jazz piano teacher Now it's YOUR turn to be the life and soul of the party!. Click Here 👈 what's up friends my name is...
jazz piano teacher
Now it's YOUR turn to be the life and soul of the party!. Click Here 👈
what's up friends my name is Kevin Castro and today we're going to be talking about jazz piano jazz piano sounds amazing but can be super intimidating as well the great news is you can learn jazz piano even if you're new to the piano and I'm gonna prove it I'm going to be teaching you a few essential jazz piano techniques that you can actually play that sound amazing we're going to talk about swing Rhythm the most popular Jazz progression two five ones and adding some comping Rhythm to those chords so even if you're a beginner you can have a ton of fun playing jazz along with me because we're gonna be playing along with actual backing tracks and at the very end I'm going to be applying these techniques to a standard called satin doll by Duke Ellington now that one might take a little bit more work because I'm going to be honest with you guys jazz is tricky but if you want to get started take these techniques I'm teaching you follow along with the tutorial with me at the end and then you can take these same techniques and apply them to any Jazz standard alright let's get into it okay so if we're gonna play jazz the first thing we need to master is Swing Rhythm so what is Swing Rhythm well let's take our C major scale if you don't know how to play it let me show you real quick C major is c d e f g a b c and the only thing I did there was one two three a little thumb tuck right here one two three four five so what I'm gonna do for this exercise is I'm gonna get you to play in eighth notes so eighth notes you're gonna count like this one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and so that would be your traditional eighth note right but in jazz we're gonna swing it so it's gonna sound like this just listen to it first before we go into the theory behind it one and two swing is something you feel if I go backwards so what I'm actually doing is the first note I'm hitting is long and the second note is short so it's going like this long short long short long short long short and just keep doing that and if you're a theory nerd like me the actual way to play it is the triplet Rhythm triplet triplet it's the first note of a triplet and the last note so triple it triple triple lit but if that's too confusing for you just think about long short or really just feel it at the end of the day so let's try this together so if you notice swing rhythm the first note is a little bit longer and the second note is a little bit shorter so if I count that out loud long short long short long short it's really subtle and again long short long short long short long short what if we do that two octaves thumb tuck oh now let's go all the way back down finger three and remember keep that long short foreign rhythm is crucial to playing jazz and to master that long short long short long short long short Rhythm so if you do want to practice this we do have the full backing track that you can Loop along with and really Master this in our members area so if you're not already a piano member make sure you get that link to our free trial just below this video the second thing we need to look at is the most popular jazz chord progression now you're gonna see this progression all over jazz music and it's called the two five one now if you want to learn how to play jazz you absolutely have to master the two five one so let me show you what that is what that looks like so in the key of C that's where I stay in the key of C today we're going to take the second degree which is D and I'm going to build a D Minor 7 chord which looks like this you just skip a note every time d f a and C and then what we're going to do is take these two fingers bring them down and now this gives me a core called G7 here's the actual chord but I'm playing it in an inversion like this d f g and B and then we're going to end off on a C Major seven looks like this c e g b so all together real quick dfac dfgb c e g b so let's try practicing along with a track [Music] I just hold that c chord one more time so here it is again D minor seven there's the two [Music] and just really let let the track kind of do the movement there's a base there's the drums in there now try it with your right hand because you want to be good at this in both hands [Music] and if I do it hands together it sounds like this [Music] all right nice work with that chord progression but now that you got the chord progression we're going to try and add a little bit of Rhythm in there let's try it again but this time just follow along with me we're gonna practice this together so just hold them for whole notes first [Music] and we're gonna hit C Major seven again once you're comfortable with that remember this inversion dfgb now let's add some of them let's do some half notes in here so we're going to go like this one two three four one two you got it and listen to that walking bass line it's every two Beats so let's try the same Rhythm but now let's try it on your right hand here we go one two ready go [Music] one more time and then we're gonna try a new rhythm let's go okay here we go new Rhythm sounds something like this one and two three four one and two three four one and two three four one and two three four and the first one is short and the second one you're gonna hold it [Music] and if you want the beats that it's landing on it's gonna be on the end of one one and two three and on beat three one and two three four one let's see if you can do this on your left hand now [Music] now hands together here we go [Music] that's it you're playing jazz last time [Music] and hold this cord okay so now that we've kind of mastered adding some Rhythm into our left hand that's everything you kind of need to practice with that 251 progression but what if we start putting this together in an actual Jazz standard so the stand we're going to look at is Duke Ellington's satin doll which is a really really popular song for jazz beginners to start practicing so if we take a look at the sheet music here you're going to notice that this might look a little bit different than what you're used to there's only one line of music and so there are some chord names on top and so that's what we're going to focus on first so at the very top the D M7 that means D minor seven so whenever I see that that means I'm going to go to this shape D minor seven which is my d f a c the same chords we were just practicing and now I'm going to go to G7 here just by moving these two fingers over you can play this G7 you can play this G7 there's actually no rules you can pick whichever ones you want but I would suggest using this one just because it's gonna make it really nice to go back and forth and so the first two measures if I'm just doing my left hand you'll see that it kind of split up in the measure so you're going to hold each one for two beats just like we were practicing one two three four one two three four so you'll notice that we never actually land on that C Major seven right and so it's possible to do a just a two five progression it doesn't always have to resolve on the one so you're gonna see that that's a theme in this song so that's a two five three four a one two three four now if we go to the next measure here just looking at the left hand again just the chord symbol we have E minor seven and A7 so a dominant seven so we're adding a C sharp in here so all of a sudden we've jumped out of the key of C and we're doing a two five one and if I was to resolve it it would land on a D major seven because e is the second a is the five D is the one but let's just practice that so E minor seven goes like this e g b and d and then going to e g a c sharp so practice this going back and forth one two three four again one two three four all right the next two measures are probably the trickiest measures in the whole song we have another two five progression going a minor seven we're gonna play it like this G A and C now you can play any which way you want there's no real rules when you're working with lead sheets but again if you're following my instruction E G A and C there's a minor seven just an inversion and then we're gonna go to D7 and see how that's a really nice easy switch just move your Eng to D and F sharp so one more time hold it for two beats one two three four and this is where it starts to sound really Jazzy where we go into another key this chord this is the hardest part of the song a flat minor seven whoa and then we're gonna go to this chord right here called d flat dominant seven so let's go over those notes E flat g flat a flat and B here B natural going to d flat F A flat and B natural again so it's just these two notes that are moving and then you resolve on your c chord but we're gonna play a C Major seven here okay so let's just try the left hand very slowly just us before we start adding tracks or anything like that so from the top one two three four one two switch chord D minor g seven there you go now you're at the E minor A7 one two three four a minor seven to D seven eight here comes that tricky one there you go to d flat seven and then land on that C Major seven for four beats then we get to E minor 7 and A7 again so you've already done this shape and that is a repeat sign that will take you right back to our first measure so you see that number one at the top of that music that is something called a first ending so when you hit that part you're gonna just play those first two measures the first time only then we're going to repeat the very beginning so let's just try it one more time let's just maybe increase the speed just a little bit now one two three four one two E minor seven A7 a minor seven D seven a flat minor seven whoa d flat seven one two and now when I get to this second time through I'm gonna play the second ending which is going to be one two D minor seven and then we have this really cool passing chord called D sharp diminished I'm going to show you how to play that sounds really Jazzy you have D sharp F sharp A and C and then we go to E minor seven so those are all chords that you've played before except for that quick little passing diminish so one more time that second ending sounds like this one two three four one two three four okay so let's learn the right hand because chords are great but it doesn't do anything unless we add the melody in there so if I'm just looking at the notes now I can read the treble clef that's written in so here it's just going between two notes A and G that's the first two measures and sounds like this a g a g a g a but we have to add the swing Rhythm so remember that first exercise we're working on with that c major scale we're going to apply that here so remember long and then short so it's going to sound like this now I'm just going to play it along okay you kind of hear the difference between the first one and that second one the swing adds just that much more energy into the melody so let's try it together just the first two measures with that swing Rhythm one two three four one and two there you go so in the second measure it's going to be on the end of one one and two and three and so the Rhythm all together one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four some people like to count it out and some people just like to feel that Melody whatever works best for you is okay but now you're gonna notice that Rhythm repeats over just two different notes now we're going b and a one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and you kind of hear that pattern starting to happen it's a rhythmic pattern and that's what kind of makes the song what it is the next two measures sound like this one and two and three and four and four and two and three and four and so there's lots of these offbeats that's what we call it when you land on the and so those last two one more time d c d and the timing is one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and and you're gonna land on that g note on the end of four so it that's what we call in jazz a push so it sounds like this one so right before beat one let's play the whole Melody let's play it slow first and then we'll kind of put this hands together one two three four foreign [Music] okay so now we're going to put this hands together but don't stress out this takes a lot of practice so first off really make sure you have those left hand cords and all those inversions before you move on to putting your hands together and make sure you can also play The Melody up to this point but once you've got that down and that takes practice then you can come here and try putting this hands together so left hand is going to be half notes one two three four and right hand has a lot of those offbeats one and two and three and four one and so there's lots of those offbeats where you're hitting notes on the end and that is called syncopation and that's what takes a lot of practice when putting your hands together so don't worry about it if it's a little bit tricky now with practice it'll come here we go nice and slow one two three four E minor here's that four and one just hold this one for four beats three four then one two three and then we'd start over again one and two and three and four and two and three and four make sure you got that swing rhythm in your right hand here's that four and one two three here's that D sharp diminished and E minor seven okay so now we're gonna learn the B section of the song so let's learn the right hand first because it's really simple you're just gonna start on your C note and you're gonna start going up and down from C B flat A and G and you're gonna hold that g a little longer it sounds like this I'm gonna go back up I'm back down and back up so the timing there's one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and so you hold the top note a little bit longer and the bottom note a little bit longer and the chords you're going to play behind this are G minor seven sounds like this F G B flat d and C7 so this is the last new 251 that you're going to learn so it sounds like this all together and then you land on this F major seven chord two three four then you hit your G minor C7 again and the next part sounds like this you already know the left hand chords A minor seven d seven that's the same as the a section and now the right hand same rhythm but the notes are just going down from D to a so one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and so nice simple right hand just four notes that's all it is and just feel that and with the left hand one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and now here we have D minor seven G7 you did those chords E minor seven a seven you did those chords as well and then we're right back to the beginning one and two and three and four one and two and three and four one and two and three and four okay so there is the song So when you're practicing this remember to learn the two five progressions in each of those keys so one more time D minor seven g seven that's pattern one pattern two E minor seven a seven so practice that shift next one a minor seven d seven last one here a flat minor seven to d flat seven and the only one that's different is our B section we have G minor seven to C7 so two five progressions like I said you're gonna see these not just in this Jazz standard but in every Jazz standard you play from Autumn Leaves Fly Me to the Moon summertime these are litter throw Jazz so once you learn it for one Jazz standard you've learned it for all Jazz standards let's see if we can try this with the backing track so this is going to be at full speed now practice this hand separately with the track if you need to at first and then eventually bring it hands together let's give it a shot thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign so there it is you're playing jazz piano so remember the Steps step one learn your swing Rhythm step two learn the most popular Jazz progression the two five one then we were starting to add some Rhythm into the left hand and step three put it all together by learning satin doll by Duke Ellington now if you want to practice this we have an amazing practice future in our members area where you'll get access to all the sheet music you'll get the backing track so you can practice the two five ones practice your swing Rhythm or practice satin doll you can speed it up you can slow it down all the practice tools that you could ever need to master jazz piano so click the link below this video and I'll see you there [Music] foreign ...
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