Great video. I’m learning jazz guitar and I’m just starting to learn to build phrases and jazz language. This is so helpful. Thank you. subscribed!

Can you send me the partition?

Great

Excellent and thank you so much.

Ha! Good Bill Burr quote.

😊A sort of Nobel Prize Lesson !…terrific one by a great teacher ( in particular cf > 27’ for CHORDS/SCALE /MODE relationship exercice to work ); thx a lot for sharing.

Omg!! Your PDF even shows the note letters for we that positively suck at reading. Dude you're the BEST!! Thank you!!!

This is cool. I have watched everybody! Aimee, Noah, Johnny, Tony, Open Studio, et al! You are quickly becoming my favorite. What a wonderful approachable manner in addition to consistently thoughtful content. One thing - I would have loved to hear some of the etudes and sub sets of same in context. Why not show off (and show us) how these minor licks layout against the backdrop of - say - Beautiful Love? Anyway man - great stuff and delivered so well! Many many thanks

Thanks ! Great video and great personality

great idea...maybe additional etudes for the various chords types would be an idea moving forward 💪

Awesome material Tim, thank you. A question though. I downloaded your etudes pdf and was wondering whether you have a video where you play and explain these etudes?

Great Video. Thank you very much Tim. However, I do not find 4 bars continuing with the same chord in many songs. Then, I will study the separated parts you have mentioned as licks by themselves, and apply to just one bar with a minor chord.👍

Merci

thaaaannnnk you , this is invaluable

Great video !! Thanks

Learning etudes is a fantastic way to develop improvisational language. I hope you get some use out of these three tonic minor mini-etudes! Fore more jazz improvisation tips and ideas, check out this playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJavlaiBgN98epo

Over the last 40 years I have investigated a few different musical genres. I honestly believe that Jazz is the way some people's brains are wired. I could imitate it, but my brain never really got it.

Man it's the most useful channel about jazz piano i have ever seen so far! You are great thank you for what you are doing!

Thank you for such great material! You are a great teacher!

Thanks for the awesome lesson! I’m slowly working my way through it at the keyboard now. I have a question at minute marker 20:27. You wrote to play Bb Lydian Augmented over the BbM7#5. And you wrote G melodic minor scale in parenthesis. However, the notes on the staff indicate a Ab melodic minor (I think). Can you clarify it for me? Thank you very much!

Thank you for the excellent video! The only thing that I wanted to add is that your upward approach notes should technically be spelled as sharps and downward approach notes as flats. For example, the line would be C A A# B G E C. Or A Ab F# G E

Thank you for an excellent video! This is great vocabulary.

I'll come back to this.

Thanks. This is out of my pay grade...for now. I'll be back.

Thank you Tim!

These icks (vocabulary lessons), including the explanations, are extremely helpful. I am able to internalize them with this lesson method. Thanks!!

Another recommendation if you don’t mind: students can check out creating “elegant lines” (with bebop language in some cases) produced by guitar players like Jens Larsen in Europe. These guys have less to think about than we piano players and are therefore focused fruitfully on creating lines mostly - helpful for piano players

I know that Jamey Aebersold’s booklets have become somewhat passé; not sure why. However, those rootless LH voicings and nomenclature for basic ii-V-I voicings that I picked up years ago created a strong left hand (got these at his camp but available online); these are still highly instructive and are ingrained in my brain. Don’t have to think about the movement so much as it’s become second nature over the years. Not bragging really… as some annoying instructors I have met have been in this regard. Highly recommended for your students

Tim, I really love these kinds of videos you give on jazz language. I'm actually a guitar player and I've started applying your approach to my instrument and it has really helped expand my vocab. Thanks for the great knowledge and excellent explanations!

Working on shorter II V phrases has really helped me in my development. I hope you find some value in today's video! If you want more improvisation tips, check out this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLcboX0jRd_dZ4mmX8AC95gT2fVA-GaOPR

good stuff

I started watching this partly through and forgot to make a comment. Not good for the Al Gore Rhythm, n'est-ce pas. I still consider myself a musical Nooby and don't want to even think about Jazz. But I am working on keyboard technique with triads and sevenths. I like how you take this through the circle of fifth, and I will start adding that. I was using a Donyani-like exercise for seventh chords, but he goes up chromatically. But I start in a different inversion and go to the nearest fourth or fifth in its inversion.

Fantastic! Next, how to spice up chords like we hear on albums? I’m transcribing a ballad and found a voicing I’ve never seen before. It was voicing an A-7 as A left hand and 3,4,5 in right hand. Doesn’t sound like much but adding the 11th or 4th to the mix, without a 9th, adds a different flavor entirely. I’ve got to get more voice leading under my finger!❤

I love it , you way of teaching , thanks so much for this video🎉

Thank you very much for your opinions ...🙏🎹🙏❤

@12:43 Everybody write that down. It's gold !

Love your approach to teaching! Thank you for all you do!

Another top video! 👏👌🎶

This is masterful.

Tim: A quick question if you'd have time to respond. If I'd like to practice these for major, minor and dominant chord qualities, how would you recommend that I organize my practice to cover all three (a total of 81 exercise) if I only have between 30-60 min to practice each day?

This is probably the most helpful jazz piano lesson I've seen on KZbin to date - thanks!

Tim: I appreciate that you're focusing on 3rds and 7ths in many of your videos. This is what I'm (a beginner) working on now, but there's less material focusing on this out on the web that you'd expect. These lessons are great - thank you!

You always give a different perspective to practice. Thanks so much. Hi from Mexico City.

Nice video thanks!

Powerful stuff!

Triads is where I’m at. Thanks Mr Whalen.

Another wonderful lesson I'll be practicing religiously.

I learned how to be a stenographer and hit the right notes, and take it through the circle of fifths. But I didn't know what I was doing. You have given an explanation of what I had been doing. Merci beaucoup.

I hope you get something out of this one! Check out more videos on jazz harmony here: kzbin.info/aero/PLcboX0jRd_da2NH4ykUQodeYj_IUMVb0W

I'm breaking my own rule by watching your videos. I only started after 65 yoa on the piano, having spent my whole life telling people that I was born with two left ears. When I first started out, I watched You Tube videos and was doing jazz exercises around the circle of fifths, while I lacked even basic keyboard techniques. I take two lessons a week now with two different teachers, and I've decided to first learn triads, thjen move onto sevenths. But you have some great exercises and I respect your advice. This is great advice, and as soon as I've developed more technique, I have a good address for my next steps. PS I showed your thirds and sevenths warmup to my teacher, and he encourages me to keep learning our stuff.