Wowww, i hope this explanation help me for my analysis homework, i don't understand it when my teacher was explaining it. Now i kinda understand how it work....the issue is: how can i know when to put a roman number?? :'v i really don't understand that part.
I got so confused about secondary dominants that I gave up on music studies in my music theory class. Didn't understand them until about a year ago. If I would have had seen this video back when I was still in college my mind would not have been so wrapped up. Outstanding explanation. Well done!
I’ve spent all day watching about 10 different videos on TH-cam about this and didn’t understand it at all but after watching yours it makes so much sense. Thank you, great vid!!
Thank you for this video. You stuck with definitions, showed each derivation step clearly, and let us hear chord progressions both with and without the dominant. WHAT, HOW, & WHY. ❤
This is why I love TH-cam. You get to hear 20zillion people talk about one concept, and between them all, it starts to make sense to me. Attacking from all angles. Regardless of that, really well explained. Nice one
I looooooove this format of explaining a topic. Explaining the subject and then showing an example in conjunction to that explanation. Can't get better! Consider me a new subscriber!
Facts! I've read through numerous books and had teachers teach this, just brushing up and reviewing and dang, i've never seen this explained so succinctly.
Wow finally found a tutorial thats actually helpful, im not looking for harmony for songwriting or guitar, im just looking for a tutorial about just the music theory so i can compose music for anything, thank you for making this
I like this. I was confused about secondary dominant chords, so much so that I decided to just skip them. This gave me simply clarity, thanks for that.
It is taking me long to wrap my mind around secondary dominants as well. The more I read and watch videos like yours, the more interesting it gets. Thank you for your explanation. It helped! God bless you!
congrats man, I really enjoy your explanations. I was wondering about this concept since quite some time but I kept getting confused. this explained it really easily and quickly.
incredible explanation, absolutely beautiful and easy to learn lesson. The example music helped carry the lesson extremely well, and it sounded incredible, one of the few music theory videos I've seen which makes me think "oh, so this is why people use this." just by listening to it.
This tutorial was crazy good, who does tutorials like this? I think you're on to something here. Speech is easy to follow for adhd brain like mine thanks to the enthusiasm with the matching beat.
I love this video! I was stuck on secondary dominants for a super long time until I found this video. I wish there were more theory explanation videos from this channel.
Bro, I just checked Wikipedia for what secondary dominant keys were and it may as well have been in Greek. This took 5 minutes to completely understand what it was all about and I heard what it does. Perfect, thank you.
Very nice and helpful video. Never understood this, even though I play lots of songs that do it. Your explanation along with the graphics and music playing is very very good!
Ok seriously that was one the best explanations for the secondary dominants thank you!! Can you post a video including several good sounding progressions that include secondary dominants for beginners?
i listen to the tutorial before this and talk about a college text book with no end. but you took it to a basic understanding that we can use..............thank you.
Glad it was helpful! A teacher tried to explain it to me in highschool and it took me a few years before it finally clicked, hahaha. Music theory is just a strange concept at first, but it all starts to come together after a while!
plz start making more such videos they are greatly helpful. Others say 1-3-5 are tonic but you said only 1 and 3 or something. I need to learn the tonal harmony, the tension of intervals through which chords changes. plz make more videos
Thank you so much for explaning this. I have seen this topic so much on the web and never really got what it actually is, a really famous passing chord. :-) . Between borrowed chords, passing chords and possibilities to do key changes, I struggle sometimes to see what goes where, so we have somewhat of a s y s t e m in all the theory that is out there. . Thumbs up + subscribed.
I think of secondary dominants like this: In a chord progression where a chromatic chord would add some welcome color from the diatonic chords of the scale, select any degree of the scale, other than the tonic, to which you want to go ("target chord"); but instead of going to the target chord immediately, go to its V7 chord first and THEN to the target chord. So, in key of C Maj, instead of, say, I - IV - vi - V - I (C - F - Am - G - C), where Am is the target chord in the progression, try I - IV - III7 - vi - I (C - F - E7 - Am - G - C) .
Very good videos and really informative i just want to point out that the E in Amin was from the A harmonic minor scale or melodic minor because in natural minor the V is minor and also in Aminor there is a F not a Fmin. You have a really cool video format i wish you best of luck✌🏾👍🏿👌🏿
Exactly, the key of a minor does not have E in it why does every damn video that seems to make sense have to end up contradicting what I already know , gives me a friggin headache , it was all making a lot of sense up until that point but now I’m just annoyed , why is it the harmonic minor ?
@@Robfnord Basically, for some reason our brains decipher minor key differently than major key. Our brains can process the style of minor in named separate categories. Natural, harmonic and melodic minor. Yes its a pain in the butt but at least this ain't biology. YOU can use any of the three kinds of minor keys, there is no set rule. He just happened to use harmonic minor for this example.
Yes, thanks for pointing this out. Definitely an Fmaj instead of Fm Also, naturally it would be an Em, but of course in this example we're finding the V/vii within the Am scale, therefore the Em turns into Emaj I've just started learning all this and finding your vids super helpful (although when finding a mistake whilst learning can be totally warping) Thanks though!
@Marko markec it could be an indicator if the V is minor or major or anything else for specific scales. For example the major scale has I Major IV Major and V Major, but the mixolydian scale has a I Major IV Major and the V is Minor. If you choose to write a piece or a part in/with mixolydian scale you should know and consider these things. But other than that: music is not a set of rules instead a free choice of artistic interpretation and expression. So you are basically free to combine any chords with each other as long as it sounds good (or even not lol). You should just learn the concepts and 'rules' of music 'theory' so you can understand, apply and break them afterwards. Hope that helps.
Great video 👍to the point,nothing wrong with a quick tip to 😺 I actually already know most of this stuff,but u never know ,I learn new stuff constantly 🤘
Quick, but it was perfect. old video but it sure is helpful. My question was about minor progressions being the same as major when it comes to the process of using secondary dominants and you told me right there at the end, lol
Thanks for posting this video. At 2.40 the appears the information that there could be a V/VII (a five of whatever). VII cannot be tonicized because it is a diminished chord.
Hey dude, great vid! I do understand it clearly now. I just can't wrap my head around why the V of Am is a major chord? Isn't it supposed to be a minor fifth for the key of Am? Like isn't that how it's supposed to be or am i missing something?
It's so obvious but took me way too long to realise: if you have trouble finding the secondary dominant of a chord fast, just think of the next step you'd take in the circle of fifths ( if you got an Am chord it would be E for example ) and then just turn that chord into a major chord with a flat 7 (since that's what every dominant chord is)
Awesome explanation. There’s this chord progression I really like on guitar that goes C-E-Am-F-C but I never really knew why the E worked so well (when it should have been Em in the key of C). But I see how that’s the secondary dominant of the Am and that’s why it works
You should edit out the "in Am the V chord is E", because as stands (and as already pointed out by others) the statement is incorrect. No, the v chord (not V) in Am is Em. OR explain the you are "borrowing a chord" from A harmonic minior (in which V = E).
I have spent hours and hours trying to figure out how the fifth chord is E and not Em. I have a little knowledge of music theory and it simply skipped my mind that it could be Harmonic minor scale. Your comment helped a lot. Thank you
@@jcq2505 In harmonic minor scale you raise the seventh note by half step. When seventh is raised, the third from note E becomes major third instead of minor third (4 semitones/steps in harmonic minor scale instead of 3 semitones in natural minor scale). Hence in Harmonic minor, the v becomes V. I hope I am able to explain myself. Maybe it is too late to explain and you already know it. But still responded thinking that it may help. Thanks
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I love how the music plays the chords you're talking about in the background, even when you're not playing the examples directly!
Thank you! Took a page out of film scoring, trying to be fancy 😂😂
bro my professor had so much trouble explaining this to me and now i actually get it LMAO. Thank you much love.
There's a ton of ways to explain it. Some description stick with some people better. Glad I was able to help! Best of luck with your music studies.
Lol
Wowww, i hope this explanation help me for my analysis homework, i don't understand it when my teacher was explaining it. Now i kinda understand how it work....the issue is: how can i know when to put a roman number?? :'v i really don't understand that part.
Same
I love how subtle the background piano is and how it helps illustrate what you're trying to teach! I really love that approach of demonstration
Thank you so much!
wow... your tutorial are gold and the way you explain---- man... a 5 year old can understand....
thank you...
Thanks so much! I really makes me happy that people fine it helpful!
I got so confused about secondary dominants that I gave up on music studies in my music theory class. Didn't understand them until about a year ago. If I would have had seen this video back when I was still in college my mind would not have been so wrapped up. Outstanding explanation. Well done!
my AP theory teacher tried explaining this to me for like 4 hours and this did it in just under 4 minutes, you are truly a blessing thank you 🙏
Happy to help! It’s good to hear it explained a few ways sometimes.
You have an excelent way of explaining music theory in a simple and unpretentious why. Thanks a lot.
I’ve spent all day watching about 10 different videos on TH-cam about this and didn’t understand it at all but after watching yours it makes so much sense. Thank you, great vid!!
That's awesome! I'm glad my video was able to help. Haha 🤣
summed up weeks of university lessons in literally a 5 minute video, thank you!
Thank you for this video. You stuck with definitions, showed each derivation step clearly, and let us hear chord progressions both with and without the dominant. WHAT, HOW, & WHY. ❤
This is why I love TH-cam. You get to hear 20zillion people talk about one concept, and between them all, it starts to make sense to me. Attacking from all angles.
Regardless of that, really well explained. Nice one
THANK YOU!!! The best explanation video I found! Keep going with those short music theory vids.
Finally, it clicks! And with such a simple and straight forward explanation and example. Than you!
I looooooove this format of explaining a topic. Explaining the subject and then showing an example in conjunction to that explanation. Can't get better! Consider me a new subscriber!
This was by fat the best tutorial I've seen on this topic. Straight forward, quick, easy to follow. Subscribed!
Glad it was helpful!!
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Facts! I've read through numerous books and had teachers teach this, just brushing up and reviewing and dang, i've never seen this explained so succinctly.
Wow finally found a tutorial thats actually helpful, im not looking for harmony for songwriting or guitar, im just looking for a tutorial about just the music theory so i can compose music for anything, thank you for making this
so basically you're switching the V to another V of whatever key that you're in. GOT IT! thank you!
This may be the most practical/doable music theory insights I’ve seen in YT. Thanks! 👍🏻
This was very nice and INCREDIBLY clear. Also the brevity is very much appreciated
I like this. I was confused about secondary dominant chords, so much so that I decided to just skip them. This gave me simply clarity, thanks for that.
Precisely what I was looking for today: how to write the functional harmony number of a borrowed chord of another key. Thanks a lot!!
What you explained was more than enough to understand
It is taking me long to wrap my mind around secondary dominants as well. The more I read and watch videos like yours, the more interesting it gets. Thank you for your explanation. It helped! God bless you!
Yea you said it yourself, I’ve been struggling understanding this concept for about 3 months now, this video has helped me FINALLY understand it
congrats man, I really enjoy your explanations. I was wondering about this concept since quite some time but I kept getting confused. this explained it really easily and quickly.
credit to you; i've had to listen to a BUNCH of tutorials on this subject; yours is the first one i've been able to wrap my head around......thx
I was so confused for a while, thank you so much!!! 4 years and still great
incredible explanation, absolutely beautiful and easy to learn lesson. The example music helped carry the lesson extremely well, and it sounded incredible, one of the few music theory videos I've seen which makes me think "oh, so this is why people use this." just by listening to it.
Thank you so much! I’m glad the music helped show how useful the knowledge can be!
Best of luck to you going forward!!
This tutorial was crazy good, who does tutorials like this? I think you're on to something here. Speech is easy to follow for adhd brain like mine thanks to the enthusiasm with the matching beat.
I love this video! I was stuck on secondary dominants for a super long time until I found this video. I wish there were more theory explanation videos from this channel.
Bro, I just checked Wikipedia for what secondary dominant keys were and it may as well have been in Greek. This took 5 minutes to completely understand what it was all about and I heard what it does. Perfect, thank you.
Hahahaha, I'm glad. Theory can be made out to be more complicated than it is I think.
This absolutely blew my mind, thank you for this
No cuz tell me why my teacher made a 45 MIN VIDEO that was mad confusing-- when all I needed was the first 3 mins of this vid !?!?! YOU'RE THE GOAT !!
Ur a true music professor who just focuses on explanation not on money...
Yeah, I just put these videos out there to help out. I don't make any money off them.
Very nice and helpful video. Never understood this, even though I play lots of songs that do it. Your explanation along with the graphics and music playing is very very good!
Ok seriously that was one the best explanations for the secondary dominants thank you!!
Can you post a video including several good sounding progressions that include secondary dominants for beginners?
i listen to the tutorial before this and talk about a college text book with no end. but you took it to a basic understanding that we can use..............thank you.
I'm glad the video was helpful! 😀
This video is a masterpiece! The background music makes everything clear and memorable.
You did a good job of explaining this in an understandable way.
This had to be explained to me five of five times, but I feel like I’m starting to get it. Thank you
Glad it was helpful! A teacher tried to explain it to me in highschool and it took me a few years before it finally clicked, hahaha. Music theory is just a strange concept at first, but it all starts to come together after a while!
plz start making more such videos they are greatly helpful. Others say 1-3-5 are tonic but you said only 1 and 3 or something. I need to learn the tonal harmony, the tension of intervals through which chords changes. plz make more videos
You explained it better than others I consulted.😊
Hey Ian, thank you so much for creating this video. The fun and upbeat music you provided helped me make more sense of the secondary dominant chords!
I have a final right now and this is honestly the best someone has explained it to me thus far haha, so thank you!
Hahaha glad to help. I hope you do well in finals!! They really stressed me out, can't say I'm a fan.
Same! I heard it like a lot of times but finally you made me understand! Thank you soo much
Watching this before my theory final tomorrow as one last refresher on the topic. I really appreciate your explanation. Thanks so much!
Happy to help. Good luck with your exams!!
@@IanODonnell Thanks you!
Thank you so much for explaning this.
I have seen this topic so much on the web and never really got what it actually is,
a really famous passing chord. :-)
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Between borrowed chords, passing chords and possibilities to do key changes,
I struggle sometimes to see what goes where, so we have somewhat of a s y s t e m in
all the theory that is out there.
.
Thumbs up + subscribed.
I think of secondary dominants like this:
In a chord progression where a chromatic chord would add some welcome color from the diatonic chords of the scale, select any degree of the scale, other than the tonic, to which you want to go ("target chord"); but instead of going to the target chord immediately, go to its V7 chord first and THEN to the target chord.
So, in key of C Maj, instead of, say, I - IV - vi - V - I (C - F - Am - G - C), where Am is the target chord in the progression, try I - IV - III7 - vi - I (C - F - E7 - Am - G - C) .
Thanks so much! Virtual learning has been super difficult and this really helped me understand!!!! 😁
This was the explanation that finally got me to understand, tysm
I liked this style i watched this as a refresher
If you ever want to do some more music theory/harmony videos, I think you have a great talent for concise, informative, understandable explanations.
Great explanation, hope you will make more of those musictheory videos.
this should have million views seriously u explained it so easily wow
Thanks a lot
Hahaha, well I'm glad it's helpful nonetheless. 😂
Super clear explanation. Please more music theory videos
Very good videos and really informative i just want to point out that the E in Amin was from the A harmonic minor scale or melodic minor because in natural minor the V is minor and also in Aminor there is a F not a Fmin. You have a really cool video format i wish you best of luck✌🏾👍🏿👌🏿
Thanks man!
Exactly, the key of a minor does not have E in it why does every damn video that seems to make sense have to end up contradicting what I already know , gives me a friggin headache , it was all making a lot of sense up until that point but now I’m just annoyed , why is it the harmonic minor ?
@@Robfnord Basically, for some reason our brains decipher minor key differently than major key. Our brains can process the style of minor in named separate categories. Natural, harmonic and melodic minor. Yes its a pain in the butt but at least this ain't biology. YOU can use any of the three kinds of minor keys, there is no set rule. He just happened to use harmonic minor for this example.
Yes, thanks for pointing this out. Definitely an Fmaj instead of Fm
Also, naturally it would be an Em, but of course in this example we're finding the V/vii within the Am scale, therefore the Em turns into Emaj
I've just started learning all this and finding your vids super helpful (although when finding a mistake whilst learning can be totally warping) Thanks though!
@Marko markec it could be an indicator if the V is minor or major or anything else for specific scales. For example the major scale has I Major IV Major and V Major, but the mixolydian scale has a I Major IV Major and the V is Minor. If you choose to write a piece or a part in/with mixolydian scale you should know and consider these things. But other than that: music is not a set of rules instead a free choice of artistic interpretation and expression. So you are basically free to combine any chords with each other as long as it sounds good (or even not lol).
You should just learn the concepts and 'rules' of music 'theory' so you can understand, apply and break them afterwards. Hope that helps.
THIS IS FCKING COOL! I WAS SEARCHING FOR A LONG TIME ON HOW TO MAKE RNB/JAZZY CHORDS! THANKS TO YOU!
Short and to the point. Merci.
This is really going to help me write the type of music I like good looking out!
i agree with all the comments, this explanation is sooooooooo simple, at least for me, compared to others, good job man!
So happy to help!! I really believe music theory is more simple than it's sometimes made out to be.
very useful informations you got here for music students thanks man
This is the only music theory that’s helping get me through music school in college, bless your soul man😄💜💜
Hahaha, glad it was helpful 😂
This is a great vid to share with my colleagues when they have a hard time understanding. Great video 👏🏻
So easy !! You got a talent for teaching
Thank you so much!!
Great video 👍to the point,nothing wrong with a quick tip to 😺 I actually already know most of this stuff,but u never know ,I learn new stuff constantly 🤘
Quick, but it was perfect. old video but it sure is helpful. My question was about minor progressions being the same as major when it comes to the process of using secondary dominants and you told me right there at the end, lol
That second, juicy, chord in Take the "A" Train is a V/V chord. Also the second chord in The Girl From Ipanema.
you explained this better in 5 mins than my textbook and my prof could in 5 hours
thank you so much this was so quick and easy. gonna tell my music teacher to show this to everyone
Thank you! Glad it was helpful
A lot of work has been put in to this ;) great work dude
Hahaha thank you!!
THE MATH IS MATHING THANK YOU!!!
Hahahaha I love that saying 😂😂 I’m glad the video helped some!
Thank you for your simple explanation. I think I’m getting it😝
I feel like i owe you money now. What an effective video
Best explanation yet!!!
Thanks for posting this video. At 2.40 the appears the information that there could be a V/VII (a five of whatever). VII cannot be tonicized because it is a diminished chord.
Really great job.Simple,short and straight to the point. New sub here. And ill def watch ads if any pops up
Haha thanks so much! I try to make these videos as clear and to the point as possible, so I appreciate the comment.
Hey dude, great vid! I do understand it clearly now. I just can't wrap my head around why the V of Am is a major chord? Isn't it supposed to be a minor fifth for the key of Am? Like isn't that how it's supposed to be or am i missing something?
this is my only qualm with this video. its definitely e minor.
I don't know how to thank you for this amazing video ❤️
Absolutely great lessions subscribed
It's so obvious but took me way too long to realise: if you have trouble finding the secondary dominant of a chord fast, just think of the next step you'd take in the circle of fifths ( if you got an Am chord it would be E for example ) and then just turn that chord into a major chord with a flat 7 (since that's what every dominant chord is)
Great, quick answer. Thanks!
This clarified 2 years of professors and tutors confusing explanation for me thank u! Can you do secondary leading tones?
Hey! Glad I could help. Here's a video a friend of mine form school made. It might be helpful! th-cam.com/video/UCEwU-azSNc/w-d-xo.html
I'm in theory 2 and this is crazy helpful thank you
Really really cool stuff, sir
Keep rocking on 🎸
Awesome explanation. There’s this chord progression I really like on guitar that goes C-E-Am-F-C but I never really knew why the E worked so well (when it should have been Em in the key of C). But I see how that’s the secondary dominant of the Am and that’s why it works
That's so cool that you were just playing this all by ear! I'm glad the video helped.
yess same thing happened with me, it's honestly one of my favourite chord progressions - simple but so satisfying!!!
short and easy, loved it! thanks a lot!!!
Great job. Theory sound easier for me when you explain
Really Appreciate this Video. Thank you!
finally I understood this topic. thank you so so much man!
Happy the video helped!! Best of luck with music theory!
This is incredible
Great job explanting this!
Amazing Sinc with background music 👍
You should edit out the "in Am the V chord is E", because as stands (and as already pointed out by others) the statement is incorrect. No, the v chord (not V) in Am is Em. OR explain the you are "borrowing a chord" from A harmonic minior (in which V = E).
Could you please explain more? Why is the fifth chord from Em to E major ？He didn't explain in the video
I have spent hours and hours trying to figure out how the fifth chord is E and not Em. I have a little knowledge of music theory and it simply skipped my mind that it could be Harmonic minor scale. Your comment helped a lot. Thank you
@@jcq2505 In harmonic minor scale you raise the seventh note by half step. When seventh is raised, the third from note E becomes major third instead of minor third (4 semitones/steps in harmonic minor scale instead of 3 semitones in natural minor scale). Hence in Harmonic minor, the v becomes V. I hope I am able to explain myself. Maybe it is too late to explain and you already know it. But still responded thinking that it may help. Thanks
Excellent lesson 👍
Brilliant tutorial, thank you
Thanks! Very clear explanation :)
this was so helpful, thank you!
you explain well. I like it!
Thank you! 😃
I learned this in class but it wasn't till RIGHT NOW that it clicked!
Haha, I feel like some times people make it more complicated than it needs to be. 😂
@@IanODonnell Yes! the V/V symbol is daunting itself! So the visuals helped SOOO much!
@@MadisonHalla Glad I was able to help!!