My (Not So) Top Secret (Anymore) Practice Method: Point & Sing
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- Singers AND instrumentalists: I don't want you to sound like a robot when you improvise. Let's get you sounding like a thoughtful, feeling person, who can hear their way through changes without having to memorize patterns. I want to make HONEST musicians out of you. Point & Sing is the best way I know of to accomplish that!
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You are too good! I like the fourths!!
when a master like you says that about someone, then it's a serious thing.
i agree !!
Hahah
This is a wonderful lesson. I'm gonna go practice it right now. I'll let you know how I do.
Ok, I know I'm on a right path when I see Rick Beato
So I took your advice and just played the melodies in my ear at a guitar lesson playing Donna Lee and for once my teacher said "Nice, George" wooooo
I’m a mostly self taught musician and this is one of the best lessons I’ve ever come across. Thank you so much for putting this out there.
i've never herd anyone articulate that concept so well. thank you.
george garner so nice to hear. Thx George
This is hands down the best technique I have ever run across for the purpose of being honest, accurate, and knowing of what music is being created - WOW! You are such a gifted teacher, singer, and pianist!
+alwayslistening4444 thank you! And I love your username.
Ha! Thank you! :D
I love this point and sing method because it forces you to stay connected to what you are trying to say musically. It gets you out of old memorized patterns and into new musical ideas.
Aimee has given me a whole new outlook on music, and for that, I'm extremely grateful!
As a guitarist, I benefit tremendously from your approach to improv and practice. I always take something back to my own practice, and it definitely makes me a better player and musician. Thank you.
Those are the REAL best tutorials on Jazz pianos I found on the web, and I have seen lots!!!
Reminds me a lot of what Evans was saying, that is always better to play something consistent and that you are in control of, instead of just overplaying endless notes which might fit the scales and chords, but are rather soul-less.
Thanks for sharing, really!
Alberto Lorusso Thanks, Alberto! So glad you agree! Let me know if you have ideas for future videos!
Love that bit of his during that interview. One of the best gems from Bill.
I had that same thought. I saw that interview with Bill Evans also, but I wasn't 100 percent sure I understood what he was trying to say. Aimee, thanks for making it easy to understand. I am picking all kinds at of new ideas and insights from your videos.
Hey fellow Jazz-Students. :)
If you have a digital piano - turn the volume to 0 and you can actually ‘play’ and sing.
With certain models you can also reprogram the sustain pedal to quickly turn the sound on and off again to check if you’re still in tune. :)
Thanks Aimee for probably the greatest ear-training exercise ever?? :))
This is T.H.E. thing on any instrument!, "Play Only What You Hear" said the late great Chick Corea. And you are the first one on TH-cam to talk and give exercises to achieve that...so cool:)
This a great technique to help break away from that dreaded "chordscale syllabus", and cute "runs", "riffs", "lines" and "licks" that we practice. We spill them out aimlessly during an improvisation and it sounds "faked" - just like a practice routine! Play from the heart and ear - not the brain. In fact, there is no time in live improvisation to recall a bunch of "rules for good notes" and over-analysis of chord progressions that fly by very quickly. Play with your heart & soul ! It reminds me of great athletes. They practice specific drills between games but at game time, they just "improvise" a combination of skills 'in the moment'. Thanks Aimee for reminding us of this very important key concept of "singing" a solo (and spot checking).
that's it! Voice is our deepest instrument and instruments must be treated like voice as extensions of our bodies used by and for our inner expression. Fascinated! Thank you Aimee.
Sergio Godoy 🙌🏼🙌🏼
"Play what's true to you now" love it, for ever and always! 😄
Rob Ruthart 🙌🏼
What joy! Can't thank you enough. Such selfless sharing. Wonderful.
This really means a lot to me...Thank you for being so transparent and honest as a person and musician
You are a GREAT teacher, Aimee. Loving all the vid's I've seen so far. Thank you for these wonderful lessons.
the truth you speak here is absolutely freeing for me , i've always wondered how jazz players do it and its not by memorized lines which i find boring
You're the dream of any musician! This is so much talent!!!
I love your scat singing! So musical and pleasant.
Thank you Aimee!!
Such an awesome approach to improvisation, thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing Aimee! Tried for the first time today. Can't wait to see where this road leads.
Amazing, Aimee .
This is such a good way to practice the intervals. Thank you!
Beautiful voice too❤
I’ve long worried that my fingers were dictating what I played but didn’t know how to deal with this. Now you’ve told me how to. Thank you so much, but I know it’s going to take some work.
Aimee, thanks SOOOO much for this sharing this AWESOME method and for thanks for your super inspiring way to talk about it.
There are such amazing resources on TH-cam, fantastic channel Amy, thanks for all your work! :)
Yes I love it! Why didn't I have this method years ago? Thank you. You are a wonderful teacher.
This is the most valuable music lesson on TH-cam, easily. Thank you so much.
So helpful. I used to do this all the time on my sax. I'd stop and play. Piano is much more "practiceable" and useful. I need to get my piano chops back and start doing this again. Thanks again for the inspiration to do it!
I think this is the most helpful piano video I've ever seen. I'm gonna do this every day starting now :) Thank you, I love your videos ❤
This is really good you better pay attention!! Best of luck to all.
Thank you for articulating this so beautifully! I have always felt exactly the same about honesty in improvisation.
Wow!! Agreed, this channel is Gold. When I first discovered this channel, a lot of what you said went over my head... but because of your personal teaching style, I kept revisit to see if I could pick some more knowledge about how to learn to play the piano and how to become a better musician... while still working out what type of music I want play. Over the last few months I have grown to enjoy your teaching, style and personality. This week alone, learning about the iii-vii chord pattern/formula was magic. As a musician, I am interested in being able to I provide and being an HONEST musician. this lesson has been and IS Gold! Thank you.
My piano teacher taught me this but you explain why it is needed with so much depth which gives me more initiative. Thank You
Never thought of it this way. A real eye opener for me. I am just starting with my little daughter on the piano, and I think I start from here. A totally new journey also for me, and much more logically! So curieus if we can do it this way. Thanks!
Ye, I’m here for the jazz knowledge. But I’m ngl, I’m in love with your voice.
Aimee, this is brilliant! I've sort of done this. But, with your (easy to understand!) explanation of how and what you're trying to achieve Point & Sing makes perfect sense!
Wow
That was a great tool!
Thanks!
I could sit and listen to you scat forEVER!!!! The first minute of this video is heaven.
👍😎👍🎹🎼🎶
I've started incorporating singing into my practice a lot more often lately thanks to your videos and I've found that it helps me to conceptualize what I'm wanting to play a lot better.
Thank you for this great lesson.
you were almost certainly born to teach. thank you.
Thank you so much for putting this into words. "Hearing" melodic lines, it seems, comes from a different place internally. (Not the same thing as muscle memory licks and non musical ramblings of things that we know will "work".) Playing as what you described comes from a place that connects with listeners and affects them in the same way that it affects US when we play this way. Thank you so much for sharing your approach.
Brilliant, Aimee, true genius! Thanks for sharing.
Mark Morley-Fletcher, from "PLAY IN THE ZONE", put me onto you. He is also an outstanding educator.
You make it look so easy!
I've tried to put this idea in words quite a few times but now I have a video that I can point people to so I don't have to stumble over my words. The practice is an amazing bonus. Thanks a lot! :)
Amazing lesson! You have inspired me to start doing this for 5-10 minutes a day. This is a just what I need to do. Thank you.
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. You have helped me to understand music in a much more broad way. Kind regards from Spain. Roger
This is amazing... You are amazing. Amazing teacher! Thank you!
You are so cool. Thank you sooooo much for sharing. I love your channel. Greetings from Argentina!!!
Great video!
Being a self taught player for a lifetime, this is mostly how I play. But I was limited.
Fortunately, in recent years, the Internet has provided a lot of great resources, and I’ve actually found fantastic lessons.
Aimee, thanks for being one of these great resources, and the great videos you provide, for no cost.
This is amazing. Exactly my wish
Amazing Aimee!
As a guitarist practicing this concept has helped me to play what I sing/feel and not sing what I play. Just like what you said about playing what is learned instead of playing what is felt. ANY musician can benefit from this technique, thanks Aimee!
Great voice!
..brilliant teacher!!
OMG what an incredible lesson and insight you jave shared here. Ignore this brilliant teacher and musican at your peril folks..she has both insight and wisdom.Im gonna start trying this straigh taway!
Amazing! The concept is crazy simple, and so are the first (few) steps, but this is helping me enormously with the sharp and flat keys. They are becoming easier. I'm doing something similar with triads. I look at the keys, try to sing the notes, name the notes and only then play the chord. Start at C and work chromatically all the way to C again. And you don't have to do an hour of it. Ten minutes out of each practice will give great results. Thanks again Aimee.
my heroine. I admire your love for students out there. thank you for the tips and honesty you have in you .
I've stumbled onto this in my own way and it's so refreshing and reassuring the way you lay it out. I so conscious of how that rote practicing of scales and patterns imprisons my expressions. Thanks for this! I've picked piano seriously after noodling as a kid for years. You are the most inspiring teacher I've come across. You may know the fellow I just started taking lessons with, Art Khu, Jacquie Naylor's partner. Keep it up Aimee!!! Much love form the Bay !
Really great tips and well explained.
Brilliant.
Thanks Aimee, what a great exercise, I see here that more time is spent 'letting go' and quickly (& quietly) making mistakes and learning from them, before making lots of noise on the instrument. I look forward to doing this, even just singing out melodies while driving and thinking of the notes I'm aiming for. From the Heart = Perfect ! Thanks Aimee...
Someone in comment section of Samurai guitarist video send me here. I felt that I need something like this but had no idea how to approach it. Thank you!
Thank you for being so generous with your time and knowledge, Aimee! This gave me a fresh new perspective on playing and how to practice. You play from your heart and I'm guessing you live your life the same way! So glad I happened on your channel.
+Paul Constable oh no prob! I'm so glad, Paul!
I hope you'll keep publishing for the next hundred years. Incredibly helpful... and frustrating when I see my own fingers resist. Thank you Aimee. Hugues.
Wow 🔥🔥🔥🔥 awesome lesson
Thanks Aimee for this tip. I will apply it right now every time I'm noodling on my guitar running scales and arpeggios up and down like a robot. This practice makes so much sense and you are doing it so neatly ! I think that it also applies when you play tunes where everything is written and your fingers know them perfectly. It'll probably help the interpretation and avoid losing track of what you're doing.
Six years later... the magic of youtube... Cool!!! 🤩I did It when I was student to practice piano voices in bach's polyphony! I didn't realize It could be helpful also for jazz improvvisation...😃 👍👏
This is awesome. I had a piano instructor make me sing the right hand while I played the left and vice versa. That really helps me when I'm trying to learn a song. But this will really help me with my own melodies - which I suck at.
brilliant Ames!
This is awesome!
That's nifty! Never thought (or heard) of it.
i love your videos. you are a great soul. thanks Aimee
Wonderful video! Reminds me of those old interviews with Bill Evans, where he talks about how musical honesty at your current level is so much more effective and moving than, as you said, a bunch of hip patterns that you've memorized.
Great video!!!
you are fantastic. so good the way you present.. kudos to you
Hi Aimee, I knew of you from JOTW but just came across your TH-cam channel yesterday..Really appreciate all of this incredibly thoughtful content. Thank you!
Good excercise!
I've startet practicing like this a month ago, but without much singing (I'm imagining string instruments playing it instead because I want to be able to imagine chords and polyphonic pieces, too.).
The reason for that is probably that I have a classical music background. But I'll do some of this as well in the future, thank you very much (I really like the idea of being a musician instead of just an instrumentalist)!
Wonderfull , i will try it . thanks a lot
Brava! I liked this one!
Ga Music thx GA!!
Amazing person, you are!
You are unbelievable. My daughter is into jazz piano. I'll be sure to give her a head up about your terrific vids.
Thaaaanks!! Awesome channel!
wow you're great! really awesome lesson, thank you
Amazing lesson. Really truly helpful. I'm going to start doing this in my practice.
Calmlands Piano wonderful! Let me know if it's helpful.
Great video Aimee! This is how I started practicing sight-singing my freshman year of college. I found that it carried over to testing my accuracy on scatting through transcriptions, working on language, making sure my intonation is right on when singing melodies a capella, and like you've done here, just exploring and seeing how cleanly I can sing interval jumps! Definitely a useful staple for anyone's personal practice
Jackson That's great! Keep it up! You're a hard-worker and nice nice dude. :)
Thanks! Right back at you :)
I came here from your advice, Aminee. And this's such a useful method! I'll see how far I can get after I use your method. Thank you so much and please please please keep uploading your lesson. You're the best!
Nutjaya Aramkul oh good! Ok I hope it helps!
Great Lesson! Inspiring to all levels regardless of experience.
Wow! I also do this at the guitar, and I also used to think that I made it up! Apparently, I didn't! I love your videos, you have such a nice energy and joy, it's contagious!
This is the best channel on TH-cam tbh!
I am just starting out but already old ...I like your advice . Singing and be able to make them through our fingers is a sure thing to practice .
This is really fantastic!
I've been playing one instrument or another for over 30 years and I've never been satisfied with learning scales or just learning songs from sheet music because that is basically just memorization and developing muscle memory. I wanted to actually be able to PLAY the instrument...like, really PLAY it you know? I wanted to know it inside and out, and to be able to make the music in my head come out of my fingers as naturally as breathing.
I recently took up piano and the online lessons I'm using (Hoffman academy, they're great!) incorporate solfege, which I've been excited about because I could sense that this would really help me become a better musician. What you have demonstrated here takes the concept of solfege to another level entirely and I am definitely going to start incorporating this into my practice.
I'm working my way through your videos and each one is a treasure with a wealth of information that I wish I had all those years ago when I first started playing. Thank you so much!
I think this is the most amazing exercise. I am going to start doing this everyday. Thanks for sharing this!
+Stacy Renard you're gonna get good FAST if you do. 👊🏼
Very interesting and innovative approach. I will try, and it will be a challenge -- and that's good!
FANTASTIC. I was looking for something like this for quite some time.
I like to hear from great musicians like you share the way by which they have trained themselves and do it way better than most.
I've been trying to learn relative pitch for about a year. I made some progress using call and response apps on iphone and ipad, but I find that it doesn't translate well to practical applications. Or perhaps my aural skills have just not progressed enough.
It's one thing to be told ... you have to do this, you have to do that ... but to actually see someone say "you might want to do this" and "I'll show you how" goes way farther.
Please keep the videos coming!!!!