Tomasso; the description of the bass harmonics and the over-laying chords; honestly, I love hearing about those things, when looking at the interraction of notes and their respective registers.
Thank you, Tomas. Wonderfully clear explanation as always! I'm self-taught and I've been subscribed for a few months now. Love all your lessons - I always learn something from you and you inspire me to try out new ideas.
I sometimes like to write 7th chords as "upper structure/bass" instead of the normal notation. E.g. instead of Gm7 I might write Bb/G. One reason would ve as a reminder to myself when playing piano to only play Bb triad with my right hand instead of playing all the notes of Gm7 with my right. Or similarly if I arrange for a band and want to clarify to the guitarist to play a Bb chord instead of a Gm7 :)
You are a great motivating teacher, I new practically all the stuff since I play guitar and bass, but I stayed until the end just because it was so much fun to watch. =) Loved the D/A chord!
Good stuff as always. Here is a good time to point out to those who need to read it: A 5 interval is always an inverse 4 interval and vice versa. So you could see G/C as a 4th, adding the 4th of G as the bass. m2 is M7, M2 is m7, m3 is M6, M3 is m6, P4 is P5, root is tritone of tritone.
When notating the Steely Dan cord, when does an A/D become a Dmaj9. In 'Josie' I refer to them with the / notation but i have heard people refer to them as major 9ths
Depends. Strictly speaking, if there is an F# in that chord, it's a Dmaj9. If there is no F#, then it's an A/D ;-) But some people use them interchangeably.
Maybe worth mentioning (and demonstrating, obviously) in an upcoming video /#2 that it allows to build melodic bass lines, smoothly descending or ascending behind an otherwise bumpy chord progression. Cheers,
What Music theory lesson isn't instantly made better by having an English speaking teacher with an Italian accent !!? ( It is an Italian accent, isn't it ? )
Fell into the trap a second time - I had actually watched this video like a year ago. I came here expecting to hear the virtues of a C / D / G chord progression or a Bb / F / C but all in Eb tuning
"I had actually watched this video like a year ago" I shot this video a couple weeks ago, so I don't see how it's possible - unless you can see into my future UA-cam ;-)
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar I think maybe I can - LOL. But seriously : someone 100% did a video using the Slash joke reference. And there also I fell for it.
And here I was clicking the video thinking "what so special did Slash do that a theory lesson should be about his chords". "You don't play the A, you play the G. Let the bass, whatever instrument it is, play the A. Play as high as you can." And what did the guitarists do? Come up with an 8-string guitar. But do people mix this with inversions? Because you could easily consider an inversion to be "this different note of the triad in bass".
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Tomasso; the description of the bass harmonics and the over-laying chords; honestly, I love hearing about those things, when looking at the interraction of notes and their respective registers.
Thank you, Tomas. Wonderfully clear explanation as always! I'm self-taught and I've been subscribed for a few months now. Love all your lessons - I always learn something from you and you inspire me to try out new ideas.
Your a great teacher bro!! Theory has never been so easy and sweet your on it man. Please keep up the fantastic work!!
True fact: When Slash plays slash chords they're just called chords.
true reductive lol
lovely to watch and easy to learn, keep up the good work.
You're a great teacher, Tomas. I've been getting so much out of your lessons, being a self taught guitarist. Thank you.
I sometimes like to write 7th chords as "upper structure/bass" instead of the normal notation.
E.g. instead of Gm7 I might write Bb/G.
One reason would ve as a reminder to myself when playing piano to only play Bb triad with my right hand instead of playing all the notes of Gm7 with my right.
Or similarly if I arrange for a band and want to clarify to the guitarist to play a Bb chord instead of a Gm7 :)
You are a great motivating teacher, I new practically all the stuff since I play guitar and bass, but I stayed until the end just because it was so much fun to watch. =) Loved the D/A chord!
Inversions open up a whole new world to guitarist. Great topic to dissect! Thank you!
Good stuff as always.
Here is a good time to point out to those who need to read it: A 5 interval is always an inverse 4 interval and vice versa.
So you could see G/C as a 4th, adding the 4th of G as the bass.
m2 is M7, M2 is m7, m3 is M6, M3 is m6, P4 is P5, root is tritone of tritone.
Did you study Analysis?
@@Bubba-zu6yr I have simply absorbed all knowledge that I can. So, I've never taken a course on analysis, I've just analyzed.
I like to use 1/3 chords as a substitute for dim7 passing chords. For example: Ebmaj -> C/E (include G on B string) -> Fmin
Super cool!!
love the simplicity
Thanks master
When notating the Steely Dan cord, when does an A/D become a Dmaj9.
In 'Josie' I refer to them with the / notation but i have heard people refer to them as major 9ths
Depends. Strictly speaking, if there is an F# in that chord, it's a Dmaj9. If there is no F#, then it's an A/D ;-) But some people use them interchangeably.
Damn I really thought you was talking about slash the guitarist
7:25 Instructions unclear. Played it while I'm high.
Thanks. Good stuff
Great video!
Perfect timing. 👍
One question: What if i want to play arpeggios. Would you call it e.g. G/ A arppegio or. A9sus4 ?
Either one is good :-)
You love it, music! I dig that.
I tried cmaj7th then a ab on bass with cmaj7 with an f on top then a7 with g on top to dminor. It sounds very sad.
I believe slash chords also allow easy notation for some walking bass lines, like Am, Am/G, Am/F, E etc.
Definitely! As in King Crimson's "Moonchild", or the intro to XTC's "Dear God"
Maybe worth mentioning (and demonstrating, obviously) in an upcoming video /#2 that it allows to build melodic bass lines, smoothly descending or ascending behind an otherwise bumpy chord progression.
Cheers,
6:40 I see what you did there ;)
aaah thank you so much, finaly I get it after so much fog around it
What Music theory lesson isn't instantly made better by having an English speaking teacher
with an Italian accent !!? ( It is an Italian accent, isn't it ? )
It is indeed :-)
Fell into the trap a second time - I had actually watched this video like a year ago.
I came here expecting to hear the virtues of a C / D / G chord progression or a Bb / F / C but all in Eb tuning
"I had actually watched this video like a year ago" I shot this video a couple weeks ago, so I don't see how it's possible - unless you can see into my future UA-cam ;-)
@@MusicTheoryForGuitar I think maybe I can - LOL. But seriously : someone 100% did a video using the Slash joke reference. And there also I fell for it.
Oh. Well, I just wanted to make a joke, did not expect that it could become clickbait.
@@magusking9215 It's an easy joke to make.
And here I was clicking the video thinking "what so special did Slash do that a theory lesson should be about his chords".
"You don't play the A, you play the G. Let the bass, whatever instrument it is, play the A. Play as high as you can." And what did the guitarists do? Come up with an 8-string guitar.
But do people mix this with inversions? Because you could easily consider an inversion to be "this different note of the triad in bass".
That marker sound is hurting my soul.