OMFG YES!!! I arrived here on Rick Beato’s recommendation, because I just happened to click on his video about the “greatest solo”, or whatever..jeez, I am too breathless to check back, but I know you know the one.. I am a HUGE fan of New Orleans/Louisiana blues/jazz/gospel piano and organ, and there is precious little real instruction available, but holy moly, you are cracking this wide open.
I'm a guitarist but *really* dug this... Oscar's playing is unreal - it's mind blowing to realize that he more than likely just improvised it on the spot... inspiring 🔥
I was thinking there was 1 triplet too much for the 2nd time, but I just watched again the begining of your video and you explained that. So great lesson ! (thx rick beato)
Hi Aimee, just watched this and I must say that your enthusiasm and passion for the music make you the kind of teacher that makes young players love playing. One thing I always loved about OP's playing was the way he could play the same thing on both hands at the same time. Also, check out the show he did with Marion McPartland years ago. Outstanding stuff.
Thank you Aimee! Oscar made it (everything) look so easy, and I know as a piano player that it's not. Great lesson/breakdown. I feel privileged that I got to meet Oscar backstage after a gig and thank him for all the great music. True legend...
This is for me the perfect lesson. Just the right level of difficulty, really, really well explained by an enthusiastic teacher showing me how to play a style that I love. How good can it get!? Thanks, Aimee!
Thank you for keeping Oscar's music alive and well in this age. I am not a musician, but I have loved his music for 55 years. Your way of explaining Oscar and the fun of his licks is fascinating.
Boy, is she an awesome pianist, and what an amazing personality to top it off. Since I just began playing 6 months ago and I'm 59, I'm afraid I won't live long enough to get this good, but I still love watching talented people. Great work Aimee, or should I say Play?
I came here from Rick Beato's Oscar Peterson video featuring this solo. He not only mentioned you and that you demonstrated this lick, but he also put the link to your channel in the video description. Am looking forward to checking out your stuff here.
The more awareness is raised about the brilliance and joy of Oscar Peterson, his musical legacy, and the musicians who were inspired by him the better as far as I'm concerned. Thanks Aimee.
You are a treat to watch and your enthusiasm is contagious. It's obvious you have a great love for the music and the instrument. Thanks. Making Learning Fun!
0:26 "...at my gig tonight" Bary Brada maybe go see her perform first? I bet she'd blow your socks off. Agree 100% with NewToneProducer. My dad was an accomplished player but all he showed me were scales. School of hard knocks followed. This makes me want to try new stuff. Thank You Aimee!
You are an amazing teacher, your explanations are so precise and yet easily digested. As a piano teacher myself I am learning as much about teaching as I am how to play like oscar. Thank you for these videos.
First off, as a piano player, I ALWAYS pay attention to people's HANDS!!! :) btw, you have GREAT hands (good for a piano player, I think). And i think you play VERY well. A funny (imho) story about Oscar Peterson: I was piano player in USAF Band out in Northern CA (would have been about 1982) and OP was going to be playing at the Fairmont Hotel (swank hotel in San Francisco) -- so of course, I was FIRED UP and very excited to see OP in person. Also, his band was GREAT!!!! (Joe Pass on guitar, Nels Henning-Orsted Pederson on bass, and I think it was Snuffy Smith on drums, but not positive about the drummer) -- well, of course, it was ABSOLUTELY "SMOKIN'!!!" -- Now OP is 6' 3" and weighed (at that time) probably 300 pounds -- a very imposing guy -- and after the show I went rushing up to him, and blurted out, "I just wanted to shake those hands; I used to think I was a piano player until I heard you play!" I stuck my hand out; he smiled slightly and shook hands with me, but his handshake was VERY tentative (piano players of course are always very careful about their hands) -- the most interesting thing for me was this: I have fairly decent size hands, but his hands next to mine were probably AT LEAST two inches longer than mine. Years later, I saw a (very nice) video of OP and Andre Previn, and OP said, when asked about his reach on the piano, "Comfortably an eleventh" (in other words, from Middle C up to F an octave and a half above Middle C). He was amazing. Like they reportedly said about Benny Goodman when he died, "Everybody move up one!" In closing, I really enjoyed your video -- and sorry to be so long-winded. :) Keep up the great work!!!
I'm going to have to come back and learn this, about half a year or a year from now. I'm just starting to learn the piano, about 2 months ago. I love OP. I love musicians who love OP. You, in particular though, is someone who's ... I don't know, one of the angels here on earth? Angel musicians, yes, put here on UA-cam, to love and guide folks, older folks like me trying to learn jazz piano at a late stage in life. Thank you, thank you, thank you, ma'am.
Aimee, you are a DARLING. So willing to share and make it easier to duplicate. THANK YOU! Oscar Peterson! who would have thought you had an angel carrying forward what you created into the lives of musicians of the now and future. Whoopee!
Great job Amy! This might be a bonus lesson in that it was a "how to practice" lesson too. Learning piano can be difficult, awkward, frustrating etc. It's wonderful that you bravely show us that practicing is something we all have to work at. The important thing for people to remember is when practicing, go slow and be patient. It will come. Sometimes I play a phrase over and over again and I can't seem to get it. It's frustrating so I put it down, go to something else, then come back to it some time later and repeat. Go slow and be patient. That's the key. Then you get up one morning, go to the piano and it rolls off your fingers! It's always a great feeling of satisfaction when that happens. Somehow overnight it becomes easy. Oscar Peterson was classically trained and could do anything. Remember that he put in hours and hours of practice every day so he could make it look easy. Of course, you already know this. Hopefully your students can benefit by the advice. Amy, you have such a warm and genuine personality. It's no wonder why you have so many followers. Best Regards.
Also check out his Canadiana suite- blues of the prairies. He uses that basic lick there too. Actually the sheet music is well worth buying, as the pieces are just fantastic!!
Discovered you and your UA-cam videos a couple of days ago while watching this particular lesson. Have watched several more since then. I love Your Intimates one on one Style, your jazz/blues playing, your incredible warmth & enthusiasm. Keep "em coming!
in opposite to many other self declared "teachers" and "tutors" on YT you can really play and you know your way round... - you really deserve so many views...
What a nifty lesson. Love to hear Oscar play. And it's great that someone like you can bring some of his tasty playing down to earth for those of us who need help sussing it out! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Very interesting ... and indeed, tricky, as you say! Those giants like Oscar, Erroll, Art, to name just a few, could play the piano in their unique way. Born musicians, not to be jealous of. Just to be admired . .. and to keep listen and enjoy, and learn a bit from them for our own humble abilities. Thank you so much, and keep on playing !
after learning this from you. took me like 30 minutes but then going back and watching him do it again at the beginning of the video makes me realize I'm STILL an amateur haha. He's a wizard
Yep. Thanks honey. From what I learned over 60 or so years ago Oscar was considered next in line to the trcklets / tricks / tricky stuff after Art Tatum. Thank you Aimee Nolte Music for all of your help regarding the piano! Dean Jackson Seattle, WA
First time I watch one of your videos. I'm hooked. You are an excellent instructor with amazing attention to detail and such helpful tips. Subscribed and grateful. Cheers.
love the down to earth teaching. I've done this kind of thing before in country and Mozart maybe Allah turca or Fur Elise this is for everybody out there struggling. I notice that your fingers are just a little unsure at one point and that is absolutely the way to learn. sometimes I struggle with a piece for long time maybe hours and then a leave the piano to answer the phone or whatever. I comeback and play it perfectly. Brent mason did the guitar work which was masterful in name by Alan Jackson. .there was one part that had me stumped I could not get it. my finger just could not fly that fast woke up the next morning grabbed the electric and played it like I had played it all my life . my experience has been that it will come to you because your brain will work it out. and and will allow you to play it fluently
THANK you for being repetitive. Most tutors are afraid or expect you to use UA-cam's crappy navigation to replay (which is torturous, please understand that). You will go over a riff 8 times in a row, but your narrative stresses how you and we should be learning and observing and routinizing, so it's ALL USEFUL. Keep up the repetition. No one tires of hearing and watching you.
And 20 times is even better. Not always, not as a rule, but as you did in this video, every single take counts. Keep it up. Besides, you spent 10 solid minutes already the night before, burning in the knowledge. Showing us 20 or 40 iterations that the truly ambitious (and/or OCD/perfectionist) actually must take to learn something underscores that you have to work to get something hard (unless you're mutantly gifted). It's better to drive home the point that 100 attempts to iron in that opening riff of My Amoreena is better than leaving us believing that you either instantly mutantly master something or have to walk away in frustration - simply because we didn't appreciate that work begets reward.
I saw Oscar live -- solo -- in Ann Arbor (Hill Auditorium) in the early 1980s. Now THAT was a concert. The concert was supposed to be his trio, but when we got there, there was a sign on the door that it was cancelled -- due to Oscar's arthritis, but we later found out it was only postponed, but when he came back his bass player and drummer could not make it so he played the whole concert solo. Unbelievable.
OMG - I LOVE your instructionals Aimee. I've played multiple instruments all my life and I've learned more from you in several sessions than I have in years! Thank you so much for these!
Love this video - I'm also passionated about O.P. and can use hours in fascinaton of little (great) details, like you do here, Aimee - listening to his playing makes you happy - studying his playing makes you even more happy and a feeling of deep joy
Hey nice looking room!!!! Just started researching into Oscar Peterson. What a great guy he was. Funny too. Love the interview he did with Andre Previn. What a talent!! Great lesson!!
Yesssss, please more Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans and Monk inspired stuff, I love it! (and Ahmad Jamal too)...I love learning stuff inspired by those guys.
Nice job sussing that out! For me the trick on these harmony runs is to always be aware of the fingering---and also to feel the amount of stretch between the baby finger and the thumb while moving from key to key. Feeling the extension of the thumb as it moves to and away from the rest of the hand is what will enable the muscle memory to develop quickly.
Amazing what/who you can discover by searching for things like "help with sight reading." Love what you're doing. A GrandPop here who has been a Garner, Tatum, Evans, Timmons, Brubeck, Silver, Jamal, Hancock, Peterson, Allison, and even Short and Adair fan for too many decades. Among others of Oscar's, I've worn out more than one copy of his West Side Story album.
What a challenge- but a fun one! Lot's of practice time ahead for me but I'm going to do little bursts of practice because I'm still using my brain to think about everything. I need to watch/listen to OP again. Thanks so much, Aimee! I'll be looking to your site for more great videos.
For the C7 part of the lick, instead of using his thumb on the black key (Bb), I'm pretty sure he shifts his hand down, and hits the B natural with his thumb directly after using it on the adjacent C (both white keys), then using his index finger on the Bb. It plays much more smoothly, in my opinion (no thumbs on black keys). Great video!
I've lust been practising this in all 12 keys. I think I've concluded that it's best to slide the index finger from F# to F and from C# to C in all cases. You have to slide somewhere in certain keys (Bb for example) so you might as well do it everywhere. Basically learn to do a descending chromatic scale with just the thumb and index finger. What do others think?
Dibbs Dibblethwaite you are right. It's not possible to do it cleanly in every key...but I do think that when you can do it without sliding, you should. Just my opinion though! Way to go!! You're awesome.
Great lesson Aimee! one exercise that my help jump start your students is to sit at a table and play the rhythms by tapping the tabletop in 4 in the left and and three in the rights hand and then switch. You can evan tap your feet against what your hands are doing. Take a piece of paper and draw 12 small vertical lines horizontally. like "| | | | | | | | | | | |" Why 12? Because it's divisible by both 4 and 3. Now above this graphic, draw a little circle above every third line. This divides the measure into 4 parts. Inversely, beneath the graphic, draw a small circle verey fourth line. This divides it into 4 equal parts. Now slowly start counting to 12 with your right hand tapping on the circles above and your left hand tapping on the circles below. It's like riding a bike. Once you get this down, you have it for life! You could use this same system for 4/5 - just divide 20 hash marks.by 4 and 5. Try switching between left and right hand and feet. If you put in a 1/2 hour a day for a week, you'll have this nailed. Happy polyrhythms! - Jon Preizler
Oscar Peterson could've written a book on his refrains. He was a master of it. This one is very cool, thanks for showing it to us Aimee. My personal favourite of his is the fill he takes at end of his introduction on "If I were a bell" from live album "Oscar Peterson Jams". It's just such a cool little "ditty" (for lack of a better word) and really sets the mood for the rest of the song. Are you familiar with it Aimee? It too is a very cool piece. Comes in at about the :40-:45 mark of the song.
OMFG YES!!!
I arrived here on Rick Beato’s recommendation, because I just happened to click on his video about the “greatest solo”, or whatever..jeez, I am too breathless to check back, but I know you know the one..
I am a HUGE fan of New Orleans/Louisiana blues/jazz/gospel piano and organ, and there is precious little real instruction available, but holy moly, you are cracking this wide open.
Please do more like this Aimee!! Great!!
Bravo my music instructor! Glad to have your musical insight. Thanks a lot, Sir
WOW ABSOLUTLY GORGEOUS
Hey everyone I'm Rick Beato
Hey Rick ever listen to Lorne Lofsky. He toured and recorded with Oscar. Genius player and teacher. Much respect by session guitar players in Toronto.
thanks Rick...great suggestion
I'm a guitarist but *really* dug this... Oscar's playing is unreal - it's mind blowing to realize that he more than likely just improvised it on the spot... inspiring 🔥
JESUS THIS WAS GREAT! Rick brought me here and I can't believe I haven't been here before!!!!
Me as well. Never heard of Oscar Peterson. Mea Culpa ...
I was thinking there was 1 triplet too much for the 2nd time, but I just watched again the begining of your video and you explained that. So great lesson ! (thx rick beato)
You're a fantastic teacher - so few people teach with this level of patience and detail. Very enjoyble.
Jon Bonnar thanks so much. Wait till I teach you to sit down and eat a burger! 😂
heart to heart is her she can be a friend in her teaching, and we can learn to play with joy. thank
I really liked that you were not coming from a teacher's place but sharing what you learned That makes it one great fun
Rick Beato brought me here to stay....
And to Simp 😏😏😏
Hi Aimee, just watched this and I must say that your enthusiasm and passion for the music make you the kind of teacher that makes young players love playing. One thing I always loved about OP's playing was the way he could play the same thing on both hands at the same time. Also, check out the show he did with Marion McPartland years ago. Outstanding stuff.
+Coffeesnob I am aware of his appearance with Marian McPartland. Huge fan. Thanks for watching!
Heart and soul of a teacher...infectious love of what you're doing comes right through
Thank you Aimee! Oscar made it (everything) look so easy, and I know as a piano player that it's not. Great lesson/breakdown. I feel privileged that I got to meet Oscar backstage after a gig and thank him for all the great music. True legend...
It seems so easy when you you explain it, and so beautiful when you play it. Thank you.
This is for me the perfect lesson. Just the right level of difficulty, really, really well explained by an enthusiastic teacher showing me how to play a style that I love. How good can it get!? Thanks, Aimee!
David Gerber thanks thanks thanks to you!!
Thank you for keeping his legacy alive......He's my all time favorite
Mark Arnold you are welcome, Marc. You picked a good favorite.
Rick Beato sent me here, subscribed!
Thank you for keeping Oscar's music alive and well in this age. I am not a musician, but I have loved his music for 55 years. Your way of explaining Oscar and the fun of his licks is fascinating.
As a non-musician, this lovely video made me pay closer attention and appreciate Peterson's work even more. Thank you.
Dream team: Aimee and Rick - Thanks for the wonderful tutorials you give us🙏
Boy, is she an awesome pianist, and what an amazing personality to top it off. Since I just began playing 6 months ago and I'm 59, I'm afraid I won't live long enough to get this good, but I still love watching talented people. Great work Aimee, or should I say Play?
One of the best teachers on UA-cam !
I came here from Rick Beato's Oscar Peterson video featuring this solo. He not only mentioned you and that you demonstrated this lick, but he also put the link to your channel in the video description. Am looking forward to checking out your stuff here.
The more awareness is raised about the brilliance and joy of Oscar Peterson, his musical legacy, and the musicians who were inspired by him the better as far as I'm concerned. Thanks Aimee.
You are a treat to watch and your enthusiasm is contagious. It's obvious you have a great love for the music and the instrument. Thanks. Making Learning Fun!
Great video. How amazing was Oscar Peterson? That whole performance was astounding. So many style and rhythm changes while effortlessly improvising.
I love the way Aimee teaches! Her generosity is a blessing.
your appreciation for the music is contagious... thanks for sharing!
NewToneProducer you're very welcome. I'm glad you think so!
This proves out the Old Saying about Educators, that Goes!
Those who CAN,. . DO. / And those who CAN'T, . . TEACH!!!
0:26 "...at my gig tonight"
Bary Brada maybe go see her perform first? I bet she'd blow your socks off.
Agree 100% with NewToneProducer. My dad was an accomplished player but all he showed me were scales. School of hard knocks followed. This makes me want to try new stuff. Thank You Aimee!
Speaking extemporaneously about music is a rare skill in a teacher. Thelonious please.
You are an amazing teacher, your explanations are so precise and yet easily digested. As a piano teacher myself I am learning as much about teaching as I am how to play like oscar. Thank you for these videos.
Cooper Grosscup so nice of you to say. Good luck to you in your teaching and playing!
Oscar was the king of them all, and your videos are so great. I wish you were my teacher!
Folowing the young lady and her blessed guys, activated! Now i am another happy man! So usefull! Blessed Hands! Fly lady, just keep flying!
First off, as a piano player, I ALWAYS pay attention to people's HANDS!!! :) btw, you have GREAT hands (good for a piano player, I think). And i think you play VERY well. A funny (imho) story about Oscar Peterson: I was piano player in USAF Band out in Northern CA (would have been about 1982) and OP was going to be playing at the Fairmont Hotel (swank hotel in San Francisco) -- so of course, I was FIRED UP and very excited to see OP in person. Also, his band was GREAT!!!! (Joe Pass on guitar, Nels Henning-Orsted Pederson on bass, and I think it was Snuffy Smith on drums, but not positive about the drummer) -- well, of course, it was ABSOLUTELY "SMOKIN'!!!" -- Now OP is 6' 3" and weighed (at that time) probably 300 pounds -- a very imposing guy -- and after the show I went rushing up to him, and blurted out, "I just wanted to shake those hands; I used to think I was a piano player until I heard you play!" I stuck my hand out; he smiled slightly and shook hands with me, but his handshake was VERY tentative (piano players of course are always very careful about their hands) -- the most interesting thing for me was this: I have fairly decent size hands, but his hands next to mine were probably AT LEAST two inches longer than mine. Years later, I saw a (very nice) video of OP and Andre Previn, and OP said, when asked about his reach on the piano, "Comfortably an eleventh" (in other words, from Middle C up to F an octave and a half above Middle C). He was amazing. Like they reportedly said about Benny Goodman when he died, "Everybody move up one!" In closing, I really enjoyed your video -- and sorry to be so long-winded. :) Keep up the great work!!!
MrBobaloo22 what a wonderful story! I can't believe that. Comfortably. That's awesome. Thank you.
what does "everyone move up one" mean?
When the best musician or whomever dies everyone moves up a chair toward the first chair as the one who died just vacated number one chair .
MrBobaloo22 c
What a kind Jazz (magic music) promotor she is! THANKS.
Great Aimee!
I'm going to have to come back and learn this, about half a year or a year from now. I'm just starting to learn the piano, about 2 months ago. I love OP. I love musicians who love OP. You, in particular though, is someone who's ... I don't know, one of the angels here on earth? Angel musicians, yes, put here on UA-cam, to love and guide folks, older folks like me trying to learn jazz piano at a late stage in life. Thank you, thank you, thank you, ma'am.
+Custodio Stu thank YOU
The immortal O.P.; he made it all look so incredibly easy! We know better.
EXACTLY what a good teacher should be like! Thanks for another amazing lesson! Please do more of blues :)
bharat sharma Thanks so much! Ok I will!!
Wow! Thanks! So great that you can decipher what Oscar was playing. I finally can hear those blue notes. You make it look so easy.
Dan Matthews oh good! I'm glad!!
Aimee, you are a DARLING. So willing to share and make it easier to duplicate. THANK YOU!
Oscar Peterson! who would have thought you had an angel carrying forward what you created into the lives of musicians of the now and future. Whoopee!
Oscar Peterson is in the Pantheon of Jazz piano (along w/ Art Tatum, of course). No one else comes close. And thank you for posting this.
Great job Amy! This might be a bonus lesson in that it was a "how to practice" lesson too. Learning piano can be difficult, awkward, frustrating etc. It's wonderful that you bravely show us that practicing is something we all have to work at.
The important thing for people to remember is when practicing, go slow and be patient. It will come. Sometimes I play a phrase over and over again and I can't seem to get it. It's frustrating so I put it down, go to something else, then come back to it some time later and repeat. Go slow and be patient. That's the key. Then you get up one morning, go to the piano and it rolls off your fingers! It's always a great feeling of satisfaction when that happens. Somehow overnight it becomes easy.
Oscar Peterson was classically trained and could do anything. Remember that he put in hours and hours of practice every day so he could make it look easy.
Of course, you already know this. Hopefully your students can benefit by the advice.
Amy, you have such a warm and genuine personality. It's no wonder why you have so many followers.
Best Regards.
Also check out his Canadiana suite- blues of the prairies. He uses that basic lick there too. Actually the sheet music is well worth buying, as the pieces are just fantastic!!
Thanks Aimee! As a jazz piano instructor myself, I appreciate what I've learned from you about teaching! ❤
that left hand is worth teaching/learning to give the man the full respect he deserves.
Hi Aimee I'm here from Rick Beato's channel. I'm a real old (50+ years) guitar player and new keyboard player. This looks like fun.
Aimee you are THE best piano teacher! ❤
Thank you, Annette
Discovered you and your UA-cam videos a couple of days ago while watching this particular lesson. Have watched several more since then. I love Your Intimates one on one Style, your jazz/blues playing, your incredible warmth & enthusiasm. Keep "em coming!
Ronald Philpott thanks so much for the great feedback, Ronald. I appreciate you watching!
your spirit really shines in this one... thanks for bringing us into your world of music and joy!
I don't even play the piano and I'm addicted to your videos.
in opposite to many other self declared "teachers" and "tutors" on YT you can really play and you know your way round... - you really deserve so many views...
What a nifty lesson. Love to hear Oscar play. And it's great that someone like you can bring some of his tasty playing down to earth for those of us who need help sussing it out! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Mark Rhodes no problem! And thank you for helping get my video to 50 K! Woo hoo!
Congratulations! Happy to be of some small help.
Thanks for your attentive natural way of anticipating what questions arise from these ideas. Really glad I happened across this tutorial!
So smart that she makes these videos. She's excellent at this.
Great lesson Aimee. You're and awesome instructor. Thanks.
Very interesting ... and indeed, tricky, as you say! Those giants like Oscar, Erroll, Art, to name just a few, could play the piano in their unique way. Born musicians, not to be jealous of. Just to be admired . .. and to keep listen and enjoy, and learn a bit from them for our own humble abilities. Thank you so much, and keep on playing !
It's a Very interesting lesson. Thank You Aimee
after learning this from you. took me like 30 minutes but then going back and watching him do it again at the beginning of the video makes me realize I'm STILL an amateur haha. He's a wizard
Oscar was amazing! Lovely video, Aimee!
Yep. Thanks honey. From what I learned over 60 or so years ago Oscar was considered next in line to the trcklets / tricks / tricky stuff after Art Tatum.
Thank you Aimee Nolte Music for all of your help regarding the piano!
Dean Jackson
Seattle, WA
This is major cool. I mean that lick is amazing, but so is this lesson. Stellar work, Aimee, thank you so much!
This was so nice. I went and watched the video of him. Incredible playing. Thanks for sharing this one.
Delightful and so instructive ... superb teaching Aimee!
Hey Amie great stuff!... My favourite Pianist of old school Jazz blues Thank you Hun!... Getting back to playing.
Love this
Great breakdown of a masterpiece of piano virtuosity.
Kind of a Tausig exercise with a swing.
Thank You
Thanks Aimee. Such a treat.
First time I watch one of your videos. I'm hooked. You are an excellent instructor with amazing attention to detail and such helpful tips. Subscribed and grateful. Cheers.
Explications particulièrement claires. Thanks from France. 😊
love the down to earth teaching. I've done this kind of thing before in country and Mozart maybe Allah turca or Fur Elise this is for everybody out there struggling. I notice that your fingers are just a little unsure at one point and that is absolutely the way to learn. sometimes I struggle with a piece for long time maybe hours and then a leave the piano to answer the phone or whatever. I comeback and play it perfectly. Brent mason did the guitar work which was masterful in name by Alan Jackson. .there was one part that had me stumped I could not get it. my finger just could not fly that fast woke up the next morning grabbed the electric and played it like I had played it all my life . my experience has been that it will come to you because your brain will work it out. and and will allow you to play it fluently
PIANOSTYLE100 rad. I get that. 👊🏼thanks for your comment. So true.
Aimee Nolte Music Come on Aimee when ever your playing blues & jazz Get yourself a FENDER RHODES PIANO!!! OKAY!!!
THANK you for being repetitive. Most tutors are afraid or expect you to use UA-cam's crappy navigation to replay (which is torturous, please understand that). You will go over a riff 8 times in a row, but your narrative stresses how you and we should be learning and observing and routinizing, so it's ALL USEFUL. Keep up the repetition. No one tires of hearing and watching you.
+Bill Woo 😍🙏🏼🙌🏼
And 20 times is even better. Not always, not as a rule, but as you did in this video, every single take counts. Keep it up.
Besides, you spent 10 solid minutes already the night before, burning in the knowledge. Showing us 20 or 40 iterations that the truly ambitious (and/or OCD/perfectionist) actually must take to learn something underscores that you have to work to get something hard (unless you're mutantly gifted). It's better to drive home the point that 100 attempts to iron in that opening riff of My Amoreena is better than leaving us believing that you either instantly mutantly master something or have to walk away in frustration - simply because we didn't appreciate that work begets reward.
That Oscar guy left so many blues licks for us to battle with. Nice job Aimee
Great to find you 👍, Imana Iguhe Umugisha (God bless you) 🙏😊
excellent, just started walking bass in f and getting good at it. now this, wow. just one thing, MORE
Jacobus Scheeres great! Good work!
You’re a very good teacher 👏🏻
It was one of the most yummy piano lesson that I have had so far! Thank you Amiee
I saw Oscar live -- solo -- in Ann Arbor (Hill Auditorium) in the early 1980s. Now THAT was a concert. The concert was supposed to be his trio, but when we got there, there was a sign on the door that it was cancelled -- due to Oscar's arthritis, but we later found out it was only postponed, but when he came back his bass player and drummer could not make it so he played the whole concert solo. Unbelievable.
Magnificent, Aimee! You broke this down beautifully.
OMG - I LOVE your instructionals Aimee. I've played multiple instruments all my life and I've learned more from you in several sessions than I have in years! Thank you so much for these!
+Bill Campbell I'm so glad, Bill! Thanks!
Perfect for a turn around! Loved this.
Fretboard Sam glad you liked it Sam!
Love this video - I'm also passionated about O.P. and can use hours in fascinaton of little (great) details, like you do here, Aimee - listening to his playing makes you happy - studying his playing makes you even more happy and a feeling of deep joy
Hey nice looking room!!!! Just started researching into Oscar Peterson. What a great guy he was. Funny too. Love the interview he did with Andre Previn. What a talent!! Great lesson!!
I really love your teaching style. I wish I can find teacher like you for my son in the Bay Area!!
Frances Chang thank you so much. I'm sure you will find one. There are so many talented people in the bay area.
Truly appreciate your enthusiasm and step-by-step approach. Looking forward to digging into more of your vids. Thank you for the resources!
Eric Ode oh thx so much!
Yesssss, please more Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans and Monk inspired stuff, I love it! (and Ahmad Jamal too)...I love learning stuff inspired by those guys.
Nice job sussing that out! For me the trick on these harmony runs is to always be aware of the fingering---and also to feel the amount of stretch between the baby finger and the thumb while moving from key to key. Feeling the extension of the thumb as it moves to and away from the rest of the hand is what will enable the muscle memory to develop quickly.
Amazing what/who you can discover by searching for things like "help with sight reading." Love what you're doing. A GrandPop here who has been a Garner, Tatum, Evans, Timmons, Brubeck, Silver, Jamal, Hancock, Peterson, Allison, and even Short and Adair fan for too many decades. Among others of Oscar's, I've worn out more than one copy of his West Side Story album.
What a challenge- but a fun one! Lot's of practice time ahead for me but I'm going to do little bursts of practice because I'm still using my brain to think about everything. I need to watch/listen to OP again. Thanks so much, Aimee! I'll be looking to your site for more great videos.
Thanks for the video. I ❤ your hands and your fingers.
Wow! Thanks for your lesson 🙏
For the C7 part of the lick, instead of using his thumb on the black key (Bb), I'm pretty sure he shifts his hand down, and hits the B natural with his thumb directly after using it on the adjacent C (both white keys), then using his index finger on the Bb. It plays much more smoothly, in my opinion (no thumbs on black keys). Great video!
thank you, love it! I've been working on it for an hour and now wish me luck
paul johnson yes!!!!
I've lust been practising this in all 12 keys. I think I've concluded that it's best to slide the index finger from F# to F and from C# to C in all cases. You have to slide somewhere in certain keys (Bb for example) so you might as well do it everywhere. Basically learn to do a descending chromatic scale with just the thumb and index finger.
What do others think?
Dibbs Dibblethwaite you are right. It's not possible to do it cleanly in every key...but I do think that when you can do it without sliding, you should. Just my opinion though! Way to go!! You're awesome.
I love your teaching style. Thank you for this video
Thanks so much
Loved it! You take the time necessary to get the points across - thank you !!
Daryn Bee thanks so much!
Great lesson Aimee! one exercise that my help jump start your students is to sit at a table and play the rhythms by tapping the tabletop in 4 in the left and and three in the rights hand and then switch. You can evan tap your feet against what your hands are doing. Take a piece of paper and draw 12 small vertical lines horizontally. like "| | | | | | | | | | | |" Why 12? Because it's divisible by both 4 and 3. Now above this graphic, draw a little circle above every third line. This divides the measure into 4 parts. Inversely, beneath the graphic, draw a small circle verey fourth line. This divides it into 4 equal parts.
Now slowly start counting to 12 with your right hand tapping on the circles above and your left hand tapping on the circles below. It's like riding a bike. Once you get this down, you have it for life! You could use this same system for 4/5 - just divide 20 hash marks.by 4 and 5. Try switching between left and right hand and feet. If you put in a 1/2 hour a day for a week, you'll have this nailed.
Happy polyrhythms! - Jon Preizler
I've been looking for somebody to dumb down Peterson riffs for a very long time. Very much appreciate the video and look forward to more that come!
Cory Hall I am proud to be your dumber downer. Lol 🙌🏼
You are an AMAZING teacher!! Thank you!!
Your lessons are fun and learnable, thank you for being you and giving lessons.
Very nice. Really enjoyed this great video. Thank you!
Oscar Peterson could've written a book on his refrains. He was a master of it. This one is very cool, thanks for showing it to us Aimee. My personal favourite of his is the fill he takes at end of his introduction on "If I were a bell" from live album "Oscar Peterson Jams". It's just such a cool little "ditty" (for lack of a better word) and really sets the mood for the rest of the song. Are you familiar with it Aimee? It too is a very cool piece. Comes in at about the :40-:45 mark of the song.
Wow Aimee. Thanks for breaking it down. It’s a bucket list item now!