Chord Enclosures Jazz Piano Improv Exercise

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LESSON SUMMARY
In today's piano lesson, you are going to learn how to use chord enclosures to take your jazz piano improvisation to the next level. Many students who feel stagnant in their jazz soloing think the solution is to learn more scales. But this couldn't be further from the truth. You can create beautiful, professional sounding jazz improvisations by using 1 scale and enclosures.
Specifically, you are going to learn:
- What a Chord Enclosure is
- How to enclose each of your chord tones
- How to use Upper Enclosures and Lower Enclosures
- The Chord Enclosure Descending Exercise
- A beginner jazz accompaniment using Chord Shells
- An intermediate jazz accompaniment using Rootless Voicings
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Happy practicing!
Jonny May

[@PianoWithJonny]

00:38 Chord enclosures 01:00 Cmaj7 01:35 What are enclosures? 01:59 Upper enclosures 02:32 Lower enclosures 03:01 Downloading the lesson sheet 03:12 Enclosing the 5th 03:54 Enclosing the 3rd 04:19 Enclosing the root 04:45 Enclosing other notes in the scale 06:25 Course recommendations 06:40 Descending exercise 10:45 Play with backing track 11:22 LH accompaniments (beginner - shell) 12:02 LH accompaniments (intermediate - rootless voicing) 12:35 Play with backing track 13:03 Add soloing 14:26 Conclusion

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[@titopaoofficial]

I'm actually a Guitarist but this is great explanation and actually wanna learn Piano from ya. :D

[@hayleycomet8029]

Mind blown! I always thought it was some crazy modes or something but now I see it's just chord tones with enclosures and other chromatic leading tones basically.. that so simplifies it! Thanks :)

[@keypadgolden6252]

fantastic lesson , you have done so well to simplify

[@17244852]

Jonny... thank you so much for this lesson. You switched on a light for me. I have been trying, in my beginners way, to solo over chords; wondering why some of the notes were good and added to the tune, and some were bad and really spoiled it. As you were explaining it I was thinking "How obvious! Why did I not realise this for myself?" You are a great and gifted teacher, you love your craft and want to pass on not only the skills but the love of music as well. This was a landmark lesson for me. Thank you.

[@PianoWithJonny]

I'm so glad to hear this. Keep up the great work!

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Lol

[@jamesallen5223]

I've always wondered about this! Thank you

[@robincruz3312]

Thank you teacher for taking your time, and teaching us to improve in our learning🙏🙏🙏

[@michaelcollinsmusic45]

Thank you Jonny... These are helpful... Keep up with your jazz tutorials

[@andymatzner4891]

Great video - Thank you!

[@tH4ttUs]

Love you man!

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Great lesson..lovely

[@PhG1961]

Awesome ! You're the best !

[@mothra87]

Thanks!

[@rvenneman]

Thank you.

[@tonyhayes4980]

Good on you Johnny great stuff !

[@virabadrasana]

Jonny, what a great series! Thank You!

[@eduardoinke2943]

Love your exercises and how you show things step by step. It would be great to see this concept applied to a full ii- v- i.

[@chizmo7]

Cool. Thank you.

[@curiouscurious6558]

GREAT exercise Jonny! Even though I've been aware of enclosures and use them, your exercise helped to make them more usable in my playing. I did the exercise with every major chord going up in 4ths and I must say doing the key of Eb for some reason really caused something to click for me. Also I started hearing in my head that the line could work with C Eb dim I Dm7 to G7 ( 2 beats apiece.) Kind of cool.

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I like the way you explain to us. continue we follow you

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Thanks ❤️

[@tonyhinkley255]

Brilliant tutorial Johnny thank you. Decorating that blank back wall would be great.

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Gracias, teacher

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Merci beaucoup pour votre post

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🙏thanks 🙏

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Thanks and really usefull this video 👍👍👍

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Wonderful

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Awesome explanation, thank You 👍👍👍

[@tallypianist]

Great video, thank you!!

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Love it! Thanks!

[@PianoWithJonny]

So glad!

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Superb

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Grandioso

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Fantastic tutor

[@ramonarriola7672]

Muchas gracias por sus tutoriales, aunque no hablo Inglés, sí logro entender sus clases. Bendiciones desde Santiago de Chile.

[@wallomaie1752]

The way you said "vanilla"..I felt that.

[@alanmalnar8397]

Johnny's a nice bloke. A great player and an excellent teacher. Lot's of good vibes from his love of the craft.

[@bartcrawford8462]

really great idea! thank you, brother, Bart.

[@GodSpeed1105]

I forgot about using rootless chords really cool. Almost forgot that with Jazz you can really play around going out of key with grace notes and transition really nice. Thanks man cool video. 👍🏼

[@orochimarukishimoto6509]

Excellent piano lesson. Very good information on Jazz instruction in music. Super easy to understand and VERY important to know for Jazz piano.

[@fundorinlive]

Go to 12:42 first to get the idea of what you'll watch in the next 15 minutes.

[@live2groove]

Thankyou.. That was a lot of over explaining

[@mharris7190]

Or 0:00 for everyone who somehow missed it…

[@tharanganishasthri2812]

excellent way of teaching jazz,,,thank you so much..

[@17244852]

Yet another Wow! This makes immediate sense. Of course! So simple and logical. Now all (!!!) I have to do is to learn all the enclosures for all the notes in every chord in a progression. (That was self-directed irony toward me, not sarcasm toward you.) The trick here is to 'not' learn mistakes. Take it slow, learn it thoroughly then see how the enclosure tones can be used as lead tones to the next chord. Pure gold Jonny. Thank you.

[@cokeyksn]

Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@PianoWithJonny]

Most welcome 😊

[@mikegeeguitarman8991]

Just when I think I cant admire Jonny any more he comes up with lessons like this....he is a God !!

[@dartek14]

Keep it up J, I am almost there .... I went with HDPiano for pop tunes techniques ... but you have the inside lane. I may be purchasing your methods very soon.

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Wow, fabulous! Deserves more views and subscriptions. I think I’m gonna join 👍

[@antiniobermeo9540]

Gracias por tus lecciones Jonny . podrías agregar las notas o sub títulos por favor. Gracias.

[@freshpressedify]

Next time, could you play the exercise in tempo first, so we can hear what it's supposed to sound like before slowing it down to practice tempo? Otherwise good vid, thanx.

[@sophiasommer1466]

He does play in an uptempo at the very beginning!

[@kabooby0]

12:20 Nice.

[@imichaelhouston]

I really enjoy your lessons sir! May I ask what software are you using to display the midi piano?

[@lorettatawney6307]

What accompaniment are you using on the digital piano?I'm having a difficult time understanding how to sync the background music with playing if you could give a tutorialel on the digital piano that would be great

[@blueapple9077]

Do you have the finger positions for other keys posted somewhere?

[@VasaMusic438]

Hi !! Thank you very much for this lesson?? where is possible to see this system in other different types of chords and tonalities? Do you have e complete lesson or course about this available?

[@SUPERSAMPLES1]

Johnny, they are starting to copy your ways, 😆

[@madeforkids8298]

Very useful tutorial, Jon. I'm wondering what kind of piano you're playing

[@hatamsu]

Thats a Yamaha CP-4

[@GM-yb5yg]

Please make lessons on other genres/style than jazz. These are great lessons, but would be really nice to learn some other stuff than jazzy too.

[@zoranxx]

Hi Johnny , your lessons are great . However there is a lot of them. Is there an order we should go with these lessons? I a m interested in jazz lessons.. Thanks Zoran

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[@geshansomanader4971]

hey guys, completely new to the Piano. I play guitar and bass and and have a decent understanding of music. Is PWJ a good place to start learning to play Piano? My goal is to play Jazz, Blues and Gospel. thanks!

[@rickwatson7997]

Jonny, I notice in some of your videos that while sustaining a single note, you wiggle the pad of that finger left and right on the key. Newbie question here; what is the purpose of the wiggle? I can't find it referenced online.

[@ksan1648]

Since he hasn't responded to you, there are two possibilities that occur to me: 1.) He's wiggling to draw attention to the pertinent notes at whatever point in the tutorial... or 2.) He's searching for/locating that point by which the hand is supported and balanced by the finger on whatever key said finger happens to be, ala the "arm-weight method." www.people.vcu.edu/~bhammel/chen/arm_weight_method.htm I guess we won't know for sure until Johnny responds to this particular comment thread, but at least you've got a response with a potential trail to explore ;-)

[@brainhills5864]

How can I download the backing tracks?

[@nicholasr6381]

Hey Johnny that's one of the best bits of advice, thankyou !

[@vprs596]

Probably nothing... I notice in this example, and I realize it is merely a touch of the surface of what can be done, when descending by 1/2 step you suggest an upper enclosure and when descending a full step and under enclosure. Basic road map I'm guessing. I saw another tutorial that suggest, as a means of getting started, to use a simple upper or lower enclosure when moving chord tone to chord tone but a "double" when moving from a non-chord tone to a chord tone. At first it can be confusing and rather fussy sounding, but it is great for the brain.

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[@don4476]

Playing jazz has very little to do with playing scales sequentially. In fact, playing scales sequentially is pretty much anti-jazz and will never give you jazz. You must have approach notes, enclosures, chromatics and arpeggios.

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[@CH-zj7ku]

I thought it was called chromaticism

[@Nick-ui9dr]

😏 V Funny! Lets enclose this channel. Bye! 😂

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Talk to much 🤦🏻