Practical Usage of Advanced Musical Theory
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2016
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1. The 50's Rock and Roll Minor Chord 00:28
2. Squishing and Stretching the Toffee 01:52
3. The Diminished Climb 03:48
4. Using Major and Minor Pentatonics 04:33
5. Chromatic Bebop Lines 06:05
6. IImi bII7 Ima 07:27
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Born in the Manitoba prefecture of Canada, samuraiguitarist, Steve-san Onotera, honed his discipline under the study of the country's most powerful musical sensei.
Bred on rock, raised on the blues, trained in jazz, samuraiguitarist creates incredibly innovative videos that showcase his talents on the guitar.
I should re-estimate my level of theory knowledge
Andriy Vasylenko time to take up piano lessons
Or just a different teacher. In my bass classes I learn a lot a theory. In fact, I already knew most things in this video.
If this is unclear to you, do some musictheory lessons and just ask if something is unclear, there's always a lot of people willing to help you if something is confusing to you. No need to dumb down these videos.
Digital Insan1ty Were I saying that the video's sh*t, or you overreacting on my self-ironic comment?
Andriy Vasylenko Neither, but I thought you were asking for easier videos which I disagree with. Not sure what you are saying here, I'm sorry if you are offended somehow.
It's weird how about 30% of my focus is on your right bicep.
deadass
lmao yeah me too
Quagmire syndrome
It's in the center and it moves a lot. It's hard not to focus on it. Just like boobs!
Lmao same
The Bb over a G7 chord is implying a #9, similar to your man-bun implying 16th century over a 21st century media platform.
Greatest comment
James Cook gold...... pure gold!!!
yeah that bothered me.. it also bothered me when he said ii and IV were subdominant chords... they're PREdominant chords, usually followed by a dominant chord.. Subdominant is V below (which is IV).. they're 2 different concepts
This is how i remember them:
5 below (4) Subdominant
3 below (6) Submediant
2 below (b7) Subtonic
7 Leading Tone
1 Tonic
2 Supertonic
3 Mediant
5 Dominant
I've heard the terms Predominant and Subdominant used interchangeably by many musicians, including music theory instructors, so I think he's fine saying it as is. The names you gave are certainly used for scale degrees, but I don't think they are used to describe Chord Function.
@@LuisGarcia-hj1pp In popular music functional harmony, you will find in most books the IV being the subdominant and the ii having also a subdominant function. Chords would be categorized as having a Tonic subdominant or dominant function. I and vi have a tonic function, V7 and viidim have a dominant function. ii and IV have subdominant function and iii is kink of ambiguous it could have a tonic or a dominant function.
this guy is a fucking hero.
Am I the only one who would love a sensei lesson about japanese music/scales?
Yes
MOAR PLEASE!
This is the kind of theory stuff I'm always trying to find around!
Im so happy that my guitar teacher has already teached me most of the stuff you show here in just a few classes (8 or 10). Makes me feel I'm with the right person, because it's really interesting and usefull theory, and I see the apreciation of it here in the coments, by the way, you explained it very well.
I feel so proud of myself that I understood everything
This is the kind of amazing video I feel lucky to find on rare occasions! This is really great and put me back on track to understanding some things I've been struggling with for a while.
Your content is so unique and brilliant. Keep it up.
Great video! Love the samurai philosophy parallel to guitar and music. These are really the roots to music theory in application that I have found practical in playing and helped me significantly as a musician.
This is great! I was searching for advanced music theory and this is just about where I am at with my understanding, a perfect entry point for the next level!
5:46 the explanation in Jazz would be that you're spelling the chord as a G7#9, but in practice you'd be correct in simply calling it a tension as the Bb would often resolve to the B in blues and rock.
Great vid SG! Loaded with knowledge. Need to watch this one a couple times.
Of all your videos that I've seen, this is one of the top which I most enjoyed! Thanks man!
I'm familiar with the 50 R&R Minor Chord, but I always called it "The Creep Chord." You know, from that Radiohead song.
Same here!
I love your videos about music theory! I find music theory interesting in general, and I like the way you explain as well. I’ve learnt a few stuff!
Knew and used these, but still very nice seeing your way of explaining it. Thanks a bunch!
Thanks so much for making this excellent video! My guitar teacher has explained many of these concepts to me over hours of lessons, but a lot of times I could never wrap my mind around it all. As a (mostly) blues rock player, your video definitely helped solidify some of my questions about theory. Thanks!
Oh man, that last one's awesome. Amazing video man, super useful. Thanks!
That last one was definitely new for me. Thanks!
Wow, I actually understood most of what you're talking about. Now that gave me a nice confidence boost. Thanks for the great video. :)
Awesome! You know, I never realized that the mediant and leading tone built from a 7 chord are a tritone apart. Wicked stuff at the very end, very useful on all instruments and definitely bending the "rules" a little. You really know your stuff! Keep up the great work, Steve-san!
Great video dude. Thanks for taking the time... it was entertaining and informative :)
Loving the quality of your vids bro, good job :)
Hey man! I recently stumbled on your channel and I really like your style and approach. I've played for quite awhile now but I always find a gem in your videos. Keep up the good work!
I’ve been self taught for about 15 years and while I know most of this stuff I absolutely loved the video and subscribed to your channel.
Nice to see a guitar channel on youtube that actually talks about music theory and tools for playing rather than what pedals you should buy or what the top ten guitar riffs are, you keep it up man!
2 semesters of Jazz theory in a 9 and half minute video. Really liked your approach on the bebop lines. It's so clear now!
Wow, harmony is my favorite subject in music theory and I've never seen a video that's advanced and "useful" like yours, I'm familiar with some concepts (like the 60's chords and chord substitutions)) and would love a part 2. Your rhythmic tips are the ones that help me the most too (mine needs to improve a LOT).
Thank you so much for such an informative video without like adding too much to it but giving us just enough information thanks⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
awesome, now this is how you do music theory videos. very clear, consise tricks, and easy to understand.
Just learned about tritone substitution today at school while studying autumn leaves. Really like how it works.
Great video!
Great idea! I learned to play autumn leaves and didn't know about the tritone subs in that song. I only had a vague idea about what tritone subs were so I looked it up.
Daniel Leonov You have a lot to learn! Jazz is probably the most interesting genre out there
Greaceyrobot - patronising git
i need to keep watching this to absorb completely. thank you sensei!
This is something new I learnt today. Thank you so much. I will have to go through your video again to get the proper connect and then try doing some composition with these techniques. Thanks once again. And by the way your singing was good :).
Thanks for this... enjoyed the Dominant Function piece
I'm honestly pleased and surprised you mentioned john mayers song, I totally agree! It's written so well
Just found your page. You are truly amazing
Useful and to the point. Thanks
Your voice isn't that bad by the way. Glad I subscribed to this channel. It's very helpful.
Thank you for making videos.
My old music teacher passed away last week, he taught me almost everything I know about music theory. he said the same thing about don't worry about taking this in all in one time. but this video was the refresh for my brain that now it's coming to me all the things he taught.
Oh man, thank you THANK YOU. Not just for this video but for all your videos in general. As a guitarist whose been shoving self taught theory down my throat for the last year you have no idea how much your videos have helped my playing/stage presence/practice at home and in studio. Your advice has been invaluable to me! You're doing something phenomenal thats not too often found out of collegiate music theory all while bettering yourself as a musician as well. Sorry for the wall.. /endfanrant
Tldr; THANK YOU.. 👍
Is it just me, or is samuraiguitarist getting jacked?
Cool stuff, man!
More of this please!
wow, I wondered why professional jazz musician's Chromatic sounded so nice and on point, very different when I tried to use chromatic notes randomly.
Now I know why and how, thanks, great explanation.
Great video ! 👌🏻
Great video. About the Bb over G7 at 5:30, that's an augmented 9, a tension within the dominant 7 #9 chord aka "the Hendrix chord" (used in Purple Haze, por example). Melodically it's nice to resolve it by semitone
excellent. more advanced theory please!
Very good man!!
Great lesson! thanks
I greatly enjoy your videos. there's a band called kublai khan, the vocalist of which gives similar vibes (for lack of better terminology). thanks for doing what you do.
That last example is a motif I hear in a lot of Mario soundtracks, throughout the generations.
Before I formally learned any music theory (of which I still know very little), I used to sit at a piano and pick apart video game music.
As a huge video game soundtrack fan, in my opinion it is definitely the most underrated genre there is!
I've only recently started listening to soundtracks of games I've never even heard of and the level of creativity and diversity is unfathomable and seriously inspiring! If you look in the right places, you will find true art... :)
Mario soundtracks are no exception! :D
nekezajebancije other exampkes please?
Tom Haflinger h
More if these please! I've had all this theory in a classical context but have no idea how to translate it into modern music!
Gonna have to watch this a few (many) more times 😄
Great vid. Subbed
this video is amazing tnx a lot it really helped
Awesome! Thanks.
Excellent works in your videos, young man!
I so appreciate the crammed 'chase a rabbit'
technique. It forces the serious to PAY ATTENTION & realize you must review & try a few times at least. Those that are not to be bothered, will serve WELL as pike-fodder against the new emperor's offenses against honor codes, indeed. ☠️
Great content! more stuff like this please. Maybe something about neapolitan chords, 6/9 chords or augmented chords?
a lot of videos has so less usefull info and your videos are just as short as possible for that amount of knowledge. you are really a genious.
John Mayer IS a beast. Fantastic songwriter AND, to quote none other than THE Eric Clapton, a "master" guitarist.
This is a video I will watch in half a year because I don't know much about music theory. But I think it's a great video.
I learned the diminished climb in that direct sequence from a Jimi song called "My friend" I would recommend listening to, and maybe learning that song to anyone who wants put that musical flavor into their own songs.
i love your theory videos
You explained the b3 over the dom7 very well. It can be found in theory when you look at scales such as the altered/superlocriqn mode (the 7th mode of melodic minor) however instead of being referred to as a b3 it is often referred to and treated as a #9 which creates a perfect sense of tension. It aspects like this that help the things like the hendrix chord (dom7#9). Great video by the way I learnt a lot!
I've always wondered what era and genres of music I'd be able to find that minor 4 chord in a major progression (the first point). Dude, you're the man, and I'm glad I've subscribed.
A whole lot of jazz standards
Dude, thank you.
Really appreciate the in depth analysis and explanations. I would be interested to hear some of your own stuff, where can i check some out? I find theory to be the thing that I had been missing in the 20 plus years I played the guitar never properly understanding it, I appreciate your work. :)
So I'm a self-taught guitarist and musician if you subtract the 2 years playing in a high school jazz ensemble and 2 or 3 private lessons with a jazz guitarist and teacher. It's awesome that to see that my private music study has got me to the point where I fully understood this video.
I managed to sit there and work out that music is on a plane (I'm sure theres more dimensions to it but that's at least what I came up with on my own). Also I like making songs with increasing tempos(80-90-120-140-180-240bpm or something like that lol I'm still trying to arrange it as well as learning how to read music so that's a struggle in itself lol), smoothly flowing through keys in a seemingly natural way, musical tension and building (with volume and tension) and I'm trying to incorporate polyrhythms and bass and drums and synths but I still have to learn all those instruments D:
Nicholas VanGaasbeek hey if you like geometric representations of music theory you should check out the “tonnetz” a Wikipedia and some reading around the subject (reddit) will REALLY flesh out that idea of music as a harmonic grid
One love
fantastic video.
Very useful thank u very much
On the applications with diminished climbs - It's not only diminished chords which have this property. Augmented chords ( 1 3 #5 ) Can also be moved up and down in sequential major thirds since they are made up of stacked major thirds. I find this works really well over the 7th degree of the harmonic minor scale.
This is really cool
I've been playing guitar on and off for about 11 years ( got my first guitar for my 10th birthday), and I notice that a lot of the basics of theory I know subconsciously just from playing around and jamming music I enjoy. I can tell that theory is a different kind of beast and will take a long time to master, so far it's a much harder study than finance and stock trading was for me... Your videos are a great learning tool and I'll be recommending you to others interested in learning music theory. :)
I can definitely relate with you on this. Music theory is kind of similar to grammar for me in the way that I tend to know things instinctively based on whether it "sounds right" or not rather than by recalling a specific rule- not a perfect comparison but similar concept.
more of this please! PLEASE!!!;
could you do a sensei series video on odd time signatures?
I'm so bad at playing in anything but 4/4 and 3/4, I would not be the best advice giver on those subjects
samuraiguitarist thanks for being honest dawg!
Whoops I meant 3/4 not 7/8
check adam neely he isa bassist with some very interest ing advanced theory lessons including complex time signitures
Though the chorus of the song "The promise you made" by Cock Robin or the verse of "China in your hand" by 't Pau do not sound odd, I do not hear it very often in music that reaches the charts today.
Just for fun, compare "Morning bell" by Radiohead on the Kid A album with "Morning bell" by Radiohead on the Amnesiac album...
If I mention something like the "4-2-4" and "4-2-8" trick (instead of the quicker 5/4 and 7/4), even that is only the tip of the iceberg of what is possible...
Really enjoyed the video I had practiced some of these examples before. Just a suggestion maybe next time show some of the examples in notation as it won't seem so "cluttered" the pentatonic one would've been perfect. But maybe I'm just used to seeing it that way and you where trying to teach a different audience. Nonetheless great lesson keep it up!
Can I suggest doing a video on having the discipline to practice? This is something that a lot of people need, and the topic would no doubt do you well to fulfill the samurai sterotype :P
That's really tough. I don't know how to instill work ethic in someone. It was built in to me at a young age and I have never struggled with that. I am sure there are ways to improve that and work on it, but honestly I have no idea how to teach that. Sorry mate.
No worries :)
Your "don't pursue your dreams" video sort of inspired me to be more disciplined like Quantametric was saying. So thanks for that I guess
@@samuraiguitarist The Zen Guitar book you mentioned would help that situation. Great Great book to get the head space right
Well done Samurai! Greetings from Ecuador. One thing to change: in the dim7 chord the structure it's 1-b3-b5-bb7 not 6. I know you mention it but I think you shouldn't have used 6. The rest it's brilliant. I'll definitely share it! Good vibes from the center of the earth!
7:00 - I think what you're dancing around here is that that stray Bb can be regarded as a passing note. And as you noted, blues is all about having those wonky notes sort of "guest star" in your presentation.
That last tips chord progression blew my mind, what the hell?!
wow Im so lucky to find a channel with good music theory loll eventhought I don't get all of it but so good to know :)))
Hey Sensei, something that I would definately be interested in is alternate time signatures. That stuff might not be so guitar specific, but I remember watching jesus christ superstar with its 5/4ths and 7/4ths all over the place (I especiallly loved "everything's all right"). Btw I love your videos!
Thanks dude
Your singing was actually quite nice 😊
Thanks for this great video. I've been thinking about the diminished climb and correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like what you are describing are different inversions of the diminished chord.
Exactly that, you got it!
noticing some gainz!!
Dude, you really should do more theory videos
I liked your voice! Thanks for the video!
I knew you were a John Mayer fan! Yes!
The Bb note works over G7 because it is a blues note (b3), the key is to get off of it and not hang on it. If you slide it up a half-step, you get that nice bluesy sound
In case no one has mentioned before, one reason that the Bb works over the G7 in C, is that it is enharmonically equivalent to an A#, which is the extension of a #9. This is a relatively colourful extension of the chord, giving that "blues" sound, but in jazz is quite a common technique.
I learned a couple new things and formalized my descriptions of a bunch of old things.
I always saw the minor IV chord as simply a case of improved voice leading - almost always used as part of a minor plagal cadence, you then have the flat 3rd that drops by a semitone to the 5th of the tonic chord rather than a full tone as with a major plagal cadence - go from major IV to minor IV to I and you then have a voice leading down chromatically which is essentially the best voice leading possible
I'll be back to this video after I've indulge with some mode application work. Really intrigued about the chord substitutions. What essential knowledge would you recommend around that specifically other than the 4 essential pillars of theory? ✌️
Would be awesome if you could expand on improv over dominant chords us altered scales and other improv notions.
You sang fine, good video.
awesome information....no bullshit...precise.. best channel for guitar....