Victor Feldman's FREE Video Music Piano Lesson - An Introduction to Chord Progressions

Victor created a video music lesson entitled An Introduction to Chord Progressions, which features Victor explaining exactly how his chord charts work and shows Victor playing every note, including a test given and a play-along segment. Victor Feldman is considered the finest all-around jazz musician ever to come from Great Britain. He was born on April 7, 1934, and was performing on stage playing the drums with Glenn Miller’s band at the age of six. Glenn Miller called Feldman “The greatest young percussionist ever created.” He was featured in several motion pictures and on the B.B.C. Since his arrival in the United States he recorded over twenty albums of his own, scored music to films, and authored music books and a video music lesson. Over a hundred of his compositions have been recorded, including the instantly recognizable jazz classics "Seven Steps To Heaven” and “Joshua,” made famous by Miles Davis and recorded and performed by thousands of artists worldwide. Victor has performed, toured and recorded with Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Seals and Crofts and The L.A. Express, to name a few. In the 1980’s he created his own band, The Generation Band, that featured Tom Scott, Robben Ford and Trevor Feldman. He has played on countless television and movie soundtracks, as well as with the biggest names in popular music including Steely Dan ( It is Feldman's percussion work on Steely Dan's song "Do It Again" that gives the song its Latin groove. Feldman appears on all seven Steely Dan albums released in the 1970s and 1980 in the band's first incarnation), The Doobie Brothers, Boz Scaggs, Kenny Loggins, Elton John, Cher, Tom Waits, Joe Walsh, Frank Zappa, Stanley Clarke, Freddy Hubbard, Sonny Rollins, Johnny Cash, The Beach Boys, James Taylor, Christopher Cross, Marvin Gaye, Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, Neil Diamond, and even Elvis Presley. He was the winner of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences “Most Valuable Player” award for 1980 and 1981. Victor created a video music lesson entitled An Introduction to Chord Progressions, which features Victor explaining exactly how his chord charts work and shows Victor playing every note, including a test given and a play-along segment. Victor is known worldwide as a musician’s musician for his beautiful taste in chord voicings, inspired improvising and composing, and solid time feeling. Always soft spoken and unassuming, Feldman will be remembered as one of the most versatile of all musicians. Although he could change styles at the drop of a hat, his subtle creativity and integrity reveals itself in every performance. Traits like these won him the respect and adoration of his peers. He was the ultimate Jazz Journeyman as well as an established leader, and his talents as a multi-instrumentalist were in constant demand by other leaders and studio producers alike. His innumerable contributions to Jazz and popular music surround us today thanks to an extraordinarily prolific recording career. On May 12, 1987, the music world lost one of its all-time jazz legends and renowned musicians at the age of 53. As further testament to the magnitude of one of the finest musicians that has ever lived, In 2009, he was inducted in the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Help keep Victor's music alive by listening to these great albums/singles by Victor Feldman recorded in the 1980's: https://good-vibes.lnk.to/fiesta https://good-vibes.lnk.to/secretoftheandes https://good-vibes.lnk.to/highvisibility https://good-vibes.lnk.to/insidetrack https://good-vibes.lnk.to/sevensteps https://good-vibes.lnk.to/three https://good-vibes.lnk.to/callofthewild https://good-vibes.lnk.to/softshoulder Victor Feldman, Generation Band - By The Bay (Live at Humphrey's, San Diego) Victor Feldman, Generation Band - Smooth Victor Feldman, Generation Band - Smooth Listen to Smooth by Victor Feldman, Generation Band.