So this was probably the clearest piano tutorial I have yet come across and the least anxiety provoking one as well. Very importantly I didn’t have to keep replaying segments to figure out if fingers were hovering over notes or actually playing them because you kindly, patiently play them at the start one note at a time and for those of us who can easily feel like a moron at the keyboard - even print chords and respective notes above in user friendly colours (colors). Wow ! I almost feel spoiled. LOVE IT! I wish you could explain a sore spot for me: was once told not to play root with pinkie in left hand as the bassist will get upset ... so I have suffered through boring, restrictive rootless voicings along with the fear of getting into trouble!!! This video really opens up possibilities for me, regardless. I plan to keep revisiting this tutorial until the concepts take root (no pun intended.). Also grateful for the quieter, helpful tone of voice used in this tutorial! You definitely deserve accolades! Sincerest thanks! Finally I am appreciative to be getting my questions answered. It’s just embarrassing how long this has taken me. Hopefully I can do the download successfully... (I’m also techno-challenged...!!!)
god bless you julian! everything I know on piano is because of you. I went from struggling to play a basic scale run to playing dimmaj7 and maj11s with no stress. god bless!
That just made my day SMV - I'm so pleased to hear this and I have much more work ahead of me so I hope I can continue to help you. God bless you too and thank you so much
I haven't heard of a 'pivot note' before, but there's a thing called a 'pivot chord'. In classical music, when a composer wants to modulate from one key to the next, they'll use a pivot chord - which is a chord found in both of the keys. This helps bridge the gap between the two keys and makes it more subtle, than just flat out going straight to a new key without any preparation.
Thanks for the pattern. I found here progression Cm9 or 1minor9 to C#9 or +1dominant9 patterns. For Cm9 I use 1=Bb scale, and for C#9 use 1=F# scale. Very important pattern. I will try on 12 keys.
A large part of this Saturday was devoted to working on these patterns. My favorite is #3 because the bassline is the kind of thing that turns heads and makes hips start to twitch, but they're all great. I must be improving, because I picked up 1-3 very quickly. And I practically leapt out of my chair and shouted "ALTERNATE DOMINANT" when you asked what the chord was in #5.
You are very good! I'm a general music teacher and need more practice comping because I have been asked to play keyboard in a little Big Band. It's very new to me. You are very easy to understand. Good job!
I always look forward to every new video you post. These tutorials are extremely helpful, and I will definitely share this with all of my other jazz pianist friends at school. Thanks so much Julian for taking the time to explain each concept for us to understand, and ultimately become better musicians!
or have ever played jazz. My background is Classical, yeah! one of those guys. I've listened to you for about a year & always liked how your personality is incorporated in the music. Thanks for all you've done. Anthony Comi Brooksville Fl
Thank YOU so much Anthony - a great start to my morning to read this, really happy to know this one helped you. God bless you too and I can't wait to share the next one with you
Good stuff!! I want to watch your lessons as much as possible. I am new at piano for I play guitar but I want to play piano very badly.You explain music theory very well.
Thank you Luis. Yes any chord can be 'voiced' many different ways. E.g. C minor 7 could be voiced as: C Eb G Bb G Bb C Eb Or you could add a 9th: C Eb G Bb D C Bb D Eb G And so on. Voicings are like synonyms in language - there's many ways of saying the same thing. I hope this helped
Yep - that one's just for you Chaluliss. I don't make a big thing of it, but I know there's people who'll spot that. It's a good demonstration of the Dorian scale
Arr it's so nice to hear from you Roland - it's so nice to have had your encouragement and support for so long. Can't wait to share the upcoming videos with you very soon!
really love the altered G7 chord ! I'm still confused about altering note like b9 or #11. Is there any rules to use this ? like maybe in dominant chord which are notes are acceptable to alter ? Or maybe you can give us recommendation what is best to alter in each chord (major, minor, and dominant). Really curious about this cause everytime i tried to alter it, it really sounds off
On V7 chords you can really go to town and alter any extension - you can play b9, #9, #11 and / or b13. Whereas on major and minor 7 chords, you don't have as much freedom. So the altered extensions are usually saved for the V7 chords, and when playing a ii-V-I, this creates an 'in - out - in' type of sound. The ii and I chord are played fairly normally, no altered notes. But the V7 chord in the middle has whichever exotic extensions you want to play (like the G7alt voicing in the video) and that's where all the tension is. Does that help explain a bit?
Hello Julian. Thanks for all of your excellent videos and tutorials. Your teaching methods are really great. I thought that a backing track was included in the download. But, I didn't see one. Anyway, Thanks for your teachings.
Hi Alvin, thank you so much. Yes - look in the email you received with the sheet music link. The backing track link is below the sheet music link - so just scroll down the email. Let me know if you find it or not - if not you can reply to the email and I can send it to you again. Thank you and hope you get the backing track soon Julian
if i am comping, that means i am playing with a band. If I play a Db7 or side sweeping for some variation, how about the guitarists and the bassist who are playing the chords on the fakebook?
how would you apply concepts like reharmonization, tritone subs, glide chords, etc. in a nonjazz setting? i feel like everything pretty much revolves around the magical 7th chord and that's pretty much THE SOUND of jazz.
SoGood.gif I do some of these patterns randomly because I love how they sound, didn't realize their was an actual name for them. Appreciate the eye-opening, Julian!
Sure - I'm using the Roland RD 700SX piano (not made anymore but there's the 800 and maybe even 900 being made now) - lovely weighted keys. But in this video I was actually using a piano sound from my sequencer - Logic Pro - so the sound in this video is not from the Roland... but the Roland has really nice piano sounds as well - I just used Logic because I was playing to a backing track that was in Logic.
Hi Mirko thank you for notifying me on this. I just re-saved the webpage and tested it - and it should be working properly now - here's the link: themusicalear.leadpages.co/8-comping-patterns/
HI I don't see a meter indicated? I also don't hear the 1/2 note rest. I see the count as 1/8 followed by a 1/8 rest; another 1/8 rest and then the second chord/ I'm not a jazz pianist
Hi Antonio, are you referring to the sheet music being a slightly different rhythm to the video? Yes - in comping pattern 1 I played a slightly different rhythm in the video and didn't notice it. But you can play this pattern to either rhythm - the harmony / chord voicings are the main thing, and you can always play them to any rhythm that sounds good
love this chord progressions!!!very smooth!!!! by the way, i was listening to a few of your compositions on soundcloud, and i love them!!!!great work!!!
hey!! i got a question...could you do maybe something on playing chords simultaneously with a melody??i think this is called 3 part harmony system..where you play bass chord and melody in once...i would really love to see your thoughts on that topic... thanks adrian
The music I just downloaded to match this tutorial doesn't seem to match. Comping Pattern #1 is titled correctly but the rhythm doesn't seem to match what you are playing. Am I nuts?
The tritone sub is substituting for the V7 chord. In this case, the V7 of C minor is G7. Hence, Db7 is a tritone away from that, so it's the tritone sub.
Hi I0wbtry, Thank you for your question, and yes - I have 2 main ebooks: 1. 'Jazz Theory Explained' (written book on jazz theory, chord voicings, improv, reharm, etc): www.jazzherobooks.com/ 2. 'Best Chords In The World' ebook (new ebook giving you 30 of my favorite progressions, chord voicings, licks and riffs): bestchordsintheworld.com/
So this was probably the clearest piano tutorial I have yet come across and the least anxiety provoking one as well. Very importantly I didn’t have to keep replaying segments to figure out if fingers were hovering over notes or actually playing them because you kindly, patiently play them at the start one note at a time and for those of us who can easily feel like a moron at the keyboard - even print chords and respective notes above in user friendly colours (colors). Wow ! I almost feel spoiled. LOVE IT! I wish you could explain a sore spot for me: was once told not to play root with pinkie in left hand as the bassist will get upset ... so I have suffered through boring, restrictive rootless voicings along with the fear of getting into trouble!!! This video really opens up possibilities for me, regardless. I plan to keep revisiting this tutorial until the concepts take root (no pun intended.). Also grateful for the quieter, helpful tone of voice used in this tutorial! You definitely deserve accolades! Sincerest thanks! Finally I am appreciative to be getting my questions answered. It’s just embarrassing how long this has taken me. Hopefully I can do the download successfully... (I’m also techno-challenged...!!!)
god bless you julian! everything I know on piano is because of you. I went from struggling to play a basic scale run to playing dimmaj7 and maj11s with no stress. god bless!
That just made my day SMV - I'm so pleased to hear this and I have much more work ahead of me so I hope I can continue to help you. God bless you too and thank you so much
hey!! could you explainme what a pivot note is??
I haven't heard of a 'pivot note' before, but there's a thing called a 'pivot chord'. In classical music, when a composer wants to modulate from one key to the next, they'll use a pivot chord - which is a chord found in both of the keys. This helps bridge the gap between the two keys and makes it more subtle, than just flat out going straight to a new key without any preparation.
jazztutorial Why arent you uploading? Its been a while
That bass line in the third example is marvelous!
Glad you liked that one Adam! Thank you
This guy is the best teacher for piano he explains very thing so easy can't wait to try this at home!!!
I love that tritone substitution!
Great! Video on that coming next :)
Thanks for the pattern. I found here progression Cm9 or 1minor9 to C#9 or +1dominant9 patterns. For Cm9 I use 1=Bb scale, and for C#9 use 1=F# scale. Very important pattern. I will try on 12 keys.
A large part of this Saturday was devoted to working on these patterns. My favorite is #3 because the bassline is the kind of thing that turns heads and makes hips start to twitch, but they're all great. I must be improving, because I picked up 1-3 very quickly. And I practically leapt out of my chair and shouted "ALTERNATE DOMINANT" when you asked what the chord was in #5.
Yet another wonderful set of lessons and ideas, Julian.
I really appreciate your kind words Chris! Thank you for your encouragement :)
You are very good! I'm a general music teacher and need more practice comping because I have been asked to play keyboard in a little Big Band. It's very new to me. You are very easy to understand. Good job!
I always look forward to every new video you post. These tutorials are extremely helpful, and I will definitely share this with all of my other jazz pianist friends at school. Thanks so much Julian for taking the time to explain each concept for us to understand, and ultimately become better musicians!
Arr I'm so pleased Anton! well I'm just finishing up a new video on Tritone Substitution which I'll post within the next few days :)
i love all the comping patterns. Thanks Julian for your generosity. God bless you more!
Arr thank you so much Erwin - I'm so pleased you liked this one, it's my pleasure
Thanks for explaining things clearly at a decent rate. I appreciate you taking the time to share your gift.
Arr thank YOU Murray - it's my pleasure!
The last cmping is awesome!!! I will enjoy a lot that kind of rnb latin chords and compings! Thank you again!!
It's my pleasure Herman! Glad to hear you liked the last one :)
or have ever played jazz. My background is Classical, yeah! one of those guys.
I've listened to you for about a year & always liked how your personality is incorporated in the music.
Thanks for all you've done.
Anthony Comi
Brooksville Fl
Extremely easy to follow! Awesome advice and tips
Your channel has some of the best tutorial videos on UA-cam.
That means a lot to me MS, I'm so pleased you like the tutorials and can't wait to share the upcoming videos with you!
Learning so much about music and theory. Love you Julian. Thank you. God Bless you.
Thank YOU so much Anthony - a great start to my morning to read this, really happy to know this one helped you. God bless you too and I can't wait to share the next one with you
You're Welcome.
What a beautiful and useful lesson thanks allot 💖 really amazing and i appreciate your amazing work my always teacher 💓
This video came at a perfect time! I really need this. Thank you!
Are that's awesome Lars - so pleased this was good timing. Tritone sub is next :)
Thanks for sharing your wonderfull skills. I really enjoyed the lession!
Arr it's my pleasure David and I'm so happy to hear this! Makes my day :)
Good stuff!! I want to watch your lessons as much as possible. I am new at piano for I play guitar but I want to play piano very badly.You explain music theory very well.
Awesome!! So much to play around with :)
Charles!! So good to hear from you and I'm so pleased you liked this one :)
Thank You so much Sir!
You are my fav youtube channel all of a sudden.
Julian thanks for sharing this wonderful info!
your videos are very educational thank you !
Really love the 5th. Thanks man
Arr glad to hear it Daniel - yeah that one's nice and relaxed. Thank you!
Reminded me of Billie Jean :D
This was super cool!
Arr thank you so much Bbario!
Pattern 5....love the percussion as well
i didn't know what a voicing was. until you mentioned here .
thank you
Thank you Luis. Yes any chord can be 'voiced' many different ways. E.g. C minor 7 could be voiced as:
C Eb G Bb
G Bb C Eb
Or you could add a 9th:
C Eb G Bb D
C Bb D Eb G
And so on.
Voicings are like synonyms in language - there's many ways of saying the same thing.
I hope this helped
I love them. ... very inspiring tips.. cheers
Arr thank you Sebastian! So pleased you're liking these new videos :)
Thank you very much for this video.
It's my pleasure Niven - so pleased you liked this one!
Excellent tutorial. Thank you!
Love that backing track! Thanks so much!
Great video. Thank you!
Pretty sure he throw's the lick sampled in "C.R.E.A.M" from Wutang. at 10:39
Yep - that one's just for you Chaluliss. I don't make a big thing of it, but I know there's people who'll spot that. It's a good demonstration of the Dorian scale
As usual perfect.. thanks
Arr it's so nice to hear from you Roland - it's so nice to have had your encouragement and support for so long. Can't wait to share the upcoming videos with you very soon!
very nice tutorial..my playing is much better now..thank you
really love the altered G7 chord !
I'm still confused about altering note like b9 or #11. Is there any rules to use this ? like maybe in dominant chord which are notes are acceptable to alter ? Or maybe you can give us recommendation what is best to alter in each chord (major, minor, and dominant). Really curious about this cause everytime i tried to alter it, it really sounds off
On V7 chords you can really go to town and alter any extension - you can play b9, #9, #11 and / or b13.
Whereas on major and minor 7 chords, you don't have as much freedom.
So the altered extensions are usually saved for the V7 chords, and when playing a ii-V-I, this creates an 'in - out - in' type of sound. The ii and I chord are played fairly normally, no altered notes. But the V7 chord in the middle has whichever exotic extensions you want to play (like the G7alt voicing in the video) and that's where all the tension is.
Does that help explain a bit?
i see that's why when i tried to alter the major and minor it sounds off. Thank you so much sir. Really looking up for your next video :)
Hello Julian. Thanks for all of your excellent videos and tutorials. Your teaching methods are really great. I thought that a backing track was included in the download. But, I didn't see one. Anyway, Thanks for your teachings.
Hi Alvin, thank you so much.
Yes - look in the email you received with the sheet music link. The backing track link is below the sheet music link - so just scroll down the email.
Let me know if you find it or not - if not you can reply to the email and I can send it to you again.
Thank you and hope you get the backing track soon
Julian
if i am comping, that means i am playing with a band. If I play a Db7 or side sweeping for some variation, how about the guitarists and the bassist who are playing the chords on the fakebook?
Brilliant teaching...
Arr thank you so much for your kind words Lynden, I'm really pleased you liked this one :)
I will make sure to sare this
Haha thank you Miles!!
how would you apply concepts like reharmonization, tritone subs, glide chords, etc. in a nonjazz setting? i feel like everything pretty much revolves around the magical 7th chord and that's pretty much THE SOUND of jazz.
#4 sounds like Brooklyn Heights by Down to the Bone and Sly Fox by K.O.A.N Sound. Good job on the video, and thank you for the tips and ideas!
SoGood.gif
I do some of these patterns randomly because I love how they sound, didn't realize their was an actual name for them.
Appreciate the eye-opening, Julian!
Arr thank you so much Rick, I really appreciate your kind words!
HI Julian! Are there note sheets (video) for the improv. which you played for 5th pattern as a background? On 14:43
thank you very much, great!
My pleasure IYM! Really appreciate your kind words!
Would you do tutorial for the cool jazz chords together with the solo please?
is this from the book jazz voicing piano skills by Dan Hearle? love this book
Very nice 👍
Thank you Aleksandr!
Favorite was definitely the last won. Will be working on that one....yo
Arr glad to hear it Richard - checkout the Bb minor variation on that I put in the sheet music too.
Where did you get that backing track with the drums and base? Nice lesson thanks.
Hey Julian, I have a problem losing my place while taking a solo. Any recommendations. Thanks for all you do.........Frank
thank you sir..
coool so helpful
Awesome I'm so pleased, thank you!
Can you put timestamps in the description where you start each one? It was tough trying to backtrack to check out specific ones again.
Great idea - let me just figure out how to do that, will have those for you soon
very nice 😙😙😙
If you don't mind sharing, what brand and model is your keyboard?
Sure - I'm using the Roland RD 700SX piano (not made anymore but there's the 800 and maybe even 900 being made now) - lovely weighted keys.
But in this video I was actually using a piano sound from my sequencer - Logic Pro - so the sound in this video is not from the Roland... but the Roland has really nice piano sounds as well - I just used Logic because I was playing to a backing track that was in Logic.
Thanks big time. Wonderful keyboard and sounds.
When you hear Wu Tang during the dorian scale and suddenly realize you'll never forget what that scale sounds like ever again.
Hello Julian, the download link is not right. I recieved this: "7_Sweet_Chord_Progressions_Sheet_Music.pdf". Could you please correct this?
Hi Mirko thank you for notifying me on this. I just re-saved the webpage and tested it - and it should be working properly now - here's the link:
themusicalear.leadpages.co/8-comping-patterns/
Thanx!!!
HI
I don't see a meter indicated? I also don't hear the 1/2 note rest. I see the count as 1/8 followed by a 1/8 rest; another 1/8 rest and then the second chord/
I'm not a jazz pianist
Hi Antonio, are you referring to the sheet music being a slightly different rhythm to the video? Yes - in comping pattern 1 I played a slightly different rhythm in the video and didn't notice it. But you can play this pattern to either rhythm - the harmony / chord voicings are the main thing, and you can always play them to any rhythm that sounds good
Just downloaded your sheet music, thank you but didn't see the MIDI?
Proper!!
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love this chord progressions!!!very smooth!!!! by the way, i was listening to a few of your compositions on soundcloud, and i love them!!!!great work!!!
Arr I'm so pleased you liked those soundcloud tracks. What style of music were the tracks you were listening to?
i was listening to your jazz songs!!! because i love jazz!!!!!! you have a nice latin style in your melodys what i really like!!!
hey!! i got a question...could you do maybe something on playing chords simultaneously with a melody??i think this is called 3 part harmony system..where you play bass chord and melody in once...i would really love to see your thoughts on that topic...
thanks
adrian
Where exactly are the transcripts for the comping patterns?
The music I just downloaded to match this tutorial doesn't seem to match. Comping Pattern #1 is titled correctly but the rhythm doesn't seem to match what you are playing. Am I nuts?
You're right Camille - I changed up the rhythms slightly on a few but the notes are the same. You can play it to either rhythm
5th pattern is ehat I'm trying to learn more of ... i.e. syncopation, bossa nova,
so I really like the tritone substitution, but I don't understand why it's called that. where's the tritone?
The tritone sub is substituting for the V7 chord. In this case, the V7 of C minor is G7. Hence, Db7 is a tritone away from that, so it's the tritone sub.
Good shit
Are you still selling your jazz piano book ? Edit: apparently it comes with your 'Best Chords In The World' ebook :P
Hi I0wbtry,
Thank you for your question, and yes - I have 2 main ebooks:
1. 'Jazz Theory Explained' (written book on jazz theory, chord voicings, improv, reharm, etc):
www.jazzherobooks.com/
2. 'Best Chords In The World' ebook (new ebook giving you 30 of my favorite progressions, chord voicings, licks and riffs):
bestchordsintheworld.com/
+jazztutorial thanks, I already bought both of those :P
Love the tutorials, but it doesn't look like the link has this content anymore!
With a donation to you, would you mind doing a piano tutorial for me? I'll gladly pay you.
Unfortunately when you say jazz on the title at least a standards rithm is expected to be comping
hol on fam whatchu know know about that 😂
WU TANG
(10:39) ...great lesson :)
Yep - I was waiting for someone to spot that :)
I always use that riff to demo the Dorian scale
Your videos are helpful but you should make your titles less Cancerously click-baity
I don't get what part of the title is clickbait lol
Thank you very much!!!