Marius Nordal demonstrates basic guitar-like note bending on acoustic piano for blues players. .—From new book “Wisdom of the Hand-The Genius Guide to the …
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Marius: DUDE! you give the best explinations and illustrations of jazz
piano technique on YOUTUBE..your soul shines through too, i.e. your love of
this music and the piano. I wonder about bending ‘up hill’ that is some
tough stuff.. If you get around to it, maybe you can adress that issue..
like how to do all this ‘grease’ technique in say D flat..
Marius: Thank-you kindly. You are making an old guitar slinger and
part-time keyboard player, new and improved on the keyboard. Hope to see
many more insightful techniques and tricks in the future.
Thanx I had been superimposing fragments of different blues scales to some
effect but of course what you so clearly demonstrated is actually what I
was hearing. I would like to hear/ understand what you mean by artifact .
Is it related to ” the blues is not a chord progression”?
“Artifact” is a human made object, not found in nature. This bending stuff
tries to make the piano into a human voice…certainly Art Tatum and Chick
Corea did not do that though…..they tend to “type” notes. For more on
this, check out my post here called “What Instrument is a Piano”….. Blues
is all about “testifying”….the harmony is so simple that you can’t remove
anything and if you ADD fancy harmonies it just becomes another generic
ii-V-I “Realbook” set of changes.
Thank you so much for your lesson. Very helpful and inspiring!
man I love the end. That look, then that piano riff to finish it off, lol,
nice blues I love it. thx for posting
That’s really sick. Can this work on a non-weighted keyboard with some
organ sounds or something?
@philnoll Sure, it works beautifully on an organ…esp.if you bend a note
with the lower fingers and hold down a top harmony note with the little
finger. listen to masters like Joey DeFrancesco, Jimmy McGriff, ect….
this is a f`in fantastic lesson- ive been lookin for this lesson for 20 yrs.
@bellybroom You’re welcome! It’s always been a hassle to make the piano
sound flexible like a guitar, horn or singer…it’s a clunky, 800 pound,
percussive monster! Good luck!
You make it look so easy
Thank you so much. What a discovery. Your attention to detail in explaining
HOW to play is simply suburb. I’ve only looked at two of your videos so far
and learned so much.
and if it dont fade out you sound like mozart ha
Wading through the piles of mediocre “lessons” on youtube and I find this
gem. Thank you.
Sir I would like to thank you so much for every single video you have
posted. YOU have truly made a difference in my piano playing. Gratitude
And thank YOU for sending energy back to me…glad the vids work for you!
Bravo! I’m headed to the piano right now.
“FadingOutBluesNotesOnPiano” Thank you dear Marius Nordal for donating this
wonderful technique to us. Another thankyou to radiokid2 (independent
whether this nickname belongs to Marius or not) for making this videos
available 🙂 cu — FriPa 2013-01-17 23:13:26 CET CcBySa
Thanks for the useful tip of using the pinky for harmony. I’ll be sure to
try that out as soon as its properly healed (I recently broke it).
you’re welcome…a book out on all this coming out during the Fall.