Right?! I grew up playing classical and hymns and just discovered jazz with this guy. The cool thing is jonny gives us some left hand chords so I can just go nuts on the right hand. At first all I could do from jonny is read the sheet music and memorize. Now I'm able to see what he's doing and improv off it. But the more natural I feel the less "theory" I see. So weird. Like when it "makes sense" has become when there is no sense and I just feel what is neat in the moment without understanding it. So cool and I feel like I'm breaking free in someway! !
WOW!! Johnny, 1,000,000 THANK YOUS !!!!!!! You just "took my playing to a whole new level" ( 0:45) THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!
Just WOW! Jonny is the best! Edited to add: I had to go try this out right away on my keyboard. Oh my goodness! For the first time I could see a practical application of all the practice I've put in over the last 12 months on chords, rootless chords and modes and scales etc. And suddenly this was pretty easy stuff to play and it sounded amazing! That's just the basic exercises Jonny was sharing here. I'm definitely going to work on this! Thanks so much Jonny! I see myself signing up over on PWJ in the very near future! :)
Right?!? I feel the same! It's taken a lot of time of watching his process (like 2 years?!!) And now I don't feel competent but sometimes I'm able to just slide my fingers around and feel something cool happening.
Dear Jonny, Your lessons are amazing. I like the way you are explaining music and one can see, you want us really to unterstand and get better. I think music is the best language of the world and you are surely one of the best teachers in it. Keep it up. You are great 👍🏻
Absolutely great - I just got a little stuck with my 251 progression impro exercises. This is what I will work on from now. Thank you so much, you made my day. Its such a difficult time right now. Hope you are doing well and please continue your great work as both excellent musician and teacher 🙏👏
Yes it's so easy for me to get stuck too! I literally copy paste his sheet music on a word document and print it out. Then I'm stuck playing his "song". I like to learn a lot from him then get those left hand chords and try to just feel the right hand. It's taken a year or two 🤦♀️ but every once in a while I'm able to cut loose and just FEEL it. It's amazing.
Found this helpful. One thing, that has helped me..is to sing the eighth notes. One and two and three and four and..On short pieces it helps to hear the notes also. This really has helped me as ear player on guitar and 🎹.
This guy is the man. I joined a year ago and cannot believe this guy. He is amazing! Nothing in the English language can describe his talent and knowledge. A true Jedi piano Master! Thank you Master Johnny!!! Padawon Glenneye
Thanks for your wonderful style of lessons…would really like to see some exercises for blues rhythms and coordination drills for left hand comping patterns to go along with the right handed licks👍🎹
This is a great technique, thanks PWJ I will apply this technique in my daily routine for sure, hopefully this will free my mind (that is the ultimate goal) Thank you 👏
This was excellent and hit the nail on the head. I play guitar...and have been most recently trying to add interest to my playing with chord tones. It was through practicing these that I stumbled on triad pairs. I know they sound great on their own and now I can see how I can incorporate them into my lines a little more thanks
With all due respect to Jonny, the pioneer in jazz piano education was John Mehegan. His books, written in the1960' s are as valid today as they were then
Awesome idea! Love it, question though... You played a C and D as your pairs over the C (the I chord), would you change those pairs if your chord progression moved to the IV chord for example?! All best, thank you for sharing!
Great video! But Lydian is a mode, not a scale. If you play the C major scale but start on F, then you have Lydian, which is why it’s a mode: It comes from a different note of a scale.
I loathe people posing as "Jazz" teachers. You couldn't teach a cow to eat grass. The first thing you ask is, if you're feeling stuck playing the same thing over and over and straight ahead you give the perfect method to get permanently stuck playing the same shit. This is not the way to learn how to improvise, but is the perfect way to "learn" a couple of useless licks out of context.
00:00 - Intro
01:03 - C Lydian Scale
02:00 - Hidden Chords
03:59 - Step 1: Block Inversions
05:56 - Step 2: Practice Patterns
06:34 - Up Patterns
08:14 - Play with backing track
08:47 - Try other up patterns
09:23 - Down Patterns
10:47 - Play with backing track
11:07 - Try other down patterns
12:03 - Step 3: Connect Patterns
14:20 - Play with backing track
15:34 - Conclusion
You are the best teacher Johnny
What I love about Jonny's lessons is that they're useful to both beginning AND advanced players.
true to that
Right?! I grew up playing classical and hymns and just discovered jazz with this guy. The cool thing is jonny gives us some left hand chords so I can just go nuts on the right hand. At first all I could do from jonny is read the sheet music and memorize. Now I'm able to see what he's doing and improv off it. But the more natural I feel the less "theory" I see. So weird. Like when it "makes sense" has become when there is no sense and I just feel what is neat in the moment without understanding it. So cool and I feel like I'm breaking free in someway! !
Agree..
As an advanced player you will find this kind of teaching worst than it really is. I bet that this guy never had a Jazz piano teacher in is live.
Awesome!! I learned my Dorian scales yesterday, today I’ll try Lydian!
Congratulations!
WOW!! Johnny, 1,000,000 THANK YOUS !!!!!!! You just "took my playing to a whole new level" ( 0:45)
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!
He blasts his competition right out of the water
Just WOW! Jonny is the best! Edited to add: I had to go try this out right away on my keyboard. Oh my goodness! For the first time I could see a practical application of all the practice I've put in over the last 12 months on chords, rootless chords and modes and scales etc. And suddenly this was pretty easy stuff to play and it sounded amazing! That's just the basic exercises Jonny was sharing here. I'm definitely going to work on this! Thanks so much Jonny! I see myself signing up over on PWJ in the very near future! :)
Right?!? I feel the same! It's taken a lot of time of watching his process (like 2 years?!!) And now I don't feel competent but sometimes I'm able to just slide my fingers around and feel something cool happening.
Dear Jonny,
Your lessons are amazing. I like the way you are explaining music and one can see, you want us really to unterstand and get better.
I think music is the best language of the world and you are surely one of the best teachers in it.
Keep it up. You are great 👍🏻
Absolutely great - I just got a little stuck with my 251 progression impro exercises. This is what I will work on from now. Thank you so much, you made my day. Its such a difficult time right now. Hope you are doing well and please continue your great work as both excellent musician and teacher 🙏👏
Yes it's so easy for me to get stuck too! I literally copy paste his sheet music on a word document and print it out. Then I'm stuck playing his "song". I like to learn a lot from him then get those left hand chords and try to just feel the right hand. It's taken a year or two 🤦♀️ but every once in a while I'm able to cut loose and just FEEL it. It's amazing.
Found this helpful. One thing, that has helped me..is to sing the eighth notes. One and two and three and four and..On short pieces it helps to hear the notes also. This really has helped me as ear player on guitar and 🎹.
This guy is the man. I joined a year ago and cannot believe this guy. He is amazing! Nothing in the English language can describe his talent and knowledge. A true Jedi piano Master! Thank you Master Johnny!!!
Padawon Glenneye
Yes Jonny. That DOES sound amazing.
Could we apply the same concept to the other modes? are you going to make a similar videos for them? thanks, this was a brilliant video :)
Very useful again, master. I am finishing the bible of blues riffs and will look for this improv using lydian scale at PWJ. Thanks.
you are such an excellent teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH
Wow. This is SO SO SO smart. Awesomeness!
BREAKTHROUGH!!! Thanx, Maestro. 🌹🌹🔥🔥🌹🌹
Incredible lesson.... thank you soooo much Jonny
This is amazing! It inspires me to upload more improvisations on my channel. Thanks a lot!
Simply wonderful & practical...!!! Thanx again Johnny...!!!
Another great video by Mr. Jonny! Thank you sir!
Lotta talented piano teachers on TH-cam, but nobody puts it together quite like Jonny. 🫡
Bravo
thanks sir for offering us these free and useful knowledge.
Nice 👍. Thx you !
The best teacher ever!
What a great insightful lesson. Thanks fir sharing.
hey! your vids are the ONLY piano exercise vids i can actually watch but do you have any videos where you focus on left hand improv techniques?
Thanks for your wonderful style of lessons…would really like to see some exercises for blues rhythms and coordination drills for left hand comping patterns to go along with the right handed licks👍🎹
Great suggestion!
Thank you Jonny you make piano look so easy
Jonny remains awesome!
Well presented especially for a beginner like me. Thanks!
This is a great technique, thanks PWJ
I will apply this technique in my daily routine for sure, hopefully this will free my mind (that is the ultimate goal) Thank you 👏
Simply excellent ! My piano playing might sound more jazzy by now.Thks Maestro !
This was excellent and hit the nail on the head. I play guitar...and have been most recently trying to add interest to my playing with chord tones. It was through practicing these that I stumbled on triad pairs. I know they sound great on their own and now I can see how I can incorporate them into my lines a little more thanks
Rock on!
Woah thanks, thats exactly what i needed !
With all due respect to Jonny, the pioneer in jazz piano education was John Mehegan. His books, written in the1960' s are as valid today as they were then
You are the best jonny hi from q Venezuelan in china
Uno de los mejores videos que he visto, trataste un tema muy recurrente de los estudiantes de jazz. Muchas gracias!!
Awesome
Amazing tips for me!! Thanks a looooot
This is amazing! Such a simple idea
Very useful thanks jonny
Thanx, Maestro 🌹🌹🌹
Great lesson
love u man....
Thanks from Ukraine ♥♥
It's the same as learning intervals or arpeggios which horn players do.
Didnt you have another video about "how to not sound like a scale"? What was the name of that video?
It might be this video: th-cam.com/video/03gWFWRCCC4/w-d-xo.html
Awesome idea! Love it, question though... You played a C and D as your pairs over the C (the I chord), would you change those pairs if your chord progression moved to the IV chord for example?! All best, thank you for sharing!
What things i should mainly focus on while playing jazz?
This is cool! How can I apply this when there’s not just one chord going on?
ty u dad :)
Could you teach motivic development?
Great video! But Lydian is a mode, not a scale. If you play the C major scale but start on F, then you have Lydian, which is why it’s a mode: It comes from a different note of a scale.
Why do hannon exercises if you have something like this you can use in your music!
I loathe people posing as "Jazz" teachers. You couldn't teach a cow to eat grass. The first thing you ask is, if you're feeling stuck playing the same thing over and over and straight ahead you give the perfect method to get permanently stuck playing the same shit. This is not the way to learn how to improvise, but is the perfect way to "learn" a couple of useless licks out of context.