Thank you for watching! Hope you enjoyed this tutorial! Get in touch with us now so that we can help you transform your piano playing: www.contemporaryschoolofpiano.com/contact/
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING 👏 THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR!!!!! I am a retired electronic engineer - and a VERY GOOD JAZZ VOCALIST- fulfilling a " life-long DREAM ": TO LEARN TO PLAY PIANO and to " comp" myself at some gigs at some " high class" venues here in South Florida and in Rio de Janeiro 😂😂😂😂😂 So THANK YOU SO MUCH Sir TOMASITO 🙏 😊
@@elgoogernutkind of you to say! Actually, I think a lot of jazz musicians find it hard to explain what it is they are doing because it becomes so ingrained. So what we seek to do at the sch ool is combine musical expertise with specialist education to break down complex ideas and make them more accessible. Thanks for watching.
Thanks Tom for this video!! The way of making such warm two-chord progressions opens up a lot of possibilities, that until now I just couldn't "put together" or realize how to listen to them as melodic. Even doing them as an exercise will be a pleasure!!!
Jazz is essentially all i play. As a pianist I am self taught as an adult, but I played in orchestra growing up and also played drums and did a lot of playing improv with people as a drummer when I was younger. I always really listened to music in an extremely active manner, and the kind of stuff that I am just absolutely drawn towards would be music like Frank Zappa, so I kind of accidentally developed the skills that are much more beneficial to jazz piano than classical. I almost exclusively improv and I absolutely love finding out weird chords
This is excellent Tom - thank you so much - you're speaking from a place that's both instructive and fun - I feel I might even retain it now! Thanks a lot.
Tom, from my point of view, you would have to be the best jazz teacher far and wide, because even I have now understood how to learn it. Thank you very much from Bavaria ❤
Glad I discovered you..thank you for your simple solutions for Jazz chords and making a way for discovering my own progressions. Thank you so much !!!!
Dear Pasan. I'm glad you've found this helpful. My tutorial on 2-5-1 jazz chords is a good follow up. You might benefit from our 30 Day Jazz Musician program. www.contemporaryschoolofpiano.com
Your lessons are so niche and musically freeing! Such empathetic curation of content that no other resource touches on! I was lost in the Realbook due to those fat complicated chords for that exact reason. Thank you for your efforts. I would love to see a breakdown for contemporary jazz such as Esbjorn Svensson and how minimal and Nordic approach to jazz sounds the way it does!
I have only just discovered you and the London contemporary piano school! Absolutely awesome. I’m hooked and as soon as I’ve finished singing in elgar’s dream of Gerontious/ Kingdom / Apostles with the Halle this weekend and next - i am getting in touch to find our how i can study at your school - especially on-line. !!! PS. Is that a fellow Aussie twang???
great session - best yet. Georgia is such a good example to choose too - a passport to the standards, too as there is so much in this piece. If you are bit musically dyslexic like me, and struggle when faced with blobs and bubbles hanging on a wall of suspended fishing lines, this is definitely the avenue, playing by shapes. Oddly it is helping my reading, too, as know what to look for in the blobs!
Hi Tom, I’m a newcomer to the school. I think your videos are marvellous and I’m learning more each time. I also received an invitation recently to visit your studio in Baker Street which I will attend in the very near future. Look forward to meeting you. Regards David Holmes
That's lovely to play and sounds great even as an exercise , thanks Tom. Could you offer an imbecile a little insight into why it is the minor root to a major IV rather than a minor iv? How does this apply to progressions etc? Apologies if that doesn't make sense
Dear Andrew. This is a very good question. Thanks so much for asking as I'm sure it's useful for other that may have thought of this. So-- think of Dm7-G7 as a chord 2 to 5 but not resolving on the 1 or resolving on the 1. OR as a minor 1 to major 4 which is a Dorian mode chord progression. This is the language of much jazz harmony..
@@contemporaryschoolofpiano Gratitude for your reply Tom. So is that like a modulation type thing with the 4 acting as a secondary dominant might for resolving for example?
@@andrewmartin1395 you could think of chord 5, in a 2-5-1 as functioning like a secondary dominant IF the music is moving around and changing keys a lot. Which is common in jazz harmony. Personally, I prefer to not think of it as modulation, I think of it more as passing chords and sequences that are using a universal pattern. Thinking of them as passing chords "decoration" takes away the heaviness of thinking that you are always changing keys. And the minute too much theory sneaks into the thinking, the ability to improvise comfortably on chords can be distracted.
Great video but as usual with this type of video there is lack of clarity with certain aspects - in this case I got stuck with what the LH is doing at 4:00 on. Would benefit from a clearer explanation.
@iangardiner2056 it's only elementary broken 8ves that I'm playing in the left hand. It's advisable to be able to notice 8ves before delving into more complex chords like this. 9th and 13th chords are far more complex, so an 8ve is really assumed knowledge at this point. Even 7ths should be assumed knowledge at this point. But it's also commendable to give the hard stuff a shot, so I wouldn't be discouraged. Here is a helpful hint, if you want to play these chords but struggle to play 8ves in the left hand, try instead a single note in the left (because it's an 8ve it won't affect the chord voicing at all as it is the same note, so in essence you're not removing anything!)
So just to clarify, this is not dominant to the tonic (Chord 5 to 1) exercise. Jazz harmony doesn't walk around moving between 5-1 which you would hear perhaps more often in Mozart or Haydn. One of the most common progressions in Jazz is 2-5-1 and these progressions in groups of two could be looked at as a 2-5 (without going to the 1). Another aspect of Jazz Harmony is we don't resolve to 1 very often, except perhaps at the end of the piece! That's what makes the harmony so rich. So you can finally enjoy playing piano, without having to play dominant to tonic all the time!
We delve into subjective territory here, but a few facts, this video was recorded using very high-end microphones on a stunning German grand piano - perhaps you're just used to the bright Yamaha-like keyboard sound - Blüthner pianos are much warmer. If you are listening for that aggressive bright sound (which is sadly overused these days on the piano) because one might think the piano "has" to sound like that - it would be easy to think that the sound isn't quite right. Art is always a matter of perspective. And even I might be guessing you here because it could be the vocal sound you have an issue with?
Thank you for watching! Hope you enjoyed this tutorial! Get in touch with us now so that we can help you transform your piano playing:
www.contemporaryschoolofpiano.com/contact/
Beautiful warm jazz chords. Just getting started in Jazz as a 54 year old.
Great Jazz lesson.
Thank you so much.
❤Love the chord Progressions
You are simply The Best!!!! Thank you 🙏🏽
Perfect class. TH-cam is the best social media ever due to videos like this
You are a great teacher who is so generous to share your knowledge and makes complex concepts easy to understand!
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING 👏 THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR!!!!! I am a retired electronic engineer - and a VERY GOOD JAZZ VOCALIST- fulfilling a " life-long DREAM ": TO LEARN TO PLAY PIANO and to " comp" myself at some gigs at some " high class" venues here in South Florida and in Rio de Janeiro 😂😂😂😂😂
So THANK YOU SO MUCH Sir TOMASITO 🙏 😊
The piano channel I have been looking for😲!
by far the best Teacher on TH-cam ! such an virtuoso
Thank you for this masterful lesson. With you, everything becomes clear and so pleasant
Jazz pianists are going to hate this ! 😂 you are amazing !
Hehe.. What makes you say that?
@@contemporaryschoolofpiano
You make it so easy to understand jazz chords. Good on you.
@@elgoogernutkind of you to say! Actually, I think a lot of jazz musicians find it hard to explain what it is they are doing because it becomes so ingrained. So what we seek to do at the sch
ool is combine musical expertise with specialist education to break down complex ideas and make them more accessible. Thanks for watching.
Thanks Tom for this video!! The way of making such warm two-chord progressions opens up a lot of possibilities, that until now I just couldn't "put together" or realize how to listen to them as melodic. Even doing them as an exercise will be a pleasure!!!
Jazz is essentially all i play. As a pianist I am self taught as an adult, but I played in orchestra growing up and also played drums and did a lot of playing improv with people as a drummer when I was younger. I always really listened to music in an extremely active manner, and the kind of stuff that I am just absolutely drawn towards would be music like Frank Zappa, so I kind of accidentally developed the skills that are much more beneficial to jazz piano than classical. I almost exclusively improv and I absolutely love finding out weird chords
Thanks for another excellent tutorial!
all of your tutorials is simple and very great information
Thanks
This is excellent Tom - thank you so much - you're speaking from a place that's both instructive and fun - I feel I might even retain it now! Thanks a lot.
Beautiful lesson. Excellent teaching. Suscribed. 😊
@@sabueso32 welcome to the channel 😀
Tom, from my point of view, you would have to be the best jazz teacher far and wide, because even I have now understood how to learn it. Thank you very much from Bavaria ❤
Thank you Rosalie for your very kind words. Greetings from London, I've been to Munich and the surrounding areas a few times. Lovely place.
Cool! You have the most relaxed, and engaging teaching style!Totaly enjoyed this vid. .🙌🏽😎😎
10.27 Thought you were about to start belting it out!
It was very tempting.....trust me :))
Great fruit! Thanks Tom!
Get so excited with your videos cause I know there'll be hours of joy ahead for me as I experiment with it all.
Glad I discovered you..thank you for your simple solutions for Jazz chords and making a way for discovering my own progressions. Thank you so much !!!!
You are incredible-great teacher just what I needed
Many thanks Jimmy
One of the best jazz tutorials I've watched❤
Dear Pasan. I'm glad you've found this helpful. My tutorial on 2-5-1 jazz chords is a good follow up. You might benefit from our 30 Day Jazz Musician program. www.contemporaryschoolofpiano.com
Your lessons are so niche and musically freeing! Such empathetic curation of content that no other resource touches on! I was lost in the Realbook due to those fat complicated chords for that exact reason. Thank you for your efforts. I would love to see a breakdown for contemporary jazz such as Esbjorn Svensson and how minimal and Nordic approach to jazz sounds the way it does!
This was a game changer for me wow 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Great teacher....thanks
Outstanding, Tom!
Thankyou Frank
Thanks Tom! I'm having fun with this and what I've accomplished from watching your videos.
I'm glad you are getting so much from these videos!
Thanks a lot!!! 🌻
You're welcome 😊
That was excellent. Thanks.
I can see myself revisiting this video several times in the coming weeks...
Yes, revisiting this is really useful to get the concepts familiar.
You are such a Great teacher. 😊😊😊🎹🎹🎹🎹🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👌👌👌👌👌
Thank you! 😃
It can't be this simple! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you,Tom.🌹🌹⭐🌹🌹
You are so welcome
I have only just discovered you and the London contemporary piano school! Absolutely awesome. I’m hooked and as soon as I’ve finished singing in elgar’s dream of Gerontious/ Kingdom / Apostles with the Halle this weekend and next - i am getting in touch to find our how i can study at your school - especially on-line. !!!
PS. Is that a fellow Aussie twang???
Thank you for this helpful and insightful video, Donald! I appreciate the included exercises!
Many thanks for your kind words, I'm glad it's helpful!
cool tutorial about jazzy sound！especially it is easy to understand or practice！thank you！
this is a great great lesson behind those jazz secret, the treasure from the jazz legend is being explored. thanks very much for the sharing 👍👏
What a brilliant lesson, Tom. THANKS!! 👍
Many thanks Paul
Gracias!!!
Most excellent! Thank you.
Many thanks Jesse
What a scratch, Tom! It's such a joy and fun. Thank you indeed. Looking forward for more scratches. Thanks, again.
I'm glad you enjoyed it Andrey!
great session - best yet. Georgia is such a good example to choose too - a passport to the standards, too as there is so much in this piece. If you are bit musically dyslexic like me, and struggle when faced with blobs and bubbles hanging on a wall of suspended fishing lines, this is definitely the avenue, playing by shapes. Oddly it is helping my reading, too, as know what to look for in the blobs!
That's great to hear Jeremy! You can play Georgia at our next student concert!
Marvelous
LOVE UR VIDS TOM❤ KEEP IT UP😊
great video
Many thanks Roberto
Hi Tom, I’m a newcomer to the school. I think your videos are marvellous and I’m learning more each time. I also received an invitation recently to visit your studio in Baker Street which I will attend in the very near future. Look forward to meeting you. Regards David Holmes
We look forward to welcoming you to our school David. Best wishes, Tom
That's lovely to play and sounds great even as an exercise , thanks Tom. Could you offer an imbecile a little insight into why it is the minor root to a major IV rather than a minor iv? How does this apply to progressions etc? Apologies if that doesn't make sense
Dear Andrew. This is a very good question. Thanks so much for asking as I'm sure it's useful for other that may have thought of this. So-- think of Dm7-G7 as a chord 2 to 5 but not resolving on the 1 or resolving on the 1. OR as a minor 1 to major 4 which is a Dorian mode chord progression. This is the language of much jazz harmony..
@@contemporaryschoolofpiano Gratitude for your reply Tom. So is that like a modulation type thing with the 4 acting as a secondary dominant might for resolving for example?
@@andrewmartin1395 you could think of chord 5, in a 2-5-1 as functioning like a secondary dominant IF the music is moving around and changing keys a lot. Which is common in jazz harmony. Personally, I prefer to not think of it as modulation, I think of it more as passing chords and sequences that are using a universal pattern. Thinking of them as passing chords "decoration" takes away the heaviness of thinking that you are always changing keys. And the minute too much theory sneaks into the thinking, the ability to improvise comfortably on chords can be distracted.
@@contemporaryschoolofpiano thanks for taking the time to help Tom.
U Master
Great video but as usual with this type of video there is lack of clarity with certain aspects - in this case I got stuck with what the LH is doing at 4:00 on. Would benefit from a clearer explanation.
@iangardiner2056 it's only elementary broken 8ves that I'm playing in the left hand. It's advisable to be able to notice 8ves before delving into more complex chords like this. 9th and 13th chords are far more complex, so an 8ve is really assumed knowledge at this point. Even 7ths should be assumed knowledge at this point. But it's also commendable to give the hard stuff a shot, so I wouldn't be discouraged. Here is a helpful hint, if you want to play these chords but struggle to play 8ves in the left hand, try instead a single note in the left (because it's an 8ve it won't affect the chord voicing at all as it is the same note, so in essence you're not removing anything!)
Please make more tutorial about jazz Bebop Piano....thanks
It's on the to-do list!
Sorry to ask but for me the dominant of C is G rather than F ? What did I miss here ??? Thanks
So just to clarify, this is not dominant to the tonic (Chord 5 to 1) exercise. Jazz harmony doesn't walk around moving between 5-1 which you would hear perhaps more often in Mozart or Haydn. One of the most common progressions in Jazz is 2-5-1 and these progressions in groups of two could be looked at as a 2-5 (without going to the 1). Another aspect of Jazz Harmony is we don't resolve to 1 very often, except perhaps at the end of the piece! That's what makes the harmony so rich. So you can finally enjoy playing piano, without having to play dominant to tonic all the time!
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It’s ironic. The sound quality on this video is so poor
We delve into subjective territory here, but a few facts, this video was recorded using very high-end microphones on a stunning German grand piano - perhaps you're just used to the bright Yamaha-like keyboard sound - Blüthner pianos are much warmer. If you are listening for that aggressive bright sound (which is sadly overused these days on the piano) because one might think the piano "has" to sound like that - it would be easy to think that the sound isn't quite right. Art is always a matter of perspective. And even I might be guessing you here because it could be the vocal sound you have an issue with?