Fly Me to the Moon for BEGINNER Piano 🎹

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LESSON SUMMARY
There are three basic steps to getting a jazz swing feel on the piano. First, learn to play and interpret the melody with a swing feel. Secondly, accompany the melody using diatonic 7th chords. Lastly, apply a swing pattern to your left hand. You can use these three steps to create solo piano arrangements for dozens of swing tunes in your Real Book. Using "Fly Me to the Moon" as an example, we'll break down each step of the jazz swing style on piano for the complete beginner including:
- Swinging the Melody
- Understanding the Chord Symbols
- Identifying the Guide Tones of Each Chord
- Applying a Swing Groove

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Lead Sheet Melody
03:39 - Basic Chords
07:57 - Play with backing track
09:39 - Guide Tones
14:31 - Add the Groove
15:25 - Play with backing track
17:21 - Conclusion
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Happy practicing!
Jonny May

[PianoWithJonny]

00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Lead Sheet Melody
03:39 - Basic Chords
07:57 - Play with backing track
09:39 - Guide Tones
14:31 - Add the Groove
15:25 - Play with backing track
17:21 - Conclusion

[markd]

Finally a lesson and a song that makes me almost sound like I know what I’m doing. Thank you!

[robertbodell]

Jonny!!! You Da' Man !!! The Way You Break Down The Lessons Piece By Piece, and Explain Each Concept As You Are Applying It In The Sequence, is Nothing Short Of PHENOMENAL!!! FINALLY!!! Someone Who Can Actually TEACH The Myriad Of Concepts Of REAL Piano Playing In A Manner That Enables You To Learn AND Understand Techniques From The Simple To Pro Level At The SAME TIME !!! In My Opinion, You Are The GREATEST and Most Unbelievable Teacher On Planet Earth 🌏 Brother!!! Please Keep Sharing Your Wonderful Gift Of Musicianship and Teaching With ALL Of Students And Players Of The Most Beautiful Instrument Of All, The Piano!!!🎹

[LifeOnHoth]

Thank you for this. It's a catchy tune. After playing keys for decades, I finally enjoy diving a bit into some of this simple jazz stuff. Excellent and enjoyable tune to use to start learning a bit about these concepts.

[suemacknz]

This is exciting and so much fun! Classical music, learned a lot of years ago as a child, you play what is written, own interpretation, but mostly as is written, this makes you think and feel. Thank you so much.

[miss-]

Danke für dieses ausgezeichnete Tutorial, das sehr Spaß macht

[gforceram]

Thank you for this! After a couple of days I was able to get this down, basically, without the guide tones. I may add them later.

[JDPlaysGen]

Thank you Jonny, I learnt so much and I'm learning by ear and sight. You break it parts and its much easier to follow and I got it after much rewind and playback. Practise do helps a ton. Thank you!

[ernielacorte]

Awesome! Thanks Johnny. I just celebrated my 70th birthday. And one of my goals is to learn how to play piano.

[mrdjangofreeman]

Thx Jonny for the guide tones explanation on this tune, makes it clearer to me.

[marcd]

Thank you for the video, Jonny. I am about as much of a beginner as one can be, my first keyboard is being delivered tomorrow. I have been looking at several channels for beginner type lessons, and yours has joined my list as a channel I will be watching much more to learn how to play.

[HHH-ecll]

“...THE MELODY IS VERY VERY SIMPLE...”, BUT IT’S VERY VERY WONDERFUL!!!!

[higherandhigher]

I just live your Enthusiasm. Great to be learning with you, Jonny.

[draster]

When you say white notes, it got my attention right away. Many thanks for making this song look so easy to play. WHITE NOTES. LOVE IT😊❤

[rucoleman]

What a wonderful teacher do you teach girl from Ipanema I do love that song

[GiselaKlapproth-px]

76th birthday! Now there is hope!!untill 77th I'll play at least one Song, just for my pleasure. THAAANK YOU ❤

[AndrewSmith-whlo]

Another great video. Starts slowly to draw us in and is structured carefully to make sure no one (who is putting the practice in) gets left behind. The final version gives most players something to aim for. I only started learning the piano at 55 during lockdown. I knew I was never going to go back to page one of teach yourself piano book and take lessons. I had a gut feeling there had to be a more enjoyable less stressful way. People like you on youtube have given people like me the chance to make nice noices on a keyboard. I know I'll never be a full pianist as I have no intention of learning to read music etc but I can see that with your videos and lots of practice I can do a decent, swinging version of this lots of others. Thank you so much

[vicfcs]

My weekend plan. Thanks Jonny. Keep at the good work.

[designleostudio]

I love this thing by Bart Howard and play often it with harmonica

[mircolagatta]

Jonny .... you are fantastic !! 😎 all seems very simple after your lesson... don’t stop your video ... thank you
Regards, Mirco from Italy