I thinks one of the worst things about learning music is not not having the knowledge or understanding and finding it very confusing. You totally destroy that feeling by explaining it in such away that you teach it on a level that so easy to take in. I come away feel more confident.
@@b00ts4ndc4tsyou should pay for lessons if youre serious about music, and appreciate everything that is free on youtube. He buys patreon accounts of black pianist lessons, and teaches the content he just learned himself to you. Its easy for him to teach this, because he paid a master to learn from.
can you pls make more videos like this. this is all that i want to learn. i learned a lot of chord voicings and all my inversions. i just need this kind of thing to know what do do with them , thanks, will watch this part 1 and 2 a few times
In case anyone was wondering why 2-5-1, the 2 is itself a fifth above the 5, so you’re cascading multiple 5->1 resolutions. Going from the 2 to the 5 is a 5->1 resolution, followed by another one from the 5 to the 1.
wow, i'm a musician for a years now, and that is the best explanation i've ever seen. Thanks so much for level 5 and 6. They've helped me a lot in understanding.
This is the lesson on chord progressions I've been searching for. Unlocked everything with the simplicity of the explanation in a way no one has for me before. Thank you David!
@@royhsieh4307 honestly I was going through some difficult times (what a surprise, a music person!) and this tutorial still reverberates with the pick me up effect from a few days ago. Growing stronger isn't impossible my fellow musicians. Especially when masters like David shine a light on our path!
Bonus level 6 is level 2 and level 5 put together. So yes. 2-5-1 (with color tones). But since level 5 is 2-5-1 without color tones, level 6 is not exactly level 5 after all.
In Italy we call it "Giro di do", and it's the base of many 60's italian songs, and has also been used later. One example is "Il cielo in una stanza", from the early 60's, and the chorus of "Centro di Gravità Permanente", another incredibly famous italian song from 1981.
Yeah, I'm just learning this stuff and i look at the sheets for a song I can easily sing and... 2-4 chords per bar? Fdim? Oh, it's a passing chord, like literally a note passing between the other root notes.
@@marshwetland3808 Holy shit, exactly the same "issue" I had. I am a guitar player, and I actually DO understand all this stuff, BUT, almost never activley use )if I do, I dont do it "on purpose", it just sounds okay for the mishap it was ;) ) And there it was, right SQUARE in the middle of the forhead of the Elephant in the room: Yes, silly, this is/those are the notes that usually getting sung in your kind of music. Wow. Okay.... So Pianos are good for a thing after all ^^
David! Thanks to you, I am finally having deeper understanding of things I hear AND getting a vocabulary to describe them! I always wondered why the "color" of certain chord progressions tickled my moods. I'm starting to be able to put my finger on what is going on. Although I've had this info for a while, it never quite gelled. Keep on doing what you're doing. I am grateful.
Melody also dictates your tone colors, and the voiceleading/inversions that you use. I think that was best illustrated in example six, as the moving color-tones acted as a 'psuedo' melody to guide and add context. Id love to see more on inversions, melody, and tonal gravity.
08:00 I've been looking for the theory behind this sound or what to call it. I often hear this in Japanese music. I also hear that C Bm E7 thing. It just has enough spice to grab your ear.
Funny thing about that "50's chord progression" that I noticed recently. "Otherside" by Red Hot Chili Peppers uses the famous "Axis chord progression" of Am F C G. However, the melody also fits perfectly the "50's chord progression" of C Am F G, and its quality changes completely, from a slightly moody song to a much more upbeat song. Just try it.
Most pop songs that are built around simple chord progressions like this can be substituted with another chord progression to recontextualize it, an example of a song doing this in song would be Bad Day by Daniel Powter (I-IV-ii-V, then vi-Imaj7-IV-I)
I think this is one of the most enjoyable (and for me personally, useful) videos you've released lately. I think the most developed "level 6" sounds the most pleasing, but I can see mixing and matching the other levels, too... that is, combining the all the tricks so that we don't always use passing chords or 2-5-1 progressions each time we change chords.
This video is PURE GOLD for those of us who have no knowledge of harmony and simply bang on the piano to sing and have fun. It opens the door to understanding many songs and improvising!!! Thank you, David, you're awesome!
Very good video. It opens up a whole new level of understanding for the different chord degrees and how to connect and read them together. Really a very good video. 🙏
What a lesson in harmonization! I kind of understand now the difference in chord progressions that I played for years! Thank you very much! I think the different harmonizations give distinct atmospheres that can be employed at will. They are not necessarily better but rather more appropriate to convey the intended feeling.
Love this this !! Most simplest way of understanding how spice or adding more color to the most chords you start of learning and you made so to follow and understand
David, IMO your videos are the best in terms of didactic quality and visuals. I can watch your videos without any instrument nearby and still can catch the information when get home. Recommended this video for my gf because she is beginning on piano and believe your videos will help. Greets from Brazil. 🇧🇷
This unlocks a huge vault of my musical brain. I have been playing chords for 30 years by just playing a lead sheet. This allows me to create my own chord progressions like a pro. Thank you a million.
I love the sus2. I play guitar with destorsion thus adding too many notes at the same time get messy. So I break them up playing 2-3 notes at a time. But stacking octaves still works fine. But usaly only 4 notes/strings at a time. But i love the sound of sus2.
Gosh, wonderful lesson. I learned level 5 about 20 years ago, and forgot it, and as soon as you un-blurred it, I instantly remembered an exercise I used to do where I would take a circle of fifths and Ii-V-I every change, then solo over the changes... brings back some awesome memories.
There was a time not too long ago that none of this made any sense, but thanks to channels like yours every bit of this I understood perfectly, could even predict where you were going next. Cheers! Excellent work
Thank you! I've been trying to absorb a bunch of music theory that I never learned back when I was taking piano lessons, and I think this video really helped fill in a specific hole in my knowledge about how songs are constructed!
For that extra jazz progression I lit a cigar and ordered a whiskey. Class. In Baroque music there is often a suspension. It might have been nice to add 7ths to some of the chords using these?
OH, LORD I ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THIS!!!!! I´ve been playing music for 15 years and this is by far the best and most entertaining music theory video Ive watched... BRAVO! I SIMPLY LOVED IT!
When you hesitated on that diminished chord, I was reminded of the Family Matters opening theme. And the secondary dominants reminded me of "Never Ever" by All Saints. I miss the harmonic complexity of 90s pop.
@@hman2912 Way to state the obvious. I don't miss the actual songs. I miss the approach to composition and arrangement. I miss being able to get excited about what was topping the charts, and not having to dig deep to find anything decent. We've gone from so much great music that amazing songs couldn't even reach top 40 due to so much competition, to songs like WAP topping the charts: something that wouldn't even have cracked the top 200 in the 90s.
Wonderfully instructed, clear and concise communication of the material, and it really go my imagination going as to all the possibility of different progressions I could build for practice, so I sincerely thank you for taking the time and effort to make this video
Amazing video, the level 6 caught me by surprise thank you for that... Also, big congrats in advance for reaching 1 million subscribers! U deserve every single one of them and more! My regards
I’m literally only a couple minutes in but I already feel the need to thank you, your information has been really helpful already and I am trying to work on my compositional skills. I appreciate this so much, thank you.
This video (especially the 5th level) really helped me wrap my head around the relationships of some tricky chord progressions. Thanks man! This will help me a lot with the guitar and piano/keyboard (still learning piano/keyboard).
Big fan of you since last 6 months, what a great video leads us to music world!! Really interested by the level 6 you shared where a A flat7 and Fm7/G followed by the second C9, would be appreciated if you could share the concept behind this progression.. thanks again for all the great videos!
Is the Aflat maj7 the tritone substition of the ii7 (which would have been Dm7) but then not sure where the Fm7/G (G-F-Ab-C-Eb?) comes from. It could be a borrowed iv7 from parallel minor key of C minor, but with the G bass note to give it a more dominant-y sound to resolve to C?
@@miriamtownsley8522 Ahh!!I great point my friend, my understanding is that the Fm is happen to be the parallel minor key of A flat, maybe just an alternative for A flat 7. thank you so much, my pleasure communicate with you here :)
Thanks! The level 5&6 idea was something that was sprouting in my subconscious thinking of what I should learn next: how to jazz up my music once needed. Now that I saw it here, it saved month or two of intuitive trial&error work.
Awesome video. Can't wait to check out part two. This was super helpful for adding more flavor to my songwriting tbh. Would love to see more content like this, or involving chord changes in general. I have a decent understanding of basic chord functions (tonic, dominant, subdominant) but I would love to do a deeper dive on things like extended chords, or some of these more advanced techniques. Anyhoo, great stuff as always, and thank you for all of your lessons over the years, David. You rock.
Debería haber muchos como tú explicando la brujería del piano y en vez de tener miedo nos das confianza para el instrumento . Solo decirte eres una gran persona por motivar hacer lo imposible posible Mil gracias!!!
This video is so easy to learn and i immediately apply it successfully into my song practice. I hope you will make more "Complexity Video" like this one in the future. Thanks!
this video is incredible. thanks for breaking it down i have been wanting to learn how to add more depth to my chord progressions and this is such a great reference point with great explanations
I love how from a very simple progression the end result ends up looking just like Yesterday, which out of context can feel quite complex. This video is insanely helpful.
I really enjoyed level 4. As a singer/guitarist (I play by ear) I found it very instructive. The extra chords added a richness to my playing. Thanks a lot.
I’d love to see a video that illustrates your thinking or feeling in using rhythm with your more complex chord progressions - that is the strumming and the breaking of the chords. You’re playing and explanations are great.
I've always wondered how jazz songs had so many chords that fit and now this video has opened my eyes to how they came up with all those passing chords. Now if I could only figure out how to play over them 😊
this whole time i thought 2-5-1 was talking about the *entire* chord progression, and it never made sense to me. this explanation let me realize that it has to do with the passing chords and THAT’S what a 2-5-1 means. wow. thank you
Fantastic video David!! As a songwriter, i found this to be so helpful!! I find i can write melodies quite easily - now i can apply some of these ideas. Thank you again. 10/10 for this video!!
Thanks for the tutorial. I am a guitar player but I tried it out and it sounds nice. I could not have done this a few months ago because I did not know any alternate chord voicings for guitar (i.e. inverted cords, or chords played on only certain strings etc) but with these alternate voicings, I can put this tutorial into practice. It has been a huge step forward for me. Thanks again!
Okay, I don't usually subscribe to a someones channel untill watching several videos. However you just thought me something that others couldn't. Thank you, I have been spending most of my time producing music on a DAW and less on learning theory however I'm going back to adding an hour or two a day of ideas and theory to add more to my tool belt. Im definitely going to be incorperating stuff that you show. Thank you brother. Musicians rock!
Thank you sir David for a well explain piano tutorial..I've been following a lot of piano tutorials, but i understand better by the way you do. God bless you!!
This is such a great explanation. Most of this terms I've heard beofre but I had never grasped how I could introduce them to my toolbox. Wonderful video.
Check out the part 2 of this video here: th-cam.com/video/y2mds-KeKTg/w-d-xo.html 😊
I thinks one of the worst things about learning music is not not having the knowledge or understanding and finding it very confusing. You totally destroy that feeling by explaining it in such away that you teach it on a level that so easy to take in.
I come away feel more confident.
@@b00ts4ndc4tsyou should pay for lessons if youre serious about music, and appreciate everything that is free on youtube. He buys patreon accounts of black pianist lessons, and teaches the content he just learned himself to you. Its easy for him to teach this, because he paid a master to learn from.
Hi David, I have a humble request. Can you do a detailed tutorial for the Beatles song 'The long and winding road' ? Preferably the 'naked version'.
can you pls make more videos like this. this is all that i want to learn. i learned a lot of chord voicings and all my inversions. i just need this kind of thing to know what do do with them , thanks, will watch this part 1 and 2 a few times
In case anyone was wondering why 2-5-1, the 2 is itself a fifth above the 5, so you’re cascading multiple 5->1 resolutions. Going from the 2 to the 5 is a 5->1 resolution, followed by another one from the 5 to the 1.
Thank you!! Great trivia.
nice!
So can you just keep stacking these leading dominants indefinitely
That would become the circle of fifths @@veggiemush
wow, i'm a musician for a years now, and that is the best explanation i've ever seen. Thanks so much for level 5 and 6. They've helped me a lot in understanding.
Great 😊
just spamming 251s doesnt sound beautiful, but its good foundational stuff
This is the lesson on chord progressions I've been searching for. Unlocked everything with the simplicity of the explanation in a way no one has for me before. Thank you David!
Great!!
This tutorial gently caressed my brain curves. It went over a massive curriculum in 10 minutes and provided something that can be practised!
Great 😊
it also curves space time in the sense that it shortens the learning process
@@royhsieh4307 honestly I was going through some difficult times (what a surprise, a music person!) and this tutorial still reverberates with the pick me up effect from a few days ago. Growing stronger isn't impossible my fellow musicians. Especially when masters like David shine a light on our path!
Your video is very beginner-friendly, it's very practical and visual, simplified with no unnecessary vocabulary. Thank you!
Thank you!
I really like how the bonus 6th level is a combination of 2-5-1s and color tones, therefore it itself is a 2-5-1.
"All You Need is Love(of music theory).
*chef’s kiss*
no
Wow. Impressive.
Bonus level 6 is level 2 and level 5 put together. So yes. 2-5-1 (with color tones). But since level 5 is 2-5-1 without color tones, level 6 is not exactly level 5 after all.
Okay, David Bennett is now the Prime Minister of explaining stuff.
YES!
Nah, let's be level headed. Prime Minister is exaggerating..... He is Pope John Paul II at explanininv😅
I don't have anything that can beat the pope but if I did that would be it😂
I'd vote for him
Agreed. You can spend a life time looking for a teacher who knows how to teach!
In Italy we call it "Giro di do", and it's the base of many 60's italian songs, and has also been used later. One example is "Il cielo in una stanza", from the early 60's, and the chorus of "Centro di Gravità Permanente", another incredibly famous italian song from 1981.
What a valuable insight this is, for those of us who are stuck repeating the same old diatonic chords. Thank you, David.
7:40 I love how you said "pull" there, it was honestly
preaty silly and cute . and thanks for the chords!
I was looking for this comment 😂
pretty*
and "level" too, right before
your feelings are irrational
Ha: “leveLL” and “puLL” -I noticed too!
That one was a light bulb moment for me. You explained the chord progressions I see when playing from sax charts. Thank you very much David.
😊😊
Yeah, I'm just learning this stuff and i look at the sheets for a song I can easily sing and... 2-4 chords per bar? Fdim? Oh, it's a passing chord, like literally a note passing between the other root notes.
@@marshwetland3808 Holy shit, exactly the same "issue" I had. I am a guitar player, and I actually DO understand all this stuff, BUT, almost never activley use )if I do, I dont do it "on purpose", it just sounds okay for the mishap it was ;) ) And there it was, right SQUARE in the middle of the forhead of the Elephant in the room: Yes, silly, this is/those are the notes that usually getting sung in your kind of music. Wow. Okay.... So Pianos are good for a thing after all ^^
David! Thanks to you, I am finally having deeper understanding of things I hear AND getting a vocabulary to describe them! I always wondered why the "color" of certain chord progressions tickled my moods. I'm starting to be able to put my finger on what is going on. Although I've had this info for a while, it never quite gelled. Keep on doing what you're doing. I am grateful.
Ditto! 👍
This video made me suddenly understand some of the rich harmonies that I've loved but didn't know how to achieve.
The "Anime Canon" chord progression
C - [Bm7b5 - E7] - Am - [Gm7 - C7] - [F - G] - [Em - Am] - Dm7 - [C/G - G7]
Wait...what?
@@prvtthd401
[Butthead voice] Uh... uh-huh-huh... chords, chords, chords...?!
so: C, Bø7, E7, Am, Gm7, C7, F, G, Em, Am, Dm7, C/G, G7...
real
huh? I just don't understand lol
Melody also dictates your tone colors, and the voiceleading/inversions that you use. I think that was best illustrated in example six, as the moving color-tones acted as a 'psuedo' melody to guide and add context.
Id love to see more on inversions, melody, and tonal gravity.
your feelings would be irrational
Would love to see this too 👍. This vid was legit.
08:00 I've been looking for the theory behind this sound or what to call it. I often hear this in Japanese music. I also hear that C Bm E7 thing. It just has enough spice to grab your ear.
🎯 Exactly
Thanks! This was easy to digest, informative and inspirational.
@@bakriser thank you so much 😊
Funny thing about that "50's chord progression" that I noticed recently.
"Otherside" by Red Hot Chili Peppers uses the famous "Axis chord progression" of Am F C G. However, the melody also fits perfectly the "50's chord progression" of C Am F G, and its quality changes completely, from a slightly moody song to a much more upbeat song. Just try it.
Most pop songs that are built around simple chord progressions like this can be substituted with another chord progression to recontextualize it, an example of a song doing this in song would be Bad Day by Daniel Powter (I-IV-ii-V, then vi-Imaj7-IV-I)
That’s the beauty of the diatonic system. Those chords are all sharing the same 7 notes pulled from the C Major scale
Oh I love this. I’ve been waiting for someone to arrange this information in a way I could digest. Thank you for putting it together!
I think this is one of the most enjoyable (and for me personally, useful) videos you've released lately. I think the most developed "level 6" sounds the most pleasing, but I can see mixing and matching the other levels, too... that is, combining the all the tricks so that we don't always use passing chords or 2-5-1 progressions each time we change chords.
Thank you ---middle school students love this---you are awesome and your presentation is clear, accessible and spot on!! BRAVO!!
Just perfect demonstration how Pop music can be more rich , passionate David, THANKS A LOT! Beatles forever from France! Michael
This video is PURE GOLD for those of us who have no knowledge of harmony and simply bang on the piano to sing and have fun. It opens the door to understanding many songs and improvising!!! Thank you, David, you're awesome!
Very good video. It opens up a whole new level of understanding for the different chord degrees and how to connect and read them together. Really a very good video. 🙏
What a lesson in harmonization! I kind of understand now the difference in chord progressions that I played for years! Thank you very much!
I think the different harmonizations give distinct atmospheres that can be employed at will. They are not necessarily better but rather more appropriate to convey the intended feeling.
Perfect! I know it’s a bit cliché, but this is just what I’ve been waiting for. You explain everything so well that it comes together and makes sense.
Thank you for explaining secondary dominants so simply and uncomplicated! It’s amazing how much fluff other tutors add to their explanations…🤯
Brilliant useful lecture. Thank you very much. 👍
You opened up a whole world with this video for me, i always wondered how these things worked. Thank you so very much!!
This was a nice and very quick lesson about adding 2-5-1 between chords
Love this this !! Most simplest way of understanding how spice or adding more color to the most chords you start of learning and you made so to follow and understand
David, IMO your videos are the best in terms of didactic quality and visuals. I can watch your videos without any instrument nearby and still can catch the information when get home. Recommended this video for my gf because she is beginning on piano and believe your videos will help. Greets from Brazil. 🇧🇷
😊😊😊😊
This unlocks a huge vault of my musical brain. I have been playing chords for 30 years by just playing a lead sheet. This allows me to create my own chord progressions like a pro. Thank you a million.
I love the sus2. I play guitar with destorsion thus adding too many notes at the same time get messy. So I break them up playing 2-3 notes at a time. But stacking octaves still works fine. But usaly only 4 notes/strings at a time.
But i love the sound of sus2.
Gosh, wonderful lesson. I learned level 5 about 20 years ago, and forgot it, and as soon as you un-blurred it, I instantly remembered an exercise I used to do where I would take a circle of fifths and Ii-V-I every change, then solo over the changes... brings back some awesome memories.
#4 is nostalgic and pleasing to my ears..it has a bit of a gospel or hymn like air..
It remembers me of the amazing digital circus theme
There was a time not too long ago that none of this made any sense, but thanks to channels like yours every bit of this I understood perfectly, could even predict where you were going next. Cheers! Excellent work
Thank you 😊😊😊😊
It's amazing how rich and emotional the last version sounds despite th fact you followed very simple rules
This is an excellent video! Nice explanations all the way through! Well done! Love the jazzy part at the end! 🔥🎹🎶👏🏼🙌🏼
3 is like This train don't stop there anymore
This video clears a lot of subjects I didn’t really had a grasp on. Now it makes perfect sense !! Thank you so much 🙏🏻
Great stuff! I like #5 & #6 best.
Boy did this video make things snap into clarity for me. Thank you.
Great!
Amazing, great content 🎉❤
Thank you! I've been trying to absorb a bunch of music theory that I never learned back when I was taking piano lessons, and I think this video really helped fill in a specific hole in my knowledge about how songs are constructed!
This is the best piano tutorial I’ve seen on TH-cam. So easy to understand!
David,
You are the real McCoy
I learned a lot today
.
Best regards
Great!!!
Thank you for this. I really never thought of 2 - 5 - 1ing into the 5 chord (From F to G in this case)
Bro, I've been playing for almost 20 years, and Charizard definitely doesn't evolve at level 5.
Thank you so much. This is the video i have been looking for a long time. Now i gotta practice a lot😅❤
For that extra jazz progression I lit a cigar and ordered a whiskey. Class.
In Baroque music there is often a suspension. It might have been nice to add 7ths to some of the chords using these?
He did that at the end, didn't he?
I was rewatching your video on pokemon red and blue’s soundtrack just yesterday, and now more pokemon! lol
OH, LORD I ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THIS!!!!! I´ve been playing music for 15 years and this is by far the best and most entertaining music theory video Ive watched... BRAVO! I SIMPLY LOVED IT!
lvl 7: modal interchange/kush chords
Ive been playing keyboard for a year now and learned so much from you. Videos like this keep me excited!
Great! 😊🙂
When you hesitated on that diminished chord, I was reminded of the Family Matters opening theme. And the secondary dominants reminded me of "Never Ever" by All Saints. I miss the harmonic complexity of 90s pop.
How can you miss it? You can literally look any song up on TH-cam right now and listen as many times as you like 😂. The songs still exist 🤣🤣
@@hman2912 Way to state the obvious. I don't miss the actual songs. I miss the approach to composition and arrangement. I miss being able to get excited about what was topping the charts, and not having to dig deep to find anything decent. We've gone from so much great music that amazing songs couldn't even reach top 40 due to so much competition, to songs like WAP topping the charts: something that wouldn't even have cracked the top 200 in the 90s.
Fantastic! What an array of options, clearly explained in a short period of time. Hard to say my favorite. Thanks.
Yo where the pokemon at?
Clickbait 😅
4 evolution in u skill 😂😂 idk
Literally clicked right out of the video after 6 seconds cause I saw your comment
What theres no Pokemon fuck this shit
😂
Wonderfully instructed, clear and concise communication of the material, and it really go my imagination going as to all the possibility of different progressions I could build for practice, so I sincerely thank you for taking the time and effort to make this video
Wow, level 5 is what like 50% of anime/J-pop songs use and what gives them that weeb feel.
Weeb feel ☠️ Yall not real
It's because it's jazz dude... You're trying to reinvent the wheel here while Japanese pop music is heavily jazz influenced 🤦
Amazing video, the level 6 caught me by surprise thank you for that... Also, big congrats in advance for reaching 1 million subscribers! U deserve every single one of them and more! My regards
I feel like you just played half of Elton John's discography.
I’m literally only a couple minutes in but I already feel the need to thank you, your information has been really helpful already and I am trying to work on my compositional skills. I appreciate this so much, thank you.
Level 6 is where the magic happens! Nice job and thank you!
This video (especially the 5th level) really helped me wrap my head around the relationships of some tricky chord progressions. Thanks man! This will help me a lot with the guitar and piano/keyboard (still learning piano/keyboard).
This was beautifully explained. Thank you!
Thank you!
Big fan of you since last 6 months, what a great video leads us to music world!! Really interested by the level 6 you shared where a A flat7 and Fm7/G followed by the second C9, would be appreciated if you could share the concept behind this progression.. thanks again for all the great videos!
Is the Aflat maj7 the tritone substition of the ii7 (which would have been Dm7) but then not sure where the Fm7/G (G-F-Ab-C-Eb?) comes from. It could be a borrowed iv7 from parallel minor key of C minor, but with the G bass note to give it a more dominant-y sound to resolve to C?
@@miriamtownsley8522
Ahh!!I great point my friend, my understanding is that the Fm is happen to be the parallel minor key of A flat, maybe just an alternative for A flat 7.
thank you so much, my pleasure communicate with you here :)
After a couple of years in my self taught piano journey, I have found the best explanation of 2-5-1 and everything jazz. Thanks David!
Thanks! The level 5&6 idea was something that was sprouting in my subconscious thinking of what I should learn next: how to jazz up my music once needed.
Now that I saw it here, it saved month or two of intuitive trial&error work.
Amazing video!
Thank you 😊
Thanks and well done David. This is the best chords progression explanation I’ve ever seen. Thank you so much David 👏🏾👌🏾
Awesome video. Can't wait to check out part two. This was super helpful for adding more flavor to my songwriting tbh.
Would love to see more content like this, or involving chord changes in general. I have a decent understanding of basic chord functions (tonic, dominant, subdominant) but I would love to do a deeper dive on things like extended chords, or some of these more advanced techniques.
Anyhoo, great stuff as always, and thank you for all of your lessons over the years, David. You rock.
Thank you for stepping us through these progressions. I can't wait to apply it.
U are such a good teacher. Not overbearing with information, straight to the point yet still engaging 👍🏾
Debería haber muchos como tú explicando la brujería del piano y en vez de tener miedo nos das confianza para el instrumento . Solo decirte eres una gran persona por motivar hacer lo imposible posible
Mil gracias!!!
This video is so easy to learn and i immediately apply it successfully into my song practice. I hope you will make more "Complexity Video" like this one in the future. Thanks!
Can you do a video showing this technique when playing with other musicians, starting with Bass? Do you just drop the lowest note?
this video is incredible. thanks for breaking it down i have been wanting to learn how to add more depth to my chord progressions and this is such a great reference point with great explanations
I love how from a very simple progression the end result ends up looking just like Yesterday, which out of context can feel quite complex. This video is insanely helpful.
What an excellent instruction on how to develop a traditional framework into a beautiful progression. Thanks for making it easy to understand. Cheers!
I really enjoyed level 4. As a singer/guitarist (I play by ear) I found it very instructive. The extra chords added a richness to my playing. Thanks a lot.
I’d love to see a video that illustrates your thinking or feeling in using rhythm with your more complex chord progressions - that is the strumming and the breaking of the chords. You’re playing and explanations are great.
Thanks! I’ll keep that idea in mind 😊
Love your presentation - expertly done! Exercise was easy to follow, well done.
Amazing! Months of study clearly set out in 10 minutes. Thanks!
Thanks for watching 😃😃
I've always wondered how jazz songs had so many chords that fit and now this video has opened my eyes to how they came up with all those passing chords. Now if I could only figure out how to play over them 😊
Una de las mejores clases de armonia que he visto!, muy bueno!. Great!! Thank!
this whole time i thought 2-5-1 was talking about the *entire* chord progression, and it never made sense to me. this explanation let me realize that it has to do with the passing chords and THAT’S what a 2-5-1 means. wow. thank you
Fantastic video David!! As a songwriter, i found this to be so helpful!! I find i can write melodies quite easily - now i can apply some of these ideas. Thank you again. 10/10 for this video!!
For my style of songwriting i think i would use level 3 the most.
Thank you, David! Been looking for a explanation that helped me in this kind of topics, clear as water and great video as always
i love how you don’t only show the levels but explain them, you’re really a master teacher 😭!
Thanks for the tutorial. I am a guitar player but I tried it out and it sounds nice. I could not have done this a few months ago because I did not know any alternate chord voicings for guitar (i.e. inverted cords, or chords played on only certain strings etc) but with these alternate voicings, I can put this tutorial into practice. It has been a huge step forward for me. Thanks again!
Okay, I don't usually subscribe to a someones channel untill watching several videos. However you just thought me something that others couldn't. Thank you, I have been spending most of my time producing music on a DAW and less on learning theory however I'm going back to adding an hour or two a day of ideas and theory to add more to my tool belt. Im definitely going to be incorperating stuff that you show. Thank you brother. Musicians rock!
Thank you, David. Your videos are amazing, so informative and I learn so much, thanks. God bless you 💙
Thank you sir David for a well explain piano tutorial..I've been following a lot of piano tutorials, but i understand better by the way you do. God bless you!!
May God bless you for taking the time to teach us this. Your video has unlocked so much for me. Cheers from Costa Rica.
I CAN FINALLY UNDERSTAND JAZZ CHORD PROGRESSIONS NOW
Stunning tones and also I found very pleasant melodies that made pure joy to my ears....thank you
Thank You, always super helpful. Excellent way of simplifying and explaining the concepts of music theory.
Glad it was helpful!
Once again a brilliant lesson. This can boost someone's song writing skills very much.
Thank you!
This is such a great explanation. Most of this terms I've heard beofre but I had never grasped how I could introduce them to my toolbox. Wonderful video.