The Jazz Bible

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I always jot down this little guide when I teach someone a jazz piano lesson. I tell them to keep it within an arms reach of the piano at all times, because I know how often they will need to reference it. It will tell you which notes are cool to play over which chords, as well as all the ways to notate all of the chords.
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@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

Apologies to the people who clicked the link and it wasn’t working. It is now! Thanks everyone for your support! www.aimeenolte.com/pdfs-worksheets-charts

@jkhan337 5 жыл бұрын

you are the best!

@bobtaylor170 5 жыл бұрын

Aimee, I bought the PDF, but I have gotten nothing but warnings that what I received cannot be verified as coming from aimeenolte@gmail.com, and that I should not click on any links. Any explanation for this?

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

@@bobtaylor170 email me, Bob. I have no idea. Dang.

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

Zalastra im on the phone with them now. I will tell them the things you said. Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.

@ArielBerloto 5 жыл бұрын

@@AimeeNolte The warning persist. I would be glad to help you. PM me any time. cheers.

@curtbentley 3 жыл бұрын

"Throw it in the piano bench with your sheet music to The Entertainer..." Haha. Best line of the video!

@edzielinski 3 жыл бұрын

"That's what Jazz players do.", "Extra tasty." This video is a treasure. This is packed so full of great guidance, that it almost feels like Aimee is giving away insider secrets. But seriously, don't just watch it - practice it, bend it, make it yours.

@underwoodvoice9077 5 жыл бұрын

One mind blower for me was C7b9 with no root is Edim, Gdim, Bbdim, and Dbdim. Helps me move around the fretboard in ii7b5-V7b9-i.

@mal2ksc 5 жыл бұрын

Any diminished chord can be treated as any of four different 7♭9 chords, by picking one more note. That's why they're great for modulation as well.

@smoke09able 5 жыл бұрын

One of the better explanations on what jazz pianist can play over a certain chord notation.

@mem1gui 4 жыл бұрын

This is tremendously useful; it is going over my piano. I wrote it down by hand instead of buying the pdf because I wanted to ingrain it better in my head, but I will donate to your site. Worth every penny. Thank you so much for what you do! I was classically trained and started learning to play jazz about a year ago (I knew nothing except how to follow sheet music). I am so glad to see how much I have learned because I can follow this video and understand it. I also realized that I have naturally discovered some of what you mentioned because they just make sense harmonically. So the journey continues.

@AimeeNolte 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the donation, Megumi. I really appreciate it and I’m glad that you found the lesson useful.

@MichelleHertzfeld 9 ай бұрын

Aimee! Aimee. You have removed a *lifelong* brain block for me in transitioning from growing up playing classical music to playing (and struggling, and just not making progress) in any other style. I watched this; hand-copied your instructions because that helps me learn; and have practiced constructing the chords using the method you describe and seriously, within two weeks it's like something clicked in my brain. THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO and being a gifted teacher 🙇🏻‍♀🙇🏻‍♀🙇🏻‍♀Love love love!

@AimeeNolte 9 ай бұрын

So glad!!

@Julia29853 8 ай бұрын

Same here, classical piano, reading music only, and struggling to make the “switch” this is so helpful!

@dharryg 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Aimee, for these valuable "crib" notes that will kick our playing up a notch.!

@Guitarplayer724 5 жыл бұрын

You have the perfect voice for teaching. Combine that with your knowledge and you’re a knockout! Thank you Aimee!

@swanstevenson822 2 жыл бұрын

Aimee, yours is perhaps the best explanation I have ever seen of chord voicing and I am amazed at your generosity. THANK YOU!

@chethelesser 5 жыл бұрын

Such an underappreciated channel! Thank you Aimee for all the things you share!

@davidhoxit4274 5 жыл бұрын

I can't explain it but I just made a tremendous breakthrough on one of my favorite songs....due to the expertise I have absorbed from your channel....thanks a million Aimee!!!!!

@dylangatenby9928 4 жыл бұрын

I adore jazz music. I am a jazz musician, mainly drums. Thanks Aimee for posting.

@jonrubin60 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you once again Aimee! After years of getting the 2-5-1's pretty much set (and more recently getting those even better with your Swingin' Bebop Scales), finally went through this for your walk-thru of the Diminished, Half-Diminished & Augmented chords (along with reference to your supporting videos for those chords), and finally get a sense for how to approach those voicings. Much to practice/play, but this gives a really helpful (and comforting!) road map for the journey ahead with those chords--much appreciated!!!

@freedomajp 4 жыл бұрын

This video is fantastic. Very informative for people like me trying to understand how jazz works. Thank you SO MUCH!

@jazz4asahel 5 жыл бұрын

Get out! The first trick out of this bible fit some things I'd been wanting to learn and discover. And helped confirm with theory a technique I'd used on bass. Thank-you Aimee.

@robertomandozzi4746 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your gentleness and wisdom

@taopagan 5 жыл бұрын

This is a great overview to help prepare newcomers for real jazz situations. There are nuggets and nuances for more seasoned players, too.

@EllisThings 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent resource, thanks Aimee. Really good idea to go over this stuff

@andompoggi 5 жыл бұрын

This is a killer lesson Aimee!! It cleared up a lot of things for me. Lots of love x

@chrisrobson2203 4 жыл бұрын

I study trumpet and guitar. Your lessons are pure gold, Aimee!

@alanhirayama4592 5 жыл бұрын

You have excellent handwriting! Also, you ability to write in a straight line is very satisfying to watch...

@lakegirlroxy9852 5 жыл бұрын

I will keep this pdf for future reference when I start Jazz lessons with you. Thanks another great video!!!

@GHRiz 5 жыл бұрын

Love it! Thanks for this sheet, I've shared this widely among my music loving friends.

@venetianlucifer 4 жыл бұрын

This is a great help, thank you! You bring a beautiful dimension to the theory.

@17244852 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, thanks Aimee. I know that jazz is all about exceptions but this is a great place to start and I can see this being pasted beside my piano for a long time to come. The download is totally worth having and the video explanation is right on target.

@angelazhang7953 5 жыл бұрын

I love your own handwritten instructions and sheets. They are so cute. :)

@davidhoxit4274 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks so much...truly wonderful lesson on so many levels! Thank you for the help

@Nedirbuciddiyet Жыл бұрын

Dear Aimee, you are great! 💖💖

@pheldonmajors2999 2 жыл бұрын

I am trackin..! Thank you Aimee!

@eduardopuccini 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, I also figured out almost this exact same method by myself in order to learn voicings in a more simple form. I can confirm, it is extremely useful.

@789armstrong 5 жыл бұрын

pure gold. thank you for posting.

@dannyvegasman 5 жыл бұрын

Just this: How Great is Aimee! That’s it. As you were.

@davidburns6000 10 ай бұрын

Hi Aimee....I'm a really great fan of your channel. Thankfully, you teach folks in a very creative way the stuff that it took us dinosaurs years to figure out on our own.

@anjavlasblom8158 5 жыл бұрын

Thanx Aimee!! I am playing accordeon and I love your lessons!!

@robertzantay5923 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for admitting your crime, now step away from the squeeze box and wait for the swat team to arrive. Do not go near the accordion!

@DMaynemusician 4 жыл бұрын

excellent resource. so good I think it was worth the purchase to support the cause.

@JayTheLane 5 жыл бұрын

I so love your handwriting Aimee ❤️

@guitarnuccio 5 жыл бұрын

What a great guide. Thanks!

@LadyLove747 5 жыл бұрын

Love It, 😍 Jazz Bible!! 🙏🏾

@matthewhennessey5967 5 жыл бұрын

Great video! I've been adding the 11(4) to the m7b5 chords recently, because 90% of the time that will be the next chord played anyway. I'll have to experiment with the 9's for that also. As a bass player, I've been stuck with only the four notes of the m7b5, so it helps spice it up a bit. I'll have to play around with those extra notes on diminished chords too, I only use the basic four right now.

@vermithrax-pejorative 5 жыл бұрын

That was SOOO HELPFUL!!!

@awabqureshi814 5 жыл бұрын

This is really really useful thanks!

@gtsipejr 5 жыл бұрын

Great lesson! I'm learning guitar during my retirement but will use that on piano as well. I plan on writing it out, like you just did; to better reinforce it. Thanks.

@mikebarker9187 5 жыл бұрын

Same for both.

@dessiplaer 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the 411! Great video!

@AnotherBrokenEgg 5 жыл бұрын

Aimee, This is your Greatest Video!!!! ( Among so many Greatest Videos. ) Bless You! Bruce PS: For lesser guys, like me.

@wudangmtn 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating! A bit above my pay grade at the moment, but something to strive for. Thanks.

@fusion-music 5 жыл бұрын

Perfect lesson

@wilfredomurillo609 5 жыл бұрын

I love teacher Aimee Nolte, very well explained, thanks. I would like if you'll explain about the root bass for each chords 9, 11, 13. Thanks again.

@rafarrombe 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this!

@andy25piano 5 жыл бұрын

Cool and educative video!

@mathieuporsin3301 4 жыл бұрын

The more I watch your videos the more I get that you are a great musician and above all a lovely human being. Keep on playing music to us Aimee, you may not get as much recognition as all the male musicians out there on youtube (which is just ridiculous) but you are so good and generous that you seem really happy doing what you do anyway. I love your music and as a young Jazz guitar player I am glad to be able to learn every day from people like you . I warmly thank you for your amazing work. Greetings from France. Mathieu

@Datanditto 3 жыл бұрын

Excellant. Thank you.

@daveaustin4538 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!!

@juanchis.investigadorsonoro 4 жыл бұрын

Great video Aimee! That half diminished is quite a subject.

@orwhat24 4 жыл бұрын

Great video proving once again that musician’s minds and mine do not function the same in my wildest dreams.

@frankibio 5 жыл бұрын

Extremely helpful

@rickbattle5706 5 жыл бұрын

Very cool! Thanks. 😃😃😃

@xFliox 5 жыл бұрын

Aimee I'm sorry for not paying you for this wonderful content, don't be sorry for us not being able to see your Bible for like 3 secs, I love you, blessings from Chile

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

That’s why I did it! 🙌🏼🙌🏼

@7thewitness 4 жыл бұрын

Love this!

@mikebarker9187 5 жыл бұрын

This is excellent. See also the Jamey Aebersold books inside the front covers.

@neilwalsh3977 5 жыл бұрын

Great for classical composers - or composers generally- to use these colour tones

@sallybowles2781 4 жыл бұрын

oooooohhhhhh this is SO great for a newbie like me...

@Astrothunder_ 4 жыл бұрын

Same

@lukaszha8826 5 жыл бұрын

“The five is a little boring on a major chord.” -Aimee Nolte 2019.

@edzielinski 3 жыл бұрын

So great. Reminds me of the classic Miles Davis' statement to Herbie Hancock "Don't play the butter notes."

@Kitties_are_pretty 3 жыл бұрын

I'm offended on the behalf of violists and altos around the world.

@steveb9325 2 жыл бұрын

@@Kitties_are_pretty lol!

@Bahimo3154 5 жыл бұрын

Great lessons chilling voice

@iluvshuze333 5 жыл бұрын

I love good reference.

@ssenaratne 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.. I am classically trained pianist trying to play jazz with without much success. I could not find a easily explainable structure This is exactly what I haven looking for all these years. Great.. simple explanation

@DanielCoe 4 жыл бұрын

Mark Levine’s The Jazz Piano Book is a Jazz Bible too.

@AimeeNolte 4 жыл бұрын

It’s the real jazz bible for sure! This is just a condensed and simplified version.

@DanielCoe 4 жыл бұрын

@@AimeeNolte Yours is good stuff, to be sure! How old was the youngest student you've used that with?

@simplygroove 5 жыл бұрын

Aimee great video i’m waiting for your method book that will be super

@DanielCoe 4 жыл бұрын

Half diminished might be a “classical” theory term, as 7th chords are referred to in two parts, one describing the triad and the other describing the 7th. E.g. dominant 7th chords are “major minor 7ths,” minor 7ths are “minor minor 7ths”, a diminished 7th is a “doubly diminished 7th” and a half diminished is a “diminished minor 7th,” i.e. half diminished relative to the doubly diminished 7th.

@amphibian87 2 жыл бұрын

Aimee, your videos are a wealth of information for me and your channel has been the most helpful of all for learning piano. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and your enthusiasm for songs has been contagious. Some of your practice routines are still daunting for me, but this video in particular has been watched and rewatched. It's ridiculously helpful. I was just wondering how to handle suspended chords in this and how you feel they fit into the whole picture. It's tricky for me to make a suspended chord substituted for what may be on the paper. Thank you again;

@AimeeNolte 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ian. I haven’t made any videos about suspended chords yet. But a friend of mine just did and it’s really nice. His name is Jeremy Siskind and you can find his KZfaq channel and see it. I hope it’s helpful.

@DrLogical987 5 жыл бұрын

Great. I actually wrote it up as you talked - not to save $5 but for the pedagogy etc.

@MrVesperatu 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty useful video id say

@xFliox 5 жыл бұрын

Your handwriting is so cuteeeeee

@washingtonluiz6117 5 жыл бұрын

helo AIME!! YO SOY WASHINGTON CONGRATULATIONS! I LOVE YOUR COURSE PIANO -The Jazz Bible! BRASIL CITY SIMÕES FILHO, STATE BAHIA, CAPITAL SALVADOR!

@skybritube 2 ай бұрын

Amazing video it’s changed my life thanks a billion! I discovered the minor pentatonic 4 1/2 steps up from the major chord you suggest sounds absolutely amazing I’ve no idea why?? I’m sure you’re aware of it even know why could be a video in it? Thanks again

@SURRYHOUSE2 5 жыл бұрын

new sub. much love out to you and yours from Tidewater va

@JPLodine 5 жыл бұрын

Just wonderfully illuminating, as always. Thanks for this great summary! I love your handwriting too -- were you an architect in a previous life?

@hany-tawfik 5 жыл бұрын

Great!

@DonyaLane 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Amy, I have always written up crib sheets like this for my students, also! One notation I would add to yours is under the DIMINISHED category. It's just as common to see Cdim or Cdim7. I prefer it, actually, for the same reason that I don't like using triangles for Major7 notation: When sketching out chords by hand, it's easy for triangles and circles to start looking like each other. Especially, when I'm in a hurry... A sloppy triangle can look like a circle and vice versa.

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

Good thoughts.

@michaelfitzurka5659 5 жыл бұрын

helpful ty an!

@ChipArmstrong 3 жыл бұрын

Purchased.

@AntKneeLeafEllipse 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, aptly named. This is officially the first place I'm sending any and all of my guitar students going forward.

@Astrothunder_ 4 жыл бұрын

I find it so cool that there are more then a few music teachers that watch Aimee’s videos. I’ll have to remember to ask and see if my music teachers ever checked out one of her vids!

@JulianFernandez 5 жыл бұрын

thanks!

@Nathan-ng1kp 5 жыл бұрын

Aimee, this is priceless. Thank you! With all the spiciness, you must be playing Mexican Restaurants :)

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

I WISH!

@juicytimm 5 жыл бұрын

This is so interesting! At Berklee I’ve been taught that using chord symbols without the 7 (like C-) means that you explicitly don’t want the b7 in the chord, but as an experienced jazz player you see it differently! Same thing with the half-diminished and “triangle” symbols, they specifically exclude the 7. Would love to see a video about those small little idiosyncrasies in our music.

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Jesse! That’s so interesting! I almost said “that’s nuts!” but let’s see what others think.

@GHRiz 5 жыл бұрын

For me, triangle ALWAYS means maj7, and it would seem inefficient and redundant for there to be an extra symbol to mean non-7th major, when the note name by itself means that. Half diminished also... by definition, is a m7b5... the m7 is required... otherwise, it's just diminished, as you actually say while discussing them in the video. Minus meaning non-7th minor I'm a bit less vehement about. Disclaimer: not formally-educated (aside from many Aimee videos) and non-professional.

@marcususa 5 жыл бұрын

5:57 I could have used that info back in the 90's. I just learned the chords because I was following the chord progression, not the melody.

@charlesmartel7502 5 жыл бұрын

The pick-up to "Without a Song" calls for the augmented dominant seventh chord. Doesn't work without it.

@mrbillygebbie2586 4 жыл бұрын

HI Aimee , I am loving your lessons and your singing. I am 72 and have been trying to learn guitar for a few years.I know basic theory chords and scales. I Bought a keyboard recently and I have developed a growing love for jazz. My problem is I tend to get overwhelmed by watching to many different teachers on you tube! I am loving the piano. and am going to stick with your lessons what lessons would you suggest I start with. And how to progress. Iwant to play jazz. Thank you so much Aimee. You are so generous. Billy G.

@AimeeNolte 4 жыл бұрын

Watch my video about getting sucked into the KZfaq vortex!! Lol you’re doing great.

@olvinfuentes7514 Жыл бұрын

1st video ever watching from your KZfaq channel! & you sound like Cathie Woods! Anyways great video!

@Oi-mj6dv 5 жыл бұрын

Insta subbed I wonder how come I didn't hear about your channel earlier

@coltranius 5 жыл бұрын

I have done almost exactly the same thing for my students, except I separated minor into ii/subdominant minor and tonic minor.

@AimeeNolte 5 жыл бұрын

that's a really good idea.

@annestein298 5 жыл бұрын

And could you tell me the 2 different voicing you would use? please?

@coltranius 5 жыл бұрын

anne stein I’m a saxophonist, and my piano voicing is very weak. I separate them because of their functional difference, mainly that a ii7 or iim7b5 is “going” to the dominant (probably), and the i or i-maj7 is stable. Simply, the subdominant is based on the Dorian scale, with the 7th leading to the 3rd of the dominant, while the tonic minor more likely based on a melodic minor or harmonic minor scale. Perhaps @Aimee Nolte Music could weigh in on the voicing differences?

@tonybartonemusic 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video :)

@SURRYHOUSE2 5 жыл бұрын

cool tips

@dsargeant 5 жыл бұрын

I knew there was a light in this rabbit hole somewhere.

@randyo.6138 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing this in the key of C, otherwise I would have just stared at it in a catatonic daze and given up trying to memorize it. In the words of the great Forrest Gump, "I'm not a smart man Jenny".

@grorudbanen 5 жыл бұрын

You should write a book!

@Datanditto 3 жыл бұрын

She did- its one page.

@peterjansen4826 5 жыл бұрын

Groovy, rock on! Which books are good to teach jazz to yourself when you are only classically trained? So for people who have a good technique but don't know much about playing Jazz other than what they heard others play. A problem with Jazz - I have been told - is that they don't always write what they mean.

@villiamaxtelius1170 5 жыл бұрын

Me: “Ahhh this is just fckin’ clickbait” Video: “Are you sure about that”

@samanthagregoryurich4167 5 жыл бұрын

A great resource. Thanks Aimee. I was experimenting a little with the m7b5 using b9 for color in a II-V-I (as the II). I hear b9 pushing towards a Im because it leads so strongly to a V#5. Do you ever use it when going to a IM?

@handdancin 5 жыл бұрын

probably worth noting the equivalence of minor 6 chords with half dims

@nAQtracker 5 жыл бұрын

6 in the bass! 😎

@frankgerace5997 Жыл бұрын

In my ear training class in college, the professor called “dominant” chords “major-minor,” because the third was major and the seventh was minor..I always thought “half-diminished” was a more classical way of referring to a minor 7-flat 5 chord, with the latter being a “jazzier” reference, but I’ve been wrong before, and probably will be again..by the way, I DID have sheet music for “The Entertainer” in my piano bench when I was in high school..LOL..ya see, “The Sting” had just come out….