3 Iconic Clavinet Grooves

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[@hopeyousmokeit]

Dude, this is one of the most fun tutorials Ive watched. Thank you! - and its the way I practice with a looper pedal by myself (for band jam practice) with repetition to the point of losing yourself to the groove - and occasionally allowing riffing outside but always coming back is so damn good. Please do more of these groove videos with clips and a playist of all of them if you do. Thanks again. Love and light!

[@SafeRetirement]

Yes, more of this! Thank you!

[@dpwaldman3145]

This video seems perfect for me. Really just getting started on keyboards after 50 years on guitars, learning to really read the music, and not quite ready to tackle the straight-ahead material. Thanks, Adam. I am tuning in and also appreciating you 'coach-like' approach.

[@LadyMay92019]

I loved this more than I can say!

[@SelectahPegman]

Great stuff, please more of this

[@chipinkaiyajazz]

There’s a score mistake on every second bar of the third song, the eighth rest should come first at the second downbeat.

[@j.s.m.5351]

nothing like lockin' into a groove for an hour! Nice to see Bernie Worrell getting some love!

[@vazqueeziee]

More videos like this please. Thanks!

[@bassforkids4504]

I play electric bass and have been practicing mostly walking bass for the past few months. Haven't tried groovin' in the pocket for a long time. I'm very familiar with the first 2 songs and the Superstition groove is about as fast as I can play. Use Me was a lot of fun and I was surprised I made it all the way through the last one because that was pretty quick also. Thank you for sharing.

[@salvadorlopez-beltran6734]

Solid gold. Thanks funky brotha

[@jeremiahmolinaro7595]

A+ Video. This is exactly what I needed to practice as a pianist.

[@Dan_s_Channel]

Great, thanks for that!!

[@NeilABliss]

Seems to me there's a whole sub-channel for Clavinet grooves.

[@imagetechtest832]

Adam rocks!

[@henkdevries2002]

This was fun!

[@kainejoyes2981]

Totally agree…I play in a funk band and there’s a real the temptation to over play, but less is more. Definitely think recording yourself helps, I found I was in the pocket, then thought I was funking out with a crazy run or something to ‘add’ rhythm but actually I was trampling all over the groove.

[@husq48]

No, more is more, can't overplay the Clav!

[@bspencersf]

There are actually EIGHT tracks of clav parts on Superstition, no wonder it's hard to replicate

[@adrianfundescu5407]

Yes but if you just play some ghost-cords with your right hand on top....that's it.4 live.

[@kjartanp4428]

I recommend Outa-space by Billy Preston 👌 Check that one out 😉

[@joshuamaddox4105]

100%. Surprised it’s not on here 😮

[@christopherroa9781]

Groove moment 😎

[@margix1172]

Let's hope to see other clavinet riffs like those from Kc and sunshine band and other Disco artists.

[@jgwatson6651]

Merci🎉

[@jaijeffcom]

Great idea. The barrier to staying with it is that vexing rhythmic hitch with each loop. Gotta fix that when I Sound Slice it myself. Back to the pocket? Approximate is not Pocket!

[@gisellechacon7081]

😯 Wow. Literally life-changing. These are tough grooves to get a handle on, and this really helped me bring them home. Thanks so much! Great stuff, isn't it?

[@coloaten6682]

I completely agree, Giselle! Tomorrow, Easter Sunday, is a day to get my Funk on!! 🎹🎶🎵

[@SirDLee]

SWING DOWN!!!!!!! I WANNA RIDE. 🤘🏽🤩👽☝🏽🛸

[@rachelzmusicofficial]

Sound slice 😮

[@LeeJeanJr]

Ending out with some Earth Tour P Funk… all the respect points fuckin YES!!

[@KingCookieCat]

The clavi-gnats!

[@user-wp4ql3uc6k]

Thanks, just noticed a mistake in the transcription of the third piece in measure 3 . The 2 sixteen notes(B&C) on beat 2 should be on the and of 2

[@mrglump52]

I think Mr. Wonder played drums that recoding

[@chasjazzz7842]

" Make my Funk the P-Funk"!!. Get Down Adam and "Hit me on da 1"

[@unkolawdio]

Yes,,

[@thecity42]

On Use Me the bottom is cut off is there any different variation to the top part.

[@husq48]

"You Haven't Done Nothin'!"

[@thecity42]

On the 4th measure on use me are you using thirds its cut off. Thank you

[@dereknolin5986]

I don't understand how Stevie fills in the spaces with this sort of unpitched percussive sound. It's almost like the way you might muffle all the strings on guitar with your left hand but still strum across them for a percussive sound. Is it something you just can't do on a digital keyboard, that you need a real Clav for?

[@fg87fgd]

Why didn't you play the offbeat sixteenth (E) in "use me"?

[@bunchafunk]

Great stuff! Respectfully submitted, in Mothership, the rhythmic notation is incorrect in bars 2 and 4.

[@grahampurse8758]

I think the Db to Eb is an eighth too soon.

[@sanferrera]

Yes, I think you are right.

[@juwonnnnn]

👌

[@hesrealclose1599]

Holy smokes😂🤣😂

[@rachelzmusicofficial]

Where is the pdf?

[@user-xs7ou2dg3r]

👍🎹👍

[@rolandwyss]

Great lesson! Don't want to be picky, but your high G flat on Superstition is too long...

[@adammaness]

Agreed! I gotta clean that up like yesterday.

[@paulmayerpiano]

Uh-oh - notation on Mothership Connection is wrong... last three 8th notes are Eb, Db, C - NOT Eb, C, Cb as written

[@jayrob5270]

There is a problem when you lock in these grooves about totally being immersed and missing the changes. I've asked singers to give me a clue with a certain vocal part but a lot of them don't like that and expect me to keep watching for when they want to change it but that requires me to pay attention which makes the groove very boring and mechanical after a while.

[@don4476]

You must be precise. If you aren't precise you'll kill the groove.

[@billgrabbe9992]

Parliament sounds awfully similar to Frank Zappa (or visa versa)

[@demsi2004]

How to find these ghost notes in superstition?

[@romulus_]

one thing to note is that the original recording is layered with three or four (can't remember exactly) clavinet parts. there's a multi-track out there somewhere. this is the basis, but don't get upset if you can't replicate it exactly.

[@rolandwyss]

​ @Romulus google "radio public christian hand superstition" - you find it 9:43

[@rolandwyss]

google "radio public christian hand superstition" - you find it 9:43

[@demsi2004]

@@romulus_ I can't find a good arrangement in the notes

[@MrGeolm]

@@demsi2004 the vulfpeck tutorial for superstition : kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHKXmHZqoJtqo8U

[@maxineaulio]

Superstition: A much proper way to notate it would be in 2/2, isn’t it? (I think it’s easier to feel the groove, and anyway to play eighth-notes jazz-irregularly, instead of sixteenth-notes in 4/4…)

[@dfreeman120]

You guys are all on the wrong track with this instrument, that’s why most people sound stiff and corny tryin to play the clav like a normal keyboard. Not a piano !

[@dmcgwhisper5945]

Sorry to say it but you are no where near that Superstition clav part. It's much more staccato. You are are emphasising notes you shouldn't be. With such an iconic part you only detract from it. You are a great player in your own right and I thsnk you fir your tutorials but I don't think you should show that part unless you've mastered it.

[@dmcgwhisper5945]

No offence btw

[@JamesStelling]

That looping programme you're using is rubbish. You're not getting accurate loops on a video about groove. Madness.

[@J3unG]

basic funk for non-funky people...

[@John_F898]

Can we please stop describing everything as “iconic”?