Berklee Harmony for Beginners | Save $78,389.94 in 15 min

[@DwangusJackson]

where my twinkle twinks at?

[@mollirodhaet7224]

I have been playing for 55 years. Joe Pass was my instructor for a bit. You are really fun about the whole thing. Stay awesome. I'm going to hang around.

[@marbinmusic]

@@mollirodhaet7224thanks! Love Joe!!!

[@mollirodhaet7224]

@@marbinmusic He would love you.

[@jefferydunlap5949]

Im officially now a Twinkle Twinkle connoisseur

[@jorgecarson9133]

Always twinkle

[@barrywinsor]

That was excellent sir , and thank you for saving me $78,389.94, now I can buy that small island I had my eye on.

[@marbinmusic]

Party with Bill and Barack! Nice

[@barrywinsor]

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[@angelotro]

One day, we'll get taxed on our knowledge. "You know how to use a plunger? Give us $4. Every year." 😅😬😒

[@DannsTheMan]

Best systematic and complete coverage of Harmony in the interwebz - filled in so many gaps in my knowledge. Thank you Marbin! 😍

[@joegrant413]

Up there with Leonard Bernstein’s five minute overview of the development of western music.😊

[@ihussain1]

Among the most brilliant educational videos on guitar harmony I have seen. Thanks Dani!

[@PowerPlantSpots]

Hey Dani! It's Larry the video guy from Evansville. Always loved your videos, but you're killing it now. I've never heard these concepts delivered so effectively and efficiently! Keep it coming. Have an excellent 2025!

[@MV-eh4it]

Excellent explanation! I'm changing my New Years resolution to em7, B half-diminished, am.

[@marbinmusic]

Perfect!

[@juanc6482]

Every time I watch one of these videos, I learn so much, thank you for doing this!! This is amazing content right here...

[@jamesdavis1351]

I swear you're the best teacher on KZbin.

[@guyblumer7994]

כפרה עליך באמת שעדיין לא נתקלתי בסרטונים שעשויים בצורה כזו ברורה ומדורגת 🌺👏

[@michaelbaldwin6543]

Thank you for that very useful and condensed explanation. Very well planned and professionally delivered.

[@kwfonz]

Excellent lesson for a hack like me. I've watched hundreds of jazz/theory lessons and only subscribe to a few channels. You sir are a great instructor. This is the first video of yours I've seen and I subscribed before the end. You won me over with the modal analysis of the bass. Thank you. I look forward to watching more of your videos.

[@koho]

Brilliant. Appeals to my nerdy self, whose analytical brain tends to outpace actual ability on the guitar. This succinct but precise scaffolding gives me something to cling to. And it's turning on all kinds of light bulbs to illuminate music I already "know." Thank you!

[@LHB57]

Those are my words, you kidnapped them but it's okay @Koho, I can share.

[@koho]

@@LHB57 Lol! I'll treat them well.

[@CD_Character]

This video appeared in my recommendations and, in the interest of saving $78,389.94 US ($113,249.95 Cdn), I had to watch. I really liked your method of explaining tonic, dominant and sub-dominant substitutions. I've heard them before but you've just made them actually tangible. I'm not a jazz guy, but I'm going to have to watch the rest of this series and just more of your videos in general.

[@mitchgilbert1090]

Thanks!

[@marbinmusic]

Thanks for the super chat!

[@leandrobenitez7555]

I fell in love with you way to explain, summarize and synthesice the harmony such in a well done way...

[@twostep919]

Got into a head bang loop at the beginning and had to rewatch the whole video. “Starrrrr!”

[@bassplayinfool]

Next round of Americanos is on me! Thanks, Marbin

[@judoka227]

I had to pause at 7:12 cause I was DED for five min straight…😂😂😂😂😂

[@sirflyguy2000]

Your videos are great! I have picked up a lot of this particular video's' info through the years but you have explained it and integrated it all together in a beautiful way, especially the tonal/modal explanation. You are, without a doubt, the best teacher I have ever listened to, and in the top ten of the players I have ever seen! Bravo!

[@pacoside1092]

Great video! I liked the 4 different conceptualization of analysis.

[@Michael_Malice_Music]

I finally understood how to change a tune to minor !!! You are the man. Thank you so much !

[@MichaelGerety]

Masterful description. Thank you.

[@thelastfeast3849]

The song at the end sounds amazing

[@georgearrows7701]

its their band Marbin Music, should be on Spotify

[@halfindy]

Great video in my personal collection of “what goes on in the player’s mind”. It needs to be complex enough (for me at least) to come up with some cooler lines than just the usual stuff while being simple enough to do it in real time as you improvise over your composition or (more difficult) someone else’s composition. Thanks!

[@dan_15mm]

Best videos around the internet!

[@HarryK-HK]

Never thought that song could give a headache. You succeeded! Great lesson. 🍻

[@sethichor]

Already feeling like a Twinkle Twinkle Connoisseur🌟 Also this is the first that I am hearing that cadences are replacements for subdominant. How have I never heard that🤯

[@wagonet]

Love your style. Also I learned something. Thanks.

[@JerRock]

That a very clear and simple explanation of a complexe topic, great video !

[@mookytc]

Thank you for the lesson. That is a beautiful Gibson as well.

[@juanmoralesvideo]

Now I don't know if I love more your lesson or you humor ❤

[@フレッシュ-c3r]

Absolutely stunning knowledge, I thought I was stuck until I found this video

[@owlcarnival]

As another guitar teacher, you are an EXCELLENT teacher.

[@marbinmusic]

Wow, thanks!

[@todddreiling6595]

Great Video and I look forward to the next one in the series- I just bought tickets to your show at the Ship in KCMO. See you then!

[@javierperez-bs5xc]

Yes!!, at last a full explanation, thanks a lot

[@rmoojet157]

Danny is an amazing guitarist! Great teacher too! Got to meet him at a show in N Texas a few years back. 👏😊

[@greggjones2000]

Finally, I understand what modal analysis means!

[@VitalBigras]

This is SUPERB 👍🏼

[@cbolt4492]

Absolutely superb ❤

[@LHB57]

This is so far beyond my skill level but Im subscribing anyhow as this is fire!

[@Billywagner22]

This is an excellent lesson. I’m gonna be busy for a while.

[@Michael-xr5yx]

Great vid and very well explained. Watched and read many things like this over the years, never seen it better explained.

[@Mattguitarmania]

This is so helpful!!! Thank you for making it so clear and useful!!

[@hendrixthat_cat_can_play_b764]

Love that electric guitar in the Marbin's 1st tour of 2025 outro. The band sounds good too.

[@cbolt4492]

Come to the UK please

[@BushidoPhoto]

The Em is the relative minor of G.

[@joebarkan]

Thank you!

[@AIexOut-A-Magic-x6w]

2:26 what on Earth is interfallic thinking?

[@tomerdman8699]

So what is that grunt at 2:26? I was watching this on a TV and thought someone was in the house. Scared the bejesus out of me. Great lesson BTW.

[@LHB57]

Me too Tom, I was sitting in a dark room watching while having coffee at seven a.m. and it scared the heck out of me.

[@udderhippo]

It's someone else's body being shot with notes - exactly as he mentioned

[@thedonrizzguitar]

You’re my hero Ferris

[@marcavus1]

That is one pretty guitar.

[@SebastianDavidMusic]

Glorious explanation, subscribed, thanks! EDIT: Found out I was already subscribed 😂

[@benedmonds2363]

Great video

[@chrismcloughlin163]

Twinkle through my head all day now.

[@gerardoconnor7148]

Great lesson

[@bayesguy4923]

a twinkle-twinkle connoisseur? You are the best sir!

[@Becker333]

That twinkle twinkle is badass!!!,

[@discobacon5160]

Hmm 😮 that explanation on why ii-v is so widely used is a new thing to me… could you please elaborate on that in a Pareon vid when you get a chance?

[@davidhind-smith3778]

Excellent and clear. I want my money back Berklee.

[@marbinmusic]

Good luck with that

[@ilanarabin3068]

Love it ❤

[@VeryStrangeweather]

Damn that was really cool. Thanks for this.

[@tukisegaaa]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@marbinmusic]

Any time!

[@andrejz8954]

Wow man, this was really great, I love learning about theory/harmony so much! Question tho, WTF was that solo/band at the end? Took my socks off! :O

[@marbinmusic]

@@andrejz8954 Marbin! My band the song is called midnight squirrel

[@goodpanda222]

wow this is amazing

[@Wick3DSteely]

Can you expand a little on the iii chird replacing both tonic and dominants? I can see that Em does share two notes with G so thebsame relationship itnhas with C but I've never heard using it as a dominant substitution

[@marbinmusic]

If you think of it from the perspective of the G chord Em is its relative minor. Why that works is a much longer talk but the basic idea is that you can always build triads from the 1 3 5 and 6 (if the 6 is an available tension not an avoid note) of the chord that you are using and all of those would work as substitutions. G mixolydian can have G Bdiminshed Dm and Em as substitutions, thus the Em in place of the G7

[@Wick3DSteely]

@marbinmusic woah, thats cool! What you said about the 1 3 5 6, is that for dominants only or for all functions? I'll have to mess around with that, thanks!

[@marbinmusic]

@ all chords all modes.

[@Wick3DSteely]

@@marbinmusic cool!

[@lyrolrethbarker5148]

can you make a video about RNB and theory for guitar more please your way explain are too good

[@theartfuldodger935]

Excellently done. Now, I was going to send my kid to Harvard Law this year, but if you could just do a 15 min video . . .

[@PhotonPhitness]

That intro was hilarious

[@geew-fr9th]

I'm Rich! I saved a whole bunch of money. No, seriously, seriously good content, thank you Mr. Marbin.

[@spacewolf9585]

Brilliant!🤣👍🤙🖖

[@mgd9151]

Totally awesome explanation! Sub'd🎸

[@marbinmusic]

Thanks for the sub!

[@tbobmann229]

Thankyou!!!

[@jamesallen111470]

F*cking brilliant. Thank you.

[@ziuzidion]

So Twinkle Twinkle changed to "What a Wonderful World" by using the Mediant? :D

[@masterbuilder3166]

Great lesson. Subbed 💪

[@marbinmusic]

@@masterbuilder3166 thanks for the sub

[@gorimus]

I do neither, i.e. remember the notes or intervals; I try to remember the sound, which, in principle, is closer to the tonal method. The modal method is too complex for melody, but it works for naming chords as explained.

[@gamekyuubi42069]

real interesting thatchwork wood pattern you got back there buddy er whatever that is sure looks good there y'know I hear a duck walked into a bar one day and it made for a really good story while tech difficulties for the show were sorted out that's actually a really underrated tip if your kit isn't working just keep talking about dogs and ducks until it does

[@gamekyuubi42069]

until it goes from "doesn't working" to "does working", in case that wasn't clear sorry for the confusion

[@Coucoulou]

Thanks a lot!

[@rickm4295]

Dude.....The $0.94 at the end of the total is more than I can pay for this information. I lost you right after you introduced yourself🤣🤣. If this is the 1st day of music college, I wouldnt stand a chance, lol

[@rubendez]

Well and clearly explained, kudos!!!

[@oov55]

Dan gotta do Stockhausen and Messiaen next... those bad boys need some deconstruction

[@mattuskamusic]

10:05 I am a Twinkle Twinkle connoisseur and indeed it sounds different.

[@PabloskyS84]

Good I decide to expend those 15 minutes watching this!

[@kylezo]

That crazy segue to the outro lol

[@guismth]

At some point they will sennd a cease and desist order. Thats when you negotiate a teaching position and put the school back on the map.

[@paulwooton4390]

I'll have to watch it a couple thousand time to get my 78K worth, but thanks nonetheless for the humor and encouragment.

[@rjgeigersmusic]

i usually have something negative to say about every video i see about anything because youtube is full of shit most of the time and in my realm of music i just roll my eyes at all the crap i see. This however... pretty good, probably the easiest to understand lesson about this topic i've seen. speaking style is great i feel like i'm actually getting mentored by a real teacher you know. Unlike other certain youtubers with millions of subs that make me lose brain cells when i watch their crap.

[@psychonaut689]

Well I understood half of it and I hept rewinding so it took about 30 mins, so I gues I owe you $19, 597.49 sir.

[@arferbargel]

Minor key version keeps threatening to turn into What A Wonderful World

[@NeuroApathy]

If i don’t understand almost all of this video, does that mean im a pre-beginner?

[@marbinmusic]

Harmonically, Unfortunately yes. Don’t give up. Learn intervals and the tertian harmony of the major scale and come back.

[@deegee1317]

Odd how I was noodling with twinkle little star on the piano last night and now this is suggested to me by KZbin 🤨🤨🤨

[@marbinmusic]

Big brother is twinkling

[@javierrodriguez4218]

You should teach at Berklee.

[@LeviClay]

I don’t think it’s completely accurate to say you never analyse the bass modaly. Sure, when the bass note is just playing the root note that would be silly. But when you’re walking bass? You’re absolutely thinking modaly.

[@marbinmusic]

@@LeviClay you are of course correct. maybe my point was misconstrued because of my use of the word never. What I meant is that when you put on your modal hat on you enter the player/improviser game because you are committed to a particular version of the harmony and are measuring all of your modal choices from a set series of moving 1s. When you put on your tonal hat you are in the composer/reharmonizer game where you cane switch the bottom part of the counter point while effecting the sound of the tune in a controlled way if you understand harmonic function. When I said never analyze the bass. I meant in terms of the general harmony of the tune that you would express with chords symbols, not the quarter air half note melody of bass line.

[@LeviClay]

@@marbinmusic oh, I knew what you meant. You know me bro. I'm a pedant who still has your fans screeching at me for making fun of Barry Harris and the major scale! :P

[@Elido]

2024 was the year of basic bitches. It’s 2025 now, we guhn learn.

[@colinmcway7619]

I really didn't get how you got from the melody to the chords..

[@marbinmusic]

@@colinmcway7619 the composition known as twinkle twinkle is in essence two melodies that move counterpoint. The chords are derivative from the bass

[@colinmcway7619]

@marbinmusic thanks...so the chords is derived from the bass melody, and from there I can substitute relative minors add extensions, etc.?

[@marbinmusic]

Sort of. The basic version of the harmony is 1 4 1 4 1 5 1 If you understand harmonic function then you know what you can sub for what while maintaining the same sort of harmonic relationships

[@aleksik4028]

Shortly put, you can harmonize melody many ways.

[@marbinmusic]

That’s like saying that you can calculate many things with numbers to an engineer

[@judoka227]

7:56 - again…😂😂😂😂😂

[@darklumin]

Those catapillars above your eyes are playing this song like ratatoulie