Exercises to gain TOTAL RHYTHMIC FREEDOM when improvising jazz

[@hahannah1974]

I find it beautiful how your lessons seem to be equally valuable for beginners as for "advanced" pianists, you demonstrate that no matter how much experience you have you can always improviise! Let the birds free

[@bastianbleu]

Now I get why people are into ASMR. These lessons are so comforting and patient. You’re like the Bob Ross of Jazz

[@e.laurencebake5072]

Thank you so much. This lesson helped me solve a musical problem / idea / style that I have been trying to resolve for many, many years. I was stunned to see the answers to my difficulties within the content of this lesson. No book, no teacher, no musician has ever come even close to helping me solve the problems I have had with this project, until now. That makes you "the best" teacher ever, as far as my needs were concerned. I admire what you do and how you do it very, very much. Laurence

[@paulromsky9527]

When I learned, I was taught to sing out the note names as I played the keys. In the beginning you are going slow anyway, so there is time to sing A-Sharp as you read and play A-Sharp, this also helps teach the note names as you read/play them (a very low level of multitasking until it becomes instinctive). Then went you get faster, just sing the note tones as they are played - you should be sight reading notes to note names/keys by that point.

[@matthewthehuman1744]

Other than being great lessons, you just relax me. I wish I were as patient and peaceful as you are.

[@cmozart]

What a wonderful world, so fortunate to have you as our wonderful jazz teacher. Your patient and humble teaching style is perfect!

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thank you so much for your really nice comment and generous voluntary “super thanks” donation - you help keep me going for sure!!! I'm very grateful :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver

[@massimocimino4012]

One day, hopefully not far away, your videos will be studied in schools and studied in depth at university by those who want to become teachers, as valuable educational research resources... maybe you yourself probably don't realize the video you created and of the sophisticated original training path you offered. Before students, they should be studied by teachers to be reproposed to students at school. Thank you and good work, Maestro.

[@gohomezz]

It's rare to see videos that are both instructional and entertaining these days. Thank you Oliver

[@kmjofpdrey]

You put a smile on my face, and your teaching style is incredible.

[@hulsbeek6974]

The Bob Ross of jazz maestro’s ❤Keep up the good work!

[@fidfdez6191]

Hi Oliver!!! Your natural/practical/simple teaching skills are genius!!! Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge!!! God Bless You!!!

[@stephenbingham9625]

Awesome lesson! I think that is an absolutely fundamental skill that I have never heard anyone else talk about. I’d love to see you do a future video on free time improv also. Free tempo.

[@jonesuniversity3104]

Agree with you wholeheartedly. This channel has really improved all of our playing here @jonesuniversity

[@misteralpos6138]

Congatulations Mr. Oliver Prehn, your lessons are fantastic, with your videos you don't just expand our knowledge of Jazz music but you also encourage us to believe and be energetic while we strive towards our musical goals. This new lesson too is yet another pillar of the tower you build for the study of Jazz piano. All us viewers thank you.

[@edgardosolano7709]

Translations of the English subtitles to Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French by Edgardo Solano from Colombia. Thank you so much Edgardo!!! You can turn on the subtitles and choose a language in the video settings. Gracias amigo :)

[@joshannon6148]

OMG, I've been working on this same thing with my students! I lost the bookmark to new jazz some time ago and hadn't realized Oliver had put this on youtube. So, now I"ll try his way and see if I get better results! I love this guy!!

[@nantschev]

Wow! What a great lesson. Classical violinist here, so much to learn here, even after many years of playing and teaching intensely

[@Guitaropenmind]

Another fantastik lesson Oliver ! very inspiring as always. Thank you again.

[@NomeDeArte]

This is one of the best music lessons I found on youtube. Period. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, best wishes from Argentina!

[@fabiosky4368]

thankss so much for silly and funny explanations bout time and rhytm, it is soo useful for ALL musicians not only piano players! Listening mr Prehn chords is like listening a Keith Jarrett lesson cause his jazz chords and choice of notes!! absolutely fantastic.thankkss so much!! ciao from Italy. Fabio zanaboni

[@lumm71]

Your lesson pushes me to new inspiration to improve my piano skills. Ist fits perfectly to what I am able to and where I want to go. Thanks so much!

[@edwardgrimes1159]

Thanks!

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thank you so much for your voluntary “super thanks” donation - you help keep me going for sure :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver

[@domenicocampi1509]

Another very smart tool... both simple and practical and so effective! Thank you Oliver!

[@MemeDealer-ls6pf]

Your voice is so calming, its admirable.

[@vandort]

My brain was broken. You're amazing, Oliver! Thank you so much!

[@harrisbeatsfrankou6304]

this is similar to Luis Vause mind exercise to free up blues improvising....he says make a cup of tea...get a pencil sip draw and keep tapping adding motifs and putting the tea down..staring elsewhere and coming back in time always as they key. I am subbed to this now!!

[@christianreyesmusica]

Master of masters, your classes are amazing, i´m a better musician and a happier person, thanks to you!

[@Shankar-sn7eg]

This is pure gold basics to start with and i used to do like this to start this not with foot with fingers i will not play instrument but talk

[@joaquinbelon1446]

¡Gracias!

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thank you so much for your voluntary donation - you help keep me going for sure. I'm very grateful :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver

[@cmozart]

The 'The Jungle Book. I wanna be like you. King Louis' song always helps me with the 4:53 multi-tasking exercise. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5WYe2qPmphmaKs

[@NewJazz]

Haha, yes that's a really good one!!! And thank you so much for your donations!!! Many regards from Oliver

[@ggsantiagomus]

Great man! This is natural Science! The best!

[@paulromsky9527]

Fantastic video... multitasking exercises... brilliant! I like the locomotive analogy, but myself, I use "Clock" mainly because in MIDI the clock is much faster than we can play but timing is a subset of the master clock, for our feet/hands and the metronome. We live and play by the clock - but in music we are allowed to break timing at times.

[@arthurgreen1387]

Thanks I get it now it's on it's own

[@Chewig]

You are the best !!! Thank you

[@harrietlsmall]

This is great. Thank you

[@ingefehse6499]

Wow! Another brilliant video🤩 i'm sooo thankful for your work 🍂🍂🍁🍂🍂 it helps extraordinary ....even though i'm playing the flugelhorn 😂😂🤣🤣😂👍🙏

[@matthewthehuman1744]

You're the best!

[@jean-fabricevernet8947]

When you don't know what music to play you can actually put on a new jazz lesson while doing stuff and it's just beautiful Bill Evans or Satie-like music with explanation.

[@Raggo12345]

Love this! Brilliant and very effective!

[@CreateArtRecords]

Thats the most difficult one for me. I am used to only make Toe. But i like Challanges, Thx Oliver

[@malkhazighibradze7657]

love you master oliver, very good piano man

[@tmyoshimura621]

New to music studies. Great to be here to learn from this content, and not build relationships or engage in dialogue.

[@nilsbachmann4665]

your lessons are outstanding ... thanks alot for your work. You are awesome! :)

[@tunisieprotection6659]

You are the best thank you very much for your genius ideas!!!

[@TheOrganCase]

Great!

[@Superhero0405]

Yeah . New video👍👍

[@vltduncos]

Nagyon köszönjük!! Sokat segít a videód! Thanks!

[@橡皮圖騰]

great methode! i love this way to learn the things, ive tried my locomotive while playing the japanese mahjong online, of course, i lost the game😅

[@NewJazz]

Hahaha - thanks. Cheers from Oliver

[@userAnonymous90123]

Love your socks ;)

[@m.a.3571]

Toward the end, the left hand plays with the left foot and the right hand freely? Thanks for the great work! Love your work.

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thanks a lot :) Yes I play the left hand mainly on the 1 main beats. So we change the chord and sound at the start of a bar ;) Cheers from Oliver

[@MegaChasbo]

This is the first of your videos that I have watched. A truly wonderful lesson. I love your spirit and your dedication to helping others learn. I know you are focused on free jazz rather than improvising over standards - but it would be helpful for those of us who do improvise over standards if you could provide your insights as to how, once the foot locomotive is mastered, one can prevent getting lost in the form. In other words, even if one can use the foot locomotive to keep a steady beat, sometimes when improvising one loses track of which measure one is in (e.g., am I at the top of the form, starting the bridge, at the turnaround at the end of the form)? Many thanks

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thank you so much :) :) :) You may want to check out this playlist containing different improvisation approaches on a standard chord progression kzbin.info/aero/PLd8gNAxPUcJzqwqL21s9NExEKpk14bglb The very first lesson in the playlist, doing arpeggios, is the important one, I think. The next lessons in the playlist just add more jazzy juice to the very same chord progression ;) Cheers from Oliver

[@MegaChasbo]

Thank you Oliver. I just listened to the lesson re doing arpeggios. I took from that lesson that the simple walking bass line that you demonstrate, by tracking each of the chords in the tune, enables one to easily stay in the form. For me personally, that approach will fill a void that the foot locomotive lacks (i.e., a sense of place). Very helpful indeed. Many thanks!! @@NewJazz

[@NewJazz]

Great!!! And exactly, the walkingbass helps you ;) And thank you so much for your very generous donation on PayPal. You really didn't have to do that. But thank you so much :) :) :) Best regards from Oliver

[@Voyageurhorsdutemps]

great lesson💚Thank you so much

[@MyMusicEducation]

This could be your best video yet. I too enjoy talking nonsense. Actually, I'm an expert at it.

[@NewJazz]

Hahahaha - thank you so much!!! Cheers from Oliver

[@andresbonelli]

Geeky fun excercise could be a great ease-into Musica Ricercata Nº7

[@javimar61]

Thank you very much Oliver, I'm looking forward the next lesson with left hand chords exercises in all modes. Could we use to play standars jazz songs?

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thanks :) I'm not playing jazz standards so much... I'm more into modal free jazz - NewJazz ;) But yes, Rhythm is important in all genres of Music! I think the next video will present Music with my trio (Fabricio Pereira bs, Erik Frandsen dr). If you want to learn more about left hand chords you can visit this playlist containing all my lessons about the subject: kzbin.info/aero/PLd8gNAxPUcJyIOags1WgNLDV9GMtFqQZV Cheers from Oliver

[@javimar61]

@@NewJazz Thank you very much Oliver I' do it

[@gemeo6292]

Brasil! Muito bom!!!

[@maurods3151]

This is great! Could you post something dedicated to left hand chords and left hand patterns?

[@xyzyzx1253]

He’s done a 3 part series on the left hand :)

[@smaklilu90]

@@xyzyzx1253 Where !!?? I Haven't seen the concept of chords mentioned or emphasized that much in his video! As if piano is a monophonic instrument lol

[@NewJazz]

Hi :) In this playlist I've gathered all my lessons about left hand chords kzbin.info/aero/PLd8gNAxPUcJyIOags1WgNLDV9GMtFqQZV Cheers from Oliver

[@maurods3151]

@@NewJazz Thank you so much!

[@morganst.pierre]

⁠​⁠love to hear your thoughts on feet tap variations. I’m guessing your doing for foot to heal back n forth for a snare feel? I’ve found benefit swinging by doing quarter notes in right l foot and swung 8th in left foot. I also like quarter notes in one foot and snare in other foot. These can become unconscious to and add to you feel. Do you have other creative feel locomotive foot or feet feels? The reminds what about the rest of the body and head? The more the better really. Head bob or sway for you?

[@NewJazz]

Hi :) :) :) I also occasionally use both feet. But sometimes it's nice to have a spare foot for the sustain pedal. And then I always like to have a relative slow main beat in my feet so that I do not exhausted in my feet and legs haha - and so that I feel more free with my hands and not so tied up on my feet - if that makes any sense haha. Cheers from Oliver

[@morganst.pierre]

@@NewJazz makes sense! Thanks for taking time to comment, after I started doing some suitcase bass drum and snare in other foot while playing guitarit’s been interesting exploring different foot/body grooves and how it affects rhythmic tendencies. More new to piano I forget sustain pedal sometimes. It’s been amazing how pianos improved my guitar rhythm theory ear etc.

[@penkal1981]

I wish I were your student!

[@neu-ter]

I honestly thought you were going to look like George Takei I was shocked to be honest with you when I saw I listen to so many of your lessons before I saw your face and I was absolutely shocked thank you so much I don't have money to send you right now but I'm I'm I've got you on my list of people who needs to have money sent to them by me when I have some money to send I'm grateful for your time and energy

[@NewJazz]

Haha, thanks for your really nice and quite funny feedback hahaha - How I look is not so important, that's why I don't show my funny face so often ;) And you don’t have to donate anything - a really nice comment like yours is also great support :) Cheers from Oliver

[@neu-ter]

@@NewJazz I'm dyslexic and learning music has been a chore and your lesson are amazing on my autistic dyslexic brain I'm greatful

[@neu-ter]

your lessons are incredibly professional they are easy to follow easy to listen to and comforting you are a great teacher I'm a former teacher of science you are a scientific teacher of music thank you

[@thezenbum]

you are coocoo!

[@klilyoussefali6278]

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[@ivandacosta9339]

Dear Mr. Oliver Prehn, how about do improvise over standard jazz tunes? I've never seen you do that. Thanks e congratulations, your lessons are wonderful.

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thanks a lot :) This channel is mostly about modern modal free jazz - “NewJazz” - and not so much about the old standards. But anyway in this playlist you’ll find a collection of lessons all about a standard chord progression; a sequence of descending fifths taken from the song Autumn Leaves. Each lesson shows different improvisation techniques we can use on the progression. I hope you’ll find it useful ;) kzbin.info/aero/PLd8gNAxPUcJzqwqL21s9NExEKpk14bglb Cheers from Oliver

[@billytdakid]

Nice socks! :P

[@gabrielecannas1039]

What do you use such an awesome piano sound?

[@NewJazz]

Hi :) I use this VST from Native Instruments: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keys/the-grandeur/ Cheers from Oliver

[@Kirbythecuteguy]

itš true, you really wear those socks! thanks for your jazz zen!

[@NewJazz]

My mom knitted them ;) Cheers from Oliver

[@paulromsky9527]

Bravo! Your accent, is it French? How about learning to speak French at times while performing the Multitasking Exercise... now that is really getting both halves of the brain working. Or even "Fake French" for those of us that know only a few words.

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thanks :) :) :) I'm from Denmark, Scandinavia - but many of my videos have French subtitles ;) Cheers from Oliver

[@frederic1000001]

Hi Oliver, may I ask you what is the metronome you use in the video ? I like the sounde of it.

[@NewJazz]

Hi :) I use a "Wittner QM2 taktell" metronome. Cheers from Oliver

[@frederic1000001]

@@NewJazz Merci Oliver.

[@nasimbadisar4276]

HELLO MY DEAR TEACHER ,why don't post a new video ,please, I will not learn from any teacher like you please post more complete lessons please

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thank you so much for your devotion :) I'm so sorry but I only post a new video about every second month. That's just what I can manage - I hope it's ok and that you'll manage ;) Next video will be done by the end of January. Many regards from Oliver

[@skraman725]

❤

[@skraman725]

This looks designed to integrate into, or hook on to the internal metronome

[@max-mr7bw]

What model of metronome are you using? I want to buy exactly the same

[@NewJazz]

Hi :) I use a "Wittner QM2 taktell" metronome. Cheers from Oliver

[@max-mr7bw]

@@NewJazz Thanks a lot!

[@nichttuntun3364]

😊❤️😊

[@bojantufegdzic4303]

prelepo❤

[@sati-h]

🌼

[@educat1on166]

i have a big problem i guess, i cant play a single note off rhytm

[@NewJazz]

Hi :) Don't worry. This entire lesson is quite "off". You may wanna come back to this lesson later on in your life to catch some inspiration. Else just keep playing in rhythm ;) Cheers from Oliver

[@morganst.pierre]

⁠@@NewJazzlove to hear your thoughts on feet tap variations. I’m guessing your doing for foot to heal back n forth for a snare feel? I’ve found benefit swinging by doing quarter notes in right l foot and swung 8th in left foot. I also like quarter notes in one foot and snare in other foot. These can become unconscious to and add to you feel. Do you have other creative feel locomotive foot or feet feels? The reminds what about the rest of the body and head? The more the better really. Head bob or sway for you?

[@irinahappy4091]

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[@amirsargazi9020]

😍🤩😍🙏🙏🙏

[@bernardobuffa2391]

be honest... did you loop the foot, right? can't be so steady in reality...🤣

[@NewJazz]

Hi :) I didn't loop my foot but I've recorded the lesson in smaller sections (2-5 minutes) and then glued the sections together. If we look really hard we can occasionally see crossfades on hand and foot. When recording like this it was not catastrophic if I made an error or was unprecise with the foot (or hand); then I only had to redo the smaller section instead of the entire lesson. Cheers from Oliver

[@bernardobuffa2391]

@@NewJazz thanks for replying... but I was joking... y simply admire the way you keep pulse! great video, cheers!

[@BoSong]

a very innovative drill!

[@BoSong]

i feel that groove is more important than pitch.