This is crazy, i play those chords everyday with out even knowing they are called chromatic mediants😂, i need to learn theory! Thanks alot Warren! now I can play them more with some knowledge about what am playing
I’m mostly self-taught and I totally agree! I’ve been playing for 20 years, and I realize that a lot of what Warren has taught (as well as others) I’ve been doing for years, but I didn’t know the theory behind it.
I am studying this video for two hours straight... It has a lot of interesting voicings and many other stuff... And what made me come here is transcribing "Stairway to heaven". They make this movement right in the beginning of the song, when they use D major as a passing chord to get from C to Fmaj7. The song is in Am. I am so glad to discovered this and you helped me understand the concept even better! Thank you! Greetings from Serbia
I agree 100%! This is the best explanation of chromatic mediants on the net! He took it from classical to neo soul! Warren has a very wide background and understanding of music.
Dude, just going your channel earlier this evening and I've binged your videos for like 2 hours. They have already cemented my knowledge of music theory topics I've had struggled with understanding. God bless!
Piano Lesson with Warren praise where praise is due dear sir! And your teaching skills are really good - learned a lot on how to teach from you. But no way, will I ever sing like you. Wow!!! And without preparation, you just start and hit the notes and harmonies! Amazingly (no pun intended) graceful
MAN MAN MAN MAN!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE *****BRILLIANT***** - You are the BEST teacher I have seen and I have been searching piano tutorials for years. This video is like GOLD!! Thank you so much for sharing your advanced knowledge and skill for others to learn, it's so valuable to those who need it. Take care and Lord bless.
This lesson was super helpful! I knew roughly "how" to use chromatic mediants, but this taught why it works, which better teaches how to apply the use. Thanks!
Thanx for your videos Warren!! The exemple on "amazing grace" is on point, i'm gonna do it as an exercice to practice all tones. Humbly, Ravel and Debussy are "impressionism music" (end of 19th century to 20th) and Tchaikovsky "romantism" as you said, at least it's what we learn in France. Much love, thanx for sharing knowledge !
Really well explained. Made much more sense than there other videos on UA-cam about chromatic mediants. You are a fantastic teacher the way you describe things. I appreciate your skill.
I'm more an bassist/guitarist, not that good at keys/piano, but man - this video opened my mind! Thank you so much. Also that second keyboard visualisation and highlighting does a fantastic job to understand what you are doing! You have a new subscriber!
Excellent explanation of a deep subject. Some of this was over my head (okay, half of it was over my head) but I think with some practice and several views of this tutorial I'll have an understanding of key modulations that I've sought for a long time.
Once again thank you so much warren for this piano channel its like I won the lotto with this channel anyway is it maybe possible if you can make a piano tetorial of holy spirit fills this place by Martha Manizi im not sure if the surname is spelled correctly but ja can you please look into it warren
Love the way AND the speed you explain the things. I am thrilled that i found you...along with bass, piano is the most beautiful instrument of the universe. You'll see me sticking around😍
Took me some time to understand chromatic mediants but it’s such nice theory to add to my music knowledge and see if i could use it . Thanks alot Warren
Had to watch this a couple of times to ‘get it’ now I have, thanks to your brilliant explanation and examples - especially that neo soul vibe! Really grateful 👏🏾.. thanks.
Hi Warren, many thanks for the lesson and for taking time to add to our vocabulary. Thanks for your courses too, you are one of the best players and teachers on UA-cam. I was wondering if you are going to do courses on how to be an auxiliary keyboard player, like learning to play behind the main pianist using different keyboard voices. I would appreciate it if in the future you create a course like that. 👏 👏
Thanks so much for this video! I've watched like a dozen videos explaining this and still couldn't fully understand it. I had to rewatch your video a few times too, but I finally figured it out! Your video was the least confusing one! 👍 I'm a guitar player as well.
Very very helpful. I'm working on my understanding of these concepts for use in my progressive rock guitar compositions. Your explanation and examples really advanced my understanding.
Omg! Warren you just transformed my musicality and life experience exponentially! Now I have a deeper understanding of opera,classical gospel and neo soul! You da Man! I'll have to send you an Edmonton Alberta, sunrise or sunset. Where do I send the photos?
Hi Warren! Nice video! I learned the chromatic mediants that have no common tones to the original key as doubly chromatic mediants. Have you ever heard this?
Question for ya, please. For the chord of Cmaj, I go down two steps in the C major diatonic scale and get A. So, therefore, Amaj is a chromatic mediant chord to Cmaj. How then does Ab get to become also a chromatic mediant chord? Same idea with going up two steps to E makes the chord of E but also Eb. How does that work? What is the 'rule' there? PS, thanks and so glad I ran across this video. I've been studying modulations in general and have spent a good bit of time on specifically the Chromatic Mediant modulation. I am still struggling and waiting for that light bulb to come on. Thanks again!!!
These are the criteria for chromatic mediant 1. Both root chords are separated either by a major third or minor third. 2. Both chords shares at lease one chord tone.
Love your videos ! Thank God for your vids it's helped me heaps with my playing ! You explain it & show it in a way that I can understand 🙌🏾 keep up the great vids God bless 😁
Excellent lesson, Warren. Especially good is the practical application of the theory. Minor point - Debussy and Ravel are technically Impressionist, not Romantic...
Vico Re thanks for watching, and yes I’m very much aware of Debussy’s and Ravel’s technical period - I sometimes miss things while on camera. Never the less, the technique is employed extensively in their music.
@@PianoLessonwithWarren Hey, you've inspired me to go back and review my music history for mediant modulations. I'm pretty sure Wagner used them, and Dvorak, too. Maybe Mahler? Also, in more contemporary context, isn't the beginning progression in Yesterday by the Beatles considered a mediant? Also I think Creep by radiohead?
Vico Re yes, yes, and yes, 😊 your music history is definitely on point. The chromatic mediant I believe really started in late classical era, even probably with Mozart (I’d need to review that) but definitely with Beethoven. Then the romantic guys ran with extensively, most definitely can be heard all over Wagner’s symphonic works. Beetles and Radiohead also used it - Radiohead pulled a lot of inspiration for “classical” pieces.
Hey Warren! Can you make some tutorials about skills and accompagnement, runs and rifts , and some improvisation skills , it will be very fruitful !!! Thanks😁 And i really enjoy learning piano with you Thanks🙌🏻
Hm, film composer Junkie XL enlisted examples of going Em → E and Em → Ebm as using mediant relations. And I wanted to ask what does term non-diatonic chords in this lesson, or maybe there's a lesson about that too? Quick search lead me to chromatic/diatonic scales, but that's probably a bit different topic. Great lesson btw, thank you :) You're amazing.
Alexey Filippenko non-diatonic chords are chord not belonging to the key. Example: if you’re playing in the key of C, Eb Major would be a non-diatonic Chord
I don’t understand how you went from the [Eb maj7 13 chord] to the [Bb maj7 13 chord] to the [Db maj7 13 chord] back to the [C major7 13 chord] in the Neo Soul chord progression. Could you explain how this works?
@@klevens5496 Neo Soul music isn’t based on tonality or traditional rule of harmony, which is why it’s considered vibe music. You can literally combine chords of any quality, from any tonality. It’s like impressionist music
Just happened on your video looking for something else and I was hooked. In the neo-soul progression, was there any particular relationship between the E flat chord and the B chord as it pertains to chromatic mediant, or was it just a way to keep the phrase going?
Hi there! I found this video really helpful!.. but I have a question about the chord progression at the end. I can't seem to connect the Bb via thirds to the C or Eb.. it seems to jump in from nowhere. I think Im missing something. It sounds great though so I'd like to be able to replicate it. Cheers in advance!
I know this response is really late and you may have already figured it out... but the Eb and Bb are a 5th relationship. I don't think Warren was trying to imply that the chords he played were a chain of Chromatic Mediants, but two chromatic mediant pairs. Hope that helps.
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Plain and simple, Warren you are the best. You don't hold back. Many performed with minimal explanation. GOD IS BLESSING YOU.
valroy anderson you’re welcome 😉
This is crazy, i play those chords everyday with out even knowing they are called chromatic mediants😂, i need to learn theory! Thanks alot Warren! now I can play them more with some knowledge about what am playing
Rodney Muganzi awesome 😎🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
I’m mostly self-taught and I totally agree! I’ve been playing for 20 years, and I realize that a lot of what Warren has taught (as well as others) I’ve been doing for years, but I didn’t know the theory behind it.
God bless you and your motivation to give. May it never run dry.
Faith Dandaura thank you brother 😊👍🏽
Simply the best piano tutor on UTube. I am going to spend a few weeks on this tutorial. Thank you Warren
Love the way that you use the chromatic mediants as a passing chord! Great job!
Thanks for watching Juan 😊👍🏽🙏🏾
I am studying this video for two hours straight... It has a lot of interesting voicings and many other stuff... And what made me come here is transcribing "Stairway to heaven". They make this movement right in the beginning of the song, when they use D major as a passing chord to get from C to Fmaj7. The song is in Am. I am so glad to discovered this and you helped me understand the concept even better! Thank you! Greetings from Serbia
Thanks for watching 🙏🏽
WOAW THANK YOU. I AM SO GLAD I FOUND YOU. I AM ONLY 3 MONTHS OLDIN MUSIC AND ALREADY I AM DOING SO WELL. THANKS TO YOU.
Ishmael Obeng Ampong. You’re welcome brother 😊👍🏽
Every time I find a something new about music I find your there with the answer thanks!
I'm a guitar player, and your vids really helped me to have a better grasp of theory! Thank you so much Sir Warren! :D
Zild Tinio you’re welcome 😉
I'm learning my theory too for pedal steel guitar, I love gospel too.
Hi Warren This is obviously the best explaination I' ve ever heard about this delicate concept. Thank you so much !!
Awesome 😎 thanks for watching
I agree 100%! This is the best explanation of chromatic mediants on the net! He took it from classical to neo soul! Warren has a very wide background and understanding of music.
Dude, just going your channel earlier this evening and I've binged your videos for like 2 hours.
They have already cemented my knowledge of music theory topics I've had struggled with understanding. God bless!
Thanks for watching ☺️
Woah when he started to sing I got shivers! Not only a brilliant player but an awesome singer too.
Awe thank you 🙏🏾
Piano Lesson with Warren praise where praise is due dear sir! And your teaching skills are really good - learned a lot on how to teach from you. But no way, will I ever sing like you. Wow!!! And without preparation, you just start and hit the notes and harmonies! Amazingly (no pun intended) graceful
MAN MAN MAN MAN!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE *****BRILLIANT***** - You are the BEST teacher I have seen and I have been searching piano tutorials for years. This video is like GOLD!! Thank you so much for sharing your advanced knowledge and skill for others to learn, it's so valuable to those who need it. Take care and Lord bless.
PG Tips thank you 🙏🏾 glad the video help.
I love how technical u get, I've taken more music theory than I need, u make it so easy to understand. props to ya...
Spiracy The GREAT thank you for watching 😊👍🏽🙏🏾
This guy is actually so good at explaining things
This lesson was super helpful! I knew roughly "how" to use chromatic mediants, but this taught why it works, which better teaches how to apply the use. Thanks!
Thanx for your videos Warren!! The exemple on "amazing grace" is on point, i'm gonna do it as an exercice to practice all tones.
Humbly, Ravel and Debussy are "impressionism music" (end of 19th century to 20th) and Tchaikovsky "romantism" as you said, at least it's what we learn in France. Much love, thanx for sharing knowledge !
You are an amazing teacher. Thank You Warren!
Thanks sis, appreciate you watching 😊🙏🏾👍🏽
Really well explained. Made much more sense than there other videos on UA-cam about chromatic mediants. You are a fantastic teacher the way you describe things. I appreciate your skill.
His teachings are incredible. Cnt wait to get his courses. Thanks Warren 💯🙌🏼🙏🏼
I'm more an bassist/guitarist, not that good at keys/piano, but man - this video opened my mind! Thank you so much. Also that second keyboard visualisation and highlighting does a fantastic job to understand what you are doing!
You have a new subscriber!
Be blessed Warren. always a blessing for us.
Olivier Tasinda you’re welcome 😉
Another great lesson, Warren. The explanation of passing chords and common tone modulation really opened my ears. Thanks again for all your work.
Paul Pulati thanks for watching 😊🙏🏾
Excellent explanation of a deep subject. Some of this was over my head (okay, half of it was over my head) but I think with some practice and several views of this tutorial I'll have an understanding of key modulations that I've sought for a long time.
Warren thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and making it so easy to understand God bless you
Once again thank you so much warren for this piano channel its like I won the lotto with this channel anyway is it maybe possible if you can make a piano tetorial of holy spirit fills this place by Martha Manizi im not sure if the surname is spelled correctly but ja can you please look into it warren
Warren you are amazing God almighty will take you higher 👆
Love the way AND the speed you explain the things. I am thrilled that i found you...along with bass, piano is the most beautiful instrument of the universe.
You'll see me sticking around😍
Yes, the piano is a magnificent instrument and also the bass 😊👍🏽🙏🏾
My goodness those chords are 11:10 are amazing, thank you for this brother!!
Bro you are amazing! This was something my theory teacher had trouble teaching to me, I get it now thanks to you! Thanks and God bless!!! 🤗
Took me some time to understand chromatic mediants but it’s such nice theory to add to my music knowledge and see if i could use it
. Thanks alot Warren
You’re welcome 😉
Progressions at 11:15 and 14:22 sounds so tasty! Thank you for your tutorials, they are super useful!
using the chromatics as passing but extending is so nice.
Another video to help improve my skills.....
Thanks alot Mr Warren, your channel is my daily source of knowledge......
Ray Mond thanks for watching 😊
I'm speechless... Thank you brother!
Tan Sebastian you’re welcome brother
Warren you are really doing a great work and God richly bless you.am really blessed and have really learnt a lot. God bless you again
Thank you 😊🙏🏾👌🏾
Nice sound using Chromatic Mediants. I just tried one going from Cmaj7 to E7/b9 Fma7/9. As you said, the E7/b9 sounds good as a passing chord.
tmusic8 nice 😊👍🏽
Thanks.
I enjoyed all ur tutorials, I'm a Liberian.
boye Taylor awesome 😊👍🏽🙏🏾
Had to watch this a couple of times to ‘get it’ now I have, thanks to your brilliant explanation and examples - especially that neo soul vibe! Really grateful 👏🏾.. thanks.
tantif1 you’re welcome 😉
Ciao Warren. Thank you for your lessons!
Powerful, so in relation to a tonic chord, first degree being minor or major
dude I'm a guitar player and your vids are helping me so much
Oh wow, that’s awesome and well to the channel 😊🙏🏾👌🏾
Thank you. I was wondering how to use chromatic medians in black contemporary music
Hi Warren, many thanks for the lesson and for taking time to add to our vocabulary. Thanks for your courses too, you are one of the best players and teachers on UA-cam. I was wondering if you are going to do courses on how to be an auxiliary keyboard player, like learning to play behind the main pianist using different keyboard voices. I would appreciate it if in the future you create a course like that. 👏 👏
Tafadzwa Mupfururi sure thing man, will definitely add this to the list😊👍🏽
Awesome Warren!
Thanks Warren !!!! so useful
Now I know what chromatic medians are. Thank you for sharing.
Many thanks. Some really nice things to experiment with here.
Thanks for watching
Very informative and educative tutorial. Am learning a lot.
Patrick Njue you’re welcome 😉
Thanks so much for this video! I've watched like a dozen videos explaining this and still couldn't fully understand it. I had to rewatch your video a few times too, but I finally figured it out! Your video was the least confusing one! 👍 I'm a guitar player as well.
Glad to there the video helped, thanks 😊🙏🏾
Very very helpful. I'm working on my understanding of these concepts for use in my progressive rock guitar compositions. Your explanation and examples really advanced my understanding.
The method of common tune modulation are so cool！！！
Omg! Warren you just transformed my musicality and life experience exponentially! Now I have a deeper understanding of opera,classical gospel and neo soul! You da Man! I'll have to send you an Edmonton Alberta, sunrise or sunset. Where do I send the photos?
Roylin Picou thanks for watching bro. You can send to war85ren@gmail.com
Thanks alot brother. Am blessed by this
Hi Warren! Nice video! I learned the chromatic mediants that have no common tones to the original key as doubly chromatic mediants. Have you ever heard this?
No I’ve never heard of that, but could be true, will have to look it up.
Awesome. Thanks Warren.
thanks you very much you are the best teacher thanks for everything iam from argentina
Thank you ❤️
Question for ya, please. For the chord of Cmaj, I go down two steps in the C major diatonic scale and get A. So, therefore, Amaj is a chromatic mediant chord to Cmaj. How then does Ab get to become also a chromatic mediant chord? Same idea with going up two steps to E makes the chord of E but also Eb. How does that work? What is the 'rule' there? PS, thanks and so glad I ran across this video. I've been studying modulations in general and have spent a good bit of time on specifically the Chromatic Mediant modulation. I am still struggling and waiting for that light bulb to come on. Thanks again!!!
These are the criteria for chromatic mediant
1. Both root chords are separated either by a major third or minor third.
2. Both chords shares at lease one chord tone.
Great lesson Warren. Basically your borrowing chords from the parallel scale? Example Cmajor/parallel scale "c minor"
Yup, that’s exactly it 😊🙏🏾👍🏽
really like the sound at 11:10!!
Yes another way to make your music sounds rich!
Yes 😊 thanks for watching
Love your videos ! Thank God for your vids it's helped me heaps with my playing ! You explain it & show it in a way that I can understand 🙌🏾 keep up the great vids God bless 😁
You’re welcome bro 😊🙏🏾
Thank you for this! Clearly explained and easy to understand. 👍
You’re welcome 😊✌🏽❤️
This is amazing. Thank you Warren. And many thanks to "Jingle Bell Rock" for the circle grafix..
Nick Bauer 😊👍🏽
That was a nice explanation !
Thanks bro 😊👍🏽🙏🏾
You are a great help for the initiated
Very good explanations
WOW! I like the way you explain
Riddy NANIZAO 😊👍🏽
Thank you so much. May God bless you and enrich you with more knowledge
Thanks for the video! 🔥🔥🔥
Very good. Thank you.
Excellent lesson, Warren. Especially good is the practical application of the theory. Minor point - Debussy and Ravel are technically Impressionist, not Romantic...
Vico Re thanks for watching, and yes I’m very much aware of Debussy’s and Ravel’s technical period - I sometimes miss things while on camera. Never the less, the technique is employed extensively in their music.
@@PianoLessonwithWarren Hey, you've inspired me to go back and review my music history for mediant modulations. I'm pretty sure Wagner used them, and Dvorak, too. Maybe Mahler? Also, in more contemporary context, isn't the beginning progression in Yesterday by the Beatles considered a mediant? Also I think Creep by radiohead?
Vico Re yes, yes, and yes, 😊 your music history is definitely on point. The chromatic mediant I believe really started in late classical era, even probably with Mozart (I’d need to review that) but definitely with Beethoven.
Then the romantic guys ran with extensively, most definitely can be heard all over Wagner’s symphonic works.
Beetles and Radiohead also used it - Radiohead pulled a lot of inspiration for “classical” pieces.
Very enlightening. I have learnt a lot here and I have subscribed. Thank you.
Samuel Peckman thanks for watching 😊👍🏽🙏🏾
Hey Warren!
Can you make some tutorials about skills and accompagnement, runs and rifts , and some improvisation skills , it will be very fruitful !!!
Thanks😁
And i really enjoy learning piano with you
Thanks🙌🏻
Pierre Helou thanks for watching, but I do have lots of video materials that cover this stuff on my website pianolessonwithwarren.com
WOWWWW! You are AMAZING! Thank you so much!!
Great,, God bless you
Help me understand discover chromatic chords and how to use them
Great job on this!
I love you sir
I have been following you since I started learning the keyboard now I can play not very baf
so cool thank you Warren
emile milton 😊🙏🏾👍🏽
Thank you very much my mentor I have always want to know more about chromatic median
Ezekiel Saleh you’re welcome 😉
Nice one Warren.. Keep up the good work
I like this. Do you have theory lesson bro? Is it possible for you to upload them
Thanks for watching. You can get lots of theory knowledge from all my UA-cam videos
Good that sounds better. can the Cromatic mediants be used In any song?
Michael Darko oh yeah 😎
I thank you very much for this wonderful lesson but I have a question is it possible to describe augmented and diminished with chromatic Mediants
I don’t believe I’ve ever used those chords in that context
Great instruction my friend! I really like finding informative channels. 'Subscribed'
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Thanks! Lucid explanation.
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Hm, film composer Junkie XL enlisted examples of going Em → E and Em → Ebm as using mediant relations.
And I wanted to ask what does term non-diatonic chords in this lesson, or maybe there's a lesson about that too? Quick search lead me to chromatic/diatonic scales, but that's probably a bit different topic.
Great lesson btw, thank you :) You're amazing.
Alexey Filippenko non-diatonic chords are chord not belonging to the key. Example: if you’re playing in the key of C, Eb Major would be a non-diatonic Chord
Nice. I've got to learn, no master, those!
Have you done any tutorials on the pentatonic scales?
Felicia Gatende check this out ua-cam.com/video/8K36Oxtuyaw/v-deo.html
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Thanks. You respond fast.
Great Job man I love it
kennedy ng'ang'a you’re welcome 😉
Hey Warren, do you have a patron account? I have learned so much from you.
Unfortunately I don’t. But I have these:
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Venmo: @warren-mcpherson-1
pls can u do a tutorial on Mcreynolds - God is good and TD Jakes - Majesty .. i love the way you explain and play your version of any song
great job thank you
I don’t understand how you went from the [Eb maj7 13 chord] to the [Bb maj7 13 chord] to the [Db maj7 13 chord] back to the [C major7 13 chord] in the Neo Soul chord progression. Could you explain how this works?
@@klevens5496 Neo Soul music isn’t based on tonality or traditional rule of harmony, which is why it’s considered vibe music. You can literally combine chords of any quality, from any tonality. It’s like impressionist music
@@PianoLessonwithWarren Thank you!
Can u make vedios on fingers excersize
Theanks Very much no doubt it's very helpful
Just happened on your video looking for something else and I was hooked. In the neo-soul progression, was there any particular relationship between the E flat chord and the B chord as it pertains to chromatic mediant, or was it just a way to keep the phrase going?
Yes, the Eb/D# is the chromatic mediant of B
@@PianoLessonwithWarren Thanks! I definitely missed those two being related.
Thanks, man!
Hi there! I found this video really helpful!.. but I have a question about the chord progression at the end. I can't seem to connect the Bb via thirds to the C or Eb.. it seems to jump in from nowhere. I think Im missing something. It sounds great though so I'd like to be able to replicate it. Cheers in advance!
I know this response is really late and you may have already figured it out... but the Eb and Bb are a 5th relationship. I don't think Warren was trying to imply that the chords he played were a chain of Chromatic Mediants, but two chromatic mediant pairs. Hope that helps.
@@supahsean6710 thank you!