Shortcuts to "JAZZ & BLUES" Improvisation

[@errol8505]

I remembered watching this video a few years ago. Recently I started watching it again . What a powerful lesson . My advice to ya'll is to watch this video in chunks. Practice these chunks on different days. Don't try to practice the entire half hour video in one sitting, break it up over days. Oliver you have always been a great teacher and inspiration. I learn so much from you over the years and I'm glad to be one of of your Patreon subscriber.

[@NewJazz]

Thank you so much Errol, for everything!!! And yes, this old (and a little odd, but forever valid) lesson is very comprehensive and should be divided into chunks when practicing. Thanks for your thoughtful input!!! Warm regards from Oliver

[@arthurrosch5378]

Oliver, the sheer amount of WORK you do is astonishing. Yes. Even thrilling. You do it for the love of it, we know. We are all grateful.

[@thanhthienluong1562]

Very inspirational feelings and sounds -softly and gently.Thanks

[@cjoarder]

Very nice. You nicely break down complex items into smaller chunks for beginner like us to understand. Thank you very much for the tutorial. God bless you!!

[@RicTester]

The thing that is great about your lessons is that I can understand them - and use the concepts. Thank you from Australia

[@jessalvo6375]

You and your grip method of teaching jazz piano is the best. You are inspiring a lot of us even if I just turned 71 years old. Before you, I learned the point system when I was 30 years younger and I have searched for anything better than that. You are the best. Thank you.

[@hgn2217]

This is the 2nd encounter with your KZbin tutorials! This lesson is simply BRILLIANT !!!

[@Eliviery]

Hello, Oliver. One more "jazzy blues personalized Portuguese translation" done! And, as always, your lessons are powerful, such as the God things. You're a man of God! Thank God for your great lessons.

[@NewJazz]

Your great work is now approved and published. Thank you so much for your hard work :) :) :) Warm regards from Oliver

[@dkvladutu2]

precisely my thoughts

[@tegetegede]

Thanks so much! A true service to humanity: helping people make beautiful, expressive music

[@jessacuna]

GRRREAAT! LESSON! LUV THE DRUM CONVERSATION UNDER YOUR SOLOING!

[@HARIZtoteles]

best jazz piano lesson so far.. many thanks very clear xplanation

[@kers9507]

Excellent lesson with a lot of interesting stuff. High level concepts brought on a very clear and simple way. I enjoyed this lesson very much.

[@NewJazz]

This lovely and very clear statement from you surely encourage me to make more videos. Tanks a lot :) By the way, love your video about quartal voicing! You got a fan and subscriber :) Cheers Oliver Prehn

[@kers9507]

NewJazz Happy to give a little bit in return by sharing the video on quartal voicings. Love the fresh and original approach in your video lessons.

[@melvinkauahi9742]

thijs weerts ioiî

[@Bigdrum2]

Oh yes, that is great stuff too :-)... You guys make a concert pianist out of me in three months .....Ingredible.

[@makhabanedeepsoul8972]

This is very cool and understandable

[@Hannah-rl3ng]

Incredible teacher you are...

[@FCBayernKiller95]

Binge watching your videos, feel like becoming the greatest pianist on the world just by watching you :D

[@yvesbrulin1079]

Excellent video. The best I have ever seen about this topic. Thank you so much !

[@vincentbernolin1943]

One of the most interesting channel on KZbin about Jazz impro. Your « avoid scales - pattern approach » is exactly what I’m practicing actually. Your « handgrip approach » is really a gem. I cannot believe I learn so much from a 25’ video after having played piano for 40 years. To every person who is reading this comment, I would like to say : don’t be fooled by apparent simplicity, this approach is very, very much more powerfull that it looks like! And don’t forget to look at the other videos of course, they also are worth the time spent ! Many, many sincere thanks for all this excellent content !!

[@michelschubnel722]

at last! I have exactly wath I need!!! thank you sooooo much

[@prlucasbarbosa]

What a nice video. I've never watched a blues tutorial that synthesized so many things and ease so much the brainwork to play a solo. Contratulations!

[@iescalante]

Its so nice to have these tools now in my brain and fingers.. Thanks a lot!

[@hotli3s]

Even for me, an absolut beginner on the piano, its an enormous pleasure to play around with your exercises and sounds , you are creating in your lessons. Thank you Oliver

[@rubinromeo4125]

It is an excellent way to practice and be free.

[@pierrecohenmusic]

You are amazing! Such a different way to approach theory and improv concepts. Makes it so much simpler!! Thank you!

[@joehernandez5600]

Another amazing lesson. Glad I found you. I play guitar. Can’t wait to translate this concept to guitar.

[@ArtRodent]

Thanks for making me not feel intimidated by the music I 'm trying to learn to play. You have the knack of easing into the knowledge of all the keys. Great stuff !

[@SebastianGordonMusic]

I can't sleep now because of you ... Tons of great lessons ! :D

[@alexandersmollett3539]

Just as in the description... Great sound with simple tools! A real wow! Thanx!

[@김종필-v7z]

Great! Thank you for your lesson.

[@shelbypereira]

a very original approach to improvising over the blues, first time I see this. Easy to learn and very nice sounds! Sounds like a genuine blues, but in fact the approach to achieving the blues sound is completely different than just learning some licks and the bues scale.

[@jorgeneri]

Amazing. You are the best music teacher of all time...

[@zachwatson83]

You are a genius. Thank you for this!

[@ВикторК-к1э]

КАК ВСЕГДА ИНТЕРЕСНО.КЛАССНО!!!

[@gmlouis33]

Sounds more like a bluesy jazz than a jazzy blues ;) At any rate, as a blues pianist, this lesson was just what I needed to nuance my solos with some Jazz!

[@mariojanio4772]

man, you really saved my solos, I have no words to thanks your lessons!! Thank you so much!!

[@alexr1587]

Thank you so much! Great approach, I was looking for something like this for years!!!!!

[@nqobilendiweni111]

This is beautiful, thank you Oliver.

[@cciliebh1524]

Thanks for great lessons, -I love your approach to explaining improvisation! I will look forward to see your upcoming videos on chord progressions. 😊

[@NewJazz]

Hi Cæcilie and thanks a lot - great you can benefit from the lessons! It will still take some time before we get to the chord progressions - we need to get through some other stuff first. But we should definitely have something about chord progressions after those videos - I surely hope you have patience :)

[@PaulRodericks]

High calibre piano stuff and that too free. Express my gratitude for letting us download to try and learn the new methods to modes and improvisation. Tks and may u prosper in all ways.

[@richard9480]

Many thanks There's a lot to take in for this jazz piano novice but I am going to watch this video again and practise those grips. It's an amazing voyage of discovery!

[@NewJazz]

Thanks a lot :) You don't have to grasp it all. The video is build up in steps starting easy and ends up in an advanced level. The idea is that you can just stop the video when you have enough and save the last part for later ;) Many regards Oliver

[@Jervo]

Thanks for your advices and tips.

[@Myaccountishacked]

Excellent! Maestro NewJazz, thank you!

[@carlosastudillobarraza4810]

What a great lesson. Thanks from Chile!

[@rafalvarezsevilla]

these things are genius, just take patterns from different modes in different orders, you could check this stuff easily with a table of modes, very inspiring, thank you!

[@prodstorexx]

This is a great video for learning concepts in soloing and techniques. Thank you!

[@nair.bakunawa]

This is really top quality content. Thank you so much

[@DreamTVai]

I don't belive this! your videos are gold. Thanks very much and make more pleaseeee!!

[@francescomanfredi]

Best tutorial ever! I will try it also on my guitar

[@NewJazz]

Thanks a lot :) I have spoken with several guitarists who tells me that the techniques also works on the guitar. Maybe you have to alter the grips a bit, but the main ideas are the same ;) Actually I think that the guitarists are much better at thinking in grips. The pianist thinks more in scales, because in the music school we learn the scales and music theory with the piano keys as foundation. But the pianist can, as the guitarist, also benefit very much from thinking in grips.

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

As guitarist and pianist i walk both world and both instruments. I think pianist think in grips too. if i play a descending c scale i start out with fingers 5 2 1 (cge) then 5 31 (g ec) then 5 21 ( e cg)

[@Naqsipsaq]

I love that idea! Grips! very intuitive! worth every penny :)

[@afonsocastro5288]

Thank you so much for all your lessons and for the amazing way you do them!!

[@davidthornburg8116]

Thank You so much ! Great teacher and a very well put together lesson !

[@millcroft1759]

Great stuff.I love simple patterns you can move ...and play with.This is a quite like the 5 boxes approach in guitar.Bravo.

[@munetmbsc]

Beautiful! I gotta watch this many times.

[@LarrySiden]

I love the sound of Bill Evans! I've been learning on guitar some of his tunes and tunes he played.

[@NewJazz]

Yes, Bill Evans has a very soft and sensitive touch on the keys that I like very much ;)

[@Sev826]

Yo, I think its really important that at the start of your videos you give a demo of what your teaching sounds like

[@RobertoBojorgesA]

Incredible useful and tasty lesson Thank you so much

[@RanBlakePiano]

This is a new approach .i usually listen away from instrument but this is cool

[@rik-keymusic160]

brilliant teaching skills and playing skills!! Thanks again!

[@eneojoechajohn6625]

I love your lesson

[@gatolocomclay]

You have an amazing channel. Thank you!

[@jcharos7672]

I need to watch this about ten times.

[@NewJazz]

I hope you can use some of the piano grips and their positions in your music ;)

[@jcharos7672]

I'm going to try.

[@marcofarina9299]

Un approccio geniale complimenti! Grande lezione!

[@adambowers7482]

Well this has changed my life

[@mackenziebowles2443]

his videos are just incredible. especially for me who's a real beginner. engaging and very easy to understand. thank you so much, Oliver!

[@Harpiano]

amazing criative lesson

[@ArgoBeats]

Beautiful, Oliver. THank you for sharing your knowledge and make it simple and clear to understand!

[@SmallPigMan]

This video was very helpful and inspiring, thank you!

[@damianifoto]

very good videos. Tnks

[@patrinerice9152]

Thank you from the bottom of my Heart

[@nsandor72]

Great lesson. Fender Rhodes sound is great also.Thanks

[@michaelaldrid]

Oh god this so good lowdy

[@balybaloo]

thank you very much ! i ignore i could take it off ! thanks again from vichy /france and carry on...

Thank you Oliver! Very interesting!

[@daunierthompson8978]

Thank you so much, I've been wanting to learn this stuff so bad and no one ever shows it

[@eugenebrown3281]

Awesome!

[@bittechslow]

You guys sound so good.

[@NewJazz]

So glad you like the sound of the simple & slow BLUES ;)

[@MrHarpad]

Its not stupid blues. Its magic blues.☺Interesting an lovely stuff!!

[@hectoraguilar770]

Thank you for your lesson. Fantastic lesson

[@Marel_project]

Thank you for lesson. Gbu

[@JagaCorp]

Thank you very much!!!

[@abh7449]

Great lesson(s)! What video would you suggest as the best 'starting' point for your pentatonic method. I'd like to begin at your conceptual step-one, and follow the overall sequence if there is one. Thanks for sharing this approach. Really very cool!

[@NewJazz]

Thanks a lot :) There is no partikular order in the videos. You can see each of them them isolated. I started up giving them number 1, 2, 3 and 4. Then I gave up on the numbering - it gave no sense. Most of the videos concern the pentatonic hand grip, but in different aspects. More videos are coming up soon :) Enjoy :)

[@arthurcwlau9307]

I like Bill Evans. More on his style if possible. Really want to pick up any song and turn it into a jazzy Bill Evans style piece. Thanks.

[@thomasfritz8589]

I wisch to have had the lessons 50 years ago!

[@MrJorvik]

Brilliant! Thank you

[@PhillipYewTree]

Hi Oliver. I really enjoy your clips. Inspiring. Would you please consider the view of your key board. On my iphone, most of the screen is a view of the drums, and a the text to the left. The view of your working keyboard is a small proportion and always easy to see the notes you play. However, i really do appreciate your presentations. Thanks

[@NewJazz]

Thanks a lot. And thanks for your useful input 😊 Best regards Oliver

[@SaxophonistDubai]

Man, you are genius ,,!, thank you very much

[@stasifromrussia5844]

wow! that`s cool

[@Makeeba3611621]

Excelente clase magistral, gracias por pulicarla. Muy bueno, con su perdón me permito sugetirle algo. Sería posible colcar el texto de las traducciones un poco mas arriba, para poder ver los dedos. Porque los misos tapan el teclado y no permiten ver los dedos. Gracias. Un fuerte abrazo desde Venezuela

[@NewJazz]

Hi, thank you so much and I'm sorry about the subtitles. You can turn them off and on in the video settings (they are just an extra layer added by KZbin). In all my latest videos I have made the subtitles single-lined, so they should be visible only below and not on top of the keys... Warm regards from Oliver

[@liamwarden5835]

I‘m gonna try go through all your video tutorials Oliver. See you on the other side!

[@kankan7940]

eXCELENTE tUTORIAL ....THANKS VERY MUCH BRO

[@jcjc4314]

Great lesson.. :) - a little suggestion to make your solos sounding a bit more mature (im sure Oliver knows this), is to not start on the root note of the chord youre in. This little trick works so well, and is so simple. just putting the idea out there :)

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

just subscribed you are among my top choices to watch. liked and subscribed. Long time player and teacher started teaching guitar at 16.. was into Chet Atkins in those days and found out about tab years later.. i would put the needle on and of the record...trying to pick up the lick. My jazz ear is more inside outside inside.. Thelonius made up the rules as he went. Also alot of people dont know that Mr. Guitar had a Music teacher for a dad and was highly versed in various music styles.. Chet played violin and had to go to guitar in the family band. When he came to Nashville they didnt accept him at first similar to what happened to Brent Mason. .

[@AntonyCartwright]

Hi Mr Prehn! I really, really like your teaching style - you have an excellent teaching manner. I'm now really comfortable with the minor pentatonic hand grip which you taught me earlier this year. As I was watching this video, I became confused about something. Anyway, my question is; Do you teach a separate hand grip for major pentatonic chords, or do you use the minor pentatonic hand grip to make (an inversion of) a major pentatonic chord? For example, when you want to play C Maj, do use the minor pentatonic hand grip to play A Min, or do you have a separate hand grip? Thanks, Antony...

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thank you so much. I'm really glad that I can help you on your musical road ;) And yes, I prefer to use the same minor hand grip and then just change the position of the grip compared to the bass note to make the major sound - as you so well describe it. But there is nothing wrong about making a major hand grip as well - if you prefer :) Cheers from Oliver

[@nicholaseb1351]

This is gold

[@mateussenra6691]

Hi Oliver, on Just can't stop watching your videos! So i'm here to say that i play guitar and sometimes when you talk about grips i get a little confused, if you could put the scale and the grip would help a Lot! Hugs from Brazil!

[@NewJazz]

Hi and thanks a lot :) You are right. In most of my lessons I do also explain the scales and the theory. But in this lesson it gives no meaning talking scales because using all the positions of the two hand grips we actually play all 12 notes. So we play the chromatic scale! But if we were just told to play the chromatic scale we will not necessarily play the "jazzy blues". The jazzy blues comes with the grips ;) The very best regards Oliver

[@AVONZC]

At first, my deep graitude for your generous professional lesson that I really appreciate as an amateur pianist. Just a simple question, since you are playing in the key of F, I suppose that if I want to play the same licks in G I´ll have to transpose it finger to finger.. ? Apologize for this stupid question, thans again from Buenos Aires. Every comment or suggestion is a treasure for me.

[@NewJazz]

Hi Alberto and thanks a lot - I'm really glad that you can use the lesson. And it is not a stupid question - on the contrary - it is a really good one. The answer is "YES" in my opinion. In a few tonalities it may be a little awkward, but on the other hand you can take great advantages of having the same grips no matter tonality. It's funny, because yesterday I was just thinking about using the same grip no matter tonality and that I should make a video about it. My number two video from now will dwell a little about that subject among others. I hope it will be uploaded mid July. By the way, in mid June (very soon) I will upload a video about how to make a tool to look up all the 7 jazz modes... Cheers Oliver

[@AVONZC]

Thanks so much Oliver !!

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

not stupid at all. i think its a very good question.

[@manuelcaceres8592]

very nice :-)

[@anthonysilva5312]

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[@ewoid64]

Oliver: Thank you very much for these lessons! I knew as soon as I started watching that these ideas were exactly what I'd been looking for, an I'm now practicing them every day. One question: You didn't address what to do in a traditional blues when the chords change to the IV and V7, or in a jazzy blues where the III, VI, and II chords are used. Should there be any change in our approach when these chords come up? Thanks again for the brilliant approach.

[@NewJazz]

Thanks so much - I'm really glad you can benefit from the lessons :) And correct - this is a "modal" blues - so we don't change harmony very much. It is difficult to answer your question, because it depends... Sometimes I think I will chose the grips that shows some of the notes in the specific chord playing for the moment - showing where we are. And sometimes I will 'give a damm' and let the structure in the hand grips take completely control no matter what chord the other musicians are playing. I'm planning to make some lessons about chord progressions - but many videos becomes before that, and every single video takes some time for me to produce, because they are pretty comprehensive. So I surly hope you have patience with me :) Warm Regards Oliver

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[@АлександрМорженко-поэткаменног]

Я человек простой вижу идео Оливера - ставлю лайк ! )))

[@m.l8698]

"playing solos is all about being stupid" 😂 This is so powerful!

[@maracuja55]

Intéressant

[@Artemis-ye2it]

What will be, if we go a perfect 5th from A to E and start to play pentatonic. It will be in dorian scale or not?

[@NewJazz]

Hi - playing E pentatonic on the F bass we approach Lydian with the #4 b-note

[@cartemp]

Ali Farghali Wonderful. But how does your improvisation relate to the standard 12 bar 16 bar blues chord changes? Season's greetings and best wishes

[@NewJazz]

Thanks :) And correct, this a "modal" blues. You can use the same grips in a 12 bar blues, but you also have to be aware of the chords changing. We should have something about that one day ;) Best regards Oliver