Cracking the Code: The Secret To Learning & Memorizing Chord Changes Quickly
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- www.scottpaddocksaxschool.com / Study sax with Scott Paddock
Are you looking to improve your skills in learning, memorizing, and understanding chord progressions? If so, this video is a must-watch for you!
Join me as I guide you through a straightforward and effective method to analyze chords. By gaining a deeper understanding of how chords interact with each other, you'll find it significantly easier to learn, commit to memory, and seamlessly transpose them into different keys. Let's get started!
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Thank you Scott! This is exactly what i've been struggeling with (for ages:) and this video was definitely clarifying and very helpfull!
Awesome, glad it put some things into focus for you.
Scott is one of my go-to people in the saxophone learning world.
Thanks Phil!!
Thanks Scott. Great simplification of 6251 and transitions
The best teacher. Thanks Scott!
Thank you!!
Thanks, Scott. This was such a nice video that distills lots of important concepts. It's a nice reminder that within a 6-2-5-1 having all common notes you can do things to highlight the chord changes clearly.
Hey Dale! Thanks. Hope you are enjoying your summer.
Have been watching your videos for some time Scott. They are all very revealing as to what lies behind jazz harmony and how to improvise. Will keep watching. A lot of other people presenting this kind of material on UA-cam, but yours is one of the best because it helps you believe you can do this stuff. Robert Parker Alto player from the UK. ❤
Thanks Robert! I really appreciate it.
V clear and understandable - thank you
Great editing. The visuals are so helpful. Thanks Scott!
Thank you!
Great video . I’m very beginner , but am learning from your videos
Hey! If you are beginner, you should check out my Sax School. I have a Beginner Pathway Course and Early Intermediate Pathway Course that will give you a super solid foundation to getting the basics down.
I learned so much from you in my Improv journey. ❤🎷 You are a great Sax teacher!! Thanks.
Thank you 😀
Hey, Scott! I love your videos. You break down theory and make it easier to understand. I have learned so much by listening to your channel. By the way, I play flute. ❤️
Thank you Barbara!
Very interesting, thanks.
Super helpful! Thanks for breaking it down, clarifying, and simplifying. 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Scott. This is superb. I love your channel and your sax school is awesome. I’m in South America with no sax for the next 3 months and your sax school and UA-cam channel is keeping me going. I just have my Emeo with me so it’s difficult. Might try to buy a cheapo sax somewhere. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ Anyway; you, Jamie, Jay and Wally keep my enthusiasm sky high! Thank you.
So glad to hear you are enjoying the Sax School and my UA-cam content. It's nice to be in good company with Jay, Jamie & Wally.
@Scott Paddock Thanks Scott. I came for the refresher course. I've been taught this before. Very clear and concise. Cheers!
Thanks David!
Very clear discussion. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great explanation once again Scott. Taken a lot of the mystery out of chord changes for me. Thank you
Very welcome
Great explanation thankyou
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Thanks Scott. I'm at that point in the sax school where I learned my 2-5-1 scales- this is a great look at where it's taking me!!
Awesome! Yeah, in the Sax School we analyze the chords to every song, and talk about how the tonal centers move, so you'll have this stuff down in no time at all! 🎷🎷
I found this lesson very helpful. I'm trying to learn the chord progressions and 2, 5, 1 progression as you said is very common. I like the way you explained how to analyze the song.
Glad it was helpful!
I am making progress, I actually understood everything you said. Thank you.
That's awesome! There is a bit of theory in this tutorial.
That explains a lot on chord changes. I have to work more on understanding the 2-5-1.
Yeah, once you get 251s down, everything else comes into perspective.
Nice.
A great lesson Scott thank you, do you have one on modes
Thx Scott...I suggest to play the chord progression outline slowly for students to grasp it better...quite fast ❤❤
Thanks Scott this is super helpful and so well explained. Could you do a video on minor 2-5-1's please 🙂
Thanks! Yes, that is on the list!!
Scott I’m a developing trumpet player and I’ve been watching your videos because you’re great at talking straight about learning jazz improvisation theory and practice. Do you (or anyone else for that matter) have any suggestions for any UA-camrs that cover trumpet specific topics regarding learning to play jazz the way you have saxophone specific videos?
Hey, I don't know of any, but I'm sure there have to be some out there!
Merci
You're welcome!
This is the clearest approach to this subject. It will require a mastery of the Nashville numbering system and understanding tone resolution but the V-I is a great place. I am practicing * Oleo , * There Will Never be another you, * There is no greater love,
and * How high is the moon for school. Do you have a video on practice patterns for chords on chord solos?
All great tunes, and lots of 6-2-5-1 chord progressions in those tunes! I actually don't do the practice patterns approach, aside from just straight chord outlines. I think it is a better practice to practice improv solos using chord tones, start off keeping it simple - maybe only do 4-8 measures at a time. With the chord outline solos, you are also going to be hearing how voice leading works.
I am grade 2, so some of it is beyond my skillset but it still was interesting to know.
Yeah, as you get deeper into chords and scales, it will all make sense, but knowing that everything is connected will give you a nice jump start!
Some good shit
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Great video!!!!! Question Are saying the tonal center are D G C F Bb E A and you are emphasizing these notes when improvising??
Thanks
The first tonal center if F... D G C are the supporting chords. Bb is also in F, but is tranistioning to the next tonal center of A... B E are the supporting chords for that tonal center.
Terrific content really well explained. Just one question... when looking at pop/rock/dance tracks which are often in minor keys, how do you avoid the temptation to see the initial D minor chord supported matching key signature and think the tonal centre is D Minor?
Hey Andy! In a pop tune, it's a lot easier to hear the tonic because there aren't as many chords and they aren't shifting around so much. In regards to that D- minor chord, when you see the key signature of 1b (Bb) you automatically think is it Fmaj or Dmin? So then you take a look at the supporting chords & melody to see which one it is. If this were D minor, it would most likely have an Amaj chord somewhere near it, or leading to it. If you see that min7, dom7, maj7 right next to each other in this song, that should be ringing some alarm bells that that is a 251 - which would give you a tonal center. Hope that helps!
@@ScottPaddock thanks for taking the time to understand my question and for explaining so well. I have the greatest admiration for you - a true genius
Scott, what it the Progression is Dm7, G7, CM7, FM7 like in Autumn Leaves, is it then II, V7, IM7, IV?
YES! Exactly. It is a 2-5-1-4 and the 4 transitions to the relative minor for a minor 2-5-1. So in Autumn Leaves, you have two tonal centers in the A section that both have the same key signature, because they are relative major and minor.
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As usual, Scott, I still learn or reinforce something when I watch your videos. My biggest takeaway was the mode a chord might be using. That never occurred to me until now.
What I struggle with is playing each chord in each bar, despite knowing the key center. Though the chord tones of an Fmaj7 is different from a Cdom7, we are STILL expected to shift from chord to chord to play a line that defines the song and I find that challenging.
How do you do this. Is it just years of practice/experience or is there more to it?
Hey! Thanks for the kind words. The easiest way to do it is to practice the chord outline solos. If you do that for about a week, you will get the sound in your ears, and you will automatically gravitate toward it when you are soloing. The more you do it, the more it will happen. If you struggle with using all of the chord tones, just start with the root and come up with a rhythm. Then when that feels good add the 3rd. Then add the 5th. And finally add the 7th. Also, don't practice the chords to an entire song. Start with 4 measures at a time, or one tonal center. Keep adding to it.
@@ScottPaddock that's great advice. I'll dial it back and do JUST THAT. Thanks. I appreciate it.
Scott but how do you know what is the ONE. Without listening or looking at the first and last cord?… Tom
On Green Dolphin Street?
Hey Miles. Green Dolphin gives me trouble when it comes time to improvise. You too eh? I've recently learned how much music can be made just using the roots and 3rds. That's what I did last week with the tune United. This week I'll add the 5ths and 7ths. I'm gonna do this with Dolphin next. Cheers mate!
Green Dolphin Street also has tonal centers, but they work in a different way for the first part of it. For the first 4 measures, you go from Major to Minor. Then you do a chromatic walk down to make it back to the original key. The B section is just 2 different 251s. The C section is 2 different minor 251s followed by a 36251 turnaround. So in a tune like this, you want to analyze how the tonal centers are related/working together. This is a really fun tune to solo over!!!
@@ScottPaddock I was able to work through Dolphin Street with just your comments. Would you be willing to tackle Never Let Me Go?
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