Footprints For Solo Piano (subtítulos disponibles en español) 

As a bass player I really appreciate your break down of the chord sequences used in this Wayne Shorter classic. It helps me to better replicate Reggie Workman's double bass solo in the original recording of Footprints from Wayne's 1966 Adam's Apple LP on Blue Note. Good job! 👍

Excellent, excellent arrangement of Footprints. When I was teaching piano I had just a handful of students who were interested in jazz and I wrote out several arrangements for them. If I was still teaching I would definitely want your transcription to share with them.

I had a lot of trouble with polyrhythm, esp with Chopin. Used to scrawl vertical lines trying to coordinate the woozy relationship between left and right hands. The workaround I stumbled across, to use your 5 over 3 (Footprints) as an example, is not to see it as a run of five, but a run of 6, which ends on the middle C. In other words, the destination note is the one that I use to determine the length of the preceeding notes, and the mental instruction becomes to get there in an elastic/ smooth/ liquid way, while putting the left hand on deliberate autopilot. It works.

Altered dominant usually means b9 #9 #11 b13 from the scale of the 7th degree of the melodic minor scale ascending. The F7 with the G triad upper structure and similar E7 chord come from the 4th degree of the melodic minor ascending. The scales are usually referred to as Lydian b7 or Mixolydian # 4. I’ve never heard a name for that chord except for stating the extensions as opposed to the “altered” chord . This is what I have seen as common oractice in many books and curriculum.

I think your song breakdowns are fantastic! You always get the correct chords. I don't play piano but your videos are really useful for guitarists and bassists too. Thank you for all the great work you continue to do in jazz education :)

Rest in Peace Mr. Shorter.

So finally I get it! I'm an intermediate amateur piano player. Last year I dowloaded the Real Book Footprints...but I realized it was wrong! 3/4 instead of 6/4...and D7 and Db7 chords etc ... and when recently I played in a jam I was unconfortable!!....but this morning I found this precious tutorial!.... thank you very much Aimee!

This is a great lesson....it has given me more options and voicings to use on guitar . Thank you

This marvelous tutorial helped me a great deal to approach a wonderful tune

Found your Footprints lesson on your website and followed to your RU-vid channel. What a great teacher you are. Thank you.

Incredible! This is one of my all-time favorite songs and I play it on every gig but it doesn't sound like this. Thank you so much for breaking down this song for me and demistifying the turnaround chords. You're a beautiful piano player.

Thank you!!! The tips for the last four bars opened up so many options for playing it and still having it sound good!

Sitting at my piano practicing your lesson about memorising a tune and Aimee, you pop up with another great lesson! I'm concentrating on memorising Autumn Leaves as it's winter in New Zealand and lots of gold leaves around. Plus it's a standard!

The ostinato you play in the bass works, but on Wayne Shorter's recording, it ascends C, G, C, Eb, spanning a minor tenth, but there is a subtle change when the progression goes to the Fm chord, where it becomes C, F, C, Eb.

Block chords are a gateway drug to Drop 2 voicings, so I tried that here with useful results.

Thank you very much for your piano lessons here on youtube ... A hug here from Brazil !!

True... The Realbook D7> Db7 ending is wrong. Therefore. . Congratulations for the F#mb5/7- B7alt > Εmb5/7- Α7alt turnaround. Shorter has confirmed this years ago..

Awesome, easy to understand. Thanx a lot

Wow, this was very helpful. Thank you so much.

Thank you !

Wow!!! Just the other day i was going to put in a request for this piece. You are truly psychic. Thanks for doing this.

this sounds great, Aimee. I knew the D7 and Db7 in my Real Book were wrong, but I couldn't figure out what they were playing on the record. Now I know.

Miles Smiles - 1966 features my favorite rendition of 'Footprints'.

Great vid! Such a beautiful song. The D9 vs F#m-5 is really only a distinction for the bass line. I'm not sure I would call that incorrect. The bass playing the third on a dominant chord is fairly common.

Awesome dissonance...... I love it omg

Awesome

Mil gracias. Aprecio que tengas los subtítulos en español. Saludos desde Argentina

great video, fun and challenging to learn for me. hardest part i find is coordinating the left and right hand to get that polyrhythm thing going.

Aimee, I love your channel. I've not seen a natural nine and natural 6 used with Alt chords. It DOES sound good, though. I use your chords as given and a revised version with #5 and #9. Thanks for the great content! BTW, your ear is scary good!

very lovely. That bass line is real nice.

Very Inspirational, Thanks.

Do you think you could make a video about jazz sequencing during solos? I'm having a trouble with creating sequences that are interesting and don't when to input them during solos.

Hey Aimee, another fabby helpful and generous lesson! Thank you. A little advice on pedalling the head would be helpful too!

Awesome player & teacher. I saw Wayne Shorter in 1978 and loved his approach to playing and composing with Weather Report. Would be nice for you to cover Birdland or something aroung that era. You have so many ideas on this comp alone.

Nice chords Aimee . I use 6/9 chords on guitar

Thank you, Aimee!!!!

Nice tune! Looking forward to part 2.

That's soooo nice Amee! Now I long to be back home at my Steinway Grand Piano.

Muchas gracias maestra, excelente video!

Aimee I love what you do but just a few corrections the baseline on the second chord is uses the C baseline as a pedal point for the fminor chord.it doesn't change.its a common mistake.also the amin chord has a flat 13.great work though

Very nice!

another great vid from Aimee .

Just found your channel and i am amazed with your content, you are a very cool person and an amazing musician. I also love this tune, cant wait for part2! Thanks for your great videos! I want to let you know that i cried watching your performance of moon river, and i dont cry often while listening to music, last time was with Das Lied von der erde lol.

You're Very Smooth and Talented!

Very nice piece

You're doing really good. Love your videos!

Beautiful tune, nice teaching, especially the cheating thing :)

wonderful contribution thank you!!!

Lovely arrangement, top girl.

so nice. so inspirational! glorious. big thanks.

Altered chords. I am always marvelling at what the heck that means. I know my m7, M7, 9, 11, dim, halfdim, aug, but what the heck is "altered"??? PLease make a video about altered chords and the scales that go with them, and where they can be used ??

Great lesson, thank you

YES

Great lesson again Amy. Question? I’ve heard people describe ALT chords in different ways. I have heard some people describe it as Dom7 #5#9 or others describe it as dom 7 with a flat 5. I noticed your F7 Alt ( w upper structure triad G ) , u call an Alt chord. Is there a universal definition? Not that it’s important. In the end , I suppose we have to go with what sounds good and fits the harmony. Thanks again.

I think I just got interesting epiphany on the dorian scales: they are actually the same as the lydian scales on the parallel major. So if I play Cdorian, but start on the parallel major (Eb) I get Eb lydian. I think the dorian in Cminor actually inherits some of the brightness of the natural A (creating that augmented fourth from the Eb). So to me the dorian actually has the same "bright" feel especially when I am playing centered around the third (Eb) or walking up from there. Am I wrong?

You have a gorgeous sounding piano. What kind is it? Like it better than Steinways!

Hey Amy, would you explain the harmony for using the sharp 11 where i would expect the "v" in the minor blues of i, iv, v.

Thaaaank you !!!!

Aimee, think I understand in the turnaround section why Emaj triad works over F#-7b5 (5th degree triad of A melodic minor), and why Ebmaj triad works over A7alt (tritone sub), but I was wondering how you get G major as an extension over F7alt, and Gb major as an extension of E7alt? I can hear it sound cool when you play it. I'm just wondering how you came to that.

Great lesson!! Thanks!!

Sounds like a brass arrangement!

great video

Good, i needed !

Hey Aimee! I was just wondering what you meant by "altered chord". I know the altered scale, and I'm guessing they're linked, but I really don't know what an altered chord is. Thanks!

Thank you Aimee, so you played G#m7911NR over E7? is that right?

Brilliant!!!

5:20 f.. me sideways these voicings look (and sound) SOOO much like Debussy. I think I am gonna have to buy that work sheet you made,. 12:50 except here Debussy would have left out the C# or made it C natural- I think there are a few too many (small second) dissonance in the center for my old ass taste. Love the top 2 voicings of these altered chords though. Would you say it's also okay to stick to "ne quid nimis?" and approach altered chords a little more like shells to avoid making them too thick?

When it gets to Fm, the bass line is C-F-Bb-Eb. I don't think it simply goes up a 4th like you're doing it...it stays on the C. Check it out babe!

Sought this out after listening to Matteo Mancuso's OUTSTANDING cover of the tune (channeling Captain Fingers...) just released: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HrOfLmQgROc.html This kid is something special... Of course, Aimee is too!

funny thing...these people trying to make money out of _youtube_ .... _ they get some subs_ (nice), they get _likes_ (nice), people _post comments_ how nice, you try to learn something...._cool_ right? but the best part is...you ask something AND you never ever get a reply to your questions! I understand you young people trying to learn music.