Great video content! Forgive me for butting in, I would love your initial thoughts. Have you researched - Riddleagan Smart Hands Remedy (search on google)? It is a great exclusive guide for learning piano fast without the normal expense. Ive heard some interesting things about it and my close friend Aubrey after many years got amazing results with it.
I have watched hundreds of videos that claim to teach improvisation, a dark art that so far has completely eluded me. This is the very first lesson that has 'clicked' for me. The bones of improv are right there! Thanks, Jonny.
This guy is incredible. I have wondered how to get that sound for 20 years. And there it is in a 12 minute video. I also thought it would take years of practice. But it's dead easy. Best piano teacher I've ever seen. I love his videos.
I have watched tons of videos on blues improv. I learned the blues C scale and have known it well for years but it always felt robotic and too rehearsed. It just never sounded right This video helped me "feel" the blues notes I was playing for the first time. It's incredible. The foundations for learning blues is here. Thank you Jonny.
You are simply amazing man!! Anyone can do a piano video - but NO ONE has ever done over 1000 of the quality you have. I believe your instructional cannon is unique and frankly a massive asset (to be monetized). If only there were another Jonny to help ya with these videos - but there simply is NO SUBSTITUE. AMAZING.
COVID-19 and being quarantined has made it possible for me to see this video, otherwise, I couldn't have seen it. What a great jazz-blues lesson and you've made it so simple. Man, I must admit, you are an excellent teacher. I wish I joined your lessons 10 years ago I could have been a professor of jazz piano by now. Thanks.
Johnny always delivers the goods. This harmonization lesson is pure gold. I'm a blues harmonica player and this stuff is essentially in every blues song you've ever heard. The Best 👍🏾
Sir, you are a great teacher. Thank you for these amazing lessons, I was looking for it for a very long time, and now I got everything I need to practice my blues on the piano!
i think i've learned more in this video that in over 10 years. granted i've not been very invested in learning the piano, as guitar is my main instrument. but it's amazing the quality of resources you can find online today
Where were your instuctional videos 40 years ago (joke)? For all these years I've been trying to find that jazzy sound. Listening, practicing even lessons didn't get me past a certain level. Amazing how much information you pack into your short videos. Easy to understand. Many thanks. I think I buy a piano again.
Thanks Jonny. I have been practicing the right hand technique with a I III V VI (over the I7 IV7 V7 progression) ascending/sometimes descending swing left hand bass line and it sounds great. Sometimes I throw the flat III/flat VII in the bass line as well. I need to work on the octave carry over on the right hand that you demonstrated, a lot :) Great lesson though, I am only half way through. I appreciate the inversion fingering on the left hand IV7 and V7. Always knew I could work it out but nice to just be shown. My left pinky is always chasing the root and its nice to have it planted on the I for the IV chord. And only moving the pinky up by one whole tone for the V7 is nice too. Sometimes I will finger the left with the pinky on the root though so I can swing the thumb up to the root off of the flat VII :)
Really nice lesson! Everyone who wants to play the blues should spend lots of time with very basic right hand harmonized blues scale derived riffs while learning stride techniques with the left hand, as it is super important in all types of blues or New Orleans style piano.
Hey Johnny: I'm new to this channel as well as the piano! 😲 I've been playing the bass and been singing (half pro/full time) for 35 years, so I'm familiar with all the "dirty words" like G13, diatonic, 2-5-1, 4-to-the-floor etc., but quite a few things are COMPLETELY new to me in this universe, and I feel like I'm starting all over at 1st grade in school: And I juzz luuuv it! First of all: Bass or vocal: Maybe a few octaves or 5ths on the bass, but I almost never sing more than one note at the time ... 😉 Now ... With the piano ... JEEEEE !!!!!!! By default I can play TEN notes all at once! Accidently I can even play more, and with the pedal we are closing in on 88 notes all at once !!!!! In other words: There are SOOO many possibilities of doing something wrong! With the bass and the voice you are striving for precision/pitch and rhythm/being tight, but with the piano you don't care at all about pitch, and - playing by yourself - you don't have to care too much about how tight you play ... if you know what I mean. (Of course the rock'n'roll stuff like boogie woogie, jazz standards etc. needs to be fairly tight, but i.e. the cocktail stuff or flashy concierto maestro highclass classical sound-like repertoire: dabbling with the beat is even a musical effect or type of expression! Here's an example: A TOP educated pianist from Denmark (Katrine Gislinge), playing a theme from a - in Denmark - famous tv-series called "Matador": ua-cam.com/video/tvyr0HWIPuk/v-deo.html I would like to hear YOU playing this thing!) My GAAAD, I'm babbling ... What I'm trying to say is: I've been watching, listening to, trying to play/rehearse some of the stuff from you "famous" UA-cam content providers, and: I ALWAYS get back to YOUR channel! I'm LIGHTYEARS behind, since I purchased the Roland FP-10 a week ago (4th of February 2023), but your ENERGY and LUUUUVE for the sound of a certain chord like ... whatever it's called: A in the bass, G-C-C#-F in the right hand ... (You call it "A7" in this video: ua-cam.com/video/lyjCSSL4wPU/v-deo.html ... but is it really ... I would call it "A-diff" ... Short for "A difficult!" 😁) Well ... I should stop babbling: You INSPIRE me to learn about this GODDAM TUFF instrument! 😎🎹✌ (I'm in the process of creating a jazzy piece of melosic inspired by YOU!)
Woah ! I wasn't expecting such a great video at all. You explain really useful patterns for blues and I love it ! You have a great technique and you reveals so much secrets about solos in blues. And we can watch this video for free !
Thank you, finally somebody made it easy to understand!! I wish you showed the dominant chord. The blues without dominant chord isn’t blues. Some people wouldn’t know how to end. There’s a minor third on the 5th cord.
You are fantastic! I can read music ..up to grade 9 RCM piano. It has always been just easier to read. Hundreds of songs. Your instruction makes it so easy to understand.. and do my own playing in this genre instead of always reading. What a good job you do of putting it in simple terms. I love my Chopin, but this is very exciting to me. Like the song from "Aladdin" ..it is .."A Whole New World"!!
00:00 Intro
00:40 3 blues chords: C7, F7, G7
01:10 12-bar blues
01:55 4-on-the-floor rhythm
02:17 Harmonize the blues scale
03:51 1st exercise: 8th note
05:00 Play with backing track
06:18 Creating lines
07:22 2nd exercise: triplets
08:30 Play with backing track
09:14 Creating lines
09:59 3rd exercise: slides
11:06 Play with backing track
11:31 Creating lines
11:49 Combine all exercises with backing tacks
12:46 Conclusion
Great video content! Forgive me for butting in, I would love your initial thoughts. Have you researched - Riddleagan Smart Hands Remedy (search on google)? It is a great exclusive guide for learning piano fast without the normal expense. Ive heard some interesting things about it and my close friend Aubrey after many years got amazing results with it.
Time stamp andy
how about if song basic cord play A-C#m-D-E ... im beginner 🙏
man why couldn't you have been my piano teacher when i was a kid.
Lol yeah no kidding right!!
Dude. You're a godsend. I play midi beats (play by ear) and this was helpful.
Yes I hated piano when I was small. Now I wanna play again.
Even he was, you couldn't be able to afford it.
WHEN the student is ready the teacher will show up. ENJOY 😎
Exactly what I thought 👍
I have watched hundreds of videos that claim to teach improvisation, a dark art that so far has completely eluded me. This is the very first lesson that has 'clicked' for me. The bones of improv are right there! Thanks, Jonny.
Glad it was helpful!
This guy is incredible. I have wondered how to get that sound for 20 years. And there it is in a 12 minute video.
I also thought it would take years of practice. But it's dead easy.
Best piano teacher I've ever seen. I love his videos.
😅
It feels like Christmas! All the mysterious blues mysteries explained! THANK YOUUUU!!! 👏👏👏💐💖
I have watched tons of videos on blues improv. I learned the blues C scale and have known it well for years but it always felt robotic and too rehearsed. It just never sounded right
This video helped me "feel" the blues notes I was playing for the first time. It's incredible. The foundations for learning blues is here. Thank you Jonny.
Every time I watch one of your videos I can’t wait to try it out
You are simply amazing man!! Anyone can do a piano video - but NO ONE has ever done over 1000 of the quality you have. I believe your instructional cannon is unique and frankly a massive asset (to be monetized). If only there were another Jonny to help ya with these videos - but there simply is NO SUBSTITUE. AMAZING.
COVID-19 and being quarantined has made it possible for me to see this video, otherwise, I couldn't have seen it. What a great jazz-blues lesson and you've made it so simple. Man, I must admit, you are an excellent teacher. I wish I joined your lessons 10 years ago I could have been a professor of jazz piano by now. Thanks.
That was, indeed, a very simple and practical lesson for beginners! Lots of bang for your buck if you are new to blues piano. Good job, Jonny! Thanks.
This is so cool, Jonny! Thank you very much! 👍👍👍
as a beginner I was struggling for months, and man, you open the door for me, thanks for that, great method, keep going.
So happy to help!
Awesome; super simple but getting an overview of how to fill in slow blues measures that can be so redundant for the novice.
A fantastic blues improv lesson. Thank you for putting this scores in the video to make it easy for us to follow and understand!
Very good lesson Thank you,
I’ve always been looking for how to play boogie woogie/blues piano. I just found what I needed to begin learning thank you!
Happy to help!
Nice teaching! Thank you Sir🎉
Johnny always delivers the goods. This harmonization lesson is pure gold. I'm a blues harmonica player and this stuff is essentially in every blues song you've ever heard. The Best 👍🏾
I love how much you feel the music. It makes me feel it all the more. Awesome video!
God bless this guy
Sir, you are a great teacher. Thank you for these amazing lessons, I was looking for it for a very long time, and now I got everything I need to practice my blues on the piano!
Excellent information I love playing. blues. Cheers.
A good teacher!
ive been looking for a while to replicate that sound and you just made it super simple. Thank you!
This is really great! You’re a great teacher!
Thaths what is was searching for!!! Thank you
Omg thank u! You’re so good teacher
great energy Jonny thank you!
Oh my god! Love it! Classical pianist here, but LOVE blues and I wanted to have a bit of fun for Christmas! Thanks for this amazing online class!
Glad you enjoyed it!
For years I've been curious and then piano with Jonny... learned a lot in 15 minutes!
Wow. You’re a good teacher.
you arr best teacher in the world ,and wery kind man,God blees you for your kind
These are so useful important of technique for people who have no idea its technique what is playing. Thank you!!
Many thanks Jonny! As a classical trained pianist you finally make me learn something about playing Jazz.
agree!
Merci beaucoup, c'est vraiment très bien.
i think i've learned more in this video that in over 10 years. granted i've not been very invested in learning the piano, as guitar is my main instrument. but it's amazing the quality of resources you can find online today
Thank you for sharing your knowledge for playing piano
Dobra lekcja .Świetnie to pokazałeś jak grać w skali blues .👍🙂
Great lesson, thank you Jonny.
Please make more videos for beginners how to play blues.
I am 15 and currently learning c jam blues, you don't understand how helpful this is to revise on.
So thank you i guess :)
from italy . great jonny. you make me know what's blues my favourite music. Thanks
Best teacher ever!
JONNY THE BEST. THANK YOU SO MUCH...
Such a great video and great teaching! Literally didn't know blues, and a few minutes later I got it down!!! Thank you!!
Best 13 minutes 33 seconds on UA-cam! I'm soon to be your new student.
Thanks
You are amazing teacher. Thank you so much
You are excellent at teaching. Thank you for sharing these videos.
Thanks Jonny for sharing your musical knowledge with us. Greetings from Concepciòn-Chile.
My pleasure!
Where were your instuctional videos 40 years ago (joke)? For all these years I've been trying to find that jazzy sound. Listening, practicing even lessons didn't get me past a certain level. Amazing how much information you pack into your short videos. Easy to understand. Many thanks. I think I buy a piano again.
awesome! THanks for the help!
Thanks Jonny. I have been practicing the right hand technique with a I III V VI (over the I7 IV7 V7 progression) ascending/sometimes descending swing left hand bass line and it sounds great. Sometimes I throw the flat III/flat VII in the bass line as well.
I need to work on the octave carry over on the right hand that you demonstrated, a lot :) Great lesson though, I am only half way through.
I appreciate the inversion fingering on the left hand IV7 and V7. Always knew I could work it out but nice to just be shown. My left pinky is always chasing the root and its nice to have it planted on the I for the IV chord. And only moving the pinky up by one whole tone for the V7 is nice too.
Sometimes I will finger the left with the pinky on the root though so I can swing the thumb up to the root off of the flat VII :)
I don't understand how you don't have many more views, you fully deserve them
Very motivating!
Really nice lesson! Everyone who wants to play the blues should spend lots of time with very basic right hand harmonized blues scale derived riffs while learning stride techniques with the left hand, as it is super important in all types of blues or New Orleans style piano.
One of the few channels where I want intro to be longer
Great lesson.
Hey Johnny:
I'm new to this channel as well as the piano! 😲
I've been playing the bass and been singing (half pro/full time) for 35 years, so I'm familiar with all the "dirty words" like G13, diatonic, 2-5-1, 4-to-the-floor etc., but quite a few things are COMPLETELY new to me in this universe, and I feel like I'm starting all over at 1st grade in school:
And I juzz luuuv it!
First of all: Bass or vocal: Maybe a few octaves or 5ths on the bass, but I almost never sing more than one note at the time ... 😉
Now ...
With the piano ...
JEEEEE !!!!!!!
By default I can play TEN notes all at once!
Accidently I can even play more, and with the pedal we are closing in on 88 notes all at once !!!!!
In other words:
There are SOOO many possibilities of doing something wrong!
With the bass and the voice you are striving for precision/pitch and rhythm/being tight, but with the piano you don't care at all about pitch, and - playing by yourself - you don't have to care too much about how tight you play ... if you know what I mean.
(Of course the rock'n'roll stuff like boogie woogie, jazz standards etc. needs to be fairly tight, but i.e. the cocktail stuff or flashy concierto maestro highclass classical sound-like repertoire: dabbling with the beat is even a musical effect or type of expression!
Here's an example: A TOP educated pianist from Denmark (Katrine Gislinge), playing a theme from a - in Denmark - famous tv-series called "Matador": ua-cam.com/video/tvyr0HWIPuk/v-deo.html
I would like to hear YOU playing this thing!)
My GAAAD, I'm babbling ...
What I'm trying to say is:
I've been watching, listening to, trying to play/rehearse some of the stuff from you "famous" UA-cam content providers, and:
I ALWAYS get back to YOUR channel!
I'm LIGHTYEARS behind, since I purchased the Roland FP-10 a week ago (4th of February 2023), but your ENERGY and LUUUUVE for the sound of a certain chord like ... whatever it's called: A in the bass, G-C-C#-F in the right hand ... (You call it "A7" in this video: ua-cam.com/video/lyjCSSL4wPU/v-deo.html ... but is it really ...
I would call it "A-diff" ...
Short for "A difficult!" 😁)
Well ... I should stop babbling:
You INSPIRE me to learn about this GODDAM TUFF instrument! 😎🎹✌
(I'm in the process of creating a jazzy piece of melosic inspired by YOU!)
Good one, Jonny. Thanks for posting this great lesson. Keep these blues tutorials coming.
You're awesome, you are opening the secrets of that juicy joy of blues to us noobs.
This is great. 🙏🏻
great teacher
Wow thank you 🙏
Jonny you have nice videos I have too now play blues, rock 1950s,jazz and other! Realy thanks I follow you! Greetings from Bosna and Hercegovina!
I have been looking for 7:39 And 9:34 for weeks! Thanks sooooo much.
Glad I could help!
Loved the groove in this video. Ill be playing this when I get home thank you
Woah ! I wasn't expecting such a great video at all. You explain really useful patterns for blues and I love it ! You have a great technique and you reveals so much secrets about solos in blues. And we can watch this video for free !
Glad you liked it!
Great, thanks!
Wonderful video! Thanks, Johnny.
I can't sleep already😊
Very interesting!!!💖
So sweet johny. Luv it ,hope i can do it,,
Super lesson, thank you!
I love it,i got it.i need more practice.
This is excellent. Thank you for posting
Very helpful!
So glad!
Wonderful lesson ! You’re the best. 1000 🙏 thanks
Thank you! 😃
Johnny's a great teacher 💯
That’s great, thank you and bravo, you are a brilliant teacher! 👏👏👏
So glad I found these videos. Have been looking for good jazz resources for 3 months
Красавчик мэн, просто супер урок!!! где жты раньше был лет так 25 назад...
Thank you, finally somebody made it easy to understand!! I wish you showed the dominant chord. The blues without dominant chord isn’t blues. Some people wouldn’t know how to end. There’s a minor third on the 5th cord.
I believe the 7 chords he is showing are the dominant chords- Cmaj + flattened 7th (Bb instead of B)
amazing video and amazing teacher
Thanks you so much jon. This's a very very good lesson.
This video is very useful .Thanks man
You are fantastic! I can read music ..up to grade 9 RCM piano. It has always been just easier to read. Hundreds of songs. Your instruction makes it so easy to understand.. and do my own playing in this genre instead of always reading. What a good job you do of putting it in simple terms. I love my Chopin, but this is very exciting to me. Like the song from "Aladdin" ..it is .."A Whole New World"!!
Great video and very good introduction to the blues, thanks from Toulouse !
Sooo gooooood!!! Thank you so much Jonny
Awesome 12:02 Thank you Jonny
VERY GOOD 🎀
Awesome man. Thank you so much!
You are amazing!
Awesome video! Thanks for posting, I'm so excited:)
Thank you so much great teacher!
Lovely! Thanks !
dude this is AWESOME
Muito obrigado... aqui no Brasil gostamos das suas aulas...melhor didática.
thanks,
dude that was an awesome lesson thanks so much
well done! great style
JUST SO GOOD. Incredibly helpful.
Gold