Master Class With Ming Freeman On Keyboards Chords by Yanni

[Abm] Hi everyone, I'm standing here [G] with THE Ming Freeman.
You've all been asking me to have him show his [E] stuff separately, and it's going to happen right now.
He also [Ab] happens to [Bb] be my Chinese teacher.
He's teaching me how to speak Chinese.
[N] He's a great one.
He's not the tough one.
He's gone, oh that's close enough, it's all good, you get through.
_ Ming and I have been playing together for 20 years. _ _ _
[G] He's been with me in the Forbidden City, at the Taj Mahal, Royal Albert Hall, the pyramids, _ everywhere.
And he's my go-to man.
_ All these keyboards that you're seeing around us right now are essentially clones of my keyboards.
He has his own [Bb] sounds for per song.
[G] Each individual song has a different sound.
_ And he [B] also has all my sounds.
The same thing with my keyboards.
[Bm] I have [N] all my sounds that work per song that are different [G] than his, but I also include all his sounds over there.
This way we have a way to combine our hands.
Sometimes you'll hear us play the piano, for example, when we're playing together.
All of a sudden you're hearing a piano playing, played with four hands.
_ Or we do a guitar sound, and he'll be [E] playing _ [G] the_
rhythm, and I will [Bb] play arpeggios.
[G] And it sounds like four guitar players doing different things.
_ _ _ _ One of the points that I wanted to make, because I'm talking a lot about keyboards,
is that the electronic keyboards can never _ _ replace the real [Eb] acoustic instruments,
like the [Ab] violin or the grand piano, [G] which is right there.
_ _ _ And he's amazing.
_ Ladies and gentlemen, Ming Freeman.
He's here.
_ _ Hello, everybody.
_ He's awesome.
And _ he has his own style of playing.
_ We think alike.
We don't even have to talk.
He's looking at me and the keyboards,
or the piano, he's right with me.
[Bb] And if you want to_
One of the sounds [G] that is very impressive that he does
is the beginning of Sandorin.
And he looks like he's only playing one keyboard at the beginning.
But really, what he's playing is about five or six keyboards all at once.
Go ahead, show them.
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It looks [G] simple, doesn't it?
Except this keyboard is [F] talking to five other keyboards
that are mixed in a [B] certain [Bb] _ EQ, and fixed, and compressed, and controlled in a certain
_ dimension, in a certain quantity and quality.
And it comes up with that sound.
And then I'm on the other keyboards, playing the French horn.
And then I have the big _ crash thing on the [G] left hand.
And he also, you know, he will turn around and play different sounds on all the keyboards
as needed per song.
He's fully_
You see, anybody who's seen him in concert, he's just fully engaged.
[B] He's just playing here, [G] there, there, turning around all over the place.
_ And it _ is_
How about_
You know, what he's known for that I love the way he plays the piano.
I love_
He has a style that is very characteristic of me.
It's just_
It's his [Bm] sound.
It's sort of jazzy, but it's not [N] too jazzy.
It has Asian flavors in it, but it's not Asian.
And it's really me.
It's his heart.
It's [G] his_
This.
And before he plays the piano for you, just for a second, I'm gonna have_
Because he has incredible speed, too.
I just want to tell you, this man is very spiritual.
He's [E] very [Bb] into nature, and [F] calming down.
[Bb]
He knows how to meditate.
He knows how to focus.
And I go [G] to him to help me sometimes to stop the rain or the [N] wind,
if we think we might be able to do something like that.
So anyway, you want to show us a couple of riffs on the piano, maybe?
He's not warmed up, anyway.
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
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_ _ _ [Bb] Can you do that one more time? _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ And _ _
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ he does that [G] every night in front of 10,000 people,
and he does not hit a single note wrong.
And it really upsets me. _ _ _
_ _ How about both hands?
There's one riff that you do that I really like.
_ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ Show me that again.
Take it, take it, take it [Dm] again. _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ Yeah, and you can play that twice as fast if you [Dm] want to. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Yeah, _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ there you go.
He's not warmed up.
I [B] just dragged him [F] up on stage, and I said,
come on, play some keyboards, [G] show him some stuff,
because everybody's asking for you.
_ Where's Ming?
Where's Ming?
[Bb] _ There he is.
Now, one of the things that [G] I'd like to do with you _ is_
that I love being with him on stage,
because no matter if I make a mistake or if I get lost,
if I play something out of time, I start too soon, start too late.
[Gb] Ming's on top [G] of me.
He just knows, boom, he catches me.
So [N] I'm going to test him right now.
I'm going to give him a test.
We're going to play Nostalgia, which [G] is an extremely difficult [Bb] song to play.
It's in 5-8.
And I'm going to start in one [Gb] part, [G] and he's going to play the strings up here.
OK.
On that keyboard, see who can see you.
I don't want to lose you from [Bb] the place.
And [B] I'm going to start somewhere, without telling you, on the piano.
And then you catch on to me.
Here we go.
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He doesn't miss it.
He's just_
no matter where I do, I can go, here we go again.
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[G] _ _ [D] _ [Bm] _ _ [Em] _ [Gbm] _ _
[G] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [G] He's right on top of me.
Time-wise, he's dead on with me.
So this, normally I play on the grand piano,
so we're not like on top of each other doing this.
I have a lot of fun.
And he's awesome to have in the band.
And hopefully, he will stay healthy and keep playing for the rest of our lives.
And having fun is an extremely important ingredient in the sound that we hear every night.
And we just showed you [Bb] just the tip of the iceberg of what he's capable of doing.
Because [F] that's all we can do for now in [Bb] five minutes or less.
But [G] you can count on the fact that [B] he's going to be back. _
And he's going to be more [Bb] talkative, right?
Oh, yeah, definitely.
[Fm] He can talk.
[Bm] Go ahead.
OK.
_ _ I'm happy to be showing you this stuff.
[C] And looking forward to showing you [N] more.
Give me some Chinese.
Tell me, I'm happy to be whatever you want to say.
We are very happy [G] to be here in Philadelphia.
_ Philadelphia.
You said_
There _ [Fm] are a lot of Chinese in Philadelphia. _
[Ab] There's a lot of [N] Chinese in Philadelphia.
Yes.
Well, they're going to enjoy you tonight.
It's a beautiful theater.
It's gorgeous.
Gorgeous.
Ming Friedman.
Ming Friedman.
Do we have_
I mean, maybe like go like this a little bit.
And then we can have the thumbnail.
And you look in there or [E] something.
We can make it.
OK.
Do this [G] one of these things.
And I don't know.
[Fm] Goodbye, [E] everybody.
Thank you for