This. Im not the sharpest crayon in the knife box...Couldnt make heads or tails out of this on my guitar... came back to this a couple months later, suddenly everything makes sense...and this is brilliant! Thank you!
I definitely knew this cadence... by ear. As you were playing the initial C#- to B things, I could HEAR that next B inversion coming when you stopped, clear as day. Now I know it with the brains as well. Awesome.
Bruce Hornsby’s secret weapon! I’ve been exploring that technique for years, not realising how simple it is at root. This gives us a good way to practice it efficiently in all keys.
This is one of the first lessons in my gospel piano book! “How to harmonize (almost) the entire major scale with the I and ii chords.” It’s like, instant gospel.
You're here, I couldnt understand how I found all wonderful Musicians...So I went back in time and it all started when I clicked on you're sight on how to figure ouyt the key signatures for any song....I started playing piano, switched to guitar, and honestly just love them both....Gospel, is very very powerful, I love it...Cant wait to get started....
What would we do without you Aimee?! You are a breath of fresh air. Your videos make me want to explore ideas on the piano and find fresh delights and insights. Your enthusiasm is contagious! It blows like a sweet-scented breeze across the Atlantic and reaches me in my little flat here in Somerset, England, sitting at my computer, and then propels me across the room to my piano! May the Lord bless you with many blessings and much love through Christ!
Love it. You were correct. I went straight to the piano and tried out Sweet Chariot. The D 7 is so sweet. I go to the G and than back to the C. Gonna try the D to E now. I watch these over and over again. Got that slow 32 bar Guitar riff you did to now and starting to get many country songs. San Francisco Blues. Just two bars but it works in so many blues songs. Love it. Thank you so much. You're the best.
Yep, Billy Preston immediately came to mind, too. He walked in, accompanied by Ralph Vaughan Williams, of all people, who was humming the first part of his Fantasia on Christmas Carols. They loved your lesson.
Love the video Aimee and like that you touched on a little gospel, which is my background. What you can do to make it even more fun/challenging is to add a walking base with your left hand as you are playing downward inversions with your right. Also, to give it more of a gospel sound you can use minor inversion the whole time. For example, right hand is C-minor and D-minor inversions going down. The left hand is a walking base starting with C and then go down to E and waling that back up to C hitting every note EXCEPT A-flat. Once you hit C go back down to E and repeat. First master the base line -meaning be able to walk that base within 3-4 seconds. I start with right hand on an E-flat second inversion over C then go down and hit the E and walk the base up by the time my left hand hits the F and on the D-minor chord in the right. The trick is to coordinate hitting, for example, the f in the left while hitting the D-minor chord in your right hand and then the G as you are hitting the C-minor chord in your right hand..and so on and so on. As far as the base the E, F#, A and the B are just "fillers -off beat so to speak" it is not played with the C-minor or D-minor. Try it out...fun exercise of coordination, but this run is used A TON in gospel music. You are so AMAZING AIMEE! Hope to connect soon. Happy New Year and HUGS!!
Years back, I practiced this particular triad pair a ton on the guitar both as chords and various arpeggio patterns. That stuff still comes out in my playing here and there. As a guitar teacher, I shouldn't be too embarrassed to say that I grabbed the idea from Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi. Great video, Aimee. Much love.
The first time I heard this and realised what was going on was in Sinnerman by Nina Simone in the Thomas Crown Affair. Super effective, and doesn't really resolve, just keeps cooking. Love this!
Exactly what I need right now! I’ve been trying to work out a guitar accompaniment to John Sebastian’s “Darling Be Home Soon” with the feel of Chris Stainton’s piano playing in the Joe Cocker version. Here’s a triad pairs discovery I made last year that; similarly blew my mind. You can think of the old minor pentatonic with a tritone blues scale as a Sus4 triad on the 1, and a minor triad on the mi 3rd. And take it through the inversions the same way. When you run them in three note arpeggios, metered into 4 (16th) it gives the old blues scale a intervallic/modal jazz flavored makeover!
Do I understand this correctly? You are referring to a triad pair of, e.g. C-F-G (sus 4) and Eb-Gb-Bb (minor triad incorporating the tritone)? Creating arpeggios of both triads and 7th chords from all,the scales is definitely an interesting approach.
Ha ha! I went to my piano and right to Am/G (only because I knew that it’d be all white keys) right after you showed the first run. Then I realized that Dm/C would be all white keys too. Then went back and watched the rest of your video. Thank you!
@@PlayitonPan - all those # and b marks just confuse me. If it ain’t in C it ain’t for me. Kinda like Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top who said: “The secret to playing guitar is to never learn that fourth chord”. But hey, I’ll give A# minor and Cb Major a shot. 👍
Connective tissue. I use it often with many variations. Just depends on the situation and what chords I'm going to and from. And you're right, the hard part is not using it too much. It is indeed candy for the ear!
Great musical device!!! I think there are a lot of little tricks like that hidden in adult contemporary!! I believe it's not always easy to pick up because of the voicing of the keys!!! Great lesson as always!!!👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
When I was young Iwould go crazy trying to figure out what Billy Preston was doing in that descending thing in Will It Go Round In Circles. This is it. And he’s a gospel player too
Hey Aimee, I just love what you offer to your subscribers. Really helpful, useful piano instruction. Any your warm, personable way of conveying this information is delightful and SUPER inspiring. Cheers!
Thanks, Aimee!!!! Nice! It reminds me of a less Barry Harris version of his way of harmonizing melodies using his Major6/diminished scale. I've been making up my own little variations of that sort of thing since jazz college. I'll have to incorporate some of this into arrangements. Someday, maybe it will all just flow naturally as I improvose.... Again, THANKS!!!! Always great content!!!!
I have heard that run a lot in church. I enjoy watching all the gospel piano players videos on UA-cam. Good find, Aimee! Since I have a tiny KB, I mocked up the run in Scaler. Basically a ii-I run in a minor key.
I just came across your videos. Bravo! Your presentations are so reflective of your personal experience. Nice touch converting it to major as well. The first time I heard this lick was Herb Albert’s “Rise” from the late 70’s. Been intrigued by it ever since!🎹
Aimee, this reminds me of Barry Harris' diminished sixth exercise. Start on the Major, second diminished, third major, fourth diminished, fifth major, flat sixth diminished, sixth major, seventh diminished. Only two chords up the sixth diminished scale; C and D diminished. Love it.
I was just practicing this today! For major keys you play the V and vi and it gives you the maj7 the 9 and the 13, that’s why it sounds so pretty. if u want a lydian sound then you can play the II. Pretty sure there’s endless possibilities like playing a G major over a B7 for the b13 and the #9. You can also use it for soloing! Triads are the best
Great video! My first thought: this is how John Paul Jones plays the fills during the verse and his solo in Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter"! It's even in the same key of C#m! One thing I do a little differently when I'm playing this track is I do inversions of C#m, B, and E (which is just C#m without the C#, so it sounds brighter). Presumably those chord inversions would also work if you were in the key of B.
Absolutely! Gospel piano licks in pop music are simply gorgeous. Sometimes it's just beautifully played ascending octaves, say, Richard Tee's incredible piano on Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up. Thank you for doing this and pointing out the very reason we still keep making music.
This is great stuff. I’m sure I knew this but then again probably not. It just kind of sounds like something you know probably because we have all heard it and subconsciously noted it without ever really thinking about it …until now
From the way you constructed it at the start (in C# minor), it suggests that the minor you start with, is the Dorian mode of the major that's a whole tone down. So in your C# minor, you have the notes of a B major to work with. Except the note you're going to omit is then A#, not A. And in the Am/G combo, the omitted note becomes F#, not F. I'm sure I've noodled this sort of thing a lot (on piano), along with other types of patterns, but I never pulled out of it, such a rich palette of accompaniment. Thanks for the run-down and ideas! And Happy New Year! Fred
Hey now! This is super obvious but I’ve never looked at it like this before. I’m a guitarist and I’m gonna use this a lot. It’s also a very musical way to move up or down the neck
Lovely! And if you think about it, what you’re describing is actually a nice distillation of a Barry Harris min6dim pair…. eg cm6 + b dim, for a i/V movement.
This fill is also used again over another chord in the left hand in contemporary gospel. In your first example the the C#m to B major over the Left play C#-7 in the left hand do that fill and target the B major which together create a poly chord of C#-11 sound. Black gospel pianist have been creating these fills for decades now some of us just getting hip to it.
This. Im not the sharpest crayon in the knife box...Couldnt make heads or tails out of this on my guitar... came back to this a couple months later, suddenly everything makes sense...and this is brilliant! Thank you!
Aimee, the only thing that compares with your gorgeous music is your pretty smile. It is a tonic; a ray of sunshine on a grey rainy day!
Aimee is music with love!
I definitely knew this cadence... by ear. As you were playing the initial C#- to B things, I could HEAR that next B inversion coming when you stopped, clear as day. Now I know it with the brains as well. Awesome.
Bruce Hornsby’s secret weapon! I’ve been exploring that technique for years, not realising how simple it is at root. This gives us a good way to practice it efficiently in all keys.
I was hearing that progression and thought “that’s familiar “ and then you played the clip!! Thank you!!
Your enthusiasm is contagious.. thank you!
thank you dear Aimee for being here ; I'm so fond of you ! you'r the best ! I'm playing Mo Better Blues !! so it's perfect
This is one of the first lessons in my gospel piano book! “How to harmonize (almost) the entire major scale with the I and ii chords.” It’s like, instant gospel.
What is the name of the book
@@ricardofryson91 there's lots of this kind of thing in Kurt Cowling's Gospel Piano book - he talks about "couple" chords
I'd love to know which gospel hook it is you refer to please? Thanks! :)
what book are you using?
You're here, I couldnt understand how I found all wonderful Musicians...So I went back in time and it all started when I clicked on you're sight on how to figure ouyt the key signatures for any song....I started playing piano, switched to guitar, and honestly just love them both....Gospel, is very very powerful, I love it...Cant wait to get started....
What would we do without you Aimee?! You are a breath of fresh air. Your videos make me want to explore ideas on the piano and find fresh delights and insights. Your enthusiasm is contagious! It blows like a sweet-scented breeze across the Atlantic and reaches me in my little flat here in Somerset, England, sitting at my computer, and then propels me across the room to my piano! May the Lord bless you with many blessings and much love through Christ!
William, you should write poems! 👍
May be you do 😊🙏🙏💖
Love it. You were correct. I went straight to the piano and tried out Sweet Chariot. The D 7 is so sweet. I go to the G and than back to the C. Gonna try the D to E now. I watch these over and over again. Got that slow 32 bar Guitar riff you did to now and starting to get many country songs. San Francisco Blues. Just two bars but it works in so many blues songs. Love it. Thank you so much. You're the best.
I just tried this out on the ending of Oh The Glory of Your Presence - perfect!
I got the feels listening to this. An incredible lesson from an accomplished and dedicated music educator.
Yep, Billy Preston immediately came to mind, too. He walked in, accompanied by Ralph Vaughan Williams, of all people, who was humming the first part of his Fantasia on Christmas Carols. They loved your lesson.
WOW I just play this and since I play by ear I had no idea there was a name for this. Awesome. Thanks for the amazing lesson Aimee.
Just makes my day every time. No electricity now (south Africa) but when the power comes on there will be a rush to the keyboard.
You teach the things I want to know in the way I want them taught. Thank you.
Aimee, you have a tremendous gift. I am working on mine.
Let’s goooo Lynette!!
I watched this video the other day and used it during worship Sat night, lol. Thank you
This is good because I've been using this method to understand triadic pairs.
Fun!!! Thanks Aimee!
You are a musical genius.
Love the video Aimee and like that you touched on a little gospel, which is my background. What you can do to make it even more fun/challenging is to add a walking base with your left hand as you are playing downward inversions with your right. Also, to give it more of a gospel sound you can use minor inversion the whole time. For example, right hand is C-minor and D-minor inversions going down. The left hand is a walking base starting with C and then go down to E and waling that back up to C hitting every note EXCEPT A-flat. Once you hit C go back down to E and repeat. First master the base line -meaning be able to walk that base within 3-4 seconds. I start with right hand on an E-flat second inversion over C then go down and hit the E and walk the base up by the time my left hand hits the F and on the D-minor chord in the right. The trick is to coordinate hitting, for example, the f in the left while hitting the D-minor chord in your right hand and then the G as you are hitting the C-minor chord in your right hand..and so on and so on. As far as the base the E, F#, A and the B are just "fillers -off beat so to speak" it is not played with the C-minor or D-minor. Try it out...fun exercise of coordination, but this run is used A TON in gospel music. You are so AMAZING AIMEE! Hope to connect soon. Happy New Year and HUGS!!
Hope she gets to read this and tries out your ideas.
Great morning exercise for sharpening my inversions
Awesome trick!
I call that the Billy Preston “Will It Go Round In Circles” lick. Great for soul/R&B/Funk 👍🏻
Exactly what I hear
Yes... first thing I thought of was Billy Preston and those descending chords
MJ CS ditto! As well as ‘nothin from nothin leaves nothin. Gotta have sumpin ….’
That's where I first heard and learned it. :-).
Thank You, Aimee! And all the best for you and your family in 2022. In particular - please stay test negative!
What a great lesson! The eleven minutes went by really quickly. Thank you so much, Aimee.
Years back, I practiced this particular triad pair a ton on the guitar both as chords and various arpeggio patterns. That stuff still comes out in my playing here and there. As a guitar teacher, I shouldn't be too embarrassed to say that I grabbed the idea from Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi. Great video, Aimee. Much love.
I use this ALL THE TIME playing in church. I also do a dim7 going from a major chord to a whole step up or down to the minor next in the scale.
The first time I heard this and realised what was going on was in Sinnerman by Nina Simone in the Thomas Crown Affair. Super effective, and doesn't really resolve, just keeps cooking. Love this!
Lady AIMEE - You Are FANTASTIC. , And THANK YOU for that ! ☮️❤️🎼🇺🇸
A great pleasure that I've known you in this you tube .thanks a lot
Brilliant! And very nicely explained and demonstrated- thank you!
Very cool. I think I'll write them out myself. A good exercise for transcribing practice.
I'm asaxaphonist & study piano for study of chords you healp me greatly thank you
Exactly what I need right now! I’ve been trying to work out a guitar accompaniment to John Sebastian’s “Darling Be Home Soon” with the feel of Chris Stainton’s piano playing in the Joe Cocker version. Here’s a triad pairs discovery I made last year that; similarly blew my mind. You can think of the old minor pentatonic with a tritone blues scale as a Sus4 triad on the 1, and a minor triad on the mi 3rd. And take it through the inversions the same way. When you run them in three note arpeggios, metered into 4 (16th) it gives the old blues scale a intervallic/modal jazz flavored makeover!
Fantastic song, Kevin. One of my faves: I had forgotten about it. Lovin' Spoonful, mate! 🔥(summer in the city🔥🔥).
Do I understand this correctly? You are referring to a triad pair of, e.g. C-F-G (sus 4) and Eb-Gb-Bb (minor triad incorporating the tritone)? Creating arpeggios of both triads and 7th chords from all,the scales is definitely an interesting approach.
Absolutely awesome!
Ha ha! I went to my piano and right to Am/G (only because I knew that it’d be all white keys) right after you showed the first run. Then I realized that Dm/C would be all white keys too. Then went back and watched the rest of your video. Thank you!
Now do it in E♭ minor and G♭ Major. Black Keys Matter 🎹
@@PlayitonPan - all those # and b marks just confuse me. If it ain’t in C it ain’t for me. Kinda like Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top who said: “The secret to playing guitar is to never learn that fourth chord”. But hey, I’ll give A# minor and Cb Major a shot. 👍
Connective tissue. I use it often with many variations. Just depends on the situation and what chords I'm going to and from. And you're right, the hard part is not using it too much. It is indeed candy for the ear!
So very very awesome. Thank you!
Great musical device!!! I think there are a lot of little tricks like that hidden in adult contemporary!! I believe it's not always easy to pick up because of the voicing of the keys!!! Great lesson as always!!!👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
super soulful sound Aimee.
Hi Aimee, Sounds great, I just bought your PDF. Thanks Simon.
Really loved and appreciated this lesson, thank you 🙏🏾 😊💛
Great lesson Aimee I will be using this concept !
Im brazilian and your video about scat is great
you're a musical saint. thanks, and keep the vids coming
When I was young Iwould go crazy trying to figure out what Billy Preston was doing in that descending thing in Will It Go Round In Circles. This is it. And he’s a gospel player too
Yesssss, 4 minutes is exactly where I stopped it an ran to my piano 😀😀 thanks for this subconscious lesson
Thanks. It's so obvious once you make it explicit. Try it on "I'll Remember April". I'm a guitar player, but I always learn something from you.
A good fit for this is Tennessee Whiskey. Thank you Aimee!
Hey Aimee, I just love what you offer to your subscribers. Really helpful, useful piano instruction. Any your warm, personable way of conveying this information is delightful and SUPER inspiring. Cheers!
Thank you, Kathy
Aimee! Surf Gospel surf! Will buy the PDF! Awesome!
Intro of Round in Circles - Billy Preston does it as well. Super cool! Thanks for the tutorial!
This is wonderful, will add to this morning's practice. Thank you, Aimee and Happy New Year!
OMG, thank you so much. These are magical
The old Billy Preston riff he played on “Will It Go Round in Circles”. Very cool chordal riff.
Very cool, Aimee, thanks.
Nice lesson, thank you from Greenland!
Inspired me to sit at keys again. Thanks
Thanks, Aimee!!!! Nice! It reminds me of a less Barry Harris version of his way of harmonizing melodies using his Major6/diminished scale. I've been making up my own little variations of that sort of thing since jazz college. I'll have to incorporate some of this into arrangements. Someday, maybe it will all just flow naturally as I improvose....
Again, THANKS!!!! Always great content!!!!
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I have heard that run a lot in church. I enjoy watching all the gospel piano players videos on UA-cam. Good find, Aimee! Since I have a tiny KB, I mocked up the run in Scaler. Basically a ii-I run in a minor key.
What? B-but, you must be some kind of sorcerer, this kind of fills was a homework for me yet you turned it to tasty!
Another point for Dr Aimee!
Aimee , great practical stuff ! thanks
Thx. This actually made me grow! 🙏🏻
Great video, got me back to the piano after a long break! You are the best @aimeenolte !!
Plus, Power Fantastic by Prince 💜
I just came across your videos. Bravo! Your presentations are so reflective of your personal experience. Nice touch converting it to major as well. The first time I heard this lick was Herb Albert’s “Rise” from the late 70’s. Been intrigued by it ever since!🎹
Aimee, this reminds me of Barry Harris' diminished sixth exercise. Start on the Major, second diminished, third major, fourth diminished, fifth major, flat sixth diminished, sixth major, seventh diminished. Only two chords up the sixth diminished scale; C and D diminished. Love it.
Great tip! Thank you
Very interesting and it sounds lovely. Seems you switch between root and seven for the minor and root and 2nd for the major. Many, many thanks.
I was just practicing this today! For major keys you play the V and vi and it gives you the maj7 the 9 and the 13, that’s why it sounds so pretty. if u want a lydian sound then you can play the II. Pretty sure there’s endless possibilities like playing a G major over a B7 for the b13 and the #9. You can also use it for soloing! Triads are the best
Thanks! looks like bob james, "Nautilus" too
Happy New Year Aimee !
Great video! My first thought: this is how John Paul Jones plays the fills during the verse and his solo in Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter"! It's even in the same key of C#m! One thing I do a little differently when I'm playing this track is I do inversions of C#m, B, and E (which is just C#m without the C#, so it sounds brighter). Presumably those chord inversions would also work if you were in the key of B.
It's a sea shanty to my ears
Absolutely! Gospel piano licks in pop music are simply gorgeous. Sometimes it's just beautifully played ascending octaves, say, Richard Tee's incredible piano on Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up. Thank you for doing this and pointing out the very reason we still keep making music.
Extremely cool!
crazy, just been learning this minor Popsong to accompany my friend, it fits perfectly! Thanks!
A very cool and simple tool.. I will use it often. THANK YOU!
Thanx, Maestra. Happy 2022. All the Best for you and your family. 🌹🌹🔥🔥🌹🌹
Wow this is a great tool that I am going to start using! Definitely useful.
Thanks Aimee. Happy new year. Ps...this is like finding the best engineering solution....
Great stuff -- I found this after playing for decades just a few years ago and use it over the time. Goal is trying not to overuse! Thanks, Aimee.
Tried it on guitar. Great. Lot's of distance for just 2 chords. Thx.
This is great stuff. I’m sure I knew this but then again probably not. It just kind of sounds like something you know probably because we have all heard it and subconsciously noted it without ever really thinking about it …until now
amaaaazing! thank you so much!
From the way you constructed it at the start (in C# minor), it suggests that the minor you start with, is the Dorian mode of the major that's a whole tone down.
So in your C# minor, you have the notes of a B major to work with. Except the note you're going to omit is then A#, not A.
And in the Am/G combo, the omitted note becomes F#, not F.
I'm sure I've noodled this sort of thing a lot (on piano), along with other types of patterns, but I never pulled out of it, such a rich palette of accompaniment.
Thanks for the run-down and ideas!
And Happy New Year!
Fred
this is actually the first lesson in gospel piano, I ii walkups harmonizaing melodies. Its what the Choir sings as well, its deep.
This is simple and it works so freakin well! Thanks Amy
Love this. Thx!
Great stuff👍🏻🎹🎵
😊 Thank you
Great tip, thanks Aimee!
This video started and you were like "my mind was blown!!" and here I am thinking Uh huh, okay lady. Well I was dead wrong... my mind was blown
It's the chordal version of triad pairs. Very tasty. Works well for playing on the top three strings on a guitar as well.
Hey now!
This is super obvious but I’ve never looked at it like this before.
I’m a guitarist and I’m gonna use this a lot. It’s also a very musical way to move up or down the neck
I remember learning this triad pair concept from I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt. It's full great gospel licks aswell
Lovely! And if you think about it, what you’re describing is actually a nice distillation of a Barry Harris min6dim pair…. eg cm6 + b dim, for a i/V movement.
This fill is also used again over another chord in the left hand in contemporary gospel. In your first example the the C#m to B major over the Left play C#-7 in the left hand do that fill and target the B major which together create a poly chord of C#-11 sound. Black gospel pianist have been creating these fills for decades now some of us just getting hip to it.
Wow, great stuff! Thanks!