Harmony for Beginners: The EASIEST Method Ever

[@vintagejock3951]

I used to watch your lessons almost 6 years ago. Took a long break from piano from 2020 to 2024. I'm so glad you are still making videos.

[@MangoldProject]

Thanks! 2020 was my best year ever, with COVID hitting and everyone rushing to KZbin to learn how to play piano.

[@albertosierraalta3223]

Great lesson man. It would be cool if you could do a series where the harmonization gets progressively more and more advanced. Cheers

[@MangoldProject]

That's a good idea. In the meantime try this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6K2dodnbtSNjZo

[@paulchristie8452]

@@MangoldProject Please reply to me so I can find this easily

[@MusicLover-oe3ig]

As a classical player, it is fascinating or difficult without a score in front of me! Thank you!

[@MikeCaffyn1]

Absolutely Brilliant. Thank you once again Mr Mangold.

[@MangoldProject]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@MKhomeostasis]

Wonderful demonstration, thank you. I just learned my major minor scales and diatonic chords… If I didn’t know that this would be very difficult…… I love how you also are showing it on the grand staff, That’s very realistic.❤

[@Breslev_]

Thanks much, Assaf, once more, for a very useful & clear lesson. And... thanks again for uploading on 'Yom Hol', so that we could enjoy it as well. Blessings and all the best.

[@MangoldProject]

Not intentionally, mind you, but you're welcome. I always try to upload on Friday morning.

[@Breslev_]

@@MangoldProject Your honesty is much appreciated as well. A man of truth is precious.

[@FlourishingKingandQueen]

Welcome Back Mangold. I miss your brilliant piano delivery n tutorials

[@eltempodcc3248]

THE ONLY VIDEO I UNDERSTAND HARMONY FOR BEGINNERS LIKE ME!!! YOU ARE SO CALM AND GENTLE TEACHER. THANK YOU! I DON'T SKIP THE2 FINAL 3MINUTE-ADS. HEHEHE

[@MangoldProject]

There is a special place in heaven for viewers who don't skip ads :)

[@EmmyS247]

You are a rare type, a great teacher, easy to follow with instant visible result in my playing. Thank you!

[@fattyz1]

It’s very amusing that he decided to call it simple.

[@MangoldProject]

This is a comedy channel after all.

[@moveuself]

It seems slightly complicated but the easiest way to think of it (for me) is that a 6th below is the same note as a 3rd above. Just figured it out. Hope that helps. With the left hand, start with the missing note that is not played in the right hand and just repeat the notes played in the right hand ie with the 1st example @6.33 (C A). If using the F chord in left hand, play F C A, C A. If harmonising with E, play E C A, C A. So you're just repeating the notes used in the right hand in the left but with an extra note in the left.

[@dennrhodz-vw5cb]

Its really been long since i last watched your videos here.. great u are back❤

[@MangoldProject]

Thanks for sticking around!

[@hugovandermeer1566]

I play saxophone, your tutorial is profoundly instructive and elucidated much for me, in terms of harmony and how to approach same. Thank you.🎵🎶🎵🎵🎶

[@thelma-7777]

Thank you for this great lesson. I love it. I had to watch it three times because English is not my first language. From Brazil.

[@nileshshinde16]

That was much needed, Thankyou Assaf. You are doing wonderful job ❤️

[@MangoldProject]

Awesome!

[@robertharris8912]

I'm new to keyboard, but as a singer, I have a feel for music. I have found your lessons inspiring and will be searching out more.

[@MangoldProject]

Welcome aboard!

[@robertharris8912]

@@MangoldProject Thanks! I enjoy your work!

[@idichekop]

Awesome framework. Adding 7thz and 9ths and I am jazzing it beautifully

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

This was way too cool. And it sounds great. Merci.

[@coloaten6682]

Thanks for yet another great lesson! :)

[@catiusgluttony4328]

This is really helpful because i often find it difficult to understand how to harmonize some melodies that i created. Already search for tutorials but still not getting the core of harmonization. Even some suggest to make the left hand part first then make the melodies on right hand part, which is more difficult for me. Thanks man for this magnificent guide

[@Simplyveej]

Very good lesson. Thank you! One suggestion: Wish the video started the melody with the C note in your example vs starting with A. Gets confusing when you use the key of C but start with A. Feels like a mode (conceptually, in my mind)

[@MangoldProject]

Yeah, probably in retrospect I should've done that. If there's anything I've learned on KZbin is that if anything can be misinterpreted or misread, it will.

[@michaelprowse7060]

I could not agree with gourmet53 as I understand voicing at the piano - a life’s journey in extracting rich sounding chords. This demonstration also will allow me now to accompany say a you tube song by playing a harmony pitch. So for me, this has been a great “a-ha moment”. Thank you very much. A long time follower of the channel.

[@MangoldProject]

Glad it helped you out.

[@MrBlueObsession]

GOLD! PURE GOLD!!!! Thank you so much!!!

[@MangoldProject]

Glad it helped!

[@maestro2033]

This lesson was an absolute game changer for me 🙏🏽thank you

[@ritchie9030]

The things I learn on KZbin...Just fabulous. Thanks

[@irlmusic5690]

Thank you so much! You are such a blessing!

[@ebolds4918]

I appreciate your clearly explained instruction on this topic.👍🏽🎶

[@MangoldProject]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kenbagwell8551]

Thank You! I'm going to have fun trying this out.

[@tamaraplecas8231]

Excellent explanation. Thank you very much.

[@PaulO-gx2bn]

Wonderful tutorial Mangold, your explanation, delivery and set out is straightforward and easy to grasp. Thank you Sir. Love the use of the word Wonky - I am a funny talking Texan from Yorkshire and use if often lol.

[@MangoldProject]

Not sure where I picked it up - never been to either Texas or Yorkshire!

[@felixjones4522]

Absolutely wonderful sir. I think I'd double the melody note (for my right hand). Thanks for this wonderful video.. Hope for an advance version of this

[@arthurmantes9473]

Wow this is amazingly well explained ! Would you do a followup of this method to go in more advanced harmonization, namely how to integrate 4sus, 2nd, 7th, borrowed chords. I wonder how from this method go beyond. Thank you dear, i enjoy your teachings 😊🎉

[@jennychyeo3016]

Thank you. It is a mind opening lesson, excellently explained!

[@MangoldProject]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bettyennin6335]

Awesome! Thank you sir

[@lesliebush3095]

Great lesson! Could you please do a lesson on using just the 1,4 and 5 chords to harmonise a tune !!

[@jaxobophiuchi676]

So good. Giving it a shot now!

[@pauloTARSO-sb3gl]

Great teacher and great jog simple and very sounding

[@rick6429]

To simplify harmonizing on the right hand just play any note that makes up the left hand chord you are playing with that note on the right. So if you are playing A on the right hand with a left hand C chord you can harmonize with a C an E or a G on the right hand. The note must come from the left chord you are playing. So even if you play Bb on the right and C chord on the left the harmony note will be C E or G. After a while it becomes automatic for the right hand to do this. Automatically when you see the chord above the note you are playing your choices are right there and after sometime and practice it’s far easier than this video . The key with this method is that the harmonizing note or notes come from the chord that is to be played with the right hand note or notes. The video teaches something more complex for students

[@MangoldProject]

That's actually not bad at all :) My approach ensures that you get a good amount of spacing between the notes and avoids muddiness, but yours would work too.

[@jomwo1]

Very informative and precised but not for the beginners.. Thank you for the great secret.

[@okonkwotv3287]

This is a brilliant lesson. Thank you very much for this.

[@MangoldProject]

You're welcome!

[@NMranchhand]

Well, that was extremely and enlightening. I do wish you would have closed with an actual rendition of Mary Had A Little Lamb. It would have closed the book in my mind, which remains open to the question of whether or not you can really do all that fast enough to keep the melody notes from falling apart into an unrecognizable string of unrelated notes (for the record I assume you can, I just can’t hear it in my mind’s ear yet, which is a shame after a fine lesson like that). Thanks!

[@MangoldProject]

Did you watch the video until the very end? There IS a rendition.

[@K_Andreas]

Great Video! Never heard it before. Thanks so much. 👍

[@MangoldProject]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Ravenelvenlady]

Thanks for a lovely leddon.💖🤗

[@rgarlinyc]

Very cool., thank you for your always excellent insight and instruction!

[@MangoldProject]

Glad it was helpful!

[@freshpressedify]

Mary Had a Little Lamb suddenly becoming a tearjerker hymn 😭

[@MangoldProject]

In the next lesson we'll turn it into a hair metal anthem.

[@kierenmoore3236]

@@MangoldProject Mary had a Baaad Black Sheep 🤘🏼

[@moveuself]

Interesting. Thank you. You should add a donation option to your videos.

[@MrAstro981]

Thank you very much. Regards

[@Good-doer]

0:32 ❤ 12:55

[@bh5606]

I understand this intellectually, but playing it is another lesson.

[@yasarokten]

Thank you, you explained it very well.

[@MangoldProject]

You are welcome!

[@joanb7180]

This was very enlightening! Thanks

[@MKhomeostasis]

I love the kids playing in the background,❤

[@MangoldProject]

Haha, at least that's one of us! There's a school across the street ... Can't tell you how many takes I had to throw out because of them :)

[@ritchie9030]

I was wondering about the child noise. Thought you had a soundtrack running...

[@HongPS18]

Thank you, great lesson.

[@revathyshabin44]

This help me a lot😊 thanking u

[@alexiachamberlin8019]

Thank you. I found this useful.

[@MangoldProject]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ericapie]

Wow, fantastic and so helpful in my journey to be less dependant on classical sheet music!

[@brianmi40]

Would have enjoyed you playing an example of a couple simple common melodies at the end using it. Great moderate complexity method tho.

[@victornoagbodji]

Not to get bogged down into too much theory but I am curious if you always get intervals of 5th, 6th, 3rd, then 6th always when using this method? Thank you for sharing the method 👍

[@MangoldProject]

You'd have to be more specific: intervals of 5th, 6th, 3rd, then 6th between what? Do you mean between the set of five notes played? No. For example, you can play a G major with a D in the melody as B G D G D which has no 3rd interval.

[@victornoagbodji]

@@MangoldProject thanks for explaining

[@TotalDec]

Learn what intervals sound like, and you'll hear the music in your head. It won't be a choice, just what works for the segments.

[@ebc531]

Great! But can you make just a short video with more applications?

[@MangoldProject]

I will try!

[@marloncolville9303]

Wanderfull teacher

[@julianho4774]

thanks master...............

[@tntwashpro3863]

What exercises would you recommend to get my fingers to move like that?

[@MangoldProject]

Hanon is always a good start (you can find free PDFs of this book of exercises on the internet - truly free, since it was written over a century ago).

[@Rkalang37]

Thanks sir.

[@TheFantasticlub]

in the demostration you use a rithm patters really complex and theres no explanation of that, i feel like you make this look really easy to have more views

[@localppcartist]

I may be wrong, but basically you are representing the use of VI interval along with the melody line, staying with the V interval along with the melody gets to sounding crazy...or is this the solution to keep from crazy sounding intervals, or clashing ?

[@MangoldProject]

Clashing between what?

[@Serwaaguller]

This is awesome

[@WeAreAllDoomed-n5i]

It does say beginners in the title!

[@MangoldProject]

That is undeniably true.

[@canastraroyal]

I love this channel.

[@kostaslinda1703]

These are not for the.....Beginners sir...

[@InsomniaKid31]

New subscriber here 😊 Loved ur Videos ❤ hoping to hear more from ur updates 😀✨

[@krogulecgargulec5105]

It's indeed great tutorial, but not for absolute begginners, bc hormony is not for absolute begginners. I'm late begginner/early intermedate in piano, so I think it can be useful for me. If this tutorial is too difficult for you - learn basic theory first. Scales, chords, intervals.

[@baryoncode]

I've just gotten a piano. I can only use 1 hand and was wondering if you could give me advice on how to learn?

[@MangoldProject]

You mean your can only operate one hand? Hmmm this requires a good local in person teacher who will rethink how playing is taught. I suggest you seem one out.

[@kennethHuo]

Thank you, this is so helpful. Subscribed ❤

[@stevetolliver8599]

What is that device called you is tapping with them fingers. It looks easy for sure

[@MangoldProject]

You mean the piano? ...

[@sergiobravo252]

Very interesting ideas. May I ask you, you said you play in C major, but you did not start on C chord. You suggested to start on Dm or Am.

[@MangoldProject]

You can start on any note. I just started on A because I liked how it sounded. I should've likely started from C just to keep things more pedagogically sound.

[@whoknowsthefuture]

So as I understand, you harmonize any note Z with XYZYZ, where Y is a 5 or 6 below Z, and X is the third note of the cord allowed in the scale. Is X a 5 or 6 below Y? Or not that simple? Thank you anyway.😊

[@ritchie9030]

That was funny

[@MangoldProject]

I can do quantum physics and I still can't follow you.

[@whoknowsthefuture]

E.g. at 9:18 you have FCACA. X=F, Y=C, Z=A. The first rule is at 1:50. My guess is that X is about the third of the chord, bud an octave lower, so 6th below Y. Or something like that. (I like quantum phisics too.😃)

[@abbrizo4434]

Maravillosa su lección,sería tan amable de poner subtítulos al español,un saludo 😂

[@MangoldProject]

But I don't know Spanish ... :(

[@tonedef71]

What if one doesn't want to harmonize every note in the melody? Would this method still yield sound results if every other note in the left hand melody was played as a single note, perhaps with the previous right hand harmony occasionally sustained beneath it?

[@MangoldProject]

Passing notes (usually non chord tones) can probably remain unharmonized, and just continue on the previous harmonization.

[@mabajaki5555]

Great, thank you very much. ❤

[@MangoldProject]

You're welcome 😊

[@mistermornevanderberg]

If you are running chords consecutively you create parallel fifths

[@MangoldProject]

So?

[@mistermornevanderberg]

@@MangoldProject those are one of the big no-no's you mentioned Parrallell 5ths and octaves

[@MangoldProject]

@@mistermornevanderberg Did I say not to use parallel fifths? That doesn't sound like something I would say.

[@edgaro67]

BRAVO essentials...

[@TheFantasticlub]

you should talk about the patter rithm also, otherway is frustrating

[@MangoldProject]

There's only so much that can be discussed in a 15 min YT video I'm afraid.

[@jasonbourne488]

So the gist of this is that you are playing an inverted 5th in the right hand and the corresponding chord in the left had as a 10th.

[@MangoldProject]

Not sure I'd summarize it that way. The LH plays a three note arpeggio, not a 10th, and the RH sometimes plays a major or minor 6th (what's an inverted 5th? is it a perfect fourth?).

[@jasonbourne488]

@@MangoldProject yes not inverted 5th. Perfect 4th.

[@Clasam09]

Hello. Question for you. Is there any particular reason why you decided not to say maj/min 3rd, instead saying min/maj 6th

[@MangoldProject]

You can do many things, but you gotta start somewhere. This is just a first lesson.

[@turquisestones]

I find it a bit limiting to stay within the framework of only one mode all the time. Besides, harmonizing every note of a melody is excessive. The real magic happens when you create your own principle of harmonization distribution-applying it to one note here, to a group of notes there, and seamlessly slipping in chords structured over other modes.

[@MangoldProject]

Well it's just a beginner's lesson! You gotta start out somewhere.

[@turquisestones]

@@MangoldProject Agreed.

[@seqler5908]

I saw that some professionals can composing the speaking of people by harmony knowledge can you make a video about that and how thay are doing that?

[@MangoldProject]

Send a link here and I'll take a look.

[@seqler5908]

@@MangoldProject ‏guy moskovich

[@PhoizxlOkotie-gg6yx]

Wait has d jazz piano course finished

[@MangoldProject]

On hiatus. We basically finished diatonic harmony, and the next batch of lessons should be on non-diatonic harmony. But the series overall has been a bit of a flop in terms of views so I'm not inclined to pick it up in the near future. On a positive note, there are some in-depth theory lessons coming up, including a 35 minutes video on so-called "Barry Harris chords" (that will drop on May 24). Stay tuned!

[@2894031]

I assume this cannot work for more complex melodies that require a non-trivial harmony

[@MangoldProject]

Not trivially. You won't be harmonizing any Snarky Puppy melodies this way.

[@eclecticmonk2282]

Not simple when you get into either or... then ... after that... still interesting

[@waynocook53]

Why dont you do a Bosa Nova vershon. Ove this🤔🤔🤙

[@MangoldProject]

Maybe I will!

[@gourmet53]

not seeing what's so simple about this. I've seen several ways to harmonize and this doesn't seem to be any easier.

[@MangoldProject]

Obviously harmony is harmony - the rules are the same regardless of the "method" used. I just thought making things very formulaic and getting to the point within about ten minutes is pretty good.

[@tumeke52]

I agree, inless im so thick

[@hisky.]

harmony is easy asf, just use exclusively 3rds and 6ths and you're good

[@Umitto]

Whats the name of that program ?

[@MangoldProject]

ChordieApp

[@JorgeMorillon-g1c]

So in other words, just play the chord in octaves then?

[@MangoldProject]

No. That's not what I say.

[@maestro2033]

At first I thought I was tripping but I clearly hear the children playing in the background

[@MangoldProject]

Yup! You are certainly not tripping.

[@scamp7887]

Just know your note, know your key and move up a third. Done

[@MangoldProject]

Move up a third from what?

[@scamp7887]

@@MangoldProject whatever note your on in your key. If you're in the key of C on the note C then move up a third to E.

[@garys5175]

key of Am?

[@MangoldProject]

Not sure what the context of this comment is.

[@NishanthSalahudeen]

Very good.... Almost.. The missing part is,... Using a scale as melody is confusing because there is no rythm in the scale. If you chose a childrens rhyme to demonstrate, that would have been awesome. For now, am still lost.

[@MangoldProject]

But didn't I choose a children's rhyme to demonstrate? ...

[@NishanthSalahudeen]

​​​@@MangoldProject oh boy! I just realised that I stopped watching the moment you said "see you next time" at 13:32. My bad. I followed your instructions too literally it seems 😂. In this case, you have indeed demoed on a children's rhyme. Thankyou. It illustrates the ideas. But I have to say that it doesn't sound 20% as good as the demo you gave on the scale in the beginning. That was really full and rich. Am left wanting more really. May be the arpeggios and adding rythm etc might flesh it out more. Have to experiment. But, surely, can't complain on content this good.

[@officialWWM]

I thought this was going to be a singing video 😂😂

[@MangoldProject]

So did I, until I remembered I can't sing. :)

[@officialWWM]

@@MangoldProject 😂😂

[@brettrhea9179]

Calmmmm

[@MangoldProject]

Chillin.

[@gryfinz]

TRYNA STRIKE A CHORD & ITS PROLLY A MINORRRRRRRR

[@MangoldProject]

Don't strike minors, it's illegal.