How to Play Funk Piano

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Funk had a large influence on Jazz. It spurred the development of Jazz Fusion, Jazz Funk, and Free Funk subgenres of Jazz. So in this piano tutorial I will discuss how to play Funk piano. Specifically, I will cover the history and elements of funk and provide an example at the end.
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  • @zephaniahmcdaniels
    @zephaniahmcdaniels2 жыл бұрын

    Love this breakdown. Do a breakdown on soul piano. Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Isaac Hayes vibes

  • @crazyace88

    @crazyace88

    2 жыл бұрын

    Please!

  • @omarghrawi8928

    @omarghrawi8928

    2 жыл бұрын

    Pleaseeee do this

  • @danielharris9403
    @danielharris94032 жыл бұрын

    You can really hear the Latin feel - funk with a tumbao bass is pretty hip.

  • @angelaandrade9725
    @angelaandrade97252 жыл бұрын

    Love it! So glad you used the song sunny as an example. Please do a full lesson on your funky version of sunny

  • @kevinduffy2568
    @kevinduffy25682 жыл бұрын

    This sounds like closer to salsa then funk

  • @liamtruong6926
    @liamtruong6926 Жыл бұрын

    so straightforward, I feel like I was enlightened a lot after 12 minutes watching your video. Thanks

  • @thestratocaster
    @thestratocaster2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for doing this for us! You are the best!!

  • @SilverTheFlame
    @SilverTheFlame2 жыл бұрын

    Wow man! This is such great information! Thank you :)

  • @chriswhitewen9650
    @chriswhitewen96506 ай бұрын

    I love this breakdown - thank you!!❤

  • @ImproveYoSelf727
    @ImproveYoSelf7272 жыл бұрын

    Great video thanks for your effort!

  • @dgmgneco1516
    @dgmgneco15162 жыл бұрын

    FUNK JUNK IN THE TRUNK AIN'T SWINGING NO BAT AT A PUNK [FUNK IS WITHIN]

  • @MsMarcow
    @MsMarcow3 ай бұрын

    Thank you, you are very knowledgeable and clear

  • @RetroReminiscing
    @RetroReminiscing2 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! 🎹🎶👌

  • @an_annoying_cat
    @an_annoying_cat2 жыл бұрын

    i accidentally clicked the notification but wasnt disappointed, that was really useful

  • @animaljere
    @animaljere2 ай бұрын

    Great tutorials, i've been trying to learn funk piano for awhile and I have trouble differentiating between 16th notes and a slower tempo and 8th notes at a faster tempo, but yeah the rests and using the accents and syncopations of the 16th note level is easy to understand

  • @raphaelhudson
    @raphaelhudson2 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant

  • @jmarriolab2780
    @jmarriolab27802 жыл бұрын

    GREAT! Mastaaaa 💯💯 Thanks 🙏🏻

  • @Warriorphonic
    @Warriorphonic2 жыл бұрын

    thanks! You videos have taught me so much. Will you do more videos on funk? I hope so...

  • @Haha-cq1ti
    @Haha-cq1ti2 жыл бұрын

    Quite cool

  • @yoshikomoore6107
    @yoshikomoore61078 ай бұрын

    I.think this was very lucid explanation. Kudos to you.

  • @macmanmanny3983
    @macmanmanny39832 жыл бұрын

    Skip to the 9:00 m mark for his example.

  • @diegotorresv.8304
    @diegotorresv.8304 Жыл бұрын

    The beat KZreadr of music really

  • @carlyflow9708
    @carlyflow9708 Жыл бұрын

    I really like your videos, you are awesome teacher. Can I have the sheet music for download to practice?

  • @thewhoman8252
    @thewhoman8252 Жыл бұрын

    I have found what I have been looking for

  • @geraldedwards5762
    @geraldedwards57622 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Would it be possible to break down each genre like this... A sort of template for each??? I have absolutely no musical knowledge and training other than a few theory books, which, honestly, I did not comprehend fully due to much of the terminology. I have just been sort of playing around with all the parameters in music and would like to understand how each genre is created... I have noticed a lot of correlations between rhythmic patterns and structures and the 'feel' of the music...

  • @woosix7735
    @woosix77352 жыл бұрын

    I didn’t expect you to play rock and roll on da piano lol

  • @SovBeatsOfficial
    @SovBeatsOfficial2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this awesome video. I'm trying to do some extra analysis on how this song is written and every source ive seen says this song is in Cm but almost none of these chords are in Cm (seems like Fmaj to me). But then you're also soloing a C pentatonic for the melody in the funky bits? How does all of this come together? Music gets very confusing T_T

  • @thomaskuzma4360
    @thomaskuzma43609 ай бұрын

    I probably got about a 3rd of this, but its because I am new beginner to piano and I don't know how to improvise

  • @everend_xyz
    @everend_xyz2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks very much for the video 💞 Would you recommend any particular thread on your website for funky piano in specific ?

  • @agc6490
    @agc64902 жыл бұрын

    Walk that bass do you have any book or method to suggest to someone who is just getting started on the piano? Especially for the technical part since my fingers do what they want when I try to play, thanks!

  • @empowers67

    @empowers67

    2 жыл бұрын

    for finger training all u need is the hanon exercises

  • @lenharddedecker974

    @lenharddedecker974

    2 жыл бұрын

    The jazz theory book mark levine

  • @Stevesk0011
    @Stevesk00112 жыл бұрын

    It can't be easy to logically explain funk.

  • @Neyo897
    @Neyo89711 ай бұрын

    I wasn't told that George Harisson is a piano player

  • @ittaynadesan7568
    @ittaynadesan75682 жыл бұрын

    Do you have a patreon or accept donations?

  • @WalkThatBass

    @WalkThatBass

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi. Yep, through my website :) www.thejazzpianosite.com/donate/

  • @nezkeys79
    @nezkeys7910 ай бұрын

    Could do a video on how to play superstitious correctly. Its way harder than it seems to make it sound groovy 😅

  • @lawanistephen6589
    @lawanistephen65892 жыл бұрын

    First here

  • @macmoll
    @macmoll10 ай бұрын

    Where’s the funk?

  • @JevonMusicGroup

    @JevonMusicGroup

    3 ай бұрын

    Yeah... kinda sounds like disco.

  • @klawei5061
    @klawei506110 ай бұрын

    I really value your channel but this is not funk. No groove nowhere.

  • @michaeldaunt1580
    @michaeldaunt15802 жыл бұрын

    Sad to say this is a rather irrelevant explanation ending with nothing one could call funk. Suggestion... notate a known right and left hand funk piano riff with drums and bass.

  • @giuseppe7382
    @giuseppe73828 ай бұрын

    You explained the song, but without Playng it and this is not good for those who follow you.

  • @Mrphilharmonic
    @Mrphilharmonic9 күн бұрын

    Sorry. I can do better than that, and I CAN’T PLAY FUNK!! Yet!!!!

  • @denisghiotti9647
    @denisghiotti9647 Жыл бұрын

    c est honteux de jouer aussi mal et croire que l on est un bon pianiste

  • @tubbytown6545
    @tubbytown654510 ай бұрын

    Jazz Boy starts off saying Funk came out of Blues and Soul. Accent on first beat, often a two chord groove. Illustrates this with Jazz Boy fave "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb, a five chord song, Plays a mishmash of notes with no feel, no groove and NO FUNK !! Jazz boys, smh.

  • @monsterjazzlicks
    @monsterjazzlicks2 жыл бұрын

    Does not even groove! Dreadful piano sound also!