I play twice a week at a restuarant jazz and swing alone and I love it even though it has been nearly 5 years since I started. Your You tube explanations have been so clear and concise that even I at nearly 80 can be inspired. Thank you so much for all your hard work in producing this gift to me. I have a LOT of work to do! Thank you.
(No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.Charles Dickens) Good job.Thank you for teaching us .....and sharing with us your knowledge.... Thank you
Whoa, when I started listening and learning jazz theory, everybody blow god tier level harmony to me and use the language like it was a made up one to me and it made my head hurts. But you, you actually made me understand how all of this works more easily. Really appreciate your channel.
I just wanted to say that you are the most helpful piano vid teachers out on youtube. I've learned so much from all your videos! Thank you, keep up the great work and fantastic job!
I'm so inspired by your videos. You're such a skilled teacher and your tutorials are so concise and mind-opening. I'm very grateful to you for posting this valuable info. Many thanks!
Cheers to you as well. They're not 100% gratis, since I get some (small) revenue from ads, but definitely not in proportion to the work I put into them. I consider this a hobby which I just enjoy doing.
Wow... I finally found the answer to my question in your videos which my guitar teacher couldn't provide. Thank you so much! The last one with Fm was gorgeous.
Fantastic video and a great concept to learn . This video has really cleared my many unknown musical arrangements and given me kind of secret about amazing harmony behind any songs. Enjoying Music over the years will now have a new dimension to them. As i always use to wonder how anyone can be so creative and different .[ Sir i am a percussion player in indian music for 25 years and at the age of 50 i have now started learning piano for a year].This video will change my entire process now onwards. Thank you,Thank you so much . God bless you.
This is an excellent video. I learned bit and pieces by paying attention on music that I learned over these many years. You summarize in a very easy way to understand.
Mangold: I am strings instrument musician,self taught,and I take advantage of your lessons to improve as a musician (theory) and btw practice my 4th language(english)... I greatly appreciate your disposition,time and your vision professor.
Very interesting and informative, as so many of your videos are. So a big thanks from me. The only thing I would add is that these are not actually substitutions but insertions, since you're still playing the chord you are supposedly 'substituting' for.
If think it's more like "cadences" (I think the english word is "turnaround" but don't nkow if it has the same meaning) and chord progressions than substitutions, isn't it ? Not exactly what I was looking for and quite piano-oriented way to use the changes but still valuable material !
Great! Of course you can find all these things on the internet but only if you know what to look for ;) So thank you for sharing and for the inspiration!
You're welcome, Jasper. People are always a bit reluctant to use big words like Chord Substitutions, but we've all played around with changing chords in songs, so in some sense everybody already has an idea it can be done. It's all about branding it with the right buzzword :).
I must say, while Jazz as a genre remains mostly inaccessible to me, simply because the sound in most cases just doesn't "reverberate" with me on any emotional level, I tend to always learn most from people with a Jazz background/core-expertise. I have the feeling they have some of the deepest understanding of interesting harmonies out there.
Interesting lesson to learn; Superb video lessons; i want to learn piano more after seeing your lessons; man gold project is a MUSIC INSPIRATION PROJECT to all music lovers
Wherever there is a progression without a resolution ... Whenever there is a chord that needs to be voiced ... I will be there ... I am ... MangoldProject! :)
In your diminished substitution, you have to pin-point that any inversion of the dim7 chord also taking part in the mix => instead of Cdim, also works for Ebdim,Gdim & Bbdim which in turn are just a secondary dominant with b9 leading to the II chord(Dm), ergo Cdim is A7(alt to Dm7 !)
REQUEST...I really really like this video. I watch repeatedly as I try to implement it. REQUEST: Would you please do a video where you take a popular song and implement this instruction using that song? Thanks. (I am using Van Morrison “Have I told you that I love you”) I find that practicing this theory simultaneously FORCES me choose the substitutions that can work ALONG WITH the melody. Very powerful learning.
Thank you for your short but well explained video. I can play pretty good, but don’t know how to spice anything up. I’m like a robot. Trying to find help, everyone wants $600-$90,000 for their knowledge. So thanks for sharing, I “liked” and subscribed and will put these creative ideas to work right away!
Thank you very much!!! I have subscribed to your channel and I can tell you for sure that your videos are taking me to that next level that I have been dreaming about for a long time. I am amazed that you are doing this for free. There are lots of videos out there for sale but they haven't helped me much. Please, may you do a video on how to know what key a singer is in, and so to be able to play in that key instantly?
Hi Victor. Thank you for the very kind words, I don't know what else to say :). I've put your idea in my "idea notebook". Can't promise when but it'll get done!
I really enjoy your videos and have learned a lot but this one is just fantastic! I have the lyrics and a melody for a song but was struggling with the harmony so this will really help a lot. Thank you very much! Happy new year to you, I hope 2021 is a great year for you :)
Hi David. Thank you for the compliment. I've got lots of other videos on my channel which you're welcome to check out. They all try to target the intermediate player. I always felt there aren't enough videos doing that. Or were you specifically referring to more videos on chord substitutions?
MangoldProject Well I am more interested in songwriting or rearranging songs rather than doing faster runs! I'd also like to know when to use certain chords. I know a lot of chords but don't know when to use them. (Something like 13 chords, or 6 chords instead of a plain major chords). Or using substitution chords also helps with creating a better sound. Either way, thanks a lot for your videos.
MangoldProject By the way, do you happen to have made any video covering the topic "why these kinds of chords" - I mean I can put together a melody on a bass but never know what chord I can go for in detail (minor, major, diminished) - know what I mean? It's like I know how to create the nice sound of D6/9 but never know WHEN I can use it (and when I can't).. :D
How did you do the part where you went up the piano at 11:11? Do you have a tutorial about the techniques on how to do things like and similar to that? Thanks dude! Keep playin'.
I like to think of what he's calling a II V substitution as simply a v of V or the dominant chord in minor form in relation to the dominant or five chord in whatever key you may be in. This is the way I was taught and is why I'm more comfortable with it but there's more than one way to skin a cat.
Not necessarily. In the strict sense, a passing chord is one which is not on the (diatonic) scale but connects the notes of two chords which are on the scale. For example, the Ab7 which precedes G7 would be a passing chord, but the Dm in the substitution (Dm, G) (instead of just G) would not be a passing chord.
Ow!!! Ok...But on your last answer when I asked about the chords you played at the end of a video (E/C - Csus4/D - G/E), you told they are passing chords... Aren't they in the diatonic scale?
Wahlen BK Muzik Some people refer to diatonic chords as passing chords as well if they "connect" two other chords or harmonic phrases. I guess I subconsciously adopted that view, but I'm not sure it was the best thing to do in retrospect. I find it to be a bit ill-defined - after all, in some sense, all chords are passing chords because they connect the chord before them to the chord after them!
I never learned substitutions before. You've just explained several of my favourite songs (I guess that was obvious). So it seems the term "substitutions" is a bit of a misnomer as most of these are additions. I guess the point is that if you harmonised a tune classically, you could then substitute these chord groups and they would still support the same melody
Hi Tony. You are welcome. There are no rules for when to use chord substitutions. Think of chord substitutions as synonyms: you don't have to use synonyms when writing, but it does make the language richer and more rounded. The more synonyms you know the more possibilities you see and the more you understand how and when to use them. My advice is: learn as many substitution tricks as you can and play around with them for as long as you can, and the ideas will end up coming to you.
Tony Thomas You can, but you need to make sure it doesn't clash with the melody. There's no guarantee that a particular chord substitution will still sound as pleasing with the same melody. It's all trial and error.
I play twice a week at a restuarant jazz and swing alone and I love it even though it has been nearly 5 years since I started. Your You tube explanations have been so clear and concise that even I at nearly 80 can be inspired. Thank you so much for all your hard work in producing this gift to me. I have a LOT of work to do! Thank you.
Thank you very much for these piano tutorials! I learned a lot.
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Man, this channel, Rick Beato, MusicTheoryForGuitar + all the others!
What a time to be alive!
Can't thank you enough for sharing your knowledge.
(No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.Charles Dickens)
Good job.Thank you for teaching us .....and sharing with us your knowledge....
Thank you
best teacher, clear and concrete explanation, high quality
Thanks Hawk!
There is so much information here for beginning/intermediate players condensed so well, but still perfectly explained.
I've been looking for this for 30 years.
And I found it. :)
Thank you very much.
Very well explained.
Thanks thanks. :)
So happy that I found this video. It's gonna make songs so much different.
Happy to hear that Alok!
Hands down best pianist TH-camr! Everything is so precise and clear, you explain things very well thank you for your time sir!
Whoa, when I started listening and learning jazz theory, everybody blow god tier level harmony to me and use the language like it was a made up one to me and it made my head hurts. But you, you actually made me understand how all of this works more easily. Really appreciate your channel.
I just wanted to say that you are the most helpful piano vid teachers out on youtube. I've learned so much from all your videos! Thank you, keep up the great work and fantastic job!
This is the most educational piano video I have ever seen.
This is the most useful tutorial i've ever seen in my life !! Thank you a million times
MrOussamodas Wow that's high praise. It'll be difficult to top that in my upcoming videos, but I'll try :)
I'm so inspired by your videos. You're such a skilled teacher and your tutorials are so concise and mind-opening. I'm very grateful to you for posting this valuable info. Many thanks!
MendocinoCoastFilms2 Thanks! Glad you're enjoying them.
Very useful. Hard to believe you offer these tutorials gratis! Here's to you!
Cheers, Mate.
Cheers to you as well. They're not 100% gratis, since I get some (small) revenue from ads, but definitely not in proportion to the work I put into them. I consider this a hobby which I just enjoy doing.
Wow... I finally found the answer to my question in your videos which my guitar teacher couldn't provide. Thank you so much! The last one with Fm was gorgeous.
Fantastic video and a great concept to learn . This video has really cleared my many unknown musical arrangements and given me kind of secret about amazing harmony behind any songs.
Enjoying Music over the years will now have a new dimension to them. As i always use to wonder how anyone can be so creative and different .[ Sir i am a percussion player in indian music for 25 years and at the age of 50 i have now started learning piano for a year].This video will change my entire process now onwards.
Thank you,Thank you so much .
God bless you.
You're welcome, and thank you so much for the very kind words!
I agree with you, Bharat
This is an excellent video. I learned bit and pieces by paying attention on music that I learned over these many years. You summarize in a very easy way to understand.
Thanks Ron!
thanks man ! this is really helpful. u among the best teachers on youtube.
Mangold: I am strings instrument musician,self taught,and I take advantage of your lessons to improve as a musician (theory) and btw practice my 4th language(english)...
I greatly appreciate your disposition,time and your vision professor.
Great teacher, shame there are so many fools out there that give this a thumbs down (78) 👎 this guy is awesome thankyou
Meh, don't worry about it. 78 dislikes to 3000 likes is a 2.6% dislike ratio which is actually pretty good.
Very thorough and you speak well...so i subscribed...Thank You for the instruction best ive seen yet...
You explain very well. I think It`s better if you put numbers like romans (I,II,III, IV, V) for grades of scale, not 1, 5, etc.
You make these things so easy to understand.
This is so beautifully simple.
Beautiful! I loved the diminished C, as well as the progression at the end with the Fm!!! Awesome man, thank you 🙏
You're welcome. Check out some of my other substitution videos, such as:
th-cam.com/video/T2WV80h3P04/w-d-xo.html
I love all of these substitutions
This is absolutely GOLD! Thank you!!
Mikkel Svendsen Thanks Mikkel, I appreciate your kindness!
Very interesting and informative, as so many of your videos are. So a big thanks from me. The only thing I would add is that these are not actually substitutions but insertions, since you're still playing the chord you are supposedly 'substituting' for.
Dave March There's always the issue of whether changing "Dm Dm" for "Dm G" is considered a substitution or insertion ...
What a lovely chord progression at the end
wonderful! excellent! I find myself clapping the joy of learning new things - which means, your lessons are very effective!
Thank you so much for all this tips and exemples, you're an amazing teacher
Glad you think so!
Incredible video. So many variations to practice now. I play mainly by ear so using these techniques i can jazz up my repetoire. Thank you my friend.
Great teaching Sir.
If think it's more like "cadences" (I think the english word is "turnaround" but don't nkow if it has the same meaning) and chord progressions than substitutions, isn't it ? Not exactly what I was looking for and quite piano-oriented way to use the changes but still valuable material !
karur You say potato, I say potato :). I wouldn't call them turnarounds because they're applicable throughout a song.
Excellent - clear and practical.
Congratulations here from Brazil ! very helpful lesson!
whoah, I've never knew about changing the V for a IVm it sounds really nice, cool trick! thanks!
Great tips, Mangold! Of course, you make it all sound so much better than I can! But I'm working on it. Thanks for all your great videos!
Just take it slow. It's a long journey, nobody starts out sounding polished.
Great! Of course you can find all these things on the internet but only if you know what to look for ;) So thank you for sharing and for the inspiration!
You're welcome, Jasper. People are always a bit reluctant to use big words like Chord Substitutions, but we've all played around with changing chords in songs, so in some sense everybody already has an idea it can be done. It's all about branding it with the right buzzword :).
Thanks a lot guy. It's a wonderfull way of understanding
Wow, amazing - thank you for this!
Hahaha wow , that's so cool been looking for lesson to this harmony stuff. Keep up the good work. Thanks
Thank you so much for the lessons. It's really helpful.
So sweet sounding
I must say, while Jazz as a genre remains mostly inaccessible to me, simply because the sound in most cases just doesn't "reverberate" with me on any emotional level, I tend to always learn most from people with a Jazz background/core-expertise. I have the feeling they have some of the deepest understanding of interesting harmonies out there.
Interesting lesson to learn; Superb video lessons; i want to learn piano more after seeing your lessons; man gold project is a MUSIC INSPIRATION PROJECT to all music lovers
Thank you for your kind words.
Who are you man??...amazing video....and u're giving it for free...thanks a lot...
Wherever there is a progression without a resolution ...
Whenever there is a chord that needs to be voiced ...
I will be there ...
I am ... MangoldProject!
:)
MangoldProject
Haha...greetings from a jazz loving, tabla player from India !!
Whoa! Just found these videos. This is great. I've been trying to deepen my knowledge of harmony.
You are genius teacher. thank you!
Great job! Easy to follow and understand!
Awesome!
Well said sir!
That was great and easy to understand. Thank you!
Nicely done! I learned a lot! Thanks!
Glad you found it useful!
its soo beautiful tutorial...thnk u sir....thnx a lot...i always follow ur lesson..
Great lesson!! I really learned a lot from that and am going to try it out on a variety of songs. Many thanks.
In your diminished substitution, you have to pin-point that any inversion of the dim7 chord also taking part in the mix => instead of Cdim, also works for Ebdim,Gdim & Bbdim which in turn are just a secondary dominant with b9 leading to the II chord(Dm), ergo Cdim is A7(alt to Dm7 !)
REQUEST...I really really like this video. I watch repeatedly as I try to implement it. REQUEST: Would you please do a video where you take a popular song and implement this instruction using that song? Thanks.
(I am using Van Morrison “Have I told you that I love you”)
I find that practicing this theory simultaneously FORCES me choose the substitutions that can work ALONG WITH the melody. Very powerful learning.
Thank you for all videos, it's been very usefull to me.
Cool! It's always good to hear feedback from viewers ("likes" can only go so far). Happy substituting!
Excellent review! Concise, informative and clear.
Thank you for your short but well explained video. I can play pretty good, but don’t know how to spice anything up. I’m like a robot. Trying to find help, everyone wants $600-$90,000 for their knowledge. So thanks for sharing, I “liked” and subscribed and will put these creative ideas to work right away!
Love it so much , Thank you for giving your knowledge. ❤️
Great playing! Also a very helpful video.
Very clear, well done
Thank you very much!!! I have subscribed to your channel and I can tell you for sure that your videos are taking me to that next level that I have been dreaming about for a long time. I am amazed that you are doing this for free. There are lots of videos out there for sale but they haven't helped me much. Please, may you do a video on how to know what key a singer is in, and so to be able to play in that key instantly?
Hi Victor. Thank you for the very kind words, I don't know what else to say :). I've put your idea in my "idea notebook". Can't promise when but it'll get done!
I really enjoy your videos and have learned a lot but this one is just fantastic! I have the lyrics and a melody for a song but was struggling with the harmony so this will really help a lot. Thank you very much! Happy new year to you, I hope 2021 is a great year for you :)
Happy new year!
Thanks for sharing your gift 🎁
This is an excellent, concise video. Thank you!
this is excellent thank you
Very Nice Lesson!!
That was amazing thank you
You and all your videos are brilliant. 'Nuff said. :)
Awesome content and great channel. Thanks!!
Thank you very much for uploading this very helpful video! I am going to practice now. 😀..
VERY HELPFUL
Whaaat...Wowwwww....Awesome
Merci beaucoup !
thankyou for these, i really appreciate it.
Very informative, thanks!
You're welcome Nikolas.
Could you also do a video for the minor key?
This is awesome. Can you please do more of these?
Hi David. Thank you for the compliment. I've got lots of other videos on my channel which you're welcome to check out. They all try to target the intermediate player. I always felt there aren't enough videos doing that. Or were you specifically referring to more videos on chord substitutions?
MangoldProject Well I am more interested in songwriting or rearranging songs rather than doing faster runs!
I'd also like to know when to use certain chords. I know a lot of chords but don't know when to use them. (Something like 13 chords, or 6 chords instead of a plain major chords). Or using substitution chords also helps with creating a better sound.
Either way, thanks a lot for your videos.
Super helpful!
Super thanks! :)
awesome vid, very clear
Great video, very well explained - thank you
Thanks Burf.
Thank's a lot, very, very helpful.
Glad I could help out.
sir, that was truly awesome...thanks for uploading....will you please post some more on this again.....thank you very much
Thanks! I want to make lots more, but time is so scarce ... :)
thank you for this tutorial
Excellent, great help. That last chord progression was beautiful.
Brilliant!
Thank you very much for this great video, it really helped me :)
epic tutorial :) thank you
Thank you for this useful video :)
You're awesome!
Thanks Alister!
very useful, thank you Sir
Kubulu You're welcome.
MangoldProject By the way, do you happen to have made any video covering the topic "why these kinds of chords" - I mean I can put together a melody on a bass but never know what chord I can go for in detail (minor, major, diminished) - know what I mean? It's like I know how to create the nice sound of D6/9 but never know WHEN I can use it (and when I can't).. :D
How did you do the part where you went up the piano at 11:11? Do you have a tutorial about the techniques on how to do things like and similar to that? Thanks dude! Keep playin'.
Aha! It just so happens I do!
th-cam.com/video/brgs6VAHUsI/w-d-xo.html
Really good. I learnt a lot from this video. Can you please do a video where you start off with a minor scale and then substitute the chords?
That's a good idea, I'll add it to the queue :)
I like to think of what he's calling a II V substitution as simply a v of V or the dominant chord in minor form in relation to the dominant or five chord in whatever key you may be in. This is the way I was taught and is why I'm more comfortable with it but there's more than one way to skin a cat.
That's another way to look at it. And my cats wish to voice their objection to any skinning :)
Thanks for the tips. Tell me, the substitution creates passing chords. Right?
Not necessarily. In the strict sense, a passing chord is one which is not on the (diatonic) scale but connects the notes of two chords which are on the scale. For example, the Ab7 which precedes G7 would be a passing chord, but the Dm in the substitution (Dm, G) (instead of just G) would not be a passing chord.
Ow!!! Ok...But on your last answer when I asked about the chords you played at the end of a video (E/C - Csus4/D - G/E), you told they are passing chords... Aren't they in the diatonic scale?
Wahlen BK Muzik
Some people refer to diatonic chords as passing chords as well if they "connect" two other chords or harmonic phrases. I guess I subconsciously adopted that view, but I'm not sure it was the best thing to do in retrospect. I find it to be a bit ill-defined - after all, in some sense, all chords are passing chords because they connect the chord before them to the chord after them!
Thank you a lot
You're welcome.
I never learned substitutions before. You've just explained several of my favourite songs (I guess that was obvious). So it seems the term "substitutions" is a bit of a misnomer as most of these are additions. I guess the point is that if you harmonised a tune classically, you could then substitute these chord groups and they would still support the same melody
Hi, thank you. for the videos. Please can you explain when chord substitutions are used.
Hi Tony. You are welcome. There are no rules for when to use chord substitutions. Think of chord substitutions as synonyms: you don't have to use synonyms when writing, but it does make the language richer and more rounded. The more synonyms you know the more possibilities you see and the more you understand how and when to use them. My advice is: learn as many substitution tricks as you can and play around with them for as long as you can, and the ideas will end up coming to you.
like if there is chord chart for a song, to play an accompaniment as we sing, can we use chord substitutions. Please do reply.
Tony Thomas You can, but you need to make sure it doesn't clash with the melody. There's no guarantee that a particular chord substitution will still sound as pleasing with the same melody. It's all trial and error.