Funk Piano Lesson Straight 16s (Learn in the Groove! - E Minor)

hey hey we're going to build a funk groove in E Minor on the keyboard so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to introduce some Concepts and build it up as we go so we're going to start with a root note on beat one we might add some notes just to lead into [Music] it so once you get that going you're getting really comfortable with where one is all right now I'm going to add an e- minor Tri on two and four so E minor is e [Music] GB and I'm just playing it on beat 2 and four 2 3 4 just get really comfortable with that this that's the back beat of a funk roof that's where the snare hits in the beat okay now we're just going to extend this cord a bit and make it an eus 7 so eus 7 looks like this in root position but what we're going to do is take this note here which is the seventh and put it underneath the chord like this and just kind of Squish it [Music] together [Music] now I actually don't need that e in the right hand because e is played in the left hand so it's all implied so I'm just going to use that cuz I like that sort of open Sound but if you want to thicken up the texture by all means add it in just listen to the sound and see what you like the sound of the [Music] best I'll keep it without the [Music] e okay when you're comfortable with that we're going to add some syncopation so for the [Music] syncopation what I'm doing is I'm hearing all those um beats I'm hearing the subdivisions with [Music] it so you can divide all the Beats by four so I count the one end a two and a three and a four and a one and a and you can do all sort of [Music] variations but for now I'm just going to settle on [Music] this so I'm still hitting that strong bait on two and four I'm just adding a sck ped [Music] here okay now next I'm going to add some ghost notes I'll show you what they are [Music] first so what they actually are they're basically just feeling that subdivision that [Music] uh and I'm not necessarily playing them all the way through but I'm just hitting quiet a notes on um other beats of the bar just to lay out that [Music] subdivision now it doesn't actually matter what notes your ghost on because they're not like a they're not a strong note of the harmony or anything like so usually what I'm doing in the left hand I'm just hitting the top octave so I'm starting down low and I'm ghosting with my thumb there and then on the right hand whatever the bottom note of the cord [Music] is I'm just ghosting there so really in this case I'm just kind of ghosting with the thumbs every now and then I'm adding the fifth as well in the left so have a bit of a play with it see what comes naturally under your fingers but the main thing is that you're feeling that subdivision [Music] awesome all right now we're going to change the right hand cords cuz we've been sitting on that for a while and that can get a little bit tiresome so we're going to use the E Dorian scale and we're going to take that shape an e is just D major by the way but starting e to e and then we're going to take this shape up the scale I'm just going to play with these three shapes for this video but you can actually keep going you can try different [Music] shapes but I find these are the most common [Music] ones [Music] and you can change the [Music] Rhythm you can vary it however you like now I'm also adding these little Grace notes and my approach to this is I'm actually hitting these three notes together and sliding it off I'm actually doing that slide in time with that sub subdivision duck duck duck I'm not doing it every time cuz it might get a bit much [Music] but now we've been hanging out in the eus 7 for a long time it's make the chord progression a bit more interesting we're going to go to the four chord one four and one so in this key four is a major or A7 I'm treating it [Music] like so that second shape of the parallel kind of fits in well because it's essentially an a [Music] Triad you don't necessarily have to do it on the [Music] beat because it's already implied by the root I might just add a little turnaround cord here we're going to go to the five for that I'm going to use a B7 so third and the seventh of the B and I'm going to add a sharp nine which is kind of like the minor third to the major third so and that creates a really tense sound that wants to get us back to home which is our one cord our [Music] EA [Music] I'll add that five cord on the fourth beat fourth bar [Music] sorry all [Music] right [Music] now what we're going to do is add a few little Rifts so I'm using the E blue scale for this and the E blue scale is basically these two shapes so same shape but starting on E and starting on B and in between we've got our blue [Music] noes and that creates that really tense [Music] sound that bluesy s all right so now we'll add some Rifts to our [Music] beat sorry forgot where I was and let's add a [Music] reof [Music] so yeah just adding a few little Rifts in with the [Music] groove see what you come up with there's a still a few little things we can do to kind of vary This Groove where have been doing these Grace notes you can actually Slide the the whole cord that E minor 7's nice and easy because it's all black to white I just simply slide off it the a is a little bit [Music] harder so that little slide is little funky thing you can do if you [Music] want the other thing is I've been hanging in this second inversion shape what I mean by that is I've got essentially it's a G major Tri but I'm playing it in first version second version that's kind of the thing I'm kind of doing there what if you try a first inversion [Music] shape [Music] just kind of going down chromatically it's a very common thing on guitar because it's the last three notes of the guitar then so they'll often um kind of hammer on those last three strings when they're funking [Music] out [Music] all right and now the other thing we can do is play with shells so what the shell is is it's just a shell voicing which means you've got just the root and the third and the seventh of a chord and in this case the thirds and sevens the seven just moves to the third of the a so this is a third that's the seventh of the E minor and then the a that's the third and that's the seventh of the a so essentially we can just play on these two notes and just drop that top note and doing little variations so that's kind of a little cool thing you can do when you just want to strip back the texture [Music] it's a nice thing when you're using a clav sound as well cuz it's nice little open sound okay so that's shells and that's great to use in the left hand while you're [Music] soling [Music] and hitting it [Music] together notice I just went to that B7 with those thir and seven with the shells okay every now and then I like to do a little punctuation to kind of is a little full stop so what I did there is I just did a octave and I just bounced off the six note with the [Music] c I'm going to add that Grace note to the to the C as [Music] well so again probably not something I do every time but but it's just a nice little thing just to kind of create a little Full Stop in the music all right so we have these little parallel chords obviously from before what I'm going to do is take the top two [Music] notes and with my pinky I'm going to play the root at the top with a like a pedal note so here we [Music] go and obviously you can make your own variations I'm just giving an example okay let's try and put some of all this together let's have a good [Music] [Music] Jam [Music] [Music] all right I hope you enjoyed this [Music] lesson keep [Music] jamming

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Length: 17min 48sec (1068 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 11 2023