Grammy Award-winning musician and bandleader Jon Batiste joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the piano. What tips and practices will make someone a better pianist? What’s Jon’s favorite type of piano music to perform? What do the pedals on a piano do? Did Ray Charles singlehandedly invent soul music? And why are we securing pianos with locks and keys? Answers to these questions and more await on Piano Support with Jon Batiste.
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0:00 Piano Support
0:22 Eb Supremacy
2:25 The one thing that improved Jon’s music making
3:36 Faves
6:30 Feel
8:30 Practice
10:41 Catchy music
13:24 Why are we locking the pianos?
14:21 What do the pedals on a piano do?
17:00 The Genius, Ray Charles
18:46 Pianist essentials
20:13 The best official piano arrangements for video game soundtracks
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Kevin Dynia
Editor: Alex Mechanik
Expert: Jon Batiste
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Paige Garbarini
Camera Operator: Jeremy Harris
Sound Mixer: Brett Van Deusen
Production Assistant: Shanti Cuizon-Burden
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo; Erica DeLeo
Additional Editor: Samantha DiVito
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Special Thanks: The Bridge Studio
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The end of Super Mario 2 💖🔥
I love this dude omg
I’m convinced there is no cooler human being on earth in every sense of the word cool than Jon Batiste.
FFVII mentioned 🎉🎉🎉
Once Jon’s Green Hill Zone started to play as I was seeing the movie in the theater I immediately had to know who it was.
He’s so poetic
Yeah…. sometimes. I think it’s still important to ground some of our vocabulary into reality or at least connection. “Wavelength” “Frequency” “Energy” are all vague terms that are attractive, yet uninformative. I think one can be poetic without resorting to this sensationalism.
0:21 All keys are equal, and have no inherent difference in character. That is subjectively injected (which is totally fine btw). But we shouldn’t pretend they are inherently something they are not.
Tons of knowledge, yet pretension here.
Piano Repertoire? For a beginner, try not to tie yourself down in the beginning and explore many genres that the instrument had manifested. A good beginner repertoire gives you exposure, so you can make a better decision later on what you want to do with your instrument.
What song does he play at 2:10?
Pure imagination
When he started playing moonlight I got chills
Nobuo Uematsu and ff7 mentioned as best soundtrack in a videogame ever, yo! Couldn’t agree more!
Bass Support with V.Wooten please
that ring on the pinky is epic….
I appreciate for the precious lesson🙏
The guy has rubber fingers! He doesn’t just play the keys, His hands dance all over the keyboard! how can we ever get that good? He’s a icon to music!
3:33 he said “open them ears up” not “open the mirrors up”
The willy wonka riff was the most unintentionally genius moment I’ve ever seen.
Love the shoutout to Nobuo Uematsu! So many people are missing out on him.
I totally agree with the idea that mastery of piano is an infinite concept. I’m definitely no Jon Batiste, but I have been playing piano for many decades, and the more I learn about the instrument, the more I realize that I will never run out of things to learn. I play other instruments, but nothing else provides the biomechanical richness of piano; it is in us, and we speak through it. Jon Batiste speaks many languages, really well!!