Test your chord comprehension skills with this video on my 2nd channel: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dKttldWKgsvForQ.html 😁

@Anti.Reino.Infantil_Oficial

2 жыл бұрын

First

@bernardthedisappointedowl6938

2 жыл бұрын

Great video as ever David - brilliant explanations, ^oo^

@wombatbreath

2 жыл бұрын

David - could you do some analysis videos on the music of Tame Impala. I know you're a fan so it shouldn't be too arduous :)

@keshavleitan7800

2 жыл бұрын

I have a question, why do you call moving from (Am - C) a (i - bIII) shouldn't it be just a (i - III) since C major occurs in the natural A minor scale?

@realraven2000

2 жыл бұрын

just an addendum - pretty sure that 'Mad World' is originally by Tears for Fears.

For those that want to try some spicy two chord progressions, here is a subjective list : Imaj7 III - Epic I II - Protagonism I bV - Outer space I bVI - Fantastical I iii - Sadness I iv - Romantic i IV - Wonder i II - Mystery i bII - Spooky i VII - Dramatic i bV - Antagonism, danger i bvi - Evil

@jaakkot5440

2 жыл бұрын

I'm intrigued what you'd label i - V as

@atzuras

2 жыл бұрын

i - bII Italian Drama

@thfump

2 жыл бұрын

This is a fantastic game. What are your thoughts on I bIII?

@MartinvonBargen

2 жыл бұрын

I would like this, but it's at 69 thumbs up!

@jaakkot5440

2 жыл бұрын

@@thfump I've thought that sounds bluesy, because it's a borrowed chord from parallel minor

I’m a simple man… I see Alex Turner, I click. Thanks for all your vids! Much easier to absorb musical ideas using music I love.

The great thing about i-IV or i-ii chords is that great Dorian sound, lifting you every so delicately away from the somber Aeolian mode. See "Down by the River" by Neil Young, "Moondance" by Van Morrison for some classic rock examples.

@fokmertek

2 жыл бұрын

i-IV: "Earth Song" by Michael Jackson

@albertbuzek5007

2 жыл бұрын

I love it in my sweet lord. The whole song is based of that i-IV... also the pre-chorus in here there and everywhere is i-IV

@gloryholetoanotherdimension

2 жыл бұрын

i-IV is also great given the melodic minor context it can fill as well

@nathangray4601

2 жыл бұрын

BREATHE IN THE AIR

@MrDooteronomy

2 жыл бұрын

I love i-IV! My favorite example is OIngo Boingo's "Water" kzread.info/dash/bejne/X56IutWxYtDfnag.html

There's something truly magical about that i - IV progression. If I could live in a bed made entirely of alternating Bm - E chords, I would.

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

It's that dorian sound! I love it too!!

@east5871

2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating! I mean that seriously. That’s a very unique way to describe something!

@ajfalo-fi3721

2 жыл бұрын

I always think about My Sweet Lord

@wickharr4416

2 жыл бұрын

Dorian is so cool, I always think it sounds autumnal and mysterious. i - ii implies Dorian too and feels great to play with as well.

@noaswes

2 жыл бұрын

Breeeeathe, breathe in the aaair

Anyone else loving how 'something in the way' by nirvana has the same chord progression as 'funeral march' by Chopin

Thank you once more in teaching me in ten minutes what would have taken me hours to learn otherwise. You're a legend!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

As a Pink Floyd fan I am very glad that you included Comfortably Numb.

@pedroaffonso82

2 жыл бұрын

But he completely missed that the best example of a i - IV change is Breathe

@olivarionline1

2 жыл бұрын

@@pedroaffonso82 Pink Floyd is full of i - IV ... Breathe, Any Colour You Like, Great Gig in the Sky, Shine on you Crazy Diamond, even Money and Another Brick in the Wall from verse to chorus... it's their signature chord progression almost

@NBrixH

2 жыл бұрын

@@pedroaffonso82 He has to limit the amount of examples. I’m sure he didn’t miss it, but chose comfortably numb instead.

@NBrixH

2 жыл бұрын

@@olivarionline1 I guess that works well for their style. Also, isn’t also something about them often being in the key of G? Or is it C? There is a key that many of their songs are in, I’m fairly sure all of Wish You Were Here (the album) is in G.

@olivarionline1

2 жыл бұрын

@@NBrixH true Roger Waters most probably writes on acoustic and a lot of his songs are on G major. Shine On is on Gm though with a very different mood from the rest of the album.

This channel is such a blessing. You couldn't imagine how helpful these videos are to me

David, please never stop making these. You are helping us understand complex ideas with your simplistic approach. My new single was inspired by watching your videos and trying my best to make a perfect chord progression. I hope I can buy you a pint someday.

@ThePepush

2 жыл бұрын

Ew, it's you. Please don't break my wine glasses.

@TheVolginator

2 жыл бұрын

Gross

7:55 i absolutely adore it in songs, as well as going from a major chord to a minor one. it adds some ✨spice✨

Yay! Thank you! I have been so excited to learn more about chord function thanks to your channel. Super grateful and inspired by your offerings.

A progression that I believe it's missing there is i to II, that means, minor one to major two. It's a very strong progression being II the secondary dominant of V grade. There's an example by a famous composer of my country, Argentina, the great Astor Piazzolla, in one of his most known songs "Libertango".

Another good show, David Bennett Piano! I always find myself watching your channel over the old man's stuff ( Rick Beato) more times than not. Have a great day.

Wonderfully helpful, as always. Thanks, David! 👍😊

I asked and you delivered!!! BLESS YOU!!

You should make a video on hearing progressions that don’t start on the 1 chord! I always have a hard time with those

@RandyBakkelund

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, and besides a 2-5-1 progression, because that is so typical in jazz.

Excellent, I always learn something from your videos. Thank you, David.

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter! 😀😀

Dude! Another 10-minute video that took me an hour to digest and explore...thanks a million!!! Plus, an unexpected Simon & Garfunkel nod and a "penultimate" usage...keep it the great work!

Always a highlight to follow your explanations. Thanks for sharing your huge knowledge.

Something In The Way (4:30) is one of the most haunting and beautiful songs to me. Brings me to tears sometimes... Even though it’s only two chords, Kurt’s voice and gift for melody, gives me chills every time I hear that song.

@avedic

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Interestingly.....I've always thought of it as.... iii - I But that's just me. Maybe I'm wrong? Or not?

Seriously one of the best music related videos I’ve seen. Keep it up!!

Another brilliant video man! I appreciate you so much!

Yooo, something in the way has been my reference for i-bVI for a long time! Great video!

Really great stuff bro. Keep up that good work

I've watched all your videos over the past 3 years 😅 all still great

So clairifying. Thanks! Great video yet again!

The second he played that minor ii I heard 505 instantly

@paulkyle

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah right

@paulkyle

2 жыл бұрын

Arctic Fockin' Monkeys

hah he started playing the 1 to 2 progression from 505 and that organey sound on his keyboard was so perfectly accurate I got the song instantly

I don't even play piano but your content is just really watchable and understandable to people who have never learned anything about music.

I just found your channel. This is epic stuff. Thanks!

Great video as always much love❤️

Awesome stuff!!! 🙏🏼

I never thought I'd see Alex on one of your videos.... an instant click

I learn more about music from your channel than any other. Thank you so much.

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Underrated, this is mad helpful

THANKS for these excellent breakdowns of common chord progressions, very useful for teaching basic songwriting. Great examples too, although I think the last one “Comfortably Numb” is a bit of a stretch, since that movement at the beginning could be interpreted in so many ways. Ah, the greatness of the Floyd!

Put your chord comprehension skills to the test with this video on my 2nd channel: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dKttldWKgsvForQ.html 😁

Thanks for doing the minor-key version! Looking forward to videos for the other five modes, esp. Locrian 😜

David, your videos are more interesting than you realize. Terrific.

Thank you saying penultimate. I use it when I can too. Thank you for the content too, I learned quite a bit in a short amount of time.

I like the way the colors in your attire match the guitars hanging in the background.

Tremendously helpful to me! Big thx :)

I don't have perfect pitch or anything, but I think it's fascinating how I'm able to sing a random song, and it's always the right pitch, or how I can guess a note by comparing the distance/interval between said note and the note of a song in my head. It's weird, but it works!

One of my favorite examples of i-vi progression is in the theme from Being John Malkovich. It's utterly haunting.

Another Great Video Dave

These vids are great thanks keep up the good work! And I love all the radiohead references!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I would love to see you do videos about chromatic and non-functional harmony. There are a lot of great songs that don’t neatly fit into the chord progressions that you described in your last two videos.

You are the best music teacher ever!

I definitely learned something new with this. Very interesting topic!

yes!! a new vid from David! ❤️

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

😀😀

@a.c.5429

2 жыл бұрын

precious job mate!

Very well illustrated concept.

I'm a simple man I see the album "Nevermind" I click 5:05 I recognized it immediately!

Great, David :-) cool examples, many I didn't know :-)

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Good video! Another example of the major to minor progression (I - i - I) is Strauss' Thus Spoke Zarathustra (aka the opening to 2001). It may be less familiar but personally I find it clearer.

great examples!!

When you played Dm to Em i immediately heard 505 🤩

Congratulations for your lessons!

Nice lesson. I also particularly enjoyed your pronunciation of garFUNKel.

You're a very good explainer.

The number 1 music guru on youtube!

Morning Bell (Radiohead) also goes from minor tonic to major tonic.

Really loving these videos, I’d love to see more examples from hip hop (eg a lot of contemporary songs in this genre use i-bvi i-v i-V, etc)

@Arycke

2 жыл бұрын

Can you suggest the examples from contemporary songs you speak of please?

@vvilliam5677

2 жыл бұрын

@@Arycke eg i-VI bandit by juice wrld

@Arycke

2 жыл бұрын

@William C thank you for sharing. I just checked it out. However, it isn't a i-VI. It is a i-bVI then a melodic run from bVI yo bVII to i in Fminor (you can hear the Db and Eb leading back to the F tonic in the last bar of the loop). It's diatonic. i-VI (one minor to natural six major as you have it listed) isn't strictly in any one key, which this song is; also, i-VI isn't native to major, melodic minor, nor harmonic minor minimally (I'm not familiar with harmonic major nor double harmonic major so I can't say for certain there). I appreciate you sharing an example nonetheless.

@vvilliam5677

2 жыл бұрын

@@Arycke I misspoke I meant bVI which I realize is native to melodic minor. My apologies. Glad you got the chance to check out the song and do some analysis on it though!

@vvilliam5677

2 жыл бұрын

melodic rap tends to lean pretty heavily on the bVI because of its generally emotional sound

Ok. The songs used in this video as examples would make a fantastic playlist.

The best! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thank you very much for this series lessons :)

@DavidBennettPiano

5 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊

Insightful ❤️❤️❤️

i - I blew my mind; didn't know you could have variance in the tonic, but I guess that's what determines if it's a minor or major key and why that's the main division we work with in Western music even though major and minor are only two of the modes.....Damn, that just taught me a whole damn lot

Entertaining and informative as ever, thanks! I wonder though whether some of the examples that seemed to be borrowing chords might be more usefully thought of as being in a different mode: for instance, i-IV and i-II in Dorian and i-bII as Phrygian? It depends upon how the rest of the song goes, of course, but if other chords or melodies also use the alternative note, that might seem a more natural way of working.

@starfishsystems

2 жыл бұрын

I agree that it's a more coherent treatment of the diatonic scale to expose the mode in these examples. It's also a great way to illustrate how modes really are a thing, which is not so intuitive when illustrated with a melody line. Coming at it by introducing accidentals to the key, when what we hear is not at all dissonant, seems needlessly confusing. There's no coherent way to account for it, so we're left wondering if this whole key signature thing is kind of arcane and arbitrary. (Some notation does seem arbitrary, such as assigning the key of C to name the chromatic scale, when it would be logical to choose A. These oddities get in the way of exposing the real theory.) So yeah, at the cost of introducing modes early, we get a coherent account of diatonic chord scales and harmony pretty much for free. This is also an argument, I think, for not representing chords in the minor scale as degrees of the major scale. It's not i - bIII for example, but much more naturally i - III provided that we're aware that we're in a minor key. (We could even, in principle, dispense with this minor key notation and instead treat it as the Aeolian mode. Either way, we're able to refer to the natural notes of the scale when naming the chord degrees. Sooner or later we do have to introduce the natural minor scale, because it's in such common use that we'll be constantly tripping over it if we don't. Yet I would rather build it onto existing theory than try to build the theory around it.)

another awesome lesson. your channel is so good.

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I would argue that relative major and minor keys are actually the same key, because they're not really the key of the root notes, but more so a system of notes consisting of a dissonant tritone resolving to a consonant major third which is shared by both chords, making them tonic. This would mean that the same chord function would have a different name depending on the chord used as reference for the key, basically whether you're "in the relative major" or "in the relative minor," even though they're the same key. For example, the first chord function you talk about, V in minor, would be the same as III in major; so in C major or A minor, it would be the E chord; and you can really hear it too, it's the same sound.

An interesting version of the flat second chord one is First It Giveth by Queens Of The Stone Age. The first two chords of the verses are Bb (power chord) and B major, but the vocal melody starts on an F on the B major chord and gives it an unusual sound.

Just in case some of these might also help y’all- i - V Smooth (verse) i - iv Moondance (pre chorus, although it technically is iv - i repeated) i - IV Moondance (chorus) i - ii Moondance (verse) i - VI Californication (verse and pre chorus)

Fantastic content

@DavidBennettPiano

Жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thanks!

The intro and verses of hotel california is also a good example of a i - V sound (bm - F#)

I think a great example of the i - bII progression is For the Love of God by Steve Vai, as the song spends a good amount of time shifting between Em and F.

Ngl the IV in the minor key sounds just as good as iv in Major. When you played that chord i instantly thought of Eric Whitacre - Seal Lullaby, it was my favourite choir song when i sang in high school

@J-W_Grimbeek

2 жыл бұрын

Also the bII reminded me of Nightmare before Christmas. Can't remember which song exactly, think it was one Sally sung

When he played the flat sixth one and played it multiple times I was like “play something in the way already bro” anyway amazing video!!

You blow my mind and confuse the crap out of me at the same time with music theory! I feel like an infant from my most loved high school band days compared to the knowledge you possess! 😅

He played the first chords and I thought immediately thought of let it be

Thank you for such an extended and comprehensive video. I have a question, wouldn't the iiº chord on because by The Beatles be a iim7b5 a half-diminished chord instead of a full diminished one. In the minor natural scale the diatonic chord that comes from the 2nd degree is a half-diminished chord. All the best!

Good timing for this video! I just discovered “Something in the way” in the new Batman movie soundtrack

that comfortably numb thing never sounded to me like a im-i. the major third sounds like an uncanny tension over the minor chord, not like part of a major chord. i dont get the sense of brightness youd get from briefly stepping into major, its rather pretty dark sounding. its very interesting to hear you experience it differently though!

@SomniRespiratoryFlux

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like Comfortably Numb is a weird case where the example is more memorable and noteworthy because it's so tenuous and ambiguous. Because it's a slide guitar gradually changing the third degree from minor to major, the rest of the chord being held separately from that change, it keeps the minor sound. The result is that even the major chord tones sound eerie and kind of fake (assuming the slide even goes to the major third - I'm not entirely sure it even does, at least not for more than a brief moment). And especially given the lyrical themes of the song, that fits perfectly - a hollow version of the major tonic that is pretty transparently a façade for the true minor tonic beneath it.

@byeo9001

2 жыл бұрын

Agree, sounds like a minor 3rd sliding up to the 5th to me lol

@tonybates7870

2 жыл бұрын

It touches, very briefly, on the B major, but I wouldn't say it's a i - I. More like a slide guitar that happens to suggest that chord for a second.

Hey I really appreciate your videos can you make a video on how to write a song and choose genre ?

Okay Exit music for a film is an amazing song. It’s really what got me into RH originally.

1:20 wait ok this is very enlightening thank you now I clearly know what crowd I’ve joined 💀

probablly one of the most helpful videos any amateur pianist or musician could find! golden bro edit: golden bruv* lol cheers

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers!

@SziontificMystic

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidBennettPiano and may I add,: Lifelong musicians as well. Good work

@eduardoaguileraneicun5876

2 жыл бұрын

even for not so amateur musicians it's good

Usually your examples strike a chord (pun acknowleged!) with me, but I must be really old today, as none of the examples in the first 3+ minutes are familiar to me. Love your channel, by the way!

@MikeS29

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I stuck it out! Thanks again!

Thanks for not putting Kurt's face next to Billie eyelash. Respect

Just a small point; In The Beatles bumper songbook Because is in the key of C sharp minor but the second chord is is described as F sharp minor 6 which I think is to make it easier to play on the guitar however if you look at the notes that are played in the bass in the sheet music the chord is d sharp half diminished. Apparently the 2 half diminished chord is diatonic in minor keys.

I'm a massive sucker for the i - bVI. The album Owari wa Kanai by 1000 Travels of Jawaharlal is like all i - bVI progressions and it's amazing

Cool - Until now, the only song I knew of that used a i-I progression was Earl Scruggs' Nashville Blues (From the album "Will the Circle Be unbroken" by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band). A very different sound than "Comfortably Numb".

Bm to F# (or the same up and down the neck) is just something you do if you play barre chords on guitar . Lol. U know a lot more about music than most songwriters.

6:39 I SCREAMED when I heard this

I got this guy's own ad on his video

@DavidBennettPiano

2 ай бұрын

😂

no se mucho ingles ni de teoria musical pero si puedes leer esto quiero que sepas que me gusto mucho tu video y aprendi muchas cosas

Another exemple of a song with I-i is The Shock of the Lightning by Oasis, alternating between B to Bm

A good example of minor to major is ending of Astronomy Domine by Pink Floyd.

That’s a nice jumper.

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's my favourite!

Am I crazy or is 505 a bad example of i to ii? Isn't it actually iv and v? I've always heard that song in Am, the vocal melody seems to make that clear. Someone help me out!! (Would love to hear from David but that would be a rare treat lol, anyone can help!)

@loicgiguelay

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same, idk if it's a mistake or if David and other people actually hear it as being in D minor.

@slidenaway

2 жыл бұрын

@@loicgiguelay thank you!! Maybe it’s just a mistake. Thank you so much for confirming lol, I was questioning my sanity