Wonder lessons! I’ve play rock and blues guitar for 45 years, only 2 years on piano. Piano theory has actually made my guitar playing better, makes you think from a different perspective. Again, wonder web lessons, thank you !

You have a great ability to not only play music but also teach others in a clear and concise manner. Wonderful work!

probably the most useful music lesson ever recorded

Amy, Your you tube channel is brilliant. I'm 73 and have been playing by "ear" since I was 4. I played two-handed chop stix for any relative or visitor who came to the house.My father also played by ear and from the age of 6 to about 12, he taught me to play Moonlight Sonata. I was always fascinated by chords and chord progressions and would figure out how to play just about anything I heard on the radio. I could never explain to anyone how I learned to play and remember so many songs without having any sheet music. My best explanation was...... once I had the chords, all the notes of the music were inside those chords......it just made sense to me, but I could not explain how I did it. It took me 30 years to understand what you have put together in your videos. You are a brilliant pianist and teacher. Thank you for sharing your talent with anyone lucky enough to find your videos. Larry

Thank you Aimee, the concept of stop reading to set free our imagination and creation, from our own mind an soul is really an advanced state of teaching.

I so wish I could go back in time to my teenage years and learn this. Once again, I am almost embarrassed by the fact that I'm an advanced classical pianist but never learned this skill. You are just brilliant.

I've never played piano. But these concepts are very easily translated to my instrument (banjo). Your comment about learning by ear rather than from the page couldn't be more important. It's taken me years to figure that out and the possibilities are finally, finally opening up as a result. Thanks Aimee!

Thank you so VERY much. My story is probably a common one.....I took piano lessons between the ages of 10 and 14 or 15 and became quite good but I was unable to read music as the teacher wanted so I 'faked' it by asking her to play it multiple times until I had it memorized. I was good at memorizing even complicated compositions and always did well at recitals pleasing my mother no end. I gave piano up at the age of about 17 and never tried again until I was in my 60's when I tried very hard to re-learn sight reading....but once again I was unable to make the mental leap from notation to hands and could only play 'by ear'...picking out tunes and embellishing them as much as I could. I stumbled across your channel while deliberately looking for a method that I could assimilate and improve without the DREARY sight-reading I had been taught was necessary. Your method is INCREDIBLE and now, at the age of nearly 74, I find myself LEARNING to play by letting my instincts control to a small degree and with your gently guidance I find huge improvement in my playing. Thank you so much.....music, which I always loved and strived to play is FINALLY showing a glimmer of hope and it is all because of your methods.... Thanks from Canada North where I'll continue to follow your channel and your instruction....Thank you SO MUCH!

Yes, I am a string player but find this channel so valuable.

You're lovely Aimee. Your voice is so musical not only when you sing (superbly) but also when you speak. Good tone, good rhythm, not intrusive, never boring, a real pleasure to listen to, and ideal for learning from. You are very talented as a musician and as a teacher as well. Brava!

For me, this is your greatest ever video. A masterclass in twenty minutes. I've learned so much; so applicable, so helpful. Sometimes words are not enough but thank you from the bottom of my heart.

You're speaking my language. This kind of teaching is what is helping me REALLY learn to play the piano. How to learn to hear things, and find them on the piano, or any instrument. That's what you're teaching. Thank you so much Aimee!

Aimee Nolte truly is music to a songwriter's/lyricist's/storyteller's ears! ♡

Thanks Aimee. This is exactly what I’ve been needing lately. Plus I love the subtle product placement and special guest appearance by Rick Beato!

So GREAT how you address musicality 'by ear' and from the heart, referencing just enough theory to describe what is happening - this is the original liberating function of theory, rather than the seemingly inhibiting, confusing sets of rules or paint-by-number formulas that young aspirants are confronted and turned off by. This is so accessible and meaningful at all levels from beginners to advanced. Also not piano-centric, equally applies to the guitar. The whistlers freaked me out (in a good way), the Rick Beato snippet illustrated your point perfectly... Love how you love and support each other. People like you & Rick make me glad to be alive, sure many feel the same way.... Thank you ever so much, Amy!

At 15:00 you moved to G Major and your speaking voice modulated to that key. Gorgeous!

Practical applications from a lifetime in music. Communicated and demonstrated by a maestro. Shared with us here. For free. Unbelievable.

So refreshing to hear your enthusiasm for teaching Aimee. Keep these wonderful lessons coming!

Madame Nolte, this tutorial was greater than the greatest !!! Sun is shining above your shoulders... Those (sweet) songs are all I (or we from 80s-90s) want to play and the chord variations are so useful..."I do it for you" & "Every breath you take" are so memorial.

I just love hearing the beautiful sounds and patterns you put together. It is really an amazing kind of freedom that allows you to give your audience something extra special. Thanks Aimee

Aimee, every time I watch one of your videos, I grab my guitar, play a few of your chord progressions and I hear music. I have played up to 4 hours a sitting. A musical oddesy that has improved my ear greatly. Thank you so much!❤

Why do I suspect it's counter-productive for publishers and recording artist to object to pieces of their music being used in lessons like this? She's helping to keep this song alive. That's good for the artist. If someone knows why this strict approach is being used, please explain. Oh, & by the way, great lesson. She's a fine teacher.

The luckiest thing happened to me is to find your videos. You have helped me understand a lot of things that I did not understand even after years self-learning guitar and piano. Thank you very much!

Thank you, Amy - another great video. I think these conversational lessons work really well - they are interesting and inviting and explain lots of concepts and styles without a lot of scary jargon, yet also contain so much information in them that they bear watching several times.

Thank you, Aimee. Great suggestions for breaking up the chords with a variety of hand patterns for us autodidactic newbies.

This is the series I was yearning for! Thank you Aime

You described my learning experience perfectly. I learned by the traditional method; primarily reading sheet music, with very little theory. I could not understand chord charts; and I quickly became bored with playing. Now, thirty years later, I am learning music theory; and I am having a blast with it. I have a long ways to go still, but I think I am going to learn great things from this channel. Thanks Aimee! Edit: Oops, I left this comment on the wrong video...... silly me!

After learning a lot of different chord progression building methods, this was exactly what I was looking for next! :D Thanks a lot!!

I don’t play piano but I learn so much from watching you for my guitar. Thank you

I love your channel Amy, I only play strings but I am grateful for your expertise and your willingness to share in my musical journey..... thanks again!!!!

Fantastic, invaluable lesson for pianists, thanks Aimee, keep up with this type of contents please!

Dear Aimee, you just made me realize how fragile and imperfect we, humans, are. Yet so infinitely beautiful... Thank you so much for all your work.

Hello from France. I appreciate this kind of video . I learnt a lot of practical things without pain. Merci and Bravo! Dominique

So helpful to see the styles of play that are presented in this video , thanks so much! Aimee.

Time to put down my John Thompson Modern Course and sit with this video for a few hours. Thanks Aimee!!

Excellent video. You are are a true talent. Thank you for sharing your skills. I am trying to learn piano without the aid of a private teacher and it is sometimes difficult to even know what to practice or how to practice. I know some theory(not much) , a few chords, and a couple of scales. Your video gives me direction. Thank you so much.

This is good, basic info for classical piano students who want to branch into playing pop -- and that's a lot of my students! Thanks.

Thanks Aimee, You sound music ,with out much ado.....

OK, Just finished my 1st listening to thiso vide & got the message. Use my ears, apply these ideas and then start making up my own patterns. Thanks for your inspiring mentorship, Aimee!

as a guitarist im a budding piano player /very helpful as always

Hello from France! Thank you for this vidéo that brings me a lot of ideas for arpeggios. After a few minutes trying to play some like you do and show us slowly in the video (great teaching!), i now feel much better and i can count beats more easily. so, MERCI and BRAVO.

I have only been playing for a year, and I hope one day that I will be good enough to take an actual lesson from you. But until that day I want to thank you for the common sense inspiration that you give to me and many like me. (by the way, my piano teacher is very impressed with you)

I do a lot of music, all original instrumentals and mainly the keys are used with synth sounds and there's very little actual "playing" where it's chords and melody or lead played by me at the same time and I have wanted lately to start to expand and in this video you've got me with plenty to start on, so my thanks! Peace.

One of the best lessons on you tube, let me say it again, You’re AMAZING!!❤️😎

I like your suggestion to use the second degree in arpeggios. The second degree (as the ninth) actually shows up well before the seventh in the overtone series, making it a more comfortable partner to the triad than we tend to think.

You are awesome! This info has really helped me out creating new music. Thanks

Wonderful. Please do more of these.

So funny! I'm mainly a guitarist/bassist and watch Rick B.'s channel all the time, so when you played that clip of him, I kept thinking there was some kind of glitch! Love this vid -- so much great info! Just sub'ed -- can't wait to watch more :)

Thanks Aimee! Its very difficult to me play by ear. Your tips are helping me so much.....

"...from your own heart..." Thanks Aimee

Excellent Lesson, what a huge amount of information in one video, you are such an Amazing teacher Aimee! I was out of town when I first watched this video and it was the one time since I have been taking skype lessons from you that I did not take my keyboard, and I must say I learned my lesson never to leave home without my keyboard, I was so inspired by this video to move onto the next level of my piano playing and I could not practice, due to being out of town however I did somewhat practice in my head. When I got home, first thing I did was bring up this very informational video of yours. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!! You are the BEST!!!!

This teaching is pure love. Praise God

Wonderful! This is worth one term of music theory lessons. Thank you so much.

Loved this one so much! Thank you!

Brilliant Lesson Aimee, Thank You x

Thank you so much Aimee. I'm very much a beginner but I can totally see what you are trying to get me to do. This idea will keep me going for quite some time.

This video helps me a lot to find new possibilities comping songs. Thank you very much!

Merci for this. A great noodling video, so I'll be coming back to this.

Finally! I’ve been trying to find a video on this foreeeeever

Thanks for simplifying something I have always wanted to learn.

Thank you for breaking things up and explaining them to look so easy I think my playing will improve...!!!

The best teacher ever on the Tube 😭🙌😍Thank you so much.

Delightful Aimee. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing, you have such a pleasant and clear teaching style. We now find ourselves in a situation that would be perfect to write many songs. Would really like to learn more about songwriting process for us who are new at this. Would love to learn more about chord progression, improvisation techniques, song structure etc.

Aimee, Thank you! You are da best.

Exactly what I've needed thank you!

Love you! Thanks for all the great tips!

Thank you, it's like giving someone the gift of sight

A LOT to digest in this video. At 8:05 to 8:35 you make that stretch from C to the high E and high D look simple. At 8:30 to 8:35 I see you're even holding down the low C and G while hitting those high notes. Easier with the right hand than the left, so very impressive. Thanks for the great video, Aimee!!

Thank you Aimee ! you are an amazing teacher

Nice lesson! You have a beautiful voice!

You are the best teacher anyone could dream of! (And on the piano there are so many teachers destroying the lust of playing.)

This gives me some great ideas. Thanks!

Absolutely great lesson - brilliant - thanks!

Very Nice Madame! You're awesome! I've learned a new technic in improving my accompaniment method... Thanks a lot for this and hoping for more valuable teaching method from you.. God Bless!

Fantastic Lesson Great wishes from Germany

Great lesson! Thanks, Aimee.

This is an excellent video. I can't wait to get home to my piano to try out your techniques.

Really wonderful lesson, thanks for sharing ! Lee

You just made me feel wonderful. I can do this....thankyou.

This is very good. I play guitar and understand music theory so I can play the piano from an intellectual point of view. I can find the chords on the piano and only want to play an accompaniment but could never make them sound nice just thumping the chord 4 times per bar. This gives me some useful pointers

Great lesson, Aimee.

Thank you Aimee!

Thanks a lot Aimee, Iam very glad that you have done this invaluable lesson, you have a wonderful way of explaining, fantastic. Keep on with something like this. Thanks a lot.

Sixteenth notes beautiful; more 16th ! Passionate about composing naturally. Humming that is what I do. Yes many people have forgotten that they have the capacity to compose with their ears and by humming.

thank you Aimee. Timeless lesson

Lol she got to the 16th notes and I was like sllloooowwww down there Mozart 🤣

You explain inversions so well, if you play a C chord, but have a G as the bottom note followed by a C above, and an E above it's still a C Chord. It's about efficiency when changing between chords, in other words, changing between chords with the least amount of movement. I only learnt this recently. I was talking to a studio musician, who has worked with the likes of Keith Emmerson, Rick Wakeman, and Elton John. He told me that EJ, as good as he is, only really has a few tricks to his repertoire, and one of them is a masterful understanding of inversions. I could tell you this studio musician's name, he does appear online, but I can't really. Anyway love this channel, so glad that I stumbled across it.

Thanks Aimee!

VARIETY. What you mention at 9:07 Aimee, it just really sunk in recently how this is what makes one's playing sound a more interesting and "pro".

You are lovely Aimee!!

Wow this is perfect- just what I need! Thanks Aimee :-)

I could listen to you play all day

Great Video! great tips, and great inspiration as always! thank you Aimee.

Love it, nice singing too ♥️👏

Nice explanation and voice also very cute....thanks Amy

Love this... Yes, written music made me a slave that I couldn't play beautiful pretty music o my own now learning to play chord piano.💗💗💗💗🌹❤️🦋

Thanks a lot Aimee great teacher.

Superb lesson cheers

Thumbs up for the half measure of "Everything I Do" from Robin Hood. (Happy to hear you focus on it later, but that half bar was all I needed.)