Funk Chords: The Top 5 Chords EVERY Pianist Should Know

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LESSON SUMMARY
Would you like to play hip-sounding funk chords on piano? With today’s Quick Tip, you can! In this lesson, John Proulx breaks down the “Top 5 Funk Chords Every Pianist Must Know” to play funk and soul-infused music of artists like James Brown, Herbie Hancock, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder and Bruno Mars. In addition, you’ll discover other essential characteristics of the funk sound including chord progressions, rhythms and bass lines.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Funk Chord Index
03:34 - Progression 1
07:21 - With Backing Track
07:46 - Progression 2
11:31 - With Backing Track
12:16 - Progression 3
16:05 - With Backing Track
16:51 - Conclusion
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Jonny May

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  • @PianoWithJonny
    @PianoWithJonny Жыл бұрын

    00:00 - Intro 00:27 - Funk Chord Index 03:34 - Progression 1 07:21 - With Backing Track 07:46 - Progression 2 11:31 - With Backing Track 12:16 - Progression 3 16:05 - With Backing Track 16:51 - Conclusion

  • @ChangeforJonathan

    @ChangeforJonathan

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks 🙏🏿

  • @ProductivityMotivation

    @ProductivityMotivation

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi, thanks for the awesome video. Can’t you please share the full sheet for “sunny” progression 3?

  • @suga4all
    @suga4all Жыл бұрын

    That is by far my favourite Piano with Jonny lesson. Not only because of the chords, but also because of the rhythm patterns. Instant funk! Thank you so much for sharing 🎶🔥

  • @Dan_s_Channel
    @Dan_s_Channel Жыл бұрын

    Great as always. Thanks John 👏🏻

  • @flowmaka
    @flowmaka Жыл бұрын

    Great review on these progressions. Helpful!

  • @robertpien8708
    @robertpien8708 Жыл бұрын

    This is what i was looking for cool funk rythems and more advanced chord progressions. Ty so much

  • @georgedennis2112
    @georgedennis2112 Жыл бұрын

    Props to you John P. Great lesson on sunny. Really enjoyed it.

  • @LookNumber9
    @LookNumber9 Жыл бұрын

    Beautifully explained and demonstrated, Jonny. Thank you!

  • @zZAPp-fi
    @zZAPp-fi Жыл бұрын

    Thank for your work! I already knew those chords but the way you've leading the stuff through the entire process of learning the chord progressions is really clear!

  • @rudidiekstra7438
    @rudidiekstra7438 Жыл бұрын

    Piano with Jonny and John is cool! Learning a lot 👍

  • @sophiasommer1466
    @sophiasommer146611 ай бұрын

    Amazons Video!! Thank you so much!!❤ love both of you 😊

  • @chupeauxx
    @chupeauxx Жыл бұрын

    So nice, fun to watch, learn. Thanks, Jonny Prue!

  • @jonathanfreddypachonbernal6999
    @jonathanfreddypachonbernal69995 ай бұрын

    woooow what a video man!!!! Not only a great musician, but a great teacher too

  • @PianoWithJonny

    @PianoWithJonny

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @janspeyer5887
    @janspeyer5887 Жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial Jonny. My sunday off tomorrow will be practising these funk chords/rythms on my piano.

  • @MrRezRising
    @MrRezRising Жыл бұрын

    Hi. Drummer transistioning to piano. Love the lesson. Hard for me right now, but what a nice surprise to see my old friend Bobby Hebb! I knew him up in Massachusetts when I was very young in the 70s. He was good friends with my mom and dad.

  • @zakfoster1
    @zakfoster1 Жыл бұрын

    Guys this has been so helpful for me! I watch a lot of people on youtube to supplement my Jazz studies and I really find your videos digestible and easy to follow, Thanks a million

  • @astersarte1282
    @astersarte1282 Жыл бұрын

    OMG! I love it! Gonna learn the bass line on the bass and the melodies on the piano! Thx for sharing!!! 🤙🏽😎🤗

  • @tudore_jams
    @tudore_jams27 күн бұрын

    Not just funky, but full of flavours! Great video

  • @PianoWithJonny

    @PianoWithJonny

    26 күн бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @mothra87
    @mothra87 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent lesson. Well presented.

  • @kurtkaufman
    @kurtkaufman Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the instructional video. For me, the chord that instantly proclaims "funk" is a (dominant 7)#9. Used to great effect on the Clavinets and electric guitars during the 1970s.

  • @tiltman_420
    @tiltman_42010 ай бұрын

    always find myself coming back to Jonny. He's one of the good ones forreal

  • @johnnyblue1101
    @johnnyblue1101 Жыл бұрын

    Good instructional video. I’m an advanced jazz and blues piano student and gained a lot from this tutorial.

  • @salthedrummer1
    @salthedrummer1 Жыл бұрын

    Wow great teaching. I dig it...thanks

  • @CliveBarnettrecluse
    @CliveBarnettrecluse Жыл бұрын

    at my level of amateurish intermediate, this is the most useful video that I have watched on youtube. I am not saying it is or is not the best but at my level and my love for funk, this is definitely the most useful. Thanks Jon and Jonny

  • @alexanderteachernyc
    @alexanderteachernyc Жыл бұрын

    This is great stuff! Sounds totally cool and surprised me by being DOABLE for this mostly classically trained musician.

  • @ruthanngreenberg49
    @ruthanngreenberg49 Жыл бұрын

    Great lesson! More Funk lessons please!

  • @bernardwilliford6301
    @bernardwilliford6301 Жыл бұрын

    Nice work,thank you brutha🎶🎵🎶

  • @funkydude8392
    @funkydude8392 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful choices❤

  • @skinnista
    @skinnista Жыл бұрын

    love this, thanks!

  • @zendobrendo0001
    @zendobrendo0001 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome lesson. Would like more just like this!

  • @Sara-lk2yr
    @Sara-lk2yr Жыл бұрын

    Very nice! Thanks a lot! 😊🙏

  • @dasglasperlenspiel10
    @dasglasperlenspiel10 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Well done!

  • @branislavajokovic6090
    @branislavajokovic60908 ай бұрын

    Wonderfully explained! Thank you!

  • @steelkeez7700
    @steelkeez7700 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this lesson sir 🫡

  • @diegoalejo15
    @diegoalejo15 Жыл бұрын

    so inspiring, thanks!

  • @galupa518
    @galupa518 Жыл бұрын

    Very nice video. Thank you.

  • @petyafordsavillems755
    @petyafordsavillems755 Жыл бұрын

    Great video. Thanks

  • @grantdunne7408
    @grantdunne7408 Жыл бұрын

    this was very fun to play along with !

  • @brendaboykin3281
    @brendaboykin3281 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you,John🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @ackzz
    @ackzz Жыл бұрын

    Great Info.-thx 👍👍👍

  • @christianreyesmusica
    @christianreyesmusica10 ай бұрын

    Thanks thanks and thank, a great funky mater class

  • @Yosoychrissegura
    @Yosoychrissegura Жыл бұрын

    Great lesson sir!!

  • @MrRelax3737
    @MrRelax3737 Жыл бұрын

    Good presentation and helpful..... Thank for posting. Keep up the good work!🎹🎹 Doug G in LV

  • @aristotleonassis5792
    @aristotleonassis5792 Жыл бұрын

    Great teaching.

  • @muzikant_1988
    @muzikant_1988Ай бұрын

    I think I've found a pearl!👏 Your format is just perfect. Notes, numbers, slow analysis, and then with a metronome - this is what you need!👍 Subscribed!

  • @PianoWithJonny

    @PianoWithJonny

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @rebanelson607
    @rebanelson607 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @nelsonalmeida8675
    @nelsonalmeida8675 Жыл бұрын

    Saludos desde Venezuela son interesantes sus tutoriales. Gracias.

  • @tommymandel
    @tommymandel Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this!

  • @backyardanimals777
    @backyardanimals777 Жыл бұрын

    Funktastik! Thank YOU!

  • @yotrakzproductions7324
    @yotrakzproductions7324 Жыл бұрын

    Nice. Perfect!

  • @krimsonfunk
    @krimsonfunk Жыл бұрын

    I love these 9 and 11s ..these are my thing .. more more more progs like these please !

  • @pippopluto4116
    @pippopluto4116 Жыл бұрын

    Hi, I'm Italian amateur pianist, your lesson it's very very cool, nice! I'm practice this progression chord, with the electric piano... Fantastic!!! Tank's very very much. And sorry for my English.. 😊

  • @Ustas_Bolzen
    @Ustas_Bolzen Жыл бұрын

    Thank you soooo much!!

  • @robertonatalizia7082
    @robertonatalizia7082 Жыл бұрын

    Very good thanks

  • @marvinjobe9289
    @marvinjobe92893 ай бұрын

    Love it ❤ gotta learn Herbie hancock from you

  • @diggyonutube
    @diggyonutube Жыл бұрын

    This is a really good tutorial

  • @HishamKhalaf1
    @HishamKhalaf1 Жыл бұрын

    Very Great. Thank you.🌹🌺🌹

  • @image30p
    @image30p Жыл бұрын

    Haha! I was thinking that this is as good as Piano with Jonny 😂 Man I love looking at these chords. I was playing guitar for so long and then I decided to get a keyboard so I could see these voicings better. I just love it

  • @eduardosposito8052
    @eduardosposito8052 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot 😊

  • @martareginagiolo
    @martareginagiolo8 ай бұрын

    Perfect performance!🌹❤🌹

  • @almajaguar
    @almajaguar Жыл бұрын

    Maravelous!!! Thanks ❤ 15:50

  • @stefanomaccoppi6610
    @stefanomaccoppi6610 Жыл бұрын

    GREAT 🙌

  • @tedturner03
    @tedturner03 Жыл бұрын

    Superb video!!!!

  • @joaorolo2371
    @joaorolo23715 ай бұрын

    Thanks

  • @lebronbenedicts5787
    @lebronbenedicts5787 Жыл бұрын

    Best video🔥✨️

  • @trickerknicker1030
    @trickerknicker1030 Жыл бұрын

    Funk, we need more Funk !!! Thanks a ton.

  • @brunbabybrun
    @brunbabybrun Жыл бұрын

    I really like the chord progression you derived from "Sunny"! It's (in my opinion) more interesting than original.

  • @yotrakzproductions7324
    @yotrakzproductions7324 Жыл бұрын

    Sub’d ya channe b/c the lessons are short, your talking tempo is perfect and the info is relevant and applicable to my styles and interests.

  • @geraldadams6273
    @geraldadams6273 Жыл бұрын

    Love it

  • @bigkeezo
    @bigkeezo3 ай бұрын

    MORE!!!! 👏🏾

  • @Jack-fs2im
    @Jack-fs2im Жыл бұрын

    love funk piano

  • @javiermusicall4930
    @javiermusicall4930 Жыл бұрын

    Excelente clase, aunque esta en ingles la entendi perfectamente.. gracias..

  • @argowibowo7968
    @argowibowo7968 Жыл бұрын

    Love love love…

  • @cliffordWinder
    @cliffordWinder Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I just walked over to the keyboard and played Grover Washington Jr’s “Mister Magic” before even completing this video!

  • @GS-uy4xo

    @GS-uy4xo

    3 ай бұрын

    For Grover, just change the top note from G down to F - keep everything else the same as what you played, love that progression!!

  • @sls554
    @sls554 Жыл бұрын

    Funky is Groovely Fun And Beautifully!!!!!

  • @yvesjeaurond4937
    @yvesjeaurond4937 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Helpful. Hip. Btw, in example 1, the 16th at the end of the bar is coming in late. I solve errors like this by using downbeat counting---subdivisions before the beat: "ta-ta-ta-4/" ta-ta-ta-1/ ...; for eighths, it would be "and 2/" and 3/ and 4/ and 1... Note how the "tatata" or the "and" is kept with the => next

  • @sody227
    @sody227 Жыл бұрын

    Damn... nice!!!

  • @user-yw7bt2nb9h
    @user-yw7bt2nb9h Жыл бұрын

    いい音

  • @SoulbassJr
    @SoulbassJr Жыл бұрын

    accurate lesson ! funky youtubers thank you.

  • @rloggen
    @rloggen Жыл бұрын

    Great! Why change the key of Strassbourg? On the record it seems in A-flat (B-flat min 9 -> C min 9 -> D flat Maj 7). And the bass has a slight different pattern? But thanks, inspiring!

  • @VikkiSu
    @VikkiSu Жыл бұрын

    Super, super,super🎉Mercy❤

  • @sambaya9140
    @sambaya9140 Жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU SO MUCH I HOPE YOU TEACH ON REAL LIFE MERCI A TOUT LES GARS COMME VOUS PEACE DE FANCE

  • @iangardiner2056
    @iangardiner2056 Жыл бұрын

    On progression #1 the left hand notes being played are not explained or notated? How do you figure what to play in the left hand? Thanks?

  • @lmrock
    @lmrock Жыл бұрын

    We want the funk. Gota, gotta have that funk

  • @wakeuptotheonepartyoverlor8797
    @wakeuptotheonepartyoverlor8797 Жыл бұрын

    “Today l am teaching funk. I think I’ll wear my funk attire, funk glasses and funk hair style for this.”

  • @DawlessHouseMusic
    @DawlessHouseMusic9 ай бұрын

    Could you recommend some more examples I could break down for Funk?

  • @justinlaboy6837
    @justinlaboy6837 Жыл бұрын

    These were the first chords I learned as a kid playing piano transitioning from bass and guitar

  • @gregorysalgado2454

    @gregorysalgado2454

    Жыл бұрын

    And i still remember nine of your hit songs

  • @chupeauxx

    @chupeauxx

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gregorysalgado2454 👍

  • @jimmytightlips
    @jimmytightlips Жыл бұрын

    Just to check, would you play the C major scale over all of these progressions?

  • @Kelvin71
    @Kelvin71 Жыл бұрын

    That alt chord! Opening chord of pick up the pieces.

  • @kewsepehr1060
    @kewsepehr1060 Жыл бұрын

    Great stuff John. The notes are a bit blurred and hard to read though.

  • @AdrumaVictoria16
    @AdrumaVictoria16 Жыл бұрын

    Dope

  • @MrBequadro
    @MrBequadro Жыл бұрын

    👏👏👏👏

  • @DawlessHouseMusic
    @DawlessHouseMusic9 ай бұрын

    HOw does the Bflat 9 become a II ?

  • @dannychoriki1977
    @dannychoriki1977 Жыл бұрын

    Great stuff Even for guitar players like me. Hahaha.

  • @Heylomusicpianocomposer
    @Heylomusicpianocomposer Жыл бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @pendaflux
    @pendaflux Жыл бұрын

    4:24

  • @marenmarne
    @marenmarne2 ай бұрын

    Спасибо большое! То, что нужно! Простите, что на русском

  • @PianoWithJonny

    @PianoWithJonny

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you for watching!

  • @juansecar2
    @juansecar2 Жыл бұрын

    I guess it's for teaching purposes, and it's alright..., but it'd be cool to tell the guys warching, the actual true tonalities of the mentioned songs just so they learn them too in their original keys. For instance Chameleon is realy in Bbm9 and Eb7, and Strasburg S.t Denis is in AbMaj, a fourth away from the tonality here cited. Cool vid anyhow, very simple, clear and concise for beginners. Cheers!

  • @AaronBowley
    @AaronBowley Жыл бұрын

    really great lesson but i have a question! isn't the c13 actually a "C13(b7)" or am i crazy??? feel like i'm missing something

  • @suga4all

    @suga4all

    Жыл бұрын

    I guess the flat 7 is already included in the fact that it is a dominant chord.

  • @StephaneDesire2
    @StephaneDesire2 Жыл бұрын

    👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

  • @Andrey_ny3blpbkoB
    @Andrey_ny3blpbkoB Жыл бұрын

    вСэм Паер 🎉 Дрилл зашел!👍 Благодарю 🙂