This is so fantastic, I cannot tell how much I enjoy it. Your in dept guidance through the treasure of Oscar Peterson’s playing is such a marvellous thing. Thank you again.

I get bored writing the same comment over and over.....but DAMN you're a good teacher! Top-notch content, and top-notch explanation. I can't thank you enough!

That's a nice line..thnks, played it slow and started to invent melodies and licks over it

Aimee, Thx for a terrific video. I'm having a lot of fun with it. You are very gifted.

Aimee, I never cease to be inspired by your videos and your amazing musicianship! Thank you so much for sharing your gifts and insights with us. It is a blessing. I have been recommending many of your videos to my saxophone students. Thankful you're here!

You're really a great teacher, and I never stop learning new things. Thank you so much Maestro.

What a wealth of knowledge - So kind of you to share... Thank you

Another great topic selection, and splendid, clear teaching. It makes my day to get these videos. Keep 'em coming!!

Aimee, since I discovered your videos a few days ago, I have been totally bingeing on them, finding so much of interest to me as a piano player! Oscar Peterson has been a top favourite for me, I never get tired of his playing, so I love your breakdown and demonstration of his blues licks. His blues changes I worked out already, by listening, and I strip the left hand way down, to a series of 3rd/7th tritones to adapt my skill level to need. Love your teaching style, your energy, your clarity! Thank you!! ❤️

I am a guitar player and I this material is a endless source of inspiration. Your blues line are just beautiful and it's very interesting to play it on guitar. It's sometimes challenging to translate a piano in a guitar fretboard layout , but that's why this material is so interesting. Thanks !

Lovely dexterity Amie, iI’m starting out and you are acting like a strong compass, thank you 🙏

I'm so glad I found your channel, it's great! I'm a blues and rock musician and lately I'm trying to step in to jazz and this is like finding gold! You really have the talent of teaching and I can't stop watching since yesterday! Thanks a lot for sharing :D

Hi Aimee, A belated thankyou for this video. Very informative and helpful. As they say 'its never too late'. I love Oscar and your video has helped me with my understanding of him. Again THANKYOU :):):)

Great stuff Aimee please keep it going!

Thanks for writing it out for us, ima go have a sit at the piano with a screenshot of that :) xxxx

Getting a Ray Charles vibe in there with that passing A7 🎹🤔

i am inspired!........of all the videos i have shuffle through your teaching methods seem to be the easiest to grasp!

excellent teacher,fun, enjoyable,I've learned a lot.

Wow! Thank you for sharing this... Trying to get into the higher dimensions of piano playing, this really helps :)

Thank you for writing it down for me. thank you for the good close up on keyboard. Thanks for taking it kinda slow.

Where you heard the first b dim I heard a rootless g7. Your breakdowns of OP are gold. Ty so much.

Mucho Thanko.🌹🌹🌹🔥

Thank you for this beautiful stuff!

Another fantastic video. Oscar Peterson is one of my favorites and his playing would be very challenging to tackle without your great guidance.

Aimee, thank you so much for the great lessons, I find it really useful, I like a lot the analysis and the demonstration examples you give! You have mentioned the diminished theory which would be great to learn from you, the diminished theory and maybe Barry Harris system, just as an idea for the future lessons. Thanks you so much, looking forward to your future lessons.

So glad I ran into this video. Great job!

Hi Aimee, you make life seem so simple.......Bless you for you innate talent.

Excellent class, first time I've seen anyone using the chord sheet,... and that's how i think of the music - first as a chord, then with any treatments,.. we certainly don't want you telling us each finger and key/note that'd get busy huh? hahaha! Love your class. I hope others begin this 'advanced' style. After years of reading I tried playing by ear, and I still need the crib sheets but I didn't spend years practicing scales.

Brilliant tutorial. Thank you.

Thanks, always practical, helpful, informative, and adorable lol

In your slowed down version at the beginning of the video, I swear I am hearing Blue Monk. Love the chromaticism. Can't wait to watch the rest of the lesson!

Whoa. Just found you. I've been playing and studying music for almost 50 years now, and just love your videos. I'm always learning :) BTW - great 10th stretch in the LH.

Love OP! "... his right hand is soooo interesting" LOL

Aimee, just watched more of your video's and I now know you are no where near Boston. First time I have viewed and heard you, great stuff. Thanks Ray

thats nice and real jazz you are teaching Aimee ....THANKS

Nice. Thanks.

Once again: thank you for a wonderful and mst useful session! You have no idea how difficult it is in this country (Denmark) to get good teaching in jazz piano play. This thing you point out with the full tone scale is so useful.

I usually think of the G913b5 as an A major chord with a G7-root, so ascending: G F | A C# E. Similarly, playing a C# major triad chord on top of a G major triad hand will produce a G713b9. It can be a great shortcut to remembering the notes of alterated chords. Oh and thanks for an excellent video! I'll just tell my students to watch your videos.

Thanks sooo much!

another great video, thanks Aimee :D

Hi Aimee thanks for your wonderful videos. I have to say that since discovering them, I have put away all the various stringed instruments that clutter up my house, moved into the back bedroom, where i have dusted off the old piano, shoved the real books under the bed, and can now be heard humming maniacally while playing silent right hand figures. This is causing comment i should tell you. but that's not why i am writing. The A7 chord which is so interesting in this piece is a not uncommon sequence in gospel music. The I - III7 - VI ,or I -III/III7-VI is often found in gospel playing. To my ear it adds a kind of solemness to the transition from I to VI, Oscar Peterson, of course came from a deeply religious Christian background and his musical journey started with gospel music. It is no surprise,therefore,that every once in a while gospel sequences slip into his music. It is also to be found,if i remember correctly, in John Lennon's Imagine, where it serves the same purpose. In a completely different context it is also sometimes found in what I know as the salty dog blues progression, which goes I-III -Vi - II-V-I. Assume all are 7ths. As an old blues man I assume all chords are 7ths unless other wise specified. Anyway, sorry to babble and thanks for the wonderful videos.

Another nice couple of things Oscar does on c jam blues blues are these 2 progressions in the first 4 bars. (ive written in F as relates to this vid) F F7/A | Bb7 Bdim | F/C C#dim | Dm Dbm Cm B7 | Bb7... and heres another variation. F | Em7b5 A7 \ Dm Dbm | Cm B7 | Bb7... going up to the VI chord in the first 4 bars is lovely. Caught my ear straight away when i heard it,

10:36 sooo beautiful!!

Thank you!

love your way in teaching ... please can you explain your left hand starting from 1:29 ... again I'm very happy to find you yesterday and Happy valentine to you and your family

11:30 A4 (440 Hz) sounds metallic and bright here

I had no idea that jazz had any structure until now, always seemed to be a random plethora of notes played quickly to impress, I couldn't listen to jazz for too long, I can only look up to jazz fans as they have found pleasure in something I don't understand. This video has been a great help though and so I have subscribed. I used to play the piano but I had a car accident and severed the ulna nerve in my right arm so now I can't open my fingers to reach octaves, otherwise I would like to have tried some of this. Really enjoyed thanks so much.

As a guitar player ( self taught ), i'm just starting to learn the theory behind it all after years of getting by on the basics. I don't want you to use all your time to do post production editing, adding in text, but as i'm transcribing this to guitar there are moments when i'd appreciate knowing the notes in the chord. Like if you were to say in passing, "this d7 - comprised of x y z notes.", then i'd quickly be able to piece it together and follow along. Not a demand, but if it doesn't interrupt your thinking and talking flow, maybe others would appreciate it too. Either way, all the best! Loving you and your videos!

love the stride bass..(thanks to aimee)

She's gorgeous and yet talented

Hey Aimee I am a guitarist. It is great to take your ideas and convert them to guitar. That way I can get away from some of the typical guitar approaches. Thanks

Im kind of a weak guitar player that sounds decent from time to time. Touched piano a few times. Amazing, after just a few minutes I realized, looking at the key arrangement, silly as it sounds, its all there in black and white, ha ha. Different feel and hand to brain vibe. Seriously though, looking at your lessons is giving me a ton of nuance ideas. Passsng tones, augmented options. Thinking like a piano player is sublime and a rut breaker for a guitar player. A buddy, years ago at the musiscan's institute had to study jazz horn solos and riffs outside the guitar. It brings about an enormous amount of breadth and ideas as well as some crazy challenging lines. And makes so much sense, just have to know a bit of theory and the circles. Thanks... for the music, and the personality...and jazzi cornyness :)

hi aimee i m a great lover of your playing piano and teaching methods. m watching your lesson, how to spice up your blues progression....could u please sugest any good book on the same topic. i m also a piano teacher in india. thanks for spreading love for music

I have to write this down, see whether I can use it on guitar.

THis is the second time I looked this lesson I also played moanin in all keys easy version later I played the Oscar vrsion almost undoable, 5 finger chords,11's reach left hand etc fats runs etc etc I just wanted to do it, now for the 2nd time I come to this lesson still very Good also hanks for writing with pencil good readable

Amazing teacher! Thanks! Please do some online classes. Thanks again

Dear Aimee - I watch and learn from your videos. Thanks! But why aren't you a household word? You're such a good player and what singing comes through on your teaching vids is so compelling - to me. What you need are some great songs! I humbly submit my songs I Like Your Style, SOmebody Really Loves You or It's Today - if you like bossa nova sort of music. But anyway, thanks for the great and clear lessons!

Isn't she lovely wearing that sweater ?!

Do you know Oscars amazing "Hymne to Freedom", Aimee? Maybe you could make a video about that song as well .... (I am just working on it) ....

Man that's tasty as hell I gonna learn it right now and it's 2am

Thank you ❤❤ ,,, (less sustain pedal ...? ) ... Fred

could you please post the standard jazz chords to 12 bar blues. thanks

Do you have any lessons regarding the way Teddy Wilson played??? I was fortunate enough to see him in the 70s.

Smartest, most appealing jazz vids I've seen on KZfaq. Kudos. It's esp. appealing when you think (and rethink) on your feet during them. I tell all my students to watch them, at least the ones re subjects they're interested in, to supplement/reinforce/inspire, yada yada yada.

Hi Aimee. I've been enjoying your videos lately. I remember in college none of the female pianists could reach 10ths without arpeggiating them but you seem to grab them with no problem. Can you only play minor 10ths (white to black)?

Aimee Nolte rules....

Hi Aimee. I have a question and it's a hard question because I feel conflicted, but it has to do with something you've said in previous videos about taking the time to listen to your improv as you play it. So, for instance, contrast two artists: Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson. When Evans plays it looks like he's taking the time to 'feel' his way though an improv. Doesn't slow him down too much, but he's not racing through it. Not so different from what you do, actually. And then there's Oscar. And don't get me wrong, I love his playing. But I was wondering, as lightning fast as he plays, is he really feeling his way in that same process? Or is it just a mechanical regurgitation of patterns committed to muscle memory? Which would still be pretty impressive, but not quite the same as someone improvising in a truly 'organic' way. And even when Oscar plays in his combo I think that he's the star and the bassist/drummer/guitarist are simply following him. Or am I totally off base here? I'd really appreciate your thoughts on this. Thanks!

Hi Aimee , do you give lessons, if so what area are you in. Thanks Ray

Oh you play so beautiful. .gezz..you smoke those keys..

What is the difference between Jazz and the blues? I've heard many famous musicians that said that the blues were the foundation to Jazz and most of them start out with the blues before moving on to Jazz. Does the blues use the same theory as Jazz? How should I approach the Blues?

Phenomenal as always. Why does the piano sound so like a barroom upright..almost out of tune?

Hello there 😃 I'm 44 now and thinking about to learn piano. Am i (is it),too late ??? What do you think ?

Ha look what I can do!

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untuned piano?

Lol how do you even hear all that

I don't think this is what was going thru Oscar's head while he was playing LOL. You're dangerously close to overanalyzing the soul lol

The piano needs tuning and voicing.