Dear Aimée, your exercises on major, minor, dominant and half diminished chords were already great in bringing together music and technical exercise. But this exercise here is a masterpiece! These four bars are touching. This little exercise hides a song. I hope, you let it out one day.

Nah if she doesn’t expand that into a song I will once I get the time that’s beautiful🥺

What an underrated topic - you have some of the best music education videos!

👍Great exercise around the circle! I definitely prefer the longer version, Thank you, Aimee!

I cant thank you enough , my piano teacher was terrible , and I was mostly self taught ,so I just kept to reading classical but because of lockdown I decided to learn a bit of jazz and I found you , you are my angle !!!! Take care have a great day , I know I will I will print these off straight away and I will be on the piano !!!!! 🙏🏻

What a lovely chord progression!

Hello Aimee. I know this is random, but I just found your channel and you will be having another subscriber. I just came from a watching a channel on someone who produces electronic EDM music. And one thing I have noticed is that EDM hardly if at all uses any Diminished and Augmented chords in their progressions. And I believe they should. But that's just me. This beautiful chord progression inspired me to see what I can do. I think any body working with any genre of music should check out this lesson. Beautiful lesson and I hope you are well.

Great Aimee!! Loved it!!

Loving the lessons. Thank you,Maestra.

So humble! Love these lessons!

I hear Chet Baker's "Deep In a Dream"" (without the minor chords). Thanks for years of valuable lessons!

Thank you so much Aimee, this video is amazing!

Thank you,Aimee.

You’re awesome Aimee. Thanks so much for how much you have taught me. Loved this lesson.

Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us.

Thanks Aimee!

Thank you Aimee

Thank you Aimee, very good, also the piano is nicely tuned.

Aimee... Whenever I watch you I feel so happy. You are just so damn lovely and cool. I hope things are super super groovy in your universe. Love from Morocco.

Very cool chord progression. Was looking for something like this to go in the practice routine.

Always great!! Thanks

This is what i ve been searching for so long

Thanks Aimee

Gorgeous!

Reminds me of For Once In My Life

Thanks for the teaching of chords

Thank you so much!!

BESSED TEACHER- THANKS.

Very cool explanation cousin! 🤗

Ok after I practiced the major, minor, dominant and half diminished chords, it's now time to practice the fully diminished chords. I really like the musicality of this exercise.

Nice! I'm getting a "Life On Mars" vibe from the progression you made.

Thank you

Nice lesson. I appreciate your approach to these chords by putting them in exercises with a functional harmonic context. The explanation that a diminished chord is a four way crossroad is also not my usual way of thinking. That is a theoretical view resulting from vertical thinking, popular in jazz but giving me many problems - maybe it's me and others are happy with it. Take a noun or a verb. You can look it up in a dictionary and find different meanings. Chords get their meaning in a sentence, just like words. When you talk you don't think about all the possible meanings of all the words you utter.

This video is very useful for me. You've identified a challenge that I face, which I hadn't fully realized - a habit of perceiving chords primarily with one-handed voicings. I tend to practice left hand voicings with right hand improvisation. An exercise like this challenges me to break my routine and spread my chord perception over a wider range. I really appreciate that you seem highly aware that each learner experiences an exercise differently depending on where they are in their learning process. Many KZfaq jazz videos focus on playing as though it is a behavior - knowing which notes to play, or an abstraction - understanding a musical code. The behavior-oriented videos give you "tricks" which can sound great in isolation but be hard to integrate into one's playing. I wonder if you are simply highly empathetic in your approach to teaching, so your learner-centered approach is natural to you, or if you consciously think through your musical education philosophy. I would love to hear more about insights into learning processes. Thanks, as usual, for a wonderful video.

What a treasure you are

Maj-Aug-6º => This is the beginning progression of “Introduction and Tarantella” by Pablo de Sarasate ( One of the greatest violinists composers (both) ever!! Thank u Amie from Chile!!

...not that there's anything wrong with the soundtrack of a murder. ;-) Great lesson, Aimee!

I have started recently, I enjoy if all is simplified

Gostaria muito de aprender com você Aimee...mas não falo inglês e perco todo o conteúdo. Você é adorável.

(Just Like) Starting Over by John Lennon has a similar progression. :) Thank you for another great lesson!

I like to use diminished 7s as a passing chord at the end of minor 2-5-1s

About the diminished chords as four way crossroads check the "Giù la testa" soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. I think the English title of the movie is "A fistful of dynamite" but I'm not 100% sure...

Hello again!

An Augmented triad played by itself literally sounds like what mustard looks and tastes like

8:30 Beautiful.

Hello! I love this progression using augmented and diminished chords. I sing it in my head. I've tried twice to buy the .PDF ( so I don't have to write each key progression ) but it doesn't work with Paypal and I don't know if i'm doing something wrong... Anyway, thanks Aimee for this video!!

My first music teacher called the diminished chord the “put the girl on the railroad tracks” chord. He called the augmented chord the “16 Candles” chord.

At the beginning, we see the sheet music and hear it being read and played. It only lasted four bars. That may be more interesting to me who can visualize myself playing it. Where can I get more entertainment like that, where the sheet music is shown during a performance?

Sorry off topic here but check out Steffania Tallini "Nell'Intramente" you'll like it.

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Hello, Aimee. Respectfully asking that you please record your videos at a higher volume. My 'drummer ears' need a little help. Thank you in advance :D

For dim/half-dim/aug/altered chords, advice on rootless 2-handed voicings and rootless left-hand-only voicings? Thanks!

Hi Aimee or anyone! Could you please suggest a basic 2-handed rootless voicing for a diminished chord? Like for a dominant 7th basic options are: L: 3-7/R: 9-6 or L: 7-3/R: 6-9. What would the equivalent basic rootless voicing be for a diminished chord? (And am I right that piano player should use rootless voicing when comping on a diminished chord w/ a bass player?) I checked out your "Diminished Chords: My Favorite Trick" video, but I don't see rootless options in that either? (I put this question there too!) Thank you!

sounds a bit like Great is Thy Faithfulness :)

Diminished chords are the staff of life, they are a rootless 7b9's in disguise.

Oi, Abençoada. Brasil

Augminished?

Jacob Collier is such a showoffer.. How can someone understand and learn from that explanation? I stick with Aimee so that even the ones of us who doesn't have a degree at Berklee can understand something. Thanks for sharing!

So, line clichés, right?

I feel like I'm hearing every song from "Whiter Shade of Pale" to "Life on Mars" in that exercise. 🤔

GOD Of Abraham Bless You and Use You Abundantly to Win Souls In Our LORD JESUS CHRIST Holy Name. Amen

It kills me how some pianists, including you, don't even look at the piano while playing. I compare it to riding a bike blindfolded. Yikes! I don't know how you do that.

9 minutes and nothing about how to resolve the diminished and augmented chords...wow....lol.

Thank you