BRUH! Great lesson!

i cant believe this content is free

Honestly Aimee, in 12 years of playing, you're on of the few people I've run into that gives an honest, achievable road map towards playing with feeling. You don't mystify it or give obtuse answers like "just play from the heart." You actually show people HOW to play from the heart. To me that's honestly amazing.

wow. I felt so called-out during the video. It's so frustrating. Instant subscription.

Great video, I think this would be a useful philosophy for many in the classical world to take to heart too - we're even more removed from the 'child singing a melody' aspect of music, many classical players at conservatory level and beyond can't play ANYTHING unless it's written in front of them, which I've always found deeply troubling.

I love how brutally honest you are in this video. You don't sugar coat what you're trying to say and you don't try to be overly nice, you're just telling the truth, and that's what I love about this channel!

Aimee Nolte, Adam Neely, Rick Beato, David Bruce, 12tone, Sideways, 8-bit Music Theory, Nahre Sol constitute the best part of KZfaq. So grateful to all of you for being the best mentors.

As a music producer studying and learning the piano everyday... this video almost made me cry... everything is so clear now as far as what I need to TRULY focus on 🙏🏾 God bless you 💪🏾

I've said this for years. I saw a university music student who played a very complex classical piece perfectly. I asked my wife after what was missing. We both agreed that technically it was brilliant but it had no feel or emotion. A few weeks later I thought I'd introduce her (She's from the People's Republic of China) to Stevie Wonder Sir Duke thinking she'd be compelled and overwhelmed like I am on every listen. She turned to me and said with a flat look 'Oh that's pop music isn't it?'. I asked her if she had ever improvised. Nope. Do you fancy trying together? Erm, I don't know how. Do you ever play for pure enjoyment? Erm, what do you mean? It was positively the saddest conversation I've ever had with another musician. She had no concept whatsoever other than learning music technically and by rote. So Aimee, well done for flagging this huge issue in music and music education 👍

I loved this video, as a guitar player I sometimes think of this concept as "Singing with my Hand" meaning that I will try to do my best in playing what I hear in my mind as if I was singing with my instrument. Cheers from Argentina. Matías

I can't tell you how much I love this. I went the opposite way all my life; never had proper music education so I did everything by ear for decades. Three years ago I was lucky enough to play guitar in a hotel jazz band for all autumn season, barely knowing any scales AT ALL. I grabbed the chords quite rapidly, but as for soloing, I was terrified and my only chance was learning all 100 melodies of the songs in the repertoire, and try to embellish them as much as I could in my time of soloing (the other musicians were very experienced and always played great solos); when the season ended I had to move to another town so I left the band, thinking that I did a poor job. I started to study scales and jazz theory feeling ashamed of myself having played with musicians who had 10 times more academic knowledge than me. However, I recently spoke with the singer, and she told me that they somehow miss "my melodies", since I got to play them in quite a personal way. That was the only thing I could do in tunes like "All the things you are", "Green dolphin street", "Four", etc. but it seems I managed to do it in an entertaining and non boring way. With this video and the last with your former teacher, I feel enormously relieved; now I am sure I need to keep studying my scales and harmony, BUT I can play melodies with a lot of feeling BECAUSE that is all that worried me for many years; turns out THAT is the more important thing, and is for sure the main the reason I have been hired the 14 years I have worked as a musician now. I feel very happy no one made me swallow an awful lot of theory and scales when I was a kid; it probably would have ruined my musicality and have had a completely different (worse) life.

The world needs to hear this. Melody is king. Period. Great video Aimee 👍

This is such an important concept. I have not heard anybody express more clearly the importance of being able to hear a note in your head, heart and soul before you play it, and then know where to find it on the piano. The last part of this video where you hummed a melody and then just brought it to life, was beautiful and inspiring. I've been training and improvising from scales, chords and patterns. Watch out Happy Birthday. Thanks for Amiee.

My of my old teachers (the inimitable Tom Rhea) would always say "A professional is somebody who can predict the future short term." This is what he was talking about.

I had a bunch of classical piano instructors as a kid and in five years of lessons I was never once asked to try to work out a melody. I learned so much more about music when I was teenager and just goofed off on a guitar.

so grateful i found your page. i want to learn to improvise and I've loved jazz, but stopped vocal training in HS. I'm 31 now still trying to pursue music. Still learning how to play piano & guitar. Thanks for your work!

Yes, I think this is truly the answer to understanding anything musical.

This is instantly one of my favorite vids from you, Aimee. Something about your direct candor, and unshakeable confidence in this... something about the honest frustration and earnest effort to work through/around it... IDK. Something about this video is speaking to me more than others, and I can't exactly put my finger on it. Thank you for this.

Hi. I'm 44 years old, from Brazil, living in Florida since 2018, self-student of a lot of things, including english, and last month I bought a keyboard. Mam, You are so important, so important! I wish I was 12 right here, right now, but I am not. But, screw that! I've been watching your videos and following your tips and lessons since I found you here. I could listen to you all day long, with all the respect. You're funny, a great teacher, beautiful, full of knowledge and feeling. Awesome. I'll get it, all that! Thanks for the inspiration, the time, and keep fucking doing what you've been doing because we need you around, all of us, around the world. Maybe you didn't know, but now you know. We appreciate you! 🌹🙏

I’m a guitarist but I started with a ukulele when I was seven. I would strum or arpeggiate basic chords and sing simple melodies like coming ‘round the mountain, aura Lee, greensleeves, camptown races etc. As a teenager I was given a guitar and at first I played simply, but a friend asked me to play Sunshine of my Love and subsequently I learned to play blues. I was stuck in Dorian and in major and minor pentatonic patterns for years and could no longer find melodies spontaneously. I learned jazz standards, Ellington, Charlie Parker, the same way, changes, scales, the head and patterns. Years later I met my wife, a fine jazz and musical theatre vocalist who had been taught by her mother, a well known Toronto jazz and r&b singer, to always begin with melody, and to learn it by singing it. My improvisation came alive! This changed everything and is what I still observe today in my writing and playing. I utterly endorse your message ms. Nolte.

Incredibly insightful video, Aimee. You presented such a simple, earthy, rooted approach to better ears and better improvising. A useful pushback against the onslaught of scales, modes, & patterns that get thrown at us. I've been playing drums for 40+ years (mostly jazz), and am now studying piano and some basic theory that I should've learned yrs ago; my goal is to better understand the magic of improvisation. Your marvelous video just "cracked open the sky" for me. I'm headed to the piano RIGHT NOW to start working on some point-and-sing melodic work. Btw, the A minor improv you sang/played at the end was gorgeous! Thank You!! :)

wow only 3 minutes in an you have given me the key to playing the piano. I have tried for years. you are 100% CORRECT MELODY IS THE HEART AND SOUL OF ALL MUSIC will start practicing on a regular bases thank you my teacher

Excellent video Aimee, I'm 70 years old and I learned how to play piano and blues harp (harmonica) by ear..I can't read music but my love for music and the Blues made me work extra harder!!!...I remember buying a book on how to play chords on the piano, the funny thing is, I didn't even have a piano at home...lol...I made a layout of piano keys with paper and pen and would learn how to make the chords by placing my hands on the paper key board...Their were no computers back then, no tutorials , I used to go to this nursing home and wash their dining room floor for free just so I could play their piano...A lot of the nursing home folks would ask me to play certain songs for them and of course I couldn't but I would tell them to sing it to me or hum it , I would then pick out the notes on the piano and try to find a chord to go with it....The more I would hunt and peck out notes on the piano the better I got..The desire to play music has to be in your heart.. and yes, you do have to work at it!!!...Love your channel!!

You are simply the best teacher. So important to realise that melodies are like stories. Musicians that play by knowledge and technique only, gets lost in the maze and won't really appeal much to me. I can really feel the music from a soulful approach no matter the skill level of the musician. Cheers 😊

That was an excellent video Aimee, thank you. I remember when I was a kid I was always trying to figure out melodies, but then I started to memorize things and patterns, even though it makes it easier, you sacrifice an important aspect of music, the notes should come from the inside. Thank you for reminding me that.

When I was a kid my parents couldn't afford lessons for me, and though my dad was an accomplished jazz pianist - I couldn't learn a note from him. I taught myself to peck out top 40 songs from the radio. Fast forward, oh, say 30 years. I finally had time and the means and decided to take Jazz lessons, after 30 years of figuring things out myself. My teacher popped a bunch of sheet music in front of me, which I couldn't read, and I worked and worked at it, for years. When I finally could play the standards he was teaching me, I found I got nervous sitting at the piano without music in front of me. Literally, I had turned myself into a musical zombie. And I wonder if this is what you're talking about. Somehow the mechanics of reading and playing disconnected my ear from my hand. I know it's still there, just have to get it back.

I started playing by ear in garage bands. Then after a long period of time I went to playing mostly written music. You reminded me of the importance of ear training.

Wow, my heart is full of joy when I see a teacher / musician who knows what it's *really* about! Being a musician myself for over a decade I can only agree. Keep up the great work and spread the word ;) Much love from Austria

Love this vid Amy, it's me all over when I'm teaching, it's great to know I'm on the same wavelength as someone like yourself x

Wow.........a mind blowing ending to the video, Aimee. I’ve watched it about five times over and over. You are just so talent. Thanks for a wonderful video.

Ur freaking amazing Aimee. You make so much sense. You opened up doors in my head. I'm always practicing scales and keys. I been wanting to find notes in a song without having to find the sheet music for it. By doing your exercises, this is coming more clear to me. Thank you so much.

Aimee - so great to hear you stressing this. It encourages me to try even harder on the playing by ear goal I have. Because I want to play what's in my head. Thank you.

Wow, unreal music lesson.

6:06 This is so good for writing songs and for learning and improvisation. Being able to make the melodies in your head into reality is an amazing skill.

Definitely got the GIST it!! Just discovered you last week and most of your vids blow me away... BRAVO

Aimee, thank you so much for this! I learnt to play by music, and didn't even realise for nine or ten years there were such things as chord symbols (and even then I didn't see them as being relevant to the piano - they were to me just those mysterious symbols and diagrams used exclusively by guitarists!). Consequently I have never been able to play by ear or even pick out simple cadences. Even when I played with groups later on I needed the chord symbols written down to know what chord I needed to play next (even when there were only mainly three chords), whereas the guitarists, who couldn't read music, seemed to pick them out naturally I adore music, and your sweet harmonies and lovely voice have given me so much pleasure since I 'discovered' you a few months ago on you tube. Thanks to this video I am resolved to learn as best I can to play by ear. So from now on I intend to spend at least the first ten minutes every time I go to the piano on picking out melodies. And the moment I have finished this comment I am going to start with Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer. You are always an inspiration to me, Aimee, and clearly to so many others! Now let me get to that keyboard, freshly-inspired!

Yes Aimee! Human! That is such a great concept. Thanks.

I've been complaining about this forever, but lack the tact to explain it kindly. Superbly done. Closest I came to being nice was a blues jam in a bar. "Stop that pentatonic puke!! Play from your guts." When I told the guy he's gotta hear it before he plays it, I lost him. Straight over his head.

Loving these lessons, Aimee.❤

Dear Aimee, you're the greatest inspiration that I could imagine! I'm so lucky to watch your videos, after them I go singing for hours and hours being so happy about my success and about my new "understanding" of the improvisational process... Thanks again!! You're the best!!

The melody to happy birthday was the first thing my jazz teacher had me play :) all keys, single bass note, single note melody & sing.

👍👍👍 I was playing Polkadots and Moonbeams rhythmically, hitting consonant notes , and then I listened to Bill Evans and figured out that I was being mechanical rather than human. I think that is what makes great jazz musicians great. They can exude “ humanness in their playing ... u are obviously one of the greats Aimee. Thanks !

WoW you gave me as a beginner learning with utube a deep reality check. I got embarrassed 😳 and you were not even in my presence. I want to do this so bad now. Scary but I must try. Thank you 😊 You are an amazing teacher you get into the core of the person that is listening to you. I would love to learn jazz.

I couldn't respect your approach more! Please keep doing what you do, you're the best. If I one day decide to learn some theory instead of doing everything by heart, I will learn from your channel. So... I might not understand much, but this is something that really resonates with me.

Thank you Aimee 😎. I have a 5 year old grandson who can sing melodies he hears on pitch with just a little miss here and there....your ideas for teaching him are spot on!

I needed this direction badly. My son is just starting piano as well and this is something for both of us to work on. Thank you!

Thank you so much. This was very awesome and instructive. And I really loved your demo at the end. So beautiful and heartfelt. That is what I really came here to say. A melody from the heart is worth a thousand words.

You are a breath of fresh air!!!!! Been playing instruments and singing my whole life and it’s been harder to find teachers who can teach me something new! This is something I was already doing without even knowing it! I feel like I can tap into it even more now that I’m aware of it! I just subscribed! Thanks so much!

I totally agree! Amazing stuff Ma'am, I really enjoy your content🌹. Thank you, you've helped me a lot🤗

You are so right! I had started off with melody when I first started playing. Then as I grew new skills, I abandoned melody for focusing on rhythm or "interesting" chord progressions, which really just meant that I was searching for chord progressions that contained or suggested a nice melody. Time to rethink how I sit down and play my instruments. I certainly had a lot more fun back when I was focused in on melody, and I'm glad you made this video to remind me/us! Thanks!

You have just answered something thats bothered me for ages but i didn't know. This is strangely musically profound. Thanks.

This video is spot on Aimee and resonated with my experience. My main instrument is guitar, I learned theory but I wasn't great at playing traditional written music. I was comfortable with improvising and "by ear" situations from early on. Thank you for discussing this subject. I feel like a lot of educators undervalue these skills. All the best!

Not being a music teacher(but I love playing and singing), I can’t believe some “musicians” or students of music missed this essential 1st step required for playing more “complex” music. My teacher always said: the piano needs to feel like it is attached to the sounds you hear in your mind. As if your hands and arms don’t exist. I completely understand Aimee’s frustration.

I just wanted you to know how much this video meant to me, even though you probably didn't anticipate this... I have been playing piano and guitar by ear my entire life. I always felt like a failure for not being able to grasp chords and scales and theory on general... While only being able to play things from memory or what I listened to. I felt like I was never a fully realized musician. But this video actually made me feel like I have a gift I shouldn't waste, and that gives me more reason than ever to keep trying at music theory :) Thanks for this video, truly!

I rarely leave comments in videos, but you connected so well with my frustations with an intrument, that i have to. Probably the most engaging and ispiring video i have seen i long while. Subscribed, liked and I asure you I will watch all of your videos!!

Love this lesson - I've done this on guitar since I started so many years ago. I can't agree more there are so many mechanical players - especially on guitar - they can shred like no ones bidness bruh but no melodies. I'm trying to make time to learn piano - glad I found your channel. So good.

Last year my grandma wanted me to play "A Million Reasons" by Lady Gaga on piano. I had no sheet music, so i thought "Hey it sounds like it might be in the key of C major". So i sat at my piano and I tried it and succeeded! When you play melodies by ear you build a connection with that song.

Great advice, and I'm really embarrassed that I can hardly pick out simple melodies like this. I'll work on it, because it's so fundamental. I watch a lot of guitar players (that being my instrument of choice), and I notice many of them singing their improvised lines as they play, so the melody they play is the melody they're hearing in their heads (piano players do the same - Keith Jarrett comes to mind). Those melodies come from knowing the sounds each note is going to have, and that knowledge comes from exactly this. Spot on.

I figured this out on my own... only a week ago. I’ve started working through standards from the Real Book(s), but then I work (struggle at first, but less and less) on “grabbing” only the melody in a different key. It forces me to not read, I have to do it with my ears. And then, I start looking at the chord changes as I, IV, V, VI, II, V and so on, so I can think about the changes in any key. But I’ve found that recalling the melody intuitively, without thinking, brings the changes along with them, or at least makes finding them much easier, and finding substitutes. This is what music is all about. I love you Aimee!

Really insightful video! I couldn’t agree more with Aimee’s points here about the role of melody, regardless of genre. Wow, keep up this original, from the heart perspective in music education!

This is exactly how I teach all my beginners!! We start with up and down and ear training!

A beauty of lesson.

Your way of teaching is so calming, I had to pause 3/4 in just to comment and show my appreciation for this video. You're the best!

Enjoying watching your videos, thanks Aimee, and thanks Adam for recommending!

Preach sister. I love that you’ve capitalised on your deserved popularity to go hard line on this. I agree this is obvious but it passes by most classical teachers and apparently jazzers too. Hope it has some effect. Pentatonic aural work (at least) should be on every kid’s syllabus alongside the alphabet, not just for musicians: the lack of music at school links to the lowest common denominator music we now get.

Aimee, I wholeheartedly agree that good music education starts with simply singing. From a more analytical point of view: when you sing there is nothing in between you and the music, you know how to get a certain tone and you can easily reproduce what is in your head. In other words, the voice gives the most direct connection between what you hear/feel and between the output of sound. On a piano you also have quite a direct connection between what is in your head and how to get it out of the instrument because all the notes are linearly organised from low to high (not on the guitar which has parallelism and makes it more difficult to get used to reproducing sounds in your head on the instrument) and because it is very easy to produce the note because no technique is required to get the sound (contrast this to for example a saxophone, a Oboe or a tuba). Having said that, I do think that theoretical education is essential too for music, it is a powerful tool once you have that foundation. Theoretical music education is severely neglected, certainly where I live. Just one country further theoretical education is obligated if you play an instrument (to the point of kicking a student out if he doesn't follow it), where I live they barely give any theoretical education, at the music schools they haven't done it for decades. Fortunately these days you can mostly learn it on your own. In music eduation you have to walk a fine line between having fun while you play and practicing and learning technique (etudes) and theory. Too much emphasis on the last too early and you might kill the joy and obstruct that kind of development which you referred to in this video, too little emphasis on that and you miss powerful tools.

Aimee, I just found you on KZfaq and yes I am a total beginner, but listening to you talk and explain things is as important to me as watching and listening to you play. I wish I had your talent.

Love your approach to teaching (and playing).

Wow, this is me! Guilty as charged. I tried for many years to become a “jazzy” pianist - jazzy because I can’t commit to extensive practice routines. I learnt quite a bit in the past - licks, voicings, scales, progressions etc. But I was never able to actually make music, just sit down and play. All that theory and practice seemed to do nothing for me. Whatever songs I learnt from tutorials I ended up forgetting within days, or weeks at max. Since I started the piano I had this intuition that something essential was just not there but nobody could help me figure out what it is. Friends and teachers said just keep playing, have fun, don’t judge yourself. 5 years ago when my daughter was born I stopped. I said I will never open this chapter of my life again because emotionally the piano is not good for me any more. Something clicked with this video. Of course! I can’t play melodies. I am so eager to dust up the keyboard and start playing again but I am also scared of getting back into that old, destructive headspace. Maybe the answer is to learn to crawl and then walk again. Start right in the beginning. How do I do that? Maybe learning the melody of a song by ear every week is a good start? Maybe learn the melody of a simple standard every week but by ear first? What do you recommend? Anyways, thank you for what you do here. I’m really touched.

Kind of a "Can you play what you sing/(hear), can you sing what you play?" Thing. Fabulous lesson, Aimee

You've done a great service to music with this video. Cheers Aimee!

the way you explain it, is so beautiful and it's easy to understand. thank you so much aimee

Volver a ver la música como si fuese un niño, que concepto más hermoso. Gracias Aimee...

I do fell like I am a robot, not just when i am playing an instrument. Challenge accepted tho :>

This is the KZfaq pedagogy I need! Taking this approach to my journey to lead guitarist from now on. Thanks Amy!!!

Great title and great video Aimee. So glad you called this out. There's a big difference between playing "acceptable" notes, and the "best" notes, and for me the great melodies are examples of people making daring and personal choices. I also took note of how Rick Beato, for example, pointed out that you had a massive repertory of songs that you had memorized, and really admired that. You're walking the walk before talking the talk! Now, I need to take myself a notch down and start practicing those melodies :)

I paused the video to see if I could play happy bday melody on my guitar and I was able to. I know my basic scales but most importantly I am constantly learning guitar solos by ear so I already built the connection of playing what I hear. Even though I don't sing I try to learn the melodies for the lyrics of any song that I am learning and I came to the realization that some of the arrangements come straight from the main melody. That was a real eye opener for me just by learning by ear. I can build my own guitar solos based on the main melody, rather than trying to figure out what scale to use. I recommend SMPlayer for learning songs by ear . You can slow down songs. MP3, MP4 ,KZfaq, etc. It has an EQ for removing or enhancing different frequencies.

That's what I'm working on now. Wish I'd learned it when I started about 40 years ago. Great lesson.

Since the point and sing video came out, I practice it everyday forever till I die, thank you so much Aimee!

I LOVE this. - Aimee saves me from myself and my need for a real book and now she sums up what it really means to use your ear. I keep having 'aha' moments watching these videos. Great Teaching!! Thank You!!

Transcribed the A Dorian melody, but had to think for a few seconds :-). Great lesson. I think the classical approach is excellent for developing technique, but may be culpable in producing perfunctory automatons, that generally struggle in improvisation, beyond their repertoire e.g. Blues, Jazz, Latin Jazz, Funk, Gospel, etc.. Creativity and ear training are different skill-sets. Ear training can be learnt, if the student has a 'musical' ear. Not everyone has that creative instinct and it is practically impossible to teach a student creativity. Suggesting ideas to a student on how to be creative is meaningless, if they are devoid of creativity. Not meaning to be harsh, but it's a case of 'either they have it or they don't'. Music is a multi-faceted mood generator, but 'feeling' the music i.e. melodically, harmonically (i.e. voicings), rhythmically, dynamically, etc, is at the 'heart' of everything, whatever genre being played. Similarly to creativity, a pianist either has 'feeling' in their playing, or they don't. There are no grey areas IMHO.

You basically just hit on an eternal spiritual truth of music. Although, I do think everyone should be interested in discovering "their own sound" and simply play what really resonates with them. Sometimes as a byproduct of following what you're passionate about, this means reading straight off of a score or fake book chart. And maybe as a result of this, people also become more capable of and attuned to playing simple melodies by ear and eventually playing exactly what they preconceive in the midst of improvising anyway. But just starting out playing by ear probably speeds up the learning process for improvisation considerably too. I don't know; this sounds like a chicken or egg first situation. Maybe I'd like it to be both lol

Thank You Aimee! "Go back to melodies!" I was thinking about learning how to sight read for singing. As you suggested, I think if I just have fun and pluck out some melodies as well as practice hearing the notes before I play them, it will help me with sight singing. Thanks for the permission to go back to the beginning when I was little when I had an impulse to learn to play a song I wanted to sing. I can apply this lesson to just about anything where my initial desire to know something and create got squelched in the process of learning. I am very moved by your mention of how our human-ness is what makes the improvisation come alive.

This is the kind of musical teaching I need! Thank you so much for this video, you have shown me the way to playing my own melodies. You are awesome, give us more sensei!

Dear Aimee! You are so right about the fundamental melodic aspect of music and the basics of connecting soul, brains and body. There is a rhythmic aspect to add, I think. The ability to feel the beat patterns and to move on it: dancing! Drumming! Poetry! Could you please consider that extension to your great teaching capability? I admire and love the way you move me to improve me every time when another new video shows up, thank you so much. I'm still learning since I learned to connect on my tin tomtom, my uncle's piano and my dad's harmonica, sixtyplus years ago.......... Henk (1949, piano, Eindhoven NL) ps How about the natural order of rhythm, sound and melody?

I developed scales. - Aquaman.

Aimee, you are awesome and this was super beneficial. A great, great lesson.

Aimeeee!!!! I'm loving this a lot!!! Thanks! ❤️🙌

I'm glad I'm not alone in these frustrations. (context: I'm coming from a classical teaching side) my students are terrified to play without music and to improvise. It's partially my fault for teaching them like this, but it's also because of my past teachers who taught me to be a person who could play pieces of written music rather than a musician. Idk, this is a ramble, but I'm glad this is becoming a discussion in music education.

Bruh................... Do you even Melody?

Three days in a row and I’m still coming back just to hear the Am melody and those very last 16 notes...........for me, it is just so, so moving. I think this is the finest video you’ve made. Thanks, once again.

This is one of the most import videos I've ever seen. Just what I needed to hear Amy. Thank you.

I totally agree. I don't play piano but even I could play Happy Birthday or Rudolph. I can't imagine someone who knows chords and scales not being able to do that.

Someday, when someone creates the big book of all the steps you should take to learn to play an instrument, step 1 will be : go watch this video.

I love how you an articulate this concept so well. As a guitar player its so easy to get caught in patterns (finger exercises) and there are times when I know a scale should work over a chord but it just doesn't speak to me and I have to use notes outside the scale. Before I record any soloes or melodies on my songs I love to record the basic riff or chords with some drums and get in my car and drive and let my mind wander and sure enough a melody will happen in my head - and from years of learning melodies by ear I can play that melody that I came up with without the instrument.

Just Excellent. Thanks Aimee.

I normally say that perfect pitch is not really a tool but more of a nightmare that I live in. However, when it comes to hearing melodies and playing them by ear it helps a ton, as well as having good music theory/interval training. I may not have a degree in music but I can do what Aimee's talking about without any difficulty. Maybe I shouldn't complain about my perfect pitch too much haha! I'll add that I'm not very good at improvisation. I think it's a skill that you have to learn trial by fire and keep playing as much music as possible. I can solo over pretty much any blues or boogie because that's what I've been paid to play for the last two years and my ideas around the style are very expanded. But force me to solo over Norah Jones or James Taylor and you get basic boring melodies within the chord structure, which is frustrating because I hear better ideas in my brain. I know Aimee mentioned that skill as an idea that you translate to your instrument, so maybe I'll work on watering that plant for a while! Love all your stuff Aimee, always very insightful and interesting!

This is so weird. They can do the thing that requires some musical education, but can't do the thing that can be done without any education.

yeeeessssss!! One of the best video ever!! I'm showing this to everyone. Thank you so much

One of the best, Aimee. This is the juice right here. Hear it, sing it, play it👍 Love🎵🎶