Same here! I hear alot of The Beatles songbook in a lot of these changes and that's pretty much where my guitar playing started was a Beatles songbook. It is good to have concise knowledge behind why the changes work like they do, it's definitely helped me. I think before I would just play and listen and hope for what might seem like a mistake and explore it further but now it's more intentional. Thank you for this lesson, fantastic!
At 11:37, one small wrinkle that's worth pointing out for folks who are new to this concept. A nondiatonic dominant 7th chord is only a secondary dominant if it *functions* like a dominant - i.e., resolves to a chord with a tonic function relative to the secondary dominant - so you have to look at context. Nine times out of ten, a secondary dominant will resolve a 5th down. Here, that would be to Emin, because Emin is the chord in G maj off of which B7 is built. However, in minor *and* major keys, the chords built off of the third and sixth degrees have a tonic function as well. Cmaj is built off of the sixth degree of Emin, so it functions as a tonic within Emin. So yes, this is a secondary dominant, but I wanted to give a little more explanation since it looks quite different than the examples given earlier in the video.
Are you saying to watch out when inserting a secondary dominant chord? Because it could have a STRONGER function in the original key? And change the function, not lining up with the intention? Or am I missing your point? I’m new but fascinated, Thank you!
@dreamxx4856 I'm not sure that I understand your question, so maybe this doesn't answer it. If you wanna use a secondary dominant in your songwriting, don't think about the dominant chord as your target. Rather, think about the diatonic chord you wanna use and then build a dominant off of the 5th. There are *other* movements, as I describe above, but basing it off the 5th will give you that classic Great American Songbook sound.
I actually saw Rotem Sivan at a small local gig spot in Northern VA called Epicure Cafe. I was amazed by his virtuosity. Talked to him too, he was a chill guy!
Mr. Davids - thank you for not only making musical theory make sense - but actually making it fun to learn and easy to digest. If I had a guitar teacher like you 20 years ago, I'd not only be far superior than I am now, I'd probably be famous. I think I speak for everyone by saying you're doing a huge service to aspiring musicians, both old and new. Keep rocking brother!
Just got back up from my shed having stuck a 2 minute bassline onto my looper and spent over an hour borrowing chords to see what emotions they suggest. Thanks for some great ideas to add into the mix, and for confirming that I'm not wasting my time! Plan A - Lunch, jug of coffee, loop-di-loop...
My first guitar teacher didn't know theory, so he would call secondary dominants a "preparation chord" that's how I've always thought of them even after learning the theory.
I absolutely love this! I've watched the other video with Rotem Sivan around 50 times already. Even though I don’t fully understand what they’re talking about :) I’ve been teaching myself guitar for two years now -I really enjoy sitting back and watching them talk about music and play the guitar. I might only grasp about 5% of it, but I love listening and watching! :D
I normally don't like the collab videos but I feel like you nailed this one. Felt very comfortable and natural like 2 of my friends who know a bit more than me are trying to teach me something new
So the point is you go to any chord that you want in the scale but lead there by playing the dominant chord of the one that you're going to play next... Going C play G7, going to Am play E7, going to D play A7 so on... Playing the dominant of 5 chord of the destination chord ( major or minor as the 5th is the same)... Awesome. Mr. Paul davids never fails to fascinate us.
The day I learned secondary dominants is when the Circle of 5ths became my best friend. It opened up other concepts for Bridges or temp key changes/modes.
With the secondary dominant example when we say the 5 chord of the chord we are going to, then given the example with G to Am, are we talking the 5 of the Am scale or 5 positions up from Am in the G major key? 😅
When I first started playing guitar I was playing in my church, I remember that whenever we were in G major and there was a B7 it always always went to Em. I remember even trying to see if I could go to a different church from it but if the tonality was G, it always pulled you to Em. Great stuff these secondary dominants
Paul's guitar sounds so good, i think is one of the best sounding acoustic guitars i ever heard! Doesnt matter what he does with it is a delight to the ears lol.
What a great lesson! Thank you so much for sharing these concepts in such an easy to digest format. The two of you together play off of each other so well. Always enjoy your lessons!
Amazing video, Paul! AS a hybrid picker myself, love to see other people who play like that. Your guest has a smooth and soft hybrid picking, very interesting! So was the content! Thanks!
You two are soooooo good together - Please please do more and help to breakdown and translate what Rotem is saying. You both have sweet warm passion its fantastic and unique like Julian Lage. It makes learning less threatening. Thank you for doing what you do
Great video Paul, thank you as always. And for anyone who's on the fence over the next level playing course, its the best intermediate guitar course out there!! I'm on module 2 currently and loving every single lesson
Thanks for sharing 5 beautiful chord concepts from Paul & Rotem, two professional guitar educator You tube legends coming together to share your years of playing experiences. Truly enjoyed watching both of you giving your two cents worth on guitar chord playing tricks technique (secondary dominant) that can be used to get the more beautiful chord lead progression sounds.
Very inspiring stuff. Just had to pick up the guitar and play around with every concept. The chord progressinons got instantly more interresting within a few bars. Amazing!
Regarding borrowed chords, for the longest time I've seen the V -> i and iv -> I as being a function of the harmonic minor (so for the minor iv chord, I saw it as technically being a weird suspended aug2 or whatever the right name for such a chord would be). Same for something like I -> ii -> ii° where the diminished two is using the augmented 4th of the ii chord as a flat 5. Not that any of this matters, as it's just how I've seen it. And I guess switching between natural and harmonic minor scales at will is a kind of borrowing. I just saw a distinction between those examples that are more beginner friendly, and the stuff that kind of takes the guard rails off like C to Bb7 (borrowed from C minor) to Eb (borrowed again) to D minor to G7. That sort of stuff felt like drinking from a fire hose, and where I could easily see WHY those first examples worked, the last one seemed so arbitrary unless I felt like putting the guitar down and picking up a piece of paper to write down the notes of all these chord progressions and analyzing the sorts of resolutions I can figure out. And until recently, that didn't appeal much to me. But I'm starting to get a better feel for it now lol.
That 😂smug expression 0:05 oh what it would be to have that level of confidence even with these videos I won’t become as good as u have gotten in my lifetime 😢❤
Thank you for an excellent video, I tried to fill my notebook with all the points you made. I will take another look at your Next Level course if this is the type of instruction you provide.
Thanks man i’m trying to be the best as possible at guitar. I’m 15 and I want to be the best in my school you help so much. Thank you subscribing to you a few months back was the best choice.
There’s a book called “becoming talented” on ear training and reading, if you’ve got the ambition and the motivation, it’s super important to you find the best way to use that energy; That book would be the one I wish I had been shown earlier. It will improve your musicality a great deal and make it a lot easier in the long run!
Paul, I'm a fan of your content and your work and I would love to purchase your course. Any chance for you to implement regional prices for countries with less then ideal incomes? I'm from Brazil and even though I feel like your course is more than fairly priced, especially due to the quality of your teaching, for us here in South America is still quite an investment. I'll still try to save up for it but it may take awhile. Anyway, thank you for your awesome work.
thanks for having me bro!!! :)
You both are amazing ,thank you so much for this one.
This format with two dudes on the couch, backing each other up to support and explain concepts looks to be working really well.
It’s got some serious Mr Roger’s vibes. I’m here for it
Agreed, its helpful and entertaining with nice graphics for chords
TV vibes for sure, i loved it.
I love this
Gay
I’ve been doing this for years without knowing what I was doing. Awesome!
Same here! I hear alot of The Beatles songbook in a lot of these changes and that's pretty much where my guitar playing started was a Beatles songbook. It is good to have concise knowledge behind why the changes work like they do, it's definitely helped me. I think before I would just play and listen and hope for what might seem like a mistake and explore it further but now it's more intentional.
Thank you for this lesson, fantastic!
Ditto
1:40 great format with the chart and examples, easy to follow, and easy to actually hear whats going on.
This is by far the most beautiful music-related channel online. And never disappointing, always enlightening.
I like when you play on acoustic...inspires me to practice
Man... These types of videos just pure gold. So wholesome and pleasant!
At 11:37, one small wrinkle that's worth pointing out for folks who are new to this concept. A nondiatonic dominant 7th chord is only a secondary dominant if it *functions* like a dominant - i.e., resolves to a chord with a tonic function relative to the secondary dominant - so you have to look at context. Nine times out of ten, a secondary dominant will resolve a 5th down. Here, that would be to Emin, because Emin is the chord in G maj off of which B7 is built. However, in minor *and* major keys, the chords built off of the third and sixth degrees have a tonic function as well. Cmaj is built off of the sixth degree of Emin, so it functions as a tonic within Emin. So yes, this is a secondary dominant, but I wanted to give a little more explanation since it looks quite different than the examples given earlier in the video.
This is the EXACT comment I was looking for. Thanks!
Are you saying to watch out when inserting a secondary dominant chord? Because it could have a STRONGER function in the original key? And change the function, not lining up with the intention?
Or am I missing your point?
I’m new but fascinated, Thank you!
@dreamxx4856 I'm not sure that I understand your question, so maybe this doesn't answer it. If you wanna use a secondary dominant in your songwriting, don't think about the dominant chord as your target. Rather, think about the diatonic chord you wanna use and then build a dominant off of the 5th. There are *other* movements, as I describe above, but basing it off the 5th will give you that classic Great American Songbook sound.
Spot on. Right when i hit this point in the video had a few eye brows goin skyward.
Damn I thought I was confused before😅
I actually saw Rotem Sivan at a small local gig spot in Northern VA called Epicure Cafe. I was amazed by his virtuosity. Talked to him too, he was a chill guy!
Mr. Davids - thank you for not only making musical theory make sense - but actually making it fun to learn and easy to digest. If I had a guitar teacher like you 20 years ago, I'd not only be far superior than I am now, I'd probably be famous. I think I speak for everyone by saying you're doing a huge service to aspiring musicians, both old and new. Keep rocking brother!
It's amazing how much I feel like playing my guitar whenever I watch one of your videos. I have to thank you a lot Paul, you're such an example.
Just got back up from my shed having stuck a 2 minute bassline onto my looper and spent over an hour borrowing chords to see what emotions they suggest. Thanks for some great ideas to add into the mix, and for confirming that I'm not wasting my time! Plan A - Lunch, jug of coffee, loop-di-loop...
My first guitar teacher didn't know theory, so he would call secondary dominants a "preparation chord" that's how I've always thought of them even after learning the theory.
I've honestly learned more from this video than from years of practicing on my own. Thanks to both of you for this gem.
I absolutely love this! I've watched the other video with Rotem Sivan around 50 times already. Even though I don’t fully understand what they’re talking about :) I’ve been teaching myself guitar for two years now -I really enjoy sitting back and watching them talk about music and play the guitar. I might only grasp about 5% of it, but I love listening and watching! :D
I normally don't like the collab videos but I feel like you nailed this one. Felt very comfortable and natural like 2 of my friends who know a bit more than me are trying to teach me something new
I appreciate that!
very instructive and clear
and i love the dynamic between you both, it made it even easier
Wow !!!!! What a stunning lesson. Adding all these "color" techniques to a struggling composition. THANK YOU!
Wow, Rotem doesn't look old enough to be your dad.
Great work guys! I love how Rotem starts to play "Shape of my heart" at 0:18 and smiles at Paul like: I know how to play it right too :)
So the point is you go to any chord that you want in the scale but lead there by playing the dominant chord of the one that you're going to play next... Going C play G7, going to Am play E7, going to D play A7 so on... Playing the dominant of 5 chord of the destination chord ( major or minor as the 5th is the same)... Awesome. Mr. Paul davids never fails to fascinate us.
1:20 in and my mind was officially blown.
Yeah what a nice movement, thanks Paul!
Best duo out there
The day I learned secondary dominants is when the Circle of 5ths became my best friend. It opened up other concepts for Bridges or temp key changes/modes.
With the secondary dominant example when we say the 5 chord of the chord we are going to, then given the example with G to Am, are we talking the 5 of the Am scale or 5 positions up from Am in the G major key? 😅
A perfect fifth up from the target chord. So in this case: G -> E7 -> Am
Every now and then I think I'm progressing well then I watch things like this and realise I have so much work to do
Bro is the best teacher of all time this style of lesson is so dope
When I first started playing guitar I was playing in my church, I remember that whenever we were in G major and there was a B7 it always always went to Em. I remember even trying to see if I could go to a different church from it but if the tonality was G, it always pulled you to Em. Great stuff these secondary dominants
Paul's guitar sounds so good, i think is one of the best sounding acoustic guitars i ever heard! Doesnt matter what he does with it is a delight to the ears lol.
Yup it's a collings
1:32 Love is all you Need
What a great lesson! Thank you so much for sharing these concepts in such an easy to digest format. The two of you together play off of each other so well. Always enjoy your lessons!
Rotem is melodically absolutely amazing ❤
Amazing video, Paul! AS a hybrid picker myself, love to see other people who play like that. Your guest has a smooth and soft hybrid picking, very interesting! So was the content! Thanks!
Another great video
Pure pleasure, thanks! You both so humble and positive!
You two are soooooo good together - Please please do more and help to breakdown and translate what Rotem is saying. You both have sweet warm passion its fantastic and unique like Julian Lage. It makes learning less threatening. Thank you for doing what you do
Great video Paul, thank you as always. And for anyone who's on the fence over the next level playing course, its the best intermediate guitar course out there!! I'm on module 2 currently and loving every single lesson
The high five at the end was *nice*👌
There's something really funny about Paul doing most of the talking and Rotem just being there like "Yeahhhhh 👍"
wow what a fantastic way you two have of explaining these concepts 👍👍
I summarise all of this, "pissing about until it all sounds good".
Thanks for sharing 5 beautiful chord concepts from Paul & Rotem, two professional guitar educator You tube legends coming together to share your years of playing experiences. Truly enjoyed watching both of you giving your two cents worth on guitar chord playing tricks technique (secondary dominant) that can be used to get the more beautiful chord lead progression sounds.
My favourite pedal note is in the third verse of fire and rain. Played on a cello! Beautiful
With you both, It's nice to hear a wee bit of noodlin in the background, puts a bit of perspective to the content and very pleasant to watch
I picked up my guitar and Learbed something new all because of you lobe you guys
Great video Paul!
Very inspiring stuff. Just had to pick up the guitar and play around with every concept. The chord progressinons got instantly more interresting within a few bars. Amazing!
2:05 MADE A MEAL AND THREW IT UP ON SUNDAYYY
One of the best lessons I’ve seen re the use of secondary dominants.
great tutorial David always a pleasure , Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Always love your content Paul :)
Excellent, simple, clean presentation
Super helpful. This was the best way I’ve spent 12 minutes today.
Regarding borrowed chords, for the longest time I've seen the V -> i and iv -> I as being a function of the harmonic minor (so for the minor iv chord, I saw it as technically being a weird suspended aug2 or whatever the right name for such a chord would be). Same for something like I -> ii -> ii° where the diminished two is using the augmented 4th of the ii chord as a flat 5.
Not that any of this matters, as it's just how I've seen it. And I guess switching between natural and harmonic minor scales at will is a kind of borrowing. I just saw a distinction between those examples that are more beginner friendly, and the stuff that kind of takes the guard rails off like C to Bb7 (borrowed from C minor) to Eb (borrowed again) to D minor to G7. That sort of stuff felt like drinking from a fire hose, and where I could easily see WHY those first examples worked, the last one seemed so arbitrary unless I felt like putting the guitar down and picking up a piece of paper to write down the notes of all these chord progressions and analyzing the sorts of resolutions I can figure out. And until recently, that didn't appeal much to me. But I'm starting to get a better feel for it now lol.
really good lesson and format👍
Excellent video guys!
PLEASE tell me the edit at 5:46 is Paul doing Rotem's accent
paul and rotem in the same room...im dumbfounded! you guys are killer fr!
Always learn so much you 2 do this❤ty my friends
Man, this was the video i needed. You guys answered to some questions i had about theory for a long time. Thanks 🙏
That was amazing guys. Thank you
The single greatest music theory video I’ve seen, thank you.
12:17 The Flappie chords 😁
Good to see you two making a vid together again! ❤
The song with the exact same starting chords is Flaca by Andres Calamaro, one of the most famous songs of Argentinian and Latin rock in general 2:02
yes i like it when pauly plays the acoustic guitar so calming
Are these guys big or are their guitars small?
Both
😂@@PaulDavids
I'm pretty sure Paul is playing a Parlour body guitar and Rotem is playing an Orchestra Model body shape
Guitars are on the small size especially the parlor
Hahaha I asked myself that same question
MY TWO FAVORITE UA-cam GUITARISTS!!!
Thanks very much for the lesson. A lot of valuable information here. It’s always great learning new ways to add some color to our playing.
Cheers
Paul, you feel like the root note, just like coming home.
Thanks for another awesome video.
That 😂smug expression 0:05 oh what it would be to have that level of confidence even with these videos I won’t become as good as u have gotten in my lifetime 😢❤
Loved this video, it gave me the same level of interest as your music theory ep 1-7 videos and I love it!!
Great lesson guys!
I love the lead notes of concept 5 ❤
6:56 that was so beautiful
You guys dorking out is cute🤙
That, was an incredible lesson.
Wonderful experiment.... only with the complete knowledge of the guitar one can do this.....exceptional❤
excellent. this one is worth a deep dive.
My whole Goal In Life Is To be As Knowledgeable As People like You Guys!!!
Awesome guys !
Wow, this is great! Thank you!!
Great stuff! Thanks.
Very nice lesson, thank you very much ❤
Thank you for an excellent video, I tried to fill my notebook with all the points you made. I will take another look at your Next Level course if this is the type of instruction you provide.
Great video
Rotem’s guitar looks dehydrated af. Great video 💪🏻
Thanks man i’m trying to be the best as possible at guitar. I’m 15 and I want to be the best in my school you help so much.
Thank you subscribing to you a few months back was the best choice.
There’s a book called “becoming talented” on ear training and reading, if you’ve got the ambition and the motivation, it’s super important to you find the best way to use that energy;
That book would be the one I wish I had been shown earlier. It will improve your musicality a great deal and make it a lot easier in the long run!
@@xyzyzx1253 thanks i will check that book out
When two of your favs are on one seat... 💖💖💖💖💖
Beautiful stuff ❤
I'll have to watch this again, so much there.
At 10:26 he's playing daniel cesear best part or not? With the borrowed chords
6:56 Ozzy's mamma says hi. 😁
Lmao i knew what this means the moment i heard it 😂
Wonderful video! It’s great
Pla make an new guitar collection with ALL your guitars 😊
So beautifully done
Great lesson, very useful
Love this video!
Thanks for these. Great video!
Paul, I'm a fan of your content and your work and I would love to purchase your course. Any chance for you to implement regional prices for countries with less then ideal incomes? I'm from Brazil and even though I feel like your course is more than fairly priced, especially due to the quality of your teaching, for us here in South America is still quite an investment. I'll still try to save up for it but it may take awhile. Anyway, thank you for your awesome work.