Hey folks, looks like a made an error at 07:38 and forgot to show the G7#5! Also make sure to read the description, there's a lot I skipped in this lesson to make it easier to consume :)
Ummm, your thumbnail is blasphemy to the highest order. It was Darth Vader who famously told Lando Calrissian, "I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it again." Your sacrilegious thumbnail has Emperor Palpatine. I'm afraid I'll have to block this channel from my home page.
in my opinion the chord shape shown at 1:48 isn't a flat 5, it's a regular dominant chord with the 3rd (B). you have G, B, F, and B again. the flat 5 would be a Dflat
@@kierenmoore3236 you're right my brain defaulted to the 7 voicing i'm used to using. i would put the "2" from the image two frets down usually and saw it like that by accident. thank you. still, the flat 5 could stand to be further away from the root in my opinion, but to each their own
@@SignalsMusicStudio Also just the idea of palpatine playing keyboard while making palpatine faces and shooting lightning out of his fingers is really funny.
Yeah, I chuckled at this thumbnail, way harder than a sane(?) person should … 😏🤫 Subdominance leads to Dominance; Dominance leads to Alteration; Alteration leads to Extra Dissonance; and Dissonance, leads to the Tonic-Side … ⚡️
You are easily the best on the net for explaining theory.Unlike many 'teachers' you are there to teach-not show how smart you are. Everything is explained in a straightforward manner. Boiling things down, is a real skill. Bravo.
Thank you Jake! That was a sublime information transfer. I could hear those special accents in a lot of my favorite songs from The Beatles to Pink Floyd, country swing to surf, blues to jazz, and so on. It's like you opened a giant spice rack in a gourmet kitchen. Lots of special flavors in here. Bravo!
Steve you nailed it 100%. For me it was Billy Joel. One of my all time favorite songwriters although I play guitar. Only recently did I get my head around secondary dominant chords and modal interplay in chord progressions. And this video just blew my understanding wide open with the alterations. I can hear and picture the melodies (Billy writes great melodies!) in these alterations. Amazing. Jake thanks for all of it! You are making a positive impact for people!
Awesome as always!! And if I may add something, the reason we don't mess with the third and the seventh is because they are the tritone interval, which is the music mechanism for tension-resolution in tonal music. If we mess with these notes, then the chord is no no longer a dominant chord.
Thank you Marco! In one of my lessons here I discuss the tritone resolution in the 7th chord but at this point I've lost track of which video it is 😅 Whenever I make a sequel to this lesson I'll be sure to elaborate on that!
Waiting for every Signals Music Studio video like a next WB blockbuster. Thank you Jake! The way you present simple and complex music concepts is invaluable.
Wow! That ii V I progression sounded just like the slums in final fantasy 7. I love your channel. You have taught me so much and have unlocked my ears and my guitar playing so much.
#5 up an octave can also be b13 and b5 up an octave is also a sharp #11! And a b11 is really just a major 3 so that’s not really altering anything! Same with the #13 being the same as the b7! So really you have b5 (same pitch as a #4/#11), #5 (same pitch as b6/b13) b9 (b2), 9 (2), #9 (b3), 11(4), #11 (#4), b13 (again same as #5), and the 13 (6). As a nice little list for those enharmonic encounters Jake was talking about towards the end
Brilliant! Incredible how altering one note opens up a whole new world especially when you apply it to secondary doms! I'm halfway through your Codex book Jake and loving it! Thank you ☺
Jake is exactly the dude I’d want to learn this stuff from. I’ve historically had a hard time applying augmented dominant sounds, even tho I love the way they sound when other people do it
Jake ... Sounding good ! I've been anticipating your vid, been following you for years and you have been such an amazing teacher that you are getting credited in my liner notes 😎🎸 UR #1 fan Michael
Hi Jake! Great lesson! You're always so clear by breaking the lesson down into manageable steps. Just noticed though at 7:38 you've forgotten to raise the 5th in the G7#5. Thanks again for the great lessons. 😊
[EDIT2] This video is EXACTLY what I needed, and as concise as can be, anyone interested in composition who feels like I do (zero ideas) should learn it.[/EDIT2] Flat 7 chords are only dominant when they function as a dominant, according to my conservatory-trained teacher. "Dominant" should not be used to refer to structure because it doesn't signify structure, it only signifies harmonic function. [EDIT] at 2:06 he gets around to explaining this is only referring to the V7, but other people make this mistake constantly, so I'll just leave this here.
I just realized that putting the wrong character behind the quote is probably increasing my comment engagement since everyone is rightfully correcting me 😅
Super interesting Jake! Thanks a lot for your work. You rock and I learn a lot thanks to your videos, your book or your courses on your website! May the force be wirh you :)
Fantastic. When you see a Jake Lizzio tutorial, you know you're getting a great treatment of the subject that will be fun, interesting and presented in that brilliant style that is super easy to follow. If Ken Burns did a series on practical music theory, it would look like this. Thanks!
Hey Jake I've been watching for years. A really important and quite overlooked lesson I've learned through the lines (thanks to your videos of course) it's about "mood" and we can bring that lesson up whenever we ask ourselves "how does this (insert chord here) even fit?" Try to find the mood for such chord and save it for later if you need it. It's a process involving deep imagination and maybe some cannabis. But it has helped me through the years and I can say I'm having an easier time to find, for example, chords for a spy movie or maybe a vampire show or videogame. Try to find the mood and imagine the places the chord shows you as you listen to their frequency.
Love this topic....hoping to have another round of discussion maybe next time after this..to make thing much clear regarding alt chord to all begginner guitar theorist like me .
Jazz chords make me feel like I have a little motion sickness in the back seat of my old uncle car that smells like fake leather plastic, on a Tuesday morning. Also, it will start raining soon.
This video cant be more in time. Just about 5 days ago i accidently played this chord at the piano: A - F (left hand) B - C# - G (right h) And didnt know what happended, but blew my mind. Now, i still dont know. But thinking may be an A9 altered? or just a A9#5 ¿?
The legend of 1900 movie, explains how to adapt music to the movement of people, found it an interesting part of movie,,so putting one in visualization of areas and people couldn't music be created
7:30 Love this chord progression. Is it weird that I hear the Em(iii) get "tonicized" more than C(I)? I hear this progression as a more jazzy version of VI-V-i in E harmonic minor with a jazzy secondary dominant leading to C.
"Tonicization" of Em might make sense, because not only we have a dominant before it, the very Cmaj7 has E, G and B in it, so in some way there is a hidden movement to Em, it seems.
I've heard these chords before but didn't know what they were called. The voice leading is nice when you resolve to the tonic. The fingering takes getting used to though. Thank you!
Yep, it's pretty hard to fret a large portion of the 7alt chords. Learning how to preserve the guide tones though will allow guitarists to simplify the chords without losing too much flavor, and might make the shapes easier!
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Hey folks, looks like a made an error at 07:38 and forgot to show the G7#5! Also make sure to read the description, there's a lot I skipped in this lesson to make it easier to consume :)
Ummm, your thumbnail is blasphemy to the highest order. It was Darth Vader who famously told Lando Calrissian, "I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it again." Your sacrilegious thumbnail has Emperor Palpatine. I'm afraid I'll have to block this channel from my home page.
@@levicoffman5146meh
in my opinion the chord shape shown at 1:48 isn't a flat 5, it's a regular dominant chord with the 3rd (B). you have G, B, F, and B again. the flat 5 would be a Dflat
@@amphibian87. You sure about that? What note is that there at the 11th fret on the fourth string, being held by the second finger … ?
@@kierenmoore3236 you're right my brain defaulted to the 7 voicing i'm used to using. i would put the "2" from the image two frets down usually and saw it like that by accident. thank you.
still, the flat 5 could stand to be further away from the root in my opinion, but to each their own
Man you have no idea how excited I get every time I see your notification 😭
I was about to write the same thing man
Same here. This is my favorite music channel.
thank you!
yes indeed, what a great professor this guy is!
Same.
It's not very often a thumbnail makes me laugh, but that one got me.
I think it looks way funnier with my bad Photoshop skills than what AI could do 😅
@@SignalsMusicStudio Also just the idea of palpatine playing keyboard while making palpatine faces and shooting lightning out of his fingers is really funny.
Yeah, I chuckled at this thumbnail, way harder than a sane(?) person should … 😏🤫
Subdominance leads to Dominance; Dominance leads to Alteration; Alteration leads to Extra Dissonance; and Dissonance, leads to the Tonic-Side … ⚡️
@@SignalsMusicStudio You get it man, somewhat shitty authentic is always preferrable to technically perfect slop
You're possibly the best online teacher when it comes to explaining things simply and directly
You are easily the best on the net for explaining theory.Unlike many 'teachers' you are there to teach-not show how smart you are. Everything is explained in a straightforward manner. Boiling things down, is a real skill. Bravo.
You are by far the best music theory channel on this platform. I've always seen these chords and have never known how to use them until now!
Your teaching style is easy and clear. Thanks for all your work
Great lesson. I've been trying to expand my chord vocabulary to make experimental music, this will definitely help.
Thank you Jake! That was a sublime information transfer. I could hear those special accents in a lot of my favorite songs from The Beatles to Pink Floyd, country swing to surf, blues to jazz, and so on. It's like you opened a giant spice rack in a gourmet kitchen. Lots of special flavors in here. Bravo!
Thanks Steve, glad you liked this one!!!
Steve you nailed it 100%. For me it was Billy Joel. One of my all time favorite songwriters although I play guitar. Only recently did I get my head around secondary dominant chords and modal interplay in chord progressions. And this video just blew my understanding wide open with the alterations. I can hear and picture the melodies (Billy writes great melodies!) in these alterations. Amazing. Jake thanks for all of it! You are making a positive impact for people!
Awesome as always!! And if I may add something, the reason we don't mess with the third and the seventh is because they are the tritone interval, which is the music mechanism for tension-resolution in tonal music. If we mess with these notes, then the chord is no no longer a dominant chord.
Woow...Marco commenting on Jake's Video!! 🎉🎉 My two favorite music youtubers!! Best of luck for both of you!
Thank you Marco! In one of my lessons here I discuss the tritone resolution in the 7th chord but at this point I've lost track of which video it is 😅 Whenever I make a sequel to this lesson I'll be sure to elaborate on that!
@@contentecreator5227 thank you, Sir! Jake was my inspiration to start my own channel!
Waiting for every Signals Music Studio video like a next WB blockbuster. Thank you Jake! The way you present simple and complex music concepts is invaluable.
Wow! That ii V I progression sounded just like the slums in final fantasy 7. I love your channel. You have taught me so much and have unlocked my ears and my guitar playing so much.
Jake is my favorite music theory teacher BY FAR!
Best music teacher on RUclips. Every video you upload increases a lot my music vocabulary. Thanks
#5 up an octave can also be b13 and b5 up an octave is also a sharp #11! And a b11 is really just a major 3 so that’s not really altering anything! Same with the #13 being the same as the b7!
So really you have b5 (same pitch as a #4/#11), #5 (same pitch as b6/b13) b9 (b2), 9 (2), #9 (b3), 11(4), #11 (#4), b13 (again same as #5), and the 13 (6).
As a nice little list for those enharmonic encounters Jake was talking about towards the end
You can guess why I didn't want to talk about this in a beginners lesson 😅
The voiceleading makes such a huge difference after all with the b5 altered dominant-- thanks for the informative lesson!!
You are a master at explaining, breaking it down to the core and building it up
Brilliant! Incredible how altering one note opens up a whole new world especially when you apply it to secondary doms!
I'm halfway through your Codex book Jake and loving it! Thank you ☺
Jake is the best! I encourage everyone to share his channel with anyone you know who may be having difficulty gasping music theory concepts.
Jake is exactly the dude I’d want to learn this stuff from. I’ve historically had a hard time applying augmented dominant sounds, even tho I love the way they sound when other people do it
I gave up on learning the topic several times before I finally grasped it!
Dude, this is great! This is a theory hole i've needed to fill for a while and its just the right digestible chunk to get me started. Thanks!
Bravo. Such a great lesson. You are a fantastic teacher. Thank you
The structured approach you have taken to teaching music theory is so effective. Your content is gold. Gold, Jerry!!
Your videos are always so polished, the information is always so digestible. Keep it up, it's awesome!
Jake, you are the man!
Another great video (and I’m starting to pick up most of the advanced theory!) I am stoked
Jake ...
Sounding good ! I've been anticipating your vid, been following you for years and you have been such an amazing teacher that you are getting credited in my liner notes 😎🎸
UR #1 fan
Michael
Always an excellent explanation of theory and its practical application
Thanks for the reminder about the book! Has been on my list for quite some time, will be getting it ASAP.
I promise you'll love it, the feedback has been awesome!
Thank you Jake for sharing this lesson. It it is so clear to me now on altering the 5th or 9th :)
Hi Jake! Great lesson! You're always so clear by breaking the lesson down into manageable steps.
Just noticed though at 7:38 you've forgotten to raise the 5th in the G7#5.
Thanks again for the great lessons. 😊
Ahhhh! thank you for spotting that!
@@SignalsMusicStudio just your friendly neighbourhood, pain in the butt! 😄
@@martinallott572I'd go with "friendly neighbor reminding that it's garbage night"
[EDIT2] This video is EXACTLY what I needed, and as concise as can be, anyone interested in composition who feels like I do (zero ideas) should learn it.[/EDIT2] Flat 7 chords are only dominant when they function as a dominant, according to my conservatory-trained teacher. "Dominant" should not be used to refer to structure because it doesn't signify structure, it only signifies harmonic function. [EDIT] at 2:06 he gets around to explaining this is only referring to the V7, but other people make this mistake constantly, so I'll just leave this here.
Why and how has this channel floped?!?! THIS IS THE BEST Beginer/advanced MUSIC TUTOR OUT THERE
Your book just arrived and it’s everything I hoped it would be. Great resource. Thank you.
Been wanting to expand on Dominants! Thank you!
Let me just say that is a world-class thumbnail
You are really getting more funny all the time. (thumbnails)
WELL DONE 👍
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I just realized that putting the wrong character behind the quote is probably increasing my comment engagement since everyone is rightfully correcting me 😅
Super interesting Jake! Thanks a lot for your work. You rock and I learn a lot thanks to your videos, your book or your courses on your website! May the force be wirh you :)
Awesome presentation. Very direct, easy to follow instructions. Thank you!
you’re the best Mr. Studio🙏🙏
Possibly the best music theory thumbnail I've ever seen
Fantastic. When you see a Jake Lizzio tutorial, you know you're getting a great treatment of the subject that will be fun, interesting and presented in that brilliant style that is super easy to follow. If Ken Burns did a series on practical music theory, it would look like this. Thanks!
This is the best video on this topic.
Thank you for this really great lesson. Very nicely explained. Great teaching.
I automatically give a Thumbs Up within the first 10 seconds.
Hey Jake I've been watching for years. A really important and quite overlooked lesson I've learned through the lines (thanks to your videos of course) it's about "mood" and we can bring that lesson up whenever we ask ourselves "how does this (insert chord here) even fit?" Try to find the mood for such chord and save it for later if you need it. It's a process involving deep imagination and maybe some cannabis. But it has helped me through the years and I can say I'm having an easier time to find, for example, chords for a spy movie or maybe a vampire show or videogame. Try to find the mood and imagine the places the chord shows you as you listen to their frequency.
Thanks, my favorite online music teacher ❤
Great lesson Jake! btw Patreon subscriber here. Your info is very valuable to me.
very clear and concrete examples as usual, easy to integrate in my compositions, thanks!
I'm a pianist and this is ton of help
Great explanation! Never made sense until now. Thank you!
Awesome lesson as always!
Great helpful explanation man. Thanks
Excellent tutorial!
You're the best Jake!
Love ya bro ... U are getting credited on my next CD release ❤
This altered my understanding of this from ”wtf” to ”oooooo i get it now”
Great video as always!
Love this channel!
Copacetic....I'm learning so much from your videos!
Damn this just unlocked a key piece of nomenclature I've been missing!!!!
Thanks, Jake. This is great
Love this topic....hoping to have another round of discussion maybe next time after this..to make thing much clear regarding alt chord to all begginner guitar theorist like me .
Greatest thumbnail ever
Om nom nom, another delicious video, Jake! Cant wait to eat your next video!
Great, as always, thanks a Lot!!!
The altered dominant chords by themselves? Meh. But as a way of progressing to the tonic? Wow! Stuff of legends. Thanx!
I already knew all this. But I learned a new word: copacetic. Thanks Jake!
I think we should get some more Jazz music theory videos. These are really helpful
I really like your channel :)
Excellent, thank you!
Thank you very much!
Great video, ty!
This was excellent
I'd like to see more on jazz harmony.
Jazz chords make me feel like I have a little motion sickness in the back seat of my old uncle car that smells like fake leather plastic, on a Tuesday morning. Also, it will start raining soon.
LOL
04:04 You called it a bad voice leading but I liked it. I hear a song in there personally
That thumbnail kills. LOL😂
I learned something new. I click Like.
This guuuuuy, he is probably the best for intermediate suckers like myself 😂😂❤❤
Thanks for lesson teach
I altered an Em chord so much it became a B major chord 🥺
thank you
Good Channel 👍
Read his chord progression codex. It will spice ya life
I personnally hear and play b9 alt dominant as diminished chords : e.g G7b9 is G B F D G#, and B F D G# is Bdim.
This video cant be more in time. Just about 5 days ago i accidently played this chord at the piano: A - F (left hand) B - C# - G (right h)
And didnt know what happended, but blew my mind. Now, i still dont know. But thinking may be an A9 altered? or just a A9#5 ¿?
Exactly.🤘🤘👏👏👏🎼🎼🎼
I love altered dominants, especially when you throw in a #9 in there!
Check out my lesson from a few months back on the 7#9 chord! Really fun video IMO
HINT. construct uour melody with the chord altering notes.
[ the added notes that are prominent because they make the chord special ]
yep! really when we alter dominants, we're usually creating passing tone melodies within the chords themselves.
Rule #1 of the Jake Lizzio drinking game: take a shot every time you hear him say 'ritzy' :)
The legend of 1900 movie, explains how to adapt music to the movement of people, found it an interesting part of movie,,so putting one in visualization of areas and people couldn't music be created
7:30 Love this chord progression.
Is it weird that I hear the Em(iii) get "tonicized" more than C(I)? I hear this progression as a more jazzy version of VI-V-i in E harmonic minor with a jazzy secondary dominant leading to C.
"Tonicization" of Em might make sense, because not only we have a dominant before it, the very Cmaj7 has E, G and B in it, so in some way there is a hidden movement to Em, it seems.
What videos of yours should I watch to learn music theory?
Amazing lesson! I'm wondering how this is perceived and executed in a minor key. is the v or VII chord "better" in this sense?
Brother, this is a great channel. I have been following the channel for years. Thank you.
Please fix your guitar intonation when you can.
When do we get the Melodic Minor Mode video and poster?
i love you
3:33 Sounds like the soundtrack to a noir film.
I've heard these chords before but didn't know what they were called. The voice leading is nice when you resolve to the tonic. The fingering takes getting used to though. Thank you!
Yep, it's pretty hard to fret a large portion of the 7alt chords. Learning how to preserve the guide tones though will allow guitarists to simplify the chords without losing too much flavor, and might make the shapes easier!
Of course it sounds like Jazz… you made a ii-V-I after all. ;)