Dr. John Such A Night Piano Lesson Part 1
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2011
- This version is from a video I found of Dr. John playing it in '81. Maybe look that up first before learning the song from me. It might help you get the feel of it. Plus he plays it a lot better than I. Enjoy.
This is my ultimate piano playing goal. Ever since I saw him play it on the Last Waltz with the Band. If I can manage this I can die happy. Brilliant videos. Thanks so much!
The Dr. has left the building and across this mortal plain . I cried tonight from sadness, as he boarded that heavenly train. He walked on Gilded Splinters with a Zulu staff of light and as he lifted into to the sky he whispered Such a Night...
As another guitarist that plays a bit of piano (among other things) I would say that Such A Night is in F. The verse just starts on the IV chord, it's one of the best things about the . The chorus is I - IV and the dominant turnaround chord used throughout is varying versions of a C7. The main notes in the song are also not comparable to a B flat key sig. All in all, that makes it in F for me. :-) Thanks for a great video, I've never been able to play like Mac however hard I wished.
Yes. I learned it from a number of his live versions.. mostly the one from 81' where he plays it solo. I'm sure there is sheet music for it, but I learn everything by ear.. never learned to read music. If I'm being honest I'm just a guitarist who plays a little piano. P.S I just finished that Nicky Hopkins Solo you requested, It's up. Enjoy
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It was the first song I learnt that made me feel like I was really playing music, and all thanks to this video. I agree, the performance he does is something out of this planet.
dude, this is sick. Thank you.
Excellent tutorial. Great riffs and voicings, and best of all you play with rhythm and captured the funk. Thanks for sharing!
This is an absolutely amazing lesson. wanted to play this song for a long time, I cannot thank you enough.
Excellent! What a gift!
Here is a link for such a night with that chromatic ending. I figured out part of it. Live version/great audio. Starts off with some nice slow blues as an introduction. At 4:56 he jumps into a version of "big mac" and then goes back to such a night. At 6:50 he does this chromatic ending. Might be too long to explain. then again. Great turnarounds throughout the song. Going onto US blues after this!
I was there too! Ended with this song. The solo parts were amazing!
Fortunate to watch him with Jon cleary in London last night. Both great musicians with a fabulous band. Keep up the great work. The rest of such a night please :-)
nice job, always loved this song
! Love this stuff,well done
Ah, been looking for this. Great!
Great tutorial, thanks for sharing
Got cut short.....with your tutorials. Like many others I'm a guitarist first but enthusiastic yet frustrated pianist. Dr John is the embodiment of all I enjoy about the piano. I wa s
THANK YOU!!! I can't make those letters any bigger or I would. I've been waiting a long time for someone to do this.
Finally! I've been scouring You Tube for months, if not the past couple of years, looking for a good tutorial on this (my favorite Dr. John song)! The piano work in this is wonderful New Orleans flavor ivory tickling at it's finest! I can't believe you describe yourself as a "guitarist who plays A LITTLE PIANO"!!! I'm a piano player who is challenged by this! Great job and thanks for sharing this:-)
I'm really delighted and impressed with your tiutoria
Thanks for demystifying that left hand part!
A cool way to re-phrase that intro/turnaround is to arpeggiate that Dm/A A7/G F#dim (no 3rd) in a descending fashion over the F to Bb Walk.
I NEVER give compliments, but you my friend deserve it. Super talented and graceful. I give you major props, youre talented as fuck.
Thank you very much man. I'm so glad people are getting good use out of these lessons. I have not yet heard his live endings so I'm afraid they're not in the lesson. I can always add it in later. I've added Ramble On Rose & Ten Jed to the list. What I'll do is compile Keith Godchaux's best versions of these songs and try to make a lesson out of it. Europe 72' will definitely be in the mix.
PERFECT, thanks a lot !
you did a great damn job!
Just became a sub to your channel, thank you for taking the time making these excellent tutorials..👍👍👍👍👍
Nice man, very cool ending. Thats gonna be a serious challenge for me, but it will be worth it to add that to the lesson. Thanks again
Thank you for this!
Thank you for posting this. Trying to learn this for a show, but I'm primarily a guitarist. Piano is an amazing instrument. Very easy to understand conceptually and it takes little strength to play (compared with stringed instruments that is), but getting my hands to relax and play independently has been the challenge.
I can relate to what u have said there, being a guitar player aspiring to be a piano player. I have to say I love the instrument more and more because it's so dynamic...Enjoy and good luck with your journey
Rich Mash It's not that I want to become some world class pianist, it's just nice to have different tools to write all the shit you hear in your head. Piano's so percussive and you can form much more interesting inversions very easily. If my hand could stretch the whole fretboard I could make some cooler chords potentially :)
Thank you so much. The wonderful comments from people all over the world is payment enough for me.
LOL, yeah I gave up trying to find stuff out from online chord charts as they are well meaning but usually incorrect :-) Forgot to add, after he jumps all over the place, the ending is a classic blues ending in F. This vid has got me keen to get back to the piano and use some of the ideas here and work on my own. He never plays it the same twice, which is good enough for me. Thanks once again.
I wish I could give you a hug
yes! awesome!
very cool! Thanks!
thanks, it's great!
Yeah, I could definitely see that. I've never really study theory.. just picked up things here and there. Chord charts online just say Key of Bb. The part that makes it mysterious for me, is when he goes through the changes.. F, A7, Dm walk down to F9 for the turn around, then up to Bb for the second verse. But I can see what you're saying with the melody notes.. F, G, A, G, F. I always thought it just changed the chords from Bb, to Gm7, to Bbmaj7, working off the Bb major scale.
Thanks so much for this.......you nailed the chords and wal-ups, and its not an easy tune to get. If I can give you a suggestion (I live in New Orleans by the way).....its "and-a two" beat that you have to get, in your left hand.
Again, this is great.......by the way, my cousin appears in that Max Creek video you posted. Percussionist at far left. Cheers.
great
Thanks a lot man.. I love to teach. I will definitely do a lesson on that so stay tuned.
wow dude you can play
I've really gotten a lot out of this. Thanks. You ever try tackling Dr John's version of When The Saints Go Marching?
Hey Tyler,
thnx very much. Wondering if u live in the LA area. If so, would be interested in taking some piano lessons from u. If not keep the videos coming...hopefully my fingers will ultimately behave better. Do u have one for Mac's Live Mountain Stage version where he does some incredible piano solos before and after the vocal portion of the song?
Can u plzzzzzz do another Dr John tutorial classic "Iko Iko" with a cherry on top!!!!!
Would you mind me asking, at the very end of this lesson , you talk about practicing the pentatonic major and minor scales, of which scale do you mean, is it the F major and minor pentatonic, or Bb ones ? Not sure which ones you were playing ? Brilliant lesson thanks again .
I'm assuming trying to learn this on a 72 key piano would be futile. (must upgrade, 88 is the only way!) Dr John has some lovely bass in his style. I'm taken with it, I've only been playing for a year or so...too much to try to tackle? Thank you for your instruction.
As one comment said: "You do a great damn job". It sure would be a hoot if you did Ray Charles' "Makin Whoopee".
Thank you so much for your tutorial, how can I pay you for this lesson? I just watched Dr John's Live here in Hong Kong, I waited and than met him at the backstage exit haha.
Thanks Tyler do you do any booker songs?
Correcto.
I would say this is mainly in the key of Bb but F is certainly in there.
It's in F. B flat to B flat minor is the classic minor plagal cadence to the tonic of F. IV IVm I is one of the most common cadences in popular music. Obviously he plays the F7 but this is The Blues after all. You can hear the key centre really obviously in the chorus.
Really nice tutorial. I'll be working on this tomorrow. Thanks.
Dr John - Such a Night.wmv put this in the youtube search box. it wont let me post the link
first video that pops up killer!
would you say this mainly in the key of F?
@tyleryesta1 oh come on, thats false modesty fella ;)