10 Chords Pianists MUST recognize BY EAR 

Idol worship! If you are more concerned with the piano player performing ridiculous runs thats because you are not focused on the prayer. You want to be entertained...idol worship. Check your frequencies..

I've been a guitar player, largely rock and pop, for 20 years. Self taught, and most of my playing and understanding of music has been intuitive. It's gotten me far enough in my respective genres, of course, but I hit a wall a few years back. My new year's resolution this year was to learn the piano and to deep dive into theory. Your channel has been a godsend in this regard-truly feels like a masterclass. Just wanted to offer my sincere thanks, as I've been a viewer and fan for months.

Even the first chord alone sent me down a practice rabbit hole that turned into a songwriting session. Thanks for everything Sean youre incredible as always

One of the most profitable piano sessions I have ever watched

in all my years of playing, i've never thought of listening to music like this. so, interesting!!!!! this is a revelation.

I use the feeling and emotion I get from the opening chords of Round Midnight, a song I've enjoyed countless times, to help me identify half-diminished chords.

This is indeed a large step for my raising up my hearing chord Qualities. I truly appreciate this lesson, thank you so much...✔️😌🌟

Doc, this is perhaps one of your best videos yet. I have to learn a lot of songs for concerts, church services, etc. on a regular basis and I no longer have as much time to practice (I am not a full-time musician, currently doing doctoral studies, self employed, a Church Elder, a father and a husband). However, I can hear those triad qualities in chords (most of the times) after playing for almost 3 decades. So it helps to shorten prep time. I am by no means as efficient technically as I should be at this stage, but the ear is so important! Knowing theory and why certain chords make sense (even when they don't seem to at a casual glance) is also vital.

My favorite altered dominant chords is the 7b9 and 713 i find they work in most situations

So excited for this!

God bless, Sean!

Quality insight top to bottom Much gratitude

This is the best I've seen so clearly explained! This video is a real godsend. Thank you so much!!!

Thanks Sean......i definitely needed this. I've made so much progress just from the tips and insight that you provide.

Brilliant video. Need to rewatch a few times...

Sean you are the best teacher!

I am a guitar and keys player. But I am a novice keys player. However I love gospel and jazz chord patterns especially in worship. I keep going back and back to your video because its so good for showing the relationships and how to hear and build them.

Thank you so much for your deep quality, patient calm clear teaching. First viewing, but multi aspected new understandings.

Sean u helped me organize my practice routine keeping me sounding current with a modern sound the channel is fire also your ear & skill set are pushing me to get better thnx for what u do much respect for helping other musicians thnx bro!!🎹🔥

You're such a blessing man... God bless you

Hi Sean I just watched your video on “A Quiet Place” from Take Six. I am supposed to run some errands but here I am absorbing all this education. As a Baptized Believer and musician this will definitely take my musicianship to a new level. I have a home studio and I am excited . Thank you so much. God bless you always.

This is really amazing...thx sir for your contribution for me I don't take it for granted..and ths one is going to take me to another level

I wanna thank RU-vid for recommending your channel to my feeds and man a lot has changed in the way I play! Video after video of your tutorials opens a lot of understanding on how to approach "this" and "that". Thank you Sean for sharing your knowledge and helping musicians like myself. You are a blessing to all of us. I did a video covering Michael Jackson and applied the theories that I learned from you. Keep on shining Sean! Soon you will reach the 100k subs club! Congratulations in advance!

Your incredible! Thank you for this !

This is another great video! As I’ve said so many times, I’ve been using a good amount of these chords over the years, but never knew the theory behind it. I absolutely agree that these are essential chords if one is going to play gospel music. Thanks again!

17:52 really makes sense! So all the triads you are picking to play over the dominant chord are built off of the melodic minor scale with a root a half step above the root of the dominant chord! cool! So helpful!

Great lessons!!

Sean, this is absolute gold!

thank you Mr Sean u such a blessing to many

Simply GREAT Teacher...PERIOD

THIS VIDEO IS A GODSEND!!! gonna be coming back to it for months Sean! Thank you🙏🏾

Amazing video Sean! Love it! ❤️

Awesome tutorial. I love all these chords, ESPECIALLY #11, my ear loves this sound more than anything, especially with the 7 in the bass, a favorite of Oscar Petersen too. Moreover, I hear "I Believe I can fly" during your demonstration of the "spread chords" ...right during the "If I just spread my wings...." part. Thanks a milli

Fantastic video Sir

Very nice video thanks dude ..

Sean, one of your BEST videos ever!

Holy Cow - I needed this video so badly and I didn't even know it. Thank you!!

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Thanks!

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Can’t believe how good you are 🤦🏻…thank you for your God blessed teachings ✨

Wow Wow Wow I’ll gotta preach folks….. If you ever paid your tithes faithfuly, you’ll know that you need to bless bro Sean. If you have been blessed by these lessons and you are not on website, just for this one lesson dripping with pure gold bro Sean deserves some love…. Just think about it. Back in the day, or even now you could pay hundreds of bucks for private lessons and never get half of this stuff. I know for myself, that at some point I want to sow into bro Seans life. Even though right now I don’t even have time to get deep into this. God bless. Amen :)

Thank you so much men!

Thanks for sharing, great teaching!

Major, minor, dominant 7th, sustained 4ths,Major add 2 or 9, Maj7th, minor7th, Maj9th, dom 9th, minor 9th, sharpened 9th, open shell 13ths, Major 13ths are foundations of literally all gospel songs

older ex Berklee student, reviving his skills.. and enjoying your lessons and amazing skill levels... Bruno is an alias..

Thank you!!

Thank you so much sir 💗

Amazing bro thanks 🙏

More grace sir

Plz many of us don't have the money to follow your website pls keep it going for us

9:06 to 9:19 that was some beautiful voicings wow

thank you for this

This video 🔥🔥🔥

Yeah, I Remember On The First One (Cory Henry) Sean Wilson Also Was Impressed With The Vocalist Tambour . Thanks Sean Wilson 4 Doing What "GOD" Created U 2 Do. To Help Musicians Praise GOD through Your GOD GIVEN EAR.🔥 INSTRUCTOR SUPREME 🤔.

love this! thank you.

Outstanding

LETS GO!

I've never been to church where gospel like this is played, and I love this music whenever I hear it. Have any recommendations for artists to check out? I know Corey Henry of course, but would love to find more!

As a drummer. I'll just learn the piano with you while I wait to play the song you're learning.

This is fantastic! I actually have perfect pitch and have been working on strengthening my relative pitch. It's been a great help for me having both, as I work to develop relative...BUT, it is like you mentioned--the harmonic vocabulary I've built up makes certain things recognizable right away even before I can tell someone the notes. Thanks for sharing this!

13 no 5 is also heard well on brian mcknight and his brothers singing "undiscovered live"

Something that is interesting is if you pick these chords apart a bit it almost seems like its just different ways of superimposing two dominant function things on top of each other. Like the dominant flat 5 sound specifically. It's like you are doing a tritone sub and a non-tritone sub at the same time.

Good lookin out sean....love yo vids bro

Gold

Sean excellent video! Definitely have some things to solidify. For the exercise you did with hearing the 4 types of chords, I surprisingly did very well. But for a different reason. For me, I can identify chords based on how I think they would resolve. I am not sure if this is they same thing as what you are recommending though. I have friends that can easily hear a major/minor chord on top of any note. I can't do that but I know when a half diminished is played because I can here where I think it would resolve. Same with minor 7, dominants and major 7 and other chords. I have experimented with different resolutions as well, so even if its not going where we would typically expect, sometimes I can tell. But I feel this has me stuck because when there are other resolutions I am unfamiliar with an often get lost. Especially where there is a lot of movement. Any advice, besides re-wiring my brain to think of chords differently. If not then, I will start pulling plugs asap 😂

Dig it. Really to the point. Algorithm love for you.

haha you sure know how to order the topics if you put the 9th first I wouldn't have watched the rest 😂 glad to learn something in a different way!! thx for sharing 🎉🎉🎉

I think I’ll use to video to hone my ear, play blindfolded and see if I can play what I hear

Make a video on common gospel licks

Great stuff. Does the 13 no5 voicing work better in certain inversions? Don’t think any of the examples were in root position, but maybe in drop 2 voicings.

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Thank you for this amazing lesson. Which software you are using to show the chord names in real time? Best regards from Brazil!

mans is a great communicator.

28:49 just to clarify, Sean. Tritone is not a chord, it is a relationship between chord which is correctly referred to as “tritone substitution”. So for example, dominant chords have a tritone sub relationship ( most widely used). Some people use major 7 chords etc.

Do you have a list of all of the gospel songs you reference here?

How do you really retain this if your not gigging or using it on a regular basis? Very informative of good information but definitely overwhelming 🙏🏽

Hi Sean, what is the virtual keyboard used here?

9:05 oh come on now!

What software are you using to share your screen with the audience like you’re showing your keyboard and everything you’re doing? Hi are you at liberty to share that ?

What software is that instantly transcribing the chords?

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Can you teach in C#?

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The relative pitch illustration is so troll but true 🤣

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Is there a 11sus chord?

Barry Harris did nog believe in half diminished!!! To him it was a Cm with an A in the bass!!!!

Those 9 chords are a lot of Bill Evans chords.

How come the Eb 7 (13no5) chord is named from the top note of the chord instead of the bottom? Db-G-C-Eb - wouldn't that be a Db Maj7b5 Add 9 🤔 .. #SendHelp

Sean is mr rogers re incarnated

My left hand simply doesn't stretch 10 :|

I've said this before: If Sean so easily hears what the "Masters" are doing, what title do we give Sean? 🤣

Oh man, so many doors that I didn‘t open….

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«Gospel chords», now there’s a phrase I’ve never heard in all of my years as a professional musician.. Gospel chords.. lol.

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Idol Worship?🤔. JUDGE YE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED. Definitely NOT Idol Worship, But Praising GOD BEAUTIFULLY 🔥🙏🎶.😏.