I would like to share this exercise it illustrates a harmonic framework on which to start learning, understanding and assimilating non diatonic notes. PDF here: jazzduets.com/... Support Jazzduets here: / jazzduets www.jazzduets.com
You are my new internet hero! Each one of your videos is so carefully crafted and lovingly explained; please continue making these truly inspiring and insightful videos!
A motorcycle accident on October 3rd severely injured my wrist. Your pleasant videos have given me new romance with non-diatonic notes, along with fresh thinking on approaching them. You have helped me maintain my sanity as I convalesce. Thank you!
The most useful and technically created video on harmony. You are top-notch. Love the little piano demonstration better. I cant read the staff but i understand what is being taught
I loved the task at the end, even though I had some trouble with the Eb. had to change it to a D# to make a B7. the only way I could harmonize it with the Eb was doing Fm, G, Cm6, C7, F, D7, G, C. sounded nice but looks kinda weird. A cadence in C minor then one in C major.
That's weird, I came to same conclusion intuitively (but without your eloquence and concise explanation) when I was mucking around with harmonizing the major scale the other day. Those particular three notes seemed to crop up constantly. I noticed that many jazz standards have chords based on those very alterations. Also, I noticed in a lot of jazz charts subsitute the IVm for the bIV7, and i started to muck around with that too. And then a lot of the beautiful lines I have heard by jazz musicians sunk in..that's what they were doing! That's pedal progression is gorgeous! Your channel is wonderful, by the way! I also arrived at the "play a chord tone over a chord and perceive its unique quality" lesson myself...but you put it into words, into a real pedagogical tool! Now I feel validated on my jazz journey and can spread the knowledge to others - spread the jazz message. Thank you so much!
awesome Brother!!!!!!!! thanks to your careful guidance an instruction... and pics.... I finally understand whats going on between a Major I chromatically descending to an VI major (or VI7) Love your approach!!!!! Ill keep tuning in !!!!!!! seriously!!!!!!!!
this is a way to explain the so called bebop scales, infact the maj bebop has the b6 between 5 -6 while the dominant has the nat. 7 btw b7 and T (if u think of subdominant is the nat 3rd),,i was in a clinic with Barry Harris and he is something quite similar to what you re saying here.Great stuff, i m working on it since sometimes, and besides harmony and melody there s some rhythm develop,,because you deal with scales with 8 note, that , if you think in eighths notes fill perfectly to the bar.
Thanks a lot for this video and the assignment! I would harmonize it as C-G-B7-em-dm-D9(rootless)-G(7)-C. The E vs F# bit is obviously the tricky bit. Are there any other possibilities besides D9? (I tried F#7, but that seems incompatible with anything using G-D in the next chord)
This is awesome!!! I'm looking forward to the next installment. I'd also love to hear what you have to say about voicing chords. I try at the piano but I can never get the sonorities that you come up with in these videos on the harmonization sections.
Hi! I am very like stuff, that you are making! This is your invaluable experience! And this video was very helpful for me. Thank You! I have a question: Can you make a video about hearing. Especially about absolute pitch. Is it necessary and helpful for jazz improvisation?
Is correct to call the C7 a secondary dominant too as it's the 5 of F? Or is it only referred to as a secondary dominant when approaching another 7 chord?
That may be but the teacher starts on C and move Clockwise, which c-f is a fourth and so on. If he is moving that way should it be called a circle of fourths?
In Nick's diagram, often the way Jazz musician's view the circle, counterclockwise is in ascending 5ths, and clockwise is ascending 4ths. If the circle is depicted with "F" just left of "C", then clockwise is ascending 5ths. Either way, I remember the sequence with mnemonic: "Fat Cats Going Down Alleys Eating Birds". The fourths direction is: "BEAD with a G".
