How To Play Piano Chico Marx Style, Pt. 1

Comedian Wayne Federman presents a short piano lesson demonstrating the three fundamentals of playing in the style of Chico Marx.

I am obviously not as proficient as the amazing Chico but you get the idea. Again, this is just the basics: Shooting, Flicking, and Gliding (remember use only the NAIL of the middle finger).

I will examine some other tricks and techniques (left hand smash, ragtime, intros, etc.) in my next tutorial, How To Play Piano Chico Marx Style Part 2. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx_Q3Gb4ADc

Special thanks to the very talented pianist/actor Peter Slutsker (he played Chico on Broadway) who taught me the "glide."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lsqv-E9Vmyg
Chico playing in Night At The Opera

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Chico
• Marx
• Tutorial
• Brothers
• Harpo
• Instruction
• Comedy
• Lesson
• Learn
• Piano
• Shoot
• Ragtime
• Duck
• Soup
• Night
• Opera
• Groucho

[ThatOneDude88]

Tune that THANG!!!

[lelandb123]

You have no idea how happy it makes me to hear somone pronounce it CHICK-OH.

[JazzKeyboardist1]

thanks,,excellent, the flicking takes practice ,,,,, I heard one of the thousands of bets chico lost was,,,, he bet a cocktail waitress that he would come while she was pleasuring him, before he finished the minute waltz,,,,,,,,,,,he said he never cared about losing that bet

[SimuLord]

Pronouncing Chico's name properly is the sign of a true Marx Bros. fan.

[kansaspacific]

21 people don't like guns in the lobby of the Hotel California.

[freeble123]

great!

[jimisweak]

the notes are right, the finger styling is right, but it still sounds so wrong compared to chico.

[MrJonasimage]

nice close encounters finish!

[FishingtonBurpPuzzle]

How do you use the orange?

[bluejay02920]

chico name is from him being a womanizer. He was very good at picking up chicks...

[amonster8mymother]

ya ya I finished the fifth grade nobody said anything about perpendikucular