Our course on āNew Orleans Blues & Funkā has been published. Watch this video for a taster of the course contents and to meet Jon Cleary - the newest member of our teaching team:
The performances and demonstrations from the lessons have been notated and are available for download in PDF format. Most of the examples are the key of C but you can transpose these to any key that you like:
We have put a lot of work into the lessons and downloads so I hope you enjoy the course and the wonderful insights that Jon shares into the music of New Orleans.
Any questions with the materials donāt hesitate to let us know.
Looks great, Hayden and Jon! Such a cool expansion to the website. I love how the team continues to grow the diversity of content on the site. Canāt wait to check it out
Hayden,
Iām a past student and just renewed my sub yesterday. I had been meaning to do this for some time (life stuff gets in the way) but your new Jon Cleary course really pushed the boat out. I love the trad/modern jazz space but like you have a special fondness for the unique and harmonically rich culture of New Orleans blues piano.
Certainly there is important performance crossover between both styles and a music family legacy that should not be ignored - and I canāt think of anyone better today than Mr. Cleary to educate on this. Thanks so much for pulling this together.
Iām hoping this will be an ongoing resource with Mr. C. If input is welcome, I would love to see some discussion on:
I hope you enjoy Jonās course. I had fun playing around with some of his teaching and demonstrations whilst editing and uploading the lessons. The course is packed full of actionable insights to get that authentic New Orleans sound.
And thanks for the suggestions and the video link. We can certainly consider these in future.
Jon published a live stream on Facebook earlier, if you didnāt catch it live hereās a direct link.
Enjoy the lessons and again welcome back to PianoGroove John!
Great stuff! I only subscribed a week ago to Pianogroove.com, not knowing that Jon Cleary himself would be one of the teachers! More than I hoped for!
And yes, Port Street Blues would be fantastic as well.
Regards, Christiaan
WoW! Iām all fired up! Still working on my 2nd and 3rd jazz ballad tunes from Haydenās lessons - and now all excited to watch this one! Thanks Very Much! Love the BLUES!
The easiest way to post a video in the forum is to upload the video to YouTube and copy and paste the URL here. The forum software is not designed to upload and handle big video files - typically anything over 10/15 seconds - and so uploading to YouTube is the best bet.
Once you paste the YouTube video URL here, it automatically creates a nice embedded player and ensure the videos load super fast because they are hosted on YouTubeās servers.
You can also do the same with recordings on YouTube like we share in our records thread here:
Thanks so much Hayden for all of your help so far - I so look forward to meeting everyone and hearing what youāre all up to!
Iām working on the Big Four example from the first lesson in this course, and if anyone wants to see a video of it on Instagram or Facebook for now Iāve put the links belowā¦
Iām super excited about this course - thank you so much for offering it in such detail!!
I think you will also love the examples and transcriptions in the later lessons. I love Jonās blues performances in this lesson. Canāt wait to hear your feedback on the rest of the course.
ps. If we post the URL on a separate line it creates a video embed (I edited your post above to do this)
Sounding awesome Megan. I love the energy that you play with!
There is something unusual with posting Facebook video links, after 24 hours or so the video embed stops working. The direct link will always take you to the video , but something on Facebookās end stops the embedded player from playing after a certain amount of time.
I edited your posts again to include the direct links. Hopefully Facebook will fix this in the furture.
FYI ā¦ The best way to embed videos here in the forum is using YouTube.
