How #chords Work: The Science Behind Beautiful Chord Progressions | @AlainMerville
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Published 2023-11-14
Teacher: @AlainMerville
⚡️TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Intro
1:00 “Autumn Leaves” Reference Song
1:55 Natural Harmonic Resolutions
2:50 The Circle of Fifths and Root Motion
5:12 Dominant Chords
6:10 Tritone Resolutions
7:35 Expected Resolutions in Chord Progressions
8:12 The Influence of Tendency Tones
10:38 Analyzing “Autumn Leaves”
12:02 Recap
12:50 Teaser for the Next Video: Advanced Chord Progression Techniques
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All Comments (21)
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Excellent lesson! My wife likes to make up songs, and when she gets to the final V7, she stops and walks away just to mess w me. And I'm like "resolve it! RESOLVE!!!" 😂
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Awesome. Finding content on why is exceedingly harder than finding content about how. Appreciate you talking about this.
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I never hear people talk about the functions of individual chord tones in a larger context like this! This is a great way for newcomers to learn but also for existing musician to fill the gaps left behind by too many teachers.
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Finally for goodness sakes FINALLY someone explains this in ENGLISH not music terms and extremely confusing analogies with 7 different variants of the same chord. Thank you for keeping in simple and literally ON POINT.
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I really appreciate the form(at) you created here. I've been over this material (40yo gigging drummer who plays keyboard+guitar for fun) but this made it much more clear and intuitive. It's interesting how we instinctively use these tactics when we speak in any language. Resolutions, tendency notes, anticipation galore, heh. Thanks for making!
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Your nice presentation makes sense to me, but as a total beginner trying to learn chords, my brain went a little nuts about half way through with all that I do not know. I appreciate your efforts and will continue with your channel.
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So glad I came across your video. I love the format, and appreciate your clarity and on-screen visuals. You’re demystifying a lot of this theory for me! Subscribed. Looking forward to watching more.
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Not a lot of people are making videos this clear about chords and such. Definitely gonna check out more of your stuff :)
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Thanks for showing the tritone in the dom7 and the tendencies. Yout explanations are clear and easy to follow on the keyboard.
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Totally awesome lesson. Very well paced and great to use Autumn Leaves. Well done 👏🏾
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I really like the way you presented this. I learned things that had always been a bit fuzzy - and you cleared away the fog. I felt I just had to subscribe. Nice job!
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Best music theory lesson I've ever had. Very simply done and extremely clear. If I would have had this kind of instruction in music school, my entire life may have been different. Wow! Great job brother. I will explore your entire channel. I have be searching and longing to find and understand chord progression theory. Thanks
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Great video. All I can think of: tell me I don’t know music theory at all without telling me I totally clueless. I think I need more knowledge before I can understand this. I’ll be back
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Very nice vid! Also - as Bruce says --- 'emotional content'! On a serious note. This is right up there with one of the best vids I have ever seen. This is extremely useful material. Thanks very much.
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What a teacher.. thanks alot 🙏
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Music theory is most valuable when it relates the music to how it makes the audience feel. You do this quite well.
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This was fantastic! Please make more videos on chord/interval resolution!!
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Keep up the good work Professor, I enjoyed the quick lesson. Thank U!!!
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Bro you are awesome at teaching hard things in simple understandable way. Thank very much for this lesson
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Thank you for putting into words and describing in such a way that makes sense to me.
