This is gold. I'm a teacher, not even of music, but these are the things that go through my head as I try to help my students see the big picture AND get through their current challenges. Hal is great.

1:46 : ya dig

I really wish I had something like this available to me when I was a kid taking the rcm exams.  All of my teachers were so obsessed over competitions and high scores on exams they never actually taught me to really play.  My buddies in a band asked me to jam once and I couldn't even keep up despite the fact that I was technically at a much higher level than them.  They could transpose songs into different keys and they never even had lessons where as I had 12+ years piano and couldn't transpose

This man is the wisest and hippest jazz philosopher on YouTube, thankyou Sir  for your wisdom, instructions and inspiration.

Hal has insights few ever have had,He  is also hilarious/intense and believes in this. Early 1980"s he had a  a few articles in Down Beat that changed my world. Went to NYC to study a day with him  he changed me as much as anyone for the better.  Thank you for posting!  Thank YOU, Hal, always and forever.

I agree with Hal on a number of issues. He has confirmed some things that I discovered on my own.

i am a metal vocalist in the black and death metal traditions and i write guitar and bass parts. No one else has been so singularly important as Hal Galper in terms of shaping my approach to music. I can't overstate how massively influential his videos have been. He's been very kind and generous in responding to some of my emails but he can't relate to the way I hear music.

An excellent supplement to this video, by the way, is his lesson on "what is practicing" -- conveys much of the same concepts in a different way. Also highly recommend "attitude is everything"

Thanks so much

i wish this was longer

Amazing stuff, even from a guitarist's perspective.
Very insightful words!

Straightforward and brilliant!

Pure gold, thank you Hal and thank you JVG ✨

this guy is really awesome

He said exactly what I have been believing for years...better to understand how to wring the MOST out of everything you already know...it's easier to retain and implicitly requires creative processes to achieve such a goal.

Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge. I'm learning a lot. :)

I just love this stuff!

See...this explanation is seriously bottom line and I really like it...you can never watch one performance or one video when you check out someone. This is a really good explanation.

Great player, great teacher. I really appreciate this and all the other Hal Galper teaching posts here on YouTube. Thanks.

Yeah I really like it it's good stuff. Can't get enough.

wow, deep stuff...thanks for these vids!

Powerful; the concept of the clue.