Jazz Piano: WHERE TO START (ii V7 Is with 3rds & 7s)
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- If you'd like to become a jazz piano player, this is a great place to start! A simple exercise that walks you through major ii V Is in all 12 keys, playing left hand root notes, and 3rds and 7s with your right hand.
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Aimee Nolte
Okay. So I practiced this in all 12 keys for minor, dominant and major chords according to the progression for 4 weeks. The next thing I know I had 36 chords under my hands. So I tested my facility and grabbed the chords for Bluesette. I was playing the chords without even thinking about it. Wow! Not bad! Thanks Amimee!
Oh my gosh, Michael! You’re like the perfect model student. :-)
Congrats on your progress!! 🎉
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Hi Aimee. Just follow-up. I want to thank you for all that you do. I started playing piano with your channel and fell in love with music all over again. So much so i created a little something with the help of some friends.. I wrote produced and played keyboards and did vocals on this. On soprano sax is my good friend Quamon Fowler who is a 3rd place runner up in the 2008 Thelonius Monk Jazz Competition.. Just a couple of chords.. You did this!! ua-cam.com/video/XOzNEz4EXqM/v-deo.html
@@joshmartinez2221 Thank you.
Hey jazztech1759....I'm doin what you're doin and PRAY TO GOD it works for me too!!!! Did you practice it with increasing speeds on a metronome?? Thanks
I like the Jazz piano 101 idea. It's probably boring for you, but helpful for those starting out. Thank you
Eghn
because of the corona virus outbreak I'm stuck home here in China. but now I have you teaching me and life is no more wasted. I bought "killing me softly yesterday" on your website and now I can play it and even my girlfriend learnt the words of the song to accompany me. thank you for the sharing and the love of teaching. still I wish I can have one on one class with you.
As a metal guitarist I have looked askance at jazz and avoided it whenever possible because I just didn't "get it". Thanks to this, I've got a clue and an opening to new inspirations in rock guitar. Thank you.
UA-cam instructors normally forget about the complete novices! Thank you, Aimee! This has been tremendously helpful.
I've always wanted to learn Jazz, and have tried in the past to find videos for beginners. This is definitely the simplest, yet effective videos I've found on it and It's amazing! I'm absolutely going to start practicing this. Please make more!
I've been playing piano and keyboards for many years and have always been too intimidated to take on learning jazz. This provides me with a starting point I can actually use. Thank you for that.
I've played keyboard all my life. Sometimes I think I am a keyboard. But I love watching you. I seem to get a new perspective on something each time I see you. Not easy at 72 lol! Thanks!
BirdsAdventuresInWoodworking You think you are a keyboard? Lmao.
I certainly don't expect every one to understand what I mean by that, but yes. And being an entertainer all my life, I'm glad you laughed! Mission accomplished lol! But yes, when I hear a melody or a song, I can immediately envision it. And knowing theory for many many years now, she still makes me come at things in new ways. I also love watching Bernstein when he does his analysis of various "classical" compositions. Anything to push us in different ways of thinking about theory in musical terms. And yes, thankfully, I can easily envision what they are talking about usually from a keyboard perspective though I do play many other instruments.
BirdsAdventuresInWoodworking Well, I guess it's a good thing it just sounded a bit weird to me haha. I wish I had a good ear for melody/chords but I'm still at the very beginning of the learning curve. But I'm about 50 years younger then you are so I think it's not too bad :)
You've got lots of time! As a word of encouragement, not only practice your instrument, practice listening and if you haven't studied basic theory, that is the number system, do so as soon as possible and then start to listen to the intervals once you learn how they are named. You can probably do a youtube search and find some video on it. It won't be long before you start to actually know what you are hearing. An interval of a 2nd sounds nothing like a 3rd or a 4th and so on. Once you get to where you can readily recognize that, it gets much easier very quickly. I learned it in my early 20's and it has served me well, though one never stops learning. That's why I like hearing different artists perspective or way of looking at it and relating to it. Aimee is particularly interesting. She is just a natural musical entity and there just aren't a lot of them out there. So I find her very interesting. She always keeps me smiling because she just takes you places you don't expect. Keep studying and practicing though. It's a life long love affair I can assure you!
BirdsAdventuresInWoodworking Thanks for the encouragement. I know the names of the keys and I know the major and minor scales pretty well. My ear is still rather bad at recognizing notes/chords though. And I can play a major or minor scale without a problem but when I play chords within the scales I always have problems with the intervals between the notes if that makes sense. And I guess it can be a good thing for some people but for me it's a bit confusing that alot of people explain things differently. But I'm learning everyday so eventually I'll come there :)
best teacher ever
You are so generous. Thank you for giving us so much to grow on.
You are the first "UA-cam" whose website I am actually going to visit, lol.
I relate so much to Kim's story. I was even LAZIER and just looked up piano tutorials because I didn't want to bother reading music. This video really showed me however, that I should familiarize with the whole piano, not just specific keys that my favorite soul songs are set too. Overall, awesome video, you're a great teacher Aimee :)
Aimee, I was young 45 years ago when I was an aspiring saxophone player. I started to take improvisation lessons with a very capable jazz saxophonist (former David Baker student) who asked me on my first lesson to tell him how I thought about improvisation when I saw chords. So, I said that I tried to play notes from the chord, emphasizing the 3rd and 7th. He then told me to use scales, and off we went to all the modes, and whole tone scales, diminished scales, bebop scales, etc. I had put music aside for maybe 30 years, and am coming back to this after all these years. Interesting to see this set of exercises and video, and a similar one on a different channel. As a non-pianist, I would look at a ii-V7-I and play all the notes (1, 3, 5, 7) in root position. I never understood how pianists and other harmony instruments made ii-V7-I progressions sound like they should. Now I (think I) know. Wish you had been my teacher long ago. Ironically, some time ago I was following Carol Kaye's FB site where she repeatedly made fun of people who played "note scales" when improvising. Pretty insightful, and pretty funny.
My piano teacher made me do ii V I years ago and we moved on. Now I am at a point where I’m able to play anything from fake sheets immediately but it was boring and this exercise is EXACTLY what I need to progress further. Thanks! 😎👍
I used to hate jazz because I know a lot of classic pieces, but my teacher force me to learn jazz, and you are making me starting to like it..
What a great place to start getting one of the foundation stones of jazz! The 2-5-1's... ALL of them! Working my way through them, getting them right, naming the chords and the key each time. I want these rock solid, so I don't even have to think about them. Not only are the chords useful as 2-5-1's they are invaluable to have under your fingers for reading lead sheets. Aimee, this is a fantastic exercise in itself. Thank you so much.
Omg. @6:45, the light bulb is sloooowing glowing. This is the best explaination i have ever seen. Love you foreverrr!!! Ive been playing off and on for years, and theory has always been a weakness for me. Thank you so much!!!!!
My epiphany / eureka moment: 5:30
This the the absolute best beginners jazz chord progression lesson in UA-cam.
I finally got it!
You are the BEST teacher. I bet you could teach fish to walk and birds to swim because when i complete a lesson with you and i "got it", i swear i could fly...thank you so much. You make the insurmountable mountains, like jazz piano, bow down like valleys...pure simplicity.
Um this is possibly the best beginning jazz piano lesson I've found.
Thank you so much!
I've been playing guitar for a long time and thinking about restarting the piano of my youth. To my surprise, this lesson is super helpful for a guitarist, absolutely unlocking "shell voicings." Thanks, Aimee.
!!!!Exellent Video!!!! Please please please make some more videos on the fundamentals of jazz piano for beginners....these concepts are soooo important
sike.
Holy God thank you. I've been struggling with voice leading in improv and had no idea how to start off. THANK YOU.
Signals Music Studio recently gave your channel a shoutout recently! It's how I found out about you. Thought I'd let you know!
So much jazz makes sense now. I primarily play guitar, and this takes big intimidating chord names on lead sheets and reduces them to a few easy grips descending in an easy pattern. So satisfying!
I love this aimee! I actually just picked up a keyboard for the first time in years just the other night so that i could start using the jazz theory i learned on guitar, on piano. I wasn't entirely sure where to start, other than using the 7th in my chords, and practicing different keys but that alone felt too vague and overwealming. go figure that you had already uploaded a video on just what i needed to practice! thanks for the great help, now i can laser focus on what will really help my playing and my understanding of the keyboard.
in the same boat, i didnt think piano would be this complex coming from 5 years of jazz guitar, its completely different
This. Is. Awesome. I've seen lots of theory. I've seen lots of composition. But what I have not seen is such a basic, rudimentary break-down of the common chord structures and how best to practice to be _flexible_, rather than repetitive. Thanks!!
OH ..... MY ..... GOD!!! Holy shit, I am so pumped over this progression! I can basically move down through the whole thing without looking at chord tabs. What’s next? Like, playing songs without sheet music???????
So helpful. I’m a beginner, total beginner, got my digital piano end of November. Use your scales YT and this one a lot. Proabaly watched this one five times to try and understand how these 2-5-1’s are generated (circle of 5ths?) but honestly learn something new each time I view it. Really helpful for those of us with little or no experience. When I do it right, it sounds like music to me. Thank you. P.S. I downloaded the worksheet too. P.S.S. Used to live in L.A., Venice, actuallyup until couple years ago. Now in Santa Fe. Cheers 😎
am a drummer watching it, loving it and learning how to understand the song compositions .... thanks million times for your pleasant attitude
Watching through various videos on your channel and I just want to say (as an arranger and occasional vocalist) THANK YOU SO MUCH for making voice leading an important component of beginner tutorials. None of this jumping halfway across the keyboard crap in order to fill in a chord. Drives me nuts, it does. How the hell are you gonna sing along with yourself like that?
Great lesson. Thank you for making it simple. I took a lesson from an excellent pianist who showed me the same exercise using 4-note voicings, but I wasn't ready for it. This is exactly what I needed.
thats very true. Jazz is not simple and really no beginner course. Great to see something simplier for the new comer of Jazz! Thaks for sharing this execrise
Hey Aimee, please don't forget about our jazz piano beginners... these lessons are soooo good... I would love to know the next step! Sunshine on you!
I will organize these older videos soon. Make sure you watch my "how to accompany yourself" series. Especially the walking bass line one. Thanks for your patience.
I NEED these basic exercises! Thank you! Just started an ear training class. Will be tuned in here more moving forward.
Brilliant Aimee!
I always thought there was a gap in standard music teaching, between the theory of something, and those hidden patterns that result from applying the theoretical understanding.
You have just solved one of the mysteries around smooth chord changes in Jazz, that seem to be so easy when you watch a professional do them, but not all that intuitive for learners.
Keep doing what you do darling.
Wow! After 5 years my lights, thanks to this vid, are fully on! Thank you!
Ah hell yeah! Thank you. A place to start is, sometimes, all a person needs. Even if you don't make a full beginners series, a "start" along with application really helps open the jazz world up.
that was the best piano tutorial ive ever seen
Many thanks Aimee, I come back to this lesson regularly to remind myself why
I should learn this.
Yup I prefer formula rather than just memorizing chords. Thanks Aimee luv ur channel.❤
I'm coming to piano from guitar. So, these basic pianistic moves are super helpful, thanks!
I read that Erroll Garner got the tune in his head and did not read or write music. He's like your student and has a great ear for what sounds good. I grew up listening to the Johnny Mathis version of that song and my sister wore out the vinly album! Your student sounds like an interesting person going from playing bass to jazz piano! Very cool !Thanks Aimee
I bought the workshet, and have been practicing for a week or so. best learning experience ever! thank you so much!
You have no idea how many times I keep coming back to this video as I keep practicing. I learned playing trombone on my own and decided to get into jazz piano on my own also and it has been an uphill learning process as i lost motivation quite often. Your videos have brought back all the motivation I lost over a track of several months struggling to understand where to start and what I should be focusing on. You are an amazing teacher with a contagious good mood. Keep up the good work
+Anthony Flores Nigaglioni that makes me so happy, Anthony! Thank you for letting me know.
Merci. I figured this out only about a week ago, it's good to know that I was on the right track. But I hadn't used the shell notes, it's even easier. I'm beginning to think that music is wonderful once you learn the hacks.
Damn you are one of the best jazz teachers online
Ive been needing this! Some days I only get a half hour to practice, and this will be a life saver for internalizing those ii, V, I changes!
For the longest time, I was doing Root in the left, then 3,5, 7, and 9 in the right. Then flat 7, then flat 3, and finally bring down 5 and 9 and whole step then repeat; basically this exercise with just two extra notes. Today, I decided to try it inversions and my brain felt like it was being bent out of shape, in a good way. Stripping it down to 3 and 7 makes a whole lot more sense to how the ii V I works.
Gracias Amiga!!! cheers from Central America, Guatemala City.
I have begun to really understand chord structure and progressions. I did this exercise from this video two years ago, but didn’t say the chords out loud . So much better
Thank you Aimee. I always learn something from you, important to my evolution of learning chords, progressions, theory etc.
You are a good teacher, thank You for help us. I love You.
Love watching your vids! This may still be more intermediate than beginner. I need way more time at the keyboard. Took lessons for 5 years and finally learned basic theory. I hurt my hand and have taken a break. These are getting excited me again. I`m 66 and taught myself guitar at 13, but started piano only about 6-7 years ago. Thanks for all your videos.
+Charlie O'Brien you're welcome, Charlie. Yes. Take it slow and revisit your major scales first.
Thanks Aimee! I learned to play chords in left hand and melody in right from my teacher. He taught a varied list of music types. Jazz, standards, classical pop. I can sight read now at least and we worked through about 100 Beatles songs and a ton of 60's pop. Thats kind of where I live. We did lots of scales but never got really any improv done before my injury. I like jazz as much as Brian Wilson I think and would like to try my hand at it. So seeing you play a lot of chords in your right and some bass notes in your left makes me scratch me head a bit. Enjoy your lessons!
I love your vids! Thanks a lot! Greetings from Argentina
thank you...im so grateful for finding your channel....youre a great teacher...you laid it out so simple..thank you...
Yes please… something basic for some of us would be a wonderful thing… anything jazz 101 sounds like the perfect thing for me :)
Thank you Aimee!
I was classically trained and I feel like I don't know how to play at all, because it's learned and not inspired. Its such a hard shift from reading sheet music to bringing to life stuff that plays in your head. Recently dont want to touch my piano at all coz I feel so pathetic....))) Hopefully will learn something from you. Thanks again for your lessons dear!
Aimee, I have been playing piano since childhood by ear, in spite of the fact that I do read music, although for piano, not so quickly. In some ways, I seem to be in the same spot as Kem (sp?). I knew conceptually that 3 and 7 are fundamental, but on sax, flute, piano, and guitar, I can't do the "dice" ii V I thing, and first and second inversions, well, that is really hard for me to figure out without taking forever. You will never know how much I appreciate your total understanding of where so many thousands of us out here live with respect to theory and jazz. I can sometimes play really great colorful and extended/alternate chords, but only by visualizing/remembering the key patterns and muscle memory, which restricts me to one key per song. And it is a gamble as to which key in which I might end up playing different songs. And I can't figure out some songs, even after careful trial and error. It can be quite frustrating, so I end up noodling, playing the same songs over and over ad infinitum. My ear does not always hear the intervals and the extensions, and my ear is not good in the low bass frequencies, perhaps just due to lack of disciplined ear training. I have subscribed to your channel, and hope to dig in and start learning from them. I am not set up to have my keys in front of my screen, so Skype is not practical/possible for me. If I lived within thirty minutes or so from a teacher as good as you, I would be taking individual private lessons. I apologize for such a long comment, but I just wanted you to know that you are actually providing a really useful service on UA-cam. My first task will be to the exercise you are illustrating here, and I am sure even that alone, given my ear, will improve my playing a lot. Thanks for being such a delightful personality and for helping us guys.
what a beautiful human! Thanks for sharing your gift!
So wonderfully simple and beautiful! Especially for a dumbo like me - thanks so much , Aimee!
Superb presentation and demo distilling complexity into simplicity. The II-V7- I Maj is the holy grail of jazz. You can't get move forward unless you confront it! The 3rd and 7th are the guide tones which as you show, guide us listeners in experiencing harmonic movement with "No static at all".... Love the "rub" of Maj 7 tones over the V7s. Great stuff Aimee.
I'm glad I stumbled onto this. You're speaking Greek to me but I like and can learn from you. The rewind button will be my closest friend😁
Yes. Very useful for us dummies. More of this type of thing, and maybe even some more elementary, would be wonderful. Thanks!
Hi Aimee, I love this exercise. My piano teacher taught me it. Then I watched a video where a guy showed how to apply the 3rds and 7ths to a tune with the root in the bottom like you showed. To build onto this video you made, I hope your next ones are showing us how sometimes you have to invert the third and seventh for the tune in order to easily access the melody note, adding the melody note to the top, chord voicings to use in the left hand, maybe using the tritone substitutions you taught us etc., until you have a full "Misty" song for us. Hint hint! : )
+rachelsmename yes!
Yea! Thank you! You're the best! : )
I love the way you teach, you're the best dont stop!!
A great advice. I remember Mark Levine's piano book with the same exercise... Many Thx!
I love your channel and you for being so musically devoted, I really appreciate the help you've given from the videos I've seen this far
Thank you so much that’s has changed a lot for me In approaching Jazz
This is awesome, Sounding musical is way better than boring scales IMO
This is when I create the "Just Aimee Folder". Thanks for sharing.
I'm really glad to see your channel take off :) You gained almost 20k subs in 30 days!
Thanks for all the great content.
+Mike Post thanks so much Mike
Excellent video will be a game changer for me thank you !
Hey Aimee , I love the way how you play and when you play you sing pretty much the same notes. Also, how you go step by step. I've watched about a million of your AWSOME videos. My grandpa agrees.
Thank you, Hector. Thank your pops for me too.
Brilliant video - thanks Aimee!
Great video, Aimee. Jazz PIano 101 was just what I needed. Thanks!
This is great. Every time I watch you I learn something. Thanx Aimee!
you are helping us unlock the mysteries of music theory. I just started learning the piano and one goal is to be able to play the same song in different keys, you know, just switch keys on the fly on the piano, and this brief lesson was the best example of how you can begin to do that.
I just discovered your channel and I just know it’s gonna be so informative! Thank you x
Thank you, Aimee! First time through was very slow, and I thought "This will take forever", but then I thought to follow the RH thumb and "see" (in relation to the root note) how it's playing the third then the seventh then the third scale degrees of the ii-V-I respectively. Suddenly I'm playing it twice as fast. Next I'm looking at the top note, and "seeing" the seventh then the third then the major seventh. That's really helping. Spelling the chords out loud is just as valuable as finding them with the fingers. It's like when I'm typing I can stop to spell a word quick enough whenever I need to, but when typing at speed my fingers do it from pattern memory. You learn it top down and bottom up until they meet in the middle.
Isn’t it cool! Way to go!
WOW! I feel like I've just been told one of the secrets of the universe! That was great! Thanks Aimee
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As someone who is very new to jazz piano, thanks!! This was super helpful.
Thanks for providing this missing piece of the musical puzzle -- a fully fantastic lesson.
Amazing! I loved your video. Im just starting out learning piano and reading music, this was very helpful for me in starting my journey to jazz piano!
Thank you so much for all your videos. I have been studying classical for years. You have inspired me to delve into the jazz world. W~
I’m so glad!
What a brilliant video. I had the worst day today. but now things are better.
Never played piano but gosh, wish you were my teacher, I would give my best to learn.
Brilliant! Thank you. Best wishes, health, wellbeing 🌞🤸🏽♂️🖖🏼
Great video Aimee!
Finally. It all just clicked! Thanks.
OMG! This video is eye opening! I love how you simplify the theory and how to get these in your hands, brain and ear! I went through all 12 keys in about 5 minutes and then went and did something else for a while. All the sudden I started hearing "Con stant Cra ving".... in my head and knew immediately it was ii 5 1!!!!! Went to the piano and played it!!! Never been able to that without hours of painful hit and miss. Thank you for putting your knowledge out for us to learn from you!
oh and I downloaded a dice roller app onto my ipad and played the dice game with the 1st 6 chords. Such a great way to memorize the chords.
Thanks very much, Aimee. Great job. Great videos and teaching. Shalom 👍🏾
If you really want to play jazz watching this lady's videos most people won't be able to play jazz and the ones that succeed they have to be really talented Jonny May is the best teacher on Earth he will get you playing jazz no matter what level you are at but you need to become a member if you are really talented you can succeed by just watching the free stuff
Whats up Aimee Nolte!!!!
I'm seeing you here in Brazil,
,Save one last time' is very beautiful..
Hugs from Brazil.
Amy rules, no doubt about it. I've learned so much from her in the past year or so. But...
Do y'all ever start one of her videos just because you want to hear the sound of her voice for a little while? It's like free therapy, so soothing.
Thanks Amy!
Wow!!! You are perfect!!!...The most teacher.
Yet another fantastic and beautifully explained concept.....II V I.....thank you Aimee
This is the most enjoyable exercise I've encountered that teaches me at the level I need for piano.... as a sax player. Thanks so much!
+Corley Kinnane I'm so glad!
So.... Are you going to do a vid on exploring modal theory? extending the 2:5:1 practice
Where were you 900 years ago when I was young? I could have been a contender! I could have been somebody! 😂
Doesn't time fly?
Oh yes
Now I'm just a bum
@@m.a.3322 -Very cute! 'You had your shot! What about me Mick? What about me?'
the best musicians are like 70 years old. there's still hope for you, antique stone-age person.
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Absolutely smashing video on basic jazz. Great exercise. Has a pattern and sounds good too.
I think I first watched this in August 2017...about five months ago. It was painful to try this back then. I'm new to piano from guitar. I have practiced daily since then (lots of different you tube videos, 251, noodling, etc.) I did not do 251 only. First I did left hand root positions, then right, then both on some easy facebook tunes (all of me, polka dots and moonbeams, satin doll, willow weep for me). Right hand melody. I found it hard to do two hand chords at first because the root was so low and out of my field of vision for the other notes. anyway, I can now do this at about 80 bpm with both hands. Still feel like I know nothing relatively. Thanks Aimee.
Way to go, Tony!