1:33 Aimee’s rule about piano register - where to play
 1:55 2-note voicings (3rds and 7ths with good voice leading)
 2:44 jumping back up after a drop 3:12 2-note voicings (cont.) 5:54 closed 4-note rootless voicings
 8:26 open 4-note rootless voicings (great for comping a soloist with a simple foundation) 11:29 6-note voicings (great for adding a non-intrusive melody behind a soloist who's building) 13:30 using your options, combining techniques 14:19 "three and two" or "two and three"

I keep coming back to Aimee Nolte Music when I feel lost. There are so many videos out there, but you create an ideal balance between theory, example, and insight. It just works like magic. Thanks so much!

I don't know if you're a better person or a better musician, but wow, you're freaking ridiculously awesome at both. Merci mille fois. Listen to this lady folks. I'm a Passionist and this lady is impassioned.

I’ve said it before, I never truly loved jazz until I found your channel. And as a bassist learning to play piano it’s fun to not be responsible for the roots and 5ths for a change :)

i've developed this bad habit of only playing chords in the root voicing, which like you said is fine in some situations but it gets really boring. this is such a good video for learning other voicings! i can't wait to play around with this, thank you so much :)

Hi, in order to find the best register for rootless left-hand voicings I once heard a piano teacher give the advice: "play them where the piano lid shows *Steinway*" ;-)

@nylophone5730

3 жыл бұрын

Lucky teacher

saw the title, immediately liked the video

Wow I was just checking your channel to see if you had a video like this. Thank you so much for your dedication to educating!!

Thank you so much ❤️😊 Great Jazz Tutorial ❤

Thanks Aimee! I don't speak english but I can understand you, because you are a great teacher and a wondefull musician. I admire you so much!

I have come back to this video about 20 times and it is FINALLY sinking in Thank you, especially a look at the 6 note voicings I realized many of them are "Bill Evans" type A and type B

The best teacher is the one who give me the way to put himself away as soon as possible! This video is one of the greatest ''giant step'' you give to all of us in a view of that purpose!

Just sat down at the piano to practice comping and then this pops up on my notifications. Thank you Aimee!

Great Jazz tutorial.

Thats a great voicing for the C7 #9b5. I usually use the b5 with a 9 so this altered dominant with #9 was hard to hear but your voicing sounds great. The 4 -note voicings (either closed or open) you use are perfect for the vibraphone.

And btw, You may be only person on the planet, and I listen to countless people in the media who consider themselves journalists, for decades, who knows that the only place for the phrase "in the past' , without creating a redundancy, is as an opening statement; the first words of the first sentence of the tome. Great grammar. Great structure. You preserve the sanctity of the art form with your teaching and you do the same with the language of English. All great musicians know how to listen.

Excellent job. Thanks so much for posting.

Thank you Aimee. That was really helpful.

Very helpful and not too hard to understand. Thank you!!

Awesome video, thank you Aimee!

You are a great human Aimee, thank you for your knowledge.

Cool to watch. My main instrument for jazz is the guitar, where I routinely play 3- and 4-string chords, avoiding the root. I'm always jealous of the freedom pianists have when comping: many "obvious" voicings for the piano are flat impossible on the guitar. Because of your videos, I have had a lot of fun playing around on the keyboard with just 3-7 on the right hand against 1-5 stuff on the left (about the limit of my keyboard skillz).

Thank you very much! You have just switched on at least a couple of light bulbs in my innervision! You are a great teacher! Sharing this on FB right away!

Your teachings are genius ❤

i needed this video, thank you aimee

Love the 2 and 3 thing Aimee thanks. Will play around with that

Great great lesson !!! Spent a couple of hours studying it and noting everything in a sheet music !

You are amazing, Aimee... I appreciate you ♥️♥️ this is awesome

Aimee Nolte you are sooo great! I'm a six stringer, so I have to translate, but I love that you make this all so available and clear. Mwwwaah!

Great video Aimee. I've wondered about this for years. How they got that jazz sound in the harmony. Thank you so much.

This was just great. Very thorough and very clear. Time to get practicing. Now the only thing i need is a piano..

Thank you Aimee for this lesson! The instructions and visuals are perfect for learning, I really appreciate your videos and sharing your knowledge, you are the best! I hope one day maybe you will consider doing a lesson like this one in the “Blues” thank you so much! Bravo 👏

Thank you! I'm really enjoying your knowledge and videos! I MUST make a donation to this channel!

Like this Aimee... Love Rootless Voicings!

Aimee, you are always cleaver and knowledge is power!

So helpful! Thank you!

I've put off getting to grips with rootless voicing for years, despite knowing of their existence. I've got no excuses now

very useful explanation, thanks!

Comprehensive, inComparable, Complimentary Comping

@Flat-Five

4 жыл бұрын

David Harper straight outta Compton

Totally want to learn me how to play them jazz and realize there's a galaxy-load to learn...wowza!

Aimee this was really good!

awesome video. thanks.

I grasp and can locate the whole 3 rds a and 7ths concept but need some sort of finger choice guide otherwise when attempting to add the additions then having to rearrange the fingers defeats the purpose. Hopefully this makes sense. Would also like to say that I really appreciated the Moon dance lesson it was a great help. As a longtime blues harp and sax player swing comes fairly natural to me. The technique on piano is a different achievement entirely. Thanks for your help in getting there.

thank you so much for the iReal Pro Tip!! This is a HUGE help :)

When you play your short improv licks, I have an irresistible urge to sing a response that’s half as good.

Great lesson. My wife is having my B-3 restored for me (it has been in storage for a while and needed some TLC), so I'm trying to learn to play gospel organ, I noticed that gospel players comp and voice chords the way you do. This video will help a lot. My pastor also likes jazz sounding chord voicings too. I'll slsobe reviewing your video on creating walking bass lines. Thanks for producing and sharing all the great videos.

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

3rds and 7s are KEY for organ playing. Get to it! Have fun!!! Yewww

You are the best ; Thanks a lot

bravo! thank you

The 3 -2 is so good 👍

Good stuff!!

tudo o que você toca é tão maravilhoso! parabéns!!!!!

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

Obrigada!

That lick at 13:58... I'm stealing that.

Thanks, Aimee

Thanks, Aimee. This makes sense. I will watch those other videos too.

@BillyMcBride

4 жыл бұрын

When you were doing the open voicings, it looked as if your right hand was playing a part of the next chord in advance with the chord you were on, and then as you moved ahead, you picked up the chord to come with your right hand with every change.

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

Many of the notes are common between chords. Yes, watch the other videos. :)

Aimee Nolte is great!

I sometimes feel like a rootless voicing myself. Comprehensive guide helps a great deal.

Thats facinating. Im a bass player and I want to learn upper extension chords on 4 string electric bass. Im thinking it might be easier to leave out the root and play 3rds and 7ths along with upper extensions because of the limitations of that instrument. Pianist seem to have such a great advantage once they know voice leadings. My guess is that when say a non pianist writes a tune most of the time they simply use 7ths and let the pianist use their discretion as to how to voice chords.

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of the time this is the case. I have a video about choosing altered dominant or I go into more depth about this. I’m so glad bass players are watching my video. :-)

This is awesome. This is clearly what professional jazz pianists are doing with their voicings on comping and soloing. Do you have any suggestions for comping in earlier ragtime style?

The book Jazz Keyboard Harmony by Phil Degregg would be a good compliment to this video. It helps you learn some of these chord voicings if you’re a newbie.

Hello Aimee, now I use Google translator and I can understand your classes normally.

I'm in love

Podría enseñarnos a usar esas escalas que usa para improvisar? thankz lady, dear teacher thankz!!! Saludos desde Lima Perú 😘

I wish I knew music theory like you.

@jewellevy

4 жыл бұрын

Start where you are and its fun! You will amaze yourself. But its not magic, just start.

useful

I LOVE YOU

1:11 that look 😍🤩😳 ( too bad, no more emoji with the hypnotized eyes....the emoji commission needs to step up their game 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ )

A W E S O M E.!

more interesting you say absolutely right!

Hello Aimee, thanks for this video, you're the best. I have a question. When you play octave with your right hand, do you always double one the note of your left hand voicing ?

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

No not always.

not sure I'm a fan of a pseudodorian tonic minor... other than that, great work as always!

Have you done a gear episode yet? Best piano for jazz, best piano for beginners and intermediates, pedals etc? - or are you saving that one? 😉

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

Look up my playlist called “gear reviews!”

@paulsmith6090

4 жыл бұрын

@@AimeeNolte on it 👍

Any jazz progressions we should know besides [ii7 > V7 > I]? Apologies if you've already covered this.

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

Switching major chords by fourths is a good idea because it occurs often in standards. So like, from Cma to Fma and so forth

Hi Aimee, thank you for the video. Nice run-through. If you, lets say, have a Eb6/9 chord, and you want to play it with an open voicing, what to you do in you left hand? No seven to play, i assume? :)

@AimeeNolte

3 жыл бұрын

Use G, Bb, C and F. Replace that 7 with the 5. Open voicing possibility is GCFBb. Quartal! Stacked fourths!

Hi Aimee, I heard about "butter notes" from Herbie Hancock videos, are those 3rd and 7ths?

I never had a music teacher, i learn most by net and by thinking by myself on the theory i already know. Saying that, i think of 7s or 6s like 2 chords played at same time, so if im playing a C7major, i think of a C major and an E minor together, so a Rootless C for me in that case its just an E minor. Should i stop seeing this kind of chords this way?

@RobyMBeki

4 жыл бұрын

@Rui_Sousa Well, if you are playing E minor in any kind of voicing the bassist is actually the main guy choosing if he's going for a C to make it a CM7 or CM9 ect. He musn't just go there he has many other options 12 to be exact. He could play Em/G (making it G6) or something crazy like G13/F, it's still just you playing Em7 in second inversion and him playin F. Music is all about compromise, communication and cooperation (the three C's of playing together). I hope this gave you a clearer viewpoint or a whole new perspective on how far you've come. Happy playing and progressing.

@ruisousa7967

4 жыл бұрын

@@RobyMBeki Thank you very much for the response. I understand that, my question was more if i should try to process this chords on my brain as stacking triads or a single complex chord.

What is the smaller font Bb7 under the F7b9? How/when/where is it played? Thx.

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

It’s over the D-flat major chord. It’s supposed to be a substitution for that chord if you choose sometimes.

@grizzlymartin1

4 жыл бұрын

@@AimeeNolte Waay cool. You are so kind. :-)

Is there a way to be notified when the PDF for this particular lesson is available for download from the site. It’s worth far more than the small amount you ask for on your web presence.

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

I’m not exactly sure what you mean. There isn’t a PDF for this lesson.

@johnkotches8320

4 жыл бұрын

@@AimeeNolte I was hoping there would be. It was quite instructive session on voicing for those of us that normally play one note at a time. Plus the voice leading was a great explanation.

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks John! The other videos I referenced (and linked to in the video description) go into much more detail than this video. I hope you check those out.

I notice you put the 6th in the maj 7 chords so that it has both. 7th in the left, 6th in the right. Is that always the case?

@AimeeNolte

3 жыл бұрын

Check out my Jazz Bible video

Is this something i should be able to do on the spot or plan it out a bit first?

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

First you’ll have to plan and practice but it should become second nature after enough time and work.

@antimatter2376

4 жыл бұрын

@@AimeeNolte Ok thanks! I always wondered if i should learn through repetition and not by rote

Aimee or anyone who knows, where can I find such accurate (and specific) chord charts? Are these in your Jazz Bible? The real books are too simple, it would be nice to be able to practice many tunes with the correct alterations and extensions to save time on this exercise thank you

@AimeeNolte

Жыл бұрын

My Jazz Bible is a great little cheat sheet. Lots of people keep one on their piano all the time to figure out chord voicings.

Thanks Aimee. I am not a piano player really, can play some chords. So would playing the third and seven of each chord be the first thing I should learn and internalize to play rootless chords. I think I need to train my brain not to look for the root every time I see a chord.

@AimeeNolte

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I have a few more videos about threes and sevens. Check those out if you need further help.

I don't listen to jazz myself but it sounds close to the circle of fifths

What is that play along app you mentioned?

@AimeeNolte

3 жыл бұрын

IReal pro

Linda eres eres hermosa beatifull ,of Peruvian

I'm a trombonist. I can play only roots.

I actually play saxophone (and a little piano), I come here because Aimee's cute.

What was that app you used?

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

IReal pro

4 жыл бұрын

Aimee Nolte Music And the backing track was from the app as well? Not just the chord chart? (Just so I’m not misinterpreting)

@Osnosis

4 жыл бұрын

Johan Jörtsö yes, you can print from ireal

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, the app plays background tracks as well as let’s you read like 1300 jazz standards and put them in any key in an instant. After you purchase it, click the globe on the bottom and in “forums”, download the jazz 1300 (or whatever the number is) and anything else that looks good to you. Then go back to “songs” (bottom left) and they will all be there

Why do you call b5 on a C7 chord ? Shouldn't be called a #11 ?

@AimeeNolte

3 жыл бұрын

It depends how you spell it. If it’s an F sharp, you would be right but if it is a G flat, it would be called a flat five.

3 and 2, or 2 and 3. Wait...... you know sign language...

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

😂

WHAT FOR A BEAUTIFULL EYES

Consistently ahead of the beat. Weird 😐

I'm sorry, I mean I don't see any problem in playing rootless 3-9. But to take it further to the 11 and 13..COME ON!! THAT'S WAY TOO MUCH BRAINWORK. You see Aimee, it seems that there are TWO KIND OF PEOPLE playing Jazz: group A are those who kind a like 'to call it a day' and then STOP the BRAINWORK and simply allow THE FEELING to take over; group B are those who were and are ALWAYS 24/7 occupied with BRAINWORK(DIZZY GILLISPIE!!). You can almost hear them DOING THE MATH while playing. Feel Free To Correct Me, If I'm Wrong....P.s. No Offence Intended!!!

You are a rusher.

@AimeeNolte

3 жыл бұрын

Your mom’s a rusher.

@verbotenco

3 жыл бұрын

@@AimeeNolte Take it easy. I was pointing at the fact that you are ahead of the time in that Sonny Rollins exercise. No need to get personal...wtf.

@jacobscolliers198

3 жыл бұрын

@@verbotenco she says it to everyone, mate. It’s kind of a meme