Funk Piano Song

Part of the Video Series How to Play a Funk Groove on the Piano

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Watch a pianist play soul funk piano with jazz piano concepts and techniques; learn this and more in this free online piano lesson taught by professional composer and pianist Jonathan Wilson.

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Posted by chilkari on Sunday, 09 March, 2008 at 10:41 PM

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(Jonathon here...) By the way, I've placed a downloadable PDF file on my website, which has the music for all of the techniques in this series. You can download it from http://www.aqua-web. com/2008/03/09/follo w-up-how-to-play-a-f unk-groove-on-the-pi ano-pdf-of-technique s-available/

Video Transcript

Funk Piano Song
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 and we've reached the end. I've showed you everything I'm going to show you for this and we're going to use this clip to just sort of go through a lot of things that we've learned, all put together over the drums. I'm just going to kind of play the funk grooves, so you can kind of hear how it all goes when it's all put together in pieces. I'm going to use some of the solo patterns. I'll play the bass line. I'll play both of our right hand variations. I?ll put in some of our stab breaks, some of our hangs and some of those more aggressive variations that we talked about. I'll try to throw in as much as I can, but this is kind of what it sounds like when you put it all together. I've enjoyed this and I hope you come back for the next one. Okay, so, there you have it an advanced funk groove all put together. You can get all of that by going back to the previous clips in this series. We've gone through pretty much everything you that you just heard at one point or another in here. I hope you enjoyed it. I certainly have. And I'll see you next time.

About the Expert

Expert: Jonathon Wilson has been a composer & pianist for over 20 years. He won both the Kinsmen International Jazz Festival & University of Northern Colorado Jazz Festival Most Outstanding Performer awards. Read More