@11:02 : Jonny, I know how you love to use slides-- since taking your courses, I find myself starting to do slides even when they don't fit the music! I especially love throwing in an occasional double slide (you didn't discuss them in this lesson)-- very enticing, like making the keyboard purr!
I wish I'd have found you 50 years ago. At 71 I'm finally learning what I wanted to back then. I was playing rock organ, but wanted to play Jazz. Oh well, better late than never. Your teaching style is perfect for the way I learn. Thank You, and God Bless You.
I'm 71 and have been studying his method for the last 3 years or so.....he has so many different sections of learning, and sometimes, I find it overwhelming cause i jump from one idea to another before I can master any one....I have a bit of an advance as I did study music at music college, but that was when I was in my early 20's...I just need to find the discipline to not jump around. Good Luck and God Bless!!!
I am deeply connected with music (being now 54). It was always classical, reading music (I love Bach!). BUT!! - I NEVER knew how to play "by heart" or improvise. My Father - a professional conductor and organ virtuoso - and my brother - engineer! :) - could improvise easily! You taught me how much do I have to DEPART from the classical understanding of the harmony I studied in order to IMPROVISE - how much must I change my approach. I have to turn it 180 degrees! That's your GREAT success! Thank you! I will definitely follow starting from HERE!! This is thanks to your remarkable teaching / instructing abilities and a brilliant personality!
I am also a classically trained pianist that always felt like I was trapped in a box with no where to get out. I am extremely thankful for my training......but now I see there was an absolutely unopened box to explore. I feel like such a beginner again......and loving it! :) :)
I had to look many times to realize how you are doing the slides. At first, I didn't see that you were touching 2 keys! Almost like a magician. Very good lesson for me, a beginner at 72!
Johnny, your approach is measured, systematic and very much step-by-step and your concept of showing yourself playing at the piano along with the note names appearing above the piano keys as they are being played, is genius. And your musical knowledge and your ability convey it is simply amazing. Thank you so much for putting these videos together and I can’t wait to see your other videos.
Unlike some I can't read music ,never mastered an instrument but after using u tube to learn everything found this lesson amazing ,many thanks fantastic.
I've gone back to this lesson at least 10 times in the past year. It is a treasure. Seeing improvement in my playing and is so encouraging. Thanks, Jonny!
Wow. Super impressed. I stopped at the 8:50 mark because I couldn't wait to try it . . . and 30-45 minutes later I can start to get a handle on the intermediate bass line and am fooling with the gospel improv over it. I've only been (really) playing about a year and learning this kind of improv was really my motivation /goal to start playing piano in the first place. (I play for myself late at night to relax---yes, with a cocktail nearby! lol) Thank you Jonny for the great free lessons. (I'm a professional artist/art professor as well, so major props for the clarity and demystification of your art form.)
Good video but did he really just call the minor blues scale a gospel scale? Lol that’s all that minor major pentatonic scale is, it’s the minor blues scale of the relative minor starting on the third. Gospel scale 😂
@@tonalambiguity3345 That's because it's heavily used in Gospel music for the majority of the riffs and runs. But yes, it is technically not a "Gospel" scale
Cheers for this, I've been looking for "keyboard chords beginners" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Nonason Ranincoln Genie - (search on google )? It is an awesome one of a kind guide for discovering how to play the piano like a pro without the hard work. Ive heard some awesome things about it and my colleague got amazing results with it.
Jonny, I've been practicing all evening ... what a brilliant tip this is. All of a sudden I'm sitting at the piano playing my own compositions and it almost sounds like rudimentary cocktail piano. Fantastic.
Best lesson I’ve seen yet, And only eight minutes in. Exactly what I was looking for because it’s taking a very simple chord sequence and embellishing it to sound like something much richer.
I can't be the only one hearing "Heart and Soul" within these progressions. I am now going to take a second look at that composition, I didn't realize the "Jazzy" in that song. Cool!!! Thanks for these tips!!!
Thanks for breaking that down for me. Never messed around with jazz progressions. The 4 chord turn around and the “ gospel scale “ have given me a lot to practice around with. Great stuff. Thanks
You are a great teacher! I've watched a couple of your videos with no real piano knowledge (I play guitar) and I'm already "slowly" improving to backing tracks on my keyboard! THANKS! This is gonna be a great journey!
This has just become my favorite video on TH-cam. I never knew I wanted to play cocktail jazz but now I think I want to do it more than any other thing and I know I will be able to. Excellent teacher. 👏 Thank you :)
I don't Wright in English Very well. Fantastic presentations . We could play the same exercices in others tunes(F, G, E etc) I am a 81 years old Man, trying to learn more. From Brazil a musical country
In the 70's, we used to call solo lounge piano players - lounge lizards. As a drummer, with a very basic piano background, what you call Slides, we call Flams. The Flam is one of the 26 essential drum rudiments. That's my inane contribution to this link, which I found very helpful. Thanks..
Excellent tutorial. Thank you so much for putting together this tutorial. You are a great teacher and you have very nicely broken down the mechanics in bite size to help us understand and practice. God bless you and stay blessed!!
This is a great video. Skills that actually attainable to those starting out. I wish I had had TH-cam when I was a youngster trying to learn jazz piano and getting nowhere.
Nice little lesson, Johnny! Been playing for years, but i gave up trying to figure out improv because I couldnt find a comprehensive lesson, but this is it! 🎹
I am working on a project where I play one song in several styles. I don't get jazz AT ALL nor play much piano so the cocktail version was the most difficult to transcribe. WOW this helped so much. I don't feel embarrassed to share this with my help for this song now. Thank you so much. Even getting a feel for the timings you used at the beginning helped. Cheers!
Thank you sooo much Johnny.... truly accessible,useful, practical, down to earth, doable. And wonderful to play and listen to! Improv made possible!,, So satisfying! Thanks for posting
I'm so glad TH-cam recommended your video to me instead of nonsense. I'm not a beginner at piano or pro but as an intermediate everything you're explaining, including the slides, is super, duper important! I didn't know a chord progression I've been tinkling with since kid by ear turns out to be the mighty Gospel Scale! Now that I can recognize that pattern and it has a name to it is really informative :)
Jazz is one of my favourite genres and I find it very difficult to play since I only know basic chords. This video gave me a chance to play jazz. Thank soo much sir.
Maybe as you can see I am basically a trumpet player but you motivated me to go further with my secret love playin Cocktail Piano.. Amazing video and extremely helpful keep on going the good work thank you very very much...
Jonny. I am getting back to piano after a few years on guitar. My level is novice-intermediate. Jazz coktail piano is my interest. I came apound you on the web and was really impressed about your tutorials, making what seems difficult at first become so accessible, thanks to your great approach, of step by step notions. . With you, a piece is like a puzzle, coming to a result image. Consider me as a disciple of yours. I will practie everyday onyour lessons. Please send me infos when available Best regards Jean (Johnny) Quebec Canada
Great pacing and content here. I've been playing this style forever but what I love about music is there's always more to learn. (Your fingerings are different from mine so I'm keen to try yours out.) Thanks Piano with Jonny for having such a great visual display. Having the visual and auditory cues really puts this over the top, for me, a fellow educator.
WOW - I really enjoyed that lesson you have great teaching technique and have given me something to aspire to and actually achieve - thank you so much 🤗🤗🤗😎
So thankful for this video. You started with basics and explained from there which was so helpful. especially when you explained the timing of different scales when you add a swing to it. This helped me a lot and I'm now subscribed.
As an Old trumpeter, with Old ragged chops, I enjoying an instrument with less physical limitations, in spite of crooked fingers in left hand and limited finger movement in right hand. I'm still able the play the standards, that are listenable. Great finger , hand and brain therapy tools, I even remembered my wife's name. I think . Thanks for these lessons.
00:46 Turnaround progression
01:20 Beginner approach: chord shells
02:30 Play with backing track
03:04 Intermediate approach: rootless voicings
04:09 Play with backing track
05:04 Gospel scale
06:33 Exercise 1: 8th notes
09:05 Exercise 2: triplets
10:56 Exercise 3: slides
12:33 Play with backing track
13:07 Conclusion
Hallo
hey if you put these in the description it should show up as a video index on the youtube player!
@Peter Parker get lost, spammer
hi teacher I am beginner
which one should i start ?please can u tell me.🙏
@11:02 : Jonny, I know how you love to use slides-- since taking your courses, I find myself starting to do slides even when they don't fit the music! I especially love throwing in an occasional double slide (you didn't discuss them in this lesson)-- very enticing, like making the keyboard purr!
I wish I'd have found you 50 years ago. At 71 I'm finally learning what I wanted to back then.
I was playing rock organ, but wanted to play Jazz. Oh well, better late than never.
Your teaching style is perfect for the way I learn. Thank You, and God Bless You.
I'm 71 and have been studying his method for the last 3 years or so.....he has so many different sections of learning, and sometimes, I find it overwhelming cause i jump from one idea to another before I can master any one....I have a bit of an advance as I did study music at music college, but that was when I was in my early 20's...I just need to find the discipline to not jump around. Good Luck and God Bless!!!
I am deeply connected with music (being now 54). It was always classical, reading music (I love Bach!). BUT!! - I NEVER knew how to play "by heart" or improvise. My Father - a professional conductor and organ virtuoso - and my brother - engineer! :) - could improvise easily! You taught me how much do I have to DEPART from the classical understanding of the harmony I studied in order to IMPROVISE - how much must I change my approach. I have to turn it 180 degrees! That's your GREAT success! Thank you! I will definitely follow starting from HERE!! This is thanks to your remarkable teaching / instructing abilities and a brilliant personality!
zyrtec3 ❤️
I am also a classically trained pianist that always felt like I was trapped in a box with no where to get out. I am extremely thankful for my training......but now I see there was an absolutely unopened box to explore. I feel like such a beginner again......and loving it! :) :)
Bach is the OG
I had to look many times to realize how you are doing the slides. At first, I didn't see that you were touching 2 keys! Almost like a magician. Very good lesson for me, a beginner at 72!
Never too old to learn!
It’s always the right time to develop new talents. Good on you!
You GO!
Thank you for your comment, I had to turn up my resolution to see that
This is a perfect little lesson, thank you Jonny.
Wow Johnny is the best piano teacher I have found on TH-cam. Everything is so clearly explained and the digital piano overlay is perfect.
These 14 minutes are much more helpful, than year long traditional piano lessons. Thank You!
He didn't use a metronome, that's why
Johnny, your approach is measured, systematic and very much step-by-step and your concept of showing yourself playing at the piano along with the note names appearing above the piano keys as they are being played, is genius. And your musical knowledge and your ability convey it is simply amazing. Thank you so much for putting these videos together and I can’t wait to see your other videos.
Thank you so much!
My grandfather used to play jazz piano, and I loved listening to him practice. I'm excited to learn how to play!!
Unlike some I can't read music ,never mastered an instrument but after using u tube to learn everything found this lesson amazing ,many thanks fantastic.
That's great! Thanks for watching
I played piano in middle and high school jazz band and we were NEVER taught anything like this. Thank you!
Same for me
I started playing piano at 13. Went to college for it for 2 years. This is just what I needed to get back into it.
I've gone back to this lesson at least 10 times in the past year. It is a treasure. Seeing improvement in my playing and is so encouraging. Thanks, Jonny!
Wow. Super impressed. I stopped at the 8:50 mark because I couldn't wait to try it . . . and 30-45 minutes later I can start to get a handle on the intermediate bass line and am fooling with the gospel improv over it. I've only been (really) playing about a year and learning this kind of improv was really my motivation /goal to start playing piano in the first place. (I play for myself late at night to relax---yes, with a cocktail nearby! lol) Thank you Jonny for the great free lessons. (I'm a professional artist/art professor as well, so major props for the clarity and demystification of your art form.)
You have changed my Piano strides....Love you ....Johnny.... Stay Blesssed!!
You're a hell of a teacher!
Thank you for your work. Your site is a treasure trove.
Not sure I’ve ever seen this so cleanly described in so little time. Amazing!!
I have yet to find a better piano instructor on youtube. Thanks Jonny!
How beautiful is jazz piano music.... specially when comes from your own fingers!
🤔 That was the longest 1 minute tip I've ever watched. Good though.
Good video but did he really just call the minor blues scale a gospel scale? Lol that’s all that minor major pentatonic scale is, it’s the minor blues scale of the relative minor starting on the third. Gospel scale 😂
Only on the internet. Yoda would have been criticized for poor footwork if he gave free TH-cam lessons. "LOL. the light sabre does all the work".
Nice, boogiwookie done, this is next.
@@tonalambiguity3345 That's because it's heavily used in Gospel music for the majority of the riffs and runs. But yes, it is technically not a "Gospel" scale
Cheers for this, I've been looking for "keyboard chords beginners" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Nonason Ranincoln Genie - (search on google )?
It is an awesome one of a kind guide for discovering how to play the piano like a pro without the hard work. Ive heard some awesome things about it and my colleague got amazing results with it.
Best piano course on the internet, and so generous with the free content. Fantastic.
Jonny, I've been practicing all evening ... what a brilliant tip this is. All of a sudden I'm sitting at the piano playing my own compositions and it almost sounds like rudimentary cocktail piano. Fantastic.
Not sure why youtube made you appear but it is the best lesson I’ve had. Excellent. I’m subscribed. Please keep going. Thank you!
Best lesson I’ve seen yet, And only eight minutes in. Exactly what I was looking for because it’s taking a very simple chord sequence and embellishing it to sound like something much richer.
I'll be honest. I was going to be disappointed if it was actually only a minute long. Keep them coming! I just love listening you play.
Merci Jonny pour vos tutos ! Quel plaisir que vos explications si claires ....et en C !!! fabulous for a beguiner !!! Thank you so much 🥰
I'm a hotel Pianist from Malaysia. I really like your teaching as it improves my playing. Thanks for sharing :)
Excellent I love the way you teach piano, you're one of the best in the world that's for sure, thanks for sharing it
I studied in the Frankfurter Musikwerkstatt. The Teachers knew well what they were teaching, but they weren't as well structurized as you are. Thanks.
Your playing is so beautiful & inspiring. And your instructions are clear. 👍
LOVE THIS! You have opened up a new world for me with this...I’m jazzed & that’s no joke!
Thank you Jonny you are an amazing teacher.
I can't be the only one hearing "Heart and Soul" within these progressions. I am now going to take a second look at that composition, I didn't realize the "Jazzy" in that song. Cool!!! Thanks for these tips!!!
Thanks for breaking that down for me. Never messed around with jazz progressions. The 4 chord turn around and the “ gospel scale “ have given me a lot to practice around with. Great stuff. Thanks
Do you do boogie and blues tutorials?
Step 1: Drink several cocktails before & during the gig
Step 2: Doesn't matter
Vic Toza it’s also helpful if you breakdown crying half way through and start yelling at the audience.
@@josefk5659 👍 LOL. Hell yeah, Josef! And it's a bonus if you actually get into a brawl with an audience member -- kick it Old West saloon style.
step 2: revive the USSR
@@victoza9232 ok boomer
@@salmiano2094 Why "ok boomer"?
Smile on my face the whole lesson, Jonny is awesome
Thank god for people like you! Thanks so much ;) you are the best!
This is one of the best materials I have seen on entire youtube. Everything explained in such easy way
Excellent teacher! Hats off to your whole approach and great video production as well. Thank you.
You are a great teacher! I've watched a couple of your videos with no real piano knowledge (I play guitar) and I'm already "slowly" improving to backing tracks on my keyboard! THANKS! This is gonna be a great journey!
This has just become my favorite video on TH-cam. I never knew I wanted to play cocktail jazz but now I think I want to do it more than any other thing and I know I will be able to. Excellent teacher. 👏
Thank you :)
Took me about three hours to learn how to play a handfull of songs in this style. Properly amazing!
I really appreciate your teaching style. I am learning a lot. You really demystify piano. I am so grateful.
I don't Wright in English Very well. Fantastic presentations . We could play the same exercices in others tunes(F, G, E etc) I am a 81 years old Man, trying to learn more.
From Brazil a musical country
In the 70's, we used to call solo lounge piano players - lounge lizards. As a drummer, with a very basic piano background, what you call Slides, we call Flams. The Flam is one of the 26 essential drum rudiments. That's my inane contribution to this link, which I found very helpful. Thanks..
Thank you man. Great pianist and your techniques are just so easy to understand.👍🏽
Thanks for sharing your piano tricks …much appreciated. Stay safe always.
Wow, beautifully explained, good tempo and a wonderful gift to peopl curious and hungry to learn.
Thank you, Johnny.
Excellent tutorial. Thank you so much for putting together this tutorial. You are a great teacher and you have very nicely broken down the mechanics in bite size to help us understand and practice.
God bless you and stay blessed!!
This is a great video. Skills that actually attainable to those starting out. I wish I had had TH-cam when I was a youngster trying to learn jazz piano and getting nowhere.
And how many cassette tapes did you go through before TH-cam? Man these kids today got it soooo good!
True lol
You're a great teacher! I never got to go to jazz school, but I really appreciate this lesson, I hope to teach like you someday. Great video!!!!
Nice little lesson, Johnny! Been playing for years, but i gave up trying to figure out improv because I couldnt find a comprehensive lesson, but this is it! 🎹
I'm so glad i found your channel. I love jazz but never knew where to start to learn
You're an awesome teacher and I love the professional look and feel of your video! 🙌🏾🙌🏾
You’re a great piano teacher. Excellent tutorial!
I am working on a project where I play one song in several styles. I don't get jazz AT ALL nor play much piano so the cocktail version was the most difficult to transcribe. WOW this helped so much. I don't feel embarrassed to share this with my help for this song now. Thank you so much. Even getting a feel for the timings you used at the beginning helped. Cheers!
Thank you sooo much Johnny.... truly accessible,useful, practical, down to earth, doable. And wonderful to play and listen to! Improv made possible!,, So satisfying! Thanks for posting
Awesome lesson dude, you’re the best piano teacher on TH-cam for sure. 👍🤘
Thank you, Jonny. Your approach and teaching is very easy to understand for a slow learner like me. Thank you.
Esse professor realmente faz a diferença no mundo 😱
Beautiful...
This is the only word I have for this small piece of music
Good job, very clear, you're a very good teacher. Thank you for sharing
Thank you for posting this. What great teaching and playing technique.
Omg it is one of the best tutorial video I have seen!!! Thank you so much!!! looking forward for the next videos!!!
I'm so glad TH-cam recommended your video to me instead of nonsense. I'm not a beginner at piano or pro but as an intermediate everything you're explaining, including the slides, is super, duper important! I didn't know a chord progression I've been tinkling with since kid by ear turns out to be the mighty Gospel Scale! Now that I can recognize that pattern and it has a name to it is really informative :)
Just finished watching the triplets and slides . . . wow. Even more impressed. GREAT job!
Awesome stuff! Just the video i needed! Im a classical piano player but always wanted to learn how to to simple jazzy piano
Jazz is one of my favourite genres and I find it very difficult to play since I only know basic chords. This video gave me a chance to play jazz. Thank soo much sir.
Maybe as you can see I am basically a trumpet player but you motivated me to go further with my secret love playin Cocktail Piano..
Amazing video and extremely helpful keep on going the good work thank you very very much...
I think your teaching style makes learning a blessing. Thank you for inspiring me to learn to play.
Always simple but very rich tutorials Jonny, thanks a lot !
Jonny.
I am getting back to piano after a few years on guitar. My level is novice-intermediate. Jazz coktail piano is my interest. I came apound you on the web and was really impressed about your tutorials, making what seems difficult at first become so accessible, thanks to your great approach, of step by step notions. . With you, a piece is like a puzzle, coming to a result image.
Consider me as a disciple of yours. I will practie everyday onyour lessons. Please send me infos when available
Best regards Jean (Johnny) Quebec Canada
Gospel scale = Major Blues Scale 1,2,b3,3,5,6 or maybe even the 2nd mode of the Blues Scale.! A Blues - C Major-Blues
You owe it to yourself to sign up with Jonny. There is so much more you will learn.
Está súper Cool tu clase, amigo Jhonny. Voy a practicar. Muchas gracis!!!
Great lessons thank you very much!
Just discovered your channel. Love your simple deconstruction of what sounds like difficult playing
This is amazing thanks for this. Would love to see more common scales and techniques used in cocktail! 🍸
You're videos are brilliant and very easy to learn from. Please keep making them. :-)
Thank u so much for this lesson. It's helpful and easy to understand!
Simply amazing lesson ........and teacher ....! i m speechless
!!!
Thank you! 😃
I seem to learn more from Jonny than from any of the other piano gurus.
Great lesson-
Slide scale and Gospel scale area great start for beginner intermediates...Keep them coming dude!
Awesome teaching, so easy to follow.
Tremendous lesson, opened up different avenues!
Fantastic, so clear what to do. Thanks. Subscribed.
Great pacing and content here. I've been playing this style forever but what I love about music is there's always more to learn. (Your fingerings are different from mine so I'm keen to try yours out.) Thanks Piano with Jonny for having such a great visual display. Having the visual and auditory cues really puts this over the top, for me, a fellow educator.
Excellent - really enjoyed this lesson - hopefully I can emulate - Thanks
Thank you Jonny! 🙏🏻🤩
WOW - I really enjoyed that lesson you have great teaching technique and have given me something to aspire to and actually achieve - thank you so much 🤗🤗🤗😎
This tune makes me so happy. Thanks.
Very helpful, concise and well though out lesson. Thank you from a professional!
Very nice, thanks! Perfect lockdown videos imo.
Piano is king of instruments
Awesome lesson, exactly what I was looking for
excellent teacher absolutely clear !
So thankful for this video. You started with basics and explained from there which was so helpful. especially when you explained the timing of different scales when you add a swing to it. This helped me a lot and I'm now subscribed.
Thanks for the tips i really enjoy your videos!
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks
I absolutely loved this video, Jonny. Huge thanks
As an Old trumpeter, with Old ragged chops, I enjoying an instrument with less physical limitations, in spite of crooked fingers in left hand and limited finger movement
in right hand. I'm still able the play the standards, that are listenable. Great finger , hand and brain therapy tools, I even remembered my wife's name. I think .
Thanks for these lessons.