How Chords Work in Music
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2022
- To write good songs, you need to understand chords. But not just memorize chords to randomly put them together ... you have to learn the logic (theory) of harmony. And it's not hard.
There's a simple and powerful connection between chords that you can use to take your songwriting to the next level. I'll show you how.
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This has to be one of the best explanations of chord relationships (Circles of Thirds/Fifths) on the web!! Excellent Mike!! 👏🏼👏🏼 New subscriber. 😊👍🏼
I'm glad this is helpful -- and thank you for your feedback, Kishen. I'm so happy you're here. 🤘
I remember hating the circle of fifths years ago, as I found it difficult to change from relative Major to relative minor in my head. So I came up with a little "relative key signature" grid to help me remember the relative keys very easily. I should make a video about it sometime.
Right on. I'm very interested to see it -- all of these patterns are so intertwined.
Thank you Mike. This is a beautiful group of theory. It will take some study and application to understand. It'll be worth it. Timothy
Your album (or playlist) is a journey, a story! The format is the main reason why albums are still very important. When curating an album keep in mind to sequence your tracks to release and build tension, doing this will make the songs leave a more impactful listening effect. If you have a couple of songs that soft, pair that with a couple of songs that are livelier after. However, grouping similar tracks work too.
Mike, you have the most masterful way of explaining music. I just have so much joy and fun watching your videos, taking notes, and applying the info as a beginner musician.
Been trying to write a certain song. This definitely gives me hope I can finish it. Thanks, Mike!
4:50 is exactly what I’ve always thought and today I just felt like looking up “Understanding Cords” on UA-cam and you popped up. Thanks for the great explanation!
I've watched ( more like started or tried to watch) countless videos on music theory, only to be confused, overwhelmed or to just quickly forget the forgettable content, Your videos are sooo much different, interesting, and easy to understand.
I will be watching your content over and over to make sure these insightful nuggets are embedded into my music psyche.
THANK YOU!
What an amazing approach! Thank you for sharing it, this is very helpful
Excellent explanation Thankyou
incredible lessons, Mike. Thank you.
Again, very helpful! I just watched the video on color coding the circle of 5ths and applying that to the guitar keyboard and now I see you have many videos exploring tonal relationships - hooray! Your approach helps me see, understand and hear music in a deep way. Thank you!
Excellent explanation, thank you!
Thanks for helping to arm my musical mind my Master friend...I be back here thousand times.
Thank you very much Sir. This is helpful...
Truly Ace! Love every word. Even I can understand what you are saying. I wish I could apply all of this information as fast as I am receiving it. I’ll keep plugging away. So glad to have you as my top resource for all things music theory ❤️
this was WAY better than the spiral video. this one made sense! and-- im actually excited to play and figure out some chords
I remember bashing my head to understand chord relationships until I arrived to this video. Thanks a lot for this explanation! You've got a new subscriber!
Excellent content, really refreshing and the length and efficiency of the delivery is so satisfying! When the related chords were spinning around i thought of that scene in the movie contact when that genius guy found the primer, spooky high vibrational, music is definitely akin to a multi demential portal that can complete change the perfection of time and space.
Very cool. Carl Sagan is one of the all-time best!
Your videos are exceptional. ♥️♥️ so glad to find your channel. Your niche is so unique amongst other piano tutorial channels. Hoping to see a million subscribers soon.
Thank you, Aman -- I'm very glad you are here! 🤘
How was I not subscribed to you already?! Done now...
Listeners need a break in the action, otherwise they get overwhelmed. Albums used to have two sides, so artists were forced into telling a story in two, roughly 20-minute chapters (or four chapters for double albums). Today you have the ability to break your album into as many chapters as you want, and keeping them to 20 minutes or less is good practice. To create a suite or chapter, simply have the last song in that chapter fade out or include a grand finale of sorts, then include a few extra seconds of silence before beginning the next.
Smile, by Brian Wilson, is nice example of an album that is broken up into three chapters. The songs within each chapter flow directly into each other, but then there is a definite sense of closure to each suite.
great explanation!
fantastic !
Merci for this.
Great content:-) thanks
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a fan and a subscriber.
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Excellent lesson!
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Thanks! I’m glad it helps.
Excellent.
A great video
Great educational content, as always!
Thank you! Cheers. 🤘
Think of sequencing as writing a story, it would be odd if in the 1st chapter the characters are introduced, and in the next chapter, they are dead. For your listeners, it would be awkward to hear a soft song that transitions into a heavy fast-paced song. Singles are what attract your listeners, but an album is how you make them into fans. You have worked hard to create and produced every part of your story, so take the time to focus on the sequencing. Listeners will easily skip from one song to the next, you need to give your listeners a reason to stay for the whole story, and not to skip chapters.
I thought I knew this! Master teacher!
This is amazing! (I am a beginner and I've been trying to make music for a while, I just didn't understand CHORDS.. but I do have one question, I sometimes see chords like IV7 or V9 something similar to those, what are the numbers for? Is it to determine augmented chords and diminished chords?
Are you using circles as a 5ths guide and a square as a 4ths? What is the significance of your squares and circles? Thank you for all this amazing information!
Just found your channel today. Very interesting presentations (I’ve watched a number of them). In your notation, some keys are in squares while others are in circles. Just wondering about the significance of this difference.
Fascinating. For the first time I have a clue about how music theory works. How can this be adapted as a tool for jazz improvisation?
Excellent content! Just a comment: why the asymmetrical diagram for the circle of thirds? Wouldn't it be better to have a symmetrical one (circular/triangular)?
Well, even though I didn't really understand everything, I still feel like I got it, if that makes sense. xD
I mean, I could not remember your explanation, but I feel like it will help me.
To be fair, an alphabetical chord dictionary is only intended to help players at any level, trying to follow a song chord sheet to easily find and play chords they don't know yet. That's all many people want to know to play along. Writing music is when you need to know at least the diatonic chords plus the chord functions help too.
The publisher's won't mention that on the front cover of course.
Typically, track three is where albums slow down, and What’s Going On is no exception: track three is the ballad “Flying High (In the Friendly Sky).” That doesn’t mean you have to do the same. Your best track might be a ballad and that might be how your album starts off. But the key is, you want to introduce variety early on so people don’t get bored.
The Beatles (AKA the “White Album”) offers up a good example of how variety can keep things interesting. Side one careens all over the place, from hard rockers like “Back in the U.S.S.R.” to ballads (“Dear Prudence”) to whatever the hell “Wild Honey Pie” is. And even though “Wild Honey Pie” isn’t ever going to top anyone’s list of their favorite Beatles songs, the flow from “Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da” to “Wild Honey Pie” to “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill” is so weird and quirky, it works in a way that’s hard to put your finger on. It also serves to let the listener know they can expect the unexpected. (Crucially, experimental or playful songs like “Wild Honey Pie,” “Why Don’t We Do it in the Road?” et. al., don’t overstay their welcome.)
Alien Lanes by Guided By Voices and Life of Pablo by Kanye West are other master classes in sequencing, offering up similar mixes of “regular” songs and more experimental tracks.
The White Album is one of the all-time greats!
@@mikegeorge360 true.
Next video?Ok,I hope it will be about harmonic Major :D functional harmony...and modal :>
because,we can make few different chords on some degree of ionian b6 :)
so many rootles dominants we have there,but only one is diatonic...
We must investigate it :D
I'll definitely be covering more patterns and this one sounds really good. Thanks for the suggestion! 🤘
The inter-chord geometry shown at 3:28 -- where does that come from? Why have you arranged those chords with those spatial/geometric relationships? Thanks! :-)
You’re an awesome 😎 UA-cam channel.
Thanks! I appreciate your feedback. 🤟
@@mikegeorge360 np 😉 Mike.
So its "play note skip note x3" for all basic chords? I'm sure I've played pieces that have more dissonant chords so do I just have to spot if notes are out of place and take it on a case by case basis? How would I determine the name of it?
Just a heads up, I believe there is an error on B flat's circle of thirds. There should be an E flat where E has been placed, on the 4th position of B flat's circle.
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Music is such a beautiful thing. The more people who understand and create, the better! 🙏 🙌
Trying to learn songwriting, I am technically advanced on guitar, and can write instrumentals. What would you recommend to start with for traditional songwriting
Awesome -- being technically advanced gives you a big head start. Understanding harmony (chord progressions) is definitely essential. I'd recommend the videos in these playlists on the channel: "Harmony," "Modes," and "Song Structure." For more in-depth resources (videos, diagrams, etc.), the community link in the video notes includes lots of content on music theory for songwriting. Cheers!
@@mikegeorge360 Thanks a lot Mike, I would be checking these videos out. Another problem I face is, I can come up with pretty cool single note melodies, But I cant for my life figure out what chords to put underneath them
@@navneetsinghr4290 Yes, definitely. The answer has to do with how melodies and chords (harmony) are both derived from the same source patterns (scales and modes). So once you know the underlying scale or mode of your melody, certain chords naturally go with that melody. This video explains a bit more: ua-cam.com/video/L0N2SzkAKkY/v-deo.html
In your honest opinion is segue and also cross fade same or different because in my honest opinion they have a very similar definition but they are totally 💯 the same?
I think it depends on how they are used.
@@mikegeorge360 true.
At some point our brain got bored with single notes
You already lost me less than 2 minutes in. Try explaining it to me as though i were a drummer.
Chords in a given key have a relation to each other. You can choose different methods for recognizing that relation, ‘you can “see” these relationships’, especially well on a piano or keyboard - where the tones are organized linearly. A common way of looking at chords and their relationship and connectedness to one another in a given key is through the intervals of a 3rd (minor or major) - this is comparatively easiest to visualize with the key of C Major on a piano/keyboard. Another common way to look at chords and their interconnectedness with different keys is through intervals of a perfect fifth. This last method is commonly illustrated in what is known as “The Circle of Fifths” diagram. I hope this helps. Music theory is often a lot of jargon to explain and illustrate the complicated mathematical phenomena of sound. 🙏🎼🎶🌀
Lmao
@@themushroomherders drummers can’t read🙄
Huh?