Quick fun MinMaj7 factoid I forgot to include- If you take an Augmented triad, you can pick any note and add in the tone a half step above it. This will give you a minMaj7 chord in some inversion or another. There is an Aug triad in every mM7 so you may get the Aug feel out of it, depending on the context
1dir I love this chord progression. It’s major actually. But your borrowing the minor 4 from the parallel minor. That minor 4 to the major 1 is called a minor plagal cadence
1dir Are you thinking of Radiohead's 'Creep'? That's I - III - IV - iv. I don't think it's in any particular mode - it seems to modulate, if that's the right term.
Your intros are great! Jarvis Johnson has a similar trait, if you wanna know what the limit of “too much” is like. Remember, we’re you’re audience :) each one of us are here cause we like you and your content. Don’t hold back on us bro! Unless it’s for Patrons only of course ;) (Omg please don’t make funny intros patron only that would be selling out.)
LT1FirebirdSLP dude the thumbnail made me pick up my guitar lol. Cause I wanted to hear the chord before I watched the video, so I knew what to expect.
7:11 That's a good general explanation of why music theory is so important; especially if you're interested in creating music yourself. It's about chunking information and labeling stuff so that learning the whole language of music becomes easier and so you don't have to rely on just trial and error alone. Also: just being able to very quickly communicate musical ideas with others is such a blessing!
If i remember correctly, the end piano arpeggio of Dream Theater's "In the name of god" is a minor major 7, just before the linking note between train of thought and octavarium.
Cool! Dream Theater is the first thing that I thought of when Jake was going between the major root and the mM7 4th. My brain pulled some of DT's songs from its index and immediately identified the familiar-sounding progression. It's almost like inhaling a scent that you haven't smelled since childhood and reliving it again, except now I am able to identify the "chemistry" that makes up that scent. Thanks, Jake, for adding knowledge so that I don't just have to wait for that "scent" to appear. Now I can recreate it myself. You're awesome!
Kookycloud Actually Octavarium starts with the same F piano note on The Root of all Evil that In the Name of God ends with, so Train of Thought does link to Octavarium.
vibraphone players use this chord/arpeggio wih tremolo effect very muchly, But i didn't know the name , so thanks. It is the musical equivalent of a question mark
The I Maj to IV min-maj progression you showed is used all the time in R&B music like R Kelly. Another similar progression is the I maj to ii half-diminished chord which exists in the same mixolydian #6 scale.
One of the best channels out there in youtube not only for guitarist buy for everyone who loves and intersted in music. Really love your content and you deserved the amount of subs you got and it will grow further than that. Relly happy I found your channel.
ELO Strange Magic I just watch your video on mixolydian Flat 6 and wrote a song with it now I'm going to implement the minor major 7. You never cease to amaze me absolutely adore your videos and soon will become a patron
Im happy to see this chord showing up. A few month ago I had a great idea: create an excel with all kind of chords, literally all kind of chords and I made a description cell next to the chords's name to express the feeling in words what i had felt when I played it. That was the moment when I found the Xm maj7 chord. Its awesom!
Just came back to this after a few months; I loved this lesson so much, I wrote a whole song (vocals and guitar) using the Mixolydian b6 scale in E, and the main intro and verse, I've used that I to ivM7 change. It's one of my favourite things I've ever written, so thank you so much for giving me the tools to write it!
I usually don't feel compelled to really comment on anything but man, just wanted to thank you for so many compelling and well-explained videos, you're making me love and understand music on such a higher level. Thanks a whole lot dude you have no idea how much you're helping and making it fun and fascinating in the process
I believe that whole I - IVmM7 is what composer John Williams used for Leia's Theme (part of the star wars soundtrack) and it's just so beautiful and relaxing to listen to. :)
That E - Ammaj7 progression is so emotionally complex. It's kinda youthful, innocent, and sweet, but with a bit of mournful sadness...and also romantic. It's almost like young love with a sadness to it...like a 17 yr old girl discovering her betrothed won't be coming home from the battlefields of Normandy.
The "spooky" factor is actually a really late use of the "minor Major 7th" chord. It has been used for centuries as a retardation (i.e. a delayed resolution) rather than a "chord." Bach's St. Matthew Passion has a ton of amazing uses, but one of my favorites probably has to come from Monteverdi. When they used it back in the day it was usually to convey anguish and lament rather than "spookiness" or "mystery." It's a fantastic sound. You can also use the chord as a double retardation, but that's a much less common use.
Thank you for a fun, inventive intro. I just now found you thru this video that was posted on a guitar forum to help explain the Major minor concept. So well done! Inspired teaching. Your positive attitude and clarity are a breath of fresh air. Thanks! Many in the forum described it as part of a (descending) line cliche. Many examples were given from My Funny Valentine to Stairway to Heaven to your example of Something.
The complex December's Boudoir (1968) by the extraordinary Laura Nyro finishes on a minor major with string harp after running through about 40 other chords. She was a significant influence on Steely Dan and scores of other songwriters.
You do a really good job at connecting, what I consider to be pretty in depth music theory, with examples that make students immediately understand the ‘feel’ of the given topic. This channel is binge worthy! Thanks for the content
That intro had me rolling on the floor! Really, your intros alone should've gotten you to a lot more subs. Maybe everyone is making funny intros nowadays? You've still got great videos though. I do think being a bit more regular might help. All the big channels I know post fairly regularly, usually at least once a week :)
Jake, you are the best teacher on RUclips hands down! I've been playing for 1 million years and know most of the stuff that you are presenting, but you put it so concisely and so simply that it influences the way I teach things to my own students. Thank you for managing to be so thorough and concise at the same time!
This is incredibly cool. At first, when you demostrated the chord on it's own I was like "no, that's way too dissonant for my taste" but then you put it into context and I ended up really loving the sound.
I'm in a composition class based on 20th century techniques, we barely go over harmony and this video really helped me out a lot ! Planning to make movements and one of them has a concept of a dream :)
Life in a Glass House by radiohead also uses a strong minor-major 7th chord. Also most minor jazz tunes use it as the tonic chord, either that or a minor 6th chord.
There is also the Hendrix Chord; for example, G B D F A#. A mysterious way to end a song is to end it with a Hendrix chord followed by a Hitchcock chord (min maj7). So follow GBDF A# with C Eb G B. The song Invitation by Kaper does that.
Min(Maj7) under melodic minor has a super strange effect on solos. Take a fragment of Am(M7) as ascending arpeggio = G# C E G# (7 b3 5 7). This arpeggio has several tones from the augmented scale. But continue playing after this augmented triad up the melodic minor, gives you G# A B C. These are notes found in the diminished scale. So you can play an augmented scale run that leads into the diminished scale. And because both augmented and diminished scales repeat, you can play this augmented diminished run up and down the neck and it sounds crazy. Care needs to be taken as you can't use the full augmented or diminished scales, but playing scale fragments really works over min(M7)
Love your channel,. Jake! I look forward to all your videos. I've been playing for over 25 years (self-taught), and yet still I have found nuggets of great musical ideas that I've never executed till now. You've actually helped push my guitar playing to new heights! Thank you, Mr. Lizzio!
9 chords would be awesome too or just in general how to make really pretty but unique feeling chord progressions, that’s personally what I’d love to see more of at least! Great video again!!!!
I was just watching your video "How To Write Progressions using min7, maj7, and Dominant 7th chords [Songwriting - Music Theory]" and while watching, it begged the question: What about Maj7th notes on a minor chord? I RUclips it and found this... man I'm cracking up at your intro! It was so well done.
I loved your intro. Note the reason it has that creepy sound is because it contains within it the III#5. Consider this pattern:bminor, A6,Gmaj7,F#dom7,b#7,f#7,a9 (and then more minor 9's).
Cole Johnson I was just thinking that when he mentioned the bond theme using it, just like “oh that’s the chord they used!” I think they use it in Shrinking Universe’s intro as well with the tremolo
Subscribing to this channel!!! It seems crazy how I've never understood completely how majmin chords worked on my music theory class, but now I completely understand it! Amazing video!
Very nice explanation and examples of the chord as well as on how to use it. I love that mysterious intro and I didn't even know Team Fortress 2 (which I always hear people talking about) has a nice surf style theme.
I'm a pianist, why I follow your channel so much??? Simple, there is an amazing content here, inspiring and availble not only for guitarists ;)) well done
In my compositions, I like to use the MinMaj7 chord as a sort of minor dominant chord. It's very useful for a minor plagal or iv-I cadence, as the added major seventh adds a sense of yearning or nostalgia.
Great video, the intro is brilliant. Guess I will have troubles sleeping after this: 0:41. Only wish you should have mentioned "Us and Them" by Pink Floyd, where it's so prominent and sounds amazing! It must be the first song in which I encountered MinMaj7 in such a form, not as in-between.
I like the trick with the D and the GmM7. I'm guessing it works because both chords contain the major 3rd interval between the D and the F#. I like using mM7 chords as extensions on the 1 in minor keys i.e. like you were saying about the harmonic minor scale
Very informative lesson on the Maj/min chord concepts. Did not know their construction theory. I have used them sparingly in various songs like you showed. But I did not know some of the lovely sounding inversions like you played! Thank you for that. Jerry
Thank you very much for doing these videos! I‘ve been playing guitar for over 19 years now and always just played by ear. Your videos help me understand and also inspire me to write new things I‘ve never heard about. I‘m sure that lovely E to A min maj7 change will be in a song soon :)
You're a great educator, I've learned so much from your videos, even after 20 years of making music! Also, I'm getting strong Mike Rutherford vibes from your guitar playing in that piece near the end :D
Those also show up in the minor line cliche, like in "Stairway to Heaven", which goes from A minor to AmM7 but in third inversion. Jimmy Page loved that kind of move in Zeppelin's more romantic tunes. Of course, it's all over the place in standards, like Ellington's "In A Sentimental Mood" or Kern's "Yesterdays."
I paused the video at that point and thought "wait, isn't that a line cliché?" And, yes. Yes it is... That's probably a fairly common place where mMaj7 chords appear. The F# to continue the line (down from A to G# to G) gets buried a little in the D9, but that's a clever place to hide it. Also, the next chord is F, which just extends it even further...
Been playing guitar for a few years, being sure there 3 types of 7th chord, dominant, minor and major. Now finding out there's a 4th one. And it's a "mysterious noir chord". This could not a coincidence.
You should do a video on augmented chords/triads sometimes, I haven't seen too many people make an interesting video about them. Personally, I've always viewed them as a sense of disorientation, like being lost in the desert, or traveling through space or something. plus there is the ambiguity with the root note since all of the notes are spaced equally
I was already doing the melodic thing with that DM Gmaj7 tonality and do it with m6 and augmented chords too. Never thought about it as a minor major 7. Cool video. Subbed.
I just tried an F MinMaj7 on a melancholy, bluesy piece I'm working on, and in that context the flavor of the sound changed. I agree MinMaj7 chords work really well for that James Bond or Pink Panther feel, but in F Minor, I got an F MinMaj7 to feel...resigned. "That's just the way life goes," or almost the musical equivalent of a shrug. It was an unexpected little addition, and it might fit nicely to wrap the song up. Thanks, JL.
I'm tired up, financially, but I intend on supporting your patron. I'm a theory nerd and a composer. I love your work probably the best ive heard. please do videos on form....particularly development
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Quick fun MinMaj7 factoid I forgot to include- If you take an Augmented triad, you can pick any note and add in the tone a half step above it. This will give you a minMaj7 chord in some inversion or another. There is an Aug triad in every mM7 so you may get the Aug feel out of it, depending on the context
Does this occur at all in the perry mason theme song?
What mode is I, III, IV, iv?
1dir I love this chord progression. It’s major actually. But your borrowing the minor 4 from the parallel minor. That minor 4 to the major 1 is called a minor plagal cadence
Thank you for the reply... ;)
1dir
Are you thinking of Radiohead's 'Creep'? That's I - III - IV - iv.
I don't think it's in any particular mode - it seems to modulate, if that's the right term.
Your intros are just amazing hahaha.
I almost didn't put this intro in, I thought it might be too much :P
@@SignalsMusicStudiohaha
Don't hold back on your intros.
They are hilarious man.
@@SignalsMusicStudio you have the best intros in all of youtube
Your intros are great! Jarvis Johnson has a similar trait, if you wanna know what the limit of “too much” is like. Remember, we’re you’re audience :) each one of us are here cause we like you and your content. Don’t hold back on us bro! Unless it’s for Patrons only of course ;)
(Omg please don’t make funny intros patron only that would be selling out.)
@@SignalsMusicStudio Love your intros, don't change, man!
That thumbnail and intro are FIRE
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Minor Major 007
Nice
mM7 is like a tamed augmented chord. Still spooky and mysterious but not too sour.
nicely said!
It's like the half diminished chord being the less harsh diminished
add a 9th for extra mystery...and play it on vibraphone....suddenly you're in a dream
Just don't precede it with a regular minor triad, lest you be sued by Spirit
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The very last chord
Or beat the hell out of it for the ultimate Big Ending chord, especially if you have horns in the band
Moog Lee I say a flat 9 makes it sound more mystic
or a 6th....or both ;-)
This channel is awesome. If this doesn't motivate you to pick up that guitar and start learning how to play, I don't know what can!
LT1FirebirdSLP dude the thumbnail made me pick up my guitar lol. Cause I wanted to hear the chord before I watched the video, so I knew what to expect.
Listenin to Radiohead
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A bong a weed and an overinflated imagination.
This chord is more *Noir* than a cigarette in a black & white package.
7:11 That's a good general explanation of why music theory is so important; especially if you're interested in creating music yourself. It's about chunking information and labeling stuff so that learning the whole language of music becomes easier and so you don't have to rely on just trial and error alone. Also: just being able to very quickly communicate musical ideas with others is such a blessing!
If i remember correctly, the end piano arpeggio of Dream Theater's "In the name of god" is a minor major 7, just before the linking note between train of thought and octavarium.
Ah yeah! It's been a while since I spun that album but I do remember that chord, followed by the low note
Yeah the examples for the Mixolydian b6 progression literally made me think "The Dream Theater chord"
Cool! Dream Theater is the first thing that I thought of when Jake was going between the major root and the mM7 4th. My brain pulled some of DT's songs from its index and immediately identified the familiar-sounding progression. It's almost like inhaling a scent that you haven't smelled since childhood and reliving it again, except now I am able to identify the "chemistry" that makes up that scent.
Thanks, Jake, for adding knowledge so that I don't just have to wait for that "scent" to appear. Now I can recreate it myself. You're awesome!
What? Tot doesn’t connect with Octavarium, but six degrees of inner turbulence...
Kookycloud Actually Octavarium starts with the same F piano note on The Root of all Evil that In the Name of God ends with, so Train of Thought does link to Octavarium.
vibraphone players use this chord/arpeggio wih tremolo effect very muchly, But i didn't know the name , so thanks. It is the musical equivalent of a question mark
Wow, when TF2 was played I had goosebumps because of how I missed it, good times.
The _James Bond theme_ and the _Penn & Teller theme_ actually end on *MinMaj9* chords ;)
6:03 Wow, that progression was so weird, really love it! Soothing but kinda tense.
THAT INTRO IS AMAZING
I so enjoy how you instantly ground what you teach into your intros it really helps cement where that flavor comes from.
I think the "James Bond chord" is an E minor major 9 rather than a mM7. (E - G - B - D# - F#)
This is mM7add9
EmMaj9
The I Maj to IV min-maj progression you showed is used all the time in R&B music like R Kelly. Another similar progression is the I maj to ii half-diminished chord which exists in the same mixolydian #6 scale.
I always think of the final chord in Muse's Supremacy or the James Bond theme when hearing it
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One of the best channels out there in youtube not only for guitarist buy for everyone who loves and intersted in music.
Really love your content and you deserved the amount of subs you got and it will grow further than that.
Relly happy I found your channel.
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ELO Strange Magic I just watch your video on mixolydian Flat 6 and wrote a song with it now I'm going to implement the minor major 7. You never cease to amaze me absolutely adore your videos and soon will become a patron
That Mixolydian b6 thing really gave me major Rush 2112-Discovery vibes. I wonder if they used that in that song. I’ll have to look.
Im happy to see this chord showing up.
A few month ago I had a great idea: create an excel with all kind of chords, literally all kind of chords and I made a description cell next to the chords's name to express the feeling in words what i had felt when I played it. That was the moment when I found the Xm maj7 chord. Its awesom!
You're my favorite music teacher and when I heard team fortress I knew you're special
Just came back to this after a few months; I loved this lesson so much, I wrote a whole song (vocals and guitar) using the Mixolydian b6 scale in E, and the main intro and verse, I've used that I to ivM7 change. It's one of my favourite things I've ever written, so thank you so much for giving me the tools to write it!
I usually don't feel compelled to really comment on anything but man, just wanted to thank you for so many compelling and well-explained videos, you're making me love and understand music on such a higher level. Thanks a whole lot dude you have no idea how much you're helping and making it fun and fascinating in the process
You make theory so much more accessible and I really can't thank you enough for the consistent educational resources you provide.
I believe that whole I - IVmM7 is what composer John Williams used for Leia's Theme (part of the star wars soundtrack) and it's just so beautiful and relaxing to listen to. :)
That E - Ammaj7 progression is so emotionally complex. It's kinda youthful, innocent, and sweet, but with a bit of mournful sadness...and also romantic. It's almost like young love with a sadness to it...like a 17 yr old girl discovering her betrothed won't be coming home from the battlefields of Normandy.
I like the narrative.
Thanks for teaching me something new with every video. Also that intro was hilarious.
Your channel and Rick Beato's are the only channels you need. This is awesome stuff. Really breaks down things in a very logical way.
The "spooky" factor is actually a really late use of the "minor Major 7th" chord. It has been used for centuries as a retardation (i.e. a delayed resolution) rather than a "chord." Bach's St. Matthew Passion has a ton of amazing uses, but one of my favorites probably has to come from Monteverdi. When they used it back in the day it was usually to convey anguish and lament rather than "spookiness" or "mystery." It's a fantastic sound.
You can also use the chord as a double retardation, but that's a much less common use.
GUIM haha r word
I'm sure they did not use it as a tonic chord, "Bach" in Baroque times...
Thank you for a fun, inventive intro. I just now found you thru this video that was posted on a guitar forum to help explain the Major minor concept. So well done! Inspired teaching. Your positive attitude and clarity are a breath of fresh air. Thanks! Many in the forum described it as part of a (descending) line cliche. Many examples were given from My Funny Valentine to Stairway to Heaven to your example of Something.
The complex December's Boudoir (1968) by the extraordinary Laura Nyro finishes on a minor major with string harp after running through about 40 other chords. She was a significant influence on Steely Dan and scores of other songwriters.
4:04 Play an E in the bass for extra sweet tension (AminMaj7/E)
You do a really good job at connecting, what I consider to be pretty in depth music theory, with examples that make students immediately understand the ‘feel’ of the given topic. This channel is binge worthy! Thanks for the content
Your voice is just so soothing to listen to. Thanks for sharing all this knowledge
That first myxo b6 jam kinda sounds like No Surprises
I thought so as well! Inspired to cover it now
Oh yeah, it does. Those same chords. That's my favorite Radiohead song, BTW.
yeah it's the turnaround in the intro F-Bbm-Bbmmaj7-Bbm..... such a cool progression
You have a natural affinity for teaching. All of your lessons are easy to understand. I refer back to them often.
You are definitly the Best instructor on the web. Fantastique introduction and I love your enthousiasm
hands down, the best music theory channel on youtube
That intro had me rolling on the floor! Really, your intros alone should've gotten you to a lot more subs. Maybe everyone is making funny intros nowadays? You've still got great videos though.
I do think being a bit more regular might help. All the big channels I know post fairly regularly, usually at least once a week :)
Jake, you are the best teacher on RUclips hands down! I've been playing for 1 million years and know most of the stuff that you are presenting, but you put it so concisely and so simply that it influences the way I teach things to my own students. Thank you for managing to be so thorough and concise at the same time!
This is incredibly cool. At first, when you demostrated the chord on it's own I was like "no, that's way too dissonant for my taste" but then you put it into context and I ended up really loving the sound.
wow, I'm learning so much thanks to you!!!
I'm in a composition class based on 20th century techniques, we barely go over harmony and this video really helped me out a lot ! Planning to make movements and one of them has a concept of a dream :)
You have in my opinion best guitar - theory guitar chanell out there.
Life in a Glass House by radiohead also uses a strong minor-major 7th chord. Also most minor jazz tunes use it as the tonic chord, either that or a minor 6th chord.
I like this channel. It's not too complicated and this helps getting the concept easier.
There is also the Hendrix Chord; for example, G B D F A#. A mysterious way to end a song is to end it with a Hendrix chord followed by a Hitchcock chord (min maj7). So follow GBDF A# with C Eb G B. The song Invitation by Kaper does that.
Duuuude the best intro in your channel for sure!
Min(Maj7) under melodic minor has a super strange effect on solos.
Take a fragment of Am(M7) as ascending arpeggio = G# C E G# (7 b3 5 7). This arpeggio has several tones from the augmented scale.
But continue playing after this augmented triad up the melodic minor, gives you G# A B C. These are notes found in the diminished scale.
So you can play an augmented scale run that leads into the diminished scale.
And because both augmented and diminished scales repeat, you can play this augmented diminished run up and down the neck and it sounds crazy.
Care needs to be taken as you can't use the full augmented or diminished scales, but playing scale fragments really works over min(M7)
The didactic approach, the lenght and your presentation of this video is just super spot on. Great, thank you!
Jake - your teaching method is excellent. I am learning as much about that as I am about music!
Love your channel,. Jake! I look forward to all your videos. I've been playing for over 25 years (self-taught), and yet still I have found nuggets of great musical ideas that I've never executed till now. You've actually helped push my guitar playing to new heights! Thank you, Mr. Lizzio!
9 chords would be awesome too or just in general how to make really pretty but unique feeling chord progressions, that’s personally what I’d love to see more of at least! Great video again!!!!
I was just watching your video "How To Write Progressions using min7, maj7, and Dominant 7th chords [Songwriting - Music Theory]" and while watching, it begged the question: What about Maj7th notes on a minor chord? I RUclips it and found this... man I'm cracking up at your intro! It was so well done.
Good chord. Chords with augmented triads in them connote a very specific set of feelings for me.
I loved your intro. Note the reason it has that creepy sound is because it contains within it the III#5. Consider this pattern:bminor, A6,Gmaj7,F#dom7,b#7,f#7,a9 (and then more minor 9's).
The last chord in Muse’s Supremacy is AmMaj7
Cole Johnson I was just thinking that when he mentioned the bond theme using it, just like “oh that’s the chord they used!” I think they use it in Shrinking Universe’s intro as well with the tremolo
having a lot of Fun discovering things i never thought about music theory with your videos . great job
Subscribing to this channel!!!
It seems crazy how I've never understood completely how majmin chords worked on my music theory class, but now I completely understand it!
Amazing video!
Very nice explanation and examples of the chord as well as on how to use it. I love that mysterious intro and I didn't even know Team Fortress 2 (which I always hear people talking about) has a nice surf style theme.
I used this chord recently in one of my latests tracks. Never thought it had this mysterious characteristic! Thanks for this video!
I'm a pianist, why I follow your channel so much???
Simple, there is an amazing content here, inspiring and availble not only for guitarists ;)) well done
In my compositions, I like to use the MinMaj7 chord as a sort of minor dominant chord. It's very useful for a minor plagal or iv-I cadence, as the added major seventh adds a sense of yearning or nostalgia.
Great video, the intro is brilliant. Guess I will have troubles sleeping after this: 0:41. Only wish you should have mentioned "Us and Them" by Pink Floyd, where it's so prominent and sounds amazing! It must be the first song in which I encountered MinMaj7 in such a form, not as in-between.
Love music theory videos from you, especially these kinds. I've applied many to my piano compositions thanks to YOU!
I like the trick with the D and the GmM7. I'm guessing it works because both chords contain the major 3rd interval between the D and the F#. I like using mM7 chords as extensions on the 1 in minor keys i.e. like you were saying about the harmonic minor scale
An Em/maj7 chord is the opening chord heard on the Genesis record "Wind & Wuthering" from 1976, as the opening chord in "Eleventh Earl of Mar."
I am currently in a rut in my playing and writing so these videos are a nice kick in the butt.
Man you have one of the best voices ever.
Very informative lesson on the Maj/min chord concepts. Did not know their construction theory. I have used them sparingly in various songs like you showed. But I did not know some of the lovely sounding inversions like you played! Thank you for that. Jerry
Thank you very much for doing these videos!
I‘ve been playing guitar for over 19 years now and always just played by ear. Your videos help me understand and also inspire me to write new things I‘ve never heard about. I‘m sure that lovely E to A min maj7 change will be in a song soon :)
You're a great educator, I've learned so much from your videos, even after 20 years of making music!
Also, I'm getting strong Mike Rutherford vibes from your guitar playing in that piece near the end :D
Those also show up in the minor line cliche, like in "Stairway to Heaven", which goes from A minor to AmM7 but in third inversion. Jimmy Page loved that kind of move in Zeppelin's more romantic tunes.
Of course, it's all over the place in standards, like Ellington's "In A Sentimental Mood" or Kern's "Yesterdays."
i love this chord. You can utalise a whole tone scale around it nicely.
"Mystery chord? When would I want to play that? Psh."
*watches video*
"I LOVE THIS PROGRESSION!"
Isn’t there a minor major 7 in Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them?”
Yes but that chord specifically I think of as F+/D even though it's the same thing as a DminMaj7
It's not exactly the same as D aug, though, surely? D aug would be D - F# - Bb, whereas D minor major 7 would go D - F - A - C#..
Kanashimi
Just above in the comments he says it's the same as a D aug. That's the only reason I said what I did.
Ah, so thats why you left it out... But yeah, the bass does make it a slash chord, youre right.
Kanashimi
Yeah, it's obviously a mistake. I do love that film noir intro - brilliant.
Best channel I've seen lately. Please consider going through jazz theory sometime.
Wait a minute, that chord progression from Something is also used in Shine On You Crazy Diamond!
wooooah I didn't realize! I've listened to that song a million times but never heard the connection...
I paused the video at that point and thought "wait, isn't that a line cliché?" And, yes. Yes it is... That's probably a fairly common place where mMaj7 chords appear.
The F# to continue the line (down from A to G# to G) gets buried a little in the D9, but that's a clever place to hide it. Also, the next chord is F, which just extends it even further...
This chords gets 'spelled out' (a la ''Color My World') in the opening theme to Vertigo :)
Been playing guitar for a few years, being sure there 3 types of 7th chord, dominant, minor and major.
Now finding out there's a 4th one. And it's a "mysterious noir chord". This could not a coincidence.
This is great stuff - thanks. For you prog rock fans, the hooky motif in Genesis' Firth of Fifth is also a MinMaj7. It's even shaped like a hook :-)
best channel!! explaining everything by reason
You should do a video on augmented chords/triads sometimes, I haven't seen too many people make an interesting video about them. Personally, I've always viewed them as a sense of disorientation, like being lost in the desert, or traveling through space or something. plus there is the ambiguity with the root note since all of the notes are spaced equally
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I've done the Jazz University Thing, and i've learn a ton of things from watching your vid's, thank you so much !
Another great lesson, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and approach!!
I was already doing the melodic thing with that DM Gmaj7 tonality and do it with m6 and augmented chords too. Never thought about it as a minor major 7. Cool video. Subbed.
This was really helpful! The part about "de-spooking" the minMaj7 chord in that scale was really cool haven't heard that before :)
Thank you!
The E7#9 is another. Hendrix used it. A major and a minor 3rd in one chord. Weird!
I just tried an F MinMaj7 on a melancholy, bluesy piece I'm working on, and in that context the flavor of the sound changed. I agree MinMaj7 chords work really well for that James Bond or Pink Panther feel, but in F Minor, I got an F MinMaj7 to feel...resigned. "That's just the way life goes," or almost the musical equivalent of a shrug. It was an unexpected little addition, and it might fit nicely to wrap the song up. Thanks, JL.
Your videos have the best intros!
The intro arpeggio of the song "Closure" by Opeth is the perfect example of MinMaj7 chord...
I believe the last organ chord, on the long version of “Green Eyed Lady”, also incorporates this chord- along with the added 9th.
I'm tired up, financially, but I intend on supporting your patron. I'm a theory nerd and a composer. I love your work probably the best ive heard. please do videos on form....particularly development
Just found this channel really great explanation.When i listen to your explanation like it sounds spooky I can really relate to it.Great content
I love that original theme you play at the end. Just buried in there.
This is so far the best intro for me.I love intros like this👍👍👏