Jonny. Thank you! As a singer that loves jazz, and with some skills on keys, you have wonderfully illustrated some useful tips that have made me actually sound cooler trying to play jazz piano. By the way, in some study a while back, I believe the gospel scale appears to be the Blues scale. Again, loved this.
Johnny, you do a wonderful job of helping people make music from bite sized bits. Lots of great players on RU-vid, not a lot of clear teachers. Thank you for your investment into generations of musicians!
@@robertmichalscheck3072 so true.There are many fast bunch of notes players and you get not so much from them. Johnny has both: Player-Teacher and well explained.
@@jamesrussell5196 - hahaha. My comment was meant to be a bit humorous, but true nonetheless. I’m 73 years old, and when I took up sax at age 13, in my town there were only 2 nearby teachers. They both taught classical-oriented music right out of the book. Etude #3... study #7 by Chopin... Concerto #3 by Debussy, etc. So sax players were basically playing classical clarinet music. We had no access to these lessons 50-60 years ago. That was my point.
Jonny, Wow! I've been fooling around with the keys for years and could play a few songs with cords but in just 24 hours I am making music. What a rush..... My hands are too stiff to play the guitar these days so this is a real treat to be able to make music again. I feel like there is light at the end of the tunnel. What a wonderful Christmas gift. Thanks brother, Eddie
I’ve watched dozens of jazz theory videos over the last couple weeks and this confirms for me that Piano With Jonny is the perfect fit for me. I’m definitely signing up for his courses now. It’s everything I want to know and it sounds so good I just get in the mood and want to start jamming.
@@MauriatOttolink Wow i'm gona start blocking you nasty people. You're absolutely spoiling my new journey. I bought a piano 3 weeks ago and felt priviliged to have found a fantastic comments section for a change in the piano section, but today i'm meeting 2 or 3 very negative people. Shame.
@@jackladd4332 Er... It was 5 months ago or more!. I have no idea what had got up my nose to prompt that comment..Something must have but in the circumstances and to preserve your peace of mind, I unreservedly withdraw it.
Great Tutorial ! i feel so overwhelmed by the ton of stuff u need or can learn about jazz. And this really is a helpful little lesson that sets the focus to a tiny part I really appreciate that, thank you sir!
Thanks for this dude. I’m a classically trained pianist and have always wanted to learn to play like this. I’m on my way now after this video. You have a new sub!
another example of a good video on how to approach jazz. As classical musicians this can allude you for a long time. There are many videos similar to this jazz duets etc. thank you for the time and your effort put into this work.
Thank you so much for your lessons! I had to watch a couple of them before I finally 'grasped' how to start improvising, but now I can happily state that I can manage simple yet fun improvs. So excited to keep on practicing and getting better at piano, thank you!
Wow!!!! What a fabulous lesson. I'm an intermediate rock blues player and learned more in this video than in any lesson I ever had. Thank you soooooo much for sharing your talents. I'm a new subscriber and look forward to more great teaching from you.
Love it Jonny! I've been faking it for years and you make it easy to understand what is I'm already doing - then I can move on to you showing me things I didn't know!
Thanks for kickstarting some basic Jazz applications using the D minor Blues Pentatonic Scale [D F G Ab A C D] [ 1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 1 ]....or what you call the Gospel Scale......the altered Major scale. I appreciate your simplistic approach and adding rhythms accordingly. it makes what appears difficult very doable.
If anyone can teach jazz, you are the best. My first piano teacher was a classically trained nun who turned me off to improvisation by focussing on reading music completely. My jazz clarinet father was interested in having his son learn to play the piano, never realizing that in the process she turned off any interest in improvisation. It was a "read the notes" approach in which you are reading other people's written improvisation. Jazz is a building of an improvisational skill that starts with an attempt at playing tunes in simplicity to more and more complex structures. It all starts with "fooling around" at the piano and that "fooling around" gets more and more complex.
Hello, I loved your classes! I am from Brazil and aeria very good if your classes were subtitled in Portuguese. Brother you are beast and explain very well even for what is from another country. Congratulations!
Excellent. Nice context and framework. I read over the comments. Few nitpickers out there. C'mon, give the guy a break. Success means you're inspired to use this as a stepping point to further exploration. Here in spades so kudos. Safest to avoid slang, especially with an international audience. "What's up" is a casual slang greeting. Nothing more. So" Piece out dudes..."
I was at first confused with this scale, but it is the same as D minor blues scale (D minor pentatonic plus b5), played over both Dm7 and G7 (so called minorization in the latter case). Makes it easier to understand and to transpose.
Stephane Charette - He doesn’t explain it very well. It has the same exact notes as a D minor blues scale, but it just starts on an F. You could think of it as a major pentatonic scale but with a flat 3rd too. Hope this helped.
