Jazz Piano College | A Train | basic theory, chords, improv, bass line,

[@humorguy1]

As a long time pianist, but newer jazz player, I really appreciate your videos. The mix of beginner and advanced topics, seeing how you decide chord progressions and improvisations, and even seeing how you "chase a rabbit" from time to time, really helps. I have good scale and chord knowledge, but putting them together, and especially improvising, is an ongoing process for me. Kind of like having a pile of bricks, wood, and tools, but trying to build a house, or even a shack, without knowing the "how to". Keep up the good work!

[@bacnic]

I learned more in half an hour than in twenty lesson with my teacher, a big thank you from Italy.

[@AtoOOniko]

un poco igual para mi

[@thomasrodgers2672]

Tony you're a true teacher. I got more out of this video than I have from most other video where the teacher shows how good he/she can play. You're right you learn nothing from watching someone show off.

[@richardfriedlander8281]

There's something special about the way you teach that is incomparable. It's a special gift. Thanks for helping me become a musician.

[@daveadams5]

Tony, for me this is one of your BEST videos! There's everything a beginner needs to start playing this classic tune as well as an introduction to playing jazz. You've covered a lot of theory here in an interesting and informative manner and there's even a solo to copy and learn from! Love your demo of playing walking bass with chords and melody too. Just great Tony, keep posting these videos buddy. Cheers! 👍👍

[@richardfriedlander8281]

Great video, Tony. You know what is unique about your channel is what I would call the do it yourself school of jazz. You don't just show us what to play, you show us HOW to play. You seem able to recognize what is in our minds as students and share what many jazz musicians think is obvious but is not obvious to us. Bless you.

[@MrZedhow]

Years ago when I first decided to have a crack at Jazz I did part of a course but gave it away and stayed in my Blues comfort zone. Not having a go at anyone but I remembered thinking I wasn’t getting any younger and… well you get the idea. This is a fantastic lesson as part of my intro to having another go at it. And got more out of this one lesson than the entire short course I did then. All explained as simply as possible yet so full of information and a brilliant intro to the form. Can’t get over how much valuable and critical learning material there is in this one lesson.

[@georgehawkes1740]

MEMORY issues; Hi Tony. I watch your videos and have to say this one I understood 99% of what you were saying. I always wanted to play, Im now 66 been playing just a year and have to say it used to take me a whole week to learn a simply melody now I find I learn a song with chords in a couple hours providing I know the tune, But my biggest problem is I forget the song once I start to learn a new one, memory is not what it used to be. BUT your videos inspire me to not loose interest well done friend. Today you’re the man. Thankyou.

[@michaelbates625]

Great stuff again Tony! Love the way you break this down and don’t over complicate matters. Inspirational - you’re really helping me with my piano playing and I enjoy it all the more when I see someone like you so evidently enjoying it too. Keep on keeping on please...

[@jorgerivas1424]

"Middle Eastern theme": I love that! Thank you so much! This was at my level, easy to understand. I'm a lifelong classical musician trying to learn jazz. You gave me the confidence I need to keep going forward.

[@perrycapitani544]

Tony - Another great video. It's amazing how you can pack these lessons with tons of little hints and side tips in addition to the subject. thanks so much!

[@StuidoXXIII]

This really helps me to implement these Jazz chords to my Salsa montuno. I guess we can call it Latin Jazz. :) I am so oblivious to jazz chords yet want to learn how to play them. Your instructions helps me to understand what I been lacking. Thanks for sharing.

[@unknownkingdom]

The bob ross of jazz piano instruction

[@philippinenativehardwoodtr7327]

Mr Tony Winston i am an aspiring Jazz pianist, and i would like to thank you so much fori being such a good jazz piano teacher, i, always watch your videos, and really enjoy watching them because i havelearn a lot from watching your videos, i find your videos really helpful, your way of teaching is so helpful because you go down to our level and tries not inly to explain thioroughly the principles and concepts of chord scales, blues, pentatonic, diminished but more importantly you elaborate on the endless possibilities on how to use and apply them! THANK YOU SO MUCH' !!! 😊

[@tedpowers2045]

Man you are so great. A phenomenal teacher. You include more advanced concepts which give me a incentive to stick to it and get the fingers to do what the mind thinks

[@mirandazhou1660]

Tony, Thank you so much for your video. I just started picking up piano again as an adult in my late 30s and your video is almost like god-sent! Jazz is something I grew interests into in the last 10 years of my life and your video helped me bridged my childhood classical training on piano and jazz , my latest fav, together. Words can't express how excited to find your video! Thank you again!!!

[@BMarPiano]

I really like your clear, straightforward teaching approach. And you make it fun and approachable for all levels. Great tutorial.

[@jobstschaekel9687]

Hi Tony , you have a lucky kind of teaching, its so clear even my english is not so good as i need, You a honest good teacher

[@newgravityfilms]

You have no idea how much this helped me... thank you!!

[@kennethfox7924]

All I can say is thank you for this great lesson. Presented so logically. I’m inspired by your work.

[@spirosmoutsatsos4590]

Excellent diamond quality very moving beautiful timber of teaching God bless you thanks

[@davidpavett8376]

That is so good. I have come across most/all of the idea before but TW puts them all together in a way that makes me feel I can go to the keyboard and try it all out. I appreciate the teaching style a lot, including a bit of fumbling/experiment in front of the learner. Great stuff.

[@alliochapilavian322]

Dear Tony, thank you so much for all your videos ! Playing piano for so many years I didn't know how to start my 'Jazz training' : I'm so happy to discover videos like this on the net. And I like so much the way you explain us 'simple' things. Watching, learning, playing from Paris thanks to you !

[@kasiakarazim]

Excellent information. Thank you for sharing your gifts. You have a great way of demystifying complicated music theory concepts into exceptionally easy-to-understand nuggets of info! Looking forward to trying to internalize some of this. Thank you again.

[@edzielinski]

So good. Key concepts of jazz piano distilled into these little gems of videos and this is a whizbanger. It was very generous that Tony mentioned Dave Frank's channel, which very complementary to this. I've learned a lot from both of them. Thanks Tony!

[@BarMorBBOOM]

Great lesson, thank you very much Tony. Please make more beginner videos for other tunes.

[@whig4757]

Thank you for this! As a beginning piano player, I'm struggling with this (as should be expected), but it's a good and healthy struggle. It is a LOT more interesting than what's in my level 1 method book. I took a music theory course in another life--but never had a chance to play/find any of the chords on a piano. This may provide me with a demonstration piece I can be proud to play for my friends who know I have taken up piano! : ) I'm subscribed to your channel now and I'll look forward to watching more of your videos!

[@zapantalambda]

You are an outstanding jazz teacher Mr. Tony!! Thanks heaps!!

[@AAdave88]

Great stuff! I learned by rootless voicings with left hand to play with band. Always wanted to play bass to it. Now I can! Yippie!!! lol

[@oliviaedralin1436]

Always fun to watch your straight forward tutorials!

[@vrogger]

Love your style of teaching and humor. Thanks for the lesson!

[@francianava9750]

Hello from Maracaibo-VenezuelaI. I am so glad to find your lessons on the webb! I love this one, i could understand all and prepare myself to learn some tunes. As a beginer on Jazz whih some background in clasic i could enjoy the whole lesson. Thaks Sir.

[@TommasoCusimano]

Really fantastic!!! I like your way of teaching… I learned many things. Very very good!

[@peterthorneycroft982]

Thanks for answering Tony! I'll keep playing the Db also! BTW I love the live gigs you have shown on your channel - they really show the amazing extent of your musical knowledge. I have never ever seen the incredible guitar solo by Jay Graydon on Steely Dan's "Peg" played on a keyboard before! And you did it note for note with all the nuances and double stops! Even better than other guitar players can play it. (Well, all that was showed on your clip, anyway). Fantastic Tony! I wish I had of stumbled across your Jazz Piano College years ago. Thanks again, and all the best!

[@jeffreyhardy5876]

Love your jazz piano lessons the best. Easy to understand and you don' mindvt

[@carlosdavidsalazarbotero9432]

Master Tony, What a wonderful tutorials you offer. It would be wonderful if you continue offering basic- intermediate level tutorials. Keep up the good work!

[@phyllisbrunskill4250]

Your best explanatory video ever!

[@PaulieStamets]

Tony, you are a great man, thank you for your time and patience

[@TonyWinston]

Thank YOU!

[@EzraBufford]

Love this! If you can, try to run through 'Green Dolphin Street'. The first time I heard that song I fell in love with it! I only had book one piano training but I would love to learn the exact melody line to that great song. I worked out most of the chords but if I ever need to play that as a solo I want the lines to be perfect. Maybe in the key of C or Eb. Thanks

[@robertclark6992]

Thanks for this great lesson!

[@TonyWinston]

Glad you liked it!

[@jdiaz4877]

thanks for keeping it simple man! I love your tutorials. 🔥🔥🔥

[@TonyWinston]

Glad you like them!

[@CherryChauParis]

Really great tutorial!! Thank you so very much!!

[@TonyWinston]

Glad it was helpful!

[@cubuffdoc]

Best tutorial on KZbin- Duke would be proud!

[@simonnotten2949]

Fantastic tutorial. Helped me so much and I love that song. Thanks to you and thanks Duke Ellington.

[@robertmayhew98]

Thank you very much Tony. An excellent tutorial on this classic piece, “Take The A Train”.🤗

[@jonrubin60]

Thanks man! Seems to be nice timing for where I am in my jazz journey, esp. the approach to improvising. I have the rootless voicings under my fingers pretty well, and know the altered/harmonic minor/w.t. scales, but does seem to make sense to step back a bit from those scales and play around over the melody/tune to see what I can find that sounds good to my ear where it is now (and I guess that will organically evolve as I keep playing)--very cool.

[@ferransimo2994]

As always Tony, you give us your best to make jazz piano fun and classy.Your videos are helping me a hell of a lot to understand how to build the so famous II V I progreasion, so thanks for your hard work and dedication and for all your good contributions to all jazz students like me who follow you. Once again, congrats for your youtube channel one of the best so far.

[@TonyWinston]

Glad to hear that!

[@drprogress3339]

Great job! Great lesson

[@TonyWinston]

Thanks! 😃

[@michaelwong7902]

Hey Tony, I've been playing classical piano for 8 years and I recently got started with jazz, but I wanted to say that your videos are just amazingly helpful and awesome. I've gone through six of them so far, and out of all the videos and readings I've pored through, yours are by far the best and most informative! I recently got selected as the keyboardist for my school jazz band, and I'm excited to play with other jazz musicians for the first time. Let me know if you have any advice for keeping rhythm and "swinging" (my sense of rhythm is terrible!) :)

[@belindajardim3145]

Your a brilliant teacher 😍 thank you

[@jackneals5585]

Thanks a million for this lesson. Truly

[@177sark]

Awesome lesson. Especially during this pandemic, your videos are wonderful. I always learn something new. Mahalo

[@stephenselormey7536]

You're a great tutor..can you do a tutorial on LOVE by nat king cole from basic to improv to bass lines

[@GuitarThinker]

Thank you Tony! ❤

[@mypianoful]

This is great, thank you

[@TonyWinston]

Glad you liked it!

[@ahmetdincer1978]

You're a very good teacher.

[@robertaron3459]

Tony, fabulous lesson tying together theory on a jazz stqndard. Can I request a similar lesson using the song The street where she lives. Always loved this tune and would like to hear your breakdown. Thanks for all you do.

[@jackneals5585]

I REALLY like your house.

[@mothra87]

Great Lesson!

[@jeonineyeon2658]

certainly learned the walking bass, wish to learn more on improvisation thank you Tony

[@TonyWinston]

I can do more on walking bass, are you a bass player?

[@jeonineyeon2658]

@@TonyWinston No but i want to learn

[@victoregorov3892]

You are SUPER.THANK YOU.

[@uhoh007]

Excellent video, Thank You! I see the D7 (you show p5) noted often as #11, which matches the very chromatic melody in what is usually bar 6. Some refer to 3 voices in the song. Thoughts? Oh, duh, #11 = flat5.

[@igorlukac2621]

Thank you Mr. Tony, I'm always happy with your new video that I don't miss. If it can in the coming days I suggest an analysis of the song "I only have eyes for you" version by Ella Fitzgerald

[@MartinRuferOfficial]

Thank you for another great video!

[@peterthorneycroft982]

Fantastic channel Tony. Love everything you do, and you are helping me become a better player. A question here though - how come you play a D note instead of the written Db note in the G7 bar at the end of section A??

[@TonyWinston]

Good question!! It's a common 'mistake'. Some people think it sounds better. I like the Db so i dont know why i played the D.

[@Mogoon64]

Easy, good to learn for beginners thank u!!

[@Mogoon64]

And your jk is funny aahahhahaahaha

[@wunganhoutofspace6757]

Tony can you do a tutorial on my favorite things please?

[@alexonpiano8468]

thanks so much

[@aBachwardsfellow]

Hi Tony - I'm loving your videos - just now discovered your channel. I'm a 70-year-old classically-trained pianist and organist (with a little jazz drumming) who's dabbled a little with a few Brubeck pieces. I've wanted for years to learn how to play this basic jazz style - sort of a "bucket-list" item. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos - they are EXCEPTIONALLY WELL DONE!. Thank you for these! One question - and maybe you've explained it elsewhere - but at 2:40 - 3:05 - is the "and" actually a triplet-feel rather than a duple "and" ? So playing on the third triplet - i.e. on the *UH* of "one and *UH* " (or however you count triplets) - is that correct?

[@TonyWinston]

Yes exactly

[@aBachwardsfellow]

@@TonyWinston thanks! :-)

[@bybaa6671]

Very nice thanks you

[@smilenlove824]

4:03 5:19

[@phyllisbrunskill4250]

You are inspired in this one.

[@Calfnia]

That’s nice thank you so much!!

[@BugBear1969]

There's a lot here about dominant 7ths. There's only one dominant 7th in the key of C. That's G7 cos it's based on chord V in C. I'm not sure why he keeps calling all the 7ths dominant. They're just 7ths until you change key. Unless I'm missing something? Happy to be enlightened :)

[@TonyWinston]

There are major 7ths, minor 7ths, dominant 7ths and others. Any major triad with a flat 7 can be called a dominant 7th . There are secondary dominants. D7 in the key of C for instance.

[@BugBear1969]

@@TonyWinston yes but a dominant 7th is so called because it is based on the dominant chord 5 (G in C). D7 in C is a 7th based on the supertonic. D7 is the dominant 7th in G. This is classical theory. I'm not sure it's different for jazz, is it?

[@BugBear1969]

@@TonyWinston however, what I failed to mention first, to my shame, is that I have been thoroughly enjoying your videos and playing along - albeit badly! Thank you

[@TonyWinston]

@@BugBear1969 call the D7 a secondary dominant. You are correct that the dominant chord naturally appears only at the fifth degree of the scale

[@BugBear1969]

@@TonyWinston ah, so a bit like the dominant of the dominant? That makes sense, and corresponds to a 2-5-1 progression! Thank you

[@HeyJD123]

This video seems to go in depth on the chord progression. Then says to improvise on the melody when it wasn't taught apart from the first five notes. Anybody know any melody jazz standard tutorial videos? I'm having a hard time finding any

[@HeyJD123]

Love the tutorial though! I just need to fill in the gaps

[@eroceanos]

Thanx!!!

[@sofin8191]

26:02 "yeaaaaah, study some piano" :-D

[@il_fastidio]

Hello, what chords do you use as a turn around?

[@AAdave88]

C6/9, A alt, Dm9, G7#5

[@richardftalbot9182]

Your Dah Man !!!

[@TonyWinston]

Yah! thanks

[@mikewhelan9561]

"Mercer recalled that he found the composition in a trash can after Strayhorn discarded a draft of it because it sounded too much like a Fletcher Henderson arrangement." wiki Strayhorn threw in trash !

[@ВикторТомилов-ъ4р]

!!!!!!!