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I’m going to be posting two lessons a week for a little bit, so I hope you like piano-isms! This one’s actually a Part II to my original one on Oscar Peterson. It delves into a few more idiosyncrasies characteristic to his playing.

I mentioned a few recordings in this video, so I’ll link to youtube versions here:

“Night Train” (OP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKHt9b5jJqs (rolls example)

Yesterday was a fun coffee house. We talked a bit about transcriptions and why and how we do them. In the fashion to which I have become accustomed, Tony described his methods and motives as “exactly the opposite” of mine. I love this aspect of our excellent 30+ year friendship. We do see things differently, but in the end... we wind up agreeing about all the important stuff and how much we love the vibes.

Attached is my Free Improv at today's Vibe Coffee House. I thought it would make a good lesson.

Just playing around with a simple tune and working on improvising an intro to it.

I got inspired by Oliver's arrangement of "Days of Wine and Roses". The drummer in my band wants to play "Beautiful Friendship", so I thought I would try to arrange it in a Shearing style.

I understand the basic concept behind the Shearing sound, but I'm not sure if I've quite got it. In particular, I'm not sure what to do when the melody note doesn't fall within the chord-dim-chord-dim scale pattern. Chromatic notes in the melody are also difficult.

Part of my new practice strategy of just improvising a solo arrangement and recording my first take, instead of my usual thoughtfully working everything out beforehand and using maybe a third take. It's a lot more time-efficient.

Hey All,

The rest are on my YT channel and somewhere on this site. 4 more to go.

Click here to see them all!

This is a video of the concert I put on last Friday with my combo. It went surprisingly well, so we'll be doing it again in a couple of weeks. It seems like perhaps we all need to get used to the idea of outdoor gigs.

I've been working on my video and audio editing so I decided to write a duo arrangement and see if I can line everything up. This is my friend Noah Hogan on guitar (going to NYU as a jazz major next year)