00:00 - Intro 00:43 - Step 1: Bass Line 02:58 - Review Left Hand 03:28 - Right Hand Fills 04:13 - 1. Chromatic 6ths 05:47 - Inverted 6ths 06:42 - On the G Chord 08:29 - 2. Dr. John Blues Rolls 11:24 - On the G Chord 13:13 - 3. New Orleans Turnaround 16:18 - Play with backing tracks 16:40 - Conclusion
I have been teaching piano for over 20 years, and have played a lot of New Orleans piano, and have even played in New Orleans, and I can say this is one of, if not THE, best instructional video I have ever watched on this style of piano! Well done.
dude you are the best piano teacher in the known universe. i've played guitar for 40 years, bluegrass band for 15, studied classical and jazz, well, every style pretty much. started playing piano almost a year ago, and it's coming along nicely. your approach, sense of humor, knowledge, and ability to really simplify things is a collective gift to any aspiring keyboardists or pianists out there. i have pianos and keyboards and organs and synthesizers in every room in two houses now. the wife literally dares me to drag another one home. i have gotten more out of your youtube channel than anything else. you are incredible player, too. god bless you. there's nothing more noble than bringing the joy of music to the world, especially with such user friendliness and exuberance. piano is the most amazing instrument out there, i only wish i would have given it a try earlier in life, but thanks for the good work. its not so scary after all.
This is the lesson I’ve been yearning for since I first started playing! Dr. John is the very inspiration behind my desire to learn piano in the first place. Never thought I could ever get close to playing like him but this lesson gives me a glimmer of hope. Thanks Johnny! Or should I say “ Dr. Johnny”? 😎🙌🏻
I always liked his line "I'm only the greatest piano player because I lost a finger, otherwise I'd be the greatest guitarist too" or something along those lines. Great musician, love his sound.
Hey Johnny, I started two years ago after. 55 break.It is very difficult because still working( surgeon).Try to. have more fun and change and perhaps remind on my youth.With classics easy peace’s slowly my tension is less but I love blues and in my youth time in Poland there were good jazz and blues.The west songs were not played. So it’s my favourite and now I. found you learning in. easy style .I am excited and start today with New Orleans blues lessons and after. 1 month write you Thanks very much!!
Really want to become a good blues and jazz style player as well as boogie woogie and dr.John style of gospel blues….please make some more of those type of lessons thanks 😊
This was one of your most intriguing lessons. Really hooked me! Just might show my appreciation and reward your effort by signing up for a course or two. Thank you!
Where's the video on the how to make your blues playing faces!?!? LoL👌 😜😜🤗👍 I love you Jonny. You really are a gifted and fun teacher. 🎶Ohh, Teacher I need you.🎶👍😘❤️💕
Good morning Mr. 🎹 WIZARD🎹 Jonny! Thanks a lot for this awesome tutorial. OUTSTANDING. So nicely and transparently presented. I am a 🎹 beginner and it's so incouraging your explanations. Now I need to practice what you are teaching and dig deep into it. Again thank you so much. You are so inspiring.😍 Greetings from Spain. 🙏OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADME SIDDHI HUM🙏
Love the lesson, thank you! Do you have records to recommend to listen in particular for this style? So we can pick up some blueeesy lines from it? Thanks again! ❤
I just came across your RUclips page and I'm so glad to have discovered it ! Very interesting, informative, enriching ! I'll spend much time on it and I found yet many answers regarding chords, techniques, skills...Congratulations for being such a fine pianist and pedagogue. And incidentally for your good humor and smile. A very big thank you from France.
This is your first video I have seen thus far and I'm a new subscriber now and think it's safe to say you are definitely gifted in knowing how to teach piano without the lesson becoming dreary or lulling, so thanks so much. Gonna be seeing if you have any on Professor Longhair as well, since I know Dr. John based a lot of his technique off of him and I love Dr. John so much. Love the style and trying to improv etc. with it so much, and you just helped me learn how to grow those attempts. 🙏😎👍
I enjoyed the video! Any ideas for a deeper dive into New Orleans Blues Piano? I'm a member at Piano with Jonny, but sadly there are no more courses in this exact direction (of course, there are many other great videos, but I'd love to get more knowledge to this topic)
I don't really play piano, but this is VERY good, spending some time today starting the left hand. Maybe Jonny covered it, but my problem the 7th measure octave turnaround when I forgot we're still swinging this. E octave (bar 7) begins on the 'and' of 1 and accentuates (swings) the down beats thru the measure ending with the 8th bar the same swing pattern as bars 1-6. I must be getting old taking a while to see this ;-)
Another amazing lesson, Jonny! But, I don't think this is MY left hand. I don't know why it is on the end of MY arm, because it is obviously doing someone else's bidding. Any offers? (Hey, it's laugh or cry!)
Why do you write dotted quarternotes in the left hand, while you play staccato-quarternotes? You should better write staccato on beat one in every measure. BTW: Staccato dotted quarternotes are uncommon.
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Step 1: Bass Line
02:58 - Review Left Hand
03:28 - Right Hand Fills
04:13 - 1. Chromatic 6ths
05:47 - Inverted 6ths
06:42 - On the G Chord
08:29 - 2. Dr. John Blues Rolls
11:24 - On the G Chord
13:13 - 3. New Orleans Turnaround
16:18 - Play with backing tracks
16:40 - Conclusion
15:27 Slower solo
I have been teaching piano for over 20 years, and have played a lot of New Orleans piano, and have even played in New Orleans, and I can say this is one of, if not THE, best instructional video I have ever watched on this style of piano! Well done.
Arthur migliazza gives some awesome New Orleans similar lesson but many more variations and awesome basslines
20 years of listening and trying to discover the roll and chromatic and you decided it in 10 minutes!!! Love this most of all the Johnny lessons
Awesome, thank you!
This is the sound that made me want to play piano in the first place.
Would love to hear others from this genre: Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd etc. I've seen very little about how to sound like those pianists.
Little Feat forever!!!
Yah let’s hear Skynryd how
dude you are the best piano teacher in the known universe. i've played guitar for 40 years, bluegrass band for 15, studied classical and jazz, well, every style pretty much. started playing piano almost a year ago, and it's coming along nicely. your approach, sense of humor, knowledge, and ability to really simplify things is a collective gift to any aspiring keyboardists or pianists out there. i have pianos and keyboards and organs and synthesizers in every room in two houses now. the wife literally dares me to drag another one home. i have gotten more out of your youtube channel than anything else. you are incredible player, too. god bless you. there's nothing more noble than bringing the joy of music to the world, especially with such user friendliness and exuberance. piano is the most amazing instrument out there, i only wish i would have given it a try earlier in life, but thanks for the good work. its not so scary after all.
Wow, thank you Bud! I wish I had as many pianos as you 😉 Keep up the awesome work my friend!
This is the lesson I’ve been yearning for since I first started playing! Dr. John is the very inspiration behind my desire to learn piano in the first place. Never thought I could ever get close to playing like him but this lesson gives me a glimmer of hope. Thanks Johnny! Or should I say “ Dr. Johnny”? 😎🙌🏻
I always liked his line "I'm only the greatest piano player because I lost a finger, otherwise I'd be the greatest guitarist too" or something along those lines. Great musician, love his sound.
Hey Johnny, I started two years ago after. 55 break.It is very difficult because still working( surgeon).Try to. have more fun and change and perhaps remind on my youth.With classics easy peace’s slowly my tension is less but I love blues and in my youth time in Poland there were good jazz and blues.The west songs were not played. So it’s my favourite and now I. found you learning in. easy style .I am excited and start today with New Orleans blues lessons and after. 1 month write you Thanks very much!!
Really want to become a good blues and jazz style player as well as boogie woogie and dr.John style of gospel blues….please make some more of those type of lessons thanks 😊
Thanks. What a lesson you are Amazing.
15:51 i love this lol
This was one of your most intriguing lessons. Really hooked me! Just might show my appreciation and reward your effort by signing up for a course or two. Thank you!
This is gold. Seriously, thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you , Thank you, a Thousand times Thank you !!!
Cool! I've waited 50 years for exactly this information. Thanks!
phenomenal Johnny!!!
Thanx, Maestro 🌹🌹🌹
Nice tutorial 👌Thanks for sharing your gift 🎁
Best instructional video!
Hell yeah ! That's what I'm talking about !!!!!!!!!!;!!!!
Jonny is amazing, as ever
YES ……gives me goose bumps……❤️
Very helpful Jonny ! Thank you from France 🙂
Great lesson, thx!
You are a Great teacher Thank you vry much Peter UK
EVERYTHING Jonny plays always sounds SO amazing! Thank you VERY much for this fantastic lesson, Jonny!
This lesson is gold!! Thank you very much!M
Brilliant teaching of New Orleans funk, very inspiring too
Super awesome!! Thank you for this tutorial. 👏🏽🎶❤️
Great Dave Bartholomew grandson was here!!
Fabulous! This is what I needed
Wonderful! Thankyou
Awesome lesson man thanks. Those tips gave me the sound I’m looking for
Love it - very funky!
YES!!!!! Been waiting for a lesson like this! Really great!
Glad you liked it!
I really love your work so 😎
I've been looking for lessons on New Orleans piano. Thanks!
AWESOME!!!!
Where's the video on the how to make your blues playing faces!?!? LoL👌 😜😜🤗👍 I love you Jonny. You really are a gifted and fun teacher. 🎶Ohh, Teacher I need you.🎶👍😘❤️💕
sounds amazing!
Amazing lesson !!!! YOU are a GENIUS !!!!
El blues new orleans es tan profundo e interezante.
I've been wanting to learn this style.
Magnifique ! 🤩
Merci beaucoup ! 👍🥰
Great lesson. Looks like 250K subs is right around the corner. You deserve the success!
Wow bro thanks
Amazing! 😊
Thanks you made it look so easy
Very good!!
God bless you man!
Good morning Mr. 🎹 WIZARD🎹 Jonny! Thanks a lot for this awesome tutorial. OUTSTANDING. So nicely and transparently presented. I am a 🎹 beginner and it's so incouraging your explanations. Now I need to practice what you are teaching and dig deep into it. Again thank you so much. You are so inspiring.😍 Greetings from Spain. 🙏OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADME SIDDHI HUM🙏
Thank you! 😎
Excellent lesson! I always wanted to learn how to play this style. Thank You!
Love the blues and jazz lessons can you include some funk blues as well 👍
Awesome. Dig it. Thanks for sharing.
Nice! Some great tips and ideas in this tutorial 🎶💯
After watching your videos I took an ax to my piano! Humbled!!!
Love the lesson, thank you!
Do you have records to recommend to listen in particular for this style? So we can pick up some blueeesy lines from it?
Thanks again! ❤
Oooh, thank you so much. This lesson gave me something to be inspired by. Much appreciated. Keep up the good work.
This is a brilliant lesson, thanks so much Jonny! So much fun to play and improvise with
Sounds like Leon Russell’s Queen of the Roller Derby. Can you do a tutorial on that?
Great lesson!
Super cool! THANKS
working at it
Totally cool!
Incredible!
Thank you, Jonny. I learn so much from your videos!
Happy to hear that!
I just came across your RUclips page and I'm so glad to have discovered it ! Very interesting, informative, enriching ! I'll spend much time on it and I found yet many answers regarding chords, techniques, skills...Congratulations for being such a fine pianist and pedagogue. And incidentally for your good humor and smile. A very big thank you from France.
Thank you great presentation. I was looking for ways to enhance my blues piano playing. Great job!
johnny i want to take your course to lesrn this type of music along with other jazz. it looks hard but yo make it look easy.
This is your first video I have seen thus far and I'm a new subscriber now and think it's safe to say you are definitely gifted in knowing how to teach piano without the lesson becoming dreary or lulling, so thanks so much. Gonna be seeing if you have any on Professor Longhair as well, since I know Dr. John based a lot of his technique off of him and I love Dr. John so much. Love the style and trying to improv etc. with it so much, and you just helped me learn how to grow those attempts. 🙏😎👍
Sweet!
Ok, Professor Long hair : )
I love it!, my left hand needs to be born again though
Great share...
Bravo 👏
Johnny is making me doubt my decision to not take online lessons :P You rock Johnny!
You looked like Ralph Fiennes :)
Pls make a Robert glasper chord tutorial
Thanks from Ukraine 🔥
I enjoyed the video! Any ideas for a deeper dive into New Orleans Blues Piano? I'm a member at Piano with Jonny, but sadly there are no more courses in this exact direction (of course, there are many other great videos, but I'd love to get more knowledge to this topic)
One of the most enjoyable lessons you've given!
Glad to hear that!
You are so generous
Fantast!
I don't really play piano, but this is VERY good, spending some time today starting the left hand. Maybe Jonny covered it, but my problem the 7th measure octave turnaround when I forgot we're still swinging this. E octave (bar 7) begins on the 'and' of 1 and accentuates (swings) the down beats thru the measure ending with the 8th bar the same swing pattern as bars 1-6. I must be getting old taking a while to see this ;-)
❤️
If you enjoyed the lesson please let me know know in the comments: ENJOYED MAXIMUM 🙏
Where did you get that shirt? I’ve been looking for a dark shirt and I like that one.
Famtastic😅
Great lesson! Check out Long John Baldry for great vocals over Dr. John’s piano.
Thanks for this lesson! If you do I full comprehensive course about traditional New Orleans piano, I'm SURE suscribing to Piano With Jonny!
great communication skills! congratulations and thanks. a question: what piano do you use? CP4 ?? the stamp is beautiful !
Giuliano Vicenza italy
Yes. Except Dr John got all that from Professor Longhair. Who was infinitely better 👍🤪🕺🎶
Another amazing lesson, Jonny! But, I don't think this is MY left hand. I don't know why it is on the end of MY arm,
because it is obviously doing someone else's bidding. Any offers? (Hey, it's laugh or cry!)
How many years would it take you to work through and master this lesson? I'm guessing... 12? ;)
I like it very much and like to start. What have. I pay
😛
CONVERSEIRO SEM FIM AFF CANSATIVO
Why do you write dotted quarternotes in the left hand, while you play staccato-quarternotes? You should better write staccato on beat one in every measure. BTW: Staccato dotted quarternotes are uncommon.
Yes. You Are right. I notice that also.
Happy Black History Month as we honor Foundational Black Americans, former chattel slaves, who created Blues.