How to Play Piano Like Norah Jones

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LESSON SUMMARY
Norah Jone's distinct blend of jazz, folk, blues, pop and country has gripped audiences everywhere, consequently earning her the designation as 2020's most live-streamed artist. In today's Quick Tip, you'll learn the techniques that make up the essence of Norah Jones' piano style, including:
- 3 Norah Jones Piano Chord Voicings
- 1 Norah Jones-inspired Chord Progression
- 2 Right Hand Slip Note Techniques
- 2 Slip Note Exercises
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:01 - Transform Chords
03:36 - Norah Jones Groove
05:07 - Play with backing track
05:58 - Right Hand Fills
06:22 - Slip Notes
08:25 - Slip Note 1
09:36 - Play with backing track
10:17 - Slip Note 2
12:54 - Play with backing track
13:21 - Conclusion
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Jonny May

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00:00 - Intro 01:01 - Transform Chords 03:36 - Norah Jones Groove 05:07 - Play with backing track 05:58 - Right Hand Fills 06:22 - Slip Notes 08:25 - Slip Note 1 09:36 - Play with backing track 10:17 - Slip Note 2 12:54 - Play with backing track 13:21 - Conclusion

[@ednadevil3330]

You’ve really helped me get back into piano Jonny after not playing for over 15 years. Your lessons flow so well and hold my attention. Thankyou so much ❤️

[@MyPianoRecoder0909]

It's time to sleep in my country now but Jonny's beautiful sounds wake me up and make me sit in front of my digital piano. I love so much these chords Jonny makes. Thank you !

[@brice9422]

Clear and wonderful lesson !!!!

[@yusefandersen]

Delightful teaching. Bravo Jonny!

[@hannahmoore4032]

This is so helpful, you are a great teacher!

[@roido6614]

Just doesn't feel complete without the beautiful Norah and her soothing angelic voice!

[@tarablake-meandmyviolin1132]

Another great video - thank you Jonny!!!

[@BATTIS94]

Oh, you nailed it! So simple, yet so beautiful.

[@johncrever3415]

Thank you Jonny! This is awesome. I love the yellow. It's really easy to see the notes.

[@musicmary5973]

LOVING PIANO WITH JONNY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@GonzoTheRosarian]

I do love Norah’s playing a little of everything and so expressive. Love those slip notes! One of my favorites, almost ignored, pianists is Marian Mc Partland, still miss her show Piano Jazz. I think the reason I like her so much is because her playing reminds me of my late mother’s playing. Thanks for the video!

[@katemovingmusic88]

Thank you, Jonny! This is so helpful! Beautiful playing ! Helpful insights! This is Much appreciated !!

[@brendaboykin3281]

Thanx, Jonny. Continually inspiring. 🌹🌹🌹🔥

[@davidsanders4826]

Excellent idea for tutorial on Norah style.....love it Johnny

[@patriciahilfiker7751]

Awesome lesson! Thanks a lot. 👍

[@delegadopecanha4975]

Thanks

[@aibon725]

Thank you ,Jonny. I'm Japanese.Your piano is so beautiful and your English is easy to catch the words for me. I love Norah's piano and song.I used to learn playing the piano when I was a child, but after growing up I've not had a chance to learn it for a long time. Norah's music and your video give me a good opportunity to playing the piano again! Thank you😊

[@616161Ms]

I enjoy your style of teaching piano, I just get it, you make it so easy. Thank you.

[@SloFernandes]

Thank you so much, God bless you

[@vincenturbaniak4671]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@warhammer8601]

Thanks for this..

[@EmmanuelPerez2020]

Great job, máster!

[@lim7lim]

I love Norah Jones' piano playing. Thank you

[@neisybellosanchez9904]

Thank for the video!! 🤗

[@marcoszillner34]

Great. Thank you for your explanation.

[@ColinHarvey78]

Thanks! Great intro into Norah Jones’s style.

[@StefaniaTotaro]

Fantastico!

[@Hamfantasy56]

great idea

[@edgarsnake2857]

It's amazing how far the slip-note style has infiltrated into popular and country music. It really can be used on a zillion songs. Thanks for the lesson.

[@justincanton]

Awesome tips bro.

[@michelle-h]

Thank you so much!!!❤

[@sarahprince539]

Hi Jonny! My favorite piano teacher.

[@l4d2loquendo87]

Wow very good jonny excelent

[@instrumentalsax]

Great video.

[@aac085]

VERY GOOD!

[@UrusaiJoe]

Cool format. I'd love the same with tom waits

[@davivify]

Cool, Jonny. One choice musicians have is to play a note below the tonic for special effect, the way this video illustrates. When I hear a 3 in the bass, for instance, I think of George Frederick Handel. A 5 can be nice. Kind of pedal tone-ish. A 4 can be funky. A bit dissonant but refreshing when used sparingly. A b7 is nice as part of a step down sequence. But when I think of 2 in the bass, I'm put in mind of Carole King, who used the technique an awful lot in her piano music - to very nice effect, I must say.

[@simonezanella5953]

Are you really posting a video where you explain how to play piano like my favourite musician does? Thanks a lot Jonny May. Blessings and greetings!

[@nigelworwood8530]

Still not playing the piano but just mesmerised by your playing and teaching quality.

[@joespencer471]

You introduced me to a whole style, Jonny. 😀 I never knew of her music before. :)

[@AlekVila]

A solid lesson! This style also reminds me of Bruce Hornsby.

[@SomeWhiteGuy_]

As a composer myself, you are an inspiration Johnny Boy, devil went down to Georgia and Johnny don’t have a fiddle so he showed up with a piano instead!!!

[@Sofiajang]

I like to dance and hear this song😊

[@roydean]

You’re such an excellent teacher. Bravo!

[@caballosdeluz]

OHHH, THANK you, you make it sound so easy, and then..it is easy, kind of. Very inspiring. And really, in the end, what better work can you do in your life than to be inspiring???😇

[@aaradhyapun937]

Wow

[@MayAllBeeingsBeAtPeace]

Damn man you got the groove in you! I'm tipping my hat

[@jjmcwill1881]

subscribed. Justy bought a digital piano. Beren wanting to learn the Norah and Ray charles style. Both really hit me.

[@ooutrora]

Great job! Could you teach us 'Sunrise' Norah Jones?

[@andrewjexel7187]

D Gb A as D major... My poor eyes...

[@jethroburns]

That's really nice. Have you ever thought of including midi files as well as sheet music on your site, for people like me who have problems reading sheet music?

[@ingeweeda]

great question!!!!!

[@jethroburns]

@@ingeweeda Well, yes. With the midi files we have the sheet music, hear the music played, notes shown on a piano, and can change the key. We can loop sections, ... Otherwise, for me it is impossible to follow the sheet music

[@darrinsiberia]

Jonny you're a genius you should be a record producer.

[@12Keys]

Great video. I have a very good request: "How to play Piano like Brian Culbertson". Norah Jones has a very beautiful piano playing, but Culbertson is way more interesting for me.

[@peterbransche4674]

Hi J-thanks for this great info! So for the slash chords like C/D or F/G ... are we playing the 7th, 9th, and 4th of the chord or am I overthinking it? Thanks again. Ciao.

[@patrycjusznyga5430]

Great sound, what kind of piano do you use? Thanks 🙂

[@willwahl9225]

Hi Jonny - love your lesson. Could you teach me summertime by NJ ?

[@miguelangelsantiago8656]

10

[@sulaimusic01]

Hello buddy, I always watch tutorials that friends make, don't feel like the time is up when watching them, very useful for me, I'm from Indonesia, let's stop by ~~ I can so that I can develop if possible, thank you

👍

[@Highwayman589]

I love you videos! Could you explain why playing a C/D can be substituted for playing a D?

[@familysounds]

Hi, Jonny! Os this add 2 chord the famous Steely Dans "Mu" chord?... Tx!

[@lujula100]

Can you show us how to play let it be from Norah version?

[@AllenBarclayAllen]

And true Floyd Cramer was matching the flip note up with an almost identical cord left hand..!

[@patriciodasilva7902]

Her style is the country style of playing, made famous by Floyd Cramer.

[@katherinesummeroneal7205]

How come on the transcript in the treble clef line some notes are written as quarter notes and others are written as 2 8th notes slurred together? Is it because we’re in 12/8 time and it helps to coordinate where the bass clef rhythm falls?

[@lmt125]

Degc is d9 let's call things what they are but yes can be a slash chord. Also, she has way more songs than her first record worth checking out her latest records she doesn't these blue notes very well. Good lesson though

[@seanonel]

The way you play it sounds more like Bruce Hornsby...

[@claricemouraopontes7291]

Hi Johnny,How to get this lesson?...email me please? Thank you...🙏

[@Requiemslove]

Very interesting from a technical POV. But it's a bit like trying to explain how an angel shines. [I mean, they probably do, if angels were real and we could see them] Now Jonny is obviously a very good Piano player but as good as he is it can't be obscured that he's imitating the Norah Jones sound. There's more to her when she's actually performing a song, it's not just HOW she play's it's how she sings and plays and brings it all together so cohesively, so consistently that you can't have one without the other. It's actually VERY DIFFICULT to sing and play at the same time, it takes years of practice, and even longer to perfect. And then we have what Jones plays. Norah Jones who once was derided by critics as being a bit "boring" has so many ways she plays Piano now and can draw on SO MANY different styles, all while maintaining that more mellow sound. She really is incredible, and I only mentioned the voice in the briefest passing. If we add that voice to the whole you have something unapproachable by most. Norah Jones is unique because there are few who can even be "a bit like" her, even if you do get to grips with her piano style.

[@pesto12601]

Maybe in 5 years I'll be able to play... the left hand! LOL...

[@SteveGouldinSpain]

Is that what Steely Dan call the Mu-Major?

[@AllenBarclayAllen]

I thaught she was doing Floyd Gramer back up..,

[@earthprisoner]

Also called 'hammered ninth'...very country

[@warhammer8601]

Slipknote

[@feg9417]

Isn t it beautiful ? How many times you did say that !!!

[@thisismoyukhsworld2022]

She is a daughter of Pandit Ravishankar.

[@alefor5423]

norah jones tribute

[@eddted2876]

Rather hear Neil Young playing than Norah any day!

[@cyberoptic5757]

Nora has been studying Floyd Kramer...

[@sharonj731]

3:06 - I think the reason the majority of people drop the piano, or never really get good at it, is because too often it's taught like tricks by so many internet hacks. Tricks, you have to memorize. If you have a life at all you would have to abandon piano eventually. You mention playing "C over D". I learned as a kid, that with extended chords, 9ths, 11ths, etc, that when you use 11th chord you automatically drop the 3rd. Nora Jones is playing an 11th chord vs simple triad on her dominant or V chord position - period. Do you think teaching how to voice an 11th chord is harder than teaching C over D, OH - but it's F# over G# in another key, and A flat over B flat in another key. Teaching extensions is easier, doesn't enslave people to playing in 1 key, and adds a true across-the-board SKILL vs a trick. Or are you assuming people are born knowing how to transpose your youtube examples when they want to apply the latest trick to a song they're learning in another key. [That assumption alone proves that this can't possibly be a serious effort to teach]. Beneficial basic theory is hoarded like trade secrets in teasers like this - never divulged even slightly. Some KZbin piano lesson marketers throw a lotta little bones to people, just enough to keep them dumb, needy, and coming back for another bone in a week, or buying a package of yet more tricks boxed into an example they'll never successfully implement --- In many cases, there's no intention of imparting an actual fair learning experience. Purchased materials are often more tricks that promote the seller. In which case, it's wrong and dishonest, and it stunts the learner and keeps them WISHING they could play with more ownership.

[@man0sticks]

I agree with you for the most part, but am curious as to why, on your own KZbin channel, you link to Instant Piano Genius. Do you endorse a teaching method that claims to enable people to “learn piano instantly”?

[@sharonj731]

@@man0sticks Funny you should ask about Instant Piano Genius. Check him out... He talks about avoiding rote memorization... see his lesson on "Chord secrets for learning beginning piano fast to play hundreds of songs instantly." He names his titles to draw people, I suppose. But he teaches concepts and music theory (have to be careful not to scare people) to his audience, and application to all keys. Lots of great teachers on the internet. Some use gimmicky titles to 'make you look', but then they do the right thing. I've been a technical trainer for many years, so I know substance when I see it. In my humble opinion, Federico D'Antoni, Inside Piano (apparently lesser known) has some of the richest content for learning piano that there is on the internet. If I remember correctly, he doesn't dress his titles to get views. Nobody touches how he weaves theory with practical application that anyone can focus. Worst part is, people trolling the internet, find someone that knows more than they do, and have no idea when their time has been utterly wasted - so scams abound.

[@darrinsiberia]

are you related to nora

[@megsloss268]

Good lesson. Too fast. You say its easy, but I find this lesson is a challenge.

[@roderickharper8872]

Your NOT playing what is on line and explaining. WHY?

[@ayokay123]

Norah has tremendous difficulty signing and playing piano at the same time.

[@kcreative7293]

That's all great ...but who wants to play like Snora Jones.....all her music puts you to sleep after the 3rd chord

[@jennyrae2974]

I want to !!!!!!!!💕

[@kersplatot5070]

If only …

[@eddted2876]

Norah Jones? Easy just get drunk like her!

[@mt-nv4jd]

When Norah started getting played on the radio, many girl singers started imitating her vocals. Then the boys. Ugh. Be yourself, or be silent.