33 Minutes of Minor Blues
I'm improvising over 90 choruses of C minor blues, for your viewing an listening pleasure today! I hope you find some inspiration in it! Playing my Hallet Davis baby grand over an ireal Pro backing track.
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Aimee Nolte Parking Lot Duet With Jason Neubauer
Recorded June 27 in Niagara Falls from the hatchback of a Ford in the parking lot of Duffs Famous Wings with my friend, Jason who deserves mad props for doing this in his home town! Ha! I told him I had about 15 minutes to spare while my family ate their chicken wings inside and ordered for me, and he REALLY came prepared. We met in person for the first time in the restaurant, walked out to his car, and threw it down!
An Oscar-Inspired Boogie Blues Etude
Using one of the licks that Oscar Peterson played at Ronnie Scott’s in his “Boogie Blues Etudes”, I composed an attitude, over an F blues That uses his soulful lick and inverts and transposes it it to explore it’s sound a little deeper.
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Blues Improv for 20 Minutes On Fender Rhodes
Nearly 20 minutes of improvisation over an F Blues backing track from the iReal Pro app. I wish I could have kept going for ten more minutes, but it's the holiday time and my family needed me! My main idea here was to start simply and build toward more complex ideas as I went, but to always be in the pocket and to take my ideas where they lead.
Blues Piano Lesson IN REAL LIFE
The very talented, and classically-trained Brenda Martin (professor at Point Loma) and I sat down in her San Diego studio to have a lesson recently. The first half of the lesson was spent, discussing many facets of the blues. I decided (with Brenda's permission, of course) to share it with you!
Can You Recognize The Blues?
How is your knowledge of the blues? Do you think you can recognize these obscure blueses - and can I fool you with a couple that aren't anywhere close to being blueses? We'll talk form, music theory, style, meter and have a bunch of fun while we play this game or sorts.
Comping - The Complete Guide
There is so much to learn before you can adequately comp - before you can successfully be the one in the band who lays down the harmony for everyone else. Whether you are a piano, organ, guitar, or vibes player in your jazz band, this video will provide an overview, but also very specific advice about how to comp - from voicings to rhythms to a deep understanding of what your purpose is as a chord instrument.
Diminished Scales Blues Exercise
Are you tired of using your same old blues improv ideas? Take your ideas to the next level by adding a lick taken from the diminished scale to your playing.
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Do You Know What It Means
"Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" is a song written by Eddie DeLange and Louis Alter, which was first heard in the movie New Orleans in 1947, where it was performed by Louis Armstrong and sung by Billie Holiday.
How Dizzy Taught Me To Play Fast
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Let's look at this killer sixteenth note blues lick that I transcribed from Dizzy Gillespie and how I went about teaching myself to use it everywhere possible as I work on my jazz improv.
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 Play Any Jazz Standard For Solo Piano - Bluesette
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. Bluesette is a jazz standard, composed by Toots Thielemans. It was composed in the key of B-flat major. First recorded by Toots Thielemans in 1961, with lyrics added by Norman Gimbel, the song became an international hit.
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How To Spice Up Your Blues Progression (Thanks To Oscar)
Taking an example from Oscar Peterson's Boogie Blues Etudes, we learn a couple of simple modifications to take your blues playing to the next level.
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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.
Jam Session With Kris Johnson And David Halliday
Taking your live requests and questions, and hanging out with these two giants of musicians from Utah: Kris Johnson and David Halliday. To donate to my channel, please click here: https://paypal.me/aimn
Jazz Lesson: How To FREAKING SWING
Chances are, if you're a beginning jazzer, you don't swing yet. You may think that you do... but you probably don't yet! I was once you. This is how I learned to swing. Hope it helps all you future swingin cats.
Jazz Piano Tutorial: How To Comp On A Bb Blues
Simple 4 note voicings to comp with your rhythm section over a Bb Blues.
Lyrical Blues
Lyrical Blues from the 3 Sonnies - Sonny Stitt - Sonny Rollins - Sonny Criss - The blues scale is a great tool for beginners, but what do you do to make your solo reach a little further and become memorable? I'm just gonna step back and let Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins, and Sonny Criss show you how it's done!
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Music Is Supposed To Be Fun!
Just a little reminder to take a good look inside and remember why you are playing music...for the love of it...for the enjoyment...for the FUN!
My 13 Year Old Son, Charlie, Singing Michael Jackson's Who's Loving You
"Who's Lovin' You" is a Motown soul song, written in 1960 by William "Smokey" Robinson. The song has been recorded by many different artists including The Miracles, who recorded the 1960 original version, The Temptations, The Supremes, Terence Trent D'arby, Brenda and The Tabulations, John Farnham, Human Nature, En Vogue, Michael Bublé and Giorgia Todrani and Jessica Mauboy. The most famous version is attributed to The Jackson 5.
New Orleans Blues Piano
New Orleans blues, is a subgenre of blues music and a variation of Louisiana blues that developed in the 1940s and 1950s in and around the city of New Orleans, rooted by the rich blues roots of the city going back generations earlier. Strongly influenced by jazz and incorporated Caribbean influences, it is dominated by piano and saxophone but has also produced major guitar bluesmen. Major figures in the genre include Professor Longhair and Guitar Slim, who both produced major regional, R&B chart and even mainstream hits.
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New Orleans Blues Piano Lick (Part 4)
Want to add some 16th notes to your blues playing, like a BOSS? Make sure you watch the other 3 videos first and then learn this lick that is sure to boost your blues game!
Oscar Peterson Boogie Blues Piano Tutorial
From Oscar's "Boogie Blues Etudes" , live in London, 1974, we start at 2:10 and learn the walking boogie bass left hand. I found a better video of the concert than I show in the tutorial. This is it: https://youtu.be/SewFqU5SjuE
Oscar Peterson: Soulful Licks From Ronnie Scott's 1974
This video follows this one: https://youtu.be/P4pKqoj1HKI and this time we focus on the right hand! These are some amazingly soulful and bluesy lines by Oscar Peterson! You're going to love it!
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Please Come Home For Christmas (tutorial to follow)
Merry Christmas, everybody. This is one of my very favorites. I'll teach the piano accompaniment in my next video. Stay tuned!
Please Come Home For Christmas (tutorial)
Use this groove to play Please Come Home For Christmas or any other 12/8 doo-wop or R&B tune and have fun for days!
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San Francisco Bay Blues - Performance and Tutorial
I have loved this ever since I heard it on Eric Clapton's Unplugged album. This is a bluesy, folk-roots style of piano playing I am working on, trying to imitate the guitar picking styles of old masters like Merle Travis.
Steely Dan's Peg: What You Missed
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You Don't Know Me (Ray Charles)
Just playing a pretty song on a sunny morning. Aimee Nolte Cover: You Don't Know Me (Ray Charles)
You're Failing At The Blues Scale
People don't think about the blues scale in the right way, and it's ruining their jazz solos. Improvisation can't simply be thought of in terms of "a scale" and have imagination, soul and meaning.Try these things instead!