Thanks Jonny 🙏 appreciate you checking it out! My Dad is learning jazz piano so I actually suggested he check out your video as well. They make a good combo!
Noah once again, you've come out with some wonderful content for those of us needing more of a challenge. I appreciate that you let us know that this is something that we can do. As with anything, this will take some. But at least I know that I can do this. I think that this will help with coordination and maybe even finger independence. Thanks for bringing me up another level
OMG common its not even fair, i see you lining up all those chords progressions meanwhile im stuck feeling like there are only 5 or 6 possible 😭😭 youre so great man keep it up please
Thanks Noah for your wonderful content! This series has brought me a long ways as a pianist and giving me so much more freedom while playing the piano.
Fabulous Noah,have been watching some of Your trio recordings. I think as an 86 year old student I can rightfully say,having met most of the greats here in Toronto, that You are "all World" You have become my#1 jazz pianist. Sure glad I took advantage of the "Amazing jazz improv exercise" from Your store. Incredible help in my learning curve,everyone should get it. Many thanks. Ray
I must say, you teach awesome. The way you put the concepts clearly, the information on the screen, etc For us (the ones who learn ultraprofessionally but not from the conservatory) your videos are a miracle. Thanks a lot, regards from Spain
Nice passing tones! I'll be rewatching this several times to work out the harmonics you're tying these chords together with. I've been using tritone substitutions to spice up ii-V-I progressions for a while now. You demonstrate nicely how these tritone subs can resolve to b9 chords (ie 4:28 in the video). @AimeeNolte did a video a few months ago analyzing a McCoy Tyner solo where she called these "anticipatory" changes ("anticipatory pentatonics" for McCoy, of course). As an aside, Body and Soul is a nice contemplative tune to focus on while the NE United States is getting buried in snow.
Hi Noah! Yet another great great avdanced video lesson! Thanks a lot for your work, really appreciate it! I bought 3 or 4 of your manuals. They are great and I really get the sense that you are trying to teach to both academic and non-academic musician. I am an academic musician, I am studying classical composition, so, sometimes I need to have more inputs from the "non classical" world and your lessons and books are what I was looking for! Even if I slightly understand jazz harmony and composition, the combination of your video lessons and the exercises is perfect: I have a reference to follow in case I'm lost (as you know better than me, sometimes classical studies don't focus on your ears and impro skills) and I also have some really great tips from this kind of videos. Great great works, thanks a lot Noah, really hope to get the chance to listen to you playing live (Hope my english is understandable. I'm not an english speaker and I didn't even check what I just wrote. ) P.S.: your Spotify playlist are dope too! Found a lot of good stuffs there! See next video!
Hey Daniele, thanks for the kind words! I understood your English perfectly. So happy to hear you are finding the PDFs and lessons helpful! I can definitely see how you could have some really interesting applications of jazz material for your composition. Keep it up and thanks for the comment
Ooo, love this video. Also, during the Diatonic motion portion of the video, I threw in an A Maj 9 chord before the Ab chord. Voicing it with the tonic of the next chord on top brought some great color to the phrase.
I'm definitely going to watch this video more than once. These are some solid ideas. I'm wondering what you might do to spice up a song without that much movement as body and soul though. Like a modal piece for example
super tempting to go across all of your uploads and create one long medley of your playing, with some lower-volume interlacings of the explanations maybe a bit washed out in reverb like thought. beautiful stuff
Great video. I really enjoy using voicings and substitutions from the half whole diminished scale. You can swap any of those dominant chords for another, this works especially well going to a major or dominant chord. Liked your sus movement to the V7b9. I have some questions about the dominant from the step below, are you normally playing altered voicings? Reminds me of Nardis and I usually play some sort of altered voicing but I'm wondering how you approach it.
Hey Luke, I think most commonly I do a dominant with a #11 from above, and sometimes an altered from the half step below, but I'm not at a piano atm so I'd have to sit down and experiment a bit more to give you a full answer. Hope that helps though for now!
Superb, u deserve much more views, i think u can do a cover of some most popular songs nowadays in your own jazzzy way to attract more viewers and promote the channel even more cuz u deserve much more viewsssss!!!!!!
I’m am, what I would consider myself to be a pretty damn good composer, but when Noah Kellerman plays.. that’s when I realize.. I’m not 🤣 So fkn awesome man. 💪🏽🎶
If I want pro-level chords, i would just use the Unison Audio MIDI Chord pack! It gives me pro-level chords and chord progressions I can use to instantly make my music pro-level! (and just to clarify, this is a joke from Tantacrul)
Really nice! Thanks! If you're playing with a band or bass player, will these motions still work, if the other players stick to the written progression?
i want someone to teach me piano for this level in person this video tutorials look fire but they just don't seem to get in my head although I am Cmajorist looking forward to expand vocub
Do you have any suggestions for passing chords from tonic to chromatic mediants or chromatic mediants back to the tonic? See the first few bars of “Out of Nowhere” or “Bye Bye Blues” for examples of this use of chromatic mediants. Passing chords which don’t sound like a reharmonization in this context have stumped me.
I would appreciate some notes lining out where in a melody or a bar you are referring to. It ia difficult (although ofc not impossible) to follow you here, if you are not familiar with the song
Hey everyone, I'm faaaaaar away from a well studied musician who knows any and everything about music theory (idek how to come up with a simple triad lmao) skipped the very basics and jumped into the jazz theory because my main focus is RnB, little side story. My real question is, just to understand it is let's say I'm in C major scale and I'm doing a I-IV chord movement. To spice it up I drop a quick 2-5 between Cmaj7 and Fmaj7, so I have Cmaj7 - Gmin7 - C7 - Fmaj7. Now, if I don't want to use the Gmin7 cuz it's boring to do a "regular" 2-5-1 for the spice, I can actually have a B9 or C#9 since the idea is to use a chord from half step below or above. Do I understand it right? Let me know please and Noah, thank you for the video. Super informative, the only reason that I don't completely understand it is because, I skipped studying music theory almost at all lol
Despite knowing my fair share about everything youve discussed in the vide i had a bit of a hard time following .... need to get better hehe .. so essentially, i can insert a passing chord by placing a half step below OR above tritone sub which must be a dominant or altered chord that works with our melody note (meaning the melody note should be a pleasant tension on said halfstep tritone sub) and then land on my target chord?
How do you read sheet music? I know the notes on the scale but when I’m reading I don’t know how to read the bass notes and treble clef at the same time. Do I read from top to bottom or bottom to top and how do I read and play at the same time? Help
Noah, is there another name for Diatonic Chord Voicings? I'd like to read more about how they are used, but I can't seem to find anything on them. I think you said that you don't have anything in your store about them either.
Hey Rachel, I’m honestly not sure. But yes I don’t have anything specific to diatonic voicings in my store currently. I did do this video while back though that might illuminate some concepts: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t6QiJ_Xi0L0.html
