How to Practice Scales for Jazz Piano
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
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LESSON SUMMARY
In this lesson, you're going to learn:
- C Major Scale Fingering
- The Modes of C Major
- How to Connect the Modes of C Major Using Chromatic Connectors
- A Jazz Swing Accompaniment Using the Turnaround Progression
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Happy practicing!
Jonny May
00:21 Biggest struggle
00:40 Understanding modes
01:05 Exercise overview
02:37 Types of modes
02:57 Phrygian mode
02:31 Types of modes
03:56 Practicing the scale
04:26 Chromatic connector
05:07 Upper chromatic connector
06:19 Swinging the notes
06:36 Adding LH chord shells
07:37 Turnaround chord progression
08:01 Playing both hands
09:01 Pop some of the chords
09:32 Play with backing track
10:53 Lesson resources
11:14 200 bpm backing track
11:52 Conclusion
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As a guitarist, I find these exercises extremely valuable as an ear-expanding and technique building experience- Thank You!
Take up Piano bro :D Guitar is my first love but I took up Piano too and it makes sense
This opening sounded like the start of a great jingle! What a unique way to teach scales and modes!
I've never had an opportunity to learn the piano formally, talk least of playing jazz music. Only teaching myself with all the limitations. Thanks for finding you online.
This is amazing. Jazz piano has always been intimidating to me but with this exercise I will be able to Finally practice my scales
Nice ! Let’s go Jazz students ! 😎
Thanks Johnny May! You’re a great piano teacher! I have a minor in piano and I learned more in and felt more accomplished after two videos with you than i did in college.
This is amazing! I'm just going into jazz piano and this is what I've been looking for. Thanks.
Thanks Jonny!These are great tools.In all my years of playing this approach is revolutionary!Soloing has always been my weakest area so when I listen to the jazz greats I always wonder what did they practice to be so great and what really is the "language of jazz".
I REALLY enjoyed hearing a watching the improvisation at 2:00, and seeing the keys light up. I want a whole video with a song played like this.
This is excellent. I've been trying to learn how to improvise but never found the right way to start. U made it sound so simple. Thanks a lot for this :)
Hey man, this is very interesting, it makes learning jazz and scales more fun. I've never been taught to practise scales this way. I'm looking forward to joining you in all your courses. Thanks.
Amazing! So much learning -- scales, modes, keys, chord progression, rhythm -- all combined into one exercise. One of the best jazz piano lessons on UA-cam (and I've watched many)! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for doing this and putting it up for us all. You are a truly gifted teacher!
Wow, I think your video actually makes me looking forward to practicing scales, thank you!
What an amazing teacher!!
Fantastic lesson! Thank you for sharing 🎹🙌
Great lesson. I live for the craft. I haven't found a lot of videos like this on the Tube. Been asking about modes for years and could never get a straight answer and you explained it 10 seconds.
I'm self taught by ear and have been playing for decades that way. NOBODY has ever taught me THIS way to practice, or explained "modes" like you just did! MUCH LESS intimidating than I once thought, so thank you!
So true!!
Loved it!! Thanks so much!!
Your channel is a delightful discovery. The video is very helpful as I have studiously resisted learning how to sight read for seventy years. 😄
Gran lección! Muchas gracias!
Great lesson! Thanks a lot!
Best steps for jazz ,,very clear lesson,,,,very councern,,humble and good teacher you are!!!!salut and appreciates you!
This is a good clear explanation of the subject. Well done.
Thanks for these beautiful Exercises that you have taught us👍👍👍
By far one of the best piano tutorials ive seen so far!!
This was fun. Thank you
Yep! Guitar is super heavy on modes, too. But im trying to teach myself keys so i really appreciate your teaching.
thanks so much jonny
Thank you Jonny. Very informative, спасибо!
Real great lesson! Thank you!
Great pointers....thanx!
When you improvised at 1:58 that was awesome! You do what George Gershwin did. Played like you have three hands! That’s awesome! I want to master that!
You teach so good Johnny! Thanks a ton!
Wow, what a fab explanation and method of practicing Modes 👍
So helpful. I have been listening to you on Spotify as well! Sounds great!
Thank you for this jazzpiano lesson. I have a better understanding of modes
I think you do fantastic work creating and sharing those smart exercises trying to systematize the teaching of something as hard to systematize as jazz. Congratulations!
Thanks so much!
Thank you teacher.. godbles you more
Great lesson! I’m just a novice. But this exercise is jazz version Hanon that you can practice on without looking at the sheet or even keyboard.
You explained modes better than any of the resources I had available to me (my directors, other music instructors, and tutorial books) in the first 4 minutes . To be honest, I still had no idea what the modes really were until now. I'm already nearly 10 years into music and I started trying to learn Jazz my 2nd year in.
This is very cool lesson !
This Exercise is pretty good .Thank you.
Nice exercise!
Dobra lekcja .Ciekawo i przejrzyście przedstawiona .Już ćwiczę i jestem krok do przodu .🙂
wow this is an amazing tutorial - I can't wait to try this out
Great scale 💡 ideas!
Merci beaucoup for this. You are inspiring for beginners.
What a great way to practice modes. It is very musical already and great for me as a beginner. Thanks for sharing! I also like the idea of the "chromatic connector" :D
Since I learned piano for about a year as a child 40 years ago I always have lived with piano, I tried a lot of famous pieces of composers from the many sonatas up to Hungarian Rhapsody of Franz Liszt by myself.
but now feel that only left some arpeggios, some chords like triads,diminished and major,minor scales to me.
20 years ago I tried Jazz piano. but from the first page there're only tons of stacked chords and confusing scales, so I gave up.
After I meet your channel , I begin to have some hope that I can learn and play jazz music.
Jonny , Thanks for sharing your great talent ! I won't give up this time :D
Jonny, an element of understanding modes, thus teaching modes, is the W/H step pattern progression as you move through the modes, giving each mode its unique flavor. As soon as I understood that, I had a foundation for further understanding the application..so it may be helpful to others...
This sounds like good prep for Fly Me to the Moon in Piano With Jonny! :)
Fly me to the moon is one of my favorite songs. A year ago I did a Chord Melody guitar tutorial on it..
I am presently working on another video also in guitar. It's not ready yet.
You are an excellent teacher. Thank you so much for this video! 🙏🏻😊
Glad it was helpful!
This is a great exercise. I use it to get more comfortable in the key my current song is in. After playing it 10 minutes I get into a kind of a flow, which makes my playing and improvising much more fluent. Highly recommended!
Excelent as always 👍🏻👏🏻💪🏻🎼♾
Excellent!!!
You are amazing. Love you so so much
Very good explanation!
Very nice and thank you so much sir for beginners
Never dull... Tx
Very interesting and clear for understanding. Thanks for the video....
very good teacher thank you
Thank you so much this is very helpful!
I'm so glad!
Thank you . very goog lesson
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Thankyou😘😘😘
Great work...tnks...
finally...some fun with scales....thanks
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If I was in charge of a college piano department. I would make learning all of Piano w Jonny exercises required material whether the student was jazz or classical.
very very helpful for a full dark sided learner and it grew my interest 100%
This is really helpful, thanks a million.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice exercise 👍
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Thanks sir
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Well explained
COVID-19 is evil, but at least it is like my mom telling me when I was 8 to go to my room. Now that I'm stuck at home, I'm actually practicing piano. This video, out of the dozens I have watched, is my favorite. Love the way you teach Jonny! Thank you
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Excellent channel, excellent exercises love it 👌🙌🎹🎶🎵 I suscribed
Such a nice tutorial guy.
Jonny got some swagger !
You're the best tutorialler ever
the best method to understand jazz scales
Hi Johnny..
Hope all is well 👍 Good job dude 👏 Warm cheers 😊 God bless 🙏🎸🎶
The saxophone player Phil Woods has a similar exercise where you go up scales the traditional way but in going down you skip notes which would be like major or minor thirds and each time progress up one note from the bottom in going up again.
#Excellent Lesson!
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I need this
Great
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I think you should say that you need a paid membership for the sheet music. The video says you can "find it" below, but you don't provide it for free. A free example in C would complement the video and still preserve the market for your smart sheets.
Nice tutorials Sir.Your voice sounds like jason bateman in the Ozark netflix.
just too good
Hi :) could you make video about harmonic Major
cdefg a-flat b and his modes? :)
I mean modal progressions,phrasing,motive development,improvisations etc :)
Good
Hey, what were the keys in the left hand from the bit in the very beginning?
Hey Jonny, do you have any tips for finger movement doing this exercise in other keys? It’s pretty straight forward in C, but if there is some basic guideline we should follow for say, F and it’s modes, I’d be curious to hear your thoughts.
1234 1 for F because of the Bb is awkward to do it on 123 1
Great exercise, thanks Jonny! Question: is there a trick with regard to correct fingering in the other keys? In C it’s obviously very easy as we can do the “1,2,3, thumb under” through all the modes...
My question exactly. Lots of tutorials gloss over the fingerings. Please advise.
Great lesson!
@@anthonysilva5312 Nice as a lesson, but also very frustrating, because if we want to transpose the exercise, which in jazz is more than useful, even necessary, no explanation is given as to which fingerings to use, zero explanation, zero fingering! Very unfortunate, I think.
Nice as a lesson, but also very frustrating, because if we want to transpose the exercise, which in jazz is more than useful, even necessary, no explanation is given as to which fingerings to use, zero explanation, zero fingering! Very unfortunate, I think.
A jazz piano book I'm learning one has simple intuitive guideline: any scale starting on a white key, start with your thumb (1). Any starting on black, start with index (2). It makes things a whole lot easier
So what would happen if we went and started it on D? Would I play the D major scale and then start on the next note in the scale? So on E it would be E,F#,G,A,B,C#,E AND F# With the left hand using dm7, bm7,em6, and A7?
This was a great video.
Very cool! The beginning of the video sounds like Lennie Tristano. Can you tell us how to do the walking bass?