More Right Hand Comping Patterns for Funk Piano

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Jonathon Wilson on behalf of Expert Village.com. We're learning how to play an advanced funk groove on the piano and we're working on right hand comping patterns to go with our left hand bass line that we've learned. Last time, we learned the first one in the right hand. It's a good start it's a nice rolling little groove. Now let's take that another notch further and make it a little bit more complicated. This pattern is a lot like the one we did last time, but it's a little bit more complicated of a voicing and it's got this kind of a ninja hand position switch that happens. It makes for another neat rolling effect that you kind of don't know what's going to hit you. So let's just get right into it. Slowly with the metronome. Here's our second comping pattern with the right hand. Okay. So a thing to keep in mind when you?re doing this, it?s very much like the last groove. You want this nice rolling feel to that right hand pattern. Focus on the way it interplays with the bass. Emphasize those bass lines, particularly on the downbeats. Not too much dynamics here. This one's pretty fun to play, especially when you roll over on to that, from the B-flat down to F. That little ninja move I was telling your about, that's pretty fun. So once you get that under your fingers with enough practice, you can relax and roll into that, and its pretty fun to play. So here it is, up to speed, with the drum beat. It sounds like this. Okay. So that's that. Second right hand pattern, the next step in our funk groove. It's a good variation. You can use both of those, alternating back and forth between the one we learned previously and this one. They're both great things to just sort of settle into a nice groove. But our rhythm is starting to stagnate a little bit now. We've sort of done two patterns that are awfully similar. So the next time, we need to talk about ways to break up the rhythm and add some variety."