So, checking out the licks--it's actually the left hand stuff and the chord fragment rhythmic stabs that make them so cool. So maybe talk about that stuff in future. Maybe take some stock chord changes and show a couple of cool left hand things and some right hand rhythm stabs. I would dig that. Like a bed to drop those licks into. What you played at 4:25-4:35 was super cool. I'd love to have that in my toolkit.
I had to watch parts of this over and over again because I kept getting so distracted by that stunningly beautiful Vintage Vibe EP that I didn't really hear what he'd said.
@@filtafacta it’s just a question of walking the fingers and signposting the next progressions, if that makes sense. Slow it all down and listen to some soul, repeat!
In one of these videos, Matt talks about spending a lot of time playing live in a duo where he was doing basslines with his left hand, it really got him to the next level.
I don't mean to bore you but I have a testimony. I started playing for church when I was 13, have been to service (Navy) played there too. Now, unfortunately when I was 42 I had a 5way by-pass, 7 strokes & a few TIA's (I'm 54 now). My timing is slightly off, stopped playing in 2012. Now, I'm trying to get back in the groove again. Thanks to a neighbor & friend who comes by and pick me up every now and then to give me some therapy & keep me active (had to stop driving). My style of playing was gospel, jazz, funk, but I wanted to give you props for giving me inspiration & a GOOD tutorial on playing "funk licks" on the piano, Thanks a lot.
This is brilliant! Thank you, Matt, for showing it slowly so that slow learners with 9 thumbs like myself have the chance to pick it up. 🤗 Kenny Werner’s technique of effortless mastery always resonnated with me and being able to figure out the muscle movements are great value!
Cheers Matt, it's raining cats here, so something to lock myself away with in the studio.... and practise those funky licks!! Have a great weekend!!😎🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹👍🎶🍻
Matt, you're so inspiring to hear and see. Please keep this kind of content coming. Could you share with us how you developed your musicianship and piano technique and any practical recommendations and insights that might be helpful to us mortals?
Hello, great licks! I have a request, I would like this same tutorial but focused on the left hand: how do you choose the voicings that you use for your comping to these licks, and why. Left hand comping is often neglected compared to right hand work, but I feel it is essential! I see that you change and alternate comping shapes, inversions, notes... left hand comping tutorial please!
Matt Johnson Jamiroquai what do you contribute to the instinctive nature? Especially regarding rootless voicings - what aspect of your background really helped you solidify those skills?
Completely agree here. Great to see your right hand lighting the fireworks but the LH stuff for me is even more impressive. I'd like to get better and more fluent with more complex chord voicings.
Went to the comment to ask for some left hand work and found that it is filled with the same idea. You are so great at this. I’m learning and that is the fun part. Thanks
Reminded me of Bob James' theme from "Taxi", when slowed down, but a lot cooler and more modern Thanks Matt for the great tutorials. There are not enough funk keyboard instructional vids out there, let alone taught by one of my favorite group's keyboard player. Awesome!
That left and right hand bouncing lick is so cool. I am trying it out on other lick I use, also in different keys. It is a whole world of ideas. Thanks so much for the inspiration. Amazing!
I'm a long time jazz enthusiast (Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal etc) and listened to your music since I was in high school and now taking up piano in my 30s again, just for a bit of fun, time to get some keyboards as well! Thanks! Andrew.
I really appreciate you. Since I went to music school long ago as a bassist and guitarist and I have been learning keys and singing over the past decade, I am hip to music theory and theories of learning and your presenting a lot of technical knowledge you have rather set me free to plug in the different keys and intervals as necessary in my own evolution which is what seems to be your point. Extremely helpful!
I've been improvising on keys for over 20 years (as long as I've been a jamiroquai fan!) and these videos have really improved my playing. I legit take notes while I watch. Thank you!!!
Matt same here I was 5 when I started playing piano. Made the mistake of not playing for a few years during my teens. Thankfully started playing again early twenties and haven't looked back since. Would love to get a career in music preferably singing.
Thanks a lot again for these fantastic tutorials. As other people also mentioned the left hand chords makes these licks so complete. Some specific chords I am searching for. Love these funky chords!
This was ace! More than I dared to hope for. Couple of ideas for videos: how about your personal idols. How they’ve influenced your choice of harmony and rhythym playing and what is your own current approach - is there any Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway inspired licks that we all could learn from with respect to harmony and rhythym?
”...and then you just speed it up” - proceeds to turn the speed up from challenging to beyond ludicrous in a heartbeat 🤯😆 Quite impressive sir. Thanks for these! This is just what a self taught keyboard nerd like me needs to break out of ruts and really push my limits.
Wonderful tutorial Matt, thank you again! That Vintage Vibe Rhodes just knocks it out of the park. I'd love to hear more of it; you're doing exactly what I'd like to learn.
Great licks! LOVED this lesson. We need more like this on TH-cam - the great ones are hard to find. I'd love for more just videos like this, and how to construct a solo from beginning to end would be awesome too. Maybe come up with a 16-bar solo and teach us the whole thing? ;)
thanks a lot for the time you take to make these videos and for your empathy. when i was a teenager i would never have thought that one day Jamiroquai keyboardist will give keyboards lesson! It would be even more great if you could had some tips for the left hand or the left hand chords that match the licks. Thank you so much , your videos are very refreshing and interesting. Philippe from France
This is really wonderful! I would LOVE a video demoing some of the bass lines you're playing in your left hand! Or even just a tutorial fixated on left hand techniques!
Please more tutorials! Awesome to see them coming from someone who plays that good. Everything you play is so inspiring, it make me instantly want to go try everything!!!!
loving you videos matt! very useful tips + very good principles of teaching and as if that wasn't enough it gets presented as beautiful funk licks. priceless work you're doing, big ups!
Great examples, Matt. I agree with the requests for more left hand. Even more valuable would be your help learning to "bounce." The syncopation between left and right hand brings the funk that makes people want to dance.
I really enjoy following along with your tutorials. My biggest issue is fingering. I slow your videos down to watch your hands. It helps quite a bit. Thank you for these.
Love that Vintage Vibe Matt! Absolutely magnanimous of you to be taking the time to do these videos and I completely love your comments and expressive gesturing to how to you play and feel music. Please don't stop doing these cause I probably speak for many that these are wonderful.
Thank you for another greater tutorial! It would be great if you could do tutorials about: 1: chord progressions, like the ones you used in the first licks in this video 2: learn how to vamp (2 hands) like you did in the last section (the left hand lick)
What an amazing video! Finally some lessons on Funk who really knows his stuff! Please continue this series! I'd also be interested in the writing of some funky chord progressions and your take on turning them into a groove! Amazing.
Great musician, great teacher, humble persona, a true gentleman! By the way I loved that left hand work. I always struggle keeping up with my left hand while trying to find a lick with my right hand. I think I need to practice more.
Awesome! I was always try and learn licks in every key, finding them by ear too not reading. Since I started doing that I find licks come into my soloing much more naturally. That piano sounds gorgeous btw.
funny......I loved your playing on this vid and then I learned why......your Jamariquai !!! Didn't catch that at first...... Man.... I love your playing and I love your band......one of my all time favorites. I will be practicing ALL your vids. Your the greatest!!!! Take care pal!!!!
the sound of the vintage vibe.....better than a rhodes to me :) I don't have the "real" keyboard but i have keyscape by spectrasonics and the vintage vibe sounds pretty good ! Thanks for the lesson maestro!
Brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing! I'm going to start practicing that a lot. And in four or five years I'll return and start with the stuff between the licks... 😉. Oh, and that must be the most gorgeous looking piano ever.
Pretty dope to see a successful musician who doesn't need to make videos like this sharing the knowledge
Yes!!!
I so agree! He is such a nice guy isn't he!
Totally!!
Dope to see a mutha' like this (who doesn't need to make videos) sharing the wealth.
Successful people dont settle , everydays a hustle
So, checking out the licks--it's actually the left hand stuff and the chord fragment rhythmic stabs that make them so cool. So maybe talk about that stuff in future. Maybe take some stock chord changes and show a couple of cool left hand things and some right hand rhythm stabs. I would dig that. Like a bed to drop those licks into. What you played at 4:25-4:35 was super cool. I'd love to have that in my toolkit.
I agree. It's the bouncy left hand stabs that make "simple" blues phrases very funky.
+1
Same here. Great vid- but would love to get a breakdown of the left hand.
Absolutely. The right hand lines are impressive but the left hand give it all a place to live. So good!
Same here... I can play right hand easily but left is where I suck 😬
I had to watch parts of this over and over again because I kept getting so distracted by that stunningly beautiful Vintage Vibe EP that I didn't really hear what he'd said.
Amen! That looks soooo sweet
The color! Oooh
A lot of folks would appreciate thought process behind left hand riff & chord progressions.
Yeah for sure! Mine is stuck playing octave on the root or root and fifth too much.
Many thanks :D
@@filtafacta it’s just a question of walking the fingers and signposting the next progressions, if that makes sense. Slow it all down and listen to some soul, repeat!
yes, thats interesting me more than the solo licks
Please could you make a tutorial on chord progressions? either some of your favourite or how to make them. Thanks!!
Yes, great idea!
Oh yeah 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yes, please chord progressions!! ✌️✌️✌️ thank you!!!
Yes! All the voicing selection process and theory stuff its so nutritive to me
You have a wicked left hand. I really gotta work on that more than anything.
In one of these videos, Matt talks about spending a lot of time playing live in a duo where he was doing basslines with his left hand, it really got him to the next level.
@@PutItAway101 I saw that one, it came out recently!
@@cp-the-nerd I really took that to heart. I've stopped playing basslines with my right hand.
I’m assuming everyone else is loving the left hand work in this video?
Yes. I guess there's lots of us with a very white left hand :)
...there's a left hand...?
I don't mean to bore you but I have a testimony. I started playing for church when I was 13, have been to service (Navy) played there too. Now, unfortunately when I was 42 I had a 5way by-pass, 7 strokes & a few TIA's (I'm 54 now). My timing is slightly off, stopped playing in 2012. Now, I'm trying to get back in the groove again. Thanks to a neighbor & friend who comes by and pick me up every now and then to give me some therapy & keep me active (had to stop driving). My style of playing was gospel, jazz, funk, but I wanted to give you props for giving me inspiration & a GOOD tutorial on playing "funk licks" on the piano, Thanks a lot.
Lovely! For a beginner on the keys like myself, to see how simple the licks actually are is an encouraging thing. Agility comes with time.
This is brilliant! Thank you, Matt, for showing it slowly so that slow learners with 9 thumbs like myself have the chance to pick it up. 🤗 Kenny Werner’s technique of effortless mastery always resonnated with me and being able to figure out the muscle movements are great value!
Cheers Matt, it's raining cats here, so something to lock myself away with in the studio.... and practise those funky licks!! Have a great weekend!!😎🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹👍🎶🍻
I was very impresed by your groove and clarity of sound (congrats!). Can you show or explain the chord progression you used with the licks?
Great licks played with superb feel. I also love the way they are sensitively incorporated into the parts you play.
Matt, you're so inspiring to hear and see. Please keep this kind of content coming. Could you share with us how you developed your musicianship and piano technique and any practical recommendations and insights that might be helpful to us mortals?
Counter rhythm playing is so important to have in the tool box.
Great vid.
Cheers.
Thanks Matt! Your generosity with the wisdom is greatly appreciated! Best, Daniel 🙏🏼
The Deluxe sounds amazing
Hello, great licks! I have a request, I would like this same tutorial but focused on the left hand: how do you choose the voicings that you use for your comping to these licks, and why.
Left hand comping is often neglected compared to right hand work, but I feel it is essential!
I see that you change and alternate comping shapes, inversions, notes... left hand comping tutorial please!
I will think on that. The problem is it's very instinctive so hard to explain!
@@MattJohnsonJamiroquai From a player of your caliber, any advice will help!
Matt Johnson Jamiroquai what do you contribute to the instinctive nature? Especially regarding rootless voicings - what aspect of your background really helped you solidify those skills?
Completely agree here. Great to see your right hand lighting the fireworks but the LH stuff for me is even more impressive. I'd like to get better and more fluent with more complex chord voicings.
Went to the comment to ask for some left hand work and found that it is filled with the same idea. You are so great at this. I’m learning and that is the fun part. Thanks
Reminded me of Bob James' theme from "Taxi", when slowed down, but a lot cooler and more modern
Thanks Matt for the great tutorials. There are not enough funk keyboard instructional vids out there, let alone taught by one of my favorite group's keyboard player. Awesome!
I thought the very same. TAXI theme!
Think I'll ask matt if he would do "taxi" breakdown.😊
Thanks Matt, these tutorials really help me out by picking up some new tricks/techniques.
Just awesome to watch n enjoy let alone learn! Love the tone of these keys 🎹🙌🏻🙏🏻😎
I could watch and listen to this all day 👍🏻
Hey Matt I'd love to see a tutorial on Jazz/Funk/NeoSoul chord Progressions!
That left and right hand bouncing lick is so cool. I am trying it out on other lick I use, also in different keys. It is a whole world of ideas. Thanks so much for the inspiration. Amazing!
I'm a long time jazz enthusiast (Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal etc) and listened to your music since I was in high school and now taking up piano in my 30s again, just for a bit of fun, time to get some keyboards as well! Thanks! Andrew.
Ooh Yes Matt,lovin this funk adventure you have got going,LOVE IT.
Great musician, player, teacher
I really appreciate you. Since I went to music school long ago as a bassist and guitarist and I have been learning keys and singing over the past decade, I am hip to music theory and theories of learning and your presenting a lot of technical knowledge you have rather set me free to plug in the different keys and intervals as necessary in my own evolution which is what seems to be your point. Extremely helpful!
I've been improvising on keys for over 20 years (as long as I've been a jamiroquai fan!) and these videos have really improved my playing. I legit take notes while I watch. Thank you!!!
Matt same here I was 5 when I started playing piano. Made the mistake of not playing for a few years during my teens. Thankfully started playing again early twenties and haven't looked back since. Would love to get a career in music preferably singing.
This has to be the greatest music channel.
You drop the deepest, most directly helpful stuff. Thanks!
Absolutely crazy hands. Currently writing funk tune for the band. Not sure our piano guy can pull this off. Brilliant.
The lows from these keys are soooo crunchy. Awesome.
That piano sounds as great as it looks! It deserves your hands. Congrats!
What you have just shared is rock solid advice. God bless you and yours.
These videos are great. Keep em coming!
Hey, we really appreciate these tutorials more than you can imagine. Keep them coming!
Thanks a lot again for these fantastic tutorials. As other people also mentioned the left hand chords makes these licks so complete. Some specific chords I am searching for. Love these funky chords!
Last lick is almost "Cissy Strut". And I've always loved the "Blow Your Mind" intro. Thank you sir!
graciAS GRACIAS. EXCELENTE VIDEO. Y SI, COINICO EN LA MAGIA DE LA MANO IZQUIERDA.
This was ace! More than I dared to hope for. Couple of ideas for videos: how about your personal idols. How they’ve influenced your choice of harmony and rhythym playing and what is your own current approach - is there any Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway inspired licks that we all could learn from with respect to harmony and rhythym?
You are amazing ! I grew up on Lee Michaels, Rascals, Doors and played key bass (Hohner) with my B 3. thanks for keeping the fires burning.
Thank you Matt. You are a gentleman and a scholar
”...and then you just speed it up” - proceeds to turn the speed up from challenging to beyond ludicrous in a heartbeat 🤯😆
Quite impressive sir. Thanks for these! This is just what a self taught keyboard nerd like me needs to break out of ruts and really push my limits.
Thank you for all the sweet riffs. You're a great teacher.
Wonderful tutorial Matt, thank you again! That Vintage Vibe Rhodes just knocks it out of the park. I'd love to hear more of it; you're doing exactly what I'd like to learn.
That Vintage Vibe sounds and looks amazing! 😃👍
Just found your awesome video this morning! Looking forward to more. Subscribed. Pairs really well with my morning coffee btw. Thank you.
Awesome and more awesome tutorial video. I'm more motivated to play after after watching these videos from you.
Thanks for sharing!
Awesome! I just started learning the intro of Blow Your Mind on keys, that's one of my favorite tunes! Thanks!!
Great licks! LOVED this lesson. We need more like this on TH-cam - the great ones are hard to find.
I'd love for more just videos like this, and how to construct a solo from beginning to end would be awesome too. Maybe come up with a 16-bar solo and teach us the whole thing? ;)
Thank you Matt!! I love all your videos, thanks for sharing your knowledge with the world.
thanks a lot for the time you take to make these videos and for your empathy.
when i was a teenager i would never have thought that one day Jamiroquai keyboardist will give keyboards lesson!
It would be even more great if you could had some tips for the left hand or the left hand chords that match the licks.
Thank you so much , your videos are very refreshing and interesting.
Philippe from France
What a surprise, a tutorial from a professional fellow! Many thanks from Brazil!
So grateful..! Thanks Matt for share your knowledge and skills
You've got a Vintage VIBE!!!! I am a big fan of that channel. So cool to see one featured in vid like this.
Loved the licks tutorial, No 4 sounds great, I'll have a go, be back to your videos soon.thanks.
Billy Graham from bonnie Scotland.😊
Thanks Matt! Great lesson! especially liked when you started throwing in the left hand to go along with the right.
Thanks Chris!
What a useful and inspiring lesson! Thanks so much Matt!
This is really wonderful! I would LOVE a video demoing some of the bass lines you're playing in your left hand! Or even just a tutorial fixated on left hand techniques!
Great tips and killer chops! Sweet looking electric piano . . .so shiny!💥💥💥. I think I would get one in cobalt blue!
Please more tutorials! Awesome to see them coming from someone who plays that good. Everything you play is so inspiring, it make me instantly want to go try everything!!!!
Stumbled on this video and decided to subscribe. Great tone on that piano. Thanks
loving you videos matt! very useful tips + very good principles of teaching and as if that wasn't enough it gets presented as beautiful funk licks. priceless work you're doing, big ups!
Great tutorial. Thanks for showing us how it’s done
I am in no way a keyboard player, I'm just here to listen to you play. Thanks man.
Just love it. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Making the world a better place and inspiring millions!
This was super inspiring! You're an amazing player man. Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us ✌️
Great examples, Matt. I agree with the requests for more left hand. Even more valuable would be your help learning to "bounce." The syncopation between left and right hand brings the funk that makes people want to dance.
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Jim Harris holy smokes lmao this is gold
Wonderful video, thanks as always for sharing your thoughts, feelings, and musicianship! Love your channel!
Hey, nice chops, Matt, great advice. Your vinyl arrived. Lovely stuff...I’ll send you my vinyl, which is in the shape of a rain hat.
Hope you enjoy the record!
@@MattJohnsonJamiroquai of course!
Your playing is simply mindblowing, I need to get practising
That last left hand lick reminds me a drum fill 😁 superb! Thanks for sharing 👍
I really enjoy following along with your tutorials. My biggest issue is fingering. I slow your videos down to watch your hands. It helps quite a bit. Thank you for these.
This should be a master class. It is so good!
Thanks Matt!!! great!!!!its great to have a real great musician givin us all this!
Love that Vintage Vibe Matt! Absolutely magnanimous of you to be taking the time to do these videos and I completely love your comments and expressive gesturing to how to you play and feel music. Please don't stop doing these cause I probably speak for many that these are wonderful.
jazz, funk and blues. what a trio! yes i got something out of that......joy!
Incredible thanks thanks!!!!! more videos like this chord progressions and licks!! please!!
Thank you for another greater tutorial!
It would be great if you could do tutorials about:
1: chord progressions, like the ones you used in the first licks in this video
2: learn how to vamp (2 hands) like you did in the last section (the left hand lick)
What an amazing video! Finally some lessons on Funk who really knows his stuff! Please continue this series! I'd also be interested in the writing of some funky chord progressions and your take on turning them into a groove! Amazing.
Thanks for your generosity.
Very cool stuff, but i have still a problem to speed it up like you! Your playing and sound is awesome. May the funk allways be with you!
So funky. Love it🤟🏼
Awesome licks! I hope we get to hear more!
So glad I found your videos. Very practical and helpful. Thanks Matt.
Great musician, great teacher, humble persona, a true gentleman! By the way I loved that left hand work. I always struggle keeping up with my left hand while trying to find a lick with my right hand. I think I need to practice more.
hey thank you so much for all your videos? i appreciate this so much!
Awesome! I was always try and learn licks in every key, finding them by ear too not reading. Since I started doing that I find licks come into my soloing much more naturally. That piano sounds gorgeous btw.
funny......I loved your playing on this vid and then I learned why......your Jamariquai !!! Didn't catch that at first...... Man.... I love your playing and I love your band......one of my all time favorites. I will be practicing ALL your vids. Your the greatest!!!! Take care pal!!!!
You're awesome mate! Thanks heaps! Can use for myself as well as students. Cheers & all the best!
Connie from Australia
Matt, thanks for these tips! I've been looking for a long time for this sound path. That sounds wonderful!
the sound of the vintage vibe.....better than a rhodes to me :) I don't have the "real" keyboard but i have keyscape by spectrasonics and the vintage vibe sounds pretty good ! Thanks for the lesson maestro!
Matt is pure.
Could you please help with funk grooves and common progressions
Matt, thanks for create this channel. I’m a Jamiroquai fan. You’re a great keyboardist. One of the most greats. From Argentina, my respect.
Brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing! I'm going to start practicing that a lot. And in four or five years I'll return and start with the stuff between the licks... 😉. Oh, and that must be the most gorgeous looking piano ever.
Your tutorials are great! Very interesting to watch