The Easiest Passing Chord Trick 

Hello Simon, every time I try to get the backing track on your website, I never receive the email. On every video. Ofc I checked the spams and I use the right adress 😊 Any idea ? Thanks for what you bring/give us ! Edit : my bad, I just received the email :) I’m gonna try again with the older videos (it happened 2 weeks ago)

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hey. you made a joke saying we can steal your progressions. 🤣 it's funny because you clearly stole the style you're teaching

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ahha yea effectively this isnt beginner stuff xD, plus they have a super cool sound

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Haha thanks, Col! No just had a little break, but I'm back now with the weekly videos 🙂

I almost get this.. but not quite. Can you explain a bit more? Sorry!

@@zachr9544 Sure, let's put it in context to a C major 2-5-1, which would be Dm, G7 and C. Now, the tritone of G is C#. So, if we substitute the G7 with a C#7 we get Dm, C#7, C. You see, going down in halfsteps from D to C really is a "tritone substituted" 2-5-1.

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I'm not, I'm using a VST called 'Neo-Soul Keys Studio 2' 🙂

@@Piano_Pig definitely putting that one on my list😳

I would just call it a half step above or below the targeted chord. *Just to keep from getting confused.*

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The same concept applies! Whichever chord you you want to land on, just take it up a half-step and use this as the passing chord to get there!

@@Piano_Pig thank you very much for your response, I’m always looking to take a half step up in life every now and then :-)

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Yes, any chord!

@@Piano_Pig thanks Simon

I'm just adding extensions to the chords, still the same chords

@@Piano_Pig okay. I think I got it. Is it just like something thats just known? Like a common sense thing?

Ping me an email man! My calendar got all messed up the other day and I missed a couple 🥴

@@Piano_Pig sent you an email from my personal email. i really want to have that meeting :)

Thanks!

It can be several things so please bare with me lol A lot of the times the simple choice is the V of your target chord, so if you want to land on C Maj7 for example, you lead into it with a G7. Simple enough. Or You can also use 7th chords a half step above or below the target as well, so in this case, a Db/C#7 or a B7 would work as well. It could also the same chord a half step below, a B Maj7. A half step above, a Db/C# Maj7. You can use diminished chords to lead into chords as well, in context of the C Maj 7 chord it would be a B Half Diminished 7. A B diminished 7 however would lead into a C Min 7 smoother than it would into the C major. There are Suspended chords too, however, I’m not as keen on using those, and there’s also just going chromatic and using ANY chord you please if you’re not trying to adhere to theory too much. I know that was a lot but I taught myself a lot of this stuff, these videos helped a LOT as well, so I thought I’d share the knowledge I have currently I hope that helps and wasn’t too confusing. I apologize if it was💀

Uh oh!! I better look for it 😉