Since i discovered this channel a few weeks ago I’ve spent 1-3 hrs a day playing the exercises and improv from several videos on this channel. I was literally practicing jazz from another video and see this one has popped up. To me this is as exciting as seeing a new episode of a favorite tv show has come out.
@@chrisjazzhands5373 thanks! It gets even better. Our daughter hasn’t ever played and last night I showed her the exercise from the first few minutes of Oliver’s “simple piano exercises for advanced jazz improv” and she got hooked. Very fun to watch her get so engaged with the piano that way.
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've been struggling with improv for the past year or so. This really helps move an engineers mind to one that is more creative. Using logic to understand that which is hidden within. Thank you!
Dude, your videos are helping so much in my own creativity, thank you and keep it coming, your voice also is extremely calming and easy to understand, big love sir
This lesson is a lot of resources for playing in the II V I progression that we can apply to other keys and progressions. Thank you very much once again Oliver.
Excellent; Propre, ludique et belle progression pédagogique. Bravo pour ce travail Excellent; Clean, fun and beautiful educational progression. Congratulations for this work
Hi Oliver, I think there is one more awesome topic for your presentation skills: The bebop scale, it's chord construction, block chords and drop 2, and alternative bebop scales that completes the scale to 8 notes, their unique 2 chords. I am sure you can come up with a magical approach. Because I think it provides rapid change to obtain sophisticated sound in improvisation, the world needs a new jazz video on this topic as a reference. Regards. U.
Hi :) Great suggestions. But I have just so many requests so I cannot promise - I hope that you understand… it takes about 2 months to create each lesson - when I'm about 200 years old we just may have it all, I guess haha… but thanks a lot for your relevant and qualified input, I’ll have it in mind for sure :)
What amazes me is how you know how to form these phrases! I've tried making them and I don't get it. So, I'm familiar with this Dm7/G7/CM7 pattern, but how do you know which notes to play with the right hand? How have you formed them? How did you choose the notes?
Hi :) Good question. I think by just fooling around with the hand grips, experimenting. Try to place a single random hand grip on the keys and maybe a keynote in the left hand and then just experiment with that grip - try out different finger sequences, have fun - and gradually I believe Music will come... Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz Thanks! Very interesting. This is another thing too - I like a small amount of wrongness. You know when a note is "wrong"? If it's only a little bit "wrong", it somehow sounds great. If it's too wrong though, it sounds bad. What a particular thing! If you get time, listen to a song called Roxanne by Sting. Listen to about 5 seconds in. There is some "wrongness" on piano, but somehow it's perfect! Anyway, I guess I have to just play around and see what happens...
Oliver, have you ever practiced till your fingers got sore? I got a new keyboard and Ive been playing a LOT and the tips of my pinkies hurt! The kboard is amazing! OH.. this lesson has kept me stimulated for the past week.
Great that you can use the phrases and walking bass. At some point in this other vid th-cam.com/video/B0GK-TMLYpg/w-d-xo.html about finger technique and playing fast, we talk about how to relax in the hand and fingers while playing. Maybe you wanna check it out ;) Cheers from Oliver
I love your polymeric ideas in you bass notes against your melody lines do you have any more advanced practice ideas . Ty so much your teaching open up so many great ideas for soloing.
Hi and thanks a lot :) Actually I think you should 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 Enjoy :) Cheers from Oliver
Oliver...jeez this is timely. I've discovered that the more I learn, that faster I learn, kind of like the big bang expansion, it keeps increasing logarithmically. In 18 months i've moved mountains and yet see another range ahead. My mentor, Jessica Williams, passed a month ago. I didn't get to tell her things ...which makes me sad.
I'm so glad that I've started a big bang expansion for you. And I'm so sad about your mentor; a great jazz pianist and composer!!! Warm regards from Oliver
Three days ago this was incomprehensible. Then it was as if the clouds cleared away!~yes! it's just a simple 2-5-1 like the one that's on my cheat sheet of all the 2-5-1s. Let my nimble fingers activate muscle memory while my mind chuckles along going d-gmin-Cmaj! etc.
Hey Oliver, thanks, you have created a wonderful resource. Music IS the centre of everything. Could you tell me which midi programme you’re using? I’d like to be able load an exercise and get red/ green feedback. Oh also….please make an audiobook of you reading from lord of the rings, or the Sagas. Great storytelling voice.. ;-)
Thanks a lot :) :) :) My DAW is Presonus Studio One and I use this piano sound: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keys/the-grandeur/ Lord of the Rings are coming up hahaha.... Cheers from Oliver
New machine that writes what you play? I tried one & couldn't read what I played when it showed the score. (something about justification with the time feel?) YOU put in the Jazz phrasing & it's sounding great. I was swinging like crazy but it was like a Classical version. Never mind, a couple of buttons & it's worked out.. Thanks for another great Music lesson.
How about a video with spicy chord progression or substitutions to 2-5-1 where you aply all the different types of scales :D like a "be open minded" video :D ? Hello from Greece Oliver :D
Hi :) You may wanna check out this other vid: th-cam.com/video/Vq2xt2D3e3E/w-d-xo.html It's about scales, but occasionally we also try them out on 2-5-1 progressions... Cheers from Oliver
Hi :) Can you elaborate a little - my translator made a funny sentence out of your question, so I'm not totally sure about what you mean... Many regards from Oliver
@@NewJazz 🤣🤣🤣 ok! realmente está escrito errado minha pergunta perdão, ''eu perguntei que você tem muitos vídeos por onde eu começo'' e muito obrigada por ter me dado atenção sou brasileira e não falo seu idioma
Hahaha, now the translation makes more sense ;) Well, each lesson can be seen individually and they are actually not meant for the purpose of being watched in a specific order. So the idea is that you just zap around and choose whatever interests you. Many lessons start up easy and then they get harder and harder. So if a lesson becomes too difficult (or weird) you just skip that lesson and make a fresh start with another one. That’s the main idea!!! I talk more about this way of learning Music in this video: th-cam.com/video/a735i7FZlmI/w-d-xo.html But anyway, I’ve made this playlist trying to sort the videos in a suggested order: th-cam.com/play/PLd8gNAxPUcJw1DmmWooCWx_jgKzgBfYGp.html Many regards from Oliver (I hope all this makes sense in your translator my dear Brazilian friend)
Oliver muito obrigada pelo esclarecimento foi uma honra lhe contatar espero que eu aprenda com suas aulas é a melhor que eu encontrei imagina 62 anos resolvi aprender piano muito obrigada de coração me chamo MARIMAR
Hi Oliver I like this non-tonal approach it’s very liberating! I see you use a penta-based grip and a chromatic-based grip. In Cmaj7 they are very easy but do you have any tips for transposing the same concept in other keys? Or maybe it is the topic of next video?
Hi Francesco :) Yes exactly, you've got it - the next video will be about just that. It should be done by the end of May... I surely hope that you can wait that long ;) Warm regards from Oliver
I have ten fingers. The piano has…really… twelve notes plus octaves therefrom. I tell my fingers each day “land somewhere new. Somewhere you’ve never been. If it sounds good then lead me forward. IF it does not. We go again. Ten fingers. Twelve notes and octaves. Fingers: spread yourselves newly. Knuckle middle finger rise a bit. Good. Now…listen. OK? send five left fingers to the lowest octave teach them where they belong repeat the patterns repeat the patterns bring the fingers back up then throw them like dice at the keyboard let them fly repeat the patterns over time they know things acquire sense and pitch before my ears know before my brain knows my fingers know.
Thank you so much for your very generous voluntary “super thanks” donation - you help keep me going for sure!!! I'm very grateful :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver
This the best music teacher online period. No one gives you this much info you can apply immediately. They always try to sell you on their course
Since i discovered this channel a few weeks ago I’ve spent 1-3 hrs a day playing the exercises and improv from several videos on this channel. I was literally practicing jazz from another video and see this one has popped up. To me this is as exciting as seeing a new episode of a favorite tv show has come out.
Inspiring comment. Makes me want to do the same.
@@chrisjazzhands5373 thanks! It gets even better. Our daughter hasn’t ever played and last night I showed her the exercise from the first few minutes of Oliver’s “simple piano exercises for advanced jazz improv” and she got hooked. Very fun to watch her get so engaged with the piano that way.
@@rickrocketts183 best wishes with your daughter’s music education. Great thing.
Simply the best teacher!... I miss your videos...thank you Oliver!
Thanks a lot. Working on the next one... Cheers from Oliver
The beautiful Fender Rhodes sound reminds me of my beloved 'Ohio Players' ♥️ ❤️ 💖 Beautiful artistry, Mr. Prehn !
The Jazz Master strike again with his magic knowledge. Thank you Oliver.
Thanks so much for this
Danke!
Thank you so much for your voluntary donation and support - you help keep me going for sure :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your voluntary donation and support - you help keep me going for sure :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver
Sir Oliver
Most Excellent.
In my humble opinion you are absolutely the best teacher on TH-cam.
Thank you for sharing.
agree
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
Thanks so much Oliver.What a pleasure to follow your content
wow you amazing Mr, i really appreciate you so much God Bless you sir May you Live long in good health and wellness
very very much helpful Mr,
Thank YOU Oliver, and best wishes from Argentina!
I'm loving this. I am a guitar player. I can see some real colorful lines here and I will try them on the guitar. Thank you !
Terima kasih sudah memberikan ilmu nya jazz...
thanks..
Thank you Oliver.....you are amazing 👏 💖
There's a lot of great information to be gathered here. Thank you, as always, Oliver!
I've been struggling with improv for the past year or so. This really helps move an engineers mind to one that is more creative. Using logic to understand that which is hidden within. Thank you!
thank you very much! what a great channel!
Your videos are amazing. Thank you so much. Greetings from Chile!
thanks you for evrything 🙏🙏🙏
Dude, your videos are helping so much in my own creativity, thank you and keep it coming, your voice also is extremely calming and easy to understand, big love sir
The best teacher ❤️
God bless you
Oliver, you have the most relaxing voice!
YOU ARE AMAAAAZING!!! You help us all a ton!
Gracias maestro
A nouveau une magnifique leçon. Merci.
Tolle Lektion wie immer von Dir! Danke fürs posten!
This lesson is a lot of resources for playing in the II V I progression that we can apply to other keys and progressions. Thank you very much once again Oliver.
This is a great instruction! Thank you for sharing!
Excellent, thank's.
Thank you, this is great!!!
I'm jumpin on ex. 10 . Thanx !
Your lessons are great. Cheers.
Excellent; Propre, ludique et belle progression pédagogique. Bravo pour ce travail
Excellent; Clean, fun and beautiful educational progression. Congratulations for this work
Calm and good for creative work. Great music, thanks for these great mixes
Hi Oliver,
I think there is one more awesome topic for your presentation skills: The bebop scale, it's chord construction, block chords and drop 2, and alternative bebop scales that completes the scale to 8 notes, their unique 2 chords.
I am sure you can come up with a magical approach.
Because I think it provides rapid change to obtain sophisticated sound in improvisation, the world needs a new jazz video on this topic as a reference.
Regards.
U.
Hi :) Great suggestions. But I have just so many requests so I cannot promise - I hope that you understand… it takes about 2 months to create each lesson - when I'm about 200 years old we just may have it all, I guess haha… but thanks a lot for your relevant and qualified input, I’ll have it in mind for sure :)
Your videos has helped me alot, thanks for sharing!
amazing...love n appreciate your vids
👍⭐Very Useful & Great💯👌Thanks for this and all ✌💐🌹☮💞🙏
I am making new music from learning a few from this channel. He is amazing, learning jazz you can play any genre
What amazes me is how you know how to form these phrases! I've tried making them and I don't get it. So, I'm familiar with this Dm7/G7/CM7 pattern, but how do you know which notes to play with the right hand? How have you formed them? How did you choose the notes?
Hi :) Good question. I think by just fooling around with the hand grips, experimenting. Try to place a single random hand grip on the keys and maybe a keynote in the left hand and then just experiment with that grip - try out different finger sequences, have fun - and gradually I believe Music will come... Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz Thanks! Very interesting. This is another thing too - I like a small amount of wrongness. You know when a note is "wrong"? If it's only a little bit "wrong", it somehow sounds great. If it's too wrong though, it sounds bad. What a particular thing! If you get time, listen to a song called Roxanne by Sting. Listen to about 5 seconds in. There is some "wrongness" on piano, but somehow it's perfect! Anyway, I guess I have to just play around and see what happens...
@@AntonyCartwright Yes, you're so right!!! Enjoy your work and 'play around'!!! Cheers from Oliver
So great!
Oro puro. Gracias Maestro.
Love u sir from india
Liked, shared and subscribed. Some fun licks!
Bit of Bernie Warrol would be cool :)
Absolutely loved this, thank you💜
Спасибо большое!
Oliver, have you ever practiced till your fingers got sore? I got a new keyboard and Ive been playing a LOT and the tips of my pinkies hurt! The kboard is amazing! OH.. this lesson has kept me stimulated for the past week.
I REALLY want to walk bass, so this is very interesting indeed.
Great that you can use the phrases and walking bass. At some point in this other vid th-cam.com/video/B0GK-TMLYpg/w-d-xo.html
about finger technique and playing fast, we talk about how to relax in the hand and fingers while playing. Maybe you wanna check it out ;) Cheers from Oliver
Fantastic! Wish we had a midi track of this awesome playing!
Hi :) I can try to export a midi file - if you're interested... Cheers from Oliver
Top!!!
I love your polymeric ideas in you bass notes against your melody lines do you have any more advanced practice ideas . Ty so much your teaching open up so many great ideas for soloing.
I love your video, so can y help me, let’s me known, Where do I start learning? Thank you
Hi and thanks a lot :) Actually I think you should 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
Enjoy :) Cheers from Oliver
Oliver...jeez this is timely. I've discovered that the more I learn, that faster I learn, kind of like the big bang expansion, it keeps increasing logarithmically. In 18 months i've moved mountains and yet see another range ahead. My mentor, Jessica Williams, passed a month ago. I didn't get to tell her things ...which makes me sad.
I'm so glad that I've started a big bang expansion for you. And I'm so sad about your mentor; a great jazz pianist and composer!!! Warm regards from Oliver
Extraordinario ear training
Three days ago this was incomprehensible. Then it was as if the clouds cleared away!~yes! it's just a simple 2-5-1 like the one that's on my cheat sheet of all the 2-5-1s. Let my nimble fingers activate muscle memory while my mind chuckles along going d-gmin-Cmaj! etc.
❤️❤️❤️
What EP sound and settings are you using? To me the attack and the dynamics sound very good with lots of expression.
Hi :) I use this vst from Native Instruments: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keys/scarbee-mark-1/ Cheers from Oliver
Hey Oliver, thanks, you have created a wonderful resource. Music IS the centre of everything. Could you tell me which midi programme you’re using? I’d like to be able load an exercise and get red/ green feedback. Oh also….please make an audiobook of you reading from lord of the rings, or the Sagas. Great storytelling voice.. ;-)
Thanks a lot :) :) :) My DAW is Presonus Studio One and I use this piano sound: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keys/the-grandeur/
Lord of the Rings are coming up hahaha....
Cheers from Oliver
You rock 🪨 🌎 🎶 ☮️ ❤️
New machine that writes what you play? I tried one & couldn't read what I played when it showed the score. (something about justification with the time feel?) YOU put in the Jazz phrasing & it's sounding great. I was swinging like crazy but it was like a Classical version. Never mind, a couple of buttons & it's worked out.. Thanks for another great Music lesson.
Where can I purchased this tool?
❤❤❤👍👍👍
cool
How about a video with spicy chord progression or substitutions to 2-5-1 where you aply all the different types of scales :D like a "be open minded" video :D ? Hello from Greece Oliver :D
Hi :) You may wanna check out this other vid: th-cam.com/video/Vq2xt2D3e3E/w-d-xo.html
It's about scales, but occasionally we also try them out on 2-5-1 progressions...
Cheers from Oliver
could you arrange the famous or good jazz songs for singing please , I don't find good things to practice in youtube😔😔
Hi :) Good question - I'm not an expert on the classic 'singing' tunes though. I hope that others more qualified will help you... Cheers from Oliver
Você tem muitos vídeos poro de começo?
Hi :) Can you elaborate a little - my translator made a funny sentence out of your question, so I'm not totally sure about what you mean... Many regards from Oliver
@@NewJazz 🤣🤣🤣 ok! realmente está escrito errado minha pergunta perdão, ''eu perguntei que você tem muitos vídeos por onde eu começo'' e muito obrigada por ter me dado atenção sou brasileira e não falo seu idioma
Hahaha, now the translation makes more sense ;) Well, each lesson can be seen individually and they are actually not meant for the purpose of being watched in a specific order. So the idea is that you just zap around and choose whatever interests you. Many lessons start up easy and then they get harder and harder. So if a lesson becomes too difficult (or weird) you just skip that lesson and make a fresh start with another one. That’s the main idea!!! I talk more about this way of learning Music in this video: th-cam.com/video/a735i7FZlmI/w-d-xo.html
But anyway, I’ve made this playlist trying to sort the videos in a suggested order: th-cam.com/play/PLd8gNAxPUcJw1DmmWooCWx_jgKzgBfYGp.html
Many regards from Oliver
(I hope all this makes sense in your translator my dear Brazilian friend)
Oliver muito obrigada pelo esclarecimento foi uma honra lhe contatar espero que eu aprenda com suas aulas é a melhor que eu encontrei imagina 62 anos resolvi aprender piano muito obrigada de coração me chamo MARIMAR
❤️🌹
Hi Oliver I like this non-tonal approach it’s very liberating! I see you use a penta-based grip and a chromatic-based grip. In Cmaj7 they are very easy but do you have any tips for transposing the same concept in other keys? Or maybe it is the topic of next video?
yes, this techniquely is widely explained in his videos, check his channel... excellent
Hi Francesco :) Yes exactly, you've got it - the next video will be about just that. It should be done by the end of May... I surely hope that you can wait that long ;) Warm regards from Oliver
After exposing myself to a certain cannabinoid the slo motion stuff just seems normal.
You did a tremendous job I send you a symbolic 1 USD for that - the only thing that drives me crazy is when you talk with your hands ; )
Thanks a lot, and sorry about the talking hands (but we really don't need to look at my funny face as well haha). Cheers from Oliver
🙂
Ah yea
I have ten fingers.
The piano has…really…
twelve notes plus octaves therefrom.
I tell my fingers
each day
“land somewhere new. Somewhere
you’ve never been. If it sounds good
then lead me forward. IF it does not.
We go again.
Ten fingers. Twelve notes and octaves.
Fingers: spread yourselves newly. Knuckle middle finger
rise a bit. Good.
Now…listen. OK?
send five left fingers to the lowest octave
teach them where they belong
repeat the patterns repeat the patterns
bring the fingers back up
then throw them like dice
at the keyboard let them fly
repeat the patterns over time
they know things acquire sense and pitch
before my ears know
before my brain knows
my fingers know.
I do everything for free, but if you want to give me money, I will take it, LOL.
Exactly! That's my business model LOL.
Cheers from Oliver
2nd😆
Bass not very clear.Also left hand u playing very short quavers.
Oh yes, sorry about the simplified bass notation. I've focused on the right hand in this lesson... I hope you'll manage anyway... Cheers from Oliver
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your very generous voluntary “super thanks” donation - you help keep me going for sure!!! I'm very grateful :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver