How To Play ANY JAZZ STANDARD For Solo Piano | Bluesette

By using 3 simple elements, you can take nearly any jazz standard and arrange it for solo piano. Hang out and see how by playing a simple bass line, the melody, some 3rd and 7 comping rhythms, and harmonizing in 3rds and 6ths can transform your playing.
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[@aimilist]

As a classical piano player, having searched A LOT of jazz tutorials in youtube i can say that yours are the most in depth , useful , and not dumed out out there . Please keep up the good work !

[@AimeeNolte]

Thank you so much.

[@raymondvandevorst9913]

She together with Kent Hewitt indeed

[@kobolto]

These were the shortest 26 minutes of my life. With a masterpiece, a super master class in just 26 minutes. Thank u Aimee, you are an amazing musician and teacher

[@ctransam1978]

Hi Aimee. I can't enough of your singing and playing Bluesette. WOW!!!

[@musicmakelightning]

Learned this song, but I wasn't small when I did. My piano teacher was a beautiful session musician who played with some well-known vocalists, and he always presumed I had more talent than I do, which was great for my ego, but didn't do much for the music. This lesson added a lot of animation to the rigid, stilted way I plod through this song, that love, too. I'm off to "relearn" it now. Took me a month the first time...be back in a month ;) Thanks so much for putting so much real musical value out there for us.

[@janellebussert155]

Loved this Aimee! You've got two gold videos for me in one week! I love it when you take tunes and "parse" them out like this! Thanks so much!

[@wojtekstec5019]

I came across your video accidentally with autoplay on. Great sense of humor and of course excellent teaching method! I'm a teacher myself.

[@TonyClarkeThinks]

thanks. one of my favorite jazz tunes. began jazz piano with your videos. sloooowly coming along. guitar and uke are where I'm coming from.

[@jzzfan1]

One of my favorite songs. Great rendition. This is why I love music so much.

[@davidwhite2949]

I’ve been struggling with getting an authentic jazz rhythm. Now I can see you do it with the right and left hand together (I imagine there’s a way to replicate it with the left hand only, eventually.) Very clear explanation. Thank you!

[@DonyaLane]

You have such a wonderful way of sharing music, Amy! I really dig your style and approach.

[@jeffreybedrosian4935]

Beautiful demonstration and vocal. Count me in.

[@tedturner03]

Damn AIMS. MY dad was a bandleader. I grew up w this song. I have listened to your version at least 100 times. I will get out to see you live one of these days!! When I do - gonna BEG you to play it. Love you! You’re the best maestro.

[@plainsimple7726]

yes finally ! i was searching for a tutorial like this for ever ... even asked a lot of piano players in my city ,no one helped . thanks alot

[@AimeeNolte]

Woot woot! 🎉

[@williamwatt552]

This is a terrific tutorial Aimee. You are the best. Thank you very much.

[@John-lw7bz]

Just wanted to come back to this and thank you for introducing me to bluesette. Definitely one of my all time favourite songs. I've now picked up chromatic harmonica and think toots is fire!!

[@enobongthomas1138]

I just to know why it has taken me this long to meet you but all I know is the time is right! I just cant say enough of how much i love your teaching. Thank you so so much, I love your heart and approach to this teaching!

[@brandoncrutchfield5201]

I play the guitar but I always watch your videos because I learn so much every time, thank you so much for the content

[@captainkangaroo4301]

Yes. She has made me a better guitar player as well.

[@GHRiz]

She just makes people better musicians, period. Every lesson is a practical theory exercise! One of the things that endlessly annoys me about so much guitar "instruction" video out there is that it's all "play this string at this fret" and often they don't even name the notes, much less explain WHY those notes. That's not even music, IMO, that's just rote. Aimee teaches MUSIC and not just the what, but the why as well, in both simple and super deep forms. Aimee talks about chords and keys and progressions and cadences and 2-5-1s and 3rds and 6ths, and we all end up the smarter for it!

[@captainkangaroo4301]

Depending upon your level of musicianship and style of playing two other great KZbin channels are Jens Larsen and RicK Beato.

[@brandoncrutchfield5201]

Yes you weren’t kidding I’m already sub to Jen L it’s great, I just checked out Rick B last night it’s Awesome. You know years ago how much $ would we be paying for all this musical knowledge theory & how to apply it, I try not to forget that and am always so appreciative of the fine musicians!

[@AimeeNolte]

Thank you all for those comments. I’m so glad to help out and help you to see music for what it is...a lot of elements coming together to make something meaningful.

[@richardxu8865]

You're the coolest (and best) jazz teacher I know! Someday I want to do as much good in the world as you do!

[@Jan-S-Simonsen]

Wow! Great vocals jazz cat! I always enjoy your videos Aimee, and as a pianist and drummer of over 45 years I still learn something new every day. My ethic is this; an amateur practices until they get it right, a professional practices until they never get it wrong. Thanks again for your tutelage and dedication.

[@jmares93]

I love your videos Aimee! I'm learning a ton of jazz off your channel and it's so great to get a real life lesson in a video. Such a pleasure to learn from!

[@meryrodriguez8808]

What a beautiful voice omg

[@ninadigiovanni8811]

Aimee is awesome! thanks for sharing your excellent teaching method!

[@evanstevens8021]

You're such a great singer and pianist, i love your voice

[@martinrerolle1921]

30 seconds in and already feel like this is the video I've always been waiting for

[@stephenbru]

Your have a beautiful voice!!!..I love this song!!!

[@christopherleach157]

Fascinating and again I'm in awe....thanks Amy

[@danmuzikmailbgdan]

Bravo! Das ist Wunderschön!

[@tp63us]

Thanks Amy! Love this sound and your feel.

[@StavMORO]

Super! Very clever, wise, professional and positive lessons! Thanks much)))

[@stts2521]

Ótima professora. I love it

[@hongkongtennis]

This is a great lesson for my level. Thanks Aimee.

[@Nano-Fernandez]

You´re amazing Aimee. Thank you! so much

[@drjazz7278]

just love this kind of lesson .. really don't think i could this anywhere else on the internet .. or from any book I've got. thanks

[@johna6648]

Great video, sound and video just right. I only wish you had ended with playing the whole thing through without comments, just for the joy of hearing it. Thank you Aimee!

[@cantabriaecs]

You are brilliant as a teacher, very engaging, easy to understand...truly a gift God gave you!

[@AimeeNolte]

Thank you so much

[@victorhugotoledocofre1366]

Lovable. Thank you Aimee.

[@seheyt]

Almost scary how she ropes you in from the very start :)

[@hchuangg]

That's awesome! Thank you for sharing this video.

[@williamshema3119]

I don't even have the words how this helped me, you really got me into jazz piano You make things so simple thank you really really really much Hoping you're staying safe A new student of jazz

[@barbiebeckford2988]

This is wonderful Amy. Thank you.

[@jimmypatino]

Thanks Aimee. It’s an easy and kool way to approach to any Tune. By the way…I’m putting it together also on Someday my Prince will come. Is the same concept!

[@jfink2000]

This is gold. A few years ago a teacher turned me on to Dave McKenna's "three handed" technique. I think that's sort of what she is describing....

[@jeffroberts_tunes]

What a fantastic lesson! Thank you so much

[@leehayton]

Great tutorial Aimee...thanks 👌

[@MikeHartgrove]

Great info and performance!

[@Ericejazz]

great lesson Aimee! Thank you!

[@theodorekorbos2804]

BEAUTIFUL VOICE !! GO FOR IT !!

[@nils8950UTAUACC]

this is exactly what i was looking for! you just keep making helpful videos one after another wow

[@mikereali6215]

Thank U Aimee, nice + “Smooooth” beautiful explanation!!! Thank U once again!!!

[@gerardoarguello483]

Perfectly explained. Thanks a lot!

[@davesax11]

Lovely. One of my favs as well.

[@tomkirvin4571]

Nice! Thanks, Aimee.

[@misskarimuyes]

Lovely 💖 Thank you got the information and your work!

[@pierretaylor7011]

Your voice is ideally suited to sing jazz and you’re really good on keys too. 🔥

[@erictadashiabe1981]

Wooowwwww!!! Great job!! Thank you very much!! I will try it!

[@michaelanthonycaprioni6502]

I like your explain things well you have a good sense of humor

[@tmaeer5446]

Much appreciated Aimee, I like the method

[@sayanbhattacharya3233]

This is such a wonderful approach to teaching!

[@michelezaraofficial]

Thank you Aimee!!

[@cathierayes4226]

Oh my gosh, Aimee, I'm trying so hard to figure out how to write piano parts for choral arrangements and I saw that video--it was wonderful!--but this helps too, SO much! I love your videos. Thank you so much!

[@AimeeNolte]

So glad!!

[@secondstarllc]

This video's intro is brilliantly succinct and relevant. I've become a quick fan of your teaching style and personality expressed through your music. Awesome job!

[@AimeeNolte]

🙏🏼😍

[@adeppisch]

This song was one of my requests during your last Live Stream. Cool! 😎

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I thank god, that there is Aimee!

[@meryrodriguez8808]

Me too

[@darksevenmaster5398]

You voice is so lovely just touches my heart

[@ardencone]

Took a lot home today, good job and Thank you.

[@descontrolador]

Beautiful performance 🙂

[@juderandbrisack101]

This is sooo great! thank you

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Saw the title of this video and almost cried 😂 thank you so much

[@rachelsmename]

I'm really appreciating this video. I'm still watching it bits at a time because I'm taking notes and practicing as I go. Nice nuggets of info on how to arrange different time signatures. I'm just at the 4/4 time now in the video. These types of tutorials is just what I'm looking for right now.

[@AimeeNolte]

Thanks Rachel, for letting me know. Makes me happy!

[@carolynrugh768]

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[@alibiath35]

You've given me new ideas to combine my two hands in your example "Bluesette". There's rhythm in your 3/4!!!

[@Yttik1982]

Thank you, very helpful!

[@theodorekorbos2804]

I think I know this piece it sounds so familiar !! Thank you Ms. Nolte

[@NoaNizan]

You are my queen thats it!! thanks!!!!

[@Synox89]

Aimee, please make a studio version of Bluesette! Its so beautiful!

[@DinoDiniProductions]

One of my favourite tunes

[@JamesWatsonComposer]

Thanks so much for that little term "pistol fingers"! So fun and a clever way to remember how to actually fill the space. I've been analyzing a Chicago pianist named Jeremy Khan and he plays so animatedly that it can get hard to keep up, but now I'll listen for the "pistol fingers" moments.

[@JamesWatsonComposer]

Also he sounds like he has pistol fingers in both hands.... Life goals...

[@marcofidelsuarez4832]

You are beautiful and excellent teacher. You are perfect.

[@musicfromhenjo3692]

Thanks Aimee! Perfect tune to learn on a sunday ... wish me luck :P

[@dougcook2166]

Nicely done! and I like your singing too ): I sat 5 feet away from toots in NY circa...god knows how long ago that was. But I agree with you about the middle section and i wrote that section into a lead sheet for a septet in my final year of school 25 years ago!!!! Played trombone back then but taught myself piano and that is all I do now. You are def multi talented. great stuff

[@jesseimpersonal]

Love Toots. And this lesson.

[@elisabethaouate8329]

Great lesson of pedagogy

[@Jamsville]

I love how naturally playing solo comes for piano. Us guitarists can only try to emulate the way the two hands of a pianist interact by alternating comping and melodies.

[@Ketoswammy]

Guitar is a great instrument as well, but so completely different. Standard notation just doesn’t fit it, etc. As a teenager, I wanted to learn guitar, thought piano wasn’t cool enough, but I eventually gravitated back to piano.

[@samfrazee6498]

chord melody gutar guy hear, we can learn a lot from Aimee

[@JazzDuets]

cool class, well explained! Had not heard the full version for years. cheers!

[@OdinComposer]

Love your videos. Keep it up!

[@alexisgs8800]

I feel like I just heard an angel sing, I'm hypnotized

[@BrunoWiebelt]

Thank you for an other great lesson! Nice new haircolor by the way. Have a marvels weekend.

[@AimeeNolte]

Lol my hair is the same. Thanks tho, Bruno!

[@NicholasStein]

I love the edits in this video. Thanks for that.

[@AimeeNolte]

Took a long time. Thank you. :)

[@NicholasStein]

How about some gear lust. Check out how David Walliman (a guitar teacher) has set up his recording rig. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3PFnpurrcyff7c He claims it has cut his editing time by 70%. So he can spend more time on the material being presented. BTW I am a guitarist and still I benefit from your lessons a lot.

[@AimeeNolte]

Boy that’s cool. What a great set up! It’d set me back some serious $ but it would be so nice! Good to know about it. Thanks!

[@lucasneumanndeantonio9727]

I'd love more of these videos for solo jazz standards instead of comping!

[@moonlightmelodrama]

I think I am finally getting it. It's not about the instrument. It's about the music.

[@slcrooks]

very helpful!

[@MrBudaguda]

YES AIMEE

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Que Bello y Hermoso aporte al Jazz Dios Padre me dà a través tuyo Aime. Saludos desde Cochabamba Bolivia

[@rachelsmename]

Aimee, this was a great video. Hope you do one like it in every type of jazz....bebop, bossa nova, ballad, swing and then do more of those lol. Thanks for this!

[@Demontage_Montage]

Thanks. Very nice.

[@nblechi1995]

Thanks a lot. I‘ll try it subito

[@elisabethaouate8329]

A thousand thanks for your explain

[@elisabethaouate8329]

Tank you Aimee !, i’m learning english, i’m learning jazz piano, i’m learning jazz vocal, whis you. I’m from Paris and i was looking for a coach vocal. Now, i find !!! I was a classical professionnal pianist. Really, thanks for your all videos.

[@elyelma]

Now this is really sweet. Thanks for making me a better understander (:

[@elyelma]

I was actually going to comment this on the "Magic of the Tritone" Video but my KZbin App went crazy (: Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

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My girlfriend swears I have a crush on you... Lol Your content is amazing! She doesn't understand how much I've learned from you; best on KZbin. Thank you from Baltimore

[@andrealideo5331]

Molto bello questo video...

[@eternalrainbow-cj3iu]

Very Good Aimee! you are not just playing it, but make it sound like music and like Yours! that's the way also the other day you played25 's that everybody wanna hear than you sang a Friend, and than I remembered that you answered my e-mails and I understood: Yes, you are a friend!

[@rpavich]

Freaking awesome.

[@itorres008]

Very helpful, as always. Thanks. I liked that you spoke about and demonstrated some fingering details. It would be great if you could talk more about that in the future. It would help a lot of us who play by ear and haven't had many (or any) formal lessons covering good fingering. Sometimes we get stuck playing a part and our fingers ar just not in position to play what comes next. Perhaps you could talk about playing scales, triads in different inversions, 4 note chords, arpeggios, parallel 3rds or 6ths, using both hands for the same phrase or any other helpful tips.

[@AimeeNolte]

Look at my Bebop Scale Fingering video, Iván

[@paxwallacejazz]

At 13 or 14 I was pulled into the jazz band run by my middle school concert band director to play bari sax. I started to attend his jazz gigs around town so that's where I 1st heard this tune. You weren't born yet I think. The light sophisticated swing of a jazz waltz with clearly defined modulation always sounded so cool literally. Enjoyed this. I have discovered I am in the minority but walking a waltz kinda defuses the sensibility of it to me like getting too heavy handed with a bossa.