Latin Jazz Piano - Cuban Groove Lesson Demo from "Sugar Cubes" 

Great lesson! Your ability to point out the nuances of the style in detail is really helpful. Super appreciative of what you do! 🙏

Thank you Jonny! Your lessons really make sense to me, not rushing too fast. Counting it all out helps DUMMIES like me. Need more teachers like you!

Damn, this is exactly the kind of straight up salsa piano lesson that I always wanted to learn. It's the perfect foundation, because from this you can develop a whole bunch of spin off patterns just by changing the syncopation and timing and even the voicings. Thank you so much! God bless you for sharing this. Can't wait to try it out.

Loved it will try learning this. Thank you for not rushing it for beginners its not easy . You are definitely awesome.

I’m so excited to see this! I’ve been doing your blues challenge and I’m obsessed. So happy to see Latin music, as it’s a genre I know hardly anything about piano wise.

The more developed left hand has a fun and funky boogie-woogie feel to it. And your explanations are clear and concise. Thank you so much!

You are great...thank you so much !!!!! Never sawn patterns explied in so wonderful way !!

Great tutorial! Really easy to follow even for a beginner

You're just amazing. I wish you were in Montreal for lessons in person! I trained in classical piano, but trying to have more fun with latin/blues piano-- I'm not good at pushing myself through online classes, but yours are really well made.

I really enjoy your lessons. Thank you!

12:05 was just what i needed =] we all learn so differently!

You teach as well as you play. Perfecto!!

Awesome lesson! Love the montuno on piano!

This is incredibly well explained!

very nice. thanks for the lesson

thank you so much Jonny I love your lessons

At work watching this. Can’t wait to go home and learn this.

Thanks Jonny, awesome stuff

this is seriously awesome Thanks a lot for thiese chords :D

Loved this lesson! You explain it so well! I can do it and now I “just” need to get the speed up with 2 hands. It will be a while...

thanks jonny for the tutorial!!

FANTASTIC!

I don't want to learn piano. I want to listen and enjoy :) Especially your play

Cant wait to learn this

Thanks a lot for helping advance the music from my country Cuba 🇨🇺 to the world. Although Latin Jazz has evolved a lot from what it was 50 years ago. We take influence from a lot of other Cuban genres, old and new. Cool video though 😊

Jonny, this is what I've been looking for for years. I've only just started listening, and hope that there will be notation to visualise where the beats fall in each bar. I have neuro-cognitive and short term memory problems, but understand chords when seen on the piano keyboard, while the rhythm is seen on the score, as in a graphic grid form - which corresponds with percussion instruments. I use Cubase to record, but will also practice these rhythms. I'm from an era where I can remember that dancing was easy to keep the beat without the monotonous 4 kick beats that became what people called dance from about the eighties. Before that the bass was the rhythm, and in Latin it is from several sources. This is what makes it so exciting. I'm hoping to create a blend of synthetic, orchestral and 'ethnic' dance music for something that most would dance to. I'm curious as to whether the techno-oriented 'rave' crowd' would have 'mass lessons' on the side - if DJs would play 'new Latin', or Latin-based dance. My health has deteriorated since I stopped dancing. The joy of Latin dancing is perhaps one reason why Cuba, poorer than USA, has a higher life expectancy! Perhaps even crime rates can be lowered - if people had more communicative or cooperative dancing. I like the quick chord changes and the chromatic use of notes, especially the flattened ninth and fifth, where two notes a semitone apart are played together, and normally frowned upon in western music. I will be interested in seeing what Jazz does. Some 'musos' seem to want to keep it a 'secret' to themselves - without patience for those with musical 'disabilities'. Thanks.

merci pour tes cours c'est super je progresse grave tenks bro

thanks for that - very easy to follow

Thank's you from France !

Outstanding lesson!

I love this song, and I wanna learn it. Thanks for teaching. Let's dancing and grooving﹏

Thanks mate, that was really helpful!!!

thanks! Fantastic lesson :)

Here is a link to a transcription I made of this "teaser" mini-lesson: www.noteflight.com/scores/view/7182313c9fe25a26f435d063a967c567ea7cec05

Love it. Thanks Johnny.

You are awesome man! greeting from Argentina!

I played this for my Spanish teacher. He is from Cuba. I got a 100 percent on it

Omg you are so good!

THIS IS GREAT , I LOVE IT--

Джонни, твоя музыка ласкает слух. Слушаю и радуюсь! Johny, your music takes care for ears. I hear and get pleasure.

Love it

thank you very mach

Great teacher!

Brilliant, thanks

Thanks Johnny !

thanks

Great tutorial. Another vid with first cool bass line? Thanks.

Wow nice thank you!

brilliant video

Took me a while to get it down with that left hand bass at the end but sounds great.

This is great! :)

You should check out the music of the famous Cuban jazz pianist Rene Touzet. Your music reminds me of a lot of his compositions.

Great!!!

I really like playing piano. :D

Excellent

Nice🙏🏽🙌🏾

Can someone tell me the name of that virtual piano software that lets you see which key is being played?

how do you play that little solo

Introdução de seu vídeo, introdução da música "caso serio" com pianista Cesar Camargo no álbum piano e voz com seu filho Pedro Mariano.

bravo !!! biss !!!

Hi Jonny! Love your lesson! Just wanted to ask what model of piano are you using? Thanks.

Yes..... Tanks foe video Succwss.

I'd like to make some tutorials like this but I have no idea how to put this virtual piano in my video. If possible, please tell me.

Am7 B7 Bm7 E7 this is such a great chord progression

My grilfrend loves it. THX Jonny! :D . Greate Video !!!! Sub + Like

I like this. Is there any way to get lesson two without paying 25.00 a month?

I wish you also show sheet music too!

how can i get a full latinjazz/salsa piano course with videos and sheet and all? thanks

Me gusta te musica

No mention of clave. Montunos are not repeated patterns, unless you can't distinguish which clave the percussion is playing. Eventually you'll be playing in the wrong clave. Thats essential!

For sure! He's now his business 101%. Be smart guys and subscribe ;) Mr.May pleasure to meet you even though here. Best regards from Istanbul

But how play that on end???????

I know the video says "Latin Jazz," but I wanted to add some perspective from the dance side of things as someone who has had the privilege of playing in that context for almost 20 years, including trips to study with musicians down in Cuba. There's some good info here, but I think there are some important things missing. Regarding voicings/texture, this is fine for a solo or duo gig without a bass player, but it's not what you would play in a Latin dance band. For that context, the first and fifth fingers of the right hand would be consistently playing octaves, leaving 2,3, and 4 to fill in the other voices, the left hand would be playing in a higher register closer to the right, and the two hands would be locked in rhythmic unison, giving a more muscular, more reinforced sound. Once timbales, congas, bongo/bell, güiro, and maracas are incorporated into the mix, those closed voicings you're playing in the right hand just aren't going to cut through. Another note regarding the rhythmic flow of clave, you'll get a much more authentic feel by removing that beat three on the second bar. Clave has a constant flow back and forth between grounding down beats and syncopation. Pulling out that beat three leaving the second bar more syncopated keeps the energy flowing and not feeling quite so heavy and tied to the ground, which will make people dance more. :) I think it's great that you're exposing people to this music, so I hope I don't come across as overly critical. Just hoping to add some broader context.

bro whats up with the candle? hehehee Good Job man

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Hey Johnny what’s the name to this actual song

You didn’t show us the end 😕

its a bit simple but its great for beginners

I would've preferred to see a more typical tumbao pattern in the left hand with the 1 2+ 4 2+ 4 2+ 4 2+... as opposed to all upbeats to emphasize even more contrast in syncopation between the tumbao and the montuno.

Do you play with sustain ?

that candles making me nervous - hello from 2021

Too bad the offbeat is lost on the advanced bassline. Is it to make a variation ? Great stuff anyway, thank you

Why in Bm7b5 first one is called B not H? I was thought that H flat is Called B... im confused now.

What scale is this in?

dear .johny, may i have honor to sales your piano skill in taiwan for chinese,

Сlass candel

what is the tune for this song?

Where did the Mariachi with a big sombrero playing "Cuban" piano go??? I thought that thumbnail was hilarious! Insta-cred with the salsa pianists.

Could the riff be used in a different key (I would like to use it in g minor

Is delicious

is that called a Montuno?

too difficult on the advanced left hand chord working at almost last scene you showed. i mean the sinc on both hands.

I watch this only to wait he drop the candle

I love you no homo

Hola soy de Panamá porque no explica en español

Cheverre o_o !_!

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SUGAR (cane) CU'B(es) 👍👍haha 👍

I like it very mutch but iTS so contraire!!!!

And this is the story how I broke My Fist and fingers... *I played this song thats how*