This is a short interview video with Jon where he shares his tips and insight for students who are new to jazz, blues, and funk music.
Upper structure triads are complex altered dominant chord voicings that are widely used in solo jazz piano performance.
An important point with sus chords is that we often resolve the suspended 4th to turn the chord into a regular dominant 7th voicing.
In this tutorial we will explore some useful formulas and techniques that can be used to create solo piano introductions in minor keys.
Explore the history and development of New Orleans Piano with Grammy winner Jon Cleary. We cover 12/8 Grooves, Rhumba & Habanera Grooves, Blues, & Funk styles.
We explore Jon’s composition “Moonburn”. For this arrangement we play the piano in the same way that we would play a clavinet in a funk band.
Professor Longhair’s “Go To The Mardi Gras” is a perennial carnival tune and on Mardi Gras day the song is played all over New Orleans.
We arrange the blues tune in the key of F and we explore a wide range of common passing chords, substitutions, and reharmonisations.
We apply all of the concepts that we have covered so far in the course including bass lines, voicings, melodic decoration, and turnarounds.
In this lessons we will explore some important right hand principles and techniques to create that authentic New Orlean piano sound.
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