Starting at 4:43, Aimee plays some endings for the ii V I progression. Here is the transcription: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qs98mNmCq66udWQ.html

Jazz teachers are not created equal and you stood up from the rest. You make the complicated simple. Now, I'm going to play in a small Italian restaurant nearby. I'll start from a " happy birthday" piano Jazz 101. Thanks Professor Aimee.

I’ve been playing and teaching jazz for over 40 years. Aimee, thank you for your amazing videos. They are so much more accessible than almost any other teacher I have ever heard. Your mastery and clear love for the music are clearly evident. But beyond that, it’s your openness and honesty, your unpretentiousness, a dash of humor, and your conversational style that is so refreshing and engaging. Ok, I’ll just say it......you teach with the tenderness of a Mom teaching her own kids. Now, THAT’S special! Thanks for all you do,

Watching Aimee's videos feels like chating with a friend about all those joyfull things we discover about music as a language.

These nuts are tremendous! Thank you for helping us Guaraldi fans!!! Love your videos!!!

"Always remember, you're wearing more than a hat and a belt." You don't know me, piano Mom.

As a classically trained musician this is really insightful!!

OMG, thank you~. I am a classical pianist, and I always wanted to learn a little bit of jazz, but didn't know where to start. Your channel is amazing

You and Kent kewit are my two favorite jazz piano KZfaqrs!! Thankyou Aimee for providing quality content! And also Thankyou for having such a smooth talking and singing voice

I can't thank you enough for this, Aimee. I've been improving for years now and I always get stuck in a rut. When I do, I always make sure to come back to this video. It's a huge help. I also think we can use the major licks for relative minor keys! And probably vice versa... Plus, I agree on the tip about both singing and playing. My high school piano teacher told me that if I can sing it, I can play it. I really like how you both touch upon bringing out something that's already within us. It's a very important principle that can be forgotten in jazz, music, and even life in general.

I'm a retired piano bar player with 50 years of playing for a living. I have an adult student who has been stuck trying to learn to improvise. So far, he hasn't been able to break away from the melody. I'm going to try some of your methods of getting the idea across to him. I think this will help. Thank you, very much.

The 'brushes on the snare' sound fooled me for a moment. That was a pretty good impersonation at 15:04. :-)

Wow! That’s insane! That’s what I needed. Thanks, Aimee. I was like the guy you mentioned at the beginning of the video, and just with what you pointed out, I’m improvising all of a sudden! Just playing the chords in the left hand and just freely coming up with different licks and runs with the right hand that will sound better and better as I get better at doing it! That seems to be essentially improvising! Thank you so much! I needed this so much! 😄

This lady is beyond wonderful. She's witty, and inspirational.

Thanks aimee, this is exactly what I have been looking for for years. At 74years old your videos really Inspire, especially this one.

Wow! You just answered my prayer after only a couple of days I asked. Glory to God! I watched couple of your videos so far and I really like the way you teach.

I found your channel about a month ago and now you've uploaded the exact video I need! More of this please Aimee...

This is unbelievably useful. Thanks.

Aimee You are so generous and outstanding talented...it's a pleasure to feel so good the way You share your knowledge with all of us singing, playing piano and teaching...Thank You so much. Daniel Azulay - Rio de Janeiro - Ipanema - Brazil

She just answered a question I've had for a long. Amazing

Aimee, I like the insights that you are getting on what us new jazzers need. This was perfect for me!

Oatmeal, just the nuts.... you're a natural improviser. Awesome stuff.

I love how accurately and beautifully you sight sing. I could listen all day.

Super helpful, crystal clear, so practical🙏

The birds are lovely. They’re singing along.

Immediately subscribed. You remind me so much of Amanda Bynes and Jennifer Aniston from the way you speak to look (& I am saying this in the most complimenting way!) I can’t believe our house cleaner Mrs. Sylvia introduced me to you! Thank you. I too play from sheet music but never knew how to “get foot in the door” for jazz. And your oat porridge looked delicious! Xx

Thank you, Aimee!!!! And please give us more of these. (from a thirsty beginner)

Really like the idea of playing the licks around the circle of 4ths. Thanks for the suggestion!

How would I ease my way into oatmeal improvisation? Like, can I substitute another fruit for apple? Would that be an altered core?

Aimee.. I am not a piano player.. but I am learning so much from you... you are amazing!!!! Not many so talented can share and teach.....THANK YOU!!!

Aimee, you are the best teacher.

so fun for the beginning improv, sight singing practice & maybe a few scat syllables as well. liked the way this was taught. thank you

Wow! Really great lesson! I think one of the hardest things for beginning improvisers to do is starting a line. Easing into improvisation with these types of licks is great. As you were playing them over tunes I knew, I could hear where I would want to go next. So these help get the improvisation jump started, and if you know the tune (chords and melody), and you listen to a lot of jazz, your brain will begin to extrapolate out from the lick in a natural, almost automatic way. Really good stuff. Thanks.

This is the best beginner improvisation tutorial I've seen, Thank You!

yes! we (classicaly raised people) need more videos like this one. Just discovered you a week ago. thank you for sharing your knowledge, Aimee!

5:27 The only thing that surpasses dad jokes, mom jokes. (Tbh I did laugh at it 😂)

What a clear instruction. You nailed it again Aimee!

Hi Aimee, Thanks so much for your simplicity of delivery of this lesson. I love it!

Haven't finished the video yet but Im already giving it a thumbs up. I love your method. Seems you were born to teach! Congrats! Awesome content!

First time viewer - thanks for what you do - opened a few doors for me that I can comprehend and feel more confident improvising.

Aimee, your teaching method Is !!!AWESOME!!! I think I love you... I'll say It in french: Je t'aime 😍

Hello Aimee..Great stuff and very valid BUT I get folks asking me teach how them to improvise in jazz YET they've never listened to any. Huh? I can start them off improvising but can't teach the sound, the feeling, the swing and very ethos of jazz.. They have do that for themselves. Jazz has got to 'hit them relentlessly between the eyes" before they can even begin to know what it is that they CAN'T do but burningly WANT to! That takes long hours of leaving the instrument in its case and wrapping ears around the music from Buddy Bolden, via Armstrong to Marsalis, Morton to Art Tatum or Peterson and later, Coleman Hawkins to Michael Brekker, etc. etc. etc.. That, I don't need to tell YOU! Thanks for your video. After 50 years of jazz playing, I can still learn from you because I know what I'm looking for. Voice of America ( and others) taught me that by Shortwave Radio in the late 1950s. Thank you Willis Conovor! God Bless America!

Aimee, you are an amazing teacher! Thank you!

I'm an electric bass player so I'm not sure how I found your videos but I have to say I absolutely love what you are teaching. You wouldn't think that videos from a piano playing jazz singer would have anything to do with playing bass but I am learning a lot from you. Music is a language, and your videos reinforce that fact to me. Thanks for publishing them!

Thanks Aimee! I'll practice these tomorrow. Cheers

This was just what I needed! Thanks, Aimee!

Much appreciated. Thanks Aimee. These small steps make it easier to grasp, and they sound good. Your oatmeal was way healthy! Good choice.

Thank you, thank you...that was fabulous. More please when it might work.

Outstanding vid!

Helpful! Pretty singing voice as well!

so glad I found your channel !,just finished the jazz theory book and looking to expand that knowledge

You are awesome and have helped me so much

You explain everything so easy and make this fun.... i wish when i started with theory i had this kind of stuff to learn from.....

Thanks for this, Amy. I am definitely not a jazzer - Rock and Hindustani (i.e., North Indian) Classical Music (and some Indian Carnatic Classical Music) are the main types of music that sustain me, although there are examples from all other types of music which I like (from jazz, through show songs, musicals, heavy metal). And I can only read the notes of the treble clef, and understand very rudimentary rhythm / timing (from my days playing appalling 2nd. violin in the school orchestra). Guitar is my main instrument, and I am technically not very accomplished - i.e., I play the pieces that I play, but I always make mistakes. And I have clawed my way up to being able to work out chords to rock, blues, pop, and some simple jazz standards by having learned to play a couple of scales 'visually' and using those for improvisation. And now I am paying attention to chord tones and scaring myself by saying the 'A' word ('Arpeggio' - designed to instill fear in the hearts of self-taught rock guitarists such as myself). AND YET, despite all of my shortcomings, and despite definitely not being a jazz player, I have really learned from the videos of yours that I have watched since I discovered your channel about a week ago. So, thank you. By the way , I love 'Somewhere Beneath The Sea', which you played in this video, and had forgotten about that; kind of reminds me - in feel/atmosphere - of 'Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea'. George Harrison did a great version on his posthumous album 'Brainwashed'.

This is so helpful. Thanks

Thank you so much Aimee! Much appreciated and just what I needed to get me started.....more ideas on the same topic please!! :) :)

Great vid Aimee! Thank you.

this is exactly what i'm looking for, thanks

*Sees oatmeal* "Oh, Lawd" *Hears description* "Okay!"

Thanks Aimee. Really inspiring video and explains what to with the licks whereas most books just give lists!

What always helped me when starting to improvise on a new song that had a tricky harmony (I guess you can use same approach to start improvising altogether) was that I just played the melody against an aebersold track for about 200 times and just went from there by ear. Start with little melodies on turnarounds and then modify the melody more and more. This way you get the harmony in your ear. I actually do this to learn new standards, too. I don't even bother to learn the changes first, just find my aebersold track, play the melody a million times and when I get it in my ears, it's super easy to figure out the harmony. It might not work for everybody. But works for me, anyway.

You are light. Beautiful soul. Thank you for all of this knowledge. You've done my mind a great service :). I send you lots of love:)

you are awesome thank you for helping us all so much

I've got a video that I put up long ago that deals specifically with the different melodic applications for chromaticism. In fact I believe it's my very first KZfaq vid I made. I haven't made any in about 3 years but I'm gonna get back to it soon. I love your videos, Amee. It's usually stuff I already know but I glean a lot of insight as a teacher from the different ways you present things. Thanks so much for your contributions.

very nice aimee. Thank u . this is my favourite. Gracias

Thanks Aimee.

You need to work on your picture hanging,🤣 but otherwise perfect.you nailed it perfectly for me. I want to play whats in my heart, Thanks🤷‍♂️.I love the way you teach.I can’t wait to look at the rest of your lessons.Thanks a million Aimee

I love it .

Thanks a bunch Amy, really use full stuff!

Great,thanks!

Dear Aimee, Love your series - helping me fill a HUGE gap and get started on some fun. This clip addresses my biggest wishlist. I learned to play from pages, but not to understand or think about the keys in the way you describe, let alone be able to start jumping into something myself. Would love it if you could do a few more along this line of intro to impro! THanks.

Top notch lesson!

Just a fantastic presentation, Aimee :)

I have played piano for almost exactly 3 hours but I'm going to learn that first major lick, so I can put it in at the first opportunity I get

Hey i'm so happy that i found your chanell . Your are teaching very good and i think everyone can play piano by your lessons . Thank you for all of these ❤.

Love this vid. Thank you and have a great Thanksgiving

have you ever met such a Cool Fun Funny Talented Gorgeous Woman before?.. I don't think so!.. Aimee ROCKS!!. you're a talent.. you really should have a TV show... Your Personality is amazing!!

great teacher

very helpful, thank you for sharing...

thank-you so much

Nice look at improv. Great suggestions. Will be adding this to my vault of ideas. Not originally a piano player (50 years as a trumpet player till one unfortunate accident) but love to accompany myself on piano and love your approach. Love to play along with you. Thank you so much for your channel. I think I'm falling in love. hahaha

Nice video Aimee !

Very enlightening! i have never had any instruction in music theory, much less how to develop the ability to play "around" the theory- I always thought the great improvisors just had the gift (i know many do), but you are teaching me quite a new thing- that there is a knowledge base underneath most of what I have called innate creativity- Thank you for your most engaging and practical style; You are a great teacher! Ches Smith

Thank you!

GREAT video! Certainly following you and taking "lessons." Thanks for the tips. :)

So usefull videos Aimee, thanks for the motivation :)

Great licks, Aimee. Taking them for guitar. :)

tr cooking some Chia Seeds in your steel cut oatmeal OMG! Thanks for your videos I have been teaching myself for over 30 years

Awesome!

such a funny and great teacher!!

Another great video! I did not know Vince Guaraldi by name, but certainly know his music! I was was very surprised to read that he played with the Grateful Dead, my favorite band who in my humble opinion are some of the best "improvisers" in the music world. Key these videos coming!

Great!

Holy Cow you're good!!!

GGrief..I can so relate to Gauraldi-landom..youre on to something Aims..spot on feeding us nuts..then some raisins..woop..purty soon..we might just be riffin it..LOL so love this tangent and nuts in my granola too)) this is from that same type who learned only to sight read way back when..classically trained...cant wait to get back my ivories and get in to 2-5-1 and someday learning that elusive circle of fifths as well..oh.my just love this..TY

Thank you. It would be nice if there were more videos on licks. I will try playing these over Amazing Grace adjusting for a 3/4 ...I will also try over 4/4 song or two....Thank you.

I just found your channel. I love your channel.

Even the brushes :D ...You got it all!

Far too advanced for my skill level but a good target to shoot for, thanks Aimee.

Love it, this is the right speed for learning ;-) (really slow!)

Great music teacher Aimee. I am glad I found your videos.