Jazz Tutorial: Take The A Train (Solo Piano)
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- This is my very simple method for how to start playing solo jazz piano. After watching this video, players should be able to take care of the melody, the comping and the bass line, all by themselves.
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Wonderful ! Aimee I learn something new ..
I learn something every time I watch your videos. You're a wonderful teacher! Thank you so much!
Clean and clear explanation. Very nicely done. Thanks for sharing.
I am amazed at how much information you imparted in under 9 minutes. I have paid good money for a one hour lesson that didn't deliver half as much as you did in this vid. You are doing a really good thing in helping us wannabes, and all I can offer in return is to promise to pay it forward whenever I get the chance. Request: My buddy and I have a nice 2-guitar arrangement of Gerry Mulligan's "Line for Lyons", but I haven't been able to come up with a piano arrangement that works for me. Do you know the tune, and is it piano friendly?
David Gerber Yes!! I'm so glad it was helpful! That's the goal. Hmm I'm not familiar with that tune but I will take a listen and think about it. Thanks again!
David Gerber I take that back. I am completely familiar with the song. I just forgot what it was called! Of course, it is a very piano friendly tune. What would you like to know for me?
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Thank you so much for this tutorial!
Wonderful instructions.....I'm almost sorted out with this classic..... it's all in the endless but worthwhile practicing...After this I want to start on 'Jordu'.... I don't think you've tackled this one yet... but would love it if you ever do! Thanks for everything Aimee.
I like Aimee, You very good explain all abaut music ,chords, improvisation, you very sweet person, Leason song Aimee C`EST SIBON, Laura Fygi very good arr. and harmony.Thanks..
One of the great things about a really good piano teaching channel (and this is one of the best) is that, as your skill level progresses, you circle back around to the "if only I could" links and find out that, yeah baby, you can, you can.
Hi Aimee,
All of us wish you were our first Jazz piano teacher. Would've saved us all that time on the couch from all the macho sadists that teach jazz. No Whiplash here.
+duncan meyer ❤️🙏🏼
Great job Aimee. Do you thing you could do a simple improv using just chord tones over this song. Actually you did it at the end of the video.Thanks for all you do.
Thanks, great tutorial!
Hello Aimee, I am wondering why you didn't include the characteristic intro. Thx
I so wish I could get the piano sheet music for this version Aimee, I love it!
+Kevin Collins maybe I'll make one. Good idea
Looking for dissonant "A train" chords - here is the master at work - th-cam.com/video/SJn4XMV9_Ns/w-d-xo.html
Aimee: With me, it isn't learning the walking base that's the problem; it's being able to keep it going whilst my right hand does something different. The second I try to bring in the right hand the left just stops. I guess it's like raising just one eyebrow; one can either do it or not! Thanks for trying to help me. I suppose I should sell the keyboard because I am never going to 'split' my mind!
Great tutorial, amazing! Grazie mille! :)
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Gracias!!!
Aimee your chat is as cool as your jazz! Thanks for all these- they're awesome!
I like the turn around you play going into the bridge. I recently discovered that same one on my ukulele, Bb-D-F-A to Bb-Db-E-A (Gm9 to C7b913). Can you do a video on cool, altered ii-V's like that? Another great video, thank you!
You are such a talented lady ! It's amazing !
I'm kinda starting out on the piano (I'm a guitar guy) and I just wanted to say "Thank you" for these AMAZING videos. So many of them! 2019 is gonna be good.
Great, thanks. For anyone interested in hearing a really cool version of this song, check out Michel Pettruciani solo version.
Exactly how I teach it, too! How cool that people can learn with video tools like this now. Keep up the good work!
Just found out your channel Aimee. What a great collection of video and lessons... so well explained clear and clean. Thanks!
Giuseppe Chisari thanks so much! 🙌🏼
very helpful, thanks. What words did you put in the youtube search for people to find your youtube video?
Merci beaucoup Aimee.
J'ai appris quelques chose d'important .
Aimee with that swing I can tell you have an imaginary rhythm guitar strummin' in your head. From my '70's generation we'd say you're Far Out!
Really good song for piano Solo
Viva La Duke !
I wunder why we didn’t get 20 fingers in each Hand 🤚?
The life time music 🎶 I love ❤️ it
The sounds of my heart
Felicidades y muchas gracias por tus lecciones. Me encantan.
Jacinto Campello Quirant de nada. 🙏🏼🙌🏼
to me it's not really one of the easiest standards. it has this ragtime shuffle to it, so that the melodic flow never really got stuck in my head. you need at least two indipendent hands that know what their respective job is:D
At least two hands? How many do you have? Can you use your toes? 😀
I would like to get score pdf. Please lemme know how to ? Thank you.
You are so positive! And thank you for the interesting music videos and information!
kukuzeno you're so nice. Thank you.
Outstanding and very informative. Have to work on bass line!! Great job Aimee.
Dave Hanrahan you are welcome, Dave! Thanks for the comment!
Humility is a virtue, and you are a "Virtuosa" in spirit & skill! Thank you for the lesson!
5:15 Is the part of the G alt in right hand also working as a Bb half diminished? If yes, is it intentional?
Regarding the chord progression, I was wondering what C6 and F6 truly represent (as I see them on my sheet). Couldn't C6 and F6 respectively be played as Amin7 and Dmin7 in first inversion? I'm a bit confused as why they chose C6 instead of Cmaj7.
I know it's an old video but I'm back to the basics and trying to decipher as much stuff as I can :) Anyway, thanks for the video Aimee!
Good call about the crazy G7 chord! Not intentional. Also, a major six chord has a very settled feeling. There is more dissonance in a major seven chord, which can leave you feeling not as settled.
It's a Db not a D natural. The Duke would not appreciate that.
Thank you for pointing that out! If you're gonna give a "jazz tutorial" at least play the head correctly. Soooo many people miss that Db 😐
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The lick that starts at 7:22 is sooooooo smoking!! Love it - thanks so much Aimee !
+Dervish Capkiner thanks!!
As always I'm so happy after each of your videos! A quick question: the way I learned to voice the first C chord is 7935. I see that you put a 13 on the bottom. Sounded great! A teacher of Jazz piano at Laney College in Oakland,CA said you are suppose to mostly have a 3rd or a 7 as the bottom note of the voicing but I guess that was for not so advanced players. His explanation sounded right. He said because the 3rd and the 7th are such important notes they should be closest to the root in your left hand. Probably a good way for beginners. I love your teaching and sound!
The way I understood it is if you have a base player, he/she handles the root but without a bass player it might be good to use the root on your left hand at least once it a while. Sometime rootless chords can make you feel like something is missing. But not always.
Love it, Brilliant
Thank you for posting x
God I wish you could give me piano lessons
Aimee, this is a great lesson! Thank you so much!
You use the walking bass ( notes of tonality ) and melody with voicings jazz 7935 3579 around right??
I do have some videos about voicings for comping. I tend to use 379 and 13 instead of five except for on minor chords.
some solid playing! thank you!
Easy song? Funny. Can't do walking bass lines, my brain explodes! How about straight chords and let a bass player to that other stuff?
I’ve got plenty of comping videos. Sometimes you gotta play solo tho! :)
Sorry Amy but I can't see whar your fingers are doing. Why not invest in a camera which films from straight above you? Thank you.
Ulrich Willy Reusser everybody has a different opinion about this. Some people love this view and other people love the overhead view. I try to switch it up.
Aiime these is juAnito again I'm here there is no one thT I so teacher about ear learning style which I want to learn I had no more ti.e to study notes just chords and lyrics I'm not akid anymore by watching ching you tube and the chord and lyrics are good enough T least I know i know I on the right track on what I'm doing these the second day I saw you in you tube I I'm in Florida I just wanna know what I'm doing is at least ok give me information to enroll pls. TY
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There’s nothing to enroll in. Just a TH-cam channel to watch. :)
Hi Aimee, thank you for sharing this tutorial! I learned a lot from it. You've made the complicated look simple and easy to grasp! I would love to see more solo piano tutorials like this from you. Thanks again! 👍
Key of brink sure! Thanks for the note!
god are you something else.just found your site.brilliant..............i love it...........back to my el90 and then tyros 5.why dont i sound the same as you do ? andre eastwood (worcester uk)
Version Michael Petruciani ?
Hi Aimee, do you happen to have the sheet music to your arrangement. I'm kinda a visual person. :-)
Stunning! I am just a 'simple' keyboard player but learn so much from your videos. And it was really by accident that I stumbled upon your great videos. Love, love, love it !!!
When I see you play it reminds me of the great improv actress Elaine May. She hitch-hiked to Chicago from LA to join Second City at age 18. Don't know why but you seem to have those kind of guts.too.
inspiring as always! :)
Usted es muy linda
This is incredible but typical awesomeness for you Aimee. So much helpful instruction. You're the best!
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w00t i wanna learn this now.
do you know easy songs that are great to play in background music to learn?
Could you please do a video on how to play just the basics of Take The A Train so that I can understand this better? Other than that Very good video!
Hi Aimee, you'll probably never get this question but I noticed you play an "A" natural on the D7 b5 chord. Why is that? Is the real book chart wrong? Are you seeing the g sharp as a sharp 4 instead?
You're very good. I wish you would shoot from above so we could see your hand positions and leads better.
As a music type, Jazz is so weird: the more color you put into it, the more grey it becomes...
Strayhorn just following Duke's directions
Tune it
Nice!! How do you select notes for comping??
+Viplav kumar singh watch my videos about comping. ;)
what kind of scale is the soloing? and are the tones that seems to me as the blue tones, part of the scale or just blue tones.
Good lesson. I like this. Teach Me please
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Hi Aimee... I would like to ask..... on the second part of your solo where you restarted, did you return to the C chord or did you continue the solo over the 4 bars of the F chord?
Return for sure...but it’s all a repeat
@@AimeeNolte Thank you Aimee !
cool lesson. that F note need some teflon powder dought 😉
Hi Aimee-
GREAT video. Had never thought of that little right hand clever trick of exchanging finger for the pinkie to sustain the melody note to free up more right hand fingers as they slide left for trumpet/bone punches, etc. whilst the pinkie sustains the melody note.
A bit awkward. And made me wonder something: I know jazzers stay off the muddying sustain pedal no technique crutch for crispness and fear of sounding like the little blue haired piano lady at a charity event.
But... couldn't the sustain pedal be used just this once (honest ! No more !) to buy more time to shift right hand position downward and then release it and resume that sustained melody note with the pinky ? The swap technique kinda reminds me of octopus organ technique which I HATED, since organ notes have ZERO residual sustain unless of course you are playing in a cathedral...
All the best and keep 'em comin',
Bob
Hi Aimee ! Please can you help me with tune A fine romance ?
Hi Aimee
Great video once again - I haven't watched this one before.
My right thumb (and also my left one) isn't as flexible as yours - I can't bend them back any further than a straight 180 degrees. Will it affect my technique and ability to solo?
No way. You’re fine. ;)
Hey,
I want to get more into soloing and wondered what you are thinking during your solos (e.g. at 7:21). Arpeggios, scales, the key, target tones, chromatic passing tones, ...? If you made a video about that topic (I didn't found) please tell me the title :)
+Domi Nik I talk about it in so many videos, Domi. Search for my name and the words "solo " and "improvise". You will find answers! :)
I meant "I have to work on my bass line". Sorry!
Nice video. Like seeing people who follow in Lennie Tristano's footsteps with the walking bassline LH. Been working on that for years and still going. One of my favourite ways to play solo piano or for singers. Cheers from up north in Canada.
markwest1987 thanks, Mark! 👊🏼
You are a darling
Excellent dommage que le piano ne soit pas accordé ! Merci quand même.
Meravigliosa
You are SOOO talented and ingelligent!!!
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I love this piece thank you Ms. Nolte!!
Really enjoying these tutorials - thank you
Gorgeous xx
Your videos are something else. :D
Extraordinary!
Love your approach! Thank you so much.
You are awesome
Great!!
I notice you slide into notes frequently. I have had teachers advise me not to do this. What are your thoughts?
+antonio thomas some of my favorite singers are very slidey. I try to be very cognizant of when I do it and I also try hard to not do it at times. I love a combination of both. Teachers will never tell you it's ok. I think you need to decide who you are and what you like and be very thoughtful about your singing and habits.
thanks, learned something :)
Why do you play your bassline so high?
Could you give me the link to the video with the bass line tutorial? I cant find it. Thanks
It’s the first video in my “how to accompany yourself” playlist
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Aimee, you left out the intro..the part that sounds like the dissonant opening in the recording, it's that signature lick
Is that the part where the root note rolls backs to the 3rd twice 8n succession? Edcbag# edcbag#g#
Right hand is cool 👏👏👏
I really want to know how to play the whole tone scale at the beginning. Anyone know how?
CDEF#G#Bb :)
Great!!!
Alexandre Silvério thanks!