I play twice a week at a restuarant jazz and swing alone and I love it even though it has been nearly 5 years since I started. Your You tube explanations have been so clear and concise that even I at nearly 80 can be inspired. Thank you so much for all your hard work in producing this gift to me. I have a LOT of work to do! Thank you.
(No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.Charles Dickens) Good job.Thank you for teaching us .....and sharing with us your knowledge.... Thank you
Whoa, when I started listening and learning jazz theory, everybody blow god tier level harmony to me and use the language like it was a made up one to me and it made my head hurts. But you, you actually made me understand how all of this works more easily. Really appreciate your channel.
I just wanted to say that you are the most helpful piano vid teachers out on youtube. I've learned so much from all your videos! Thank you, keep up the great work and fantastic job!
I'm so inspired by your videos. You're such a skilled teacher and your tutorials are so concise and mind-opening. I'm very grateful to you for posting this valuable info. Many thanks!
Cheers to you as well. They're not 100% gratis, since I get some (small) revenue from ads, but definitely not in proportion to the work I put into them. I consider this a hobby which I just enjoy doing.
I must say, while Jazz as a genre remains mostly inaccessible to me, simply because the sound in most cases just doesn't "reverberate" with me on any emotional level, I tend to always learn most from people with a Jazz background/core-expertise. I have the feeling they have some of the deepest understanding of interesting harmonies out there.
Wow... I finally found the answer to my question in your videos which my guitar teacher couldn't provide. Thank you so much! The last one with Fm was gorgeous.
This is an excellent video. I learned bit and pieces by paying attention on music that I learned over these many years. You summarize in a very easy way to understand.
Mangold: I am strings instrument musician,self taught,and I take advantage of your lessons to improve as a musician (theory) and btw practice my 4th language(english)... I greatly appreciate your disposition,time and your vision professor.
Fantastic video and a great concept to learn . This video has really cleared my many unknown musical arrangements and given me kind of secret about amazing harmony behind any songs. Enjoying Music over the years will now have a new dimension to them. As i always use to wonder how anyone can be so creative and different .[ Sir i am a percussion player in indian music for 25 years and at the age of 50 i have now started learning piano for a year].This video will change my entire process now onwards. Thank you,Thank you so much . God bless you.
If think it's more like "cadences" (I think the english word is "turnaround" but don't nkow if it has the same meaning) and chord progressions than substitutions, isn't it ? Not exactly what I was looking for and quite piano-oriented way to use the changes but still valuable material !
Great! Of course you can find all these things on the internet but only if you know what to look for ;) So thank you for sharing and for the inspiration!
You're welcome, Jasper. People are always a bit reluctant to use big words like Chord Substitutions, but we've all played around with changing chords in songs, so in some sense everybody already has an idea it can be done. It's all about branding it with the right buzzword :).
Interesting lesson to learn; Superb video lessons; i want to learn piano more after seeing your lessons; man gold project is a MUSIC INSPIRATION PROJECT to all music lovers
Very interesting and informative, as so many of your videos are. So a big thanks from me. The only thing I would add is that these are not actually substitutions but insertions, since you're still playing the chord you are supposedly 'substituting' for.
REQUEST...I really really like this video. I watch repeatedly as I try to implement it. REQUEST: Would you please do a video where you take a popular song and implement this instruction using that song? Thanks. (I am using Van Morrison “Have I told you that I love you”) I find that practicing this theory simultaneously FORCES me choose the substitutions that can work ALONG WITH the melody. Very powerful learning.
Wherever there is a progression without a resolution ... Whenever there is a chord that needs to be voiced ... I will be there ... I am ... MangoldProject! :)
I really enjoy your videos and have learned a lot but this one is just fantastic! I have the lyrics and a melody for a song but was struggling with the harmony so this will really help a lot. Thank you very much! Happy new year to you, I hope 2021 is a great year for you :)
Thank you for your short but well explained video. I can play pretty good, but don’t know how to spice anything up. I’m like a robot. Trying to find help, everyone wants $600-$90,000 for their knowledge. So thanks for sharing, I “liked” and subscribed and will put these creative ideas to work right away!
I never learned substitutions before. You've just explained several of my favourite songs (I guess that was obvious). So it seems the term "substitutions" is a bit of a misnomer as most of these are additions. I guess the point is that if you harmonised a tune classically, you could then substitute these chord groups and they would still support the same melody
Thank you very much!!! I have subscribed to your channel and I can tell you for sure that your videos are taking me to that next level that I have been dreaming about for a long time. I am amazed that you are doing this for free. There are lots of videos out there for sale but they haven't helped me much. Please, may you do a video on how to know what key a singer is in, and so to be able to play in that key instantly?
Hi Victor. Thank you for the very kind words, I don't know what else to say :). I've put your idea in my "idea notebook". Can't promise when but it'll get done!
How did you do the part where you went up the piano at 11:11? Do you have a tutorial about the techniques on how to do things like and similar to that? Thanks dude! Keep playin'.
In your diminished substitution, you have to pin-point that any inversion of the dim7 chord also taking part in the mix => instead of Cdim, also works for Ebdim,Gdim & Bbdim which in turn are just a secondary dominant with b9 leading to the II chord(Dm), ergo Cdim is A7(alt to Dm7 !)
Not necessarily. In the strict sense, a passing chord is one which is not on the (diatonic) scale but connects the notes of two chords which are on the scale. For example, the Ab7 which precedes G7 would be a passing chord, but the Dm in the substitution (Dm, G) (instead of just G) would not be a passing chord.
Ow!!! Ok...But on your last answer when I asked about the chords you played at the end of a video (E/C - Csus4/D - G/E), you told they are passing chords... Aren't they in the diatonic scale?
Wahlen BK Muzik Some people refer to diatonic chords as passing chords as well if they "connect" two other chords or harmonic phrases. I guess I subconsciously adopted that view, but I'm not sure it was the best thing to do in retrospect. I find it to be a bit ill-defined - after all, in some sense, all chords are passing chords because they connect the chord before them to the chord after them!
I don't really get the difference between the 2-5 major and 2-5 minor substitutions. They both go to a minor chord right? So, why on the first 2-5 does he say any MAJOR chord can have this sub applied in the first progression? Do 2-5s just apply to any major/minor chord and result in a minor? Great vid all the same, many thanks
Thank you! This is awesome! I play piano every day, trying to sound like a pro but, this was beyond my imagination. Untill now :)thats completely new way to go for me and you put it so easily and logicly, Thank you sir, very much :) one question, with complete understanding, is it possible to create substitutions in real time play? Thank you :)
Hi Jan. Thank you for the very nice comment! Yes, it is possible to create substitutions in real time - it's a skill you have to practice just like any other, and it takes years to perfect. Experienced musicians do it all the time.
I like to think of what he's calling a II V substitution as simply a v of V or the dominant chord in minor form in relation to the dominant or five chord in whatever key you may be in. This is the way I was taught and is why I'm more comfortable with it but there's more than one way to skin a cat.
Hi David. Thank you for the compliment. I've got lots of other videos on my channel which you're welcome to check out. They all try to target the intermediate player. I always felt there aren't enough videos doing that. Or were you specifically referring to more videos on chord substitutions?
MangoldProject Well I am more interested in songwriting or rearranging songs rather than doing faster runs! I'd also like to know when to use certain chords. I know a lot of chords but don't know when to use them. (Something like 13 chords, or 6 chords instead of a plain major chords). Or using substitution chords also helps with creating a better sound. Either way, thanks a lot for your videos.
Hi Mister_Vic. I rarely use real songs because of copyright issues on UA-cam. UA-cam has become very strict over the past few years, with channels getting strikes and shut down. I'd rather play "clean" and make up my own progressions and melodies. I hope you understand.
You forgot to mention that if Ab7 is valid for G7, Db7 is also valid for Cmaj7 which in turns implies a Lydianb7 Scale resulting in Dm7 Ab7(#11) G7 Db7(#11) Cmaj7..
I play twice a week at a restuarant jazz and swing alone and I love it even though it has been nearly 5 years since I started. Your You tube explanations have been so clear and concise that even I at nearly 80 can be inspired. Thank you so much for all your hard work in producing this gift to me. I have a LOT of work to do! Thank you.
Thank you very much for these piano tutorials! I learned a lot.
Joven Navarro
You responded to a comment instead of writing one
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Man, this channel, Rick Beato, MusicTheoryForGuitar + all the others!
What a time to be alive!
Can't thank you enough for sharing your knowledge.
best teacher, clear and concrete explanation, high quality
Thanks Hawk!
There is so much information here for beginning/intermediate players condensed so well, but still perfectly explained.
(No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.Charles Dickens)
Good job.Thank you for teaching us .....and sharing with us your knowledge....
Thank you
So happy that I found this video. It's gonna make songs so much different.
Happy to hear that Alok!
Hands down best pianist UA-camr! Everything is so precise and clear, you explain things very well thank you for your time sir!
I've been looking for this for 30 years.
And I found it. :)
Thank you very much.
Very well explained.
Thanks thanks. :)
Whoa, when I started listening and learning jazz theory, everybody blow god tier level harmony to me and use the language like it was a made up one to me and it made my head hurts. But you, you actually made me understand how all of this works more easily. Really appreciate your channel.
I just wanted to say that you are the most helpful piano vid teachers out on youtube. I've learned so much from all your videos! Thank you, keep up the great work and fantastic job!
This is the most educational piano video I have ever seen.
I'm so inspired by your videos. You're such a skilled teacher and your tutorials are so concise and mind-opening. I'm very grateful to you for posting this valuable info. Many thanks!
MendocinoCoastFilms2 Thanks! Glad you're enjoying them.
This is the most useful tutorial i've ever seen in my life !! Thank you a million times
MrOussamodas Wow that's high praise. It'll be difficult to top that in my upcoming videos, but I'll try :)
Very useful. Hard to believe you offer these tutorials gratis! Here's to you!
Cheers, Mate.
Cheers to you as well. They're not 100% gratis, since I get some (small) revenue from ads, but definitely not in proportion to the work I put into them. I consider this a hobby which I just enjoy doing.
I must say, while Jazz as a genre remains mostly inaccessible to me, simply because the sound in most cases just doesn't "reverberate" with me on any emotional level, I tend to always learn most from people with a Jazz background/core-expertise. I have the feeling they have some of the deepest understanding of interesting harmonies out there.
Wow... I finally found the answer to my question in your videos which my guitar teacher couldn't provide. Thank you so much! The last one with Fm was gorgeous.
Very thorough and you speak well...so i subscribed...Thank You for the instruction best ive seen yet...
This is an excellent video. I learned bit and pieces by paying attention on music that I learned over these many years. You summarize in a very easy way to understand.
Thanks Ron!
You explain very well. I think It`s better if you put numbers like romans (I,II,III, IV, V) for grades of scale, not 1, 5, etc.
Mangold: I am strings instrument musician,self taught,and I take advantage of your lessons to improve as a musician (theory) and btw practice my 4th language(english)...
I greatly appreciate your disposition,time and your vision professor.
This is so beautifully simple.
wonderful! excellent! I find myself clapping the joy of learning new things - which means, your lessons are very effective!
Beautiful! I loved the diminished C, as well as the progression at the end with the Fm!!! Awesome man, thank you 🙏
You're welcome. Check out some of my other substitution videos, such as:
ua-cam.com/video/T2WV80h3P04/v-deo.html
thanks man ! this is really helpful. u among the best teachers on youtube.
Great teacher, shame there are so many fools out there that give this a thumbs down (78) 👎 this guy is awesome thankyou
Meh, don't worry about it. 78 dislikes to 3000 likes is a 2.6% dislike ratio which is actually pretty good.
Thank you so much for all this tips and exemples, you're an amazing teacher
Glad you think so!
You make these things so easy to understand.
Fantastic video and a great concept to learn . This video has really cleared my many unknown musical arrangements and given me kind of secret about amazing harmony behind any songs.
Enjoying Music over the years will now have a new dimension to them. As i always use to wonder how anyone can be so creative and different .[ Sir i am a percussion player in indian music for 25 years and at the age of 50 i have now started learning piano for a year].This video will change my entire process now onwards.
Thank you,Thank you so much .
God bless you.
You're welcome, and thank you so much for the very kind words!
I agree with you, Bharat
Incredible video. So many variations to practice now. I play mainly by ear so using these techniques i can jazz up my repetoire. Thank you my friend.
Hahaha wow , that's so cool been looking for lesson to this harmony stuff. Keep up the good work. Thanks
If think it's more like "cadences" (I think the english word is "turnaround" but don't nkow if it has the same meaning) and chord progressions than substitutions, isn't it ? Not exactly what I was looking for and quite piano-oriented way to use the changes but still valuable material !
karur You say potato, I say potato :). I wouldn't call them turnarounds because they're applicable throughout a song.
Great! Of course you can find all these things on the internet but only if you know what to look for ;) So thank you for sharing and for the inspiration!
You're welcome, Jasper. People are always a bit reluctant to use big words like Chord Substitutions, but we've all played around with changing chords in songs, so in some sense everybody already has an idea it can be done. It's all about branding it with the right buzzword :).
whoah, I've never knew about changing the V for a IVm it sounds really nice, cool trick! thanks!
Great tips, Mangold! Of course, you make it all sound so much better than I can! But I'm working on it. Thanks for all your great videos!
Just take it slow. It's a long journey, nobody starts out sounding polished.
I love all of these substitutions
What a lovely chord progression at the end
Interesting lesson to learn; Superb video lessons; i want to learn piano more after seeing your lessons; man gold project is a MUSIC INSPIRATION PROJECT to all music lovers
Thank you for your kind words.
Great teaching Sir.
Whoa! Just found these videos. This is great. I've been trying to deepen my knowledge of harmony.
Thank you so much for the lessons. It's really helpful.
This is absolutely GOLD! Thank you!!
Mikkel Svendsen Thanks Mikkel, I appreciate your kindness!
Very interesting and informative, as so many of your videos are. So a big thanks from me. The only thing I would add is that these are not actually substitutions but insertions, since you're still playing the chord you are supposedly 'substituting' for.
Dave March There's always the issue of whether changing "Dm Dm" for "Dm G" is considered a substitution or insertion ...
Great lesson!! I really learned a lot from that and am going to try it out on a variety of songs. Many thanks.
Love it so much , Thank you for giving your knowledge. ❤️
REQUEST...I really really like this video. I watch repeatedly as I try to implement it. REQUEST: Would you please do a video where you take a popular song and implement this instruction using that song? Thanks.
(I am using Van Morrison “Have I told you that I love you”)
I find that practicing this theory simultaneously FORCES me choose the substitutions that can work ALONG WITH the melody. Very powerful learning.
Congratulations here from Brazil ! very helpful lesson!
Wow, amazing - thank you for this!
Excellent - clear and practical.
Who are you man??...amazing video....and u're giving it for free...thanks a lot...
Wherever there is a progression without a resolution ...
Whenever there is a chord that needs to be voiced ...
I will be there ...
I am ... MangoldProject!
:)
MangoldProject
Haha...greetings from a jazz loving, tabla player from India !!
Great job! Easy to follow and understand!
Awesome!
Thank you very much for uploading this very helpful video! I am going to practice now. 😀..
I really enjoy your videos and have learned a lot but this one is just fantastic! I have the lyrics and a melody for a song but was struggling with the harmony so this will really help a lot. Thank you very much! Happy new year to you, I hope 2021 is a great year for you :)
Happy new year!
That was great and easy to understand. Thank you!
This is an excellent, concise video. Thank you!
Excellent review! Concise, informative and clear.
Great playing! Also a very helpful video.
Thank you for your short but well explained video. I can play pretty good, but don’t know how to spice anything up. I’m like a robot. Trying to find help, everyone wants $600-$90,000 for their knowledge. So thanks for sharing, I “liked” and subscribed and will put these creative ideas to work right away!
Thank you for all videos, it's been very usefull to me.
Cool! It's always good to hear feedback from viewers ("likes" can only go so far). Happy substituting!
You are genius teacher. thank you!
Very clear, well done
Awesome content and great channel. Thanks!!
So sweet sounding
I never learned substitutions before. You've just explained several of my favourite songs (I guess that was obvious). So it seems the term "substitutions" is a bit of a misnomer as most of these are additions. I guess the point is that if you harmonised a tune classically, you could then substitute these chord groups and they would still support the same melody
its soo beautiful tutorial...thnk u sir....thnx a lot...i always follow ur lesson..
Nicely done! I learned a lot! Thanks!
Glad you found it useful!
Could you also do a video for the minor key?
Thank you very much!!! I have subscribed to your channel and I can tell you for sure that your videos are taking me to that next level that I have been dreaming about for a long time. I am amazed that you are doing this for free. There are lots of videos out there for sale but they haven't helped me much. Please, may you do a video on how to know what key a singer is in, and so to be able to play in that key instantly?
Hi Victor. Thank you for the very kind words, I don't know what else to say :). I've put your idea in my "idea notebook". Can't promise when but it'll get done!
Thanks a lot guy. It's a wonderfull way of understanding
Very Nice Lesson!!
Thanks for sharing your gift 🎁
How did you do the part where you went up the piano at 11:11? Do you have a tutorial about the techniques on how to do things like and similar to that? Thanks dude! Keep playin'.
Aha! It just so happens I do!
ua-cam.com/video/brgs6VAHUsI/v-deo.html
In your diminished substitution, you have to pin-point that any inversion of the dim7 chord also taking part in the mix => instead of Cdim, also works for Ebdim,Gdim & Bbdim which in turn are just a secondary dominant with b9 leading to the II chord(Dm), ergo Cdim is A7(alt to Dm7 !)
sir, that was truly awesome...thanks for uploading....will you please post some more on this again.....thank you very much
Thanks! I want to make lots more, but time is so scarce ... :)
You and all your videos are brilliant. 'Nuff said. :)
Whaaat...Wowwwww....Awesome
Excellent, great help. That last chord progression was beautiful.
Thank you very much for this great video, it really helped me :)
That was amazing thank you
this is excellent thank you
Thanks for the tips. Tell me, the substitution creates passing chords. Right?
Not necessarily. In the strict sense, a passing chord is one which is not on the (diatonic) scale but connects the notes of two chords which are on the scale. For example, the Ab7 which precedes G7 would be a passing chord, but the Dm in the substitution (Dm, G) (instead of just G) would not be a passing chord.
Ow!!! Ok...But on your last answer when I asked about the chords you played at the end of a video (E/C - Csus4/D - G/E), you told they are passing chords... Aren't they in the diatonic scale?
Wahlen BK Muzik
Some people refer to diatonic chords as passing chords as well if they "connect" two other chords or harmonic phrases. I guess I subconsciously adopted that view, but I'm not sure it was the best thing to do in retrospect. I find it to be a bit ill-defined - after all, in some sense, all chords are passing chords because they connect the chord before them to the chord after them!
Great video, very well explained - thank you
Thanks Burf.
Thank you for this useful video :)
VERY HELPFUL
thankyou for these, i really appreciate it.
Very informative, thanks!
You're welcome Nikolas.
Well said sir!
awesome vid, very clear
Thank's a lot, very, very helpful.
Glad I could help out.
I don't really get the difference between the 2-5 major and 2-5 minor substitutions. They both go to a minor chord right? So, why on the first 2-5 does he say any MAJOR chord can have this sub applied in the first progression? Do 2-5s just apply to any major/minor chord and result in a minor? Great vid all the same, many thanks
thank you for this tutorial
Really good. I learnt a lot from this video. Can you please do a video where you start off with a minor scale and then substitute the chords?
That's a good idea, I'll add it to the queue :)
epic tutorial :) thank you
Thank you! This is awesome! I play piano every day, trying to sound like a pro but, this was beyond my imagination. Untill now :)thats completely new way to go for me and you put it so easily and logicly, Thank you sir, very much :) one question, with complete understanding, is it possible to create substitutions in real time play? Thank you :)
Hi Jan. Thank you for the very nice comment! Yes, it is possible to create substitutions in real time - it's a skill you have to practice just like any other, and it takes years to perfect. Experienced musicians do it all the time.
Super helpful!
Super thanks! :)
I like to think of what he's calling a II V substitution as simply a v of V or the dominant chord in minor form in relation to the dominant or five chord in whatever key you may be in. This is the way I was taught and is why I'm more comfortable with it but there's more than one way to skin a cat.
That's another way to look at it. And my cats wish to voice their objection to any skinning :)
This is awesome. Can you please do more of these?
Hi David. Thank you for the compliment. I've got lots of other videos on my channel which you're welcome to check out. They all try to target the intermediate player. I always felt there aren't enough videos doing that. Or were you specifically referring to more videos on chord substitutions?
MangoldProject Well I am more interested in songwriting or rearranging songs rather than doing faster runs!
I'd also like to know when to use certain chords. I know a lot of chords but don't know when to use them. (Something like 13 chords, or 6 chords instead of a plain major chords). Or using substitution chords also helps with creating a better sound.
Either way, thanks a lot for your videos.
Brilliant!
Hi there. I would love to see how the chords are applied on some popular songs. Thank you.
Hi Mister_Vic. I rarely use real songs because of copyright issues on UA-cam. UA-cam has become very strict over the past few years, with channels getting strikes and shut down. I'd rather play "clean" and make up my own progressions and melodies. I hope you understand.
You forgot to mention that if Ab7 is valid for G7, Db7 is also valid for Cmaj7 which in turns implies a Lydianb7 Scale resulting in Dm7 Ab7(#11) G7 Db7(#11) Cmaj7..
Merci beaucoup !