Left Hand Techniques for Funk Piano Solos

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Hi. My name is Jonathon Wilson on behalf of Expert Village.com. We're learning how to play an advanced funk groove on the piano. Last time, we learned how to play some double stop right hand solo licks. This time, we're going to learn a fairly complicated, technically challenging, version of a double stop lick. And this one has got enough going on that we actually have to bring our left hand up and help out in the lick. The whole point of this is to show that you shouldn't necessarily get into the habit of always using your left hand for bass parts or your right hand just for solo parts and chords. They can sort of move into each other's territory when they want to. And, in this case, we've got a lick that we need a little bit of help from our left hand at a certain position here and, it just pops up and you can add one more note to a chord in this lick that just sort of fattens the whole thing up. So this lick is fairly complicated. It might take some practice, but it's a good one. Add it to your repertoire. Here it is very slowly with the metronome so you can see what's going on. Okay, so even slowly, you can hear that there's quite a bit happening there. But did you notice how with my left hand popping up to play that B-flat in there, it just kind of fattens up that little chord and makes a nice little sort of a stick that just sort of jumps out at you in the middle of that thing? If you didn't bring the left hand up, it wouldn't have nearly the intensity that it does when you bring that thing up. So, just to keep in mind, same thing, this is a fairly complicated pattern. Work it slowly with your metronome. When you master it at a really slow speed, notch that metronome up one notch, master it at that speed. Notch it up one more notch, that's the way to technically get a hold of almost anything. Just work it up a notch at a time. Okay? So let's hear this thing full speed with the drums. I'm going to play the groove a little bit along with this because this lick leads very nicely into the F-7 that we've been playing in this groove. If you do this thing on C-7 and then go right into that F-7, it just sits in this nice little pocket and that's what I'll do here. Okay, that's pretty fun. Pretty busy, but for the right place in the song, it might be kind of a cool thing to through in to impress your friends.

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