The One Jazz Piece? | Progressions Mastery & A Philosophy
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- Опубліковано 22 бер 2019
- Really, once you have mastered, away from the piano, the content of this video, you will have conquered at least 90% of jazz repertoire. This doesn't mean you can suddenly play everything; no, you still need to get the piece on your internal jukebox and know your major scales like counting to seven (see what I did there?), and you still need to know the four primary chord types... but once this progression collection is internalised, you will have access to being able to play almost anything once dissection has taken place.
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Jazz is basically one piece of music, and what we call 'repertoire' are just tiny variations on that one main song which comprises lots of 251s, up a fourth movements, floating 251s, etc. By using www.jazzstudies.us to get free lead sheets to the Great American Songbook repertoire, go and see for yourself!
In the comments below, share your favourite song or one you have chosen randomly, and share your dissection of it. You will be astonished how easy it is to remember. Doing this will also encourage others. Master the progression numerically in 'chunks' of regular progressions, as discussed herein, and you'll be able to play it very soon after. It's not about remembering chord types and keys since you know those already from other studies and mastery. Combined, you become a ferocious Water Pianist!
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20 years of music theory in less than half an hour.
Brilliant.
Brilliant lessons Thanks Dan
You're my new favourite teacher!
Thank you 🎶🙏 Welcome to my channel. I hope you’ll enjoy the playlists and be notified of my regular new uploads
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Dan
Excellent thanks
Thanks Dan, excellent and very useful info.
I'm working on analyzing and learning "Hey There" (You with the stars in your eyes). I'm doing this primarily by ear. Your tutorial is very helpful! Thanks so much!
Thanks a lot Dan. Wonderful lesson as usual. Inspired me to go through all the standards I know and learn their structure numerically. It will definitely help to play in different keys. Thanks again for your excellent work. Do appreciate. Cheers.
Thx Dan
You are a treasure-trove 🙏🏽
An excellent “summary & verification” of your Jazz “6-2-5-1 etc.” philosophy. One thing I like about your video lessons is that you always make a seemingly complicate subject so easy to comprehend ,for examples the chord progressions, modal theory, inversion, extension and voicing so and so forth. Excellent work, thanks as always. All the best🎹🙏👍
perfect innformationt, i always had this sense of “structurality" about jazz, but in a vague and abstract form. you put into facts. 😎
The way you use a precise language in each recording really helps to grasp these concepts! Bravo!👏🏻
It's just a One Song!! God Bless! I'll have to upgrade my performance to play a jazz song (La La Land/ City of Stars for now)! It's such a fun and joyful play but do need to get to know the structure which you explained thoroughly! Hope to get a hold of it by time. Thank you for your Excellent lesson, Dan! And take care with the Mad cats :) that's looks painful! Wish you all the best and have a beautiful day.
Thank you. The best video. I've been at an impasse. This moved a mountain in my playing.
Thank you kindly. Glad to read it! Feel free to share results.
Best,
Dan
Best jazz tuts ever
This is a miraculous lesson! You explain all so amazingly. I've been attempting to play Pennies from Heaven in my beginnerish way - 6251, I've tried it in several keys. It's been on my internal juke box since my teenage years. And I love Skylark! This video is so liberating! Thank you Dan.
It’s a lovely song! Perhaps you might share your dissection of the progressions? Glad you enjoyed!
Best,
Dan
@@danthecomposer Thank you Dan - I fiddled around with various chords and the melody in three different keys, and then lighted on C with Am7, then to my relief, Dm7; I always find Dm7 comforting, then G and C, that sort of sounded right to my ears. At this point I fell over myself rather, but then thought maybe I should go up a 4th and I realised, as you say Dan, the chord progression goes with so many songs: Fly me to the Moon, so I thought I'd keep going with it. And I will practice it in other keys as well.
Hi Dan greetings from France 🇫🇷 thanks for the chord Progression. I made a screenshot and printed all which I’m going to transposed to 12 the major keys I know it’s going to take me some time but I do trust you judgment. Thank you for making thé most difficult things simple enough for all of us who’s watching. 💯👌🏿👏🏿wizard Dan.save to my favorite .
Merci pour ton commentaire... tu fais bien! Tiens-moi au courant, stp ? :)
Cordialement,
Dan
I really like this. My only other thought is when internalizing the chord progressions, to internalize their sound too, in order to recognize them when listening to a song.
Great information
Previous video: ua-cam.com/video/cfjnD8VYSJ8/v-deo.html (Upper chord sturcutres, extensions and reharmonisation)
Dan, I very much love your lessons. One issue which I am struggling with is, determining phrases and motifs of a song. Could you please attend a lesson to this subject. This would very much help me in understanding and cpying phrases and motifs of a song in my improvisation. Thank you in advance.
love the video! it takes he 'fear factor' away, and the need to obsessively look at the score for chord changes!... but I dont see the website you mention...
I just picked something I liked at random--Stars Fell On Alabama and you nailed it in this video. Thank you! 16251 4 36251 |1) 6251 :] 2) 1416 || The bridge is mildly harder 25 36251 62, 251 onto the 6, 251 onto the 3MAJ, 25
Great! 🎶🎹🙏
I go to any chord and find my way back
I did this to the first part of Misty. There definitely is this motif in it. Goes
5dom 1M ,
5m 8dom 4M ,
4m 7bdom 1M ,
6m 2m 5dom 3m(rootless1M?) 6dom 2m 5dom 1M ...
Mind... blown.
I’m trying to learn how to play Shallou music. It’s soothing and I want to chill and play for my daughters. Don’t know if it’s possible to show a BEGINNER like myself... some wast repetitive motions to start learning these songs. I’m more of a song learning person. Hope this makes sense.
Dan, I came across a UA-cam channel yesterday that has some cool Jazz and Bossa Nova tunes played for hours. I think you know these type of channels that play a 3 or more hours of cool jazz tunes.
Also, I just discovered that Jazz is not just a single genre but it consists of many genres.
My point is that I want to be able to play a type of a relaxing Jazz that uses Bossa Nova style or similar. I am not into these types of heavy old classic jazz that stresses me out.
What would be your advice?
Dan,
Can you also use these progressions as melodies in right hand improvisation as well?
Absolutely!
I hope you don't mind. You turned me onto the song "My Romance" in this video and so I decided to practice analyzing chord the progressions of it in my fake book using what I learned from this video. It's in B flat major in this book. There's a section that has B flat maj. 7 (which just followed c minor and F dominant 7) so that's obviously a 2,5,1 to me. But then follows a B flat dominant7, E flat maj. 7, A flat dominant 7 and then again B flat major 7, B flat dominant 7, E flat maj. 7 and A flat dominant 7. I'm not sure how to interpret that. Some of it "sounds" like a 2,5,1 but with a different quality of chords...maybe chord substitutions?
Dan, I have a question please.
But before the question I'd like to say that I've decided to take it seriously about learning Jazz. I'm right now watching your Jazz Music Theory playlist then will start the Unsorted Jazz Lessons playlist.
My question ...
Are these playlists all what I need to learn and master Jazz? Do you recommend books beside these playlists? Mark Levine or Bert Legon books maybe?
Oh well, they are two questions :) sorry
Hello there! Glad you'll take jazz more seriously. You comment on a very good video so absolutely absorb its content! I recommend both playlists to get a LOT of info. The books have pros and cons. The theory is rich, correct and useful... but the trap is that you become an 'academic jazz pianist'; you'll 'play the rules' and never play You. That's not jazz. So you need a kind of 'wash your hands' approach: read, learn, practise, 'get it'... then wash your hands of it all and do whatever you want, knowing that 'that stuff' is somewhere floating around.
Does that make sense?
@@danthecomposer yep, makes sense. I am currently transcribing few jazz tunes by ear, watching jazz music concerts, and I can say that my modal theory knowledge is fine. I agree that the mentioned books are pretty heavyweight information that require you to even know sightreading. I am just trying to fill in the gaps in my theory knowledge. Right now, I am busy reading about tonal harmony and voice leading. I am an improvisation addict means I just can't play a tune as it is without adding my feelings into it.
I am going through your playlists and their included podcasts, articles, ... etc
Thx Dan for your efforts.
Well and good ! However it is useful to remind us of the quality of each chord in the sequence i.e. maj 7th, or minor 7th etc This information is vital otherwise the sequence doesn't work!
That's going to vary with intent but he does mention standards in other videos in more depth.
Thank you for your comment. I consciously decided to focus only on the root notes and only mention chord types when necessary because I have mentioned the chord types in a video provided in the description: modal theory. I actually added the chord types (and Roman numerals!) to the screen but it became too full so I had to remove them and make the screen less clunky. But he sure, the modal video provided, not to mention many other videos, does indeed explain the chord types in detail.
Thanks for watching!
Best,
Dan
I see a pattern here.... just going down the circle of 5ths? 4 7 3 6 2 5 1 ?
quick question: 251(x) means there's a floating 251? is that 251 in the other key or master key (lets say C) and the 251 is in F? Clarification would be greatly appreciated. Love your channel.
A floating 251 implies the 1 is anything but the root... 95% of the time, this will be onto a note of the major scale (often 2, 3, 4 and 6) but it could be outside it. If the master key is C, its own 251 is not floating.. but one onto F (Gm7, C7, FM7) would be a floating 251 onto the 4th. Hope that helps! Welcome.
Best,
Dan
7 people lost it I guess 😅. Great lesson love it!! THANKS!
Ireal Pro said that theres a 3 dominant in the A section of My Romance right before it goes to the relative minor. You said it goes up a 4th from 1, which would be a 4 dominant instead of the 3 dominant I mentioned. Can the chord in that place in the song be either a 3 dominant or 4 dominant? I’m sorry if I missed an explanation of this.
Dan, which playlist to go for first: this playlist or the unsorted jazz piano lessons? and what's the difference between both?
As always, your videos always inspire me and straight to the point. My internal jukebox is getting stronger day by day and it's really a powerful tool.
Keep up the good work :)
Hello MK :) Thanks for your message. Glad about the internal jukebox! What about internal piano?
As for jazz playlist, I'd say this one: ua-cam.com/play/PL4cPpP-Ua6NXIaHkt-DBE7asr582uS5ku.html
Best,
Dan
Dan, I randomly picked a song from jazz studies.us, Blue in Green, and tried dissecting the chords but got the master key incorrect. Thought it was in the key of Bb given the 2-5-1 into the Bb major 7 and starting on G minor which would be the 6th. Turns out it’s the key of D minor. The Db7 chord is what threw me off.
I'm glad you chose this one because it allows me to say: never consider a piece's master key as a minor; it complicates things. Minors exist within majors so put it to the relative major (Bb) and consider it as simply starting on the 6th. This keeps everything nice and tidy. Also, note exceptions for simplicity: 6 (Gm6 - but this could also be BbMaj9#11, so '1'), 7 (as an exception since it should be half dim), 3 (Dm7), Db7 (is a tritone (b5) of the 6 which would give 736(251 coming up next) - the common jazz progression exactly as I present in this video!) but you can label it as b3 (Db, same note.. we're staying in Bb major master key here for simplicity), 2 (Cm7), 5 (F7), 1 (exactly the chord I told you that Gm6 could be.. which I assumed before seeing it now in the chord progression as '1', to be honest). Then the next two are the same so 7 (A7#9 as an exception to the rule for simplicity), 3 (as a 6th chord, small exception to remember), then maybe I'd say a floating 51 to the 7th as a m7 (exception), then 3 (whic is a fourth up, again, jazz always moves in 4ths).
How much sense does that make?
Best,
Dan
Your explanation makes a lot of sense. The only thing I noticed was on the lead sheet the ‘1’ is identified as a BbMaj7(#11) instead of a BbMaj9(#11). The first inversion of Gm6 would give you Bb, D, E, G and BbMaj7(#11) would give you Bb, D, E, A (assuming you move the 5th down a semi-tone to the #11), while the BbMaj9(#11) would give Bb, C, E, A. Which chord is preferable in this case?
I think what threw me off most was the b3 of Db, as this is the first time I’ve seen a b3 make up a part of a chord progression, but as you said the Db7 is very close to a G half diminished (only difference is playing G and Bb instead of Ab and B in the Db7).
Apologies for delay - didn't see response notification. Glad it helped.
Yes, I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that you'd know the higher the extension, the more less extensions can be used... so the #11 would imply the use of the 9. Everyting you say is correct, it's just interpretation. Preferable? Again, what is the melody note at that point? Often, melody notes in these jazz songs are themselves the tasty extension note value.
The b3 is common because it's actually a 6th dim. Get used to this because it happens a lot: Bb... 6th is G, the G as a half or whole dim chord forces the Db (minor of Bb) so you can often assue the b3 is the 6 in a (3) (6) 2 5 (1) progression.
Trust you're still having fun exploring!?
Best,
Dan
what about 1-4_7 progression
Yes of course. Please feel free to add more - I encourage everyone to do so... 🙃
Best,
Dan
Ehpit-o-mee 😀
Already corrected! I also used to say preface wrong 🤭🙄
Hope you enjoyed the video nonetheless!
Best,
Dan
@@danthecomposer You know, understand and can communicate Jazz theory... I can pronounce one word... It balances out! :)
Take 5 included ?
Not mentioned I don't think. This is more about the progression than individual songs highlighted. Take 5 has a very easy progression. You can find the chords on jazzstudies.us - This video represents 90%+ so I hope you understand that, rather than highlight the fact one song isn't mentioned?
Best,
Dan
I know theory, but don't know jazz... SO is it just understood as a given that most everything gets the 7th? For example, with ""Foggy Day" at 5:20, Dan says "It's just the ii, V, I" - but he PLAYS ii7, V7, I7. Is this a small glitch where he didn't exactly correctly name the chords, or is he speaking a shorthand that every jazz player knows? In F is the 1 chord really F, A, C, E when I'm playing jazz, and would a lead sheet simply write 1?
Ah! I just checked the lead sheet at jazzstudies, and they've written the 7ths in. So with total respect for Dan, is my original take correct - it's such a given he didn't bother saying it?
Greetings, thanks for the curiosity...
Yes, 1 is 1357, the M7. When you write '7' alone in jazz, it can be understood to mean b7 (dominant 7th) since when you label a chord as dominant 7 (b7), you only say, for example, "C seven" - you have to add the word 'major' for the 7th of the major scale. Also, it seems you need some modal theory work, so see here and then come back to this video perhaps? ua-cam.com/video/wDeDccsm3YE/v-deo.html
Best,
Dan
@@danthecomposer The modal theory is great, thanks. But my original question wasn't about distinguishing between TYPES of 7ths, but that verbally and on your graphics you don't say or show ANY 7th, it seems to be just understood.
".. 2, 5, 1 in the key of F, let's just play around with it..", and you start out G, Bb, F, G.. and the following chords also have the 7th (major or minor). How do I know that 7th is there, when you didn't say it or write it?
I'm sure this is a "me" problem, that this is a jazz video and any jazz person knows that chord names aren't triads, they're 7ths - so why waste the energy always saying "whatever 7th"? Is that it? Just everyone knows, it's understood?
If so.......... will sheet music or a fake book include 7 in the chord name, so I know this unfamiliar song is jazz style?
Truly appreciate, will be looking into purchasing your materials.
The website jazzstudy.us has been taken down it seems
Typo: jazzstudies.us/ :)
@@danthecomposer thanks Dan I noticed a few people saying they couldn't find it in the comments
Epitome? e-pit-o-mi.
Ah yes that’s it. That’s why I hesitated. Thanks for clarifying 🤓
Best,
Dan
No problems, you do a good job. Most of your stuff is a bit further ahead for me than my current position. However; being faced with time on my hands, which is something new. Plus an order for a Casio GP 300 in the works, and a commitment to move forward and start filling holes in both theory and practical, I will be paying a lot more time and attention to your videos. Also, if it is possible to get some info as how to beg, borrow or buy, in a graded and progressive manner, your obvious talent for teaching that would be something which would be of interest.
You must have a cat or iguana.
Two quick cats! You see them sometimes. Or I post the odd cat thing to Instagram.
Hope the video will help 🙏
Best,
Dan