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Cloud Kisser by Charles L. Johnson Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman Wikipedia: Charles Leslie Johnson was an American composer of ragtime and popular music. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, died in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived his entire life in those two cities. He published over 300 songs in his life, nearly 40 of them ragtime compositions such as "Doc Brown’s Cakewalk", "Dill Pickles", "Apple Jack (Some Rag)", and "Snookums Rag". His best selling piece, a sentimental ballad called "Sweet and Low", sold over a million copies. Experts believe that had Johnson lived and worked in New York, he would be included alongside Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb as one of the greatest ragtime composers. He wrote more than the other three combined and exemplified a greater range of talent, composing waltzes, tangos, cakewalks, marches, novelty pieces, and other types of music popular at that time. Johnson was born in the Armourdale district of Kansas City, Kansas to James R. and Helen F. Johnson. Clearly a prodigy, he was playing a neighbor’s piano by age six and began studying classical piano, harmony, and music theory a few years later. Although he had classical training, he always preferred popular music of the day. His musical ability led him to proficiency on other instruments as well: guitar, violin, banjo, and mandolin. As a young man Johnson became involved in the music scene of Kansas City by participating in several local groups. In this environment he wrote his first compositions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #charlesljohnson #cloudkisser #ragtime #charleslesliejohnson #ragtimesynthesia #ragtimesynthesia #ragtimepiano #pianosyncopation #ragtimecomposer #joplin #synthesia #piano #ragtimetutorial #ragtimewaltz #itsRemco

Fingerbuster by Willie "The Lion" Smith Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz Original recording: https://youtu.be/p9D4mmiO35I In his memoires, Willie The Lion Smith recalls the story of a mythical cutting contest between him and Jelly Roll Morton in the early thirties: “Some people used to put me on by asking whether jazz was born in New Orleans and whether or not Jelly Roll invented it. I said once that was one of the worst things I ever heard. What I meant was that most of the jazz I knew was, in the beginning, from the brickyards. And another thing, jazz comes from the person’s soul and not from a state. But Jelly Roll was a guy who always talked a lot. He used to be around the Rhythm Club every day and stand out on the corner and he used to bull and con all those fellows. He had his twenty-dollar gold piece on and he’d stand out there with a bankroll, meaning money, so every time I’d come around, almost all the guys who used to play piano kept quiet. Sometimes I’d lay for Fats and Jimmy [James P. Johnson]. Sometimes I’d even lay for Tatum. But I used to come around especially on Friday and Saturday looking for Jelly. I went around this one Friday and he was standing on the corner." “Look, Mr. One-Hand,” I said, “let’s go inside and let me give you your lessons in cutting.” So Jelly and I would go inside by the piano. I was the only one he would stand and listen to and then he didn’t open his mouth. I must have played nearly everything you could name and when I got through, I said, “Well, Jelly, you’ll keep quiet now.” And, true as I’m sitting here, Jelly would be quiet.” Documentary link: https://youtu.be/q3b1xt3V4H8 In “Willie the Lion”, a documentary produced and directed by Marc Fields, Willie recalls the encounter in a slightly different way: “Well, I knew Jelly Roll well. I think I was the one of the few who did know him… He was a character. Quite a talker, he had a habit of tearing people apart. I challenged him in the Hoofer’s Club, in the Rhythm Club, I got him before nearly 300 musicians and I said “You call the terms and I’ll call them on the piano, and I’m gonna make you remember piano as long as you live”. And I could.” After that, whenever anybody referred to Jelly Roll Morton, the Lion would say, “Oh, you mean Mr. One-Hand”, noting the supremacy of the “two-fisted” (as they used to call themselves) Harlem piano players. In fact, in New Orleans and Chicago, Morton was generally known that he could cut people, but when he went to New York, the New York pianists really intimidated him, and Willie did. In that era of house rent parties and cutting contests, every tickler used to have a challenge piece to defeat the competition. For a time, Willie The Lion Smith had “Finger Buster”, a piece that, in Dick Hyman’s words “was clearly throwing down the gauntlet, so that no amateurs would dare to compete the mighty Lion as he strode into a place.” “Finger Buster” was composed (in F) by The Lion in 1934 and recorded that same year, but this first version remained unissued for many years. The first 32 bars of this piece were written at Clarence Williams’ office while the Lion was doing technique exercises, and The Lion said he invented it by playing around with a scale as fast and as loud as he could. In the Jazz Man recording session from December 1938, that took place at the Rialto Theater Building in Washington, Jelly Roll Morton cut five sides, one of them being a piano solo piece called “Finger Buster” (matrix number MLB-145) issued on Jazz Man JM 12, coupled with “Creepy Feeling”. “Finger Buster” contains a mighty left hand that thunders up and down the octaves, while the right hand flies with a torrent of arpeggios and trills. Everything goes at super fast speed (metronomique speed rises up to 304) and in the last part pianist Morten Gunnar Larsen sees “a conscious caricature of stride piano technique”. In November 1942 the name of the tune was changed to “The Finger Breaker”, when Roy Carew made a copyright application to the Library of Congress. Morton had not bothered to do so himself, on the assumption that his amazing, breakneck, bravura piano piece would deter all competitions. Other sources state that the piece was called “The Finger Breaker” from the start and that I got mislabeled in the Jazz Man 78 rpm disc. Source: http://thereisjazzbeforetrane.blogspot.com/2009/02/jelly-roll-morton-lion-finger-buster-vs.html?m=1 This video quote: "Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart." - Willie "The Lion" Smith ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #williethelionsmith #fingerbuster #stridepiano #piano #jazzballad #stride #classicjazzpiano #blueblackjazz #paulmarcorelles #synthesia #earlyjazz #synthesiatutorial #ballad #itsRemco

All God's Chillun Got Rhythm by Art Tatum Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz check out the transcription: https://blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/405/405-art-tatum-all-god-s-chillun-got-rhythm-gb-maj-transcription-pdf And of course check out his site for all available transcripti0ons: https://www.blueblackjazz.com Original recording: https://youtu.be/0cbNf1nqz5E Info on Art Tatum: Arthur Tatum, Jr. was born in Toledo, Ohio, on October 13, 1909. Art was severely visually impaired from birth; however, his parents were both accomplished amateur musicians and he was picking out tunes on his mother’s piano from the age of three. He learned arrangements from piano rolls, but his uncanny sense of intonation, his physical dexterity at the keyboard, and above all his high intelligence contributed to his increasingly astonishing piano technique. In Toledo, he received tutelage from Overton G. Rainey, who, like Tatum, was blind but insisted that Art learn the classics. Rainey discouraged improvisation; Art could not but improvise. All the music that Art heard lodged in his brilliant musical brain and emerged, transformed, through his gifted hands. He had a few favorite sources of inspiration from the mid-1920s on: Thomas “Fats” Waller, James P. Johnson, Earl Hines, and popular pianist Lee Sims (1898-1966), whose complex harmonies (reminiscent of Debussy) and changes of tempo within a performance have clear echoes within Tatum’s own mature piano style. Art performed on local Toledo radio as early as age 17. He was discovered by vocalist Adelaide Hall in 1932. Hall hired Tatum, brought him to New York, and made records with him that year. A solo recorded during those sessions (“Tiger Rag”) exists as a test-pressing—his technique, at age 22, is fully realized. He continued to work around New York and later elsewhere, flabbergasting his own pianistic idols with his towering command of the keyboard. It doesn’t do to attempt to describe Art Tatum’s playing. One must hear him. Testimonials from other pianists abound. The most famous story is of Fats Waller relinquishing the piano bench to Tatum when he appeared in the club where Waller was performing, stating “I only play the piano, but tonight God is in the house.” Oscar Peterson, perhaps Tatum’s most Tatumesque follower, also considered him a “musical God,” and said, “If you speak of pianists, the most complete pianist that we have known and possibly will know is Art Tatum.” Art Tatum never failed to dazzle listeners with his Olympian musical prowess and limitless melodic and harmonic invention. He died, far too young, on November 5, 1956. (Source: https://syncopatedtimes.com/art-tatum) This video quote: "You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!" - Art Tatum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #arttatum #allgodschillungotrythm #stridepiano #oldjazz #blueblackjazz #earlyjazz #classicjazz #blindpianoplayer #synthesia #earlyjazz #swing #faststridepiano #itsremco #arttatumtutorial #solopianojazz

The Charleston (From the Runnin' Wild Medley) by James P. Johnson Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz check out the transcription: https://blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/84/84-james-p-johnson-charleston-bb-maj-transcription-pdf And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: https://www.blueblackjazz.com Original recording: https://youtu.be/Vq4BdwOj5f4 Wikipedia: James Price Johnson (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was eventually called jazz. Johnson was a major influence on Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and Fats Waller, who was his student. Johnson composed many hit songs, including the unofficial anthem of the Roaring Twenties, "The Charleston," and he remained the acknowledged king of New York jazz pianists through most of the 1930s. Johnson's artistry, influence on early popular music, and contributions to musical theatre are often overlooked, and as such, he has been referred to by musicologist David Schiff as "The Invisible Pianist." Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. The proximity to New York City meant that the full cosmopolitan spectrum of the city's musical experience, from bars, to cabarets, to the symphony, were at the young Johnson's disposal. Johnson's father, William H. Johnson, was a store helper and mechanic while his mother, Josephine Harrison was a maid. Harrison was a part of the choir at the Methodist Church and was also a self-taught pianist. Johnson later cited the popular African-American songs and dances he heard at home and around the city as early influences on his musical taste. In 1908, Johnson's family moved to the San Juan Hill (near where Lincoln Center stands today) section of New York City and subsequently moved again to uptown in 1911. With perfect pitch and excellent recall he was soon able to pick out the piano tunes that he had heard. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: http://gestyy.com/w65gXL ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #jamespjohnson #charleston #stridepiano #charlestonpiano #swing #swingpiano #stride #runningwild #earlyjazz #honeysuckle #earlyjazzpiano #jazz #jamesp #charlestonpiano #itsRemco

Lock And Key by James P. Johnson and Bessie Smith Sequenced and Arranged by: John Farrell Original recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cg9PZeiuzM Wikipedia: James Price Johnson (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was eventually called jazz. Johnson was a major influence on Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and Fats Waller, who was his student. Johnson composed many hit songs, including the unofficial anthem of the Roaring Twenties, "The Charleston," and he remained the acknowledged king of New York jazz pianists through most of the 1930s. Johnson's artistry, influence on early popular music, and contributions to musical theatre are often overlooked, and as such, he has been referred to by musicologist David Schiff as "The Invisible Pianist." Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. The proximity to New York City meant that the full cosmopolitan spectrum of the city's musical experience, from bars, to cabarets, to the symphony, were at the young Johnson's disposal. Johnson's father, William H. Johnson, was a store helper and mechanic while his mother, Josephine Harrison was a maid. Harrison was a part of the choir at the Methodist Church and was also a self-taught pianist. Johnson later cited the popular African-American songs and dances he heard at home and around the city as early influences on his musical taste. In 1908, Johnson's family moved to the San Juan Hill (near where Lincoln Center stands today) section of New York City and subsequently moved again to uptown in 1911. With perfect pitch and excellent recall he was soon able to pick out the piano tunes that he had heard. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: http://gestyy.com/w65gXL ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #jamespjohnson #lockandkey #stridepiano #blues #swing #swingpiano #stride #fatherofstridepiano #earlyjazz #bluespiano #earlyjazzpiano #jazz #jamesp #charlestonpiano #itsRemco

Frankie And Johnny Fantasy by Erroll Garner Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz check out the transcription: https://blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/231/231-erroll-garner-frankie-and-johnny-fantasy-c-maj-transcription-pdf And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: https://www.blueblackjazz.com Original recording: https://youtu.be/oswmSOtdWg4 Wikipedia: Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His best-known composition, the ballad "Misty", has become a jazz standard. Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso." He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Blvd. His live album, Concert by the Sea, first released in 1955, sold over a million copies by 1958 and Scott Yanow's opinion is: "this is the album that made such a strong impression that Garner was considered immortal from then on." Garner was born with his twin brother Ernest in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 15, 1921, the youngest of six children in an African-American family. He attended George Westinghouse High School (as did fellow pianists Billy Strayhorn and Ahmad Jamal). Interviews with his family and music teachers (and with other musicians), plus a detailed family tree are given in Erroll Garner: The Most Happy Piano by James M Doran. Garner began playing piano at the age of three. His elder siblings were taught piano by Miss Bowman. From an early age, Erroll would sit down and play anything she had demonstrated, just like Miss Bowman, his eldest sister Martha said. Garner was self-taught and remained an "ear player" all his life, never learning to read music. At age seven, he began appearing on the radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh with a group called the Candy Kids. By age 11, he was playing on the Allegheny riverboats. In 1937 he joined local saxophonist Leroy Brown. He played locally in the shadow of his older pianist brother Linton Garner. This video quote: "I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new." - Erroll Garner @errollgarnerofficial ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #errollgarner #frankieandjohnnyfantasy #stridepiano #jazzpiano #errollgarnertutorial #errollgarnerpiano #pianojazz #errollgarnertranscription #synthesia #erroll #garner #blueblackjazz #jazz #solopiano #itsRemco

The Suffragette Waltz by James Scott Sequenced by Warren S. Trachtman Wikipedia: James Sylvester Scott was an American ragtime composer and pianist, regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb. He was born in Neosho, Missouri to James Scott, Sr. and Molly Thomas Scott, both former slaves. In 1901 his family moved to Carthage, Missouri, where he attended Lincoln High School. In 1902 he began working at the music store of Charles L. Dumars, first washing windows, then demonstrating music at the piano as a song plugger, including his own pieces. Demand for his music convinced Dumars to print the first of Scott's published compositions, "A Summer Breeze - March and Two Step", in 1903. By 1904, two more compositions by Scott, "Fascinator March" and "On the Pike March" were published and sold well, but not enough to keep Dumars in business and soon the company ceased publishing. James Scott's 1904 "On the Pike", which refers to the midway of the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Ragtime Historians Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis recount that Scott went to St. Louis, Missouri in search of his idol Scott Joplin in 1905. He located Joplin and asked if he would listen to one of his ragtime compositions. Upon hearing the rag, Joplin introduced him to his own publisher, John Stillwell Stark, and recommended he publish the work. Stark published the rag a year later as "Frog Legs Rag". It quickly became a hit and was second in sales in the Stark catalogue only to that of Joplin's own "Maple Leaf Rag". Scott became a regular contributor to the Stark catalogue until 1922. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #ragtime #thesuffragettewaltz #jamesscott #synthesia #prejazz #ragtimepiano #ragtime #pianosyncopation #ragtimecomposer #ragtimepiano #synthesia #ragtimesynthesia #solopiano #ragtimetutorial #itsremco

Stormy Weather by Willie "The Lion" Smith Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz check out the transcription: https://blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/111/111-willie-the-lion-smith-stormy-weather-g-maj-transcription-pdf And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: https://www.blueblackjazz.com Original recording: https://youtu.be/e4mqA30GdZ8 Info about Stormy Weather: "Stormy Weather" is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford. Also in 1933, for the first time the entire floor revue from Harlem's Cotton Club went on tour, playing theatres in principal cities. The revue was originally called The Cotton Club Parade of 1933 but for the road tour it was changed to Stormy Weather Revue; it contained the song "Stormy Weather", which was sung by Adelaide Hall. In September 1933, the group Comedian Harmonists released their German cover version, titled "Ohne Dich" ("Without You") with lyrics that are quite different. The song has since been performed by Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Clodagh Rodgers, Reigning Sound, Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, The Spaniels and others. Leo Reisman's orchestra version had the biggest hit on records (with Arlen himself as vocalist), although Ethel Waters' recorded version also sold well. "Stormy Weather" was performed by Horne in the 1943 film Stormy Weather, a big, all-star show for World War II soldiers. The song tells of disappointment, as the lyrics, "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky", show someone pining for her man to return. The weather is a metaphor for the feelings of the singer "stormy weather since my man and I ain't together, keeps raining all the time". The original handwritten lyrics, along with a painting by Ted Koehler, were featured on the US version of Antiques Roadshow on January 24, 2011, where they were appraised for between $50,000 and $100,000. The lyrics show a number of crossings out and corrections. Ethel Waters' recording of the song in 1933 was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry in 2004. Also in 2004, Horne's version finished at number 30 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American movies. According to the Acoustic Music organization, the version by the Five Sharps (1952) "is one of the rarest of all R&B records. Only three 78rpm and no 45rpm copies are known to exist". (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormy_Weather_(song)) Info about Willie "The Lion" Smith: Willie “The Lion” Smith (November 23, 1893 – April 18, 1973) was one of the fathers of the stride piano style. During the 1920s he was a sort of underground figure, who gained a reputation as a hot piano player by providing the music for rent parties in the private homes and small clubs of Harlem. He recorded rarely during the 1920s, but was the first musical director of Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds and is the pianist on “Crazy Blues“, the first Blues record released in 1920. Smith was a major influence on Duke Ellington who later went on to write the songs “Portrait of the Lion” and “Second Portrait of the Lion” in honor of him. Smith didn’t make any recordings under his own name until the mid-1930s, but played on several of Perry Bradford’s sessions like Georgia Strutters, The Gulf Coast Seven and The Blue Rhythm Orchestra. Throughout his career he led few bands, preferring the life of a solo performer, but he remained very active in music until his death in 1973. (Source: https://syncopatedtimes.com/willie-the-lion-smith-1897-1973) This video quote: "Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart." - Willie "The Lion" Smith @blueblackjazz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #williethelionsmith #stormyweather #stridepiano #piano #jazzballad #stride #classicjazzpiano #blueblackjazz #paulmarcorelles #synthesia #earlyjazz #synthesiatutorial #ballad #itsRemco

Muscle Shoals Blues by Thomas "Fats" Waller Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz check out the transcription: https://blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/18/18-fats-waller-muscle-shoals-blues-c-maj-transcription-pdf And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: https://www.blueblackjazz.com Original recording: https://youtu.be/7tzTrIXUM8U Info about Fats Waller: Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing James P. Johnson’s “Carolina Shout” which he learned from watching a pianola play the song. He would later take piano lessons from Johnson. Fats began his recording career in 1922 and made a living playing rent parties, as an organist at movie theatres and as an accompanist for various vaudeville acts. In 1927 he co-wrote a couple of tunes with his old piano teacher James P. Johnson for his show Keep Shufflin’. Two years later Waller wrote the score for the Broadway hit Hot Chocolates with lyrics supplied by his friend Andy Razaf. Fats’ most famous song, “Ain’t Misbehavin'” was introduced in this show which featured Louis Armstrong. Fats Waller’s big break occurred at a party given by George Gershwin in 1934, where he delighted the crowd with his piano playing and singing. An executive of Victor Records, who was at the party was so impressed that he arranged for Fats to record with the company. This arrangement would continue until Waller’s death in 1943. Most of the records he made were released under the name of Fats Waller and his Rhythm. The group consisted of around half a dozen musicians who worked with him regularly, including Zutty Singleton. Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s Fats was a star of radio and nightclubs, and toured Europe. He unexpectedtly died on board a train near Kansas City, Missouri of pneumonia in 1943. (Source: https://syncopatedtimes.com/fats-waller-1904-1943) This video quote: "I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!" - Thomas "Fats" Waller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #fatswaller #stridepiano #muscleshoalsblues #swingpiano #oldjazz #stridepianotutorial #earlyjazz #classicjazz #synthesia #fatswallertutorial #swing #roaringtwenties #fatswallersynthesia #muscleshoals #thomasfatswaller

Cuttin' Out by Willie "The Lion" Smith Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz check out the transcription: https://blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/116/116-willie-the-lion-smith-cuttin-out-f-maj-transcription-pdf And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: https://www.blueblackjazz.com Original recording: https://youtu.be/Pa-PqndM-Ug Info about Willie "The Lion" Smith: Willie “The Lion” Smith (November 23, 1893 – April 18, 1973) was one of the fathers of the stride piano style. During the 1920s he was a sort of underground figure, who gained a reputation as a hot piano player by providing the music for rent parties in the private homes and small clubs of Harlem. He recorded rarely during the 1920s, but was the first musical director of Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds and is the pianist on “Crazy Blues“, the first Blues record released in 1920. Smith was a major influence on Duke Ellington who later went on to write the songs “Portrait of the Lion” and “Second Portrait of the Lion” in honor of him. Smith didn’t make any recordings under his own name until the mid-1930s, but played on several of Perry Bradford’s sessions like Georgia Strutters, The Gulf Coast Seven and The Blue Rhythm Orchestra. Throughout his career he led few bands, preferring the life of a solo performer, but he remained very active in music until his death in 1973. (Source: https://syncopatedtimes.com/willie-the-lion-smith-1897-1973) This video quote: "Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart." - Willie "The Lion" Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #williethelionsmith #cuttinout #stridepiano #piano #jazzballad #stride #classicjazzpiano #blueblackjazz #paulmarcorelles #synthesia #earlyjazz #synthesiatutorial #ballad #itsRemco

If Dreams Come True by James P. Johnson Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz check out the transcription: https://blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/60/60-james-p-johnson-if-dreams-come-true-c-maj-transcription-pdf And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: https://www.blueblackjazz.com Original recording: https://youtu.be/i-CULX_13Z0 Wikipedia: James Price Johnson (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was eventually called jazz. Johnson was a major influence on Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and Fats Waller, who was his student. Johnson composed many hit songs, including the unofficial anthem of the Roaring Twenties, "The Charleston," and he remained the acknowledged king of New York jazz pianists through most of the 1930s. Johnson's artistry, influence on early popular music, and contributions to musical theatre are often overlooked, and as such, he has been referred to by musicologist David Schiff as "The Invisible Pianist." Johnson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. The proximity to New York City meant that the full cosmopolitan spectrum of the city's musical experience, from bars, to cabarets, to the symphony, were at the young Johnson's disposal. Johnson's father, William H. Johnson, was a store helper and mechanic while his mother, Josephine Harrison was a maid. Harrison was a part of the choir at the Methodist Church and was also a self-taught pianist. Johnson later cited the popular African-American songs and dances he heard at home and around the city as early influences on his musical taste. In 1908, Johnson's family moved to the San Juan Hill (near where Lincoln Center stands today) section of New York City and subsequently moved again to uptown in 1911. With perfect pitch and excellent recall he was soon able to pick out the piano tunes that he had heard. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: http://gestyy.com/w65gXL ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #jamespjohnson #ifdreamscometrue #stridepiano #blues #swing #swingpiano #stride #fatherofstridepiano #earlyjazz #honeysuckle #earlyjazzpiano #jazz #jamesp #charlestonpiano #itsRemco

Peace And Plenty Rag by James Scott Sequenced by Warren S. Trachtman Wikipedia: James Sylvester Scott was an American ragtime composer and pianist, regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb. He was born in Neosho, Missouri to James Scott, Sr. and Molly Thomas Scott, both former slaves. In 1901 his family moved to Carthage, Missouri, where he attended Lincoln High School. In 1902 he began working at the music store of Charles L. Dumars, first washing windows, then demonstrating music at the piano as a song plugger, including his own pieces. Demand for his music convinced Dumars to print the first of Scott's published compositions, "A Summer Breeze - March and Two Step", in 1903. By 1904, two more compositions by Scott, "Fascinator March" and "On the Pike March" were published and sold well, but not enough to keep Dumars in business and soon the company ceased publishing. James Scott's 1904 "On the Pike", which refers to the midway of the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Ragtime Historians Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis recount that Scott went to St. Louis, Missouri in search of his idol Scott Joplin in 1905. He located Joplin and asked if he would listen to one of his ragtime compositions. Upon hearing the rag, Joplin introduced him to his own publisher, John Stillwell Stark, and recommended he publish the work. Stark published the rag a year later as "Frog Legs Rag". It quickly became a hit and was second in sales in the Stark catalogue only to that of Joplin's own "Maple Leaf Rag". Scott became a regular contributor to the Stark catalogue until 1922. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #ragtime #peaceandplentyrag #jamesscott #synthesia #prejazz #ragtimepiano #ragtime #pianosyncopation #ragtimecomposer #ragtimepiano #synthesia #ragtimesynthesia #solopiano #ragtimetutorial #itsremco

Shootin' The Works by Joseph F. Lamb Wikipedia: Joseph Francis Lamb was an American composer of ragtime music. Lamb, of Irish descent, was the only non-African American of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott. The ragtime of Joseph Lamb ranges from standard popular fare to complex and highly engaging. His use of long phrases was influenced by classical works he had learned from his sister and others while growing up, but his sense of structure was potentially derived from his study of Joplin's piano rags. By the time he added some polish to his later works in the 1950s, Lamb had mastered the classic rag genre in a way that almost no other composer was able to approach at that time, and continued to play it passably as well, as evidenced by at least two separate recordings done in his home, as well as a few recorded interviews. Lamb was born in Montclair, New Jersey. The youngest of four children, he taught himself to play the piano and admired the early ragtime publications of Scott Joplin. He dropped out of St. Jerome's College in 1904 to work for a dry goods company. He met Joplin in 1907 while purchasing the latest Joplin and Scott sheet music in the offices of John Stark & Son. Joplin was impressed with Lamb's compositions and recommended him to ragtime publisher John Stark. Stark published Lamb's music for the next decade, starting with "Sensation". This video quote: "The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered." - Joseph F. Lamb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #ragtime #shootintheworks #josephlamb #ragtimepioneer #prejazz #ragtimepiano #syncopation #pianosyncopation #ragtimecomposer #thelamb #synthesia #josephlamb #solopiano #sensationrag #itsRemco

Blue Black Bottom by Thomas "Fats" Waller Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz check out the transcription: https://blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/1/1-fats-waller-blue-black-bottom-c-maj-transcription-pdf And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: https://www.blueblackjazz.com Original recording: https://youtu.be/tZBkn_JrAd0 Info about Fats Waller: Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing James P. Johnson’s “Carolina Shout” which he learned from watching a pianola play the song. He would later take piano lessons from Johnson. Fats began his recording career in 1922 and made a living playing rent parties, as an organist at movie theatres and as an accompanist for various vaudeville acts. In 1927 he co-wrote a couple of tunes with his old piano teacher James P. Johnson for his show Keep Shufflin’. Two years later Waller wrote the score for the Broadway hit Hot Chocolates with lyrics supplied by his friend Andy Razaf. Fats’ most famous song, “Ain’t Misbehavin'” was introduced in this show which featured Louis Armstrong. Fats Waller’s big break occurred at a party given by George Gershwin in 1934, where he delighted the crowd with his piano playing and singing. An executive of Victor Records, who was at the party was so impressed that he arranged for Fats to record with the company. This arrangement would continue until Waller’s death in 1943. Most of the records he made were released under the name of Fats Waller and his Rhythm. The group consisted of around half a dozen musicians who worked with him regularly, including Zutty Singleton. Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s Fats was a star of radio and nightclubs, and toured Europe. He unexpectedtly died on board a train near Kansas City, Missouri of pneumonia in 1943. (Source: https://syncopatedtimes.com/fats-waller-1904-1943) This video quote: "If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it." - Thomas "Fats" Waller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #fatswaller #stridepiano #blueblackbottom #swingpiano #oldjazz #stridepianotutorial #earlyjazz #classicjazz #synthesia #fatswallertutorial #swing #roaringtwenties #fatswallersynthesia #solopiano #thomasfatswaller

The Pearls by Jelly Roll Morton Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz check out the transcription: https://blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/292/292-jelly-roll-morton-the-pearls-congress-library--g-maj-transcription-pdf And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: https://www.blueblackjazz.com Original recording: https://youtu.be/n_RxHM9oVmo Wikipedia: Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana. Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition "Jelly Roll Blues", published in 1915, was the first published jazz composition. Morton also wrote the standards "King Porter Stomp", "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say", the last a tribute to New Orleans musicians from the turn of the 20th century. Morton's claim to have invented jazz in 1902 aroused resentment. The jazz historian, musician, and composer Gunther Schuller says of Morton's "hyperbolic assertions" that there is "no proof to the contrary" and that Morton's "considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation". Alan Lomax, who recorded extensive biographical interviews of Morton at the Library of Congress in 1938, did not agree that Morton was an egotist: In being called a supreme egotist, Jelly Roll was often a victim of loose and lurid reporting. If we read the words that he himself wrote, we learn that he almost had an inferiority complex and said that he created his own style of jazz piano because "All my fellow musicians were much faster in manipulations, I thought than I, and I did not feel as though I was in their class." So he used a slower tempo to permit flexibility through the use of more notes, a pinch of Spanish to give a number of right seasoning, the avoidance of playing triple forte continuously, and many other points". --Quoted in John Szwed, Dr Jazz. This video quote: "It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902." - Jelly Roll Morton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #jellyrollmorton #thepearls #earlyjazz #synthesia #synthesiatutorial #ragtime #classicjazz #classicjazzpiano #soloclassicjazzpiano #synthesia #latinjazz #jellyrollmortonrecordings #ragtimepiano #itsRemco

Kansas City Rag by James Scott Sequenced by Warren S. Trachtman Wikipedia: James Sylvester Scott was an American ragtime composer and pianist, regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb. He was born in Neosho, Missouri to James Scott, Sr. and Molly Thomas Scott, both former slaves. In 1901 his family moved to Carthage, Missouri, where he attended Lincoln High School. In 1902 he began working at the music store of Charles L. Dumars, first washing windows, then demonstrating music at the piano as a song plugger, including his own pieces. Demand for his music convinced Dumars to print the first of Scott's published compositions, "A Summer Breeze - March and Two Step", in 1903. By 1904, two more compositions by Scott, "Fascinator March" and "On the Pike March" were published and sold well, but not enough to keep Dumars in business and soon the company ceased publishing. James Scott's 1904 "On the Pike", which refers to the midway of the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Ragtime Historians Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis recount that Scott went to St. Louis, Missouri in search of his idol Scott Joplin in 1905. He located Joplin and asked if he would listen to one of his ragtime compositions. Upon hearing the rag, Joplin introduced him to his own publisher, John Stillwell Stark, and recommended he publish the work. Stark published the rag a year later as "Frog Legs Rag". It quickly became a hit and was second in sales in the Stark catalogue only to that of Joplin's own "Maple Leaf Rag". Scott became a regular contributor to the Stark catalogue until 1922. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #ragtime #kansascityrag #jamesscott #synthesia #prejazz #ragtimepiano #ragtime #pianosyncopation #ragtimecomposer #ragtimepiano #synthesia #ragtimesynthesia #solopiano #ragtimetutorial #itsremco

Toroughbred Rag by Joseph F. Lamb Wikipedia: Joseph Francis Lamb was an American composer of ragtime music. Lamb, of Irish descent, was the only non-African American of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott. The ragtime of Joseph Lamb ranges from standard popular fare to complex and highly engaging. His use of long phrases was influenced by classical works he had learned from his sister and others while growing up, but his sense of structure was potentially derived from his study of Joplin's piano rags. By the time he added some polish to his later works in the 1950s, Lamb had mastered the classic rag genre in a way that almost no other composer was able to approach at that time, and continued to play it passably as well, as evidenced by at least two separate recordings done in his home, as well as a few recorded interviews. Lamb was born in Montclair, New Jersey. The youngest of four children, he taught himself to play the piano and admired the early ragtime publications of Scott Joplin. He dropped out of St. Jerome's College in 1904 to work for a dry goods company. He met Joplin in 1907 while purchasing the latest Joplin and Scott sheet music in the offices of John Stark & Son. Joplin was impressed with Lamb's compositions and recommended him to ragtime publisher John Stark. Stark published Lamb's music for the next decade, starting with "Sensation". This video quote: "The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered." - Joseph F. Lamb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #ragtime #thoroughbredrag #josephlamb #ragtimepioneer #prejazz #ragtimepiano #syncopation #pianosyncopation #ragtimecomposer #thelamb #synthesia #josephlamb #solopiano #sensationrag #itsRemco

Morning Air by Willie "The Lion" Smith Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz check out the transcription:https://blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/107/107-willie-the-lion-smith-morning-air-d-maj-transcription-pdf And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: https://www.blueblackjazz.com Original recording: https://youtu.be/nGBFGZ5P3Og Info about Willie "The Lion" Smith: Willie “The Lion” Smith (November 23, 1893 – April 18, 1973) was one of the fathers of the stride piano style. During the 1920s he was a sort of underground figure, who gained a reputation as a hot piano player by providing the music for rent parties in the private homes and small clubs of Harlem. He recorded rarely during the 1920s, but was the first musical director of Mamie Smith’s Jazz Hounds and is the pianist on “Crazy Blues“, the first Blues record released in 1920. Smith was a major influence on Duke Ellington who later went on to write the songs “Portrait of the Lion” and “Second Portrait of the Lion” in honor of him. Smith didn’t make any recordings under his own name until the mid-1930s, but played on several of Perry Bradford’s sessions like Georgia Strutters, The Gulf Coast Seven and The Blue Rhythm Orchestra. Throughout his career he led few bands, preferring the life of a solo performer, but he remained very active in music until his death in 1973. (Source: https://syncopatedtimes.com/willie-the-lion-smith-1897-1973) This video quote: "Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart." - Willie "The Lion" Smith @blueblackjazz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: http://gestyy.com/w65gXL ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #williethelionsmith #morningair #stridepiano #piano #jazzballad #stride #classicjazzpiano #blueblackjazz #paulmarcorelles #synthesia #earlyjazz #synthesiatutorial #ballad #itsRemco

Fruit From The Vine by Jonathan Batiste Transcribed by @itsRemco & @MidiTools Original recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWZN7Ju9pU Wikipedia: Soul is a 2020 American computer-animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for distribution by Walt Disney Pictures. It is directed by Pete Docter and co-directed by Kemp Powers, and written by Pete Docter, Kemp Powers, and Mike Jones. The film stars the voices of Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Questlove, Phylicia Rashad, Daveed Diggs, and Angela Bassett. Soul premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on October 11, 2020. Originally intended to be a theatrical release, it will be digitally released on Disney+ and theatrically in international territories on December 25, 2020. The film received widespread acclaim from critics, with praise for its animation, story, voice acting, and music. Joe Gardner, a middle school music teacher, has long dreamed of performing jazz music onstage, and finally gets a chance after impressing other jazz musicians during an opening act at the Half Note Club. However, an untimely accident causes Gardner's soul to be separated from his body and begin to proceed to the Great Beyond, and Gardner manages to escape to the Great Before, a world where souls develop personalities, quirks, and traits before being sent off to Earth. There, Gardner must work with souls in training at the Great Before, such as 22, a soul with a dim view on the concept of life, in order to return to Earth before his body dies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: http://gestyy.com/w65gXL ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #soul #biggerthanus #pixar #disney #joegardner #disneypixar #intothezone #jazz #jonathanbatiste #disneyjazz #pixarjazz #thegreatbeyond #jonbatiste #pixarpiano #itsremco

Sunburst Rag by James Scott Sequenced by Warren S. Trachtman Wikipedia: James Sylvester Scott was an American ragtime composer and pianist, regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb. He was born in Neosho, Missouri to James Scott, Sr. and Molly Thomas Scott, both former slaves. In 1901 his family moved to Carthage, Missouri, where he attended Lincoln High School. In 1902 he began working at the music store of Charles L. Dumars, first washing windows, then demonstrating music at the piano as a song plugger, including his own pieces. Demand for his music convinced Dumars to print the first of Scott's published compositions, "A Summer Breeze - March and Two Step", in 1903. By 1904, two more compositions by Scott, "Fascinator March" and "On the Pike March" were published and sold well, but not enough to keep Dumars in business and soon the company ceased publishing. James Scott's 1904 "On the Pike", which refers to the midway of the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Ragtime Historians Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis recount that Scott went to St. Louis, Missouri in search of his idol Scott Joplin in 1905. He located Joplin and asked if he would listen to one of his ragtime compositions. Upon hearing the rag, Joplin introduced him to his own publisher, John Stillwell Stark, and recommended he publish the work. Stark published the rag a year later as "Frog Legs Rag". It quickly became a hit and was second in sales in the Stark catalogue only to that of Joplin's own "Maple Leaf Rag". Scott became a regular contributor to the Stark catalogue until 1922. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: http://gestyy.com/w65gXL ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #ragtime #sunburstrag #jamesscott #synthesia #prejazz #ragtimepiano #ragtime #pianosyncopation #ragtimecomposer #ragtimepiano #synthesia #ragtimesynthesia #solopiano #ragtimetutorial #itsremco

Firefly Rag by Joseph F. Lamb Wikipedia: Joseph Francis Lamb was an American composer of ragtime music. Lamb, of Irish descent, was the only non-African American of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott. The ragtime of Joseph Lamb ranges from standard popular fare to complex and highly engaging. His use of long phrases was influenced by classical works he had learned from his sister and others while growing up, but his sense of structure was potentially derived from his study of Joplin's piano rags. By the time he added some polish to his later works in the 1950s, Lamb had mastered the classic rag genre in a way that almost no other composer was able to approach at that time, and continued to play it passably as well, as evidenced by at least two separate recordings done in his home, as well as a few recorded interviews. Lamb was born in Montclair, New Jersey. The youngest of four children, he taught himself to play the piano and admired the early ragtime publications of Scott Joplin. He dropped out of St. Jerome's College in 1904 to work for a dry goods company. He met Joplin in 1907 while purchasing the latest Joplin and Scott sheet music in the offices of John Stark & Son. Joplin was impressed with Lamb's compositions and recommended him to ragtime publisher John Stark. Stark published Lamb's music for the next decade, starting with "Sensation". This video quote: "The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered." - Joseph F. Lamb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: http://gestyy.com/w65gXL ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #ragtime #fireflyrag #josephlamb #ragtimepioneer #prejazz #ragtimepiano #syncopation #pianosyncopation #ragtimecomposer #thelamb #synthesia #josephlamb #solopiano #sensationrag #itsRemco

Birmingham Blues by Thomas "Fats" Waller Transcribed by Paul Marcorelles from @blueblackjazz check out the transcription: https://blueblackjazz.com/en/transcription/19/19-fats-waller-birmingham-blues-f-maj-transcription-pdf And of course check out his site for all available transcriptions: https://www.blueblackjazz.com Original recording: https://youtu.be/bQg6f3NBGWg Info about Fats Waller: Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing James P. Johnson’s “Carolina Shout” which he learned from watching a pianola play the song. He would later take piano lessons from Johnson. Fats began his recording career in 1922 and made a living playing rent parties, as an organist at movie theatres and as an accompanist for various vaudeville acts. In 1927 he co-wrote a couple of tunes with his old piano teacher James P. Johnson for his show Keep Shufflin’. Two years later Waller wrote the score for the Broadway hit Hot Chocolates with lyrics supplied by his friend Andy Razaf. Fats’ most famous song, “Ain’t Misbehavin'” was introduced in this show which featured Louis Armstrong. Fats Waller’s big break occurred at a party given by George Gershwin in 1934, where he delighted the crowd with his piano playing and singing. An executive of Victor Records, who was at the party was so impressed that he arranged for Fats to record with the company. This arrangement would continue until Waller’s death in 1943. Most of the records he made were released under the name of Fats Waller and his Rhythm. The group consisted of around half a dozen musicians who worked with him regularly, including Zutty Singleton. Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s Fats was a star of radio and nightclubs, and toured Europe. He unexpectedtly died on board a train near Kansas City, Missouri of pneumonia in 1943. (Source: https://syncopatedtimes.com/fats-waller-1904-1943) This video quote: "I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!" - Thomas "Fats" Waller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: http://gestyy.com/w65gXL ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #fatswaller #stridepiano #birminghamblues #swingpiano #oldjazz #stridepianotutorial #earlyjazz #classicjazz #synthesia #fatswallertutorial #swing #roaringtwenties #fatswallersynthesia #solopiano #thomasfatswaller

Eugenia by Scott Joplin Sequenced by: Warren S. Trachtman Wikipedia: Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the King of Ragtime. During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag. Joplin grew up in a musical family of railway laborers in Texarkana, Arkansas, and developed his own musical knowledge with the help of local teachers. While in Texarkana, Texas, he formed a vocal quartet and taught mandolin and guitar. During the late 1880s he left his job as a railroad laborer and travelled the American South as an itinerant musician. He went to Chicago for the World's Fair of 1893, which played a major part in making ragtime a national craze by 1897. Joplin moved to Sedalia, Missouri, in 1894 and earned a living as a piano teacher. There he taught future ragtime composers Arthur Marshall, Scott Hayden and Brun Campbell. He began publishing music in 1895, and publication of his "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1899 brought him fame. This piece had a profound influence on writers of ragtime. It also brought Joplin a steady income for life, though he did not reach this level of success again and frequently had financial problems. In 1901 Joplin moved to St. Louis, where he continued to compose and publish, and regularly performed in the community. The score to his first opera A Guest of Honor was confiscated in 1903 with his belongings for non-payment of bills, and is now considered lost. In 1907, Joplin moved to New York City to find a producer for a new opera. He attempted to go beyond the limitations of the musical form that made him famous, but without much monetary success. His second opera, Treemonisha, was never fully staged during his lifetime. In 1916, Joplin descended into dementia as a result of syphilis. He was admitted to a mental institution in January 1917, and died there three months later at the age of 48. Joplin's death is widely considered to mark the end of ragtime as a mainstream music format; over the next several years, it evolved with other styles into stride, jazz, and eventually big band swing. Joplin's music was rediscovered and returned to popularity in the early 1970s with the release of a million-selling album recorded by Joshua Rifkin. This was followed by the Academy Award-winning 1973 film The Sting that featured several of Joplin's compositions, most notably "The Entertainer", whose performance by pianist Marvin Hamlisch received wide airplay. Treemonisha was finally produced in full, to wide acclaim, in 1972. In 1976, Joplin was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize. This video quote: "Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture." - Scott Joplin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: http://gestyy.com/w65gXL ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #scottjoplin #eugenia #ragtime #kingofragtime #rag #ragtimesynthesia #ragtimepiano #pianosyncopation #ragtimecomposer #joplin #synthesia #scottjoplintutorial #ragtimetutorial #scottjoplinsynthesia #itsRemco

B Minor Waltz by Bill Evans from the album You Must Believe In Spring 1977 Get the midi here: http://miditools.ai/webshop/bill-evans-b-minor-waltz-1977 Transcribed by: @itsRemco & @MidiTools Original recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjnQvxB-jxw Wikipedia: William John Evans was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines continue to influence jazz pianists today. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1929, he was classically trained at Southeastern Louisiana University and the Mannes School of Music, where he majored in composition and received the Artist Diploma. In 1955, he moved to New York City, where he worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell. In 1958, Evans joined Miles Davis's sextet, which in 1959, then immersed in modal jazz, recorded Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz album of all time. During that time, Evans was also playing with Chet Baker for the album Chet. In late 1959, Evans left the Miles Davis band and began his career as a leader, with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, a group now regarded as a seminal modern jazz trio. In 1961, ten days after finishing an engagement at the New York Village Vanguard jazz club, LaFaro died in a car accident. After months of seclusion, Evans re-emerged with a new trio, featuring bassist Chuck Israels. In 1963, Evans recorded Conversations with Myself, a solo album using the unconventional technique of overdubbing over himself. In 1966, he met bassist Eddie Gómez, with whom he would work for eleven years. Many of Evans's compositions, such as "Waltz for Debby", have become standards, played and recorded by many artists. Evans was honored with 31 Grammy nominations and seven awards, and was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame. This video quote: "Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling." - Bill Evans @BillEvansOfficial @BillEvansArchive ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: http://gestyy.com/w65gXL ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #billevans #bminorwaltz #jazzpiano #jazz #improvisationjazz #billevanstutorial #itsRemco #modernjazz #synthesia #everybodydigsbillevans #jazzballad #slowjazz #solojazzpiano #billevanstrio #pianojazz

Evergreen Rag by James Scott Sequenced by Warren S. Trachtman Wikipedia: James Sylvester Scott was an American ragtime composer and pianist, regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb. He was born in Neosho, Missouri to James Scott, Sr. and Molly Thomas Scott, both former slaves. In 1901 his family moved to Carthage, Missouri, where he attended Lincoln High School. In 1902 he began working at the music store of Charles L. Dumars, first washing windows, then demonstrating music at the piano as a song plugger, including his own pieces. Demand for his music convinced Dumars to print the first of Scott's published compositions, "A Summer Breeze - March and Two Step", in 1903. By 1904, two more compositions by Scott, "Fascinator March" and "On the Pike March" were published and sold well, but not enough to keep Dumars in business and soon the company ceased publishing. James Scott's 1904 "On the Pike", which refers to the midway of the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Ragtime Historians Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis recount that Scott went to St. Louis, Missouri in search of his idol Scott Joplin in 1905. He located Joplin and asked if he would listen to one of his ragtime compositions. Upon hearing the rag, Joplin introduced him to his own publisher, John Stillwell Stark, and recommended he publish the work. Stark published the rag a year later as "Frog Legs Rag". It quickly became a hit and was second in sales in the Stark catalogue only to that of Joplin's own "Maple Leaf Rag". Scott became a regular contributor to the Stark catalogue until 1922. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: http://instagram.com/its.Remco ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: http://reddit.com/user/its_remco ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: http://gestyy.com/w65gXL ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: http://gestyy.com/w65jdn ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: http://gestyy.com/w64QhM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: https://amzn.to/2QB4SvG ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: https://amzn.to/2MS0Ca3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #ragtime #evergreen #jamesscott #synthesia #prejazz #ragtimepiano #ragtime #pianosyncopation #ragtimecomposer #ragtimepiano #synthesia #ragtimesynthesia #solopiano #ragtimetutorial #itsremco