This EASY Improvising Secret Changes EVERYTHING

[@etherjazz]

I've just finished this course on Nebula and I can't praise it enough. I'm not a jazz player, but am a musician who performs in other genres. I've made learning jazz one of my top goals, but haven't made much progress. Most teachers focus on scales, chords, arpeggios, etc. I am so tired of these!! In this course, Aimee takes a musical approach by focusing on motifs. This is brilliant! I have learned so much from these lessons that I just had to write about them. I now have an approach that I can understand to do my own solos. Thank you Aimee! You are the best!

[@lisahansen6014]

I’m looking for her “ course” on nebula but only find certain clips from her- not an actual course. Where do I look?

[@DojoOfCool]

Horn player will take a two bar pattern/motif/lick and turn it into a day of practice. Play it in 12 keys, play it against different chords, play it in different genres, start displacing the rhythm, work it into solos. Two bars and really turning inside out can teach so much and create even more ideas from the initial germ of a motif.

[@patrickdevlin8553]

I'm a teacher myself, and I want to affirm that you're so great at this. You have such an enthusiasm that it just makes me want to get right to my piano and start playing. Really fantastic stuff

[@mdp303]

I could not agree more. Aimee is the piano teacher I always wanted after I I got the basics down. She covers stuff that took me years to work out for myself...and for free. Thanks Aimee! 😁😁👍👍

[@AdeBolaOlayemi]

I love this, thanks for the teaching❤ this lecture moves me to practice more

[@TonyThomas10000]

Your knowledge of jazz idioms is mindblowing!

[@wmmattharris101]

Thanks!

[@jonaslind9505]

A note for Swedish viewers: The chord progression in the Rhythm Changes bridge that Aimee is talking about is called ”bondstick” (”farmer’s bridge”) in Swedish.

[@yimskykatzikoff7408]

I’ve been playing mostly pre-bebop jazz from the 30’s and 40’s, which is a full plate on its own and made me shy away from formally studying bebop. I like that your idea applies to all jazz regardless since it can be applied to any great solo regardless of decade. I learned four licks that really really grabbed me from OP C Jam Blues. My soloing jumped a couple of levels and was just plain MORE FUN! Thanks again, Aimee. 😊

[@patrickdevlin8553]

I too have been doing pre-bebop for the same reasons! Good to know I'm not alone. Baby steps before Giant Steps

[@lisahansen6014]

I’m so grateful to find you- I can’t say I love to improvise as I’m a professional accompanist. I love jazz music and am ok with it but would like to get better.

[@dannuttle9005]

Aimee Nolte using Mario Bros to illustrate jazz theory was not on today's bingo card!

[@christianmani1730]

This is an awesome lesson. Thank you Aimee! Another guitar player here, and these lines fit so well on the guitar. Everyone should be filling up their "Lick Bank" to draw on as a starting point for improv vocabulary.

[@gregoryschleitwiler9601]

I get it. Thanks, I'll be using that. Works great for simple blues progessions. Anticipate the next chord change just before you get there. Wow. Opened a new door that I didn't know was there. Thanks again

[@ArthurGlover]

I like the sound of jazz as well and I like to improvise too. Nice hairstyle very different from your earlier videos.

[@AimeeNolte]

Haha thx - it’s what happens if I do nothing to it

[@crusaderrjm]

Amy Nolte is terrific! Absolutely

[@Julia29853]

Her Nebula classes are awesome btw

[@andreasrohlfing4669]

Danke!

[@AimeeNolte]

Thank you!

[@lucindawilson5510]

have listened to these greats. much appreciated. I have no clue except the fact that its my kind of music. Thanks again Aimee

[@mickcarpenter2963]

This is great Aimee enhanced by your can do enthusiasm. As you say one can copy and/or make up a couple of riffs, then slot them in, change them around ad infinitum. I play flute and sax and am trying to compose etudes which I write down and then learn by heart on lead sheets before jam solos. I might then vary or discard. This helps a lot. I also like the idea that you can transcribe bits of pieces, as I find whole transcriptions rather daunting. Thanks!

[@rfursov3543]

Amy thank you. You breaking it down amazinly

[@SamChaneyProductions]

This is such a great idea. I'm always overwhelmed at the idea of transcribing an entire solo, and it feels difficult to apply it directly because it covers a full 32 bar form. This way of instead taking one small system and looking at all the different examples of soloists covering just that section fixes both the overwhelm problem and the application problem!

[@stadtlegende]

Thank you!

[@AimeeNolte]

Thank YOU!!

[@Ronpedley1]

Love this Aimee!

[@janehutchison1063]

Thanks Aimee. Your teaching improves my guitar playing. Wait--guitar playing? Yes. I don't have to play piano to learn what you teach. So thanks.

[@christianfoster3806]

Me too. Trying to think about chords like a keyboard player does, instead of the power chord bricks that many guitar players rely on is my secret weapon.

[@tonynewell3801]

I couldn’t agree more. I was going to post a very similar comment. I transcribe these licks to guitar with great inspiring results. Thank you, Aimee.

[@bobbystrickland2572]

This is so helpful!!! And you look fabulous.

[@nileevans6752]

I LOVE this lesson & you're insights. I joined Nebula to get you're extended lessons. I would dearly love insights into you're arrangement (the stride voicings ,but you're precision with the Improv especially) of 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out'.

[@AimeeNolte]

Thank you so much for signing up! I recently made a video about stride piano. I also made a tutorial about the San Francisco Bay blues. That might be of interest.

[@jodyguilbeaux8225]

this is a fantastic lesson, thanks. i am going to use this on guitar.

[@BrendaBoykin-qz5dj]

Thank you,Aimee.⭐🌹⭐

[@andym264]

Brilliant class❤....... Rockin in London UK ❤ Peace for everyone x

[@alexpavchinski]

Some great ideas Aimee! I keep a running list of patterns which catch my ear - Bird, Bud, Miles, Trane, Dexter, Sonny Rollins, Herbie, McCoy etc. and try to incorporate them.

[@andriitsukanov5177]

And? It's help you?

[@kevindonnelly761]

Aimee - you are a JJEEEENNYYUUSS !!! and if I keep watching your videos (such as this one) I'll turn into a Jeenyus too !! 👨‍🎓

[@colinmaharaj]

I'm a fan yes, but also a software developer, and had a little breakthrough wrt writing midi based apps. I am doing a chord guide then maybe a midi player, where you see the notes on the keyboard on a PC screen

[@twoeagles19]

You have an interesting Architecture to your explanations.

[@davidhernandez-uw1gj]

Great Jazz tutorial ❤️, thank you.

[@tronlady1]

Loving the hair Aimee ❤

[@MomLAU]

I didn't like how I sounded when I first started trying to improvise. However, I realize now that those were baby steps towards the goal of learning and improving skills.

[@markr8326]

I'm a member of you're Nebula lessons Aimee, I've only being going thru you're Chords lessons, so far, do you have (more) 'Rhythm Changes' improv ideas on Nebula also ?

[@AimeeNolte]

No, but under the classes tabs is another great video for improvisation about creating motifs. Try that one. And thank you so much!

[@md-ps2hx]

Your clips have taken a really interesting direction.

[@xyzyzx1253]

Incredible teacher :)

[@tomculhane6648]

Great stuff. Thanks!

[@lisahansen6014]

Aimee- you are teaching at the college I work at! I want lessons from you!!!!❤

[@AimeeNolte]

Sign up!🙌🏼

[@lisahansen6014]

@@AimeeNolte i need to let jazz majors first but I will! ❤️

[@dvoncruse6262]

Amazing video

[@episnod]

Well done!

[@kelsopwnsnoob]

Great advice

[@ullabratt1900]

The phrase comes with the chord in jazz? When you changing the chord you got to have lots of phrases in your head,? In Rock metal you got one scale fast as XXXX. am I thinking right?

[@dwdei8815]

Hi Aimee, I've been doing improvisation only since the lockdown(s) and when you said that (dominant) 7th chords inexorably lead on, they sure do. It's like they contaminate themselves with the flatted note of the next chord and fall into the next by compulsion. I cannot imagine there's a single piece of "classical" music that ends on a (flat-)7th. Because you'd leave everyone waiting for the resolution, like a joke. But so much great blues and jazz manages to end on a (flat-)7th. And my ears have become used to it, to this violation of the pattern. I find that very strange.

[@AimeeNolte]

Very true. The blues will always end with a dominant chord.

[@scottknight2192]

Amy Great lesson as always!!! If we sign up for nebula for $30 we can watch your course you mentioned for free or there is a fee? Please let me know. Thx

[@AimeeNolte]

You can watch all four for free. :-) there will never be another fee to pay.

[@MichaelTrentColvin]

You are so very talented and beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@SunflowerSamuraiMusic]

🤔🤔 can we start a petition to start aimee her owe platform/Patreon or something 💀 we need more videos like this teaching the real real

[@AimeeNolte]

Sign up for Nebula! It’s kind of like my Patreon. 💙🙌🏼 go.nebula.tv/aimeenolte

[@RogerCulbersonMedia]

I'm still waiting to hear "the lick" twice in this video

[@AimeeNolte]

I’m sorry it was only my clickbait 😂

[@jzgtr100]

You can do this with “The Lick” LOL!

[@nomandad2000]

@@AimeeNoltehahaha…clickbait got me again!

[@MarkFromHawaii]

I keep on hearing and thinking Bird, Bird, Bird...

[@nobodynothing6551]

I'd really like to listen to a conversation between you and Shred(youtube channel)

[@TjEdwardz]

WHATS UP!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Omg I took like a YEAR BREAK but I’m BACK

[@jjoy2866]

Hi 5 of 5 of 5 etc but D to G is 4 and G to C is 4. What is my brain not getting? Could somebody please tell me I know it’s very basic but brain not computing. 😂

[@AimeeNolte]

D is the V of G. G is the V of C. C is the V of F, F is the V of Bb :)

[@JiveDadson]

Oh no! Not _the lick!_

[@KelvinDominick-cl2xq]

Any relation to nick nolte the actor.

[@JiveDadson]

"It's raining" is an idiom even without the domestic pets. It's raining? What is? What is the antecedent of "it"? It's impossible to say.

[@michaelnorris2522]

Love your hair ... (What?) ... No, no, no, love the ...air.

[@kerrym9254]

I've never heard you "harp".

[@MichaelTrentColvin]

❤ I have the biggest crush on you 😘

[@benhaltro1758]

don t' change nothing infACT i'm not listening your music