Decoding Standards #4 - the I-IV-I

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[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Another excellent example of the descending variant IV n back is of course the chorus of Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Bad idea, right?’

[@spacejazz6272]

love that song

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

@@spacejazz6272 it’s a banger!

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

@@spacejazz6272 just a shame it has some ‘naughty words’ in it, otherwise I’d be all over that for my peri teaching…. A song with guitars!!! Woo!

[@Jadzia_Dax]

I would be cool to hear more about the substitutions you mentioned from 6:18-6:31

[@frankvaleron]

Excellent. Picked up the pdf earlier

[@isaacbeen2087]

On the subject of the similarity between the "backdoor" progression and the "minor plagal" progression, the minor sixth chord (also a half diminished) is in the upper structure of the bVII7 chord; Barry would call it the "6th on the 5," right? I'm so glad someone talked about the possibility of the augmented sixth/cadential 6/4 in the turnaround... it works great with the rising bassline too! in an inversion... reminds me of Beethoven's C minor variations when you play those blues turnaround lines in contrary motion! I always thought about the aug6 as a #ivdim7 with a diminished third anyways... Tchaikovsky wrote about this I later found out! These videos are spot on. Nice one.

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

Interesting - where did he write about it?

[@isaacbeen2087]

@@JazzGuitarScrapbook My comment seems to have disappeared, unless I forgot to press send. It's in his harmony textbook under the heading "chords of the augmented sixth." It might not be what I remember! let me know if I missed something!

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

@@isaacbeen2087 oh, I didn’t know Tchaikovsky wrote a harmony book. Worth a read!

[@isaacbeen2087]

@@JazzGuitarScrapbook I believe it's on IMSLP!

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

@@isaacbeen2087 interesting … looks a lot like partimento stuff. Lots of figured bass, classic patterns. Petersburg conservatoire was meant to have carried on the partimento tradition according to Gjerdigen… no Roman numerals yet!

[@francescomanfredi]

8:50 at this point you play the rhythm changes in a very nice way, I love the bass and voice leading, I also remember a video you made last year in which you played the whole progression and various alternative bass lines, could you please remind me what lesson in particular? Or maybe you could make a playlist on the subject 🎉😊

[@JazzGuitarScrapbook]

I’m not 100% I can find that vid myself! It’s somewhere in there.

[@rockstarjazzcat]

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