Some of the best advice ever. Can't tell you how many times I've been playing and punch a note that's out of key and just repeat it then resolve down or up to make it sound intentional
F, Dm, Em7. He also builds up to 7ths. And the scale is the white keys. Once you have the chords in a groove, just mess around till you find what you like :D
I've been playing piano for I think 8 years now. I've played jazz for about 5 of them. And I'm finally discovered someone who actually tells me which notes are good for improv and which ones aren't. Thank you even if it's a different key/scale I can take this find the key and transpose it to any other key I need. Thanl you for doing what you do. Never change, and if you do, I won't mind, just don't leave music behind. Edit: I started reading lead sheets only about a couple months ago, Holy carp I still don't know anything
Everything from 0:45 on was bitchin’. And that one black note in there was the exception that always proves the rule. Sometimes a little wrong is good for the right.
I once tried to fake jazz piano skills. First I got myself a fake book, then I worked it out and then wow, people couldn't even tell I was not a jazz player when I played it!
I've been faking my piano skills for 15 years now. At first it was really obvious but I've slowly learned tricks and methods which help me seem like I actually know what I'm doing.
I can't tell you how many "how to get started with jazz" videos I've watched that all conveyed this exact same information with 10x the runtime. You're doing god's work out here. It's a great jumping off point for people to actually get their fingers dirty, see what sounds good and what doesn't, and THEN go watch those videos which explain things in greater depth. imo at least.
As a jazz musician. I would say. Dont do this. Learn theory and then piano. Jazz isnt something you can watch TH-cam into "how to sound good. If I would here this at a jazz concert i would immediately think it sounds horrible and pop.
@@laeronym5884 You're right, learning like this will not make you a good jazz player, but it is an easy way to have fun on the piano. Which is very important in the beginning of learning the instrument. If you have fun you'll carry on playing more probably.
Because it's the spice! If used right it's amazing if used wrong it's a disaster haha. But if you leave them out altogether no worries, it's just vanilla. But there's vanilla then there's really good vanilla so get to the good vanilla then start adding some spice.
No idea why author states in video that he plays G7-D7-Cmaj7, but in fact on the keyboard he plays Fmaj7-Bdim7-Emin7 and in last progression F7 instead of Bdim7, you are welcome.
rootless voicings. Idk why he notated them as 7 tho cuz they're all 9th chords. so Dm9, G9, Cmaj9 (2-5-1 progression). Jazz usually omits the 5th and root because the 5th is implied unless altered and the root is played by the bass.
@@cameronkondrat7734honestly have no clue other than it could just be out of habit for ease of reading arrangements, at least I think that’s the case Because I had a similar question to one of my friends who is a much better pianist than I am and he said most of the time if there’s already going to be a 7th you’re kind of flexible enough to imply that usage of a 9th is just fine as well, so they kind of just don’t write it I guess
@@whitelion204 it's actually usually the bass that decides what the chords are, but in this case, neither the bass nor the melody play the chords he's suggesting. It's only halfway through the tune that the bass drops a third and the chords become the chords written.
Is it normal that all the chords are referred to as 7 chords while actually being 9 chords? None of them have the root, as you mentioned, but they also all have the 9th in addition to the 7th.
For the theory nerds: That D in the last chord really makes it a Cmaj9. Amazing voicing! This video demonstrates why 2-5-1 is excellent for any track. Bravo!
And drop the 3 and 6 a semitone each suddenly you're in minor pentatonic. Simple but people have it made out in their heads that this stuff is some mystical knowledge (probably not music nerds on YT, but a lot of my friends who are self-taught musicians reel at the thought of learning basic stuff like this).
Chords are note by note (F A C E) F7M (F G H D) G7 in third inversion (M G H D) Em7 but really sounds more like Csus9 in first inversion to me, since the D feels like it will resolve to the C. Okay hopefully this will help someone
@@RefactoringRyan@RefactoringRyan Hi there looks like you found an old comment of mine😅 OPs chord figuration is perfectly correct since it's jazz chord voicings. These are usually played by omitting the root, since it's implied there's a bass instrument in the combo. The 9 of a chord is considered okay to add, even without being explicitly called for. Therefore, the above is indeed Dm7, G7, Cmaj7
I like to compare music to learning a language. Starting with some literal words you have learned to get the job done, to telling stories with your emotions. Once learned, it's so natural that you cannot go back ;)
If anyone else was confused about the chords: they're all rootless. The first chord is an Fmaj7, which you can think of as Dm9 without the root. The second chord is Bm7b5 (or Dm6), which is G9 without the root. The last chord is Em7, which is Cmaj9 without the root.
Jazz is perfect for everything such as for starting your day, walking to school, while driving a car, reading a book in a library. This is the only Genre for me that I think is okay to listen anytime anywhere. ❤ Its 3 am and Im listening to this. 😂
I think this is how i unintentionally gaslit myself into thinking i was good at piano, now i'm trying to learn music and realizing how much i don't know.
When you get lost just start going chromatically until you get to a note that sounds good. If you get really confused and play in the wrong key, you're just going "out", yeah you're THAT good !
i can see why you would hit that black key, because its impossible to resist the b5 / #4 while playing. apart from being the tritone, it's part of the secondary dominant for the relative minor (V / vi) and part of the subdominant of the parallel minor (iv). it's striking and distinctly outside the tonal center but also very natural. i too gravitate towards it.
bro, it's just the b9 on the dominant, it's like literally the most basic extension on a dominant chord. out here acting like it's some unique stylistic choice lol...
@@nialltownley1788 he didnt say its unique, he just pointed out all the ways to look at it. To me, it makes more sense to say its the third of a minor 4 but you can of course look at it in any number of ways
@@fade-graphicdesign1258 it doesn't though cos he's playing a dominant 7th there lol and the rest of the line is all from the dominant.... the minor subdom is way out of the way and definitely not what he's thinking there. just calling out a note on isolation is pointless and the original commenter called it b5 #4 which is also wrong.
What will differentiate an advanced player from a beginner in this is how well you'll be able to incorporate notes, that aren't within the major pentatonic and might sound a little or a lot of. Making those choices deliberately and making it still sound musical, that comes with practice and of course knowing your music theory. Music theory is the grammar to the language of music.
this method of switching chords by moving two fingers to get a different inversion of a different one just boosted my jazz piano skills immensely, tysm
This is like those how to draw memes where you start with a circle and some lines and voilà!! You have a drawing that can be in the museum of natural history
Something that helps me is to avoid playing the root note very much, and definitely do not play the root note on any strong beats, but I suppose rules can be broken
This undersells the right hand work. A lot of making jazz make sense is just landing on obvious chord tones on accents which you probably do instinctively now.
F# is a fun key for this cuz the pentatonic is the black keys so you can bang away on them. It’s pretty fun to do a duet where you play chords and someone who has never played piano in their life messes around on the blink keys.
Seriously, just start with this and then learn when and how it sounds good TO YOU to break these rules. Then learn to transpose it and inject other chords. Then add more and more over time. This is what being a musician is.
To add to this, you can play in any key you want if you have a midi keyboard and own a DAW that transposes your notes live. That way, you could stick to the c major / a minor scale and play any song imaginable (that sticks to one key)
True. But some people could actually try things out, slowly adding a flat and play F major or d minor. Or add a sharp and play G major or e minor and so on and so forth. Slowly but surely you'll be able to play any key without transposing lol
Fun fact for those messin around with this and have no idea what they're doing and why it works: That one black key they played completes the bebop scale. that's actually real jazz tech there lol
Can someone explain how those first three chords are D-7, G7, and Cmaj7? Even out of order, I can't match any of those chords to any of the chords he's playing.
he's playing rootless voicings: D-7 he plays F A C E (the 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th leaving out the root D) G7 he plays F A B D (7th, 9th, 3rd and 5th leaving out the root G) Cmaj7 he plays E G B D (3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th) ... you get the idea the last time he plays F Ab B Eb on the G7 which is the 7th b9th 3 b13th so G7(b9, b13) keyboard players usually leave out the root in their left hand voicings as they would be played by the bass and let you put in more extensions hope this helped!
They're not. He's playing the upper voices of each chord, and had the bass played the root the chords would have been Dm9-G7(add13)-Cmaj9 The issue is - the bass doesn't. At first there's no bass, so the chords sound like Fmaj7-Dm65 (or Fmaj7 add#4 but that's unlikely)-Em7. Then when the bass comes in... it confirms those exact chords. It's only in the second half of the video that the bass switches to playing D-G-C, making the chords the ones he actually said.
Fun addon: if you briefly mix in a single black note when transitioning between two adjacent white notes on your right hand (C -> D, but briefly throw in a C sharp in between on your way up) the solo immediately takes on a blues-like quality.
One time I filmed myself just banging around on my wife’s piano and then posted it online with some caption about how I was learning “avant-garde jazz.” People kept saying how good of a job it was. I was just doing it for the meme.
When I was a little kid, I used to go “camping” with my grandparents at an RV park. At their rec hall there was a piano and I would always fuck around with the piano by just hitting the white keys. In retrospect probably didn’t sound great but when I was a kid, I swear it sounded like this. That RV park is abandoned now. it was always run down throughout my childhood. But it was always charming.
I love how you're just jamming but dropping some good tips at the same time.😃 For fun, I'll try this with one of my regular piano students and see if he can fake it and make it too! I'll remind him to have fun! 😆
I started training as a classical pianist at 4 years old. In high school the jazz band needed a fill in pianist for a trip to Disney. I recall going over the set list with the regular keyboard player and stressing out a bit over some of the chords. He just said "Oh those chords? Just mash some black keys alternating to add variety. Dag gummit it worked flawlessly.
@@leohongjohnson5670 fair enough. I was wondering about the D chord (so 5 chord in G and secondary 2 chord in C; the latter is what I guess it's being used as here) so I get your point!
That was actually sick and probably the best possible implementation of “faking jazz skills” possible. Lots of textures, nothing really cliché, and the tone was really cool. The solo also has sections and change.
If you add a fourth chord of C6 after the Cmaj7, then it's just the 2-5-1 chord progression, the foundation of jazz. Also playing the Am blues (a, c, d, d#, e, g, a) scale also works really in that key
Where can I learn jazz? I have been playing piano for about 3 years on and off and I wish I knew how to play jazz. I have searched TH-cam and can't find a lot of videos, please send some recomendations.
what i find by far most difficult about this is keeping an even pulse on the left hand. as soon as i start improvising with my right hand i completely lose the beat in my right hand
Always remember: once is a mistake, twice is jazz.
How
Some of the best advice ever. Can't tell you how many times I've been playing and punch a note that's out of key and just repeat it then resolve down or up to make it sound intentional
You just repeat it a couple times building tension then you go back in key to resolve
@@miamdwa I will remember
@@christiantaylor1495 repetition legitimizes, repetition legitimizes, repetition legitimizes, repetition legitimizes
How to fake jazz piano skills
Step 1: Learn jazz piano
Thought this would be more of a meme video, but this is pretty legit
@@TheUnderscore_ except the most troubling part after the actual music is jazz rhythm 😂
Oh I like this. So good
Yes lol
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this isn't faking jazz skills, its improvising which totally counts as real jazz.
Wasn't jazz invented to be an unscripted genre?
@@cerulity32k exactly
cope
@@BoxOfCurryos do you even know what cope means
But I guess jazz musicians would understand what they were doing and deliberately do certain things to create certain licks
Fun fact: If you do this everyday, for some reason the fake skills turns to real skills
This 🙏🏻
is Beyond Science
*WERE BREAKING THE CONDITIONING! THE SIMULATION IS FALLING APART! EVERYONE IS A HACKED CLIENT NOW! EXPLOIT IT GOGOGOGO!*
Fake it till you make it
its called practice
@@meeek2 no, is called faking it
I’ve been playing piano for 11 minutes and it totally sounds like I’ve been playing for at least twenty
Does it sound like you've been playing for a couple hours yet ?
@@brawln9550 yes
@@brawln9550 fuuuuuuuuckkkkkkk now it sounds like I’ve playing a piano negative amount of time
@@elihyland4781 just look on the bright side, you are more skilled at the piano than a monkey without arms
@@brawln9550 lol im more skilled than a diver without a body. You are the most correct
This isn't faking.. it's literally just having fun with it when you know the fundamentals
and i'm jealous.
Agreed
Just learn the fundamentals 😂😂😂
@@2miligrams easier said that done
@@2miligrams do you play an instrument?
@@sirencarter261 the actual full song? Not an easy one??
Faking Jazz skills tutorial:
Step 1: Know music theory
Step 2: Improvise
Instructions unclear, I became a jazz god
F, Dm, Em7. He also builds up to 7ths. And the scale is the white keys. Once you have the chords in a groove, just mess around till you find what you like :D
why im never trying this not worth the risk
i’m beginning to feel like a jazz god, jazz god
I'm also kinda unclear. Currently at a crossroads deep in the bayou selling my soul to the devil.
@@linearcurve I was hoping someone would do that lmao
I've been playing piano for I think 8 years now. I've played jazz for about 5 of them. And I'm finally discovered someone who actually tells me which notes are good for improv and which ones aren't. Thank you even if it's a different key/scale I can take this find the key and transpose it to any other key I need. Thanl you for doing what you do. Never change, and if you do, I won't mind, just don't leave music behind.
Edit: I started reading lead sheets only about a couple months ago,
Holy carp I still don't know anything
That's the whole point of the pentatonic scale, to be good for solos and improv
5 years and you've never heard of the pentatonic scale????
If you need someone to tell you what to do, then maybe jazz isn't for you?
Bonuspoints for the rhyme!
@@Apoz Everyone needs advice, be it jazz or not. It's not about executing orders, but learning from more experienced players.
@@fanfoire which video is that?
Everything from 0:45 on was bitchin’. And that one black note in there was the exception that always proves the rule. Sometimes a little wrong is good for the right.
It's called the blue note lol
I once tried to fake jazz piano skills. First I got myself a fake book, then I worked it out and then wow, people couldn't even tell I was not a jazz player when I played it!
A jazz player would be able to tell for sure!
@JJamJ i think you may have missed the joke
I bet once you started getting gigs and fans you were laughing inside at how gullible everyone was for not knowing you were faking it!
@@bbjygmthis is like my imposter syndrome
I heard that some even get a real book and be successful with it.
I've been faking my piano skills for 15 years now. At first it was really obvious but I've slowly learned tricks and methods which help me seem like I actually know what I'm doing.
I once faked the Waldstein sonata but it was harder than actually learning it.
@@magicmulder The secret I learned years ago was that you can actually correlate the dots on the page to the notes you're supposed to play.
@@isaakvandaalen3899 Holy crap, that's a brilliant memory trick
@@isaakvandaalen3899 Ah damn, I was always like, why is my new notebook dirty already?
@@isaakvandaalen3899 really? so they are made to teach you to fake skills?
I can't tell you how many "how to get started with jazz" videos I've watched that all conveyed this exact same information with 10x the runtime. You're doing god's work out here. It's a great jumping off point for people to actually get their fingers dirty, see what sounds good and what doesn't, and THEN go watch those videos which explain things in greater depth. imo at least.
As a jazz musician. I would say. Dont do this. Learn theory and then piano. Jazz isnt something you can watch TH-cam into "how to sound good. If I would here this at a jazz concert i would immediately think it sounds horrible and pop.
This doesn't explain anything. It's just a chord progressions on c major lol
@@tntboom21 Correct.
@@laeronym5884 You're right, learning like this will not make you a good jazz player, but it is an easy way to have fun on the piano. Which is very important in the beginning of learning the instrument. If you have fun you'll carry on playing more probably.
@@laeronym5884 can you say "pretentious?"
0:16 says "except F and B" and proceeds to play them
Lol the whole time
This is more of a soft rule for beginners as they sound dissonant if played willy nilly
He uses them as passing or neighbor tones between much more stable pentatonic notes
Because it's the spice! If used right it's amazing if used wrong it's a disaster haha. But if you leave them out altogether no worries, it's just vanilla. But there's vanilla then there's really good vanilla so get to the good vanilla then start adding some spice.
There's no rules in jaazzzzzz maaaaan
I was expecting a meme but now I have a major in music theory.
A major or A minor?
@@whetherlyheavenamerica Nah, he got an augmented
@@generalgrievous3731 imagine not even having a perfect fifth
@@gassug2 Still better than getting a diminished in music. People with those are always depressed and never land a job after college
Amateurs. I sit on you all with my dominant!
No idea why author states in video that he plays G7-D7-Cmaj7, but in fact on the keyboard he plays Fmaj7-Bdim7-Emin7 and in last progression F7 instead of Bdim7, you are welcome.
rootless voicings. Idk why he notated them as 7 tho cuz they're all 9th chords. so Dm9, G9, Cmaj9 (2-5-1 progression). Jazz usually omits the 5th and root because the 5th is implied unless altered and the root is played by the bass.
@@cameronkondrat7734honestly have no clue other than it could just be out of habit for ease of reading arrangements, at least I think that’s the case
Because I had a similar question to one of my friends who is a much better pianist than I am and he said most of the time if there’s already going to be a 7th you’re kind of flexible enough to imply that usage of a 9th is just fine as well, so they kind of just don’t write it I guess
I love how neither the left hand nor the bass play the root of any of the chords he told us to play
*Jazz hands*
Yeah when text says Cmaj7 I was like Wait, that sounds more like an Em7, but then I realized it's the melody that decides what kind of chord it is.
@@whitelion204 it's actually usually the bass that decides what the chords are, but in this case, neither the bass nor the melody play the chords he's suggesting. It's only halfway through the tune that the bass drops a third and the chords become the chords written.
@@yuvalne Yeah I know it usually the bass that defines the chord, but if you play a C in the melody on top of an Em7 it's basically an inverted Cmaj9
Is it normal that all the chords are referred to as 7 chords while actually being 9 chords? None of them have the root, as you mentioned, but they also all have the 9th in addition to the 7th.
For the theory nerds: That D in the last chord really makes it a Cmaj9. Amazing voicing! This video demonstrates why 2-5-1 is excellent for any track. Bravo!
When he played those 4 notes at the start I totally thought of “face, fabd, egbd, egac, DFAC, dfgb, cegggccc.
mood
The kind of video that will just let beginners in fact completely helpless.
Use 2 5 1, use pentatonic scale.... wait we faking jazz here? or we learning this shit fo real?
pentatonic scale is just 123 56 in major scale
Bro lmaoooo
@@sharp9150 Yes...?
@@sharp9150 well done
And drop the 3 and 6 a semitone each suddenly you're in minor pentatonic. Simple but people have it made out in their heads that this stuff is some mystical knowledge (probably not music nerds on YT, but a lot of my friends who are self-taught musicians reel at the thought of learning basic stuff like this).
Jazz improvisation: intentionally messing up and making it sound good.
I don't think this is faking, I think this is skill
How to fake jazz skills.... Have jazz skills
Such a great tutorial, I started doing what you told me and the backing tracks magically started playing.
It's like when a kid learns to "fake" writing a book report by reading the book and writing about what is in the book.
People don’t hate jazz they are scared of it and it’s lack of boundaries
"How to fake jazz skills"
*proceeds to use basic music theory*
Man, thats not what we all came here for
Chords are note by note
(F A C E) F7M
(F G H D) G7 in third inversion
(M G H D) Em7 but really sounds more like Csus9 in first inversion to me, since the D feels like it will resolve to the C.
Okay hopefully this will help someone
@@RefactoringRyan@RefactoringRyan Hi there looks like you found an old comment of mine😅
OPs chord figuration is perfectly correct since it's jazz chord voicings. These are usually played by omitting the root, since it's implied there's a bass instrument in the combo.
The 9 of a chord is considered okay to add, even without being explicitly called for. Therefore, the above is indeed Dm7, G7, Cmaj7
@@chrysanthos7265thanks for clarifying!
These are actually good skills dude, you just cant act being bad when you are not haha. Nice video
It's actually really hard to act being bad at an instrument when you already know it well. xD
@@GROENAASMusic literally, The same with guitar😭
@@ronniescerri4111 Heh. It's what I play too.
@@GROENAASMusic yeah lol
I like to compare music to learning a language. Starting with some literal words you have learned to get the job done, to telling stories with your emotions. Once learned, it's so natural that you cannot go back ;)
If anyone else was confused about the chords: they're all rootless. The first chord is an Fmaj7, which you can think of as Dm9 without the root. The second chord is Bm7b5 (or Dm6), which is G9 without the root. The last chord is Em7, which is Cmaj9 without the root.
*shits violently*
bruh what ???
rootless? i’m an AP music theory student and i have no Fing clue what your talking about. They all have roots…
@@skyset_pretty late but they are rootless voicing so pretty much there just chords without the root in it cuz that synth bass already has it covered
so my question is if im comping on piano should i do rootless voicings if im playing with a bassist and root voicings if im by myself?
Your not faking, Your just teaching people how to compose jazz music
Alternative title: “How Jamiroquai makes music”
Jazz is perfect for everything such as for starting your day, walking to school, while driving a car, reading a book in a library. This is the only Genre for me that I think is okay to listen anytime anywhere. ❤ Its 3 am and Im listening to this. 😂
Thank you! As a beginner pianist, your advice made me sound more of a intermediate player instead of a little kid banging on the keys!
How to fake jazz skills: basically practice faking jazz skills until you have jazz skills.
I think this is how i unintentionally gaslit myself into thinking i was good at piano, now i'm trying to learn music and realizing how much i don't know.
*How to fake Jazz piano skills*
1: Have jazz piano skills.
2: Fake them.
When you get lost just start going chromatically until you get to a note that sounds good. If you get really confused and play in the wrong key, you're just going "out", yeah you're THAT good !
If you can play this you're not faking you're genuinely good
i can see why you would hit that black key, because its impossible to resist the b5 / #4 while playing. apart from being the tritone, it's part of the secondary dominant for the relative minor (V / vi) and part of the subdominant of the parallel minor (iv). it's striking and distinctly outside the tonal center but also very natural. i too gravitate towards it.
bro, it's just the b9 on the dominant, it's like literally the most basic extension on a dominant chord. out here acting like it's some unique stylistic choice lol...
@@nialltownley1788 he didnt say its unique, he just pointed out all the ways to look at it.
To me, it makes more sense to say its the third of a minor 4 but you can of course look at it in any number of ways
@@fade-graphicdesign1258 it doesn't though cos he's playing a dominant 7th there lol and the rest of the line is all from the dominant.... the minor subdom is way out of the way and definitely not what he's thinking there. just calling out a note on isolation is pointless and the original commenter called it b5 #4 which is also wrong.
@@nialltownley1788 You are definitely correct, he even altered the left hand voicing to include the b9 on the G7
Nerd. But probably right.
What will differentiate an advanced player from a beginner in this is how well you'll be able to incorporate notes, that aren't within the major pentatonic and might sound a little or a lot of. Making those choices deliberately and making it still sound musical, that comes with practice and of course knowing your music theory. Music theory is the grammar to the language of music.
When he started playing the chords I immediately thought of that one meme “face, fabd, egbd, egac…”
How to fake playing well: Proceeds to legitimately shred
"Jazz isn't about the notes you play, it's about the notes you _don't_ play."
this method of switching chords by moving two fingers to get a different inversion of a different one just boosted my jazz piano skills immensely, tysm
This is like those how to draw memes where you start with a circle and some lines and voilà!! You have a drawing that can be in the museum of natural history
step one: have jazz piano fundamentals so ingrained that the scales and rhythm come naturally to you
Something that helps me is to avoid playing the root note very much, and definitely do not play the root note on any strong beats, but I suppose rules can be broken
Been trying to teach myself how to play piano for too long… This was by FAR the most satisfying half hour straight of improvisation. THANK YOOOOOUUUUU
To be honest, it's sound pretty good!
This undersells the right hand work. A lot of making jazz make sense is just landing on obvious chord tones on accents which you probably do instinctively now.
I can't imagine when real jazz class starts
F# is a fun key for this cuz the pentatonic is the black keys so you can bang away on them. It’s pretty fun to do a duet where you play chords and someone who has never played piano in their life messes around on the blink keys.
Seriously, just start with this and then learn when and how it sounds good TO YOU to break these rules. Then learn to transpose it and inject other chords. Then add more and more over time. This is what being a musician is.
Actually, jazz is all about learning modes in all scales, so it's like this but you map the whole keyboard in your head, so this is real training here
To add to this, you can play in any key you want if you have a midi keyboard and own a DAW that transposes your notes live. That way, you could stick to the c major / a minor scale and play any song imaginable (that sticks to one key)
True. But some people could actually try things out, slowly adding a flat and play F major or d minor. Or add a sharp and play G major or e minor and so on and so forth. Slowly but surely you'll be able to play any key without transposing lol
Fake jazz skills❌ learn jazz skills✅
Now watch me become a jazz genius in five years after watching this video lmao
Fun fact for those messin around with this and have no idea what they're doing and why it works: That one black key they played completes the bebop scale. that's actually real jazz tech there lol
Thanks now I just need a keyboard. 😂
Also I think the backing track was equally as important
How to fake X genre: have music theory knowledge
Can someone explain how those first three chords are D-7, G7, and Cmaj7? Even out of order, I can't match any of those chords to any of the chords he's playing.
he's playing rootless voicings:
D-7 he plays F A C E (the 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th leaving out the root D)
G7 he plays F A B D (7th, 9th, 3rd and 5th leaving out the root G)
Cmaj7 he plays E G B D (3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th) ... you get the idea
the last time he plays F Ab B Eb on the G7 which is the 7th b9th 3 b13th so G7(b9, b13)
keyboard players usually leave out the root in their left hand voicings as they would be played by the bass and let you put in more extensions
hope this helped!
@@nialltownley1788 Thanks for the answer!!
@@nialltownley1788 F is the 3rd in Dm7, so is he actually playing Dm7?
They're not. He's playing the upper voices of each chord, and had the bass played the root the chords would have been Dm9-G7(add13)-Cmaj9
The issue is - the bass doesn't. At first there's no bass, so the chords sound like Fmaj7-Dm65 (or Fmaj7 add#4 but that's unlikely)-Em7. Then when the bass comes in... it confirms those exact chords.
It's only in the second half of the video that the bass switches to playing D-G-C, making the chords the ones he actually said.
@@ulrap1202 What do you mean?
"how to fake jazz skills"
Step 1: *have jazz skills*
this sounds like it would be great for a new mario cart lvl
Fun addon: if you briefly mix in a single black note when transitioning between two adjacent white notes on your right hand (C -> D, but briefly throw in a C sharp in between on your way up) the solo immediately takes on a blues-like quality.
One time I filmed myself just banging around on my wife’s piano and then posted it online with some caption about how I was learning “avant-garde jazz.”
People kept saying how good of a job it was. I was just doing it for the meme.
Banging on a piano? Avant garde jazz indeed.
When I was a little kid, I used to go “camping” with my grandparents at an RV park. At their rec hall there was a piano and I would always fuck around with the piano by just hitting the white keys. In retrospect probably didn’t sound great but when I was a kid, I swear it sounded like this. That RV park is abandoned now. it was always run down throughout my childhood. But it was always charming.
You are insane at playing piano
Definition of easier said than done
I love how you're just jamming but dropping some good tips at the same time.😃 For fun, I'll try this with one of my regular piano students and see if he can fake it and make it too! I'll remind him to have fun! 😆
How to fake jazz skills: learn jazz skills.
Thank you for a great routine. Cannot wait to give this one a go!
I used to have a couple of Fender Rhodes. You could literally randomly slap the keys on those things and it'd sound like some quality jazz comping.
“Play all notes except for B and F”
>proceeds to play B and F frequently
What
F is good over D minor and B is good over G7.
@@6thdim this and he also used em often to lead over to the other notes. For example if u wana get from A to C just roling over the B can sound good
For those confused about the chords and that the keys don't line up with what he says, those are all add9 chords, with the root removed
The video: play these 3 chords as the beginning
Me who never played piano: I wish I new what these chords are
Fun fact : people only watch but rarely do it
I just keep playing the lick till it work.
"D F A C" 😂
Wait did I just hear an extremely subtle minor version if the lick?
I started training as a classical pianist at 4 years old. In high school the jazz band needed a fill in pianist for a trip to Disney. I recall going over the set list with the regular keyboard player and stressing out a bit over some of the chords. He just said "Oh those chords? Just mash some black keys alternating to add variety. Dag gummit it worked flawlessly.
So potential silly question: since your chords are in G, what's the reason you play the pentatonic in C? Is it a modal thing?
the chords are a 2-5-1 in c so it’s kinda in c
@@leohongjohnson5670 fair enough. I was wondering about the D chord (so 5 chord in G and secondary 2 chord in C; the latter is what I guess it's being used as here) so I get your point!
i remember playing in public as a kid playing random chords and stuff and getting a huge crowd of people watching me
Just smash some chords that makes your hands stretch
That was actually sick and probably the best possible implementation of “faking jazz skills” possible. Lots of textures, nothing really cliché, and the tone was really cool. The solo also has sections and change.
0:12 you really thought you could sneak that one by, didn't you?
this comment doesn't make a *lick* of sense ;)
On an electric guitar. This would be rock, lol.
Brilliant. Those are not fake skills! ! Bravo. 👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you ! 🙏🙏🙏
Also don't forget to have incredible timing and dynamic finesse 😅
Awesome video as always, this is actually really helpful!
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I HEARD IT TOOO 😫 I CAN STILL HEAR HIS ANGELIC VOICE
“Play wrong strong.” -Miles Davis.
If you add a fourth chord of C6 after the Cmaj7, then it's just the 2-5-1 chord progression, the foundation of jazz.
Also playing the Am blues (a, c, d, d#, e, g, a) scale also works really in that key
It already is a 2-5-1
Am pentatonic doesn’t include D#
@@BibleStorm yes and no, it goes through the chords 2-5-1 but the actual chord progression ends in a 1^6, which in the key of C is C6
@@XO.Z52 ah my bad, i mixed up am pentatonic and am blues scales, which are identical except that the blues scale has a D#
All white notes except for F and B, immediately proceeds to play F and B 0:15
Where can I learn jazz? I have been playing piano for about 3 years on and off and I wish I knew how to play jazz. I have searched TH-cam and can't find a lot of videos, please send some recomendations.
You have come to the right channel.
what i find by far most difficult about this is keeping an even pulse on the left hand. as soon as i start improvising with my right hand i completely lose the beat in my right hand
Jazz players are just music theory gods struggling to find some melody.
you can do the full progression the same way from Fmaj7 and that way you can use all the white keys X) Fmaj7 - Bm7b5 - Em7 - Am7 - Dm7 - G7 - Cmaj7