How to Play "Hit the Road Jack" by Ray Charles | HDpiano (Part 1) Piano Tutorial

In this piano tutorial we'll learn how to play "Hit the Road Jack" by Ray Charles!
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0:00 - Welcome!
0:11 - Demonstration
1:37 - Bass line
3:07 - Melody
4:51 - Putting melody together with bass line
6:38 - Both hands (bass and melody)
7:05 - Adding chord stabs
9:32 - Play through, medium tempo
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Full lesson: hdpiano.com/lesson/hit-the-road-jack-by-ray-charles/

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HDpiano Thomas Rhett "a happy man" didn't know Nelly wrote it and was just a cover of the song

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Is it possible to put out the other parts on KZbin? It would be a much easier access than a website😅

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Thanks so much, Ahmed!

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Percy Mayfield (the writer of the tune) is actually my teacher’s grandfather which is mind blowing for me. He showed me a picture of him showing the part to Ray which is so cool! Awesome video

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That's awesome!

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I don’t think he “showed” him anything 🤣

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@@VortexWasMissing it was a blind joke, chill. Even Ray Charles made blind jokes himself regularly. Some of you need to loosen up a bit. I don’t know how some of you manage to play piano so stiff.

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@@Wezley mb didn’t even realise he was blind 😬

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Great tutorial. Thank You very much. I will start learning this masterpiece piece by piece and slowly, not all at once. Greetings from Poland!

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You’re an excellent tutor 💕 This was so much fun to play and the instructions were so clear. This was a hidden gem 😊 Thanx for sharing

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Sound of Silence

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I can’t even do this... and I can see perfectly fine! And to think he was BLIND! 👏

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It's how we roll! (If you ever see an ad on our video it's because the rights holder (song owner) is running the ad... no way around those sadly.)

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I was 1:13 into the video when I read the comment that I originally replied to and was trying to be punny

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Great tutorial for us beginners! I'd love to see a tutorial for ''Ice Cream Man'' by Tom Waits :D

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Great suggestion!

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I LOVE your tutorials, thank you! I have a quick question (and if this isn't the best place to ask, please let me know where I should go!)- I know that this lesson is played in the A flat minor scale, and the improvisations in video number 3 add in the D natural to the pentatonic scale get that blues feel (love it!) so I made my way over to Key Signature Essentials to get some more practice in so I can feel more comfortable with this scale. The Ab scales video only touches on the Ab major pentatonic scale, not the minor. Is there a video where I can get some more practice in with the minor scale? I also noticed that in that same video, you quickly play an excerpt of Hit The Road Jack as an example (17:43), and you play it in the F minor scale, differing from this lesson that's played in the Ab minor scale. Why? THANK YOU

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Hey, Cristina! GREAT question. In the Ab KSE video, the pentatonic scale covered is Ab major pentatonic, and its **relative** minor pentatonic, which is the same set of notes but starting on F (F minor pentatonic). To get the notes of the Ab MINOR pentatonic, its relative major would be Cb major, which would be the same as B major. It seems tricky at first because of the enharmonic equivalence. But, in essence, if you head to the 'B scales' video in KSE, when it gets to minor pentatonic, Devon will show G# minor pentatonic (which is equivalent to Ab minor pentatonic). Hope this helps!!!

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Nothing Compares to You. Sung by Sinead O' Connor. Written by Prince.

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New York State of mind written by Billy Joel, popularized by Barbara Streisand

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I have been trying to play this song for months but I always struggle to coordinate my left and right hand on this one ... any advice please

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Besides a lot of practice ☺️

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SLOW PRACTICE

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Is it ok to just play two e Flats?

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Two e-flats would work just fine if it's more comfortable!

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Stand by me by Ben e king

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We all started slow :)

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Lady by Kenny Rogers but written by Lionel Richiel

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Hound Dog by Big Momma Thorton but Elvis covered it

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house of the rising sun

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Through the valley?

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All along the watchtower

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