Jazz Lesson: How To FREAKING SWING
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2016
- Chances are, if you're a beginning jazzer, you don't swing yet. You may think that you do...but you probably don't yet! I was once you. This is how I learned to swing. Hope it helps all you future swingin cats.
If you'd like to support me, you can do so at this link: www.paypal.me/AimN
www.aimeenolte.com - เพลง
![[TH] VCT Masters Shanghai Playoffs - Grand Finals // GEN vs TH](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HL-hhLrtctw/mqdefault.jpg)
Hi Aimee,
While we're on the subject of swinging here's my Oscar Peterson anecdote.
Back in the 70's, when I was in my teens, I managed to sneak backstage at an open air concert in Juan Les Pins. That night it was Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Pass and Oscar Peterson playing.
Finally the great man finished his set, came backstage and took a seat on a bench surrounded by press photographers. I managed to elbow my way through the pack to request an autograph. Still mopping himself down with a large handkerchief, he gestured at me to sit down.
As he signed the piece of paper he turned to me and asked....."Do you play piano?"
"Yes I do", I replied.
"What do you like to play?" he asked.
"Scott Joplin rags" I replied truthfully.
"Do you play them straight?" he asked.
What do you mean "straight?" I asked.
"You know.... straight... on the beat" he said.
"Oh yes" I replied.
"Well I envy you then" he said.
"Why is that?" I asked, pretty certain Oscar could easily play Scott Joplin rags with his eyes closed.
"Because I can't play ragtime straight" he said.
"Why not?" I asked....
"Cos I gotta swing" he said, with a big laugh and that wonderful smile.
Ever since I have boasted that Oscar Peterson said he envied my piano playing!
Hope you enjoyed that fond memory of mine and Merry Christmas to you and your family Aimee.
esotericist that's an amazing story. Absolutely love it. I have heard that Joplin himself used to swing his rags. Not sure if it's true but they sound fantastic either way! Thanks for sharing!
esotericist
uz
I had a similar experience with Diz at Blues Alley in Georgetown in 1987, but I swung, was just getting into bebop, post bop, and the Afro-Cuban style.
esotericist "Ever since I have boasted that Oscar Peterson said he envied my piano playing!" Priceless. :)
esotericist: I love that story, thanks for sharing it. Cheers!
Don't mean a thunk, if it ain't got that chunk!
This is what it feels like to have a good teacher.
+WT Davidson 😍🙏🏼
It's sincere.
I'm an old performing songwriter, and have gotten a little stale and uninspired lately. Watching only a few of these has already kinda jump started a desire to get back to the shed to work on fluid playing and expression, without thinking getting in the way.
FWIW, what I love is encapsulated in the Jack Teagarden trombone solo in the Louis Armstrong All Stars Pennies From Heaven recording live at Town Hall in NYC, 1947. Not new, not swing, but I think he was plugged in almost unconsciously that night. For me, that's the thing.
Aimee, you rock! I mean Swing!
Aimee... my name is Brandon and I desperately needed to learn how to swing... I literally freaked out and thought “did I have a lesson with Aimee 3 years ago?!” 😂
Aimee. Your enthusiasm and love for teaching seeps through the screen. I absolutely love your style.
I love how your passion for this stuff comes through in your videos. Keep on swingin'!
I feel so lucky to have found your videos Amy. I was never a big jazz guy (I'm turning 72 this year) but you have really made me understand a lot more about why it's so cool and important. you're making me love it. Thank you so much. You are a great teacher and really know how to teach appreciation and infuse others with enthusiasm. I love following you. Please don't stop posting and performing.
love your sense of humor, as much as what you're saying and playing, Aimee. And I DO love your passion, and your chooses of artists, tunes, and "chonk". :)
Love this mirror image, a good angle for seeing how the fingers move rather than which keys they are playing.
Great lesson Aimee, thanks
Colin Edwards thanks, Collin! I will have to try it again sometime.
TH-cam felt I needed to see this again now. So great. Thank you
As we teach, we learn. That’s one reason why I love teaching.
That interplay between those quarter notes and the cool melody coming in and out of the beat, moving all around. Such a feeling!!
What a great lesson. I thought I was swinging, but no. Now I have the tools to get swinging like Basie and Peterson. In less than 20 minutes, you've given me enough material and insight for a month of practice, which is fantastic. So much fun!
Aimee Nolte, Thanks for all your videos!! I really love the way you explain everything
A hug from Medellin Colombia
Thank you, it’s super
Love you and your teaching
Daniel
No doubt, Count Basie defines swing. I love your outlook and passion for jazz. It's always been my love and it is refreshing to see that in other people too. Thanks for sharing.
Well, that's a revelation. What makes your channel so good is your passion and the way you aim for the beautiful. It's so clear from listening to you that music is music, and not mechanics.
allan henderson thank you so much, Allan. That's exactly how I feel.
Most soulful swing lesson ever ! Thank you for sharing
What comes across to me is that "chunking" or "swinging" means to really feel the rhythm, the pace, the emotional moving of the piece. And this is what makes a good musician. All the greats have it, regardless of music genres. Glenn Gould had it! Listen to him play Bach's Goldberg Variations. The music is coming right from his soul!
Your "chunk" lesson is great for helping people to get this. But you really have to give yourself to it in order for it to work it's magic!
Oh, you're just so inspiring person!!! thank you for sharing your passion to jazz with us!!!
Wow…you have an amazing ability to connect with your audience! Thanks.
Thomas A. Torr so nice of you to say. Thank you.
So glad I found you! I play classical, pop piano but wanted to start swinging. Lots of work for me because I think I may just be like Brandon.
Love your enthusiasm
I learnt how to feel swing more fluidly by counting halftime, it also makes solos feel uncluttered for me and almost as though there is more space between the corners to through the back end of the notes around as much as I through the front of them... You are my jazz lesson inspiration by the way! I really respect your warmth and obvious mileage... Thanks for your efforts!
Aimee you are just such a delight! I really enjoy your lessons so much, thank you for doing them. I've just returned to the piano after a one-year break due to illness and I find your videos inspiring.
Kaya Serra that's awesome. Welcome back!
Congratulations Aimee, you are a wonderful teacher. I'm a 17 years old aspiring musician from Argentina and you have inspired me to swing harder (or at least try that).
Thank you very much for your videos, cheers.
You entirely changed my playing style. Thank you so so much! Lots of love from Malaysia
Freddie Green! You're so talking my language. Your vids are very literally the best. Period. Thank you.
I was a clarinetist, but it's been a long time. I just LOVE the Basie band!!!!
I LOVE how you crystallize the finest points in the fundamentals that so many of us can overlook. I have to agree with SeanLeonDrums that you produce the absolute best channel on TH-cam. There is lot's of great stuff on TH-cam, but this is the BEST!!!
Paul Lifsches much too nice, Paul. Thanks so much. 🙏🏼
Love how chilled your character feels and passionate about music you sound :) you seem like an awesome person! Plus an awesome pianist! thank you for sharing! lovely lesson :)
Amazing charism and understanding! Thanks!!
Hi Aimee, You're a GREAT teacher! Your vids are amazing! Thx!
YOUR PASSION IS FLYING OF MY TABLET SCREEN, STRONG VIBES, FLYING ALL OVER THE PLACE.
THAT'S THE REALLY AIMEE. OH HOW I MISS HER.
WAW. THANKS.
Thank you Hilary Toussaint, very cool!
You are helping me to learn how to listen to music and enjoy it like I never did before ! Thank you!!
What an inspiring clip. Thank you.
LOVE to see you being so passionate! Thanks for a great lesson! Now I really have something to think about... :)
I really love your passion.
Great! Great! And your energy makes it so fun to learn!
I studied jazz vocals and this is...b-a-s-i-c, clear, easy to understand and so good to learn, relearn, rererelearn. Thanks for making this.
I think I've found my jazz teacher here. I've never heard someone articulate swing so perfectly in my life
That is a wonderful class - thank you so much.
Great stuff Aimee. Well explained and easy to understand!
This has changed my life completely, thanks so much!!!
Floyd Fernandes I'm glad, Floyd! Thanks for watching!
Muchas gracias, Felipe!
Aimee Nolte Music
_
Thank you so much, amazing video!
Spectacular way to learn. Eureka! Thank you for making me see a different dimension of swing, and guiding me to study some great musicians.
erikkohl i'm glad you think so! Thanks so much for watching. :-)
YOU and just SOMETHIN' ELSE! Not one person in a million can teach like that. Thanks for the music lesson - and for the teaching lesson too.
I love your channel so much Aimee
Your examples of swing cannot be matched !....just excellent..😎
Very clever teacher God bless you
Hi I am amazed that I commented 5 years ago when I was just starting . This time I really paid attention and understood that separation of the left hand from the right. Thank you. Now I really understand that guitar chunk with the swinging melody. I guess the dislikes haven't understood it or may be got too excited and hit the button twice. A really valuable lesson 💖
Oh man! Love this lesson. I'm not a pianist, I'm not a jazz player, but this concept is SO critical, whatever style you play/sing. Thanks, Aimee. And yes, Freddie Green was The Man.
Enlightening video, both for content and passion. Thank you! (also applies to dancing!)
I´m so glad you highlight Freddie Green, a superior musician who was the secret behind Count Basie´s unique sound but always in the background!
Thanks, great videos!
Beautiful
Your passion for chunk gives me life
You're awesome!
And super inspiring!
Muy buen video gracias por compartir. Thanks
This is so sweet I love it!
AS a guitar player who doesn't play or listen to jazz I had never realized a pianist could accent their notes like this. Good to know. Also, I think I am starting to like jazz a lot.
I love this "lesson" Aimee. Luckily someone steered me in your direction. Subscribed!
Loving this!! Thank you!
This is my favourite moment in internet history thus far.
Recently discovered your channel. Wow - very well done. You teach the very small but hugely important things like the k-chunk. Wish I discovered that 10 years earlier. Happy to know it now!
Great Aimee + thank you!!!!
The word Chunk is exactly swing! Holy balls! I play music with a friend who is a pretty new musician and I was trying to explain swing to him but this is so much simpler. If you want to emphasize that off beat you throne in a Ka-chunk!
A great lesson Aimee, thanks! - and i'm so loving that those three swinging tracks :)
wow you are so a wonderful teacher. i love you !!!
Excellent Skills!!
You are an inspirational player and personality. Oh, and a great teacher too.
I have NEVER thought of it like this, but what you said makes sense. I feel what Freddy Green, Ray Brown, et al are doing, but have always struggled to communicate it to the kids! Thanks, Aimee!
That was such a good lesson Aimee, thanks for swinging
Aimee, you are so engaging, thorough and gifted..ALL of you videos are as close to perfect as a musician can be....I only wish I could have convinced my parents that we musicians are real,and music is a true profession,. a wonderful gift to be shared by all.:-)))
Loved this, Aimee! I just discovered your lessons today. I appreciate your enthusiasm and how you break it down. I remember seeing the Count back east in PA in about 1971. I was about 17 at the time, and learning to play jazz bass. They knocked my socks off. He even came over to our table and we got to chat with him a bit. Many years later I moved to CA and started a house concert series. All kinds of music events have happened here over the past 25 years (over 150 concerts). Just my good fortune to have been so close some true musical greats. Darius Brubeck and band, Jared Gold (B3 player from NYC), Ed Cherry (guitarist for Dizzy Gillespie for many years), and the amazing swing and bebop Hammond B3 organ player Barbara Dennerlein. Check out this swing blues (Stormy Weather Blues) from her with guitarist Christoph Widmoser. It starts out a little sleepy but really picks up. On the surface you could say it's blues, but listen closely and you'll hear the swing elements. Playing ahead of and behind the beat, lots of triplets and other goodies.
Oh, I just enjooooyed listening to that !
Great swinging technique, thanks!
Okay, so now you've got me listening to the Duke. Love your stuff. Turned my daughter onto it last night.
I'm so happy to have found your channel! Very inspiring information, great musical insights and ideas :) Your content and presentation can help a lot of people, thank you!
+ToranagaSteam i'm glad you found it too. Thank you so much!
Thanks and Blessings!
Wow there‘s so much heart in your videos!! Amazing 😌
As a guitarist and huge Freddie Green fan, I love hearing you talk about how good he was. Irving Ashby (who played guitar with the Nat Cole Trio after Oscar Moore--another great---had the best line on rhythm guitar in jazz: " Rhythm guitar is like vanilla extract in cake.
You can't taste it when it's there, but you know when it's left out." Another great lesson!
Another great jazz rhythm guitarist was Herb Ellis. He and Ray Brown recorded together a lot (obviously with Oscar Peterson but also later with Monty Alexander). Herb and Freddie Green made a great album together called "Rhythm Willie"
Mark Rhodes ooo I will look that up!! I got to meet Herb Ellis once. Love his playing. Thanks Mark!
that was great thank you Aimee!
I LOVE your singing! More, please! Oh...and GREAT lesson, too. Love the way you break things down. But really...now I want to hear YOU sing "My Baby Just Cares For Me"! Will have to see if you have recordings out...just discovered you tonight.
Brilliant Aimee! Speaking as a rhythm guitarist and bassist in various bands over the years, I'd say you really highlighted the essence of swing. Without the drums, bass and steady guitar the lead players wouldn't have anything to weave around. I'm guessing Basie, Peterson, Simone etc swung intuitively but for the rest of us - thanks for great lesson! Oh and remember, if your back needs a little massage ...
Somehow this turned into an ASMR experience it must be the soothing voice :) also very educational for beginners thank you aimee!
Tanks Aimee, congrats from Portugal...
Avelino Oliveira obrigado, Avelino
Hi Aimiee, my tow cents in this discussion: The secret of the word "chunk" is twofold: "ch" marks be beginning of the quater note the end of the word, after we let "uuuuu" ring, the "nk" will eventually fall at the place where you need to place the second note to have this swing feel. The quality of the Freddie green comping was that he let the quater notes ring just enough that the end of it would be beginning of the horn player note.
Hi from an Aussie family who found you today...Firstly if all Americans were like you we'd probably have world peace! Secondly 'so American' is when you 'yanks' say farkin 'secont' (Instead of seconD) after having invented your own version of English! We forgive you because 88% of kids here speak the same brand of the language. We've subscribed because you are so amazing and able to give from your heart...And me (the dad) I just think you're very attractive and have pretty fingers (it's OK my wife is next to us enjoying your videos too : )
Thank you pretty lady we have a new teacher - And have found Count Basie again
+Darryl Hetherington made my day right there. Thank you both.
This is so awesome! You're a great educator! PROPS!
Hello Aimee, Fantastic! job on all of your videos. As a guitarist it's so nice to hear other musicians give Freddie Green the credit he deserves. Keep up all the stellar work. Thanks again, Swing Heil
Andrew Cole heck yes! I will give him credit all day. :-)
"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" Great video. I love that Oscar Peterson album Night Train with C Jam Blues. It's gold. It definitely swings.
I'm always amazed at the talk of swing being sort of a triplet rhythm versus a dotted-eighth-sixteenth rhythm, but I've always found the accents to be as important, if not more so. Hiromi Uehara has a great swing feel.
Hi Aimee, One whole year I have used your chunk chunk for the Senior Professor's Jazz ensemble in Uppsala, Sweden. Our two guitar players just LOVE it. Merry Christmas!
Woohoo!
"A little bit loco?" Some of the best are/were pretty locally loco. Beautifully coherent, Aimee. Thanks
Nice lesson. Love to play bass. especially walking bass. My dad taught me how to play a boogie bass progression when I was 14.
He actually taught it to me on my first 🎸 (A Sears Silver tone
accoustic.) I have had jazz guitar lessons starting in the 80s. Really like the genre. Again very good lesson.
That was Great..!! Thank you so Much.!!
Edwin Keys you're very welcome!
you are excellent!
I play no instrument but your explanations are amazing. Thanks for sharing.