Hi Aimee, While we're on the subject of swinging here's my Oscar Peterson anecdote. Back in the 70's, when I was in my teens, I managed to sneak backstage at an open air concert in Juan Les Pins. That night it was Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Pass and Oscar Peterson playing. Finally the great man finished his set, came backstage and took a seat on a bench surrounded by press photographers. I managed to elbow my way through the pack to request an autograph. Still mopping himself down with a large handkerchief, he gestured at me to sit down. As he signed the piece of paper he turned to me and asked....."Do you play piano?" "Yes I do", I replied. "What do you like to play?" he asked. "Scott Joplin rags" I replied truthfully. "Do you play them straight?" he asked. What do you mean "straight?" I asked. "You know.... straight... on the beat" he said. "Oh yes" I replied. "Well I envy you then" he said. "Why is that?" I asked, pretty certain Oscar could easily play Scott Joplin rags with his eyes closed. "Because I can't play ragtime straight" he said. "Why not?" I asked.... "Cos I gotta swing" he said, with a big laugh and that wonderful smile. Ever since I have boasted that Oscar Peterson said he envied my piano playing! Hope you enjoyed that fond memory of mine and Merry Christmas to you and your family Aimee.

Don't mean a thunk, if it ain't got that chunk!

This is what it feels like to have a good teacher.

Aimee, you rock! I mean Swing!

Aimee... my name is Brandon and I desperately needed to learn how to swing... I literally freaked out and thought “did I have a lesson with Aimee 3 years ago?!” 😂

No doubt, Count Basie defines swing. I love your outlook and passion for jazz. It's always been my love and it is refreshing to see that in other people too. Thanks for sharing.

What a great lesson. I thought I was swinging, but no. Now I have the tools to get swinging like Basie and Peterson. In less than 20 minutes, you've given me enough material and insight for a month of practice, which is fantastic. So much fun!

love your sense of humor, as much as what you're saying and playing, Aimee. And I DO love your passion, and your chooses of artists, tunes, and "chonk". :)

That interplay between those quarter notes and the cool melody coming in and out of the beat, moving all around. Such a feeling!!

I feel so lucky to have found your videos Amy. I was never a big jazz guy (I'm turning 72 this year) but you have really made me understand a lot more about why it's so cool and important. you're making me love it. Thank you so much. You are a great teacher and really know how to teach appreciation and infuse others with enthusiasm. I love following you. Please don't stop posting and performing.

Aimee. Your enthusiasm and love for teaching seeps through the screen. I absolutely love your style.

I learnt how to feel swing more fluidly by counting halftime, it also makes solos feel uncluttered for me and almost as though there is more space between the corners to through the back end of the notes around as much as I through the front of them... You are my jazz lesson inspiration by the way! I really respect your warmth and obvious mileage... Thanks for your efforts!

I love how your passion for this stuff comes through in your videos. Keep on swingin'!

Freddie Green! You're so talking my language. Your vids are very literally the best. Period. Thank you.

Congratulations Aimee, you are a wonderful teacher. I'm a 17 years old aspiring musician from Argentina and you have inspired me to swing harder (or at least try that). Thank you very much for your videos, cheers.

You entirely changed my playing style. Thank you so so much! Lots of love from Malaysia

Aimee Nolte, Thanks for all your videos!! I really love the way you explain everything A hug from Medellin Colombia

You are helping me to learn how to listen to music and enjoy it like I never did before ! Thank you!!

Most soulful swing lesson ever ! Thank you for sharing

Wow…you have an amazing ability to connect with your audience! Thanks.

Oh, you're just so inspiring person!!! thank you for sharing your passion to jazz with us!!!

LOVE to see you being so passionate! Thanks for a great lesson! Now I really have something to think about... :)

Great! Great! And your energy makes it so fun to learn! I studied jazz vocals and this is...b-a-s-i-c, clear, easy to understand and so good to learn, relearn, rererelearn. Thanks for making this.

So glad I found you! I play classical, pop piano but wanted to start swinging. Lots of work for me because I think I may just be like Brandon.

Love this mirror image, a good angle for seeing how the fingers move rather than which keys they are playing. Great lesson Aimee, thanks

I LOVE how you crystallize the finest points in the fundamentals that so many of us can overlook. I have to agree with SeanLeonDrums that you produce the absolute best channel on KZfaq. There is lot's of great stuff on KZfaq, but this is the BEST!!!

Hi I am amazed that I commented 5 years ago when I was just starting . This time I really paid attention and understood that separation of the left hand from the right. Thank you. Now I really understand that guitar chunk with the swinging melody. I guess the dislikes haven't understood it or may be got too excited and hit the button twice. A really valuable lesson 💖

Love how chilled your character feels and passionate about music you sound :) you seem like an awesome person! Plus an awesome pianist! thank you for sharing! lovely lesson :)

YOU and just SOMETHIN' ELSE! Not one person in a million can teach like that. Thanks for the music lesson - and for the teaching lesson too.

Aimee you are just such a delight! I really enjoy your lessons so much, thank you for doing them. I've just returned to the piano after a one-year break due to illness and I find your videos inspiring.

Oh man! Love this lesson. I'm not a pianist, I'm not a jazz player, but this concept is SO critical, whatever style you play/sing. Thanks, Aimee. And yes, Freddie Green was The Man.

KZfaq felt I needed to see this again now. So great. Thank you

Thank you, it’s super Love you and your teaching Daniel

I have NEVER thought of it like this, but what you said makes sense. I feel what Freddy Green, Ray Brown, et al are doing, but have always struggled to communicate it to the kids! Thanks, Aimee!

Well, that's a revelation. What makes your channel so good is your passion and the way you aim for the beautiful. It's so clear from listening to you that music is music, and not mechanics.

This has changed my life completely, thanks so much!!!

Spectacular way to learn. Eureka! Thank you for making me see a different dimension of swing, and guiding me to study some great musicians.

I´m so glad you highlight Freddie Green, a superior musician who was the secret behind Count Basie´s unique sound but always in the background!

Your examples of swing cannot be matched !....just excellent..😎

Loved this, Aimee! I just discovered your lessons today. I appreciate your enthusiasm and how you break it down. I remember seeing the Count back east in PA in about 1971. I was about 17 at the time, and learning to play jazz bass. They knocked my socks off. He even came over to our table and we got to chat with him a bit. Many years later I moved to CA and started a house concert series. All kinds of music events have happened here over the past 25 years (over 150 concerts). Just my good fortune to have been so close some true musical greats. Darius Brubeck and band, Jared Gold (B3 player from NYC), Ed Cherry (guitarist for Dizzy Gillespie for many years), and the amazing swing and bebop Hammond B3 organ player Barbara Dennerlein. Check out this swing blues (Stormy Weather Blues) from her with guitarist Christoph Widmoser. It starts out a little sleepy but really picks up. On the surface you could say it's blues, but listen closely and you'll hear the swing elements. Playing ahead of and behind the beat, lots of triplets and other goodies.

Hi Aimee, You're a GREAT teacher! Your vids are amazing! Thx!

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" Great video. I love that Oscar Peterson album Night Train with C Jam Blues. It's gold. It definitely swings.

What an inspiring clip. Thank you.

Nice lesson. Love to play bass. especially walking bass. My dad taught me how to play a boogie bass progression when I was 14. He actually taught it to me on my first 🎸 (A Sears Silver tone accoustic.) I have had jazz guitar lessons starting in the 80s. Really like the genre. Again very good lesson.

I love this "lesson" Aimee. Luckily someone steered me in your direction. Subscribed!

Love your enthusiasm

Okay, so now you've got me listening to the Duke. Love your stuff. Turned my daughter onto it last night.

I really love your passion.

Aimee, you are so engaging, thorough and gifted..ALL of you videos are as close to perfect as a musician can be....I only wish I could have convinced my parents that we musicians​ are real,and music is a true profession,. a wonderful gift to be shared by all.:-)))

Recently discovered your channel. Wow - very well done. You teach the very small but hugely important things like the k-chunk. Wish I discovered that 10 years earlier. Happy to know it now!

This is so sweet I love it!

Somehow this turned into an ASMR experience it must be the soothing voice :) also very educational for beginners thank you aimee!

Enlightening video, both for content and passion. Thank you! (also applies to dancing!)

Thank you so much, amazing video!

Brilliant Aimee! Speaking as a rhythm guitarist and bassist in various bands over the years, I'd say you really highlighted the essence of swing. Without the drums, bass and steady guitar the lead players wouldn't have anything to weave around. I'm guessing Basie, Peterson, Simone etc swung intuitively but for the rest of us - thanks for great lesson! Oh and remember, if your back needs a little massage ...

What comes across to me is that "chunking" or "swinging" means to really feel the rhythm, the pace, the emotional moving of the piece. And this is what makes a good musician. All the greats have it, regardless of music genres. Glenn Gould had it! Listen to him play Bach's Goldberg Variations. The music is coming right from his soul! Your "chunk" lesson is great for helping people to get this. But you really have to give yourself to it in order for it to work it's magic!

"A little bit loco?" Some of the best are/were pretty locally loco. Beautifully coherent, Aimee. Thanks

THE MIRROR ALWAYS SPEAKS THE TRUTH. IN THE ARTS SO TOO. I STAND IN AWE OF IT ALL. GREAT INSIGHTFUL LESSON.

Oh, I just enjooooyed listening to that !

You are an inspirational player and personality. Oh, and a great teacher too.

A great lesson Aimee, thanks! - and i'm so loving that those three swinging tracks :)

haha I love to see you ssssooo into it! Listen now world because this is important.

I LOVE your singing! More, please! Oh...and GREAT lesson, too. Love the way you break things down. But really...now I want to hear YOU sing "My Baby Just Cares For Me"! Will have to see if you have recordings out...just discovered you tonight.

Great stuff Aimee. Well explained and easy to understand!

Amazing charism and understanding! Thanks!!

Hello Aimee, Fantastic! job on all of your videos. As a guitarist it's so nice to hear other musicians give Freddie Green the credit he deserves. Keep up all the stellar work. Thanks again, Swing Heil

I love your channel so much Aimee

LMAOROF...you are so good! Your comparison to not swinging is hilarious...and spot on. Jazz girls are a force of nature!!

I don't even play piano but the way you talk about music is so enjoyable for me. 'scribed

That was such a good lesson Aimee, thanks for swinging

Hi Aimee, music teacher and jazz piano player from Toronto Canada here. Love this video... I have a lot of "watch later" clicking to do, I'd love to hear some of your other tutorials! I use a fake book, don't have all the standards memorized, but love sitting at a grand in the corner of a room by a tree (usually fake) with a coffee and play for people! Thanks for what you do! Greg

That is a wonderful class - thank you so much.

Loving this!! Thank you!

As we teach, we learn. That’s one reason why I love teaching.

You're awesome! And super inspiring!

YOUR PASSION IS FLYING OF MY TABLET SCREEN, STRONG VIBES, FLYING ALL OVER THE PLACE. THAT'S THE REALLY AIMEE. OH HOW I MISS HER. WAW. THANKS.

I was a clarinetist, but it's been a long time. I just LOVE the Basie band!!!!

Great Video,Aimee🎶🎶

wow you are so a wonderful teacher. i love you !!!

Well there's a classic quote if ever I heard one: "Feel the quarter note in your soul" . Aimee, you need to put *that* on your merchandising :) . Seriously. Keep up the great work!

Great.....greetings from Italy, I speak just a little english, and so, just...I love you :-)

Wow there‘s so much heart in your videos!! Amazing 😌

I really like how excited you are about the discovery of said chunk. Now I'm gonna chunk...no. I'm gonna chunnnnnk. Thank you for this insight.

I play no instrument but your explanations are amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Your passion for chunk gives me life

I'm so happy to have found your channel! Very inspiring information, great musical insights and ideas :) Your content and presentation can help a lot of people, thank you!

I love that you love Freddie Green - Thanks Aimee

Very clever teacher God bless you

As a guitarist and huge Freddie Green fan, I love hearing you talk about how good he was. Irving Ashby (who played guitar with the Nat Cole Trio after Oscar Moore--another great---had the best line on rhythm guitar in jazz: " Rhythm guitar is like vanilla extract in cake. You can't taste it when it's there, but you know when it's left out." Another great lesson! Another great jazz rhythm guitarist was Herb Ellis. He and Ray Brown recorded together a lot (obviously with Oscar Peterson but also later with Monty Alexander). Herb and Freddie Green made a great album together called "Rhythm Willie"

I love your channel so much. 2 really swinging things: the MJQ on the Tanglewood LP "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" the intro is very John Williams straight time but when they hit the head, Milt Jackson swings SO HARD. The 2nd is Oscar Pettiford's solo on "Blues In the Closet" (his tune) on Jazz at Essen with Bud Powell and Kenny Clarke. Just swinging! Thanks for the jazz Aimee.

Vid is amazing! As a singer appreciated the mention of the hard swinging Miss Simone

Excellent Skills!!

I'm always amazed at the talk of swing being sort of a triplet rhythm versus a dotted-eighth-sixteenth rhythm, but I've always found the accents to be as important, if not more so. Hiromi Uehara has a great swing feel.

Great Aimee + thank you!!!!

I think you have a very nice speaking voice. You're nice to listen to also because of how you express yourself. Beauty of course is in the ear of the beholder. I've just recently discovered you. You're a pleasure.

Wow.. the recommendation for Oscar Peterson's C Jam Blues... just WOW.. :-) The precision on that fast piano playing was amazing..

Thanks, great videos!

Hi Aimee, One whole year I have used your chunk chunk for the Senior Professor's Jazz ensemble in Uppsala, Sweden. Our two guitar players just LOVE it. Merry Christmas!

I think I've found my jazz teacher here. I've never heard someone articulate swing so perfectly in my life

Hi Aimee, it simply fascinating how you talk. It is almost hypnotic to me and I guess you yourself enjoy recording the videos. If there is something like swinging in talking you can do it! Such a great combination of entertaining and technical details on how to learn it.