Augmented Chords MADNESS: What You Can Do With Augmented Chords

[@What-the-meow-meow]

Also for anyone wanting more cool info. If you flatten any one note in a diminished chord (diminished 7th chords sound better) it will turn into a type of 7 chord, with the root of the chord being the note you flattened :3

[@EclecticEssentric]

Often, the obvious is only obvious once it has been explained just how obvious it is. Thank you for making me realize more of the obvious. I really appreciate it.

[@binface9]

Thank you Timmy for putting this more eloquently than I could

[@xblinketx]

Mindblowing. This is one of these videos I need to watch a few times, take some notes, grab an instrument and play around with this concept.

[@Bronco541]

Augmented chords are like the magic portal at the center of the circle of fitfhs

[@kanvolu]

I loved two things in this video: 1) How you didn't care about Enharmonics. 2) THE AUGMENTED MADNESS

[@chiju]

Another Monday, another mind-blowing music lesson.

[@172ndStudios]

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[@ricardoparra888]

Most channels teach the same techniques and resources, but man, you take it to another dimension, I always loved the sound of Aug chords, but until now I didn't have a good idea of how to use them besides cliches. THANK YOU!!!!

[@ashamael]

I've always been intrigued by augmented chords but never really worked at understanding how to use them. This video just made it *click* for me!!! Top notch material as usual, man!!

[@gerardocorrea9559]

This video is mind blowing. Lots and lots of musical ideas just come to my mind. Another sleepless night full of experiments with aug chords. Thanks for your valuable videos.

[@tommytam100]

This is so powerful, yet so simple to understand. Thanks to your great explanation.

[@TheRealBalloonHead]

I love dissonance, the more the better, as long as it eventually resolves. Thanks Tomasso, your content is as good as it gets.

[@ArtinSinger]

Although when it’s late in the night and I am very tired, it’s physically impossible to miss your lessons, because they are so good that it’s a must to watch 😇 Thanks again so much 🙏

[@saptaksoctave8068]

Wowwwww.... You are such a genius! You won't believe me, but I was thinking about u today... And thinking when u are going to upload a new video! And here u are!

[@binface9]

8:31 what stood out for me here is that it could be taken as an interesting take on the 1-4-5 progression (or 5-1-4) in F major

[@mykhelderian]

Wow. What a powerful piece of theory!! Not fully digestible in one sitting. with so much to feed on. Excellent presentation. Such a rich piece of music used in your opening example. Would have liked to have heard more. Thanks for this gem.

[@ulfsvensson9710]

Love your conclution, what´s the meaning of knowing theory if not to use it!!

[@AlDunbar]

... or sometimes abuse it...

[@qf6894]

Lovely familiar 'classic sounding' progressions. Would be great to take this for a walk down bebop road for some funky advanced jazz augmentations.

[@kevinmedvedocky165]

This is a good and extensive lesson on augmented chords.

[@dennisferrell3662]

Wow, what an ear-opener for an old folkie! Thank you.

[@enterrupt]

Another beautiful demonstration of the power of symmetry. This was a video the world needed!

[@edwardv4546]

Whoa. Had no clue these were just as interesting as diminished chords. Thank you!

[@andrewrwhitfield]

You have a real talent for explaining clearly and concisely. Thank you for sharing this with us along with such a wealth of knowledge on music theory.

[@VinnyODowd]

Fantastic! The spiderweb diagram really made it crystal clear! Thank you!

[@michaeleaster1815]

I appreciate the continuity between this video and the first one! Thanks for the great lessons

[@MrPedroCarneiro]

Really and really and really thank you. I will take weeks or months to absorb that ... thanks for the explanation and for the passion of telling this important theory. See you in the next video. Really thanks for this one. 👍

[@jcgofredo2239]

This cleared up months of my confusion about Augmented chord theory. Thank you.

[@jcavazos8]

I have been playing guitar for quite a few years by ear, and decided to try the piano. I was looking for an understanding of chords as I had never bothered to learn theory. Your videos have been very helpful as I have learned the theory and has helped improve my guitar playing and have transferred it to the piano as well. Thanks

[@philipkarovski281]

Thank you so much for these lessons! You make these hard musical ideas very easy to understand and even better you show us how they are aplicable in real musical situations. Can't wait to try this

[@jeremiahlyleseditor437]

Great Technique Tommaso Another great video

[@dkelley9661]

Beautiful. Not too dissonant indeed. Thanks for the great teaching

[@EarleMonroe]

This was great, especially for me to learn that any of the notes just one half step away makes a new major or minor chord. I accidentally put an augmented chord on a track when I was moving the midi notes and made the 5th sharp. I liked the sound of it, but then again I like a lot of things that other people find dissonant.

[@playguitar247]

This was awesome! I got so inspired watching this, thank you! I need to take your course it would really help me.

[@AMB666]

What about you teach us some of your awesome orchestration?! Great job man! Really loved it.

[@aidanoconnor4881]

Genius. Thanks for all the time you put into these videos :)

[@christophervolas7523]

really dig your theory explanations really break it down to simple

[@popatyourecords]

Good stuff my friend

[@jeanlucchapelon]

Very good! Clear ;full of possibilities ! Thanks

[@srdjanbabic8561]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO. Thank you for this.

[@5966ramesh]

Amazing video. Amazing teacher. Beautifully explained. Thank you brother.

[@luism.rivera3464]

Loved your video. Though, you missed Bb+ after F+ to create total madness! Guess it didn't fit in the screen... . Outstanding job!

[@WillzUQ]

Beautiful music!!! Beautiful video!!! Gorgeous Options!!!

[@wulfenii64]

This was very enlightening. That you very much.

[@Dayita1314]

Thanks a lot for your generous sharing the knowledge.🙏

[@andreimansan]

Very nice! I really liked the chord progressions.

[@resb1714]

Absolutely fabulous lesson ... also mind altering as well! Thank you for this 😎🙏!!!

[@resb1714]

... or mind augmenting 🤣🤘!!!

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

HAHAH :)

[@michealrotimi7921]

Beautiful tutorial!

[@freeman5885]

Very cool composition!

[@matthewhennessey5967]

Our uke player wrote a song with 2 Aug chords in a song (just cause he thought they sounded good....They sounded great). This is pretty applicable (as a bass player). Thank you!

[@waiteck05]

Grazie mille mi stai aiutando tantissimo a capirci qualcosa della musica anche se sono solo all'inizio. Su il pollicione 👍

[@farfetchedtangmo7474]

Regardless of their musical utility, I like them mostly for their emotional content. Brilliant video on the former, and I believe once players/composers get that sound in the soul, they'll find other uses. Sometimes an augmented chord can just stand there nakedly augmenting.

[@intrinsic524]

thank you for chord video i need this guiar theory

[@pieza43]

Increíble video maestro!

[@abrahamjohnson2018]

wow! now i understand the concepts

[@future62]

I was going to say this would have been so much better with the "bridge" note between each chord for voice leading, but that sounds like a good homework assignment..... great vid as always, what a time to learn music theory.

[@waynewhiteguitar1]

This is beautiful stuff!

[@lighterwaves5659]

the info on this channel is ridiculous 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@GeminisArising]

Let me see if you really read our comments and I say this with respect. I enjoy your way of explaining in your distinguished accent. Kindly do 2 videos. Both Meshuggah type tonalities using diminished and augmented scale. Don't worry about 6/7/8 down tuned guitars or the gear, I just want to know if we have a dissonant scale such as the above, how do we make a chord progression into motif - verse 1 - pre chorus -1 -chorus 1-verse 2- chorus 2- verse 3-chorus 3 - chorus 4 or just verse-chorus also will do. Thanx in advance.

[@musicskillzbymarkvartok]

Tomasso! This is incredible! All my respect to you for making these lessons for the public! Grazie mille! Question though: how would this whole method change with coming in with 4 voicings such as Cmaj7, Dm7, Em7 etc...

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Thanks! It would not change much, you can always add a 7 or a maj7 to the augmented chords (or double the root), then it's just the standard voice leading between 7th chords.

[@vili8025]

Very good teaching!

[@monsieurmitosis]

This lesson really “augmented” my musical knowledge

[@Chai_K]

Thank you very much! 😊🙏

[@michaelcraig9449]

Hey is it possible you could show this stuff on guitar, that way we can learn how to apply and play all this stuff a lot better.Thanks. .

[@drunkass77]

This is awesome. The one thing I'm not quite getting is the C+ to Db chord. I need to figure that part out

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

C+ = Ab+ and Ab is the V to Db.

[@drunkass77]

@@MusicTheoryForGuitar thanks for responding, i looked up the augmented modulation video you linked with this video and it explained it well. This is a really great lesson. I've been trying to improve my use of augmented chords and these videos have been very helpful👍

[@oldrockhopper3652]

So C+, E+ and G#+ are all inversions of each other since they are symmetrical. This would then mean there are only four distinct augmented chords if you ignore all the inversions: C+, C#+, D+ and D#+. Great video showing how useful they are to modulate keys or just create some cool chord progressions.

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Yup, there are only 4 of them.

[@AlDunbar]

@@MusicTheoryForGuitar and, similarly, only three different diminished chords, assuming its seventh is always included.

[@gwalla]

He doesn't show it in the video but if you add in the fourth augmented triad the whole chain forms a loop.

[@OzzieWozzieOriginal]

next song i gonna compose, gonna insert a few augmented

[@cds572]

Thank you.

[@TedBoyRomarino]

The idea of flattening one note and getting a major chord reminded me of diminished tetrad, which leads you to 4 different dominant chords flattening one note... This property of augmented chords is new to me, and I'll try to make some experiments here... Cheers, Tommaso... Great explanation, as always

[@TedBoyRomarino]

I thought diminished chords were gates to other dimensions... Today I discovered another gate with this wonderful lesson

[@AlDunbar]

... or sharpening one note to get a minir sixth!

[@kylethreeshots2571]

@@AlDunbar Like this aeo maj7 = Harmonic min dor maj7 = melodic min phry maj7 = Harmonic min b2 ( lyd #6 = the N6 chord derive ) Mix maj7 = Ionian Loc Maj7 = Harmonic min b2, b5 Loc b4 = vii of Melodic min phy b4 = III of Harmonic MAJOR aeo b4 = shiet I just made up dor b4 = more stuff I made created. in a nutshell....the b4 is enharmonic to Maj3.. anything with b6 ( 1, b4, b6 = augmented intervals) The MAGIC is altering a min chord to an augmented chord. it's not hard...phygian dominant can also be made augmented These are just modes from the other scale... Im simply going to raise the b7 into a maj7 aeo b2 aeo #4 aeo b5......dor b2.....dor #4...dor b5 Aeo....................................dor Harmonic min Melodic min Harmonic min b2 melodic min b2 Harmonic min b5 melodic min b5 Harmonic min #4 melodic min #4 Harmonic min b2, b5 melodic min b2 , b5 Just SHIFTING ONE NOTE

[@kylethreeshots2571]

@@AlDunbar it helps if you know some theory or apply some of the lessons from this channel example the N6 chord after the MAJOR's tonic From C Major..it's the Db...chord Ive personally also use it after the relative min ( Bb chord) And after the Dominant ( Ab chord) the three modes i use as a GUIDE are In a nutshell...you can make WHATEVER is celver chord.lol Lyd #6 Harmonic min b2 lyd #5, #6 melodic min b2 lyd #2, #6 double harmonic min but lets just keep it simple from C MAJOR in D min chord The N6 chord.... Db/C#..aug it could be C# loc b4 or C# loc b4 bb7 to D Harmonic/melo or C# phy b4 to A Harmonic MAJOR or C# phy dom to F# Harmonic min but Im going to do this...becuase Im in C MAJOR/A min C Maj C# aug F# min B min E7 into A min C Maj F min Ab maj G7 into C MAJOR Bb maj7 F Maj G aug F # min G# min C# min D7 E7 A min You can play N6 after ANY major or min chord. such as after the F# min ( dorian to C#min/E MaJOR. I simply play it again after C# as D7 E7 into A min... I could had easily play the D as D augment to B min then E7 into A min

[@pjaunez]

Bravo!

[@Yeti6865]

I love the piece at the beginning. Do you have the whole work available?

[@jw6588]

Give me an augmented chord, straight no chaser baby

[@anirudhsilai5790]

You can also resolve a 7 b5 chord to an augmented chord, a double tritone substitution

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Interesting. Can you make me an example?

[@anirudhsilai5790]

@@MusicTheoryForGuitar For instance, F#7b5 could resolve to G+. The F# and C resolve to G and B while the A# and E resolve to B and D# as though you're in B major. It works because the 7 b5 chord has 2 pairs of tritones. After that the G+ could resolve to something like E or Em.

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Cool. I like it. Thanks!

[@scottmckenna9164]

This man knows his music theory

[@bigtimebugarpicker]

when you went from C to C+ to Dflat to G, wasn't that the same as a tritone sub on the V7 chord with the Dflat? and it works for the same reason.

[@FlashyLight]

Awesome video

[@mikitomita8524]

Amazing!

[@ergraham]

C - C+ - Ab - Fm - C could be treated as negative harmony, correct? The negative equivalent of I - I+ - iii - V (I - +I - bVI - iv)

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Yes

[@666cordyceps666]

AWESOME!

[@stan_likes_single_coils]

Mind - - > blown! 😁

[@armandogiordano1226]

Love your channel, deep and simple teaching at the same time, I' m checking it all out. The piece at the beginning was marvellous, what sound library did you use for it? Also what notation program? Thank you in advance and greetings from Italy.

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Thank you! The software is Staffpad, the samples are Berlin Orchestra.

[@onethousandtwonortheast8848]

Which of your courses has a focus on voice leading for jazz tunes? Want to learn the guitar while focusing on smooth voice leading so I can know all the cool Changes for jazz stuff. From there I can adopt that knowledge to anything I play. Thanks. I’m looking forward to learning from your course.

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

The course you want is Complete Chord Mastery. www.musictheoryforguitar.com/chords-and-harmony-guitar-lessons.html Please direct all course questions to [e-mail]

[@onethousandtwonortheast8848]

@@MusicTheoryForGuitar thanks very much. I’m a professional pianist and I want to learn the guitar. I’m hoping this is the beat way to do so. My guitar technique is good. I’ve spent a year developing it. Now I’m ready for learning the guitar fretboard etc.

[@Hoyawolfgang]

Thank you for the wonderful brain aching work out and for opening up the realm of possibility for the augmented chord- bravo for your work! Question... is your use of double and single ended arrows deliberate? Put another way, do the single ended arrows mean the chords would only move in one direction? Hope this makes sense 🙂

[@matydavus1078]

You are right

[@TheBaconWizard]

Nice, thank you :)

[@paolovolante]

This is a GREAT video! Thanks... I would LOVE an extension of it taking into account 4 voices chords (7th). It seems to me that this works only for triads. Is there a way to extend it to 4 notes chords?

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

It can be extended. You use the same voice leading tricks that are used to lead triads and tetrads (4-notes chords) into each other.

[@AlDunbar]

@@MusicTheoryForGuitar of course the top note is then an octave of the root. Also a bit awkward to play on strings D, G, B, and E.

[@gwalla]

Taking sevenths into account gets tricky. It's not too hard to connect seventh chords to each other but things get weird when you want to connect sevenths and triads. I have seen one attempt at mapping out the connections by using triads with doublings (so there are always four notes in a chord). The resulting map (the "extended 4-cube trio") is a lot less elegant though, it's sort of a spiderweb thing with some distorted mesh in the middle that kind of reminds me of the final boss from Star Fox.

[@Yupppi]

Great point about rhythm and context. Every time a theory youtuber shows a chord that's not very basic or a bit more interesting progression, I think to myself "wow that's very, very ugly, who would ever want to use that". Then they show multiple examples of very well known and beautiful songs where those are used. If you do augmentation for the fifth in minor chord, does it just become a 6 chord and sound beautiful if you do it for example on i chord?

[@joex9865]

My harmony knowledge just took some giant steps

[@achangberiame]

Very nice corporation in thank you very much sir teaching

[@GeminisArising]

make an example using meshuggah type tonality with augmented and diminished please..make it simple, understandable n replicable.please

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

The augmented interval is just an inverted Major third interval. So just how dissonant is it, really?

[@AlDunbar]

A major third interval sounds pleasant by itself. Or with a stacked minor third above in which case it makes a major triad. Replace the minor third with a fourth and you get the relative minor. Some say this is less pleasant than a major chord. But it really just has a somber feel that is nonetheless beautiful in it's own way. Note that in a different voicing a minor chord combines a major third and a minor third, which may be why it also sounds pleasant and settled. Now move that fourth down to a major third and you get an augmented triad. I agree that it's not exactly dissonant. But being halfway between a major chord and a minor one it is hard to figure out what its harmonic function is - it doesn't seem resolved. It's almost as if the chord itself doesn't know. You could say much the same for a diminished triad, but instead of the #5 interval between its top and bottom note it has a tritone.

[@Johnhasa1]

Magical

[@saptaksoctave8068]

Just a tiny typo in the description ... 'Listz' ... it should be 'Liszt' :-)

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Thanks! Corrected.

[@saptaksoctave8068]

@@MusicTheoryForGuitar Don't mention it... I will be forever indebted to you for all this knowledge you share... Tomasso can you just help me with something. Have you made any video on Tritone Substitutions? If you have please send me the link, can't find it...

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Sure, watch these: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anacgKZ5YteXpJI kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZbXq2hsopqEqrc

[@saptaksoctave8068]

MusicTheoryForGuitar yeah! Thank u so much! :-)

[@kukumuniu5658]

@@saptaksoctave8068 I heard that dominant Vchord has over 40 substitutes,not only triton

[@carbonmonoxide5052]

This is basically a description Neo-Remanian theory based on augmented chords (check it out if you’re unfamiliar). Really cool stuff, love your composition at the beginning!

[@TedBoyRomarino]

Is this se same line of thinking of Pat Martino? I heard something about him starting his harmonic reasonings from the augmented triad

[@DaveBessell]

In some ways the Tonnetz is easier to understand and has more possibilities than the way this is presented here. Still a cool video though.

[@gwalla]

He's pretty much describing the Cube Dance diagram (though he doesn't complete the loop with the fourth augmented triad)

[@JakeSpeed1000]

Very interesting but it got over my head towards the end.

[@kukumuniu5658]

C+ G+ and how about E+?

[@TransPlantTransLate147]

E+ is the same as C+, so all the same transitions apply to it. Augmented chords are symmetrical and only made of major thirds (four half steps) so there are only four possible ones- C+, Db+, D+, and Eb+

[@onedavidonegopal]

Brother you teach me mad 😅will you teach how many melody,can be create ??

[@davidlane6758]

What is the application you used for playing that symphonic composition? It sounds great!

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Staffpad

[@davidlane6758]

Thanks! Still loving the Complete Chord Mastery course, by the way.

[@daveshuman9507]

My theory in college cements the cadence resolution...the voice leading becomes melody ...yes?

[@kristiankumpumaki8701]

What notation software are you using? Great video!

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

It's called StaffPad. Thanks!

[@LennyYoutubeMusic]

Hi Tommaso, I have a question Which software did you used to write this orchestral partition ? It looks like you’ve just put notes on a partition and the sound came out

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

I use a software called StaffPad.

[@LennyYoutubeMusic]

@@MusicTheoryForGuitar thank you !

[@stonethemason12]

Just here to learn about a chord i thought sounded cool.