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I too like the old songs. I think we are close to the same age, but unfortunately I didn't start piano lessons until almost 5 years ago. I went through 3 levels of the Alfred series along with level 4 of Snell. I asked my teacher about switching to songs I want to play, and he was all for it. I started with Misty from the Dan Coates songbook. I'm currently working on Vincent by Don McLean and Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered. I have a bunch of songs I've collected, mostly old but also a few newer ones that I'm looking forward to learning. A newer song which is patterned after the older standards is Until I Found You by Stephen Sanchez. It’s a great song and very nostalgic-sounding. It’s next on my list too.

Don't get me wrong, I like the examples which you presented but in general the "reasons" you are giving are not of any value really. Let me explain -- your video is similar to comments "oh, the best movies were in 40s", or "those new games are so repetitive, the best era was 90s", or (literally taken from what I've read today) "those were the times (70s), the level of satire was unbeatable". What is common here -- you/me/commenter were young. This is the most powerful force, the things you experienced in youth -- first trip, first radio you got, etc. because those were the best times, right 🙂 Not absolute value 50s, 60s, 70s, but the relative ones "you were young". But it is kind of obvious, after all, and I don't think it needs too much additional justification other than that.

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Thank you for that lesson - where can I find that version of the American Songbook? I found one which has guitar leed sheets - the chords also not exactly being the same as shown here...

Not all music is trying to take people on a 'musical journey'. This video is simple-minded nonsense.

Bar 8, C over B, is an early use of Cmajor7, normally considered a JAZZ chord !!!

Thank you for your videos, they are always interesting and useful. However, in this video, it would be important to indicate in the information the link to the next video with the continuation of the subject as you informed in the video. I tried to find the continuation of this video in your list and couldn't find it. Thanks.

Excellent lesson, very enlightening in terms of harmony and chord progression. I'd honestly like you to make a part 2 of the very same song, with even more advanced (jazzy) ways to play it. Not just the chords, also the way the melody is played more creatively. Please....

could never figure out for sure what the Ebdim/G was. Thank you. Good video.

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Very interesting! There is a video from David Benett I think it was, where he made a statistic about how modulations went completely out of fashion with most years in the last 2 decades not having even one modulating song in the hit parade, not even a more standard modulation than this one.

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So Daisy Duke did composing?

I have always been awestruck by the chord progressions in this piece. You have some unusual fingerings, though! And if I were to be really picky, according to his son, Carl Philipp Emmanuel, J S Bach would only use thumbs for large stretches. Nevertheless, an enjoyable video. Thank you.

First of all: Great video. Just allow me with all due respect to mention a few things. Let me insert some context here, because this is the way I used to analyze baroque music before, but now after I have been studying thoroughbass and partimento, I see it very differently and if one is viewing it simply in chords, you miss a lot of things that are going on in here. The opening gambit is a suspended bass clausula which simply is a fancy way of saying that the soprano cadence 1-7-1 is happening in the bass voice. If it were to be played conventionally the bass would have to be tied as to prepare the dissonant 2 and 4 intervals above. However, the playful way Bach works around this rule is that he is arpeggiating the chords and always plays the bass first and the following notes technically aren’t dissonant because of this. This “hack” or “trick” becomes the MO for the rest of the piece where he makes this the rule of the game to let the bass drag the others a long and do a lot of things that would have to have preparations here and there but again since he is arpeggiating, he gets away with it. After the opening he is doing many standard voice-leading patterns of the time, one of the most ubiquitous musical ripostes to an opening gesture is the Prinner, in which the bass walks down and modulates to G, which is exactly what Bach is doing. Mm. 12-15 is something called a Fonte and the prelude ends with a Quiescenza. It’s a very beautiful piece, but a lot of standard elements for its time. The most interesting part is how he is using the arpeggios in that creative way. But he wouldn’t have seen it as chord progressions. He would have seen it as different standard bass movements with characteristic intervals above. That’s why you have these awkward seventh chords in weird inversions.

Interesting that your comment ends on the word 'Journey'. The prelude is a journey from the first chord establishing time and space. Then you can almost tell yourself any story and the music will fit its arc.

Shouldn't the 6th chord in the progression be D7/C?

Thanks for another great video

Hello sir Your videos are so informative. Thanks . Have one doubt. My kid is playing keyboard chords on left hand. But you played in this video on right hand. Which hand is good for playing right or left?

JS Bach Prelude in C…pure sonic bliss.

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Love this song! Would you be able to tell me what the difference is between G6 and Em/G because I thought G6 was the chord after Am.

An entire course on borrowed chords…great idea! 🙏🏼

The note/key which denotes a B in English is a H in German. The Bb in English is just B in German. So, JSB being German he could (and did) write his name into his pieces. B A C H Hence his English name is actually: Bb A C B 🤔🤣

Thank you, needed to hear this man

Is this mainly a piano exercise video? Could you do a video to show how to apply them to a song?

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3:20 Yes, but what if your example is a *_true_* modulation resolving to a borrowed chord from the previous key, with the borrowed chord actually receiving the tonicisation treatment?

Thank you, Sir. I learned the different modulation names and processes. It would be more beneficial to provide the sheet music of the examples you cited. Love from India

Why not showing your face because of a missing tooth since you are going to look exactly like a piano loll

As you mentioned - they are arpeggiated block chords. If you play some of the progressions using block chords on a pattern of 4/4 or the like - you hear just how incredibly modern/jazz sounding these sophisticated chord progressions are. It had never been done before. And it's never been done better since. I've been telling people for years - just the first prelude alone has more harmonic sophistication and beauty than anything in the modern era.

I just tried YouTubing a lesson on the circle of fifths and a manic man started yelling and going insane about “THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT. 🤪EVEN A KINDERGARTENER CAN LEARN THIS. 🤩 FIRST WE’RE GONNA DO THIS🥳🥳🥳 ” I immediately stopped it and clicked on the kindest looking older gentleman and look at that. You are so chill and I’m yeah I still have questions but that’s not new. I’m still paying attention. Thank you kind man!!!

Firstly, this is NOT "one of the most famous piano pieces ever written". Bach wrote for harpsichord or clavichord, the piano arrived after he died. Secondly, despite the video's title, nowhere have you explained "Why Bach's Prelude is a Masterclass in Chord Progressions", you simply took us through the various chord progressions and stated they were not the usual I, V, VI, IV for example. A diversity of harmonies alone does not justify using "masterclass", you have to provide a proper explanation but didn't even state any criteria! Time to change the title of the video to something less misleading like "The Chords of Bach's famous C Major Prelude".

Very interesting. I’m currently working with the wheel of 5ths and transposing simple songs into every key. Seeing chord progressions as a function of the wheel is a fascinating, new way of understanding its uses. Thanks so much!

Your videos are truly excellent and valuable. I am having all kinds of ideas playing around on the exercise ideas from your two suspended chord videos. Cant wait for the next installment. "Do harmonised 6ths like in country or the Elton John runs!" -Your fan Dan from Ireland.

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Great lesson master , was so come when you run the scales....

Can you sent a copy of the lead sheet how you play Misty sir. Thanks

WOW - brilliant

The way you teach is absolutely brilliant, Can you label your videos in sequence so we can learn in a progressive manner. it makes easy to follow. Thanks keep up the good work.

Excellent video but the Mozart example, a minor to C major is parallel mode. Is that really a modulation? But there's a part when it modulates to A major later on.

Where do I find the finger exercise book?