PRACTICAL SHORTCUT to play all the MELODIC MINOR MODES

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A thrilling but easy method to play all the melodic minor modes right away. We'll start playing without thinking!!! Later on we'll talk music theory and we'll expand our horizon a bit. This lesson starts up easy and ends up more advanced...
By the way, you may have noticed that occasionally I 'slide' the right hand ring finger from a black to a white key. This sliding black key is just an extra (blue) note coloring our sound. I forgot to mention that in the lesson - sorry about that :)
- This other lesson explains more about the left hand grip in use (also named grip 2) and what it can be used for: • Left hand chords: "Dom...
- This playlist contains more about all the three left hand grips (grip 1, grip 2 & grip 3) that we can use to play almost any expanded jazz chord: • 3 GRIPS to do the JAZZ...
- If you wanna dig deeper into the right hand triad grip, check out this playlist: • The MAJOR TRIAD hand grip
All NewJazz material is free public and for everybody. No ‘pay walls’. But you are very welcome to make a small voluntary donation, to help keep me going, at either;
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Many warm regards from Oliver Prehn
Master in Music & Multimedia (University) - and bus driver!!!
www.newjazz.dk
Index:
00:00 Intro & Demo
01:31 Left Hand Locomotive
03:03 Right Hand Wagon
05:28 Move the Locomotive
07:43 Move the Locomotive once more
09:46 Melodic minor
11:53 Dorian b2
13:50 Lydian Augmented
15:26 Lydian Dominant
16:45 Aeolian Major
18:41 Half Diminished
20:14 Altered
21:51 A Practical little Trick
24:33 Thanks a lot for Everything

Пікірлер: 227

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Hi dear fellow Musicians. The techniques learned in the lesson above I use for example in this funky modal ‘train’ jam: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7lkdZOmvcrbdXk.html Fabricio Pereira on the Bass Erik Frandsen on the Drums Me on the Piano ;) I hope you’ll enjoy :) Many warm regards from Oliver Prehn

@YanKayary 3 жыл бұрын

You play beautiful my friend!

@nerfytheclown 3 жыл бұрын

Good insight! 45 years olde jazz-lover, here; first year on keyboards, thanking you, sir.

@gatolocomclay 3 жыл бұрын

I remember when you told us that you had left your job to do this full time. I'm so glad you have almost 200k subscribers.

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

@@gatolocomclay Thanks a lot :) I still have to drive the citybus - but only about one day a week ;) Warm regards from Oliver

@pedroberoes49 3 жыл бұрын

"The less you think, the better you play" very valuable advice sir, thank you

@TheBaconWizard 3 жыл бұрын

This is pure gold.

@maxtofone 3 жыл бұрын

Dear Oliver, your teaching is always pure gold and so enjoyable... Many Blessings, Max T.

@nebula0697 3 жыл бұрын

The friendly man who made beautiful piano exercises and complex harmony accessible.

@hawkehatmal5451 3 жыл бұрын

This is the best jazz piano channel ever

@jingoloba7741 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a guitar player that never played piano before, I started watching your videos and now I'm about to get a piano and start learning all because of you, thank you Oliver, you are my inspiration! Greetings from Italy!

@xyzct 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome. I have had _so much fun_ with many of your previous lessons. I'm an advanced beginner, and people think I've been playing for eons.

@CrankyRayy 3 жыл бұрын

Best piano teacher here on youtube. Easy to understand. And it opens doorways in the mind and allows you to create new things. I always find myself with more freedom to play after watching these.

@iannmiller 2 жыл бұрын

This hitch and wagon analogy is elegant thank you

@bradleytripp9785 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you again for taking time out of your busy day to explain how to play piano, you are so good, Blessings to you and your family! !!

@anthonyclaros-erazo2945 Жыл бұрын

I've been watching since 2020 and you are absolutely the best teacher I've encountered.

@roymorano5171 9 ай бұрын

Oliver, you're unbelievable. As a classical cat, I'm awed.

@SeleckPlays 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVE your sound Oliver! I've been following your guides over the past year and my piano skills have improved tremendously. Thanks!

@JamwithJamal 2 жыл бұрын

The less you think, the better you play, so use handgrips, learn theory but don't let it hinder your playing. Best advice 👌💖 An instructor sent from heaven, Thanks a lot Mr Oliver.

@atulah7 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Oliver! Nobody teaches the modes like you do, and it's terrific!

@guillermosanchez9941 3 жыл бұрын

"I often don´t know what scale I´m playing"after 10 years studing music is the first time I heard some thing that´s really music to my ears!Oh my God tha´s just fantastic God bless to you Oliver.

@suga4all 3 жыл бұрын

Your hand grip approach is so great man. Makes it easy to play musical w/o even thinking about it. Sets me free...! Thank you so much!

@fednercherelus5586 3 жыл бұрын

You are a wonderful teacher

@Superhero0405 3 жыл бұрын

Hope more people make donations to support your great lessons!!

@sammikinsderp 3 жыл бұрын

Stuck around to the end to get the final result and the convenient trick to wrap it all up nicely. It'll take me several weeks (and several viewings) to fully digest everything in this video. Thanks for making music education free, Oliver!

@danjacobson1365 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video !! As a guitar player, I use a grip on the guitar that corresponds to Oliver's piano grips and find many useful ideas for improvisation ...Thanks Oliver for your great insights !!

@musikirongartist8475 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't realize that it can be played like that . Pure genius

@jpeaston477 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVE your lessons! Your voice and cadence is so calming and pleasant. Thank you for doing this channel!! I am learning so much and in better ways than I've ever heard!

@12Keys 3 жыл бұрын

Oliver Prehn is the Bible of the Music.

@DasHemdchen 3 жыл бұрын

No, he‘s the Jesus.

@AndreasDelleske 3 жыл бұрын

How about Einstein explaining Newton‘s stuff?

@brendanhengle7394 3 жыл бұрын

Easily the best theory video I've watched, hands down. Almost 20 years of playing and studying, and this was wonderfully presented. Most importantly, the playing and your attitude sold me. Instant Sub!

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much :) :) :) Warm regards from Oliver

@nogoogleplus 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome way of shedding this!✨

@michaelsears8143 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I really love that teaching because it put me in a mindset of jazz piano and r&b piano.

@GalantGoStudio 3 жыл бұрын

When someone wants to learn some new technique, here is the correct place 👍❤☠❤👍

@cyrotelles7265 3 жыл бұрын

Sempre os melhores ensinamentos disponíveis. (Always the best lesson available).

@DeyRadiance 5 ай бұрын

Incredible lesson. Thank you.

@rolfigomez3039 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you are the Best !! Fresh Sound !!

@Web4Panama Жыл бұрын

This is fantastic!

@GuyMannDudeTheOnly 3 жыл бұрын

Great lesson ! Thank you ! Spent the day today with this,,,,!

@mariojanio4772 3 жыл бұрын

Best teacher ever!

@themindbusterator 2 жыл бұрын

impeccable lesson

@nickthechen 3 жыл бұрын

So helpful, thanks for your amazing tutorials.

@alekrous6650 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you big master O.

@DmytrySiDoRenko 3 жыл бұрын

Man! Look what you have done to me!!! I wanna play piano every time I watch your video!))) Thanks, you are amazing! I'm gonna go get some practice)

@atomschmidt3932 Жыл бұрын

That was such an amazing lesson! Thank you so much. The melodic minor modes sound really cool, I will play with them a lot.

@yandindoy6579 3 жыл бұрын

Great Lesson.. Thank you, Oliver

@milorico1 2 жыл бұрын

great melodic minor modes video by maestro Oliver , nice nice

@omarreroch 3 жыл бұрын

Great. Excellent!!!

@martchantraprapawat1738 3 жыл бұрын

Really impressive keep going man 🔥

@joanalfaras1374 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!! and very nice explained Thank you very much

@CreateArtRecords 3 жыл бұрын

Ey Oliver.. you..i dont have the Words to depict how i am gratefull about your open Ear! You know what i mean.. That feels realy Organic. Thanks man!!

@mariapaulaperezibarguren484 3 жыл бұрын

muchas gracias por todo lo que aportas ,la musica y las enseñanzas , eres unos de mis grandes maestros del mundo virtua , gracias!!!

@WOWb13 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, this lesson help me a lot

@noelpaumier5437 3 жыл бұрын

Je te souhaite un beau Noel Oliver; merci pour ta générosité!!!!

@robinsVID30Z 3 жыл бұрын

So grateful for the time and clarity you bring to your tutorials. I teach improvisation in a democratic school in southern France...there are now a number of children enjoying improvisation and the potential of the hand-grips and ideas you share. Thankyou Oliver Prehn

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

GREAT - Thanks for the encouraging feedback!!! Warm regards from Oliver

@gulnurunluturk 3 жыл бұрын

You are the sunshine. I love you:)

@sorry11303 3 жыл бұрын

I'm starting to realize it's a certain mindset to be able to play the piano to make it way easier instead of harder 🤔

@sorry11303 3 жыл бұрын

@@bradejensen 🤔😃💎🎹💎

@knokkeldoom 3 жыл бұрын

I have used these very same lamps. They were very good and effective.

@rickhood 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for yet another great video. You are truly a gift to the music world. This whole "hand grip method" in many of your videos is wonderful. Now I need to practice. I can see memorizing the left hand chords pretty quickly, but what seems more difficult is knowing what the right hand can play quickly. As usual, I guess practice will make that more second nature. This is my holiday project -- master this one. ;-) When COVID lifts my wife and I are hoping to travel back to Copenhagen (we were there in 2018) for the Copenhagen Jazz Festival (probably 2022) and will pop over to Aarhus for a bit. Maybe we can ride your bus and say hi! ;-)

@saikatbanerjee816 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much sir 🙏

@zumasuma5489 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic lesson as always! Have you ever heard that you are a great teacher ;)

@madness5935 3 жыл бұрын

amazing.. very inspirational..

@Talentocubano 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Maestro

@solomony4339 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent 👍👍👍

@user-ps9ms5kb4b 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing!!!

@sabygeorge5615 3 жыл бұрын

I am a new comer and Sir you are the best One cannot just fast forward in your class God bless your talent

@pramodkatekar6911 2 жыл бұрын

Sir you are great .From India Thanx

@michaelnotes8707 3 жыл бұрын

Absolute genius

@AgustinCaniglia1992 3 жыл бұрын

This lesson is amazing

@AgustinCaniglia1992 3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that the last trick to locate the chords on left hand seems easier to me thinking about the bass note matchng the c altered scale. I will be practicing this a lot. Thank you

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Great!!! Whatever works best for you ;)

@MrMarcLaflamme 3 жыл бұрын

Requirements: Some piano experience, preferably level Vince Guaraldi "The less we think the better we play". This is great advice. I'm not a drummer in any sense but I've always found that I drum better if I closed my eyes.

@Superhero0405 3 жыл бұрын

All your handgrips concept can apply in guitar playing. It’s really set me free from theory cage !

@CreateArtRecords 8 ай бұрын

Hi. I am Guitar player too. I would be very interested in how you get this on Guitar. Which thoughts you have in Translating this to Guitar in practice, or some what?

@Superhero0405 8 ай бұрын

@@CreateArtRecords One of his idea are using 2 pentatonic scale to play all different modes. So, I can also play 2 pentatonic scale in guitar as major modes. It’s really an explosion to me.

@Superhero0405 8 ай бұрын

In this video, he use 2 major chord constructs a melodic miner scale, so I can also use this concept in guitar playing.

@CreateArtRecords 8 ай бұрын

@@Superhero0405 Yes, thats quite easy to transfer. What i ment is related to the Grip Voicings. On Guitar you can alway use Open Strings for Bass Pedal Notes. So you can move a easy (Upper Structure) Triads over the whole Neck to improvise. With Left-Hand Grips its a bit more advanced, cause the Intervals of whole- and half- Steps are not realy guitar friendly. Maybe only playing the Guide-Tones with the thirds and the sevenths (Tritones). What you think?

@Superhero0405 8 ай бұрын

@@CreateArtRecords I’m not good at chord-Melody playing. 😅So I will use looper to play chord n melody separately.

@O9KTV Жыл бұрын

20:30 that altered chord got me emotional instantly the tears sheesh

@vitaliykirimov7336 3 жыл бұрын

Каждое видео - это новое обворожительное открытие законов звучания для ваших поклонников .

@douchetthomas5914 Жыл бұрын

Merci !!!😎

@ubiratacosta5666 3 жыл бұрын

Hi. Good Morning. Here is from Brazil. Tanks

@werw23423 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@kusheater86 3 жыл бұрын

I’m not sure what it is exactly... your lessons just stick with me thank you for your time and talent.

@MateusBorel 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@nhaccuphuyen Жыл бұрын

Rất cảm ơn bạn ! Bổ ích vô cùng ! Chúc mọi điều tốt đẹp đến với bạn 😍

@hygri 3 жыл бұрын

You're fabulous. I'm in...

@ertansabanclar5132 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Oli....

@espr7564 3 жыл бұрын

Another awesome lesson from Oliver greetings from 🇩🇪🎷

@josefernandomosquera3267 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful train waggon

3 жыл бұрын

Love jazz

@afrotopia1546 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Oliver I enjoy your lessons and it helps a great deal. I'm starting to understand this now. Can you perhaps do some videos on all the the kind of modes example harmonic minor, harmonic major and double harmonic major scale.

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Hi and nice to hear :) In this other lesson we walk through all (well behaving) scales: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jNdiq9djqZnJY3k.html I think you'll find that lesson interesting. Best regards from Oliver

@afrotopia1546 3 жыл бұрын

@@NewJazz Hi Oliver Thank you so much this is helping a lot. I'm getting a clearer picture of the scales.

@howl262 3 жыл бұрын

Always love to watch a new video from you. So entertaining. any chance you will do negative harmony, both on melody and chord? because I want to hear someone without an "academic teaching" style explaining this. lol. I bet it will be more enjoyable.

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!!! And good idea. But I have just so many requests so I cannot promise - I hope that you understand… it takes about a month to create each lesson - when I'm about 200 years old we just may have it all, I guess… but thanks a lot for your input; "negative harmony"... I’ll have it in mind for sure :) Best regards from Oliver

@billysantana2000 3 жыл бұрын

very good! very good! God Blass you.

@medardoarce9361 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Oliver Prehn

@franciscoaragao5398 Жыл бұрын

Muito bem.

@fednercherelus5586 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to God

@stuffynev7508 3 жыл бұрын

Sir: you are putting 2 upper structure triads over a V7 rootless voicing and organizing that idea to play through 7 beautiful sets of sounds over a C bass note. You do it in a way that I can start to practice making music with these sounds right away! Please tell us: How much of this particular video in based on your original thinking, or have you learned this from others. If from others, whom? With deepest appreciation for your musicianship and your teaching, I have sent you my first donation through PayPal.

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Hi and thank you so much!!! I don't know if it's original thinking - many other musicians probably think in similar ways when improvising. But I don't have the ideas from anybody specific. Best regards from Oliver

@CreateArtRecords 8 ай бұрын

Zhat what i asked my self too. He`s Concept is mindblowing. I began to do my own thoughts with/on improvising Jazz. I dont know a other Teacher who can do that to the Students. Thats GOLD..@@NewJazz

@w.terrace5394 Жыл бұрын

The hand grip method is useful for beginners. This way we don't need to think about all the chords, modes during practices, performances. Since jazz is all about improvisations.

@CreateArtRecords 8 ай бұрын

I think its not usefull for Beginners only. Thats how music works..;)

@Mikey669 Жыл бұрын

So if the left-hand ring finger follows the aeolian major mode down, it appears as if the pinky follows the altered scale with the same positions, the index plays the Lydian dominant, and the thumb plays the actual melodic minor scale…very cool!

@CreateArtRecords 8 ай бұрын

Hi. I realy would like to understand what you discovered. But I dont first dont understand which Ring-Finger you meen. Maybe it was a mistake. And more importend, what you discovered?:)

@francescomanfredi 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Oliver this is pure genius! Do you have a similar lesson on major modes or the relative natural minor modes?

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot :) Well, in this very old and very long but still very useful (I think) lesson we use the pentatonic grips to play all the Major Modes. Far into the lesson I explain the theory ;) Cheers from Oliver kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJeSfJaVzMq8faM.html

@atomschmidt3932 Жыл бұрын

🦋

@mistahpita 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Oliver! T'is the season, and the web is overflowing with versions of the most beautiful Christmas song ever (maybe..) "Chestnuts roasting.. (The Christmas Song). I must ask, and even beg a little... How would you play it on a rainy Christmas morning? Can you show us? Please? Pretty please? With candied chestnuts on top? 😄👍🏻😘

@gorantovic1473 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Oliver! Thank you for an amazing lesson and performance! Please could you tell us which piano sound you used for this lesson? Sample library od some hardware piano sound? It sounds fantastic, resonant and natural. Thank you again! All the best!

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Hi and thanks a lot :) I use this virtual piano software from Native Instruments: www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keys/the-grandeur/

@robertpien8708 2 жыл бұрын

Oliver I'm really starting to understand this short cut it not just learning these modes but to also hear them in melodic ideas. My question does this trick work in any other key other then C . Ty for your time and great teaching

@NewJazz 2 жыл бұрын

Hi :) Yes, you can do this in any key. I just picked out the C tonality as an example :) Cheers from Oliver

@berndfachinger6000 3 жыл бұрын

Great great job! Thanks! Does printing the aeolian scale to the keys and follow them with the "trailer" middle finger to find the mode scales also work 1:1 with harmonic minor mode?

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) Unfortunately no, the harmonic minor scale belongs to a different family of modes with a different interval structure...

@charlottecavendish6481 3 жыл бұрын

Cool video; but, can I ask a question? What and how much do you practice the piano or music in general? I'm currently in a rut and I think I'm thinking too much about practicing without actually practicing due to the fact that I don't know what to practice.

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Hi and thanks :) Actually I do not practice very much - only a couple of hours every week. But often I go around tapping (being quite annoying haha) as I explain in this other vid: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eJZ3fpCFsrK9oJs.html

@ub6446 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for another wonderful lesson! From one of your previous lessons on the melodic minor modes I learned to use the thumbs as mnemonic pointers, with the left thumb position indicating where to place the right thumb. I wonder whether the method of using the left middle and right index finger is in some ways preferable? Am finding it hard to switch, but maybe it's worth it? Thanks for a hint on this!

@NewJazz Жыл бұрын

Hi and thanks a lot :) :) Both mnemonic rules work - just choose the rule you find most easy, and stick to that ;) Cheers from Oliver

@ub6446 Жыл бұрын

@@NewJazz Thanks!

@paxwallacejazz 3 жыл бұрын

Hey raise your index finger from A to B just play Ebmaj7#5 . The maj7+5 chord locates the half steps both sonically and visually.

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Yes!!! That's a lovely left hand chord!!!

@andreamolaschi5474 Жыл бұрын

Ciao Oliver can you validate this for transposing in all keys please (for those of you out there who like grids like me ;) Minor 6/9 handgrip From base key : Left pinky Right index (triad) Melodic minor b3 5-4 Dorian b2 b2 4-b3 Lydian aug 1 3-2 Lydian dom b7 2-1 Aeolian major b6 1-b7 Half dim b5 b7-b6 Altered 3 b5-b4

@NewJazz Жыл бұрын

Check, it all looks good, except the altered scale right hand index; b6-b5 (not b5-b4) Cheers from Oliver

@hideakimaeda18 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You for your great advice! I hope ,I can learn in japanease,please.

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Hi :) In the video settings you can turn on the English subtitles that I've made and then you can choose an auto translation to whatever language you like, for example Japanese - the translation will not be 100% accurate though, but I think it'll help you anyway... Best regards from Oliver

@hideakimaeda18 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to you，I solved it. I look forward to working with you,sir.

@nichttuntun3364 3 жыл бұрын

Hi. Hope you're fine and well. I wanted to ask if you could possibly do a small foundational tutorial about playing basic Funk rhythm and patterns? Would be a pleasure. Cheers

@NewJazz 3 жыл бұрын

Hi my dear friend :) Good idea. But I have just so many requests so I cannot promise - I hope that you understand… it takes about a month to create each lesson - when I'm about 200 years old we just may have it all, I guess haha… but thanks a lot for your great input; Funk Rhythm and patterns... I’ll have it in mind for sure!!! Best regards from Oliver

@nichttuntun3364 3 жыл бұрын

@@NewJazz hi Oliver. Cool and yes we need a time machine :) I can imagine how much work that is preparing a lesson, such deep as yours. Take care and hopefully have a healthy and worry free new year. Cheers