Beautiful. Those progressions sound familiar but I would never have figured out exactly how they were constructed without your clear and elegant explanation. Thank you.
Murray Blake , Hey , hoping that you are making good progress . It is important to understand that tritones are not effective if or whilst you are singing and playing simultaneously. See my reply to the presenter to learn more. He is a great musician and I meant no negativity towards him , just my input. Take care and keep practicing. 👍👍👍
I was introduced to jazz and took jazz guitar for a year. Took jazz piano for a year. Not a pro but this may help.some.people new to the genre. Today. Today I tried to play Db scale over a G7..largely discordant..Sounded like a good idea at the time. I noticed if you modified the chord to ..lets say a G7b9 which is nothing but an Ab B D F..that works better. I also the alt scale over it..my trick is start first 4 notes as the 1/2 wholescale..then whole scale. G Ab Bb B Db Eb.F G. So I think that this would be a good compromise. Root b9 #9 3 b5 #5 b7 Root. I think this scale is one that every struggling musician should learn. it is very typical of modern music from the 30s up. Best to start with A quick hack that I have used to find this scale is to b all the notes of C to get the altered scale. Say. C Bb Ab Gb Fb Eb Db C. Read this backwards in ascending form.. It becomes the altered scale.C Db Eb E Gb Ab Bb C. This works in all 12 keys. So So I've read in numerous articles that all the necessary notes of the C7 Dom chord.Root 3 b7 or C E Bb are unchanged and I notice that the 5 is missing.This is because the unnecessary. It is often modified. The altered scale does all this. It has b9, #9 etc. Knowing this one scale helps us probable better than amy scale..except we must know all 12 scales..That pattern takes a few seconds..about 5 . 2 and a half 3 and half . 2 1/2. 3 and. 3. 1/2..All for now.
It's hard to even find good teach here in north New York! Many musicians sure, but bad teachers. This guy is an exceptionally good teacher! I quit my real lesson with a female jazz musician because she has no plan and no skill at teaching, every lesson was a chaos and frustration, I played the piano for 20 years but not I feel more handicapped than before. Also, at least there is UA-cam access in Ukraine, China blocks UA-cam!
Really informative video. I finally understand tritone substitutions. I really like the part about how you don't really need to change the chord but can use the tritone scale over the original chord. Way cool stuff. Thanks.
This initial approach you showed with the dominant shell voicing makes so much sense now. I always thought when analyzing old blues pieces that artists would just use dominant shell voicings descending chromatically , but in fact they are just playing the 1-4-5 blues progression with the Triton sub.
Wow, I am a piano major and have always loved Jazz and wanted to learn. Unfortunately, teachers and students will not take the time to help and explain tricks sometimes. I am so glad I decided to watch your videos, I am so overjoyed and I can't wait to use these on my compositions. This gives me motivation for I now have a greater view on jazz playing, and composing thanks to your videos. Thank you so so much!!!😁
Sure thing. Also check out my Jazz Piano series here on UA-cam (totally free, just search for mangoldproject and jazz piano course and you'll find the playlist easily).
@@MangoldProject Yes, I already viewed all of the course and will apply that information to my jazz playing. Thanks again sir, I look forward to looking at the rest of your videos.
I have never been quite happy with the sound of a tritone chord substitution however your illustration of harmonizing the melody with a tritone arpeggio is wonderful. Just one more step in the process, Ddoohhh...! Thank You!
This is the third time in two days that I have watched this video and I still find something useful. There are concepts here that I have not been able to fully understand until I saw this video. Thanks for sharing!!!!
Best explanation of tritone substitution on UA-cam! A song using this concept is "the Girl from Ipanema". Also appreciated the tritone melody soloing part.
Front door 7alt backdoor 7+11 back door tritone sub these chords are mirror images of each other and interesting because both chords contain 2 tritones 3rd and 7th as well as root and +11. This puts them both into the modes of melodic minor. Chromatically altered harmony is powerful.
I really enjoyed this and your other videos. Superb explanation of tritone substitutions. I am a tenor sax player and find pianists and guitarists explain music theory in a different light when compared to sax players. You are a great teacher; explaining the concepts clearly, slowly and concisely. I can tell you WANT musicians to improve themselves! The sax is a melody instrument but still music theory helps me every day in the practice shed!
That’s very helpful. Thank you. I’m a guitarist, not even close to being a “jazz” guitarist, but that was a perfect explanation even I can apply to my playing.
Great video ...really helpful having the notation displayed above the keyboard ...just a simple bit of theory can make so much difference to your playing
This is indeed beautiful. There was a time when the tri tone was considered forbidden in musical composition. I’m glad that notion was abandoned many years ago.
It is basically a Neapolitan and has the same feel, at least in terms of classical, tonal harmony. Thank you very much for your explanation and sharing.
Tritones are good if you are playing classical or an instrumental , mostly jazzy. If you are singing and playing , then your singing might go offtune or the singer that you are playing for and that singer will give you a sinister or angry look, lol. A hint , you can do a tritone on only one additional key , either ascending or descending whilst someone is singing without leading that singer into offtune . Single note of tritone but not the fingered chord either left or right of the keyboard or piano. Thanks for your input on tritones, great video.
Very interesting! I encountered this thingy many times and loved it but had no name for it, now I do! Thanks a lot! This is a great way to jazz up your songs.
Great video. So far though, you haven't mentioned that this substitution technique creates chromatic movement, which is always a good thing in jazz, and many pop styles, too (especially in the first musical example at 9 minutes in)
Thank you for this. even though I know about this for a while now, I really like how you presented it compared to the the other "Definitive Tritone Guide" from some other loud you tubers. This is what I point students to listen and watch. My experience is when they see this video they get it right away since no one is "shouting" the concepts.
Musical theory is mystically interesting. Maybe it's just me. It border on boring because of the dry nature of it but it's interesting to know why things are going on. The jazz piano chords always alluded me.
rawstarmusic I am writing this because you are exploring the jazz gendre. This video lesson begins to open up jazz to to you, if you mine it depths. if you read this over and over it will help you. I am texting so there may be some typos This is a little involved but can be learned in one sitting at the piano. Two things to point out, the flatted fifth note of the diatonic scale is the tritone. cdefg (scale of c up to fifth note) flat the fifth or go up six semi tones or go up three semitones. all land you on the coveted , much espoused , gotta know , tritone. in c it will be gflat. There is a special relationship with the tritone it is basically a half step above where you would go in basic music theory. I may be playing in c I play a g flat7 instead of a g7. the notes of of a gflat 7 chord are( gflat bflat dflat f flat) . . Now this is key,.Jazz revolves and lives and breathes with the circle of fifths. So in you were playing a song and c was the five chord it will resolve to the one chord which is the f chord. Remember this chord it is your target chord. But the jazz has has chromatic movement.. Now I break things down to the simplest way I can understand it.. getting back to the chord.. take the gflat seven. I'll write them again ( gflat bflat dflat fflat). Now remember that our Target chorf in this example will be fmaj 7 or possibly another dominant. Flatting all the notes . ( the gflat will be f, the bflat will be a, the dfat will be c the f flat or e note will be eflat.) if you take a note book by your piano I recommend a spiral. and write this down and make the gflat 7 and drop all notes by a semitones or half step, there right before your eyes will be the home chord of f ( this will be a dominant seven faceflat and you can change this to fmaj 7, face.)) jazz musicians are the among the most advanced musicians in the western world. They hone their skills day and night. Many grew up playing classical. I have a little back ground in jazz but is not my forte also play a little jazz guitar.
I've been watching your videos for a long time and I've always been impressed. Have you deliberately adopted a approach with your latest videos as I'm finding them easier to follow and you seem to be achieving a wonderful blend of theory, application of theory and some beautiful playing. Your piano sounds beautiful too, what is it and have you recently had it tuned because it sounds very sweet. Final question I notice what appears to be a European power strip, so where in the world are you? Thank-you again for sharing your wonderful skills with us, I'm sure you will live on in UA-cam for many decades.
It's not a real piano, it's a Roland RD700GX. They need to start paying me sponsorship fees or something :). I'm from Israel. We have European style electrical outlets here (we're also 220V).
Or the sharp fourth. Or three whole tones stacked on top of each other. Or two minor thirds stacked on top of each other. The last one is the way I like to think of it. Then there's also the interval between the fourth tone "Fa" and the seventh tone "Ti" and visa versa -- f to b or b to f.
Example: E and Bb is a tritone. They could be the 3rd and 7th of a C dominant 7th or they could be the 7th and 3rd of an F# dominant 7th. F# and C are tritones. Therefore C7 and F#7 can substitute each other.
10:57 - I found here something about my question Which chords sound best (with high tension) against other chords :) Scale substitution,interestiong :> G7 with g-mixolydian and c#-mixolydian More, more tensions please :D
Beautiful. Those progressions sound familiar but I would never have figured out exactly how they were constructed without your clear and elegant explanation. Thank you.
We'll put! I don't need to comment after YOUR 'clear and elegant' words.
Yet you did anyway
exactly, they were everywhere and i just understand the explanation just now.
See nh
almost a decade ago people on youtube didnt explain this well and i gave up but this is nice
A completely practical and incredibly well taught explanation free of needless jargon or breakneck speed. Many thanks.
I can't tell you how much this has turned the light on for me. I've been playing 21 years and this is like a second wind for me. Thank you so much!!!
After watching this at least 3 times, it has really settled in. Thanks again for your wonderfully clear and unpretentious lessons.
You have shown what we hear pro players do but never understood... fantastic.
Murray Blake , Hey , hoping that you are making good progress . It is important to understand that tritones are not effective if or whilst you are singing and playing simultaneously. See my reply to the presenter to learn more. He is a great musician and I meant no negativity towards him , just my input. Take care and keep practicing. 👍👍👍
I was introduced to jazz and took jazz guitar for a year. Took jazz piano for a year. Not a pro but this may help.some.people new to the genre. Today. Today I tried to play Db scale over a G7..largely discordant..Sounded like a good idea at the time. I noticed if you modified the chord to ..lets say a G7b9 which is nothing but an Ab B D F..that works better. I also the alt scale over it..my trick is start first 4 notes as the 1/2 wholescale..then whole scale. G Ab Bb B Db Eb.F G. So I think that this would be a good compromise. Root b9 #9 3 b5 #5 b7 Root. I think this scale is one that every struggling musician should learn. it is very typical of
modern music from the 30s up. Best to start with A quick hack that I have used to find this scale is to
b all the notes of C to get the altered scale. Say. C Bb Ab Gb Fb
Eb Db C. Read this backwards in ascending form.. It becomes the altered scale.C Db Eb E Gb Ab Bb C. This works in all 12 keys. So
So I've read in numerous articles that all the necessary notes of the
C7 Dom chord.Root 3 b7 or C E Bb
are unchanged and I notice that the 5 is missing.This is because the unnecessary. It is often modified. The altered scale does all this. It has b9, #9 etc. Knowing this one scale helps us probable better than amy scale..except we must know all 12 scales..That pattern takes a few seconds..about 5 . 2 and a half 3 and half . 2 1/2. 3 and. 3. 1/2..All for now.
thanks very match
i live in the small city in Ukraine
its so hard to find good teacher
i hope so you be my teacher trough youtube
Tritone devil horns at 5:06
It's hard to even find good teach here in north New York! Many musicians sure, but bad teachers. This guy is an exceptionally good teacher! I quit my real lesson with a female jazz musician because she has no plan and no skill at teaching, every lesson was a chaos and frustration, I played the piano for 20 years but not I feel more handicapped than before. Also, at least there is UA-cam access in Ukraine, China blocks UA-cam!
@@reggaefan2700 lolol
Thank you God for having this channel in my life
I feel the same way
Or.. you know.. thank this guy maybe?!
Are you sure you want to thank god? Tritone devil horns at 5:06
“You could have just summoned a frickin demon, in my frickin kingdom”
tritone voicing cheers
Danielll
Very good explanation, clear and simple. The bass line goes smoothly without jumps, creating a beautiful polyphony with a melody and harmonic filling.
Really informative video. I finally understand tritone substitutions. I really like the part about how you don't really need to change the chord but can use the tritone scale over the original chord. Way cool stuff. Thanks.
yes same love it
Im so late but now I truly understand how jazz styles do those descending half step voicings, this is bloody amazing
Jazz is worth persusing.
Great video. So far this is one of the best Tritones explanations and demonstrations I have viewed on UA-cam. Well done.
This initial approach you showed with the dominant shell voicing makes so much sense now. I always thought when analyzing old blues pieces that artists would just use dominant shell voicings descending chromatically , but in fact they are just playing the 1-4-5 blues progression with the Triton sub.
Came back to this video 3 years later and took away a whole different lesson - thank you!
Wow, I am a piano major and have always loved Jazz and wanted to learn. Unfortunately, teachers and students will not take the time to help and explain tricks sometimes. I am so glad I decided to watch your videos, I am so overjoyed and I can't wait to use these on my compositions. This gives me motivation for I now have a greater view on jazz playing, and composing thanks to your videos. Thank you so so much!!!😁
Sure thing. Also check out my Jazz Piano series here on UA-cam (totally free, just search for mangoldproject and jazz piano course and you'll find the playlist easily).
@@MangoldProject Yes, I already viewed all of the course and will apply that information to my jazz playing. Thanks again sir, I look forward to looking at the rest of your videos.
I have never been quite happy with the sound of a tritone chord substitution however your illustration of harmonizing the melody with a tritone arpeggio is wonderful. Just one more step in the process, Ddoohhh...! Thank You!
Ive heard of tritone substitutions for years but havent had them clearly laid out and explained until now, cheers!
Glad to be of help.
I always learn something when I come to this channel. Thank you.
This is the third time in two days that I have watched this video and I still find something useful. There are concepts here that I have not been able to fully understand until I saw this video. Thanks for sharing!!!!
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
I'm pretty savvy on realistic theory in music....you opened my eyes..I was always aware of the idea...you made it crystal clear....
I have been searching for a very long time for an explanation that I could understand. Thank you
Very helpful and straightforward explanation of this seemingly complex topic
BEST HARMONY CHANNEL ON UA-cam PERIOD
Many thanks, Daniel.
Best explanation of tritone substitution on UA-cam! A song using this concept is "the Girl from Ipanema". Also appreciated the tritone melody soloing part.
I really enjoy your videos. They're clear, concise and immensely informative. Thank you so much.
This is exactly what I'm learning right now, this is a great lesson and a big help! Very excited about going right back to practice, and even writing.
Front door 7alt backdoor 7+11 back door tritone sub these chords are mirror images of each other and interesting because both chords contain 2 tritones 3rd and 7th as well as root and +11. This puts them both into the modes of melodic minor. Chromatically altered harmony is powerful.
Best explanation I have ever heard of tritone substitutions.
I think this is the most accurate lesson for tritone substitutions. Thanks.
Thanks Reynold! I do my best to be comprehensive without dragging it out.
I really enjoyed this and your other videos. Superb explanation of tritone substitutions. I am a tenor sax player and find pianists and guitarists explain music theory in a different light when compared to sax players. You are a great teacher; explaining the concepts clearly, slowly and concisely. I can tell you WANT musicians to improve themselves! The sax is a melody instrument but still music theory helps me every day in the practice shed!
best piano learning channel I have come across on UA-cam.
Thank you Compi.
That’s very helpful. Thank you. I’m a guitarist, not even close to being a “jazz” guitarist, but that was a perfect explanation even I can apply to my playing.
Cool. I always consider guitarists watching this channel a small victory!
This was excellent. I struggled with years to grasp the idea of the tritone substitution but i reckon this one lesson helped the most!!
Glad to know my video helped you out.
the presenter is very articulate and organized.
Hello sir, I just wanna tell you that I like your videos I learn very easily with you. Keep doing this job. May God bless you
Thank you sir!!!.....I've finally learnt tritones and no one could explain it to me.im very happy!!
Great video ...really helpful having the notation displayed above the keyboard ...just a simple bit of theory can make so much difference to your playing
Thank you for your explanation, it was wonderful and make me understand a lot about tritone substitutions and it usage. Thank you.
Mangold. Dude! This is by far my favorite video this year!!! Wow!
Thanks!
Thanks! I've never understood this concept until now. Great explanation.
This is indeed beautiful. There was a time when the tri tone was considered forbidden in musical composition. I’m glad that notion was abandoned many years ago.
This was extremely helpful I knew there was a way to simplify these complicated cords 3rd and the 7th!
It is basically a Neapolitan and has the same feel, at least in terms of classical, tonal harmony.
Thank you very much for your explanation and sharing.
Thanks for a great lesson. Just knew of 'tritone' as an interval, but never really explained how to practically use it!
Great explanations! now I can full-time understand tritone subs! Thank you very much.
You always point out very interesting things!!!! Great video lesson!!!🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
At last I get it......I'm a bass guitar player and it took a piano lesson to have me understand tritone substitutions...thanks so much..:-)
Glad to help out :)
Very cool sound with the Db lead over the G chord at the end. I play guitar instead of keys, but this is definitely useful in stepping up my game.
Tritones are good if you are playing classical or an instrumental , mostly jazzy. If you are singing and playing , then your singing might go offtune or the singer that you are playing for and that singer will give you a sinister or angry look, lol. A hint , you can do a tritone on only one additional key , either ascending or descending whilst someone is singing without leading that singer into offtune . Single note of tritone but not the fingered chord either left or right of the keyboard or piano. Thanks for your input on tritones, great video.
Very interesting! I encountered this thingy many times and loved it but had no name for it, now I do! Thanks a lot! This is a great way to jazz up your songs.
Very useful and insightful video! Thanks
Very nice! This opened my eyes, thank you! :) God bless your projects!
Your explanation is just perfect! Very very good teacher. Thank you.
Luv how this dude teaches. 1 of YTs best
What a gifted teacher! Gift to us. Thanks!
All your videos are awesome, and are very informative, a great teacher.Thankyou.
Your explanations are so clear. Thanks.
Great video. So far though, you haven't mentioned that this substitution technique creates chromatic movement, which is always a good thing in jazz, and many pop styles, too (especially in the first musical example at 9 minutes in)
Thank you for this. even though I know about this for a while now, I really like how you presented it compared to the the other "Definitive Tritone Guide" from some other loud you tubers. This is what I point students to listen and watch. My experience is when they see this video they get it right away since no one is "shouting" the concepts.
Thanks.
(I can't shout or I'll wake people up ;) )
@@MangoldProject I meant shouty. You have a gentler approach and is effective/
Another great video ^_^ thanks a lot Assaf for your ultimate work, I've been watching your videos since 2009.
All best to you.
Peace from Baghdad.
Thanks Saif. Peace back from Israel!
Thanks brother, God's blessings to You all :)
Thanks for a very clear description of this concept!
You have some good thoughts there. I've been trying to make tritones work and you've given a good example of some things to
work on. Thank you.
Tritone substitutions ... my favourite. Great clip
Thank you bunches for sharing this, sir. This is really improving my understanding as a self-taught
At last someone who explains! Thank youuu
thank you mangold projects for helping me learn👏
My pleasure. More good stuff planned for the upcoming weeks :)
Musical theory is mystically interesting. Maybe it's just me. It border on boring because of the dry nature of it but it's interesting to know why things are going on. The jazz piano chords always alluded me.
rawstarmusic I am writing this because you are exploring the jazz gendre. This video lesson begins to open up jazz to to you, if you mine it depths. if you read this over and over it will help you. I am texting so there may be some typos This is a little involved but can be learned in one sitting at the piano. Two things to point out, the flatted fifth note of the diatonic scale is the tritone. cdefg (scale of c up to fifth note) flat the fifth or go up six semi tones or go up three semitones. all land you on the coveted , much espoused , gotta know , tritone. in c it will be gflat. There is a special relationship with the tritone it is basically a half step above where you would go in basic music theory. I may be playing in c I play a g flat7 instead of a g7. the notes of of a gflat 7 chord are( gflat bflat dflat f flat) . . Now this is key,.Jazz revolves and lives and breathes with the circle of fifths. So in you were playing a song and c was the five chord it will resolve to the one chord which is the f chord. Remember this chord it is your target chord. But the jazz has has chromatic movement.. Now I break things down to the simplest way I can understand it.. getting back to the chord.. take the gflat seven. I'll write them again ( gflat bflat dflat fflat). Now remember that our Target chorf in this example will be fmaj 7 or possibly another dominant. Flatting all the notes . ( the gflat will be f, the bflat will be a, the dfat will be c the f flat or e note will be eflat.) if you take a note book by your piano I recommend a spiral. and write this down and make the gflat 7 and drop all notes by a semitones or half step, there right before your eyes will be the home chord of f ( this will be a dominant seven faceflat and you can change this to fmaj 7, face.)) jazz musicians are the among the most advanced musicians in the western world. They hone their skills day and night. Many grew up playing classical. I have a little back ground in jazz but is not my forte also play a little jazz guitar.
Wow, I understood here more than in my mother tongue, thank you for your good explanation:)
thank you! very clear and simple; desmystified a lot of things I saw in other videos; honest and insightful explanation!!
Very helpful. Please make more videos about tritone substitutions!
It was really helpful for me to understand something what I really wanted to know.
It's so easy to understand!
Thank you!
You're welcome Don.
Thank you for your eloquent lesson & the gift of knowledge. You're a rockstar & I'm a fan. - you have my sub.
Excellent lesson maestro!
You make it so simple to understand. Thank you! ❤
Wow I really love your explanation and style of teaching, thanks for making these
Thanks! Glad you found the video useful.
Now *this* is something that I had no idea about. This is so amazing!
Best explanation I’ve seen, thanks !
Mind blown. I'm SO using these all over the frikkin place now.
Yes, it's one of the cornerstones of jazz harmony. Be careful not to *overuse* it, though, as often happens when we learn new ideas.
THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR, your videos helped me a lot..keep making videos it will help us to be a good musician.
Very clear and informative. Thank you :)
aaaaaaaaaahhhh so that's where that sound comes from!
Haha exactly what I thought
Thanks man I'm a bass player but you really explained this well!!!
Your lessons are so good.
Thank you very much for the clear explanation in all your videos Great !!!
YESSS......that was an excellent tutorial....I learnt so much in 15mins so thanks
Excellent exposition of the concept of tritones.
Lesson: how to wistle while playing jazz voicings 😂
It's not shown on screen, but I was also doing by taxes simultaneously.
@@MangoldProject The main thing is make sure your taxes are accurate..
You are such a damn good teacher. Thank you brother!
Imagine a chord progression going E - B flat constantly. Would that be annoying?
Really awesome video. Just put some many pieces of the puzzle together for me. Thanks for the great instruction!
My pleasure.
Thank you so very much for sharing this with me....
I've been watching your videos for a long time and I've always been impressed. Have you deliberately adopted a approach with your latest videos as I'm finding them easier to follow and you seem to be achieving a wonderful blend of theory, application of theory and some beautiful playing. Your piano sounds beautiful too, what is it and have you recently had it tuned because it sounds very sweet. Final question I notice what appears to be a European power strip, so where in the world are you? Thank-you again for sharing your wonderful skills with us, I'm sure you will live on in UA-cam for many decades.
It's not a real piano, it's a Roland RD700GX. They need to start paying me sponsorship fees or something :). I'm from Israel. We have European style electrical outlets here (we're also 220V).
So, simply stated, the Tritone = the flatted 5th?
Correct.
Or the sharp fourth. Or three whole tones stacked on top of each other. Or two minor thirds stacked on top of each other. The last one is the way I like to think of it.
Then there's also the interval between the fourth tone "Fa" and the seventh tone "Ti" and visa versa -- f to b or b to f.
@@josephbrandenburg4373 It also perfectly divided the octave 😊
Basically, the blue note of the root note
Example: E and Bb is a tritone. They could be the 3rd and 7th of a C dominant 7th or they could be the 7th and 3rd of an F# dominant 7th. F# and C are tritones. Therefore C7 and F#7 can substitute each other.
A real eye-opener! Thanks so much!
Thanks Sir from Spain. I belong to classic style but I'm learning a lot.
Glad to have you on board.
10:57 - I found here something about my question
Which chords sound best (with high tension) against other chords :)
Scale substitution,interestiong :>
G7 with g-mixolydian and c#-mixolydian
More, more tensions please :D
thanks. love your videos. Would love more great composers styles covered. Especially romantic and expressionism periods. A humble please.
Thanks, been having trouble getting it to sound right, but it sounded great tucked into a 2 5 1 progression, so I guess context helps.
Very well done instructions. Thanks you so much for sharing.
You're welcome, Craig.
mind = blown,thank you for showing this concept to me!