UNDERSTAND CHORDS AND CHORD SYMBOLS (plus how to improvise with them) #8

Learn how to create diatonic triads and 7th chords, what their symbols are and how to improvise with them to create lines and melodies that outline harmonic movement. Learn why chord symbols do not have all the information you may need when improvising and learn how you can use the chords function to help with note choices. Step by step exercises you can apply to any chord or chord sequence to become comfortable outlining chords as you improvise.
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I understand the concept in 16min, many thanks :D

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This is excellent. I understand chords and shapes for the first time. Thank you.

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Thanks Mollie!

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I enjoyed this lesson

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Thanks Jayson!

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Espectacular. Pondría poner sub títulos en español??

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Excelente muy bueno!.. gracias Paul

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Thank You! Excellent explanation! Looking at the piano keys it becomes even easier to visualize. All the steps between notes etc....

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Very well explained. It may take me a couple more times listening but it is going in...Thank you..

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Thanks for sharing this important topic Bro. only this video that i learn how to improvise chordtone

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I find this stuff actually very complicated and confusing, thank you for the great video

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Muchas gracias Pablo, entendí bien, aunque con el traductor automático de TH-cam.! Thanks a Lot Paul, I understood very well with the TH-cam automático translator.. I’m following

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Great!

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Thanks

[@MadBurner1]

Been playing guitar for 10 years and recently started playing the sax. I knew my way around music theory, basic stuff, major, minor, pentatonic, circle of fifths and some exotic scales. But I was never able to fully understand the harmony behind jazz. Now I had my eurika moment… just add in the minor 7th and the secrets of jazz are unlocked.
Thank you!

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Excelent

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[@edthesaxplayer8450]

Thank you this is the first time I have actually understood why things are structured and named are as they are.IE Dominent , half diminished, maj and minor chords.Of course being a sax player having to transpose makes it all a little tricky to get into ones head.

[@OnlineSaxAcademy]

Thanks Ed! I also have a video about transposing between sax and concert pitch instruments you may find useful: th-cam.com/video/qZBMSGQsBiQ/w-d-xo.html

[@mitsuo233]

Great lesson Paul. One question: All the melodies you played are still based on the C major scale, right? So, all this improvisations fit in any song in "C maj"? thanks again.

[@OnlineSaxAcademy]

That’s right, these are all based on chords built from the C major scale

[@ossorrera]

I've been following you, many thanks, I wanna join your online class, I just dont know where I could start, I'm beginner , can play now on music sheet , ballads songs only.

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I would recommend starting with my Sax101 Course, you can access this, and all other courses when you become a premium member here: www.newonlinesaxacademy.com/memberships

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done, I joined and I take a leave of abscence at work, lol, so I have all the time to learn this, thanks that I found you. More power to you.

[@Robyn19fnq]

Thanks Paul, that's a lot to absorb.
So ... If I memorise those chords and find sheet music with chord symbols, it's possible to just wing it ... ?
Also, do the chords need to be transposed according to the music, depending which instrument it's written for?

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Hi Robyn, I would say that getting to know what chords you have within each major scale is a great foundation. Most pop and rock tunes will stay far more in one tonality (chords all built from one scale) so once you know the key of that song, you do indeed have to option to wing it with that scale. However as a songs harmony increases in complexity (especially jazz) it is likely to be using chords from different keys and also different scale types (chords built from melodic and harmonic minor scales are quite common). There’s a great book by Mark Levine called The Jazz Theory Book which will really help with all this stuff.

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You shouldn’t need to transpose the chords if the sheet music your playing is already transposed, it’s fairly standard practice to have both the melody and the chords in the same key.

[@nico2000ad]

great stuff alway wondering what those roman numbers meant,ahha beginner sax player .......

[@OnlineSaxAcademy]

Yeah, it can all look a bit strange at first! Glad this helped!

[@yanowski5645]

hi im a beginner and find reading music off a sheet really hard and and slow but can play tenor by reading letter notes better ...is this normal ?iv always wanted to play tom hark by the piranhas but cannot get it on note letters

[@OnlineSaxAcademy]

Yes it takes lots of time and practice to learn how to read music, try to do 10 min of reading practice each day. Start easy and gradually increase the difficulty, really focus on the rhythms.

[@someshkeyboard4550]

Sir plese tell me how to impervise acording to miner scale

[@OnlineSaxAcademy]

Check out www.onlinesaxacademy.com for lots of extra resources including how to improvise on minor chords

[@Quipp90]

Question. At around 5:50 you start playing the first notes. but you play 4 notes but only write 3. so you explain to play C E G but you play C E G ?. this is also for the other bars. This got me a bit puzzled. Could you please explain what this 4th note is your playing? Keep up the good work! really like your video's

[@OnlineSaxAcademy]

Hi Quipp90, I am playing CEGE, in other words going back to the middle note of the chord. This is because I am playing 4/4 time so it’s nice to fill in using 4 notes to help create a steady pulse. You don’t have to go back to the middle note of the chord, you can go to any note of the chord, as long as it’s one of the chord tones it will sound nice. Hope this helps!

[@someshkeyboard4550]

Plese explain for miner scale also sir

[@cathalbuckley5657]

At 7:37 you say to skip between chord tones. Please clarify thx !

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omg..this is the ah-ha moment!...

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This lesson would be more useful if you were able to highlight the notes you are playing in each example

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Don't know any of it. I hope I will in 10 years

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You will! A little each day…