This is the most understandable treatment of what makes jazz 'jazzy' I have ever seen. None of my guitar teachers (30 years worth) have even come close to what I have learned in this one short video!
I'm a jazz drummer who is learning jazz piano. I had a total breakthrough watching this. The idea of a 2-5-1 progression made sense, but the idea of using it to land on a chord that *isn't the tonic chord* blew my mind. thanks a ton
This is the video I've been looking for ever since I started learning how to play jazzier music. I've always wanted to learn how to reharmonise existing songs, but I felt so limited. This is the fastest and first time I've liked, subscribed, AND commented on a channel after listening to half the video. Time to continue this well-crafted video!
Best damn jazz theory and practical explanation on YT. Been looking for this for decades. You've ended my misery!! And apparently thousands of others! Subscribed.
It kills me that RUclips algorithms only NOW suggest your video after everything I've been watching for years! (Guthrie Trapp, Tom Bukovac, Jack Ruch, Rick Beato, Chris Parks, etc.). I have a lot of homework to catch up on!! Can't thank you enough!! Liked. Subscribed. Thankful!! 🙏
brilliant exposition. I may be in a minority here but I am most in favour of level 2 - it references jazz feel without losing the simplicity faithful to the original song.
i'm playing guitar around 25 years, and i don't have specific teacher..i'm just playing rock song, metal song, simple blues song..and i always want to play jazz (or sound just little like jazz..) now i can understand a bit how chord moving from C major7 to C7 etc.. best tutorial sir.. my request sir, can you make again tutorial video for next song.. a simple song may be happy birthday, jingle bell..and any simple song key minor too.. and next level tutorial metallica, nirvana, beatles etc.. level 1 2 3 4.. thank you
I'm really new to this kind of idea. I'm a beginner folk songwriter. This gets me out of the cowboy chords I'm playing. Thank you for blowing my mind wide open!
Felt like finally found a comprehensive entry door into the mysteries of jazz arrangements. It took so long to finally find someone who could demistify it like you did. The different tiers of complexity is an excellent way to improve bit by bit. Jats off and a big thank you!
Bro I’ve been looking at some of your videos, and now looking at jazz videos for about a year now… this, like other people have been saying, is so crucial to my understand of fairly basic jazz harmony, to make things spicy and interesting. Finally a video which actually shows me how to use 2-5-1s and back door dominants and tritone substitutions which actually add to the complexity of the piece! Love it bro thanks so much 🎉
This was brilliant. You picked a nice simple example that nearly everyone can relate. I like how you gradually took it to the complex version. I was playing along in piano and it's given me some great concepts to incorporate into other songs I play. I look forward to doing the same on guitar as well. Thanks again!
This video is absolutely packed with so many helpful tips to make things jazzy. I've been trying to unlock the secrets of jazz and this video was incredibly amazing.
OK, I got it now, I was trying to understand in Level 2 how the ii and V (Gmin7 and C7) related to Cmaj7 as they weren't ii and V, until I realized that the ii and V, are the ii and V for the Fmaj7 Chord coming AFTER them. NOW I get it. Same with the Dmin7 and G7 for the Cmaj7 that comes AFTER those two chords. Now I can wait to try this out on a bunch of simple songs and then move on to level 3
Hi Brent. This lesson was great. I've seen many other youtubers doing videos on the same topic but found their explanations confusing. This was well paced and easy to follow. Excited to apply these reharms to more tunes. Thanks.
This is a terrific treatise on reharmonization. Thank you. Your use of the word "redundant" is, how can we put this: a but redundant. For people who don't quite grasp what it means in musical terms, you could reharmonize your thoughts by subbing words like "static", "repetitive," "limiting", or even plain old "boring". Very nice playing, btw.
This is a great lesson from simple chord to all possible steps to turn any song jazzy in under 30 min. Knowing this pattern can enhance improvisation easily
just added the ladybird turnaround to the ending of one of my songs. this is so smooth. I am not a jazz musician, but the concept of tritone substitutions is great. this video is great for anybody wanting to get closer to the jazz feeling. thank you for this great video.
Bro, you are a special teacher. Not everyone can example Jazz the way you do- seriously easy to grasp. Although when I get my pen and sheets ready, my mind goes... uh what again? haha. But all my 251 practice will pay off now, thanks!! new sub!
From a practical point of view, this is the best video about this topic I've seen so far. I've seen videos going deeper into the topic, even weirder jazz practices, but I could hardly applied those tips, explanations.
It’s interesting how I’ve used these techniques sometimes while playing the guitar but never knew it. Now I can be intentional about when and how I use it!
Great lesson. Charlie Parker did this with Blues and swing tunes like Indiana. But this really helps to break it down and see how he did it. I'm going to have some fun with this.
Love the setup of this video. Been playing piano and jazz standards for a while though moving beyond the 2-5-1 paradigm in very understandable terms is really adding massive value, so 🎉thx for that, and off course will follow the channel
Take a shot every time he says "redundant" lol. Jokes aside, this was awesome! It always surprises me how things that seem like they wouldn't work somehow sound great.
Loved the video, very interesting! I understood it until Midway through level 4 and then it got too much ha. You make those tricky chord shapes look easy.
Very nice, very very nice! I have been using Chuck Marhonic's book "How to Create Jazz Chord Progressions." It's a great book, but the way you explained & demo'd it in real time is super helpful.
Thanks for the lesson. I learned these ideas years ago from the Mickey Baker Jazz Guitar book & I use them all the time, especially with Elvis Costello tunes which almost beg for Jazz harmony when played on Acoustic. I've pretty much forgotten the actual theory behind it, so I just rely on my ear. Sometimes a 7th sounds too rich and I'll play a 6th or substitute a different triad out of the chord scale. You can get some pretty remarkable reharmonizations that way for Bob Dylan tunes or Joni Mitchel. Appreciate the clear exposition.
hahaha lord help anyone that doesn't fully understand these concepts already! But for me who knows all this, but just needed a refresher (been teaching a lot of beginners until recently) this video is so dense and chalk-full of concepts that are great to introduce to intermediate students!
Brent, that is a brilliant lesson! You've successfully condensed pretty much all of jazz theory into 17 minutes! Many thanks - I will certainly watch this a few more times!
Congratulations. This is the first time anything jazz related has ever made any sense to me 😁. It's funny, at first I was happy with the basic tune, but now hanging on that C chord for days does seem a really dull way to spend your time. It's like suddenly I at least understand a little bit about why jazzers do what they do.
I have asked teachers to do a lesson like this, walking through the process. They would say "no." I suppose they could not do it and just cribbed things from some other source. This is great! Maybe another lesson with even more detail about the thought process would be helpful, too. Thank you in any event.
OMG - I’ve just done the unthinkable……… I’ve just reharmonised ‘Streets of London’……. and it doesn’t sound that bad at all! Only just pushing into ‘level 2’ - but it was almost on-the-fly! Great lesson - now I can jazz some songs up instead of having to find someone to sing the damned things with me - this girl don’t sing; I know my limits - or thought I did!
I learnt so much. Thank you a thousand time. I watched a lot of reharmonization videos and this one is by far the best. thank you so much !! Cheers from France !
This is the most understandable treatment of what makes jazz 'jazzy' I have ever seen. None of my guitar teachers (30 years worth) have even come close to what I have learned in this one short video!
Thanks a lot!
sounds like you just need focus more on theory.
Exactly
I'm a jazz drummer who is learning jazz piano. I had a total breakthrough watching this. The idea of a 2-5-1 progression made sense, but the idea of using it to land on a chord that *isn't the tonic chord* blew my mind. thanks a ton
Glad to hear this!
I felt the same😂
Same! Oh my goodness I feel like my brain has expanded twice the size after this video
Me too!!!! Loved it!
This is the video I've been looking for ever since I started learning how to play jazzier music. I've always wanted to learn how to reharmonise existing songs, but I felt so limited. This is the fastest and first time I've liked, subscribed, AND commented on a channel after listening to half the video. Time to continue this well-crafted video!
Glad to hear you found it helpful Joz!
This was a real eye-opener for me. A brilliant lesson - thanks.
Glad you found it helpful Mike!
Best damn jazz theory and practical explanation on YT. Been looking for this for decades.
You've ended my misery!! And apparently thousands of others!
Subscribed.
Awesome, thanks!
Outstanding lesson on chord substitutions. Been on the fence about joining the Inner Circle. After this amazing instruction, I’m in. Thank you Brett!
Wonderful! Welcome, Chan!
It kills me that RUclips algorithms only NOW suggest your video after everything I've been watching for years! (Guthrie Trapp, Tom Bukovac, Jack Ruch, Rick Beato, Chris Parks, etc.). I have a lot of homework to catch up on!! Can't thank you enough!! Liked. Subscribed. Thankful!! 🙏
Thanks! Glad you like it
brilliant exposition. I may be in a minority here but I am most in favour of level 2 - it references jazz feel without losing the simplicity faithful to the original song.
Wow so nice a lesson! It’s a very good material for a Travis folksy finger style transition to this jazzy Lev 1-4 . Thank you
This has made me think more about complex chord progressions rather than the basic II-V-I, thanks for the explanation!!
Happy to help!
i'm playing guitar around 25 years, and i don't have specific teacher..i'm just playing rock song, metal song, simple blues song..and i always want to play jazz (or sound just little like jazz..) now i can understand a bit how chord moving from C major7 to C7 etc.. best tutorial sir.. my request sir, can you make again tutorial video for next song.. a simple song may be happy birthday, jingle bell..and any simple song key minor too.. and next level tutorial metallica, nirvana, beatles etc.. level 1 2 3 4.. thank you
I'm really new to this kind of idea. I'm a beginner folk songwriter. This gets me out of the cowboy chords I'm playing. Thank you for blowing my mind wide open!
Felt like finally found a comprehensive entry door into the mysteries of jazz arrangements. It took so long to finally find someone who could demistify it like you did. The different tiers of complexity is an excellent way to improve bit by bit. Jats off and a big thank you!
Thank you!
Very important lesson for me...can you make more lesson about modulation...
Thank you! Why not?
Bro I’ve been looking at some of your videos, and now looking at jazz videos for about a year now… this, like other people have been saying, is so crucial to my understand of fairly basic jazz harmony, to make things spicy and interesting. Finally a video which actually shows me how to use 2-5-1s and back door dominants and tritone substitutions which actually add to the complexity of the piece! Love it bro thanks so much 🎉
I've been studying jazz for a little while- but this clarified so many things for me omg thank you
This was brilliant. You picked a nice simple example that nearly everyone can relate. I like how you gradually took it to the complex version.
I was playing along in piano and it's given me some great concepts to incorporate into other songs I play. I look forward to doing the same on guitar as well.
Thanks again!
Glad to hear Gerry!
Thanks!
Thanks! The most informative lesson I’ve seen on RUclips! Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Thank you!
Excellent, thank you. From my current viewpoint, this is the best lesson you've ever done. It's like a Rosetta Stone of the essence of jazz.
That's a seriously useful and impressive lesson!
Glad to be of help!
This video is absolutely packed with so many helpful tips to make things jazzy. I've been trying to unlock the secrets of jazz and this video was incredibly amazing.
Wow that was just fantastic! It’s just like watching Bob Ross paint.
OK, I got it now, I was trying to understand in Level 2 how the ii and V (Gmin7 and C7) related to Cmaj7 as they weren't ii and V, until I realized that the ii and V, are the ii and V for the Fmaj7 Chord coming AFTER them. NOW I get it. Same with the Dmin7 and G7 for the Cmaj7 that comes AFTER those two chords.
Now I can wait to try this out on a bunch of simple songs and then move on to level 3
Glad to hear!
That’s it! That’s the sound everyone is trying to get. Thanks for walking us through your thought process.
Always!
Danke!
Thank you!
great step by step development. Very useful.
Hi Brent. This lesson was great. I've seen many other youtubers doing videos on the same topic but found their explanations confusing. This was well paced and easy to follow. Excited to apply these reharms to more tunes.
Thanks.
Glad to hear this!
This is a terrific treatise on reharmonization. Thank you. Your use of the word "redundant" is, how can we put this: a but redundant. For people who don't quite grasp what it means in musical terms, you could reharmonize your thoughts by subbing words like "static", "repetitive," "limiting", or even plain old "boring". Very nice playing, btw.
This is a great lesson from simple chord to all possible steps to turn any song jazzy in under 30 min.
Knowing this pattern can enhance improvisation easily
just added the ladybird turnaround to the ending of one of my songs. this is so smooth. I am not a jazz musician, but the concept of tritone substitutions is great. this video is great for anybody wanting to get closer to the jazz feeling. thank you for this great video.
Bro, you are a special teacher. Not everyone can example Jazz the way you do- seriously easy to grasp. Although when I get my pen and sheets ready, my mind goes... uh what again? haha. But all my 251 practice will pay off now, thanks!! new sub!
I appreciate that!
sharing your knowledge is Awesome
Thanks Michael! I'm happy to do it
From a practical point of view, this is the best video about this topic I've seen so far. I've seen videos going deeper into the topic, even weirder jazz practices, but I could hardly applied those tips, explanations.
.... wooooo... I learned a lot here...thanks for posting....🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
So glad to help!
This was put together so thoughtfully and so well. Thank you for all the work you put into it
Thanks!
This is exactly what I have been looking for...very well done....excellent ! Thanks so much.
Great to hear! Thanks
It’s interesting how I’ve used these techniques sometimes while playing the guitar but never knew it. Now I can be intentional about when and how I use it!
a real show of improvising on the harmony of the melody very instructive - thanx!
Great lesson. Charlie Parker did this with Blues and swing tunes like Indiana. But this really helps to break it down and see how he did it. I'm going to have some fun with this.
Glad to hear that Dean!
Thanks a million! I apply the II-V-I principle practically everywhere now!
Excellent!
This is a seriously good lesson, the pace the order are all in a very good place, thankyou so much, subscribed and saved this video!
Awesome, thank you!
17:14 not down, up.
very nice. really helps explain so many jazz standards as well.
Glad to help!
This is a very explicit way to 'impart knowledge' unreservedly. This is commendable!
Thank you!
I learned a lot of cool jazz technique, step by step. Thank you!
Damn, I'm looking for this for years! Thanks man
Love the setup of this video. Been playing piano and jazz standards for a while though moving beyond the 2-5-1 paradigm in very understandable terms is really adding massive value, so 🎉thx for that, and off course will follow the channel
Thank you!
most well put together reharm vid i've ever watched!
Thanks!
This was awesome. You packed so much into one lesson! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent, you explain what you're doing so well
Thanks Christian!
Take a shot every time he says "redundant" lol. Jokes aside, this was awesome! It always surprises me how things that seem like they wouldn't work somehow sound great.
Really appreciate this video thank you!
My pleasure!
Loved the video, very interesting! I understood it until Midway through level 4 and then it got too much ha. You make those tricky chord shapes look easy.
Super helpful and very well presented. Thank you sir
Thank you!
Very nice, very very nice! I have been using Chuck Marhonic's book "How to Create Jazz Chord Progressions." It's a great book, but the way you explained & demo'd it in real time is super helpful.
Glad you found it helpful!
I'm not a jazzer, but I find this very helpful!
Totally awesome video!! ❤
Thanks!
Excellent video lesson!! Thanks!
Glad you found it helpful!
I don't know anything about jazz but damn jazz makes everything sound nice.
Very nice. There is also turning something into jazz by swinging it. Reharming sounds hella good, tho, and can be very inspiring to a soloist.
Thanks for the lesson. I learned these ideas years ago from the Mickey Baker Jazz Guitar book & I use them all the time, especially with Elvis Costello tunes which almost beg for Jazz harmony when played on Acoustic. I've pretty much forgotten the actual theory behind it, so I just rely on my ear. Sometimes a 7th sounds too rich and I'll play a 6th or substitute a different triad out of the chord scale. You can get some pretty remarkable reharmonizations that way for Bob Dylan tunes or Joni Mitchel. Appreciate the clear exposition.
Thanks for the video. Helped to know how to actually apply chords in a methodical way.
everything is sooo well and easy to understand...but where's that F#dim7 come from? Blues harmony at 9:57
hahaha lord help anyone that doesn't fully understand these concepts already! But for me who knows all this, but just needed a refresher (been teaching a lot of beginners until recently) this video is so dense and chalk-full of concepts that are great to introduce to intermediate students!
Genuinely super good video to introduce these jazz concepts!
Honestly !! This is something we needed ! Simply amazing & sooo helpful, Great Work ✨
Glad you liked it!!
What amazing away to explain reharmonization!! 👏
Thank you! 😃
A great step up using a very simple example. Valuable video thanks
Glad you liked it
Outstanding lesson, great teaching coming from a seasoned player. Thank you. I learnt so much
Thanks!
Woooow thank you! So nice to put all that theory in "simple" practice. It really helps to integrate it.
Glad you found it helpful!
Mind blown, this is really helpful in understanding all the different elements of 'jazz' and why certain chords go together. Thank you1
Thank you. Glad it was helpful!
I literally love it, please keep creating more content like this ❤
Great introductory lesson!
Brent, that is a brilliant lesson! You've successfully condensed pretty much all of jazz theory into 17 minutes! Many thanks - I will certainly watch this a few more times!
Awesome! Thank you
16:18 Level 4. Very nice
Great video and good guitar playing. YES!
Thanks!
Brilliant . And if you wanna turn it into blues song just use dominant sevenths over 12 or 16 bars😁
Bravo! Every step is totally logical.
Glad to hear that!
This lesson was SO helpful. Thank you!
excellent! keep up the great work. Charles from new orleans LA USA
Just getting back into music but don’t feel crazy that so many jazz chords sound good in between the melody
Perfect this is what I've been looking for.. thank you for this..
Super interesting and great explanations!
Glad to hear that!
Inspiring and insightful. Thanks
Thanks!
Very good video, understandable and with a lot of good information advice!!👍
Glad you found it helpful!
Congratulations. This is the first time anything jazz related has ever made any sense to me 😁. It's funny, at first I was happy with the basic tune, but now hanging on that C chord for days does seem a really dull way to spend your time. It's like suddenly I at least understand a little bit about why jazzers do what they do.
Thanks! 😃
First time i understand reharmonistion thanks for explaining!
Happy to help!
I have asked teachers to do a lesson like this, walking through the process. They would say "no." I suppose they could not do it and just cribbed things from some other source. This is great! Maybe another lesson with even more detail about the thought process would be helpful, too. Thank you in any event.
Practicing now. Fun !
Thanks!
This is gold!
Glad you found it helpful!
Man! I wish I could’ve downloaded the sheet with the chords. Great lesson!
This is helpful. I followed you as far as the tritones but those wierder chords are ones I would never think of using.
OMG - I’ve just done the unthinkable……… I’ve just reharmonised ‘Streets of London’……. and it doesn’t sound that bad at all! Only just pushing into ‘level 2’ - but it was almost on-the-fly! Great lesson - now I can jazz some songs up instead of having to find someone to sing the damned things with me - this girl don’t sing; I know my limits - or thought I did!
Thank you, Brent, you are truly talented.
That’s very kind! Glad to help
Really nicely explained.
Thank you 🙂
Good insight into reharmonization thanks for the lesson good stuff 🎸🎶🎶🎶👌👍
Would you please do a video on what (or how) scales you would use to improvise over these chords?
This will help: ruclips.net/video/YaHZ7tecZr8/видео.html
Well done!
I learnt so much. Thank you a thousand time. I watched a lot of reharmonization videos and this one is by far the best. thank you so much !!
Cheers from France !
You're very welcome!