What Kind Of Musician Will You Be?

[@hezekiahdaggett2179]

Can I solo over rhythm changes as a party trick?

[@CheeseDud]

I definitely grew up being the first kind of musician, working on being the second kind now!

[@meerasmelodiess]

Same here!

[@A432Hz]

Same. I think it makes sense that you start from the first type in order to get into the second type

[@mahendurrjraoo8112]

Same here bro

[@csillaszabo2715]

Hahaha. A hobby to look whats in the fridge and cook... I call it being poor 😹😹 You do it all the time if you have something in it... I love first word people. But youtube is amazing, can allow me to listen to you and learn all the good things you show❤️ Thank you for sharing it!

[@rafaelgomez1989]

Same

[@joe604ipod]

Great way to think about things! Thanks!

[@vonNaaat]

The flip side of this is just learning graded music and scales/arpeggios and never learning songs you actually listen to. I have been taking piano lessons like that for a while now and feel like if I was put on the spot I couldn't play anything. However, I recently took up learning guitar as well, and have sort of mastered the open chords, and now I've been having so much fun just playing along (poorly albeit) to songs I actually listen to, and even better, the sudden realisation that I can play these chords easily on piano as well. You need that balance!! Just playing open chords alone wouldn't hold my attention, but the theory, graded music and drills alone doesn't either. 😁

[@WigganNuG]

What you are talking about is applied chord theory approach and mechanical/technical drills on your particular instrument of study. Most good teachers will have you learning both in parallel. Knowing how to pick up a fake book/real book or a just a chord sheet for a popular tune you like and know the chords, you can apply those to guitar or piano and it relatively easy to learn a song. Once you learn you voice those chords, or play with the rhythms, or substitute chords, its good to start learning your Circles of 4ths and 5ths theory.

[@OuijTube]

I ended up quitting piano lessons in high school because my teacher kept pushing me to play music I really didn't care about because it was the next set of things to be tested on. I think I finally quit one day when we were going through some four hands/two pianos bit--Schumann maybe?--and I remember it was a long arpeggio. I crossed over and over and then there was nothing left. I was so nervous I blanked. That was it. I didn't play for maybe 10 years after. Fortunately, we did enough theory/structure for me to be able to pick it up many years later. I play badly (still), but at least I can play to amuse myself. If I'd bothered to insist on playing some "inferior" music back then I'd probably never have quit in the fist place.

[@Hoekstes]

Exact same experience

[@craigrwc]

Now I'm a hungry musician!

[@AimeeNolte]

Lol true that! Hey if you want to pick up some private online lessons, email me and I’ll refer you if I get the chance. 👊🏼

[@Ryan_Daley]

This was a real reality check, thank you for this!

[@Darkfusion280]

When I first started guitar, I looked up how to play the standard songs for 2 years. And I felt absolutely BORED. I HATED it. 2 years later, I started taking lessons. And in my very first guitar lesson, I told my teacher: "I don't want to play other people's music. I want to play my own music." And my teacher responded by starting me off with arpeggios, scales, chords, modes, etc. I drilled technique and the concept of music all the way until college. I took years of classical guitar study. I'm now playing with friends in various styles, constantly deconstructing and trying to understand it better. I've been playing for 8 years, and I'm still going strong. There's so many techniques i haven't even learned yet.

[@qing2034]

I found that I love listening to your talking...

[@Stephen_Lafferty]

Lots of my very young students want to start with being told where to put their fingers in order to play a song they know. I find that a lot of what I do next is then keeping their interest and having them ask 'why?' - that is the question that opens up deeper levels of understanding, such as scales, chords, harmonies, etc. Piquing someone's curiosity for music is a really exciting process as a teacher!

[@ricketcarr3938]

Aimee, you are truly a treasure. Thank you for helping all of us that don't have $ but have the heart, soul & will. It's because of people like you that others will be entertained by 7 known songs or overwhelmed by creative genius that you helped foster. Wish I could give you a hug for all that you've shared... but... Corona. Much love!

[@claracornil977]

Lovely, Aimée.

[@ellenfigueira7017]

Hello Aimee, this is one of the very best descriptions of learning style (and of predilection and motivation!) I have ever heard. Thank you so much. I am sharing this with my fellow piano teachers and students. Thank you for all the technological mastery, wit, gift, and insight you bring to your channel!

[@cherylsibson8457]

" lean on me" by Bill Withers, and what I learned was, the love of music doesn't need to compete, music is love, and I can love music all I want, and not compete. To appreciate other people's music is good too. thanks for asking Aimee.

[@DudGolfer]

You inspire Aimee ❤️thanks

[@paulg9038]

This is a great analogy. I love to eat fine cuisine, but I like to cook comfort food and other popular dishes for friends and family, just for the pleasure of it. It's been the same with my music. I love everything, but have never strayed too far from 'the popular' in my bass playing. I've been happy to play in small venues playing 60's covers and a handful of standards to get people on their feet and dancing. Now I'm on the edge of retirement with more time on my hands I feel it's probably time to grab my (musical) chef's hat and get down to some serious jazz harmony study.

[@jjaa2002]

You look much more relaxed when you talk about cousine or baseball, than when you talk about music. That’s great. It means music is what your’ve been grown for. Keep regaling our ears with your music ingredients. No scrambled eggs or baseball. I love both!, but your music ingreadients taste even better. Go.for them. That’s what we love most!

[@Noemie.L]

I'm so glad you've made this video. I've been playing for a little more than a year and I find myself more and more analysing the sheet music I'm playing to understand how it is build and why makes it sound like that and trying to apply to another key or another song to hear what it sounds. I'm slowly starting to improvise and to modify the music to make it my own and I absolutely love it. I'm so glad I started playing piano it feels like I opened a new universe

[@steveb9325]

Paint by numbers.... Do you want to be an artist? Or, do you want to paint a dog near a tree.. Ps. Thanks Aimee! Now I want chicken enchiladas while I play Bach on my Classical guitar mixing Joe Pass....

[@billypowis5715]

This was a really great and thought provoking video

[@peterkinskofer6881]

As a 65 year old Newby to the piano, this channel really resonates for me. Aimee, you have a gift and passion that is infectious and motivating. Thank you for this and I'm guessing that I'll be here for a while. The food analogy is good one and I'll be approaching the piano very much like food -theory first then improvising. love it!

[@musicalfringe]

Great metaphor Aimee!

[@oliverpope4915]

I definitely agree. I think those KZbin videos serve a great purpose of getting people inspired and motivated with music. I never would've gotten into piano if I hadn't used them to learn my favorite Ben folds songs way back in 8th grade. It familiarized me with the instrument but I outgrew them pretty quickly. Wish I could've taken lessons as a child

[@MrVatov]

As a middle school math teacher, dear Aimee, this notion hits right home. For the past few years, I've trying to make a point of cultivating my love of math and problem solving. I want to be able to offer students a fresh batch of problems and ideas that I am currently excited about and still trying to wrap my head around, as opposed to just offering the same old problems I once solved (or worse yet, lecturing on the topics that show up on the syllabus just because the show up on the syllabus). It not only gives me pride in my teacher profession, but it also makes me a more persistent person and, hopefully, a better learner in general.

[@Wishuponapancake]

2 year old comment but, just my two cents as someone who loves learning about math (but has a hard time wrapping my head around tough concepts like calculus now) but failed highschool, I think what might really help people get really interested in math and really wanna learn about it is actually teach WHY things are the way they are. like just as an example with trigonometry, we get introduced to all the functions used to solve triangles and things in middleschool or so, but you don't actually learn why any of this is the way it is or what the hell tan or sin actually mean untill you get to college. if maybe not the super indepth answer, but the basics of where tan cosin and sin come from and what they actually mean were taught, I think I would have found it way cooler. It's always better having an explanation for why things are the way they are and why they are cool than just having tools thrown infront of you and having to just go "ok i guess this is just how things are"

[@derekdauchan2741]

Thank you so much !

[@jazzculture3082]

Thank you, it’s really inspiring 😻🌸🎶👩🏻‍🍳

[@kaii8985]

Thank you!! I love your analogies here. They remind me of both my journeys as a cook and a musician. Cooking (east and southeast asian, and western cuisine) and music (bossa nova, jazz eras, classical eras, etc.) are my hobbies, but I take them seriously as if they were an extension of me. If that makes sense. I have so much to improve on, but your point about care and precision due to interest makes so much sense. I generalized my favorite cooking and music specialties because of the fact I love them all, but need improvement on certain topics to say "i can do that". I know there's much more to that, though

[@susanazaragoza4733]

This is a really inspiring video! Since I was a kid, I dream about creating my own music but I never had the chance of studying music theory or going to music school, so I have been the first kind of musician all my life but never satisfied. Now with youtube and all the information available on the internet I'm trying to relearn music in a different way, to be that second kind of musician.

[@LouiseAlexandraMusic]

like many of the commenters beautifully state, you’re such an inspiration! Great analogy: And as we’re never done cooking, we’re never done learning music. In fact you inspire to want to become the musician I’ve denied being able to be. If that makes sense. Thank you.

[@kashakroger1692]

Interesting analogy! Strangely enough, I cook by "harmony", and experience the flavors as "chords". (no, I don't actually hear them as music, but it resonates in my emotions in the same way a certain type of chord would make me feel). I might for example look for just the right amount of "dissonance" (like a lime twist), or add a nice herbal "third" to go with the "ones and fives" of sauces. Both with music and cooking, my preferred way is less about following the recipe/sheet music and more about taking in the interesting influences and ideas and turning it into my own thing.... And I love the "let's see what we can make with what you've got" -challenge. :D

[@brianpetersen3429]

Well said. My personal approach to self taught jazz piano playing has been to start with a fake book ( or just my ear) and figure out ways to embellish it in ways that are satisfying.

[@benmontey3438]

Thank you, Aimee.

[@JohnDoe-jc3cl]

Aimee Nolte 👍- just want to say you are a big encouragement to me trying to be a musician. The tone of your voice, all the wonderful content of music theory. I wish I had a family member or a music teacher like you growing up. Thank you for your time, knowledge and effort on your channel. Because of it, I’m trying to be a better musician 👍😁

[@ggauche3465]

"Music" is a big topic and the way we engage with it is dynamic, and it's not ever a thing that's like THIS or like THAT. You might have zero curiosity about a Bartok string quartet, but just enjoy listening to it without knowing anything about the processes Bartok used in composing it. But years later someone might make a comment that piques your interest and you might become fascinated and obsessed with finding out all about one of his string quartets, and even take up the violin so you can try and play it!

[@AimeeNolte]

Very true. Great point!

[@martinrerolle1921]

Definitely a great analogy. I happen to be passionate both about cooking and music. In cooking you can find the same elements. Applying a recipe is basically transcribing: you’ll be able to do that later, and it’ll be good. But if you pay enough attention you’ll also learn some concepts from them. That become instinctive, like: meat goes before the veggies. Or if you’re making a long simmering dish and there’s a lot of taste in your pan after you’ve fried your meat, add something to get that taste in the rest of your food. So first it’s maybe wine because you made an Italian ragù, but then you realize you can do this with other things sweet, like whisky or lemon juice. Then you’re learning the theory like learning scales, and you learn that this technique is called « glazing » etc. And then you practice the same dish over and over until you’ve mastered the concepts of it (the groove and harmonies) but you have enough knowledge to twist it however you want based on your inspiration or what you’ll be serving that night and you make a coherent setlist! Cool video Aime!

[@calbackk]

Thank you Aimee. I understand exactly what you mean, although I’m off course on a totally different, and lower, level. You are a wonderful person. Love from Sweden.

[@GrenvilleMelonseedSkiff496]

Great video! I like the cooking analogy and the Netflix cooking show references. I guess the bottom line is passion ... whatever your "thing" is ... being passionate about all aspects of it really helps with the learning and enjoyment. 10K hours of practice seems to be a recurring theme for reaching a level of competency but without passion, that seems like a lot of wasted time. I'm learning old school with a teacher (no blinking keys on my iPad) working the scales and other technical exercises but its going to be a while before even the simplest minuets sight reading hands together becomes easy as I'm only in my second year as an adult beginner. So this video is a great help giving insights into motivation and a mindset that will help me visualize success. Many thanks!

[@dreaandthemarilyns]

Thanks for this video! I'm a music teacher and I have a bunch of wonderful students who want to learn their favorite pieces and that's it. I'll try and do my due diligence and help them with scales and theory and see if I can help harbor a love for digging deeper but at the end of the day I'm just happy they're musicians. I've worked with a lot of parents who have the best intentions for their child but may not fully understand not every kid is going to come out a child prodigy. This is the exact point I want to explain. I really appreciate this and I'll be asking current and future students and parents to watch this. 💞💞💞

[@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286]

It's all about being an entertainer or a musician. Not many can do both really well.

[@marcuslinkerhand1415]

(Though not on a pro level) i am exactly that kind of cook who can ALWAYS come up with something no matter what's in the fridge/cupboard. Funny thing is, after years of practice and some added background knowledge at one point you develop a feeling for your ingredients, what they go through in that pan and what it needs... just like a musician over time becomes one with his/her instrument. like 2nd nature.

[@DavidRobinson-jd1pe]

Love your channel, so in-depth and insightful.

[@MacMinded]

Beautiful! I love this analogy.

[@andy25piano]

Great! I thought about the "cook vs musician" analogy while I was cooking the other day.

[@amanrajami]

Thank you Ma'm 🙏🙏

[@rosadovelascojosuedavid1894]

Omg, this truly inspired me, Aimee, thanks a million, appreciate it c:

[@evelynsaungikar9449]

I spent 10 years learning Conservatory. Then 10 years forgetting it. I liken it to learning a Shakespeare monologue but not knowing what it means. Or a song in a foreign language. What I’m doing now, learning chord progressions, I can create moods and colours intentionally. It’s like learning a language in context, where you can actually have a conversation, or at least ask where the bathroom is, rather than a flowery pre-canned speech.

[@insidejazzguitar8112]

Great discussion! I can relate to very well. I’m less interested in learning licks, and more interested in learning what makes that phrase sound good, so that I might one day be able to create lines that make me feel that way.

[@penultimatename6677]

Very profound and exactly what I am about. When talking to a friend I mention I work on music as a craft. The pleasure of music rises from knowledge, technique and painstaking work required to form music. She says, " I play for the love of music." I believe that love of music is the result of the hard work of knowing what comprises the music and technique. Otherwise for me it is just a parlor trick. Maybe I go too far because my teacher alwsys says remember the reason for this is to make music. I strongly believe the art rises from knowing the craft. Just as a flame does not exist without oxygen heat and fuel.

[@sadebeve]

You are an excellent teacher, Aimee. I remember the talk you gave about when some rich people made you play for free and eat in the kitchen. If it wasn’t for it I’d still be correcting/doing my friend’s English homework for free (I did it for a year, and we’re not in high school...). I’ll be more analytical now every time I approach any given song, don’t wanna be the “seven song guy” (even though I’m way in too deep now, for me, not getting better would be the equivalent of being the seven song guy). Thank you.

[@Mediocre_Jazz]

What an amazing video! Perfectly said. Reminds me of what Bill Evans says about imitation and playing from an academic level before trying to play stuff with no application. Still working on it myself. The truth hurts

[@59simonh]

Your best video yet. So interesting, so right!

[@Johnwilkinsonofficial]

this is cool, also heavy npr radio kind of vibe🎤

[@AimeeNolte]

Lol I do listen to a ton of NPR

[@gdamad1826]

Interesting analogy.... Anyway what I like the most of your channel is that very rarely you propose specific "recipe" for a particular song... In general, I considering this quite limiting... much better is to say someone look this is the flour and once you understood how to handle it you can get a lot of good different things (bread, cakes, pasta...) out of it! I think this is a much powerful approach...

[@greglees4011]

“How you can use this sound to make something else later”? I think this is the most useful way to look at music because it becomes a tool that opens up doors instead of just learning to play a song without understanding what’s actually happening in the music.

[@McGuire40695]

I've always been the musician who constantly learns and wants to create music. I love working out songs and recording them as well as transcribing and learning songs when needed.

[@Markstun]

On guitar everyone uses tab which is like paint by numbers, shows you where to put your fingers, like a light up keyboard

[@YOULOOTWESHOOT101]

I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!!

[@joshuamarks1129]

👍👍A very compelling topic! I suppose the Ingredients for music are the limitless Dynamic Combinations of Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm. As I listened to the cooking analogy, the word "Vocabulary" kept springing to mind! Everyone uses vocabulary, no matter the subject or topic. "Performing", "Practicing", "Reading", "Ear Training", "Memorizing", "Rehearsing", "Composing", "Arranging", "Listening", "Transcribing", "Notating", "Improvising"... Memorization is necessary for building our vocabulary. And as we expand our musical vocabulary, our capacity for musical expression also expand.

[@WebWebCero]

Hey Aimee, I’m a rapper/singer/beat maker. So my music is pretty if not completely sample based. I subscribed to your channel because of these videos. I want to jump into composing (from scratch). I’ve been playing the piano since I was 9! But my sampling skills have overcome my piano ones. It’s just weird, given the fact that I pushed those sampling skills a lot further. I loved this video because it helped realise the true meaning of passion. Since I’ve already uploaded my album to Spotify, I’ll have a long break from songwriting and rapping, and start focusing on composing. I just want to mix psychedelia with rap.

[@victorsixtythree]

I think a big part of it is the time and effort. I never learned any music growing up but I have taken some piano lessons as an adult and I love it. I have learned to play a few songs, so I'm definitely in that category of musician that you talk about - who can bang out a few songs but probably can barely play a G-scale. But what I'd like to be able to do is say, hear a song and then sit at the piano and work it out and that's something that I can't really do. And I think the only way to do that requires patient and consistent sitting down and doing it, with slow incremental progress. Meanwhile it's sort of easy and quick(er) gratification to learn to play a song off a KZbin tutorial.

[@marfaxa]

I remember buying a super-complex megadeth piece of sheet music when I was a beginner guitarist. I just figured it'd be a matter of practice. I doubt, 30 years later, I could play it. I also had only learned to read bass clef as a former elementary school cellist so I also had to transpose every note.

[@JacobLaurenzana]

A great video, this has really made me question a lot of how I approach music. I'm learning by reading sheet music, but I haven't really been LEARNING it. I've never thought about why the notes were where they were-- I just played what I saw. Thank you for this video.. it is truly life changing. I've saved it to look back at :).

[@mintah500]

Amiee, now you’ve made us all hungry, lol! Great analogy! Love it.

[@craigbrowning9448]

They used to do that with Player Pianos and Play a Roll Very Slow and put their fingers in the Keys that go down and slowly learn the song.

[@robcostigan8757]

That how Duke Ellington said he learned to play stride piano. And he turned out pretty good as this way of learning can be very helpful.

[@ToniikProductions]

I don't think you get to pick what you want to be, it picks you. Music and baseball have always been my passion, it was never a choice. But like you, when it comes to cooking I want the shortcuts. I could care less about being a real chef. lol.

[@jackblack5199]

lmaoooooo

[@nilen]

shortcuts don't work

[@ToniikProductions]

@@nilen If your goal is to excel at something I agree. But my goal is not to be a real chef. :)

[@nilen]

Pop Music Piano Tutorials yea but if it’s your passion why not learn sheet music

[@ToniikProductions]

@@nilen Well I do know how to read music, I learned to read as a child but as an adult I prefer to learn music by ear. Personally I feel like sheet music can make you lazy and it becomes kind of a security blanket. When you play by ear you're actually forced to listen, and it develops your ear in a way that sheet music doesn't. At least that's been my experience. My advice is to learn to read but don't over rely on it. You don't want to be one of those musicians that can only play when there' sheet music in front of you. :)

[@beachbum77979]

I play for church. An electronic keyboard in our praise band, a grand piano for traditional hymns. In the band, most can't read music. we use chord sheets, lyrics with chords. No indication of tempo, rhythm, or voicing of the chords, which sometimes are wrong. At least they sound wrong to me. But to have any idea what the song is supposed to sound like, you have to have heard the song before. The hymns are familiar songs, and I am supposed to play them in a way that does not confuse the congregation. The hymnal just has the SATB lines and is written in a very narrow range for a piano player. I usually double the bass and try to fill out the chords. And sometimes,I'll try a chord substitution that makes musical sense in that it sounds good and a little different, but does not stray too far from what people are familiar with. A guy in the band once told me that there are two kinds of musicians, those that read music, and those that play by ear. I was trying to gently encourage him to expand his horizons, and he was trying to justify his choice of not learning notation, theory, and structure. So I asked him "...What kind of musician do you think I am?"... Thank you Aimee for sharing you gift, your passion with us. You are a blessing, more than you know...

[@John-yv2xh]

A masterful musician is one who can do both - read and play by ear - and I believe that's what all of us who watch Aimee's channel are striving for :)

[@CalifaAzul]

@@John-yv2xh Not necessarily. You don't need to read music to be great, music can be learned in different ways. Just imagine if someone would have told Stevie Wonder that he'd never be great at music because he couldn't read.

[@beachbum77979]

@@CalifaAzul I have found that notation helps me. I, when I try to play something the next day, it helps to know the key and time signatures I was working with earlier. Kind of like reading a book. I don't need someone to read it to me several times, then I can speak those words, I can read. At the point where I get the point, I might want to put my own spin on it, reinterpret it, but I have a reference, something to look back to. I'm not bound by music notation, but sometimes it would be nice to see what Aimee actually played, either on a sheet or video of her fingers, just to give me a framework to work from. Stevie Wonder might have appreciated Aimee too...

[@John-yv2xh]

@@CalifaAzul This is fair. My point, I suppose, is that the mindset shouldn't be "one vs the other." I think there certainly is value in reading music, and those who disparage it are missing out on a helpful skill. On the other hand, I know plenty of musicians who can only sight read, and are thus extremely limited. In the end, it depends on your goals with the craft :)

[@BruceNunnally]

Your friend enjoys improvisational cooking. For me, writing and performance are creative outlets, so less of a “party trick” and more wanting to know more about why certain things work well together. I agree the internet can be a baffling source of beginner and virtuoso lessons side by side.

[@theoooms7277]

I love the cooking analogy; making music and spice it up😋

[@macshock632]

I listened to your new album. Liked it a lot. Very tasty.

[@Tylervrooman]

Passion!!! Yes!! Look at Gordan Ramsey... That dude actually LOVES FOOD still to this day. He does Instagram lives recently. You can tell. Even if its a cheeseburger. Which he did a live stream making. His love of food is clear. Thats key to success. Go deep!! Have passion!

[@Hyper5nic]

I agree Aimee and maybe it's also relative to growing plants or tending the garden. So that once you learn that song or lesson, nurture it and make that a talent, just like tending to a plant or shrub, and make it grow. I believe a talented musician is what someone grows into by nurturing skills.

[@Photologistic]

I love to read sheet music at this point. I guess because I have had lessons. That’s one thing it seems no one even tries to teach on KZbin. There are even channels that try to teach using funky alternative notation. I’m getting to the point where I can kinda feel certain intervals. I guess what keeps me going is that I feel like Im still having minor breakthroughs. I wish I were better at ear training, and memorization. For me, memorization is mostly in my fingers, but I’m trying to get it more in my head, more based on theory. I’m getting a pretty good understanding of theory. I got zero theory from years of private lessons (as a young kid, and a few much later in life). I don’t consider being able to play a song a “parlor trick” at all. If you aren’t a pro, it’s really the entire point-having your OWN repertoire. I’d like to know many tunes by heart, but tend to rely too much on reading sheet music. I have a lot of favorite KZbin music channels. This is one of them, but there are so many different types. Kent Hewitt is really great if you have not seen that jazz channel. I like just watching people play sometimes. Everything from watching real pros recorded years ago, to watching child prodigies who are better at 9 than I’ll ever be. It’s really OK, this is not my day job. I want to get way better, but not to make a buck. I like even strictly theory channels, even. Walk that Bass is good. The heartbreaking thing is, the two sides of music seem incompatible at times. I know kids who are simply amazing at their instrument (guitar in particular) but can’t get into music school. Can any guitarist really read music? Serious question! I know some can, but come on, sheet music barely even applies to guitar.

[@OuijTube]

I confess: in cooking and in music, I’m closer to the second type...but not necessarily out of passion but something like laziness. As in: if I know generally how a song is put together, I can try to fumble my way through the chord changes and try to find voicings that work OK for me. Same thing with cooking: if I generally know what something tastes like, I can try and put the components together to cook something that tastes OK for me. May not be technically competent or objectively “good” (in either cooking or music), but I try to get by. After all, everybody has to eat-and everyone has to have some sort of music.

[@finster]

Olive - grove? Rings a bell

[@yoverale]

Love ur punkcakes 🥞 Nice analogy Aimee :)

[@aliasreco]

Not my THING, but my Thing... I just run to the piano once in a while when a good song is playing. Try to play along, remember the structure, remember the chords and... Use that somewhere else. But no paper or scales involved... It all goes on the big harddrive in my head... Great video Aimée. Thanks

[@ethanmaruyama1149]

*pulls up to the jam session and calls maple leaf rag*

[@A432Hz]

As you ask this question, I’m asking myself what I can do with music that doesn’t involve making it my degree or job. I can only get so much better without being music major, and with that so much music friends/networking.

[@adamgranger1514]

Yeah I never liked those online "learn exactly how to play this song" kinds of lessons. They never seemed honest to me

[@musicalfringe]

"Learning exactly how to play this song" is exactly what made me into the deeper kind of musician, but I didn't use KZbin. I did it from scratch using my ears, so I think you're basically right that getting it all on a platter deprives you of depth, but I've learned that precise imitation is one of the best, if not THE best, way to really learn to listen. Even most working musicians aren't that good at listening.

[@craig2493]

Your father-in-law would begin to love playing if he understood chord-construction theory. He could work backwards to understand from the songs he knows, and experience the freedom and joy found in theory, and improve his playing tenfold. I experienced this myself.

[@phykin]

I just find since I played music when I was younger and picking it up after 10 years on a new instrument. I'm just so focused on getting techniquely good. I used to play rock music (electric bass) and older I got I found out how I guess "approachable" that style is; for me I also loved/grew up on classical and a passion for jazz. So my point is to be adept and proper in music and play things as close to perfect as I can and as difficult as the piece can be (will take me a while to get there).

[@robcostigan8757]

It took me years to finally combine my two passions - music and comedy. I've tried lots of variations in the past, like trying to add more theatricality to a live gig. But now, because I've been watching channels like Aimee's, I thought maybe I could do a KZbin show that would combine my passions. And the big insight for me was realizing that I could use comedy to talk about music rather than adding comedy to my music gigs. So fast forward to now and I'm on my 3rd episode of The Rob Costigan Show, a sketch comedy show about music and musicians and I'm loving it. So I guess I'm a musician that always looking for a laugh. Thanks for inspiring me, Aimee. kzbin.info/aero/PLqhqkV6so73Ul7vPUj-qP8xn3herUqfz5

[@danbunch1514]

I truly get surprised from time to time. Playing tenor sax is my voice. Transcribing is cool, its how we learn a language, then during a jam session from out of the blue, im channeling Bob Burgs sound, or hear a horn section lick from Blood Sweat and Tears, maybe just some random lick.. I just love musical surprises. I bought a 1923 Conn Alto. The first notes I played turned into late 1935ish jazz tunes. I dont practice that stuff. blew my mind. Musical ghosts perhaps.

[@JulianFernandez]

"Find what you love and let it kill you" | Charles Bukowski

[@lordlucan13]

I'm half of bass player, half of keyboard/piano player, half of race car driver, half of IT system admin, half of gamer, half of lazy, half of productive....and after this video I'm 100% certain that I'm FULL of hungry :)

[@josh34578]

I don't know how to categorize myself. More of a basic music theory dabbler. I think it's fun to hear a simple theme, work it out by ear on my keyboard, then try to figure out why it works: Oh this goes from a minor i to a major IV, hey that's dorian, and that gives the theme this hopeful quality, which fits with it's particular context/use! Those kinds of little discoveries are exciting to me. Then trying to figure out how to use those patterns in my own further dabbling. My actual technique is rubbish though. Despite all the content online, I find it difficult to learn properly. Still, I enjoy dabbling with it, and maybe that's the point of a hobby.

[@mgscano]

It's not just a matter of choice. Not everyone is talented enough to be able to walk up all levels, actually.

[@heimofurpa1722]

Well I'm kinda lost. I did a little bit Guitar, then Piano and in Piano: Scales, Etudes, Classical Songs, but really I like more the Jazzpiano and at the end of the day I would love to play and sing and learn to write original songs! So Where do I start? There is so much to learn and at the moment I'm better in music theory than playing... After two years of practicing I don't feel to have accomplished that much. What remains though is: I always loved music and now I'd love to be able to make good music too... good answers appreciated very much!! cheers Heimo

[@williamcarrmusic]

She was talking about them Jeff Schnider videos lol

[@AimeeNolte]

No she was not 🙄🤪

[@williamcarrmusic]

Aimee Nolte Music Lol Im kidding 😂

[@GregLynn]

I always aimed for "What if Buckethead had a full time job?"

[@antonzigando150]

olive grove

[@AimeeNolte]

There we go

[@4thesakeofitname]

The best / easiest way to improve yourself is to take face to face lessons (over internet too) from a professional teacher like Aimee. That will be the shortest and least painful approach... Self study requires ten times more patience, discipline, durability, intelligence, talent, dedicatedness etc... So It's much better to take real lessons from real (trained) musicians. Because your teacher (supervisor) will be giving you vital "feedback" on how you play and on which parts to improve in the next iteration, without wasting yor time and energy on unnecessary things. That feedback cannot be given by anything else but just a true (trained) musician...

[@larrydupre1545]

Great video! I don’t think it’s that black and white for me. I find that learning songs I love listening to on the radio is great motivation to keep me practicing. I’m probably close to 50 - 50 on playing chord songs vs learning a more traditional way.

[@mileswingett9786]

I’m definitely on your husbands side for scrambled eggs... they require a low flame over a long period

[@AimeeNolte]

Yes, his are always better than mine. :)

[@IanBenedict]

I remember Cannonball Adderley and Charlie Parker solos were the first things I tried to play on alto sax. Could barely make it through beginner exercises but I could play Billie's Bounce really badly

[@Zer0Spinn]

Kind of off-topic but... I'll tell you a secret: 4 years ago I just wanted to make hip hop beats and rap over them. That's when I started learning about scales and was blown away because of how diferent they sounded. Now... here I am. Listening to more jazz than hip hop, learning guitar and more advanced theory, being able to read sheet music (pretty slowly tho) and going down a rabbit hole every time I hear a chord I don't understand (god, I love chords). In Aimee's words... I thought this was gonna be just a thing but it became THE thing for me.

[@SparkleP8nter]

I'm hs, I played clarinet. I couldn't read music but I could play one headlight by the wallflowers

[@oselini]

The "brand new"😆 student was a Casio type trying to become a chat type? Must be a really interesting person.

[@tonynitzke]

I think the word you want is orchard rather than farm.

[@jimkangas4176]

So this is why there are starving musicians, right? (kidding). I think of this in slightly different terms. When I told people I was a musician, they would often ask, "so are you any good"? At those times, I really wished that I could play Maple Leaf Rag, or whatever, to "prove" myself to them. They wouldn't want to discuss upper structures, or reharms, or whatever. I found peace with myself when I realized that I was a musician because for better or worse, that's who I am.

[@virgilebeats3041]

How about exploring without being able to read sheet music but still having solid music theory knowledge ?

[@matthewhennessey5967]

I think that's a perfectly normal spot to be in (I'm included in this). I've worked on intervallic theory, and just using the chords of the C major scale, combined with the chords of the C minor scale, makes some interesting chord combos. (Or transposing all that info to another key). I feel like sheet music does a similar disservice (tell me what notes to play), rather than "here's some chords, play something nice". I want to learn the "tricks", and use them for myself in a different way, rather than just reproduce a combination of notes.