Hi Jeff, As an old musician( ancient... 66 years old ), it makes me feel inspired and happy that there are young musicians, like yourself, that really know their stuff. I don’t know what it is. Maybe the Internet and RUclips gives so much information. But there are absolutely beastly young musicians these days, that are on fire, especially in the electric jazz, fusion, funk fields. I feel really good about the future of music. You consistently put out videos with really interesting and practical information. In my thousands of years of doing music, I never heard such a cool reharmonizing of Happy Birthday. Also many years ago, when I was in a house band at a casino in Atlantic City, a guy by the name of Buddy Greco had that intro to Misty in his book. Anyway, thanks for the great videos.
Ricardo Francis Zayas 60 you call old? Dude..me 77 and working everyday to be a better musician . yes Jeff Is one of the baddest cats around. He’s got that sense of humor thing going for him and is it terrific player at the teaching videos hang together beautifully
"I feel really good about the future of music" - I do not ... Jazz isn't very common unfortunately and the charts (at least in the EU) are full of auto-tune, insulting hip hop and electronical music that my 3 year old daughter could "compose". I am very happy that people like Jeff Schneider share their knowledge and passion about Jazz music! Jazz is magic
@@SnuSnu91 The fact that jazz is not in the charts is a blessing in disguise honestly, it's the only way to keep it free from the current trends and latest fashions. Jazz musicians are truly free to unleash their creative potential without fearing economic repercussions, since they wouldn't get much money anyway. Jazz hasn't been in the charts for at least half a century, but it's still alive regardless. Also, the trash that's being broadcasted on the radio isn't stopping young jazz musicians to do their thing, just like in the eighties, where the abhorrent disco music couldn't kill the enthusiasm of a young Esbjörn Svensson. I also feel good about the future of music.
@@CugnoBrasso Very true to be honest! I agree. I'm 21 years old and I already speak about "good old times" because for me music is also about telling a message and express emotions but so much of this insulting hip hop music (for example) influences our younger generation in a bad way. They look up to these rappers and imitate their language and idiom. That's so awful that you are not able to communicate with many anymore. I really can't remember when music was about to insult minorities, disabled and gay people... I remember how many friends of mine tried to push me into a particular genre of music. "After all, everybody hears it." I've never liked that and always stayed true to my preferences. A good friend of mine who likes classical music has told me that he is embarrassed to talk about it to his friends. As if it was something bad. I told him that he should always be to his liking. For many, music is a socially determining aspect, so you adapt to certain groups without you might want it. That sounds pretty dramatic and maybe weird, but here in Germany I feel it's very strong. If you do not like a particular music because it's up to date, you're automatically a worse person. Just imagine that ... Let's keep the good music alive - that's all what I want to say :-)
@@SnuSnu91 We are saying two diametrally opposed things. I am happy that jazz doesn't make it to the charts, and that generally bad music is being sent on the radio. Thanks to this, there are no people who play jazz because it's trendy, and people who start playing jazz feel a deep love for music and tend to be very creative. As I said, I see a bright future ahead of us. Many good young musicians, many people dare to try new things!
I realized that you can think of this as a borrowed chord from locrian or locrian/diminished related scale (with the given example of using the diminished scale). It’s using the unstable tonic that you get from those kinds of scales, and then following it up with the tonic from the scale you’re using.
What a beautiful comment. Nice to see adults being adults on the chat section of the most notoriously childish streaming discussion board lolol. I accept your apology and YES I WILL marry you!
My mind was not blown by the diminished stuff because the Barry Harris videos (that I saw a long time ago) go into much more detail about the diminished scale and how all of the chords/keys relate to it. When music gets this complex (and beautiful) I wonder how many viewers are more influenced by fashion rather than art and whether this aggressive style is necessary. However U.M.M.G is very tasteful jazz tune (Duke, Jazz Party), it was nice to see those chords.
I discovered this harmonic device while working out the chords to the pre-chorus of Memorabilia by Donald Fagen. Right on "lovely ISLAND". It's my favorite chord change in the song. Thanks for sharing what the hell that is called!
Great video! Yes, for Misty, that D in the melody implies a whole-half diminished scale, and it seems like a good rule of thumb to use whole-half instead of half-whole whenever inserting a diminished chord in this context.
Dude, perfect timing. I’ve been using diminished 7s in my compositions and have been obsessed with the song Misty! Thanks so much. Your videos keep getting better and better.
I'm a drummer. You earned my sub simply for making me understand this in one swift go. I am about to jam on my midi keyboard now. I have already played things like this from playing vibraphone. I never had it sat out for me this way though. Thank you.
this is great. not just explaining something usefully complex, but also giving the n°°bs an entry point to work with so they can pick up the thead before they get lost. your explanations are great in style and content, but for where i'm at (which is somewhat all over the place with skills and gaps) this is next level youtubering
Another classic example of the dim maj 7 chord is at the end of the bridge of Nica's Dream! The melody is on the 9, and the chord never resolves to the normal major 7 chord. It's incredibly beautiful, gets me every time!
There are quite a few channels on YT that do theory but people like you and Nahre apply it so beautifully in a practical and musical manner, rather than a purely academic one. Will be experimenting with this in my own writing. Thank you! Sub'd.
I'm a classical guitarist, not a jazz guy at all really. So when I hear this kind of "Happy Birthday" stuff I have nothing esoteric to associate it with. For instance, I don't immediately say things like, "that totally reminds me of Thelonius Monk 'Don't Blame Me', or something; it just reminds me of every third Christmas album at home.
Hello, first time viewer, new subscriber. Your video popped up in my suggestions because I've been watching a lot of Andrew Huang and other music vids lately. I just want to let you know that although my theory has never been that strong, your combination of describing what you're doing, writing the chord names on screen, *and* showing the keys you're playing with those awesome green highlighted keys suddenly made things very clear to me. I play these things sometimes, but I could never tell you what it is I'm playing. Having a language to go with it makes me feel so much more confident about it. Anyway, cheers.
Wow! Some great education here, plus - as others have noted - the production has upped a few steps. Thanks for taking so much effort, Jeff! And you can also play the piano?? Double wow!
Very nice video! As a note: its interesting to notice that depending on one's training one can hear things slighly differently and in doing so one also ends explaining or systemizing things differently. It is funny and interesting. I disagree with some explanations but simultaneously agree with them because i can see the other person's point of view and background.
U know, i finally thought i was getting better at guitar and music theory and all that stuff. And then this dude comes along and literally obliterates every bit of my confidence xD What the hecc Jeff?!
As a bass player (jazz mostly(only high school but...)) I usually use the note a half-step below the next chord more often, but occasionally use the half-step above. Most of the time, when I use the latter, it's when the two chords are going up a 4th(ex. Dm to G7), I'll start from the 5th of the prev. chord (ex. A) and use the half-step-above approach tone (ex. Ab/G#) as a passing tone to the root of the next chord (ex. G).
Your videos are amazing, Jeff. I've learned so much from them. I didn't really start picking up theory properly until I was 25, and the way you break down the daunting prospect of learning theory into bite sized nuggets is really what I need.
Man, I haven’t pulled out my music theory notebook to add anything for a while. I just haven’t seen many cool techniques that aren’t things I’ve seen before that are good enough to go in there, but this is definitely an exception.
Yo I don't know if it's just a coincidence or the algorithm but I just watched 3 happy birthday reharmonization vids back to back - from Nahre Sol, Adam Neely and now this. Boy I'mma come with a maestro suit next time I'm invited to someone's birthday god bless
Actually, that diminished chord in Misty is more like a suspended tonic chord (Ebmaj#9/#11). Alternatively, you can play Fdim/Eb there, which is a Bb7/b9 dominant chord that resolves to Ebmaj9, just from the other direction (Cb to Bb and Ab to G).
I just watched hours of Barry Harris videos with him talking about the full half diminished scale and replacing notes in a diminished chords but I didn’t actually get what he wanted to say. And you just needed a side note for the explanation I was looking for. 🙈 Thank you!
Hey peeps, something to also consider about using cadential diminished chords: the whole-half diminished scale has a major 7 AND a major 6, which means that if your melody is the 6th or major 7th of a tonic major chord, you can ALWAYS use a cadential diminished chord and then resolve it to the major chord. If your melody is the major 3rd or perfect 5th of the tonic major chord, it is "less likely" to sound good on that cadential diminished chord, and you may need to alter the melody and then resolve the melody up or down as you change the chord.
I love the new presentation of these videos. More editing, of course. But, less things to compete with our attention. Also, a reharm of the "here's a side note" jingle would be a fun idea to apply in different videos 😉
Love it. Subscribed. It's one thing to be a good pianist. And it's another, utterly different thing to be a good teacher. You got both. Thanks for your work.
Merci Jeff, ton enseignement de cette formule est vraiment superbe. J’ai prié pour me trouver un enseignant pour des trucs de jazz ! Et voilà que je trouve ta chaîne sur RUclips . Awesome ! Merci pour cette étude 👍🏻
One suggestion for tying it all together: use the walking bass technique on the reharm! You don't have to explain what you did, but to give an idea of what you can do. And, of course, have the cadential diminished chords show up in your reharm.
How that Happy Birthday reharm is HEAVY dude! Im going to save this vid to my favorites and figure that out when I have time. Just discovered your channel and am inspired to step up my game on my own channel, thanks for this!
The cadential diminished chord is really acting as a b6 dominant chord with a flat 9, thus acting as a tritone substitution of the tonic's secondary dominant. So in essence it is subdominant functioning ( which is actually a "pre-dominant" chord ,... or could also be viewed as a dominant chord with a Suspended 4th....)
There aren’t many tunes with the tonic major 7th as the melody note (B in the key of C), at least not as one that’s being emphasized, so to have time to do the dim resolution thing, but you can do the same thing with the third note of the scale (E in the key of C) for a subdominant (F chord in the key if C), and there’s are tons of chances for these. That is, when there’s an E with some time, a possibility is to use an F dim Maj 7 chord, to resolve to an F Maj 7 chord (also sounds great resolving to any F chord where F is the note being resolved to - so any time there’s a resolution from E to F, which happens a lot).
Didn't know the name for this type of cadence so thanks Jeff. Not sure if you're up for it but personally I'd really love to hear some quick background on when this kind of cadential diminished idea began, the examples you gave I searched for came from the 50's but I wanna say in Jazz terms at least, this was a thing in the 1920's? (And yeah I'm quoting Herbie on that one) Cheers for the lesson.
Fantastic video Jeff, so much content and loving the extra 'animations' (wrong word I think?). At 4:37 you mention "shell voicings". I tend to use that term to refer to root + 3rd or root + 7th, and use "3rd & 7th" or "rootless-two-note-voicing" for what happens at 4:40. This is of almost no relevance! Fantastic video as ever, thanks so much!
I was amazed at the voicings you made a mysterious thing understandable . Chromaticism in your left hand so cool. If I practice building on top of 7 ths in bass it
hi Jeff. i rely like your style of your piano play. I know i cant be like you, but through your videos you make me better. please if you may, please show the physical fingering on the screen in your forthcoming videos like you did during your initial videos. Thanks.
This is a really good video Jeff. I really like the quality of this video, really cool. That E Major 7 on Happy Birthday caught me really off guard. 🤣🤣
I first noticed a cadential diminished chord in the tune Corcovado. In the 6th bar, Fdim resolves to Fmaj7 after two beats and continues to the end of measure 7. I always wondered why that works, because my theory books taught me that Fdim should resolve to Gb-something (because it's the top of Db7-b9), or A/C/Eb-something. Resolving to a I (one) chord on the same root seemed counter-intuitive. But you explained it beautifully, so I'll never have to think about it again. Jens Larson has a video on how a #IVdim can resolve to a I chord, like in bar 5 of a blues. I guess if we analyzed it classically, #IVdim-I is a substitute for a IV-I cadence, because a #IVdim can be the top of IV7(b9). Of course, #IVdim is enharmonic to Idim, so anything that's true for one is true for both. (Since I began playing guitar, I began to think of chords being interchangeable due to how you have to approach them on the fret-board.) Of course, none of this matters. If it works, use it! I'm just a bit of a nerd who likes to know how to explain stuff. :) Cheers!
Hi Jeff, As an old musician( ancient... 66 years old ),
it makes me feel inspired and happy that there are young musicians, like yourself, that really know their stuff.
I don’t know what it is. Maybe the Internet and RUclips gives so much information. But there are absolutely beastly young musicians these days, that are on fire, especially in the electric jazz, fusion, funk fields. I feel really good about the future of music. You consistently put out videos with really interesting and practical information. In my thousands of years of doing music, I never heard such a cool reharmonizing of Happy Birthday. Also many years ago, when I was in a house band at a casino in Atlantic City, a guy by the name of Buddy Greco had that intro to Misty in his book. Anyway, thanks for the great videos.
Ricardo Francis Zayas 60 you call old? Dude..me 77 and working everyday to be a better
musician .
yes Jeff Is one of the baddest cats around. He’s got that sense of humor thing going for him and is it terrific player at the teaching videos hang together beautifully
"I feel really good about the future of music" - I do not ... Jazz isn't very common unfortunately and the charts (at least in the EU) are full of auto-tune, insulting hip hop and electronical music that my 3 year old daughter could "compose".
I am very happy that people like Jeff Schneider share their knowledge and passion about Jazz music! Jazz is magic
@@SnuSnu91 The fact that jazz is not in the charts is a blessing in disguise honestly, it's the only way to keep it free from the current trends and latest fashions. Jazz musicians are truly free to unleash their creative potential without fearing economic repercussions, since they wouldn't get much money anyway. Jazz hasn't been in the charts for at least half a century, but it's still alive regardless.
Also, the trash that's being broadcasted on the radio isn't stopping young jazz musicians to do their thing, just like in the eighties, where the abhorrent disco music couldn't kill the enthusiasm of a young Esbjörn Svensson.
I also feel good about the future of music.
@@CugnoBrasso Very true to be honest! I agree. I'm 21 years old and I already speak about "good old times" because for me music is also about telling a message and express emotions but so much of this insulting hip hop music (for example) influences our younger generation in a bad way. They look up to these rappers and imitate their language and idiom. That's so awful that you are not able to communicate with many anymore. I really can't remember when music was about to insult minorities, disabled and gay people...
I remember how many friends of mine tried to push me into a particular genre of music. "After all, everybody hears it." I've never liked that and always stayed true to my preferences. A good friend of mine who likes classical music has told me that he is embarrassed to talk about it to his friends. As if it was something bad. I told him that he should always be to his liking. For many, music is a socially determining aspect, so you adapt to certain groups without you might want it. That sounds pretty dramatic and maybe weird, but here in Germany I feel it's very strong. If you do not like a particular music because it's up to date, you're automatically a worse person. Just imagine that ...
Let's keep the good music alive - that's all what I want to say :-)
@@SnuSnu91 We are saying two diametrally opposed things. I am happy that jazz doesn't make it to the charts, and that generally bad music is being sent on the radio. Thanks to this, there are no people who play jazz because it's trendy, and people who start playing jazz feel a deep love for music and tend to be very creative.
As I said, I see a bright future ahead of us. Many good young musicians, many people dare to try new things!
Loved the video!! Next level production ✨👌
oof
Instablaster.
I realized that you can think of this as a borrowed chord from locrian or locrian/diminished related scale (with the given example of using the diminished scale). It’s using the unstable tonic that you get from those kinds of scales, and then following it up with the tonic from the scale you’re using.
That Happy Birthday reharm is KILLIN
Jazz harmony is so damn cool.
Sorry for negatively critiquing your tutorial in the past. Your videos are very helpful
ok guys call back the snipers, he apologized
@@6884 Dag nab it
but its too laaaate to apologize , its to laaaaaaaate ohhh oh ohhhhh
What a beautiful comment. Nice to see adults being adults on the chat section of the most notoriously childish streaming discussion board lolol. I accept your apology and YES I WILL marry you!
You shall need to offer one male goat for a sin offering and two male lambs one year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.Leviticus 23:19
My mind was not blown by the diminished stuff because the Barry Harris videos (that I saw a long time ago) go into much more detail about the diminished scale and how all of the chords/keys relate to it. When music gets this complex (and beautiful) I wonder how many viewers are more influenced by fashion rather than art and whether this aggressive style is necessary. However U.M.M.G is very tasteful jazz tune (Duke, Jazz Party), it was nice to see those chords.
May the Chords be with you.
What a teacher!!!
I discovered this harmonic device while working out the chords to the pre-chorus of Memorabilia by Donald Fagen. Right on "lovely ISLAND". It's my favorite chord change in the song. Thanks for sharing what the hell that is called!
Great video! Yes, for Misty, that D in the melody implies a whole-half diminished scale, and it seems like a good rule of thumb to use whole-half instead of half-whole whenever inserting a diminished chord in this context.
Dude, perfect timing. I’ve been using diminished 7s in my compositions and have been obsessed with the song Misty! Thanks so much. Your videos keep getting better and better.
Just remember that the extensions to the dim7, found a whole step above each note, can also be found a half step below each note.
1:40 It sounds like the Star Wars theme a bit. Thanks for the lessons, Jeff, I appreciate them.
I'm a drummer. You earned my sub simply for making me understand this in one swift go. I am about to jam on my midi keyboard now. I have already played things like this from playing vibraphone. I never had it sat out for me this way though. Thank you.
You've really stepped up your meme game, Jeff.
Adam Neely would be proud. :D
ErebosGR adam memely
gamesandguitars003 you realise you're still being a dick for saying it even when you misspell it, yeah?
this is great. not just explaining something usefully complex, but also giving the n°°bs an entry point to work with so they can pick up the thead before they get lost. your explanations are great in style and content, but for where i'm at (which is somewhat all over the place with skills and gaps) this is next level youtubering
Glad it was helpful!
Another classic example of the dim maj 7 chord is at the end of the bridge of Nica's Dream! The melody is on the 9, and the chord never resolves to the normal major 7 chord. It's incredibly beautiful, gets me every time!
There are quite a few channels on YT that do theory but people like you and Nahre apply it so beautifully in a practical and musical manner, rather than a purely academic one. Will be experimenting with this in my own writing. Thank you! Sub'd.
I love the sound of that diminished chord with the suspension on top!
Me too!
Misty was my Uncle Dan's favorite song. It was the one and only song he could play on the piano. Brings back fond memories.
I finally understood the very basics on how to build a nice walking bass line! Thanks a lot!
I’m a guitar player and I find your videos very useful. Thanks!
The visualizations you use for moving between the chord symbols is awesome amazing wonderful thank you
I'm a classical guitarist, not a jazz guy at all really. So when I hear this kind of "Happy Birthday" stuff I have nothing esoteric to associate it with. For instance, I don't immediately say things like, "that totally reminds me of Thelonius Monk 'Don't Blame Me', or something; it just reminds me of every third Christmas album at home.
Hello, first time viewer, new subscriber. Your video popped up in my suggestions because I've been watching a lot of Andrew Huang and other music vids lately.
I just want to let you know that although my theory has never been that strong, your combination of describing what you're doing, writing the chord names on screen, *and* showing the keys you're playing with those awesome green highlighted keys suddenly made things very clear to me. I play these things sometimes, but I could never tell you what it is I'm playing. Having a language to go with it makes me feel so much more confident about it.
Anyway, cheers.
I'm applying this right now! Awesome video! :)
Wow! Some great education here, plus - as others have noted - the production has upped a few steps. Thanks for taking so much effort, Jeff! And you can also play the piano?? Double wow!
Very nice video!
As a note: its interesting to notice that depending on one's training one can hear things slighly differently and in doing so one also ends explaining or systemizing things differently.
It is funny and interesting. I disagree with some explanations but simultaneously agree with them because i can see the other person's point of view and background.
U know, i finally thought i was getting better at guitar and music theory and all that stuff. And then this dude comes along and literally obliterates every bit of my confidence xD
What the hecc Jeff?!
As a bass player (jazz mostly(only high school but...)) I usually use the note a half-step below the next chord more often, but occasionally use the half-step above. Most of the time, when I use the latter, it's when the two chords are going up a 4th(ex. Dm to G7), I'll start from the 5th of the prev. chord (ex. A) and use the half-step-above approach tone (ex. Ab/G#) as a passing tone to the root of the next chord (ex. G).
Your videos are amazing, Jeff. I've learned so much from them.
I didn't really start picking up theory properly until I was 25, and the way you break down the daunting prospect of learning theory into bite sized nuggets is really what I need.
It's my birthday, so the last bit was a nice surprise. Thanks, Jeff. Also, loved the walking bass lesson, you made it very simple.
rantbird it's my birthday too! Happy to birthday to us.
Happy bday! Also, James Hetfield.
Man, I haven’t pulled out my music theory notebook to add anything for a while. I just haven’t seen many cool techniques that aren’t things I’ve seen before that are good enough to go in there, but this is definitely an exception.
That happy birthday jazz flip is beautiful
Thank you Jeff for ALL you do. God bless you.
Yo I don't know if it's just a coincidence or the algorithm but I just watched 3 happy birthday reharmonization vids back to back - from Nahre Sol, Adam Neely and now this. Boy I'mma come with a maestro suit next time I'm invited to someone's birthday god bless
Wow, just wow! You’re the piano teacher I always wanted. Thank you!
Best lesson about where can we use these chords. Go on!
Actually, that diminished chord in Misty is more like a suspended tonic chord (Ebmaj#9/#11). Alternatively, you can play Fdim/Eb there, which is a Bb7/b9 dominant chord that resolves to Ebmaj9, just from the other direction (Cb to Bb and Ab to G).
I just watched hours of Barry Harris videos with him talking about the full half diminished scale and replacing notes in a diminished chords but I didn’t actually get what he wanted to say. And you just needed a side note for the explanation I was looking for. 🙈 Thank you!
Hours worth of gold here. Thanks Jeff!
2:41 that just blew my mind!
Hey peeps, something to also consider about using cadential diminished chords: the whole-half diminished scale has a major 7 AND a major 6, which means that if your melody is the 6th or major 7th of a tonic major chord, you can ALWAYS use a cadential diminished chord and then resolve it to the major chord. If your melody is the major 3rd or perfect 5th of the tonic major chord, it is "less likely" to sound good on that cadential diminished chord, and you may need to alter the melody and then resolve the melody up or down as you change the chord.
best walking bassline tutorial i've seen and dope reharm!
Dude that Happy Birthday was super lit
i love the precision of your descriptive vernacular Jeff!!!!!
3 in 1: love this
Just discovered your channel, this is GREAT STUFF!
Jake Lizzio!!! Nice to see you here!!!
Yes but I prefer your channel :)
Thanks Jeff, actually learned some bass lines here
your videos keep getting better, and you were already my favorite video teacher
Dude your channel has evolved so much!! Love the content
Great video! I used the chromatic passing note as an additional eighth right before switching to the next chord
May your shredding phrygian licks ring through eternity
Man, you're just incredible and so generous. Thank you for these. They're pure gold!
Wow, love the quality! Awesome content as usual.
Man I love your videos. I love trying all of this stuff on guitar. Very inspiring. Thank you!
Amazing reharm! Great sound and a very useful lesson. Thank you
probably the best walking bass tutorial on yt.
I Don’t comment that often but you’re right, they are dope! Thanks!
Dope 🔥
You are correct sir. Chords are dope!!
I love the new presentation of these videos. More editing, of course. But, less things to compete with our attention.
Also, a reharm of the "here's a side note" jingle would be a fun idea to apply in different videos 😉
Great!
The walking baseline info really helped thanks man!
Love it. Subscribed. It's one thing to be a good pianist. And it's another, utterly different thing to be a good teacher. You got both. Thanks for your work.
Merci Jeff, ton enseignement de cette formule est vraiment superbe. J’ai prié pour me trouver un enseignant pour des trucs de jazz ! Et voilà que je trouve ta chaîne sur RUclips . Awesome ! Merci pour cette étude 👍🏻
I really like how you teach. I was already digging this, then I saw a clip from T & E the Universe, and I realize I'm home.
Great video. Love the cadential diminished chord on Misty
Indeed!
One suggestion for tying it all together: use the walking bass technique on the reharm! You don't have to explain what you did, but to give an idea of what you can do.
And, of course, have the cadential diminished chords show up in your reharm.
How that Happy Birthday reharm is HEAVY dude! Im going to save this vid to my favorites and figure that out when I have time. Just discovered your channel and am inspired to step up my game on my own channel, thanks for this!
that happy birthday is Art
Jeff you’re a genius !
That happy birthday song is money. Keep up the good work!!!😄😄
The cadential diminished chord is really acting as a b6 dominant chord with a flat 9, thus acting as a tritone substitution of the tonic's secondary dominant. So in essence it is subdominant functioning ( which is actually a "pre-dominant" chord ,... or could also be viewed as a dominant chord with a Suspended 4th....)
very happy with the length of the video
i dont even play piano (atleast anymore) but i stayed for the tingly harmonies and your star wars shirt while i drift off to dream world
There aren’t many tunes with the tonic major 7th as the melody note (B in the key of C), at least not as one that’s being emphasized, so to have time to do the dim resolution thing, but you can do the same thing with the third note of the scale (E in the key of C) for a subdominant (F chord in the key if C), and there’s are tons of chances for these.
That is, when there’s an E with some time, a possibility is to use an F dim Maj 7 chord, to resolve to an F Maj 7 chord (also sounds great resolving to any F chord where F is the note being resolved to - so any time there’s a resolution from E to F, which happens a lot).
Never in my life have I learned so much in 12 minutes or made such a leap in playing an instrument by watching one video.
Didn't know the name for this type of cadence so thanks Jeff. Not sure if you're up for it but personally I'd really love to hear some quick background on when this kind of cadential diminished idea began, the examples you gave I searched for came from the 50's but I wanna say in Jazz terms at least, this was a thing in the 1920's? (And yeah I'm quoting Herbie on that one) Cheers for the lesson.
I like your style man. Keep up the great work.
Best lesson ever
lol you blew my mind with the Fmaj7//A & only for you to be like “ok here’s where things get crazy” ...I wasn’t ready
Watched this on my birthday!! Haha love the videos man!
Thanks for the tutorial Jeff.
Especially for the reharm of happy birthday
Fantastic video Jeff, so much content and loving the extra 'animations' (wrong word I think?). At 4:37 you mention "shell voicings". I tend to use that term to refer to root + 3rd or root + 7th, and use "3rd & 7th" or "rootless-two-note-voicing" for what happens at 4:40. This is of almost no relevance! Fantastic video as ever, thanks so much!
Hey Schneider, this is Jeff everybody. 😁
been watching you for a while now and I loved the production/editing on this video!
This is great! Finally helps put a language to what I hear
2:35 I love this man even before you did that.
I was amazed at the voicings you made a mysterious thing understandable . Chromaticism in your left hand so cool. If I practice building on top of 7 ths in bass it
hi Jeff. i rely like your style of your piano play. I know i cant be like you, but through your videos you make me better. please if you may, please show the physical fingering on the screen in your forthcoming videos like you did during your initial videos.
Thanks.
This is a really good video Jeff. I really like the quality of this video, really cool.
That E Major 7 on Happy Birthday caught me really off guard. 🤣🤣
Amazing Jeff!
Just a small opinion ... could you use a clearer font for chord names...? It’s a liitle funky to read quickly..
Thank!
This is excellent, great devices, I will have a blast with these things, thanks.
Cool stuff, you made me rediscover the beauty of dim maj7 chords!
I like that you're memeing a lot more. In fact I love it. You're the best Jeff.
I always thought of the Cadential Dim chord in Misty as a D7(b9)/Eb, but this makes more sense.
@@QuantSpazar I actually just watched that video earlier today. Yup. Both work.
That's very great video ! Advanced work but quite accessible....
I first noticed a cadential diminished chord in the tune Corcovado. In the 6th bar, Fdim resolves to Fmaj7 after two beats and continues to the end of measure 7.
I always wondered why that works, because my theory books taught me that Fdim should resolve to Gb-something (because it's the top of Db7-b9), or A/C/Eb-something. Resolving to a I (one) chord on the same root seemed counter-intuitive. But you explained it beautifully, so I'll never have to think about it again.
Jens Larson has a video on how a #IVdim can resolve to a I chord, like in bar 5 of a blues. I guess if we analyzed it classically, #IVdim-I is a substitute for a IV-I cadence, because a #IVdim can be the top of IV7(b9). Of course, #IVdim is enharmonic to Idim, so anything that's true for one is true for both. (Since I began playing guitar, I began to think of chords being interchangeable due to how you have to approach them on the fret-board.)
Of course, none of this matters. If it works, use it! I'm just a bit of a nerd who likes to know how to explain stuff. :)
Cheers!
Dude I love your stuff so much. Thank you for all the dope instruction I’m learning so much