Piano Lesson for Beginners: Swing

John Maul gives a quick-fire beginner lesson on how to play swing-style music on the piano! This lesson incorporates John Kember's jazzy piece 'This and That' which is featured inside issue 66 of Pianist, available here: pocketmags.com...
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[@petermcmurray2807]

Thank you for explaining the emphasis is by the left hand. I have been trying to do the emphasis as well as the swing on the right hand.

[@s1914]

Excellent 👌

[@nataliea5331]

Oh thank you for this I am currently in love with swing piano though my teacher insists on classical pieces... It would be great if you had sheet music for the beggining piece... Cheers from London

[@jenohorvath5110]

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[@PIANOSTYLE100]

for those having a terrible time with timing listen up..its not swing but love me tender can be sung by tapping on a table and singing tune one and two three and four...try it look at the notes you will be very close.. try different songs btw simple metronome is the simplest metronome app Ive used. . now try a boogie with left hand c e g. a bflat .

[@wawerua96]

What is the name of the score please. this is amazing

[@abath07]

What this lesson leaves out:
Very slightly accent the " + " in the right hand eight notes.
Play the right hand very slightly behind the pulse of the left hand.

[@mudkip_btw]

Cool video! I'm at the moment learning something in three variants, classical, gospel and jazz. This video explains the difference between classical and jazz nicely :) (gospel is really the easier one lol)

[@mudkip_btw]

Need to practice more on metronome, lol

[@petrostzekos8914]

Watching this video 9 years after it was uploaded, trying to get a clue on how to play swing after 5 days of probably wrong practicing, 2 days before playing Santa baby to the conductor of my school’s orchestra, hoping that he won’t give the song to another kid.

[@stumpen150]

quite nice tutorial, and yes, very cathy piece he's playing, anyone know that name of it?

[@Miaew]

"This lesson is on John Kember's jazzy piece 'This and That' which is featured inside issue 66 of Pianist magazine (order your copy today!)."

[@tanhongzhi2637]

this video shows clearly swing and straigh4 differences

[@tanhongzhi2637]

@Andrew London You could watch the video a few more times, take your time to hear the difference. Basically, swing is having the quaver rhythm being played in a triplet quaver rhythm. It is always present in Swing music. Maybe you could find examples of people playing scales, one in straight and one in swing. The difference should be obvious and easier to perceive. Hope that helps.

[@tanhongzhi2637]

@Andrew London You're not hopeless, learning and understanding things takes time, and it is absolutely normal to not 'get it' when starting out. Don't look down on yourself, cuz if u do, u could be brainwashing urself that you can't hear the difference between swing and straight and that makes it even harder to progress.

[@12KeysPiano]

The left hand is interesting to practice

[@kennethkenway411]

i cant find this piece

[@Bbb-xv9bw]

Oh! very good. What is this song? Can i get a sheet?

[@takeo3998]

Searching for something about playing swing on piano but... does Jack Bauer play the piano??

[@TheToneBender]

My keyboard is 13 years old and the recording function doesn't work anymore :/

[@raymondwang7112]

What is playing? The melody is quite catchy.

[@Miaew]

"This lesson is on John Kember's jazzy piece 'This and That' which is featured inside issue 66 of Pianist magazine (order your copy today!)."

[@Fiti-CDB]

It looks blame game from luca sestak

[@nessieness5433]

Horrible sound, so metallic.

[@peterjepson61]

Earex!!

[@nessieness5433]

That won't do the piano any good :)

[@michaelbauers8800]

I wonder if there's some reverb going on which gives it that metallic sound. Or a tack piano simulation