As a music producer/educator for many years and specialized in teaching young children and adults , i highly recommend this lessons . The art of teaching is something that not everyone can do. Simple simple simple….👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️ thank you Oliver. Many blessings
Dear Oliver, When I was getting through a drug addiction some years ago, I would watch your videos to encourage myself to learn music. I knew I needed something more, some other way to express, or things would keep decaying. You are so kind, gentle, and encouraging. This is exactly, EXACTLY what I needed at the time to get over my mental blocks and play music, however "bad" it initially sounded. So, your philosophy/outlook on improvisation has really helped me. Not to mention the myriad theoretical tidbits and shortcuts you have taught me. I need you to know this, because it made a difference. But I am not finished. I must also say: I believe you are a pedagogical genius. Please do bracket the usual connotations of genius for a moment because I mean it far more sincerely: Every lesson, every diagram, every movement of yours is one that radically considers the perspective of the one who wishes to learn. Your method is a subjective bridge. This is incredible. While I am a guitar player (far cheaper!), or rather have been learning guitar/singing for the past 2-3 years, your videos helped me all the same. Also, they inspire me to seize opportunities to play pianos whenever they arise. Maybe I'll dabble some more someday! I don't think I'll ever call myself a "guitar player" because it seems that to label it would be immediately to reduce it, especially given how I came to learn it: as a personal mode of expression/coping rather than as hobby or project. All I know is it had been a while since I watched one of these, and when I did, I cried. I quickly realized how much it mattered, in dark moments, to have this space, and others, to return to. To continue. Anyway I'm rambling now, so I'll end by highlighting a quote I loved from the video: "...that way we don't have to 'think' so much when playing music. Improvising music is all about being a little stupid, actually!" I could not agree more with this sentiment :) Sincerely, Your student
I just finished watching the poly modal video from three years ago using the melodic minor modes and I was just thinking to myself, "I wish there was a video on the major modes". Then I found this :)
I’m so excited!! I’ve been watching back through your catalogue of lessons and explanations and it has helped so much with my grasp of scales/modes - thank you so much for putting this content out for free, your contributions will definitely be remembered for generations to come Hope you are doing well!
Wow this lesson has really broardened my view a lot by the first viewthrough. Im gonna watch this a few times to get at solid understanding of what you figured out here. Im super impressed. Thanks a lot😊
thanks thanks thanks to Mr Prehn for his lessons!! the best lessons ,great playin and sounding! and with backings are so great. also for guitars players like me,ciao from Italy!
Soy guitarrista...pero me dá mucho placer escuchar la manera de explicar que tienes. Impecable! Lo haces tan sencillo que motivas a que todos puedan hacerlo. Felicitaciones y gracias. Abrazo
Thank you very much for yours videos , really with you every thing seem to be easy , I have seen all your videos and really these are all fabulous , with you the piano become evident and very easy , Thank you very very much !!!
You put some much thought into every lesson . So much get information to learn from . You really put everything in to so much prospective ty so much for continuing give all of us incredible ideas and diffrent methods to think about.
Just wow ! Great amount of work done to the videos (guess thats why your videos come out not very often ) - you show slow and with fingering dots pictures, that's brilliant help. In lots of other people tutorials even if using slow down youtube options it sometimes hard to see what key is pressed at the moment (not to say about need to rewind those fragment many times).
Wow, beautiful video again Oliver. It looks like it was a lot of work, thank you. I’m curious, have you found that you’ve been creating different licks you like in different modes? For example, a drone lick in phrygian or something with thirds in lydian? Like you have “go to” licks you mostly only use in certain modes and not others. Hopefully I’m being clear.
Hi :) A really good question. Actually I think I use some favorite finger combinations inside a hand grip. But then I reuse these favorite combinations no matter where I place the grip. So no matter the mode we hear, I can use the same finger sequences. I hope this makes sense... Cheers from Oliver
I’ve never thought to transpose your various lick tutorials into any of the modes, but I think I’ll try some. Maybe the handgrips will need to be tweaked to make it work, but it sounds fun. Like a blues lick in locrian or something weird like that.
Hi Mr Prehn! You always have some interesting material. I learnt about these modes from your videos. I find this whole modes thing too complicated to use in reality, but nevertheless, it's interesting. The most useful thing for me has been II-V-I.
@@NewJazz Yes, I had a lot of fun with the handgrip! It let me have speedy fun without complication. I don't use the hand grip anymore though. I understand inversions now and my hands are 'happy' to play anything I want. What I still don't really understand is phrasing. I've noticed that I can make solos over some bass (D,G,C,A) for example in your style (a sort of freeness) and it can sound really good, but sometimes it doesn't sound good and I don't know why. There's some complication which I can't grasp at the moment. There's some sort of syntax to phrases like in languages. Do you understand what the problem is? 🙂 It's like there's a problem with how the phrases are formed. I don't know how to construct them. I can play anything and for the most part, it works, but yes, there's something going on which I'm not aware of!
Hi :) I also answered you somewhere else in here. But I can add; Try to do something simple - it can be hand grip or any thing else, for example playing arpeggio over a chord. The important thing is that you do something simple. Then you experiment, just have fun with it. Then you'll gradually teach you subconscious how to behave (so to speak) - how to make Music. I hope this was somehow helpful. Cheers from Oliver
Thank you, professor! Would love to see a video about this concept but regarding chord progressions and such. My mind has a hard time structuring chord progressions while freestyling with this technique. Any tips or tricks? Anyway, you are the best teacher on RUclips and would make one hell of a good asmrtist! I will definitely donate frequently to you WHEN I become rich. Puss och kram, från Sverige.
Hi and thank you so much. You don't have to worry about donating. I really nice comment like yours is the best support I can get :) :) :) This NewJazz channel is mostly about Modal Free Jazz and the hand grip technique is really great for that purpose. But anyway, sometimes we do talk chord progressions as well. In this playlist I've gathered all NewJazz lessons that at some point includes chords in different kinds of progressions. Cheers from Oliver ruclips.net/p/PLd8gNAxPUcJz1_mA3w3LqrpmjdFODKdPS
Nice! For me it sounds like the "#" and "b" contains a kind of chromatic "Guide-Tone Line", even in a rhytmical Sense if the Grips are played in a Row. Thx Oliver for this new Persoective.
Did you pick C as one of the two keys for a reason, or was it just random? I don't even play piano but I am definitely a music lover and I always find your videos very interesting, enlightening, and intriguing. Music is truly infinite, in many respects.
Just amazing. Just one question, Oliver: can we use rhis method only in 'free' context, or is there a way to use this method also in 'regular' context (such as regular jazz standards etc.) ?
Hi and thanks a lot :) This lesson is intended mostly as being for free improvisation - not bounded by fixed chord progressions from the jazz standards. Cheers from Oliver
Hi :) This playlist contains vids with lots of phrases - with sheet music. And often I play the phrases in slow motion as well. I hope some of these vids can be useful to you :) Cheers from Oliver
Thanks. I'm about to go through all you video lessons again. I learned so much from them. They also make me experiment. Example: trying the 1st 5 notes of other scales using the Poly Modal style.
I bought the piano and the grandeur. But I my the sounds are not like yours. Is it possible to send me a screenshot of the settings of " the grandeur"?
Hi :) I’ve exported my settings to an "nki" file: www.newjazz.dk/xtra/Grandeur_settings_NewJazz.nki I hope that you can make it work :) Cheers from Oliver
Hi :) I use this VST from Native Instruments: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keys/the-grandeur/ The midi keyboard is a Kawai VPC1 Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz I bought the piano and the grandeur. But I my the sounds are not like yours. Is it possible to send me a screenshot of the settings of " the grandeur"?
I found this lesson mind blowing! But I have a question. When improvising with progression, I sometimes get lost. I lose the point of reference (where my hand is in relation to the tonality.) Any tips on how to work on the progressions withouth losing the way?
Hi and thanks a lot. A really good place to start could be to play Arpeggio on the chords like we do in this video: ruclips.net/video/7gEylGkD5ik/видео.html Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz Dear oliver. thanks for taking the trouble to reply. I've been improving on this lesson. Now working on your arpeggio video. thanks for sharing your knowledge so generously!
i am new to piano (coming from guitar). i wonder why sometimes your hand is near the top of the board and sometimes near the bottom, and in both situations you do play black notes.
Hi :) Maybe it's all about where the thumb is placed (in the hand grip). If the it's on a black note the hand is on the top and if it's a white note the hand is placed more low. Cheers from Oliver
Yes, exactly. I've presented this idea about playing "several octave modes" or "super chords" in some of my older vids like in this one (by the end): ruclips.net/video/61bI3dgdXMo/видео.html Cheers from Oliver
Excellent content (as always), Oliver!!! Congrats and Thanks!!! Musicians and music lovers will be honored/served by getting your book/method. Please, make it!!!
Shouldn't we start making rules about which notes NOT to play instead of which notes to play? That might make things even easier. Since I invented the thousend year long opposite day on the 09.09.2019. #firstGeniusEver
Hi :) Thanks a lot for your input. In this lesson we play 'poly modal' (several modes) and we actual play every 12 notes all together. I believe the term 'avoid notes' is invented by music teachers to uniform the music and put it in a nice box they can write a book about. I wonder what Monk would have done if he was told not to play specific notes... Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz Hi, thank you. I rather mean, 'which notes to avoid in what context' but the ear would probably tell faster then any concept. I feel like not caring about any scale or even chord gives me the best way of making music. And beyond any genre. I even feel like, If I don't follow any rule or genre, I am somewhat in harmony with every genre - therefore: music for the masses. (?)
@@karmaindustrie I totally agree!!! I also say in the video; "improvising music is all about being a little stupid" haha. What I mean is that scales and theory are more for reflection - after Music. When playing in practice, here and now, we need a very simple tool, like the hand grip ;) Cheers from Oliver
Hi Oliver great vids on improvisation- I think I signed up for your patreon but I’m not sure please check (Forbes is my pen name) if you have a minute.
As a music producer/educator for many years and specialized in teaching young children and adults , i highly recommend this lessons . The art of teaching is something that not everyone can do. Simple simple simple….👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️ thank you Oliver. Many blessings
Dear Oliver,
When I was getting through a drug addiction some years ago, I would watch your videos to encourage myself to learn music. I knew I needed something more, some other way to express, or things would keep decaying.
You are so kind, gentle, and encouraging. This is exactly, EXACTLY what I needed at the time to get over my mental blocks and play music, however "bad" it initially sounded.
So, your philosophy/outlook on improvisation has really helped me. Not to mention the myriad theoretical tidbits and shortcuts you have taught me. I need you to know this, because it made a difference. But I am not finished. I must also say: I believe you are a pedagogical genius. Please do bracket the usual connotations of genius for a moment because I mean it far more sincerely: Every lesson, every diagram, every movement of yours is one that radically considers the perspective of the one who wishes to learn. Your method is a subjective bridge. This is incredible.
While I am a guitar player (far cheaper!), or rather have been learning guitar/singing for the past 2-3 years, your videos helped me all the same. Also, they inspire me to seize opportunities to play pianos whenever they arise. Maybe I'll dabble some more someday!
I don't think I'll ever call myself a "guitar player" because it seems that to label it would be immediately to reduce it, especially given how I came to learn it: as a personal mode of expression/coping rather than as hobby or project.
All I know is it had been a while since I watched one of these, and when I did, I cried. I quickly realized how much it mattered, in dark moments, to have this space, and others, to return to.
To continue.
Anyway I'm rambling now, so I'll end by highlighting a quote I loved from the video:
"...that way we don't have to 'think' so much when playing music. Improvising music is all about being a little stupid, actually!"
I could not agree more with this sentiment :)
Sincerely,
Your student
You make me fall in love with music again.. Siiir!! Thank You🧚👀🎶🐬
Every time I listen to you I open my music an ears and eyes further thank you
What a beautiful sound these make - thank you for another 5 star lesson.
Thank you for giving me the answers i needed even tho i couldnt form the questions i needed to ask. Thats got to be the best kind of teacher.
I just finished watching the poly modal video from three years ago using the melodic minor modes and I was just thinking to myself, "I wish there was a video on the major modes". Then I found this :)
I’m so excited!! I’ve been watching back through your catalogue of lessons and explanations and it has helped so much with my grasp of scales/modes - thank you so much for putting this content out for free, your contributions will definitely be remembered for generations to come
Hope you are doing well!
You have made us waiting for your lessons, Oliver. Thanks and love from Bangladesh.
🙏🍀💙🍀🙏
Estava ansioso😳... Primeiro like🥰.... 🎶🎶🎶👏👏👏 Obrigado por nós trazer mais riqueza
Magnifique leçon …merci pour votre présence du pur bonheur
These lessons are so beautifully crafted.
this is so good - i needed this explained to me, thank you.
So excited to yr new video.
Bravo to you Maestro Oliver! Fantastic lesson, I applaud you for your tireless contributions to teaching jazz music on this platform!
This video is amazing. Such brilliant illustration. Thank you!
First comment. Thanks Sir for sharing your knowledge
Wow this lesson has really broardened my view a lot by the first viewthrough. Im gonna watch this a few times to get at solid understanding of what you figured out here. Im super impressed. Thanks a lot😊
thanks thanks thanks to Mr Prehn for his lessons!! the best lessons ,great playin and sounding! and with backings are so great. also for guitars players like me,ciao from Italy!
Much gratitude 🙏 to you my friend! Thank you for the video!
Whoah! That's so cool! Thanks! I can't wait to try it on guitar. Moving patterns in rows of 4ths and/or 5ths is pretty easy in Standard Tuning!
Soy guitarrista...pero me dá mucho placer escuchar la manera de explicar que tienes. Impecable!
Lo haces tan sencillo que motivas a que todos puedan hacerlo.
Felicitaciones y gracias. Abrazo
Thank you very much for yours videos , really with you every thing seem to be easy , I have seen all your videos and really these are all fabulous , with you the piano become evident and very easy , Thank you very very much !!!
You put some much thought into every lesson . So much get information to learn from . You really put everything in to so much prospective ty so much for continuing give all of us incredible ideas and diffrent methods to think about.
Quite impressive !
I love the perspective. Thank you
This is crazy!!
Just wow ! Great amount of work done to the videos (guess thats why your videos come out not very often ) - you show slow and with fingering dots pictures, that's brilliant help. In lots of other people tutorials even if using slow down youtube options it sometimes hard to see what key is pressed at the moment (not to say about need to rewind those fragment many times).
You are a gifted instructor and video producer! Thanks You so much for your wonderful effort!
That what I looked for:
modal improvisation without chord,based on bass only.
Thank you!
Love this channel
Very interesting indeed. I will try to transpose it to the guitar
I been waiting all month for you sir,u are a very good teacher
Wow, beautiful video again Oliver. It looks like it was a lot of work, thank you. I’m curious, have you found that you’ve been creating different licks you like in different modes? For example, a drone lick in phrygian or something with thirds in lydian? Like you have “go to” licks you mostly only use in certain modes and not others. Hopefully I’m being clear.
Hi :) A really good question. Actually I think I use some favorite finger combinations inside a hand grip. But then I reuse these favorite combinations no matter where I place the grip. So no matter the mode we hear, I can use the same finger sequences. I hope this makes sense... Cheers from Oliver
I’ve never thought to transpose your various lick tutorials into any of the modes, but I think I’ll try some. Maybe the handgrips will need to be tweaked to make it work, but it sounds fun. Like a blues lick in locrian or something weird like that.
Excellent !
Hi Mr Prehn! You always have some interesting material. I learnt about these modes from your videos. I find this whole modes thing too complicated to use in reality, but nevertheless, it's interesting. The most useful thing for me has been II-V-I.
Hi and thanks a lot :) Just forget about the modes and focus on the hand grip ;) Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz Yes, I had a lot of fun with the handgrip! It let me have speedy fun without complication. I don't use the hand grip anymore though. I understand inversions now and my hands are 'happy' to play anything I want.
What I still don't really understand is phrasing. I've noticed that I can make solos over some bass (D,G,C,A) for example in your style (a sort of freeness) and it can sound really good, but sometimes it doesn't sound good and I don't know why. There's some complication which I can't grasp at the moment. There's some sort of syntax to phrases like in languages. Do you understand what the problem is? 🙂
It's like there's a problem with how the phrases are formed. I don't know how to construct them. I can play anything and for the most part, it works, but yes, there's something going on which I'm not aware of!
Hi :) I also answered you somewhere else in here. But I can add; Try to do something simple - it can be hand grip or any thing else, for example playing arpeggio over a chord. The important thing is that you do something simple. Then you experiment, just have fun with it. Then you'll gradually teach you subconscious how to behave (so to speak) - how to make Music. I hope this was somehow helpful. Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz Thanks, I'll try this later! I look forward to your next video. 🙂
Thanking you so very much ❤
Sencillamente increíble!!! Gracias!!!!
I really love this channel:3 thank you.
Good lesson thx.
Thank you, professor!
Would love to see a video about this concept but regarding chord progressions and such. My mind has a hard time structuring chord progressions while freestyling with this technique. Any tips or tricks?
Anyway, you are the best teacher on RUclips and would make one hell of a good asmrtist! I will definitely donate frequently to you WHEN I become rich.
Puss och kram, från Sverige.
Hi and thank you so much. You don't have to worry about donating. I really nice comment like yours is the best support I can get :) :) :)
This NewJazz channel is mostly about Modal Free Jazz and the hand grip technique is really great for that purpose. But anyway, sometimes we do talk chord progressions as well. In this playlist I've gathered all NewJazz lessons that at some point includes chords in different kinds of progressions. Cheers from Oliver
ruclips.net/p/PLd8gNAxPUcJz1_mA3w3LqrpmjdFODKdPS
Nice! For me it sounds like the "#" and "b" contains a kind of chromatic "Guide-Tone Line", even in a rhytmical Sense if the Grips are played in a Row. Thx Oliver for this new Persoective.
Brilliant!!!
Absolute genius
Very interesting indeed, New follow here, Thank a lot sharing
Oh so so nice!
Wonderful video!!!!!!!!!!¡
YES All RIGHT..AMAZING
You give us the colours so we can paint the pictures,thank you oliver
God bless you Oliver prehn
بالعربي
انت جد راءع
تحياتي لأنك كريم وابن كريم 😍👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏⚘
Did you pick C as one of the two keys for a reason, or was it just random?
I don't even play piano but I am definitely a music lover and I always find your videos very interesting, enlightening, and intriguing. Music is truly infinite, in many respects.
Hi and thank a lot. Yes correct, the key of C is totally random ;) Cheers from Oliver
Just amazing. Just one question, Oliver: can we use rhis method only in 'free' context, or is there a way to use this method also in 'regular' context (such as regular jazz standards etc.) ?
Hi and thanks a lot :) This lesson is intended mostly as being for free improvisation - not bounded by fixed chord progressions from the jazz standards. Cheers from Oliver
Man you're amazing we use this in are classical Arabic music . Listen to Fairoz ❤️
Greetings Oliver 😃
i was wondering if you could make short midi files for some of your lessons on Riffs and Phrases?
Hi :) This playlist contains vids with lots of phrases - with sheet music. And often I play the phrases in slow motion as well. I hope some of these vids can be useful to you :) Cheers from Oliver
And here is the playlist haha
ruclips.net/p/PLd8gNAxPUcJxX_Dcw3rofHuRCIbYacKgN
Thanks. I'm about to go through all you video lessons again. I learned so much from them. They also make me experiment. Example: trying the 1st 5 notes of other scales using the Poly Modal style.
I hear some singing, like Keith Jarrett. 🙂 Another great lesson!
Hahaha, yes some of the sound from the room slipped in ;) Cheers from Oliver
I bought the piano and the grandeur. But I my the sounds are not like yours. Is it possible to send me a screenshot of the settings of " the grandeur"?
Hi :) I’ve exported my settings to an "nki" file: www.newjazz.dk/xtra/Grandeur_settings_NewJazz.nki
I hope that you can make it work :) Cheers from Oliver
What kind of piano do you use. What brand? What software?
Hi :) I use this VST from Native Instruments: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keys/the-grandeur/
The midi keyboard is a Kawai VPC1
Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz I bought the piano and the grandeur. But I my the sounds are not like yours. Is it possible to send me a screenshot of the settings of " the grandeur"?
I found this lesson mind blowing! But I have a question. When improvising with progression, I sometimes get lost. I lose the point of reference (where my hand is in relation to the tonality.) Any tips on how to work on the progressions withouth losing the way?
Hi and thanks a lot. A really good place to start could be to play Arpeggio on the chords like we do in this video: ruclips.net/video/7gEylGkD5ik/видео.html
Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz Dear oliver. thanks for taking the trouble to reply. I've been improving on this lesson. Now working on your arpeggio video. thanks for sharing your knowledge so generously!
I wish you can do it on guitar 🎸
i am new to piano (coming from guitar). i wonder why sometimes your hand is near the top of the board and sometimes near the bottom, and in both situations you do play black notes.
Hi :) Maybe it's all about where the thumb is placed (in the hand grip). If the it's on a black note the hand is on the top and if it's a white note the hand is placed more low. Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz thank you!
wow!!!!!!!!
If you continue going up the rows even more, you get what jacob collier calls the super ultra hyper mega meta stuff
Yes, exactly. I've presented this idea about playing "several octave modes" or "super chords" in some of my older vids like in this one (by the end): ruclips.net/video/61bI3dgdXMo/видео.html
Cheers from Oliver
Тон, полутон, тон, тон?
Yes, that's the construction of the hand grip ;) Cheers from Oliver
It isn't complex, it just sounds like a modern chord progression to me.
Excellent content (as always), Oliver!!! Congrats and Thanks!!! Musicians and music lovers will be honored/served by getting your book/method. Please, make it!!!
Thanks a lot!!!
Shouldn't we start making rules about which notes NOT to play instead of which notes to play? That might make things even easier. Since I invented the thousend year long opposite day on the 09.09.2019. #firstGeniusEver
Hi :) Thanks a lot for your input. In this lesson we play 'poly modal' (several modes) and we actual play every 12 notes all together. I believe the term 'avoid notes' is invented by music teachers to uniform the music and put it in a nice box they can write a book about. I wonder what Monk would have done if he was told not to play specific notes... Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz Hi, thank you. I rather mean, 'which notes to avoid in what context' but the ear would probably tell faster then any concept. I feel like not caring about any scale or even chord gives me the best way of making music. And beyond any genre. I even feel like, If I don't follow any rule or genre, I am somewhat in harmony with every genre - therefore: music for the masses. (?)
@@karmaindustrie I totally agree!!! I also say in the video; "improvising music is all about being a little stupid" haha. What I mean is that scales and theory are more for reflection - after Music. When playing in practice, here and now, we need a very simple tool, like the hand grip ;) Cheers from Oliver
@@NewJazz yeah the conservatory conservatorship... fog that sh... It's Britney B... (Karma) (opposite day caring about the twists...)
Hi Oliver great vids on improvisation- I think I signed up for your patreon but I’m not sure please check (Forbes is my pen name) if you have a minute.
Hi :) I see you :) And thank you so much :) :) :) Many regards from Oliver
@@NewJazz great thanks Oliver!