I'm just a 65 year old beginner with just over one month tickling the ivory. But there was a logic to this and it gives me inspiration to learn...chords. Merci.
This exercise - learning 3-7 and 7-3 in every key - was the first thing I did in the 70's to learn jazz, and the one thing that opened up improv for me more than anything else. It took two semesters to really get them where they were second nature, but truly a door into everything else!
@@garyspianocovers6684 You can learn the circle of fithts and in parallel to that play misty by eroll garner (which is basically just the circle), just the block chords in the left hand. This will give you the 7, maj7 and min7. That how I learned it anyway :)
I watched this 2 years ago when I was still early on my piano journey. I liked the sound but it was beyond my theory and capability. It came up again today on RUclips and is perfect now. Thanks😊
You are so sweet, listening you talkin is the same ad listening someone singing a lullaby. Awasome! Obviously it goes without saying what a wonderful teacher you are. Thankyou so much.
I have been practising that for a week, i can tell this is one of the best exercises i' ve ever seen. It provides quickness to memorize chords positions and i can exercise until my brain and my hands give up because it sounds like a beautiful song, not boring :)
Been doing this for 4 years, probably the best exercise I've found. Now on to rootless and crazy extensions, feels more like play than exercise! Thank you Amy (and your student!).
I am a guitar player and have been practicing arpeggios. Just running through the harmonized scale in different positions on the fretboard. This will be much more fun! Thank you, I love your channel!
Just purchased and downloaded. Already it is obvious this is the best idea ever! I believe I will finally progress in my piano journey. Thank you so much ian for inspiring aimee and Aimee for creating this and sharing. Your voice is beautiful Aimee.
OK, I've been learning this without the music for a month, 5 weeks! Wow, it was so hard, but now6 I've learnt the first page its brilliant. You play them randomly and it sounds great. Really tests you on your chords. Love your teaching Amee. Thank you and thank you to Ian.
Being a guy, I tend to brute-force my way through fingerings, and it was no different with this exercise. Focusing on the left hand, I played all the fifths with the thumb and pinky, which involves a lot of bouncing arm travel, which is what I do. But then I watched your left hand. You play the first fifth with your thumb and third finger, and the second fifth with your pinky and index finger, which is so much more efficient and, dare I say, elegant. Thank you once again for a great lesson.
My students will often come up with color coded grids and I tell them the same thing. Look at the guitar and work it out. Scratch your head and find it. The guitar is tough because we don't have white and black keys and there is probably 14 different finger patterns for the same scale. When I heard you say don't look at the sheet I thought to myself "Thank you!" You sound like a marvelous teacher.
Thank you Aimee. This exercise is a beast. I used it to master voice leadings. The 3-7 on the right hand is really important as those two notes determine the chord quality. 3 determines whether its a major or minor chord while the 7 determines if its a dominant 7 or maj7/min 7.
That was spot on and a very comprehensive lesson. I started on electric bass and been playing since the age 9. Learning guitar now while picking up some basic piano and I can't tell you how much I appreciate your teaching method.
Aimee,one of your many talents is the ability to give so much worth so little…what I mean is, you make it so easy to understand, and yet I feel I’ve just climbed 5 steps up the ladder! I have a significant new competency and my brain doesn’t even hurt. BLESS YOU!
Almost a year ago, I bought your drill, and I still use it. I learnt that I did not knew all these chords really well, and the drill also worked to me like a self-test. It is a versatile drill that can be adapted with ease to practice other voicings.
@@AimeeNolte Certainly! And what I found really useful is to really know what key is the fifth or fourth of some other without thinking too much. From that is easy to add or subtract steps to form other chords.
For far too many years, this self-taught key-basher has been in the Irvin Berlin school of playing everything in C maj and A min, using the transpose function on the digital piano and I am trapped there. I've purchased your guide and promise to do my utmost thoroughly to get to grips with it. Thanks, Aimee!
Aimee, this is taking so long! I absolutely am so determined to do it. Your brilliant and so is your student that put it together. Wish you were here! 👏😊🙏🏻
Wonderful lesson Aimee!!! I've been playing piano since I was like 14, started out with classical then been playing for my church since I was abt 17, I'm now 29 and it's been a couple years since I've lost my drive to practice. I've always wanted to learn jazz and I've started a few times and stopped butttt during the lock down I had no excuses so I started jazz and noww I'm back to being as eager to practice as my earlier years. You videos hv been and continue to be a a great help to me on my jazz journey. This exercise is priceless and will help me alot! Thanks to Ian and Thank you!!! God bless you
Thank you for this lesson Aimee and Ian for the idea! I love the fact that you are open to learn from your students and believe that is what makes you such a great teacher as well! :)
@@newagain9964 I agree with Frank Marsh´s point about it being more difficult on piano. You need to do a mental reset for every key on the piano, because of the layout of the keyboard, or as I once heard my piano teacher say "the topography of the piano".
Love it ! This lesson is blowing me away.. There's no pure Phrygian(!) You go Dorian - Mixolydian - Ionian - Lydian - Locrian - then an altered Phrygian - and Aeolian.. WOW!! And I get it now: The Phrygian is altered to a dominant 7 (!major 3rd!) chord for it to become a new 5th chord to the new 1 chord (Aeolian.. Minor).. WOW! Craziness... Thank you. ps: your singing @5:55 (especially in C) is sublime and blissful. 8~D
Ha!! I never knew that the IV chord is commonly used as a pivot chord to the relative minor key! I never knew it was called a pivot chord! This explains Autumn Leaves to me - finally!!! It explains Fly Me to the Moon - finally!!! That IV chord is a chord that is common to both keys!!! Departure chord, a vehicle to take us to the relative minor. I'm an aspiring jazz walking bass player, and this just exploded this well-kept secret to me!! Thank you.
Aimee you’re a great pianist, an even better teacher, and as a person, you only go up from there! Thx for this lil bit of motivation. Thanks to Ian too!
Holy cow... just charted it out in irealpro and noticed that if you repeat the first chord of each line (the five of the relative minor chord at the end) as a half diminished chord it's the V of the first chord of the next line (plus you now have 2 of each half diminished chord so #symmetry). This exercise is the Russian nesting doll of II-V's. Blew my mind nine different times as I charted it and saw the big picture coming together. I love this!
Thankyou and Ian. Purchased the pdf. Looking forward to practicing these and learning them well. I haven't played for perhaps years and the 2 teachers I had never taught anything but how to read music. FINALLY I'm learning so much more via RUclips channels like this one. Thankyou! THANKYOU!!
So soothing when she sings also "ba tha tha da ..." very nice indeed. I'm damn purchasing this. Rarely like to purchase something without huge research cos a lot of recycled information out there at different prices. This intuitively is absolutely worth it. Buying for my son who's is 14, don't know any musical theory but damn can just play amazingly hence last year I couldn't play the piano or thought in my life I'd be grade 3 standard. I did it to help my son with theory but when he does his own music he just goes off. His singing teacher say he's a genius and doesn't even know it. The piano is a throw away, out of tune but sounds so good when he plays. This chord guide will help him. Thank you so much for something immeasurably invaluable and affordable.
This is a wonderfully enlightening video, and I am so glad I found it and you. Even if the video was half as informative, I'd still come back just to hear your lovely singing voice ❤ Thank you for sharing. As a great man once said, I'll be back! 😊
Very nice . Your knowledge of chord structure is superb. I studied structure for many years until one day I decided that I knew chords in all positions! That was quite sometime ago. Watching you makes me want to refresh my once obsession with chord structure. Again your are very knowledgeable and talented!
Superb - crystal clear, beautifully crafted, illustrated, demonstrated - and the joy and comfort of a 'human error' - or what one might call the 'jazz of non-order'. As a fellow music educator - terrific!!!! Thank you v much.
It was tempting to download the lesson, but thank you for encouraging us to listen and feel for the shapes. Great for ear training too. About four keys into it, the sound is getting in my ear and I find myself listening and feeling for sounds. Very exciting.
Great study! I've already applied it to several tunes. Made the changes more logical. It works with tritone substitutions too. Thanks for the eye opener!!!
Such a great video, Aimee! I've returned to it several times and use it regularly to help learn chords in the less familiar keys. It's like a capsule summary of basic jazz harmony, and the ideas in it have helped me be able to start playing some standards by ear, or from a lead sheet -- something that I never in a million years thought would be possible. Thank you (and Ian!)!!
Say the names of the chords as you play them as well! This will keep the chord shapes associated with the names instead of just learning the shapes by themselves.
Best chord exercise I've come across. It opens up my adaptivity to certain chord changes and chord structures in a way that I've never experienced before. So simple and elegant. Ian is a genius. Regarding the exercise, I'd even go as far as to make the very last chord alternate from minor to major, acting as the dominant 7 to the first chord in the exercise (e.g. the last 4 chords can be: Bm7b5 - E7 | Am7 - A7... going back into the Dmin7)
@@maurocaputi2700so that would be used if you wanted to practice say that whole first line over and over, going from the Amin to A7 leads back to the first chord -Dmin ?
Thank you so much Aimee - and Ian - for this. It is exactly what I have been looking for. And yes, Aimee, I promise that I will use it without the sheets, but... as a beginner, I need the sheets to 'get me off the ground' in the first place. (And thank you to George Higgins for the suggestion about naming the chords as I play.) These progressions reinforce the 2-5-1 sequence and the 4th as a means to making the move. I believe that once I have these in my fingers the world of lead sheets will open up for me as well as allowing me to accompany the songs that I want to sing (for myself you understand, I'm not going to inflict it on others.) Thanks again Aimee for putting this lesson together for us.
Excellent video on jazz chords Aimee. 1-5 with the left hand and 7-3 or 3-7 with the right. The chord progression sounds beautiful and it is a great way to learn finger positioning quickly. Awesome. Thanks.
I am not a musician but I love to hear all the beautiful musical sounds. I also enjoy the process of learning as students and teachers can explore together and have a give and take where both get great benefit. You and Ian have such great meekness and the result is a great new discovery of a beautiful method to excel. Thanks Aimee and Ian
Had the same idea many years ago, led to creating ‘technique’ songs, where I based everything arranged around one or two particular techniques. Worked well, bc as I was exploring the idea of the technique, I became familiar with it within different contexts, but also by proxy, practice the technique. Oddly, never thought to do one with chords as I’ve always been exploring them, but I’m going to dig into this...thanks!
Last week I finally decided to start learning keys properly, after playing guitar and bass for years. I have always been able to mess around with synth melodies but never been able to sit at a piano and play a song, on its own. Think this is going to be my new daily practice, along side learning songs and practicing my ear training 🙂 This is such a valuable exercise! Thank you ❤️
Coincidentally, the Ab minor 7 is one of the first 7th chords I learned and can nail it in any spot in any inversion. I found that interesting. Otherwise, I am a complete and utter novice in every other regard. By the way, it is hauntingly beautiful how you sing that melody.
Very nice exercise, completely applicable to guitar (I do not play piano). I always try doing the same - convert an exercise into a song, or at least something more creative and less mechanical.
I love this. I found it through Mark Baxter!! Thankyou! Makes so much sense But still need to take a lot more time to take it all in. As a singer I’ve been interested in chord progressions esp in jazz but didn’t know where to start (on my own)and this has helped a lot. Whoo hoo!!! 👏 Thankyou 🎶
Practicing chords in cycles is the bread and butter of learning jazz comping. Then what helped me was when doing mindless things like cardio at the gym or driving somewhere I would just drill myself on chords spelling just like a kid drills times tables to learn them. Amy's advice on seeing, hearing, and saying to yourself the name of the chords when doing your tune/exercise is key building the ear, brain, hand connection. Then time to work on voicing leading and Drop 2's to build on your tune/exercise.
What i did as a 20 something back in the 70s was to do flash cards on intervals, and if you know that, everything falls into place. In the key f , what is the 4th, in the key of F, what is the 5th, and onward to all of them. I did that every day until had them mastered.
One they had us do in music school and I did outside of school to was pick a note and say what it is in all keys. So F is tonic of F, F is the 7 of G, F is the 3 of Db and so on. Helps see all the possibilities a note offers. Lots of ways to drill this stuff into your brain.
I love this so much😭. I’ve been practicing the spread chord voicings diatonically which is okay but I find it takes longer to remember the individual chord shapes that way. And quite honestly makes it difficult to connect them musically. Thank you so much for this🙏
Yes, Ian’s idea is so wonderful and prescient. I will try your lovely chord song from his idea Aimee. I’ve been playing a while too and I feel like the more I know, the more I constantly realise I don’t know! Things like this really help as they don’t leave any keys languishing in the dark
Hi Aimee. My name is Ron. Love this exercise. Super clear. I'm a Jazz guitarist and a wannabe piano player. I recently talked to a classical pianist who wanted to lock in all the chords as a jazz player would. I came up with this idea for him. Play Jeepers Creepers starting on a 2 chord in root position, then a 5 chord root position then a 1 chord maj 7 root position, then a 1 chord as a 6th. Now the 6 chord should be reharmonised into a new 2 chord in root position and on and on. Of course naming each one will help. This will take a person through half of all 2 5 1 chords. I like yours better but Jeepers Creepers is easy to remember as a start. So I call it my Jeepers Creepers exercise. Call it yours if you find anything in it you like. Best Ron
Be fun to throw in a couple of tritone substitutions to get used to using them. Dflat13 for G7 and Bflat13 for E7 (in the key of C). I also like to write it out as Roman numerals which forces me to learn the relationships of the chords to the tonic. Thanks for all your great videos Aimee 🙂
Her: at 1:58, 6 times 7 is 63. Me: um...... uh........ *OCD intensifies* (murmurs... it's 42) jk.... I just wanna say, you're my Jazz go to teacher. I learned so much from you. Thank you, You're the best.
This is a fantastic idea. For a more restricted similar exercise for a more junior player, just doing some version where we take four or five of the chords from this list and play around with them until we know them all is a good way to build up towards being able to play something more advanced like this exercise. I sit down all the time and try to figure out interesting things to do with chords and melodic lines, and the nice thing is that every time I find something that sounds good, I find that also, I hadn't yet learned some bit of theory that names the thing I just found.
Really amazing dear Aimee. Thanks for share your magic gift. I'll practice step by step. Congratulations for this clear and evidente explanation. God bless you. Yo
6 x 7, 63 lolllll
Lol good catch! Of course I meant 9x7!
@@AimeeNolte Now that's Jazz!
@@AimeeNolte I thought you'd meant 42. This is the one my kids had most trouble with.
She was spitballing! At least she's awesome!
Aimee, is this the 3 and 7, over and over, like you explained in another video?
@@AimeeNolte Your "it could be this" at 10:20 is (almost) exactly the last phrase of Twinkle Twinkle!
Channels like yours are what make RUclips so valuable. Thanks , Aimee
Ian is a real nerd, and we all thank him
Nerds are the best. Without them our world would be empty of so many things, especially knowledge. Long live the geekery and creatury. Amen
I'm just a 65 year old beginner with just over one month tickling the ivory. But there was a logic to this and it gives me inspiration to learn...chords. Merci.
This exercise - learning 3-7 and 7-3 in every key - was the first thing I did in the 70's to learn jazz, and the one thing that opened up improv for me more than anything else. It took two semesters to really get them where they were second nature, but truly a door into everything else!
Good to know timeline because I want to get this even with my background it seems overwhelming. I need to learn the 7 th chords first then try this.
@@garyspianocovers6684 You can learn the circle of fithts and in parallel to that play misty by eroll garner (which is basically just the circle), just the block chords in the left hand. This will give you the 7, maj7 and min7. That how I learned it anyway :)
@@ahamuffin4747 You say major, minor, and dominant, but what about half-diminished like this had?
@@wyattstevens8574 I used the song "that's all", arrangement by Kent Hewitt for that
I watched this 2 years ago when I was still early on my piano journey. I liked the sound but it was beyond my theory and capability. It came up again today on RUclips and is perfect now. Thanks😊
Same here John! I just purchased her pdf to really analyze the excerrcise.
You are so sweet, listening you talkin is the same ad listening someone singing a lullaby. Awasome! Obviously it goes without saying what a wonderful teacher you are. Thankyou so much.
I have been practising that for a week, i can tell this is one of the best exercises i' ve ever seen. It provides quickness to memorize chords positions and i can exercise until my brain and my hands give up because it sounds like a beautiful song, not boring :)
I’m so glad
As an Ian, I would like to thank Ian for coming up with this.
I, Ian, second this notion
I, Ian, also second this notion
As a form of Ian I would like to thank Ian for coming up with this (my name is john, a form of Ian)
Is he a Music-Ian?
As a Tony with a T for thanks, to Ian for a nice idea.
I really like the way you INVITE us all along new learning pathways as opposed to simply showing us what to do.
Thank you. That’s always been my goal. ❤️
Been doing this for 4 years, probably the best exercise I've found. Now on to rootless and crazy extensions, feels more like play than exercise! Thank you Amy (and your student!).
Inversions can open so many possibilities...spread chords...spread triads...thank you so much👍
Blimey I've be going around in circles getting no where with my extentions ,this is a game changer thanks to and also to this IAN guy
I've just happened upon this video and I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying this exercise as an adult beginner. Thank you.
I am a guitar player and have been practicing arpeggios. Just running through the harmonized scale in different positions on the fretboard. This will be much more fun! Thank you, I love your channel!
Each time I watch a lesson like this, you move me. It's for the kindness of your precious advices. Maybe for the distance too.
Just purchased and downloaded. Already it is obvious this is the best idea ever! I believe I will finally progress in my piano journey. Thank you so much ian for inspiring aimee and Aimee for creating this and sharing. Your voice is beautiful Aimee.
Much thanks to you, Shelly!
OK, I've been learning this without the music for a month, 5 weeks! Wow, it was so hard, but now6 I've learnt the first page its brilliant. You play them randomly and it sounds great. Really tests you on your chords. Love your teaching Amee. Thank you and thank you to Ian.
Sounds like a sophisticated way to simplify everything...without sounding "thirdsy"! Thanks Aimee!!
Being a guy, I tend to brute-force my way through fingerings, and it was no different with this exercise. Focusing on the left hand, I played all the fifths with the thumb and pinky, which involves a lot of bouncing arm travel, which is what I do. But then I watched your left hand. You play the first fifth with your thumb and third finger, and the second fifth with your pinky and index finger, which is so much more efficient and, dare I say, elegant. Thank you once again for a great lesson.
My students will often come up with color coded grids and I tell them the same thing. Look at the guitar and work it out. Scratch your head and find it. The guitar is tough because we don't have white and black keys and there is probably 14 different finger patterns for the same scale. When I heard you say don't look at the sheet I thought to myself "Thank you!" You sound like a marvelous teacher.
I took the chart at 3:32 and have been using it as a guitar exercise, going line by line. This is brilliant. Thank you!
Thank you Aimee. This exercise is a beast. I used it to master voice leadings. The 3-7 on the right hand is really important as those two notes determine the chord quality. 3 determines whether its a major or minor chord while the 7 determines if its a dominant 7 or maj7/min 7.
That was spot on and a very comprehensive lesson. I started on electric bass and been playing since the age 9. Learning guitar now while picking up some basic piano and I can't tell you how much I appreciate your teaching method.
Thanks for this 2-5-1-4-7-3-6 pattern that covers all notes in the scale, must try this often
Aimee,one of your many talents is the ability to give so much worth so little…what I mean is, you make it so easy to understand, and yet I feel I’ve just climbed 5 steps up the ladder! I have a significant new competency and my brain doesn’t even hurt. BLESS YOU!
Bach: The Goldberg Variations ? Fugue and Preludes, 30 pieces, Stunningly beautiful and the piano lesson to end all piano lessons, from the master.
Muchas gracias Aimee, compré la partitura, es la primera vez que encuentro algo tan completo, Felicitaciones y gracias!
Bought the pdf, I’m now on my way to learning the changes in a much interesting fashion now, thanks to Aimee.
I'm looking forward to reaching the point where I can fully grasp these chords. They sound great.
Almost a year ago, I bought your drill, and I still use it. I learnt that I did not knew all these chords really well, and the drill also worked to me like a self-test. It is a versatile drill that can be adapted with ease to practice other voicings.
Are you able to play lots of them from memory yet?
@@AimeeNolte Certainly! And what I found really useful is to really know what key is the fifth or fourth of some other without thinking too much. From that is easy to add or subtract steps to form other chords.
For far too many years, this self-taught key-basher has been in the Irvin Berlin school of playing everything in C maj and A min, using the transpose function on the digital piano and I am trapped there. I've purchased your guide and promise to do my utmost thoroughly to get to grips with it. Thanks, Aimee!
I'm a drummer and produce occasionally jazzy house tracks. I bought the pdf and am going to add this to my daily practice routine on the piano 🙏
Aimee, this is taking so long! I absolutely am so determined to do it. Your brilliant and so is your student that put it together. Wish you were here! 👏😊🙏🏻
Ok just what I was looking for, I think you inspired to me to practice and I will try to figure out the 15 and 3 7 or 7 3 on my own. Thank you both!
Wonderful lesson Aimee!!! I've been playing piano since I was like 14, started out with classical then been playing for my church since I was abt 17, I'm now 29 and it's been a couple years since I've lost my drive to practice. I've always wanted to learn jazz and I've started a few times and stopped butttt during the lock down I had no excuses so I started jazz and noww I'm back to being as eager to practice as my earlier years. You videos hv been and continue to be a a great help to me on my jazz journey. This exercise is priceless and will help me alot! Thanks to Ian and Thank you!!! God bless you
I'm guessing "Ian" :)
@@musicfromhenjo3692 thanx for the spelling :)
As a guitarist your channel has been extremely helpful! Keep crushhhhn!
Thank you for this lesson Aimee and Ian for the idea! I love the fact that you are open to learn from your students and believe that is what makes you such a great teacher as well! :)
Really good Lesson. It makes me think about Pat Metheny's words. He always practise "Autumn Leaves" in every keys.
On the guitar all the keys are pretty much the same. Just move up or down the fretboard. Not so with the piano.
@@frankmarsh1159 wtf.
@@newagain9964 I agree with Frank Marsh´s point about it being more difficult on piano. You need to do a mental reset for every key on the piano, because of the layout of the keyboard, or as I once heard my piano teacher say
"the topography of the piano".
Love it !
This lesson is blowing me away.. There's no pure Phrygian(!) You go Dorian - Mixolydian - Ionian - Lydian - Locrian - then an altered Phrygian - and Aeolian.. WOW!! And I get it now: The Phrygian is altered to a dominant 7 (!major 3rd!) chord for it to become a new 5th chord to the new 1 chord (Aeolian.. Minor).. WOW! Craziness... Thank you.
ps: your singing @5:55 (especially in C) is sublime and blissful. 8~D
Ha!! I never knew that the IV chord is commonly used as a pivot chord to the relative minor key! I never knew it was called a pivot chord! This explains Autumn Leaves to me - finally!!! It explains Fly Me to the Moon - finally!!! That IV chord is a chord that is common to both keys!!! Departure chord, a vehicle to take us to the relative minor. I'm an aspiring jazz walking bass player, and this just exploded this well-kept secret to me!! Thank you.
Check out one more video I have called “Lessons I Learned From Adele” and I think it will fill in even more gaps! 🙌🏼
Aimee you’re a great pianist, an even better teacher, and as a person, you only go up from there! Thx for this lil bit of motivation. Thanks to Ian too!
I got your pdf. I played it. Melodic exercise is very hard to complete. The song allures me to
experiment with sound. 10+ stars. thank you
Holy cow... just charted it out in irealpro and noticed that if you repeat the first chord of each line (the five of the relative minor chord at the end) as a half diminished chord it's the V of the first chord of the next line (plus you now have 2 of each half diminished chord so #symmetry). This exercise is the Russian nesting doll of II-V's. Blew my mind nine different times as I charted it and saw the big picture coming together. I love this!
I do the same thing but with dominant 7ths or sometimes altered dominant 7ths rather than half-diminished.
@@hardinmichael1981 That's interesting! I'm going to try that. I'm not very well versed in the use of altered chords.
@@brandonsmith553 At first just experiment with one alteration at a time - either a raised or lowered 5th or a raised or lowered 9th.
@@hardinmichael1981 I'll do that, thank you!
Just terrific. I’m now going to see if I can put it into practice!
Gosh, Amy. What a gift. 🙏. Thank you so much.
Thankyou and Ian. Purchased the pdf. Looking forward to practicing these and learning them well.
I haven't played for perhaps years and the 2 teachers I had never taught anything but how to read music. FINALLY I'm learning so much more via RUclips channels like this one.
Thankyou! THANKYOU!!
So soothing when she sings also "ba tha tha da ..." very nice indeed. I'm damn purchasing this. Rarely like to purchase something without huge research cos a lot of recycled information out there at different prices. This intuitively is absolutely worth it. Buying for my son who's is 14, don't know any musical theory but damn can just play amazingly hence last year I couldn't play the piano or thought in my life I'd be grade 3 standard. I did it to help my son with theory but when he does his own music he just goes off. His singing teacher say he's a genius and doesn't even know it. The piano is a throw away, out of tune but sounds so good when he plays. This chord guide will help him. Thank you so much for something immeasurably invaluable and affordable.
Your voice alone gives me enough encouragement to learn chords, beautiful!
This is a wonderfully enlightening video, and I am so glad I found it and you. Even if the video was half as informative, I'd still come back just to hear your lovely singing voice ❤ Thank you for sharing. As a great man once said, I'll be back! 😊
Very nice . Your knowledge of chord structure is superb. I studied structure for many years until one day I decided that I knew chords in all positions! That was quite sometime ago. Watching you makes me want to refresh my once obsession with chord structure.
Again your are very knowledgeable and talented!
Superb - crystal clear, beautifully crafted, illustrated, demonstrated - and the joy and comfort of a 'human error' - or what one might call the 'jazz of non-order'. As a fellow music educator - terrific!!!! Thank you v much.
It was tempting to download the lesson, but thank you for encouraging us to listen and feel for the shapes. Great for ear training too. About four keys into it, the sound is getting in my ear and I find myself listening and feeling for sounds. Very exciting.
This is the lesson that I need. I.m getting good at playing in C.
But there are 12 keys
@@paxwallacejazz kodaly doesn't care
Great study! I've already applied it to several tunes. Made the changes more logical. It works with tritone substitutions too. Thanks for the eye opener!!!
Absolutely magical vlog. Gorgeous piano as well. Cheers..Dieter
Such a great video, Aimee! I've returned to it several times and use it regularly to help learn chords in the less familiar keys. It's like a capsule summary of basic jazz harmony, and the ideas in it have helped me be able to start playing some standards by ear, or from a lead sheet -- something that I never in a million years thought would be possible. Thank you (and Ian!)!!
Say the names of the chords as you play them as well! This will keep the chord shapes associated with the names instead of just learning the shapes by themselves.
So important this one. Too easy to drop into rote practice. Thx for the reminder!
I agree. Weird how it kind of changes things in ones mind and is very beneficial for me
@JK COVINGTON Thank you! I channeled my inner Bob Crane for it!
Say it n play it! I teach this a lot. In fact singing it is even better!
Can I sing them? Can they be the words to the melody?
(Thank you Ian) ♦️
Aimee, you are the best. Thank you so much for all you do!
5:36 I love sinking into each chord, not worrying about the tempo. Sometimes I play a chord a few times to let it sink in. :)
Best chord exercise I've come across. It opens up my adaptivity to certain chord changes and chord structures in a way that I've never experienced before. So simple and elegant. Ian is a genius. Regarding the exercise, I'd even go as far as to make the very last chord alternate from minor to major, acting as the dominant 7 to the first chord in the exercise (e.g. the last 4 chords can be: Bm7b5 - E7 | Am7 - A7... going back into the Dmin7)
Yes, I think the A7 is a secondary dominant, the V of the ii chord, or V/ii (A7 - Dm7), a strong dom chord pull to the Dm7.
@@maurocaputi2700so that would be used if you wanted to practice say that whole first line over and over, going from the Amin to A7 leads back to the first chord -Dmin ?
Give Ian a 🎖! Incredible breakdown. Some Children are really here to set it straight. 🙏🏾✊🏾
Oppps, of all your vids THIS one is my favorite!
I love your lessons. God bless you and keep you safe for many years to come..
Thanks for the PDF, Aimee. It looks like a great warm-up exercise: good for fingers, good for the brain.
Thank you Aimee!!! This is also very useful for my Trumpet practice!!!
Well I took about a week and a half,,,, ....I went thru all the chords...Nice excercise ! Thank you
Thank you so much Aimee - and Ian - for this. It is exactly what I have been looking for. And yes, Aimee, I promise that I will use it without the sheets, but... as a beginner, I need the sheets to 'get me off the ground' in the first place. (And thank you to George Higgins for the suggestion about naming the chords as I play.) These progressions reinforce the 2-5-1 sequence and the 4th as a means to making the move. I believe that once I have these in my fingers the world of lead sheets will open up for me as well as allowing me to accompany the songs that I want to sing (for myself you understand, I'm not going to inflict it on others.) Thanks again Aimee for putting this lesson together for us.
Love this melodic exercise to help me practice! Thank you Aimee & Ian.
Excellent video on jazz chords Aimee. 1-5 with the left hand and 7-3 or 3-7 with the right. The chord progression sounds beautiful and it is a great way to learn finger positioning quickly. Awesome. Thanks.
I am not a musician but I love to hear all the beautiful musical sounds. I also enjoy the process of learning as students and teachers can explore together and have a give and take where both get great benefit. You and Ian have such great meekness and the result is a great new discovery of a beautiful method to excel. Thanks Aimee and Ian
You are such an amazing teacher! Greetings from Brazil!
Aimee. Thank for this valuable excercise. I send you a big hug..
I was looking for something like that. And it sounds good, which makes practicing much easier.
Had the same idea many years ago, led to creating ‘technique’ songs, where I based everything arranged around one or two particular techniques. Worked well, bc as I was exploring the idea of the technique, I became familiar with it within different contexts, but also by proxy, practice the technique. Oddly, never thought to do one with chords as I’ve always been exploring them, but I’m going to dig into this...thanks!
Thank you also Ian! Brilliant. Keep that spirit!
Thanks Aimee, you inspire me to do the same on the guitar. I'll practice these on piano too!
Last week I finally decided to start learning keys properly, after playing guitar and bass for years. I have always been able to mess around with synth melodies but never been able to sit at a piano and play a song, on its own.
Think this is going to be my new daily practice, along side learning songs and practicing my ear training 🙂
This is such a valuable exercise! Thank you ❤️
Same same same!
this was really something... thank you so much
Coincidentally, the Ab minor 7 is one of the first 7th chords I learned and can nail it in any spot in any inversion. I found that interesting. Otherwise, I am a complete and utter novice in every other regard.
By the way, it is hauntingly beautiful how you sing that melody.
Very nice exercise, completely applicable to guitar (I do not play piano). I always try doing the same - convert an exercise into a song, or at least something more creative and less mechanical.
I love this. I found it through Mark Baxter!! Thankyou! Makes so much sense
But still need to take a lot more time to take it all in.
As a singer I’ve been interested in chord progressions esp in jazz but didn’t know where to start (on my own)and this has helped a lot. Whoo hoo!!! 👏 Thankyou 🎶
Practicing chords in cycles is the bread and butter of learning jazz comping. Then what helped me was when doing mindless things like cardio at the gym or driving somewhere I would just drill myself on chords spelling just like a kid drills times tables to learn them. Amy's advice on seeing, hearing, and saying to yourself the name of the chords when doing your tune/exercise is key building the ear, brain, hand connection.
Then time to work on voicing leading and Drop 2's to build on your tune/exercise.
What i did as a 20 something back in the 70s was to do flash cards on intervals, and if you know that, everything falls into place. In the key f , what is the 4th, in the key of F, what is the 5th, and onward to all of them. I did that every day until had them mastered.
One they had us do in music school and I did outside of school to was pick a note and say what it is in all keys. So F is tonic of F, F is the 7 of G, F is the 3 of Db and so on. Helps see all the possibilities a note offers. Lots of ways to drill this stuff into your brain.
@@DojoOfCool A is the two of G, F is the 7 of G? Cool way to think about a chords purpose though. Thanks for sharing.
i can’t even tell you how happy i am to have stumbled onto your tut. bought your sheet music. so awesome. thanks.
Aimee, this is a brilliant exercise, thank you.
I love this so much😭. I’ve been practicing the spread chord voicings diatonically which is okay but I find it takes longer to remember the individual chord shapes that way. And quite honestly makes it difficult to connect them musically. Thank you so much for this🙏
Heading off to practice in about five minutes. This will be a fresh and fun addition to the usual scales and arpeggios...
This video is awesome. Just ran through all the chords on my guitar. My brain is aching. Thanks!
I already knew when I was trying to figure out shortcuts of playing with chords. Nice for memory.
Also you have very beautiful voice quality
& Playing style & fingers on keyboard superb....
Lovely way explained
Thanks fully Blessings
Yes, Ian’s idea is so wonderful and prescient. I will try your lovely chord song from his idea Aimee. I’ve been playing a while too and I feel like the more I know, the more I constantly realise I don’t know! Things like this really help as they don’t leave any keys languishing in the dark
"Prescient"??
@Michael Spivak Music Use single arithmethic's to translate the model in each tonality :D i mean that's easy, but of course your idea is too good! :D
“The more I know ,the more I realize I don’t know”.Sums up this site perfectly.Thanks yet again Aimee
Hi Aimee. My name is Ron. Love this exercise. Super clear. I'm a Jazz guitarist and a wannabe piano player. I recently talked to a classical pianist who wanted to lock in all the chords as a jazz player would. I came up with this idea for him. Play Jeepers Creepers starting on a 2 chord in root position, then a 5 chord root position then a 1 chord maj 7 root position, then a
1 chord as a 6th. Now the 6 chord should be reharmonised into a new 2 chord in root position and on and on. Of course naming each one will help. This will take a person through half of all 2 5 1 chords. I like yours better but Jeepers Creepers is easy to remember as a start. So I call it my Jeepers Creepers exercise. Call it yours if you find anything in it you like. Best Ron
Be fun to throw in a couple of tritone substitutions to get used to using them. Dflat13 for G7 and Bflat13 for E7 (in the key of C). I also like to write it out as Roman numerals which forces me to learn the relationships of the chords to the tonic. Thanks for all your great videos Aimee 🙂
Her: at 1:58, 6 times 7 is 63.
Me: um...... uh........ *OCD intensifies* (murmurs... it's 42)
jk.... I just wanna say, you're my Jazz go to teacher. I learned so much from you. Thank you, You're the best.
Maybe she was thinking "9" and said "6" instead? 😅
I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER
I can't remember facts somehow. My memory is that bad
i’m so happy i found your channel. this exercise is lovely and so so effective! thank you!
Thank you so much Aimee. I appreciate all your amazing videos you put here for us to understand jazz. I hope to meet you in person one day ha ha
AWESOME LESSONS! YOU ARE SIMPLY TERRIFFIC! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!
This is a fantastic idea. For a more restricted similar exercise for a more junior player, just doing some version where we take four or five of the chords from this list and play around with them until we know them all is a good way to build up towards being able to play something more advanced like this exercise.
I sit down all the time and try to figure out interesting things to do with chords and melodic lines, and the nice thing is that every time I find something that sounds good, I find that also, I hadn't yet learned some bit of theory that names the thing I just found.
Really amazing dear Aimee. Thanks for share your magic gift. I'll practice step by step. Congratulations for this clear and evidente explanation. God bless you. Yo