Sam, a Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist, improvises on piano and guitar while discussing his practice routine and influences like Rex Orange County and Daniel Caesar. He works with simple chord shapes and chromatic variations across pop, jazz standards, and classical pieces, and repeatedly invites guitarists who improvise or compose to contact him on Instagram for interviews and collaborations.
Sam. Sa.
What's going on? Have I ever seen a ghost? Maybe. Maybe I've seen a ghost before. Rivers flow like the. The river flows in you. I've never played it before, but maybe I can figure. I know how it sounds. It's like, Gosh, I can't remember.
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Honestly, I have. I have no idea how it sounds. That's about the best attempt I can get. Hello. To show your arm muscle. You are so funny, dude. Why are you spamming on the chat? Thank you. Is this what you want to see? You want to see my bicep? Really, dude? Send Bob and Vagene. This is kind of a hilarious chat. Tell us your practice routine. You know, most of what I do is not as much of like a routine. I mean, oftentimes what I will do. How long have I been playing piano? I mean, I don't know. Like, I kind of got into it in college, so maybe like five, five years or so. I mean, I haven't been crazy about it though. But, you know, music has been in my life for a while. Something that I definitely think is helpful is just to take, you know, a chord. So, like, for example, the one chord and just be able to. To take that up the keys and, you know, be able to play all the chromatic versions of that. Make sure.
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Make sure you also choose minor chords. But really, like, I just. Thank you. Also, if any of you guys play guitar and you improvise or compose. My Instagram is in my YouTube. Hit me up. I would love to interview you guys, but most of the time I just take, you know, a couple of chords in the scale and just study them, you know, like, for example, let's. Let's just take a look at the 2 and the 3 chord in the key of A. A flat major. So here's our I chord. Bruce Hornsby. No, never heard of him. And so, you know, you just take. Take a small piece of material. Let's just explore this II. Such a beautiful sound. Hello, Indonesia. Switch it to the three chord. How does this same melody change? Tensor.
Sam.
Golden Hour. You know, I've never played Golden Hour, but I think I can figure it out.
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How does it start again? It's like. Is it a sound? Something like that? I. I just. I can't remember it. It's a song that I like, though. Love of my life she's that bitter sins she's my son she's got glitter.
Skin My glory is within the night.
The night.
Satan like that.
I feel like I did pretty Good first. For not really knowing. For not really knowing it. Or we'll sing it even worse. Vietnam. Thank you so much for that. That is hilarious. Dud. That is so funny. I'm so happy that he wrote that.
Dude.
Where am I. Like from Fatal height. I don't understand. I do play guitar. Do I enjoy jazz music? I do. So I know a jazz song. It's called autumn leaves. Someone said play Fur Elise. I've heard furlug least before. I've never really practiced it. I kind of know how it sounds. It's like.
Sam.
Do you have something to look up? A song. Jazz artists playing a pop song early soon. Ray Bryant, Bridge over troubled Water, man. Yeah, I'm not familiar enough with that song. I would have to stop the live to look it up. But no, it's a song that people really like. I like. I heard that. That the Jigga. I'll hold you down like. Like a brid over troubled water. Something like that. I will lay me down.
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If any of you guys play guitar and improvise or compose, hit me up on Instagram.
I want to talk to you.
Let's see what. I'll see what I can cook up right now.
Sam. Sa. Sa.
What kind of stuff do you usually make? I would describe it as like jazz influenced indie rock. Funny, I thought about this last time. I don't actually know how to play a lot of my songs on the piano. I mostly write them on the guitar. I have one. It's like.
Loud. Someone that be easy to ignore shouldn't let the clothes you wear scream so loud and I can close the door.
But I saw you standing by yourself for a while.
And you smile at me I thought you wanted me but it was fantasy to give my heart away.
That's like one that I wrote. What location am I in? I live in Los Angeles.
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I play drums as well. Honestly, I can play a little bit of drums, but it is like one of my weakest instruments. Maybe I'll play some guitar. How's that sound? Piano is definitely fun because with piano you can really just like birth the whole orchestration at once. You know what I'm saying?
Let's.
Let's see what I got with the guitar. Let's see.
Let's see what's cooking. I mean, honestly, this would be a.
Good time for me to maybe just.
Like have some backing tracks or something like that.
I could.
I could just throw on a track. We'll just.
Who's one of your favorite songwriters? You know, I love love Rex Orange County.
Although, to be honest, I wasn't, like, in love with the new album.
Daniel Caesar, I think is great. Fujikaze, he's a Japanese artist.
He's probably my favorite right now. Tune up for a second. See what we got here. So I play Master of poetry is 2:12 bpm.
I don't know.
Master pump is. To parte.
I don't speak Spanish that well.
Sam, Real quick.
I'm gonna throw on the track. I just kind of feel like soloing. I gotta be careful that distance.
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Not have a long T. Okay, bear with me for a second. Bear with me for a second. I'm turning it on. I'm turning it on. Where's YouTube? Where is YouTube?
Where are you at?
How you guys doing? Good, I hope. There it is. Any guitar players in the chat tonight? Play bass. Let me. Let me just buzz it down for a second. And I can play some bass. I'm not, like. I'm not a crazy bassist by any means. Like, guitar. I'm probably. Is my. My main. And then. And then piano and, like, voice and stuff. I also play trombone, too. I haven't really shown that much on this channel. Let me just voice it in. It runs through me. Tom Mish backing track. That work? Yes, it did. Nice. You know, it's like a Be a basist, not a racist. Or you could be both.
Huh?
Getting in the pool. It's a weird move.
All right.
Okay. Can you guys hear the track? What skill is this? I'm kind of using a variety of skills, including pentatonic.
Sa. Sam.
Thank you.
It.
Any of you guys play guitar? It seems like for these lives, people like when I just play the pretty stuff.
Time.
Can you play triple H? H H Guitar theme I have no idea what that is. So. It's not so easy to. To do that type of stuff on guitar. It's actually, I think, in my opinion, one of the hardest things to just, like, play chords and a melody at the same time. Okay, let's finish up with a little bit to piano, and then I'm going out.
I guess I'm already out. Thank you guys for being here, though. Hi. From Mexico. Hello. From la.
Sa.
Live in California. Where am I?
Where am I?
His name is Fuji Kaze. He's my favorite musician. He's from.
He's from japan. Sam.
Where the heck am I? Like, change keys. Chopin is awesome.
Sa. Sam. Sa.
Okay. I got one more in me. I got, like, one more in me. Thank you guys for being here. And once again, if you're a guitarist that improvises or composes. Please hit me up on Instagram. That would be great. I would love to interview you. All right, let's. Let's see what's coming right now.
Sa.
My Insta is at. And now you say Jojo. If you go on my channel, it will show it. Yurima Song. I've never heard of that before. Sorry.
Sa.
Titanic theme. I think I could play the Titanic theme.
Sa. Sam. Sa.
It's like, pretty close, right? Da da da da da.
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Something like that. All right, cool. Thank you, guys. I will see you next time. Bye Bye.
