My BEST Diminished Trick
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- We're talking ADVANCED jazz piano today. How to get that magic diminished descending sound like Oscar Peterson and so many great pianists. Using upper structure and octatonic devices, we learn to decorate altered dominant chords like BOSSES. Let's DO this!
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I love how relaxed these videos feel, they’re not all in your face with constant jump cuts and louder speaking
You're not only a great player, you're also a great teacher! Thanks for this lesson, Aimee.
greatly explained!
Aimee's videos are always such a vibe! 💙
This is a BRILLIANT device! It just opened a lovely door for me. Thank you for sharing this concept!!
On guitar this is quite easy to play because to move a chord in minor thirds is easy, and there's only 3 chord positions for this voicing. The funny thing is that i heard this trick often used in ascending minor thirds on guitar, when apparently it's used in descending minor thirds on piano. However, it's a tremendous and beautidul way to play diminished harmony. Thanks Aimée to show and explain it.
Oh that ALL music teachers had Aimee's grace, patience, understanding, communication skills...
@Aimee, thanks for a great lesson, I'm always learning from you. I've always called it The OP chord, first heard it on Band Call from the Night Train album. I never knew what the chord was until I took a class from Mark Levine, and while I was playing my slightly re-harmonized version of Here's That Rainy Day, he stopped me and gave us one if his tricks: "whenever the melody walks up a dominant seventh chord (as in bar 6 of Rainy Day), substitute the OP chord ascending". Totally works, and now I have a bunch more to study. Thanks again !
NICE!! Thanks for sharing!
I always save your videos for before I go to bed, you have a really calming presence that really eases my anxiety. Then I get to practice what I learn the next day. Thank you Aimee for being a great teacher and creating a place I feel relaxed.
Thank you for writing a beautiful exercise and not just a mundane one. Purchased.
This is awesome! I'm a guitar player, but I love the harmony lesson here. I can use this!
Very clear and also very useful in orchestration. 👍🏻 Many thanks for your fine presentation!
I just want to say thank you for sharing this information
I'm only a piano beginner, but with a bit of youtube music theory exposure, your steps here are small enough and so logical that I could still follow (even if I've got no chance of playing it yet). This is excellent tuition 👌
A lovely little device that sounds exquisite. Oh, how we miss you Oscar Peterson. I only saw you in performance once and I’ll never forget it.🙏🇬🇧🌞🙏
That was a fabulous lesson Aimee, thank you so much for that. I´m pretty sure that I heard Bill Evans play this on multiple occasions but I just couldn´t figure out how he did it. Now I know, I´m going to listen into that tomorrow and then find a way to incorporate it into my guitar playing.
So cool to hear you mention Mark Levine, I've not heard you talk about his book before. It has a special place in my heart as it's where I first learned Jazz as a teen. The Diminished sound has always been my favourite, more so than the Altered melodic minor. The symmetry just makes it magical. I've always thought about this kind of thing you're on about here as diminished major 7ths (dim triad with a major 7th on top), which then can be inverted/drop 2'd/ shearing'd (lol). So much to revisit/practice.....
That’s a great way to think about it. His book was instrumental for me as well. It’s all I had as a teenager before I went to college. Such an epic resource.
Well you promised a heavy diminished lesson this week, and this certainly did not disappoint. Fantastic stuff Aimee!
Thanks a lot Aimee 🤩👏 don't stop doing this helpful videos "which is not bueno".
One of the best videos of any kind I have ever seen. I am an absolute beginner at jazz piano but I understand the theory just enough to follow you.
If you are taking students virtually please let me know. I would love to study under you.
Thanks, Aimee! Love Oscar Peterson’s playing… I bought your pdf…
I just heard Bill Evans play something like that on "Young and Foolish". Just gorgeous.
So I decided to go through Piano Yoga as an introduction. Any books you can recommend would be greatly appreciated. I read very well. I am 62, and a career chef so my hands are a little worn and tired, but the piano playing is rather therapeutic.
I've listened to jazz my whole life; mostly horn players ( Jack Teagarden, Craig Harris, George Lewis, J. J Johnson), and always liked Keith Jarret, Chick Corea, and Bill Evans). But my life changed forever when I got a digital piano for Christmas and heard Sonny Clark. But since I can't play yet, my ear hears things that I cannot do.
I just need a plan. I will do the work. I play the trombone and bass guitar so my left hand is stronger than my right. I am learning inversions currently, trying to work my way around the circle.
I have watched so many of your videos I feel like I know you.
This video goes hand in hand with Adam Neely's video about D/Eb, the Misty chord....Awesome!
Thanks, Aimee! I bought the pdf. Stumbled upon much of this before, but excited by what's new. Working on it already! Cool! ♥️
I heard the little trick.... love it . Thanks Aimee
Great video Aimee. When you got to 15:30 with the D major triad over Eb, I recognised that I'd seen Oscar Peterson do this in a different context. Adam Neely has a video on Peterson's Misty chord which if I remember rightly was a D7(#9)/Eb resolving to the Eb in bar 1. Cool stuff 😎
SUPER nice bass line! lovely!!!
Great educational video, also loved the notes displayed above your hands, Es Muy Buena!
Really great lesson Aimee and I don't even play piano. Just love the sound of those diminished chords and the theory is so relatable to many other instruments. Unfortunately I can't play two dim chords on the guitar at the same time. I always loved Oscar especially with the bass-playing colossus NHOP. Funny having Peterson and Pedersen in the same group. It's amazing that Oscar suffered arthritis in his hands for most of his life. Just think how good he could have been otherwise.
Thank you Ms Nolte for describing it as n [Maj]/#1-[bass]--which matches what you said. And it is simplet for beginners than the more "sophisticated" :-) n/b9. That you (and others) chose to call it the OP chord is .... one more kind nod to the genius and relentless production of Oscar Peterson, a fellow Canadian for me. Love OP's poetry on _A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra_ album. Cheers,
6:16 double diminished chord, nice name.
Look at all those major sevenths. :)
I’m a guitar player but I still really enjoyed this. Very cool! Thanks!
Wow, this explains stuff I've only partially discovered on guitar recently . I wish I had more fingers now!
Thank you for this.
Good stuff!
Thank you for this one!
Amazing, also great explanation. 👍🙃
Loved this!
Love the advanced lessons!
Deep dive Aimee, I went crazy for a while but it was good.
I think I've heard Bill Evans play stg like this. Great leason, thanks!
This could open up the door for many other ‘tricks’ Aimee. This device can be based on any scale. Especially ones with very distinctive character like the whole tone scale or pentatonic. Or use major or minor triads and moving up and down along those scale patterns (diminished, whole tone, pentatonic etc..).
Sounds like you need to start making some videos! 😂🙌🏼
@@AimeeNolteHahaha. We’ll see but thanks for the vote of confidence 🙌🏻
Thanx, Maestra 🌹🌹🌹🔥
perfect timing..we live in a simulation
SZA - "Good Days" diminished chords fvcked me up
frisson goosebumps every time..that's what i wanna produce
of course one of my favorite lightworkers, Aimee..explains it all
oh Aimee..what if you pitched a piano show to Nickelodeon?
like Mr Rodgers Neighborhood meets Clarissa explains it all
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All the great jazz pianists use that figure. Cedar Walton was really fond of it and Herbie Hancock uses it when he plays in more traditional contexts.
As someone below mentioned, we guitarists move the diminished chord shape up and down the neck to experience the variety of dim chords and their inversions. Thank you!
Slickminished. Stack up those minor thirds baby!
Thanks for sharing.
Got this down perfectly once I noted the perfect cadence from A7 to D minor 7 as the framework. Starting at G (the 7 of A), pretty simple to absorb and play with the haunting descending dim line in LH. Playing this “will blow the minds” of many an arrogant jazz musician that I know. I’ll be “the boss”.
I’ll tell them “Oscar sent me”.
By the way, the “drop 2” thing as explained is confusing. Just figure out the inversions
I wish I could give you 10 thumbs up. Thank you so much.
Excellent lesson! "A Song for You" by Donny Hathaway is one of my all time favorites. I hope you'll do a tutorial of it one day as only you can.
Very nice!
Of course, A Song For You was written by Leon Russel, although Donnie Hathaway performed his own version of it, and so did you!
Great explanation!
I think you said b9 instead of #9 a couple times. Like at 10:13 on the Ab chord and at 10:45 on the Bb chord. This sure does get confusing when we've got both kinds of nines.
Holst uses this flavour in The Planets. Mussorgsky also touches on it - Diminished with a 2nd/9th in bass.
It really sucks for Holst that they pulled one of the planets.
@@connshawnery6489Smart aleck retort: Except Holst stopped at Neptune since Pluto wouldn't be discovered for another 15 years(!) ;-p
@@gustinian Oh shit, you’re right! I obviously haven’t listened to it in awhile :p He made it before they demoted a planet.
@@connshawnery6489 , LOL
@@gustinian , this is a very funny thread. You guys have me cracking up!
A variation - Play the upper structure triad in its 1st inversion and you can manage the whole chord with your RH (close voicing): eg G, A#, C#, F#. Then move the whole RH chord down in minor 3rds - ( next chord is E, G, Bb, Eb,) etc. Move the top note of the chord down a tone with little finger, to create movement (creates an octatonic scale). Play an A in the LH! Enjoy!
Nice tip! Thanks Richard!
@@AimeeNolte Great video, thank you, Aimee! I love your Drop 2 voicing, though!
Great
Wow
I see Oscar Peterson, I click
good man
You should add a link to the older video,please.
It’s in the card in the upper right of the video
How to use right hand for both harmonizing and melody line ?
Question, Aimee. Why do we call the "half/whole" or "diminished" scale, the "octatonic" scale? Yes, it is octatonic, but it's not the only one. For instance, there's also the "bebop" scale.
In my understanding, there are three octatonic scales - the whole half dim, the half whole dim, and the bebop (but I’ve never actually heard anyone refer to the bebop scale as actually being one because the term is so widely applied to the diminished scales). I’d assume Aimee just assumed we would understand which scale she was referring to because she had it written in the top of the screen for several minutes.
@@jacobscolliers198 There’s also the 6th-diminished scale. I’m sure if you look in the Vincent Persichetti book 20th Century Harmony you will find at least a few others.
7:14 but what if i don't have a boat??
So these are sus4 diminished chords