This is the most understandable treatment of what makes jazz 'jazzy' I have ever seen. None of my guitar teachers (30 years worth) have even come close to what I have learned in this one short video!
I'm a jazz drummer who is learning jazz piano. I had a total breakthrough watching this. The idea of a 2-5-1 progression made sense, but the idea of using it to land on a chord that *isn't the tonic chord* blew my mind. thanks a ton
This is the video I've been looking for ever since I started learning how to play jazzier music. I've always wanted to learn how to reharmonise existing songs, but I felt so limited. This is the fastest and first time I've liked, subscribed, AND commented on a channel after listening to half the video. Time to continue this well-crafted video!
Best damn jazz theory and practical explanation on YT. Been looking for this for decades. You've ended my misery!! And apparently thousands of others! Subscribed.
brilliant exposition. I may be in a minority here but I am most in favour of level 2 - it references jazz feel without losing the simplicity faithful to the original song.
Felt like finally found a comprehensive entry door into the mysteries of jazz arrangements. It took so long to finally find someone who could demistify it like you did. The different tiers of complexity is an excellent way to improve bit by bit. Jats off and a big thank you!
This was brilliant. You picked a nice simple example that nearly everyone can relate. I like how you gradually took it to the complex version. I was playing along in piano and it's given me some great concepts to incorporate into other songs I play. I look forward to doing the same on guitar as well. Thanks again!
i'm playing guitar around 25 years, and i don't have specific teacher..i'm just playing rock song, metal song, simple blues song..and i always want to play jazz (or sound just little like jazz..) now i can understand a bit how chord moving from C major7 to C7 etc.. best tutorial sir.. my request sir, can you make again tutorial video for next song.. a simple song may be happy birthday, jingle bell..and any simple song key minor too.. and next level tutorial metallica, nirvana, beatles etc.. level 1 2 3 4.. thank you
This video is absolutely packed with so many helpful tips to make things jazzy. I've been trying to unlock the secrets of jazz and this video was incredibly amazing.
just added the ladybird turnaround to the ending of one of my songs. this is so smooth. I am not a jazz musician, but the concept of tritone substitutions is great. this video is great for anybody wanting to get closer to the jazz feeling. thank you for this great video.
Bro I’ve been looking at some of your videos, and now looking at jazz videos for about a year now… this, like other people have been saying, is so crucial to my understand of fairly basic jazz harmony, to make things spicy and interesting. Finally a video which actually shows me how to use 2-5-1s and back door dominants and tritone substitutions which actually add to the complexity of the piece! Love it bro thanks so much 🎉
Great lesson. Charlie Parker did this with Blues and swing tunes like Indiana. But this really helps to break it down and see how he did it. I'm going to have some fun with this.
Very nice, very very nice! I have been using Chuck Marhonic's book "How to Create Jazz Chord Progressions." It's a great book, but the way you explained & demo'd it in real time is super helpful.
Brent, that is a brilliant lesson! You've successfully condensed pretty much all of jazz theory into 17 minutes! Many thanks - I will certainly watch this a few more times!
It kills me that RU-vid algorithms only NOW suggest your video after everything I've been watching for years! (Guthrie Trapp, Tom Bukovac, Jack Ruch, Rick Beato, Chris Parks, etc.). I have a lot of homework to catch up on!! Can't thank you enough!! Liked. Subscribed. Thankful!! 🙏
OK, I got it now, I was trying to understand in Level 2 how the ii and V (Gmin7 and C7) related to Cmaj7 as they weren't ii and V, until I realized that the ii and V, are the ii and V for the Fmaj7 Chord coming AFTER them. NOW I get it. Same with the Dmin7 and G7 for the Cmaj7 that comes AFTER those two chords. Now I can wait to try this out on a bunch of simple songs and then move on to level 3
Bro, you are a special teacher. Not everyone can example Jazz the way you do- seriously easy to grasp. Although when I get my pen and sheets ready, my mind goes... uh what again? haha. But all my 251 practice will pay off now, thanks!! new sub!
Hi Brent. This lesson was great. I've seen many other youtubers doing videos on the same topic but found their explanations confusing. This was well paced and easy to follow. Excited to apply these reharms to more tunes. Thanks.
hahaha lord help anyone that doesn't fully understand these concepts already! But for me who knows all this, but just needed a refresher (been teaching a lot of beginners until recently) this video is so dense and chalk-full of concepts that are great to introduce to intermediate students!
From a practical point of view, this is the best video about this topic I've seen so far. I've seen videos going deeper into the topic, even weirder jazz practices, but I could hardly applied those tips, explanations.
It’s interesting how I’ve used these techniques sometimes while playing the guitar but never knew it. Now I can be intentional about when and how I use it!
Love the setup of this video. Been playing piano and jazz standards for a while though moving beyond the 2-5-1 paradigm in very understandable terms is really adding massive value, so 🎉thx for that, and off course will follow the channel
Thanks for the lesson. I learned these ideas years ago from the Mickey Baker Jazz Guitar book & I use them all the time, especially with Elvis Costello tunes which almost beg for Jazz harmony when played on Acoustic. I've pretty much forgotten the actual theory behind it, so I just rely on my ear. Sometimes a 7th sounds too rich and I'll play a 6th or substitute a different triad out of the chord scale. You can get some pretty remarkable reharmonizations that way for Bob Dylan tunes or Joni Mitchel. Appreciate the clear exposition.
It's great that I could follow this lesson even though I only have a simple understanding of chord formation and intervals. Really good stuff! I'm excited to experiment with stuff like this!
This was so insightful for me! I'm not even a guitarist, but the way you visually lay everything out made it super easy to follow the discussion. Bravo!!
Very nice. I play piano, and picked up two new ideas from this, one being Am Abm Gm (I may have tried Ab dim there, or Ab dom7, depending on the melody, I wouldn’t have thought of Abm) the other being F# dim Cmaj7/G G#dim Am, where I’d have used a Gmaj 6 (if the melody note worked), but really I more likely would have done Eb dim to Em instead of the F# dim to C/G, staring with Dm instead of F, which I’ve done a lot. I thought of F to F# dim to G, but didn’t know what to do with the G chord, not really being sold on G Maj 6, so very cool to have an alternative. An advantage to your way is being able to continue the chromatic walk up to Am, where I just go up the circle of fifths from Em to Am. The way you walked that up was very cool. Looking forward to checking out some others of your videos.
Loved the video, very interesting! I understood it until Midway through level 4 and then it got too much ha. You make those tricky chord shapes look easy.
I'm not a jazz guy, but I like to learn about the harmony to help with composition in other genres. I followed you right up until the tritone substitutions, then you lost me. Great lesson anyway
The 3 and the b7 of the dominant chord form a tritone interval. If you play a dominant chord a tritone away the 3 and the b7 switch places for the substitution.
Congratulations. This is the first time anything jazz related has ever made any sense to me 😁. It's funny, at first I was happy with the basic tune, but now hanging on that C chord for days does seem a really dull way to spend your time. It's like suddenly I at least understand a little bit about why jazzers do what they do.
I learnt so much. Thank you a thousand time. I watched a lot of reharmonization videos and this one is by far the best. thank you so much !! Cheers from France !
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and skill on this jazzification of an old Americana classic. It totally sounds great at the end, but if I were to choose one of the levels I prefer, I would have to say level 3. Why? Mmmm I think it may be due to how my concept of the song is based on it being vocal led rather than instrument led. Of course you can do the melody however you want depending on how you want to play it. It's just a preference. Great work and explanation! An excellent lesson.
Maybe it’s me but this way of, (trying to understand a standard) chord use in a song seems easier to understand. Thank you Brent. Hope you get what I am trying to say.
Thank you for your video. I am a totally beginner (level 2) and I feel this video is super helpful. I learned some terminologies in jazz but never know how to apply them, the level 3 and 4 parts of the video opened the door for me. ❤
Take a shot every time he says "redundant" lol. Jokes aside, this was awesome! It always surprises me how things that seem like they wouldn't work somehow sound great.
I have asked teachers to do a lesson like this, walking through the process. They would say "no." I suppose they could not do it and just cribbed things from some other source. This is great! Maybe another lesson with even more detail about the thought process would be helpful, too. Thank you in any event.
