“This video includes copyrighted material from [Paul McCartney and Wings].

The material is used for the purpose of commentary and criticism, which falls under the fair use doctrine of copyright law. No copyright infringement is intended. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS”This episode will fall somewhere between musical instruction and philosophic talk as I sit at my Steinway piano and begin to learn the Sir Paul McCartney song "Maybe I'm Amazed" as well as discover its possibilities for improvised variation - all in real time.More on this episode with your host, Mitch HamptonThis episode is one featuring your host in a solo stream. It promises to be a live demonstration of how I approach any piece of music for the first time - when I am learning it with an eye or ear towards possible future performances and integration into a repertoire. Although the song chose is a quite famous one from Paul McCartney - “Maybe I'm Amazed” - I will be also treating it as any jazz improviser who happens to be an instrumentalist would, putting the focus on it as a piece of music more than as poem or lyric.

Many of the topics to be covered will only be announced in the stream but will encompass such matters as the diversity and specificity of musical styles and languages, the nature of any artistic practice itself - with its attendant matters of regular exercise and craft and the lifelong art of learning any new things. I hope the stream will be of interest to a wide variety of people.#beatles#sirpaulmccartney#wings#rock#pop#1970s#1970#lindamccartney#1960s#jazz#improvisation#musiclesson#education#style#musictheory#classicalmusic#lifelonglearning#humanities#arts#letters#instruction#piano#solopiano