ABSOLUTE Beginners (New Series) New Orleans Rhythm and Blues piano. Lesson 1: Jimmy Yancey Bass

I'm starting this video series to act as a very basic lesson course for beginner pianists wanting to learn New Orleans rhythm and blues
This lesson will cover the foundational bassline of countless New Orleans hits, highly associated with the singer and pianist Fats Domino, called the Jimmy Yancey bassline
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0:00 Intro Playing: Alberta
0:39 Main Lesson
4:53 Exercises

[@lawrieflowers8314]

Excellent!
Thank you very much, I'm working on it now.

[@dixieworker]

Happy to find this video, it’s been real helpful to me. 💜💚💛

[@osianmusicdeer]

Thank you very much for doing this.

[@edgarsnake2857]

That's a good start. Thanks.

[@martinfinnmusic]

Nice one, Felix. Thank you. 🙏

[@sermapandian8292]

Simple to follow

[@jonnsmith4902]

Good stuff mate 👍

[@andrewcampbell-bluespianop6741]

Nice easy lesson 🙌🏼🎶

[@humblemai2211]

😅😅😅more tutorial about jazz piano please

[@diabonsack8734]

WOW !! I loved the fascinating rhythms you played on 'Chevrolet' and hope very much that you'll include teaching those rhythms in this series. I've been looking long and hard to learn this kind of thing. Thanks so much for offering this course!!

[@felixgreenburg8142]

That kind of left hand pattern was kind of my own invention. It's kind of a modernisation of the old "habanera" patterns used in Contradanza. like Ignacio Cervantes' "Ilusiones Perdidas". Some of this filtered down into New Orleans jazz, the really famous song very popular with NOLA RnB piano fans being Jelly Roll Morton's "The Crave"

[@felixgreenburg8142]

Later I'm going to make a video on a related rhythm from NOLA R&B called the "pocky way". I could make a follow up video on how to play that in a stride pattern

[@R.Akerman-oz1tf]

@@felixgreenburg8142Well done. Slowly, inversions become more natural 4 Me.

[@StevenOsburnHollywood]

Thank you for posting this lesson!

[@felixgreenburg8142]

There's two more up already, and more to come!

[@Tlingit100]

Great lesson ! Is there sheet music for the tune you play at the first of the video?

[@jeffcuthbert6078]

Why not play second inversion F and G chords in the left hand? It's more economical for hand movement. Although I suppose playing the root as the lowest note "anchors" the arpeggiated chord better, establishing clearly the chord progression.

[@felixgreenburg8142]

At this point in time bass instrument amplification was pretty basic. So often in New Orleans they liked to double up multiple instruments, piano, guitar, horns to make the double bass louder. The downside of this is that you have to be pretty strict about the bass part, because all the musicians need to know they're playing the same thing. So the bass is usually simplistic

[@carladean6117]

I thought this was the Bowie song 😆
Bye bye