Hi Aimee, While we're on the subject of swinging here's my Oscar Peterson anecdote. Back in the 70's, when I was in my teens, I managed to sneak backstage at an open air concert in Juan Les Pins. That night it was Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Pass and Oscar Peterson playing. Finally the great man finished his set, came backstage and took a seat on a bench surrounded by press photographers. I managed to elbow my way through the pack to request an autograph. Still mopping himself down with a large handkerchief, he gestured at me to sit down. As he signed the piece of paper he turned to me and asked....."Do you play piano?" "Yes I do", I replied. "What do you like to play?" he asked. "Scott Joplin rags" I replied truthfully. "Do you play them straight?" he asked. What do you mean "straight?" I asked. "You know.... straight... on the beat" he said. "Oh yes" I replied. "Well I envy you then" he said. "Why is that?" I asked, pretty certain Oscar could easily play Scott Joplin rags with his eyes closed. "Because I can't play ragtime straight" he said. "Why not?" I asked.... "Cos I gotta swing" he said, with a big laugh and that wonderful smile. Ever since I have boasted that Oscar Peterson said he envied my piano playing! Hope you enjoyed that fond memory of mine and Merry Christmas to you and your family Aimee.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

esotericist that's an amazing story. Absolutely love it. I have heard that Joplin himself used to swing his rags. Not sure if it's true but they sound fantastic either way! Thanks for sharing!

@dieterludemann2913

7 жыл бұрын

esotericist uz

@jeffcraven7376

7 жыл бұрын

I had a similar experience with Diz at Blues Alley in Georgetown in 1987, but I swung, was just getting into bebop, post bop, and the Afro-Cuban style.

@omnipop4936

7 жыл бұрын

esotericist "Ever since I have boasted that Oscar Peterson said he envied my piano playing!" Priceless. :)

@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849

7 жыл бұрын

esotericist: I love that story, thanks for sharing it. Cheers!

Don't mean a thunk, if it ain't got that chunk!

Aimee, you rock! I mean Swing!

This is what it feels like to have a good teacher.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+WT Davidson 😍🙏🏼

@birdhaus81

7 жыл бұрын

It's sincere. I'm an old performing songwriter, and have gotten a little stale and uninspired lately. Watching only a few of these has already kinda jump started a desire to get back to the shed to work on fluid playing and expression, without thinking getting in the way. FWIW, what I love is encapsulated in the Jack Teagarden trombone solo in the Louis Armstrong All Stars Pennies From Heaven recording live at Town Hall in NYC, 1947. Not new, not swing, but I think he was plugged in almost unconsciously that night. For me, that's the thing.

@mannygee005

Ай бұрын

if my impertinence could be forgiven, I have always thought of Aimee as my piano teacher. I picture her riding over on the skateboard...😍

love your sense of humor, as much as what you're saying and playing, Aimee. And I DO love your passion, and your chooses of artists, tunes, and "chonk". :)

Aimee. Your enthusiasm and love for teaching seeps through the screen. I absolutely love your style.

No doubt, Count Basie defines swing. I love your outlook and passion for jazz. It's always been my love and it is refreshing to see that in other people too. Thanks for sharing.

Aimee... my name is Brandon and I desperately needed to learn how to swing... I literally freaked out and thought “did I have a lesson with Aimee 3 years ago?!” 😂

I feel so lucky to have found your videos Amy. I was never a big jazz guy (I'm turning 72 this year) but you have really made me understand a lot more about why it's so cool and important. you're making me love it. Thank you so much. You are a great teacher and really know how to teach appreciation and infuse others with enthusiasm. I love following you. Please don't stop posting and performing.

That interplay between those quarter notes and the cool melody coming in and out of the beat, moving all around. Such a feeling!!

What a great lesson. I thought I was swinging, but no. Now I have the tools to get swinging like Basie and Peterson. In less than 20 minutes, you've given me enough material and insight for a month of practice, which is fantastic. So much fun!

Love this mirror image, a good angle for seeing how the fingers move rather than which keys they are playing. Great lesson Aimee, thanks

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Colin Edwards thanks, Collin! I will have to try it again sometime.

I learnt how to feel swing more fluidly by counting halftime, it also makes solos feel uncluttered for me and almost as though there is more space between the corners to through the back end of the notes around as much as I through the front of them... You are my jazz lesson inspiration by the way! I really respect your warmth and obvious mileage... Thanks for your efforts!

I love how your passion for this stuff comes through in your videos. Keep on swingin'!

Aimee Nolte, Thanks for all your videos!! I really love the way you explain everything A hug from Medellin Colombia

Oh, you're just so inspiring person!!! thank you for sharing your passion to jazz with us!!!

Congratulations Aimee, you are a wonderful teacher. I'm a 17 years old aspiring musician from Argentina and you have inspired me to swing harder (or at least try that). Thank you very much for your videos, cheers.

Wow…you have an amazing ability to connect with your audience! Thanks.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Thomas A. Torr so nice of you to say. Thank you.

LOVE to see you being so passionate! Thanks for a great lesson! Now I really have something to think about... :)

Great! Great! And your energy makes it so fun to learn! I studied jazz vocals and this is...b-a-s-i-c, clear, easy to understand and so good to learn, relearn, rererelearn. Thanks for making this.

I LOVE how you crystallize the finest points in the fundamentals that so many of us can overlook. I have to agree with SeanLeonDrums that you produce the absolute best channel on KZread. There is lot's of great stuff on KZread, but this is the BEST!!!

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Paul Lifsches much too nice, Paul. Thanks so much. 🙏🏼

Freddie Green! You're so talking my language. Your vids are very literally the best. Period. Thank you.

Love how chilled your character feels and passionate about music you sound :) you seem like an awesome person! Plus an awesome pianist! thank you for sharing! lovely lesson :)

So glad I found you! I play classical, pop piano but wanted to start swinging. Lots of work for me because I think I may just be like Brandon.

What comes across to me is that "chunking" or "swinging" means to really feel the rhythm, the pace, the emotional moving of the piece. And this is what makes a good musician. All the greats have it, regardless of music genres. Glenn Gould had it! Listen to him play Bach's Goldberg Variations. The music is coming right from his soul! Your "chunk" lesson is great for helping people to get this. But you really have to give yourself to it in order for it to work it's magic!

You entirely changed my playing style. Thank you so so much! Lots of love from Malaysia

Aimee you are just such a delight! I really enjoy your lessons so much, thank you for doing them. I've just returned to the piano after a one-year break due to illness and I find your videos inspiring.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Kaya Serra that's awesome. Welcome back!

Thank you, it’s super Love you and your teaching Daniel

KZread felt I needed to see this again now. So great. Thank you

You are helping me to learn how to listen to music and enjoy it like I never did before ! Thank you!!

Spectacular way to learn. Eureka! Thank you for making me see a different dimension of swing, and guiding me to study some great musicians.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

erikkohl i'm glad you think so! Thanks so much for watching. :-)

Most soulful swing lesson ever ! Thank you for sharing

Hi Aimee, You're a GREAT teacher! Your vids are amazing! Thx!

Well, that's a revelation. What makes your channel so good is your passion and the way you aim for the beautiful. It's so clear from listening to you that music is music, and not mechanics.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

allan henderson thank you so much, Allan. That's exactly how I feel.

Oh man! Love this lesson. I'm not a pianist, I'm not a jazz player, but this concept is SO critical, whatever style you play/sing. Thanks, Aimee. And yes, Freddie Green was The Man.

Hi I am amazed that I commented 5 years ago when I was just starting . This time I really paid attention and understood that separation of the left hand from the right. Thank you. Now I really understand that guitar chunk with the swinging melody. I guess the dislikes haven't understood it or may be got too excited and hit the button twice. A really valuable lesson 💖

Loved this, Aimee! I just discovered your lessons today. I appreciate your enthusiasm and how you break it down. I remember seeing the Count back east in PA in about 1971. I was about 17 at the time, and learning to play jazz bass. They knocked my socks off. He even came over to our table and we got to chat with him a bit. Many years later I moved to CA and started a house concert series. All kinds of music events have happened here over the past 25 years (over 150 concerts). Just my good fortune to have been so close some true musical greats. Darius Brubeck and band, Jared Gold (B3 player from NYC), Ed Cherry (guitarist for Dizzy Gillespie for many years), and the amazing swing and bebop Hammond B3 organ player Barbara Dennerlein. Check out this swing blues (Stormy Weather Blues) from her with guitarist Christoph Widmoser. It starts out a little sleepy but really picks up. On the surface you could say it's blues, but listen closely and you'll hear the swing elements. Playing ahead of and behind the beat, lots of triplets and other goodies.

I love this "lesson" Aimee. Luckily someone steered me in your direction. Subscribed!

Enlightening video, both for content and passion. Thank you! (also applies to dancing!)

Brilliant Aimee! Speaking as a rhythm guitarist and bassist in various bands over the years, I'd say you really highlighted the essence of swing. Without the drums, bass and steady guitar the lead players wouldn't have anything to weave around. I'm guessing Basie, Peterson, Simone etc swung intuitively but for the rest of us - thanks for great lesson! Oh and remember, if your back needs a little massage ...

A great lesson Aimee, thanks! - and i'm so loving that those three swinging tracks :)

Hello Aimee, Fantastic! job on all of your videos. As a guitarist it's so nice to hear other musicians give Freddie Green the credit he deserves. Keep up all the stellar work. Thanks again, Swing Heil

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Andrew Cole heck yes! I will give him credit all day. :-)

Nice lesson. Love to play bass. especially walking bass. My dad taught me how to play a boogie bass progression when I was 14. He actually taught it to me on my first 🎸 (A Sears Silver tone accoustic.) I have had jazz guitar lessons starting in the 80s. Really like the genre. Again very good lesson.

I have NEVER thought of it like this, but what you said makes sense. I feel what Freddy Green, Ray Brown, et al are doing, but have always struggled to communicate it to the kids! Thanks, Aimee!

Aimee, you are so engaging, thorough and gifted..ALL of you videos are as close to perfect as a musician can be....I only wish I could have convinced my parents that we musicians​ are real,and music is a true profession,. a wonderful gift to be shared by all.:-)))

Recently discovered your channel. Wow - very well done. You teach the very small but hugely important things like the k-chunk. Wish I discovered that 10 years earlier. Happy to know it now!

Your examples of swing cannot be matched !....just excellent..😎

Great stuff Aimee. Well explained and easy to understand!

I LOVE your singing! More, please! Oh...and GREAT lesson, too. Love the way you break things down. But really...now I want to hear YOU sing "My Baby Just Cares For Me"! Will have to see if you have recordings out...just discovered you tonight.

This has changed my life completely, thanks so much!!!

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Floyd Fernandes I'm glad, Floyd! Thanks for watching!

Somehow this turned into an ASMR experience it must be the soothing voice :) also very educational for beginners thank you aimee!

I'm so happy to have found your channel! Very inspiring information, great musical insights and ideas :) Your content and presentation can help a lot of people, thank you!

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+ToranagaSteam i'm glad you found it too. Thank you so much!

Okay, so now you've got me listening to the Duke. Love your stuff. Turned my daughter onto it last night.

You are an inspirational player and personality. Oh, and a great teacher too.

What an inspiring clip. Thank you.

I´m so glad you highlight Freddie Green, a superior musician who was the secret behind Count Basie´s unique sound but always in the background!

YOU and just SOMETHIN' ELSE! Not one person in a million can teach like that. Thanks for the music lesson - and for the teaching lesson too.

Wow there‘s so much heart in your videos!! Amazing 😌

I love your channel so much Aimee

This is so awesome! You're a great educator! PROPS!

Love your enthusiasm

YOUR PASSION IS FLYING OF MY TABLET SCREEN, STRONG VIBES, FLYING ALL OVER THE PLACE. THAT'S THE REALLY AIMEE. OH HOW I MISS HER. WAW. THANKS.

@thomaswitt7815

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Hilary Toussaint, very cool!

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" Great video. I love that Oscar Peterson album Night Train with C Jam Blues. It's gold. It definitely swings.

That was such a good lesson Aimee, thanks for swinging

I really love your passion.

Amazing charism and understanding! Thanks!!

wow you are so a wonderful teacher. i love you !!!

As a guitarist and huge Freddie Green fan, I love hearing you talk about how good he was. Irving Ashby (who played guitar with the Nat Cole Trio after Oscar Moore--another great---had the best line on rhythm guitar in jazz: " Rhythm guitar is like vanilla extract in cake. You can't taste it when it's there, but you know when it's left out." Another great lesson! Another great jazz rhythm guitarist was Herb Ellis. He and Ray Brown recorded together a lot (obviously with Oscar Peterson but also later with Monty Alexander). Herb and Freddie Green made a great album together called "Rhythm Willie"

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Mark Rhodes ooo I will look that up!! I got to meet Herb Ellis once. Love his playing. Thanks Mark!

That is a wonderful class - thank you so much.

Hi Aimee, music teacher and jazz piano player from Toronto Canada here. Love this video... I have a lot of "watch later" clicking to do, I'd love to hear some of your other tutorials! I use a fake book, don't have all the standards memorized, but love sitting at a grand in the corner of a room by a tree (usually fake) with a coffee and play for people! Thanks for what you do! Greg

Hi Aimee, it simply fascinating how you talk. It is almost hypnotic to me and I guess you yourself enjoy recording the videos. If there is something like swinging in talking you can do it! Such a great combination of entertaining and technical details on how to learn it.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Billy Gates you are getting sleepy. Very sleepy. Keep watching my videos. Multiple times. LOL thank you Billy. I'm so glad they are helpful to you. Thank you so much.

As we teach, we learn. That’s one reason why I love teaching.

Really helpfull stuff. By the way: you look great. It's a delight to watch your videos.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Caspar de Groen thanks so much

Thank you so much, amazing video!

LMAOROF...you are so good! Your comparison to not swinging is hilarious...and spot on. Jazz girls are a force of nature!!

Hi Aimee, One whole year I have used your chunk chunk for the Senior Professor's Jazz ensemble in Uppsala, Sweden. Our two guitar players just LOVE it. Merry Christmas!

@AimeeNolte

6 жыл бұрын

Woohoo!

You're awesome! And super inspiring!

I'm always amazed at the talk of swing being sort of a triplet rhythm versus a dotted-eighth-sixteenth rhythm, but I've always found the accents to be as important, if not more so. Hiromi Uehara has a great swing feel.

Great.....greetings from Italy, I speak just a little english, and so, just...I love you :-)

Well there's a classic quote if ever I heard one: "Feel the quarter note in your soul" . Aimee, you need to put *that* on your merchandising :) . Seriously. Keep up the great work!

Excellent video Aimee...gonna chunk chunk all day long now... :-) that's a really good tip and a good way to help us understand and feel what swing is about. Thanks for sharing your passion !

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Jean-François Coco let me know how it works out for you! And thanks!

Hi Aimiee, my tow cents in this discussion: The secret of the word "chunk" is twofold: "ch" marks be beginning of the quater note the end of the word, after we let "uuuuu" ring, the "nk" will eventually fall at the place where you need to place the second note to have this swing feel. The quality of the Freddie green comping was that he let the quater notes ring just enough that the end of it would be beginning of the horn player note.

Vid is amazing! As a singer appreciated the mention of the hard swinging Miss Simone

I think you have a very nice speaking voice. You're nice to listen to also because of how you express yourself. Beauty of course is in the ear of the beholder. I've just recently discovered you. You're a pleasure.

@AimeeNolte

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Josh!

Hi Aimee. As a long-time jazz guitarist who is trying to learn piano, I appreciate your sentiment for Freddie Green. He was, for maybe 50 years, the glue that held together the great Basie band. Was particularly evident at the breath marks during the saxophone soli, when you could hear one good "chunk" sustain the momentum. Or when Basie was soloing with just the rhythm section.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Matthew Goldberg I agree! So true.

"A little bit loco?" Some of the best are/were pretty locally loco. Beautifully coherent, Aimee. Thanks

AS a guitar player who doesn't play or listen to jazz I had never realized a pianist could accent their notes like this. Good to know. Also, I think I am starting to like jazz a lot.

Hi there. You are beyond brilliant. this is so well done. I think this is the most I have ever appreciated, and been interested in, anything to do with Jazz. KZread suggestions work yet again. Thanks =)

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+Christopher Harper 😍🙏🏼

I love your channel so much. 2 really swinging things: the MJQ on the Tanglewood LP "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" the intro is very John Williams straight time but when they hit the head, Milt Jackson swings SO HARD. The 2nd is Oscar Pettiford's solo on "Blues In the Closet" (his tune) on Jazz at Essen with Bud Powell and Kenny Clarke. Just swinging! Thanks for the jazz Aimee.

Muchas gracias, Felipe!

@dorotheefecteau592

6 жыл бұрын

Aimee Nolte Music _

Great Video,Aimee🎶🎶

I play no instrument but your explanations are amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Just found you - great videos. I'm a drummer, and from time to time work with younger drummers, and the hardest thing to get them to do (even when they're playing technically jazz patterns) is to stop rocking and swing. It's a quality that's hard to quantify. I was working with a young man at the community college the other day and as he was trying to pick up the rhythm of a song we were listen to, he just had his hi hat going on 2 and 4, and just from that I could tell he was not swinging., "You're rocking - swing, man!" Will definitely be passing on your channel. Thanks for doing these.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+Chip Hammond thanks so much, Chip!

@chiphammond1623

7 жыл бұрын

Just saw that you've done some collaboration with Paul Pieper. I've played with Paul on a couple of occasions. He hosts a monthly open jazz jam at the Epicure Café in Fairfax VA.

Love this video and subscribed to your channel as a result! I'll never be able to think of the word "chunk" now without thinking about a swing feel..... :-D

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+LouisL1963 love it! Thanks!

haha I love to see you ssssooo into it! Listen now world because this is important.

Loving this!! Thank you!

This is so sweet I love it!

I don't even play piano but the way you talk about music is so enjoyable for me. 'scribed

Tanks Aimee, congrats from Portugal...

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Avelino Oliveira obrigado, Avelino

I was a clarinetist, but it's been a long time. I just LOVE the Basie band!!!!