because I don't even like everything so why should I be working toward that.
And focusing on the things I wanted to do started to alter the way I sounded way faster compared to before. Really good advice that I hope the younger players will take to heart.
Such great advice .. be true to thine own self .. I was trained classical but in my retirement have fallen in love with jazz.. spend my practice time alternating between my own arrangements and Bach fugues .. thinking about what you don’t know can be overwhelming, but getting lost in the music has really helped me through many life and health challenges 💕🎹
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Thanks for the advice.Ndiyabulela🙂
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Instant subscribe. Much gratitude and love for the wisdom. I definitely felt directionless lately. Took a few classes, I got some outside pointers on my playing and what i could improve on. Some technique practices. However, I jus couldnt figure out what i really enjoy playing. Im the type that strives to completely master something i love doing. The problem, majority of the time, for me is the starting point and general direction i wish to go. Im a jack of all trades but a master of none. You, my good sister, may have helped me to become the master of all.
I wish you the best🩷💯
@@thembelihledunjana much love 🔮🧿💯
Thanks! I really appreciate your perspective.
You’re welcome🩷
Ndiyabulela 🔥🙏🏾🔥
Sure thing.
Wawooh thank you so
Much!!
You’re welcome🩷
@@thembelihledunjana sometimes I find it hard to call myself a jazz pianist when I can’t play bebop language..(yes I’m trying my best to understand it but in the process it makes really feel like less, any thoughts on that?🙏🏾
@olivier-here what helped me with the bebop language was transcribing an artist that I loved. I got better because of that. So just keep working at it. Practice it in a way that interests you.
@@thembelihledunjana thanks 🙏🏾
Glad i found ur channel, sub earned!
Welcome💯
@@thembelihledunjana do you teach lessons?
@severtone263 yes
Im hearing this for the second time this week. It must be God speaking !
Haha!
You have now attain the mamtle of a Master i greet Ma
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Thembelihle ! You look great !
You've lost weight and awesome new hairstyle !
And your playing sounds more grounded.
Thanks for noticing all that😅🩷
you are really cool :)
lol thanks😅
I want to listen to the jazz school journey! Do you have a video of that? When did you start? For how many years? Did you have classic training first?
Will try to make that happen.
@@thembelihledunjana yesss!!! I'm waiting!!!!
Thank you for sharing this valuable message! By the way, what brand of Roland are you playing?
You’re welcome, It’s the FP30
@@thembelihledunjana Thank you, and please keep the great videos coming!
Aibo why am I only discovering you now????? 😮😮😮
Can you please do a "get to know me" but in the music side of things?
Hey, yeah that could be cool at some point, but in the meantime I did do this video about my story in jazz: CZcams.com/watch?v=bQBKrv172oc&t=260s
really wise words
This is brilliant, for me too..
What is 4th voicing ?
Chord made up of quartal (fourth) intervals.
@@thembelihledunjana thanks for the reply , please give me an example in jazz chords
@joe3170 Over Cmin7 you can play something like C-F-Bb. Gives it a suspended sound
@thembelihledunjana lol before I knew they were called quartal chords, I used to refer to them as " inverted suspended chords " like it was easy for me to see the chord" bflat eflat Aflat " as an inverted Ab Sus 2. ....I also like those chords especially when you moving them up and down in a song when the top note has the melody
Thanks for the explanation, got it now..!
how can I reach you
What type of keyboard is that? How did it cost you? Can you talk about muscians lack of instruments oe its effect to playing
Roland FP30, was about 15-18k (South African rands) at the time. Can’t remember exact numbers
I think you need to focus on time and feel.
dragon ball z jazz
At which point do jazz players achieve the stank face when y'all play impressive cool chords?...😁
😅lol. I don’t know, it just happens.