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How to Play "Thank You Note" piano music from The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon

4/13/2014

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Duke Ellington titled his autobiography "Music is My Mistress."  Well, if music is MY mistress than comedy is my girlfriend on the side when I get tired of my mistress.  (Wait...what?!?)  Anyway, I love a good laugh and Jimmy Fallon never fails to deliver.  I loved watching him on "Late Night" and now he is seriously killing it on the "The Tonight Show."  The Roots, "the best band in Late Night," add an incredible amount to the show, of course with their incredible musical flexibility and wittiness but also in their sporadic comedic performances.  I love the play between Jimmy and Roots' keyboardist James Poyser during the weekly "Thank You Notes" sketch.  I'm excited to teach to you all how to play Poyser's "Thank You Notes" piano music.  Check out the video tutorial below. 

 By the way if you haven't heard of James Poyser, check him out...NOW!  He's a fabulous pianist, keyboardist, & producer.  He has worked with many great R&B and hip hop artists like J Dilla, Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, and Bilal and plays some REAL DEAL R&B and gospel keyboards.  

Happy Shedding!

13 Comments
Kevin B
5/1/2014 01:03:25 pm

Can you put this into printable sheet music please.

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sarah link
5/24/2014 01:06:21 pm

Yeah can you please

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Jeff D link
5/30/2014 12:02:30 am

Hi Kevin & Sarah,

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm working on some new content right now, but I've put it on my to-do list so be on the lookout! Thanks for reading! - Jeff

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Dee B
6/19/2014 01:52:19 pm

Hi, Any progress on printable sheet music. I have just been asked to learn to play it and I find the tutorial very hard to follow.

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Jeff D link
6/23/2014 01:08:40 pm

What's up Dee! Sorry it's taken a while for me to the get music up there. Been busy with lots of teaching and developing new courses. To be honest, I probably won't have a chance to work on it for a the next few weeks -- but be on the lookout in the first week or two of July. It will come eventually, I promise!

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Jeff D link
6/25/2014 01:09:12 am

Here ya go, everyone! Enjoy!

http://www.thepianoshed.com/teaching-blog/thank-you-note-music-sheet-music-by-popular-demand

Jeff D
The Piano Shed

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Bob
7/13/2014 10:48:48 am

Jeff,

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

I found your website when searching about Jimmy Fallon's "Thank You Notes" music by Poyser. Thank you for taking the time to notate this music as professionally as you did into sheet music.

I tried to free-play the "Thank You Notes" music from Jimmy's show by ear before, but I would never have guessed that it is in A-flat-major (I'm not a very good player).

I have my Mom's Young Chang G175 (1.75 meter baby grand) here in my home. I printed your sheet music and Mom played it very well.

I noticed that you never seem to have gotten any "Thank You's" for this, so I just wanted to post and say, "Thank You" for your effort.

Me, and my Mom, really do appreciate it.

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David Redden
10/9/2014 01:54:56 pm

Do you have the Jimmy Fallon theme song?

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no link
11/10/2015 05:59:03 pm

mo

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Cheryl Gregg
11/19/2014 01:27:37 pm

Thanks so much for taking the time to notate this. It saved me a bunch of time! Good work.

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Vivian
4/15/2016 09:08:05 pm

Thank you so much!

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Barbara Haring
2/3/2017 09:06:31 pm

Thank you so much for doing this. I watch Thank You Notes on Jimmy Fallon on Friday just so I can hear James play this. I'm heading to my piano to try it out.

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Ashlee link
11/22/2020 05:11:36 am

Interesting thouughts

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