1 Chord Progression, 5 Levels of Complexity
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2024
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Today I'm taking the classic "Doo-wop changes" and running them through different levels of complexity, starting with just adding colour tones to the basic chords, and ending up with a super jazzy chord-packed progression.
And, an extra special thanks goes to Douglas Lind, Vidad Flowers, Ivan Pang, Waylon Fairbanks, Jon Dye, Austin Russell, Christopher Ryan, Toot & Paul Peijzel, the channel’s Patreon saints! 😇
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Level 1
0:43 Level 2
2:00 Level 3
4:50 Level 4
6:40 Level 5
8:57 Level 6
10:45 Patreon
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Check out the part 2 of this video here: ua-cam.com/video/y2mds-KeKTg/v-deo.html 😊
I thinks one of the worst things about learning music is not not having the knowledge or understanding and finding it very confusing. You totally destroy that feeling by explaining it in such away that you teach it on a level that so easy to take in.
I come away feel more confident.
@@b00ts4ndc4tsyou should pay for lessons if youre serious about music, and appreciate everything that is free on youtube. He buys patreon accounts of black pianist lessons, and teaches the content he just learned himself to you. Its easy for him to teach this, because he paid a master to learn from.
I really like how the bonus 6th level is a combination of 2-5-1s and color tones, therefore it itself is a 2-5-1.
"All You Need is Love(of music theory).
*chef’s kiss*
no
Wow. Impressive.
Bonus level 6 is level 2 and level 5 put together. So yes. 2-5-1 (with color tones). But since level 5 is 2-5-1 without color tones, level 6 is not exactly level 5 after all.
Okay, David Bennett is now the Prime Minister of explaining stuff.
YES!
Nah, let's be level headed. Prime Minister is exaggerating..... He is Pope John Paul II at explanininv😅
I don't have anything that can beat the pope but if I did that would be it😂
I'd vote for him
This tutorial gently caressed my brain curves. It went over a massive curriculum in 10 minutes and provided something that can be practised!
Great 😊
it also curves space time in the sense that it shortens the learning process
@@royhsieh4307 honestly I was going through some difficult times (what a surprise, a music person!) and this tutorial still reverberates with the pick me up effect from a few days ago. Growing stronger isn't impossible my fellow musicians. Especially when masters like David shine a light on our path!
wow, i'm a musician for a years now, and that is the best explanation i've ever seen. Thanks so much for level 5 and 6. They've helped me a lot in understanding.
Great 😊
just spamming 251s doesnt sound beautiful, but its good foundational stuff
The "Anime Canon" chord progression
C - [Bm7b5 - E7] - Am - [Gm7 - C7] - [F - G] - [Em - Am] - Dm7 - [C/G - G7]
Your video is very beginner-friendly, it's very practical and visual, simplified with no unnecessary vocabulary. Thank you!
Thank you!
This is the lesson on chord progressions I've been searching for. Unlocked everything with the simplicity of the explanation in a way no one has for me before. Thank you David!
Great!!
That one was a light bulb moment for me. You explained the chord progressions I see when playing from sax charts. Thank you very much David.
😊😊
Yeah, I'm just learning this stuff and i look at the sheets for a song I can easily sing and... 2-4 chords per bar? Fdim? Oh, it's a passing chord, like literally a note passing between the other root notes.
What a valuable insight this is, for those of us who are stuck repeating the same old diatonic chords. Thank you, David.
Funny thing about that "50's chord progression" that I noticed recently.
"Otherside" by Red Hot Chili Peppers uses the famous "Axis chord progression" of Am F C G. However, the melody also fits perfectly the "50's chord progression" of C Am F G, and its quality changes completely, from a slightly moody song to a much more upbeat song. Just try it.
Most pop songs that are built around simple chord progressions like this can be substituted with another chord progression to recontextualize it, an example of a song doing this in song would be Bad Day by Daniel Powter (I-IV-ii-V, then vi-Imaj7-IV-I)
That’s the beauty of the diatonic system. Those chords are all sharing the same 7 notes pulled from the C Major scale
7:40 I love how you said "pull" there, it was honestly
preaty silly and cute . and thanks for the chords!
I was looking for this comment 😂
pretty*
and "level" too, right before
your feelings are irrational
Ha: “leveLL” and “puLL” -I noticed too!
Melody also dictates your tone colors, and the voiceleading/inversions that you use. I think that was best illustrated in example six, as the moving color-tones acted as a 'psuedo' melody to guide and add context.
Id love to see more on inversions, melody, and tonal gravity.
your feelings would be irrational
Would love to see this too 👍. This vid was legit.
David! Thanks to you, I am finally having deeper understanding of things I hear AND getting a vocabulary to describe them! I always wondered why the "color" of certain chord progressions tickled my moods. I'm starting to be able to put my finger on what is going on. Although I've had this info for a while, it never quite gelled. Keep on doing what you're doing. I am grateful.
Ditto! 👍
This video made me suddenly understand some of the rich harmonies that I've loved but didn't know how to achieve.
I’ve been watching your channel for a couple years now and I can say this was one of your best and most helpful theory videos yet! I feel like you just unlocked a whole new level of composition for me! I always wondered how jazz songs figured out how to combine all those seemingly complicated chords. It always sounded beautiful, but at the same time random to my uninformed brain. Now I’ve cracked the code! Thanks, David. So excited to apply this to my own songwriting
... same here 🎹🎶💡
I am floored by how simple this complexity can be! Thanks, David
3 is like This train don't stop there anymore
In Italy we call it "Giro di do", and it's the base of many 60's italian songs, and has also been used later. One example is "Il cielo in una stanza", from the early 60's, and the chorus of "Centro di Gravità Permanente", another incredibly famous italian song from 1981.
Amazing, great content 🎉❤
Brilliant useful lecture. Thank you very much. 👍
Very good video. It opens up a whole new level of understanding for the different chord degrees and how to connect and read them together. Really a very good video. 🙏
This video clears a lot of subjects I didn’t really had a grasp on. Now it makes perfect sense !! Thank you so much 🙏🏻
I think this is one of the most enjoyable (and for me personally, useful) videos you've released lately. I think the most developed "level 6" sounds the most pleasing, but I can see mixing and matching the other levels, too... that is, combining the all the tricks so that we don't always use passing chords or 2-5-1 progressions each time we change chords.
David, IMO your videos are the best in terms of didactic quality and visuals. I can watch your videos without any instrument nearby and still can catch the information when get home. Recommended this video for my gf because she is beginning on piano and believe your videos will help. Greets from Brazil. 🇧🇷
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Thank you! This is so clear and accessible! ❤
What a lesson in harmonization! I kind of understand now the difference in chord progressions that I played for years! Thank you very much!
I think the different harmonizations give distinct atmospheres that can be employed at will. They are not necessarily better but rather more appropriate to convey the intended feeling.
Thank you for stepping us through these progressions. I can't wait to apply it.
Perfect! I know it’s a bit cliché, but this is just what I’ve been waiting for. You explain everything so well that it comes together and makes sense.
Thanks for these very colourful progresions
#4 is nostalgic and pleasing to my ears..it has a bit of a gospel or hymn like air..
It remembers me of the amazing digital circus theme
Thank you for dropping this gem
It's amazing how rich and emotional the last version sounds despite th fact you followed very simple rules
Fantastic! What an array of options, clearly explained in a short period of time. Hard to say my favorite. Thanks.
Such a beautiful video. Thank you
Fantastic!
Brilliant, thank you!
Thanks David
Brilliant. Loved it Dave.
Thanks!
love this, so helpful!
Great stuff! I like #5 & #6 best.
U are such a good teacher. Not overbearing with information, straight to the point yet still engaging 👍🏾
Thank you for so much needed simplicity!
This is an excellent video! Nice explanations all the way through! Well done! Love the jazzy part at the end! 🔥🎹🎶👏🏼🙌🏼
Extra jazz is beautiful. Want it as a full song.
I love this!! Your videos are always fascinating but this felt like it pulled back the curtain for me - a really approachable and demystifying explanation!
Superb video. Very well explained.
Brilliant!
loved it!
Just perfect demonstration how Pop music can be more rich , passionate David, THANKS A LOT! Beatles forever from France! Michael
Thank you
Excellent video, knowledge is precious in here!
This is my favorite chord progression. It's perfect. Works perfectly in 4/4 and feels so good. "Be My Baby". I geek out on that song just like Brian Wilson did.
I’m literally only a couple minutes in but I already feel the need to thank you, your information has been really helpful already and I am trying to work on my compositional skills. I appreciate this so much, thank you.
Very accessible explanation. Excellent lesson.
This was beautifully explained. Thank you!
Thank you!
This is amazing man. Thank you.
This video (especially the 5th level) really helped me wrap my head around the relationships of some tricky chord progressions. Thanks man! This will help me a lot with the guitar and piano/keyboard (still learning piano/keyboard).
Really helpful, thank you!
Amazing brother! Saved this video and will refer back to it and share it for sure! Very well put together!
This has done so much for me, thank you so much
Absolutely brilliant explanation.
Thanks!!
Gosh, I just love Jazz. Beautifully played David.
That last level was brilliant thank you so much!!
Wow! Thank you thank you!
Excellent!
Thanks!
Love it thank you
Great video. Best yet.
Really need more videos like this to show progression process and the logic behind. Very helpful for beginners like me
Love this this !! Most simplest way of understanding how spice or adding more color to the most chords you start of learning and you made so to follow and understand
Gosh, wonderful lesson. I learned level 5 about 20 years ago, and forgot it, and as soon as you un-blurred it, I instantly remembered an exercise I used to do where I would take a circle of fifths and Ii-V-I every change, then solo over the changes... brings back some awesome memories.
Thank you, David. Your videos are amazing, so informative and I learn so much, thanks. God bless you 💙
Thanks for the lesson 🙏
Maestro! Bellissimo!
Thank you, David! Been looking for a explanation that helped me in this kind of topics, clear as water and great video as always
Awesome video. Can't wait to check out part two. This was super helpful for adding more flavor to my songwriting tbh.
Would love to see more content like this, or involving chord changes in general. I have a decent understanding of basic chord functions (tonic, dominant, subdominant) but I would love to do a deeper dive on things like extended chords, or some of these more advanced techniques.
Anyhoo, great stuff as always, and thank you for all of your lessons over the years, David. You rock.
Thanks this was really helpful!
Amazing explanation. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
08:00 I've been looking for the theory behind this sound or what to call it. I often hear this in Japanese music. I also hear that C Bm E7 thing. It just has enough spice to grab your ear.
🎯 Exactly
Thank you for making it so easy to understand
That's just amazing. I like all the levels. Thank you master.
There is so much to learn in this video, thanks for posting.
Thank you 😊😊
Thank you for this.
Awesome lesson, THANK YOU!
Thank you for explaining secondary dominants so simply and uncomplicated! It’s amazing how much fluff other tutors add to their explanations…🤯
I love the sus2. I play guitar with destorsion thus adding too many notes at the same time get messy. So I break them up playing 2-3 notes at a time. But stacking octaves still works fine. But usaly only 4 notes/strings at a time.
But i love the sound of sus2.
I love sus chords too. I learned to play guitar by figuring out Smashing Pumpkins songs when I was a teenager in the 90s, my favorite band at the time. Billy used lots of sus chords, so they were an early part of my chordal vocabulary and I still reach for them often, to this day
5 and 6 were revelations! Thank you!
Ive been playing keyboard for a year now and learned so much from you. Videos like this keep me excited!
Great! 😊🙂
There was a time not too long ago that none of this made any sense, but thanks to channels like yours every bit of this I understood perfectly, could even predict where you were going next. Cheers! Excellent work
Thank you 😊😊😊😊
David,
You are the real McCoy
I learned a lot today
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Best regards
Great!!!
great video!
amazing explication! thanks!
Boy did this video make things snap into clarity for me. Thank you.
Great!
Thank you for this. I really never thought of 2 - 5 - 1ing into the 5 chord (From F to G in this case)
wow it's really helpful, thank you ！
Amazing ,thank's
I am impressed! Very clear instructions and direct to the pount❤
Top notch tutorial. Good Visuals
Thanks much.
That's the greatest explanation video I've ever come across !
Very nice changes
Very good and especially clear video!
Thanks!!
xcellent vid mate! one of the best