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Michael Keithson
Великобритания
Добавлен 8 июл 2011
Backdoor progressions
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Here's another common non diatonic device used commonly in jazz to lead us back to our tonic chord. The backdoor progression or ii-V is a simple premise to implement and can add some really nice colour to harmonic progressions.
Video chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:14 Backdoor Dominant
00:43 Non-diatonic ii-Vs
02:03 Backdoor ii-V
03:15 Why does it work?
05:15 Dominant7 ❤️ Diminished 7
08:25 A little aside...
10:57 Modal Interchange
12:05 Backdoor use examples
16:13 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
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Here's another common non diatonic device used commonly in jazz to lead us back to our tonic chord. The backdoor progression or ii-V is a simple premise to implement and can add some really nice colour to harmonic progressions.
Video chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:14 Backdoor Dominant
00:43 Non-diatonic ii-Vs
02:03 Backdoor ii-V
03:15 Why does it work?
05:15 Dominant7 ❤️ Diminished 7
08:25 A little aside...
10:57 Modal Interchange
12:05 Backdoor use examples
16:13 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
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6 AWESOME chords in 1 VOICING!
Просмотров 13 тыс.Месяц назад
www.patreon.com/michaelkeithson buymeacoffee.com/michaelkeithson In this video I'm sharing a really useful chord voicing that I use all the time and can have so many different functions. Hopefully it might something useful for you too. Cheers! MK Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:22 - What are 'voicings'? 03:55 - The Magic Chord voicing!! 04:10 - Dom7 voicing 05:23 - Altered voicing 06:35 - Phrygian v...
Half Diminished chords | m7b5 ⌀
Просмотров 32 тыс.Месяц назад
www.patreon.com/michaelkeithson buymeacoffee.com/michaelkeithson Here's a bit of an unpacking of half-diminished chords or m7b5 chords. They don't get used too often in many types of music but they can be used nicely in loads of different ways so I've tried to share some options. I think I could have probably talked for another 20 mins on these but felt like it was a good place to stop! Hopeful...
Using AUGMENTED chords | what, where, how
Просмотров 45 тыс.2 месяца назад
www.patreon.com/michaelkeithson www.buymeacoffee.com/michaelkeithson This video aims to explain what augmented chords are, where you can find them and a few examples of some ways you can use them and incorporate them into chord progressions. Hopefully this might be useful to someone! MK Video chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:44 What is an augmented chord? 04:15 Storytime 05:33 Where do they come from? ...
'Rules' and 'Expectations' in Music
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www.patreon.com/michaelkeithson www.buymeacoffee.com/michaelkeithson Here's a little video of me trying to articulate what's been going round in my head recently. I'm not sure I did a great of it though! Hopefully there's something in there that's interesting or entertaining! WARNING: I say 'Boogie Woogie' a number of times in this video! Link to the David Bennett video I talk about: ruclips.ne...
Chromatic Mediants | A film composer's favourite weapon?
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www.patreon.com/michaelkeithson www.buymeacoffee.com/michaelkeithson Here's my quick run down on Chromatic Mediants. This is such a ubiquitous tool in film scoring, you will have most definitely come across this sound at some point before. Hopefully my video helps you understand it a little more if you weren't very familiar. MK Chapter markers: 00:00-00:58 Intro 00:58-04:25 What is a Chromatic ...
Can I Earn a Full-time Income as a Musician?!
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.3 месяца назад
www.patreon.com/michaelkeithson www.buymeacoffee.com/michaelkeithson So I'm on a bit of a mission to start earning a full-time income as a musician over the next year. I was made redundant from my job working full-time in video production at the end of 2023 and I'm hoping that I can realign my work life back to my passion of music and hopefully be generating a full-time income from just music b...
Altered Chords | What, Why, How.
Просмотров 32 тыс.4 месяца назад
www.patreon.com/michaelkeithson www.buymeacoffee.com/michaelkeithson At the request of a few people here's my take on altered chords and altered chord harmony. I hope it answers some questions you might have. Thank you for watching and being part of this community. MK #musictheory #alteredchords #harmony Chapters: 00:00-00:17 Intro 00:17-00:52 What did you call me? 00:52-01:17 It's a Dominant 7...
Tritone Substitutions | All you need to know
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www.patreon.com/michaelkeithson www.buymeacoffee.com/michaelkeithson I hope this video help answer some questions around Tritone Substitutions (sometimes called ‘substitute dominants’) or even introduces you to this concept. Maybe you've heard of tritone subs or even played them unknowingly but never understood how or why they work and ways that you can use them in your own playing. Hopefully t...
Secondary Dominant chords
Просмотров 27 тыс.4 месяца назад
www.patreon.com/michaelkeithson Donate a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/michaelkeithson Ever wondered what Secondary Dominant chords were and how you could use them? Hopefully my ramblings here will help make things a little clearer. I really hope you find some useful stuff in my music theory videos that might help you on your musical journey. Apologies for the pan issue with the piano, I hadn’t ...
4 Ways To Sound PRO On PIANO 🎹
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www.patreon.com/michaelkeithson Donate a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/michaelkeithson Howdy! Here's four simple tricks, tips, hacks to help take your piano playing to the next level. These are probably aimed at basic players but hopefully there might be something in there that could be useful to you. I've put chapter markers in so that you can jump to the next section if you're already a pro at...
Diminished Chords - Why they're the best!
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Diminished Chords - Why they're the best!
Modal Interchange | Borrowed Chords
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Modal Interchange | Borrowed Chords
What's So Special About Dominant Chords?!
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What's So Special About Dominant Chords?!
The coolest tiny keyboard?! | CASIO VL-TONE VL-1
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The coolest tiny keyboard?! | CASIO VL-TONE VL-1
IF NOTHING CHANGES, NOTHING CHANGES!
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IF NOTHING CHANGES, NOTHING CHANGES!
‘How I Met Your Mother’ inspired my latest song
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5 Music Documentaries You Need To Watch
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A song to make you cry || Short song no.3
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When I'm Gone Piano Tutorial | Randy Newman - Monk Finale
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When I'm Gone Piano Tutorial | Randy Newman - Monk Finale
This video is awesome! Brilliant explanation and demonstration!
The Alien part is unforgettable. Great lesson, thanks!
Subscribed. There are a lot of great channels on RUclips that explain these topics, but this video makes me feel like I am fully understanding the topic, going to remember the concepts, and be able to generalize this knowledge to grow as a musician in general. So great, thank you.
This is very nice, instructive and amusing. Reading the keys of a piano is not my forte, i would prefer normal musical notation instead. (My piano teacher forbid us to look at the keys.)
I understand what you are saying but getting it into my fingers without writing it all down very painfully is another thing all together
Im asked this for an audition : scales will be followed by either an arpeggio, a Dominant 7th arpeggio built on the 5th degree of the scale, or a Diminished 7th arpeggio built on the 7th degree of the scale, and will resolve to the tonic. I know when to use the Dominant 5th degree chord but when should the diminished 7th be used on harmony? Thanks.
That dimished thing with the dropping any note to make it a dominant is from Barry Harris' method. He has a really interesting concept of jazz harmony based on these "families of chords."
And lydian interchange? What transposition is that?
Using that same technique, Lydian would be moving everything up a 5th but let me warn you, not all modal interchange is made equal, Lydian and Mixolydian aren't anywhere as pleasing as the minor modes, they don't really work using that same trick. You can still effectively borrow from them but it doesn't really work shifting an existing chord progression up a 5th or 4th. Fun to explore though!
@@michaelkeithson thank you! :o)
Very good video can't wait to try some of this when I get off work
Thank you 🙏 I appreciate the comment. Happy exploring!!
The way I remember the sound of the backdoor 2 5 is the victory song in final fantasy
This video is absurdly amazing. This is the type of content I really need, and more than ever I see I really need to learn about The different modes other than the common major/minor, I can't delay it anymore 😅
Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it! Happy exploring! 🎵
Excellent!
You explained it wonderfully. Thank you
You are very welcome! Thanks for the nice comment 🙏
just what I needed to understand this concept. Thanks so much!
You are very welcome Mario! Pleased that it was useful 👍
Pretty mindblowing. I love how you explain the contrast between the strong tension of the tritone in the dominant vs the slightly weaker one in the backdoor dominant.
Thanks Joel, I appreciate your comment 🙏. Glad you enjoyed the video 👍
The Bm7b5 resolves to A - probably because you’re borrowing the Bm7b5 ii chord from the parallel key of Am Plus the F note is going to an E - and the D note is going to C# - the A note stays the same
Another guitarist here - SOLID CONTENT - cheers!!!
Cheers man, appreciate the comment. 👍
totally agree with you that it's not [parallel], they have the same tonic. Just like branches spreading from a tree. Thank you for giving your time making this video!
You're very welcome. Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment 🙏
Wow, this is high quality
🙏 Thank you. Pleased you enjoyed it. 👍🎹
Hi Michael! I appreciate your work very much. Guitarist here, for 50+ yrs. Guitar is a tricky bitch... as transposition is easy and most guitarists are trapped into chords w/Root in the bass and transposing a few shapes they know. Most of them don't see a shape as other possible chords, unless VERY advanced musicians. I moved away from chords with a root in them, unless I want to strongly state their function in a harmonic progression. Learned a lot about these things from Charlie Banacos, back in '90s, when he was around. See... another problem with guitarists is often poor voice leading; most of them are trapped by knowing chords shapes rather than "morphing" one into the next chord. Like in a II V I or other progressions. As a simple example... take the Dom7 b9 sus voicing from this video... and play it like this Ab C D G as D h/dim, then simply lower that C to B for a G add b9 (7b9 function) and finall down to C G Bb Eb G for a complete minor II V I . On the other hand, the magic of this voicing from the melodic minor scale can also be great in the typical guitarist transposition mindset, so you could play Ab C D G and move it up a minor 3rd to B D# F A# and move it up again a maj 3rd to Eb G A D and here you have your minor II V I, DH/Dim/G7b9/Cm69. Melodic minor scale chords are VERY useful in the way they can be used for many different families... and the scale has that powerful unstable character given by its double tritone. Guitar has a hard time with clustery chords. Those multiple seconds are impossible to play, whereas on the piano it's much easier. The voicing you are showing here is VERY hard when making inversions on the guitar. Impossible seconds in it. But spreading the notes a bit helps to get some other voicings and helps the adventurous guitarist to wander in piano land! Great to see somebody talking about these things on YT.... where too many chat about the same old stuff... Cheers to you!
Thanks for the nice and thoughtful comment, and I appreciate you sharing your insight 🙏 Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers
About that alien third hand, do you offer a discount?
😂🤣. No discounts, no refunds.
Great stuff. Watched multiple times already. But confused about adding the ii to the tritone substitution - C|Am7|Abm7|Db7|C The Abm7 is the ii of what?Gb? ??? I understand the Ab is V/Db, and Db7 subs for G7 which acts as a V, so it’s a progression of descending 5ths. But why do we call the Abm7 a ii chord? It isn’t a ii of the tonic, nor is it a ii of the Db.
Hey Steve, thanks for the question. It's probably not a very good answer but I think it's just become vernacular that gets used. ii-v is such a common progression so it's easy to spot them as a set up to a resolution. Typically a dominant 7 chord will resolve to something, oftentimes times a fifth below and in this case thought of as V chord. We know we can nicely and smoothly precede a V chord with a ii chord and this has become a common tool even when the dominant 7 chord isn't actually a diatonic V chord, we still think of it as a V chord and put the ii before it. So in that example the Db7 is a non diatonic dominant 7 chord but if we think of it as a V chord and then create a ii-V, the ii would be an Abm7. Hope that helps! 😬
You are not only master at your craft, but also a master at being really clear in your teachings. I think i've commented this before, but your channel really deserves more subscribers and attention. Also, you seem like a really down to earth guy who deserves it. Very grateful for the great content. It has really kept me occupied since i've found your channel. I would like to share that this year my sister passed away due to cancer, and i haven't played guitar nor practiced music for several years, but i played on her funeral with her daughter singing and after that i have started coming back to music, it is my therapy.. And your content and the way you teach, helps a lot on how i can evolve my way to express myself through music and deal with the pain.. So thanks a lot, and i really really hope you can grow this channel to the extent it deserves. I hope i can do my share on your way and help come up with ideas for content/topics that would be interesting to learn deeper about. Thanks Michael, best regards from Sweden 🇸🇪❤
🙏 Thank you! I really appreciate your support and encouragement. I'm glad you're enjoying the content and keep coming back for more! We can only hope that others feel the same as you and the channel continues to grow! Sorry to hear about your sister but it's great to hear that you're returning to music and using it to help you heal and I am really pleased that I'm a small part of that, thank you for sharing. Cheers. See you in the next video!
Nice 🙂👍
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Fantastic demonstration. Cogent and concise, well done sir.
🙏 Thank you kindly! I appreciate your comment. Cheers
So glad i came across your channel! Very well explained videos
I'm glad you're here too! Thanks for watching and leaving a nice comment 🙏
One of the significant problems connected to this chord, is that most people do not play the E natural, over the B flat 7th- the correct note is e natural, of the chord d minor 7th flat five, with an e natural, with B flat in the bass. its's a 4 minor chord- with the e flat used as the melodic tone, and entirely different harmonic scenario results. Example- C maj7, C 7th, F major 7, B flat 7 with #11 is the correct melodic scenario, as in Misty. the B flat note is a melodic tone, not a root-
It is an interesting arena for creative debate... I've always considered myself one of the more "Music Theory Aware" musicians in the numerous rock bands I've played in. However, one time, while working with a band comprised of Musician's Institute students in LA, I presented a new composition where the first section of the verse was a slow, two chord progression that modulated between D6 and Amaj7. My rather gifted guitarist's initial reaction was, "You can't do that!" To which I responded, "Can't? There's no can't"
Thanks for sharing. I agree, definitely an interesting arena for debate. The way I see it is that there's no right or wrong but a spectrum of conventional and unconventional and that will obviously differ from style to style, genre to genre.
So instructive, informative yet comical "insertions" here and there! Love it, great stuff will be watching more of your videos!
Cheers man, glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for leaving the nice comment, much appreciated 🙏
I love videos from this guy
Thanks man 🙏
Do you have a video on borrowed chords
Yes! Modal Interchange | Borrowed Chords ruclips.net/video/p5FSz9fifOg/видео.html
You are the best brother..from Namibia
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Mr. Keithson, you are so organic. Thank you so much.
You are very welcome Sergiy! Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Brilliant. Thank you. P.S., I see it, "Sweet Baby James" album on the floor....nice
Cheers David! Yeah, can't beat a bit of JT 👍
This reminds me the good times at the music college, it would be great to have you as a harmony teacher!
Cheers Eric, appreciate the comment 👍
I get the feeling this is more applicable to Jazz right? I'm trying to find out how to use modes in "simple" music. I want to make Progressive House with a sad touch
It's probably more leaning towards jazz although I made a follow up video and talk a little about writing in mode, that might be more helpful for you. ruclips.net/video/ZnD5F6o7B1g/видео.html
Very good. (Double bass player.)
Thanks David 🙏
How did I see someone mention backdoor chords, google what the hell they are, analyse the wiki page until it made sense (took a lot of talking to myself and trying to visualise diatonic chords and a piano keyboard to figure out what notes were in each chord and how they overlap because I was too lazy to get up and walk ten feet to a piano) and THEN WHEN I LOOK INTO MY WATCH HISTORY TO FIND VIDEOS I DIDNT WATCH/FINISH BUT CLICKED ON TO WATCH LATER, I SEE THIS. Would've been really handy an hour ago or yesterday when I apparently clicked it but I guess now it'll reinforce my new knowledge and maybe give me some advice.
Well I think there's a lesson to be learnt here. Never leave one of my videos unwatched!! 😂
@@michaelkeithson I've been watching a lot of random theory vids lately thanks to the algorithm and me having searched for some, as I'm trying to get to the next level now. But I'm not sure if I'd seen your channel before, and now it's added to my list!
@@concerninghobbits5536 Happy to have you here! 👍
9:52 Giant Steps
Options yes, but we're guided in our choices by the vertical chords that come before and after each chord. But very solid.
Still got mine, bought new, still calculating... I've also still got my SK-1, the original fart machine...😁 (Still burping and farting to a bossanovo beat...).🤗
The way you teach theory in incredible and i feel that you use of simple numerical dictation for chord progressions opens your audience up to thousands of MIDI and synth musicians who cant read notation. So many options in C Major i would have never considered, and there is a lifetime of possibility in those pivot chords, cant thank you enough!
Thanks Ryan! Really appreciate the kind comment. Glad you're enjoying the content 👍
This is awesome Michael! This needs to become a series that evolves into the advanced stuff ❤
Thanks man, hope it was useful. Thanks for the suggestion.
Hi Michael, thank you so much for your service to the music community, your breakdown of these concepts is the best ive ever come across and so helpful. I do have one doubt, the last two progressions in the video went over my head. How's the F# half dim moving to the F min? And the D half dim back to C?
Thanks for the nice comment. Glad you’re enjoying the content. To your question, have you watched my video on half dim chords that I released a few weeks ago? Maybe there’ll be some answers there. Cheers 👍🏼
Aaaah yes, of course it's modal interchange!! The b5 half dim is from C Lydian and the D half dim is the same as iv min in disguise. So cool! Awesome, thanks for pointing towards it ❤
Your content is brilliant! Period. Cheers. 🎹
🙏 Thanks Lenny, appreciate the kind comment.
Another brilliant tutorial! My primary instrument is the alto sax, but I dabble with keys, mostly as a learning and compositional tool. A couple of things I noticed is that a) the C , C+, C6 progression sounds very much like Miles Davis's It Never Entered My Mind b) I really love your chord voicings
Thanks Brian! I really appreciate your comment 🙏
As a ham fisted keyboard playing guitarist, this is pure gold. Really love your content.
Ha! Cheers Stephen, glad you’re enjoying the content 👍🏼
Excellent content and presentation. I'll be referring my students to your channel. Keep up the great work.
Ah, cheers Jonathan! I appreciate the support and you sharing the love. Thank you 🙏
I just iscovered your channel and you're an awesome teacher! Thanks for sharing your knowledge in such a simple way to understand!
Ah, thank you! I appreciate the kind comment. Glad you’re enjoying the content 👍🏼
So clear and precise feels like I'm at Berklee college of music great content
🙏 Thanks man. I auditioned for a Berklee scholarship when I was younger - didn’t get in 😣