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Hi, I was looking around for a piano tutorial for Misty. I took a look at how Erroll Garner played this. OMG...how could anyone learn to play like that? I saw a couple of simplified versions. I guess I could learn to play the simplified version given a large amount of time to learn. Can anyone here play the Erroll Garner version or does this just look difficult to a novice like me? https://youtu.be/P_tAU3GM9XICheers, Billy
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OMG...how could anyone learn to play like that? You practice hours a day for years.....
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Yes Eddie...My wife told me all I had to do was go back to being three years old and start over...lol
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I think this a few steps above that. https://youtu.be/VJExqsrZzeALook at some of her other performances. Astoundingly good. The best I have seen.
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There's a video of Steve Allen giving tips on playing piano.
Steve mentions in passing that learning Errol's style is worthwhile, but problematic because he's so distinctive, at best you come across as a poor imitation.
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I have seen a few videos of Hiromi Uehara playing. Totally off the chain.
A lady who played piano for the German National Symphony Orchestra lived above me when I lived in France. She could play any piece of sheet music I ever put in front of her. She could not play Happy Birthday without the sheet music. I got her started playing by ear. I really miss Nicole and France.
Actually have listen to many versions of Misty. Some I like better than the original. How Erroll arpeggiates the 13th chords in his left hand is pretty impressive.
I play guitar but messing around with the keyboard has been just that...messing around.
Stuck here in my house for god knows how long, I am spending more and more time trying to learn how to play piano. I have had a piano for a long time and it has been instrumental in teaching me music theory. I can figure out any chord in any inversion without issue on the piano. Every second I have spent on the piano has helped me with the guitar.
It is quite common for people who play very well to have started when they were kids. I got a year or so in band in grade school on Trumpet. At least I learned how to sight read some simple stuff.
If I could go back to the beginning and start over again knowing what I know now, it would be Drums, Bass, Piano, and Guitar in that order.
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Yes Eddie...My wife told me all I had to do was go back to being three years old and start over...lol And did you do as you were told?????
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Yes I did! Also I am obviously a brilliant three year old as I am able to respond to this post...lol
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Yes I did! Also I am obviously a brilliant three year old as I am able to respond to this post...lol If you can type at 3, you can play piano!! I was 4 yrs 10 months when I started lessons.
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agree about practice but there has to be a natural aptitude and talent. a friend and i started guitar together at around 14. i practiced as hard as i could but within months he was light years ahead of me and i never caught up. he became famous in the local area as a guitarist. its like a snowball, the better he got the faster he improved.
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I have been close friends with a couple of exceptional guitar players. I also have been good friends with one piano player and one drummer with exceptional skills.
I agree with Bob about the natural aptitude issue.
All of the people I have known with exceptional skills had certain things in common. I rarely saw them without a guitar or other instrument in their hand. They all had some form of formal training. All of them could read, write, and play music. They had little interest in anything outside of music. Every one of them except the piano player could hear something a play it right back.
I am not sure the piano player had what could be construed as exceptional talent. She could absolutely play anything written you put in front of her. Her training was long and difficult. She studied for more than fifteen years under the guidance of a professional. I am not sure she actuality enjoyed playing the way most of us do. She did get great satisfaction from being able to read and play with exceptional degree of competency.
I always found it strange that someone could play anything that was written but could not play the simplest of songs without the sheet music.
I also knew a guitar play who had graduated from a well known music school who could play anything you ask him on guitar. With all those skills he had no idea what to do at a jam session....strange
There also seems to be a typical amount of time required to master any given complex skill which is about seven thousand hours.
I think given enough time most anyone could learn how to more less duplicate a piece of music. I also think they probability would have a very difficult time to create the same type of thing. Having said that, learning how to emulate someone else will color your own playing. It is pretty easy to recognize the Berkeley School Of Music stamp on many of their students.
Too much typing...lol
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I went to a post holiday jam night a few years back and there was a guy there who could pick up a guitar and rip solos off as well as anybody I ever heard. However, as soon as a drummer, bass player and me on keyboards joined him, we realized he had zero idea about "music". He had no feel for when chord changes were coming, where they could go... I guess it's correct to say he had no ear. Theory doesn't make you a good player. Playing makes you a good player. Being a good player doesn't teach you theory, unless you develop a sense of structure. You can be a whiz at one without the other, but that beautiful marriage of people who are skilled at both is a joy. When the jam leader holds up 4 fingers, if you don't know that means you go from the root chord to the 4th chord in the scale, you are lost. But you don't have to know WHY it's the 4th chord in the scale, just that if you are in E you go to A. After years of playing and doing it correctly that segment of the playing population knows theory without knowing they know it. Tom Bukovac, on his youtube channel, once put up a clip of his section of the studio he was in that day. After seeing him say MANY times "I don't know theory for **** (I put the asterisks in)", he showed that taped to his wall were beautifully written chord charts that could not have been written by someone who doesn't know theory. I mean they included things like Bm7b5. If you know to make your chart include a flatted 5, you know theory. Maybe not ALL of theory, but that's a good, strong working knowledge of chord interrelationships. Which is theory. People can PLAY that same Bm7b5 and not KNOW they are playing it. Neither one is better than the other. Just different. Music has a lot of pastel in it. Everything isn't the same solid primary colors.
So yeah, we've all known people at different stages of proficiency. I know keyboard players in the area that make me want to never play again. I know a producer that is so good I never want to try to mix again. Sax players that make me embarrassed to play in front of them. They are a unique mix of playing skill and theory wise to varying degrees. All equally great!
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I agree you you Eddie. There is nothing good or bad about any of this. It is what it is.
Structured technical proficiency does not sound any different than unstructured proficiency.
A B flat scale is a B flat scale no matter if you understand what it is or not.
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Yep, it's all about what you have learned and how efficiently you apply it.
I have played in bands, mostly in church praise bands where the piano players could play anything you put in front of them in the form of sheet music. Didn't matter that they hadn't heard it before or how many sharps or flats where in the key signature. But ask them to jam in the key of G with a one four five progression, and they looked at you like you were speaking Mandarin Chinese.
I remember when I was a kid.... just starting on guitar, a piano student to a classical instructor who believed in reading the music and understanding music theory. I was at a church gathering and someone handed me an acoustic guitar and there was a lady there who asked if I knew a certain song. I did. And that started a 30 minute jam session with her singing and me playing and she was amazed that I could play any song in any key and didn't need to see the sheet music. I remember thinking that yeah.... there.s nothing to it. I can hear the changes coming. We even played a few that I didn't know but I was following her melody and it worked. She would sing it a bit and I'd jump in and away we'd go.
One last thing about the piano teacher. She'd hand me a new piece of sheet music and then she'd play it for me. She'd say, OK... your job is to learn this at home this week and bring it back and play it for me just like I played it. I'd go home and practice it. I remember going back.... proud of the work I had spent on it....and I played it for her. She sat there totally quiet when I finished the piece. Then she said, "That was really good. Now, I'd like you to play what is actually written on the staff this time." Oooops... I guess I added some embellishments to it. But the cool thing was she never tried to extinguish that creative spark. She encouraged it and also encouraged me to learn to read. One day, several years into my lessons, she stopped me about 10 minutes into the lesson and asked me how many minutes I spent on the lesson material on the piano.... I said I reckon about 30 minutes. She asked how much time I spent playing the guitar that week. I had to admit, it was several hours minimum. She told me to pack my books and that she was done teaching me piano. Mom wasn't happy but I was..... I had all the time in the world now to play the guitar.
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Cool story Guitarhacker. I like the piano but I find myself moving over and picking up my guitar.
Being more or less locked up at home is no fun. I struggle through some simple song on the piano and then go to the guitar.
I guess anyone can learn any instrument alone now days with the internet. Nothing can replace setting beside some teacher you like. The only really good news for me is I don't feel any pain playing the piano.
Sight reading on the piano has improved my ability to sight read on guitar.
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There are a lot of roads to Dallas Texas...some will just get you there quicker. And some find you in Plano.....
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Actually that is just "plain old Billy" the way it started out. Old blues guitar player friend of mine use to call me that. Many years after I moved to Plano Texas for a short while. Then it was planobillydfw. Then I moved back to Florida and dropped the dfw and added the fl. Now I am just getting plane old...lol I use to get invoices from Rockin Robin in the name of "Blind Lemon Simmons". The things I use to do... My old guitar player friend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHBa-oIED0Cheers, Who ever I am
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I have played in bands, mostly in church praise bands where the piano players could play anything you put in front of them in the form of sheet music. Didn't matter that they hadn't heard it before or how many sharps or flats where in the key signature. But ask them to jam in the key of G with a one four five progression, and they looked at you like you were speaking Mandarin Chinese.
That describes me exactly. I have been playing the piano for 67 years and cannot play a note without the music and cannot even memorize a piece that I have been playing for decades. It's all about whether you have an "ear" or not. Telling begineers that they will all be able to play without the music by huge practice will lead to massive dissapointment for those that don't have the ear. It's the same with art - telling someone they can learn to draw well if they display no natural talent just doesn't work. To illustrate the point I remember a lesson at high school when the music teacher was teaching about intervals by playing them on the piano and asking us to describe the interval. I was the only person in the class who played an instrument but was one of the worst at recognising the interval. My affliction explains why I took to BIAB 20 years ago. It is the perfect music program for me and keeps me going musically even at age 77. I now have about 800 BIAB songs with the sheet music filed in binders. At one time I had trouble finding the music to arrange in BIAB but with internet availability I can find just about anything and love experiencing genres that piano players my age would never touch. I even have the original music from my first few years like Bill Haley and the Comets and keep working at finding good BIAB styles for Queen. Tony
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Can anyone here play the Erroll Garner version or does this just look difficult to a novice like me?
Imitating a master performer would be difficult if not impossible for most piano players. Instead of trying to copy, it might be better to look for patterns and techniques to add to your skill set. For example - arpeggiated chords or rolled chord inversions up or down the keyboard to fill in spaces left by long melody notes, playing the melody using parallel chords, sixths, or fifths, tremolo on the left hand chords, stride bass, chromatic runs leading into a melody note. Your version of these techniques might be slower, or use fewer notes, but would still add more character and interest to the music.
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