字幕表 動画を再生する 英語字幕をプリント This excerpt from the Public Television program The Piano Guy is brought to you by NAMM The International Music Products Association I'm really excited to work through this tune with you today its I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Great tune, great standard used all the time a great one to get underhand and with me to work thorough it today is my good friend Dave Powers Hi Dave Hi Scott How are you? I'm great, yourself? Doing well thank you Wonderful Hey I am really excited about doing this tune with you in particular cause I'm gonna have you sing it if you are ok with doing that? Yea hum, no problem Yea that's right, hum The reason I want to do that obviously Tony Bennett who had the giant hit on this its huge and I mention a lot, we talked about the difference between solo style and accompaniment style and in my mind there was not a better accompaniments on the planet and still is than Ralph Sharon, who was Tony Bennett's long time accompaniments Fantastic player Actually we did some research and found out that he's who brought this tune to Tony. That yea Ralph Sharon brought the tune San Francisco to Tony to do it and it ended up being his signature tune So, having said that, there's a couple and its kind of rare I think in accompanments world to have a kind of a signature lick. Yet this one hasn't. So we want to work through that, we want to give those away and a just kind of hammer through the tune a little bit and discuss the difference between solo style playing or accompanying yourself singing. So, having said that why don't we play the first couple of measures so everybody kind of gets to where we are and (music) ohh (music) laughing - doing it in a different key Right, yea Ok, so there's the tune a little bit off track Of course we can't say without the old joke, I left my Harp in Stan Franstisco right? It's an old musician joke, having said that how do you approach when you just start out cause I know you sing a lot when you work gigs. Explain to me the difference in the way you break down playing solo style playing vs. oh I'm singing on this one I'm gonna do something different, kind of explain that if you would. well some piano players that sing basically will just play chords while they sing. Um, I'm a little different that way. I listen to a lot of music You're a little different in a lot of ways. But I listen to a lot of different music and I like to hear extra little nuances that people expect to hear. I mean when San Francisco is played and its played by many groups everyone expects to hear that signature lick as you say The great comedian Pete Barbutti does a great comedy routine with this and he has this trumpet that's all wrapped up in duck tape and he brings it out and he starts playing you know he starts playing the melody the whole band sings ta da da da ta da da cause they expect to hear that tune Let's go ahead and give that away actually while we are talking about that Let's just visually give it away that lick, so. I'm going to play it in this register but it's played an octave up normally and if I'm not exact I'm pretty darn close That's Ok And I don't know if they ripped that off from Ray Conniff when Ray Conniff did It's a not for me to Say for Johnny Mathis It's Not for me to Say started out going (music) Back in 1957. When San Francisco came out in 62. Ok, so let's give that away It starts out on, I'm in the key of C so, Simple so it just marches up a C Chord. And actually that melody, I'm gonna throw something out the is so obscure, but not that obscure. In the late 20's there was a song The Wedding of the Painted Doll and the melody was, It's a holiday today today's the wedding of the painted doll, but it's the same. It's one of my favorite songs, I'm such a nerd. (Laughing) Now the second part of that is I left my heart, ba du do ta da in San Francisco Yea, the second chord, that's a D Chord so he's playing a descending chord if anyone was gong to play this and go Kind of like that, the melody would be But if you want to be a bit more expressive you can, slide those notes so is just slides down like, Nice, it gives it a little bit more expression So the first one again starts on a C, Ok, now the second one starts on the D There we go, I think that's going to be a great thing for our viewers to just get under hand because boy every one can relate to that when they play this tune. So where it falls in the tune is you would be singing (Dave partially Singing the tune) You have to fell that you've done a pretty good job as an accompaniments when you have a signature lick and its just the accompaniment. True, well if you are also a piano player that sings and you are singing you want to feel in those extra gaps in your song. If you were in a band playing and you had a sax player and a vocalist would sing and when there was a little gap the sax player would always fill in those little extra measures with some fluff or whatever he wants to do. Same thing to being a really good accompaniments, accompanying yourself you've got 10 fingers to do whatever you want you are already singing the melody and you've got your accompaniment going. So you can sing the song, you know whatever, so you have all of that space to use for um, That's clearing things up a little bit. I mean maybe another way to rephrase what you just mentioned is you basically, while the melody is going on whether you are singing it or playing it, you are just playing chords underneath it right The minute the melody stops and there is a gap you then need to fill in some of that space with something melodic as an accompaniment. And you will notice that if you listen to the recordings that you listen to Well yea this is the perfect one, yea you have Tony Bennett singing I left my Heart in San Francisco then there's a place and Ralph Sharon is playing and more accompaniment. Ok, well this is a great example to do that on. Let's move on through the tune a little bit, and kind of push forward a little bit and work through any other things that might be traps for anybody who is working through this tune. Being that it's a ballad you can add a little rhythm to the song by maybe playing in the left hand you know the note and then a chord, you know like 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4 Ok, so that's kind of a real easy stride bass almost Yea it's like a slow stride You are reaching down playing a single root and then going up an octave to play the chord. Which is something I can probably handle on a ballad but I would never be able to do it on a really fast tune, but that's great. That's a good call for a slow tune to target practice isn't quite so tough. Yea, practice. Practice slow, take it slow, take the note maybe if you want to play a little octave and then chord. You know play an octave, play the octave, and what I would do, how I started doing the stride stuff when I was younger and really understanding stride getting from point a to point b. Sometimes I would see, like here's the root, see I'm in the key of C, here's the fifth. so maybe I would go down, I would desend from the fifth, so the root, but in a way that helps my hand get to the right spot. So if I just did this... But if I went... Sound wise you are hearing like a bass player going... Right, cause its filling a spot there yea doing it that way, Let's go to the bridge of this tune there is another accompaniment lick that I want to give away Little cable cars And then usually in that gap you imitate let's give that one away Right usually they echo an answer So, little cable cars Sounds pretty OK And its not, you don't have to play that verbatim you want to fill in the gaps with something so, I would encourage people to be a little more creative in that part. Ok But if you want here's a good way of getting around it... (music) (music) You know as I see you do that maybe a easy thing we can tell our viewers is that whenever you need to fill something you are always safe sticking to whatever the chord tones are, right. so whatever chord you are playing in your left hand you could always just open it up and play chord tones in some pattern with your right hand and you want to do it up higher to give yourself a little you know Your right, So, of you are playing it and not singing it. (music) So the point is what chord are you on here, any of those chord tones, would work out up high as you are doing that Exactly So, here's an Eminor and then you go... Yea, you are safe doing that, it's kind of Filling out the chord right That's probably a pretty good mental thing to hang your hat on then to not panic and think oh I've got to be so creative and come up with all these beautiful melodic lines and you really don't. At a beginning level if you want to take that first step off the cliff that way just go up and make sure you are sticking to the chord tones and whatever you are doing somehow just spell them out and do that. sure That's a good call Indeed Now, when you work through a tune, the next thing I'm going to talk about is arranging it I guess if you are working through one. When you are singing do you normally sing a chorus and play chorus and sing a chorus, I mean any thoughts on how you approach that? Well melody is very important to me in a song and when I'm making my point vocally getting the words, because people like to hear the words you use and they are very important. I will play the whole song all the way through and then put a little instrumental chorus in and maybe, in a song like San Francisco I won't start at the beginning again, I might start at the half way point And work your way up Yea, my love waits there in San Francisco, its right after the little cable cars part. So give yourself a little section to do some instrumental work then come back in and wrap up the tune vocally. I think there's a mistake that some performers make cause they want to go back to the beginning of the song again and do the whole thing through again Well I think people get bored after that for a while. When you hear a pop song on the radio, most of these songs, the point is already made within 3 minutes Ok Maximum Even when it comes to ballads unless you are playing an improve with a combo and everyone wants to take a chorus, of San Francisco that's a different story But if you are performing as a solo act you know I'll play an instrumental part halfway through the song so in essence the whole song will be performed twice through. Ok, this is Dave Powers playing I Left my Heart in San Francisco (music) (music) (music) (music) Outstanding, that's a great version Dave, I sure appreciate your helping us with that. My pleasure Scott, thank you. 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