Been doing this for a few weeks now and if I can offer any advice, its just simply to make sure you take Monday as seriously as the rest of the days (its tempting to slack on Monday listening, cuz it feels like an off day). If you reallllly drill that melody and those lyrics in your head on Monday, it reallly makes the transposing days go much smoother. If you just think "Oh I've heard the song a bunch of times in the past, no biggie" but the lyrics and ALL sections of the melody aren't drilled into ur head, then transposing will be much more frustrating and time consuming....I love this tune a week formula!

@EricGoetzMusic

2 жыл бұрын

I wanted to like this comment, but didn't want to mess up your 69 likes, so I'll just comment here instead. Agreed that the "away from the piano" work is *so* important, and often under appreciated.

@bsykesbeats

2 ай бұрын

​@@EricGoetzMusic😂 I can appreciate not wanting to break the 69

This is like having the nicest mom on the block teach jazz. So great

@hezekiahdaggett2179

4 жыл бұрын

Pope's Palace shut up

@popespalace823

4 жыл бұрын

@@hezekiahdaggett2179 but she's my jazz mommy ;oo

@AimeeNolte

4 жыл бұрын

Then be more respectful next time. I don’t mind anyone calling me Jazz Mom, but the other thing...I loathe it.

@popespalace823

4 жыл бұрын

I am 13

@georgehiggins1320

4 жыл бұрын

weirdest comment thread ive seen in a while... XD

Monday- Choose tune, Listen all day, Pick your favorite recording, Acquire or write your chart Tuesday- Learn the melody, Learn the words, Play roots (LH), Play 3 & 7(RH), Sing Melody in 12 keys Wednesday- Create beautiful, rootless, 2-handed voicings, Comp with play-along or metronome (1 key) Thursday- Figure out LH, closed, rootless voicings, Play melody with RH (12 keys using metronome) Friday- Solo with patterns, Solo with scales (play from memory) Saturday- Start performing, Create intro & ending, Play the head in, solo, comp, head out Sunday- Rest and be proud of the reward of your work

@AimeeNolte

6 жыл бұрын

Paraphrased like a CHAMP 🥋

This is a really good reminder that "deep learning" takes time, and that quick superficial learning does not really move the ball forward (even tho the little ego voice in my head keeps screaming that "kinda getting it and moving on" is enough, when it's not).

"Even if you're a guitar player" Love it!

I must say, no matter how complicated practicing gets, if i just come back to this I feel so much more grounded and at ease with my routine. Thank you for this!

Teacher I never met, the teacher I always needed!

You are not just opening a world, but a universe

Just discovered you on KZread and I'm freaking out. So much stuff to learn! I'm a trumpet player and singer, now trying to add piano. You're showing me exactly what I need. Can't thank you enough, Aimee.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

bixntram that makes me happy! Thank you for that me know.

@empowermph

6 жыл бұрын

dude, I agree, just found her channel, she's killing it

@DavisDuck

3 жыл бұрын

I am just finding your channel too, Aimee. So very helpful on so many levels. I'm a just -retired English prof finally getting to spend time on jazz trumpet, which is difficult but a wonderful new avocation for me. Your many videos are a library of high quality assistance! Thank you!

I have done this for 10 weeks. Gotta say, it is a fun and rewarding routine. Focusing on one thing a day has helped me to be more well-rounded and to discover aspects to tunes that I would have overlooked before. Thank you Aimee!

THANK YOU AIMEE! YOU ARE SO AWESOME!

I’ve been trying to learn jazz piano for a while now after over 20 years of classical piano...read so many books..watched videos..but your channel is the first one which really makes me get it and breaks it down so it’s accessible and understandable. Thanks so much for all the time and effort you put into making your videos and helping us Jazzers learn the craft! 👍😀

@AimeeNolte

6 жыл бұрын

Thank You so much, Alastair. I may give you a little shout out on Facebook today. :-)

I am so glad that you mentioned Marian McPartland. What a gem we had there. Thank you, Amy, I like your stuff! Trumpet and conga player, Kate

Love your teaching !

This is just, so, great! Thank you, thank you, thank you

Just found your channel recently and wanted to say thanks for the great lessons and tips!

Oh My, this is very helpful. This is GOLD, thanks for sharing Aimee :)

This is great, Aimee. This method is working well for me. Thanks so much!

You're awesome! Thank you for sharing your routine 🙏🏿

Thank you from Argentina!! the lessons are incredible!

Your lessons are so helpful. The insight and intuitive approach makes me want to listen and watch all of these, and most of all, inspires me to PRACTICE ! Thanks.

I'm a singer, I've just finished a short course on writing and arranging for jazz and my partner has introduced your channel to me just at the right time. I am going to really TRY to follow this regime. Thank you

Thanks Aimee :) you really are great

You are just brilliant Aimee!! Great advice on how to approach a tune and building your repertoire, Even as in my case I can't go at that pace the steps are still important. Thank you so much! I will write you for that chart/list.

Thank you! I love your attitude towards music. ❤

thank you so much, THIS is how to go really deep into a tune

OMG, Ive been looking for this soooooo much!!!!!!!! thank you :))))))

You're simply the best. Thank you. You were able to resolve my perennial problem.

This is brilliant. Thank you!

This is wonderful! Thank you. I just skipped on Monday, but I've been working on a song all last week, and now yi have a great method here😊

Sax player here just found you recently as I have been trying to learn piano and I need to say you have some of the best tutorials out there and the fact that make all these lessons free is amazing. Keep up the awesome work!

A great lesson plan! I feel like for me, I might rush the first few days and skip ahead, but that might be useful since the last few are more intensive. This will be great for working over the summer!!!

Thanks Aimee! I love your videos, Rick Beato's video on greatest solo of all time got my turned onto you and I"m SO glad he did. After spending awhile on your open voicing 101 video I'm going to try this. May start with taking longer than a week per tune (intimidated by transposition Tuesdays already) but I'm gonna give it a good try. you're unlocking so many things I've struggled with for a long time. Keep up the great work and I"ll keep watching :)

This is so wonderful Aimee, I'm going to start this schedule right away starting with What's New (Helen Merill, Cliff Brown and Max Roach version). I usually play faster hard bop tunes but the melody and lyrics from this song really move me. I love the idea of singing over the root, 3rd, and 7th in all 12 keys. I usually don't sing the melody all that much so this will be an interesting challenge.

Hello Aimee, thanks for the encouragement and truthfulness and honesty. You have a passion which is addictive!! I'm a sax player at an intermediate level playing in a community Jazz combo and Community R&B band and subbing with several other professional and nonprofessional bands. (My day job certainly gets in the way..) There is so much to learn, you explain every detail very well! Your coaching me to the next level!! Thank you SO MUCH!!

Brilliant idea!! Definitely going to do :)

Just discovered you too Inspiring instructions and comments. It's time for me to get our piano tuned and have fun. Thank you

Thank you so much for this, the past few months I've been drilling scales, arpeggios, voicings etc so much that I sometimes forget that the goal of my practice is to create MUSIC!! This incorporates all the skills a musician really needs. And I also appreciate the day off, a lot of the time I feel guilty for resting but it really is necessary for practice and for your brain to rest.

This is the best answer I've found on how to practise 💯❤️🔥

Hi Aimee. I'm a bass player and just started bingeing on your videos. Learned so much. I've been playing in a jazz group for 10 years and every time I learn something I realise how little I know; a very humbling experience. I've practised an equivalent to your tune a week, but not so structured, and on the bass (6 string) learning the tune and chords inside out. Will try to adapt your approach. You've also got me really listening more widely and deeply, and singing! My goal is to get what I hear or sing out of my fingers, real time.

Thanks so much, even though I'm a guitar player this information has been so beneficial. Can't thank you enough!

Aimee: Your ability to sing whatever you play is a fantastic talent. Most instramentalists don't or can't do this. A great video

Hi Aime Thank you so much for sharing this fantastic idea . I will be busy for a long time now. You are just brilliant. I wish I was on you playing level :-)

Thank you! Wonderful lessons!!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, greetings from Caracas Venezuela

Thank You! Such structure!

THANK YOU!!! I’m not a pianist nor a singer, but this is a great organized way to study. Exactly what I needed! Ps. Love you work!

Awesome video to help my practice routine. I'll adapt for guitar Thanks Aimee.

Inspiring me to focus... Thank you!

Aimee, this is uncanny. Before watching this, I had been listening to a Joe Henderson recording of Recordame all week and just listened to Marian McPartland’s interview of Oscar Peterson where they mentioned learning the lyrics of tunes. Just this past week. What a coincidence.

Best youtube suggestion ever!

Gracias Aimee, excelente video. Saludos desde Colombia.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+Ray Pianoman de nada, Ray!!

Thank you for this, Aimee. I'm afraid I am so lazy, but your advice to practise six days and just play for fun on one day is very inspiring. How I wish you were my teacher. Although in a sense you already are because I love learning from your wonderful you tube videos! God bless you and your talented family.

So helpful. I need this direction so I can progress.

This channel is gold. Practicing is actually pretty fun now. I love improv again and playing feels fresh to me. Thank you.

@AimeeNolte

6 жыл бұрын

🙌🏼❤️🙏🏼

Excellent study plan! By the end of the week you'll definitely own the tune. Newly subbed to your channel and loving the lessons. Although a guitarist of many styles for over 40 years, I am just now diving in to Jazz and so much of your material applies to the guitar as well as many other instruments. I really like your style of playing, singing and your video production. Thanks SO much Aimee!

@AimeeNolte

6 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad. Thank you!

👍😎☺Learning one tune a week is quite feasible, and will help you build your repertoire. When it's all said and done, that's 52 tunes in a single year. My jazz band normally runs through 36 tunes in three sets with two breaks for a three hour show. Great advice, Aimee.

@AimeeNolte

6 жыл бұрын

+Blind Jack Cotton 🙌🏼🙌🏼 thanks Jack! Absolutely!

@robsgirl6465

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, Aimee, that was a fast reply! I didn't expect that. Very cool. Keep up the great work.

this is great, thank you so much

It’s a testimony to Aimee’s excellence as a teacher that someone at my late-beginner level can get so much from her lessons. But I agree with an earlier comment that just step two would take me, essentially, forever, even with a song I know really well. When I get to Wednesday, my skill level is so weak that my frustration level suddenly soars and a joy level plummets. I’m thinking this lesson is aimed at musicians who can pretty well do the things in the plan, with some effort, but not be slowed to a snail's pace. I wonder if anyone knows of a lesson (preferably Aimee’s!) that a late-beginner can use to approach a new song. Meanwhile, many thanks to you, Aimee. You are a treasure!

the grates jazz lesson video Ive ever seen

Muchas Gracias de Nuevo !

I'm a jazz pianist performing music major, and being in school we learn sooooooooo much. It gets overwhelming sometimes. This video is very refreshing. Love the ideas of learning a tune a week and how you break down each day specifically. It's just like going to the gym with a planned out regiment. Your sure to get things accomplished that way. I needed this. Thank you very much for this! Love it! Lookng forward to getting more from your youtube channel! #YupYup

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+PoetEDTV that's exactly right! I do the same thing at the gym. :-) Thanks for your nice comment

Aimee, I have just found your KZread videos today, and I feel like I have discovered an incredible treasure trove of information. I am trying to learn how to play jazz guitar. It is such a challenge! Your videos are perfect for me at this point in my musical education. I have already learned so much in one day about stuff that I've heard about - tritones and scale modes ....... Why didn't I find you sooner?? 😉

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+DW Karl oh I'm so glad. Thanks Karl!

Awesome. I've taken an extremely long break from Jazz but wanted to find a way back in. Your routine that you describe is perfect and fun so thank you tremendously. Have an incredible day

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+Moemas Postma oh good. Welcome back

Pretty good. I wonder why you don't have as many subscribers as Rick Beato. Your content is really good.

Love this! 👌

Wow. Just wow. This is the stuff I have been looking for in a music teacher. You are so brilliant, thank you! Subscribed, piano keys dusted and piano tuned. I hope the people downstairs don't get pissed off.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+Mike Friesen piss em off Mike!! Go git em Tiger! 🐯

I got so many songs in my head that I know in one key and I have arranged the solo and that's the only solo I can play and they're all stuck in my muscle memory and every time I learn a new one I forget one. I think I've maxed out. So this looks positively painful, but just imagine a year from now when I can whizz thru all the keys, it'll be awesome

Thank you, Ms. Aimee Nolte! This is bracingly pragmatic and practical, given a certain level of commitment and determination. The effect, especially given one's own observation, thought, and analysis, will be progressive and cumulative in perpetuity. For anyone immediately intimidated by how much work this seems to represent, please remember the truth, which Life demonstrates continually anew, that what you do and continue to do with attention, becomes familiar/habitual to you, and you begin to craft your own individual creative responses to this new set of challenges. You may even become quite enthusiastic about this "work." Six months of continuous application of the outlined approach should yield a currently-unimaginable bounty of musical skill-set development! And, like Aimee points out, if nothing else, you've got twenty-six (potentially all NEW!) tunes that you've become pretty darned intimate and (presumably) expressive with!

Brilliant!

You're in good company, Aimee. I once asked Bill Charlap about his approach to learning and developing tunes and the first thing he said was how important it is to learn the lyrics.

Nicely done, Aimee. My variation on "What order: Rhy/Mel/Har" is to always have a "Recognizable" version of the tune playable. It doesn't have to be "Performable" but I have to have the changes in time and be able to play the melody very straight, not too swing, so I can prove to myself I really do know the melody. Juicing up a "straight" version (straight quarters comping etc.) is much simpler, and more creative than "re-engineering" the thing (bossa to bluegrass). So, as you, I practice and teach getting the tune in your musical brain. If it's in your brain, you can play it on any instrument. As you, I sing everything whether it's a vox tune or not. Even when playing GH Bagpipes😀 Thanks - Lumpy

I really dig this. Too cool

My newest favorite musical teacher! you have an uncanny ability to make theory fun and exciting! I love your jokes. I don't know why I laugh so hard...but it makes me forget about learning and allows a creative space to become the best musician for myself.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+somebody loveless 😍🙏🏼

Thats it, perfect, just PERFECT !!! This the best method of all !!! Need to play malody Need to know lyrics Need to know chords Needs to improvise 100%

As a beginner, it takes me a day to get through 2 keys. (Tuesday) So it'll be more like a tune every two weeks, which is fine. Practicing in twelve keys opens up keyboard understanding so well. Thanks for all that you do Aimee.

Great suggestions.

Excelent video!

This is a great system.

I knew it, you were a Marian Mc Partland radio fan, awesome, great connection for y all out there. Loved her piece on NPR with Walter Becker, Classic.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+Martin Luke Burns I love that one too. I think I have heard them all. :-)

Advice for bebop tunes And Aimee might note agree but it works for me haha: Make sure to be able to sing and play the heads in both hands (separately and together) in all 12 keys. Be able to comp in your right hand and play the heads in your left hand. Like Bud Powell and sonny Clark, as jazz pianists Adam Manness and Peter Martin recommend, also be able to play shell voicings for the changes. While these aren’t fully functional in modern settings, they still work. For playing the heads in all 12 keys, do 3-4 a day and review as you go. Learn the standard intros, interludes, and outros bc old school cats will cut you if you don’t (I have experience with that haha) Watch Aimee’s video playlist on bebop!

Hey Aimee! Thank you for this wonderful video. It gave me a standard practice routine that I can follow! I was wondering if you can make a video tutorial on how to play/sing melodies and chords in all the 12 keys. That’s the only thing I’m stuck on when practicing with your routine!^^ Thank you!

Thank you for a great video. My problem like most people is trying to hear the changes and getting them correct. I'm gonna keep practicing to get better at it.

This is great!

Sunday is for "going live" on KZread! Great lesson; lots of good advice. (Haha, was Rick Beato your graphics consultant?)

I never had the discipline to practise and I always enjoyed learning through songs, by playing. I need to start playing again.

great idea !!!!

thank you

Cool lesson!

Excellent lesson though, I love it!

Awesome practice advice, not just for piano players.

Speaking of Marian McPartland, I do remember one exception when she interviewed Bill Evans and asked him if he learned the words. At least in the interview I heard, he said no, he didn't pay any attention to the words, and to him the voice was just like any instrument. He's probably the jazz pianist I love the most, but I was really surprised that he said that. Anyway, love your videos!

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

+David Servias interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Nice i want to make this in a Guitar Rutine! Thanks!

I shall start

All 12 keys? That'll take me a week for just that part!!! I do get it though.

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Collyshaz stretch it out maybe so that it fits you. Maybe you need a week to do each one of the steps. And that's fine. 🙌🏼

@vicore5647

7 жыл бұрын

same here...it would take me a couple of months minimum (probably a lot longer) to do this routine..unless I quit my job. Excellent lesson, though.

@BrettplaysStick

6 жыл бұрын

Lol, it takes me at least one year to learn a tune in one key. It must be nice

@AndromedaCripps

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I knew this one pianist who was like going for his doctorate and he would just learn a tune a month, but spend more time in each key throughout the month. It's hard to transpose on the spot but its definitely a worthwhile skill to cultivate!!

@jonathanpatrick9175

5 жыл бұрын

@Brett Bottomley, lol, I have the same problem. Its just hard to get a new tune in my head.

I know this video is a bit old, but for me it is timely, I am in the mist of putting together a routine to build a jazz repertoire for solo jazz guitar and am starting from scratch. I am assuming I will need about 40 tunes to get through a full nights gig. I am going to use the video as a guide. I am still struggle to determine how much time a day I need and how much I can truly allocate. I am also considering writing the chords and melodies out in key-less notation to help with transposition and learning chord relationships. Thanks for the video. If I can accomplish this in a year I would be a happy camper.

That's interesting, i will start to do this regime this monday.

I love your F13#9b9!

@AimeeNolte

7 жыл бұрын

Antoine Dumans why thank you!

Love the voicings at 6:14

It's actually monday morning. This program seems really interesting. I've been thinking of that kind of program for a while but never wrote it down. I guess now I have no more reason to procrastinate on this. The hardest part though, for me, is to pick a tune, so I will cheat and start with Recorda Me. Leaves me 1 more week to pick the next one.