I just sat through this whole vid and I don't even play piano.  The magic of Aimee...

The more I hear you the less words I can find to describe fairly the immense nature of your teaching talent.

One of the best music teachers online. I am not even a piano player, and I learn so much.

"Trial and error are going to train your ears." Amen.

THIS. I basically gave up on music when I was a kid due to the constant drilling of scales and melody.
Years later, I picked up the ukulele and have stuck with it, because the chord shapes are easy and the music is immediate!
I wish my piano teacher could have seen this video way back then!
The ukulele doesn't even care much about inversions - half or more the first position chords are inversions.  Where's the root? No care!
You can learn 3 chord shapes, and PLAY A SONG! 15 minutes tops.
I almost cried during this video, thinking about trying to learn piano way back then!  Thank you.

I could play by the ear from 10-12 yrs old but had no idea of chords. YouTube was not very prevalent then. Ff two yrs back, i am 32 now i started learning piano from a school. All i was taught was sheet music reading. I enjoyed it first but after 1 yr i told my teacher i can play by the ear but you have to help me with the chords. He said he doesn't know himself. Then through your videos i figured out matching chords. But i needed more help like when to play chords according to the beats or broken chords but my teacher had no idea. He was trinity grade 8 though. Finally i changed my teacher. She is very young, plays in bands and she is helping me play by ear. I am happy beyond words.

I have a piano student who was really bored and struggling with his traditional lessons. I was trying to get him to understand how easy it is to pick up a song by ear. I chose a song that every 10 year old boy wants to play: The piano theme from Ultimate Smash Brothers.  In the course of 3 weeks, using a white board with staff lines, we learned how to play the chord progressions and melody. Then I broke up the chords and made part of the harmony into the right hand with the melody.
Welp! Before I took this approach, I was having a difficult time getting him to practice 5 minutes a night. Now he has practically mastered the song...without a sheet. just working it out on the keyboard using his ears.

I began learning the clarinet in the 4th grade. My teacher started me in C, of course. Then turned the page and said, this is the key of G. Instead of playing a C, you play a C#. Okay.
In my 20s I was playing music in a small group. The singer couldn't hit some notes, so a guy said, let's play it in D instead. IT BLEW MY MIND. I had never understood that all these tunes and songs could just be played in a different key. My teacher never made that clear to me. What a revelation!

This is one of the most important and inspiring music lessons I’ve ever had!
Thank you so much Aimee
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Almost the first of Aimee’s teaching videos I came across years ago and still brilliant.

Aimee I wish you had been my teacher in the 70's.  I know unless you had a time machine lol.  But your teaching style is by far above and beyond anything I've known.  You are a superb teacher and you get it.  

I thought it was just me but you hit the nail on the head when you said that teachers don't teach you the 'Why,' just the 'What.'

My teacher would just say I'm stupid and not musical, I should give up and I took that on board and really believed it.  I thought or at least I hoped that teaching had changed since then but clearly it's still a global phenomena.  

Thank you Aimee once again. I've learnt more from this video than I did in years of classical training!  It would be good if you could do a video on how to change the chords up to play a better accompaniment.  As you said there are so many ways but I can only think of a couple which normally include octaves, inversions and arpeggios as well as 5ths and 6ths lol, then break the chord by playing like a stride piano.

Looking forward to the next one.

Amy, I my opinion this is your (the) best piano chord teaching video on YouTube. Thank you and keep them coming!

You are a good teacher! I’ve been playing bass for 56 years. I’m about to retire and am thinking of taking piano lessons. You are inspiring me.

By far, the best music teacher on youtube.

For me it was 70 years ago, I hated music lessons , you had to sit and be quiet, learning about crotchets, quavers and other such things that made no sense to me , Later on in life with my new found love for Music I discovered guitar books in the library " Bert Weedon "  play in a day , I bought a cheep guitar and tuning fork  but I didn't learn too play in a day , in fact it was 40 years later thanks to YouTube and basic Music theory " number system " it all made sense. I bought a piano for lock-down and with my new knowledge of guitar music theory ( it's transferable ) and Aimee Nolte via YouTube I'm flying it ( playing by ear , still no interest in crotchets.....)

As someone who really has little desire to re-learn how to read music ( not that I could that well to begin with) I think I found the right tutorials for me 👍

Playing 1-4-5 and other common chord progressions on the guitar and applying the same concept of barely moving, in this case, the left hand and playing inversions opened up  the guitar fretboard for me.  This is a lovely lesson and as a new subscriber I look forward to more. Thank you!

Aimee, I’ve visited frequently to watch your channel without interacting , but this time I had to comment. You’ve laid out, and rather succinctly, the path to understanding composition and improvisation.
I had the split experience of classical training (at the piano), that built my dexterity but failed to connect the dots, while also digesting as much current popular music (in my case The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and The Rolling Stones via purchases of 45’s) as possible. For me, these worlds were not truly connected until Jazz Band in the 8th grade. That’s when I changed teachers and the door to theory was opened wide, demystifying everything.

The way that you touched on the paradigm of learning classical works without the benefit, even at a fundamental level, of understanding the underlying chords is inspired.
This would exponentially change the advancement of any young student.

Bravo.

This video wasn't exactly what I expected and yet it's what I needed.  It's a visceral approach. Makes me feel music rather than merely memorize a whole bunch of technical stuff.

Honestly, this exposes the biggest lack in classical training.  I had literally NONE of this.  None.  It was actively disdained -- the very means by which the composers wrote all that stuff we love.  :-(  I learned some of this while learning piano because you can't avoid it, but it wasn't ever explained.