How to improvise an EASY JAZZ SOLO with simple ARPEGGIOS

From HARD WORK doing useful exercises to FUN WORK improvising jazz.
First we do some simple and basic ARPEGGIO EXERCISES. Then we loosen up and with the exercises as a foundation we learn how to improvise an EASY JAZZ SOLO.
02:27 Basic Arpeggio Exercises (the Hard Work)
20:41 Improvising Jazz (the Fun Work)
By the way, along the road we also learn to play a simple, allround and thrilling WALKING BASS.
The next jazz lesson is a follow up. We'll bring the arpeggios to the next level and add some thrilling jazzy tricks: • Easy TRICKS to JAZZ UP...
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Oliver Prehn
www.newjazz.dk

[@NewJazz]

Hi dear fellow Musicians :) This playlist is a collection of NewJazz lessons that all show different approaches on how to play and improvise over the very same chord progression as used in the lesson above (a standard sequence of fifths in Emi): kzbin.info/aero/PLd8gNAxPUcJzqwqL21s9NExEKpk14bglb Enjoy :) Many regards from Oliver Prehn

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This is my favorite exercises along the way I follow your youtube video lesson, Oliver. I have learned through your video to improve my ability at playing piano jazz...

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Vous etes un professeur exceptionnel avec une méthode originale. Merci pour tout ce que j'ai appris avec vous

[@josemanuelmartinezrodrigue7935]

The world of music is lucky to have a person like you Oliver. I studied a lot arpeggios stuff before, but your way to introduce it to us is so warm, calm and gentle that it seems to me a new material, thrilling and interesting. I think it is a fundamental skill to play any jazz standard. Thank you master.

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Hi Oliver! With you all things stay more clean. Thank you so much.

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You are genius!

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My little secret. Reversal of what I did 20 years ago. Every instruction that you qualify as simple,boring or unmusical, I take those to music shed ,for indepth study, before tackling the main core of the instructions at hand. I find this a very rewarding way of studying music. Please consider this pedagogical approach. Thanks again . Hilary from Aruba.

[@JoelBursztyn]

The best 30 minute lesson I ever had! You were born to teach!! Thank you so much!!!

[@FKeyPianoMan]

This has got be the best ever quick teacher for non jazz players who want to play some jazz/improvise. Simple easy piano exercises and explanations that will change how you play. Do his 30 min class. It will change your life. You're an awesome teacher.Love your work!!!!

[@NewJazz]

Thank you so much!!! Warm regards from Oliver

[@rickhood]

I love that this gives structure to improvisation practice. I need repetitive exercises like this to lock in hand memory that can be used for improvisation later. I am thinking that there is no such think as complete improvisation, but rather, that improvisation is really using pieces of hand memory from exercises like this. ("...picking out options from our toolbox..." 21:40)

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There's a happy little C note. There we go. A little Pressin Blue, a little Midnight Black key. Its your world. I can picture Bob Ross reprising Paul Benedict as the Mad Painter sketch from Sesame Street to this music. Except in this case the numbers would have major or minor in front of them.

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We don't make mistake, just happy accident.

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BEST MUSIC EDUCATION VIDEO OF 2021. YOU SHOULD BE KNIGHTED BY THE KING FOR THIS NOBLE ART WORK. TAKING NOVICES BY THE HAND MUSICALLY ON A DOWN TO EARTH IMPROVISATION TRIP. CONGRATULATIONS SIR OLIVER. THREE WEEKS OF PURGING OUT WRONG INTERPRETATIONS AND VIOLA. AT FIRST I FELT EMPTY. BUT SLOWLY EVERYTHING BEGAN TO FALL IN PLACE. YES ARPEGGIO - NOTES WORK VERY WELL. 88 KEYS ON THE PIANO AND ALL JUST A BUNCH OF INVERSION WHICH TIE IN SWIFTLY WITH THE CHORD PROGRSSION.

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"Phrase ... Enjoy ... Phrase... Enjoy" You're the best

[@NewJazz]

HAHA - exactly!!! It's when NOT playing that we perceive the Music ;) Warm regards from Oliver

[@2manyinterests2count]

best (period) Jazz (period) Teacher (period) on the Planet!... (period) Oliver is crazy talented and lessons are laid out perfectly superb. Nice relaxing voice also. big fan here.

[@joepigg3762]

This is the slower speed I need. I also love how there are dots on the keys rather than the whole key lighting up as in other more confusing tutorials.

[@AlexandrovaSvetlana]

Thank you so much Oliver !!! This is a great lesson and my road to mastering jazz! What happiness it was when I finally managed to master the Difficult Job !!! There is no limit to my delight! Earlier I could only dream about it, having a classical music education. And you opened this way of jazz improvisation for me and you are the best teacher in the world! Jazz is like higher mathematics in music, like Chinese for a beginner. Your lessons are so clear and calm and very beautifully and efficiently done, and this is a huge work and a huge gift. Thank you for your kindness, you have a huge heart filled with love. I don't know what else to say, I cried when I found out that you are a bus driver. You are a real professor of the conservatory and a musician from God! Thank you very much from Svetlana from Belarus.

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Thanks for this lesson! I'm a newbie to jazz improvisation and your patience in this lesson was just what I needed. Kudos!

[@OrlandoGustar]

A lifetime worth of being bemused by Jazz music,solved by Oliver Friend in a matter of 30 mins...THANK YOU Mr. Prehn

[@cyrotelles7265]

Simple. Effective. Fundamental. As always!!! Thank you Oliver.

Simple and effective. Watching and practicing this video was like meditation for me.

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@ I feel that too brother. This is so calm and peaceful

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I got a donation from "Vincent" - thank you so much!!! Warm regards from Oliver

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Dear Mister Prehn let me say to you a very big Tahnk you. Across the web I had never encountered such a lesson with a pedagogic approach that emphasizes the quest for knowledge and pleasure. I am fully bowled by the work you have done. Best regards and thank you. You have given me the will to work hard because at last things become so simple. Smart people make difficult things simple :)

[@helenameng2656]

It’s amazing that the video is only 30 min but it takes me hours practicing it!

[@NewJazz]

Yes, a lot of practice are needed (I still practice this) - the video is quite comprehensive ;)

[@massimocimino4012]

One of your best lessons Oliver. Thanks for your educational research... After having explained for a long time about musical chords, maybe now it's time to explain the improvisational musical lines: How to build and how they move according to standards and models. The construction of the improvisational line is historically the least explained part of jazz lessons... but now we finally have you, Mr Prehn

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Mr Oliver, sir, you're a most wonderful player of the piano; but even better, a grand teacher of it.

[@songarun9973]

I'm practicing since 2 weeks on this exercice. Fantastique ! thank you so much for your teaching ❤🙏 The more I'm practicing, the more l get confidence for my future improvisation.

[@falsenotefest]

I am very glad a lot of people learn this to improvise

[@johnblackwell7890]

Dear Oliver, I recently retired and have gotten back to piano. You make it clear, doable, and enjoyable. I had to idea I could learn to improvise with such ease. I am deeply grateful. Thank you so much!

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I like this and the way you demonstrate carefully and slowly.

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❤❤❤ i am so happy i did not give up, thanks teacher oliver

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I did not either, last 4 months, practice this every morning..dark outside with a coffee. Progressing and so rewarding..thank you Oliver…NBG

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Maestro, por favor nunca deje de ayudarnos con tus conocimientos, usted posee una manera muy especial y diferente de explicar lo que otros no. Tu calma y paciencia al explicar nos transmite mucha paz.

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Creative with ease. Thank you.

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Nice idea with this tensions! Yeah!

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The Best Teacher ever !!!

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[@NewJazz]

Thank you so much - but you don't have to donate anything, a nice comment like yours is the best support I can get :) :) :) Warm regards from Oliver

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@@NewJazz , my wish for you is that within one year you'll be a full time jazz piano teacher and have students from all over the world.

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Thanks a lot!!! We are getting there...

[@Arthur-fw9yv]

The great thing about this is the hard work and than play. Most teachers seem to only teach the play part and when I sit down to 'play' I struggle. I'm always searching for exercises and this end to end is amazing thank you

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The perfect title for this video: "How to change your music life in 29min and 20sec !!!"

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Man! I could not agree with you more! A master class!

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I’ve finally found a jazz-oriented arpeggio video that’s understandable and useful. Thanks, Oliver! Your videos are spot-on 👍

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Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing. God bless!

[@AlexG-bc7ji]

Wonderful, just like all your videos. My teacher told me that, when it comes to jazz, the thing he most wishes he had spent more time practicing years ago is running his arpeggios in different inversions, up and down in thirds. This video is a fantastic illustration of why doing just that can be so useful, and how to apply the fruits of those drills.

[@jaiweyzz6816]

Hi Oliver, I only want to say thanks for being like that, so calm and so polite explaining how to approach to all of these exercises. Moreover you are incredibly patient, just the main value that a good teacher must have. Congratulations and I will keep learning and approaching to Jazz music with you.

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God Bless you!!!Amazing didatic and hipnotic talk!!Learn a lot from your lessons!!Thank you!!

[@mistahpita]

This was a ridiculously good lesson! So god damn useful! Immediately useful! Like instantly useful! Stuff like this is so hard to find on the interwebs.. it's not that there is a lack of tutorials. There are just too much out there to get lost and jump from one to other! Thank you so much! I just took up piano again and feel lost on where and what to start practice, but this is a lesson that I will stick to and enjoy practicing over and over for at least a month waiting for my fingers and brain to kick back!

[@NewJazz]

Great and thanks a lot :) :) :) When you are done with this lesson you can also try out this 'follow up' video adding some thrilling additional tricks to the arpeggios: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpCqcoOIjplng7s Best regards from Oliver

[@skimanization]

Now I see the value in practising arpeggios on inversions, nobody ever explained it the way you do in this video. I like it more when you explain the accompanying bass like...incredible! Thanks.

[@beadyr4810]

This is the best video where I finally understand how my exercises can expand into music. While memorizing the chords. Thank you so much!!!

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Today I declare myself your number 1 fan, thank you Master Oliver. You have opened the doors to improvisation and I thank you, you are from another planet

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I watched your left hand grip videos. Worked that entire pdf packet. I feel so much more confident now. Can’t to wait to work on these exercises and fool around.

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most coherent lesson I've ever come across, many thanks.

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Amazing lesson, Oliver... Once again!! This is probably the most effective and **musical** approach to learning a new standard I know of. Seems obvious once you know it!

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Just an Invaluable and Inspiring Lesson, Thanks

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Same, and this is just the 2nd video I watched

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This is what I search for years!! Thank you, great teacher!!

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Dear Oliver, as I told you when I signed up with Patreon, I was an intermediate jazz pianist who got stopped in my tracks because of musician's dystonia in one of my fingers. But I switched to the vibes and discovered you were lessons at the same time, and I feel I was given the blessing from the heavens! Your lessons apply beautifully to their instrument. I will keep you posted as I progress through your non-sequential lessons mostly sequentially (just so I don't miss any). I would encourage other budding jazz musicians who play instruments other than the piano to go through these lessons as well. Your emphasis on improvisation applies beautifully to the solo instruments as well as the piano. Thank you again so much again!

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You are a god send. I've learned so incredibly much from the simple yet concisely worded instruction. It's now possible to hear what I've been listening for, for so many years; it literally jumped out in my face. Music now has a whole new excitement.

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Awesome lesson...much gratitude...I absolutely love your teaching method, very constructive for guitarists.

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Grand grand player and teacher.wow from México thanks a lot.

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In the end it was so simple, I wonder why I didn’t understand it before. Now I just need to practice a lot. I am happy to contribute to your lessons with my small donations. Thank you for your enlightening lessons. Best Regards

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Thank you so much!!! Warm regards Oliver

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Simply genius.

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[@liquidsn]

my god. that tension and release blew my mind.

[@elmojomalo]

Cant wait for next lesson! Im already practicing my arpeggios. I really liked the idea of anticipating the next chord in the arpeggios to create tension. That is something I will surely use all the time going forward! Thank You

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as always im shocked how good you are in sharing knowledge

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You are the first person that actually made me interested in music theory! im not even a piano player. Iv been playing guitar for 21 years XD. TY! gonna be so much fun transcribing this stuff to guitar.

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Excellent didactic...gradual...very calm...kind...understandable...and leading to love jazz

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This is the best methodical approach to Jazz improvisation that I've ever learn. Easy to understand and directly impacted to my piano playing. Thank you very much Sir. God bless you.

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I've been teaching myself for 7 months now; watching your videos on my -much simpler- keyboard has been truly inspirational, even though i don't always get the sound i want lol. Thank you for helping your videos make a difference :D

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Merci Oliver, en suivant ta chaîne tellement logique et simple, les avancées sont efficaces et immédiates. En quelques semaines de travail régulier l’on gagne des années de recherches aléatoires! Sans renier ses aptitudes ni sa créativité. C’est un énorme plus.

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Super!!! Depuis la Réunion, excellents cours....

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Merci de Belgique Europe je suis Fan de vos leçons

[@billgriffith5240]

Oliver, this arpeggio/inversion exercise is a great teaching tool. Thanks for providing a great instructional jazz piano video. Bill, in Pittsburgh, PA.

[@aostensv]

This is such a helpful way to gradually get into it, thank you! More like this one!

[@tubeman1983]

Wonderful! That tip about starting the arpeggios not necessarily at the start of the bar for each chord was very useful! It creates a bit of tension and it sounds less robotic! I love your teaching style so much! Keep the good work! Thank you! 👏👍🙏