Funk Chords: The Top 5 Chords EVERY Pianist Should Know

[@PianoWithJonny]

00:00 - Intro 00:27 - Funk Chord Index 03:34 - Progression 1 07:21 - With Backing Track 07:46 - Progression 2 11:31 - With Backing Track 12:16 - Progression 3 16:05 - With Backing Track 16:51 - Conclusion

[@ChangeforJonathan]

Thanks 🙏🏿

[@ProductivityMotivation]

Hi, thanks for the awesome video. Can’t you please share the full sheet for “sunny” progression 3?

[@tudore_jams]

Not just funky, but full of flavours! Great video

[@PianoWithJonny]

Thank you!

[@suga4all]

That is by far my favourite Piano with Jonny lesson. Not only because of the chords, but also because of the rhythm patterns. Instant funk! Thank you so much for sharing 🎶🔥

[@CliveBarnettrecluse]

at my level of amateurish intermediate, this is the most useful video that I have watched on youtube. I am not saying it is or is not the best but at my level and my love for funk, this is definitely the most useful. Thanks Jon and Jonny

[@zakfoster1]

Guys this has been so helpful for me! I watch a lot of people on youtube to supplement my Jazz studies and I really find your videos digestible and easy to follow, Thanks a million

[@jonathanfreddypachonbernal6999]

woooow what a video man!!!! Not only a great musician, but a great teacher too

[@PianoWithJonny]

Thank you!

[@kurtkaufman]

Thanks for the instructional video. For me, the chord that instantly proclaims "funk" is a (dominant 7)#9. Used to great effect on the Clavinets and electric guitars during the 1970s.

[@MrRezRising]

Hi. Drummer transistioning to piano. Love the lesson. Hard for me right now, but what a nice surprise to see my old friend Bobby Hebb! I knew him up in Massachusetts when I was very young in the 70s. He was good friends with my mom and dad.

[@ruthanngreenberg49]

Great lesson! More Funk lessons please!

[@robertpien8708]

This is what i was looking for cool funk rythems and more advanced chord progressions. Ty so much

[@LookNumber9]

Beautifully explained and demonstrated, Jonny. Thank you!

[@zZAPp-fi]

Thank for your work! I already knew those chords but the way you've leading the stuff through the entire process of learning the chord progressions is really clear!

[@tiltman_420]

always find myself coming back to Jonny. He's one of the good ones forreal

[@muzikant_1988]

I think I've found a pearl!👏 Your format is just perfect. Notes, numbers, slow analysis, and then with a metronome - this is what you need!👍 Subscribed!

[@PianoWithJonny]

Thank you!

[@johnnyblue1101]

Good instructional video. I’m an advanced jazz and blues piano student and gained a lot from this tutorial.

[@janspeyer5887]

Great tutorial Jonny. My sunday off tomorrow will be practising these funk chords/rythms on my piano.

[@alexanderteachernyc]

This is great stuff! Sounds totally cool and surprised me by being DOABLE for this mostly classically trained musician.

[@rudidiekstra7438]

Piano with Jonny and John is cool! Learning a lot 👍

[@pippopluto4116]

Hi, I'm Italian amateur pianist, your lesson it's very very cool, nice! I'm practice this progression chord, with the electric piano... Fantastic!!! Tank's very very much. And sorry for my English.. 😊

[@salthedrummer1]

Wow great teaching. I dig it...thanks

[@georgedennis2112]

Props to you John P. Great lesson on sunny. Really enjoyed it.

[@marvinjobe9289]

Love it ❤ gotta learn Herbie hancock from you

[@martareginagiolo]

Perfect performance!🌹❤🌹

[@Dan_s_Channel]

Great as always. Thanks John 👏🏻

[@brendaboykin3281]

Thank you,John🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@steelkeez7700]

Thank you for this lesson sir 🫡

[@tedturner03]

Superb video!!!!

[@sophiasommer1466]

Amazons Video!! Thank you so much!!❤ love both of you 😊

[@backyardanimals777]

Funktastik! Thank YOU!

[@trickerknicker1030]

Funk, we need more Funk !!! Thanks a ton.

[@bigkeezo]

MORE!!!! 👏🏾

[@funkydude8392]

Beautiful choices❤

[@bernardwilliford6301]

Nice work,thank you brutha🎶🎵🎶

[@grantdunne7408]

this was very fun to play along with !

[@christianreyesmusica]

Thanks thanks and thank, a great funky mater class

[@joaorolo2371]

Thanks

[@sls554]

NICE VERY NICE!!!!

[@PianoWithJonny]

Thank you!

[@astersarte1282]

OMG! I love it! Gonna learn the bass line on the bass and the melodies on the piano! Thx for sharing!!! 🤙🏽😎🤗

[@aristotleonassis5792]

Great teaching.

[@skinnista]

love this, thanks!

[@krimsonfunk]

I love these 9 and 11s ..these are my thing .. more more more progs like these please !

[@dasglasperlenspiel10]

Thank you! Well done!

[@tommymandel]

Thank you for this!

[@flowmaka]

Great review on these progressions. Helpful!

[@cliffordWinder]

Thank you! I just walked over to the keyboard and played Grover Washington Jr’s “Mister Magic” before even completing this video!

[@GS-uy4xo]

For Grover, just change the top note from G down to F - keep everything else the same as what you played, love that progression!!

[@mothra87]

Excellent lesson. Well presented.

[@sls554]

Funky is Groovely Fun And Beautifully!!!!!

[@branislavajokovic6090]

Wonderfully explained! Thank you!

[@galupa518]

Very nice video. Thank you.

[@image30p]

Haha! I was thinking that this is as good as Piano with Jonny 😂 Man I love looking at these chords. I was playing guitar for so long and then I decided to get a keyboard so I could see these voicings better. I just love it

[@petyafordsavillems755]

Great video. Thanks

[@Sara-lk2yr]

Very nice! Thanks a lot! 😊🙏

[@almajaguar]

Maravelous!!! Thanks ❤ 15:50

[@chupeauxx]

So nice, fun to watch, learn. Thanks, Jonny Prue!

[@zendobrendo0001]

Awesome lesson. Would like more just like this!

[@yotrakzproductions7324]

Nice. Perfect!

[@diegoalejo15]

so inspiring, thanks!

[@diggyonutube]

This is a really good tutorial

[@nelsonalmeida8675]

Saludos desde Venezuela son interesantes sus tutoriales. Gracias.

[@rebanelson607]

Excellent!

[@Yosoychrissegura]

Great lesson sir!!

[@ackzz]

Great Info.-thx 👍👍👍

[@Ustas_Bolzen]

Thank you soooo much!!

[@eduardosposito8052]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@brunbabybrun]

I really like the chord progression you derived from "Sunny"! It's (in my opinion) more interesting than original.

[@robertonatalizia7082]

Very good thanks

[@stefanomaccoppi6610]

GREAT 🙌

[@argowibowo7968]

Love love love…

[@HishamKhalaf1]

Very Great. Thank you.🌹🌺🌹

[@DawlessHouseMusic]

Could you recommend some more examples I could break down for Funk?

[@MrRelax3737]

Good presentation and helpful..... Thank for posting. Keep up the good work!🎹🎹 Doug G in LV

[@Jack-fs2im]

love funk piano

[@sody227]

Damn... nice!!!

[@wakeuptotheonepartyoverlor8797]

“Today l am teaching funk. I think I’ll wear my funk attire, funk glasses and funk hair style for this.”

[@lmrock]

We want the funk. Gota, gotta have that funk

[@yotrakzproductions7324]

Sub’d ya channe b/c the lessons are short, your talking tempo is perfect and the info is relevant and applicable to my styles and interests.

[@iangardiner2056]

On progression #1 the left hand notes being played are not explained or notated? How do you figure what to play in the left hand? Thanks?

[@kewsepehr1060]

Great stuff John. The notes are a bit blurred and hard to read though.

[@喜多明広]

いい音

[@juansecar2]

I guess it's for teaching purposes, and it's alright..., but it'd be cool to tell the guys warching, the actual true tonalities of the mentioned songs just so they learn them too in their original keys. For instance Chameleon is realy in Bbm9 and Eb7, and Strasburg S.t Denis is in AbMaj, a fourth away from the tonality here cited. Cool vid anyhow, very simple, clear and concise for beginners. Cheers!

[@WoodworkingforAnyone]

Woah woah woah dude, slow down taking notes :) I'm not saying this to be snarky but why not make some videos? It's not like this music gets the attention it deserves. I'd love to get your take on it. I'd hate to have to double dog dare you but just know I have that card up my sleeve.

[@winstonwolfe5733]

Well no. Finding the tonality y yourself and transposing the voicings and the progression is part of the learning curve.

[@yvesjeaurond4937]

Thank you. Helpful. Hip. Btw, in example 1, the 16th at the end of the bar is coming in late. I solve errors like this by using downbeat counting---subdivisions before the beat: "ta-ta-ta-4/" ta-ta-ta-1/ ...; for eighths, it would be "and 2/" and 3/ and 4/ and 1... Note how the "tatata" or the "and" is kept with the => next

[@SoulbassJr]

accurate lesson ! funky youtubers thank you.

[@sambaya9140]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I HOPE YOU TEACH ON REAL LIFE MERCI A TOUT LES GARS COMME VOUS PEACE DE FANCE

[@geraldadams6273]

Love it

[@VikkiSu]

Super, super,super🎉Mercy❤

[@lebronbenedicts5787]

Best video🔥✨️

[@Kelvin71]

That alt chord! Opening chord of pick up the pieces.

[@justinlaboy6837]

These were the first chords I learned as a kid playing piano transitioning from bass and guitar

[@gregorysalgado2454]

And i still remember nine of your hit songs

[@chupeauxx]

@@gregorysalgado2454 👍

[@javiermusicall4930]

Excelente clase, aunque esta en ingles la entendi perfectamente.. gracias..

[@rloggen]

Great! Why change the key of Strassbourg? On the record it seems in A-flat (B-flat min 9 -> C min 9 -> D flat Maj 7). And the bass has a slight different pattern? But thanks, inspiring!

[@ulizarembach3747]

OK, you are playing the chords with two hands/ten fingers. My left hand is damaged and I'm able to play only bass notes with my left thumb. Therefore I have to split the chords in my head... Your first chord is c-9 (big letter "C" is a major chord, small letter "c" is a minor chord) In my head it is d#-maj7/C (or eb-maj7/C) Is this right?

[@PianoWithJonny]

Yes that works to think of it that way!

[@father3dollarbill]

They would chuckle a bit but surely appreciate you calling it "hip" sounding chords.

[@DawlessHouseMusic]

HOw does the Bflat 9 become a II ?

[@marenmarne]

Спасибо большое! То, что нужно! Простите, что на русском

[@PianoWithJonny]

Thank you for watching!

[@keysmccarthy]

Nice tutorial but it must be said, what you describe as a "C13 sus4" is actually just a C13. The F is considered an 11th and part of the 13th chord, which at its full voicing is a 7-note chord: C (1) E (3) G (5) Bb (b7) D (9) F (11) and A (13). So your previous voicing of the C13 (with the 3rd and without the 11th) is still a C13 but with different degrees being played.

[@AaronBowley]

isn't the c13 actually a "C13(b7)" or am i crazy?

[@robinbramlett110]

True but naming it a C13sus depends mostly on how it’s voiced for me when I’m writing charts. There are times where the 11th is not played in the voicing and in that case I would go with a 13. When it is played I’ll write a C13sus to let the player know I want that 4/11 in that chord. For a C9sus chords though I just write C11 since the 4/11 is an integral part of that chord.

[@robinbramlett110]

@@AaronBowleyThe b7 is an integral part of the C13 chord along with the major 3rd. Changing that b7 to a major 7 would turn that chord into a Cmaj13.

[@MattScottMusic]

There’s more than one funk chord? When did this come in?

[@Generalbas1972]

I would make an argument that the x7(#9b13) chord is more used in funk as just a x7(#9) the (b13) or as i call it (#5) is more used in jazz/funk/fusion not so much in funk. Same as the x13 chord in funk it's mosty just used as a x9. the x13(sus4) again in funk and pop it's mosty used as a x9(sus4) or in C a Bb/C. Also in funk you also hear the x+7 alot and sometimes my favorite the x13(#11). Which has such a great sound. Espcially if used instead of the x13 chord

[@dannychoriki1977]

Great stuff Even for guitar players like me. Hahaha.

[@86Sentra]

why does the c13 not have a G ??

[@fabriziopacifici7531]

Vialli, Mancini and Di Canio were good in premier league too