Jazz piano solo and musical/historical discussion of Irving Berlin’s song “All By Myself,” which was recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and many other jazz greats.

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General thoughts about Irving Berlin’s “All By Myself” from a jazz piano perspective 0:00
Learning stride piano from Billy Taylor and Hale Smith 0:34
How to learn from watching the great jazz pianists play 0:54
Example of stride piano with left hand walking 10ths and right hand tremolos 1:04
Using a tune’s final 4 measures as an intro 2:00
Introduction 2:12
Harmonizing the melody with block chords 2:23
Starting the solo section with single-note melodic improv, and breaking up the stride accompaniment with “stop-time” 3:24
Syncopating the stride left hand pattern 3:46
Bring the full stride pattern back in under the improvisation 3:54
Using Duke Ellington-style right hand 10th voicings 4:08
Pianistic textures in right hand solo 4:24
Rhythmic anticipations in both hands, for contrast 4:34
Developing a short motif 4:37
A Count Basie-type lick 4:51
Big Band-style “call and response” between brass section and soloist 5:09
Left hand pedal tone to signal return to the main melody 5:18
Melodic sequence in right hand “alto” voice 5:34
Emphasizing beats 2 and 4 in the bass 5:48
Increasing the level of syncopation 6:07
Extending the arrangement with a “tag” 6:18
Chromatically-descending chordal substitutions 6:25
The value of long-time experience at the piano 6:40

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