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[FREE PDF] Aimee's Top 25 Jazz Standards To Know

Aimee's Top 25 Jazz Standards To Know

Aimee's Top 25 jazz songs to know & autograph :-) People often wonder which jazz tunes they should learn first. I have carefully selected 25 of the most important jazz standards, and placed them in an order that I think is good for beginners.

4 TASTY 2-5-1 Substitutions

4 TASTY 2-5-1 Substitutions

When you see a 251 chord progression, realize that you don't have to play it as written. There are options. Let me show you a few of my favorites!

A New Jazz Accompaniment Style For You

It's not really NEW, but it might be new to YOU. A contemporary rhythmic addition to your playing; the all-syncopated straight 8th style which originates from the Brazilian Polka style of guitar playing. Have fun with it and let me know if it was helpful to you!

Adding Upper Extensions To Your Solo Piano Arrangements

In this video, I teach about times when a flat nine occurs in the melody, over a dominant seventh chord. Learn how to play triad extensions to increase your harmonic vocabulary with me!

Aimee and Louis: Everyone Can Harmonize (Part 3)

Aimee and Louis: Everyone Can Harmonize (Part 3)

In this third episode, my son, Louis helps me show how to find the third or the "mi" to start recognizing where to begin making up your own harmony. Try to put yourself in his spot and predict the notes he sings before he sings them...and then we leave room for you at the end for you to sing a note on your own, in three part harmony with us!

All The Crazy Re-Harms

All The Crazy Re-Harms

Thank you to everyone who submitted a re-harm video for “Crazy!” There were so many great ones! Show some love in the comment section!

ALL The Easy Reharms

ALL The Easy Reharms

Thanks, everyone for submitting your re-harms of Mac Ayres' "Easy." Time stamps and names of artists below. Make sure and leave positive feedback for these brave souls!

All The Weak Re-Harms

All The Weak Re-Harms

Thanks, everyone for submitting your re-harms of SWV's "Weak." Time stamps and names of artists below. Make sure and leave positive feedback for these brave souls! George Higashiyama - Pavel Duda - Dov Allouch - Hugo Ronciere - Matthew Goldberg - Miguel Munteanu - Gina Mancinelli - Olli Pekkasuua - Peter Fitzsimmons - Francesco Bortolussi - Henrik Martén - Michael Low Chew Tung - Phil Spence - Harsh Shandilya - Hou C Music - Brenda Martin - Geoffrey Rayback - Paulius Skuliesius - Alex Hafezi

Altered Dominant Chords And Scales

Altered Dominant Chords And Scales

This is my practice routine for getting altered dominant (#5, #9 chords specifically) rootless closed-voicing chords, and diminished whole-tone scales (sometimes referred to as the 7th mode of the melodic minor scale) under my fingers and in my brain. You can get such a hip sound in your playing if you understand how these notes function in each key.

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Analyzing Lead Sheets

Analyzing Lead Sheets

In order to truly understand the music you are playing, a quick analysis is vitally important. Having an understanding of why the song does what it does, and where it does it is KEY to really absorbing it.

Can You Hear These 2-5-1s?

Can You Hear These 2-5-1s?

Ok, so you think you know about 251s - but can you recognize them when they occur in songs? Can your ears tell the difference between a major 251 and a minor? It's time to practice with me. Let's go!

Can You Recognize The Blues?

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.

Chances are - The first song you wrote sounded like this

3 magic chors

Ami G and F are like magic for some reason. Those chords tend to be some of the first that people discover when they start exploring the piano and they are the building blocks for some of the greatest songs ever written and of songs YET to be written!

Choosing Dominant Alterations

Choosing Dominant Alterations

Choosing which altered dominant chord to play during a minor 2 5 1 can be a daunting task, but using a popular holiday classic, I attempt to demystify the process for you and make something beautiful. Recorded using Earthworks SV33 Earthworks PM40 5'3 Hallet Davis Baby Grand

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Comprehensive Guide To Rootless Voicings

Comprehensive Guide To Rootless Voicings

From 3rds and 7s to 6 note powerful rootless voicings, I walk you through Sonny Rollins' Airegin and discuss ALL the possibilities. Thanks for sharing and liking!

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.

Diminished Chords In Pop Music

Diminished Chords In Pop Music

An overview of the many uses for the extremely versatile diminished 7th chord and how great composers over the last 6 decades or so have used this chord of intrigue to make rich and compelling pop songs.

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.

Extreme 2-5-1 Workout

Extreme 2-5-1 Workout

Playing ii V I licks in all keys is one of the best ways I know to improve your soloing skills.There's no better way to get new phrases into your head then by figuring them out in all the keys and drilling them over and over.

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Extreme Minor 251 Workout

Extreme Minor Workout ii V i

Playing minor ii V i licks in all keys is one of the best ways I know to improve your soloing skills.There's no better way to get new phrases into your head then by figuring them out in all the keys and drilling them over and over.

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Focus On Augmented and Diminished Chords

Focus On Augmented and Diminished Chords

After getting a grip on major, minor, dominant and half diminished chords, I think it's important to study fully diminished 7th chords and augmented triads, as they function harmonically in all 12 keys. This exercise will help you to make musical sounding voicings as you navigate through these types of chords.

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Harmonizing With Myself - My Romance

Harmonizing With Myself - My Romance

I sat down to practice this, thinking that I probably would need 3 or 4 takes, but I'd better record it just in case I get a good one... and it turned out I didn't need any more takes! Harmonizing with myself is something I practice a lot. It works my brain out like crazy, and challenges me in a way nothing else does. My goals in doing this are always changing, but number one is to be true to myself and sing what wants to come out. After that, it's just "will I put the voice on the top or bottom?", "which intervals will I land on?", "which 'voice' should take the lead now?", etc. I hope you have fun watching and listening!

How John Lennon Packed 10 Complex Chords Into 8 Bars

How John Lennon Packed 10 Complex Chords Into 8 Bars

John Lennon's (Just Like) Starting Over is a masterpiece in melody and harmony. He wrote it as a tribute to his heroes like Elvis, Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison, but it's much more intricate and deep than you might realize after hearing it played on the radio. Let's explore the music theory and beauty of this song.

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How To "Reharm" A Pop Song

How To "Reharm" A Pop Song

Using Imagine Dragons' "It's Time", I walk you very slowly and methodically through the way I think about reharmonizing popular music to fit the jazz idiom. We draw from the melody and utilize chords from within the key and from out of the key to create color and excitement!

How To Build And Notate Chords

How To Build And Notate Chords

I'm so sorry that the audio cuts out. Here is the missing audio transcribed: * Alright now we're talking about diminished chords. You can draw two boxes, we'll have a minor 3rd on top, and a minor 3rd on the bottom. And we can come over here and just flat that 5th degree, g flat, and we've got a minor third there, and a minor 3rd there. * A very simple video to demonstrate how to find the notes of chords in root position (using the key of C as an example) and how to write them down, or notate them, and be able to recognize them in your reading of music. If you'd like to support me, you can do so here: https://paypal.me/aimn

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.

Jazz Piano Comping With Open And Closed Voicings

Jazz Piano Comping With Open And Closed Voicings

Using the tune, "But Not For Me," I discuss open and close comping voicings for jazz piano. Email me if you would like a worksheet to go along with this video.

My BEST Diminished Trick

My BEST Diminished Trick - Upper Structure Diminished Exercise Score - 8 Pages PDF

We're talking ADVANCED jazz piano today. How to get that magic diminished descending sound like Oscar Peterson and so many great pianists. Using upper structure and octatonic devices, we learn to decorate altered dominant chords like BOSSES. Let's DO this!
My BEST Diminished Trick - Upper Structure Diminished Exercise Score - 8 Pages PDF

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My Friend Challenged Me To Re-Harmonize A Christmas Song

Re-Harmonize A Christmas Song

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is maybe my favorite holiday song and it was so much fun to reharmonize it for this video! I hope it becomes part of your holiday listening, this season!

Mysterious Chords

Mysterious Chords

What kind of chords do you need to sound unresolved? How can you use ambiguous harmony to ask questions within your compositions? Like if there could be music behind these very questions, what would it be? 

One Exercise - All The Chords

One Exercise - All The Chords

Voicing simple 7th chords in every key is something all jazz pianists (and pianists who play from lead sheets in general) should be able to do. Without getting too fancy with 9ths and 13ths and altered tones, I'd like to help you be able to simply voice all major, minor, dominant and half diminished chords simply and beautifully with this very musical exercise.

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One Triad - 4 Directions

One Triad - 4 Directions

To get the pdf with all of the triad iterations you see in the video, use the buttons below

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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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Pro Tip: Triadic Planing

Pro Tip: Triadic Planing

Using major triads as upper extensions and "planing" can give your piano playing a wonderful new sound! Let's talk about how to do it and ways to use it!

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Rick Beato

Rick Beato is guitarist, a producer and an amazing teacher. Has his own studio called Black Dog Sound based in Atlanta, GA.

Simon And Garfunkel: The Harmony Struggle

Simon And Garfunkel: The Harmony Struggle

If you're like me, you have tried to sing a 3rd part along with these two geniuses for years, and have STRUGGLED. The craftsmanship of Simon and Garfunkel goes DEEP. Explore it with me and see why it is so difficult to sing a 2nd harmony part along with the masters.

Songs That Start On The IV Chord

Songs That Start On The IV Chord

I LOVE songs that start on the IV chord! They are so compelling and interesting and I want to talk about so many of the ones that I adore with you now! From Paul McCartney to Louis Armstrong - let's do this!

Speedy Roman Numeral Analysis

Speedy Roman Numeral Analysis

This is a follow up video to my How To Transpose A Song To Any Key video. In which we discuss how to correctly label chords that are "out of the key", but in a slightly easier and "on the surface" type of way. The purpose is still to help you transpose to and play in any key very quickly.

Step Up Your Soul With A Tritone Sub

Step Up Your Soul With A Tritone Sub

Leading to the IV chord with a tritone substitution is one of the quickest ways I know of to sound like a legit gospel/soul piano player. Check it out with me!

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The Chord That Shouldn't Work

The Chord That Shouldn't Work

This is the chord that shouldn't work, but does, in the right context.
It's so exciting and beautiful and I think you'll love it!
Using the tune, "My Romance," we walk through how to play this gorgeous chord in all 12 keys.

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