Guitar Picking For Piano, 2nd Step

[@wally3608]

Aimee, I am a 65 yrs guitarist/guitarteacher from the Netherlands, who cannot play anymore since 2014, because of artrosis. Since then I've started playing piano, just because of living without music is no option. I have to let you you known how much you mean to me, how much you teach me, how much comfort the piano gives me in my daily life after I had to say goodbye to my original instrument. You are a very nice teacher, with nice lessons that are all very valuable. I wanted to tell you this for a long time. You are a star that even sparkles on the other side of the ocean.

[@JackTheSkunk]

I love the way Aimie sings and gives examples of the way to learn songs. As a guitar player who also loves piano (ragtime, stride, blues, country & boogie woogie) I would encourage new guitarists to of course learn from your heros but don't stop there. For aspiring JAZZ players don't limit yourself by just listening to jazz guitar......you can learn so much by listening and studying with a jazz piano player, clarinet players and vibraphone players, etc. You can learn ALOT about melodic improvisation from those folks than you can from just guitarists.

[@dimwitsadvocate6264]

It's nice that at about 7 minutes you talk about breaking up the pattern to avoid boring repetition. I find fingerpicking patterns on the guitar also get boring rather fast, even though the song is sung. Playing the melody would be better, but that is getting more advanced. Thank you for sharing this video!

[@carolmurphy4627]

I'm a classical pianist and I've been working on getting away from reading sheet music and playing with chords, but it can be quite difficult to find a suitable 'groove' to play on a song. This pattern could be applied to so many that I'm now excited that I can just sit and 'noodle' at the piano using your suggestions here. Thank you so much.

[@frederickthorne2496]

You are such an amazing teacher! So grateful for this channel. Thank you!

[@marianboudreau1337]

That was definitely the "nudge I needed". This is exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you Aimee!!!

[@garyewart9185]

Thank you! I aspire to being the 'guy who sounds Ok' when playing with my friends. It just feels sooo good to just fit into the flow that is a song.

[@davidhoxit4274]

I truly appreciate your videos! I've gotta get something with keys! Thanks so much! I love the way you teach and I thank you Mrs. Nolte!

[@johncousins3908]

One of your best tutorials so well explained, Thanks for all your effort.

[@michaeldtung]

Awesome! I learn something new from you today..Thank you

[@leeclarke8993]

Thanks Aimee, just the kind of thing I’m looking for. I also like to play from Ultimate Guitar App arrangements on the piano.

[@theodorekorbos2804]

Thank you Ms. Aimee I've been wanting to find something like this for a long time now ,,,I love this stuff !! Thank you Teddy Korbos !

[@yoshikomoore6107]

I play both the guitar and the piano. I commend your first video. It must always be remembered, although you can play in the guitar “style”, a guitar is not a piano and a piano is not a guitar. Playing both is an “art”. The artistry of one is not the artistry of the other. But, you have done an excellent job of splaining the style. Thanks. You have a nice personality.

[@davidtee5417]

Time to really apply this. Thank you as always

[@robertcostello8935]

I really like how your videos motivate me to practice. I am looking forward to practicing this technique. Thank you Aimee.

[@rupakrokade]

This is pure gold.

[@ffggddss]

Hey, thanks for returning to this - it's about an awful lot of music that's been close to my heart for decades! And yeah, what you're describing there at the beginning - the guitar picking style - is Travis picking, or variations of that. Pure Travis picking is a 3-finger pick (thumb, forefinger, middle finger); but much the same effect can often be had on the guitar with a 2-finger pick (thumb & forefinger). Many folk artists have used these; when I was learning guitar in the late 60's, it was primarily Peter, Paul & Mary, who generally used two guitars complementing each other, so their recordings might not be the best to learn this from, unless you can pick out one of the guitars and follow it. All My Trials, Freight Train, Puff the Magic Dragon, In the Wind, and many others come to mind. I like the examples you've chosen. Some others are: • Simon & Garfunkel are an ideal study for this technique. • Gordon Lightfoot, Ian & Sylvia, Donovan (pre-Sunshine Superman), Joan Baez, Judy Collins, too. All from late-60's, early 70's. Collins' Secret Gardens of the Heart could even work here. • And some of the songs from Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young)'s 1st two albums. Teach Your Children is a real good one, although it gets away from pure finger-picking style, I suppose. • Even the occasional tune from where you'd least expect it - Lady Jane, and Playing with Fire, both by the Rolling Stones, for cryin' out loud! And BTW, it's good to pay attention to what these recordings do with the bass line... Fred

[@ciaranmarshall613]

I think I might be in love with your voice

[@Boomchockalocka]

It is lovely both in singing and talking. She occasionally calls herself Drunk Aimee when you listen to her at half speed to watch her fingers. Have a listen, it’s kind of funny.

[@88keyes]

Thanks Aimee. That was very helpful for me. My Yamaha digital has 70 different guitar voices on it and now I can try to use them.

[@soulhealer20]

Very interesting. As a guitar player, one of the things I've done a lot of and really enjoy is to play piano oriented songs on the guitar. Elton's Your Song and Billy Joel's Piano Man are two of my favorites. Elton plays in Eb so I use the capo on the third fret. Actually I always played Your Song with the Spanish flavored guitar which is on the recording. But for about 6 months, I was playing with another guy who played and sang it on guitar, so I learned the piano accompaniment in a higher voicing than the guitar parts . . . on my guitar. That was a special treat.

[@bluescanfly1981]

It's a plan of world domination by Aimee, first piano, then guitar, pretty soon she'll be rocking out on a recorder

[@AimeeNolte]

Oh you have NO idea

[@JackTheSkunk]

I am going crazy trying to find a guitar instruction book that explains what those doogundoodle-doogundoodle sounds mean.

[@bluescanfly1981]

@@JackTheSkunkI believe it's doo-gun-NOODLE. Aimee loves her noodling guitarists, she also plays imaginary swinging brushes, especially now that it's almost Summertime. Check out her videos and it'll make more sense

[@mike-ue4wy]

@@AimeeNolte You have the charisma of a cult leader.

[@nhstuff6658]

As a recent graduate of the "Carolina In My Mind" lesson (which I loved), this is a great continuance. I also have a very effective acoustic guitar sample I use for backing up another guitarist, etc. Thanks!

[@9zhivago]

Exceptional.

[@vincentm614]

Hi Aimee, This is great for writing songs on the piano for a band that has only a guitar. As Ive mentioned Im a bass player but like lots of non pianist Ive fallen into the trap of playing chords in the root position and not venturing into using inversions. Ive started voice leading cbord playing on 4 string bass a little bit and its fun but also forces you to think. Im going to do this on piano more with the first and third on the left hand with the second inversion. Great video!

[@kellyearthrise2453]

Wow, I may finally figure out how to play guitar pleasingly in the near future. Useful video, Aimee!

[@frankt6906]

Very inspiring and fun.

[@WyattLite-n-inn]

Just bought a Yamaha MODX synth with amazing acoustic guitar sounds. This is gonna be great! Hey USC , hire Amy!!

[@bobbyguest3906]

Your rendition of 'Dust In The Wind' is a better version than the original! Wow! ...Really nice! ...You should record it with that silky, smooth voice of yours!

[@frangellico]

Thanks Aimee, this is gold. Would be so nice to see in this kind of explanation some other nice guitar arpeggios, wich sounds so nice , warm and simple on guitar but is not that easy to translate in piano.

[@MichaelTidwell-wz1jd]

Do more on this topic!!!

[@dominicfigueiredo2467]

That's so good

[@iknowyouarebutwhatami]

Another great video

[@MrGuitarguitarguitar]

This is so interesting to me, given that guitar is my main instrument, and in learning the piano I've been able to transfer and apply a lot of my guitar knowledge , which in turn have made me a better guitar player. Love your videos as always

[@rbzbsb]

I saw the Ami in 2nd inversion but read it as an Aimee in 2nd inversion. Funny mental picture. Like a Simon Fransman character.

[@paulallenMacca]

Thanks for sharing this Video,5 songs come to mind, Dear Prudence,Blackbird and Julia by The Beatles and Look At Me and Steel and Glass by John Lennon.

[@ffggddss]

Good ones! And speaking of Beatles songs, how about George Harrison's _If I Needed Someone?_ Fred

[@getthepointx]

Daga daga daga daga, thank you for this video it's extremely helpful :)

[@ibji]

Being a guitar player and not familiar with the piano, how often do you change strings on a piano? (and where the heck do I attach the clip on tuner?)

[@ffggddss]

Never. Only when one breaks, and then it's a tremendous pain in the butt, because the new string takes months to "settle in;" it's a lot more difficult tuning a piano string than a guitar string, or even a hammered dulcimer or autoharp string! So the new string keeps fading flat as it stretches, and has to be re-tuned for what seems an eternity. [I'm a long-time player of both piano & guitar.] Fred

[@Jazzmasterer]

As a guitarist, I'm always trying to copy piano players since I feel pianists are more musically free, especially in chord accompaniment. I know that many guitarists throughout history try to copy pianists' way of playing. It's pretty cool experiencing the reverse and seeing pianists like yourself that want to copy guitarists' chord playing.

[@chico2012able]

very helpful

[@kbarb1000]

Great, I'm off to get 'fast car' under my belt, been wanting to play that

[@ipsurvivor]

Nice guitar playing Aimee. Adjustments need to be made for most guitar players also For Dust In The Wind because they used a guitar with Nashville Tuning which requires using non standard string gauges... Piano has several more Octaves than guitar so higher and lower but each pitch only appears once. But on guitar though we have a shorter range we have many more tonal “spaces”. A 24 fret guitar has 150 tonal spaces compared to 88 on a piano. Plus we can bend notes. We make up for it by having lots of repeating pitches. Theory seems to be a lot more intuitive on a piano. There are patterns for visualizing the circle of Fifths on Guitar but they are somewhat roundabout and meandering. I know they were thinking something when they made the system for standard guitar but I’m not sure what it was.

[@ruthanngreenberg49]

What about travis picking style which has more pulsing rhythm for songs like Dangling Conversation, by Simon and Garfunkel, 99 Miles from LA or Harry Chapins Taxi?

[@russellburnham298]

Thanks Aimee. I'm a bass player who hates playing guitar and would much prefer to boost my skills on the ivories.

[@eugene-d]

Haha! Me too, playing bass, not playing 🎹. But watching Aimee just because she explains so good.

[@gtsipejr]

Very cool lesson Aimee. I'm actually learning guitar and it helps me as well. On that first line on Dust in the wind I like the 2nd G chord(BDG) in first verse lower, goes with root chords going lower, but that's just me.

[@christophermatthews638]

Loved this video. I have a request and wondered if you could present a method to do the following. I can't sing. I sound like a mule with its leg caught in a grate. You get the idea not a good singer. So I was wondering if you could show us how to add the melody to the right hand and maintain some pattern in the right hand also i.e. use my little finger (and possibly the ring finger) to play the melody and the thumb to third finger playing a pattern. I would love to hear your ideas on the subject.

[@AimeeNolte]

Try my Killing Me Softly video, and also How To Play Any Song For Solo Piano

[@pizzicatoprod]

Sounds great! Although, the original Dust In The Wind guitar part is played using the Travis Picking style; a tricky (for beginner to intermediate players) arpeggiated format. It would be cool to hear it played on the piano.

[@AimeeNolte]

I do have one video where I do it and teach it. San Francisco Bay Blues. I’m a huge Travis fan.

[@pizzicatoprod]

@@AimeeNolte Neat! I will search it out. Becoming proficient at Travis picking is one of the many "Rights of Passage" in developing a good right-hand technique for the guitar. Actually, and I may be wrong, but I believe Dust in the Wind came about when the gentleman who wrote it was practicing the technique. Musical serendipity at its finest!

[@dmz140]

I love your lessons!! I’m a guitarist learning piano. Do you have a video specifically discussing inversions? 1st inversion, 2nd inversion, etc?

[@AimeeNolte]

In my Rock Piano playlist...second video I think

[@dmz140]

It’s this one. Thanks! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGmzn4qiiZangZI

[@ArthurGlover]

What app were you using to read the chords on your phone?

[@AimeeNolte]

I just googled the name of the song and the word, “chords. “Then I clicked on the first thing that came up. It was not an app. It was a website.

[@ArthurGlover]

@@AimeeNolte Thank You!

[@billtruttschel]

You have radiant blue eyes.

[@WoodyGamesUK]

Aimee I love your videos, but for the first time I'm going to be critical. I understand the need to simplify but what you're showing here is really an arpeggios style. I know it's used for guitar a lot, in pop and rock in particular, but when we think of finger picking what comes to mind is more of a folk style, and indeed the songs that you are showing fall into that category, and don't have this type of arpeggio pattern. They have alternate bass patterns (in quarter notes, not half, so twice as fast as in your video) which gives its very recognizable sound, really specific to the guitar: Simon & Garfunkel (The Boxer, Cathy's Song...), Early Joan Baez recordings, Bob Dylan (Don't Think Twice It's Alright), Paul, Peter & Mary, Kansas (Dust In The Wind)... and so many more. The bass is constant, then one note is inserted between bass notes, but some can be skipped, for example between the first two bass notes of a bar there may not be any note. Sorry Aimee I believe that you know that already and that you can play that style on the guitar. I just think it would have been more relevant to show how these songs' patterns are made, because it's not the arpeggio style that you are showing here.

[@AimeeNolte]

I can see your point, but I’m really interested in empowering people to be able to play more than they’ve ever played before. I’ve seen this work and it’s a pretty simple formula even if it’s not exactly accurate in all of these situations.

[@WoodyGamesUK]

Aimee Nolte Music : Thanks for you answer, the only reason I said that is that in my mind the alternate bass finger picking style is simple too. Anyway many times I was empowered by your videos, with some simple jazz piano concepts (I'm learning). Thank you Aimee.

[@Markstun]

Aimee you are an amazing teacher have learned lots of stuff from you. As a guitarist I would say that your pattern is a little off. Most of these songs use "Travis picking" (named after Merle Travis) which involves an alternating quarter note bass on 1 and 3 or 1 and 5. The basic pattern for a C chord would be C bass, G ,E bass , C (octave of bass) There are lots of variations of this but always alternating bass quarter notes played by the guitarist's right hand thumb. You are doing more of a straight arpeggio. Still sounds good though!

[@akf2000]

DUKA DUKA DUKA DUKA love this lesson, almost feels like cheating 😀

[@srirampdm]

I think a big issue with a lot of people is they've been trained to be players rather than musicians. They can read from a sheet and play it (yes, expressively and all that) but they can't for the life of them figure out what to play if they hear something, or come up with a tune to hum along to some chords. It's like being able to read English perfectly from a book (and speak with emotion) but not actually knowing the language and therefore not being able to have a conversation. There's more to music than the eyes, and there's more to being a musician than being a human MIDI-player. I wish western classical education incorporated some of this.

[@travisdt]

I will do Travis picking on piano for Dust in the wind

[@AimeeNolte]

He’s the man. 👊🏼

[@travisdt]

Wow. Can’t believe you responded to me :). Please do a workshop 2-3 days or a week in Orange County or Los Angeles area

[@iknowyouarebutwhatami]

It's called crosspicking or an arpeggio

[@jenmccolley285]

More Pearl Jam!!

[@tomgleason5546]

I love these youtube piano lessons but i find it really hard to see what notes are actually being pressed

[@AimeeNolte]

This is a pretty old video. I think I’m better at it now. :-)

[@peterjansen4826]

I have been claiming that any talented pianist can easily learn to play the guitar and the other way around. Not everybody agrees with me but it seems to me that it is the same talent and indeed, Aimee can also play the guitar. I don't claim that you get really good at one if you master the other but just some finkgerpicking on the guitar and playing on the piano, it is not that much different in my opinon. I have done both. By the way, a guitar is quite cheap, for $1000-2000 you have a fancy classical guitar, for $300-600 a decent one. Not bad compared to other instruments, it makes it even more attractive as a second instrument.

[@BobWestWA8YCD]

Peter, I agree to the extent that the "music theory" that you learn for one instrument is transferable in principle to the other. Notes is notes and intervals is intervals. How you make the noise happen is just physics. If you kinestetically learned how to do one, with sufficient time on the other instrument you can learn to do it as well. Since you already know keys, scales, harmonies, etc. you do not have to re-learn the basics. Just the application.

[@peterjansen4826]

​@@BobWestWA8YCD In the case of piano and guitar the motorical aspects also are similar, the left/right hand coordination and the subtle control of the fingers. In one case you press the key, in the other case you pluck the string or maybe you hit the string with a plectrum. Mostly it is about general musical talent, the motorical skills follow, if you use your fingers sufficiently or whatever then a larger part of the brain gets 'wired' for that. If you hear subtle differences => you will make subtle differences with how you move your fingers. Some people will need 10 attempts to get to that point, others 50 but you will get there as long as you have the ability to hear it. Of course there are some physical limitations which can make one instrument a bit more difficult. In my case, I have long fingers but the difference in length between my fingers and my thumb is that large that I can not get my thumb sufficiently in front of my fingers when I play the guitar (the proper technique according to teachers). I can adapt to that. The other way around, if somebody would have relatively short fingers then he might not be able to play everything on the piano that I can play without adapting.

[@tiaSilvaCtrly]

Hello. The letters and sounds, a more basic video to show who are the A, B, C minors or numbers. To someone clueless.

[@AimeeNolte]

I have a video about how to builds and notate scales and chords that might help ♥️

[@hezekiahdaggett2179]

Not first

[@hilarytoussaint7295]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, AIMEE. ALL OF MUSIC, IS HIDDEN IN YOUR FACE. THE APPRENTICE NEEDS TO BE TAKEN ACROSS THE FINISH LINE. OR RATHER HE NEEDS HELP GETTING OFF THE STARTING BLOCKS. YES I HAVE NOW 1 6 4 5 1 PROGRESSION GUITAR STYLE ON THE PIANO. THE SOUND IS GEART.