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Billy Joel - Master Of The Key Change

Billy Joel - Master Of The Key Change

Let's explore She's Always a Woman, Anthony's Song, Uptown Girl, Vienna, and Honesty to look at the way Billy Joel weaves us in and out key centers, using motifs, bass lines and subtle tricks of music theory.

Diatonic Mediant And Submediant Modulations

Diatonic Mediant And Submediant Modulations

Temporary modulations to the mediant and submediant are very common in jazz and popular music. It's important to learn to recognize them when they occur, hear the difference between them and know how to predict them when playing chords by ear.

Expand Your Hearing! Minor 2 5 1 Exercise

Expand Your Hearing! Minor 2 5 1 Exercise

This is an exercise that takes you through all 12 keys, using a minor ii V i lick, that will help you to be able to hear an altered dominant extension...a triad, based on the flat five of the dominant chord. I like this one because it's melodic and pretty and can be easily used in improvisation while soloing over tunes.

Harmonic Minor Jazz Workout

Harmonic Minor Jazz Workout

Gain all sorts of new ideas and access to a flavor you may not have explored before with my new harmonic minor workout!

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Hearing Your Way Through Difficult Changes (Have You Met Miss Jones)

Hearing Difficult Changes

Hearing your way though changes on tough tunes is a real challenge, but is an integral part of developing your musicianship. Let's look at some tricks that can be used to help you hear those shifts in tonality and improve your improvising and raise your ear training to a new level.

How To Figure Out Chords To Songs

How To Figure Out Chords To Songs

Using Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles and She's Always a Woman by Billy Joel, we walk through the steps to deciphering the chords to songs, just by using our ears and our voices. For this video, I tried to take something that is fairly simple for me, accessible to everyone who knows a bit about music.

How To Improvise Over Rhythm Changes

A two-part series about how to improvise over these famous chord changes. In this video, we talk about how to use the blues to make our way over Rhythm Changes and sound super hip. Watch for part two where we will discuss Bebop lines.

How To Write A Chart On The Fly

How To Write A Chart On The Fly

"On The Fly" is an expression, meaning, to do something quickly, without much time for preparation or thought. Sometimes we have to write charts (a term that jazz players use instead of "sheet music") very quickly and under odd circumstances. Here is how I do that!

I Am Thankful For The BEBOP Scale

I Am Thankful For The BEBOP Scale

From my vacation spot in Watsonville, CA where we have a fun little lesson about how to sing the dominant chords on the bridge of Rhythm Changes, using the bebop scale.

Improvising - A Musical Conversation! - Bb Blues

Improvising - A Musical Conversation! - Bb Blues

Taking a solo is sooo much like talking to a friend. Come up for air once in awhile and offer something worthwhile to the exchange! Bb blues jazz changes.

Playing Outside The Changes #1

Playing Outside The Changes #1

A little device to get you thinking outside the box when you are improvising on a blues. Whether you are a player or a singer, get this in your ears and use it to launch you outside and then very stealthily work your way back in.

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Sequencing Rhythmic Motifs On Rhythm Changes

Sequencing Rhythmic Motifs On Rhythm Changes

Using the opening rhythm from Oleo, I make a solo out of only that rhythm and move it through the chord changes to open up many many more possibilities in my soloing!

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The ONE Chord Nobody Seems To Understand

The ONE Chord Nobody Seems To Understand

Let's look at Earth, Wind and Fire's "That's The Way of The World", Billy Paul's "Me and Mrs. Jones", and Anita Baker's "Sweet Love" to see how to HEAR whether or not the chord charts are correct when they have the GALL to write an 11 chord. :)

The Secret To Learning More Complex Chords

The Secret To Learning More Complex Chords

See the follow up, more in-depth video exclusively on Nebula now!https://nebula.tv/videos/aimeenolte-u... At least one secret, anyway! Upper structure triads are the best way I know to convey a huge amount of information in a very concise way. Jazz harmony might just become much more manageable for you if you try understanding it in this way. See if it works for you! Sign up for my Nebula Class here:https://nebulaclasses.com/aimeenolte

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