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Jazzpiano Tutorial: Standard blues on the piano. Part 1

This is a piece of basic blues put together with the more popular riffs out there, melted together in one piece of music for you to learn. Use this ...

 

This is a piece of basic blues put together with the more popular riffs out there, melted together in one piece of music for you to learn. Use this as something basic and once you get the hang of it, try improvising on it, people!

Blues/Jazz Piano Lesson – Jazz Chord Voicings

 

Hey, In this video I use a great jazz classic, Autumn Leaves as an example to Jazz chord voicings. Hope it helps! Leave a comment and rate please :)

Sunny – Bobby Hebb jazz piano cover blues funk keyboard by Mark Chang

 

New PRO SOUND version. This is a real funky piano version of the awesome tune “Sunny” by Bobby Hebb. Recorded May 14, 2009 in El Dorado Hills, CA by pianist Mark Chang. Hope you enjoy it. Recording process: stereo pair large diaphragm condenser microphones, Helpinstill magnetic induction pickup on bass strings. Mix EQ. SONG INFORMATION: “Sunny” is the name of a song written by Bobby Hebb. It is one of the most covered popular songs, with hundreds of versions released. BMI rates “Sunny” number 25 in its “Top 100 songs of the century”. Hebb wrote the song after 22 November 1963, the day after US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Hebb’s older brother Harold was killed in a knife fight outside a Nashville nightclub. Hebb was devastated by both events and many critics say that those events inspired the tune. Others claims Bobby wrote the song for God. Certainly, events influenced Bobby’s songwriting, but his timeless melody, crossing over into R&B (#3 on US R&B chart) Country and Pop (#2 on US Pop chart), together with the optimistic lyrics, came from the artist’s desire to express that one should always “look at the bright side” – a direct quote from the author. Hebb has said about “Sunny”: “All my intentions were just to think of happier times basically looking for a brighter day because times were at a low tide. After I wrote it, I thought “Sunny” just might be a different approach to what Johnny Bragg was talking about in ‘Just Walkin’ in the Rain’”. “Sunny” was

Jazz Piano Lesson – A Couple of Nice Jazz chords

 

Hey, in this video I am going to show you how to play a bit of Jazz. I apologise sincerely for accidently having my piano transposed. I didn’t know it was in the wrong key untill after I recorded the video. I hope the video is still helpful in some way. Ben

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