Art Tatum lessons-2 finger runs RKJP56

today I'd like to share with you the art tatum two-fingered ascending runs now these fronts aren't as popular as the pentatonic runs but they were arts very own and they're real powerful crisp runs they have a more percussive effect you don't use the pedal on them thanks to dick Hyman for explaining the pentatonic runs so well but these I was turned on to these bronze my fella by the name of Joseph Lester the late Joseph Lester and he was a friend of Art Tatum and he watched him play all night long and when art would come to Cleveland Ohio and he shared with me an abundance of information and I like to give it back to whomever would have an ear to hear as I freely received out freely give out here so let's get started here on just a basic a c7 two finger run EB B flat G evoke D flat G and basically I'm using just two finger the index finger and the thumb and keeping your hand loose as possible and it's more of a wrist rope that it is a fingering now you could use that same run a flat a minor 7 flat 5 or g-minor 6 and if you want to modulate to f7 it's same thing AG e flat c AG e flat c just using that same pattern in the same fingering if you want to start it off with the 5th of the 4th finger that's that's perfectly fine in b flat 7 it's kind of slap it off these runs are probably in my opinion easier to play than the pentatonic runs because you have to pick your fingers up high on these you're using more of a wrist stroke they work good on a bad piano as well and then you could go right through the cycle if you you get to the flat keys like a D flat 7 G flat 7 b7 got some of the sharp keys as well what you want to do I do is use a three one two one fingering for example on D flat seven I've got my third finger on e-flat my thumb on Z second finger on a-flat thumb on F in the same kind of stroke and the G flat seven would be the same thing a flat e d flat B D seven and then the famous art a time a seven-run and he could play that so fast and powerful that with the greatest of ease so somebody said well who who taught our teen of these runs well God put it in his heart and they just came out natural not only was our team the greatest jazz penis but he was the greatest natural a penis so and then you don't want to just adhere to that minor six pattern but you could play the 13th voicing like in d7 I use C D F sharp e CB s sharp e CB F sharp E and just take it in two fingers and kind of slap it use that an alert elegy and you could use it in b7 as well also you could I there's a run that he used I call it the Augmented two finger run and that's basically D F D flat B D F G flat B you can use that an f7 G a B D flat and E flat seven here in f7 and D flat seven I missed that one and also the diminished arpeggio that's just the two finger run going down to one to one see if you use a classical fingering on these runs like four three two one you get a terrible gallop at least I do and you don't want to use the pedal of the whole purpose of these runs is to get that sharp crisp a percussive attack so that's pretty much it there's a lot more but that whirlwind of a running yesterdays is just the B thirteenth voicing a flat E flat D flat major a flat E flat B flat a I'm taking it 3-1 to one but the beauty of these runs before you put your thumb down you add a grace note or an add-on attachment if I can call it that you know these other fingers are just sitting there doing nothing and they're waiting to touch something so you you touch the note as a grace note before you put your thumb down so in slow motion I'm I'm hitting that a slight that's the beats 13 run and I'm touching a was my fourth finger before I put my thumb down an E flat then I have the C sharp with my second finger before I put my thumb down I'm hitting the E flat so we got like this let's see we could do it so it's a basic pattern with the air various add-on grace notes and that's what makes these runts are so beautiful and there is a host of runs with these grace notes to them that are sound so lovely and I would love to share them with you except that I'm getting a little late on time here and I'm going to ask for grace that you would please check out the Arcanum lessons number two I'm hoping to put that down here and that the best is yet to come and as far as I know these runs aren't any in any book so I hope they're a blessing to you as they were to me but anyway let's play a little song trying to utilize these fronts now I can't force it because it'll sound corny but let's see what comes out we'll try it thanks for listening

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Keywords: Art, Tatum, lessons, jazz, rifs, right, hand, tricks

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Length: 9min 20sec (560 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 25 2008