Making Chords Sound Like MUSIC

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  • čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
  • Once you can figure out simple chords to songs by ear, how do you make them sound like music? Video #2 in the Back To Basics Playlist
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Komentáře • 281

  • @joetimcho4519
    @joetimcho4519 Před rokem +13

    Wonder lessons! I’ve play rock and blues guitar for 45 years, only 2 years on piano. Piano theory has actually made my guitar playing better, makes you think from a different perspective. Again, wonder web lessons, thank you !

  • @curtstone527
    @curtstone527 Před 4 lety +16

    You have a great ability to not only play music but also teach others in a clear and concise manner. Wonderful work!

  • @larrylutton9616
    @larrylutton9616 Před 2 lety +3

    Amy, Your you tube channel is brilliant. I'm 73 and have been playing by "ear" since I was 4.
    I played two-handed chop stix for any relative or visitor who came to the house.My father also played by ear and from the age of 6 to about 12, he taught me to play Moonlight Sonata. I was always fascinated by chords and chord progressions and would figure out how to play just about anything I heard on the radio. I could never explain to anyone how I learned to play and remember so many songs without having any sheet music. My best explanation was...... once I had the chords, all the notes of the music were inside those chords......it just made sense to me, but I could not explain how I did it. It took me 30 years to understand what you have put together in your videos. You are a brilliant pianist and teacher.
    Thank you for sharing your talent with anyone lucky enough to find your videos.
    Larry

  •  Před 4 lety +4

    Thank you Aimee, the concept of stop reading to set free our imagination and creation, from our own mind an soul is really an advanced state of teaching.

  • @user-zh9pq8vd4y
    @user-zh9pq8vd4y Před 2 měsíci

    Aimee, every time I watch one of your videos, I grab my guitar, play a few of your chord progressions and I hear music. I have played up to 4 hours a sitting. A musical oddesy that has improved my ear greatly. Thank you so much!❤

  • @stevenmarry6845
    @stevenmarry6845 Před 5 lety +18

    probably the most useful music lesson ever recorded

  • @mikeokeefe9396
    @mikeokeefe9396 Před 2 lety +3

    Yes, I am a string player but find this channel so valuable.

  • @MichaelTripicco
    @MichaelTripicco Před 5 lety +6

    I've never played piano. But these concepts are very easily translated to my instrument (banjo). Your comment about learning by ear rather than from the page couldn't be more important. It's taken me years to figure that out and the possibilities are finally, finally opening up as a result. Thanks Aimee!

  • @maocharlisme
    @maocharlisme Před 3 lety +5

    Aimee Nolte truly is music to a songwriter's/lyricist's/storyteller's ears! ♡

  • @edwardverlie6534
    @edwardverlie6534 Před rokem +1

    Thank you, it's like giving someone the gift of sight

  • @lynnblake
    @lynnblake Před 5 lety +2

    Practical applications from a lifetime in music. Communicated and demonstrated by a maestro. Shared with us here. For free. Unbelievable.

  • @jenmccolley285
    @jenmccolley285 Před 5 lety +11

    I so wish I could go back in time to my teenage years and learn this. Once again, I am almost embarrassed by the fact that I'm an advanced classical pianist but never learned this skill. You are just brilliant.

    • @rodneyjulian1376
      @rodneyjulian1376 Před 2 lety

      You probably dont give a damn but does anybody know a trick to get back into an instagram account?
      I was stupid lost the login password. I love any tips you can offer me!

    • @bentondarren9521
      @bentondarren9521 Před 2 lety

      @Rodney Julian Instablaster ;)

  • @luigig1081
    @luigig1081 Před 5 lety +10

    You're lovely Aimee. Your voice is so musical not only when you sing (superbly) but also when you speak. Good tone, good rhythm, not intrusive, never boring, a real pleasure to listen to, and ideal for learning from. You are very talented as a musician and as a teacher as well. Brava!

  • @englishservices
    @englishservices Před 4 lety +2

    At 15:00 you moved to G Major and your speaking voice modulated to that key. Gorgeous!

  • @chauphammatser3011
    @chauphammatser3011 Před 5 lety +3

    You're speaking my language. This kind of teaching is what is helping me REALLY learn to play the piano. How to learn to hear things, and find them on the piano, or any instrument. That's what you're teaching. Thank you so much Aimee!

  • @jeffbenales2808
    @jeffbenales2808 Před 5 lety +12

    For me, this is your greatest ever video. A masterclass in twenty minutes. I've learned so much; so applicable, so helpful. Sometimes words are not enough but thank you from the bottom of my heart.

  • @waynegeordiesdad648
    @waynegeordiesdad648 Před 5 lety +18

    Thank you so VERY much. My story is probably a common one.....I took piano lessons between the ages of 10 and 14 or 15 and became quite good but I was unable to read music as the teacher wanted so I 'faked' it by asking her to play it multiple times until I had it memorized. I was good at memorizing even complicated compositions and always did well at recitals pleasing my mother no end.
    I gave piano up at the age of about 17 and never tried again until I was in my 60's when I tried very hard to re-learn sight reading....but once again I was unable to make the mental leap from notation to hands and could only play 'by ear'...picking out tunes and embellishing them as much as I could.
    I stumbled across your channel while deliberately looking for a method that I could assimilate and improve without the DREARY sight-reading I had been taught was necessary.
    Your method is INCREDIBLE and now, at the age of nearly 74, I find myself LEARNING to play by letting my instincts control to a small degree and with your gently guidance I find huge improvement in my playing.
    Thank you so much.....music, which I always loved and strived to play is FINALLY showing a glimmer of hope and it is all because of your methods....
    Thanks from Canada North where I'll continue to follow your channel and your instruction....Thank you SO MUCH!

    • @aliasreco
      @aliasreco Před 5 lety

      Thank you: so there is hope for me. I had only lessons half a year. And the piano teacher said I'd better stop. My memorising went so fast I would never learn to read. Me too....a humble follower of Aimee now to get some improvement of me playing... Great channel! Thanks Aimee!

    • @kajstridell9306
      @kajstridell9306 Před 5 lety

      Wayne geordiesdad a

  • @fazboz
    @fazboz Před 4 lety +3

    I don’t play piano but I learn so much from watching you for my guitar. Thank you

  • @johnjohnson6061
    @johnjohnson6061 Před rokem +2

    I just love hearing the beautiful sounds and patterns you put together. It is really an amazing kind of freedom that allows you to give your audience something extra special. Thanks Aimee

  • @babup3674
    @babup3674 Před 3 lety +4

    Thanks Aimee, You sound music ,with out much ado.....

  • @4thesakeofitname
    @4thesakeofitname Před 5 lety +1

    Madame Nolte, this tutorial was greater than the greatest !!! Sun is shining above your shoulders... Those (sweet) songs are all I (or we from 80s-90s) want to play and the chord variations are so useful..."I do it for you" & "Every breath you take" are so memorial.

  • @GrahamStoney
    @GrahamStoney Před 5 lety +5

    Thanks Aimee. This is exactly what I’ve been needing lately. Plus I love the subtle product placement and special guest appearance by Rick Beato!

  • @chrisvanderwalt790
    @chrisvanderwalt790 Před 5 lety +26

    So GREAT how you address musicality 'by ear' and from the heart, referencing just enough theory to describe what is happening - this is the original liberating function of theory, rather than the seemingly inhibiting, confusing sets of rules or paint-by-number formulas that young aspirants are confronted and turned off by. This is so accessible and meaningful at all levels from beginners to advanced. Also not piano-centric, equally applies to the guitar. The whistlers freaked me out (in a good way), the Rick Beato snippet illustrated your point perfectly... Love how you love and support each other. People like you & Rick make me glad to be alive, sure many feel the same way.... Thank you ever so much, Amy!

  • @dharryg
    @dharryg Před 5 lety +4

    Thank you, Aimee. Great suggestions for breaking up the chords with a variety of hand patterns for us autodidactic newbies.

  • @leeclarke8993
    @leeclarke8993 Před 5 lety +2

    This teaching is pure love. Praise God

  • @augustdaye2746
    @augustdaye2746 Před 5 lety +20

    Why do I suspect it's counter-productive for publishers and recording artist to object to pieces of their music being used in lessons like this? She's helping to keep this song alive. That's good for the artist. If someone knows why this strict approach is being used, please explain. Oh, & by the way, great lesson. She's a fine teacher.

    • @Andresv586
      @Andresv586 Před 5 lety

      Steve DeLaunay they dont like other people making money from the song that they wrote. She said they demonetize the videos not that theyre not allowed to use them, they just cant use them to make money off of them. There might be some that dont let anyone use their songs but mostly its that they dont want people making money off songs that they dont own.

    • @take942
      @take942 Před 5 lety

      You make an excellent point about pop songs exposure in music lessons which have the side effect of still promoting the song for the original artist. So true, but most of the time recording companies "cannot see the forest from the trees" in regard to that.

    • @nahblue
      @nahblue Před 5 lety

      Fuck the song owners (not the artists). Singing, learning songs, teaching songs is our thousands year old culture that is as old as language itself - older than any material invention. We are binding down our culture in a very unnatural shape when we limit ourselves this way. (The way it was clearly in the way of teaching music and musicality in this video really got to me.) Also, this video was fantastic. :)

    • @nodangles6983
      @nodangles6983 Před rokem

      @@Andresv586 Yeah, the money's still being made, but it goes to them.

  • @Hutchoo0
    @Hutchoo0 Před 4 lety +2

    So refreshing to hear your enthusiasm for teaching Aimee. Keep these wonderful lessons coming!

  • @davidhoxit4274
    @davidhoxit4274 Před 5 lety +4

    I love your channel Amy, I only play strings but I am grateful for your expertise and your willingness to share in my musical journey..... thanks again!!!!

  • @YVZSTUDIOS
    @YVZSTUDIOS Před 5 lety +7

    After learning a lot of different chord progression building methods, this was exactly what I was looking for next! :D Thanks a lot!!

  • @jimredner2649
    @jimredner2649 Před 5 lety +13

    Excellent video. You are are a true talent. Thank you for sharing your skills. I am trying to learn piano without the aid of a private teacher and it is sometimes difficult to even know what to practice or how to practice. I know some theory(not much) , a few chords, and a couple of scales. Your video gives me direction. Thank you so much.

  • @blessingkmalata
    @blessingkmalata Před 3 lety +2

    The best teacher ever on the Tube 😭🙌😍Thank you so much.

  • @hickszn
    @hickszn Před 9 měsíci +1

    Finally! I’ve been trying to find a video on this foreeeeever

  • @Musicaadorecchio
    @Musicaadorecchio Před 5 lety +27

    Fantastic, invaluable lesson for pianists, thanks Aimee, keep up with this type of contents please!

  • @MrCherfas
    @MrCherfas Před 5 lety +2

    Dear Aimee, you just made me realize how fragile and imperfect we, humans, are. Yet so infinitely beautiful... Thank you so much for all your work.

  • @MrVatov
    @MrVatov Před 5 lety +5

    This is the series I was yearning for! Thank you Aime

  • @baoquocta
    @baoquocta Před 2 lety +1

    The luckiest thing happened to me is to find your videos. You have helped me understand a lot of things that I did not understand even after years self-learning guitar and piano. Thank you very much!

  • @superpapy78
    @superpapy78 Před 5 lety +4

    Hello from France. I appreciate this kind of video . I learnt a lot of practical things without pain. Merci and Bravo!
    Dominique

  • @UncleBubba
    @UncleBubba Před 5 lety +1

    Thank you, Amy - another great video.
    I think these conversational lessons work really well - they are interesting and inviting and explain lots of concepts and styles without a lot of scary jargon, yet also contain so much information in them that they bear watching several times.

  • @beachbum77979
    @beachbum77979 Před 5 lety +3

    "...from your own heart..." Thanks Aimee

  • @Mezilesialan
    @Mezilesialan Před 5 lety +1

    Delightful Aimee. Thank you.

  • @wudangmtn
    @wudangmtn Před 2 lety +3

    You described my learning experience perfectly. I learned by the traditional method; primarily reading sheet music, with very little theory. I could not understand chord charts; and I quickly became bored with playing. Now, thirty years later, I am learning music theory; and I am having a blast with it. I have a long ways to go still, but I think I am going to learn great things from this channel. Thanks Aimee!
    Edit: Oops, I left this comment on the wrong video...... silly me!

  • @quezquez3084
    @quezquez3084 Před 4 lety +3

    Loved this one so much! Thank you!

  • @fmbeaumont100
    @fmbeaumont100 Před 5 lety +4

    You are awesome! This info has really helped me out creating new music. Thanks

  • @keiththornton25
    @keiththornton25 Před 5 lety +1

    Brilliant Lesson Aimee, Thank You x

  • @charlesmartel7502
    @charlesmartel7502 Před 5 lety +5

    This is good, basic info for classical piano students who want to branch into playing pop -- and that's a lot of my students! Thanks.

  • @jkinthewind
    @jkinthewind Před 5 lety +4

    Time to put down my John Thompson Modern Course and sit with this video for a few hours. Thanks Aimee!!

  • @hongkongtennis
    @hongkongtennis Před 5 lety +3

    Wonderful. Please do more of these.

  • @santosreynaldo1279
    @santosreynaldo1279 Před 5 lety +1

    Aimee, Thank you! You are da best.

  • @jimcarter9330
    @jimcarter9330 Před 3 lety +1

    So helpful to see the styles of play that are presented in this video , thanks so much! Aimee.

  • @mfc0511
    @mfc0511 Před 5 lety +3

    Exactly what I've needed thank you!

  • @kr4him
    @kr4him Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you Aimee!

  • @von_Apa
    @von_Apa Před rokem +1

    You are the best teacher anyone could dream of! (And on the piano there are so many teachers destroying the lust of playing.)

  • @Ron9257
    @Ron9257 Před 2 lety +2

    One of the best lessons on you tube, let me say it again, You’re AMAZING!!❤️😎

  • @chriscullen6949
    @chriscullen6949 Před 5 lety +22

    as a guitarist im a budding piano player /very helpful as always

    • @pravo.
      @pravo. Před 5 lety +1

      Very good tutorial girl thanks i am learning

  • @superpapy78
    @superpapy78 Před 4 lety +1

    Hello from France!
    Thank you for this vidéo that brings me a lot of ideas for arpeggios. After a few minutes trying to play some like you do and show us slowly in the video (great teaching!), i now feel much better and i can count beats more easily.
    so, MERCI and BRAVO.

  • @kathynelsonmusic
    @kathynelsonmusic Před rokem +1

    Love you! Thanks for all the great tips!

  • @patbreacadh
    @patbreacadh Před 5 lety +1

    Great lesson! Thanks, Aimee.

  • @thesavvybassist
    @thesavvybassist Před 5 lety +2

    Great lesson, Aimee.

  • @sublibrarian
    @sublibrarian Před 5 lety +2

    Wonderful! This is worth one term of music theory lessons. Thank you so much.

  • @dianamelchheier2709
    @dianamelchheier2709 Před 5 lety +2

    Thanks Aimee! Its very difficult to me play by ear. Your tips are helping me so much.....

  • @kathyspencer5909
    @kathyspencer5909 Před rokem +1

    OK, Just finished my 1st listening to thiso vide & got the message. Use my ears, apply these ideas and then start making up my own patterns. Thanks for your inspiring mentorship, Aimee!

  • @mikeoneill5456
    @mikeoneill5456 Před 3 lety +1

    Absolutely great lesson - brilliant - thanks!

  • @BassPotter46
    @BassPotter46 Před 5 lety +1

    Thanks Aimee!

  • @Jesse615
    @Jesse615 Před 5 lety +7

    So funny! I'm mainly a guitarist/bassist and watch Rick B.'s channel all the time, so when you played that clip of him, I kept thinking there was some kind of glitch! Love this vid -- so much great info! Just sub'ed -- can't wait to watch more :)

  • @magymaged5938
    @magymaged5938 Před rokem +1

    Thank you Aimee ! you are an amazing teacher

  • @kristalcampbell3650
    @kristalcampbell3650 Před 5 lety +6

    Lol she got to the 16th notes and I was like sllloooowwww down there Mozart 🤣

  • @17244852
    @17244852 Před 5 lety +1

    I have only been playing for a year, and I hope one day that I will be good enough to take an actual lesson from you. But until that day I want to thank you for the common sense inspiration that you give to me and many like me. (by the way, my piano teacher is very impressed with you)

  • @dianal.1279
    @dianal.1279 Před 5 lety +4

    Nice lesson! You have a beautiful voice!

  • @jeffreya.patterson6210
    @jeffreya.patterson6210 Před 4 lety +1

    thank you Aimee. Timeless lesson

  • @alibiath35
    @alibiath35 Před 2 lety +1

    This video helps me a lot to find new possibilities comping songs. Thank you very much!

  • @charlesmartel7502
    @charlesmartel7502 Před 5 lety +5

    I like your suggestion to use the second degree in arpeggios. The second degree (as the ninth) actually shows up well before the seventh in the overtone series, making it a more comfortable partner to the triad than we tend to think.

  • @gnomids
    @gnomids Před 5 lety

    You just made me feel wonderful. I can do this....thankyou.

  • @soundsgoodmanrecords
    @soundsgoodmanrecords Před rokem

    I do a lot of music, all original instrumentals and mainly the keys are used with synth sounds and there's very little actual "playing" where it's chords and melody or lead played by me at the same time and I have wanted lately to start to expand and in this video you've got me with plenty to start on, so my thanks!
    Peace.

  • @ldsledge608
    @ldsledge608 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks for simplifying something I have always wanted to learn.

  • @vodvandorin9454
    @vodvandorin9454 Před 4 lety +1

    You are lovely Aimee!!

  • @ricklarson9312
    @ricklarson9312 Před 5 lety +1

    Really wonderful lesson, thanks for sharing ! Lee

  • @lakegirlroxy9852
    @lakegirlroxy9852 Před 5 lety +2

    Excellent Lesson, what a huge amount of information in one video, you are such an Amazing teacher Aimee! I was out of town when I first watched this video and it was the one time since I have been taking skype lessons from you that I did not take my keyboard, and I must say I learned my lesson never to leave home without my keyboard, I was so inspired by this video to move onto the next level of my piano playing and I could not practice, due to being out of town however I did somewhat practice in my head. When I got home, first thing I did was bring up this very informational video of yours. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!! You are the BEST!!!!

  • @17244852
    @17244852 Před 5 lety

    Thank you so much Aimee. I'm very much a beginner but I can totally see what you are trying to get me to do. This idea will keep me going for quite some time.

  • @wudangmtn
    @wudangmtn Před 2 lety +1

    This gives me some great ideas. Thanks!

  • @GalPeiserMusic
    @GalPeiserMusic Před 5 lety

    Great Video! great tips, and great inspiration as always! thank you Aimee.

  • @wonderchild53
    @wonderchild53 Před 5 lety

    Thank you for breaking things up and explaining them to look so easy I think my playing will improve...!!!

  • @dankoch2010
    @dankoch2010 Před 5 lety +1

    This is an excellent video. I can't wait to get home to my piano to try out your techniques.

  • @lawrencetaylor4101
    @lawrencetaylor4101 Před 2 lety +1

    Merci for this. A great noodling video, so I'll be coming back to this.

  • @Greenriver842
    @Greenriver842 Před 5 lety +3

    Love it, nice singing too ♥️👏

  • @jurgenilg2811
    @jurgenilg2811 Před 5 lety +3

    Fantastic Lesson
    Great wishes from Germany

  • @alancordwell9759
    @alancordwell9759 Před 5 lety +1

    Wow this is perfect- just what I need! Thanks Aimee :-)

  • @nadiad4062
    @nadiad4062 Před 3 lety +1

    This video is gold!

  • @cmhgrandecmh
    @cmhgrandecmh Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks a lot Aimee great teacher.

  • @wally3608
    @wally3608 Před 4 lety +1

    O, wonderful video again. So inspirating, I love you.

  • @Roustabout22
    @Roustabout22 Před 5 lety +1

    Excellent video. Thank you

  • @wally3608
    @wally3608 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks Aimee.

  • @robkim55
    @robkim55 Před 5 lety +1

    Sixteenth notes beautiful; more 16th ! Passionate about composing naturally. Humming that is what I do. Yes many people have forgotten that they have the capacity to compose with their ears and by humming.

  • @andrewwright6893
    @andrewwright6893 Před 3 lety +1

    Superb lesson cheers

  • @ingridsauer9332
    @ingridsauer9332 Před rokem +1

    Thanks a lot Aimee, Iam very glad that you have done this invaluable lesson, you have a wonderful way of explaining, fantastic. Keep on with something like this. Thanks a lot.

  • @violetatio3224
    @violetatio3224 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for your goal to make us use our ears to play music instead of our eyes

  • @BRO77TX
    @BRO77TX Před 5 lety +3

    I could listen to Amy talk for hours, would not matter what it was about. She is easy on the ears...and 👀’s!!

  • @LianDyogi
    @LianDyogi Před 4 lety +1

    VARIETY. What you mention at 9:07 Aimee, it just really sunk in recently how this is what makes one's playing sound a more interesting and "pro".

  • @shannebas7380
    @shannebas7380 Před rokem +2

    Very Nice Madame! You're awesome! I've learned a new technic in improving my accompaniment method... Thanks a lot for this and hoping for more valuable teaching method from you.. God Bless!

  • @Adeno
    @Adeno Před 5 lety +3

    Ah I'm watching this when suddenly I realized it's time to start working, I shall finish this awesome video tonight haha :)

  • @Ladyduchess313
    @Ladyduchess313 Před 4 lety +1

    Love this... Yes, written music made me a slave that I couldn't play beautiful pretty music o my own now learning to play chord piano.💗💗💗💗🌹❤️🦋