Doctorate in Jazz in 15 Minutes
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00:00 Intro
00:33 Origins of Western Harmony
01:16 Scales & Modes
01:55 Chords
03:35 Parent Scales
04:47 Chord Nomenclature
08:12 Major & Melodic Minor
08:57 Diminished & Whole
09:39 Tetratonic, Pentatonic, Hexatonic
11:33 Chord Voicings
13:24 Chord Progressions
14:57 Rhythm
16:00 Final Thoughts
Some resources for topics I didn't cover:
Coltrane changes/substitutions: • How To ACTUALLY USE Co...
Upper structure triads: • Upper Structure Triads...
Bebop vocabulary: • Jazz Guitar Lesson-BEB...
Jazz history: www.pbs.org/kenburns/jazz/
Huge thanks to the amazing jazz professors who taught me what I know:
Whit Sidener
Scott Cowan
Dante Luciani
John Daversa 
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Disclaimer: This is not a 1:1 replacement for the EXPERIENCE of studying music for 9 years. But I truly believe it is a distillation of about 95% of the relevant theory that I learned. There's also an emphasis on harmony over rhythm because it requires more explanation. That doesn't mean it's more important.
Jazz is a language of rhythms, harmonies, and melodies that has to be spoken over and over again to become fluent. It's an aural tradition and there's no substitute for learning from the performances of jazz masters like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, and more.
There is no substitution for years of practice, transcribing solos, developing rhythmic independence, learning tunes, and most importantly, playing with other musicians. All the jazz greats learned on the bandstand, not a classroom.
Some resources for topics I didn't cover:
Coltrane changes/substitutions: ruclips.net/video/LRSDgID_c7s/видео.htmlsi=cHsr_RjKYWiG1A9i
Upper structure triads: ruclips.net/video/9bo_VEtEpWE/видео.htmlsi=OC87uthN-yNzfzKH
Bebop vocabulary: ruclips.net/video/jC8tn6Wggxs/видео.htmlsi=Z_Ajs3mQ7-D-oN5O
Clave: ruclips.net/video/Ye7d5mPNfYY/видео.htmlsi=PDQ1ljRweH0aetQX
Jazz history: www.pbs.org/kenburns/jazz/
9 Years? Well I would say 1 or 2 months, that's what it took for me to learn this, and in a regular way. In fact, Theory is really fast to learn if you work hard, you can see it in 15 minutes, understand it pofondly in 15 hours, learning it in 15 or 30 days, practice it on the sheet in few months, and practice it on your instrument during several years to mastering it, and I'm not speaking of all the technical work... Well it's an ocean ^^
I like your ending: the essence of music theory is descriptive rather than prescriptive.
It helps when I reduce the playback speed to 15 years.
The real challenge after learning all this is how to turn this information into meaningful exercises so one can embody the stuff and be fluent with it in a creative and emotional manner. My personal problem sometimes is that I can't detach from the "intellectual" size of understanding stuff while sometimes it's more helpful just to "feel what it is" without trying to understand too mathematically.
Fuck around and find out. Test different chord progressions with different voicings... i do it in a rather chaotic manner, simply taking songs my friends put on the speaker recently, finding the bass, finding the chords, then messing around with voicings, change instruments (violin, organ, guitar from my fl studio + midi controller, even bass guitar, 808s... playing bass on my midi keyboard really exploded my left hand level as it's just soooo much fun to play bass in a tight pocket with drum loops) , add drum loops of different styles from drum and bass to blues shuffle... it's very chaotic but as long as you force yourself to regularly (during a playing session) step out of your comfort zone and try something else, you'll develop freedom behind the keys. Again, my method is very chaotic, but like you i got my head wrapping knots around trying to do it systematically, + it wasn't fun to me so i barely made progress. Good luck !
I practice new ideas intentionally, and after a while the new stuff starts showing up even when I'm not thinking about it. So, I'll go back and forth between intentional practice and free playing. I practice quartiles much more often than they appear... but then, maybe I'm just not in that mood very often? I still practice it intentionally, so it's there if I want it.
A lot of people recommend me to look at theory as a tool for categorizing the sounds=feelings in your head, so you can use it as a way to racionalise those feelings and stack more complexity. Neither English or jazz are my first language. Love from Spain!
Really? For me the real challenge has been to find a way to make a self sustaining career out of it.
Word
15 minutes to learn, 15 years to fully internalize on your instrument.
Yes indeed
1 year peice of wood with strings 5 years piece of wood with strings 10 years piece of wood with magic 15 years magic
It’s cool how over time instruments or controllers start to feel different in hands as the muscles grow or finger tips callus
It's like when pros explain how to develop circular breathing. He's the recipe. Now you go and work on it for years. Go ahead... and good luck!
Still better than 15 years to learn.
Yo I can't express how helpful the fretboard above is. Literally played guitar for 20 years but always struggled to translate music theory from piano to a fretboard
ive played some piano but i am now means good at it, even though the guitar is a 10x more complicated instrument i dont have enough experience to really visualize whats happening but seeing chord shapes on a guitar versus a keyboard makes it seem super easy and intuitive
@@slapp3r439 i would say piano is much more complicated than the guitar, specially when you compare high level playing of both
@@SomeoneThatIsHappy Guitar is much more complicated. On a piano you just memorize and press buttons rhythmically. On a guitar you have to hit every fret perfectly in sync with your picking hand, and any minute change in how you do either can drastically effect the sound produced. Not to mention the time it takes to master barre chords and so on!!
@@hey9433 piano is way more than "just memorize and press keys on the rhythm", you could say the same to any instrument guitar included. Also, the things you've mentioned are only difficult for beginner guitarrists, and like i said piano is more complicated on high level playing. If we were to talk about beginner, than yes guitar is much harder.
It's easier as a beginner for a guitarist. After a certain threshold, it's hard to be actually considered a good guitarist as there are so many ways to express the same note on the instrument, as opposed to piano, which is an amazing instrument to allow you to express yourself freely, which definitely has a much higher barrier to entry, but after a certain point, is easier to express yourself than a guitar
Never been happier to be a drummer.
Just kidding, I’m studying theory for that very reason! Kill me
It is good to learn this kinda theory even when you are a drummer...
It is right?
Is it?
Idk you do you lmfao
@@Gameboy-2007-yt it's nice that he likes it, maybe he will become one of those multi instrumentalist gods who can play literally fucking anything
@@darksecret965 lmao
Wow. I never thought jazz could be even more complicated. This is like the orange juice ocncedntrate of jazz tutorials. Yeah, it's 15 minutes, but I'm going to have to review it over about 15 months. But, I have to confess that this is the best explanation of jazz and music theory I've seen. It's profoundly concise and super clear. my absorption rate is just really slow (because I'm dense). Thanks for this resource. I guarantee it will advance my musical knowledge and ability enormously. My instrument is guitar, BTW.
This video should be required viewing for any music student in every music school. I've been a musician for decades but have recently taken my mostly self-taught music knowledge a step up, through online lessons. Years of absorbing music theory have been ironed-out in this amazing 15 minute video. (with all the rewinding, much longer than 15 minutes for me). Thank you so much.
This is fantastic. Never seen someone explain so much so succinctly.
I did a bout of schooling but only some jazz. I knew a lot of this but even after years of additional RUclips I hadn't heard of parent scales.
It's already taken a bunch of pausing and parsing and it's going to take even more time to revisit and digest. Thanks for a great resource!
"parent scale" is not universal terminology.
10:20 "you can make a pentatonic scale out of any set fo 5 notes" Hmmmm I like this one: c,c#,d,d#,e
It will surely sound good in your melodies.
NO no no no no you don't get it!
B#,C,Dbb, F#,Gb
You: I can cover it in 15 minutes
Me: (6 years later) I've almost got it.
Still a great video.
Jazz is so complicated, that’s why I love it
I've been learning music for 20 years and knew everything until 9 minutes in
This is awesome man. As a totally self taught musician, this is a great resource, as well as a reminder of how much knowledge I've acquired over the years. I don't think there was anything presented here that I wasn't already pretty familiar with. Just reinforces the idea that I need to continue taking that info and drilling it deeper and deeper into my subconscious
Good stuff! I want my music school tuition back. 😁
Wow, this is amazing. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this channel earlier! Thank you!
If i watch this video every day for 9 years I should know everything that you said.
Thank you many times over. The quick overview reveals insight that slowly gained details fail to reveal, may even hide. Certainly true in this description. Excellent. Should be the intro for all beginning jazz students as well as a reminder from time to time along the way as big picture reminds end game goals.
you should name it "some information about music with a lot left out"
Thanks for this! … It was around 10:28 when I first hit some unfamiliar stuff … will definitely need to revisit a lot after that point, in front of my piano.
Very amazing video, Eric! Love your depth of knowledge in multiple areas. Cheers!
Thanks!
I thought I knew quite a lot before watching this video, but I still learned a thing or two from it but the main thing for me was that now everything is so much more structured in my head. This is a very very good summary, I'm happy that I clicked on this video! Thank you
This is such a good summary thanks!! I’m a self taught jazz musician. Over 40 years I discovered all those patterns - but didn’t know how to articulate them. I considered going to Jazz school as an old dude - but thanks to your video I don’t have to.
Brilliant summary.
Awesome stuff, Eric! Best to you from Miami
You just helped me fully realize what I’ve been working on for years. I always start on Eb play in Bb
Brilliant, Mate. Like you, all the buzz of jazz school was playing with other great musiciains, but your description of the theory is almost all of the important theory. Cheers! Love it :)
This cleared up some stuff from learning music theory and jazz randomly through watching vids. Good vid!
thank you for this i have been waiting for an explainer vid like this for a long time
Just discovered your channel today, always wanted to study Jazz - guitar and e-bass - but two things got in my way, lack of time, and my fear of Jazz theory, which seems like a mountain to climb for me.
Hopefully, your videos will unlock things for me enough so that I'll be able to begin to grasp the fundamentals enough so that I can start playing basic Jazz music in about a year.
* subscribed *
This video rocks. Thank you. Great visuals!
This is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) music theory summary video I've ever sign. Kudos to Eric! 🎉
The part about the harmonic series and the Lydian F# helps a tiny little bit with the impenetrable thicket of George Russel's Lydian Chromatic concept of tonal organization.
Awesome video! 🙌🏾 learned a lot.
4 years of my life compacted into 15 minutes. Great job!
Amazing video and thanks for sharing. I would argue most of the theory, while wonderfully explained here, is not particulary "jazz" but common theory to all western contemporary music.
learning so much from you!
What a great quick reference guide!
Thank you for this glorious lesson, Dr Beastman.
Gosh. All that space in between notes on a piano for the harmonic series sounds magical. Guitar (my instrument) feels so limited. This video is great. Thanks!
Have you checked out spread triads?
i learned so much from this Video, thank you. It really helped getting my studying structured. I will watch it many times, until i get every last bit...
👌I wish my Professor in geophysics was as so clear and effortless in explaining difficult material as you've done here! Job beautifully done, me thinks.
even tho i've been sporadically adding most of this by being an obsessive music theory youtube watcher, you managed to surprise me with a few things like the four-note scales which i'd never noticed or thought to try. thanks for making this cheat sheet!
I'm so glad I stole the pdf rather than paying to practice. You saved me me the academic journey but spared the most important part.....playing with all those other high level musicians.❤❤❤❤
Alright ...now do 22 shruti and Sagittal Notation lol s
Even after all these years studying jazz in a university seems somehow odd. So many terms.
Love it! Thank you
Nice work!
The hard thing in jazz is hearing a jazz track and following the changes by ear so that you can improvise something into it that sounds good. (I don't mean "smooth jazz" that is basically just R&B pop with the vocal replaced by an instrument where the only key change is toward the end of the tune, up by a full step. I mean actual jazz.) The second hard thing is that even if you are given a sheet with the chord progression, is knowing (instantly knowing) what to play.
Great video, but I'm confused about the Δ symbol. All the jazz people I've spoken to say that it denotes a major7 not a major chord. I've seen it used both ways (with Δ7 used to denote a major7 chord). I was wondering which is the "correct" way and also why so many people do it differently.
Ive never seen it on its own without a 7, because major chords dont require any symbol afaik
@@ChronicalV That's what I've heard, but I see it used in both ways and in this video it's listed as a symbol for a major chord.
Yeah I’ve heard people say the triangle means maj7 too, though it’s strange that it’s almost always accompanied by a 7 which would be redundant. It might be kind of like the half diminished sign which is also almost always accompanied by a 7, despite being redundant. Though it would still have the 7 without explicitly writing “7”, because otherwise it would just be diminished.
If you add a 7 to a major triad, the 7 can either be major or minor. If you add the major 7, you get a major 7th chord (∆). If you add a minor 7 to a major triad, that's a "dominant" chord.
C -> C major triad; C E G
C∆7 -> C major 7; C E G B
C7 -> C dominant; C E G Bb
@@steamer2k319 Right but we're questioning whether C∆ without the 7 is just CEG or CEGB
Excellent!
Incredibly helpful lesson! Thanks! Subbed!
Bowman! What’s up dude? Didn’t know you had an educational RUclips channel. Great stuff, man! Your editing chops are fantastic. Hope you’re doing well!
Hey Matt! Good to hear from you! A very late congrats on your professor gig! We should hang when I'm back in town.
@@EricBowman Yes, definitely!
Nice video man!
good video, I started at a university but dropped out after 2 quarters because of too many non music classes & went instead to G.I.T. for their 1 year program (back in 86-87) & it pretty much covered all that stuff plus a lot of other things that really helped me (along with getting to study with some great guitarists). So I'm really glad I made the decision I did instead of just sticking it out for a degree.
Git?
@@MissionSilo Guitar Institute of Technology or currently usually called Musicians Institute (in the 80s it had a bunch of great guitarists like Paul Gilbert, Frank Gambale & Jennifer Batten who all started as students then became instructors)
Utterly brilliant. You're a lifesaver.
You may call me Dr Jones.
Thank you, I will be studying this video in the near future
Never understand that parent scale or chord-scale system taught in Jazz… what’s the point of saying that the parent scale for CMAJOR chord is C Ionian scale? If I’m in the key of G than I think that I m gonna use F# instead of F over a CMAJOR. If I m in the key of F I have a Bb over a CMAJOR chord. If we gonna talk in terms of modes than it’s C LYDIAN in the key of G and C MIXOLYDIAN in the key of F.
Does this system of chords- scale ( or parent scales ) only applies when we have NO TONAL CENTER ( aka no defined KEY we play in ) ?
What’s the point in saying “ use c Ionian scale over a C MAJOR CHORD”. Doesn’t it depends on the key we are playing in? Can anyone help me understand that ? Thank u , great video btw❤
That’s actually a good point. I’ve heard some of the older generation like Barry Harris say something to that effect. Like if you’re playing the iii chord, you’re playing phrygian, not dorian, for example.
I think both approaches work and it depends on the style. I think the key-driven approach is more applicable to straight ahead. In a more modern approach, when you’re playing more extensions on major and minor chords, the parent scale approach is more applicable. That’s just my opinion though.
Modes enable you to talk about things with less superfluous, key specific information. Consider the sentence "normally we play locrian over the vii chord, but you could also play locrian#2". This is more simple and direct than saying, "if we are in a key like B flat major, we normally play the B flat major scale over A diminished, but you could also play C melodic minor", which contains extra information specific to the key, potentially requiring more mental overhead. If you are already playing something in B flat major, however, then the second sentence might feel more simple and direct.
No, this is you demonstrating the results of your music PhD in 15 minutes. I wouldn't even comprehend more than 1/5th of this video without music education and experience. 😅
Love it!!!
Great video, Eric! I've been playing both classical and jazz piano for a LONG time, but had never really thought about WHY each mode was given the particular Greek name it was given. For example, why is the mode on the second degree of the major scale called Dorian and not, say, Phrygian or Mixolydian, etc.
Very helpful video :3
my brain quit working at the 5 minute mark
I'm gonna have to read articles on everything mentioned up to this point and come back in a month or two
thanks man
I had been exposed to a lot of these ideas but seeing it all in one place made something click that was awesome. You should consider making a video elaborating on your last point of theory being imperfect yet useful. I feel like genres outside of jazz, what makes a song musically interesting is often about melody, production and rhythm more than chords and scales. What’s the music theory behind these genres, and how does it contrast with and work together with jazz theory?
I think that rhythm and melody are more important than chords and scales in jazz too. But they're less confusing than jazz harmony so I didn't talk as much about them. The rhythm and melody is best learned by imitating your favorite musicians/composers. A lot of music school involved transcribing and learning to play our favorite solos.
A lot of non-jazz genres use jazz harmony too. I hear "jazz" chords all over hip hop and even in top 40 hits. There's definitely more emphasis on timbre in modern music though with all the modern production techniques available. At the end of the day, music is music and a lot of what you learn in one genre is transferable to other genres. Maybe I'll make a video about applying some of this to other genres like you suggested.
Excellent summary! Think the part about rythm should be longer! Thats the most important!
I need to watch this again. And again. And again ^1000
This is great, Eric!
A question for you - is what we're seeing on screen (grand staff, guitar chart, note names, etc.) while you're playing the product of some software? If so, it seems very cool - would you share what you're using? If it's not software and that's all done in post...whew, good work!
Thanks! It’s an app called chordie
Way beyond this beginner but I can tell it would be really helpful for someone.
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At 9:00, you’ve entered sophomore year theory. At 12:30, that’s more specifically jazz theory, but I’m not sure if it’s solely doctoral level knowledge.
At 15:30, you introduce rhythm, which is underemphasized in theory.
yes sir!
Remind me of the great book "lydian concept' by George Russell.
Nice video, tank you.
Hey Eric, you are a standalone at the top of music education on RUclips.
Could you please tell me what that software is you’re using to name the chords?
Thanks so much for your knowledge!
Thanks! The app is called Chordie
you fixed it
Need more on that hextonic scales built off triads brother that was gas 🤯
I recommend experimenting to find your favorite pairs of triads. I also like C and Gb (tritone away) which sounds great on C7.
What program are you using that shows the keyboard staff and guitar fretboard? Very cool video thanks.
My father called jazz musicians "Masters of Music without a title". This is proof.
That 2:3 is also called “kpla-ka-tu-ka” and it’s a fun thing to sing with two people. The complimentary rhythm is “tu-ka-kpla-ka” (|: *one* *ee* and *uh* two *ee* :|) and you can hear these a lot in 6/8 time signatures (which were omitted entirely from this video, interestingly).
Hey Eric, I didn’t know you did Jazz. I was give a request about the next sound design video. I really want to recreate a synth in “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash, specifically the one in the breakdown with staccato, vibrato & glides. If not though, MAYBE someday I’ll figure it out. Love your videos though man, I recently picked up Jazz a few months ago and it’s really done alot for me. I used to stick to just blues/R&B but I’m using way more semitones now which is awesome, it’s definitely expanded my ability. I’m still working on chords though, there’s this one specific progression I really want to figure out and add on. I’ll get it eventually
The guitar diagram system is sick
I’m just 10 seconds into the video, no idea what the rest is about, but I’ll say one thing - I would 100% spend 10-15 years studying there to play and have a photo with John Williams.
What program are you using to display your chords on the keys, fretboard and with notation? It's great. Thanks for the knowledge!
I feel like you should have included how the harmonic series is a dominant 7th arpeggio in its 3rd octave and lydian then chromatic in its 4th octave and microtonal above that
Thanks for the video! What are you using to get the handy guitar visualiser next to the piano?
I realized now after watching this video I know a lot more theory than I thought I just gotta apply it. I’m a percussionist but I want to play more keys and pick a wind instrument to start learning so I can really learn the language rhythmically and harmonically.
(If anyone has any good instrument recommendations that don’t break the bank let me know I’m mostly interested in tenor sax or trumpet, I’ve played trombone in the past but I didn’t enjoy it😅)
I understood most of this, with no university, except drop voicings for guitar sound terrible on their own to me and I dont play actual jazz so I dont have a need to know them really. The chord substitution thing was neat but a bit confusing. And I guess delving into Messiaen modes isnt standard in jazz nor is serialism. I'd also say Harmonic minor/Phrygian Dominant is a very popular scale although its just an altered note, an altered scale thats not THE altered scale, which is if you play the #7 of Harmonic minor as the root which in my head is Locrian but the root is a halfstep sharp. Lydian Dom (add the mixolydian note to it) is also quite popular. Thanks for this video though, pretty good stuff. I play metal and shred but lately listen to Allan Holdsworth every single day for the past 2 years, all night when I sleep, and often while i'm riding bikes.
Thank u I luv u
I have a question about chord notation we often discuss about in enhanced music class in school. When the circle signals a diminished chord, what is the "Jazz notation" for a fully diminished chord? Would be it be notated with a sixth?
Circle with 7 after it = four note diminished seventh chord (1 b3 b5 bb7 - which = 6)
@@exchippie Thank you!
- How do you know there’s a jazz musician in the room?
- He will tell everyone
😂😂😂😂😂
Epic
What's the software you use for the display? It's super helpful seeing both piano and guitar alongside the chords and scales
this is a traumatic slay 🌟
I learned nothing from this and that makes me feel very smart😂good vid
Hands down, best music theory video online. Amazed by how you showed concepts I took for granted to be derived from the harmonic series etc and went into the mechanics of why things work, answering questions I've had for years 😂
Hell this is as close to a theory of everything for music as I've ever seen, and in 15 MINUTES?!
Can't thank you enough for making this. Truly. I'll be coming back to this video for years to come, as I'm sure will many others! 🎉
Great video but one of my pet peeves is the misunderstanding of the Maj7 chord symbol. The “Maj” describes the 7, NOT the triad. You said it yourself, if a chord symbol is just the note name, it’s assumed to be a major triad. So why specify that in the case of the major 7th? It makes way more sense that in the same way that as a chord, a 7th is minor by default, the way a a triad is major by default. This is clear to see in a CminMaj7 for example.
What software are you using with your keyboard? I specially like the guitar fretboard being shown. Please fill me in.
Theres no way this is doctorate level education
Yes, it's just basics
Here in Brazil the Harmonic Minor is as relevant as the Melodic Minor, if not more relevant/used often in Brazilian Music. Interesting that you mentioned it’s not used often, here it’s used a LOT over dominant chords while playing changes. Is this a local thing? I thought the whole world used normally all the three minor scales in improvisation, as well as the simmetric scales, dim dom / dom dim etc.
Interesting! I do hear people playing harmonic minor in American Jazz too, but not nearly as much as the other types of minor. Like you mentioned, you'll hear it mostly just on a V chord in a minor key, especially when the chord changes are going by quickly.
So if a tune is in c minor, you might hear c harmonic minor over a G7b9 chord. However, the note, c, is very dissonant against that chord. Not as noticeable in context, especially when the key is c.
8:02 … Bitonal ‘slash’ Chords are written with a horizontal line, not a diagonal line, tho’, right?
Maybe! That might just be to have room for chord symbols on the bottom. I’ve seen slash chords with just a bass note horizontal too.
This is an awesome "one pager". I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a doctorate, since there's nothing here I didn't learn in my undergrad jazz performance degree. Either that, or most jazz programs are grossly simplified. Should I not bother getting an MMus and DMA eventually?
It could be just my experience, but I did an MMA & DMA at a prestigious university and the only new information I learned was a few new piano voicings. It's not really an opportunity to learn more information, but an opportunity to discover ways of making better music with the information you've already learned. Like I said in the video, most of the benefit came from playing with great musicians, and you don't necessarily have to go to school for that.