Ease Your Way Into Improvisation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Have you ever wondered how to take a piano solo? Or just any solo at all? You can't just jump right in and be a natural...but you can start small and build from there!
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Aimee Nolte
Starting at 4:43, Aimee plays some endings for the ii V I progression. Here is the transcription:
th-cam.com/video/tiLevQFHJE0/w-d-xo.html
The 'brushes on the snare' sound fooled me for a moment. That was a pretty good impersonation at 15:04. :-)
+arthurmee thanks Arthur! It's my best impersonation! Lol
I thought a beat had kicked in!
Holy crap that actually sounded really good. She should do her own brushes-piano ballad
Aimee, I like the insights that you are getting on what us new jazzers need. This was perfect for me!
I love how accurately and beautifully you sight sing. I could listen all day.
Oatmeal, just the nuts.... you're a natural improviser. Awesome stuff.
+Corley Kinnane 😂🙌🏼
Aimee.. I am not a piano player.. but I am learning so much from you... you are amazing!!!! Not many so talented can share and teach.....THANK YOU!!!
+Billy Vitale you are welcome, Billy. Thank you so much for watching
Aimee, you are the best teacher.
5:27 The only thing that surpasses dad jokes, mom jokes.
(Tbh I did laugh at it 😂)
+Youssef Rbahi oh brother 🙄😂
I almost couldn't believe my ears😂😂😂
This is the best beginner improvisation tutorial I've seen, Thank You!
Aimee, you are an amazing teacher! Thank you!
I've got a video that I put up long ago that deals specifically with the different melodic applications for chromaticism. In fact I believe it's my very first TH-cam vid I made. I haven't made any in about 3 years but I'm gonna get back to it soon. I love your videos, Amee. It's usually stuff I already know but I glean a lot of insight as a teacher from the different ways you present things. Thanks so much for your contributions.
Dear Aimee, Love your series - helping me fill a HUGE gap and get started on some fun. This clip addresses my biggest wishlist. I learned to play from pages, but not to understand or think about the keys in the way you describe, let alone be able to start jumping into something myself. Would love it if you could do a few more along this line of intro to impro! THanks.
"Always remember, you're wearing more than a hat and a belt."
You don't know me, piano Mom.
Piano mom😂😂😂😂
Thank you, thank you...that was fabulous. More please when it might work.
Outstanding vid!
Nice look at improv. Great suggestions. Will be adding this to my vault of ideas. Not originally a piano player (50 years as a trumpet player till one unfortunate accident) but love to accompany myself on piano and love your approach. Love to play along with you. Thank you so much for your channel. I think I'm falling in love. hahaha
Easy there, slugger. 😉 Thank you. 🙌🏼
You need to work on your picture hanging,🤣 but otherwise perfect.you nailed it perfectly for me. I want to play whats in my heart, Thanks🤷♂️.I love the way you teach.I can’t wait to look at the rest of your lessons.Thanks a million Aimee
this is exactly what i'm looking for, thanks
This was just what I needed! Thanks, Aimee!
GGrief..I can so relate to Gauraldi-landom..youre on to something Aims..spot on feeding us nuts..then some raisins..woop..purty soon..we might just be riffin it..LOL so love this tangent and nuts in my granola too)) this is from that same type who learned only to sight read way back when..classically trained...cant wait to get back my ivories and get in to 2-5-1 and someday learning that elusive circle of fifths as well..oh.my just love this..TY
Great,thanks!
Did... did piano mom just hit us with a DEEZ NUTZ😂😂😂
very nice aimee. Thank u . this is my favourite. Gracias
you are awesome thank you for helping us all so much
Great vid Aimee! Thank you.
I just found your channel. I love your channel.
I love your enthusiasm. You’re a bit too advanced for me. I don’t read music, but if you show me your fingers on the piano, I’d pick it up.
I would recommend looking at my playlists. It’s right next to the video tab on my TH-cam profile. Start with the playlist called “back to basics. “It’s more important to be using your ears than your eyes. I hope this helps. :-)
Hi Aimee. I get a lot out of your lessons (I’m a guitarist). You had video about transcribing software and I think you also had a software program that has standards already loaded. Could you direct me to that? Thanks!
You're so goofy. I love it!
+Ryan Jerzak 😝🙌🏼
It's hard to find good teachers where I live, if I had a teacher like you, I'd be playing for real! Now I'm just a mediocre self-taught don't really know how to play pianist.
5:28. Okay, you have my attention
YES...I clicked because there was an attractive women on the screen....BUT, I'm passed that now. This info/instruction is SO HELPFUL and so well presented. Thanks very much. I have subscribed...
Daaaa dadoo dee daaauuu magic solfeje
Nice video Aimee !
I had a lovely piano teacher from 4th grade to 12th, but she only taught how to read the sheet music. This is exactly my frustration. I just want to get away from the sheets and play what I feel.
Everybody to Aimee's house for Oatmeal and Music.
I hate teaching classical pianists how to improvise.....almost better off with a beginner and kids are definately more open to impro. Anyway...to help me I'm gonna use tips from this vid cause it's great ! Now we know how you stay so healthy looking too and get all you're mental energy from ! x
John Dobson still many jazz players have a classical background.
Awesome!
Brasil. Amazing
Good nuts. Wish I had the apples!
Cool, thanks a lot for sharing those nuts! Please give us the apples and raisins too some day! ;)
+Maikel Versantvoort 🙌🏼😂you got it
Lol "what if you don't have anything in your brain yet?" 🙋 really enjoying this video!
+ahjooma ha ha. Thank you!
Salt peanuts! Long time jazzer/teacher here, enjoy your fun approach :) #oatmealftw
You and Tony Winston have similar mannerisms, what level of jazz do I need to achieve to start talking like that
Forgive me if this has already been asked but when you're improvising, to what extent is the improvisation 'prepared'? In the sense that you already know how to play the melody, you know the key signature and any changes, you have decided on what chord progressions to use, etc --- or are you able to simply play straight away any song, "by instinct", spontaneously ?
Maybe watch my video about “what do you think about while improvising”
@@AimeeNolte many thanks! Just watched the vid, really appreciate how much you share about your music.
great chanel subbed
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Which oats do you eat?
What age did you start playing piano in general?
Like like like like
You are addictive.
How would I ease my way into oatmeal improvisation? Like, can I substitute another fruit for apple? Would that be an altered core?
OMG, thank you~. I am a classical pianist, and I always wanted to learn a little bit of jazz, but didn't know where to start. Your channel is amazing
DEES NUTS!! Hahaha i'm dead xD
+Typoopie 😏
11:15 was in doubt to mention it myself, wouldn;t have done it also :D
Vinyl Techno Trance Club Nuts, lick, classy chick, I'm done.😀 Did I just write a hit song?lol
Great video!
Yeah. I guess she's been hanging out with the guys. 'Here's an urban dictionary entry if one doesn't know what she's ultimately referring to. "A male's two most precious belongings, and the boast of his manhood. Usually when the phrase "deez nuts" is used it is to flaunt one's genital superiority to either gain a great laugh or just piss them off." Ha!
As a classically trained musician this is really insightful!!
I’ve been playing and teaching jazz for over 40 years. Aimee, thank you for your amazing videos. They are so much more accessible than almost any other teacher I have ever heard. Your mastery and clear love for the music are clearly evident. But beyond that, it’s your openness and honesty, your unpretentiousness, a dash of humor, and your conversational style that is so refreshing and engaging. Ok, I’ll just say it......you teach with the tenderness of a Mom teaching her own kids. Now, THAT’S special! Thanks for all you do,
Thank you so much 😊
These nuts are tremendous! Thank you for helping us Guaraldi fans!!! Love your videos!!!
Guaraldi is what has gotten into wanting to learn jazz piano!
Wow! That’s insane! That’s what I needed. Thanks, Aimee. I was like the guy you mentioned at the beginning of the video, and just with what you pointed out, I’m improvising all of a sudden! Just playing the chords in the left hand and just freely coming up with different licks and runs with the right hand that will sound better and better as I get better at doing it! That seems to be essentially improvising! Thank you so much! I needed this so much! 😄
This lady is beyond wonderful. She's witty, and inspirational.
i love it
agree!
Gosh she just needs to marry me 😍😜😁
Yep, totally hot
Emanuel Dominguez she is already married and has kids.
I found your channel about a month ago and now you've uploaded the exact video I need! More of this please Aimee...
+Glenn Broadway I'm so glad
You and Kent kewit are my two favorite jazz piano TH-camrs!! Thankyou Aimee for providing quality content! And also Thankyou for having such a smooth talking and singing voice
Aimee You are so generous and outstanding talented...it's a pleasure to feel so good the way You share your knowledge with all of us singing, playing piano and teaching...Thank You so much. Daniel Azulay - Rio de Janeiro - Ipanema - Brazil
I can't thank you enough for this, Aimee. I've been improving for years now and I always get stuck in a rut. When I do, I always make sure to come back to this video. It's a huge help. I also think we can use the major licks for relative minor keys! And probably vice versa...
Plus, I agree on the tip about both singing and playing. My high school piano teacher told me that if I can sing it, I can play it. I really like how you both touch upon bringing out something that's already within us. It's a very important principle that can be forgotten in jazz, music, and even life in general.
Jazz teachers are not created equal and you stood up from the rest. You make the complicated simple. Now, I'm going to play in a small Italian restaurant nearby. I'll start from a " happy birthday" piano Jazz 101. Thanks Professor Aimee.
Thank you, Aimee!!!! And please give us more of these. (from a thirsty beginner)
Wow, just found your video! I like your everything - will be searching for your other videos. Could say LOTS of things, but I'll just keep it to this particular video: you should have put a little teaser at the end of something way "out" there - if you get my drift (!) Me? My fingers have danced the classical for 60 years, yikes! PLUR
I have played piano for almost exactly 3 hours but I'm going to learn that first major lick, so I can put it in at the first opportunity I get
*Sees oatmeal* "Oh, Lawd"
*Hears description* "Okay!"
Hi Aimee,
a very very interesting video on improvisation. Could you please give us more musical food on this subjet
Thanks in advance
A nice pre-oatmeal gummie, eh? 😁
Immediately subscribed. You remind me so much of Amanda Bynes and Jennifer Aniston from the way you speak to look (& I am saying this in the most complimenting way!) I can’t believe our house cleaner Mrs. Sylvia introduced me to you! Thank you. I too play from sheet music but never knew how to “get foot in the door” for jazz. And your oat porridge looked delicious! Xx
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Wow! Really great lesson! I think one of the hardest things for beginning improvisers to do is starting a line. Easing into improvisation with these types of licks is great. As you were playing them over tunes I knew, I could hear where I would want to go next. So these help get the improvisation jump started, and if you know the tune (chords and melody), and you listen to a lot of jazz, your brain will begin to extrapolate out from the lick in a natural, almost automatic way. Really good stuff. Thanks.
+Silenced Phill what a smarty. Perfect.
so fun for the beginning improv, sight singing practice & maybe a few scat syllables as well. liked the way this was taught. thank you
Hello Aimee..Great stuff and very valid BUT I get folks asking me teach how them to improvise in jazz YET they've never listened to any. Huh?
I can start them off improvising but can't teach the sound, the feeling, the swing and very ethos of jazz.. They have do that for themselves. Jazz has got to 'hit them relentlessly between the eyes" before they can even begin to know what it is that they CAN'T do but burningly WANT to!
That takes long hours of leaving the instrument in its case and wrapping ears around the music from Buddy Bolden, via Armstrong to Marsalis, Morton to Art Tatum or Peterson and later, Coleman Hawkins to Michael Brekker, etc. etc. etc.. That, I don't need to tell YOU!
Thanks for your video. After 50 years of jazz playing, I can still learn from you because I know what I'm looking for. Voice of America ( and others) taught me that by Shortwave Radio in the late 1950s. Thank you Willis Conovor!
God Bless America!
This is unbelievably useful. Thanks.
Im making it a point to sing every note i hear before playing it on my instrument.. but sometimes , the notes fall out of my range and i find it physically impossible to find the note in my instrument. is there something i can do (i guess trying to sing an octave of it would work , but maybe something else)
Have you considered castration? No! I think singing it down an octave is your best bet. 😂🙌🏼
Love it and i dont jazz . This was so great
In my bass 'lesson' world, that triplet at 9:29 is known as a 'swing 16th' triplet... My rh fingers execute that feel more naturally. I'm saying you should do a Sounding Off with Rick Beato. And tell him to slow down the video production.... Can't keep up with all this valuable information!!
+ajadrew lol you tell him yourself! And it's in the stars...soon enough! Thx Aj
You are awesome and have helped me so much
GREAT video! Certainly following you and taking "lessons." Thanks for the tips. :)
This is so helpful. Thanks
Thank's great video, I like you, I'm looking forward to your other videos, "Subscribed" :)
Thanks so much
That was cool I am a intermediate guitar player with just enough skill to be dangerous to myself. And I think I totally got what you where talking about even though I don’t know anything about music theory. Correct me if I am wrong but I think you where showing how you can play fills between melody notes and between rhythms!???
Thanks for this, Amy. I am definitely not a jazzer - Rock and Hindustani (i.e., North Indian) Classical Music (and some Indian Carnatic Classical Music) are the main types of music that sustain me, although there are examples from all other types of music which I like (from jazz, through show songs, musicals, heavy metal). And I can only read the notes of the treble clef, and understand very rudimentary rhythm / timing (from my days playing appalling 2nd. violin in the school orchestra).
Guitar is my main instrument, and I am technically not very accomplished - i.e., I play the pieces that I play, but I always make mistakes. And I have clawed my way up to being able to work out chords to rock, blues, pop, and some simple jazz standards by having learned to play a couple of scales 'visually' and using those for improvisation. And now I am paying attention to chord tones and scaring myself by saying the 'A' word ('Arpeggio' - designed to instill fear in the hearts of self-taught rock guitarists such as myself).
AND YET, despite all of my shortcomings, and despite definitely not being a jazz player, I have really learned from the videos of yours that I have watched since I discovered your channel about a week ago. So, thank you.
By the way , I love 'Somewhere Beneath The Sea', which you played in this video, and had forgotten about that; kind of reminds me - in feel/atmosphere - of 'Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea'. George Harrison did a great version on his posthumous album 'Brainwashed'.
I'm a retired piano bar player with 50 years of playing for a living. I have an adult student who has been stuck trying to learn to improvise. So far, he hasn't been able to break away from the melody. I'm going to try some of your methods of getting the idea across to him. I think this will help. Thank you, very much.
adopt me. please.
Same lol
Aimee were not worthy
Watching Aimee's videos feels like chating with a friend about all those joyfull things we discover about music as a language.
Thank you. It would be nice if there were more videos on licks. I will try playing these over Amazing Grace adjusting for a 3/4 ...I will also try over 4/4 song or two....Thank you.
The birds are lovely. They’re singing along.
Aimee, your teaching method Is !!!AWESOME!!! I think I love you... I'll say It in french: Je t'aime 😍
You know??? I would like to get your whatssap number,,, seriously, I would love to learn a little bit more from you. I am giving piano classes to a christian church for free and I want to get better in piano so as me to become a better teacher. Thanks for your dedication in this kind of videos... Take care a lot...
PS: sorry for my bad English 😁😁😁
great teacher
Aimee Nolte. Most of the time, you seem a little Too Cute. It comes off as an annoying, phony affectation. Oatmeal? WTF?!!!! You have such a wealth of information to offer. Just be your real self!
Being able to read music is great and to traslate instantly what comes to your mind into play TOO, why having to choose if you can do both? Such as you perfectly do :-)
Deez nuts
Really like the idea of playing the licks around the circle of 4ths. Thanks for the suggestion!
Far too advanced for my skill level but a good target to shoot for, thanks Aimee.
tr cooking some Chia Seeds in your steel cut oatmeal OMG! Thanks for your videos I have been teaching myself for over 30 years
Even the brushes :D ...You got it all!
Be careful! Happy Birthday is very expensive to license! luckily no one pulled the video off yet :-p