How to use the PENTATONIC SCALE to improvise thrilling Jazz...

[@NewJazz]

Hi dear fellow musicians :) In this other lesson we do some useful practical 'exercises' with the pentatonic hand grip. You might wanna check it out when having done the lesson above... Cheers from Oliver kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIuxhHenp7aSqLM

[@alanj9849]

Oliver, not only are you a great teacher, but your wonderful humanity comes through in your videos as strongly as your musical genius. My only regret is that I can't meet you in person and shake your hand. Thank you.

[@DimitriSafarikas]

I came here for the lessons, i'm staying because of your fantastic voice timber and rythm. You're a great musician, but even greater teacher. Thank you !

[@CarloVirtucio]

This lesson has unlocked the jazz secret I've been looking for all these years. I feel like I can finally approach that sound I've been looking for in a clear and logical way instead of trying figure what music theory/scale works or not and why. This is so liberating. Thank you!

[@geoffknot]

Hello. I am a guitar player. Your concepts are the most exciting! Keep up the great work!!

[@karlmccreight876]

The last three days I've been trying this. I felt uncomfortable with it. I remembered the wise words: If you leave your comfort zone a tiny bit each day and fail, get up and keep trying a little more-that's a good sign that you get better at what you are "working" on. That applies to almost everything you try to achieve. Today I started to get into a beautiful flow state and tried your suggestions on the pieces Mercy Mercy Mercy, Footprints, a minor blues progression and a piece of my own. For only having tried your method for only four days it worked increadably well. This is really exiting and beautiful and I can't wait to exploit this futher. It's a further step to step out of my bounderies-and it's only the beginning of a road to more freedom and inner peace. It's very close to walking a spiritual path. Thankyou soooo much. Love and peace

[@davidmccall4776]

Oliver, I love the way your instruction flows from one idea to another. Before you know it you've learned things that you never thought were possible! Thank you sir! 🎹🎹🎹👍🎅

[@adinoadrino2061]

I went on a scavenger hunt to understand how to change between scales and this video explained sooo well now I understand you use the different modes and major and minor etc. thank you so much!!❤

[@jeepmohd6248]

Mr Oliver, I devour with great passion your musical knowledge and musicianship. Super bravo for an excellent presentation. Cheers!

[@sammikinsderp]

Yes Sir! He's done it again! Time to dig right in and practice!

[@anthonyleija6944]

From San Antonio Texas that sir for this lesson this is a breakthrough to play jazz. You're giving the secrets out to play jazz

[@Lassedavid]

Many of my piano students are learning how to improvise with "the handgrip-method." Very enriching stuff. I'm happy to be a patron member.

[@schirmerchristophe671]

Thank you Oliver for this super nice lesson and your sensitivity. You bring us nothing but happiness and we look forward to your lessons. Thank you very much. And be well, take care

[@alekstopol]

Inspiring! Never played piano! Just 4 weeks, two exercises by Oliver and hit the road jack theme just flow!

[@johndliu2284]

Thank you for this. It is both explaining a type of logic and at the same time freeing the thought of continuous repetition. This gives structure and at the same time permission to expand beyond the norm. This is Jazz for me. To experience the complexity and appreciate the virtuosity coming from a kind, compassionate, rational, voice and the very meaning full hand gestures completely captured me. Thank you for sharing this. I'm so glad to have found you and look forward to exploring more of your insights.

[@rafaelgodoy903]

This has been your most thrilling class to date!!! I'm feeling more confidence every time i sit here to practise. I just can't thank you enough

[@christloen4077]

Mr. Oliver, crazy how you still uploading a video, I've learn a lot of jazz from you! Thank you so much, I'm grateful had found your channel 🙏🏻

[@andrepechio]

After practicing for some time I can already hear a distinct jazz sound from my playing, WOW, thanks a lot.

[@danwastony2]

Great video Oliver. You should be teaching at Havard University. You are simply an amazing teacher

[@tq193]

Thanks you so much for showing me how accessible playing the piano can be and stopping me from overthinking everything. I feel like your videos are giving me whole new, fun and musical worlds to explore even as a relative beginner :)

[@mikaelzerbib]

You teach so well that Im getting a piano for sure! best teacher on Earth!

[@musicislifefaith2372]

Very good teaching. Clear and easy to understand. Thanks

[@atzgoblastbotzo]

Pure Genius ! It is incredibly advanced and yet playable. But you explain things a little to fast, moving shapes before we can memorize or play the notes. I had to pause and rewind many times 😅 Your playing is mesmerizing and your explanations incredibly interesting. These are such advanced professional tips that theory cannot even explain them easily ! I wonder if your Patreon is really helping you financially and how much you would need to make monthly to make this a half time or full time job ? Don't be shy about your financial goals because your are a true master, and so generous with your pro tips ! You deserve to succeed !

[@NewJazz]

Thank you so much for your really nice comment and great input - I'll try to slow down a little ;) I do these lessons almost full time now ;) Cheers from Oliver

[@CreateArtRecords]

The Tipp to do the Blue-Note when ever its possibel, even when its not a Minor or Major Blues Function its brilliant. Eg. on the Phrygian Row, on the 3.Row, with the C-(Blues) Pentatonic. That Connects one more time the different Rows. Thanks so mutch again.

[@ggsantiagomus]

The best in giving! Thank you allways!

[@timothyneuss7955]

You are an amazing teacher

[@alejandro1133]

Thank you so much, Oliver Prehn! You are briliant!

[@t.k.8265]

Where in the hell have I been? This enlightened me and pushed me light years ahead yo a great guy

[@ttdh18]

OMG- thank you Oliver Prehm! I cannot tell you how many years I have tried to understand these concepts and after watching your New Jazz videos, finally I see the light! You have made complex Jazz theory so accessible. You are an amazing teacher and a very talented musician.

[@bigronlfavordawolfmanhall9371]

OMG, THAT IS MAGNIFICENT MR. OLIVER, NOW I TRULY GET THE MODES, THEY HAVE BEEN SO CONFUSING TO ME AND HAD NO USE THAT I COULD SEE.. THIS LESSON OPENS MY EYES AND UP COMPLETLY THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH.

[@babup8986]

How cooling a sound we get from this, great.

[@johnbell913]

Excellent sound. Thank you from California.

[@ferdinandbardamou5508]

You, sir, are a treasure of a human being. Please keep up sharing joy and music. Respect and best wishes from greece.

[@andersonoliveiradasilva4199]

Hi Oliver, this is one of the best lessons I ever had in my life. I really learned a lot today and had enormous fun going crazy mixing all the pentatonic styles. Thank you very much. I really appreciated.

[@JonasSynth]

I don't speak English but.... Este canal es increíble, aprendo demasiado, fue el mejor canal que he descubierto en KZbin 🔥, gracias por enseñar todas estas cosas que son muy difíciles de darse cuenta, se aprecia el esfuerzo. ❤️

[@sammikinsderp]

I love the Minor and Major call and response!!!!

[@bigronlfavordawolfmanhall9371]

Go Oliver. Sir you have got me so excited. Can not wait to get to a piano or keyboard. Im away from home now. However sir I can see all my notes and chords in my head, to understand the church modes and recall them now is a leap in understanding music. Wow you go champ. Bless you.

[@generosolore9567]

Thank you, you are the best teacher.

[@chaoukiabdelhadi2997]

Thank you so much, you are the best one on youtube.❤🙏👍

[@kamelupo]

Simply a Natural Genius

[@identityx6417]

Thank youu Mr Oliver you're the greatest teacher we've ever had ♥

[@NickSergeev]

This is blowing my mind. Thanks!

[@danielmaiermusic]

Your lessons are ALWAYS amazing :) Very informative but also just soothing and relaxing at the same time. Thanks so much! Love from Germany

[@lumm71]

In former lessons of you I learned this pentatonic grip stuff but never thought about call and response. This sounds very interesting. Thx.

[@feraldynaufal]

You have a voice of great story teller, and your playing is really cool!

[@rickhood1801]

This is so great! I was practicing it today. I love this as a way to understand and play the different modes. I think the different flavors of each mode are one of the best things about music. So beautiful. Thank you Oliver.

[@robmiller8941]

What great concepts. I’m in my seventies and have spent time during the lockdown watching you tube videos to improve my playing and learn jazz. Love your simplified approach!!

[@frederikstephano2926]

Oliver!! Very outstanding lesson! God bless you!

[@Talentocubano]

Oliver thanks to your classes I am getting better at the piano. Today i was able to play with the left hand comping chords and improvising with the right hand.

[@maddox9298]

Thank you for being exsisted!

[@rtoob]

Thank you Olive so very much!

[@atzgoblastbotzo]

Absolutely amazing 😲 This is so advanced - yet it's a free lesson !

[@karlmccreight876]

I've recently discovered, that I can give myself another treat by doing what did before-just on a higher level by adding it to your method: I used to play drone notes over the blues scale while playing blues by ocasionally adding a top note , which are notes from the two chords that can be found within the pentatonic or blues scale. Okay-that's a rather common thing to while soloing over a simple blues progression in order to add some spice, BUT when I tried your method on this video, I suddenly used the mentioned top notes while I used the polymodal on stacked pentatonic with or without the blue notes (black keys on the a-,e-,b-,c-,g-, and d-pentatonic scales after the third note). This sounded like the joy of madness when I started playing like this "outside". I'm pretty exited about what's still there for me to discover, and while using your method, I often experience deep peace inside as if sitting alone in a teepe (during a small rainbow gathering) keeping the fire before me going. Then I am alone without feeling lonely 💖. Thankyou again. Stay beautiful brother...

[@NewJazz]

Great!!! And thanks a lot :)

[@malekkinos]

Outstanding lesson, thank you very much Oliver!

[@lucianphipps5430]

Thanks Oliver.. very liberating! Lucian of London

[@rickhood]

Hi Oliver. Watching your videos got me motivated to pick up piano again after 20 + years away. The style of jazz you play -- more modern, not just the standards -- is exactly what I want to play. Anyhow, I have relearned the 12 major and 12 natural minor scales, and am now working on triad inversions, arpeggios and speed. When I feel I have that foundation down, I will come back and dive into some of this stuff. I should probably learn all the pentatonic scales also. I knew nothing about modes before learning about them from you, so am also excited about getting into those. Also knew nothing about "hand grips" before learning from you. I hope to come to Copenhagen for the Jazz Festival in summer of 2022 and will pop over to Aarhus for a night or two for that Jazz fest, which I believe overlaps the Copenhagen festival. Maybe I will run into you in Aarhus.

[@MegaJulien94]

Wonderful video, thank you so much for your work !

[@chemsilva]

Mr. Oliver, I´d like to thank you for this great lesson! I really enjoyed the way you teached the hand grips; today I applied this concept to my playing and it worked very fine! I was improvising over a Baião (a brazilian rhythm) and I loved the sound I got. Greetings from Brazil! Please continue this beautyfull work!

[@LezionixChitarra]

I LOVE that lesson !!! Very useful ..I will put on my 🎸 guitar,🙌🙌👍👍

[@ivansukhletcov3137]

This is so awesome! Thank you for creating such great content.

[@netolopeslopes5416]

Quero agradecer a Deus pela sua vida. Não conheço um lugar nenhum do mundo um trabalho tão excepcional quanto o seu. A sua didática é impressiona.

[@renzomariacaprini702]

Very very very useful to me to begin to understand jazz .thank you so much

[@dd-ld7ek]

The best teacher piano in the world Helloowwww From Indonesia. NTT

[@handlebargg]

Most lovely teacher I've heard, thank you so much!

[@chu_4920]

great i'm from indonesia love your tutorial

[@ProfeARios]

Thank you Oliver for your wonderful lessons!!! Thank you so much!!!

[@guillermosanchez9941]

God bless to you for your fantastic lessons.

[@PaulRodericks]

Tks for yet another pentatonics lesson. Cheers!

[@javimar61]

It's seems so easy when you do it! Thank you very much again Oliver.

[@MrJdsenior]

LOL...with ya. So true when you find anyone in any discipline that is really good.

[@Superhero0405]

Really useful. Worth to donate 💰 monthly. Thx for your effort 👍

[@NewJazz]

Thanks a lot for your really nice comment and voluntary support!!! Cheers from Oliver

[@leepradd6930]

Great teacher

[@jesseforchap4609]

You the best Oliver

[@MiguelLimaCDM]

I just discovered your channel and it is gold my friend thank you for that

[@adrianosoares7211]

You are the best thanks for everything

[@thiscris_]

You are such a wonderful man, thank you!

[@von_Apa]

You are such a great teacher! You make me wanna start being serious on my new Great Roland- Fantom 8 keyboard! 🙏🌟🎶

[@niso-theseaismylife1139]

from israel i thanks you for all your beautiful lessons , niso

[@AwareLife]

Great stuff Oliver. Been away from the keys and this inspires to get back to it... Thank you.

[@erhanmusician]

Thanks

[@NewJazz]

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

[@decelloduobandung9198]

Thank you very much from Indonesia.. in bahasa : "ilmu yang bermanfaat.. luar biasa.."

[@sirsilver1968]

hey oliver nice to see you back with another amazing tutorial video

[@1985burock]

youre amazing... ı can listen all the time while painting...

[@shamsam69]

That was amazing

[@yaoguangtang1759]

Amazing!

[@GMONY5]

This, is what i been looking for, thank for this....

[@ajavrik482]

It's a very useful lesson...!Danke schön...!!👏

[@dannystylez8401]

Lovely one sir. God bless you richly 🙏

[@midastymiwaynedasty2681]

Awesome 👏

[@cyrilmauclair]

as always so nice! I'm sure you kinda worrying wether you put new enough content compared to some of your previous videos, but please don't worry, your teaching skills and musicality makes all these videos so interesting to follow and work with even when you repeat stuff you explained in former videos. I think I will try to translate this to guitar cause the penta scale is so much iused and the golden trick you give can really change the game! thx again!

[@cyrilmauclair]

Just to precise my thought, I'm sure a video repeating all this stuff in another key than C would be so successfulf too, actually you could make one for each :)

[@commonoctopusmusic]

This is perfectly beautiful my man. Much appreciated

[@norasantos739]

Beautiful! Like it

[@sulaimusic01]

I like music jazz from you Oliver

[@BigParadox]

Thanks, this is so exciting.

[@ChristinaIgupen]

Great lesson I learned a lot from your video. This is a very useful content I like playing piano as well

[@JPGUILLON-TEARSCOPE]

I HAVE just started the piano (69 years old) but loved jazz all my life. Your videos make so much sense and are so well presented. They have allowed me to be the free spirit that i always have been. i for sure that with your help i will be able to play some jazz on my 70th birthday in june 2022

[@sergioalmiron563]

Felicitaciones!!! Excelente clase. Bravo!!

[@Orionsbelt31]

8 months in and you're definitely taking much of the mystery away, especially jazz & blues which I love ...Now if I can only develop that finger dexterity and right/left hand separation all while maintaining some reasonable sounding rhythm. Thanks for the vids and I'll take any advice you can offer to a total newb because it seems daunting :)

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thanks a lot: Here is a lesson about left and right hand separation that may interest you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXaVaIivZs90nZo Cheers from Oliver

[@Orionsbelt31]

@@NewJazz Thank you Oliver! Actually I was scrolling through your vids but missed that one and got distracted by some of your other great lessons. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6K9oH6Bo8tsn5o ... though arguably still a bit advanced for me to actually play but I love the 'structure of music' you're explaining.

[@naveedsalam5335]

Great man

[@andryushenko98]

Please make video about hexatonic scales, that would be also super useful Thank you for your brilliant lessons!

[@karlmccreight876]

Do you mean the wholetone scale? If yes, maybe this gives you a clue: In general, you can crunch all these mentioned scales down to only two scales. That is so, because this kind of scales have (unlike to all others major- or minor scales) no reference points like halftone-steps as you find in a major or natural minor scale. Thus you can not derive any modes (like church modes hidden inside an ordinary major scale). Whenever you try to play a wholtone-scale in different modes, you'll end up with another wholetone scale (due to the lack of halftone steps in this naughty little scale)-thus you can derive five other scales from one wholetone scale. If do so with the following basic scales, you'll end up with twelve wholtone scale-one for every key! First one: Play the black and the white tripletwin keys in a row. The black ones are easy to find. The white triples can be found where the black twins are ( so it's c, d and e). You'll end up with: c, d, e f#, g# and a#. They fit well with a the dominan-seven chords in c, d,e,f#,g#,a#with if you leave the fifths out (play the two guidelines plus root note only). Also they fit well with these chords if you play them altered with sharp fifths and ninths (#5 and #9) or flat fifths and ninths (b5 and b9). The second wholetone scale is created with the black twins (d-flat and e-flat) and the white quadro-twins (they are found in and around the black triple-twin keys:f,g,a and b). To find the dominant-7 chords you just procede like with the first scale mentioned above. These weird scales can also be used on augmented chords. Using these scale while soloing cause a quite eccentric mood similar to the soloing of telonius monk. When using it for composing, you'll get the sound of film music used in old black and white horror movies. Hope I could help...

[@ndr_924]

So glad I found your channel ❤️

[@ArtRodent]

I'm looking forward to you going beyond "Anything is possible" Oliver !

[@NewJazz]

HAHAHA. Well that's quite a challenge...