What's up everybody and in this tutorial, we're gonna go over New York State of Mind, body mass produced by DJ Primo. So let me play a beat now play on top of it. Okay, so you can see there's two things going on. My right hand is playing a chord in my left hand is playing the baseline. So let's go over the easy part first, which is the right hand one play a chord. And actually there's a little trick to the core, but we're gonna go over, okay, so the chord is this is a C sharp minor, okay.

But you're going to start Start with the a flat followed by the C sharp and then you play them together. But here's the trick, you're going to do like this little flick, little flutter thing to get to the a flat like this. So you kind of like you're rolling to the a flat with your thumb with the G. Okay, so you see that so you're gone. It's what your thumb is doing real quick is real subtle though. That's the trick to get that. So practice doing that kind of like a rolling motion.

Okay, so The left hand is doing this. Now I'm gonna start real slow so you can get this. You want to start on the low, C sharp. Really stretch you might have to do some stretching exercises with your hands so you can really get it a flat and then D. Okay, next port next notice go back down to the a flat after the D. So did you get that back down a flat up to the C sharp. Next part is a flat To the beat, NASA whole thing I'll do it real slow. This is one of the dopest baselines in hip hop history to me.

And that's it. You put them both together. Now get back to that C sharp the top of it. You want to hit a flat down to the C sharp. Okay. Let me play that slow.

And you can practice with me. Let's slow it down. Okay and these are the fingers I'm using. I'm only using my pinky my index finger in my phone. Sometimes I use my middle finger on a play, but it's up to you. And then the very beginning which I didn't go over is just this if you want to add that in practice