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How To Practice Jazz – Advice From Bill Evans

It is always interesting to check out how the people we look up to learned and practice to achieve the skills that we admire. Bill Evans is both a fantastic jazz musician and also a very interesting example of this because he is also very analytical and philosophical.

In this video, I am taking a look at some quotes from him on practicing and learning. How he sees himself and his perspectives and priorities with learning and practicing.

Content:

0:00 Intro – Learning from the people we admire

0:24 Bill Evans – Perspectives and Practice Priorities

0:42 “Knowing The Problem is 90% of solving it”

0:55 How this ties in with having lessons

1:55 The right piece of information at the right time!

2:24 “1 Tune for 24 hours or 24 tunes for an hour”

2:48 When Do you know a Song?

3:30 Besides learning songs: Make it A Part of your system

3:55 “I Don’t Consider Myself Talented”

4:45 Explore and stay motivated

5:36 “Don’t take their motivation away”

6:06 Keep improving and developing

6:57 The Essence of Jazz – Being Personal

8:04 Is there only room for Copycats?

8:12 Do you have a great quote on Practicing or Learning?

8:20 Like the video? Check out My Patreon Page!

Check out some more material on Bill Evans!

My Other Video On Bill Evans: Bill Evans – How To Get Your Rhythms To The Next Level

The Complete Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zufMaufJZo

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Bill Evans – How To Get Your Rhythms To The Next Level

Bill Evans is an amazing part of Jazz History and also one of the people to really take rhythm and polyrhythms very far in his playing. A Bill Evans Lesson should be as much about his incredible use of rhythm and how he combines it with harmony. This lesson is analyzing some of the ideas in his solo on “I Love You” He uses several interesting concepts with groupings of notes and playing across the barline.

This solo is off Bill Evans debut album as a leader: New Jazz Conceptions. A trio album with Paul Motian on drums and Teddy Kotick on bass.

0:00 Intro

0:13 Rhythm Devices of Bill Evans

0:35 Example #1

0:40 Reharmonizing a II V I

1:57 The Rhythm Layer of this Example

2:26 Example #1 – Slow

2:33  Example #2

2:38 Displacing Beat 1 with a simple melody

3:41 The Album: New Jazz Conceptions

4:00 Example #2 Slow

4:07 Example #3

4:11 Using Rhythm as a tension/release idea in a solo

4:44 The Clearness of Example #3

5:22 Example #3 Slow

5:28 Example #4

5:37 Displacing a simple phrase

7:13 Example #4 Slow

7:47 Example #5

7:54 Polyrhythm – 3/4 against 4/4

9:16 Example #5 Slow9:27 Like the video? Check out My Patreon Page!

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