I use this piano run EVERYWHERE.

foreign what's up guys Johnny may here and welcome to this week's quick tip where I'm going to teach you my all-time favorite piano run I think this is the most magical run at the piano and the amazing thing with this run is that you can use it at the end of any tune you could throw it in the middle of the tune you could even use it during your piano solo also this run works on any scale and it's not as hard to play as it sounds so I'm really excited to teach this one to you let's go ahead and dive in alright so what is this magical piano run well I want to play it for you again so you can see it on the overhead camera and then I want to kind of break it down for you so you really understand how you can use this on any scale all right here it is once again [Music] and that sound absolutely gorgeous again it has such a magical sound now when you're looking here at the lesson sheet music on the top left it probably looks really overwhelming but again it is so simple to play and I'm gonna break it down for you note for note but before we do that if you're enjoying this video please hit the like button and if you're new to the channel be sure to subscribe for more videos just like this alright you're ready to learn the Run let's start with step number one and basically for step number one you want to pick a scale okay so let's say you're playing a tune in the key of C major okay and C is like the one chord you know you can use a C major scale to play The Run that's a nice sounding scale but a really beautiful scale that I like to use is the C lydian scale okay it's basically like a C major scale except we have a sharp four and it kind of gives it a little bit of a magical sound on okay so this is Step number one is pick a scale and again you can use any scale you want generally you want to stick with a seven note scale you could use this run with maybe an eight note scale but generally you want to pick a seven note scale okay that's step number one step number two is to break your scale up into two groups okay so for the C lydian scale what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the first five notes and I'm going to play them kind of as a block of five notes so this is group number one or I think of this as the C group okay group number two is going to start on the top note of group number one so in this case we're going to start in the G and we're going to play the remaining notes of the scale as a block okay so this is group number two or our G group okay so once again pick the skill you want to use and then play your C group or group one and then your group number two in this case this is our G group all right now step number 3 is the most important part of this entire process because this is where you kind of take this scale and you make it sound magical [Music] right with a very specific pattern so again this is the most important part to getting this sound all right so what am I doing well you want to use what's called a finger pattern and the way it works is you take your first block this is our C block and we've got our thumb on C so that's a one right two is on D that's our index three four and five and you want to apply this little pattern one two five two three four okay and I'm referring to the finger numbers here I'm not referring to the notes or the scale degrees I'm referring to the fingers okay so just in this block play one two five two three four does that make sense then you're gonna do the exact same pattern using group number two in this case our G group okay so let's apply this pattern one two five two three four all right so one two five two three four one two five two three four okay now once you've made it to the C You're Gonna Wanna repeat this pattern up the piano but you have a little problem I've got my forefinger on the C and when I started the pattern I was on my thumb so here's the rule once I get to group number two I'm gonna skip the fourth finger and I'm gonna cross under to my thumb all right so this is very important this is kind of like a rule for this run is you're gonna go one two five two three four one two five two three one okay so the pattern is changing as you come up the piano and this is actually what makes this uh this run sounds so beautiful is you're not just playing the same thing up the piano the whole time you're changing the rhythm of it in a sense one foreign you hear that and so you also get some really nice accents as you come up the piano and you play this I also want to make a note that this ends up being an 11 note pattern before you repeat the pattern so if you're starting on c one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven and then you repeat one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven by the way I wanted to mention that the lesson sheet music you're seeing on the top left of your screen is downloadable and printable you can also change the key of this entire lesson with the click of one button with our smart sheet music so I'll put a link to all of that below alright you ready for the next step the next step is the most exciting part and that is to combine your patterns and we talked about these two groups groups one and groups two and so what you want to practice is combining them and getting them nice and smooth or fluid so start on group one group two group one group two group one two and so what you want to do is practice speeding it up and you want to get it as smooth as possible one two three right and then do a little faster okay and then a little faster doesn't that sound gorgeous now one cool little trick you can do is as you're coming up this run you may have noticed when I was playing earlier I was adding some left hand chords in and basically what I was doing is I was just like adding some chord tones so if you're playing like a c chord you know you can play just like a C major as you're doing the run up or in my case I was playing a kind of a colorful Jazzy what's called a c69 like this okay so one thing you can do while you're playing the run is grab your cord start your run in this case I'm going to start on the G and I'm gonna go foreign little cords as I'm coming up the run and if you speed this up it sounds really nice or you can break up the notes in your left hand okay this is what it would sound like fast and then I'll do it slow [Music] okay I'm basically playing the same chord in my left hand but I'm rolling the chord now thank you right it doesn't have to line up in any particular way but the key is to roll it in the left hand as you're playing the run in the right hand now in just a moment I'm going to show you how you can use this run on other chords and scales but before we do this if you're enjoying this topic and you want to do a deep dive on piano runs and different sounding runs that you can use up the piano check out our chorus Jazz intro and outro runs you'll learn a ton of really cool little patterns and scales I'll put a link to that below alright let's try this on another chord how about a minor chord like C minor or if you're playing jazz and you want to play some more interesting sound and chords a jazz musician might make this a C minor seven well what's step number one start with a scale and a great skill that you can use on a minor chord is called the Dorian scale it's a very simple seven note scale okay this is called the C Dorian scale it's a lot like a B flat major scale starting on the C okay so step number one know your scale we're gonna play the C Dorian scale once you're able to do that then pick your two groups so group one we're going to start on the C and group number two we're going to start on the top note the G and we have it like this okay so just block your groups group one and group two and then step number three is to apply the pattern so remember the pattern it goes one two five two three four and then we're gonna do on group two one two five two three but remember we're gonna skip the four and we're going to reset with our thumb on the C okay that's the pattern it's that simple so here it is again one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven and then we continue the pattern or repeat the pattern of the piano and then back on the sea and then usually when I get to the end you know you can just stop the pattern and just pick any note that you want to end on all right let's play a little bit faster and you'll start to hear how the Run starts to sound a little more magical so here it is okay and then a little faster a little trick that can actually help you with these patterns also is to think of your thumb on sort of Target notes so in this case I'm thinking of the C the G the C the G the C and the g okay they're kind of like little Target points okay so again a little faster [Music] okay by the way I do want to mention you can sometimes change the fingering on this pattern for example you could go thumb on the F continue the pattern and then you do your four up here so you can switch it in other words I'm going one two five two three one two five two three four and then resetting by the way if you're not sure which scales to use over different chords you can learn some great scales in our course scales for improv on major and minor chords if you're more in the beginner intermediate side and if you're a little more in the intermediate to Advanced side we have the same chorus for intermediate to advanced level players I'll put a link to those below all right I want to talk about one other chord that you can use this run on I'll play it for you and then we'll break it down ah doesn't that sound gorgeous and by the way if you want to hear this run in context like in a tune I actually used it at the beginning of my arrangement of What a Wonderful World if you want to check that out it's a really beautiful arrangement so what am I doing here well I'm basically playing an A flat seven chord like this but I'm doing more of like a sus chord okay and so this is a context where maybe you're in the key of D flat and you're on like a five chord right leading to a one chord well it's very common on your V chord to suspend it and then you might resolve it like this okay so I'm playing an A flat seven sus4 and then in my right hand a beautiful scale that you can use on a chord like this is called your a flat mixolydian scale it's basically like a d flat major scale starting on a flat okay so that's the scale and then the next step is to find our two groups of notes now for this particular scale I don't like to put my thumb on the black note that's generally something you want to avoid when you're playing scales that have lots of black notes in them so for this particular scale I change it and I use this grouping of five notes like that okay so I'm putting the C on the bottom and then for the second grouping I go to my f like this okay and then C and then F okay so you don't have to play your grouping starting on the root you can start your grouping on a different note if you're using a scale like this okay so one two one two okay now for this particular run I like to start on my f grouping you absolutely could start on your C grouping but I kind of like starting lower all right and so basically I start on my f grouping and I apply the pattern so one two five two three four and then one two five two three and then we need to reset one two five two three four one two five two three and we continue up the piano okay so you want to do the same thing you want to increase your speed foreign okay and then you can add those left-hand chords that I was telling you about so for this particular chord this is a beautiful chord voicing that you can use in your left hand okay and so as I'm playing the run of the piano I'll grab this chord and then speed it up foreign hey thanks for watching and if you enjoyed the lesson please let me know in the comments also be sure to check out piano with johnny.com we have over 1 000 step-by-step lessons for all playing levels where you'll learn your favorite songs Styles and how to improvise at the piano thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one

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Length: 14min 56sec (896 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 04 2022