Knowing something may be a talent or the result of hard work but knowing how to teach something to grasp the attention of the audience and make it understand is a blessing, and always a pleasure to watch.
That's a clean and clear explanation on transiting between chords and making it colorful. Will be great if we have more levels on this with respect to the passing chords and special chords. Great Work Buddy
i mean if the root note is black note, how could you represent it in Romanian scale? Like, all the white notes are numbered from 1 to 7. What about the black notes? @@Persun_McPersonson
This is a good conversation! Please be aware that the merits of this conversation COULD be lost on beginners and those who are less experienced...which seems to be his target audience. Just an observation. 🙏🏾
This was more helpful for me than I expected! I already understood the concepts, but gained some deeper understanding of some aspects. Thank you, Musora and David for joining forces in this collaboration! I really have benefited from the two videos I've watched so far!
This video was extremely helpful to me. Thank you for presenting the content in such a clear (and beautifully played!) way, and never getting unnecessarily complicated. What though-provoking ideas I will now go apply to things I have been playing for years. Many, many thanks.
Big up the big DBP 🧑 🎹 always great to see David guesting on other channels! Love this emphasis on the harmonic ways to make your 1 5 6 4 unique, but don't forget rhythmic changes too! One chord per bar will sound wildly different to one chord per beat, will sound different to playing with triplets or a different time signature etc.
Level 6, add E7 instead of G# diminished. Nothing more, nothing less, just a fancy secondary dominant. Level 7, do the same, but put G# in the bass, so E7/G# to Am. Level 8, add the note D to the first C chord to get Cadd9, add the note A insted of B in your right hand as you play the G/B chord to get Gadd9/B then E7/G# to Am11(add D to your Am7) to finally end up on F6/G (add D to your F major chord) I could go on and on...
David is as always. Informative, quiet and very easy to follow or understand. Well the pause button does help yea, but music theory itself is amazing. Mr. Bennett just helps to get it onto everybody. Great video.
This man is a genius compared to me and an amazing teacher! That said, at 13:13, F C F G A might be better labeled as Fadd9 because it has a major 3rd (the A) kept from the Am7. Still, I learned so much from this video.
Is there some kind of logic as to why you added the G# dim chord. It's not in the key of C, it seems so random. Could you just add other diminished chords as well? Guess I'll have to try out
In another Asian piano tutorial video, the author referred those derived chords as "Invincible chords", where you can mix and match all those sus2, sus4, maj7, add9, and add11 into the basic chord progression. While you can also extend the 4 chord progression into 6 or 7 progression, and that Asian tutorial referral the chords as: From Home, going to work, going to lunch, going back to work, going back home, and then home. So the emotional response elicited might have been because it is lunch time where we are getting food satisfaction.
Would the inverted F sus2 shown actually be an inverted F add9 since you're leaving A in the chord? I really don't know and not trying to challenge you. You're an excellent teacher.
Yes, you are correct. Fsus2 means "no A," and Fadd9 means "keep the A." I also see it as Fadd2, which makes more sense if the "G" is in the middle of the chord somewhere.
You are very special. Your style of teaching is so simple, yet very effective. You could easily make this so much more complicated, but you explain it so elequently, that complex concepts actually make sense. One off humble genius😊
I disagree. I was screaming at the screen for the guy to finish the progression at every level. I found it very frustrating that he didn't complete the progression at first, let everyone hear it a few times, and then talk about it. To play only bits before giving a lecture, drove me nuts and I wasn't able to concentrate.
This is a very good explanation of chord progressions and the logic in choosing the right inversion of chords to create a smoother and more harmonic music. The reason it sounds better than just playing the basic chords is due to the vertical and horizontal relationship between the different notes. This is called contrapunct, or counterpoint (point vs point). When you're playing the bass note and add 3 more notes using your right hand, think of it as a choir consisting of 4 singers: bass, tenor, alto and soprano. If you look at it like that, every singer has a unique melody and together they form chords. When you use the right inversions and don't jump from one basic chord to another you actually create a more balanced melody for each singer 😎 If you want to learn more, I suggest you buy the Bach Chorale book which is the holy grail of western harmony and advance from there. 😀
I love to play around with the 1-4-5 chord progression. This man is basically telling you guys how to improvise and make something beautifully designed out of something simple. This is cool to see the explanations for the things I already do 😮
"This man is basically telling you guys how to improvise and make something beautifully designed out of something simple" I wasn't sure about the purpose of the video. Thanks a lot for the explanation.
Best music teachers on YT: David Bennett - Piano and theory. Ian Stitch - Guitar and soloing. I have no relationship to either one of them, either financial or otherwise. They are both just really, really good teachers.
Indeed. Shows the power of a bassist to influence the entire harmonic direction of a song. For good when tastefully done, terrible when we screw up since we take the whole ensemble with us lol
This was really educational. I'm going to try to incoporate this into my daily jam sessions. I hope my family notices the improvement in sound. Explaining the suspense, and relief was such a brilliant way of putting it. Thank you young man.
Hey brother, this is actually really helpful and well-explained. Also didn’t add too much salesy stuff is nice. Clear examples, not jumping instantly to complicated chords, etc. Great job!
