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Correct if I’m wrong but the 6/8 to 7/8 in metropolis is the same as the intro pattern in Dance of Eternity?

The “simple” solo that he played just to illustrate a point is just so good it’s insane

I’d be lucky to even approximate his simple

He struggles to simulate the vague approximation ha. But what a wonderful lesson for us in all things. Fascinating how the host misses the point, saying he doesn't have time for fundamentals, so he must overplay.

Punk rock never felt more ungga-bungga

It’s like I either do as Bill suggests or fail to ever become the musician I want to be.

I think it’s apparent by the verbosity explosions used, that the critiques used here are in fact part of the performance.

It’s very interesting his perception about how to improvise for just one or 2 musical phrases ! 👏🤩🤍🤍

This guy was incredible! But notice how he is losing his teeth. These geniuses deserved to make more money.

Most insufferable band of all time.

Proof that Dave Portnoy was the world's first quad-core hyper-threading musical processor.

Hey didn’t somebody name Chopin say the same thing?

He would have made a great college professor.

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This is incredible and applying it everyday is the key .Beautiful video .

Those grooves from A Change of Seasons is so unconventional and proves how creative Mike is. No other drummer would have played it like that.

Gary Novak man...

The first rule in jazz club is you do not talk about jazz club.

"Simple is the key." Its the best design model when free-styling. It gives other musicians ideas. Just do it weird and unorthodox to the ear (here and there (every 8 measures or so)). Great vid. How the heck am I 16 years late!

Is it too much to expect the dopey cameraman to keep both of Allan's hands in shot, especially the left one, all the time he's playing 🙄 But oh look someone's being creative, a shot of the bass players left arm as seen looking through the drummers hands & sticks. Moronic 🙄 His tone is incredible on this amazing solo. Searing I've got an ibanez ah10 holdsworth & a Carvin holdsworth fatboy. Plus a kemper.. Still can't sound quite like him 4:28 8:01

I remember first hearing this interview back in 2007 or so and thinking I already knew he was musically brilliant but brah, he’s a genius. And I believe that the interviewer is his brother who committed suicide eventually. Very unfortunate case of severe depression, both brothers had issues. Bill struggled with various addictions.

Images and Words and Awake are amazing albums

I very much like this approach. It leads to the real thing, the true nature of things, instead of an imitation.

Why does simply watching a genius at work make so many people tear up? 😢

Love his ability to verbalize, with clarity, what the learning process was for him, and what he thinks it should be for people in general. He communicates so well… as if he has thought about it all before. Most people have never thought so deeply about such issues.

“Better to play something SIMPLE, like….” 😂

I’ve got a couple kids and they aren't into jazz. But I played Bill Evans for them, and they say, 'Jesus, that's pretty good.' So I think it's great that people are just rediscovering Bill Evans, and I want people to rediscover Bill Evans. I think he's a great artist, and I think more people should listen to him and respect the beauty that he was able to create.

Bill Evans: “Professional discipline: people learn to throw that switch. As a matter of fact, there’s plenty of times when you just feel like 'I can’t possibly get up there and play.' But as soon as you get up there, when the moment comes - snap - you have that discipline. There’s a professional level of creativity that I can depend on, and which is satisfactory for public performance. And that I can depend on, when I throw the switch. But those other high levels, which happen just occasionally, are really thrilling. You don’t know when they’re gonna come.”

Bill Evans has Always been my favorit jazz piano player ( i espacially love the album Symbiosis) alone with Lyle Mays. RIP

This also perfectly explains why AI is bad.

Jeeez that playing qt th end 🥹😭😭

Me: “honest and true yeah! The rudimentary simple and real stuff!” Also me: *buys bill Evans Omnibook* and plays his exact transcriptions

Priceless - that pastiche of a pastiche 🤣🤣🤣🤣 - and at the end the restraint of Bill Evans not to strangle him. Advanced fundamentals not BS. BS is always BS 😁

The other guy is Bill Evans' brother

A small detail worth noting regarding portnoys playing of the 3/4, 9/8 change of seasons pattern is his inclusion of an open hi hat on count 9 at certain junctures of the groove sequence. It's actually rather difficult considering the placement within the groove added with the limb indepence it asks for to execute it confidently and musically. Portnoys work is still full of surprises years later

What was it about Jazz greats and Heroin / cocaine addiction?

What a legend.

Mr. Evans-still alive in many musicians, that is his legacy-we should all do so well. Some of his most beautiful playing-as suggested here-not what you play, but what you don't play, listen to his intros on Kind of Blue with Miles Davis-Flamenco Sketches, Blue in Green, So What. He is composing a mini masterpiece while he is improvising! His thought process-how evolved it must have been. 2-3 measures of his playing-can be an entire study in harmony, voice leading and just plain gorgeous playing. And then when as a newbie I might think-well he was basically a ballad, chordal player-he plays a few measures of "bebop" lines-if you can call it that-and there goes that idea. The word "distillation" comes to mind. He could take an idea, distill its essential beauty and then create a live composition around it.

"Keep A Flowing Living Metre"...🤔

This dude was and still is a master!! Always wanted those purple sticks... 😂

.....makes 15/8 look so easy, but when mortals do it.....not so much....

Uhhh yeah 👍 with a cowbell more cowbell 😅 I learned a lot of drumming from NICKO MCBRAIN and now I follow MIKE PORTNOY and his style of drumming and yeah its extremely different from many other drummers styles and techniques. If you count out exactly how he does you would be able to learn a whole new way of drumming but its extremely hard to find other people who will do the same exact thing therefore, it would be practically impossible to play DREAM THEATER music. I tried to get my brothers to learn a couple DT songs but they refused because its too hard for them to learn how to count like MIKE PORTNOY does. It takes years for certain people to learn but for the gifted talented ones its not all that hard.

The biggest thing in the video isn't his kit. It isn't even his hair. It's the balls it must take to describe 5:59 as having "a lot of different polyrhythms."

The next song I'm going to confuse you with is...

This music philosophy of Bill's is what really got me into Jazz, I feel a lot of Jazz tends to be over-seasoning and you can't taste the meat anymore just the spices and the salt, it becomes confusion. Even though the other examples still sounded good, the more "honest" approach sounded a lot better at least to my ears.

Thanks!

So brilliant - thanks so much for uploading!

Translation: Focus on the melody and emotion instead of trying to impress with technique. Another good example to this is David Gilmour's guitar playing.

Another reason UA-cam can be great.