I had no Idea you could just play the 4th instead of the 1st as a substitute. I can see modulating between the two, which is basically “leave home and go on the journey”. Eventually though you have to complete the crescendo with a 5th, that resolves back to the tonic.
You forgot to explain why a tritone substitution sounds right. The reason is "3rd and 7th of C7" are the same as "7th and 3rd of F#7", the most important degrees of a chord.
But.. why does it work? So Bb and E stay the same and C/G is subbed for F#/C#. Is it because.. the dominant chord's function in the progression is to create tension (by the tritone interval), and if that tension is created the same way it works?
@@whong09 yeah that's the idea for the tritone sub ur dominant chord in a 2-5-1 is always on the 5 dom so whatever the root of the 5 dom is will be substituted with another root a tritone interval away like he did so you play that "dominant chord tritone away " instead of the regular 5 dom and it gives this jazzy feel
Likely because most of it was written with piano and orchestra in mind way back in the olden days. Makes you wonder if we could benefit from redefining the system for a more modern approach?
I also play guitar and have done so since my early teens in early 90's crust punk. My friend who is also REALLY good at guitar AND piano was one day playing the intro line of the Dead Kennedy's song "California Uber Alles' on a piano. Its a VERY simple and he told me that its pretty much the same thing and began to show me because I never even bothered to play anything with keys. I mean, its BEYOND an easy intro to play and ANYONE can do it regardless BUT it his explanation as to WHY I would be able to play it and other songs ROUGHLY made sense. So being a guitar player first can open the door at understanding piano better than someone else who has never played anything before and is beginning. Remember, I grew up playing Punk Rock and I still can't read music that well but I can play many things by ear today. I am no Eddie Van Halen even tho he couldn't read music either....allegedly
You show us what, why, and how to make beautiful music. After paying close attention my brain hooked on the 5th go around. I love how you develop 2-5-1 implementations. Thank you for enhancing my understanding, and Please Keep Bringing The Great Content!
Thank you so much, Elijah. Your explanation of the tritone and the tritone substitutions is very incisive. I've played that interval for years and at some point I realized that was part of that dominant 7th. I've even played it the way you did in this illustration. It's just that in this short you explain it very clearly. I've listened to many jazz records over the years. Thus when I began learning piano as an adult that sort of chord came easily in me
tysm for this lesson ! it's a tad convoluted as you're using inversions and 2 chords if I'm not mistaken but then I got to learn about existence of those as well lol :D
to simplify it's basically a passing chord f# to f ,we could also keep the c on the bass and omit out the c# out of the f# 7 which would make it f# 7 flat 5
Well and you can hear that rather than going 2-5-1 (the key piece of knowledge coming into this lesson, knowing what a 2-5-1 is) - it then becomes 2 b2 1 , you can hear in the descending bass, especially
@@thegiftedhandsmusic but that requires even the least bit of curiosity, dedication and focus. It might lead to personal growth. Who has the time for that?
Harmony is all about chords. If all you have are rhythm and melody - minus harmony, you don’t have much of a song. You basically have a drum circle and a one-line chant. Chords are for harmony.
@@kgrose0219 Just for the heck of it, and to be purely technical about it, a sound that is perceived as a “tone” could also be expressed in the very same way a beat is described. Listen to a clicking metronome but then speed it up enough and you will have yourself something your ears perceive as a tone. As far as I understand it, the same interval relationships occur at slower intervals (beat and rhythm) that they do for rapid intervals (tones and chords)
i used that unknowingly exact to your example, the notes where B D F A, Bb D E A, and A C E F, although how i ended up with them was different, ill explain under the reply section
i stacked chords after another, like going up intervals and the chords are: CEGB EGBD GBDF BDFA, EbFBb EbFBbD FBbDE BbDEA, CEA CEAC EACE ACEF. i wroted these a year ago when i wasnt as informed about theory. still one of my favriotes, i use it to fall asleep
I was sitting here, thinking "Oh I do music for quite a long time and I have never hear dof a tri tone" I forgot I'm german, I only know it as "Dreiklang" which literally translates to Tritone
I guess that is what I sound like to my son when I explain his 7th grade math to him
😂🤣
Its very Easy to understand. Try to learn the fugue 👀
Yes! LOL
@@nicolasbagnoli3564 which fugue? There’s literally hundreds of thousands of fugues since it’s a form of music not a specific piece
I had no Idea you could just play the 4th instead of the 1st as a substitute.
I can see modulating between the two, which is basically “leave home and go on the journey”.
Eventually though you have to complete the crescendo with a 5th, that resolves back to the tonic.
You forgot to explain why a tritone substitution sounds right. The reason is "3rd and 7th of C7" are the same as "7th and 3rd of F#7", the most important degrees of a chord.
Yeeessss 👍
Because most of cats are not that technical - e.g. Jamal Hartwell
thank you for explaining that
@@jeanjoelgoli685 you’re welcome
Thanks for explaining
I finally understand what a tri-sub really is despite hearing it be tossed around so much
Same!
But.. why does it work? So Bb and E stay the same and C/G is subbed for F#/C#. Is it because.. the dominant chord's function in the progression is to create tension (by the tritone interval), and if that tension is created the same way it works?
@@whong09 yeah that's the idea for the tritone sub ur dominant chord in a 2-5-1 is always on the 5 dom so whatever the root of the 5 dom is will be substituted with another root a tritone interval away like he did so you play that "dominant chord tritone away " instead of the regular 5 dom and it gives this jazzy feel
@@JohnsonkeyzMusicAcademy Going to try this 👍🏼
I play guitar, but studying music theory just makes more sense when it's displayed like piano keys.
That's why in music school, no matter what instrument you play, you are required to know the basics of piano/keyboard
Likely because most of it was written with piano and orchestra in mind way back in the olden days. Makes you wonder if we could benefit from redefining the system for a more modern approach?
It helps a lot when you learn the pentatonic scale across the whole neck. It becomes a skeleton that you can build around.
I also play guitar and have done so since my early teens in early 90's crust punk. My friend who is also REALLY good at guitar AND piano was one day playing the intro line of the Dead Kennedy's song "California Uber Alles' on a piano. Its a VERY simple and he told me that its pretty much the same thing and began to show me because I never even bothered to play anything with keys. I mean, its BEYOND an easy intro to play and ANYONE can do it regardless BUT it his explanation as to WHY I would be able to play it and other songs ROUGHLY made sense. So being a guitar player first can open the door at understanding piano better than someone else who has never played anything before and is beginning.
Remember, I grew up playing Punk Rock and I still can't read music that well but I can play many things by ear today. I am no Eddie Van Halen even tho he couldn't read music either....allegedly
You show us what, why, and how to make beautiful music. After paying close attention my brain hooked on the 5th go around. I love how you develop 2-5-1 implementations. Thank you for enhancing my understanding, and Please Keep Bringing The Great Content!
This was the easiest to understand explanation of this I've ever seen. It's impressive. Immediately able to execute. Thank you!
Thank you for not making this a 15 minute video
Thank you so much, Elijah. Your explanation of the tritone and the tritone substitutions is very incisive. I've played that interval for years and at some point I realized that was part of that dominant 7th. I've even played it the way you did in this illustration. It's just that in this short you explain it very clearly. I've listened to many jazz records over the years. Thus when I began learning piano as an adult that sort of chord came easily in me
Wish I could understand this as easily as you explained it 😂🙌🏻
This is great, i took theory in college and have forgotten about a lot of it. Subbed!
Yes very good and informative presentation
That’s fire actually and sounds good too
I can play these….just can’t explain it to someone! Nice clip.
Teaching is a gods given gift - not everyone can do that
Not sure if every musician NEEDS to know this but im certainly happy to do now, thanks to you
My man’s is for the people fr 💯👀🔥
Thank you for making the explanation simple and straightforward. I like to think of a tritone as a root note, and its flatted 5th.
Now what you just said makes sense to me!
This... thinking three whole steps is a whole different beast for me 😂
I enjoyed your demonstration here, and your keyboards set up looks fab! Extra points for the Rhodes piano.
Thank you for explaining this so clearly! I finally got it :-)
Great vid, clear and concise. Thanks a lot!
Damn you covered it so quickly and clearly! 🙏🙌
Man i love seeing his face! He looking good af!
Thanks for thst explanation! Im going to work...on the keys Sir!!
First time this ever kinda made sense. Thanks
Word. I learned something from u. Thanks dude
Great explanation
Have heard about TRI tone for years. This is the first time am understanding it. 😂. Thank you bro
Well, these aren't just tritones, they're tritone SUBSTITUTIONS 🤌
What a great explanation man. Good work 🙌🏿🙌🏿
Thank you. This was very helpful!
Thanks for the knowledge sir 💯🎹
Concise, and helpful 🙌
That shit cold 🥶 🎹
Bro please do a video on creative ways to reharmonize songs and passing chords< and how to come up with them…
This right here is gold ✅🔥✊🏿 couldn’t make it any simpler
THAT GENIUS exactly what I needed
The music great choice
Thanks man this was super helpful
👍 keep it up!
just find out your channel! love it!
tysm for this lesson ! it's a tad convoluted as you're using inversions and 2 chords if I'm not mistaken but then I got to learn about existence of those as well lol :D
More slowly please: which notes do you play instead of which notes?
On god this guy is a horrible teacher. He doesn't explain anything he just does a demo and pretends to teach something
A great explanation ☺️. Thank you
Wow that’s so simplified!🤔😊
I’m not a musician but I got the whole thing. Wow! Great stuff
Explained this perfect. I got my aha moment.
this is so good!
Perfect 👌
thank you for the explanation awesome channel
Bro! This info is amazing! 🔥 genius !!!
Well explained, thank u
Awesome! Now I learned a new trick
Did a whole year lesson in a short. Bravo
nicely done
Well done...finally i understand
Yeah sir so clear
to simplify it's basically a passing chord f# to f ,we could also keep the c on the bass and omit out the c# out of the f# 7 which would make it f# 7 flat 5
That was not simple.
@@ruairilogan153 f# to f and f # replace the 5 chord 🙏🏿
@@singerreid4624 right…
Well and you can hear that rather than going 2-5-1 (the key piece of knowledge coming into this lesson, knowing what a 2-5-1 is) - it then becomes 2 b2 1 , you can hear in the descending bass, especially
So basically you invert the tritone one way and use the new lowest note as the tonal center to further add to the chord?
Exactly!
Not bad at all ...good one brother
Ok , Well done, but the next time play It with the Fender Rhodes please.
haha, the rhodes doesn't have midi to display the on screen info 👎
CLAAAARITY !!!Thank you 😄
Great stuff, dude. You and Rick Beato speak the same language lol.
You perhaps meant G flat (Gb)
Of course that's more work, it's easier to notate F#_A#_C#_E, rather than Gb_Bb_Db_Fb
But what about those ads that keep popping up for MIDI Chord Packs?!?!they say I don’t need to know anything about chords!
😂 The real producers out here know about chords & progressions
@@thegiftedhandsmusic but that requires even the least bit of curiosity, dedication and focus. It might lead to personal growth. Who has the time for that?
Harmony is all about chords.
If all you have are rhythm and melody - minus harmony, you don’t have much of a song.
You basically have a drum circle and a one-line chant.
Chords are for harmony.
@@kgrose0219 Just for the heck of it, and to be purely technical about it, a sound that is perceived as a “tone” could also be expressed in the very same way a beat is described. Listen to a clicking metronome but then speed it up enough and you will have yourself something your ears perceive as a tone.
As far as I understand it, the same interval relationships occur at slower intervals (beat and rhythm) that they do for rapid intervals (tones and chords)
The chord progression sounds similiar to the progression on Maroon 5's "Sunday Morning"
"Every musician needs to know"
Drummers 👀
Nice
Please break it down more....this little clip has helped me.alot
Me: continues to helplessly play CGAmF
They really should be called fully diminished substitutions. Leaves out half the picture and potential
Hey man am learning how to play and I just need a piano but I don't have money to get one😔
i used that unknowingly exact to your example, the notes where B D F A, Bb D E A, and A C E F, although how i ended up with them was different, ill explain under the reply section
i stacked chords after another, like going up intervals and the chords are: CEGB EGBD GBDF BDFA, EbFBb EbFBbD FBbDE BbDEA, CEA CEAC EACE ACEF. i wroted these a year ago when i wasnt as informed about theory. still one of my favriotes, i use it to fall asleep
Amen
He has the vocal intonation of Drake
I forgot about this one.. I'm going to use it again
In a tutorial, perhaps u’d consider showing the keyboard from above
I was sitting here, thinking "Oh I do music for quite a long time and I have never hear dof a tri tone"
I forgot I'm german, I only know it as "Dreiklang" which literally translates to Tritone
Good job, however,try to show us the indepth application of it on songs
He literally play the chords from Maroon 5's Sunday morning the 2-5-1 progression using tri-tone
Oh wow thanks man
A tritone is a partial diminished chord…. Basically
Holy cow is that a Rhodes 73 in the back there? The suitcase model? While on a thirst trip I gave mines away for 60 bucks. That was a maroon move..
That's so sweet
Do you have a video where you take it a level back so we can understand this video better?
basically if you have a V chord going to the I you can use bII instead of the V
in the key of C that means G7 can be replaced by Db7
WOW
Fun fact that's the ending of super Mario bros as well 🙂
Going to listen right now 🏃🏾♂️💨
I guess i need more examples and understanding about tritones
Watching this video sitting at my drum set 😐🧐🤷🏻♂️
This was all retroencabulator to me
Just understood! Finally. Do tritone subs because of how the tritone is the same both ways?
Is that the sound from Sunday Morning by Maroon 5?
Pls what's the name of your piano
I'm just enjoying the chords. I'm too slow to follow along
Teacher : Did you understand what i said?
Me : 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
I dont know what. im doing here when im looking for substitution in math
I don’t always enjoy listening to languages I don’t understand
BUT when I do
It’s 🎶 music
😳🤣
I’ll get there🔥
Dude the keyboard on top of the screen gets cut out because of the iphone pro notch :) Thanks for the videos ✌🏻
It doesn't on my galaxy android.
Let’s talk about what kind of board that is????? Looks cool AH
I think I finally got it.
Great but what’s an interval?
Roxanne, Roxanne, all she wanna do is party all night
Could you explain what a dominant interval is
What do you mean by a dominant interval?
What kind of piano it on the other side?