Are You Still Reading Sheet Music?
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2023
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My exclusive class: Everything I Know About Chords (Part I): nebula.tv/everything-i-know-a...
The chapters of the course are:
Major Scale Construction
Naming The Notes In Major Scales
How Chords Are Built
Major Chord Practice (Several Keys)
Minor Chord Practice
Diminished Chord Practice
Augmented Chord Practice
Half Diminished or Minor 7 Flat 5 Chord Practice
7th Chords - Major, Minor and Dominant
Rarer 7th Chords - min+7, Aug7, AugM7, dim7
Sus Chords and Add Chords
9th, 11th, and 13th Chords
Major 6, Minor 6, and 6/9 Chords
Slash Chords and Poly Chords
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I'm working through this course, and Aimee has a way with the basic concepts - clear, concise and above all memorable. I'm half way through and I understand how scales and chords are built (as in I know *how* to build chords and scales, instead of just repeating a pattern). $30? An insultingly low price, grab it while you can!
Thanks Richard! Guess what? Part two drops next week!
It is utterly amazing that piano is still taught the old way. When I discovered chords, I blasted off and have since composed 44 contemporary classical pieces and released two albums. Music is NOT as hard as non musicians think it is. Spot on, Aimee
Wow. This is truly amazing
Dear Aimee, I wished, you would have been my teacher, when I was in my teens. The only guy who ever taught me something useful in music was my (third) piano teacher, a church musician by trade, who secretly loved military brass - but he died much too early. He even brought himself to listen to my blues and encouraged me (as a miserable sheet reader) to improvise (Bach meets Gillespie, but he did not admit). Learning with him was fun, simple, easy, so clear, so logic. You are like a re-incarnation of my old teacher. No, I am not a musician, only an amateur (kb, ts, fl, bs). I love you!
Wasn't until I switched from classical to jazz at 15 or so and learned about chord structures and lead sheets that music started to make sense. Even if you're playing a classical piece, it's helpful to write in chord symbols here and there to remind you what key you're in and help play things correctly. Great video.
I totally agree. I am classically trained, play common practice music, and regularly play other styles. I teach my students about chords and how to fake it. I teach them how to build chords and scales after they've learned a few. I tell them to discover other major and minor chords on roots they haven't learned. After a bit of practice, it's not hard to learn extensions and voicings.
I also force them to analyze harmony. This is a foundational thing that a few students don't learn until college. They need to know about chords and how tension resolves. It doesn't matter if they're hobbyists or attend competitions. Everyone I teach learns about chords
That sheet music is a treasure to have even if you don’t use it anymore. They’re a beautiful piece of music history. Still have my sheets and song books. Can’t part with them. Thank you for your videos.
I think your experience "playing the chords" for the family, was like Paul McCartney's experience. It served both of you well.
Funny how the family treated her like a juke box. You gonna play? 😆😆😆
My grandma bought me thick “fake books” (1001 songs) with just the melody, lyrics, and chords. As a teen, I had no idea what those chord symbols were (G#-7, Bsus?). However, these books had a chart explaining the chords in the very beginning of the book. I learned them fast and was able to play those standards within a year. It gave me freedom to play the way I wanted to and the basis to improvise and eventually play jazz. Very similar to your story, Aimee! ❤ Thank you, grandma!!!
I'm just picking up piano at 67, and you inspire me to continue my journey on piano.
Every chord counts Mark, lol enjoy the journey 🤗🙏🌱
You’re amazing!
Those home videos are so heartwarming! Also you are SO RIGHT about chords.
Loved it 🙂
As a bass player who learned everything by ear and using chord sheets I have found sight reading to be very underrated. I started reading in my 40's and what it did for me was teach me where all the notes on my bass were. I spent decades not knowing what 90% of them were. Now I feel that im not restricted to the same positions any more and if I know I want to play an Ab I can play it anywhere. I think a mix of learning and skills is essential
I started teaching all my students how to play with chords a few years ago - and it is ALWAYS their favorite thing to do. They love trying to play along with the recording. Young kids pick it up so quick. Jealous that I didn't learn about them until high school!
Nice! "Isn't it a lovely way, to be taught how to play?" 🎶
When I was in music school I took a job as a human jukebox in a local bar. Classy by day, tacky karaoke bar by night kind of place.
Nothing in my career did more for my playing than playing by chord charts and by ear night after night.
This video is so spot on.
Do you have perfect pitch?
@@cursedswordsman Only in slight and unusual, not useful ways. All relative pitch and some charts for songs I’m not very familiar with.
Whole whole half whole whole whole half - that's the start of everything!
This video was fantastic. As a pianist from the age of 2, I’ve been learning music by ear.
I’ve had countless years of piano lessons growing up and I’ve always struggled to read sheet music. I kind of feel like a fraud 🙃😩 but then I remember the beautiful music that I’ve been composing throughout my life and I’m at ease lol.
I’ve always been able to express myself through music without looking at sheet music. I’ve always felt that sheet music was a hinderance in that aspect.
Wonderful video, I might check out that course sometime! Best wishes !
- Chris
Your class on motifs immeasurably help me in being better at writing melodies on the fly. I'm definitely checking this out today!
By ear is how to hear chords and melody = play music = then, to also see chords, notes, and melodies arranged and apply, on the fly, is so important to be 🎶free! You are 🔥🔥❤❤🎶🎶!
Deepest thanks Aimee! I love your Nebula class. I joined on your motifs course and looking forward to this one and future classes. Truly appreciate your sincere passion for music and teaching jazz. Best wishes always!
You are truly fortunate to have had a teacher who taught your "chords" - piano players especially, are usually taught only to "read music" and not to "play music" 🤔
Guitarists..... well, that's another discussion!!
The younger You!!! 1:37 Thank you for such a deep, personal, tender share! The absolute loyalty and skillful dedication, recorded on video, makes a heart warmly weep, "Music Box Dancer Aimee 1985"!
First: I really envy the collection of old sheet music you have now! That aside. It's very strange: everybody accepts and uses written words and also speaks them, as a means for communication. More people make a problem of written notes versus played music, which exactly the same. Is it because schools and education spend more time and effort in the former? Everything I do with music has a written part: the first encounter with a composition, as the preferred point of departure to learn and understand it, my own ideas. Seeing what the composer wrote is worth gold. A thousand times more than hearing an interpretation. With live versions you never know if something was really intended that way or if it was a mistake. So you learn mistakes. Sheet music does not oblige you to follow it exactly. Written music does not prevent you from thinking in chords. Seeing a chord written in notes or seeing a letter C are equally easy for me. But the first way contains much more information than letter notations. There are countless other advantages of written music. Therefore it is unthinkable for me to stop using it.
Thank you! Sheet music for 60 years! Am now 62 and have been learning theory online, but so far no one has said so that my brain understands it! This is gonna be fun! Thank you and see you on nebula !
Much thanks Bunny! You’re gonna do great!
hi Aimee, nice to see you still as enthusiastic and full of support, great stuff.
I played a cheap organ that my dad got from a friend . I'd come home from school & bang away at that thing ,playing all the oldies that were in the book included w/it. My parents never really encouraged me though & I think they were secretly relieved that it broke. I wish they had saw that I enjoyed playing & maybe sprung for some lessons( this was long before the internet) Anyway,here I am ,over 50 & plugging away..I use Fake Books but want to use my left hand as well. I learned alot from your class about chords & hope u put up more videos on Nebula.👍
Your touch is amazing.
when I was younger, my second organ teacher showed me chords by the second or third lesson. Rather than showing me the the notes of every chord, he made a chart to show me how to construct all the different chord qualities from the major chord, i.e. making a major chord into a minor by lowering the 3rd one half step. It has served me well through the years. I met people in college that could play piano wonderfully as long as they had sheet music. but when they took a jazz class and the instructor told them to play a C chord, they just said "Huh?! Great video as always.
A truly wonderful and very relevant topic, Aimee! This was my experience; meandering on related notes within the chords of the song. Then as a solo instrumentalist, "analyzing" the crowd in my fine dining gigs, and altering the way I performed the piece to cater to the listeners. I loved the older videos; they brought back memories and it was great seeing you interact with your family - so sweet! You address such choice themes on your channel! Thank you for taking the time to share such great videos!!!
Much thanks Git!!
Loved the videos, Priceless memories .
Thankyou for you sharing it inspires me to get back to the piano
I signed up for this and absolutely loved every moment. Your style of teaching is incredible and your personality is even better. Really psyched to binge watch your content.😂 ♥️ 😊
I’m so glad!!! Thanks you!
Great video. I'm enjoying your course on chords in Nebula. Thank you! Can't wait for part two, but I've got plenty to explore in part one until then!
Thanks so much!
Such a legacy you are creating my friend. Proud to know you!
Thank you so Aimee for your incredible musical knowledge and videos I really appreciated you. I did all my Classical Piano and Theory Grades in my 40’s when my kids were little and am now in my mid 50’s and always there was a voice inside saying I just want to play songs and sing along . Chords I know it’s the way to go!! I try my best I know a fair bit now but still can’t get my groove happening properly with my left hand. I’m a music teacher and I know that my students just want to learn how to play songs as along with the foundation of music scales music reading aural etc. I know about basic chord progressions but I want to deep dive and analyse and really understand exactly what (and more importantly to me why) is happening when chords take a left turn so to speak in a piece of music. I have loved music since I was a little girl like you Aimee,I had an organ but I never had that type of encouragement like you did. My grandma had a piano when I was a little girl but I wasn’t allowed to play it. But my love of music theory the language of music and the desire to play my piano freely with joy will never stop. This sounds fantastic I’ll check it out. Thanks again 🎶🎹💚
Thanks for confirming what I had been thinking Aimee. I've been teaching myself to play for about 3 years at age 64. I'm not good at reading music and don't really enjoy it. I learn from tutorials and sometimes finding out the chords like you said. I have a few videos of You Are My Sunshine played a few different ways. One of the videos I'm most proud of is just playing chords for Back Home Again by John Denver and singing the song. Something I never thought I would do. When I found out what an inverted chord was, I learned how to play In The Mood with an inverted C chord. I also recently uploaded Music Box Dancer. Thank you. 🎹 👍
Aimee -- what you're saying about chords is so true. I didn't learn what a chord was until I was in my mid-50s when I tried to learn how to play the guitar. It opened up a whole new world of making my own music, which I didn't even know was possible. I wish I had learned about them in the piano lessons that I took when I was little but that just wasn't the focus. I hope things are different now but I'm pretty sure they're not! Very nice video -- you are such an accomplished musician and teacher. I really appreciate what you do and share!
I’ve been watching your UA-cam videos for a few weeks now, Aimee, and just marvel at your talent, lovely demeanor, and ability to explain and demonstrate music theory. I would love to take private lessons from you, but I’ll settle for the next best thing. 😊 I signed up immediately for this deal of the century! I took 8 years of lessons eons ago, but it was mostly sight reading classical pieces and performing the dreaded juried recitals. No teacher ever mentioned the circle of fifths. I haven’t played in 30 years, but I’m so looking forward to starting fresh with this new-for-me approach!
Much thanks!! Hope you like the class!
Thanks for being so nice and warm and easy to learn from. Some people hold onto knowledge like a lever over you and you just give it away.
Hi I learned chords in 1963 on my £7.00 guitar, then my Hammond organ and electric piano in many pop bands. I still can't sight-read for toffee but fake books are fine. I worship Monk, I don't think I could name his chord structures but I still emulate them quite well adopting his flat-finger approach. improv is my life 😁
It was a privilege to go through the course, it taught me so much in an understandable and usable format, congratulations and well done.
Woohoo! Makes me so happy to hear. Part two in late April most likely! Thanks!!!
This is amazing Aim! Thanks for sharing your talent. Those classes are also pretty awesome value. ❤ from Melbourne, Australia.
Hope you like(d) them!🙌🏼🙌🏼 Much thanks!
Part of my practice routine is puting UA-cam on random, opening up Ultimate Guitar and learning the song as it comes on. If I dig the song I may go through it a few times before moving on to the next. I've learnt more about chord structures, arrangement and song structure doing that than anything else.
Love the shots of the inherited sheet music
Oh. Em. Gee! Music Box Dancer!!! I never knew what that was called, but I’ve always known it because I was born in Canada in 1985 and heard it a ton as a small child all over the radio and TV. Wow. This video is awesome anyway, but that was really the icing on the cake. 30-year mystery, solved. Thanks Aimee! You’re the best!
Hahah glad to help
Haha!
Almost 40 year old mystery, time flies
Just signed up, im sure the classes will be awesome!
Thanks so much! Hope you love it!
how wonderful this music IN and FOR THE FAMILY is.... just pressing the play button on a device is no substitute.
awesome vintage footage !
I figured out that I could play piano using chords at around age 30. I learned the basics back in percussion ensemble back in the day, doing the major scales and arpeggios.
Anyway, this is the foundation of my career as a music teacher now. Learning the scales and arpeggios was the most important step in my development
That collection of music books looked like something from my Grandma's house. As I started trying to learn about music theory years ago (drummer trying to expand to the guitar), I asked my Grandma some questions about music theory. She explained she needs sheet music to play the Piano. She played at church - Piano and Organ, for decades. Maybe 50-60 years...? She could sight read anything.
It blew my mind to realize some musicians (maybe more common in her day...?) could not improvise at all. She loved music. But zero improvising. Mind blowing!!!
(One day I had the realization - while trying to learn guitar - that the Piano Keyboard must contain all the secrets - that day I got the urge to begin learning Piano as well - it's working!!!).
Thank you.
I have wanted to learn piano from you, since watching many of your UA-cam videos. I absolutely love jazz. I am ready to learn chords and hopefully ear training to unlock my 45 year desire to play the songs I hear like Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Joe Sample, Ahmad Jamal, Jeff Lorber, Russell Ferrante of the yellowjackets, Jason Lindner, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Steely Dan, and Ramsey Lewis to name just few. Thank you!
Awesome! When I was a kid my piano teacher let me learn one "pop" song in the final 5 minutes of each lesson. Just like you say - I was taught to play the melody as written and then just read the guitar chords and throw arpeggios and chords all over the place to make an on-the-spot arrangement each time. Much fun!
The little chromatic lick on ‘happy birthday’. That tracks 😊.
Lol I know! I was proud of that kid when I heard that! Lolol
Only bummer about Nebula is that I have to come back here to tell you what a nice job you have done. Very well structured. Well done!
Thank you so much Pete. Nebula has a Reddit page where people discuss classes and Nebula Originals with the creators, FYI
I remember working in a music store in the 70s when " Music Box Dancer " came out on sheet music . Never cared much for the piece, but - sheet music at the time ( at least the popular songs ) came in standard and EZ versions .
I was amused that both versions were identical !
4:59 ultimate guitar was my piano teacher for a good decade! I learned hundreds of tunes just stamping out chords from that site, learning the melody by ear, and working the songs out into my own little solo arrangements I could play for friends and family. Now much later in my journey I'm picking up sheet music. It helps me break out of my usual patterns when I play someone else's arrangements note-for-note. Many lessons learned from these sheets that I can bring back to my own internal chord-centric approach to the piano.
Aimee, I don't play piano. I only know my way around a piano enough to be a danger to myself. My primary instrument is bass guitar. Even that is on hold while I work through a bad case of tendonitis. I still can't pass up an opportunity to take your class, so I'm signing up today. Thank you for all you have taught me already.
Oh gosh - rest up and I hope you’re able to come back and play. Much thanks to you!
@@AimeeNolte No time to chat, I'm busy watching you on Nebula. I'm going to be brave and break out my Yamaha keyboard while I work on the lessons. (Great refresher course of stuff covered in college in the '70's). Thanks again.
Remember arnica cream and magnesium cream to relax the tendons
So familiar! My experience is very similar - I grew up watching my father teach guitar using chords and I learned a ton about them by the time I was 5. Not long after I discovered I had the ear for determining the notes (what some people call perfect pitch but I'm not sure that's a good name for it). And so for the first 20 years of my life I was the chord person, the piano guy especially at Christmas. At home and when visiting others, if they had a piano I was on it. I never learned notation until well into my 20s and to this day I struggle to read a piece well enough to sight read and play it.
I joined nebula and am part way through the first lesson on chords. I am not a musician but I have always been curious about music and how it works. For the rediculously low sum of $30 for the entire year you get amazing classes with a great teacher who really loves her craft and loves to share her knowledge.. Thanks Aimee
Much thanks for that John! Part two drops at the beginning of June! 🙌🏼
Well, Aimee, I wish I had had you 40 odd years ago, when I started learning guitar. Of course, beginning guitar chords is at the heart of everything, but they weren't taught or learnt structurally - they were just stand alones. It wasn't till years later, when I got into jazz, that I understood how they actually work and lead the voice (and voicings) through songs, and, of course to decode sheet music and see it's really just a bunch of arpeggiated chords altered to accommodate the melody. How I wish someone would have explained that to me. Also wonderful to see your old home video clips! Having said all that, there was a tme around the turn of the C19/20 when sheet music was king, because there either just wasn't equipment in the home to play records or it was ridiculously expensive. So you hear a tune on the radio or at the theatre, and that's it; you might not hear it again for weeks or months, but you COULD get the sheet for it. . Good luck with your new course.
As a budding musician (3 years in) chords, and chords progressions have just now clicked for me, now it’s all about finding different melodies and sounds
Aimee I joined Nebula straight away! I’m so excited. I was playing scales just now then chords in the Left hand and I decided to do to sing the scale degrees in pitch with my scale in Right hand then simple improv whilst singing the degrees its going to transform my learning to the next level I’m so excited and your Chord class is awesome!!! Thanks Jaynee 🎹🎶
🙌🏼🙌🏼 Yeah!!
Signed up. I am looking forward to learning from you Aimee. Thank you
Thanks Michael! Hope you love it!!
@@AimeeNolte I am certain that I will. Thank you Aimee
You were pretty good back in 1985! 😀
Thumbs up for the vintage Aimee clips!
Hello Aimee. Am captivated by your warm teaching style. Calm personality spiced with a kind of understanding for us learners. I could go on and on Aimee, coz you're fun to watch and absolutely likeable!
Thank you so much!
Just signed up! Can’t wait to expand my chord knowledge 👍🏻
Thank you Linda! Hope you dig it!!
Hi Aimee, it is funny and interesting how similar our paths have been. Born in early 1970s and trained classically in sheet music in a disciplinarian Eastern European model of teaching piano, I had this early urge to experiment and get away from the arrangements imposed on me by sheet music. It had been a double edged sword, so to speak. It liberated me as a musician allowing me (especially) to play jazz or jazzy-like tunes but it also took away a lot of brain training that goes on with training to play from advanced sheet music. I did run into licensed, professional pianists who perform and teach classical music for a living, Most of them were terrible at improvising and had very little creativity despite enormous talent in their fingers and sheet music reading ability. I think crossing into improvisation is the path away from conformity of performing exactly like the composer wanted (interpreting not which notes to play as those are "fixed" in sheet music but HOW they should be played - dynamism, tempo, key release, use of the pedals etc). It makes us less able as orchestra performers or as soloists but perhaps more complete musicians in a sense of feel for natural music. I know there is a great divide between these two worlds, for sure. Arthur Rubinstein wrote about "professional cheating" on the piano in his biography. At some point, when he was rich and famous, he wasn't as technically good as he fame would demand him to be. He would "skip some notes" while performing live abusing sustain pedal to cover up his mistakes. In that sense, if we don't read notes and if we don't play as complex as a composer (such as Chopin) wanted, he are a bit like cheats but if a lovely music comes out of that experience, we are now less pianists and more composers or creators of new value in music. That is at least how I justify my departure. :)
Well said
What a heartwarming story Aimee! Thank you for sharing... My guitar teacher loved jazz and particularly Carlos Jobim and brazilian bossa nova... I remember when I was 9 years old he went from "Obladi-Oblada" to "Girl from Ipanema" in about a week's time... He'd say something like: "All we're doing is adding to the triad... play the scale...what's the next note? If G is the 5th on the C major scale, what is A...? and on and on... the next thing I was reading chord symbols like a gazelle.. LOL!! 😅
Yup, completely relate Aimee ( and love those vintage clips). I walked the same path. The flip side is my sight reading of written out sheet music has always been weak since I had such a good ear and could improvise my way out of most anything.
Aimee, I've missed your videos 🥺🥰
I almost always released one video a week. Glad to have you back :-)
Wonderful old video clips.
Sounds Good
I'm self-taught, didn't start playing until my late 40's. My approach was learn the scales, arpeggios and how to build chords using half-steps. _keystrike_ 123 _FOUR_ 12 _THREE_ - a major chord for instance. Between common named-tab, just the chord name and sight recognition of inversions... Aimee's right on target IMO. Learning songs is great, but learning the tools early makes it all easier, more natural.
To add further to it, I had a pretty intimate conversation about reading sheet music with a fairly known national orchestra soloist on one of the string instruments. This is the kind of guy that played along with masters like Pinchas Zukerman, so it gives you a sense of the level. Top international level. And I asked him about reading sheet music and possible difficulties with it that would constrain a performer from releasing the true feeling of music, like: how do you do that. And he said: well, reading written music is like reading another language and you just need to master that language in order to release music that is coded within those written lines. If you are focusing on reading as opposed to music that is within those lines, that means your reading ability is not there at the level required by the piece you are trying to perform. So that is it: people who read sheet music at the highest level they don't really read it, they just float over it and interpret the music that is in it adding that additional value above and beyond what is written there, they are master interpreters. That is what makes a difference between, say, a 9 year old girl playing Bach and the great Glenn Gould doing exactly same piece of Bach but it is a very, very different story hearing him do that.
Written music is a prescription, a specification about how it should sound. It is a very convenient means for communication. If you studied a piece then the notes on paper and music that is within those lines are merged together and one and the same . If that is not the case then you're not a high level (classical) musician.
@@mer1red That is correct. But here is the crux of the issue: when we evolve away from sheet music too early, we never master to read the better transcribed or more complex, nuanced pieces. We try to make them sound “pretty” because the exact notes we are able to read and follow are not powerful enough to express music. So we walk away from that skill. People at the high end of classical train don’t have that problem: for them notation complexity isn’t a concern; it is more of an execution of a tone, tempo, dynamic changes. I can’t read Chopin concertos without studying every bar one by one. It is very time consuming. That is not what a pro classical pianist does. The top ones read and play without difficulty so they focus on nuances very early on.
@@michaelpaduch2917 When I study something I make a lot (and I mean a lot!) of annotations on how I want it to sound. When I come back to it months later I can immediately express it the same way. Many others have the same approach. For instance, in baroque, which gives a lot of freedom for interpretation, ornaments are not completely written out. I add and annotate the exact trill, mordent etc I prefer at each spot. Yes, many of us have trouble reading music fluently. That is an education problem. But rest assured, even top level musicians learn a part very, very slowly, measure by measure, repeating every block or motif again and again until they get the sound they want. I have this from an interview with a talented cellist.
@@mer1red and that’s exactly my whole point: you focus on the sound or detail / nuance of say baroque decorations not written into the notes; reading notes themselves is not a primary issue. But if you abandon reading sheet music early in development, say after 6 years of formal music education, then you end up playing well, even become a solid jazz musician but you will never ever play high level classical music because reading notes will become a handicap.
LOVE your videos, Aimee, and am going to sign up for your chord course. I’ve been playing by ear my whole life and probably the beginning of what you cover will be very basic for me. But I know you will teach me things (13ths, different kinds of sus chords?) that I haven’t mastered on my own. In the meantime, what’s that wonderful painting behind your piano? 😀
Nice, Jim! I’m so glad. Sounds like it’ll be a perfect fit. At least I hope so! My mother-in-law painted that of me at a gig when I was 19 or 20! On my website I have some merch with it🙌🏼
@@AimeeNolte she is/was very talented!
First job out of college was at the long-gone Carl Fischer Music on Wabash in downtown Chicago. Sheet music defined the building (1st floor was popular sheet music, 2nd orchestral, 3rd choral). A different world. 😂
Honestly, I've been the same way. Been playing guitar for 15 years, started on violin a few years prior, and already knew how to read music. I learnt theory in my first year of playing, always refreshing myself on it, and really made sure I understood chords. About 7 years into my playing (around 2015), I started lessons again just to get out of my rut, and my teacher at the time was a gold mine of amazing knowledge and insight. He pretty much taught me a lot about taking music to the next level from "great player" to "great musician." He helped me improve my skills on reading chord charts, working out parts, and the most important lesson: always knowing where Beat 1 is in the measure.
I am like-minded. I had a year of piano lessons as an 8-year-old, which I'm grateful for, but I don't read music well enough to play what the sheet music says to play. I taught myself music theory and I understand the "why" well enough to play many stringed instruments by ear (especially ukulele), and I feel like I am an artist (interpreter of music) rather than a technician (a slave to someone else's interpretation of a song).
I started with chords on keyboards. Every song in the booklet I learnd from was transposed to C or Am to make it simple.
Once I started playing guitar I really got into chords - since you can play many flavours of chords if you can play barré chords.
But I know get why a 7th chord is that and why a 6th chord is that. Thanks to UA-cam.
From there I went back to keyboard. It's a MIDI-keyboard now. I've sort of come full circle. Thanks to chords.
Remind me tomorrow I’ll sign up
My father was a schoolteacher and amateur musician. One day, when I was 4 years old, he showed me how to create a left hand 'vamp' (his word) using three chords. He also taught me 'do re mi' etc. Over time I expanded my facility with chords and melody and developed a career as a night club musician. I also got a decent formal music education, including College, and taught piano for many years. All that said, I still use my informal solfege and chording skills every day. I have also never quite gotten over the slight nausea brought on by the written page. You can't have it both ways, I guess ...
I 100% love reading, and have since the light-bulb came on when I began classical guitar. I'd been playing 80s thrash with TAB books, but when I began to read, I was learning language. Sure, it was rudimentary, but it wasn't numbers on a page. BUT... and this is a huuuge but... you can obviously get just as trapped on the page, or be completely clueless about what the hell you're actually doing if you're simply playing spots. After all, just reading Hemingway (or whomever) ain't gonna make you an Author, but if you read WITHIN, you learn storytelling, allegory, and whatever other literary devices there are :D
Reading and comprehending Music did the same for me, because I wanted to go deeper. I LOVE reading Paganini and Kreutzer, Stravinsky scores, or a Charlie Parker Omnibook (yeah, Jazz ain't supposed to be read, but there IS a whole bunch to be learned on those pages!). I love reading these, then taking that left turn and exploring the changes myself, creating contrafacts on the fly, so to speak.
In other words, reading helped me learn improvisation.
Sure, it took a whole bunch of years and loving effort and a few Masters' degrees to get here, but that was the POINT.
Reading just became another skillset I use to do this whole Music thang way gooder!
alright fine ill subscribe!!!
Hahaha thanks so much Kevin! I hope you love it! Get the app on your tv so you can watch it nice and big while you lounge in your chair🙌🏼
You took the shorter path for sure. 😊 (and ooh, chord charts without barlines give me unpleasant chills)
I agree…I’ve been a rhythm guitarist most of my life…..and get by on piano. Chords are what has been the most important part of that.
yep.. i grew up in the 1970s.. that’s how it was back then ❤️
And for me the pleasure is in closing the eyes and just flying away on improv.
🧐 “Do you know the building is burning 🔥 down?” 🎹"No. But if you can hum a few bars I can fake it!” 😎🙃😎👍
Thank you for sharing your knowledge :) I've never been able to read sheets. My brain just doesn't want to. Sorry about your grandparents btw
Sold! I’ll buy anything that shares your knowledge ! I wish you were my in person mentor 😅
Thank you, Destiny♥️♥️
Hi Aimee, admitedly been playing guitar for over 40 years now and composing songs as well but I do not read notes pass the grade level 1 Hal Leonard book which I started learning recently. I do read alot of Music Theory books as it interest me alot but rely on tablature to get by the examples which I am trying to get out of hence my yearning to learn on my own to read notes. Having said that, I am interested in your course but do you think I have what it takes to explore it given that I am a guitarist who cannot read sheet music at a drop of a dime? I take it the chords you teach will be in note format on a staff and I can learn how to decipher them slowly and figure out what part of the guitar nbeck to play it. BTW You have a new subscriber! This I believe is the first non-guitar channel I have subscribed to! Cheers!
I think you’ll be absolutely fine. I tried really hard to make it friendly to people who play other instruments and who don’t read music. Thank you so much for the sub!
I'm gonna check it out for sure. I watch Rick Beatto often and though he's a real asset to UA-cam and a great guy I just find his instruction loses me fast... Maybe I can get more from yours, I hope.
you are so incredibly intelligent..
Eye opener for a lot of people, I’ve noticed a trend amoung you YT teachers to emphasize ear training and chords.
After watching you, Rick, Beato, Adam Neely and others for years, finally it is sinking in! Thanks.
Ha! It might seem like a trend but really it’s just THE TRUTH. Adam and Rick get it. ♥️ Glad you’re watching them too
Based on my exposure to written music, predominately piano and parts for school band, it was so consistently simplified / wrong that it bore no resemblance to the original I wanted to play. I wound up learning more by ear. MY own "arrangements" were often flawed due to my inability to hear every nuance as a newbie musician but the parts as I invented them were always closer than written sheet music. Sheet music seems to flatten the entire experience.
I have learned little about chord in my life and finished part 1 and I am waiting for part 2 please, when it will come out?😍
Toward the end of April, I think! Thanks so much!
I get misty just watching your home movies, you can add the chords Aimee.
Aimee, you should really have that big bow in your hair like when you were 7. That chord learning at 7 is so powerful a memory for me too!
No bows. 😂
Yup it sounds anemic sometimes if I use the music sheet but with chords and it's extensions..it sounds full and am an intermediate piano player.🥰
Aimee, thanks for your videos. really like them. I have a question about your nebula class. I know chords fairly well (Major7 minor7 dominate7, half diminished = minor7(flat5), etc). But I really do not know how to apply these chords to making music. Will your course help me be able to apply them to create interesting music And with runs and fills? Thanks, Jon
I believe it will…for the first part of your question, but not for runs and fills. I do have a video about fills. Just search for my name here on UA-cam and the word FILLS
Hi Aimee I am wondering if `once I have paid for the Nebula subscription do I have to then pay for your class? Jaynee
No. It’s all included. ALL of my classes (and classes I’ve yet to create) as well as the whole Nebula platform!