Why you'll never reach that GENIUS level... Sean looks at Joey Alexander to answer that..
Think about two ways to learn a piece of music. You can learn it by rote—like a kid memorizing the hand positions for Beethoven’s “Für Elise,” training your fingers through repetition until you can perform the piece flawlessly. Or you can learn the piece by understanding its structure, the chord progressions, the harmonic logic. You still practice... See more
Think First, AI Second
@josiah566
2 years ago
Something that continues to impress me about him is that he never shies away from the bottom half to the keyboard. It's a place a lot of people (or just I) tend to avoid because it's easy to muddy and it's hard to hear the nice tensions you can create with closed voicings but Joey navigates it PERFECTLY. He redistributes... See more
2 years ago
Something that continues to impress me about him is that he never shies away from the bottom half to the keyboard. It's a place a lot of people (or just I) tend to avoid because it's easy to muddy and it's hard to hear the nice tensions you can create with closed voicings but Joey navigates it PERFECTLY. He redistributes... See more
Mk Mnn • Joey Alexander - Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala - 2014
... See moreCOWEN: Next question. Speaking honestly, what makes you a great YouTuber?
AUSTIN: Speaking honestly, all right.
COWEN: We know you work hard. We know you’re smart, yes, yes, but what’s the secret sauce?
AUSTIN: Well, I don’t think I should know that. I think, honestly, the less I know about . . . I think all I should have in my head is, “This video