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.
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.
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. 😀
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.
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.
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!
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. 🙏🏾
I've seen a lot of videos on music theory and this makes a lot of what I've heard and seen over the years fall into place so to speak. Thanks a lot for this.
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
I have played a lot of Flash games in me younger days, and Red Ball 2 had a particular track that used this chord progression. Turns out it's called "It's Reggae You Know" and I just love it.
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
Had just watched a video where tension was mentioned. Was kinda lost, thinking "Here comes another thing I never got to learn, and now, I've got to go figure out what it means and how to apply it😢". Buh with this video, I've gotten a huge leap...lemme not even talk about how I've been using inversions for convenience not knowing any principle behind it, only for this video to clear things up. Man, as a self-taught pianist this video is priceless. Just saved me months of trial and error... Thanks David......Thanks Pianote.
This arrangement of chords is what jumpstarted my piano playing journey. I still can’t read notes very well, but I can play whatever I hear very quickly if I can just figure out the chord arrangement.
David, I love your stuff and have already learned a lot from you. It was a great surprise to see that you8 are one of the Pianote instructors! I have been with Drumeo for 3 yrs and since they combined Drumeo, Guirareo, Singio and Pianote all thogether, I have access to Pianote so I will be checking our your courses. This lesson is great, showing how to take the same chords and by small tweaks, spicing them up and actually changing to whole flavor and feel. Thanks David for another great video.
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.
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...
6:26 "It's now an A Minor 7, the G is the seven" Since it doesn't get fully explained here, this extra clarification might help any beginners reading these comments. It's called a seven because that G adds a seventh note, counting up from the root of the chord. Remember that the A is only up there because the chord is inverted, so: A is the first of the chord, C is the third (skipping the D, or second, between them). Then E is the fifth of the chord, making G the seventh. The terminology of 'first,' 'fifth', etc. can apply to both the notes in a chord and the notes of the overall scale itself, depending on the context.
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!
Man i m trying to play my old organ time to time for ages. I watch some videos on youtube and try to play them. But i found out that i have not passion for this because it comes for me as imitating something with nonsense. I ve watched your video and understood the logic behind the notes and playing piano. Just a month passed after seen your video and i made a real progress on playing piano. Thank you very very much
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.
After this video, I understood so much more of what I was hearing in songs! Realizing now a lot of the passing chords that I didn't understand are just flavors for the same simple chord progression!! You are a great teacher, thank you for making it so clear and simple!
Guitarist here! Love David's work - so clear. For a I V vi IV, i love an inverted pedal but using the leading note, so we'd get: Cmaj7 - G - Am9 - Fmaj7add#11 (maybe resolving to F 😉)
One option not mentioned of moving from vi to IV is simply holding the vi (Am) chord in the right hand and adding an F in the bass, creating an FMaj7 chord. In fact, the top E could be held throughout the progression, giving C G6 Am FMaj7.....
Excellent video 😊. Thank you very much David. Clear and unambiguous. Just watched a competitors video who skipped all the different parts ancillary things like inversions and rhythm which left me really confused.
It's implied that it's V7/vi, but he doesn't actually play the E in the voicing. So I guess you would call it viiº/vi. But essentially functions the same as the V7, even sharing 3 of the same notes - similar to a tritone sub!
@@ethanbehr723 My two cents worth: When David played the approach chord, I heard it as an E7 chord for sure, over the G# bass note, even though he didn't play an E note. How did you hear it? Try this: Play the progression David did for yourself, but add the "missing" E note into the chord-I think you'll find that it sounds exactly the same, there's no harmonic surprise whatsoever. This means, the moment your ear heard David play the passing chord, your mind "heard" it as a V7/vi resolving to the vi minor (as @ericdicken rightly pointed out). Not convinced? Then try playing David's passing G# diminished triad as a four-part "diminished 7" chord adding the F note, and you'll notice it's a pretty jarring sound, not what you were really expecting when David played it. This little exercise proves that what David played, functions to the human ear more as a dominant approach chord, than a passing diminished chord. Just my two cents worth. (Remember, if you played a diminished triad in broken arpeggios up and down the keyboard, you naturally add the fourth note. That's because to the human ear, a diminished triad functions just like a diminished 7 chord, whether played as a three part triad, or a four-part chord.)
The inverted pedal point immediately brought to mind the Johnny Cash version of The Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt"... the G note rings out over the vi-IV-I-V (Am-F-C-G) in the chorus creating much the effect shown here albeit with the progression rearranged.
Prefer to read? Get a summary of this lesson on our blog >> www.pianote.com/blog/5-levels-of-1564-chord-progression/
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so good
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.
It's understandable
the collab I didn't know I needed
😄🙌
Seriously, this is the compendium of chord composing techniques! Thanks David for making this a free tutorial! Appreciate it!
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.
i want to help you but UA-cam does not allow me to
Hey, It's David! This man is a brilliant enthusiast and analyst of musical theory. Great talent score!
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. 😀
Voice Leading
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.
thats just who was recommended to you
kinda sus to mention that you dont have something going on with them! I dont buy it fully 😂❤
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😊
Couldn't agree more ❤
Thanks, Mommie
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.
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!
The “Let it be” progression.
Great video! The chord he played at 13:14 is an Fadd9 since he is also playing the 3rd of the chord
Why not an add2? Its played at the 2nd and not thé 9th, technicly..
@@gregoirebertho They're basically the same thing, but technically with chord extensions like this it's called the ninth :)
It's just a tradition to call it add9, keeping in mind, that european chords are made with triads (1-3-5-7-9)@@gregoirebertho
Yes but if we say sus2 and not add2, normally it means the third is not played so their is not this tension made by having the major 2nd and the 3rd
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. 🙏🏾
Great lesson !!!!! thank you ❤❤❤
You are so welcome!
Thousands of videos trying to explain it, that's the only one that worked for me. Thanks a lot.
Very helpful video! Thank you!
David is the best. Nice to see him here.
I've seen a lot of videos on music theory and this makes a lot of what I've heard and seen over the years fall into place so to speak. Thanks a lot for this.
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
How do you write C# or Bb in Romanian scale?
@@diarbeatz
What exactly are you asking?
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
@@diarbeatzit’s the same for the black notes. It’s all about the scale you’re playing in, which will determine the note numbers.
The pedal tone was very pleasant surprise, and love the sound of the diminished
I have played a lot of Flash games in me younger days, and Red Ball 2 had a particular track that used this chord progression. Turns out it's called "It's Reggae You Know" and I just love it.
It felt like “variations on Let It Be” for 14 minutes. Good stuff!
thought of it too
As a bass player, root note one at a time, this has really helped me understand my place in the mix. Thank you!
Yes. Of course. Root note. Who would have guessed? But you must be a bassist, so I assume your just slow on the up-take. JK, BTW.
@@jamespeebles9781 Well aren't you a nice person.
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
Wait. David Bennett and Pianote in one place??? We don’t deserve 😭
i want to help you but UA-cam does not allow me to
why?
Loved this. Very helpful!
Had just watched a video where tension was mentioned. Was kinda lost, thinking "Here comes another thing I never got to learn, and now, I've got to go figure out what it means and how to apply it😢".
Buh with this video, I've gotten a huge leap...lemme not even talk about how I've been using inversions for convenience not knowing any principle behind it, only for this video to clear things up.
Man, as a self-taught pianist this video is priceless. Just saved me months of trial and error...
Thanks David......Thanks Pianote.
Omg I loved this. Diminished chords are a game changer!
This is an excellent lesson. I am a beginner and it really opens my eyes to writing progressions. Thanks!
- This is explicit and easy to assimilate. Thanks for sharing your gift.
This arrangement of chords is what jumpstarted my piano playing journey. I still can’t read notes very well, but I can play whatever I hear very quickly if I can just figure out the chord arrangement.
Great way to explain this concept. Thanks.
David, I love your stuff and have already learned a lot from you. It was a great surprise to see that you8 are one of the Pianote instructors! I have been with Drumeo for 3 yrs and since they combined Drumeo, Guirareo, Singio and Pianote all thogether, I have access to Pianote so I will be checking our your courses.
This lesson is great, showing how to take the same chords and by small tweaks, spicing them up and actually changing to whole flavor and feel. Thanks David for another great video.
Inspiring lesson with Intelligible explanation of sus and dim chords roles in progression. Thank you!
Thanks so much for making this video. I'll spend the next 10 years practicing this now.
Always love the passing chord practice. Something I need to think about a lot. Thanks
Very refreshing to see a video that shows how to do something in 5 different levels in which they don't get completely crazy after level 1 haha
Really helpful... Thank you
This is so good! 💚👍🏼🥳 You are the chord-progression King! 👑 And this sounds ahmazing! 😇😊
Love adding the left hand tonic to give depth and inversion for different sound more pleasant if you will. Thank you for this excellent video…..
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.
This is the best teaching I've ever had when it comes to piano lesson.
Subscribed already ❤️
I check out the guys channel too he always does stuff like this 👍
wao i am so glad i came across this video, thanks for this value. i will love to take any course you teach.
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...
You are a wonderful teacher, David. Thank you for another great video.
6:26 "It's now an A Minor 7, the G is the seven" Since it doesn't get fully explained here, this extra clarification might help any beginners reading these comments. It's called a seven because that G adds a seventh note, counting up from the root of the chord. Remember that the A is only up there because the chord is inverted, so: A is the first of the chord, C is the third (skipping the D, or second, between them). Then E is the fifth of the chord, making G the seventh. The terminology of 'first,' 'fifth', etc. can apply to both the notes in a chord and the notes of the overall scale itself, depending on the context.
And the beautiful chord progressions are made like this. Amazing . Thank you David. Pianote thank you all.
A great lesson here
Wow! Wonderful, thanks a lot
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!
WOW amazing 🤩 perfect for me to up my game
The F/G can also be thought of as a G11, functions as a dominant V11, at the end of a verse. The Mowtown sound.
Thank you. Basically in the video it's a F9 chord without the 7th interval.
What a bonus having David & pianote together excellent lesson , thank you all 😊
Excellent!
Thank you!
🌞👍
This is by far the best piano instruction video I have ever seen! So well explained
Love it!!!!!!!! An excellent teacher ❤️❤️❤️
Man i m trying to play my old organ time to time for ages. I watch some videos on youtube and try to play them. But i found out that i have not passion for this because it comes for me as imitating something with nonsense. I ve watched your video and understood the logic behind the notes and playing piano. Just a month passed after seen your video and i made a real progress on playing piano. Thank you very very much
First video I've watched from your channel, and man, such clear explanations!
That's the best explanation I've seen on sus and diminished chords. Thank you!
We’re glad it was helpful! ✨
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.
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be! 🎵
This is a great video showing the complexity that can be achieved using simple tools: 1 cord progression. Thanks for this.
You are such a great teacher, explaing it in such detail ❤, now I know better and have more confidence to try it out.❤❤😊
Wonderful, clear lesson. One might even say you're "🎶...speaking words of wisdom, let it be" 😉
After this video, I understood so much more of what I was hearing in songs! Realizing now a lot of the passing chords that I didn't understand are just flavors for the same simple chord progression!! You are a great teacher, thank you for making it so clear and simple!
David, that is just fantastic. So special. It answers lots of my questions about piano arrangements, I've heard over the years!!!
Guitarist here! Love David's work - so clear.
For a I V vi IV, i love an inverted pedal but using the leading note, so we'd get: Cmaj7 - G - Am9 - Fmaj7add#11 (maybe resolving to F 😉)
Lovely. Everything! The info, the design, the velocity of explanation, great job! Thanks
You're a great teacher David, thanks
Thanks, I needed this. Awesome tutoring.
This is fire🔥🔥🔥🔥
Pianote has the best teachers. I love David's way of teaching. How have I not come across his UA-cam channel before now?
Great and clear explanations for us that want to understand the basic theories. Well done sir.
One option not mentioned of moving from vi to IV is simply holding the vi (Am) chord in the right hand and adding an F in the bass, creating an FMaj7 chord. In fact, the top E could be held throughout the progression, giving C G6 Am FMaj7.....
I thought this was David's channel until I realized it was Pianote's! I love both of your channels; nice to see the collab!
Was looking for this 3:00 for a very long time ..thanks ❤
the diminished chord made it sound amazing
Ah yes, barry harris' infamous 6th diminshed
David bennet is amazing at explaining this topic!
Dude. Seriously the best description of intervals on UA-cam. You're a great teacher. 👍👍👍👍
David Bennett is brilliant!!
Beautiful. Just learnt something easy and great for a beginner 😊
When David played the G# diminished I literally audibly went “ooooooh” like it sounded so positively spicy
Excellent video 😊. Thank you very much David. Clear and unambiguous.
Just watched a competitors video who skipped all the different parts ancillary things like inversions and rhythm which left me really confused.
This is much more detailed than it appears. This will be useful.
You help me appreciate music. Thank you
Great teaching. The diminished chord is really a V7/vi, which helps to explain the resolution tendency. You do a great job explaining it all. Thanks!
It's implied that it's V7/vi, but he doesn't actually play the E in the voicing. So I guess you would call it viiº/vi. But essentially functions the same as the V7, even sharing 3 of the same notes - similar to a tritone sub!
@@ethanbehr723 My two cents worth: When David played the approach chord, I heard it as an E7 chord for sure, over the G# bass note, even though he didn't play an E note. How did you hear it? Try this: Play the progression David did for yourself, but add the "missing" E note into the chord-I think you'll find that it sounds exactly the same, there's no harmonic surprise whatsoever. This means, the moment your ear heard David play the passing chord, your mind "heard" it as a V7/vi resolving to the vi minor (as @ericdicken rightly pointed out). Not convinced? Then try playing David's passing G# diminished triad as a four-part "diminished 7" chord adding the F note, and you'll notice it's a pretty jarring sound, not what you were really expecting when David played it. This little exercise proves that what David played, functions to the human ear more as a dominant approach chord, than a passing diminished chord. Just my two cents worth. (Remember, if you played a diminished triad in broken arpeggios up and down the keyboard, you naturally add the fourth note. That's because to the human ear, a diminished triad functions just like a diminished 7 chord, whether played as a three part triad, or a four-part chord.)
Bravo, what a great video.
Excellent lesson! Thank you.
The inverted pedal point immediately brought to mind the Johnny Cash version of The Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt"... the G note rings out over the vi-IV-I-V (Am-F-C-G) in the chorus creating much the effect shown here albeit with the progression rearranged.
Thank you!
Thank you!!😊
I needed this❤
Real nice. Great ideas and very well explained. Great music teacher.
Yes! So fun to be able to expand out on chord progressions as understanding and technical prowess increase! :)
Fantastic video. Great work.
A good example of a high pedal tone is the piano part in the song "Say Something" by "A great big world"
YESSSSSSS!!!!!!! I LOVE DAVID BENNET AND PIANOTE! such a great collab
Really helpful
We're very glad to read this!
Thank to you my playing has improved
Excellent lesson teaching. Please keep it going next time around!
Somehow you make it all do-able with practise . About as goood as it gets I reckon .. so, again, a big big thank you !
Really it's a great way to spice up ❤ thanks.