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 !
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
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.
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!
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
How about some gear lust. Check out how David Walliman (a guitar teacher) has set up his recording rig. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uBbmhuxglIU.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 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.
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!
My girlfriend swears I have a crush on you... Lol Your content is amazing! She doesn't understand how much I've learned from you; best on RU-vid. Thank you from Baltimore
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!
Aimee, this was a great video. Hope you do one like it in every type of jazz....bebop, bossa nova, ballad, swing and then do more of those lol. Thanks for this!
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!)
