Bar Piano Course I, Lounge Style Basic Embellishments

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Need recommendations for your repertoire? Check out my video "15 Songs a Bar Pianist Should know"! kzbin.info/www/bejne/omLYkmuHndR2nZY

[@davidaleksovski4949]

By far the best piano teaching channel. It is becoming better and better

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Thanks, Dave!

[@cariboux2]

I agree. I started taking piano lessons from a very skilled PhD so that I could get better in jazz. Well.... now I'm better at Bach and Chopin, but Christian is the guy for jazzy piano. Way better than my (otherwise very good) piano teacher.

[@srenmuldkjr9439]

The Birds are singing, 🕊 the Sun is shining, ☀️ coffee in the cup, ☕️ it’s Sunday with Christian 😊🎹🌸

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

That”s a really beautiful comment! 💐

[@kzhgkehgkjeohzogheihge7194]

I always like it before I even watch it, TY Christian !

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

The good ones like it before it's even out! :-)

[@tu.nguyen.96]

You are my inspiration, please keep going !

[@D1mitr3s]

The best youtube channel for piano lessons. You are perfect! ❤ Thanks a lot for all your lessons!

[@ksiola]

So cool and very nice😊 big thakns

[@edgarsnake2857]

Thanks, Chris. I'm a rock and pop player but these cocktail and bar piano lessons are helping me spread out from my preferred gospel-based sound. Your experience and expertise translate into the sheer joy of playing through all of your pro lessons and you've helped me move to a higher level of playing.

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Thanks Ed for being on board consistently. If the higher level of playing leads to higher income: I get 70 %.

[@axsup7g140]

Oh wow, now my life has meaning!!!

[@andyh2561]

Purchased the sheet music as soon as I saw this new video! You are an amazing piano teacher. Thank you.

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Thank you! Buyers of my sheet music are my best allies! :-)

[@hanszauner1572]

Oh nooo Christian, you can't do this to me! Im still in the middle of the "easy blues piano" course and I also have at least 3 songs I started to learn, but need to polish much more. And now you drop this... listening to the first couple of minutes, I really want to do this new course too. Dilemma! 😀

[@oliverknebel310]

I can only agree. Same diiema for me. Georgia half in mind, Misty still todo. Now this! Huh! ❤❤❤

[@hanszauner1572]

@@oliverknebel310 Haha, "Georgia half in mind" made me crack up. In the same song book: "Not yet summertime"; "Cantaloupue Peninsula"; "The Shed of Rising Sun"; 😀

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Give your dog to the neighbours, quit your job, tell your family you need some "alone time". Think in solutions, not in problems.

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Better Georgia half in mind than Bavaria fully in your face.

[@gerhardpappert8684]

So useful. Gracias!

[@anacrin2113]

Brilliant, thank you Christian 💪👏

[@CherryChauParis]

brilliant!!!Thank you so very much!!love your tutorials ......so very inspiring that i got up at 5 to go on my piano!!!

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

In the afternoon? Then you are a true musician! :-)

[@Hamfantasy56]

One of the best lessons from the best piano teacher on YT 👍👍❤❤

[@kirkster501]

This is brilliant stuff. I will become a patreon of Christian.

[@liliya_piano]

Thank you!

[@setanwon]

I completed practcing 'I almost lost my mind' which is my first Blues song I ever played. I would like to express my 'Thank you' here before I watch this. 😄😄

[@christianseefeld3585]

Keine Ahnung, was besser ist: die Witze oder die Tipps. Auf jeden Fall beides großartig! Und einen coolen Vornamen haste och noch!😂

[@rihoklettenberg1254]

Thanks. Again very good learning material. Piano is fun if I look your teaching.

[@keyscook]

Let's get you to 100K subscribers in 2024! Thanks for the piano awesomeness!

[@Csharpflat5]

Great show❤😊

[@JohnAnderson-vo7en]

Wonderful lesson. Thank you!

[@BlurredTrees]

This is nice!

[@leroidesgueux]

tu es le meilleur merci , tellement merci

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

C'est un plaisir!

[@BrendaBoykin-qz5dj]

⭐🌹🔥🌹⭐ WOW!!! DANKE,CF.

[@rezniknow]

Thank you so much. You’re awesome!!!

[@JamsODonnell100]

Who knew that Christian came here to chew gum and kick ass… And he ran out of gum??? 💪😂😂🎶 Bit like myself - came here for the blues, but stayed for the ‘crowd pleasers’ (and gig winners!!) Terrific pedagogy. Thank you so much ❤

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Thanks, dude! :-)

[@simoncorser8083]

Great, thank you very much 😊

[@jornbobrondum]

So grear hamburger stuff. Thanx a lot 🎉

[@jimsskot1]

Wonderful . You should do the same as a blues book. ❤️

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

I have more blues books in my shop than hair on my head! ;-)

[@candacekay97128]

Yayyy! I've been waiting for this one!

[@nicolasferraroc.8262]

Great class! (And I enjoyed your german jokes too...)😂😂😂

[@tp63us]

Hey, I like your arpeggios.

[@guidamattos4970]

You must be the hippiest person in the word, because you open our mind

[@guidamattos4970]

Você é demais ( cool)

[@uwen9970]

Hab heute Deinen Kanal gefunden und bin begeistert! Sofort abonniert! Ich komme wieder! Thank you for your great and vivid way of teaching!

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Das freut mich sehr!

[@dannuttle9005]

This is one of those "Wow this is mind-blowing" videos, quickly followed by, "Why the hell didn't I think of this stuff?" Answer: I am pursued night and day by ice bears. Which are frozen water bears.

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Thanks, Dan Nutter! ;-) I always wondered myself if they're really made of ice. Thanks for clarifying.

[@cariboux2]

Christian, I have a very quick question, if you don't mind. I have small hands. I can easily reach an octave with the left hand, but my right hand hurts after a while. If you were to omit a note from the right hand when doing octaves, would you omit the lower note (the thumb)? Thanks so much in advance!

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

Yes, as a rule of thumb ( pun intended), leave out the inner voice, the thumb! ;-)

[@user-gb8nk8lr6k]

Fantastic. Hamburgers, cheese burgers and chewing gum, I now will think about components differently. What is your gluten free vegan burger?

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

You get those at the flute tutorials.

[@shaunreich]

One of my biggest questions is regarding arpeggios, there seems to be sometimes crossing that happens and other times people will just skip or hop to the next grouping, no finger cross at all. Is that situational and for speed? Crossing does seem to be the speed bottleneck

[@JamsODonnell100]

I’m no expert. But I’ve had a lot of ‘classical’ tuition. I’m taking that you mean crossing one hand. We have five ‘fingers’ so if you’re playing a Run of above five notes, or which goes further than an interval of (say) a 10th you have to move your hand. The reason behind practicing scales and arpeggios is to develop the ability to pivot (or cross) your hand to move it, and it’s actually a lot faster than taking your hand away and putting it down again…if I understood the question correctly, there’s always crossing, it might just not look like it. Whenever there’s a jump it’s because there’s something else going on, not arpeggio, ie harmony, related (eg a note that needs to be reached for the melody ) hope that helps 🤞Fingers crossed!!🤣

[@JamsODonnell100]

Just re watched this video, and Christian does talk about what you asked. He does the jumping thing with Pedal. It works, of course, but it’s kind of lazy, in my view. Each to their own… It was kind of interesting that he began some of the arpeggios on a note other than the root, so that the forefinger is on a flat. (Right hand) You could start on the root with your second finger. ABRSM do a book of arpeggios in every key, with recommended finger settings (as Christian calls them)

[@JuanMarcosMuchile]

Excelente lástima que no se inglés very good

[@andreiter]

Hallo von Kanada! Mein vater hat im Berlin gebornen 🙂

[@Paul_Stillo]

I'm curious if you ever play faster-tempo and/or contemporary songs in this setting? If yes, how do you usually approach them? I want to say that you don't use the chewing gum technique LOL

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

This is so to speak the "mundane" style. But different places and atmospheres ask for different styles, songs, rhythm,, of course. Have a look here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/omLYkmuHndR2nZY

[@Paul_Stillo]

@@ChristianFuchsBlues I've watched that video already! Very nice list. I liked your version of Lullabye Of Birdland :)... among the other tunes, of course. Thx.

[@yams900]

Can anyone learn ?

[@thomasfeldbauer5025]

Is it just me hearing "Over the Rainbow" here and there?

[@codetech5598]

It says "Over the Rainbow" right on the screen.

[@thomasfeldbauer5025]

@@codetech5598oops. 🤐my bad

[@kylebigourdin3661]

Recommend watching at 25% speed. Christian sounds very drunk! (and it’s easier to follow his fingers 😁)

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

No, you should listen to me when I'm drunk and THEN pitch it down to 25%!

[@cfrankwolfe2024]

Thank you. Love the channel. But, you are going WAY to fast I think. Even at half speed I'm having trouble following your logic. Decaf, or bubblegum as you would say.

[@ChristianFuchsBlues]

I'm sorry. It's a challenge to find a tempo that suits everybody.

[@shaunreich]

I feel the same but I'm a beginner so, slightly slower would be my preference

[@chrismowag6919]

@@ChristianFuchsBluesI consider myself an „advanced beginner“ and it’s absolutely fine. The beauty of KZbin is you can pause the vid 😉 keep it up Christian!

[@elfriedepahl538]

lServus- i love all the different lessons, am getting through the bluesvlevel 1 now- I love summertime, Misty, Mack the KNife, and Somewhere over the rainbow transcriptions- still have so many more to get through-i finally have started improvising--its so different than playing classical pieces. Christian, the speed is perfect, and with you -tube viewers can always slow it down if they need to - hope to meet you one day in Berlin when we visit my cousin there