As a classical piano player, having searched A LOT of jazz tutorials in youtube i can say that yours are the most in depth , useful , and not dumed out out there . Please keep up the good work !
Damn AIMS. MY dad was a bandleader. I grew up w this song. I have listened to your version at least 100 times. I will get out to see you live one of these days!! When I do - gonna BEG you to play it. Love you! You’re the best maestro.
These were the shortest 26 minutes of my life. With a masterpiece, a super master class in just 26 minutes. Thank u Aimee, you are an amazing musician and teacher
Thanks Aimee. It’s an easy and kool way to approach to any Tune. By the way…I’m putting it together also on Someday my Prince will come. Is the same concept!
I just to know why it has taken me this long to meet you but all I know is the time is right! I just cant say enough of how much i love your teaching. Thank you so so much, I love your heart and approach to this teaching!
She just makes people better musicians, period. Every lesson is a practical theory exercise! One of the things that endlessly annoys me about so much guitar "instruction" video out there is that it's all "play this string at this fret" and often they don't even name the notes, much less explain WHY those notes. That's not even music, IMO, that's just rote. Aimee teaches MUSIC and not just the what, but the why as well, in both simple and super deep forms. Aimee talks about chords and keys and progressions and cadences and 2-5-1s and 3rds and 6ths, and we all end up the smarter for it!
Yes you weren’t kidding I’m already sub to Jen L it’s great, I just checked out Rick B last night it’s Awesome. You know years ago how much $ would we be paying for all this musical knowledge theory & how to apply it, I try not to forget that and am always so appreciative of the fine musicians!
Thank you all for those comments. I’m so glad to help out and help you to see music for what it is...a lot of elements coming together to make something meaningful.
Thanks so much for that little term "pistol fingers"! So fun and a clever way to remember how to actually fill the space. I've been analyzing a Chicago pianist named Jeremy Khan and he plays so animatedly that it can get hard to keep up, but now I'll listen for the "pistol fingers" moments.
I’ve been struggling with getting an authentic jazz rhythm. Now I can see you do it with the right and left hand together (I imagine there’s a way to replicate it with the left hand only, eventually.) Very clear explanation. Thank you!
I love how naturally playing solo comes for piano. Us guitarists can only try to emulate the way the two hands of a pianist interact by alternating comping and melodies.
Guitar is a great instrument as well, but so completely different. Standard notation just doesn’t fit it, etc. As a teenager, I wanted to learn guitar, thought piano wasn’t cool enough, but I eventually gravitated back to piano.
Nicely done! and I like your singing too ): I sat 5 feet away from toots in NY circa...god knows how long ago that was. But I agree with you about the middle section and i wrote that section into a lead sheet for a septet in my final year of school 25 years ago!!!! Played trombone back then but taught myself piano and that is all I do now. You are def multi talented. great stuff
I really like Aimee. She is an excellemt teacher and an incredible musician but she says things as if we're expected to be able to play as effortlessly as she does. The truth is unless you have the underpinnings that she has all of this is an exercise in futility! She states that this lesson is geared towards advanced beginners. Wow, then I will never reach intermediate. It's interesting though because I understand a lot of what she says but she is thinking and playing on a level that is way beyond where I am. Despite all of the criticism I wish that I had her as a personal teacher!
Wow! Great vocals jazz cat! I always enjoy your videos Aimee, and as a pianist and drummer of over 45 years I still learn something new every day. My ethic is this; an amateur practices until they get it right, a professional practices until they never get it wrong. Thanks again for your tutelage and dedication.
Learned this song, but I wasn't small when I did. My piano teacher was a beautiful session musician who played with some well-known vocalists, and he always presumed I had more talent than I do, which was great for my ego, but didn't do much for the music. This lesson added a lot of animation to the rigid, stilted way I plod through this song, that love, too. I'm off to "relearn" it now. Took me a month the first time...be back in a month ;) Thanks so much for putting so much real musical value out there for us.
I don't even have the words how this helped me, you really got me into jazz piano You make things so simple thank you really really really much Hoping you're staying safe A new student of jazz
Great video, sound and video just right. I only wish you had ended with playing the whole thing through without comments, just for the joy of hearing it. Thank you Aimee!
Just wanted to come back to this and thank you for introducing me to bluesette. Definitely one of my all time favourite songs. I've now picked up chromatic harmonica and think toots is fire!!
I'm really appreciating this video. I'm still watching it bits at a time because I'm taking notes and practicing as I go. Nice nuggets of info on how to arrange different time signatures. I'm just at the 4/4 time now in the video. These types of tutorials is just what I'm looking for right now.
Oh my gosh, Aimee, I'm trying so hard to figure out how to write piano parts for choral arrangements and I saw that video--it was wonderful!--but this helps too, SO much! I love your videos. Thank you so much!
25:10. Me too :) Either that or a m7 a 4th below. In this case, Cm7/F. I think the reason it works is because it's got a "quartal vibe" to it. Same with the F in the melody over the Cm7 that you have near the end of the A section (bar 19). When you think of it Cm7/F is an inverted quartal chord : G-C-F-Bb-Eb. 4 stacked fourths.
my own findings with Bluesette are:I V II V to impose over the Bbmaj7, and to use II V + II V (Tritone ) for instance: instead of Am7b5 D7 : Am7b5 D7 Ebm7-Ab7(this clashes a bit with the melodie, so better during solo's) or at Cm7 F7 one bar Cm7 F7 next F#m7 B7, it gets more complex but also is nice edge to it and a realy two weeks off off the street to master it for me (two month piece in the street, and happy faces!)
Very helpful, as always. Thanks. I liked that you spoke about and demonstrated some fingering details. It would be great if you could talk more about that in the future. It would help a lot of us who play by ear and haven't had many (or any) formal lessons covering good fingering. Sometimes we get stuck playing a part and our fingers ar just not in position to play what comes next. Perhaps you could talk about playing scales, triads in different inversions, 4 note chords, arpeggios, parallel 3rds or 6ths, using both hands for the same phrase or any other helpful tips.
This video's intro is brilliantly succinct and relevant. I've become a quick fan of your teaching style and personality expressed through your music. Awesome job!
I love your videos Aimee! I'm learning a ton of jazz off your channel and it's so great to get a real life lesson in a video. Such a pleasure to learn from!
At 13 or 14 I was pulled into the jazz band run by my middle school concert band director to play bari sax. I started to attend his jazz gigs around town so that's where I 1st heard this tune. You weren't born yet I think. The light sophisticated swing of a jazz waltz with clearly defined modulation always sounded so cool literally. Enjoyed this. I have discovered I am in the minority but walking a waltz kinda defuses the sensibility of it to me like getting too heavy handed with a bossa.
Very Good Aimee! you are not just playing it, but make it sound like music and like Yours! that's the way also the other day you played25 's that everybody wanna hear than you sang a Friend, and than I remembered that you answered my e-mails and I understood: Yes, you are a friend!
I love your emails. I hope to be able to play a couple of tunes on the piano,I’ve just started as an old man so I don’t expect much. I like how you revue vocalists and explain what they are doing with the Melodie’s and chords. I just discovered a singer guitarist named Eva Cassidy. Check out her autumn leaves,and over the rainbow.
Tank you Aimee !, i’m learning english, i’m learning jazz piano, i’m learning jazz vocal, whis you. I’m from Paris and i was looking for a coach vocal. Now, i find !!! I was a classical professionnal pianist. Really, thanks for your all videos.
How about some gear lust. Check out how David Walliman (a guitar teacher) has set up his recording rig. ruclips.net/video/uBbmhuxglIU/видео.html He claims it has cut his editing time by 70%. So he can spend more time on the material being presented. BTW I am a guitarist and still I benefit from your lessons a lot.
I am not a great fan of Bluesette. So I turned to Skating in Central Park by John Lewis to practice your method : pinky / pistol+rhythm Very effective even if I do not have your talents. Thank you What about 4 béat music ?
As a classical piano player, having searched A LOT of jazz tutorials in youtube i can say that yours are the most in depth , useful , and not dumed out out there . Please keep up the good work !
Thank you so much.
She together with Kent Hewitt indeed
Damn AIMS.
MY dad was a bandleader. I grew up w this song. I have listened to your version at least 100 times. I will get out to see you live one of these days!! When I do - gonna BEG you to play it.
Love you! You’re the best maestro.
These were the shortest 26 minutes of my life. With a masterpiece, a super master class in just 26 minutes. Thank u Aimee, you are an amazing musician and teacher
Thanks Aimee. It’s an easy and kool way to approach to any Tune.
By the way…I’m putting it together also on Someday my Prince will come. Is the same concept!
You are beautiful and excellent teacher. You are perfect.
You've given me new ideas to combine my two hands in your example "Bluesette". There's rhythm in your 3/4!!!
I just to know why it has taken me this long to meet you but all I know is the time is right! I just cant say enough of how much i love your teaching. Thank you so so much, I love your heart and approach to this teaching!
What a great artist are you 👏👏👏
I feel like I just heard an angel sing, I'm hypnotized
This is a terrific tutorial Aimee. You are the best. Thank you very much.
I play the guitar but I always watch your videos because I learn so much every time, thank you so much for the content
Yes. She has made me a better guitar player as well.
She just makes people better musicians, period. Every lesson is a practical theory exercise! One of the things that endlessly annoys me about so much guitar "instruction" video out there is that it's all "play this string at this fret" and often they don't even name the notes, much less explain WHY those notes. That's not even music, IMO, that's just rote. Aimee teaches MUSIC and not just the what, but the why as well, in both simple and super deep forms. Aimee talks about chords and keys and progressions and cadences and 2-5-1s and 3rds and 6ths, and we all end up the smarter for it!
Depending upon your level of musicianship and style of playing two other great RUclips channels are Jens Larsen and RicK Beato.
Yes you weren’t kidding I’m already sub to Jen L it’s great, I just checked out Rick B last night it’s Awesome. You know years ago how much $ would we be paying for all this musical knowledge theory & how to apply it, I try not to forget that and am always so appreciative of the fine musicians!
Thank you all for those comments. I’m so glad to help out and help you to see music for what it is...a lot of elements coming together to make something meaningful.
Thanks so much for that little term "pistol fingers"! So fun and a clever way to remember how to actually fill the space. I've been analyzing a Chicago pianist named Jeremy Khan and he plays so animatedly that it can get hard to keep up, but now I'll listen for the "pistol fingers" moments.
Also he sounds like he has pistol fingers in both hands.... Life goals...
I think I am finally getting it. It's not about the instrument. It's about the music.
I’ve been struggling with getting an authentic jazz rhythm. Now I can see you do it with the right and left hand together (I imagine there’s a way to replicate it with the left hand only, eventually.)
Very clear explanation. Thank you!
I came across your video accidentally with autoplay on. Great sense of humor and of course excellent teaching method! I'm a teacher myself.
30 seconds in and already feel like this is the video I've always been waiting for
yes finally ! i was searching for a tutorial like this for ever ...
even asked a lot of piano players in my city ,no one helped .
thanks alot
Woot woot! 🎉
I'd love more of these videos for solo jazz standards instead of comping!
You're such a great singer and pianist, i love your voice
Your voice is ideally suited to sing jazz and you’re really good on keys too. 🔥
Hi Aimee. I can't enough of your singing and playing Bluesette. WOW!!!
I like your explain things well you have a good sense of humor
One of my favorite songs. Great rendition. This is why I love music so much.
You are brilliant as a teacher, very engaging, easy to understand...truly a gift God gave you!
Thank you so much
Love Toots. And this lesson.
I love how naturally playing solo comes for piano. Us guitarists can only try to emulate the way the two hands of a pianist interact by alternating comping and melodies.
Guitar is a great instrument as well, but so completely different. Standard notation just doesn’t fit it, etc. As a teenager, I wanted to learn guitar, thought piano wasn’t cool enough, but I eventually gravitated back to piano.
chord melody gutar guy hear, we can learn a lot from Aimee
I thank god, that there is Aimee!
Me too
Nicely done! and I like your singing too ): I sat 5 feet away from toots in NY circa...god knows how long ago that was. But I agree with you about the middle section and i wrote that section into a lead sheet for a septet in my final year of school 25 years ago!!!! Played trombone back then but taught myself piano and that is all I do now. You are def multi talented. great stuff
You're the coolest (and best) jazz teacher I know! Someday I want to do as much good in the world as you do!
I really like Aimee. She is an excellemt teacher and an incredible musician but she says things as if we're expected to be able to play as effortlessly as she does. The truth is unless you have the underpinnings that she has all of this is an exercise in futility! She states that this lesson is geared towards advanced beginners. Wow, then I will never reach intermediate. It's interesting though because I understand a lot of what she says but she is thinking and playing on a level that is way beyond where I am. Despite all of the criticism I wish that I had her as a personal teacher!
I think that you should start with my playlist called, “how to accompany yourself. “It might be really helpful. I’m sorry you have felt frustrated.
What a beautiful voice omg
Wow! Great vocals jazz cat! I always enjoy your videos Aimee, and as a pianist and drummer of over 45 years I still learn something new every day.
My ethic is this; an amateur practices until they get it right, a professional practices until they never get it wrong.
Thanks again for your tutelage and dedication.
Beautiful demonstration and vocal. Count me in.
Learned this song, but I wasn't small when I did. My piano teacher was a beautiful session musician who played with some well-known vocalists, and he always presumed I had more talent than I do, which was great for my ego, but didn't do much for the music. This lesson added a lot of animation to the rigid, stilted way I plod through this song, that love, too. I'm off to "relearn" it now. Took me a month the first time...be back in a month ;) Thanks so much for putting so much real musical value out there for us.
I don't even have the words how this helped me, you really got me into jazz piano
You make things so simple thank you really really really much
Hoping you're staying safe
A new student of jazz
thanks. one of my favorite jazz tunes. began jazz piano with your videos. sloooowly coming along. guitar and uke are where I'm coming from.
Great video, sound and video just right. I only wish you had ended with playing the whole thing through without comments, just for the joy of hearing it. Thank you Aimee!
This is wonderful Amy. Thank you.
Que Bello y Hermoso aporte al Jazz Dios Padre me dà a través tuyo Aime. Saludos desde Cochabamba Bolivia
Great info and performance!
Your have a beautiful voice!!!..I love this song!!!
You are my queen thats it!! thanks!!!!
just love this kind of lesson .. really don't think i could this anywhere else on the internet .. or from any book I've got. thanks
Just wanted to come back to this and thank you for introducing me to bluesette. Definitely one of my all time favourite songs. I've now picked up chromatic harmonica and think toots is fire!!
Perfectly explained. Thanks a lot!
You have such a wonderful way of sharing music, Amy! I really dig your style and approach.
Aimee, please make a studio version of Bluesette! Its so beautiful!
One of my favourite tunes
You´re amazing Aimee.
Thank you! so much
This is gold. A few years ago a teacher turned me on to Dave McKenna's "three handed" technique. I think that's sort of what she is describing....
I'm really appreciating this video. I'm still watching it bits at a time because I'm taking notes and practicing as I go. Nice nuggets of info on how to arrange different time signatures. I'm just at the 4/4 time now in the video. These types of tutorials is just what I'm looking for right now.
Thanks Rachel, for letting me know. Makes me happy!
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Oh my gosh, Aimee, I'm trying so hard to figure out how to write piano parts for choral arrangements and I saw that video--it was wonderful!--but this helps too, SO much! I love your videos. Thank you so much!
So glad!!
25:10. Me too :) Either that or a m7 a 4th below. In this case, Cm7/F.
I think the reason it works is because it's got a "quartal vibe" to it. Same with the F in the melody over the Cm7 that you have near the end of the A section (bar 19). When you think of it Cm7/F is an inverted quartal chord : G-C-F-Bb-Eb. 4 stacked fourths.
Thank you Aimee!!
Loved this Aimee! You've got two gold videos for me in one week! I love it when you take tunes and "parse" them out like this! Thanks so much!
Great tutorial Aimee...thanks 👌
Fascinating and again I'm in awe....thanks Amy
my own findings with Bluesette are:I V II V to impose over the Bbmaj7, and to use II V + II V (Tritone ) for instance: instead of Am7b5 D7 : Am7b5 D7 Ebm7-Ab7(this clashes a bit with the melodie, so better during solo's) or at Cm7 F7 one bar Cm7 F7 next F#m7 B7, it gets more complex but also is nice edge to it and a realy two weeks off off the street to master it for me (two month piece in the street, and happy faces!)
Great lesson of pedagogy
Saw the title of this video and almost cried 😂 thank you so much
Lovely. One of my favs as well.
Very helpful, as always. Thanks.
I liked that you spoke about and demonstrated some fingering details. It would be great if you could talk more about that in the future. It would help a lot of us who play by ear and haven't had many (or any) formal lessons covering good fingering. Sometimes we get stuck playing a part and our fingers ar just not in position to play what comes next. Perhaps you could talk about playing scales, triads in different inversions, 4 note chords, arpeggios, parallel 3rds or 6ths, using both hands for the same phrase or any other helpful tips.
Look at my Bebop Scale Fingering video, Iván
Bravo! Das ist Wunderschön!
This is a great lesson for my level. Thanks Aimee.
BEAUTIFUL VOICE !! GO FOR IT !!
"Toots" Toosie. Lovely.
great lesson Aimee! Thank you!
I think I know this piece it sounds so familiar !! Thank you Ms. Nolte
What a fantastic lesson! Thank you so much
This video's intro is brilliantly succinct and relevant. I've become a quick fan of your teaching style and personality expressed through your music. Awesome job!
🙏🏼😍
Took a lot home today, good job and Thank you.
Lovely 💖 Thank you got the information and your work!
I love your videos Aimee! I'm learning a ton of jazz off your channel and it's so great to get a real life lesson in a video. Such a pleasure to learn from!
At 13 or 14 I was pulled into the jazz band run by my middle school concert band director to play bari sax. I started to attend his jazz gigs around town so that's where I 1st heard this tune. You weren't born yet I think. The light sophisticated swing of a jazz waltz with clearly defined modulation always sounded so cool literally. Enjoyed this. I have discovered I am in the minority but walking a waltz kinda defuses the sensibility of it to me like getting too heavy handed with a bossa.
Thank you for an other great lesson! Nice new haircolor by the way. Have a marvels weekend.
Lol my hair is the same. Thanks tho, Bruno!
i can't explain you made me cry
this is exactly what i was looking for! you just keep making helpful videos one after another wow
Beautiful performance 🙂
cool class, well explained! Had not heard the full version for years. cheers!
Love your videos. Keep it up!
Very Good Aimee! you are not just playing it, but make it sound like music and like Yours! that's the way also the other day you played25 's that everybody wanna hear than you sang a Friend, and than I remembered that you answered my e-mails and I understood: Yes, you are a friend!
Nice! Thanks, Aimee.
Much appreciated Aimee, I like the method
YES AIMEE
I love your emails. I hope to be able to play a couple of tunes on the piano,I’ve just started as an old man so I don’t expect much. I like how you revue vocalists and explain what they are doing with the Melodie’s and chords. I just discovered a singer guitarist named Eva Cassidy. Check out her autumn leaves,and over the rainbow.
6:47 “You hear my wrist pop? That was amazing” hahaha
A thousand thanks for your explain
Tank you Aimee !, i’m learning english, i’m learning jazz piano, i’m learning jazz vocal, whis you. I’m from Paris and i was looking for a coach vocal. Now, i find !!! I was a classical professionnal pianist. Really, thanks for your all videos.
Hi Aimee, I’m a big fan. Measure 36 (Ab 7) should be an Eb not E nat. Love your approach!!
Thanks Amy! Love this sound and your feel.
Aimee is awesome! thanks for sharing your excellent teaching method!
I love the edits in this video. Thanks for that.
Took a long time. Thank you. :)
How about some gear lust. Check out how David Walliman (a guitar teacher) has set up his recording rig. ruclips.net/video/uBbmhuxglIU/видео.html
He claims it has cut his editing time by 70%. So he can spend more time on the material being presented.
BTW I am a guitarist and still I benefit from your lessons a lot.
Boy that’s cool. What a great set up! It’d set me back some serious $ but it would be so nice! Good to know about it. Thanks!
Great song. Curious: there is a lot of editing I notice. I wonder how many hours are devoted to produce 27 minutes? Hard work I bet!
Super! Very clever, wise, professional and positive lessons! Thanks much)))
Wooowwwww!!! Great job!! Thank you very much!!
I will try it!
I am not a great fan of Bluesette. So I turned to Skating in Central Park by John Lewis to practice your method : pinky / pistol+rhythm
Very effective even if I do not have your talents.
Thank you
What about 4 béat music ?
Ótima professora. I love it
This is sooo great! thank you
You voice is so lovely just touches my heart
This song was one of my requests during your last Live Stream. Cool! 😎
Thanks Aimee! Perfect tune to learn on a sunday ... wish me luck :P
Lovable. Thank you Aimee.
Almost scary how she ropes you in from the very start :)
That's awesome! Thank you for sharing this video.