I was honestly struggling so much with seventh chords in my music theory class and I think this video explained it better than my teacher ever did. I understand seventh chords so much better now in 8 minutes than I did in several classes.
3xtramaestr0 Hahaha i was teaching my younger sister to play piano and taught her to play diminished 7 before passing over to the 4th chord, and now I realise I was meant to call it dominant 7 🤦♂️ I’ll correct her tomorrow night and if she asks... I’ll just say that she heard me wrong lol
@@danwest9900 some chords particulaly strike a resonance with different people, in different states of mind or emotion. When you are writing , you tune into this, and when you are listening you tune into it, especially strongly if it matches your resonance at that time, and also you will go crazy for it if it matches your dominant resonance. That is what I have discovered. It may only make sense to a few , but thats ok.😊👍🏼💫💫💫
This video is the perfect Music Theory Explanation for dummies. Clear explanation. Great Visualisation. Soothing Voice. Just amazing. This video is absolutely perfect, Thank you very much, mate!!!
I'm learning this for guitar but it's insane to see how intuitive the piano is for this kind of stuff. With the guitar, I've begun to think about how to reach notes relatively (I'm probably an early intermediate player), but with the piano it has this linear way of looking at it your notes, whereas with guitar I can reach higher notes either from top to bottom or left to right, as opposed to left to right alone which just seems like it makes more sense.
I’ve been playing piano for eight years and can play all these chords I just don’t know all the technical names for them which makes me sound stupid a lot of times smh
It's fine. I know all of the technical stuff and memorize all of the names etc but don't know how to play the piano lmao. I only produce music with DAWs
This was great, thanks, been searching for "left hand chords piano" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Nonason Ranincoln Genie - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now )? It is a smashing exclusive guide for discovering how to play the piano like a pro minus the headache. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my work buddy got great results with it.
Maybe I didn't notice in this video, but it is good to be mentioned that dominant 7th chords are made from the V note of the scale they belong and in which they tend to resolve. So the C dominant 7 chord belongs to F major scale. You can make dominant 7th chord in any major or minor scale, except natural minor because it does not have leading note, so you must transform it in to melodic or harmonic minor.
Thank you for this. I was learning these with my teacher today but he talks too much and I ended up being really confused. You have made it so easy and clear, it all makes sense now. Thank you
Thank you so much, bro! I just discovered your channel a little bit back and videos like these have helped me so much to learn a little more about theory.
beginner question - for the 7 diatonic notes in the C major scale the 1st 4th and 5th are usually played as major chords C F G the 2nd 3rd and 6th are usually played as minors Dm Em and Am. But what chord is usually played for that 7th note in the scale? I have seen a B7 substituted but whatever that chord is. Thanks - and I don't play keyboard, but it helps me in understanding music that I play on my guitar. Please explain in plain English - I am not a music major or even a music minor or even a music 7th (a little musical joke there).
Great! You suggested learning all 12-keys. Should we also practice learning different ways to play each chord? E.g. a C chord could be played starting with C or E or G. I mix these quite randomly, and funnily the same song could start and end differently each time. Don't know if that is good or bad practice. Is some rotation custom with these? Or is the way you played the best sounding and most common way? If so...learning 12-keys will be more managable. Thanks again :-)
this is good practice, you just inverting the chords, i am going to first learn the root position i think and if i know them the inversion. but theres nothing wrong with it!
Great video PianoPig I just started watching your videos a few days ago oh man you can't imagine How I'm feeling this is just right what I've looking for. Hope you get more views and subscribers which is what you deserved. Looking forward to it. P.S I don't usually comment let's say this is an exception. Greeting from El Salvador you just got a new subscriber
My pleasure :) Glad you are enjoying the lessons! I find with teachers, sometimes it is better to ask them to teach you what you want to learn rather than let them teach you what they want to... but I don't know you're current situation, just a tip :)
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It is simple, clear and makes it so easy for me as a beginner! Yet I've got one question. When you say at 02:15 that the "Cdominant7 is an unstable sound and wants to resolve to the 5th below" why is it "F"? Isn't G number 5 in the scale of C? Thanks for your help :-)
I am also a beginner. I figured a trick out for this "unresolved" sound. The fourth note in the key of C is F. The F major chord resolves the C7. The patter is the same across all dominant 7 chords, from my notes. If you play a D7, you would then play a G major chord to resolve the D7. G is the fourth note in the key of D Major. If you play an F7, you would play an A# Major to resolve it. A# is the fourth note is the key of F Major. It really is phenomenal how much math and patterns go into music theory. This pattern ties into the circle of fifths and the circle of fourths.
just as scenery...visual landscape of the keyboard lends itself to pattern-recognition... so too linguistic-naming aligns a certain rational understanding to these visual patterns... ‘middle-c’ is named for the stave-line (floating) on the scripted page... or sheet music... between the 5x lines of the upper-register and the 5x lines of the lower-register... building a ‘stack’ of notes with the middle-c stave-line as the anchor of the stack... (or call it... the ‘root-note’)... building the stack in equal/opposite directions... where the notes fall evenly under the fingers and aligned with the evenly spaced stave-lines of the manuscript staves... upper-register/treble to the right... lower-register/base to the left... physically pianists experience the notes under the fingers of each hand in the same symmetrical way... the little finger of each hand aligning 5x scale-tones away from the ‘root-note’ under the thumb... and looking at the sheet-music... the script-notation shows the notes played marking the even-spaced-lines in each of the directions of upper-register and lower-register symmetrically from middle-c floating stave-line... to verbalise the sensation of this experience... there are 4x levels in play here... (1) visually on the keyboard, (2) visually on the sheet-music-staves, (3) physically under the pianists hands, (4) aurally in ear/mind... ‘dominant’ describes the note under the little-finger in both directions of each hand... in the direction of the upper-register, by convention called the ‘dominant’ (plain & simply)... in the direction of the lower-register, by convention called the ‘sub-dominant’... but interestingly congruent with all 4x levels in play mentioned above... the prefix ‘sub’ indicates the area (domain) experienced (sub) under the left-hand... indicates the ‘lower-register’ under or ‘sub-middle-c’ on the sheet-music... indicates visually the opposite direction... indicates aurally what’s heard by ear/mind... both are ‘dominant’ in both pitch/sound... so one of them for naming-purposes (and to fix the different aural-experience in its ‘quality-of-sound’) is perfectedly indicated by the prefix ‘sub’... then from the ‘root’ note (tonic) ‘middle-c’ : the middle note in the direction of the right-hand... in upper-register... lying under the middle-finger is the ‘mediant’... middle-note the middle note in the left-hand... in lower-register... the ‘sub-mediant’... the only notes remaining un-described.. or ‘named’... completing the 7-tone major-scale: the note between the ‘root’ or ‘tonic’ and the ‘mediant’... is named... ‘super-tonic’ (above the ‘tonic’ in the right-hand upper-register) the note between the ‘root’/‘tonic’ and the ‘sub-mediant’... is named... ‘sub-tonic’ (below the ‘tonic’ in the left-hand lower-register) and the rest is... rests... they’re a whole different matter 🎶
I know this is late, but the F is a fifth below the C, or the subdominant, while G is a fifth above C, which is the dominant. I think it's called a dominant 7th because since it resolves to a fifth below, the chord is generally in the key of the dominant of the piece.
Thanks for the vid! - so playing these sevenths involves four notes each, but I don't imagine you play all 4 notes every time, what notes do you try and leave out if you are unburdening your hand some? Is there some guideline on that? Thanks
@stephen285 - Good question; I hope someone answers. I struggle with playing four-note chords, and inverting them sometimes sounds weird. I wonder which interval is the best to omit if I need to.
Hi there, again :) I have an interesting question about a note between the fifths and the seventh. for example on the c major scale with a triad, instead of taking the g as the fifth I take the a as the sixth note and the chord sounds really harmonic for me and wants to be resolved. You can hear it you you play c-e-a and then c-e-g or c-eb-a and then c-eb-g. can you explain it a bit? The interesting thing is: it also sounds the same on the c minor scale. but the note of a is not included in the c major or minor scale, so why does it sound so god? what is the secret behind that sixth or is there any link to another scale or progression I don't know? that would be very helpful.
The note A is very much in the C major scale, it's also in the C minor melodic scale. The 6th is a great extension to add onto chords, works with both major and minor. I love the 'minor 6/9' chord, it's very 'James Bond' sounding haha.
C E A is just A minor with a C in the bass, then C E G is of course C. iv - I chord progressions are very common so I don't think there is "tension" like with a V7 I progression, it's just natural since were used to it. V7 has a lot of tension because there is a diminished 5th (aka tritone) between the 3rd and 7th, like with B and F in a G7 which resolves to C and E
What you mean "wants to resolve to F chord"? Why there specifically? (am clueless about theory) seems really scary to learn theory/piano, to have to remember all of those combinations :f
I play music by ear mostly. I'm trying to understand the system for naming chords, but I cannot undertand why a chord labeled "C7" flattens the major 7th, but a chord labeled C9 doesn't flatten the 9th. Is there any sort of logic to it, or is it just some random kink you just are supposed to remember?
it's nothing really intuitive within the 7th chord, it just sounds nice when the major chord of the 5th below the 7th is played right after, so people say it resolves.
Chord tab: "Next you need to play F7." Player: "Do you mean a standard seventh or a flattened seventh?" This causes so much confusion. I saw the worst ever example of this in the piano arrangement for 'The Great Gig In The Sky' by Pink Floyd. It's stuffed full of seventh chords but only half of them are flattened. As usual the chord names written in it and also in other chord only tabs don't specify WHICH seventh each one is!
For me, The best thing to do was learn the defaults....and think of these as 2 part...the triad, which is the basic chord and quality, and then the added 7th.....the default on the triad is major, and the default on the 7th is dominant (flatted).....so F7 is a (F major triad with a dominant (flatted) 7th).....Fmaj7 can be written as (F major/major 7), and Fm7 or Fmin7 can be thought of as (F minor/dominant (flatted) 7th) so on.....we often see things written in full, like a minor/major 7th chord, (Cmin/maj7) where the triad is minor, and the 7th, major.....so until it becomes second nature, always write out the defaults to get the real picture of what chord it is!!! You stop doing that after you have a strong understanding, which doesn't take long after the light bulb turns on.
Jazz Police is a song written by Leonard Cohen inspired by him instructing or policing his band NOT to play jazz chords with sevenths and ninths and to stick to playing simple triads as he preferred. Just an interesting fact 😊
I just gave you a like and subscribe! One thing I was wondering, is why do you use for the seventh note a “flat” instead of sharps? For example at 7:18 the D major seventh chord, why do you use “D flat” instead of “D sharp”? How do you know when to use either or?
Very helpful, I've always wrestled with the whole 7th/major 7th difference. I've also never gotten my head around the use of the term "dominant", still working on that one. But I'm curious why the diminished 7th is considered a 7th and not a 6th, since the major scale's 7th note is flattened twice to make it a 6th.
I'm still learning too, but I think It's still considered a 7th because contextually it makes more sense to think of it as a 7th chord that's been flattened twice, rather than a chord constructed out of the 6th But take that with a grain of salt, no idea if that's right lol
![How To Write Progressions using min7, maj7, and Dominant 7th chords [Songwriting - Music Theory]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3JizNRwHYNY/mqdefault.jpg)
I was honestly struggling so much with seventh chords in my music theory class and I think this video explained it better than my teacher ever did. I understand seventh chords so much better now in 8 minutes than I did in several classes.
motivation mateee
Of course
Major 7th - 1:00
Dominant 7th - 2:00
Minor 7th - 3:20
Half Diminished - 4:10
Diminished 7th - 5:10
Nice little exercise - 6:00 :)
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3:25 "You take my breath away". Always loved the minor 7th. One of my favorites. Excellent video by the way.
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I’ve lived my life calling a dominant 7 a diminished 7. Thanks video
Now you know 😀
Hahahha I instead thought the major seventh was the dominant seventh
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Hahaha i was teaching my younger sister to play piano and taught her to play diminished 7 before passing over to the 4th chord, and now I realise I was meant to call it dominant 7 🤦♂️
I’ll correct her tomorrow night and if she asks... I’ll just say that she heard me wrong lol
The G minor 7 is a beautiful chord
G7? KING ME! KING ME!
All chords are beautiful.
@@danwest9900 Yeah all chords are beautiful in correct context:)
@@Mr.Kenyatta64 Yes, thank you for clarifying what I wrote. The context (or call it sequencing) of the chords is what drives songs and muscial pieces.
@@danwest9900 some chords particulaly strike a resonance with different people, in different states of mind or emotion. When you are writing , you tune into this, and when you are listening you tune into it, especially strongly if it matches your resonance at that time, and also you will go crazy for it if it matches your dominant resonance. That is what I have discovered. It may only make sense to a few , but thats ok.😊👍🏼💫💫💫
Holy shit I've lived 28 years of my life not really sure how to get the 7th chords on the piano but this video just made it all so clear
This video is the perfect Music Theory Explanation for dummies. Clear explanation. Great Visualisation. Soothing Voice. Just amazing. This video is absolutely perfect, Thank you very much, mate!!!
I'm learning this for guitar but it's insane to see how intuitive the piano is for this kind of stuff. With the guitar, I've begun to think about how to reach notes relatively (I'm probably an early intermediate player), but with the piano it has this linear way of looking at it your notes, whereas with guitar I can reach higher notes either from top to bottom or left to right, as opposed to left to right alone which just seems like it makes more sense.
I’ve been playing piano for eight years and can play all these chords I just don’t know all the technical names for them which makes me sound stupid a lot of times smh
here you go
min-dim-dim 0,3,6,9 dim7
min-dim-min 0,3,6,10 half-dim7 min7(-5)
min-dim-maj 0,3,6,11 dim-maj7 min-maj7(-5)
min-pft-min 0,3,7,10 min7
min-pft-maj 0,3,7,11 min-maj7
min-aug-min 0,3,8,10 min7(+5)
min-aug-maj 0,3,8,11 min-maj7(+5)
maj-dim-min 0,4,6,10 dom7(-5)
maj-dim-maj 0,4,6,11 maj7(-5)
maj-pft-min 0,4,7,10 dom7
maj-pft-maj 0,4,7,11 maj7
maj-aug-min 0,4,8,10 aug-min7 dom7(+5)
maj-aug-maj 0,4,8,11 aug7 maj7(+5)
Its not just u bruh
It's fine. I know all of the technical stuff and memorize all of the names etc but don't know how to play the piano lmao. I only produce music with DAWs
im exactly the same way but on guitar. im currently tryna learn piano.
This was great, thanks, been searching for "left hand chords piano" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Nonason Ranincoln Genie - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now )?
It is a smashing exclusive guide for discovering how to play the piano like a pro minus the headache. Ive heard some amazing things about it and my work buddy got great results with it.
This video saved me a 125 dollars a week piano lessons
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poko hoko Must be a gold plated learners piano
poko hoko yeah the piano teachers around here are expensive
@@PlayaflyJoe27 make sure to have good posture first though, there isn't an app or video that can correct you on that
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Maybe I didn't notice in this video, but it is good to be mentioned that dominant 7th chords are made from the V note of the scale they belong and in which they tend to resolve. So the C dominant 7 chord belongs to F major scale. You can make dominant 7th chord in any major or minor scale, except natural minor because it does not have leading note, so you must transform it in to melodic or harmonic minor.
Got a quiz tomorrow that I didn’t study for enough ahead of time, thanks for explaining so well and so concisely!
No worries! Hope you're quiz went well 😀
It did, you’re a godsend!
Thank you for this. I was learning these with my teacher today but he talks too much and I ended up being really confused. You have made it so easy and clear, it all makes sense now. Thank you
Thank you so much, bro! I just discovered your channel a little bit back and videos like these have helped me so much to learn a little more about theory.
Great video. I'd actually be curious to know, what are the chords in the intro? They're so hauntingly beautiful.
this helped a lot with my music theory! thank you!!!
major 7th chords always sound so NICCEEEEEEEE
At 2:15, what does “the fifth below mean”? Is it referring to the circle of fifths?
@@lieutenantgodzilla F is the 4th chord of C, the fith is probably relative to the Bb at the top of the C dominant 7 chord
Your explanations on all videos are superb..
Thanks!
The minor 7 flat five can also be called half dim 7 and also dim m7/diminished minor 7th.
wow! i search a long time to find a simple explanation like yours! THANK you
My pleasure bro! Glad I could be of use :)
PianoPig is there also a Tutorial for 9th and 11th chords ?
I made a video on 9ths a while back! Check out it here: th-cam.com/video/JUEQRiOhM8A/w-d-xo.html
there are 9th and 11th chords... guess I'm gonna fail
when you played the c major 7th cord, it confused me when you played the g major 7th because you added a g flat.
Reading the part: “For Dummies” and I knew this was for me. Who else?
beginner question - for the 7 diatonic notes in the C major scale
the 1st 4th and 5th are usually played as major chords C F G
the 2nd 3rd and 6th are usually played as minors Dm Em and Am.
But what chord is usually played for that 7th note in the scale?
I have seen a B7 substituted but whatever that chord is.
Thanks - and I don't play keyboard, but it helps me in understanding music that I play on my guitar. Please explain in plain English - I am not a music major or even a music minor
or even a music 7th (a little musical joke there).
Enjoyed your tutorial very much! You made it really easy to understand, thanks!
Thank you :) that last excercised made me realised how easy it is!
Amazing video. It's so much easier to compose now. Thank you so much!
Man this is such a great lesson. Cleared up a lot for me. Thank you!!
the minute you began playing those D-seventh chords, my heart jumped.
D minor speaks to me! Lmao
Did you say "Dummies?" Well, here I am. I just subscribed, too. Great videos!!
Excellent, I finally get it. Thank you!😊
Great! You suggested learning all 12-keys. Should we also practice learning different ways to play each chord? E.g. a C chord could be played starting with C or E or G. I mix these quite randomly, and funnily the same song could start and end differently each time. Don't know if that is good or bad practice. Is some rotation custom with these? Or is the way you played the best sounding and most common way? If so...learning 12-keys will be more managable. Thanks again :-)
this is good practice, you just inverting the chords, i am going to first learn the root position i think and if i know them the inversion. but theres nothing wrong with it!
Man, you're a Saint! Love your lessons 💞 Bless you 💝!
Much appreciated! 🙏🏻
The name PianoPig just made me laugh outloud, well done!
Wow this has really explained 7th chords which I was really struggling with, thank you.
Perfect explanation, finally I understand the 7th chords: after more than 10 years struggling trying to understand it. Thank you so much!🥰🥰🥰
That’s great to hear! Glad you found it useful 🙂
Great video PianoPig I just started watching your videos a few days ago oh man you can't imagine How I'm feeling this is just right what I've looking for. Hope you get more views and subscribers which is what you deserved. Looking forward to it.
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friendship with simple triads ended
now minor 7th chords is my best friend
Best piano lesson ever.
Thanks sir with your simple explanation I've understand this type of chords
Such great videos - you have an excellent teaching style...
2:18 "Wants resolve to the 5th below" could you please explain this?
Great lesson, thanks! Still wonder how come my teachers missed to teach this.
My pleasure :) Glad you are enjoying the lessons! I find with teachers, sometimes it is better to ask them to teach you what you want to learn rather than let them teach you what they want to... but I don't know you're current situation, just a tip :)
Thank you so much for this tutorial. It is simple, clear and makes it so easy for me as a beginner! Yet I've got one question. When you say at 02:15 that the "Cdominant7 is an unstable sound and wants to resolve to the 5th below" why is it "F"? Isn't G number 5 in the scale of C? Thanks for your help :-)
C is the 5th of F. It can be confusing to start with, but you just have to ask yourself 'what note has the note C has the 5th?'. Hope this helps!
I am also a beginner. I figured a trick out for this "unresolved" sound. The fourth note in the key of C is F. The F major chord resolves the C7. The patter is the same across all dominant 7 chords, from my notes. If you play a D7, you would then play a G major chord to resolve the D7. G is the fourth note in the key of D Major. If you play an F7, you would play an A# Major to resolve it. A# is the fourth note is the key of F Major. It really is phenomenal how much math and patterns go into music theory. This pattern ties into the circle of fifths and the circle of fourths.
@@frosty_fink thnx for this comment!
just as scenery...visual landscape of the keyboard lends itself to pattern-recognition... so too linguistic-naming aligns a certain rational understanding to these visual patterns... ‘middle-c’ is named for the stave-line (floating) on the scripted page... or sheet music... between the 5x lines of the upper-register and the 5x lines of the lower-register...
building a ‘stack’ of notes with the middle-c stave-line as the anchor of the stack... (or call it... the ‘root-note’)... building the stack in equal/opposite directions... where the notes fall evenly under the fingers and aligned with the evenly spaced stave-lines of the manuscript staves... upper-register/treble to the right... lower-register/base to the left... physically pianists experience the notes under the fingers of each hand in the same symmetrical way... the little finger of each hand aligning 5x scale-tones away from the ‘root-note’ under the thumb... and looking at the sheet-music... the script-notation shows the notes played marking the even-spaced-lines in each of the directions of upper-register and lower-register symmetrically from middle-c floating stave-line... to verbalise the sensation of this experience... there are 4x levels in play here... (1) visually on the keyboard, (2) visually on the sheet-music-staves, (3) physically under the pianists hands, (4) aurally in ear/mind...
‘dominant’ describes the note under the little-finger in both directions of each hand... in the direction of the upper-register, by convention called the ‘dominant’ (plain & simply)... in the direction of the lower-register, by convention called the ‘sub-dominant’... but interestingly congruent with all 4x levels in play mentioned above...
the prefix ‘sub’ indicates the area (domain) experienced (sub) under the left-hand... indicates the ‘lower-register’ under or ‘sub-middle-c’ on the sheet-music... indicates visually the opposite direction... indicates aurally what’s heard by ear/mind... both are ‘dominant’ in both pitch/sound... so one of them for naming-purposes (and to fix the different aural-experience in its ‘quality-of-sound’) is perfectedly indicated by the prefix ‘sub’...
then from the ‘root’ note (tonic) ‘middle-c’ :
the middle note in the direction of the right-hand... in upper-register... lying under the middle-finger is the ‘mediant’... middle-note
the middle note in the left-hand... in lower-register... the ‘sub-mediant’...
the only notes remaining un-described.. or ‘named’... completing the 7-tone major-scale:
the note between the ‘root’ or ‘tonic’ and the ‘mediant’... is named... ‘super-tonic’ (above the ‘tonic’ in the right-hand upper-register)
the note between the ‘root’/‘tonic’ and the ‘sub-mediant’... is named... ‘sub-tonic’ (below the ‘tonic’ in the left-hand lower-register)
and the rest is... rests... they’re a whole different matter 🎶
I know this is late, but the F is a fifth below the C, or the subdominant, while G is a fifth above C, which is the dominant. I think it's called a dominant 7th because since it resolves to a fifth below, the chord is generally in the key of the dominant of the piece.
Thank you very much for your great lesson. It is very helpful..🙏🌹🌹🙏
Yhis was a perfect explanation. Thanks so much!
Now I just need to know how to work out what chord resolve to like you showed 😅
Thank you for this dumbed Down totorial
No worries!
Thanks bro, I learned a lot from this video, now to make some more Deep House!
Thanks for the vid! - so playing these sevenths involves four notes each, but I don't imagine you play all 4 notes every time, what notes do you try and leave out if you are unburdening your hand some? Is there some guideline on that? Thanks
@stephen285 - Good question; I hope someone answers. I struggle with playing four-note chords, and inverting them sometimes sounds weird. I wonder which interval is the best to omit if I need to.
Thanks dude! I have a tiny brain and I cannot learn things immediately but I learned alot in thid video. I finally don't feel stupid
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It is so clear and so helpful! thank you, thank you!
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This was incredibly helpful, thank you!
Great tutorial. Thank you. Well explained.
Sir in which connection the the C aug 7, theory of music
2:16 I thought Fmaj chord in C maj would be the 4th not the 5th?
This is so much fun to learn! 🙌🙌💕
Great video, so helpful and clear.
Thank you sir...
It's really great
Got the idea clearly ❤
Hi there, again :) I have an interesting question about a note between the fifths and the seventh. for example on the c major scale with a triad, instead of taking the g as the fifth I take the a as the sixth note and the chord sounds really harmonic for me and wants to be resolved. You can hear it you you play c-e-a and then c-e-g or c-eb-a and then c-eb-g. can you explain it a bit?
The interesting thing is: it also sounds the same on the c minor scale. but the note of a is not included in the c major or minor scale, so why does it sound so god? what is the secret behind that sixth or is there any link to another scale or progression I don't know? that would be very helpful.
The note A is very much in the C major scale, it's also in the C minor melodic scale. The 6th is a great extension to add onto chords, works with both major and minor. I love the 'minor 6/9' chord, it's very 'James Bond' sounding haha.
wow thank you very much! i was just thinking in the minor scale, of COURSE it is in the major haha. but you explained it very well!
C E A is just A minor with a C in the bass, then C E G is of course C. iv - I chord progressions are very common so I don't think there is "tension" like with a V7 I progression, it's just natural since were used to it. V7 has a lot of tension because there is a diminished 5th (aka tritone) between the 3rd and 7th, like with B and F in a G7 which resolves to C and E
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How do i know that the C7 chord want to resolve to F? (2:23), other words the dominant to resolve on the fifth. why is this..?
I had the same question
Isn't the 5th of C not F but G? So would Cdominant7 resolve to G as well?
What you mean "wants to resolve to F chord"? Why there specifically? (am clueless about theory)
seems really scary to learn theory/piano, to have to remember all of those combinations :f
Nice lesson, very nice.
So a dominant 7 chord is just a major 7 chord with a minor 3rd stacked on the 5th of the major 7?
No, a dominant 7 chord is a major triad with a minor 3rd stacked on the 5th degree of the triad.
@@Piano_Pig Ah, I was confused even by my own comment. Thanks for clarifying!
I play music by ear mostly. I'm trying to understand the system for naming chords, but I cannot undertand why a chord labeled "C7" flattens the major 7th, but a chord labeled C9 doesn't flatten the 9th. Is there any sort of logic to it, or is it just some random kink you just are supposed to remember?
Very very very useful. Thank you.
i found a lot of value in this video ... thank you for sharing .
Thank you for your clear, concise, informative video. I am going to do this practice now!!!
Hi- when you say the Domimant 7th chord resolves to the fifth below it (2:16) can you please elaborate further?
it's nothing really intuitive within the 7th chord, it just sounds nice when the major chord of the 5th below the 7th is played right after, so people say it resolves.
Chord tab: "Next you need to play F7." Player: "Do you mean a standard seventh or a flattened seventh?"
This causes so much confusion. I saw the worst ever example of this in the piano arrangement for 'The Great Gig In The Sky' by Pink Floyd. It's stuffed full of seventh chords but only half of them are flattened. As usual the chord names written in it and also in other chord only tabs don't specify WHICH seventh each one is!
For me, The best thing to do was learn the defaults....and think of these as 2 part...the triad, which is the basic chord and quality, and then the added 7th.....the default on the triad is major, and the default on the 7th is dominant (flatted).....so F7 is a (F major triad with a dominant (flatted) 7th).....Fmaj7 can be written as (F major/major 7), and Fm7 or Fmin7 can be thought of as (F minor/dominant (flatted) 7th) so on.....we often see things written in full, like a minor/major 7th chord, (Cmin/maj7) where the triad is minor, and the 7th, major.....so until it becomes second nature, always write out the defaults to get the real picture of what chord it is!!! You stop doing that after you have a strong understanding, which doesn't take long after the light bulb turns on.
7:15 lol I thought my man was boutta play that one meme song
Fr, i thought he was about to play Bossa nova Elevator as well
Nice, well done!
Great video! Thank you!
It's my pleasure!
Very helpful, and clearly explained. Thanks.
Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge!! This was great!!
When is it appropriate to use these in chord progressions?
Lofi
When you want a fuller, more tense feeling than a simple triad.
be creative :)
That's up to you.
Jazz Police is a song written by Leonard Cohen inspired by him instructing or policing his band NOT to play jazz chords with sevenths and ninths and to stick to playing simple triads as he preferred. Just an interesting fact 😊
You are awesome sir! Thanks
major 1:53
minor 3:25
dom 3:18
this video helped me so much, like i had no clue what my teacher was saying😭😭😭😭😭
This is wonderful. What program are you using?
Can you make a video on their inversions?
Can you post a list of all different types of 7th chords?
Wonderful lesson. Thank you. Any chance that we can get this same type of lesson for 9th chords?
I did make a similar lesson on 9ths, not quite as in-depth but still gives you an overview: th-cam.com/video/JUEQRiOhM8A/w-d-xo.html
With a dominant 7th chord, you said it wants to sound resolved on the 5th below? But a F is the 4th in C maj. Am i missing something?
Nicely explained
Now I know a litte bit of the math here..thanks for the tutorial
I just gave you a like and subscribe! One thing I was wondering, is why do you use for the seventh note a “flat” instead of sharps? For example at 7:18 the D major seventh chord, why do you use “D flat” instead of “D sharp”? How do you know when to use either or?
it should be C sharp.....so as i say ,its a bug....(D E F G A B C D, 7th note should be C)
Very helpful, I've always wrestled with the whole 7th/major 7th difference. I've also never gotten my head around the use of the term "dominant", still working on that one. But I'm curious why the diminished 7th is considered a 7th and not a 6th, since the major scale's 7th note is flattened twice to make it a 6th.
I'm still learning too, but I think It's still considered a 7th because contextually it makes more sense to think of it as a 7th chord that's been flattened twice, rather than a chord constructed out of the 6th
But take that with a grain of salt, no idea if that's right lol
So you can always replace the regular chord with the seventh?
I've been told you can transfer the 7th note to the other side, at the beginning. How usefull is that in future plays?
this was so useful THANK YOU!!
Thanks for putting this together.