dat lick is sooo crisp. I will be using this during my combos rendition of Impressions by John Coltrane. BTW!!! I loved when you got excited, because I was equally excited before I heard your own reaction XD
Wow Mmeronek this has been what I've been looking for! I've played piano for 13 years and just in the last couple of years had to stop for school and other things. And I've found that more recently I've had more time to pick playing back up! Towards the last few years of playing I was studying how to play more "jazz"like and I found myself at every piano practice asking my teacher for more and more chords to play because I couldn't get enough of that rich sound and now I've came across you on RUclips and the videos with your tutorials have made playing a much more grand experience! Thank you so much! I hope to see more tutorial videos soon, your perspective brings such a new angle to playing! :)
just bought a piano and this was the first lick I learned, now I just want to keep progressing in jazz, thank you for helping me out! do you have a continue for this lick because i am not that good and i dont know what i should play after this? thanks for helping me out!
hey. thanks for all your free lessons.... they all really helped me.. can u please do a tutorial on chord substitions(not based on a single song) for the i,ii,iii,iv,v,vi,vii chords etc.. just a substition for that chord so as to make use of them in as many songs as possibles in case we wanted to do a jazz arrangement,, :)
Awesome lick! It seems that playing music is about the best thing to do for your brain, it's one big party as everything is put to work. It's supposed to be FUN!
+Mmeronek - Pianobreaks Don't think about getting carried away, allow the music and your soul to fully express themselves my guy. Keep up the work my teacher of Keys.
Mmeronek I think you should also do a few advanced videos based on the theory for this kind of stuff, you could talk about comping, responding to the soloist, alt chords etc... Although your audience is often new to this sort of thing, I'm sure they would still be interested
Yeah my videos are going to get more and more into theory as we go along, it's really just a matter of time. I really started from the very beginning, with someone knowing nothing about piano at all, so there is a foundation for the rest of my lessons, but I will have to tackle more chord progressions and different types of chords in my next lessons.
mmeronek please make more of these videos! these videos help me out so much, i love jazz and im really trying to get into soloing and your videos have greatly helped me with that. Thank you!!
Why are you explaining to these dorks as to why you're laughing? It just shows that you're emotionally attached to what you're doing. I've been at the home and studio of one of the top contemporary jazz keyboardist recording artist in this genre and he does the same thing when he was playing and while we were listening to the album tracks. That's why these "left brain" cats can't play. It took me less than 10 minutes to grasp and play this. Thanks man for your efforts; this is the stuff that I do anyway, so it gave me some more "tools" in the shed.@Mmeronek-Pianobreaks. Sorry about your anxiety/depression issues. I honestly can't as you said relate at all to this; because that is so foreign to me; but music is therapy. Rock on man, rock on!!!
Hi +Mmeronek I have a question and I was wondering if you could answer it. My question is what key or scale is this lick in? And Can you put into another scale or key?
Hi :) love your vids! Was just wondering, how do you know which chord to go to next to give it that jazzy sound...like you started with a D F A C if im not wrong? Then you went to D sharp I guess? I really have trouble with this :(
That opening lick was so BOSS. I'm taking music theory and I want to play Jazz piano. My teacher says I'm not ready but he's never seen me play? -___- anywayssss, I know my major and minor chords but I don't know how to make them sound rich :( I get confused when it comes to voicings.
great video! Quick question, if I were to play this in c minor, and wanted to go up to E flat major but using fourth voicings, would THAT work and what notes would I have to use? Thank you! :)
I'll try to help your request. Starts off using a standard 'full' D Minor 11 voicing in left hand (from root position) i.e. DFGAC. The right hand broken chord structure is based on the modal D Dorian scale (derived from the C major scale) e.g. DEFGABC. First broken 'arpeggio' style chord EAE (9th,5th,9th) ; Second : FBF (3rd, 13th, 3rd) ; Third GCG (11,7,11) ; Fourth ADA (5,1,5) ; Fifth BEB (13,9,13). Then into CFAbC with accompanying Eb Minor 11 (also in root position) i.e. EbGbAbBbDb and alternating right hand between Bb and C i.e. CFAbC & BbFAbBb. That's the basic format, but then expands into minor pentatonics, modal scales and minor scale improvisation e.g. F minor pentatonic, F minor scales and Eb Dorian, over the Eb minor 11th in the left hand. The pianist also utilises the Eb Dorian modal scale (similarly derived from a major scale) e.g. EbFGbAbBbCDb in the latter part of the video, to create the broken chord structure, identical to the D minor variation. 'Mirroring' in a different key. Other consonant minor pentatonics useful for improvising on Eb minor 11 e.g. Eb & Bb. Hence, Eb, F & Bb correlate to the I, II & V minor pentatonics on a minor 11, or other minor chord variations e.g. 7, 9, 13, etc.. Consonant major pentatonics on Eb m 11 e.g. GbMaj, AbMaj, DbMaj (III, IV & VII on Eb Dorian scale). Hope this info. provides some insight into the basic structure and extra ideas for improvisation.
+cesays16 Sure. It's a modal lick as it is, but you can change it to Dmin 7th G7 and C Major 7th instead of the Eb Minor 7th that you're playing in this example. To do that, just play: D F G A C, D F G B, Then C E G B in your left hand, and When you resolve to the last chord, play E G B E in your right hand. You can also add D E G B, and B D E G after that to make it sound good too. Hope that helps, I tried playing it and it sounded great!
+phannes00 These licks are based on D dorian (all white keys) for Dmin7, and Eb dorian (Eb F Gb Ab Bb C Db Eb) for Ebmin7. On each chord you can play its respective scale. And you don't need to switch chords as quickly as I do here, you can just play over D dorian for a little while, and then switch to Eb dorian, it's really fun.
Prettier chord, no reason really, sus chords just sound beautiful (sus's are chords where you add the 4th, usually you take out the 3rd too but I just left it in because I like how it sounds).
Mmeronek Wow cool how you answered that so fast. I didnt even finish the video yet. Thanks for the help; I'm just trying to find ways to make my improv sound less weak.
MrMuso1563 I'm honestly not sure, the PF-500 is about 10 years old and I'm sure there are better keyboards out there (this was a high end keyboard when I bought it).
Sounds good, I've always liked Yamaha's sound engine........and Rolands. I've got a Kurzweil PC3X great sounds but Piano sample is a bit old.My son has Roland FP50.
I'm obviously not laughing at you, and sure if you're just watching this you probably can't play it... yet anyways. You need to learn it and practice it first until it becomes comfortable for you to play it slowly, and then later make it faster and faster until it almost becomes second nature. It's a very linear process and is much like improving in any other skill, but you still have to learn the whole thing and practice it until you become comfortable with it.
Mmeronek and I mean linear in that there are obvious things that you have to do, like learn the actual lick with all the notes in it by heart and practice it slowly, but that doesn't mean you can't improve exponentially too.
+Ashley Frank I tried my best honestly. I can't hide that I suffer from anxiety and depression, and sometimes it comes out in ways like that, the coughing while I'm playing and the kind of laughter that I have. I can't all of a sudden wave a magic wand and stop being depressed though, I've tried my best to get better from it in myriad methods for many years and not succeeded, I just now try my best not to let it get into my teaching. Sometimes you just have time constraints on when you're creating the lesson so you can't redo it if it comes off that way, and in these lessons I was trying something more informal, and it worked well in some areas, while it didn't work in others, where it comes out as not caring or cockiness, which I think the cockiness is a reaction in my personality to the depression and anxiety. The laughing is a nervous tic too, you will also hear it while I'm playing, it sounds like coughing, but it is also enjoyment of what I'm playing coming out and I just can't express it. That's why you'll hear both exhilaration with being able to play the lick that I am feeling, which is essential to teaching it to convey the excitement that it brings me so it can bring you the same, and that's mixed in with my nervousness and sometimes cockiness when it comes out that way. I tried my best and I think by the end of the lessons if you watch them, you will see that whatever flaws it has from that are far outweighed from the other 90+% of when I'm teaching and not being that way and what you get from the lessons as a whole, because I tried to keep it out as much as possible (while also trying a new way of teaching that is more informal). I really don't see how I can get rid of it though, as long as I have anxiety and depression, which again I've tried to get rid of for many (7) years, so I think you need to understand the whole story. If you or anyone else you know has suffered from depression or anxiety, I think you will understand.
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This man is the most happy instructor on youtube.
This guy actually finds it funny how skilled he is
The passion and enthusiasm in contageous!
Thanks Brett
Opino lo mismo que tu ! :) muchas gracias.
Wow! I love the constant giggling, because that's what I was feeling!!! Man, it's a gift, bro, and the piano high you get is great! Thanks!!
dat lick is sooo crisp. I will be using this during my combos rendition of Impressions by John Coltrane. BTW!!! I loved when you got excited, because I was equally excited before I heard your own reaction XD
Wow Mmeronek this has been what I've been looking for! I've played piano for 13 years and just in the last couple of years had to stop for school and other things. And I've found that more recently I've had more time to pick playing back up! Towards the last few years of playing I was studying how to play more "jazz"like and I found myself at every piano practice asking my teacher for more and more chords to play because I couldn't get enough of that rich sound and now I've came across you on RUclips and the videos with your tutorials have made playing a much more grand experience! Thank you so much! I hope to see more tutorial videos soon, your perspective brings such a new angle to playing! :)
Don't stop getting carried away! it's great!
Agreed! #JoyOfMusic
Amazing tutorial mmeronek ! Very jazzy, and really clear and easy to understand. I love that "building up" effect, tension and release.
Thank you sir/madam!
Dope tutorials too, I might have to learn some of those old school hip hop ones.
Thanks mmeronek! Your videos inspire me to practice more. Keep em coming !
just bought a piano and this was the first lick I learned, now I just want to keep progressing in jazz, thank you for helping me out! do you have a continue for this lick because i am not that good and i dont know what i should play after this? thanks for helping me out!
This was entertaining and extremely useful!
+MrNightWalkerz Thanks.
Ha... You're so Awesome. This is the best instuction youtube Channel I have been.
Never stop laughing.u excitement is a motivation. Thank you for the great tutorials.following from kenya
nice lesson and piano jazz licks, nice piano playing also
hey. thanks for all your free lessons.... they all really helped me.. can u please do a tutorial on chord substitions(not based on a single song) for the i,ii,iii,iv,v,vi,vii chords etc.. just a substition for that chord so as to make use of them in as many songs as possibles in case we wanted to do a jazz arrangement,, :)
Awesome lick! It seems that playing music is about the best thing to do for your brain, it's one big party as everything is put to work. It's supposed to be FUN!
you're so good !!! I want more tutorials from you man, you're such a great teacher
i love the little laughs you did haha it was like you were really enjoying playing the lick. like a kid when he first learns how to ride a bike.
Man You Rock!!!!!!!!!! I Loved it at that 3 minute mark haha, you really just inspired me to greatly work on improving my skill set!
+Mmeronek - Pianobreaks Don't think about getting carried away, allow the music and your soul to fully express themselves my guy. Keep up the work my teacher of Keys.
That is some cool Stuff For "so what", and those Great modal tunes, Thank You, Great job!!!!
Love the attitude lick and playing!
Mmeronek I think you should also do a few advanced videos based on the theory for this kind of stuff, you could talk about comping, responding to the soloist, alt chords etc...
Although your audience is often new to this sort of thing, I'm sure they would still be interested
Yeah my videos are going to get more and more into theory as we go along, it's really just a matter of time. I really started from the very beginning, with someone knowing nothing about piano at all, so there is a foundation for the rest of my lessons, but I will have to tackle more chord progressions and different types of chords in my next lessons.
mmeronek please make more of these videos! these videos help me out so much, i love jazz and im really trying to get into soloing and your videos have greatly helped me with that. Thank you!!
You're welcome! :D Thanks for the comment!
Because of your kind comment, if you send me an email on Pianobreaks, I'll give you a free pack. ;)
Thanks man! I sent the email to the feedback email.
The pianOracle laughs at this instructor having the giggles while showing the great chops.
Why are you explaining to these dorks as to why you're laughing? It just shows that you're emotionally attached to what you're doing. I've been at the home and studio of one of the top contemporary jazz keyboardist recording artist in this genre and he does the same thing when he was playing and while we were listening to the album tracks. That's why these "left brain" cats can't play. It took me less than 10 minutes to grasp and play this. Thanks man for your efforts; this is the stuff that I do anyway, so it gave me some more "tools" in the shed.@Mmeronek-Pianobreaks. Sorry about your anxiety/depression issues. I honestly can't as you said relate at all to this; because that is so foreign to me; but music is therapy. Rock on man, rock on!!!
Thanks man!
Thank you. So the final chord need 7 tunes to be played at once. C C# Eb F F# Ab and Bb.
are you high of piano?
420 blaze it mmeronek!!!
Thank you!
Thanks
Hi +Mmeronek I have a question and I was wondering if you could answer it. My question is what key or scale is this lick in? And Can you put into another scale or key?
very helpful, thanks. What words did you put in the youtube search for people to find your youtube video?
Hi :) love your vids! Was just wondering, how do you know which chord to go to next to give it that jazzy sound...like you started with a D F A C if im not wrong? Then you went to D sharp I guess? I really have trouble with this :(
That opening lick was so BOSS. I'm taking music theory and I want to play Jazz piano. My teacher says I'm not ready but he's never seen me play? -___- anywayssss, I know my major and minor chords but I don't know how to make them sound rich :( I get confused when it comes to voicings.
Then you are not ready
great video! Quick question, if I were to play this in c minor, and wanted to go up to E flat major but using fourth voicings, would THAT work and what notes would I have to use? Thank you! :)
Why do you play the right hand chord over your left hand chord that way? I dont get it.
were u always coughing because u cant hide the fact you're showing off ( and its pretty cool!)
where can i find the first lick you play in the video brah?
what was the lesson before this one ?
Good! 🇧🇷
Awesome thanks!
You're welcome, thank you!
For songs in which keys can you use this lick? I'm guessing "C" and "D minor"...
Basically whenever you are going from one minor chord to any other minor chord, this acts as a buildup for the other chord.
what was the name of the technique when you were moving the from C-F-Ab-C to Bb-F-Ab-Bb and then back again to C-F-Ab-C ?
kind of a suspension.
best ever thx
good video. I would lov to be explained why which chords/keys are played Can anyone tell me?
I'll try to help your request. Starts off using a standard 'full' D Minor 11 voicing in left hand (from root position) i.e. DFGAC. The right hand broken chord structure is based on the modal D Dorian scale (derived from the C major scale) e.g. DEFGABC. First broken 'arpeggio' style chord EAE (9th,5th,9th) ; Second : FBF (3rd, 13th, 3rd) ; Third GCG (11,7,11) ; Fourth ADA (5,1,5) ; Fifth BEB (13,9,13). Then into CFAbC with accompanying Eb Minor 11 (also in root position) i.e. EbGbAbBbDb and alternating right hand between Bb and C i.e. CFAbC & BbFAbBb. That's the basic format, but then expands into minor pentatonics, modal scales and minor scale improvisation e.g. F minor pentatonic, F minor scales and Eb Dorian, over the Eb minor 11th in the left hand. The pianist also utilises the Eb Dorian modal scale (similarly derived from a major scale) e.g. EbFGbAbBbCDb in the latter part of the video, to create the broken chord structure, identical to the D minor variation. 'Mirroring' in a different key.
Other consonant minor pentatonics useful for improvising on Eb minor 11 e.g. Eb & Bb. Hence, Eb, F & Bb correlate to the I, II & V minor pentatonics on a minor 11, or other minor chord variations e.g. 7, 9, 13, etc.. Consonant major pentatonics on Eb m 11 e.g. GbMaj, AbMaj, DbMaj (III, IV & VII on Eb Dorian scale).
Hope this info. provides some insight into the basic structure and extra ideas for improvisation.
nice
hi! excuseme.. when can i use that lick? can i use it on a ii v i progression? or thats a modal lick
+cesays16 Sure. It's a modal lick as it is, but you can change it to Dmin 7th G7 and C Major 7th instead of the Eb Minor 7th that you're playing in this example.
To do that, just play:
D F G A C, D F G B, Then C E G B
in your left hand, and
When you resolve to the last chord, play
E G B E in your right hand.
You can also add D E G B, and B D E G after that to make it sound good too. Hope that helps, I tried playing it and it sounded great!
Great!!, Thanks!
Welcome!
good job máster!!! suscrito!
What scale would you recommend soloing to whilst using this lick?
+phannes00 These licks are based on D dorian (all white keys) for Dmin7, and Eb dorian (Eb F Gb Ab Bb C Db Eb) for Ebmin7. On each chord you can play its respective scale. And you don't need to switch chords as quickly as I do here, you can just play over D dorian for a little while, and then switch to Eb dorian, it's really fun.
What scale is this in?
notes please of basic lick
Nice.
Hey man sorry if this is a dumb questions, but why did you add a G in the first D minor 7th?
Prettier chord, no reason really, sus chords just sound beautiful (sus's are chords where you add the 4th, usually you take out the 3rd too but I just left it in because I like how it sounds).
Mmeronek Wow cool how you answered that so fast. I didnt even finish the video yet. Thanks for the help; I'm just trying to find ways to make my improv sound less weak.
He's high
You are the best or nothing
Nice chords....what type of Yamaha Piano is that?
Yamaha PF-500
Thanks Dude :) how does the Yamaha pf-500 compare with the Roland FP-50/80?
MrMuso1563 I'm honestly not sure, the PF-500 is about 10 years old and I'm sure there are better keyboards out there (this was a high end keyboard when I bought it).
Sounds good, I've always liked Yamaha's sound engine........and Rolands. I've got a Kurzweil PC3X great sounds but Piano sample is a bit old.My son has Roland FP50.
WOUAW 👍👊🤝🙏super 🎵🎶🎼👍🤝
This si not easy, though gives great ideas and something to learn from.
Nice video man. Were you stoned though? Because of those laughs hahaha
puedes poner subtitulo en español porfa
i need a jazzy sounding keyboard under 600 bucks? anybody know of any? midi controllers are out of reach! i live in poor ol mexico
+chuy visente Yamaha p95 piano is a good one... te recomiendo el piano yamaha p95... tiene buen sonido para el jazz y no es tan caro. Saludos!
stop laughing man, its not funny i can't play it :'(
I'm obviously not laughing at you, and sure if you're just watching this you probably can't play it... yet anyways. You need to learn it and practice it first until it becomes comfortable for you to play it slowly, and then later make it faster and faster until it almost becomes second nature. It's a very linear process and is much like improving in any other skill, but you still have to learn the whole thing and practice it until you become comfortable with it.
Mmeronek and I mean linear in that there are obvious things that you have to do, like learn the actual lick with all the notes in it by heart and practice it slowly, but that doesn't mean you can't improve exponentially too.
+Ashley Frank I tried my best honestly. I can't hide that I suffer from anxiety and depression, and sometimes it comes out in ways like that, the coughing while I'm playing and the kind of laughter that I have. I can't all of a sudden wave a magic wand and stop being depressed though, I've tried my best to get better from it in myriad methods for many years and not succeeded, I just now try my best not to let it get into my teaching.
Sometimes you just have time constraints on when you're creating the lesson so you can't redo it if it comes off that way, and in these lessons I was trying something more informal, and it worked well in some areas, while it didn't work in others, where it comes out as not caring or cockiness, which I think the cockiness is a reaction in my personality to the depression and anxiety. The laughing is a nervous tic too, you will also hear it while I'm playing, it sounds like coughing, but it is also enjoyment of what I'm playing coming out and I just can't express it.
That's why you'll hear both exhilaration with being able to play the lick that I am feeling, which is essential to teaching it to convey the excitement that it brings me so it can bring you the same, and that's mixed in with my nervousness and sometimes cockiness when it comes out that way. I tried my best and I think by the end of the lessons if you watch them, you will see that whatever flaws it has from that are far outweighed from the other 90+% of when I'm teaching and not being that way and what you get from the lessons as a whole, because I tried to keep it out as much as possible (while also trying a new way of teaching that is more informal).
I really don't see how I can get rid of it though, as long as I have anxiety and depression, which again I've tried to get rid of for many (7) years, so I think you need to understand the whole story. If you or anyone else you know has suffered from depression or anxiety, I think you will understand.
Don't care what other people say, it's cool that you take the effort to put these nice piano licks on you tube.
For me it just shows passion for what you are doing, keep doing it makes me smile everytime
This is an excellent tutorial video, if you don't laugh so much.
D F G A C = Ddim7?????
ay no
Wtf!! 999like
The laughing is annoying. There are enough people letting you know that. It doesn’t aid in the tutorial.
please quit laughing