Improving Your Rhythm
Using exercises from The Drummers' Cook Book and The Charlie Parker Omnibook, we sight read some tricky rhythms while simultaneously building our coordination, sight reading skills, and jazz vocabulary.
Teaching in master classes, clinics and YouTube
Aimee is quickly becoming a highly sought after educator in the jazz community, since launching her YouTube channel, Aimee Nolte Music. She spent a 10 day stint as an instructor for the renowned vocal coach David Braid's VocalizeU camp in Malibu during the summer of 2016 and has appeared as a featured artist/clinician/adjudicator at numerous jazz festivals around the country, including Univeristy Of Northern Michigan, Fullerton College, South Plains College, The Hilton Head Jazz Camp and BYU School of Music University of Mary in Bismark, ND, as well as many online masterclass engagements during the pandemic. Aimee continues to teach clinics and master classes to students who want to learn to scat sing like serious jazz musicians, and players who want to take their improvisation game to the next level.
Practicing Misty... For An Hour
Basically using the formula from my "Practice Routine - A Tune A Week" video, I dive into Misty, practicing playing the melody with roots, closed left hand voicing, open two - handed rootless voicings, scales and arpeggios!
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!
Soloing Over a ii V in Bb For 30 Minutes
Even when soloing over an idea as simple as Cmi to F7, there are endless ideas to be played! Even over just one chord, there are endless ideas to be played! Download the free backing track below!
| File | Description | File size |
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 Aimee's ii V I Exercise | MP3 File | 19892 kB |
Practicing Over ONE Chord
Even over just one chord, there are endless ideas to be played! Pick up the backing track here and play it in loop mode.
| File | Description | File size |
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| Minor Funk Exercise | MP3 file (set your player in loop mode) | 3379 kB |
Soloing On "SO WHAT"
Transcribing GREAT solos, analyzing them and learning to apply key elements into your own soloing is the best way I know to improve your improvisational skills. I'd like to show you what I worked on with my student, Lucy in our last lesson and challenge you to transcribe, analyze, and GROW.
You Reharm Aimee (Gnarls Barkley - Crazy)
Click the link below to get the free vocal track (and a bonus pdf of the chicken-scratch re-harm that I did), and GO TO WORK. You've got until Thursday at 10:00 am, Los Angeles time to submit your own video re-harm creations. I'll make a compilation of the ten that I love and put them together for my video on Friday morning! Send me A VIDEO of yourself playing your instrument(s) along with my vocal track. Feel free to get creative and make something amazing! If you want me to add a link to your youtube or social media sites, include it in the email that you send to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Recorded using Earthworks SV33 Korg SV-1 Keyboard
| File | Description | File size |
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 Crazy Reharm PDF | 546 kB | |
| Crazy Reaharm Vox 105 BPM | MP3 File 105 BPM | 1085 kB |
Guitar Picking For Piano, 2nd Step
If you've watched my first video about finger picking style, as applied to the piano, this is the next stop on your journey. Now you can take that principle and apply it to countless songs. Link to the worksheet in the first video: Fingerstyle Guitar For Piano Tutorial