This jazz piano improvisation exercise changed my life.

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LESSON SUMMARY
So you’ve learned some cool jazz scales and chords, and now you feel confident you’ll finally sound like a pro. You excitedly sit down at the piano to improvise a brilliant solo but then…something’s missing! Your solo might have some cool jazzy notes and colors but it still feels disconnected and uninspiring compared to the pros. Let’s fix that by discussing The Ultimate 2-5-1 Jazz Scale Exercise!
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► 2-5-1 Soloing with Upper & Lower Neighbors:
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► 2-5-1 Soloing with Bebop Scales:
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► 2-5-1 Soloing with Enclosures:
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:44 - Improv - Before & After
01:49 - 2-5-1 Progression
02:50 - Scales for Improv
04:30 - Scale Connector Exercise
11:22 - Play with backing track
12:35 - Try in the opposite direction
13:09 - How to use this exercise
14:22 - Improvise over the 2-5-1
15:10 - Conclusion
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Happy practicing!
Jonny May

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@PianoWithJonny Жыл бұрын

00:00 - Intro 00:44 - Improv - Before & After 01:49 - 2-5-1 Progression 02:50 - Scales for Improv 04:30 - Scale Connector Exercise 11:22 - Play with backing track 12:35 - Try in the opposite direction 13:09 - How to use this exercise 14:22 - Improvise over the 2-5-1 15:10 - Conclusion

@danieldeldaniel3919 Жыл бұрын

in my opinion, you really are the best piano teacher that I know on youtube

@BuffyOnKeys Жыл бұрын

jonny is the 🐐

@juanruiz910 Жыл бұрын

By far

@therelaxxcrew3034 Жыл бұрын

Genuinely agree

@anilec333 Жыл бұрын

Agree

@ferrero1967 Жыл бұрын

agree

@christophcloren4740 10 ай бұрын

One of best and most clearly piano tutorials ever !! Thank you very much !!!

@kewsepehr1060 Жыл бұрын

Thanks everso much Jonny. An endless sea of theory, explaind in such a simple and understanding way..., wowww...

@ColinAtkinson-em6fs 2 ай бұрын

This was a really grrrr8 lesson Johnny, so many thanks for this. Col.

@PianoWithJonny 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@user-ri8rk1jl1e Ай бұрын

Good morning, Thanks🙏

@private577 Жыл бұрын

Why doesn't this have more views? Jonny you're awesome man. Personally I'm moving from fast blues to more jazzy lines, Jonny helps a lot. Merci beaucoup

@youlesptitscailloux 7 ай бұрын

This jazz piano improvisation exercise may have change my life too! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! 👏

@savagecalibre5178 19 күн бұрын

MAN!!!!! ❤ I LOVE YOU Understanding Jazz this is the missing thing i need to know to play Jazz supreme bro supreme teaching thank you

@PianoWithJonny 18 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!

@dcp8nts Жыл бұрын

I'm not a beginner, (keys, sax, flute) and even though i might know most of this, it's always smart to review. You have such a wonderful vibe about you. You are such a great teacher. I love your channel.

@zoesong2802 2 ай бұрын

It’s awesome!

@PianoWithJonny 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@EANNE1000 Жыл бұрын

Certainly an eye-opener for me. Thanks so much!

@nametame6343 Жыл бұрын

Chapo ba Jonny,. this is Haitian Creole that's mean I bow down. You are very helpful to the world. Thanks for every tips and secrets. God Bless you.

@fer7068 Жыл бұрын

Really great stuff for practice Jonny! I love it!

@lauraobligado-arteenaccion8567 8 ай бұрын

I am so thankfull for all your videos, you are a fabulous teacher. Here from Argentina gracias!!!

@gtrdoc911 Жыл бұрын

Great lesson! Love that diminished scale. Really perks up the ears.

@bellapayne 11 ай бұрын

This is an awesome lesson, Jonny! Thank you! I was not familiar with the dominant diminished scale. It's great to be able to learn new stuff at the piano all the time.

@tomwesley483 Жыл бұрын

That was WAY cool Johnny,,your awesome buddy..Thanks..

@omerbennahum1903 Жыл бұрын

This is great!!! Thank you

@curtpiazza1688 Жыл бұрын

Great lesson!! Thanx!! Great concepts!

@diamondbreak Жыл бұрын

Great lesson, Jonny. The best in town!

@user-dt9fd8bl7h 5 ай бұрын

Si'mple practice way! Thank you very much. i take this for my' diminish' lesson.

@monicaconsigliereLavieenfleur Жыл бұрын

So useful as usual❤️

@debralynnpaxton5238 2 ай бұрын

Great lesson !

@auteurcomic Жыл бұрын

Thanks, thanks and Thanks... you're Great!

@cunananjonnelb.8662 Жыл бұрын

I love thiss kind of tutorials more 🙏 tutorial plsss ❤️ i love your style.. God bless you moreee abundantly . You're my inspiration to play 🎹 🙏👏

@emilythesongbird2306 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed this lesson. It's finally starting to sink and make sense. Thanks so much Jonny!

@solarsound744 Жыл бұрын

very instructive - thnx

@demisdanoudis5889 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant mate!

@shcoryell879 Жыл бұрын

Awesome tutorial!

@ozzwalwilliams6882 Жыл бұрын

Awesome tip Johnny

@gun_worm Ай бұрын

cool stuff bro

@PianoWithJonny Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@keithtaylor9100 Жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@oyvindroth Жыл бұрын

And I also see that you use a LH fingering (e.g. at 9:51) that I (as an amateur) would not have chosen. I would use (2,1), (5,1), (3,2) and (3,1) and so on... My automatic fingering tend to choose the fingering that you show in the video (at 9:50 using (2,1), (5,1), (2,1) and (2,1)), but it seems anatomically better choose the fingering I suggest above. In your choice, in a subsequent run you have to move (2,1) from (C,E) to (D,F) (both fingers), whereas in my suggestion you only have to move 1 from E to F having 2 free to place it on D. I suppose I have erroneous assessments, but could you elaborate a bit on that? Generally, in your lessons, I think you should focus somewhat more on fingering issues. I have the conviction that having the fingering as good as ergonomically possible from the start will prevent later muscle trouble.

@lornacamarines921 Жыл бұрын

God bless you thank you for sharing

@dvk578 Жыл бұрын

You are the Bob Ross of piano instruction...❤

@JeffRyan_88keys Жыл бұрын

Nice video, Jonny.

@raphaelrodrigosantosdasilv525 Жыл бұрын

From Brazil, Thanks

@Ketsounet 6 ай бұрын

I finally understood that missing link of diminished, thank you very much. Suscribed

@adolfosc5783 6 ай бұрын

Excelente.

@MKONKEYS Жыл бұрын

Best piano teacher on KZfaq ❤️

@user-nm7ng5zr5s 7 ай бұрын

Woo you awesome

@marcelomatos8172 Жыл бұрын

Bom demais. Abraço do Brasil

@ghettoshuriken Жыл бұрын

Damn man, best teacher on yt thank you

@lemons107 Жыл бұрын

I love you Johnny

@thisguy9820 Жыл бұрын

Dude I have an adult student who wants to learn jazz and you saved my life.

@JooSMusic Жыл бұрын

This is a great resource sir and thanks for sharing this. But I need help with the fingerings for this exercises. Thanks

@geoffstockton Жыл бұрын

I like the general idea of this exercise and I’ve done stuff quite similar to it but I really don’t like where the 4ths wind up rhythmically on the Imaj7. I like to do this kind of stuff but using the bebop major and Dorian scales. In that context, you wind up with the chord tones in all the important places rhythmically.

@Vissualstudiobcn Жыл бұрын

Hello Johny I am a member of Piano witn Johny, it is amazing what I am learning. I wanted to comment that I have been having some problems with the fingering on this exercise. I see that you start each time with a different finger, I haven't learned this yet. Do you have any exercises for this? it would be great to have this agulity to be able to go up and up the scales more automatically. Greetings!

@Spahr62 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jonny! Fun excercise to practice! Gonna get those notes soinding great soon! Love playing with backing track!

@SuitedFrogDS Ай бұрын

2:25 it reminded me of that face fabd guy

@PianoWithJonny Ай бұрын

Lol!

@abbesatty9498 Жыл бұрын

Looks like Jonny "secretly" visited the Phrygian , Lydian and Locrian modes in this improvisation. Great lesson!

@cristobalmunoz9039 3 ай бұрын

❤

@agerray Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial as ever! As a "classical intermediate/confused jazz beginner" could you explain how/why you chose the G dominant diminished scale?

@EvanWiederandersJazz Жыл бұрын

On a G dominant chord, there are 4 notes: G, B, D, and F. However, you can add more notes that give it more evolved and interesting qualities. These extra notes are called extensions, and as it turns out, the diminished scale has many extensions that happen to sound good on dominant chords.

@Flying-Roro Жыл бұрын

The dominant diminished scale usually works on dominant seventh chords, aka the fifth of a major scale or the seventh of a minor scale.

@DizzyKrissi Жыл бұрын

Using the altered scale would even give you the #5 but this scale sounds interesting, too.

@CrowClouds 5 ай бұрын

But why did he choose it for G and not for say C or D? @@EvanWiederandersJazz

@EvanWiederandersJazz 5 ай бұрын

@@CrowCloudsG diminished is used for G7, C diminished is used for C7, etc.

@justsomefakeguywithoutamou5538 Жыл бұрын

first sentence is too relatable

@dk3250 Жыл бұрын

Hi Jonny, thank you for your educational effort! Can you please make a video or share with us recommended warm up exercises before we start hitting those notes on the piano? Thank you

@JustFiddler Жыл бұрын

matur suksma

@percyvolnar8010 9 ай бұрын

Problem here is that no one on youtube makes videos like this for MINOR II-V-I.... And perhaps thats the gatekeep in effect.

@sandwich1247 Ай бұрын

true

@m.ace.o 2 сағат бұрын

Could you elaborate please?

@oyvindroth Жыл бұрын

I love your courses, they pinpoint exactly what I need at this stage. Thanks so much! But: I miss fingering annotations very, very much. E.g. in this excercise it took me a quarter of an hour (at 6:51) to find out that 3 on the B flat in the second bar and 2 on the F (the last note) beautifully gave me the thumb (1) on the G in the 3. bar. And so on, which opened up the eternity of the excercise upwards. I would have saved much time if you had given me that cue in the first place. (This also goes for the left hand, of course.) I am considering paying for your courses, as i like them very much. Will the paid lessons give the fingering annotations?

@artmis6158 3 ай бұрын

How do you know which kind of scale to use for different chord progressions?

@dabnauta 3 ай бұрын

3:30 (for myself) 5:30

@rosslevitates 7 күн бұрын

Don’t forget to SWING! Double counting in your head gets the feeling going…..

@edwinbab3205 Жыл бұрын

What I can practice I just know notes little bit keys and what portable piano inget

@LaterGator1425 Жыл бұрын

Jonny's choppy is my finest! lol

@olgarakoto5728 Жыл бұрын

T H A N K S 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

@13londe85 9 ай бұрын

6:30

@lemons107 Жыл бұрын

I'm struggling to get a nice sound out of the diminished dominant scale, its just sounding a bit janky, any suggestions you have that might fix this?

@sesamoideo 9 ай бұрын

Hi Jonny. I am very interested in your courses but I do not understand English, is it possible to follow your classes with audio in Spanish?

@dabnauta 3 ай бұрын

3:30 (for myself)

@skyslut1 Жыл бұрын

Hi Jonnie, I'm a subscriber to your website, but also a beginner. I have a question about G dominant demished scale. Why a full step from B is C sharp and not just C? And for the same token, why is it half step from E to F? Perhaps a silly question, but I don't get it...

@zk6410 2 ай бұрын

Im also a beginner and i know it's a year late, but think of steps as litteral keys. So a half step would be one key and a whole step would be 2 keys.

@dujsllim2786 Жыл бұрын

What kind and brand of piano is that?

@manopablogo8983 Жыл бұрын

Hi, do you have perfect pitch?

@stevenz9916 Жыл бұрын

2:58 4:45

@TeresaBumbaMassuama 2 ай бұрын

Teacher john i've a complaint Therefore how can i practice scales?

@adotationchretiennefreremellot Жыл бұрын

hi Mellot i am ,i've a trouble with improvisation so Can i have some advice

@normalizedaudio2481 Жыл бұрын

It's like you are breaking out of a diminished scale into the normal dominant scale.

@lanphanh Жыл бұрын

Play 11:23

@justsomefakeguywithoutamou5538 Жыл бұрын

Whenever I am improvisng I just dont know where my fingers should go and when to jump how far? Can anyone please help me.

@Bartnick81 9 ай бұрын

Can someone explain to me why he goes tediously through scales just up and down and at the end he makes very different unrelated improvisation. What has happened here ?

@artmis6158 3 ай бұрын

Basically he picked notes on the scale and used the exercise to find ways to connect the melodies together to give the improv more direction

@menasafwat4951 Жыл бұрын

Amazing 👏👏👏, you look like Lord Voldemort ( Ralph Fiennes ) 😂😂😂😂

@somtingwongwai7194 Жыл бұрын

How many Guitarist are secretly watch these vids??

@markkurochkin1785 Жыл бұрын

Sad fact: I'm an ordinary teenager, I shoot good music content, or rather I play the piano. but no one is watching me, God bless those who have read this.)