You deserve a way bigger audience.. Your energy, enthusiasm and ability to translate the language of music as you teach has you in rarified atmosphere. ....In my humble opinion.
I like your teaching style Aimee! As a drummer that always wanted to play piano, I never really understood how to play funk on piano but the way you just explained it in this video resonated with the drummer in me and made sense to me maybe for the first time. I never thought about it this way. Thanks for giving me a place to start. I enjoy your videos.
I was just learning some funk chords from a different teacher, and the first I started doing when the rhythm got sticky was go back to tone 16th notes! Thanks Aimee!
thank you. this is The Key to everything! It's Exactly what I was trying to understand about groove, that it has opened up a whole new world in my listening and playing capabilities. Thank you for breaking it down, it is so helpful. I even share this video with my bandmates who also feel the same way.
I adore you so much!!! As a classically trained player, I never really learned about other styles and how to express them! Thank you for all of the content you're making!!! =)
This video was exciting to watch. I just started playing the piano, I literally had a dream I was playing. I woke up and went to work and started fiddling with the piano. Now I'm hooked, I spend countless hours watching RU-vid piano lessons.
Finally the video I've been looking for!This step by step breaking down and building up is really useful for a keys beginner like me!Thanks Amy for your great content!
just writing down 4 16th note pairs and then with a different colour accenting the bass and accent notes below just made everything super clear and in one single line of music. to me at least is very important to have written music and visual representation of where in each part of the beat the note lands.
As a jazz player I always wondered what I was missing when trying to get into funk. The time subdivisions are much more important here! Thanks for this.
I really appreciate your friendliness and your skill. Some people like yourself have a natural ability to help you understand something. You are immediately engaging. Thanks very much.
I've been woodshedding this great tutorial, and I'm pleased to say it's really coming together. Since you frequently ask for suggestions of what to cover next, I'd like to suggest you take a look at doing Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. Morgan James has a cover of it here on RU-vid that's piano, cajon, and vocals only. It has a similar funk groove to it. I'd love to see what you'd with it - or even just deconstruct their treatment.
I recently started watching your videos and I must say each and every one of them is brilliant! Simple, clear, made easy just enough to understand and learn quickly. Keep it up! :) Thanks for sharing from Czech Republic ;)
Subscribed :D I like how detailed you are at explaining. Also, I really like how you teach the beats of the rhythm before playing. Thank you for these videos :)
Thanks for a great video ! maybe it will help to place the camera directly above the keys, so it will be easier to see both keys and fingers from above
Obviously I will try it, but after summertime and 12st rag...Don't know exactly the reason i'm watching these videos - because it is pretty easy or just you are pretty pretty :)
thank you for your great lessons! It makes me feel the music magic! (Side comment, is it possible that the piano is little out of tune? is it intentional? I dont know anything about this, I just hear sounds, mostly in the bass like little different tune than those in right hand, Im not sure, is it?)
I used to get my piano tuned only every few months, when I started RU-vid, but after so many comments about it on my early videos, I now tune it once a month. Forgive me for the early videos. :)
This video is phenomenal. If people only knew how hard it is to actually teach this effectively. In a style like this where the chords are more for structure, those rhythmic elements are so essential to setting the groove or pocket. I’m amazed. What a great teacher!
I just wanted to say I appreciate you breaking these delicious chords and rhythms down for us, Aimee! It keeps me excited to keep learning more piano (and music theory) :D. Keep up the great work!
I’ve watched this video lots and I can finally play it pretty good, however this comment is about you saying “hip to this chord”. It has subconsciously entered my vocabulary 😅 thanks for lessons and for yourself in general Aimee! You’ve help me lots
This video is so great. Also, you can't go wrong with Bill Withers! Can't believe it's taken me this long to realize that the voicing of these chords is everything. In fact, on the piano, I now don't think of, say, a D flat major7 as a D flat major7: to me that is now a D flat in the left hand, and F minor triad (and throw in the e flat up top for kicks)...much simpler (for me that way). How I think of these chords makes me play differently / better. It started with me finally realizing, for the right hand it never sounds cool to play the root note with your thumb (at the bottom) - gotta invert to sound good! Well, love this video. Not fair that some people have a naturally beautiful voice to begin with!
Popped in to see if I could enrich my piano funk feel further and WOW!!! It just required a couple of beats into the beatbox thingy and I got a strong urge to --- kiss this radiating lovely human being! 😄 haha. Honestly! There is definitely some mesmerising appeal going on.. Although covid isolation piled up enough money to buy a grand piano something important is missing..... I totally need to get out on the road again and hopefully find a lovely company on the piano stool. 🎵😍🎶 Thank you for an inspiring groove lecture! Kind regards Anders Sweden
This is pure gold, Aimee, thanks!! It is actually really hard to find lessons on comping and rhythm techniques. I think I need to dig a little deeper into your channel. Keep up the good work! 😊 Giselle
Love it! Thank you for this. I'm a new beginner but have musical sense as an ear trained Bass Player and posted on your vid with you and John. It would be nice to see both your hands completely in the close up. Cheers!
Excellent approach to teaching the feel of funk. I’d love to see a tutorial on Michael McDonald’s piano style, especially his funky/jazz/shuffle on Minute By Minute. I saw him up close at NAMM a few years ago, and his hands are so relaxed. It looks like he is drumming on the piano. Talk about feel!
This is great Aimee. You break down the essential elements very lucidly, and then the close up of the hand and finger movements is super helpful. It's also a great sounding accessible musical choice for less experienced players.
Omg this is sounds so so good I have to practice this especially the crazy part at the end. Thank you very much for all of the content that you bring it's very helpful
Still working on this. I will get there. I will. I will!!! Thanks Aimee. You have got me interested in playing the piano again. If you were my teacher 40 years ago, life could have been so different!
Miss Aimee, You've really got a: Fantastic personality; keeping it real; easy to understand; are also Comical at times. You make perfect sense. I am learning a lot from you, but have to hit the slow motion button quite often, due to it appears to me, You Teach Important or Necessary Stuff. Thanks so much for doing this. !
Great stuff Aimee I will be practicing your lesson thank you for your patience and repetition helps others and myself make better sense of the mechanics and dynamics of playing solid piano! However I will have to work on not playin my beat box at the dinner table or anywhere else for that matter cause it’s always on and difficult to shut off, somewhat of a curse us musicians share, great playing and see you soon peace Dr.K Ish
Excellent video Aimee. One of the best teaching breakdowns of a sophisticated rhythm (with some nice chord voicings thrown in) I've seen online. you're an excellent teacher.
Aimee there's something about you - you are more than a teacher. You exude care and belief. I am no piano player but you have me believing I can really do this.
Un millón de gracias por compartir lo que sabe de una forma tan clara. Ojalá que siga transmitiendo de esa forma tan clara el lenguaje musical. Dios la bendiga¡¡¡¡
