I learnt to play piano with two excellent TH-camrs; Mr Oliver Prehn, and Mr Jonny May. Mr Prehn has a super-clear, thorough approach. Mr May has a sort of "obsess over a few techniques" sort of approach. Interesting...
Oliver, I've been playing piano for two years after spending a lifetime as a drummer. I'm in love with the piano, my friend! You've been mentoring me for this entire time with useful tools and techniques. The walk-up pentatonics in all keys? That's PRACTICABLE for me, not beyond my skills. And that...is great!
There's nothing I aprecciate more in the music world than a well explained, simple and powerful expression tool that makes playing more visceral and less cerebral. "If you can't easily explain something no matter how complex it is, then you haven't mastered it yet". You did it greatly in a very inspiring way. Thanks a lot!!!
It is worth to watch your lessons more often in time. I really love to play the blues scales and this here is so a fantastic easy way to get in to it and think of the right grip. Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for all you do ,You are a very good mentor for me ,I just started playing the piano this year ,I just stumbled upon your classes...It's just fantastic for what you do exactly all I would like to know thank you very much ,God bless you abundantly sir Your student Joslim Messan
Bonjour de France Your pedagogy is the simplest and the most effective. Doing better is virtually impossible. I have searched and found nothing that matches your teaching. Thanks a lot
Thanks Oliver, this Video and the showing of the Key by name and hand-grip, the simplicity of how to do it to just sound good opened a world for me. You're showing that music don't need to be that hard to learn. It's much more fun doing something creative while learning. I really really appreciate the effort you put into you're videos! It surely is a pain to animate all notes to the key-press, but it helps a lot! Thanks!
Oliver this is an amazing lesson. Having learnt piano classically but always wanted to improvise this has opened up a whole new beginning for me. I am so excited to start practicing. Thank you for your beautifully made videos, so humble and inspiring.
Makes me wish I had a keyboard. I taught myself to play guitar by taking a beginning piano class when I was a kid. I would take everything I learned each day and transpose it to the guitar. But we never had a piano, so I never learned to really play one. I've played and taught guitar for decades though, and what's really great about these lessons for me is how the hand grips are essentially the same thing we do with just a few different shapes we use on the different strings.
Systematic, well structured and easy to practice, but is also necessary some talent like the one you show. Thank you very much Oliver for these tools and techniques.
Your whole Concept realy works perfectly. Your Videos are so detailed in this short time, so many information, and every word you speek are importend (for me). Your a Genius...Your Vids and Frank Sikoras Book..what i need more??
Thanks so much! I’ve studied classical guitar for 20 years & recently moved to piano due to a hand injury which makes guitar painful. Honestly, you are opening my understanding of how I can improvise.
fantastic stuff... I can tell, Oliver really loves his craft, and likes to break things down in the beginning, to expand immensely. Still I'm a beginner so Looking at the numbers/spacing helps. Its still confusing when things start to flow faster. If you miss a key or forget where you are in the figuring which is really easy, the whole thing/key will be off.
Hi and thank you so much for your very generous and voluntary “super thanks” donation - you help keep me going for sure!!! I'm very grateful :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver
Hi and thanks a lot :) :) :) I believe that you can start wherever you like. Start with something fun. Fun makes motivation - and motivation makes Music. I talk more about this approach on learning Music in this other video if you should be interested: th-cam.com/video/a735i7FZlmI/w-d-xo.html Cheers from Oliver
The polymodal example and explanation you gave around halfway is super interesting! I can't wait to try it out. I see that throughout this video, I really should practice all of my pentatonic scales; I haven't mastered quite all of them. Thank you for your amazing teaching, Oliver!
The concept of hand grips....goes very well with chord extensions and helps with all your previous melody lines...and moving and connecting them....but also the opportunity to change key into the next verse etc...smoothly and instantly...and then solo...outside of a lead instrument or vocal line...in cooperation or contrast....the catalogue system allows for easy reference and comparison while playing
absolutely fantastic lessons !! I try to play guitar with them. and the voice of the master seems like a voice of a sage indian guru. great. and the sounds of scales are same sounds of keith jarrett!! thanks soo much ,ciao from Italy.
Thank you so much for your generous voluntary “super thanks” donation - you help keep me going for sure!!! I'm very grateful :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver
I'm going to apply this method to my Tenor Sax practice and playing along jazz tunes improv. It may help me with my one composition I have now. Thanks! 😎💪🎷
Oliver, I wrote this yesterday and I quote from the larger poem because this is the only good part:. " Music so mighty it tore the trunks from the ground and threw them like tornado twigs, sound so high so deep the fish flew from the sea and the birds plunged into the water. Human voices raised in song. Human voices speaking along side one another. Oh praise Him whoever he might be praise the mother of all music to the mountains high."
Amazing lesson to learn from you Oliver. You made things so easy for me to understand now. I've been struggling to get into Blues and Jazz improves and now I know where to start and how to reach there.
Very nice Conclusion. I get the Grip Concept. Now its up to me..;) so many thx, Oliver.. I have to specify my Statement, this is a genius from the genius Vids you have provide until now!! ioi
Oliver I have a request. Can you do a video about the Barry Harris major 7th moves and minor 6 moves. I have learned more watching your videos the way you teach is the way it should be you don’t rush and explain very good. Thank you for your hard work.
Hi :) I must admit... I don't know so much about this technique - so we would be better off, if an expert on Barry Harris did the video... Cheers from Oliver
Hi amazing lesson, thanks .. I'm just confused cause you showed us how we can use the 3 finger pattern to form different scales But you have not really explained How to construct scales \ which note to play or maybe is that something you will do in another video? Also I'm visually impaired so I don't know sometimes where you place your fingers and on which keys... I am really sorry too I'm really sorry to point it out but default but I hope you understand my circumstance. I really do enjoy and love all tour wonder lessons and really want to get the most out of them. Thank you so much .
Hi :) I'm really glad for your input. You don't have to be sorry at all :) I've made this lesson about scales - maybe you'll find it useful. th-cam.com/video/Vq2xt2D3e3E/w-d-xo.html Best regards from Oliver
Great lesson as always. I’ve been diving deeper to this minor pentatonic/dorian patterns to improvise over any key BUT, I was wondering what should I do if I want to improvise using exclusively the pentatonic scale, no Dorian or any church mode? I’ve noticed that when playing, let’s say Am pentatonic, if you transpose it a fifth to Em pentatonic you add the note B which does not belong to the pentatonic of Am, should I just omit it when playing in that position if I want to stick to Am and so on? Thank you ver much for your great teaching!
Hi and thanks a lot :) Well you can for example just use the 3 finger hand grip at 2 positions as we do from 01:09 to play the Gmi pentatonic scale; we place the thumb on 'g' and 'd' and we can play the Gmi pentatonic up and down the keys... Cheers from Oliver
Thanks for another brilliant video Oliver :) Would you consider making a full detailed video on tritone substitutions and substituting chords and also please explain the theory behind them? Thank you for your consideration 🙏🏼
Hi and thanks a lot :) I’m so sorry but I have so many requests so I cannot promise - I hope that you understand... but thanks a lot for your input, I will have it in mind for sure :) Best regards from Oliver
Fab lesson Oliver, hope your family is fine after what happened in CPH.. been thinking for some time now how about a lesson on how you do your runs ? you have some awesome lines and you play them fast, maybe other students would benefit to understand how you do these in slow motion and the fingering you use ? just a thought.. kind regards, Andrea
Hi and thanks a lot. And yes, we're fine, thanks again :) :) :) And great suggestion. I have some tricks for that for sure. But I have so many requests and plans for future lessons and it takes about 2 months to create each lesson - so I really hope you have some patience with me… Thanks a lot for your input. Cheers from Oliver
Until then you may want to check out this playlist; th-cam.com/play/PLd8gNAxPUcJxX_Dcw3rofHuRCIbYacKgN.html We do lots of phrases in slowmotion and it's all written down on sheet music. Cheers from Oliver
@@andreamolaschi5474 Ahh, I get it ;) Maybe this other vid about specific hand grip fingering exercises could be useful to you th-cam.com/video/BZNSDqrQ_rQ/w-d-xo.html Cheers from Oliver
Greetings, I am amazed by your lessons, I am familiar with classical harmony and chords, I wish to learn to improvise in Jazz music, in which viewing order would you recommend that I watch and practice your lessons? Thanks in advance, with great respect for your great effort and knowledge and contribution to Jazz music
Hi and thank you so much!!! You can start wherever you like. Start with something fun. Fun makes motivation - and motivation makes Music. I talk more about this approach on learning Music in this other video if you should be interested: th-cam.com/video/a735i7FZlmI/w-d-xo.html At the front page of the NewJazz channel there are different entrances to the lessons: th-cam.com/users/newjazz And at the “playlist tab” you’ll find even more categories/chunks of lessons: th-cam.com/users/newjazz/playlists I really hope you’ll enjoy :) Cheers from Oliver
I learnt to play piano with two excellent TH-camrs; Mr Oliver Prehn, and Mr Jonny May. Mr Prehn has a super-clear, thorough approach. Mr May has a sort of "obsess over a few techniques" sort of approach. Interesting...
I prefer Oliver
Oliver, I've been playing piano for two years after spending a lifetime as a drummer. I'm in love with the piano, my friend! You've been mentoring me for this entire time with useful tools and techniques. The walk-up pentatonics in all keys? That's PRACTICABLE for me, not beyond my skills. And that...is great!
Great very creative colors
Great, you can feel happy to found this vids in this 2 Years you playing Piano!!
good comander
Smiling in awe watching this, thank you.
With that Lydian handgrip you surprised me Oliver. Thanks!
You're simply a genius Oliver, you never stop to surprise with clever ideas and approaches🎹✌
What a blessed day I have come across this video lesson. Now I finally know how to approach and improve my keyboard playing.
There's nothing I aprecciate more in the music world than a well explained, simple and powerful expression tool that makes playing more visceral and less cerebral.
"If you can't easily explain something no matter how complex it is, then you haven't mastered it yet". You did it greatly in a very inspiring way. Thanks a lot!!!
Love how you speak Oliver, it's like you're telling a fairy tale. Makes listening a delight with the added bonus of learning something.
A great person like u deserve more subscribers ❤️
One of the best free jazz piano lessons on the web! Thank you so much, Oliver!
Thank you Oliver. Best piano teacher on TH-cam hands down!
It is worth to watch your lessons more often in time. I really love to play the blues scales and this here is so a fantastic easy way to get in to it and think of the right grip. Thanks a lot!
The Best Chanel, This is a Master Class!!!
Thank You Oliver !!
This is the level of teaching i have been missing in my school. God bless tou sir.
Absolutly exceptional lesson .
Time to go practice
Really you are the best one on youtube channels your method is revolutionary Thank you very much Oliver!!!
Thank you so much for all you do ,You are a very good mentor for me ,I just started playing the piano this year ,I just stumbled upon your classes...It's just fantastic for what you do exactly all I would like to know thank you very much ,God bless you abundantly sir Your student Joslim Messan
Dimistification par excellence by the MASTER of ceremony and out of these world high priest OLIVER
Thanks and God bless you eternal joy
Bonjour de France
Your pedagogy is the simplest
and the most effective.
Doing better is virtually impossible.
I have searched and found nothing
that matches your teaching.
Thanks a lot
Thanks Oliver, this Video and the showing of the Key by name and hand-grip, the simplicity of how to do it to just sound good opened a world for me. You're showing that music don't need to be that hard to learn. It's much more fun doing something creative while learning.
I really really appreciate the effort you put into you're videos! It surely is a pain to animate all notes to the key-press, but it helps a lot! Thanks!
Great!!! Thank you for the video and the ideas!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻👌🏻
Good to see you back love your lessons
Hi Oliver! What a marvelous jazz teacher you are. Nice golden jazz lessons indeed. From Alfred in South Africa.
😮 WoW! Thank you very much Mr. Oliver Prehn... 😇
Happy Father’s Day for all the Father’s that follow you and to you as well.
You are brilliant as always , i love your approach to improvisation . its playful and organic just like the way music should be.
Great lessons by master Oliver. Much love from Nigeria ✌
Oliver this is an amazing lesson. Having learnt piano classically but always wanted to improvise this has
opened up a whole new beginning for me. I am so excited to start practicing. Thank you for your beautifully made videos, so humble and inspiring.
Makes me wish I had a keyboard. I taught myself to play guitar by taking a beginning piano class when I was a kid. I would take everything I learned each day and transpose it to the guitar. But we never had a piano, so I never learned to really play one. I've played and taught guitar for decades though, and what's really great about these lessons for me is how the hand grips are essentially the same thing we do with just a few different shapes we use on the different strings.
this lesson is simply Epic. well done Oliver you are a great teacher, probably because you are a great Pearson.❤
All the content on this channel is priceless for me, thanks, Oliver! 🎉
I've watched a lot of them and this is the best tutorial on improvising I've seen on TH-cam.
Really admire what you are doing here Oliver (and learning lots of new ways to think about improv myself too!)
Systematic, well structured and easy to practice, but is also necessary some talent like the one you show. Thank you very much Oliver for these tools and techniques.
Your whole Concept realy works perfectly. Your Videos are so detailed in this short time, so many information, and every word you speek are importend (for me). Your a Genius...Your Vids and Frank Sikoras Book..what i need more??
Thanks so much! I’ve studied classical guitar for 20 years & recently moved to piano due to a hand injury which makes guitar painful. Honestly, you are opening my understanding of how I can improvise.
Thank you Oliver, you're such an inspiration 🙌
fantastic stuff... I can tell, Oliver really loves his craft, and likes to break things down in the beginning, to expand immensely. Still I'm a beginner so Looking at the numbers/spacing helps. Its still confusing when things start to flow faster. If you miss a key or forget where you are in the figuring which is really easy, the whole thing/key will be off.
you are dbest teacher oliver ..big thanks for ur demos..
The best piano teacher I've ever seen 👍
Let me call you Sir, Master ,, receive 5⭐
You are a good teacher
Just found this channel. Thank God for this. Thank you NewJAzz for the amazing video.
God bless this guy
Thanks!
Hi and thank you so much for your very generous and voluntary “super thanks” donation - you help keep me going for sure!!! I'm very grateful :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver
Oliver, you are revolutionising the art of piano teaching ! Would u recommend starting with this video or 10 steps to improvising Jazz ?
Hi and thanks a lot :) :) :) I believe that you can start wherever you like. Start with something fun. Fun makes motivation - and motivation makes Music. I talk more about this approach on learning Music in this other video if you should be interested: th-cam.com/video/a735i7FZlmI/w-d-xo.html
Cheers from Oliver
The polymodal example and explanation you gave around halfway is super interesting! I can't wait to try it out. I see that throughout this video, I really should practice all of my pentatonic scales; I haven't mastered quite all of them. Thank you for your amazing teaching, Oliver!
The concept of hand grips....goes very well with chord extensions and helps with all your previous melody lines...and moving and connecting them....but also the opportunity to change key into the next verse etc...smoothly and instantly...and then solo...outside of a lead instrument or vocal line...in cooperation or contrast....the catalogue system allows for easy reference and comparison while playing
Thanks for another fine New Jazz video Oliver!
this is awesome Oliver, simple, but so creative and you can build so much on these. Pure genius as always :)
Wow man this is cool. I always worried about fingerings. I feel so liberated. Thanks.
Dziękujemy.
Thank you so much for your voluntary “super thanks” - you help keep me going for sure :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver
@@NewJazz I've send You an e-mail yesterday. Check it out please ;)
Check ;)
absolutely fantastic lessons !! I try to play guitar with them. and the voice of the master seems like a voice of a sage indian guru. great. and the sounds of scales are same sounds of keith jarrett!! thanks soo much ,ciao from Italy.
Thanks
Thank you so much for your generous voluntary “super thanks” donation - you help keep me going for sure!!! I'm very grateful :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver
Thank you for continuing to provide the quickest path to playing the sounds in my head!
other than the word "genius", i am speechless.
Tanks a lot from Curitiba, Paraná - Brasil
I'm really love this lesson ❤
Owesome, Thank you so much, Oliver!
this is what i've been looking for.. thank you so much
GREAT GREAT GREAT
Excellent as usual ! we were longing for you Oliver !
Thanks for this amazing and simple but somehow complex idea! It has given me a new approach to apply to keep piano learning interesting.
Oliver, I'm your big fan! Keep on sharing 🙏
I'm going to apply this method to my Tenor Sax practice and playing along jazz tunes improv. It may help me with my one composition I have now. Thanks! 😎💪🎷
Oliver, I wrote this yesterday and I quote from the larger poem because this is the only good part:. " Music so mighty it tore the trunks from the ground
and threw them like tornado twigs, sound so high so deep the fish flew from the sea and the birds plunged into the water. Human voices raised in song. Human voices speaking along side one another. Oh praise Him whoever he might be praise the mother of all music to the mountains high."
I watched it again. It's really wonderful💯👌 Thank you💐🌹☮💞
Amazing lesson to learn from you Oliver. You made things so easy for me to understand now. I've been struggling to get into Blues and Jazz improves and now I know where to start and how to reach there.
Great teaching. May be one day you decide to make lesson on lets call it melodical and rhytmical "braingrips " :). Your jazz language is just awesome.
Great stuff, as usual. Thank you!
Excellent ! As usual !
this is a mind opener!!
Awesome....inspiring! Thank You..
Wonderful…magic …thanks so much Oliver ✨💚✨✨
Damn bro. Your tutorials are like therapy 🔥
I missed your tutorials. Simply amazing! thank you teacher.
This is a cool video Oliver,you can apply this to a lot of music,very helpful,thx
I play a casio key board (little bit). I watch this video, not for learning. But to listen to heavenly voice of Oliver Pehn..
Thanks from Catalonia
Great lesson and pentatonic pairs!
thank you for making the content that you do, it's the best of its kind, IMO
To thank you is an inevitable. 💯
Super cours !
Tried the frist grip for the pentatonic, amazing!
You of course are are wonderful man, love from Pakistan
Very impressive lesson. Thanks for providing such good lesson
Very nice Conclusion. I get the Grip Concept. Now its up to me..;) so many thx, Oliver.. I have to specify my Statement, this is a genius from the genius Vids you have provide until now!! ioi
Thanks a lot :) Cheers from Oliver
Pentatônica menor é a melhor 😍🎶🎶🎶
thanks for the lesson! 연주와 목소리가 듣기 좋아요
Very nice. Thank you !
Oliver I have a request. Can you do a video about the Barry Harris major 7th moves and minor 6 moves.
I have learned more watching your videos the way you teach is the way it should be you don’t rush and explain very good.
Thank you for your hard work.
Hi :) I must admit... I don't know so much about this technique - so we would be better off, if an expert on Barry Harris did the video... Cheers from Oliver
Thanks sir great lesson
Hi amazing lesson, thanks ..
I'm just confused cause you showed us how we can use the 3 finger pattern to form different scales But you have not really explained How to construct scales \ which note to play or maybe is that something you will do in another video?
Also I'm visually impaired so I don't know sometimes where you place your fingers and on which keys...
I am really sorry too I'm really sorry to point it out but default but I hope you understand my circumstance.
I really do enjoy and love all tour wonder lessons and really want to get the most out of them.
Thank you so much .
Hi :) I'm really glad for your input. You don't have to be sorry at all :) I've made this lesson about scales - maybe you'll find it useful.
th-cam.com/video/Vq2xt2D3e3E/w-d-xo.html
Best regards from Oliver
Very useful lesson. Thank you! 😊😊😊😊🎶🎶✔✔
Great lesson as always. I’ve been diving deeper to this minor pentatonic/dorian patterns to improvise over any key BUT, I was wondering what should I do if I want to improvise using exclusively the pentatonic scale, no Dorian or any church mode? I’ve noticed that when playing, let’s say Am pentatonic, if you transpose it a fifth to Em pentatonic you add the note B which does not belong to the pentatonic of Am, should I just omit it when playing in that position if I want to stick to Am and so on? Thank you ver much for your great teaching!
Hi and thanks a lot :) Well you can for example just use the 3 finger hand grip at 2 positions as we do from 01:09 to play the Gmi pentatonic scale; we place the thumb on 'g' and 'd' and we can play the Gmi pentatonic up and down the keys... Cheers from Oliver
just amazing. can you make a lesson for improving swing feel?
Hi :) Great suggestion. But I have so many requests - but I'll have it in mind for sure :) Best regards from Oliver
Thanks!. it could be nice to get some tip for the rhythm exercises
Hi :) In this playlist I've gathered some lessons with rhythmic exercises: th-cam.com/play/PLd8gNAxPUcJypWNs3rS9Xm7G0loUdTXtM.html
Cheers from Oliver
Thanks for another brilliant video Oliver :)
Would you consider making a full detailed video on tritone substitutions and substituting chords and also please explain the theory behind them?
Thank you for your consideration 🙏🏼
Hi and thanks a lot :) I’m so sorry but I have so many requests so I cannot promise - I hope that you understand... but thanks a lot for your input, I will have it in mind for sure :) Best regards from Oliver
@@NewJazz not at all! Thank you for making these awesome videos. Very much appreciated :)
Thanks...very good..🙏🧐🙏😊
you very serious really nice thank you i really appreciate God bless you
This is amazing Sir
Thank u lots
Fab lesson Oliver, hope your family is fine after what happened in CPH.. been thinking for some time now how about a lesson on how you do your runs ? you have some awesome lines and you play them fast, maybe other students would benefit to understand how you do these in slow motion and the fingering you use ? just a thought.. kind regards, Andrea
Hi and thanks a lot. And yes, we're fine, thanks again :) :) :) And great suggestion. I have some tricks for that for sure. But I have so many requests and plans for future lessons and it takes about 2 months to create each lesson - so I really hope you have some patience with me… Thanks a lot for your input. Cheers from Oliver
Until then you may want to check out this playlist;
th-cam.com/play/PLd8gNAxPUcJxX_Dcw3rofHuRCIbYacKgN.html
We do lots of phrases in slowmotion and it's all written down on sheet music.
Cheers from Oliver
Yes love those, my idea was more on the fingering.. can you notate the fingering with numbers above the keyboard ? Greetings from Lausanne
@@andreamolaschi5474 Ahh, I get it ;) Maybe this other vid about specific hand grip fingering exercises could be useful to you th-cam.com/video/BZNSDqrQ_rQ/w-d-xo.html
Cheers from Oliver
Greetings, I am amazed by your lessons, I am familiar with classical harmony and chords, I wish to learn to improvise in Jazz music, in which viewing order would you recommend that I watch and practice your lessons?
Thanks in advance, with great respect for your great effort and knowledge and contribution to Jazz music
Hi and thank you so much!!! You can start wherever you like. Start with something fun. Fun makes motivation - and motivation makes Music. I talk more about this approach on learning Music in this other video if you should be interested: th-cam.com/video/a735i7FZlmI/w-d-xo.html
At the front page of the NewJazz channel there are different entrances to the lessons: th-cam.com/users/newjazz
And at the “playlist tab” you’ll find even more categories/chunks of lessons: th-cam.com/users/newjazz/playlists
I really hope you’ll enjoy :) Cheers from Oliver
Just WOW!! Fan'freakin'tastic...