How To Play ANY JAZZ STANDARD For Solo Piano | Bluesette

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  • čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
  • By using 3 simple elements, you can take nearly any jazz standard and arrange it for solo piano. Hang out and see how by playing a simple bass line, the melody, some 3rd and 7 comping rhythms, and harmonizing in 3rds and 6ths can transform your playing.
    14:19 more advanced bass line
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    Thanks!
    Aimee Nolte

Komentáře • 241

  • @aimilist
    @aimilist Před 6 lety +88

    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 !

  • @kobolto
    @kobolto Před 3 lety +16

    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

  • @wojtekstec5019
    @wojtekstec5019 Před 5 lety +13

    I came across your video accidentally with autoplay on. Great sense of humor and of course excellent teaching method! I'm a teacher myself.

  • @brandoncrutchfield5201
    @brandoncrutchfield5201 Před 6 lety +57

    I play the guitar but I always watch your videos because I learn so much every time, thank you so much for the content

    • @captainkangaroo4301
      @captainkangaroo4301 Před 6 lety +7

      Yes. She has made me a better guitar player as well.

    • @GHRiz
      @GHRiz Před 6 lety +25

      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!

    • @captainkangaroo4301
      @captainkangaroo4301 Před 6 lety +2

      Depending upon your level of musicianship and style of playing two other great CZcams channels are Jens Larsen and RicK Beato.

    • @brandoncrutchfield5201
      @brandoncrutchfield5201 Před 6 lety +4

      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!

    • @AimeeNolte
      @AimeeNolte  Před 6 lety +10

      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.

  • @tedturner03
    @tedturner03 Před 2 lety +2

    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.

  • @enobongthomas1138
    @enobongthomas1138 Před 4 lety +3

    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!

  • @JamesWatsonComposer
    @JamesWatsonComposer Před 3 lety +3

    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.

    • @JamesWatsonComposer
      @JamesWatsonComposer Před 3 lety

      Also he sounds like he has pistol fingers in both hands.... Life goals...

  • @jimmypatino
    @jimmypatino Před 3 měsíci +2

    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!

  • @plainsimple7726
    @plainsimple7726 Před 6 lety +5

    yes finally ! i was searching for a tutorial like this for ever ...
    even asked a lot of piano players in my city ,no one helped .
    thanks alot

  • @ctransam1978
    @ctransam1978 Před 5 lety +4

    Hi Aimee. I can't enough of your singing and playing Bluesette. WOW!!!

  • @davidwhite2949
    @davidwhite2949 Před 4 lety +3

    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!

  • @Jamsville
    @Jamsville Před 6 lety +8

    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.

    • @Photologistic
      @Photologistic Před 6 lety

      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.

    • @samfrazee6498
      @samfrazee6498 Před 5 lety

      chord melody gutar guy hear, we can learn a lot from Aimee

  • @williamwatt552
    @williamwatt552 Před rokem +3

    This is a terrific tutorial Aimee. You are the best. Thank you very much.

  • @John-lw7bz
    @John-lw7bz Před 5 lety +4

    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!!

  • @Synox89
    @Synox89 Před 6 lety +14

    Aimee, please make a studio version of Bluesette! Its so beautiful!

  • @alibiath35
    @alibiath35 Před 2 lety +1

    You've given me new ideas to combine my two hands in your example "Bluesette". There's rhythm in your 3/4!!!

  • @musicmakelightning
    @musicmakelightning Před 6 lety +4

    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.

  • @alexisgs8800
    @alexisgs8800 Před 3 lety +2

    I feel like I just heard an angel sing, I'm hypnotized

  • @stephenbru
    @stephenbru Před 5 lety +7

    Your have a beautiful voice!!!..I love this song!!!

  • @drjazz7278
    @drjazz7278 Před 6 lety +2

    just love this kind of lesson .. really don't think i could this anywhere else on the internet .. or from any book I've got. thanks

  • @martinrerolle1921
    @martinrerolle1921 Před 6 lety +1

    30 seconds in and already feel like this is the video I've always been waiting for

  • @meryrodriguez8808
    @meryrodriguez8808 Před 5 lety +4

    What a beautiful voice omg

  • @evanstevens8021
    @evanstevens8021 Před 3 lety +2

    You're such a great singer and pianist, i love your voice

  • @TonyClarkeThinks
    @TonyClarkeThinks Před 6 lety +3

    thanks. one of my favorite jazz tunes. began jazz piano with your videos. sloooowly coming along. guitar and uke are where I'm coming from.

  • @pierretaylor7011
    @pierretaylor7011 Před 3 lety +1

    Your voice is ideally suited to sing jazz and you’re really good on keys too. 🔥

  • @michaelanthonycaprioni6502

    I like your explain things well you have a good sense of humor

  • @williamshema3119
    @williamshema3119 Před 4 lety +1

    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

  • @marcofidelsuarez4832
    @marcofidelsuarez4832 Před rokem +2

    You are beautiful and excellent teacher. You are perfect.

  • @richardxu8865
    @richardxu8865 Před 6 lety +1

    You're the coolest (and best) jazz teacher I know! Someday I want to do as much good in the world as you do!

  • @jeffreybedrosian4935
    @jeffreybedrosian4935 Před 6 lety +3

    Beautiful demonstration and vocal. Count me in.

  • @JazzDuets
    @JazzDuets Před 6 lety +43

    cool class, well explained! Had not heard the full version for years. cheers!

  • @dougcook2166
    @dougcook2166 Před 2 lety +1

    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

  • @cantabriaecs
    @cantabriaecs Před 6 lety +1

    You are brilliant as a teacher, very engaging, easy to understand...truly a gift God gave you!

  • @rachelsmename
    @rachelsmename Před 6 lety +6

    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.

  • @cathierayes4226
    @cathierayes4226 Před 6 lety +2

    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!

  • @lucasneumanndeantonio9727

    I'd love more of these videos for solo jazz standards instead of comping!

  • @johna6648
    @johna6648 Před 6 lety +1

    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!

  • @DonyaLane
    @DonyaLane Před 5 lety +3

    You have such a wonderful way of sharing music, Amy! I really dig your style and approach.

  • @moonlightmelodrama
    @moonlightmelodrama Před 5 lety +1

    I think I am finally getting it. It's not about the instrument. It's about the music.

  • @jfink2000
    @jfink2000 Před 6 lety +1

    This is gold. A few years ago a teacher turned me on to Dave McKenna's "three handed" technique. I think that's sort of what she is describing....

  • @MikeHartgrove
    @MikeHartgrove Před 4 měsíci +1

    Great info and performance!

  • @jzzfan1
    @jzzfan1 Před 6 lety

    One of my favorite songs. Great rendition. This is why I love music so much.

  • @Jan-S-Simonsen
    @Jan-S-Simonsen Před 6 lety

    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.

  • @herrschnupke4044
    @herrschnupke4044 Před 5 lety +3

    I thank god, that there is Aimee!

  • @jessesingersongwriter
    @jessesingersongwriter Před 2 lety +1

    Love Toots. And this lesson.

  • @janellebussert155
    @janellebussert155 Před 6 lety +1

    Loved this Aimee! You've got two gold videos for me in one week! I love it when you take tunes and "parse" them out like this! Thanks so much!

  • @itorres008
    @itorres008 Před 6 lety +1

    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.

    • @AimeeNolte
      @AimeeNolte  Před 6 lety

      Look at my Bebop Scale Fingering video, Iván

  • @paxwallacejazz
    @paxwallacejazz Před 6 lety +2

    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.

  • @kulpakittomo9199
    @kulpakittomo9199 Před 6 lety +1

    Saw the title of this video and almost cried 😂 thank you so much

  • @NoaNizan
    @NoaNizan Před rokem +1

    You are my queen thats it!! thanks!!!!

  • @jeffroberts_tunes
    @jeffroberts_tunes Před 4 lety +2

    What a fantastic lesson! Thank you so much

  • @gerardoarguello483
    @gerardoarguello483 Před 2 lety +1

    Perfectly explained. Thanks a lot!

  • @Smoothaltheleet
    @Smoothaltheleet Před 6 lety +3

    6:47 “You hear my wrist pop? That was amazing” hahaha

  • @secondstarllc
    @secondstarllc Před 6 lety +1

    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!

  • @14jemima
    @14jemima Před 6 lety

    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.

  • @jmares93
    @jmares93 Před 6 lety +1

    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!

  • @Nano-Fernandez
    @Nano-Fernandez Před 3 lety +1

    You´re amazing Aimee.
    Thank you! so much

  • @MrBudaguda
    @MrBudaguda Před 3 lety +1

    YES AIMEE

  • @barbiebeckford2988
    @barbiebeckford2988 Před rokem +1

    This is wonderful Amy. Thank you.

  • @ardencone
    @ardencone Před 6 lety +1

    Took a lot home today, good job and Thank you.

  • @stts2521
    @stts2521 Před 6 lety +9

    Ótima professora. I love it

  • @nelsonpenaranda2745
    @nelsonpenaranda2745 Před 3 lety

    Que Bello y Hermoso aporte al Jazz Dios Padre me dà a través tuyo Aime. Saludos desde Cochabamba Bolivia

  • @christopherleach157
    @christopherleach157 Před 6 lety +1

    Fascinating and again I'm in awe....thanks Amy

  • @hongkongtennis
    @hongkongtennis Před 6 lety +1

    This is a great lesson for my level. Thanks Aimee.

  • @elisabethaouate8329
    @elisabethaouate8329 Před 4 lety +1

    Great lesson of pedagogy

  • @mikereali6215
    @mikereali6215 Před 6 lety +2

    Thank U Aimee, nice + “Smooooth” beautiful explanation!!! Thank U once again!!!

  • @davesax11
    @davesax11 Před 6 lety +1

    Lovely. One of my favs as well.

  • @WillieParsee
    @WillieParsee Před 5 lety

    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!

    • @AimeeNolte
      @AimeeNolte  Před 5 lety

      I think that you should start with my playlist called, “how to accompany yourself. “It might be really helpful. I’m sorry you have felt frustrated.

  • @danmuzikmailbgdan
    @danmuzikmailbgdan Před 6 lety +1

    Bravo! Das ist Wunderschön!

  • @michelezaraofficial
    @michelezaraofficial Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you Aimee!!

  • @eternalrainbow-cj3iu
    @eternalrainbow-cj3iu Před 5 lety

    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!)

  • @nils8950UTAUACC
    @nils8950UTAUACC Před 6 lety

    this is exactly what i was looking for! you just keep making helpful videos one after another wow

  • @theodorekorbos2804
    @theodorekorbos2804 Před 6 lety

    I think I know this piece it sounds so familiar !! Thank you Ms. Nolte

  • @misskarimuyes
    @misskarimuyes Před 4 lety +1

    Lovely 💖 Thank you got the information and your work!

  • @StavMORO
    @StavMORO Před 6 lety +1

    Super! Very clever, wise, professional and positive lessons! Thanks much)))

  • @tp63us
    @tp63us Před 5 lety +1

    Thanks Amy! Love this sound and your feel.

  • @victorhugotoledocofre1366

    Lovable. Thank you Aimee.

    • @seheyt
      @seheyt Před 6 lety +3

      Almost scary how she ropes you in from the very start :)

  • @ninadigiovanni8811
    @ninadigiovanni8811 Před 5 lety +1

    Aimee is awesome! thanks for sharing your excellent teaching method!

  • @eternalrainbow-cj3iu
    @eternalrainbow-cj3iu Před 5 lety

    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!

  • @erictadashiabe1981
    @erictadashiabe1981 Před 5 lety +1

    Wooowwwww!!! Great job!! Thank you very much!!
    I will try it!

  • @nicholasmarin5945
    @nicholasmarin5945 Před 3 lety

    "Toots" Toosie. Lovely.

  • @leehayton
    @leehayton Před 2 lety +1

    Great tutorial Aimee...thanks 👌

  • @darksevenmaster5398
    @darksevenmaster5398 Před 5 lety

    You voice is so lovely just touches my heart

  • @tmaeer5446
    @tmaeer5446 Před 6 lety +1

    Much appreciated Aimee, I like the method

  • @Ericejazz
    @Ericejazz Před 2 lety +1

    great lesson Aimee! Thank you!

  • @BrunoWiebelt
    @BrunoWiebelt Před 6 lety +1

    Thank you for an other great lesson! Nice new haircolor by the way. Have a marvels weekend.

    • @AimeeNolte
      @AimeeNolte  Před 6 lety +1

      Lol my hair is the same. Thanks tho, Bruno!

  • @elisabethaouate8329
    @elisabethaouate8329 Před 4 lety +1

    A thousand thanks for your explain

    • @elisabethaouate8329
      @elisabethaouate8329 Před 4 lety

      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.

  • @NicholasStein
    @NicholasStein Před 6 lety +3

    I love the edits in this video. Thanks for that.

    • @AimeeNolte
      @AimeeNolte  Před 6 lety +2

      Took a long time. Thank you. :)

    • @NicholasStein
      @NicholasStein Před 6 lety

      How about some gear lust. Check out how David Walliman (a guitar teacher) has set up his recording rig. czcams.com/video/uBbmhuxglIU/video.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.

    • @AimeeNolte
      @AimeeNolte  Před 6 lety

      Boy that’s cool. What a great set up! It’d set me back some serious $ but it would be so nice! Good to know about it. Thanks!

  • @hchuangg
    @hchuangg Před 6 lety +1

    That's awesome! Thank you for sharing this video.

  • @adeppisch
    @adeppisch Před 6 lety +1

    This song was one of my requests during your last Live Stream. Cool! 😎

  • @musicfromhenjo3692
    @musicfromhenjo3692 Před 6 lety +1

    Thanks Aimee! Perfect tune to learn on a sunday ... wish me luck :P

  • @YehonatanLevi
    @YehonatanLevi Před 3 lety

    i can't explain you made me cry

  • @kzeich
    @kzeich Před 4 lety

    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 CZcams. Thank you from Baltimore

  • @leslieackerman4189
    @leslieackerman4189 Před 4 lety +5

    Great song. Curious: there is a lot of editing I notice. I wonder how many hours are devoted to produce 27 minutes? Hard work I bet!

  • @theodorekorbos2804
    @theodorekorbos2804 Před 6 lety

    BEAUTIFUL VOICE !! GO FOR IT !!

  • @tomkirvin4571
    @tomkirvin4571 Před 6 lety +1

    Nice! Thanks, Aimee.

  • @juderandbrisack101
    @juderandbrisack101 Před 6 lety +1

    This is sooo great! thank you

  • @rachelsmename
    @rachelsmename Před 6 lety +2

    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!

  • @Yttik1982
    @Yttik1982 Před 6 lety +1

    Thank you, very helpful!

  • @sayanbhattacharya3233
    @sayanbhattacharya3233 Před 6 lety +1

    This is such a wonderful approach to teaching!