Upper Structure Triads - Easy Method For Learning Extended Chords

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First time I am getting to understand Upper Structures. Thank you, Warren

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[@beadyr4810]

This is a good explanation. I like the 7th chord. I can see how to make the upper triad chords. Yes! Make more instructional videos.

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[@BenIsFiguringitOut]

I’m pretty sure I’ve accidentally used extended chords over the years, but never knew what they were or how to use them. This is one area I want to continue to improve in. Thanks as usual for this lesson!

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Always wondered how I was supposed to memorize all those long, complex chords. Thank u for this, man.

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I love the way you broke the extended chords to make them easy and simple to understand. Thank U Mr Warren

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Thanks Warren. Perhaps one of your easiest lessons to follow. It also gave fantastic insight into scales to run on certain chords. I feel advanced already 😊

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So cool your explanation about this subject!!!!!

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From NAClark- Yes, Yes we want more on this 9, 11,13th chords, please!

[@MrDarktunes]

Thank you very much for your clear explanation!

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[@owens4534]

that's a cool way to explain the extensions. Thanks again.

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[@everlastingsaturnalia]

This is epic.. Saw a vid by David Bennett who explained this same concept and I had never thought of it that way. I really appreciate your detailed deep dive for further study. As a new pianist but longtime lover of music and music theory, this is going to help me make crazy gains on the piano! Thank you so much 💪

[@eugeniapledger3822]

Love love those 7s and 9’s!

[@carolclark1344]

Thanks so much, Warren! Really helpful in making 9th 11th and 13 th chords - very helpful!!!

[@KerryonBass]

I don't play much keyboard but applying this to guitar is great since in a band setting someone like bass player would be holding down the root. You can imply very complex chords just playing simple triads and not play 4 finger chords. Thanks for this explanation Warren! I'm not a pro, just a life long lover of music and learning and it's so great to see a fellow Jamaican who REALLY knows their stuff AND is giving back to the community for those who may not have had the means or opportunity to study as you have. Wish you all the best!

[@darvifrancois3336]

This is amazing ! God bless you Warren

[@earnestpaul8475]

Bro , Thank you very much for teaching this construction of upper triads . Really it’s an easy method of understanding things but again as you said voicing is very important and playing in clusters .

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[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

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[@pankajjoshi3189]

Again one more beautiful video ..... You have made these complex chords very easy and logical .... Nice video again 👍👌

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You're a blessing brother, I've been playing on & off for years, been using those, but never understood... you one of kind....God bless you

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[@josephharrison6175]

👍 C major 9, #11 = C major 9, raised 11... Thanks for your insights and examples. I'm trying to get up to speed lol Appreciate you sir

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[@scottlynnrobinson426]

Hello Warren I would consider myself a beginner due to admittng my need to start at the beginning. Although I am familiar with US triads but it is not anything I can use at this point. I was working with a piano teacher and he was saying I couid improve if I would incorporate US triads and extended chords. He didn't seem to be interested in where I was skill-wise or wanted to take me step by step. Needless to say, I discontinued his services. This lesson is my future for sure!

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[@josephharrison6175]

Upper-Structure triads forming altered extended chords... 👀 Thanks!

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[@palashacharjee3812]

Great lesson sir. Minor extension chords explain please

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[@ozboomer_au]

Ohhh, man... This has opened-up a stack of options on how to build the extended chords simply. Know your major scale (C, D, E, ...) and its harmonization (C: C, Dm, Em, ...). Start with a triad. Go to _a_ degree (2nd, 5th, ...)... build a diatonic (to the NOTE) triad from that degree (Maj, Min, Aug, ...) and look at the 6 notes in context of the original Major scale... which will let you match the extensions in the 'upper structure triad'. How huge is this gonna be? :D ... Note, that it appears the software is not 'configured' to match the key we're playing in (I guess), as the chord names don't always match the description given... A very helpful and inspiring video... Fanx! a heap!

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Down a half step diatonically from given chord 1. A diminished = 11th chord 2. A minor = 9 #11

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Santorini degli Archangeli awesome , what state you living in now? Or you back in JA?

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Santorini degli Archangeli thanks man, sure thing. Btw, do you pianist Michel Gordon? He’s coming up in August here in Maine to attend USM and study with Laura - basically the same path I took.

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Hey Warren. I wanted to ask if you could make a lesson on just common Old School Gospel fill-in riffs/ licks. There are certain stand alone Old School Gospel riffs that I hear that are so common and always wanted to learn. Thanks!

[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

Thanks for the suggestion. Can you post links to some of those songs here?

[@statesman6379]

It is not any particular song that I am referring to. It is the common Gospel Old school riffs and runs that are often heard in most songs (the in-between setup riffs/ chord patterns played between the main skeleton of the song). An example I can give is this link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2HKYnR3pMyrqaM I don't like this particular run, but he is teaching the basic idea of what I am trying to convey.

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Warren, thanks for the lesson. It was a good explanation about altered chords. I also want say thank you for making available the practice templates for Beginners and Intermediate. I've printed them out and using the practice templates. I know today's gospel music is jazz influenced, but will you in the future have jazz lessons? Thank you again for this recent lesson. Blessings Cynthia

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Hi Cynthia, yes, all the stuff taught in this channel and in my paid courses are all jazz concepts

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[@shashankchauhan5009]

Hi Warren! Great content as usual. QQ: how’d one practice inversions of these extended chords? Because, other than standard root voicing, the next best sounding ones are the rootless voicings or altered voicings. Please share just one of the “ways” in one key. Thanks 🙏

[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

Thanks for watching. The best way to practice these are in the form of progression oppose to just an isolated chord. Which that being said, I’ve already done the heaving lifting in the courses - pianolessonwithwarren.com/courses/fat-chords-how-to-voice-9th-11th-13th-chords/

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Hey Warren what's the name of the piano's sounds you use? do you use kontakt with any spesific piano sounds?

[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

I use Addictive Keys

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Great explanation. 3 dislikes? I can see ambivalence, but who dislikes this?

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[@AdzzVR]

Only 3min in, so basically, I can play the triad a 3rd away from whatever major chord I put in my left hand ? Thanks

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[@brianramz6681]

Guys did you all see that arpeggio he did @ 20:39 ?? Warren where can we get that with correct fingering for 12 keys?

[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

Unfortunately I don’t have a lesson on that as yet.

[@nicholusmanqoba8493]

Hi Warren. Thank you for this tutorial, it's really mind blowing for me. So when you invert the extended chords, do you also invert the root chord on your left or you only invert the triad added?

[@godreign9556]

Hi Warren , please which software do you use to display the keys you play on the keyboard, Thanks

[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

It’s called Midiculous.

[@godreign9556]

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Sir when will u go deeper on this

[@stephan3694]

hello Sir.. Wonderful tutorial.. Just one question. Are there extended chords for the minor chords?

[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

Absolutely

[@LumadiBawono75]

I wish I can figure out what I need to complement what I already have and want to purchase something useable. Since I am somewhere between beginner and intermidiate level figuring out what I really need is not an easy task. That's an awesome video there. You should create something like I will play the song in plain chords or root chords by stanza and then I will play a song adding those 7th , 9th, 11th and 13th etc. This way audience will notice how to use this extended chords and bridges of chords/ passing chord. Does your paid lesson have this format? Play in ordinary chords and then you play in extra ordinary examples with extended chords like you've just explained so that it can be easily grasp. but of course plenty of songs to practice on those extended chords. Sorry Warren I am very picky because I need something I can understand easily and can be applied right away. You have done a good job in enticing me and I am very curious.

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Thanks for watching. I’d strongly suggest you try out the member here pianolessonwithwarren.com. This way you get access too all the courses and you skip through courses and work only that the things you don’t already know.

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19:10

[@samoscar593]

Warren I'm having a problem on hand positioning and how to quickly find key while singer raise a song.

[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

I have a course for this, pianolessonwithwarren.com/courses/the-ear-training-regimen-for-beginners-and-intermediates/

[@Richard_Rz]

Ill never understand how you play a chord and then have to figure out what you did AFTERWARD such as @27:16. Also I'm not getting whether you're doing a C7 with a Dm for example with the right hand but the in the Dm isnt just a triad but can handle different SCALES within the the Dm. Is that what youre showing? Sorry for such an embarassingly basic question but this is exciting stuff for me! Its like learning i have 12 fingers.

[@uhoh007]

How did so many players suddenly start using extensions around 1890-1950? I believe composers, writing for or dealing with singers began to add bass notes underneath the harmony. Put A under C triad you have Am7, which shows how one bass note can change everything. The "piling" 3rds idea was not behind the dramatic rise, I don't think. So I love that you use the idea of "two chords", but remember none of these american songbook composers knew modes. I think they had a harmonized triad on top and began adding stuff underneath. That explains how such a variety of chords was created, often with altered notes.

[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

All this theory start so solidify with jazz in the 1920 and 30s. But if you listen to guys like Chopin, Wagner, Debussy, and Gershwin you’ll also hear these harmonies

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There are subtitles. I need to turn them on. See CC in the bottom right of the screen.

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Yikes….I’m listening eventually I’ll get it🤓

[@Boxing24101]

25:35 how did the 5th change the value of Ab from sharp 5 to flat 13???

[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

Without the 5th, I’m theory it is just a #5. With the added 5th, we cannot have two 5th, so the Ab becomes the b13th

[@Boxing24101]

@@PianoLessonwithWarren Thank you I was over thinking it

[@yemzlol]

C maj 7 9 #11. I like to think of this as E min 9/C. I have to do less brain work as well

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@@smoothbuddha7212 Yh it makes sense. Especially if you are a beginner. But theory above everything else as always!

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[@mycoowomutwe3252]

hehe come to Africa you will see how F# is a big deal..guys transpose to that hahahah

[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

Well that’s very interesting. Why is F# so popular over there?

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@@PianoLessonwithWarren haha the pentatonic scale is written all over.. no need for calculations.. just slide th fingers over the black keys and u sound like a pro...

[@PianoLessonwithWarren]

myco owomutwe aweee yes, that doesn’t make things easier. However, for licks, likes, and runs, it’s one of the worst keys.