Jazz Piano For Beginners: Getting Started (Lesson 1)
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
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In this Jazz Piano online course I will bring you from the level of a complete jazz beginner up to the level of an intermediate/advanced pianist. We will talk about both theory and applications, and cover concepts ranging from chords and scales, to diatonic harmony, voicings, substitutions, soloing, tensions, and much more.
In this first lesson I will just give you an overview of what I plan to cover and also get you familiarized with a jazz ballad - we will return to this ballad many times to illustrate many of the theoretical and abstract concepts you will pick up along the way. You can just listen to it now, or try and learn to play it by copying what I do (this is not required for the remainder of the course, and just a "bonus challenge" for those of you up to the task). I hope this course inspires and motivates younger pianists who want to master this fascinating art form.
Table of Contents
0:00 Introduction
1:50 A jazz ballad
2:41 Discussing the ballad
3:52 Playing the chords (optional)
6:30 Slow version (optional)
That piece of music brought tears to my eyes. From a very young age I remember asking my mother if I could learn the piano, I played until 9 years old, got a distinction in my exam. Unfortunately family dissolved, many unloved moments until i left home. I never played again, but always had a piano in the house, hoping that my children may pick it up one day, they tinkered a bit, but nothing serious. Neither my husband or myself play, but, I still have a piano. I don't believe in coincidences, your video just popped up in my feed, it made me stop, look and listen. I'm now 62, crying at you playing. Maybe it's time to start again and what a wonderful way to learn. Thank you so much. ❤
I'm 62, and I'm learning to play jazz. I am a ham-fisted doofus. If I can do it, anybody can. I mean, you have the piano right there! So get to it!
❤ please do it
My mum had high hopes for us but alas only room for piano was the cold garage, not the best environment to get inspired. Passed a couple of exams but that was it. Just moved into an old house which has a piano left behind. Not getting a TV now we just gonna learn to play this piano yeeha
How am I not paying for this?! How is this series free?! Thank you a million times for sharing your love and passion for music Assaf!
No prob. Just be sure to like, comment, subscribe, share, tell your grandma and neighbors and advertise in your local school.
of course!@@MangoldProject
Thank you bro for your constant love towards us 🎉
Thank you for your generosity in sharing your Jazz knowledge with millions of piano ( neophytes ) enthusiasts. I look forward for your Jazz lessons eagerly!!!!
More to come!
Waiting with baited breath. So excited that someone one is taking us jazz beginners by the hand. Thank you so much.
This is exactly what UA-cam needs for beginners like me. Thank you, Sir!
Welcome!
Beautiful sounding chords! I'm really looking forward to your online piano course!!
Awesome, thank you!
Thank you for your time and effort to make these wonderful videos. Most of others are playing difficult pieces which is impossible for beginners to follow, so we have to buy their courses or membership. You are the only one which is totally free with 1st class standard. Thank you so much!
You don't have idea... How much you've helped me
Thanks for always giving these lessons at our own amateurish level even though u are a pro
Let's hope they're at the appropriate level for as many people as possible ...
This is just perfect, I was watching your older videos and I just realized that you created a brand new series, thank you
Very nice!. I am looking forward to this series.
Thanks for your contribution ❤ and love towards us 👍🙏
This was an outstanding instructional video, as always. Thank you very much, it is greatly appreciated. And please keep it up.
Non mancherò di seguirti in questa nuova avventura. Mi congratulo con te per aver impiegato il tuo tempo in un corso che non si trova su youtube, se non per chi è già esperto nella materia. Grazie mille e un grosso saluto dall'Italia. Ciao.❤
Thank you for your patience and good thougts for your students who are eager to learn
Amazing! Thanks for this. I realy need this course
very excited about this thank you, will be there the whole journey
Thank you. This is just what I need right now.
Looking forward to this series. Thanks a lot! :)
Thank you so much! This first lesson already got me so excited and motivated to learn. Grateful to have your generous guidance.
Happy to hear that, and I always appreciate my viewers' thoughts on the individual videos as they work through them.
Thank you in advance for your valuable work!
Great teacher always
Ale ekstra, nie mogę się doczekać kolejnych filmów z tej serii. Wydaje mi się, że rozumiem wszystkie koncepcje, ale z przyjemnością je sobie powtórzę, bo warto. Świetny pomysł. Dzięki i miłego dnia.
Finally starting to dive into this course. Wonderfully illuminating and exemplary. I learn something once and it’s there solidly from which to move on and build the next level. Excellent instruction technique. Many thanks. Can’t wait to get home from work to get back into it each morning.
Im sooo looking forward to this.
WOW! Really looking forward to this series! Many thanks! :)
Looking forward to seeing you in subsequent lessons!
Thank you so much, I have been wanting to learn the basics for years ! And you are the one person I dreamt to learn from. I will wirk hard on each lesson. ❤
Awesome! I hope you enjoy the "journey".
wonderful, thank you!
My journey has just started thanks man for this ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Can't wait until next week. Thanks Assaf.
Bless you for this.
Wow this is amazing! Thank you so much, looking forward to this course!
Hope you enjoy it!
What a great lesson! Just learned all the chords and im gonna learn the piece now 🤠
Thank you! I'm looking forward to the course although it looks like it will challenge me!
Very good and interesting way to learn from you - already I'm keen to progress further! Thank you, and see you at subsequent lessons.
Welcome aboard!
We appreciate you.
Thank you ♥️
Wish me luck ♥️
I’m on a mission 🎹🎼
I am very happy to see that you are making videos constantly keep doing the good job godbless you
Thanks! Trying to keep things going at a steady (but not-too-demanding) pace.
You're my good teacher..please make the videos in series
Lots of love❤❤
Thank you
This is so good❤
I’ve always felt like learning music theory is best when applied. Thank you so much for everything you do for us.
I have just begun to play piano. I am following yours earlier lessons and I am just amazed of your knowledge and willingness to share you experience. Thank you very, very much. You keep my lust and interest about music alive.
You have a gift to explain things.
Thank you.
Yes, I gave me Thumb up. Because I wanted to be the first. 😊
Hey, the more likes, comments and subscriptions my videos get, the more the YT algorithm likes them. Like/comment away! :)
Thank you very much🙏🙏✨
So happy to found your channel!
Welcome aboard!
I love your sir. Thank you for all you do
You are very welcome
Beautiful
As a new piano player I’m looking for your videos! Can you recommend a jazz piano book for beginners?
Splendid! I'm in!
Welcome aboard!
awesome dude，i really need this
Hop on board! There are already 11 lessons out, and more coming! Just look at the playlist link in the video description.
I've been following you for years with your jazz lessons and have learned alot from it, excited to join this and reignite my passion with jazz piano. I got stuck with just using the rootless voicings, and only comfortable using left had with the base chords and right had with the notes.
Hopefully you can add some sheets of the lessons so we can download and print?
Thanks once again for sharing your jazz piano passion and skill👏👏👏
I'll try to find a place to host these files so they can be easily downloaded.
Wow! So exciting. Recently starting practicing ii, V, l around circle of 4ths in various voicings to begin my hopes to become very comfortable with jazz progressions/songs. Many thanks.
Hope this series will get you to the next level.
@@MangoldProject if it does, I’m flying to Italy to give you a big old hug. 😉
Thankxx😊
You are great
Thankyou ❤❤❤
Amazing video series!!! This is perfect for where I am in my journey. I only really have a grasp on major and minor chords and the major scale, so excited to learn more! Also is there any way we can leave a tip as a thank you?
I don't have any tip jar anywhere. Just like, share and subscribe to help the channel out - that's always welcome.
Please more tutorials jazz for beginners...thanks
Coming, on a weekly basis.
Thank you soooooo much. Love that challenge extra. If there is a way to pay you, please let us know.
No need for payment. If you can then just like & subscribe & share the videos to help the channel out.
Thank you for creating and offering this wonderful Jazz resource! will you be adding the sheet music as well, for those of us who read music?
I will indeed! Coming soon ...
@@MangoldProjectMuch appreciated!!! Thank you 🙏
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Whats the jazz ballad called? Its nice :) - Im enjoying your course, you should considering adding lesson: a guide into voicings (rootless, shell, open, kerry baron and how to remember them for playing across all 12 keys)
An just an original piece I put down for the purpose of demonstration during this course.
@@MangoldProject well done mate, its very nice, i hope i can compose like you one day :)
As you go ahead - please keep it simple, habibi.... Toda!
That's the plan!
Wow that is so beautiful! 😍
Is it your composition? What is the Name of the Piece?
Im really looking forward to learning this 🙏
Yes, it's original.
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Hi. Im really tring to learn piano to be a better producer. I want to learn chords and learn everything about how to compose music just enough to become a better producer (not too worried about becoming an amazing player). I know a decent amount of basics such as scales, diads, triads, sus2 and sus4, but thats about it. Will these lessons teach me to truly advance my music theory knowledge and how often will you be posting?
Yes, and weekly.
Class is in session. Time to warm up the fingers and keyboards
Do you need to learn classical music before starting this?
I don't like classical because I'm learning piano for music production and i think jazz will help me to achieve thay because it focuses on theory and improvisation.
Not at all!
Starting now
Welcome aboard!
Now that I've heard most of the course, I haven't noticed you referring back to this piece beyond the first few lessons. Have I missed something?
No. You are correct. My yet-unfulfilled idea was to go back to it and analyze it using all of the techniques I taught, which is what I'll likely do at some point.
This is nice... I kinda wish the software would change colors when you have multiple presses .. so even if E is blue because you played it.. when you played it again, it should change to yellow, then red again until is fades out.. then blue again. It would make it easier to follow multiple keys that are pressed when they are already pressed before.
ChordieApp's the name. Take it up with the coder :)
@@MangoldProjectThx.. will look into it! :)
would be nice, to have the sheet above the keys.
That's going to be there as well once we start breaking down progressions in more detail. This is more of an overview first lesson.
I think that course will be too complex for me but still big thanks for other videos..
Feel free to ask questions in the comments and I will do my best to help out.
Can anyone actually advise me an artist who writes jazz piano like the one the video.
Today is the day I learned I have small hands
❤ once my kids are in bed I will practice ❤
How to use left hand
We will talk about ideas in the first few videos, before talking about specifics and implementation. Wait, this will come. For example, around lesson 10 I'll talk about how famous pianists voice their chords (Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, etc).
I would love to do this, but the glaring white screen above the keyboard prevents me. A lot of people suffer with bright white light on there eyesight, but very few video lessons accomodate this problem with a different less intrusive colour scheme, such a shame !!!
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, John. I will see what I can do, although the first two videos will likely remain unchanged (i.e. white).
Thank you so much.
Is this the first lesson for beginners of jazz ? Really
On my ancestors' graves.
[copy past other comments here] and add my gratitude!
6 days late but I’m now on this bus …
Welcome aboard!
Is this fof begginers ? Well its not it to hard.
That's easy?. It's the most complicated thing I have ever seen.
Wait, just watch the series. Trust me on this :)
This is way to advanced to be called 'for beginners'.
But you don't have to do anything in this lesson yet ... The work only starts in Lesson #2, where the discussion is very basic.
So, if I’m understanding correctly, at precisely 4:15 (for ex) this chord could be called (built as) any one of the three listed to the right, but is more commonly referred to as E min9 flat 5 over B-flat? So what I will be working to understand next is why the 9 is added to the top and why the flat five is repeated up top…AND…how to know this when using only Fake book or Real book charts. This is awesome. Thx again.
We'll answer all of those questions throughout the course.
You cannot know how to voice a chord based on a real book chart. In fact, the real book assumes you "know what you're doing" and doesn't hold your hand 95% of the time. It also assumes you'll be reharmonizing a lot. I'll teach you how to voice chords at we approach Lesson #10 or so. Stick around and you'll find out!
@@MangoldProject I am onto you 😉 i’m learning that every time you leave a little crumb trail, that they are there to peak the interest so in a later lesson it’s more meaningful to the student. You are an awesome excellent skilled teacher. Just like in the new lesson five, you revealed the 251 and451 progression with the unknown “?” chords. I know with patience these mysteries will be resolved too. I’m still working hard with the cord and scale chapters to transpose to different keys and different voicings, but determined to keep up. Can’t thank you enough.
I ended up taking screenshots of all these cord voicings. I don’t suppose there is a PDF of the score available? Many thanks.
Hi Martin. No PDF (yet!).
@@MangoldProject Great. Thank you. Screenshots it is :-)
Really enjoying this course. Just this morning I had another aha moment relistening to lesson two when you explained again that these were all unique seventh chords. Then I realized all of the voicings are a manifestation of this, and it made them less scary/intimidating. Thx again.
Question: I took screen shots of the chords in the opening example. But in lesson two the ballad uses different chords in two of the measures as shown here ua-cam.com/video/5hfXKJh84WY/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared&t=1007
Will this be explained in later lessons? I’m working with them as if they are simply different voicings to see if I’m missing something. Thx.
The version of the ballad used after Lesson 1 is a simplified form, which will get complicated as we work through the course and pick up ideas about harmonizations. Eventually we will recover the original "full" form shown in Lesson 1.