This is hands down the best technique I have ever run across for the purpose of being honest, accurate, and knowing of what music is being created - WOW! You are such a gifted teacher, singer, and pianist!
This is T.H.E. thing on any instrument!, "Play Only What You Hear" said the late great Chick Corea. And you are the first one on UA-cam to talk and give exercises to achieve that...so cool:)
Those are the REAL best tutorials on Jazz pianos I found on the web, and I have seen lots!!! Reminds me a lot of what Evans was saying, that is always better to play something consistent and that you are in control of, instead of just overplaying endless notes which might fit the scales and chords, but are rather soul-less. Thanks for sharing, really!
I had that same thought. I saw that interview with Bill Evans also, but I wasn't 100 percent sure I understood what he was trying to say. Aimee, thanks for making it easy to understand. I am picking all kinds at of new ideas and insights from your videos.
I love this point and sing method because it forces you to stay connected to what you are trying to say musically. It gets you out of old memorized patterns and into new musical ideas.
Hey fellow Jazz-Students. :) If you have a digital piano - turn the volume to 0 and you can actually ‘play’ and sing. With certain models you can also reprogram the sustain pedal to quickly turn the sound on and off again to check if you’re still in tune. :) Thanks Aimee for probably the greatest ear-training exercise ever?? :))
As a guitarist, I benefit tremendously from your approach to improv and practice. I always take something back to my own practice, and it definitely makes me a better player and musician. Thank you.
Great video! Being a self taught player for a lifetime, this is mostly how I play. But I was limited. Fortunately, in recent years, the Internet has provided a lot of great resources, and I’ve actually found fantastic lessons. Aimee, thanks for being one of these great resources, and the great videos you provide, for no cost.
This a great technique to help break away from that dreaded "chordscale syllabus", and cute "runs", "riffs", "lines" and "licks" that we practice. We spill them out aimlessly during an improvisation and it sounds "faked" - just like a practice routine! Play from the heart and ear - not the brain. In fact, there is no time in live improvisation to recall a bunch of "rules for good notes" and over-analysis of chord progressions that fly by very quickly. Play with your heart & soul ! It reminds me of great athletes. They practice specific drills between games but at game time, they just "improvise" a combination of skills 'in the moment'. Thanks Aimee for reminding us of this very important key concept of "singing" a solo (and spot checking).
that's it! Voice is our deepest instrument and instruments must be treated like voice as extensions of our bodies used by and for our inner expression. Fascinated! Thank you Aimee.
Six years later... the magic of youtube... Cool!!! 🤩I did It when I was student to practice piano voices in bach's polyphony! I didn't realize It could be helpful also for jazz improvvisation...😃 👍👏
Never thought of it this way. A real eye opener for me. I am just starting with my little daughter on the piano, and I think I start from here. A totally new journey also for me, and much more logically! So curieus if we can do it this way. Thanks!
Wonderful video! Reminds me of those old interviews with Bill Evans, where he talks about how musical honesty at your current level is so much more effective and moving than, as you said, a bunch of hip patterns that you've memorized.
I’ve long worried that my fingers were dictating what I played but didn’t know how to deal with this. Now you’ve told me how to. Thank you so much, but I know it’s going to take some work.
Amazing! The concept is crazy simple, and so are the first (few) steps, but this is helping me enormously with the sharp and flat keys. They are becoming easier. I'm doing something similar with triads. I look at the keys, try to sing the notes, name the notes and only then play the chord. Start at C and work chromatically all the way to C again. And you don't have to do an hour of it. Ten minutes out of each practice will give great results. Thanks again Aimee.
So helpful. I used to do this all the time on my sax. I'd stop and play. Piano is much more "practiceable" and useful. I need to get my piano chops back and start doing this again. Thanks again for the inspiration to do it!
Thank you so much for putting this into words. "Hearing" melodic lines, it seems, comes from a different place internally. (Not the same thing as muscle memory licks and non musical ramblings of things that we know will "work".) Playing as what you described comes from a place that connects with listeners and affects them in the same way that it affects US when we play this way. Thank you so much for sharing your approach.
I've startet practicing like this a month ago, but without much singing (I'm imagining string instruments playing it instead because I want to be able to imagine chords and polyphonic pieces, too.). The reason for that is probably that I have a classical music background. But I'll do some of this as well in the future, thank you very much (I really like the idea of being a musician instead of just an instrumentalist)!
I've been working on this all week. What has been working for me is warming up singing up and down the scale with piano a few times, then letting loose singing melodies and not checking for a bit, to get out of my head and in the zone, then going back to the piano, playing call and answer, then getting to the checking game. What I was doing before was singling along with my playing (which is still learning but also cheating a bit) and this gets me into playing along with my singing. Lately I've discovered that I have to trick myself into getting into the zone, so I can let go and use my ears for real. Thanks again Aimee for your videos. 😄
As a guitarist practicing this concept has helped me to play what I sing/feel and not sing what I play. Just like what you said about playing what is learned instead of playing what is felt. ANY musician can benefit from this technique, thanks Aimee!
I was thinking about learning how to do this just yesterday. I can sing and improv melodies all day to the point of giving a skeleton for full songs in one go through, the tough part is that I am not yet proficient enough to play as I sing so I record what I sing and transcribe it. Then I practice what I transcribe so I can play it. I one day hope I'll be able to think fast enough and understand what I hear in my head and be able to translate in "real-time" via the guitar or the piano even to the point of playing chords and not just a top-line melody.
I've tried to put this idea in words quite a few times but now I have a video that I can point people to so I don't have to stumble over my words. The practice is an amazing bonus. Thanks a lot! :)
Love your voice Amiee. Could listen to you talking all day. It's not an excuse for not to practise, haha. As a guitarist I've fallen into the trap of learning patterns and playing them up and down, back and forth in different positions. It's great for getting into playing music, BUT I think it's not honest. Sometimes I have no idea what notes I'm playing, just remembering that this or that pattern sounded cool over a particular chord. I'm practising singing scales, arpeggios and usuing your idea about pointing and singing. At my level I need to check every note I sing. Gotta keep on practising, I'm sure this will help me ALOT in my future improvisations and when trying to figure out songs by ear. Keep on rocking... erhm, Jazzing. :-)
Your comments at ~9:15 made me thing of Ray Charles' "Low Society" on "Atlantic Blues Piano". It sounds as if the tones are coming through his mind to the keys. I enjoy it when it happens to me... On those occasions. Thanks for all your videos. I look forward to the new year listening, exploring and learning. All the best to you and yours.
Great video Aimee! This is how I started practicing sight-singing my freshman year of college. I found that it carried over to testing my accuracy on scatting through transcriptions, working on language, making sure my intonation is right on when singing melodies a capella, and like you've done here, just exploring and seeing how cleanly I can sing interval jumps! Definitely a useful staple for anyone's personal practice
Wow!! Agreed, this channel is Gold. When I first discovered this channel, a lot of what you said went over my head... but because of your personal teaching style, I kept revisit to see if I could pick some more knowledge about how to learn to play the piano and how to become a better musician... while still working out what type of music I want play. Over the last few months I have grown to enjoy your teaching, style and personality. This week alone, learning about the iii-vii chord pattern/formula was magic. As a musician, I am interested in being able to I provide and being an HONEST musician. this lesson has been and IS Gold! Thank you.
I've started incorporating singing into my practice a lot more often lately thanks to your videos and I've found that it helps me to conceptualize what I'm wanting to play a lot better.
I hope you'll keep publishing for the next hundred years. Incredibly helpful... and frustrating when I see my own fingers resist. Thank you Aimee. Hugues.
I came here from your advice, Aminee. And this's such a useful method! I'll see how far I can get after I use your method. Thank you so much and please please please keep uploading your lesson. You're the best!
I don`t want to be extensive and too descriptive about all the things you`ve instructed and induced on me... I run the risk of not being understood, `cause english is not my first language. But I`ll speak from my heart: Yes!!! We must play from our hearts!!! Music is Art, and Jazz is one of the most artistic and TRUE-MUSIC in the world!!! I always tell my friends in spanish: El Jazz es verdad! No hay adornos, ni mentiras. No tienes por que ser atractivo o saber el camino fàcil para llegar a la gente. Solo te paras ahì frente al pùblico y compartes lo que llevas dentro en ese preciso momento. Cada toque es un viaje irrepetible! Sorry, I needed to write in my own language. Thank you Aimee for all!!! Gracias, gracias, gracias!!!!
Thanks Aimee for this tip. I will apply it right now every time I'm noodling on my guitar running scales and arpeggios up and down like a robot. This practice makes so much sense and you are doing it so neatly ! I think that it also applies when you play tunes where everything is written and your fingers know them perfectly. It'll probably help the interpretation and avoid losing track of what you're doing.
FANTASTIC. I was looking for something like this for quite some time. I like to hear from great musicians like you share the way by which they have trained themselves and do it way better than most. I've been trying to learn relative pitch for about a year. I made some progress using call and response apps on iphone and ipad, but I find that it doesn't translate well to practical applications. Or perhaps my aural skills have just not progressed enough. It's one thing to be told ... you have to do this, you have to do that ... but to actually see someone say "you might want to do this" and "I'll show you how" goes way farther. Please keep the videos coming!!!!
I call this the George Benson, but I know that this technique predates him considerably. Solid gold stuff here, and fabulously presented, too! Thank you, Aimee!
Thank you for being so generous with your time and knowledge, Aimee! This gave me a fresh new perspective on playing and how to practice. You play from your heart and I'm guessing you live your life the same way! So glad I happened on your channel.
Im a bass player and I started teaching myself this stuff a while ago, I understood without anyone explaining it to me that I needed to internalize the music
Que ouvido fantástico ,decorou is intervalos com,perfeição..olha estou aqui no Brasil,sou inscrito. E fã , com toda certeza vc consegue. Solfejar sem tocar as teclas do piano vc me mata de inveja..amo seu trabalho ,,,ouvido perfeito. OmG,,,very very excellent.
Hi Aimee, I knew of you from JOTW but just came across your UA-cam channel yesterday..Really appreciate all of this incredibly thoughtful content. Thank you!
This is really fantastic! I've been playing one instrument or another for over 30 years and I've never been satisfied with learning scales or just learning songs from sheet music because that is basically just memorization and developing muscle memory. I wanted to actually be able to PLAY the instrument...like, really PLAY it you know? I wanted to know it inside and out, and to be able to make the music in my head come out of my fingers as naturally as breathing. I recently took up piano and the online lessons I'm using (Hoffman academy, they're great!) incorporate solfege, which I've been excited about because I could sense that this would really help me become a better musician. What you have demonstrated here takes the concept of solfege to another level entirely and I am definitely going to start incorporating this into my practice. I'm working my way through your videos and each one is a treasure with a wealth of information that I wish I had all those years ago when I first started playing. Thank you so much!
Wow! I also do this at the guitar, and I also used to think that I made it up! Apparently, I didn't! I love your videos, you have such a nice energy and joy, it's contagious!
I love it! I'm comfy as a singer, so I am not worried about singing nonsense, but as a beginner pianist, I am trying to connect the sounds I am singing by ear on the piano
I have recommended your channel to my 12 year old granddaughter. I do hope that her mother (my daughter) encourages her to watch your videos. You have a talent for teaching...how do I know?... I had a trumpet professor that could cut through the B.S. and get to what was going to help me progress. You have that ability. I have seen many of the great jazz players live and I love the ones who do what you say...that is play things that come from within and that speak to listeners like me. Thank you for what you are doing.
I like point and sing. I'm going to start using it. And i like things that develop out of one's own practice routines - or non-routines, they become part of one's own journey through music. Great channel.
I love your voice and your musicality, Aimee. You obviously have a very good ear for identifying intervals. And a wealth of melodic ideas. I could listen to you for hours; in fact added up I probably have since I recently found you on you tube. keep up the good work -please!
I've stumbled onto this in my own way and it's so refreshing and reassuring the way you lay it out. I so conscious of how that rote practicing of scales and patterns imprisons my expressions. Thanks for this! I've picked piano seriously after noodling as a kid for years. You are the most inspiring teacher I've come across. You may know the fellow I just started taking lessons with, Art Khu, Jacquie Naylor's partner. Keep it up Aimee!!! Much love form the Bay !
This is really good practice for your ears and points out what is often (but not always) the difference between people who learn and play from the score and those who play mainly by ear. It's interesting to note that it is useful for score readers to able to read, point and sing from the score too. It helps with memorising.
This is awesome. I had a piano instructor make me sing the right hand while I played the left and vice versa. That really helps me when I'm trying to learn a song. But this will really help me with my own melodies - which I suck at.
Hello Aimee, just discovered you today and I've been whathcing and hearing you all Saturday morning and I am so touched and charmed. Actually there were even tears too at some points... So honest, so acurate, so from the heart, and yet so smart and deep and so helpful. Love it. Love you. Keep it up :)
Aimee, this is brilliant! I've sort of done this. But, with your (easy to understand!) explanation of how and what you're trying to achieve Point & Sing makes perfect sense!
Aimee, you are an incredible teacher. Thank you for this, you explain everything so so well. I discovered your channel only a few days ago but I'm completely hooked! I'm understanding things now that have been over my head since I left music school over twenty years ago. From the bottom of my heart, again, thank you.🙌🙆
Excellent video. Oscar Peterson sang while he played. This video helps me understand why I get my best ideas singing the parts rather than composing at the instrument. This technique should help me bring the two together. Thanks for sharing.
P.S. I love that you encourage people to listen, hear and then play what's inside instead of learning riffs from someone else's imagination, imitating.
Someone in comment section of Samurai guitarist video send me here. I felt that I need something like this but had no idea how to approach it. Thank you!
You are too good! I like the fourths!!
when a master like you says that about someone, then it's a serious thing.
i agree !!
Hahah
This is a wonderful lesson. I'm gonna go practice it right now. I'll let you know how I do.
Ok, I know I'm on a right path when I see Rick Beato
So I took your advice and just played the melodies in my ear at a guitar lesson playing Donna Lee and for once my teacher said "Nice, George" wooooo
I’m a mostly self taught musician and this is one of the best lessons I’ve ever come across. Thank you so much for putting this out there.
This is hands down the best technique I have ever run across for the purpose of being honest, accurate, and knowing of what music is being created - WOW! You are such a gifted teacher, singer, and pianist!
+alwayslistening4444 thank you! And I love your username.
Ha! Thank you! :D
i've never herd anyone articulate that concept so well. thank you.
george garner so nice to hear. Thx George
Aimee has given me a whole new outlook on music, and for that, I'm extremely grateful!
This is T.H.E. thing on any instrument!, "Play Only What You Hear" said the late great Chick Corea. And you are the first one on UA-cam to talk and give exercises to achieve that...so cool:)
Those are the REAL best tutorials on Jazz pianos I found on the web, and I have seen lots!!!
Reminds me a lot of what Evans was saying, that is always better to play something consistent and that you are in control of, instead of just overplaying endless notes which might fit the scales and chords, but are rather soul-less.
Thanks for sharing, really!
Alberto Lorusso Thanks, Alberto! So glad you agree! Let me know if you have ideas for future videos!
Love that bit of his during that interview. One of the best gems from Bill.
I had that same thought. I saw that interview with Bill Evans also, but I wasn't 100 percent sure I understood what he was trying to say. Aimee, thanks for making it easy to understand. I am picking all kinds at of new ideas and insights from your videos.
I love this point and sing method because it forces you to stay connected to what you are trying to say musically. It gets you out of old memorized patterns and into new musical ideas.
Hey fellow Jazz-Students. :)
If you have a digital piano - turn the volume to 0 and you can actually ‘play’ and sing.
With certain models you can also reprogram the sustain pedal to quickly turn the sound on and off again to check if you’re still in tune. :)
Thanks Aimee for probably the greatest ear-training exercise ever?? :))
As a guitarist, I benefit tremendously from your approach to improv and practice. I always take something back to my own practice, and it definitely makes me a better player and musician. Thank you.
Great video!
Being a self taught player for a lifetime, this is mostly how I play. But I was limited.
Fortunately, in recent years, the Internet has provided a lot of great resources, and I’ve actually found fantastic lessons.
Aimee, thanks for being one of these great resources, and the great videos you provide, for no cost.
This a great technique to help break away from that dreaded "chordscale syllabus", and cute "runs", "riffs", "lines" and "licks" that we practice. We spill them out aimlessly during an improvisation and it sounds "faked" - just like a practice routine! Play from the heart and ear - not the brain. In fact, there is no time in live improvisation to recall a bunch of "rules for good notes" and over-analysis of chord progressions that fly by very quickly. Play with your heart & soul ! It reminds me of great athletes. They practice specific drills between games but at game time, they just "improvise" a combination of skills 'in the moment'. Thanks Aimee for reminding us of this very important key concept of "singing" a solo (and spot checking).
that's it! Voice is our deepest instrument and instruments must be treated like voice as extensions of our bodies used by and for our inner expression. Fascinated! Thank you Aimee.
Sergio Godoy 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Brilliant, Aimee, true genius! Thanks for sharing.
Mark Morley-Fletcher, from "PLAY IN THE ZONE", put me onto you. He is also an outstanding educator.
I love your scat singing! So musical and pleasant.
Six years later... the magic of youtube... Cool!!! 🤩I did It when I was student to practice piano voices in bach's polyphony! I didn't realize It could be helpful also for jazz improvvisation...😃 👍👏
Never thought of it this way. A real eye opener for me. I am just starting with my little daughter on the piano, and I think I start from here. A totally new journey also for me, and much more logically! So curieus if we can do it this way. Thanks!
Wonderful video! Reminds me of those old interviews with Bill Evans, where he talks about how musical honesty at your current level is so much more effective and moving than, as you said, a bunch of hip patterns that you've memorized.
"Play what's true to you now" love it, for ever and always! 😄
Rob Ruthart 🙌🏼
I’ve long worried that my fingers were dictating what I played but didn’t know how to deal with this. Now you’ve told me how to. Thank you so much, but I know it’s going to take some work.
This is really good you better pay attention!! Best of luck to all.
Thank you for sharing Aimee! Tried for the first time today. Can't wait to see where this road leads.
Great video Aimee, thanks for that. The problem I've seen is that some people want to impress other people instead of connect with them emotionally.
Amazing! The concept is crazy simple, and so are the first (few) steps, but this is helping me enormously with the sharp and flat keys. They are becoming easier. I'm doing something similar with triads. I look at the keys, try to sing the notes, name the notes and only then play the chord. Start at C and work chromatically all the way to C again. And you don't have to do an hour of it. Ten minutes out of each practice will give great results. Thanks again Aimee.
So helpful. I used to do this all the time on my sax. I'd stop and play. Piano is much more "practiceable" and useful. I need to get my piano chops back and start doing this again. Thanks again for the inspiration to do it!
Beautiful voice too❤
Ye, I’m here for the jazz knowledge. But I’m ngl, I’m in love with your voice.
You're the dream of any musician! This is so much talent!!!
Thank you so much for putting this into words. "Hearing" melodic lines, it seems, comes from a different place internally. (Not the same thing as muscle memory licks and non musical ramblings of things that we know will "work".) Playing as what you described comes from a place that connects with listeners and affects them in the same way that it affects US when we play this way. Thank you so much for sharing your approach.
I've startet practicing like this a month ago, but without much singing (I'm imagining string instruments playing it instead because I want to be able to imagine chords and polyphonic pieces, too.).
The reason for that is probably that I have a classical music background. But I'll do some of this as well in the future, thank you very much (I really like the idea of being a musician instead of just an instrumentalist)!
the truth you speak here is absolutely freeing for me , i've always wondered how jazz players do it and its not by memorized lines which i find boring
I've been working on this all week. What has been working for me is warming up singing up and down the scale with piano a few times, then letting loose singing melodies and not checking for a bit, to get out of my head and in the zone, then going back to the piano, playing call and answer, then getting to the checking game. What I was doing before was singling along with my playing (which is still learning but also cheating a bit) and this gets me into playing along with my singing. Lately I've discovered that I have to trick myself into getting into the zone, so I can let go and use my ears for real. Thanks again Aimee for your videos. 😄
Rob Ruthart that's so cool. I get what you mean and I'm glad you are playing with it and finding your way. Thanks so much for the note, Rob!
What joy! Can't thank you enough. Such selfless sharing. Wonderful.
As a guitarist practicing this concept has helped me to play what I sing/feel and not sing what I play. Just like what you said about playing what is learned instead of playing what is felt. ANY musician can benefit from this technique, thanks Aimee!
you were almost certainly born to teach. thank you.
I was thinking about learning how to do this just yesterday. I can sing and improv melodies all day to the point of giving a skeleton for full songs in one go through, the tough part is that I am not yet proficient enough to play as I sing so I record what I sing and transcribe it. Then I practice what I transcribe so I can play it. I one day hope I'll be able to think fast enough and understand what I hear in my head and be able to translate in "real-time" via the guitar or the piano even to the point of playing chords and not just a top-line melody.
I've tried to put this idea in words quite a few times but now I have a video that I can point people to so I don't have to stumble over my words. The practice is an amazing bonus. Thanks a lot! :)
You make it look so easy!
Thank you Aimee!!
Create.very interesting. Molto brava.
Love your voice Amiee. Could listen to you talking all day. It's not an excuse for not to practise, haha.
As a guitarist I've fallen into the trap of learning patterns and playing them up and down, back and forth in different positions. It's great for getting into playing music, BUT I think it's not honest. Sometimes I have no idea what notes I'm playing, just remembering that this or that pattern sounded cool over a particular chord.
I'm practising singing scales, arpeggios and usuing your idea about pointing and singing. At my level I need to check every note I sing. Gotta keep on practising, I'm sure this will help me ALOT in my future improvisations and when trying to figure out songs by ear.
Keep on rocking... erhm, Jazzing. :-)
+BearSound oh gosh you're welcome! Makes me so happy! Thank YOU
Your comments at ~9:15 made me thing of Ray Charles' "Low Society" on "Atlantic Blues Piano". It sounds as if the tones are coming through his mind to the keys. I enjoy it when it happens to me... On those occasions. Thanks for all your videos. I look forward to the new year listening, exploring and learning. All the best to you and yours.
Great video Aimee! This is how I started practicing sight-singing my freshman year of college. I found that it carried over to testing my accuracy on scatting through transcriptions, working on language, making sure my intonation is right on when singing melodies a capella, and like you've done here, just exploring and seeing how cleanly I can sing interval jumps! Definitely a useful staple for anyone's personal practice
Jackson That's great! Keep it up! You're a hard-worker and nice nice dude. :)
Thanks! Right back at you :)
Wow!! Agreed, this channel is Gold. When I first discovered this channel, a lot of what you said went over my head... but because of your personal teaching style, I kept revisit to see if I could pick some more knowledge about how to learn to play the piano and how to become a better musician... while still working out what type of music I want play. Over the last few months I have grown to enjoy your teaching, style and personality. This week alone, learning about the iii-vii chord pattern/formula was magic. As a musician, I am interested in being able to I provide and being an HONEST musician. this lesson has been and IS Gold! Thank you.
You are a GREAT teacher, Aimee. Loving all the vid's I've seen so far. Thank you for these wonderful lessons.
There are such amazing resources on UA-cam, fantastic channel Amy, thanks for all your work! :)
Wow 🔥🔥🔥🔥 awesome lesson
I've started incorporating singing into my practice a lot more often lately thanks to your videos and I've found that it helps me to conceptualize what I'm wanting to play a lot better.
I think this is the most helpful piano video I've ever seen. I'm gonna do this every day starting now :) Thank you, I love your videos ❤
Yes I love it! Why didn't I have this method years ago? Thank you. You are a wonderful teacher.
why am I finding out about your channel now!!!!!.......You're very good!..thank you for your lessons
This is such a good way to practice the intervals. Thank you!
My piano teacher taught me this but you explain why it is needed with so much depth which gives me more initiative. Thank You
Wow
That was a great tool!
Thanks!
I hope you'll keep publishing for the next hundred years. Incredibly helpful... and frustrating when I see my own fingers resist. Thank you Aimee. Hugues.
I came here from your advice, Aminee. And this's such a useful method! I'll see how far I can get after I use your method. Thank you so much and please please please keep uploading your lesson. You're the best!
Nutjaya Aramkul oh good! Ok I hope it helps!
I don`t want to be extensive and too descriptive about all the things you`ve instructed and induced on me... I run the risk of not being understood, `cause english is not my first language. But I`ll speak from my heart: Yes!!! We must play from our hearts!!! Music is Art, and Jazz is one of the most artistic and TRUE-MUSIC in the world!!!
I always tell my friends in spanish: El Jazz es verdad! No hay adornos, ni mentiras. No tienes por que ser atractivo o saber el camino fàcil para llegar a la gente. Solo te paras ahì frente al pùblico y compartes lo que llevas dentro en ese preciso momento. Cada toque es un viaje irrepetible!
Sorry, I needed to write in my own language.
Thank you Aimee for all!!!
Gracias, gracias, gracias!!!!
Daniel Irilarry my husband can translate for me. Beautiful said in both languages, Daniel. Thank you.
You are unbelievable. My daughter is into jazz piano. I'll be sure to give her a head up about your terrific vids.
my heroine. I admire your love for students out there. thank you for the tips and honesty you have in you .
Thanks Aimee for this tip. I will apply it right now every time I'm noodling on my guitar running scales and arpeggios up and down like a robot. This practice makes so much sense and you are doing it so neatly ! I think that it also applies when you play tunes where everything is written and your fingers know them perfectly. It'll probably help the interpretation and avoid losing track of what you're doing.
FANTASTIC. I was looking for something like this for quite some time.
I like to hear from great musicians like you share the way by which they have trained themselves and do it way better than most.
I've been trying to learn relative pitch for about a year. I made some progress using call and response apps on iphone and ipad, but I find that it doesn't translate well to practical applications. Or perhaps my aural skills have just not progressed enough.
It's one thing to be told ... you have to do this, you have to do that ... but to actually see someone say "you might want to do this" and "I'll show you how" goes way farther.
Please keep the videos coming!!!!
This is amazing. Exactly my wish
You are so cool. Thank you sooooo much for sharing. I love your channel. Greetings from Argentina!!!
I call this the George Benson, but I know that this technique predates him considerably. Solid gold stuff here, and fabulously presented, too! Thank you, Aimee!
Thank you for being so generous with your time and knowledge, Aimee! This gave me a fresh new perspective on playing and how to practice. You play from your heart and I'm guessing you live your life the same way! So glad I happened on your channel.
+Paul Constable oh no prob! I'm so glad, Paul!
This is gold, for any musician, learner or professional. If its not coming from heart its not music. Thanks for sharing this bful thought.
+Vishal S 🙌🏼🙌🏼
I think this is the most amazing exercise. I am going to start doing this everyday. Thanks for sharing this!
+Stacy Renard you're gonna get good FAST if you do. 👊🏼
Im a bass player and I started teaching myself this stuff a while ago, I understood without anyone explaining it to me that I needed to internalize the music
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. You have helped me to understand music in a much more broad way. Kind regards from Spain. Roger
Que ouvido fantástico ,decorou is intervalos com,perfeição..olha estou aqui no Brasil,sou inscrito. E fã , com toda certeza vc consegue. Solfejar sem tocar as teclas do piano vc me mata de inveja..amo seu trabalho ,,,ouvido perfeito. OmG,,,very very excellent.
Hi Aimee, I knew of you from JOTW but just came across your UA-cam channel yesterday..Really appreciate all of this incredibly thoughtful content. Thank you!
This is really fantastic!
I've been playing one instrument or another for over 30 years and I've never been satisfied with learning scales or just learning songs from sheet music because that is basically just memorization and developing muscle memory. I wanted to actually be able to PLAY the instrument...like, really PLAY it you know? I wanted to know it inside and out, and to be able to make the music in my head come out of my fingers as naturally as breathing.
I recently took up piano and the online lessons I'm using (Hoffman academy, they're great!) incorporate solfege, which I've been excited about because I could sense that this would really help me become a better musician. What you have demonstrated here takes the concept of solfege to another level entirely and I am definitely going to start incorporating this into my practice.
I'm working my way through your videos and each one is a treasure with a wealth of information that I wish I had all those years ago when I first started playing. Thank you so much!
Wow! I also do this at the guitar, and I also used to think that I made it up! Apparently, I didn't! I love your videos, you have such a nice energy and joy, it's contagious!
This really means a lot to me...Thank you for being so transparent and honest as a person and musician
I could sit and listen to you scat forEVER!!!! The first minute of this video is heaven.
👍😎👍🎹🎼🎶
This is the most valuable music lesson on UA-cam, easily. Thank you so much.
I love it! I'm comfy as a singer, so I am not worried about singing nonsense, but as a beginner pianist, I am trying to connect the sounds I am singing by ear on the piano
Great video!!!
I have recommended your channel to my 12 year old granddaughter. I do hope that her mother (my daughter) encourages her to watch your videos. You have a talent for teaching...how do I know?... I had a trumpet professor that could cut through the B.S. and get to what was going to help me progress. You have that ability. I have seen many of the great jazz players live and I love the ones who do what you say...that is play things that come from within and that speak to listeners like me. Thank you for what you are doing.
+astrorad2000 thank you so much
I like point and sing. I'm going to start using it. And i like things that develop out of one's own practice routines - or non-routines, they become part of one's own journey through music. Great channel.
+silverlight2004db thanks!
I am just starting out but already old ...I like your advice . Singing and be able to make them through our fingers is a sure thing to practice .
Amazing, Aimee .
I love your voice and your musicality, Aimee. You obviously have a very good ear for identifying intervals. And a wealth of melodic ideas. I could listen to you for hours; in fact added up I probably have since I recently found you on you tube. keep up the good work -please!
William Bunter thank you William!
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This is the best channel on UA-cam tbh!
Amazing Aimee!
I've stumbled onto this in my own way and it's so refreshing and reassuring the way you lay it out. I so conscious of how that rote practicing of scales and patterns imprisons my expressions. Thanks for this! I've picked piano seriously after noodling as a kid for years. You are the most inspiring teacher I've come across. You may know the fellow I just started taking lessons with, Art Khu, Jacquie Naylor's partner. Keep it up Aimee!!! Much love form the Bay !
This is really good practice for your ears and points out what is often (but not always) the difference between people who learn and play from the score and those who play mainly by ear. It's interesting to note that it is useful for score readers to able to read, point and sing from the score too. It helps with memorising.
This is awesome. I had a piano instructor make me sing the right hand while I played the left and vice versa. That really helps me when I'm trying to learn a song. But this will really help me with my own melodies - which I suck at.
Hello Aimee, just discovered you today and I've been whathcing and hearing you all Saturday morning and I am so touched and charmed. Actually there were even tears too at some points... So honest, so acurate, so from the heart, and yet so smart and deep and so helpful. Love it. Love you. Keep it up :)
+Tal Ofek thank you Tal.
Such an awesome approach to improvisation, thank you so much!
Aimee, this is brilliant! I've sort of done this. But, with your (easy to understand!) explanation of how and what you're trying to achieve Point & Sing makes perfect sense!
you are fantastic. so good the way you present.. kudos to you
Thank you so much!!! I wish I had known about this years ago!!! 😔
Aimee, you are an incredible teacher. Thank you for this, you explain everything so so well. I discovered your channel only a few days ago but I'm completely hooked! I'm understanding things now that have been over my head since I left music school over twenty years ago. From the bottom of my heart, again, thank you.🙌🙆
+Si Greg gosh thanks so much Greg! Spread the word for me! 😍🙏🏼
Excellent video. Oscar Peterson sang while he played. This video helps me understand why I get my best ideas singing the parts rather than composing at the instrument. This technique should help me bring the two together. Thanks for sharing.
You are something special, a gifted musician. To sad I did not meet you earlier in my life
P.S. I love that you encourage people to listen, hear and then play what's inside instead of learning riffs from someone else's imagination, imitating.
+Mimi Seton Music 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Someone in comment section of Samurai guitarist video send me here. I felt that I need something like this but had no idea how to approach it. Thank you!
I've heard Adam Nitty teach the intervals on bass guitar in a similar way. Thank you, it's such a great video!