I'm 20 seconds into the video and I already noticed you said:"harmonic cadences". Now I deeply need a video on non-harmonic cadences! best music theory channel ever, from a semi-pro young musician that has watched this kind of content for years
Ha! Thanks Greg. I said harmonic cadences to differentiate from 'melodic' or 'rhythmic' cadences. Glad you're enjoying the content though. Cheers for the comment 👍
Very nice. You make the "complex," "abstract" "difficult" and "advanced" accessible, logical, visible and hearable and you do it with warmth for us watching. Thank you.
without the visual aids I would get lost quickly, but still find the lessons enjoyable. I appreciate music more the more I learn about it, largely because of you.
Hey there mate. Honestly Mike, you're a great teacher man. You really have the gift of teaching mate. Cause every video you share, it's full of theory but it's simply to understand when you explain it. Best for you in 2025 and so on Michael.
Another very well done video introducing some sophisticated modern Harmony in a simple way. Perhaps a cadence similar to your last one is known as the tritone ending in the jazz vernacular. (Moving up a tritone from the root note while pedaling the root note as you descend in half steps all the way to the tonic)
@@michaelkeithsonThe thing is, we don't always know what we want until we see what you do, then it's "That's exactly what I want and didn't know it!" 😊
Awesome lesson! I’m sure the on screen chords take ages during editing but they are so nice visually and as a learning tool. Great lesson to start the new year -thanks!
When I write songs, I might want red to fade softly into orange and yellow. In other situations, I just want yellow and blue to clash with splotches of purple and red. I’m not technically musical; know very basic theory, but I do understand color and emotion. If I am being honest, lots of this went way over my head, but I could hear and feel it perfectly. Happy new year!
Really great! Harmonic options are so powerfully valuable. I’ve tried to study methods for song reharmonization but none make sense to me. It always seems to come down to trial and error and unfortunately most of them fail as terrible attempts to be innovative. Every now and then I accidentally stumble into something that works that might open a new door to greater vocabulary. Your approach and explanations make perfect sense. I rarely go to the lengths to understand the context of the theory behind the particular moves I love. I could but I don’t. And those moves are generally key specific instead mirroring the same moves in all keys. But I’ve saved this particular video to my favorite tutorials and hopefully can dive into this in early February. Thank you so much for sharing. This video makes perfect sense.
9:47 you could also look up Barry Harris concept of parent diminished (easier to remember maybe) for example take ur f dim and if u move one of the notes by a halfstep u get different dominant 7 wish can be used as cadences for Cmaj. For example (f dim one noted moved at the time) bB7, bD7, E7 and ofc G7. All one big family of dom 7 chords derived from the parent diminished chord of C
Michael, thanks a ton for this great session. My favourite is probably the backdoor one ending with F - Fm - Bb7 - C : so classy! Another option that sounds nice, albeit a bit more pop, is the bVI bVII I cadence. That would be C Gm7 C7 F Ab Bb C Thanks again and keep them coming!
That walk down at 12:24 is so soulful 🔥 Please do a neo-soul/rnb progression video if you have time 😁 Thanks for all your content, it's been a great help to me 🙏
Found your channel a couple days ago and have been binging it since. As a classical musician the backdoor dominant sounds like a deceptive cadence (V-vi), but with a major VI, so resolving on the relative minor's parallel key. Love your videos!
Hey Michael. I wanted to share a special happy New Year’s message with you. I’m a guitar player with around 50,000 subscribers. I just want to say that your instruction is helping me a great deal with my guitar playing, especially pertaining to chord selection and understanding of advanced progressions. You explain music theory in a way that is far superior to most people, and that includes most guitar instructional channels. I’m going to make a video to recommend your channel to other guitar musicians. Thank you so much for the fine content and for inspiring me to improve my musical skills in ways that I hadn’t expected-especially from someone who is an expert keyboard player. Blessings to you and your family, my friend.
Wow! Thank you Tony🙏🙏☺️ I’m really glad you’ve got some value from my content and I really appreciate your support. Thank you. A very happy new year to you!! 🥳
Wow really cool stuff. This is the progression from “Learn to Fly” foo fighters. Think C mixolydian and the cadence becomes a five in minor scenario like “Caravan” duke ellington. Provides great food for thought on both tunes thank you!!!
Thank you for your video, I really liked your versions of alternative cadences and going clockwise the circle of fifths thinking, I love it tooo:) - I My personal favorite sequence in key of C is Abadd9 Bb Ddma7add9 Ebma7add9 -C Thank you once again for your work and for PDF outlines ! Greetings from Finland !
Really fantastic content. You (and Bill Hilton) are the best piano 'teachers' here on the RUclipss I'd say (at least of all the (many) videos I have watched so far). Good stuff, well explained. I think I will go to my piano and experiment with that a bit now. How I don't miss midnight (well, the pyrotechnics around here will remind me I guess ; )).
So much to absorb here. At 7:15 when he is talking about diminished chords, I find it helpful, in terms of moving to other keys, to think not about the F dim, but about the V7 we are subbing for as a b9. So you can play a dim 7 built on any note in the V7b9 except the root. So I can very easily find in any key with very little thought. Magic indeed. Please $upport this page. I want to keep these coming.
So good, thanks so much for the video! You asked for favorites: I like the one where you go to the Ab as you did in one example, but instead of resolving to the C right away, I go up to the Bb and then to the C. This is used all the time in film scores and Barbershop as a kind of happy ending feel. As soon as you're off the Bb and onto the C the blues scale sounds great as part of the resolution. I always enjoy whatever you post, cheers!
Thanks for the comment. Yeah, I few people have mentioned that one. I think it's pretty similar to the Backdoor ii-V example, they have very much the same flavour and function. Cheers
Awesome stuff! I’m not sure how I stumbled upon your content. I was just today trying to teach my 7-year-old some basic piano chords. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge.
This is brilliantly explained. I instantly subscribed as it will help my compositions. It's laid out so well that I can share it with my piano and guitar students. Thank you so much for doing this, and above all making it genuinely useful and accessible to all, with no ego or showing off.
I really enjoyed and benefitted from this lesson! Thank you so much! I was doing some of the stuff you do with hit and miss/trial and error. I tend to write the bass steps leading to my root (with departures from diatonic "correct" tones) and if they work i try to fill in the other voices so that they move very little or function as common tones. One thing i realize is that if the bass tone and the top/melody tones make sense to the ear (flow in a pleasing way to resolve) some of the inbetween contained harmony can be interchangeable. I hope this description is not too vague
Thanks for the comment. I think you’ve got a sensible approach. You’re using your ears to determine what you like which is so important. I think the theory side of these things is still really useful to have as it can give new/other options and a structure to different ways of thinking. HNY🥳
11:24 yeah, this is caused by the tritone which divides the octave in two. So the Dominant 7 needs 1 - 3 - b7 The distance between the 3 and the b7 is a diminished 5 ie a tritone, so the 5th will be the new tonic and the 3 and b7 switching places…
Hi Michael. I love your videos immensely and I've been really thankful for them during my music journey. I was wondering if you could do a video on audiation sometime and maybe just go over a little on how you were able to build up the ability to "feel" where to go next during improv or share some exercises. I've been really struggling with the concept of being able to internalize the scale degrees accurately. Thank you again for everything. Wishing much success to you this year 🫡
Thanks Sean! Appreciate your comment. Thanks for your suggestion, I’ll ponder on it and see if there’s a video in there somewhere. I think it’s somewhat of a tricky one because a lot of it becomes automatic due to the amount of time you put in and over the years that ‘feel’ becomes intuitive because you’ve done it so many times. But having said that I’m sure there will be ways to think and practice that will definitely help strengthen that side of things. Cheers HNY🥳
I think you do need good knowledge of,and access to, your scales. But also an appreciation for the function of different chords or groups of chords so that when you see a chord or sequence you instantly know what your options are.
I've said it before and I'll do so again (albeit, more poignantly) ... I am an intermediate saxophonist and I have found your tutorials on harmony, chord analysis & progressions as well as music theory in general, more helpful and those that of other saxophonist/music education content providers. On a saxophone, only one note can be played at a time, so chords have to be outlined. Also, the popular soprano, alto, tenor and baritone instruments are not concert pitch. So, there is need to transpose. However, these fundamantal differences aside, you shine quite brightly. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, skill, charm, humour and wit, Michael. Happy new year.
I'm only beginning to understand Functional Harmony. At the end, you mentioned that one also has to be aware of the melody. Oh my, playing music is so complicated. I'm gaining much more respect for musicians. Merci for a great lesson, well explained.
Hey Lawrence, thanks for the comment. Yes, it can be complex but there’s also a lot that becomes intuitive and is only complex when you start to open it up. Thanks for watching! HNY🥳
Another excellent lesson I’ll end up watching several times as I work them out on the guitar. Here’s a cadence I like to use sometimes ii / ii°/ I I’ve heard it called a common tone resolution.
Hey, folks. PLEASE support. Keep these amazing videos coming. I will spend the next month on this one alone. The beauty of the variety is that I can pick and choose resolutions that echo my own voice and style.
Absolutely Love your content Michael, so slick! I thought I’d share one of my fav “Randy Newman” style cadences (in C): F C/E D7 G7sus C * keep the C as the top note throughout Cheers! And Happy New Year
Thanks Joe!! I LOVE Randy Newman! He’s got such a distinctive style and that secondary dominant major II chord is so typically him. I was lucky enough to see him do a small recording for BBC radio a few years ago where he played some songs and talked about his new album Dark Matter. It was magic!
Thanks as always for these videos! It's always great to sit down and spend some time absorbing new things. Now I just gotta get my butt in the chair and practice them more.
Thanks Roman! I’d be lying if I said I was a fan - doesn’t do it for me. Probably due to the kind of music I’ve been conditioned to! Each to their own though! 😉
Great vid!! There was an excellent book which I for unknown reason (laziness?) didn't buy but put in my Amazon basket which Amazon somehow lost. It was about alternative composition / harmonisation / chord progression methods. I remember the reviews were excellent.... unfortunately I forgot its name. Still kicking myself for not buying it. Asked one compositor, he heard about the book as well but can't remember the title neither. So sad! :(
@@michaelkeithson The answer is somewhere on Harmony Central forum or what has left of it, year around 2008-2012 keys synths samplers subforum. But I doubt anything can be found in there let alone a book name, the forum engine got completely screwed up by the new owners.
Sticking a II-V between a II-V gives a great sound, Dm7 Ebm7 Ab7 G7 or Dm7 Abm7 Db7 G7. In general you can always stick chords between, before and after chords to turn your chord progressions into something new. Instead of playing a G play Am G for instance.
Functional harmony is a deep language; you are the best grammar teacher on RUclips! Thanks, and have a great New Year!
Thanks Adam 🙏 Really appreciate your comment. HNY! 🥳
He way you make your videos an active conversation with your audience is AMAZING. You’re such a gem
🙏 Thanks Aaron! Appreciate the kind words 👍
HNY🥳
Remarkable lesson! You’ve combined 20 concepts in 20 minutes, along with excellent pedagogy!
Thanks Kareem! Glad you liked it 👍
I'm 20 seconds into the video and I already noticed you said:"harmonic cadences". Now I deeply need a video on non-harmonic cadences!
best music theory channel ever, from a semi-pro young musician that has watched this kind of content for years
Ha! Thanks Greg. I said harmonic cadences to differentiate from 'melodic' or 'rhythmic' cadences.
Glad you're enjoying the content though. Cheers for the comment 👍
I love how you commit to playing with exquisite musicality every time you play the sequence. Inspiring way to finish out the year! 🎉
Yeah, to the contrary to other dry uninspiring tutorials, this channel really makes you eager to apply what you learn.
🙏 Thanks Michael, I really appreciate your thoughtful comment. Glad you enjoyed it.
Happy new year 🥳
Thanks Abbe, great to hear you feel that way. Must be doing something right! Happy new year 🥳
@@michaelkeithson Thanks! Happy new year to too!
Very nice. You make the "complex," "abstract" "difficult" and "advanced" accessible, logical, visible and hearable and you do it with warmth for us watching. Thank you.
🙏☺️ Thanks for the kind comment Bill, glad you enjoyed it.
without the visual aids I would get lost quickly, but still find the lessons enjoyable. I appreciate music more the more I learn about it, largely because of you.
Thanks for the nice comment 🙏
I only found your channel like yesterday and I'm fr binging through all your vids. You're one of the best music theory channels here on RUclips.
Welcome!! Glad you’re enjoying the content Armin. Thanks for the nice comment 👍
HNY🥳
Same!! Just pull up a seat in front of the piano, no popcorn needed!
This was amazing, please make a minor version of cadences. Hands down the best channel for learning harmony. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for the kind comment and suggestion 🙏
Hey there mate.
Honestly Mike, you're a great teacher man. You really have the gift of teaching mate.
Cause every video you share, it's full of theory but it's simply to understand when you explain it.
Best for you in 2025 and so on Michael.
🙏☺️ Thanks Ruben! Really appreciate your support and glad your enjoying the content.
HNY🥳
The resolve in Db Major 7th and Ab Major 7th is the bessssst!!!
Yeah, so nice! 👌
I've probably already commented on this video, but I'm back for more. You sir, are a RUclips treasure!
🙏 Thanks Stephen! I appreciate your support. ☺️
Clear, concise, tasteful, musical, educational, inspirational.
☺️🙏 Thank you David! ☺️
Some the of the cadences are so dreamy.
Another very well done video introducing some sophisticated modern Harmony in a simple way. Perhaps a cadence similar to your last one is known as the tritone ending in the jazz vernacular. (Moving up a tritone from the root note while pedaling the root note as you descend in half steps all the way to the tonic)
Why don't you have millions of followers? I've been following you for a while. Best tips ever, nice work 👌
Thanks Felipe! Glad you’re enjoying the content 👍
Amazing! And now we can see your hands😊. I will be watching this many more times.
Thanks Ray! Got to give people what they want! 👍😂
@@michaelkeithsonThe thing is, we don't always know what we want until we see what you do, then it's "That's exactly what I want and didn't know it!" 😊
Excellent!! Thank you. More please
Awesome lesson! I’m sure the on screen chords take ages during editing but they are so nice visually and as a learning tool. Great lesson to start the new year -thanks!
Thanks Matthew, appreciate the comment. Yes, they do take a while to add in the edit so glad to hear they’re valuable to the learning. 👍
When I write songs, I might want red to fade softly into orange and yellow. In other situations, I just want yellow and blue to clash with splotches of purple and red.
I’m not technically musical; know very basic theory, but I do understand color and emotion.
If I am being honest, lots of this went way over my head, but I could hear and feel it perfectly.
Happy new year!
Love this comment! ❤️
Really great! Harmonic options are so powerfully valuable. I’ve tried to study methods for song reharmonization but none make sense to me. It always seems to come down to trial and error and unfortunately most of them fail as terrible attempts to be innovative. Every now and then I accidentally stumble into something that works that might open a new door to greater vocabulary. Your approach and explanations make perfect sense. I rarely go to the lengths to understand the context of the theory behind the particular moves I love. I could but I don’t. And those moves are generally key specific instead mirroring the same moves in all keys. But I’ve saved this particular video to my favorite tutorials and hopefully can dive into this in early February. Thank you so much for sharing. This video makes perfect sense.
Thanks for the comment John, glad you enjoyed the video! 👍
Love the way you decode the language of cadences 👍🏽
🙏 Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Your videos are so good. Thank you for making them. So well thought out and explained.
🙏 Thanks Craig! Appreciate the nice comment. HNY🥳
simply and gorgeous unlocked the power of the circle of the fifths. Tanks for that one.
Thanks for the nice comment Sebastian! Glad it was useful! 👍
Brilliant! You should upload 30-minute sessions of your pleasant noodling for listening to over morning coffee.
These little deconstructions are so helpful! I'm trying to learn your embellishments, too. Mine turn into full melodies too easily.
Ah nice, that's great to hear. Happy practising! 🎹
These are the kinds of subs I’ve been using on guitar without really knowing how or why they worked. Thanks.
9:47 you could also look up Barry Harris concept of parent diminished (easier to remember maybe) for example take ur f dim and if u move one of the notes by a halfstep u get different dominant 7 wish can be used as cadences for Cmaj. For example (f dim one noted moved at the time) bB7, bD7, E7 and ofc G7. All one big family of dom 7 chords derived from the parent diminished chord of C
Michael, thanks a ton for this great session.
My favourite is probably the backdoor one ending with F - Fm - Bb7 - C : so classy!
Another option that sounds nice, albeit a bit more pop, is the bVI bVII I cadence.
That would be C Gm7 C7 F Ab Bb C
Thanks again and keep them coming!
Nice! Thanks for the comment Sylvain!
I have learned more about music theory from you're channel than everywhere else combined! Thank you thank you!
🙏☺️ Thanks for the kind comment Steve! It's really nice to hear, glad you're getting some value from my videos!
That walk down at 12:24 is so soulful 🔥
Please do a neo-soul/rnb progression video if you have time 😁
Thanks for all your content, it's been a great help to me 🙏
Thanks Liam, glad you've been enjoying the videos. Cheers for the comment 👍
Found your channel a couple days ago and have been binging it since. As a classical musician the backdoor dominant sounds like a deceptive cadence (V-vi), but with a major VI, so resolving on the relative minor's parallel key. Love your videos!
Hey Pedro! Thanks for the comment. Glad you're enjoying the videos. 👍
What a teacher
☺️🙏 Thanks Jason!
HNY🥳
Ohhhh … that Dø/Aflat… that’s just lush ❤ (a walk up with Bb is now stuck in my head)
Thank you Michael… what a great video for the new year!
Thanks Lee! Glad you liked that one! HNY🥳
Hey Michael. I wanted to share a special happy New Year’s message with you. I’m a guitar player with around 50,000 subscribers. I just want to say that your instruction is helping me a great deal with my guitar playing, especially pertaining to chord selection and understanding of advanced progressions. You explain music theory in a way that is far superior to most people, and that includes most guitar instructional channels. I’m going to make a video to recommend your channel to other guitar musicians. Thank you so much for the fine content and for inspiring me to improve my musical skills in ways that I hadn’t expected-especially from someone who is an expert keyboard player. Blessings to you and your family, my friend.
Wow! Thank you Tony🙏🙏☺️
I’m really glad you’ve got some value from my content and I really appreciate your support. Thank you. A very happy new year to you!! 🥳
Wow really cool stuff. This is the progression from “Learn to Fly” foo fighters. Think C mixolydian and the cadence becomes a five in minor scenario like “Caravan” duke ellington. Provides great food for thought on both tunes thank you!!!
Your videos are so great! Binge watching them all for a while. Also, IV-ivm-I is the best 😊
🙏 Thank you Vithor! Glad you've been enjoying them. Thanks for the comment 👍
Thank you for your video, I really liked your versions of alternative cadences and going clockwise the circle of fifths thinking, I love it tooo:) - I My personal favorite sequence in key of C is Abadd9 Bb Ddma7add9 Ebma7add9 -C
Thank you once again for your work and for PDF outlines !
Greetings from Finland !
Thanks Aleksi! Glad you liked it, I’ll have to try your suggestion too.
HNY🥳
one of the best music theory teachers
🙏 Thanks Jermaine!
Really fantastic content. You (and Bill Hilton) are the best piano 'teachers' here on the RUclipss I'd say (at least of all the (many) videos I have watched so far). Good stuff, well explained. I think I will go to my piano and experiment with that a bit now. How I don't miss midnight (well, the pyrotechnics around here will remind me I guess ; )).
Ah, thank you 🙏 It’s great to hear that. Thanks for the comment. Hope you didn’t miss the celebrations 😉
HNY🥳
So much to absorb here. At 7:15 when he is talking about diminished chords, I find it helpful, in terms of moving to other keys, to think not about the F dim, but about the V7 we are subbing for as a b9. So you can play a dim 7 built on any note in the V7b9 except the root. So I can very easily find in any key with very little thought. Magic indeed. Please
$upport this page. I want to keep these coming.
🙏 Thanks Mike! I appreciate your support and contribution to the conversation too! Hope you got the pdf in the end 👍
It’s crazy how you keep doing videos of the exact things I have wanted to know, and have struggled to find. Thank you, and Happy New Year!
Ha! Happy to help!
HNY🥳
So good, thanks so much for the video!
You asked for favorites: I like the one where you go to the Ab as you did in one example, but instead of resolving to the C right away, I go up to the Bb and then to the C. This is used all the time in film scores and Barbershop as a kind of happy ending feel. As soon as you're off the Bb and onto the C the blues scale sounds great as part of the resolution.
I always enjoy whatever you post, cheers!
Thanks for the comment. Yeah, I few people have mentioned that one. I think it's pretty similar to the Backdoor ii-V example, they have very much the same flavour and function. Cheers
fantastic content. compliments to the chef!
🙏 Thank you!
Awesome stuff! I’m not sure how I stumbled upon your content. I was just today trying to teach my 7-year-old some basic piano chords. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge.
It was always meant to be, you were destined to arrive here eventually 😂
Thanks for the comment man, glad you enjoyed it👍
@ absolutely. Happy the algorithm worked 😃. Happy New Year!
Absolute madman behind the keys and camera. Love your content and personality!
🙏☺️ Thanks Thomas! Appreciate the support. HNY 🥳
This is brilliantly explained. I instantly subscribed as it will help my compositions. It's laid out so well that I can share it with my piano and guitar students. Thank you so much for doing this, and above all making it genuinely useful and accessible to all, with no ego or showing off.
🙏 Thanks for the kind comment. Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Great video. I learn so much from your channel. I'm adding the b7 to the bVI7maj7 cadence. AbMaj7- Bb-CMaj7. I think I learned that from you!!!
Thank you! Appreciate your contribution too! That is a nice one 👍
HNY🥳
You load a donkey very well - I can't wait to unpack these. They all sound great. Thank you.
Ha! Thanks man👍
HNY🥳
this channel is too good
☺️🙏 Thanks man, appreciate the kind words 🙏
Doing a great job mate. But please can you do some stuff about apogiaturas, passing notes, suspensions, anticipations
Thanks Alex! Appreciate the suggestions 👍
such a wonderful video, this helps so much with getting other harmony vocabulary. Thank you so much!
Great to hear! Glad you got some value from it! Thanks for the comment 👍
I really enjoyed and benefitted from this lesson! Thank you so much! I was doing some of the stuff you do with hit and miss/trial and error. I tend to write the bass steps leading to my root (with departures from diatonic "correct" tones) and if they work i try to fill in the other voices so that they move very little or function as common tones. One thing i realize is that if the bass tone and the top/melody tones make sense to the ear (flow in a pleasing way to resolve) some of the inbetween contained harmony can be interchangeable. I hope this description is not too vague
Thanks for the comment. I think you’ve got a sensible approach. You’re using your ears to determine what you like which is so important. I think the theory side of these things is still really useful to have as it can give new/other options and a structure to different ways of thinking. HNY🥳
11:24 yeah, this is caused by the tritone which divides the octave in two.
So the Dominant 7 needs 1 - 3 - b7
The distance between the 3 and the b7 is a diminished 5 ie a tritone, so the 5th will be the new tonic and the 3 and b7 switching places…
Hi Michael. I love your videos immensely and I've been really thankful for them during my music journey. I was wondering if you could do a video on audiation sometime and maybe just go over a little on how you were able to build up the ability to "feel" where to go next during improv or share some exercises. I've been really struggling with the concept of being able to internalize the scale degrees accurately. Thank you again for everything. Wishing much success to you this year 🫡
Thanks Sean! Appreciate your comment. Thanks for your suggestion, I’ll ponder on it and see if there’s a video in there somewhere. I think it’s somewhat of a tricky one because a lot of it becomes automatic due to the amount of time you put in and over the years that ‘feel’ becomes intuitive because you’ve done it so many times. But having said that I’m sure there will be ways to think and practice that will definitely help strengthen that side of things. Cheers
HNY🥳
I think you do need good knowledge of,and access to, your scales. But also an appreciation for the function of different chords or groups of chords so that when you see a chord or sequence you instantly know what your options are.
I've said it before and I'll do so again (albeit, more poignantly) ... I am an intermediate saxophonist and I have found your tutorials on harmony, chord analysis & progressions as well as music theory in general, more helpful and those that of other saxophonist/music education content providers.
On a saxophone, only one note can be played at a time, so chords have to be outlined. Also, the popular soprano, alto, tenor and baritone instruments are not concert pitch. So, there is need to transpose. However, these fundamantal differences aside, you shine quite brightly.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, skill, charm, humour and wit, Michael.
Happy new year.
Thanks Alistair! I really appreciate your generous comment 🙏☺️
It’s great to hear you’ve been getting some value from my videos.
HNY🥳
Beautifully done. Thank you.
So good, so creative and makes me not only want to play but also challenges me to think!! Thank you!!!
Thanks for the nice comment Steve🙏
HNY 🥳
Buenísimo Miguel!!!
One word...Superb !
☺️🙏
Thanks again for a very inspiring video, Michael. You are really a superb teacher. All the best for 2025.
🙏 Thanks Frank! Appreciated your support this year. More of the same in 2025! HNY🥳
Thanks!!❤
I'm only beginning to understand Functional Harmony. At the end, you mentioned that one also has to be aware of the melody.
Oh my, playing music is so complicated. I'm gaining much more respect for musicians.
Merci for a great lesson, well explained.
Hey Lawrence, thanks for the comment. Yes, it can be complex but there’s also a lot that becomes intuitive and is only complex when you start to open it up.
Thanks for watching!
HNY🥳
Thanks Michael and happy new year. A couple from me. One alternative for a G7 > C is F/G > C. Also very simple deceptive cadence is the good old Am.
Cheers Tim! Happy new year to you too!
Yeah, you can’t beat a good IV/V 👌
Fantastic lesson, thank you!❤
Thanks Phil, glad you enjoyed it 👍
Brilliant
Wonderful! Thank you!
Another excellent lesson I’ll end up watching several times as I work them out on the guitar. Here’s a cadence I like to use sometimes ii / ii°/ I I’ve heard it called a common tone resolution.
Thanks Jeff! Nice suggestion, I guess it’s a combination of a couple of my single chord examples. I’ll have to give yours a spin! 👍
I love your channel! Greetz from Deutschland, Karlsruhe.
Happy new year🎉
Yas! The IV-ii-I move was a revelation for me for one of my earliest songs.
I would love to be your neighbor just to give you a hug! Your content is gold!
☺️ Ah, thanks Francesco!
Great video! So much to learn and I really enjoy your presentation!
Thanks Rebecca!
HNY🥳
Never realised that tritone connection, love yr channel man
Thanks Steve 🙏☺️
Brilliant - as usual!
🙏☺️
Very nice playing and a whole lot of content in this short video!
Thanks you and happy new year!
🙏 Thank you! And a very happy new year to you too! 🥳
Hey, folks. PLEASE support. Keep these amazing videos coming. I will spend the next month on this one alone. The beauty of the variety is that I can pick and choose resolutions that echo my own voice and style.
Thank you Mike 🙏 I really appreciate your comment. Thanks for your support. Happy new year 🥳
Happy New Year Michael. Thanks for the videos as always.
Thanks Max! Happy new year to you too! 🥳
Another great lesson!
Thanks Richard!
Superb!
Absolutely Love your content Michael, so slick!
I thought I’d share one of my fav “Randy Newman” style cadences (in C):
F C/E D7 G7sus C
* keep the C as the top note throughout
Cheers! And Happy New Year
Thanks Joe!!
I LOVE Randy Newman! He’s got such a distinctive style and that secondary dominant major II chord is so typically him.
I was lucky enough to see him do a small recording for BBC radio a few years ago where he played some songs and talked about his new album Dark Matter. It was magic!
Love your lessons! Happy newyear to you and your dear ones 🥂
Thanks Bas! Happy New Year to you and yours too! 🥳🥳
Thank you!
Hello again! Thank you!
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Great reminder thanks !
Brilliant video Michael ,thank you and Happy New Year.
Cheers Robert! Glad you liked it. HNY🥳
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happy new year! and thanks for the video!!!
Happy new year Willem! 🥳
I couldn’t wait for you to get to the flat II 😂😂 god what nerdy stuff
😂 Ha! Were you anticipating it appearing?!
@ oh no doubt. bII to I is the most minor sounding major progression that exists 😆
Happy New Year from Romania !
HNY🥳
this video is such a gem thank you so much
👍 Thanks Jermaine!
Thanks as always for these videos! It's always great to sit down and spend some time absorbing new things. Now I just gotta get my butt in the chair and practice them more.
Thanks Ben! Happy practising!!
Thank you so much… so much value in this!
You’re very welcome Braden! HNY🥳
can you plsss do a video on upper extensions
Michael please I'd like to know what you play in your interludes 🙏
Here’s another suggestion for the 1st type: the major supertonic (D or D7 for the example in C)
I like B7 to C. You've got your leading tone and the tritone resolves to E G.
Thanks Roman! I’d be lying if I said I was a fan - doesn’t do it for me. Probably due to the kind of music I’ve been conditioned to! Each to their own though! 😉
Could you do a video like this for minor keys? Seems like all the piano videos online are always focused on composing in major keys.
Great vid!! There was an excellent book which I for unknown reason (laziness?) didn't buy but put in my Amazon basket which Amazon somehow lost. It was about alternative composition / harmonisation / chord progression methods. I remember the reviews were excellent.... unfortunately I forgot its name. Still kicking myself for not buying it. Asked one compositor, he heard about the book as well but can't remember the title neither. So sad! :(
Oooh! Now I want to know what the book is!!
@@michaelkeithson The answer is somewhere on Harmony Central forum or what has left of it, year around 2008-2012 keys synths samplers subforum. But I doubt anything can be found in there let alone a book name, the forum engine got completely screwed up by the new owners.
@@DonSolaris Ah shame! If it ever reveals itself to you, I'm intrigued to know!
Sticking a II-V between a II-V gives a great sound, Dm7 Ebm7 Ab7 G7 or Dm7 Abm7 Db7 G7. In general you can always stick chords between, before and after chords to turn your chord progressions into something new. Instead of playing a G play Am G for instance.
Thanks for the contribution 👍🎵
Thanks!