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Chord symbols can frequently include little rules and conventions that can be difficult to understand or remember. So today I'm going through each and every single chord symbol you might possibly experience so you understand what to do when you're learning your next song!
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0:00 Intro.
0:19 Triads.
1:35 Suspended chords.
1:54 Seventh chords.
2:54 Decreased sevenths.
3:49 Upper chord extensions.
5:02 Omit chords.
5:31 Upper chord alterations.
6:16 Major 9th, 11th & 13th.
7:01 Tomplay.
7:48 Power chords.
8:11 Sixth chords.
9:12 Altered chords.
9:42 Slash chords.
10:34 Miscellaneous chords.
11:31 NAME THAT CHORD! (Round 1).
12:54 NAME THAT CHORD! (Round 2).
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This is a fantastic and useful video.
Thanks for the info.
Cheers!!
Thanks Mr Bennett, I needed this for reading more difficult jazz charts!
Thanks a lot! I had some confusion when in academical harmony textbooks saw 6 chords as just 1st inversion of triads, that is, 6 chords with omitted 5. But I hope I got it all now.
I’m actually a drummer but I’m also a music theory nerd so I really like this!
I am just beginning to learn drums and music theory, and my brain is close to melting after watching this. But I learnt quite few things that had puzzled me.
Man you can’t know how much useful this video will be, I’ve always wanted to look at the subject but never had the motivation neither found a good video about it ; you’re definitely gonna change that, thanks a lot!
It’s crazy that I never had any of my music teachers take a day/lesson to go over all of them like this.
the last chord you showed is a G(add2)(add6)(add7)(add10)(add11)(omit3)(omit5) very jazzy indeed
lol
perfect video man, just about 5 years too late in my case 😋 i’m a guitarist and i’ve noticed long ago that while *Csus2* and *Csus4* are commonly noted as such, people would not use the term *Cadd2* and *Cadd4* but rather *Cadd9* and *Cadd11* although most often it’s really the 2 and 4 they’re adding to the chord and not these _upper extensions_ that you would expect with 9 and 11 … i will be extra clear from now on. makes life so much easier, especially when working with others and sharing music and knowledge. I know guys who have called Csus2 chords C9, and that’s where it gets criminal …
this video is like having all the pieces of a puzzle suddenly all coming together. one of the most informative videos on this topic, amazing work!
Thank you!!!
Legend. I really admire how you keep your explanations concise, yet still clear and complete. That takes a lot of hard, smart work.
Woah, thank you so much!! I’ve started trying to look at chord symbols beyond all the most commonly found ones, so this is a godsend. 🙂
Is it me, or are the sounds of the chords not matched up with the actual chords near the end?
At 11:40 for example, it sounds like the C(add2) chord, instead of the Cm7(add11) chord, and a couple of them before that also don’t sound how it should. The actual Cadd2 chord, sounds completely different to how it should sound.
I noticed that the Cadd2 sounds similar to what the Cm7(add11) should sound like, which was weird.
That last chord sounds like a weirdly voiced F chord to me, the subdominant flavor is too strong for me to call it a G chord. If the G was an octave lower it would probably sound more like a dominant chord (a F/G specifically).
Fmaj7(#11)/G
I guess I was taught that with extended chords you stop at the 7th (usually omit the 5th) and add the upper extension, ie a 13th chord prob doesn’t have a 9th or an 11th, and 11th chord probably doesn’t have the 5th or the 9th. the chord gets a shell voicing + any listed upper extensions but not all of them. if the composer wants all of them it would be a stacked like a 13=A triad+ GM7 on top.
Thank you for this video! I love how your channel makes learning a lot of the jargon in music much more fun!
I just wish someone told me the difference between the interval names to the scale degrees back when I started learning theory, that was deeply confusing to me, for more years then I would like to admit, actually
honestly thanks david. understanding certain chord sequences was something i struggled with but i sort of learned to live with. it is amazing that i finally understand them now and use the correct notes without guessing lol
On a related RE: suspended chords, I learned from reading The Jazz Piano Book that a suspended voicing in jazz doesn’t necessarily mean to replace the third with the fourth or the second. In fact, you often retain the third in a sus4.
This is absolutely the best music theory channel out there, straight to business, extremely clear descriptions and visuals, and ordered perfectly for anyone to learn piece by piece. I feel like my knowledge has increased immensely since subscribing, and this is coming from someone who hasn’t studied theory from year 9.
On ukulele chord charts, since ukuleles have 4 strings, almost always when a dim7 is to be played, it is notated as simply a dim chord; that is, the 7 is implied.