I suppose its all thanks to that preceding dominant chord a tritone away that sounds like it shares 2/4 of the same notes as the previous one that's doing the heavy lifting.
Because it's basically a tritone substitution. Your brain is tricked because what makes the seventh chord so tense is that tritone and that tritone stays the same after changing that root note.
I wonder if we can play only the 7th bar's dominant chord to modulate a halfstep away due to the same tritone between those 2 dominant chords (tritone substitution)
The last progression is like getting lost in the airport, and then when you finally DO find your way out, you realize that, once again, you must've left your luggage behind somewhere along the way, and you're now certain you'll get lost again while searching for it once again, but at least there's some comfort in the newfound familiarity of your fate. This is meant as a compliment.
David, I'd like to make a polite request and ask, if it possible, for you to throw up a quick 5 sec shot of the hand position when discussing chords eg Bbmaj7. For those of us who are new to p[iano and still very much at the learning stage, we have to go away and find what that is even if we have a good idea. If you were to do this we could pause the vid', practice and then return with a better understanding,. Thanks. Keep up the great work!
that last chord progression and improv literally put me into such a relaxed peaceful place i fell asleep! Beautiful!! I would ❤️ to have sheet music if the last magic you created to be able to recreate at home! loved!!🎹🎼🥰
Dear David, Thanks for this gentle sharing of your song analysis. Very interesting and wonderfully played. I hope you will do this again and chose mine. Therefore, here is my chord progression: E6 | Adim7 | B7 | Emaj7 |Bm7 | E7 |Amaj7 |Dmaj7 |E6 |E | Asus2 |A (or Asus4 and then A) and then loop at E6 I like the way to go from B7 to Bm7 via Emaj7... 😊 I am longing for your advice! And I never heard this chord progression in a song (except in the middle of my own composition that can be heard when clicking on my name 😉). All the best knarf from France 🎸 🇨🇵
I am a totally blind person, and I am a guitar player. I enjoy listening to your videos, and visualizing the fretboard to play along in my imagination, while you explain the theory behind what you are doing on the keyboard. It is a great exercise to HONE my creative and improvisational skills! Thanks!
I find it hard to imagine how "visualizing the fretboard" works when you are blind. Especially for people who have never been able to see. Unfortunately we can't take a look in each others minds, and explaining the concept of a thought or a visualization is quite hard to achieve. As a person who is fortunate enough to have eyesight I can only speak for myself. When visualizing something I create a virtual picture of the object in my head. A huge proportion of my thoughts and memories are mental images. When you are missing that sense, are your mental images build out of sounds, smells and feelings instead? I am very curious about that. This is something I never really considered before!
No way you used my chord progression as the first one! Thanks so much for improvising over that and giving your opinion! Amazing video and much love from the Dark Ages :)
Learnings aside, it was a pleasure to simply listen to you improvise over these progressions. Clever how you found a way to keep the constant C "progression" interesting. Well done!
As someone who is starting to learn, that was pretty eye opening, with the longer chord progressions leading more to a melody and the one chord giving more freedom...
The last one is perfect for key change practice! gives you room to rethink stuff in the first 4 bars and challenges you in the last 4 bars great video David!
The Beatles (John Lennon?) wrote "Tomorrow Never Knows" off of the Revolver album just using the C chord. 🙂 Very nice playing. I like chord progressions that could be played in a cocktail lounge accompanied by simple melodic melodies.
I thought I'd offer my own chord progression. I mainly use it as a modulation to the IV, but there's a nice way to turn it back around to the I C | E7 | Am | Gm7 C7 | F | E7 | Am | Fm
I used this chord progression attempting to harmonize a melody my brother created on saxophone. | Cm7/Ab, Cm7/F | (repeat once) | Bb | Cm | F/C, Csus4 |
The 4th progression (at least the first three chords) is almost exactly the progression of Keep the door open by Andersson.Paak, even in the same tonality if I'm not mistaken.
The "constant C" reminded me of the time when, as an engineer, I used to do measurements in small power stations where just one machine was running at a constant speed, thus providing a constant "musical note". Very much like the drone of a bagpipe or a hurdy-gurdy! I couldn't help starting to sing some improvised melody over this drone note. Very often, however, I fell back to a melody of some well-known song. - Meanwhile, I am much better in staying with my own improvisation and not being pulled into a known melody!
The 4th chord progression really reminds me of Mario galaxy music. I think this one is my favorite in the video so far. Feels very Japanese in a way. Edit: I just found out it is from studio ghiblis Porco Rosso, which makes so much sense now. It completely has that studio ghibli feel..
Loved to see my chord progression appearing and listening to your awesome improvisation! Hope I can release the song that features it soon. Adored the video and keep up the great work!
9:26 My take is that this chord progression is in F major (although I see your C major too). The Eb7 chord would then word as a tritone substituted dominant chord to the following Dm7 chord. Actually the Ebmaj7 would work too, I suppose. Stretching it a bit I would interpret the G7/F as an F13 chord which is a tritone substituted dominant chord to the Em7 chord. This way this chord progression is a beautiful example of functional harmony. The second-to-last chord progression is very similar and nicely goes through the circle of fifths. Great video as always. Maybe I missed something as while I do play the organ (mainly hymns and the occasional præ- and postlude) I don't work with music on a daily basis but I have a bit of interest in music theory.
Yes, if Karl Marx's progression is in F instead of C, you also wouldn't have to end it on the second to last chord (Cmaj7), because the last chord C7 would completely make sense as the dominant chord.
The first chord progression [Bbmaj7] [Am7] [D7sus4] [D7] is using a Picardy Thirdy. The easiest way for me to see what is going on is always when the chord progression is transposed to natural scale. In this case this would be [Fmaj7] [Em7] [A7sus4] [A7], so the first two chords would belong to the minor scale of Am, the third chord (belonging to the A minor and also to the A major scale) preparing and the fourth chord resolving to the parallel major scale of A, after that it continues again in the A minor scale, so there are 2 key changes per loop between parallel keys. The fourth chord progression by Karl Marx is similar to the chorus in Howard Carpendale "Es ist Zeit zu gehn" th-cam.com/video/B4_B53BIwts/w-d-xo.html
I love this series! I'd find it interesting if you explained what key each progression was in & how to quickly find it (in cases where they dont start on the root).
Nice. I like an 8 chord progression: I, IV, V, VII, II, bVII, V, I. Just one requirement, you gotta do it once, and only once. Another one: i, bIII, iv, bVII. It’s my spooky go-to. And you can loop this one around. Final one: |I| |vii| |bv VI| |V| Also, in the fourth progression, I think the D flat in Eb7 is important because it acts as a leading tone to D in Dm7. It also pulls down to C, which in itself is the 7 in Dm7, which explains why Dm7 is the following chord.
Hi David. New viewer and sub here Hope u can answer this pls. Bit confused. Say i have a simple chord progression of G C and D CHORDS. Does that mean i play G MAJOR scale over all these chords.. OR Do i play G MAJOR scale over G CHORD C MAJOR SCALE over C CHORD etc.. Hope that makes sense. Thanks
Hi! Traditionally you would go for G major scale over all three chords… but you could definitely also go with the second option if you want to! It’s up to you! 😀
That 4th progression happens to be almost exactly the same as one of my favourite progression to jam with! Though I am used to the Eb7 sound here with the dominant 7, it being the tritone sub of Am in this case. #11 fits into it really well too, as often is the case with tritone subs :)
This is a fantastic format David! My chord progression would be: Em Em7 // G Gsus9 // C Cmaj7 // D Dsus4 (inspired by Neil Young) or maybe: Am // F // D7 // F // G (inspired by Elliott Smith)
Your videos help me learn from the basics of music to beyond the far more advanced level. I've spent a very productive moment after breakfast. Thank you!
I have truly learned so much through watching your videos more and more over the past year, and your piano playing is mesmerizing and beautiful. Thank you for sharing your gift with the world.
Awesome video, I can think of few interesting progressions, one would be am - am - dm - em, I came up with this after watching video about why there is not many songs with just minor chords, I'm suprised this progression isn't more common, because it sounds great, similar one would be am - dm - G - em, I actually know one song with that progression, but I accidentaly came up with it by myself too, when doing something with previous progression. Also they both use all diatonic minor chords from normal major scale. Other interesting progression would be D sus 2 - Fmaj7 - A sus 2, I like to play it on the guitar as arpegio, D sus 2 six times, Fmaj7 four times and A sus 2 two times. I try to make not so common progressions with not so complicated chords and I often discover progressions like this. I this way I also discover these progressions: Cadd9 - am - em7 - D sus 2 and Cadd9 - D sus 2 - em7 - A (or A sus 2).
this 1st one is really awesome; and actually i've been recently toying with the iv vi I V, too :) however, in my take it's Am7, Fmaj7, C , G+ (Gmaj7 > G+ to make use of the d, f#, g, d, d# line leading to e in Am7)
The cool thing about chord progressions is, any of them can be SONGS with the right melody. Chords are pretty useless without a melody, like you said at 14:34 you can end up with a meandering loop of unresolved tension. Those kinds of changes are great for warmup/practice drills though!
My introduction to jazz improvising on guitar came l late in life when I was doing scales and the teacher started playing just a C chord and said, "Okay now make some decisions, drop some notes, just play." For me it was a great easy start. Better late than never. For what it's worth the most famous one-chord song I know is Smokestack Lightning.
Check this out, I found it by accident when I begun to play the guitar: Bmaj7 | C#maj7 C#7maj7sus2 | Bmaj7 | D Bm I play it around 60 bpm for each bar, but feel free of course to change it. And to be clear (because I don't sure about the naming): the C#7maj7sus2 is C# with both the dominant 7th and major 7th at the same time. With the guitar I play a regular maj7 chord when the bass is the 5th string, just removing the pinky from the second string to the 7th fret of the first string (B note) instead. sounded nice to me 😅
I didnt even watch the video yet, but I´m super hyped. I loved your first video, watched it countless times and learned so much by your playing! You are such a delight!
Great video! I would like know on chord progression no.2 you call it a vi IV I V I. In another video you mention if in a minor key you would say the first chord is i. So that would make it i bVI bIII bVII which one is correct?
I'm just gonna throw a progression here and hope it makes into your next video lol... | Eb6| Eb/G | Ab7maj | Abm9 | F7/A | B | C# Bonus: Would sound awesome in a 9/8 ballad style, just give it to us! lol
Suggestion: you could record the notes your keyboard plays (MIDI recording?) and add an overlay of a keyboard to the top-right corner of the video automatically showing the keys you press. I'm trying to learn about chord voicings by seeing the notes you play for each chord notation, but it's harder than it should be with the keyboard upside down and having to figure out which fingers actually pressed the keys :/
For an original song i play Emaj7add9 / Bsus4 B/ A/ E x2 Em9/Bsus2 over G / A7 / Am Am6 E/B/A (omit 3)/ E Emaj7add9/ C#Add9/ B/ A11# A E / Im not good enough to play it on piano and i would love to see someone play it
I've got a 16 bar progression I really like: C | C+ | C6 | C7 F | Fm | Csus4 | C7 F7 | F#°7 | C | Am Am♭5 G G+ | F7 Fm△7 Fsus2 | Csus4 C | Dm G7 The three chords in the 14th bar are played with a tresillo rhythm
What would be great is if you can also give your thoughts on what key and scale the song is in and which chords are substitutions or modulations/changes. I think this is great idea and would gladly watch any episodes where you do the same thing.
The 8th one sounds a bit like something that could be played in some jazz bar. People talking, playing cards enjoying whiskey and cigars and the piano man is just vibing along. Not something that goes home on any chord, but it doesn't has to, it's a great low-key ambience.
I heard this somewhere and I instantly fell in love with it. It feels like a nostalgic victory over something......if that makes any sort of sense. 😅 C#m F# C#m F# A F#m A-B C#add flat 6.
In the 4th Progression, rather than Eb7 or Ebmaj7, why not use EbFr (Ebmaj7b5)? It’s the least offense in my opinion and honestly sounds super smooth with the common A tone
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Thank you David , and the musicians who contributed chord progressions. Pure enjoyment for us all. Alan
Thanks Alan 😀
Indeed!!
That last one was really cool. I was surprised the half step modulation didn't sound jarring at all.
I suppose its all thanks to that preceding dominant chord a tritone away that sounds like it shares 2/4 of the same notes as the previous one that's doing the heavy lifting.
Because it's basically a tritone substitution. Your brain is tricked because what makes the seventh chord so tense is that tritone and that tritone stays the same after changing that root note.
I wonder if we can play only the 7th bar's dominant chord to modulate a halfstep away due to the same tritone between those 2 dominant chords (tritone substitution)
the 8th chord resolves to the modulated chord in the next bar, i think that is why
The last progression is like getting lost in the airport, and then when you finally DO find your way out, you realize that, once again, you must've left your luggage behind somewhere along the way, and you're now certain you'll get lost again while searching for it once again, but at least there's some comfort in the newfound familiarity of your fate. This is meant as a compliment.
That was fun, and I enjoyed reading the comments as well. It must be nice to have such a well-informed and appreciative audience.
Awesome video! That last chord progression was especially beautiful to me. Loved you’re improvisations.
David, I'd like to make a polite request and ask, if it possible, for you to throw up a quick 5 sec shot of the hand position when discussing chords eg Bbmaj7. For those of us who are new to p[iano and still very much at the learning stage, we have to go away and find what that is even if we have a good idea. If you were to do this we could pause the vid', practice and then return with a better understanding,. Thanks. Keep up the great work!
Beautiful and inspirational. I'm a songwriter and this has opened me up to new possibilities.
that last chord progression and improv literally put me into such a relaxed peaceful place i fell asleep! Beautiful!! I would ❤️ to have sheet music if the last magic you created to be able to recreate at home! loved!!🎹🎼🥰
Eb7 (8:14) is so much nicer than Emaj7 (9:37) imo. Interesting change and sounds cool.
That first progression reminds me of Saint Ettienne.
Dear David,
Thanks for this gentle sharing of your song analysis. Very interesting and wonderfully played.
I hope you will do this again and chose mine. Therefore, here is my chord progression:
E6 | Adim7 | B7 | Emaj7 |Bm7 | E7 |Amaj7 |Dmaj7 |E6 |E | Asus2 |A (or Asus4 and then A) and then loop at E6
I like the way to go from B7 to Bm7 via Emaj7... 😊 I am longing for your advice!
And I never heard this chord progression in a song (except in the middle of my own composition that can be heard when clicking on my name 😉).
All the best
knarf from France 🎸 🇨🇵
Please make more videos about chord progressions.
Wow never would've guess Karl Marx was such a jazz head! Good for him 👍
Had to smile about that too.
That 4 chord change is probably what metal bands would do
please do more of these
Very interesting exercise, which would have be more useful if you had described your improvisational approach to each of the progressions.
I could tell you were not bluffing as on the first chord progression you hesitated slightly but after you warmed up played with ease.
the first one could come right from a studio ghibli film!
Damn, you are an amazing musician. This is awesome.
I wonder if the sus7 chord wasn't meant to be fully suspended. Playing just 1 5 and flat 7 actually sounds cool.
I created a chord progression with only the root chord ,It’s Asus,Am & Asus2
Nice video
nice
M O A R !
The 4th one could totally be a Nick Drake song
Here's mine : B ////// D# ////// G#m ////// E /// Em /// .. it's sounds so good in 6/8 and 3/4
David, did you look them over ahead of time, or was this real-time improvisation on the spot while recording?
This was on the spot improvisation 😊👍🏼
@@DavidBennettPiano very impressive
@@DavidBennettPiano Amazing !
Thanks!
Cheers!
Frankly had no idea Karl Marx had such a refined taste in harmony, or that he was still alive!
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I am a totally blind person, and I am a guitar player.
I enjoy listening to your videos, and visualizing the fretboard to play along in my imagination, while you explain the theory behind what you are doing on the keyboard.
It is a great exercise to HONE my creative and improvisational skills! Thanks!
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@@sasamsa3165 th-cam.com/video/szWxrlbDynM/w-d-xo.html this is not my video, however, perhaps it can explain.
@@sasamsa3165 there are screen readers out there for blind people!
@@sasamsa3165 there are devices.
I find it hard to imagine how "visualizing the fretboard" works when you are blind. Especially for people who have never been able to see. Unfortunately we can't take a look in each others minds, and explaining the concept of a thought or a visualization is quite hard to achieve.
As a person who is fortunate enough to have eyesight I can only speak for myself. When visualizing something I create a virtual picture of the object in my head. A huge proportion of my thoughts and memories are mental images. When you are missing that sense, are your mental images build out of sounds, smells and feelings instead?
I am very curious about that. This is something I never really considered before!
I want to see this again in the future :D
Thanks! Be sure to check out the other episode on my 2nd channel: th-cam.com/video/e4uvXr5AKVA/w-d-xo.html 😊
I concur
@@champ10ns08 i wet myself but i dont tell everyone
That second chord progression was used in Dream Theater’s “Ministry Of Lost Souls.” It’s such an awesome twist to the 4-chord.
I recognised it from that immeditely, such an amazing progression
It doesn't get enough love.
Literally the first thing that came to mind
I was going to say the same thing.
Am | Fm | C | Em
Am | F | C | G | G+
No way you used my chord progression as the first one! Thanks so much for improvising over that and giving your opinion!
Amazing video and much love from the Dark Ages :)
That one was my favourite! Very nice
I'm totally gonna improvise over that progression :) (Not as well as David, obvs)
It kinda sounds japanese
I have to say, I heard that progression and my first thought was FUNK. I was hearing brass and a Rhodes piano in my head.
Learnings aside, it was a pleasure to simply listen to you improvise over these progressions. Clever how you found a way to keep the constant C "progression" interesting. Well done!
As someone who is starting to learn, that was pretty eye opening, with the longer chord progressions leading more to a melody and the one chord giving more freedom...
The last one is perfect for key change practice! gives you room to rethink stuff in the first 4 bars and challenges you in the last 4 bars
great video David!
The Beatles (John Lennon?) wrote "Tomorrow Never Knows" off of the Revolver album just using the C chord. 🙂 Very nice playing. I like chord progressions that could be played in a cocktail lounge accompanied by simple melodic melodies.
I thought I'd offer my own chord progression. I mainly use it as a modulation to the IV, but there's a nice way to turn it back around to the I
C | E7 | Am | Gm7 C7 | F | E7 | Am | Fm
I made a piece that uses this chord progression:
Fmaj7 | F#ø7 | G13 | C6
I really love this one.
Could you tell me what "ø" means?
@@SquahBrackah_M_SquahBrackah It's a half diminished chord. You can also spell it as a F#m with a flat 5. Or Am / F#.
@@tuffe6588 Oh alright I get it, thank you. I appreciate it really 🙆
Btw I also really like your chord progression :)
@@SquahBrackah_M_SquahBrackah 😁
Yes
Will you do this again?
Quite possibly! If you’ve not seen it check out the other episode I did: th-cam.com/video/e4uvXr5AKVA/w-d-xo.html 😊
The 4th progression is "The Bygone Days" from Porco Rosso, bearing in mind that the Eb7 chord is a passing chord in the original piece.
It did sound quite like Hisaishi
I used this chord progression attempting to harmonize a melody my brother created on saxophone.
| Cm7/Ab, Cm7/F | (repeat once) | Bb | Cm | F/C, Csus4 |
The 4th progression (at least the first three chords) is almost exactly the progression of Keep the door open by Andersson.Paak, even in the same tonality if I'm not mistaken.
Halloween pop song sounds cool
The first chord progression is used by a japanese band betcover!! in their song 回転・天使
The "constant C" reminded me of the time when, as an engineer, I used to do measurements in small power stations where just one machine was running at a constant speed, thus providing a constant "musical note". Very much like the drone of a bagpipe or a hurdy-gurdy! I couldn't help starting to sing some improvised melody over this drone note. Very often, however, I fell back to a melody of some well-known song. - Meanwhile, I am much better in staying with my own improvisation and not being pulled into a known melody!
im glad im not the only person to do this! I used to find intervals with the air compressors at work.
The 4th chord progression really reminds me of Mario galaxy music. I think this one is my favorite in the video so far. Feels very Japanese in a way.
Edit: I just found out it is from studio ghiblis Porco Rosso, which makes so much sense now. It completely has that studio ghibli feel..
Loved to see my chord progression appearing and listening to your awesome improvisation! Hope I can release the song that features it soon. Adored the video and keep up the great work!
9:26 My take is that this chord progression is in F major (although I see your C major too). The Eb7 chord would then word as a tritone substituted dominant chord to the following Dm7 chord. Actually the Ebmaj7 would work too, I suppose. Stretching it a bit I would interpret the G7/F as an F13 chord which is a tritone substituted dominant chord to the Em7 chord. This way this chord progression is a beautiful example of functional harmony. The second-to-last chord progression is very similar and nicely goes through the circle of fifths.
Great video as always. Maybe I missed something as while I do play the organ (mainly hymns and the occasional præ- and postlude) I don't work with music on a daily basis but I have a bit of interest in music theory.
Yes, if Karl Marx's progression is in F instead of C, you also wouldn't have to end it on the second to last chord (Cmaj7), because the last chord C7 would completely make sense as the dominant chord.
@@bilingualkaraoke8665 Karl Marx mentioned that it was in c major
The first chord progression [Bbmaj7] [Am7] [D7sus4] [D7] is using a Picardy Thirdy.
The easiest way for me to see what is going on is always when the chord progression is transposed to natural scale.
In this case this would be [Fmaj7] [Em7] [A7sus4] [A7], so the first two chords would belong to the minor scale of Am, the third chord (belonging to the A minor and also to the A major scale) preparing and the fourth chord resolving to the parallel major scale of A, after that it continues again in the A minor scale, so there are 2 key changes per loop between parallel keys.
The fourth chord progression by Karl Marx is similar to the chorus in Howard Carpendale "Es ist Zeit zu gehn" th-cam.com/video/B4_B53BIwts/w-d-xo.html
I love this series! I'd find it interesting if you explained what key each progression was in & how to quickly find it (in cases where they dont start on the root).
16:08 I think it's supposed to be 7 measures and the 7th measure is |F7 B7| since the original comment phrased it |F7-B7|
It was. Don't care tho I appeared in his video and the progression still sounded good haha
Fourth chord progression with the ebmaj7 sounds like a tyler the creator song
Nice. I like an 8 chord progression: I, IV, V, VII, II, bVII, V, I. Just one requirement, you gotta do it once, and only once.
Another one: i, bIII, iv, bVII. It’s my spooky go-to. And you can loop this one around.
Final one: |I| |vii| |bv VI| |V|
Also, in the fourth progression, I think the D flat in Eb7 is important because it acts as a leading tone to D in Dm7. It also pulls down to C, which in itself is the 7 in Dm7, which explains why Dm7 is the following chord.
On the 4th progression, apparently David Bowie also has "risen from the grave" (RIP), as this is very similar to the end progression of "Changes"!
Amazingly beautiful!! My ear loves that spooky minor sound!
Where exactly do you announce it when you ask for chord progressions? I've got a few I'd love to submit next time you do.
Hi David.
New viewer and sub here
Hope u can answer this pls.
Bit confused.
Say i have a simple chord progression of G C and D CHORDS.
Does that mean i play G MAJOR scale over all these chords..
OR
Do i play G MAJOR scale over G CHORD
C MAJOR SCALE over C CHORD etc..
Hope that makes sense.
Thanks
Hi! Traditionally you would go for G major scale over all three chords… but you could definitely also go with the second option if you want to! It’s up to you! 😀
3:44 the Still D.R.E lick always pursue me
Never knew Karl Marx had such an appreciation for jazz
The second progression would make a great Bond theme!
"Nice." Indeed and not only the last one, but the whole video. As usually.
I’ve got one I really like:
C | C7/Bb | F | Fm Dm7b5 |
4:05 Interesting! it's like a little bit of post Rock, Math Rock or movie soundtrack right there.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest more tempo variation from improv to improv.
3:44 about to go into Still D.R.E lol
The middle part of progression 4 sounds kinda like the intro to Changes by David Bowie.
That 4th progression happens to be almost exactly the same as one of my favourite progression to jam with! Though I am used to the Eb7 sound here with the dominant 7, it being the tritone sub of Am in this case. #11 fits into it really well too, as often is the case with tritone subs :)
This is a fantastic format David!
My chord progression would be: Em Em7 // G Gsus9 // C Cmaj7 // D Dsus4 (inspired by Neil Young)
or maybe: Am // F // D7 // F
// G (inspired by Elliott Smith)
Your videos help me learn from the basics of music to beyond the far more advanced level. I've spent a very productive moment after breakfast. Thank you!
I have truly learned so much through watching your videos more and more over the past year, and your piano playing is mesmerizing and beautiful. Thank you for sharing your gift with the world.
Thank you!!
i’ve never heard any real musician play this chord progression, and i love it so much
Em7 - C#m7 b5 - Dadd9 - c note and then B
Awesome video, I can think of few interesting progressions, one would be am - am - dm - em, I came up with this after watching video about why there is not many songs with just minor chords, I'm suprised this progression isn't more common, because it sounds great, similar one would be am - dm - G - em, I actually know one song with that progression, but I accidentaly came up with it by myself too, when doing something with previous progression. Also they both use all diatonic minor chords from normal major scale. Other interesting progression would be D sus 2 - Fmaj7 - A sus 2, I like to play it on the guitar as arpegio, D sus 2 six times, Fmaj7 four times and A sus 2 two times. I try to make not so common progressions with not so complicated chords and I often discover progressions like this. I this way I also discover these progressions: Cadd9 - am - em7 - D sus 2 and Cadd9 - D sus 2 - em7 - A (or A sus 2).
this 1st one is really awesome; and actually i've been recently toying with the iv vi I V, too :) however, in my take it's Am7, Fmaj7, C , G+ (Gmaj7 > G+ to make use of the d, f#, g, d, d# line leading to e in Am7)
To me the second last progression actually sounds really lovely up until the Cm7,
I’d tweak it to be:
| Dm7 | G/B | CMaj7 | Cm7 F7 |
the first one just instantly sounds 'japanese' to me
The cool thing about chord progressions is, any of them can be SONGS with the right melody. Chords are pretty useless without a melody, like you said at 14:34 you can end up with a meandering loop of unresolved tension. Those kinds of changes are great for warmup/practice drills though!
Wait what does the + next to the G mean on 3:24? Sorry if that’s a stupid question
I was wondering that too
My introduction to jazz improvising on guitar came l late in life when I was doing scales and the teacher started playing just a C chord and said, "Okay now make some decisions, drop some notes, just play." For me it was a great easy start. Better late than never. For what it's worth the most famous one-chord song I know is Smokestack Lightning.
Check this out, I found it by accident when I begun to play the guitar:
Bmaj7 | C#maj7 C#7maj7sus2 | Bmaj7 | D Bm
I play it around 60 bpm for each bar, but feel free of course to change it.
And to be clear (because I don't sure about the naming): the C#7maj7sus2 is C# with both the dominant 7th and major 7th at the same time.
With the guitar I play a regular maj7 chord when the bass is the 5th string, just removing the pinky from the second string to the 7th fret of the first string (B note) instead. sounded nice to me 😅
Amazing improv! ...and some of those progressions are so hypnotic, it's hard to stop.
I didnt even watch the video yet, but I´m super hyped. I loved your first video, watched it countless times and learned so much by your playing! You are such a delight!
amazing improv! instantly liked and subbed :)
Thanks!!
Great video! I would like know on chord progression no.2 you call it a vi IV I V I. In another video you mention if in a minor key you would say the first chord is i. So that would make it i bVI bIII bVII which one is correct?
When David said that little 'nice' at the end, I felt it 🎶❤
Do you think it would be a good idea to use inversions for the C only progression to show some change in the bass end ?
Thanks for this video :)
III6 (as i7/3)
i9 as(iii7 preferably fingered as 2,3,5,7 over 1)
VI6 (as iv/6)
iv9 as(iii7 preferably fingered as 1,3,5,6 over 4)
I'm just gonna throw a progression here and hope it makes into your next video lol...
| Eb6| Eb/G | Ab7maj | Abm9 | F7/A | B | C#
Bonus: Would sound awesome in a 9/8 ballad style, just give it to us! lol
Suggestion: you could record the notes your keyboard plays (MIDI recording?) and add an overlay of a keyboard to the top-right corner of the video automatically showing the keys you press. I'm trying to learn about chord voicings by seeing the notes you play for each chord notation, but it's harder than it should be with the keyboard upside down and having to figure out which fingers actually pressed the keys :/
For an original song i play
Emaj7add9 / Bsus4 B/ A/ E x2
Em9/Bsus2 over G / A7 / Am Am6
E/B/A (omit 3)/ E
Emaj7add9/ C#Add9/ B/ A11# A E /
Im not good enough to play it on piano and i would love to see someone play it
I've got a 16 bar progression I really like:
C | C+ | C6 | C7
F | Fm | Csus4 | C7
F7 | F#°7 | C | Am Am♭5
G G+ | F7 Fm△7 Fsus2 | Csus4 C | Dm G7
The three chords in the 14th bar are played with a tresillo rhythm
9:02
I really like the Emin7 to Eb7
C F Bb9 Am9-A9
Dm7-G7 C-F Bm7b5-Bm7b5/F E7#5#9-E7#5/G
What would be great is if you can also give your thoughts on what key and scale the song is in and which chords are substitutions or modulations/changes.
I think this is great idea and would gladly watch any episodes where you do the same thing.
The 8th one sounds a bit like something that could be played in some jazz bar. People talking, playing cards enjoying whiskey and cigars and the piano man is just vibing along. Not something that goes home on any chord, but it doesn't has to, it's a great low-key ambience.
I swear the first chord progression is the same chord progression as "south side of the sky" by yes
That 4th progression is Stevie Wonder's "Saturn" nearly verbatim, just change the Eb7 to Amin. Awesome vid!
I heard this somewhere and I instantly fell in love with it. It feels like a nostalgic victory over something......if that makes any sort of sense. 😅
C#m F# C#m F# A F#m A-B C#add flat 6.
In the 4th Progression, rather than Eb7 or Ebmaj7, why not use EbFr (Ebmaj7b5)? It’s the least offense in my opinion and honestly sounds super smooth with the common A tone