Jazz Comping - A Difficult Conversation With Aimee Nolte

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Comping is one of the most fun parts of playing Jazz, but comping with both a piano and a guitar is incredibly difficult and the source of many frustrations!
In this video, I visit Aimee Nolte and we have a long and difficult conversion about comping, and we also play some music but most of that is on Aimee's channel:
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Content:
00:00 Intro - A Difficult Conversation
00:48 Piano & Guitar - The Jam Session
04:26 Take The A-Train
05:53 Finding Your Space In The Music
06:27 How To Not Get In The Way
06:54 The Power Of Riff-Comping
08:24 Going Along With Solo Ideas
09:35 Comping and Fills
10:42 Practical Advice On Piano Fills!
11:09 Pick The Right Range
12:13 You Don’t Have To Comp!
14:44 Using “Sounds” As A Guitarist
15:54 Freddie Green
17:10 Arranging Your Way Out Of Trouble
17:31 Bossanova Grooves
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@AimeeNolte Год назад

Thanks for coming over, Jens! It was blast to chat and make music with you!

@MrSF247 Год назад

Such a great video! I loved being able to sit in this instructive jam session. Stuff like this is what is so great about the internet

@CellZealot Год назад

Thanks to you both for the conversation. It seems, as always, that it's really about how to listen...

@JensLarsen Год назад

Great how easy it is to make music together, and it is nice to read the comments and see that the video is useful 🙂

@picksalot1 Год назад

That was delightful, and insightful. Thank you both!

@szabolcssandorczako1620 Год назад

Unbelievable! Do you know each other?

@chrisr530 Год назад

Jens - PLEASE, do more of these conversations with other musicians. Your very good at it! Thank you for all you do in the Jazz Community. Have a great day my friend!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thanks Chris!

@J3unG Год назад

Unfortunate choice of conversation topic. This is bad and worse if you have it with a thin-skinned purist like the one you spoke to here.

@ATX0705 Год назад

I respect and admire ALL instruments, but Guitar and Piano are my favorites hands down.

@paulrodberg Год назад

How wonderful to enjoy the sharing of wisdom from 2 admired teachers.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you Paul! 🙂

@J3unG Год назад

This was a joke and YT algorithmic is totally rubbish.

@DangFee78 Год назад

This is the collaboration (or maybe 'Clash of the Musical Titans') we need.

@MarianoSolGuitarra Год назад

10:40 Octaves! (like Bill Evans solos with Jim Hall.)

@bmoraga01 Год назад

This is probably one of the most (if not THE most) important jazz education videos I've ever viewed. This was a subject probably every ensemble guitarist in the world would appreciate! Thanks Jens from southern California!

@boomerdell Год назад

Jens and Aimee on the same stage? Yes, please!

@Mike-rw2nh Год назад

Jens, I don’t mind confessing, I’ve had a shitty day at work, but sat in the bath, a glass of wine and checking out yours and Aimee’s duets on her channel, is like a shot of vitamin C for my ear holes. A very sincere thank you to you both. 👍👍👍

@JensLarsen Год назад

That is really great to hear! Glad it could turn it around 🙂

@jamessidney2851 Год назад

My two favorite RU-vid educators chillaxin.

@seanmulcahy1264 Год назад

So cool to see you two talking! I've leaned a lot from both of your channels!

@jkl.guitar Год назад

this is really awesome! I tend to think of comping on guitar as acting like a snare, I find this helps me avoid over complicating rhythms

@JensLarsen Год назад

If the piano player is any good then he/she should actually do the same in Jazz, so for comping together it doesn't really solve anything. However, for comping and locking in with the band it is the highest truth and the best advice! 👍🙂

@diegobocco1035 Год назад

Amazing conversation, we all, the watchers became richer. Thanks a Lot, you both

@RC32Smiths01 Год назад

Awesome to see you doing collaborations man. Seeing two great minds of music sharing perspective and advice is something I'd say is definitely vital to the growth of musicianship for all. Cheers guys.

@Dang... Год назад

Good conversation, thank you both! There's no reason for guitar/piano not to comp together in an interactive call and response format. All it takes is checking both players' egos at the door. Try playing 1/2 as much. Everyone in Jazz has creative ideas, and everyone needs a chance to express their creativity. I don't buy this concept that guitarists need to subvert their creative ideas to keyboards all the time. What if we said keys need to yield to guitars all the time? Either approach unnecessarily limits the possible tonal colors and textures. Aimee talked about discussing/planning taking turns comping for different sections of the tune. This could also be done comping via alternating phrases. Listening sympathetically is all it takes. Unfortunately, that is all too rare. Thanks again!

@billmiller9145 Год назад

What a great segment! For a "difficult conversation", you both made it sound effortless!

@glorypun2915 Год назад

Nice to see you both ...

@phunkydeadfish4110 Год назад

Aimee you should do the same type thing with Rich Severson. This is great !

@ChrisBuonoGuitar Год назад

I’m 100% with you on this one. When both instruments are in the mix the piano is the ultimate comping instrument. It has everything going for itself in this realm while we are struggling with the limitation of standard tuning, less digits available to play actual notes, as well as the overall timbre of our instrument being not as globally inviting as a piano is.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thanks Chris! 🙂

@jjmohn9204 Год назад

Thx Jim Hall & Bill Evans?! Jens &: Aimee, you two my favorite RU-vid buddies!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like the video! 🙂

@nikigba Месяц назад

that is exactly what i was looking for! the guitar-piano duet

@JensLarsen Месяц назад

Great 🙂

@benkatof5852 Год назад

I really like this format Jens. Excellent

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you, Ben! I hope to do more collaborations, with Aimee and others as well.

@MichaelBagge Год назад

Very nice I've been watching both of your channels for a long time.

@lawrenrich6419 Год назад

My two faves in one place .. unreal.

@robbyr9286 Год назад

Great crossover on a very important topic by two wonderful communicators!

@rickjensen2717 Год назад

I never comp with the piano - we always stick to different songs or alternate between A and B sections of most standards. Seems to work much better.

@ReductioAdAbsurdum 15 дней назад

The best single tip I ever got about comping is simply being told what "comp" is short for: compliment. If you just keep that full word in your mind, decisions become easier. The goal is to make the ensemble sound better.

@pablocubicomusic Год назад

A great example of adding "sounds" on top of piano comping is Mike Moreno, look for the Smalls live videos or the Kendrick Scott albums. Adding soundscapes on top of the piano.

@reggiebdog 15 дней назад

So I've recently started playing in a trio with a Pianist and percussionist. This was very enlightening video. I've always found most pianists have no concept of leaving space. Leaving me as the guitarist to try to figure out where I'm supposed to be but often find that I'm either being stepped on or stepping on. In my particular case she is so used to being all the music to being the entire musical score that she's not comfortable leaving extra space I think the best advice I heard here was think like a horn player. Also good communication and understanding who has the lead line and who has the Rhythm comping needs to be worked out. Thank you both for such a wonderful video

@nielsensejltur Год назад

Wow. My two favorites together in one video

@vincej151 Год назад

Great video, love it. She sings so beautifully.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you Vince! 🙂

@jimmrvos2930 Год назад

This was terrific! I watched the performance by you and Aimee on her channel before watching this video. While watching, I was thinking to myself about how great the communication and listening was between you two. It made me smile to see that this video is all about communication.

@luvzrsvpsheets9713 Год назад

6:18 really good enclosure licc

@poss420 Год назад

great conversation !

@destinylucero9118 Год назад

Omg my TWO IDOLS! 😱😱😱😱🥹🥹🥹🥹 so happy

@wchphoto Год назад

I would love to have been a fly on that wall! Two awesome talents, talking shop! I'm a fan of both.

@gabrielmoore6099 Год назад

You two are awesome, I love learning from you

@romie233 Год назад

This is an absolutely fantastic set of topics that dive into some of the un-said social minutia of playing in small combos. I'd love to see more topics like this featuring other parts of a combo.

@aaroncampmusic Год назад

Wonderful! So glad you are visiting Aimee! I always think back to Joe Pass "Don't compete with the piano, it's bigger so it will win" lol. Or something like that. I love "The New York Rhythm Section" album with Hank Jones, Barry Galbraith etc. They've obviously worked it out so that all that stuff happens nicely. Or Barry turns down his guitar and just plays guide tone comping. That works, too. But it can get pretty hazardous if you don't figure it out first ha ha.

@CellZealot Год назад

@@matthewgoldberg1461 It's difficult to compare the interaction and conversation between Joe Pass and Oscar Peterson to any other pairing of piano and guitar. They have developed a language that is both highly idiomatic and refined at the same time. Also at times very competitive, which adds energy and spontaneity to the improvisation. They knew one another so well that they could play with great freedom within each others envelope without getting in each others way.

@chrisheaton5853 Год назад

Man i love this! Your both incredibly talented, its also amazing to hear your combined spontaneous thoughts.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you Chris!

@mathuwhycough6591 Год назад

20 out of 10 score on this conversation. Thanks

@hiranabe Год назад

Oh, great to see two of my heroes/heroines together!!

@dummyguava Год назад

Fantastic. Two of my favourite Jazz youtubers. Most of what you talk about is way over my head but some of it usually seeps in, and always a pleasure to watch two masters of the craft.

@jimmrvos2930 Год назад

One more comment: I really appreciate these two videos. Honesty, my progress on jazz has been slow and I was losing enthusiasm. This has energized me again. Thank you Aimee and Jens.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you liked the videos, Jim 🙂

@GizzyDillespee Год назад

Hey folks, in case you haven't seen it, there are more complete musical examples from these sessions over on Aimee's channel, released on the same day as this video.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thanks Adam! I imagine that since I mention it in the video, link to it in the pinned comment, in a card in the video and in the video description they should have a fair chance of seeing it, but I appreciate the effort 🙂

@raydamoiseau Год назад

On the same day!? Gotta check this out!!

@WhistlebirdInfinity Год назад

I play guitar and piano and accordion and you two are my favorite you tube teachers. Makes me so happy to see y'all play together and bring up this point, which I have struggled with in various musical situations...

@WhistlebirdInfinity Год назад

@Username-JenslarsenGuitar sounds sketchy

@mrknowitall9778 Год назад

Great Video. I don’t play Jazz, but do play improvisational music with other players. One thing we found that works really well for us, and is apparently a recent invention - talk! Yup, we have an actual discussion before getting things started about who will do what and when. Works great. But I realize you are talking about musical conversation. A completely different language than speech - LOL. The two of you are of my favs and thank you for taking the time to get together to demonstrate the language of music.

@jamescopeland5358 Год назад

Great video Jens and Aimee!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you James!

@steelplayer811 Год назад

Beautiful! You two are great! Thank you.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you Michael!

@Prabath1974 Год назад

Great sir ❤. Small session but very deep

@jesusislukeskywalker4294 Год назад

👍🏻 wow you guys are so intelligent, just blows my mind .

@Williampreza Год назад

Jam session leader here. Yes, this is tough. Half the time I end up laying out completely and pretending to be a vocalist till my solo.

@kerrym9254 6 месяцев назад

Their respect for each other is very evident.

@JensLarsen 6 месяцев назад

Thank you

@Kevinschart Год назад

Let me add to all the glowing compliments on this video. Excellent concept, even better execution.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you 🙂

@jasonkeaton5140 Год назад

Yes!

@tonygonzalez958 Год назад

great video by two absolute professional musicians

@glen2218 Год назад

Dream team!

@elmarto1716 Год назад

Great playing there Jens. You really should post more performances because you are damn good.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you 🙂

@chuckminzenberger7590 Год назад

great conversation! I'm a guitar player and always take a back seat to the keys, I actually really like to focus in on the bass with shell voicings, I love the Freddy Green sound, so fun - toss in a punch or fill every once in a while - the soloist kind of picks the weird harmony stuff, the pianist can pick up on that a little better - I've learned all my chords with NO Fifths!

@GoGetFletch Год назад

Jens and Aimee - I really enjoyed being a fly on the wall listening to your “difficult conversation”.😊

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad to hear that 🙂

@electronik808 Год назад

That's really an amazing conversation and very helpful!!

@caurnelmorgan4934 Год назад

Luv the crossover with you two.

@warrenwilson7836 Год назад

It’s pretty awesome listening to two of my favourite RU-vid personalities talking about my favourite subject. Thanks for all the talking points. It’s great you guys got together.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like it 🙂

@bitodin Год назад

I’ve just had coffee. This is sooo good!

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like it 🙂

@philiprowland9390 Год назад

Fantastic and very useful conversation, Amy and Jens! Looking forward to more of these! And lovely playing!

@kleberveridianogoncalvesde6293 Год назад

Nice conversation !

@mjones6983 9 месяцев назад

I loved this video. I’ve learned over the years to always defer to the piano. It’s bigger and louder. Ha ha.

@JensLarsen 9 месяцев назад

Thank you! Yes that is also how I think about it 🙂

@edwardbraun2057 Год назад

Thanks for the great discussion of comping…so helpful. Please try and do more of these discussions with other musicians.. really great

@nigeljones1681 Год назад

Wes and Wynton could play at the same time and it was brilliant because they listened 🎵

@dougtube2006 Год назад

A horn player once told me “horn players solo and piano players comp, and guitarists do both worse.”

@tomaspontofinal Год назад

This is awesome! love both your channels! 💛

@patrickburke3826 Год назад

This is a great collaboration. It is cool to play with other musicians that stay out of each other's way. Also, I was so happy to get a picture with you this year at NAMM Jens. It is a great experience, and artists like yourself are so kind to us fans. 😃🙏

@kevinanderson967 Год назад

Jens and Ed Bickert can comp just like good piano players can 🎸

@andrewkashian3987 Год назад

wow. two absolute legends!!

@jneily6074 Год назад

I really enjoyed this video, Jens. Great insights. I second the suggestion for similar videos with other instrumentalists.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad to hear that!

@nicaguitar Год назад

Fantastic video!!! This is one of the most important topics for guitar/piano that as you said is rarely talked about!! I agree with almost everything pointed out here. I would also like to add that if you are playing some more modernish approach to your tone (guitar with alot of effects like reverb and delay and such) a beautiful sound is doing synth like effects on the guitar while the piano does "normal" comping and such. I think that if the two players know each other and listen to each other the sonic possibilities of the 2 instruments together are endless!

@Fatfingertunes Год назад

This is so good, two of my favorites in a conversation we all need! Wonderful!

@mikea75201 Год назад

This was fantastic!!

@leterriblix Год назад

Outstanding! Many thanks!!

@andrejgregoric1324 Год назад

Excellent!

@plumhunter9158 Год назад

Very interesting ... will have to replay - thanks Jens and Aimee

@samkirby3775 Год назад

There is a special sound when a Guitar and Piano comp together. It blends real well

@Ca_milo_G Год назад

hola a los dos desde Chile. greetings !!!

@sscaramal Год назад

That was so helpful and insightful! Thank you both so much!

@-solidsnake- Год назад

Nice solo at 5:00 - Jens has a great tone and melodic sound

@JensLarsen Год назад

Thank you! 🙂

@StephenIsSleepingIn Год назад

I love this!

@insidejazzguitar8112 Год назад

Great conversation!

@jonathanj-g-yyelle6144 Год назад

That was a fascinating conversation. Thanks to both of you for sharing this! _Fantastic_ . P.S.: I have watched Aimee's videos and I believe I'm subscribed to her channel. But if I'm not, I will correct that by subscribing!

@rockstarjazzcat Год назад

For a long time I didn’t appreciate pianos in jazz because as solo instruments they fill so much musical space and easily talk over others in a group setting. Guitarists and pianists operating in the big band context point to elegant, sophisticated simplification that’s worth striving for.

@BebopDesigner Год назад

Loved it! 😀 Please do a part II

@garylarocca6901 Год назад

Thanks Jens, great stuff.

@ChristLenvoka 8 месяцев назад

This is so great we need more of this

@ernestmaurizi7668 Год назад

Great job by both....a most important concept and great demonstration

@pichipachu Год назад

Greaaaaat topic, you guys!!

@kerrym9254 6 месяцев назад

Jens called Aimee a "real piano player". Nice. This was great.

@JensLarsen 6 месяцев назад

😁

@BrandochGarage Год назад

Instant like - I'm a huge fan.

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@autokrohne Год назад

Thank you! Very helpful!

@saturatedneowax Год назад

You’re both amazing! Thank you for this crossover and the useful information

@JensLarsen Год назад

Glad you like it 🙂

@davidbertus8629 Год назад

I like to listen to the Nat King Cole Trio and Diana Krall's tribute to them to be reminded that Guitar and Piano really can live together in harmony (pun intended).