Thank you so much Aimee! Your videos often are the most beautiful doors into the world of jazz, at least from this beginner perspective. You make learning jazz inviting and nourishing, removing the fear while still eluding to the depth of the craft.
Holymoly, she has 136000 subscribers! in a couple of years! I would say that is a lot and watch what keeps happening. Bet she hits 200K real soon. Word is out about our Aimee!! and rightfully so!
No kidding. I watch Aimee's channel and try to follow along just for fun (I'm a middle-aged advanced novice musician, meaning I kinda have a sort of idea what she's talking about but it mostly goes over my head). Thank you, Aimee!
Because she's teaching piano Fact is, there are far more people learning guitar . Notice Rick Beato ( all guitar ) has over 1million subscribers. The advantage of guitar. That Aimee has 178k is quite an accomplishment for a piano teacher, and a jazz teacher, at that.
Couldn't help but keep looking at the wheel of fifths plastered on the wall while watching this. This prog covers about half the wheel and transitions changes smooth as silk. Never sounds you're jolted out of one key center to a "distant" one. I really don't know much about Jazz, or composition in general, but it was just awesome to watch this. The explanation and analysis just stellar. Thank you.
Aimee, I’m such a knucklehead. At first glance, the thumbnail for the video indicated to me that you would be analyzing (bed) sheets made of lead! It didn’t last long, but my brain did a 720-degree spin and then set me straight. Thank you for not only Wunnn-derful content, but now unintended comic relief. Much love.
I believe Hal Leonard bought the rights but the whole book looks like the original sheet music. I have the original sheet somewhere from my mother's old piano music. I'll have to search through all my clutter.
@@stangetz534 My mistake....Just checked. the publisher is still T.B. Harms Company. It's my Hoagy Carmichael Centennial collection book that's Hal Leonard.
No baby steps with this choice of song! It has a breathless kind of excitement to it, probably because of those deceptive cadences you've guided us through. Thanks!
Thanks so much, Miss Aimee. Ever marvelled at this creation of Mr.Kern since hearing the Dave Brubeck version back in the '50's! That modulation from the middle eight to the final eight (back to C) is stunningly simple, stunningly wondrous ("how de do dat?) . Thanks also for pointing out the 2-5-1's and all your knowledgeable insights. A delightful, worthwhile 20 minutes well spent by me!
Thank you Aimee for this insightful analysis. Definitely deepened my understanding. It is an absolute bonus to hear your wonderful voice adding flesh and blood to the skeleton!
Great breakdown. On the advice/encouragement from a jam partner I just started doing this (ATTYA) and it has literally changed my playing. Looking at a road map before you go on a trip...! Really interesting commentary on the "substitutions" as well, Thank You!
Ah, your singing is heaven and it's so nice when it's in a lesson too. I'm in a bit over my head here, but it's still really useful and interesting. I'll have to check some of your beginner type lessons. Between you and Rick, I'll get there one day!
Love your work Aimee. I'm a trumpet player and piano is my second instrument. Your lessons are great. I like Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Miles and Lee Morgan among others. I watch your videos daily.
Muchas gracias, Ms Nolte! For info, I’ve passed info about you and your amazing videos to my older, retired buddies that, like me, are desperately trying to learn the language of Jazz with hope/intent become decent improvisers. We cannot thank you enough. So, please know that a number of us older fellas have great respect/admiration for you. Not only are you an amazing musician... but you certainly tapped into your natural calling which is TEACHING. Ciao and Blessings to you and your family, RC and retired homies 🌎❤️🕊
Excellent choice in tunes Aimee! Lots of harmony so it really shows what you are explaining! PS I had a tough time learning this tune too ! I learned it from Keely Smith...Beautiful!
Thank you! Really interesting and useful! I always look for root movements by descending fifths. Sometimes they are secondary dominants, sometimes they are cascading chains like in rhythm changes. But I think we still perceive that 5th movement, it's so basic to Western music and jazz.
Plus to being an incredible teacher, Aimee playing lefthanded, pointing chords with a pen in her right hand, singing and explaining harmony, all at the same time, is way way more musical than the vast majority of overproduced crap of pop stars nowadays
I took this tune on last several weeks without looking. Took it from Sinatra, which was a project, being in five sharps to start. I ended up with 1st ending Ebm7- Ab7, Dm7-G7 kinda like Round Midnite. I like sneaking in a quick C: ii- V right after the B7 coming out the bridge. The rules about the altered 7th to the minor made sense to me and had not really occurred. Thanks!!
Man, this is amazing. People don't write like this any more. I'm so far behind on ii V I and all the decorations that go with it. After watching, it kind of made sense. Wish I knew more.
I always really enjoy your in depth analysis of song tunes. With that in mind. it would be great if you could do something on the French composer, Michel Legrand, because he always has some kind of strange/unusual chord progressions in his work. The one I'd like to suggest is - You Must Believe In Spring.
Great analysis, Aimee! In my Jerome Kern book in the last 4 measures of the bridge he goes from F#13 to C9#11 to B13 to F9#11 and returns to C major with an E in the bass! Brilliant!!
The book is "Jerome Kern: The Man and His Music in Story, Picture and Song" by his publisher T.B. Harms Company, however the copyright date on the original sheet music is 1932 and this arrangement is 1974. My mother had the original sheet that I have somewhere. As I recall the B7 is definitely in the original sheet resolving to Cmaj7 over E, but I am not sure about the flatted 5th substitutions, they are probably not in the original but they are cool and keep the same tri-tone, which is the main thing to me. I hate when I hear pianists throw a G7 in there. It's just wrong!
OMG Aimee!! I LOVE this language of Music and Lead Sheet Chord Analysis. The deeper understanding of why is this happening here? Can I ask, Do you have a course or anything that teaches this. I was classically trained and have been searching for quite a few years now for some guidance about how to best to learn chords with the end being able to play accompaniment or to improv. I’ve watched quite a few of your fantastic videos over the years and purchased your 251 exercises. What do you think Aimee? Anyway I’m just gobsmacked with your ability and knowledge. Yay and Thank you 🎹🎶👍
Not really high brow jazz but an interesting future pop song to analyze is Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed." I learned this as a teenager taping it off the radio when it was first released in US and spent about a year trying to figure out the chords - McCartney has commented how the sounds of the chords lead to the unusual ( for pop anyway) changes in his head - interesting how the greats perceive where chords take you. Not sure younger people realize how much information you are delivering that used to take a lot of time to gain on one's own efforts, especially if you grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere.
Aimee. love all your videos. I am classically-trained but have always loved and wanted to be able to play the Jazz genre. Unfortunately I always found it really hard to do so. Classical training really entrenches you into believing that it is a genre beyond your reach. Well it did me anyway lol. You always explain everything so clearly and put all explanations simply. Really love the channel, which has boosted my confidence and ignited my passion for jazz and belief that I will be able to tackle the genre one day. I've learnt so much from you Aimee; Thank you. All those fills were a lot to take down. Was wondering if you could put those in notation with that beautiful song just as you did with the chord progression in all keys. Obviously at a cost or if becoming a member or joining your website we could have access to this. You so are the teacher I wish I had all those years ago. I would have hit the classical-training on the head and gone totally into Jazz if that were the case lol. Once again thank you so much. I'm telling everyone about your channel so they can subscribe. So glad I found you on here. x
Thank you for your kind comment. I think maybe you meant to comment on a different video than this. This one doesn’t have any PDF. Some of my older videos still have hand written notation. Someday I will update those when I get the time. There is nothing to subscribe to on my website. All of my videos are free to watch on RUclips. Some of them have PDFs that go along with them and those are always five dollars on my website. The only extra thing I have is my other platform called Nebula. I have two classes there and a third one coming within the month. You can sign up at nebula.tv/Aimee Nolte, if you would like access to those classes as well as the bonus videos that I put on Nebula that are not on RUclips. Thanks again so much. And good luck in your journey.
@@AimeeNolte Hi. Thank you for your reply. Indeed I was replying to your video on Riffs. Sorry about that. Not sure what happened there. My WIFI has been playing up all day and my screen has been jumping about. So possibly it jumped to this screen and I wasn't away. Anyhow. Apologies and thank you once again.
Aimee wonderful analysis. I wonder whether Kern was so analytical when he wrote it. I would guess that he wrote by pure inspiration, then maybe went back and analyzed later.
Thanks for this Aimee, very useful.... and also for recommending the Jazz Standards Progressions Book! Any chance you'd consider doing this with "Here's That Rainy Day" sometime soon?
Jazz musicians talk about their chord progressions in numerical terms, such as the "2 5 1". Why aren't jazz chord charts written in the Nashville Number System or Roman numeral system, the way they do in Nashville recording studios? That way, one chart serves for any key.
Does anyone know if there are any standards where you start in a certain key but somewhere it modulates so that when you land back at the top of the head, you have all the same changes but they would be transposed?
Aimee, your video is great but really too deep for me as a new comer to the jazz world. Just wonder when I get a lead sheet, how to arrange the left hand chord? I know how to build a chord, but do I have to play every single notes in this chord? Is there any rules out there?Many thanks
Great video, Aimee, btw, I see some people calling the Fm7 Bb7 as iv bVII, avoiding calling them ii-V of something and treating them as modal borrowing, because they would still resolve to I. Do you treat them as simple ii-V of Eb?
rather than explaining with chord letter names I would like to see a video which only uses chord Numbers on the chart and scale degree for melody. ^7 ^1 ^5 vocal notes over 2 5 1 chords etc (not roman numerals either)
Just a thing ( 9:35) Isn't the half diminished chord the second grade in a minor key? . But the lead sheet says A# diminished seventh. It is not half... Is it the same?
Hi Aimee, You must have took down your livestream from last night. I was really taken by your rendition of 'hotline bling'. You should do a cover video of it. Honestly, the original is not my cup of tea, but your cover is amazing. Your really made a silk purse out of a sow's ear on Hotline Bling! Great stuff.
No...you can’t “play C” over all of those chords. You have to play each chord. But those chords at the beginning all come from the key of C. Sorry to have confused you. You are right about the ii V in D, but in this context, I wouldn’t think of it like a ii V in D.
@@AimeeNolte Oh I get it. So there is a distinction between saying that a certain section of the tune is in C ; and actually playing over said section with the C scale.
Ah, Aimee Nolte, the Bob Ross of jazz.
Honestly! I feel calm every time I watch her videos!
We've recently had a Bob Ross series on BBC4 in the UK during the lockdown. I get it and agree.
Thank you so much Aimee! Your videos often are the most beautiful doors into the world of jazz, at least from this beginner perspective. You make learning jazz inviting and nourishing, removing the fear while still eluding to the depth of the craft.
idk why you don't have more subscribers. This whole channel is brilliant
Holymoly, she has 136000 subscribers! in a couple of years! I would say that is a lot and watch what keeps happening. Bet she hits 200K real soon. Word is out about our Aimee!! and rightfully so!
No kidding. I watch Aimee's channel and try to follow along just for fun (I'm a middle-aged advanced novice musician, meaning I kinda have a sort of idea what she's talking about but it mostly goes over my head). Thank you, Aimee!
Because she's teaching piano Fact is, there are far more people learning guitar . Notice Rick Beato ( all guitar ) has over 1million subscribers. The advantage of guitar. That Aimee has 178k is quite an accomplishment for a piano teacher, and a jazz teacher, at that.
Couldn't help but keep looking at the wheel of fifths plastered on the wall while watching this. This prog covers about half the wheel and transitions changes smooth as silk. Never sounds you're jolted out of one key center to a "distant" one. I really don't know much about Jazz, or composition in general, but it was just awesome to watch this. The explanation and analysis just stellar. Thank you.
Aimee, I’m such a knucklehead. At first glance, the thumbnail for the video indicated to me that you would be analyzing (bed) sheets made of lead! It didn’t last long, but my brain did a 720-degree spin and then set me straight. Thank you for not only Wunnn-derful content, but now unintended comic relief. Much love.
You know they also have those weighted duvets nowadays. I got one, it's a meaningful experience.
I spent HOW much at Berklee to show me this? Thanks again, Aimee, another amazing video.
I believe Hal Leonard bought the rights but the whole book looks like the original sheet music. I have the original sheet somewhere from my mother's old piano music. I'll have to search through all my clutter.
Really? That’s surprising.
@@stangetz534 My mistake....Just checked. the publisher is still T.B. Harms Company. It's my Hoagy Carmichael Centennial collection book that's Hal Leonard.
No baby steps with this choice of song! It has a breathless kind of excitement to it, probably because of those deceptive cadences you've guided us through. Thanks!
Amazing. Best explanation of how to analyze a tune I've ever seen. So much to chew on in this video.
Thanks so much, Miss Aimee. Ever marvelled at this creation of Mr.Kern since hearing the Dave Brubeck version back in the '50's! That modulation from the middle eight to the final eight (back to C) is stunningly simple, stunningly wondrous ("how de do dat?) . Thanks also for pointing out the 2-5-1's and all your knowledgeable insights. A delightful, worthwhile 20 minutes well spent by me!
Great explanation of analyzing lead sheets! Thank you Aimee!
Clearest demonstration of the relation of melody and harmony I've seen
Really enjoying your lessons Aimee and your singing is a joy to listen to! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you Aimee for this insightful analysis. Definitely deepened my understanding. It is an absolute bonus to hear your wonderful voice adding flesh and blood to the skeleton!
Great breakdown. On the advice/encouragement from a jam partner I just started doing this (ATTYA) and it has literally changed my playing. Looking at a road map before you go on a trip...! Really interesting commentary on the "substitutions" as well, Thank You!
Ah, your singing is heaven and it's so nice when it's in a lesson too. I'm in a bit over my head here, but it's still really useful and interesting. I'll have to check some of your beginner type lessons. Between you and Rick, I'll get there one day!
I like her singing too. She sounds a bit like Norah Jones.
Perfect. Crystal clear, soothing, instructive, and succinct!
Love your work Aimee. I'm a trumpet player and piano is my second instrument. Your lessons are great. I like Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Miles and Lee Morgan among others. I watch your videos daily.
I love this song. Took awhile before re-viewing this video, and it feels good to no longer be lost in the lingo.
That was a great video! Really enjoyed listening to it.
Muchas gracias, Ms Nolte! For info, I’ve passed info about you and your amazing videos to my older, retired buddies that, like me, are desperately trying to learn the language of Jazz with hope/intent become decent improvisers. We cannot thank you enough. So, please know that a number of us older fellas have great respect/admiration for you. Not only are you an amazing musician... but you certainly tapped into your natural calling which is TEACHING.
Ciao and Blessings to you and your family,
RC and retired homies
🌎❤️🕊
i can listen to your voice forever!
Thanks Aimee, this is fabulous. It's precisely the thing which has been a mystery to me that I really want to get into and be able to break down
Thanks a lot Aimee! It was a great pleasure to follow your class spiced with your lovely beautiful voice!
Greetings from the far away place!
Thanks Aimee, another valuable video.
Beautiful choice of songs. Nice analysis and sweet yet powerful vocals. Thanks.
Well done. Thanks a lot.
Excellent choice in tunes Aimee! Lots of harmony so it really shows what you are explaining! PS I had a tough time learning this tune too ! I learned it from Keely Smith...Beautiful!
"Jerome Kern tricked us"! 😆 love it, Aimee!
Another outstanding lesson as always, Aimee!
Thank you! Really interesting and useful! I always look for root movements by descending fifths. Sometimes they are secondary dominants, sometimes they are cascading chains like in rhythm changes. But I think we still perceive that 5th movement, it's so basic to Western music and jazz.
Such a great practical approach, thank you for the analysis!
yo this is amazing
Aimee thanks for the mention of iReal Pro. I find it a great help. And no doubt others will find it helpful.
Great video. Love your work Aimee
Plus to being an incredible teacher, Aimee playing lefthanded, pointing chords with a pen in her right hand, singing and explaining harmony, all at the same time, is way way more musical than the vast majority of overproduced crap of pop stars nowadays
I took this tune on last several weeks without looking. Took it from Sinatra, which was a project, being in five sharps to start. I ended up with 1st ending Ebm7- Ab7, Dm7-G7 kinda like Round Midnite. I like sneaking in a quick C: ii- V right after the B7 coming out the bridge. The rules about the altered 7th to the minor made sense to me and had not really occurred. Thanks!!
love this, thank you so much! Wish I could sing that beautifully:)
Man, this is amazing. People don't write like this any more. I'm so far behind on ii V I and all the decorations that go with it. After watching, it kind of made sense. Wish I knew more.
Wow I use lead sheets and now I understand them better
Thank you Aimee, very cool!
Really useful video...some great song learning tips.
I always really enjoy your in depth analysis of song tunes. With that in mind. it would be great if you could do something on the French composer, Michel Legrand, because he always has some kind of strange/unusual chord progressions in his work. The one I'd like to suggest is - You Must Believe In Spring.
Really nice! - More of that!!
Loved this tutorial Aimee! Thx so much
Thanks for watching, Greg
Great analysis, Aimee! In my Jerome Kern book in the last 4 measures of the bridge he goes from F#13 to C9#11 to B13 to F9#11 and returns to C major with an E in the bass! Brilliant!!
Oh that’s cool! What is your book? Is it original sheet music?
The book is "Jerome Kern: The Man and His Music in Story, Picture and Song" by his publisher T.B. Harms Company, however the copyright date on the original sheet music is 1932 and this arrangement is 1974. My mother had the original sheet that I have somewhere. As I recall the B7 is definitely in the original sheet resolving to Cmaj7 over E, but I am not sure about the flatted 5th substitutions, they are probably not in the original but they are cool and keep the same tri-tone, which is the main thing to me. I hate when I hear pianists throw a G7 in there. It's just wrong!
OMG Aimee!! I LOVE this language of Music and Lead Sheet Chord Analysis. The deeper understanding of why is this happening here? Can I ask, Do you have a course or anything that teaches this. I was classically trained and have been searching for quite a few years now for some guidance about how to best to learn chords with the end being able to play accompaniment or to improv. I’ve watched quite a few of your fantastic videos over the years and purchased your 251 exercises. What do you think Aimee? Anyway I’m just gobsmacked with your ability and knowledge. Yay and Thank you 🎹🎶👍
Check out my playlists here on RUclips. How to accompany might be perfect! Thank you!
So beautiful singing ~
Sounds good. Thanks.
Not really high brow jazz but an interesting future pop song to analyze is Paul McCartney's "Maybe I'm Amazed." I learned this as a teenager taping it off the radio when it was first released in US and spent about a year trying to figure out the chords - McCartney has commented how the sounds of the chords lead to the unusual ( for pop anyway) changes in his head - interesting how the greats perceive where chords take you. Not sure younger people realize how much information you are delivering that used to take a lot of time to gain on one's own efforts, especially if you grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere.
Great explanation Amiee :)
Very, very good!
Nice job.
Aimee. love all your videos. I am classically-trained but have always loved and wanted to be able to play the Jazz genre. Unfortunately I always found it really hard to do so. Classical training really entrenches you into believing that it is a genre beyond your reach. Well it did me anyway lol. You always explain everything so clearly and put all explanations simply. Really love the channel, which has boosted my confidence and ignited my passion for jazz and belief that I will be able to tackle the genre one day. I've learnt so much from you Aimee; Thank you. All those fills were a lot to take down. Was wondering if you could put those in notation with that beautiful song just as you did with the chord progression in all keys. Obviously at a cost or if becoming a member or joining your website we could have access to this. You so are the teacher I wish I had all those years ago. I would have hit the classical-training on the head and gone totally into Jazz if that were the case lol. Once again thank you so much. I'm telling everyone about your channel so they can subscribe. So glad I found you on here. x
Thank you for your kind comment. I think maybe you meant to comment on a different video than this. This one doesn’t have any PDF. Some of my older videos still have hand written notation. Someday I will update those when I get the time. There is nothing to subscribe to on my website. All of my videos are free to watch on RUclips. Some of them have PDFs that go along with them and those are always five dollars on my website. The only extra thing I have is my other platform called Nebula. I have two classes there and a third one coming within the month. You can sign up at nebula.tv/Aimee Nolte, if you would like access to those classes as well as the bonus videos that I put on Nebula that are not on RUclips. Thanks again so much. And good luck in your journey.
@@AimeeNolte Hi. Thank you for your reply. Indeed I was replying to your video on Riffs. Sorry about that. Not sure what happened there. My WIFI has been playing up all day and my screen has been jumping about. So possibly it jumped to this screen and I wasn't away. Anyhow. Apologies and thank you once again.
NIce.
Aimee wonderful analysis. I wonder whether Kern was so analytical when he wrote it. I would guess that he wrote by pure inspiration, then maybe went back and analyzed later.
Great video!
Thanks for this Aimee, very useful.... and also for recommending the Jazz Standards Progressions Book! Any chance you'd consider doing this with "Here's That Rainy Day" sometime soon?
Jazz musicians talk about their chord progressions in numerical terms, such as the "2 5 1". Why aren't jazz chord charts written in the Nashville Number System or Roman numeral system, the way they do in Nashville recording studios? That way, one chart serves for any key.
How would you analyze how insensitive by jobim ? I can't wrap my head around understanding the chords
Does anyone know if there are any standards where you start in a certain key but somewhere it modulates so that when you land back at the top of the head, you have all the same changes but they would be transposed?
Hi I was wondering how can a person make a lead sheet from songbooks songs?
Aimee, your video is great but really too deep for me as a new comer to the jazz world. Just wonder when I get a lead sheet, how to arrange the left hand chord? I know how to build a chord, but do I have to play every single notes in this chord? Is there any rules out there?Many thanks
Try my video called “jazz piano: where to start”
Great video, Aimee, btw, I see some people calling the Fm7 Bb7 as iv bVII, avoiding calling them ii-V of
something and treating them as modal borrowing, because they would still resolve to I. Do you treat them as simple ii-V of Eb?
I like to see it as a back door to Cma. At least in this case, but it can def be viewed that way as well.
rather than explaining with chord letter names I would like to see a video which only uses chord Numbers on the chart and scale degree for melody. ^7 ^1 ^5 vocal notes over 2 5 1 chords etc (not roman numerals either)
Common tones rules....or there is thirds relation as in "Giant Steps"?
You are awesome! What state do you reside in?
are these the chords originally written by Kern? or a modern reharmonization? rhetorical question.
Just a thing ( 9:35) Isn't the half diminished chord the second grade in a minor key? . But the lead sheet says A# diminished seventh. It is not half... Is it the same?
It’s a half diminished chord. Not fully diminished.
@@AimeeNolte Ohh! ..thank you for clarify that. Good info on your vids
How can you not analyse music when you play it? You have to, you want to know what makes it have the effect which it does.
Is there a recording of you playing this song?
Enjoy many of your videos Aimee, but the title of this one fooled me. I would call this a chord chart.
Aimee! How many hands do you have?
There's nothing wrong with doing a "minor ii-V" to a major key. Plenty of tunes do that.
Hi Aimee,
You must have took down your livestream from last night. I was really taken by your rendition of 'hotline bling'. You should do a cover video of it. Honestly, the original is not my cup of tea, but your cover is amazing. Your really made a silk purse out of a sow's ear on Hotline Bling! Great stuff.
It should be there. I didn’t remove it. Hmm. Glad you liked that. :)
On bars 9 and 10 - isn’t that a 2 5 in D? If you just play C over the first 12 bars, wont that clash with the C# in A7?
No...you can’t “play C” over all of those chords. You have to play each chord. But those chords at the beginning all come from the key of C. Sorry to have confused you. You are right about the ii V in D, but in this context, I wouldn’t think of it like a ii V in D.
@@AimeeNolte Oh I get it. So there is a distinction between saying that a certain section of the tune is in C ; and actually playing over said section with the C scale.
Oh yah yah
This time i'm the first! Clicked thumb up before i forget and now i enjoy the video :-)
When you put it in F and sang, I heard Peggy Lee.
I’ve never been this early ever