4 Flashy Runs (That Are Easier Than You Think)

yeah you could do this [Music] you could do this [Music] why not show a little flash today we're talking about four flashy runs that are easy to play before we get too deep into it this video is brought to you by Open studio go to openstudio jazz.com for all of your Jazz lesson means there is a PDF You're Gonna Want to download that because all four of these flashy flashy runs are on that PDF make sure to get that in the description below okay all four runs that we're going to be talking about today are pretty conventional in fact they've been played by pianists for well over a hundred years and uh you know most famously pianists like Art Tatum [Music] use these super flashy super entertaining runs to add that bit of extra spice to their playing Art Tatum famously uh just chocked full of these beautiful runs and there's something that they all have in common that's that they're easy to play and they are easy to play all of these things are very ergonomical they're very pianistic and we're going to talk about the correct fingering and how to practice them in a way that we can get up speed that's the other thing that all of these runs share is that they actually are easier to play Fast the faster you go the more that Rhythm sort of settles in to the Run itself you're gonna love this you're gonna sound like you are you could play really really fast on any of these because they just they fit in your hands so well and like I said once you find that shape and once you find the fast rhythm of it it's a Turn and Burn it's a grip it and rip it it's a shake and make and you're going to see that starting here on our very first run all four of our runs today are going to be in the key of E flat some of our runs are very difficult in some keys and very easy in others luckily all four of these runs lay really really well in the key of E flat so try to transpose some of these to other keys and see what works and what doesn't you're going to find that there are certain keys where certain runs just fit better that's why the pianists can play them so fast they just lay really well in the keys themselves number one is the key of E flat it's a it's a run that you would play on a v chord as if you're setting up a tune so you have your dominant seven chord your B flat seven chord and it's if you're you're setting up the one maybe at the very beginning of the tune you just want a little run to set up the key and you give them [Music] one of those and then you're into the key of E flat so what is that that's a very beautiful run so this is based off of a flat 9 sharp 11 half hole diminished scale almost right and there's two notes in our left hand and four notes in our right hand the two notes in our left hand are a flat and B flat starting on the third finger of the left hand and then the four notes in the right hand starting on the thumb are be natural D natural e natural and G so all white keys so two Black Keys all white keys this is something that you're gonna see with some of these runs is there's this alternation between Black Keys and white keys why because it's ergonomical right because [Music] it's just easy to grip it and rip it so this is how we get this run we just practice first just the single octave so just play through this just here in this very first octave don't worry about going over the octave it's really a lot about getting the timing between the two hands one way that we can practice this is with a metronome and you can start fairly slowly foreign [Music] we can start practicing the crossover here we have some 16th note triplets [Music] that's a sextuplet there right so it's like one two three one two three one play this with me this is where it starts make sure to hit the high a flat with your third finger you could also do some blocking practice where you play all the notes of one hand at once to get your hand in the position that's especially helpful when we start going up above the octave let's try two octaves so I was rushing through there there it is [Music] again blocking practice [Music] playing all the notes of each hand together [Music] and then breaking it up [Music] let's try three octaves [Music] let's try speeding it up just a little bit let's take it up that was at 76 let's take it up to 90. that's good [Music] now is where we take it to the second part [Music] we take the sustain pedal down and we just practice finding some speed I really really focusing on that transition between the right hand and the left hand try to do it without a sustain pedal thank you because that really lets you know how clean you can get it Turn and Burn on it once it's laid in the find that it's really fun and then you can just fly [Music] beautiful for number two we've played our five chord our B flat seven what about on a one chord when we get to the one E flat major well there's a beautiful little Turn and Burn little grip it and rip it little shake and bake we can do here that begins on the third and the seventh of any major chord like I said this is going to lay pretty well in about I think seven or eight keys this lays really really easily maybe more if you're more technically Advanced pianist but this is so beautiful here so check this out it's just a turn where you put your second finger on the third up a fourth and then Rock It Rock your your hand back down through the thumb and then do that again on the seventh right so two five two one two five two one it's that same thing or you're going to notice that all of these it's repeatable fingering right that's why we say grip it didn't rip it because you can once you find the shape then you just turn your turn your wrist and that's all you got to do this is so beautiful [Music] combine this with your [Music] let's try it here we try it at 90. let's try the second measure here play that with me one two three three [Music] all right the same fingering on the way down it's just two two [Music] let's try taking the tempo up just a hair to 120. two three and isn't that great three and two three and then like I said you could take this to any key right all you have to do is find the third and the seventh of any major chord like on C [Music] B flat right you just find the third and the seventh up a fourth down a second up a fourth down a second right it's so so easy and it's all the same thing ring two five two one two five two one you could do two four two one if you have larger hands whatever's easiest but it's all about that rocking back and forth right keeping a nice relaxed greasy loose wrist [Music] sloppy [Music] isn't that great and then combining [Music] imagine you're at the end of the tune [Music] gorgeous all right number three we have a very famous whole tone run we're back on the five chord the B flat seven chord and this is just starting on G flat up in whole steps it's a whole tone scale very dreamy right very Spacey and this particular whole tone scale uh is so ergonomical because if you start on G flat here you might notice in your left hand three black keys in your right hand three white keys so here in our left hand we go four three two and then we switch to our right hand one two three isn't that great so again the way to practice this we're just smooshing all the notes with each hand that plays them and then break it up isn't that awesome try two octaves [Music] blocking I'll break it up [Music] again between that hand could be where a lot of work comes in so here if we look at bars two and three of our example again we've laid on a Big B flat petal sustained pedal could go on [Music] and then we just go up this whole tone and then maybe we're at the end of a tune so we go down with our snowfall run okay our final flashy run is one that you might again hear someone like Art Tatum play Someone Like Oscar Peterson this one actually just need two fingers right just the third finger and the thumb one-handed it goes down an E flat major sixth chord A major six chord starting on the root and it's just here if we look at the first example just four notes and the fingering is three one three one three one it's just three one you're literally like Lobster Claw your way down the piano with this isn't that great so you have all these big muscles and you just you need a loose wrist again a nice greasy loose wrist maybe you go up on a whole tone and come down here on your Lobster Claw [Music] isn't that beautiful let's try it here with the metronome 16th notes let's just go down one octave right you might you might block it where you play [Music] but just again think about Turn and Burn grip and rip try two octaves I'm gonna block it first what that does is get your hand gets your hand in the position on the keyboard [Music] now break it up yeah thanks so much don't forget to download the PDF don't forget to subscribe to this YouTube channel and until next time happy practicing foreign [Music] [Music]

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Published: Fri Sep 16 2022