PRACTICAL SHORTCUT to play all the MELODIC MINOR MODES
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- A thrilling but easy method to play all the melodic minor modes right away. We'll start playing without thinking!!! Later on we'll talk music theory and we'll expand our horizon a bit. This lesson starts up easy and ends up more advanced...
By the way, you may have noticed that occasionally I 'slide' the right hand ring finger from a black to a white key. This sliding black key is just an extra (blue) note coloring our sound. I forgot to mention that in the lesson - sorry about that :)
- This other lesson explains more about the left hand grip in use (also named grip 2) and what it can be used for: • Left hand chords: "Dom...
- This playlist contains more about all the three left hand grips (grip 1, grip 2 & grip 3) that we can use to play almost any expanded jazz chord: • 3 GRIPS to do the JAZZ...
- If you wanna dig deeper into the right hand triad grip, check out this playlist: • The MAJOR TRIAD hand grip
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Index:
00:00 Intro & Demo
01:31 Left Hand Locomotive
03:03 Right Hand Wagon
05:28 Move the Locomotive
07:43 Move the Locomotive once more
09:46 Melodic minor
11:53 Dorian b2
13:50 Lydian Augmented
15:26 Lydian Dominant
16:45 Aeolian Major
18:41 Half Diminished
20:14 Altered
21:51 A Practical little Trick
24:33 Thanks a lot for Everything
Hi dear fellow Musicians. The techniques learned in the lesson above I use for example in this funky modal ‘train’ jam: ua-cam.com/video/5S4B0uXdwEE/v-deo.html
Fabricio Pereira on the Bass
Erik Frandsen on the Drums
Me on the Piano ;)
I hope you’ll enjoy :) Many warm regards from Oliver Prehn
You play beautiful my friend!
Good insight! 45 years olde jazz-lover, here; first year on keyboards, thanking you, sir.
I remember when you told us that you had left your job to do this full time. I'm so glad you have almost 200k subscribers.
@@gatolocomclay Thanks a lot :) I still have to drive the citybus - but only about one day a week ;) Warm regards from Oliver
"The less you think, the better you play" very valuable advice sir, thank you
This is pure gold.
The friendly man who made beautiful piano exercises and complex harmony accessible.
This is the best jazz piano channel ever
Dear Oliver, your teaching is always pure gold and so enjoyable... Many Blessings, Max T.
I'm a guitar player that never played piano before, I started watching your videos and now I'm about to get a piano and start learning all because of you, thank you Oliver, you are my inspiration!
Greetings from Italy!
Best piano teacher here on youtube. Easy to understand. And it opens doorways in the mind and allows you to create new things. I always find myself with more freedom to play after watching these.
Awesome. I have had _so much fun_ with many of your previous lessons.
I'm an advanced beginner, and people think I've been playing for eons.
I've been watching since 2020 and you are absolutely the best teacher I've encountered.
Thank you again for taking time out of your busy day to explain how to play piano, you are so good, Blessings to you and your family! !!
This hitch and wagon analogy is elegant thank you
The less you think, the better you play, so use handgrips, learn theory but don't let it hinder your playing. Best advice 👌💖 An instructor sent from heaven, Thanks a lot Mr Oliver.
"I often don´t know what scale I´m playing"after 10 years studing music is the first time I heard some thing that´s really music to my ears!Oh my God tha´s just fantastic God bless to you Oliver.
Oliver, you're unbelievable. As a classical cat, I'm awed.
Oliver Prehn is the Bible of the Music.
No, he‘s the Jesus.
How about Einstein explaining Newton‘s stuff?
Hope more people make donations to support your great lessons!!
Didn't realize that it can be played like that . Pure genius
Thank you Oliver! Nobody teaches the modes like you do, and it's terrific!
Stuck around to the end to get the final result and the convenient trick to wrap it all up nicely. It'll take me several weeks (and several viewings) to fully digest everything in this video. Thanks for making music education free, Oliver!
Easily the best theory video I've watched, hands down. Almost 20 years of playing and studying, and this was wonderfully presented. Most importantly, the playing and your attitude sold me. Instant Sub!
Thank you so much :) :) :) Warm regards from Oliver
Your hand grip approach is so great man. Makes it easy to play musical w/o even thinking about it. Sets me free...! Thank you so much!
I LOVE your sound Oliver! I've been following your guides over the past year and my piano skills have improved tremendously. Thanks!
Excellent video !! As a guitar player, I use a grip on the guitar that corresponds to Oliver's piano grips and find many useful ideas for improvisation ...Thanks Oliver for your great insights !!
When someone wants to learn some new technique, here is the correct place 👍❤☠❤👍
Wow, I really love that teaching because it put me in a mindset of jazz piano and r&b piano.
I LOVE your lessons! Your voice and cadence is so calming and pleasant. Thank you for doing this channel!! I am learning so much and in better ways than I've ever heard!
You are a wonderful teacher
Man! Look what you have done to me!!! I wanna play piano every time I watch your video!)))
Thanks, you are amazing! I'm gonna go get some practice)
So grateful for the time and clarity you bring to your tutorials. I teach improvisation in a democratic school in southern France...there are now a number of children enjoying improvisation and the potential of the hand-grips and ideas you share. Thankyou Oliver Prehn
GREAT - Thanks for the encouraging feedback!!! Warm regards from Oliver
I'm starting to realize it's a certain mindset to be able to play the piano to make it way easier instead of harder 🤔
@@bradejensen 🤔😃💎🎹💎
Sempre os melhores ensinamentos disponíveis. (Always the best lesson available).
That was such an amazing lesson! Thank you so much. The melodic minor modes sound really cool, I will play with them a lot.
Awesome way of shedding this!✨
Great lesson ! Thank you ! Spent the day today with this,,,,!
Thank you for yet another great video. You are truly a gift to the music world.
This whole "hand grip method" in many of your videos is wonderful. Now I need to practice. I can see memorizing the left hand chords pretty quickly, but what seems more difficult is knowing what the right hand can play quickly. As usual, I guess practice will make that more second nature. This is my holiday project -- master this one. ;-)
When COVID lifts my wife and I are hoping to travel back to Copenhagen (we were there in 2018) for the Copenhagen Jazz Festival (probably 2022) and will pop over to Aarhus for a bit. Maybe we can ride your bus and say hi! ;-)
So helpful, thanks for your amazing tutorials.
Incredible lesson. Thank you.
Ey Oliver.. you..i dont have the Words to depict how i am gratefull about your open Ear! You know what i mean.. That feels realy Organic. Thanks man!!
Requirements: Some piano experience, preferably level Vince Guaraldi
"The less we think the better we play". This is great advice. I'm not a drummer in any sense but I've always found that I drum better if I closed my eyes.
Thanks, you are the Best !!
Fresh Sound !!
muchas gracias por todo lo que aportas ,la musica y las enseñanzas , eres unos de mis grandes maestros del mundo virtua , gracias!!!
Best teacher ever!
Great Lesson..
Thank you, Oliver
Fantastic!! and very nice explained Thank you very much
Thank you big master O.
great melodic minor modes video by maestro Oliver , nice nice
Je te souhaite un beau Noel Oliver; merci pour ta générosité!!!!
This is fantastic!
You are the sunshine. I love you:)
Great. Excellent!!!
impeccable lesson
Really impressive keep going man 🔥
20:30 that altered chord
got me emotional instantly
the tears sheesh
All your handgrips concept can apply in guitar playing. It’s really set me free from theory cage !
Hi. I am Guitar player too. I would be very interested in how you get this on Guitar. Which thoughts you have in Translating this to Guitar in practice, or some what?
@@CreateArtRecords One of his idea are using 2 pentatonic scale to play all different modes. So, I can also play 2 pentatonic scale in guitar as major modes. It’s really an explosion to me.
In this video, he use 2 major chord constructs a melodic miner scale, so I can also use this concept in guitar playing.
@@Superhero0405 Yes, thats quite easy to transfer. What i ment is related to the Grip Voicings. On Guitar you can alway use Open Strings for Bass Pedal Notes. So you can move a easy (Upper Structure) Triads over the whole Neck to improvise.
With Left-Hand Grips its a bit more advanced, cause the Intervals of whole- and half- Steps are not realy guitar friendly. Maybe only playing the Guide-Tones with the thirds and the sevenths (Tritones). What you think?
@@CreateArtRecords I’m not good at chord-Melody playing. 😅So I will use looper to play chord n melody separately.
Thanks, this lesson help me a lot
I have used these very same lamps. They were very good and effective.
Fantastic lesson as always! Have you ever heard that you are a great teacher ;)
Thank you Maestro
Excellent 👍👍👍
Thank you so much sir 🙏
I am a new comer and Sir you are the best
One cannot just fast forward in your class
God bless your talent
Amazing!!!
amazing.. very inspirational..
Каждое видео - это новое обворожительное открытие законов звучания для ваших поклонников .
Absolute genius
Thanks!!
Merci !!!😎
Sir you are great .From India Thanx
Amazing
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I’m not sure what it is exactly... your lessons just stick with me thank you for your time and talent.
Thanks Oli....
This lesson is amazing
I noticed that the last trick to locate the chords on left hand seems easier to me thinking about the bass note matchng the c altered scale. I will be practicing this a lot. Thank you
Great!!! Whatever works best for you ;)
Hi. Good Morning. Here is from Brazil. Tanks
Another awesome lesson from Oliver greetings from 🇩🇪🎷
Always love to watch a new video from you. So entertaining. any chance you will do negative harmony, both on melody and chord? because I want to hear someone without an "academic teaching" style explaining this. lol. I bet it will be more enjoyable.
Thanks a lot!!! And good idea. But I have just so many requests so I cannot promise - I hope that you understand… it takes about a month to create each lesson - when I'm about 200 years old we just may have it all, I guess… but thanks a lot for your input; "negative harmony"... I’ll have it in mind for sure :) Best regards from Oliver
Hi Oliver
I enjoy your lessons and it helps a great deal.
I'm starting to understand this now.
Can you perhaps do some videos on all the the kind of modes example harmonic minor, harmonic major and double harmonic major scale.
Hi and nice to hear :) In this other lesson we walk through all (well behaving) scales: ua-cam.com/video/Vq2xt2D3e3E/v-deo.html
I think you'll find that lesson interesting. Best regards from Oliver
@@NewJazz Hi Oliver
Thank you so much this is helping a lot.
I'm getting a clearer picture of the scales.
Hi Oliver! Thank you for an amazing lesson and performance! Please could you tell us which piano sound you used for this lesson? Sample library od some hardware piano sound? It sounds fantastic, resonant and natural. Thank you again! All the best!
Hi and thanks a lot :) I use this virtual piano software from Native Instruments: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keys/the-grandeur/
Muito bem.
Hi Oliver this is pure genius! Do you have a similar lesson on major modes or the relative natural minor modes?
Thanks a lot :) Well, in this very old and very long but still very useful (I think) lesson we use the pentatonic grips to play all the Major Modes. Far into the lesson I explain the theory ;) Cheers from Oliver
ua-cam.com/video/61bI3dgdXMo/v-deo.html
Sir: you are putting 2 upper structure triads over a V7 rootless voicing and organizing that idea to play through 7 beautiful sets of sounds over a C bass note. You do it in a way that I can start to practice making music with these sounds right away! Please tell us: How much of this particular video in based on your original thinking, or have you learned this from others. If from others, whom? With deepest appreciation for your musicianship and your teaching, I have sent you my first donation through PayPal.
Hi and thank you so much!!! I don't know if it's original thinking - many other musicians probably think in similar ways when improvising. But I don't have the ideas from anybody specific. Best regards from Oliver
Zhat what i asked my self too. He`s Concept is mindblowing. I began to do my own thoughts with/on improvising Jazz. I dont know a other Teacher who can do that to the Students. Thats GOLD..@@NewJazz
Great great job! Thanks! Does printing the aeolian scale to the keys and follow them with the "trailer" middle finger to find the mode scales also work 1:1 with harmonic minor mode?
Thanks :) Unfortunately no, the harmonic minor scale belongs to a different family of modes with a different interval structure...
Love jazz
The hand grip method is useful for beginners. This way we don't need to think about all the chords, modes during practices, performances. Since jazz is all about improvisations.
I think its not usefull for Beginners only. Thats how music works..;)
You're fabulous. I'm in...
So if the left-hand ring finger follows the aeolian major mode down, it appears as if the pinky follows the altered scale with the same positions, the index plays the Lydian dominant, and the thumb plays the actual melodic minor scale…very cool!
Hi. I realy would like to understand what you discovered. But I dont first dont understand which Ring-Finger you meen. Maybe it was a mistake. And more importend, what you discovered?:)
Hi Oliver! T'is the season, and the web is overflowing with versions of the most beautiful Christmas song ever (maybe..) "Chestnuts roasting.. (The Christmas Song). I must ask, and even beg a little... How would you play it on a rainy Christmas morning? Can you show us? Please? Pretty please? With candied chestnuts on top? 😄👍🏻😘
Cool video; but, can I ask a question?
What and how much do you practice the piano or music in general? I'm currently in a rut and I think I'm thinking too much about practicing without actually practicing due to the fact that I don't know what to practice.
Hi and thanks :) Actually I do not practice very much - only a couple of hours every week. But often I go around tapping (being quite annoying haha) as I explain in this other vid: ua-cam.com/video/B0GK-TMLYpg/v-deo.html
Thanks to God
Oliver I'm really starting to understand this short cut it not just learning these modes but to also hear them in melodic ideas. My question does this trick work in any other key other then C . Ty for your time and great teaching
Hi :) Yes, you can do this in any key. I just picked out the C tonality as an example :) Cheers from Oliver
Thanks so much for another wonderful lesson! From one of your previous lessons on the melodic minor modes I learned to use the thumbs as mnemonic pointers, with the left thumb position indicating where to place the right thumb. I wonder whether the method of using the left middle and right index finger is in some ways preferable? Am finding it hard to switch, but maybe it's worth it? Thanks for a hint on this!
Hi and thanks a lot :) :) Both mnemonic rules work - just choose the rule you find most easy, and stick to that ;) Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz Thanks!
Thanks Oliver Prehn
very good! very good! God Blass you.
Wonderful train waggon
Hey raise your index finger from A to B just play Ebmaj7#5 . The maj7+5 chord locates the half steps both sonically and visually.
Yes!!! That's a lovely left hand chord!!!
Hey Oliver! can we think of it with a pentatonic minor ? Like depending on the pinky note in the left hand we can play the pentatonic minor of this note (so with C melodic minor i would play d minor pentatonic) then i just have to add the sixth (B) to have the scale easily under my finger! what do you think? (also throwing some blues note at random :D)
Yes, but you also have to add the eb note ;)
Really nice piano sound. What digital piano/ cat are you using?
Hi :) I use this VST from Native Instruments: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keys/the-grandeur/
Cheers from Oliver
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Ciao Oliver can you validate this for transposing in all keys please (for those of you out there who like grids like me ;)
Minor 6/9 handgrip
From base key : Left pinky Right index (triad)
Melodic minor b3 5-4
Dorian b2 b2 4-b3
Lydian aug 1 3-2
Lydian dom b7 2-1
Aeolian major b6 1-b7
Half dim b5 b7-b6
Altered 3 b5-b4
Check, it all looks good, except the altered scale right hand index; b6-b5 (not b5-b4)
Cheers from Oliver