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Friendly greetings! It is Torley again!

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Today is I'm gonna show you how to play the music of Philip Glass.

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Or more accurately futn music that is like, similar to, appropriates, even ripps of Philip Glass.

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Now one of the simpliest things about Philip Glass here is ascenado.

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You often notice in much of his music there are repeating figures.

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Such as

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[plays melody]

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that's simple.

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Or [plays melody], or [plays melody].

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So you've got two, three even four notes.

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There is variations on this there is different kinds of time signatures.

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But that's the basics.

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And next is harmonic chord progressions.

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He has created a chd industry out of very very simple harmonic faundations.

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I shall show you.

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[plays melody]

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Ok that is A minor.

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Than F major — [plays melody].

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And than C major. [plays melody]

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And then E minor. [plays melody]

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And he does this over and over and over.

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And that is the music of Philip Glass.

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Now there are a lot of variations that can be created around such themes.

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[plays melody]

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And variations like this.

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[plays melody]

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And again.

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[plays melody]

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Sometimes a few variations cns and it goes crazy like to-do-do-do to-do-do.

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[demonstrates that in melody]

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So before you ever get into playing or interpreting Philip Glass ask yourself

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does it have a da-da da-da da-da or

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ta-da-da ta-da-da ta-da-da or ta-da-da-ta-da-da.

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Because if the answer is “no” then it's likely not like Philip Glass!

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I'm not making this up!

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You just listen to just about anything he has done.

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For example, there was a piece on Battle Star Galactica

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from "The Metamorphosis" piano solos and it goes like this.

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[plays melody]

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And then, what heppens next is?

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why golly! [continues melody]

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Just like that.