Learn How to Play Chord Progressions by Ear - Chord Pro 1

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[@nerdy-wizard]

If this has taught me anything, it's that I'm tone deaf as all hell 😭😭

[@theNoFzPod]

i hear ya... C?

[@musicalbenches]

This video will be a great training tool. But first I have to find some videos that teach me how to hear chords. Then I can come back to this one.

[@mulajatshungu2859]

Me too..........worse i am a musician 8 years + deep now😂😂😂

[@davidwittie4177]

Progressions 3 & 5 tricked my ears a bit because, without a reference tonic note, I was listening as if they began on the I chord. This made for some "interesting" harmonic analysis! 😁

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Same actually- but I did that on purpose. Sometimes I hear pop songs that use progressions like IV-V-I-vi that loop endlessly and there’s this moment of disorientation where you do my know where the tonic is.

[@davidwittie4177]

Yep, it's real world stuff. I like your other videos too.

[@dbrawla6319]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy this is one of my problems I feel like. how do you learn to distinguish when a chord progression doesnt start on the tonic?

[@ansyguzman7461]

Hey just wanted to let you know that im self learning piano and these videos are helping me so much, its amazing especially becasue everyone always tries to get you to pay for their programs. I really appreciate this!!!!! Youre doing amazing, thank you🙌🙏 Plus, your humor makes it so much more fun 😂

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks for watching! If you learn a lot of these progressions on the piano it will really help your ear. Best of luck to you!

[@dougsensei]

I need an hour long version of this. I am terrible at this exact thing.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I started making this as an hour long video, and then quickly realized that it would take me three months of editing to finish it, so I decided to split it up. Once I have about 7-8 episodes, I’ll combine the exercises into a long video with some extras.

[@tomf47]

Please make more of these with chord progressions. This is so useful! Thanks

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Will do! Working on one right now.

[@ignatzrats]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy These are all in root position, right? I think I need better computer speakers, lol

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

@@ignatzrats The bass is playing the root in each chord, yes. Hard to hear unless you are using headphones.

[@cbo3]

Great videos, and the humor is a nice touch. Thanks for posting

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@headinthec_lou_ds4025]

I had terrible music lessons at school (even a year without) and I was looking for a way to educate myself on music without having to buy easily digestible books on music theory. Thank you so much for your videos, they are super helpful and easy to understand!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Good for you, for continuing your education despite a discouraging background! Glad you found my channel- welcome!

[@gedinchristian603]

I agree! We need more because these exercises are very interesting, progressive and helpfull. A complete course about chords progressions should be a great idea. greatings

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

My next in this series will be about the ii chord. Should be coming in the next month or so.

[@SamuelMusic44]

Finally, one of the two parts of ear training I'm actually good at (the other one being rhythmic transcribing)

[@AnnieTaylorChen]

those two are exactly the ones I am not good at... I am good at others, lol

[@CalvinLimSH-ld5le]

Good to learn ear training lesson, how to hear, recognize the common chord progression. Definitely, I will be spending more time looking at your channel to improve my basic music foundation.

[@quang_phm]

Hi, thank you for making this video and share it for free. It is very useful and help me alot. If you have time, please make more videos about chord progression like this.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks! I do have two more videos in this series with more to come: kzbin.info/aero/PL40pFkWbVtdmIvdPv3Rv0sCui0oKQ-IX0&si=Ntuop9Dh_DOHjHqg

[@yajuacharya]

Among all the videos on KZbin,i loved this videos

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thank you!

[@queenofdaydreams3825]

you're the best music instructor out there

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks!!!!

[@Bsquez0129]

In I IV V I feel it’s helpful if you try to hear that the IV share the root note where the tonic is the IV’s 5th and that the V shares the I’s 5th. You can kind of hear the voice leading sometimes when the tonic doesn’t move with the IV and that the 5th degree doesn’t move between chords I and V

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Yes- I think the most effective way to get these right is to sing certain scale degrees to see if they belong in the chords or not.

[@perryfrimpongmensah3710]

A vid on chord inversions, as well as one where you sing the notes of a chord given the root note would be AMAZING!!!!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

For sure! I’ll put it on my list.

[@perryfrimpongmensah3710]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy AWESOME! Thanks Joe 😊

[@jesed2011]

These two Chord Pro Ear Training videos are very helpful for me, so thank you! I would also like to have some Chord Pro ear training videos with the minor ii and iii chords to imprint their tonal functions in my mind. At the end you could make a video where you put more complex progressions using all the grades, or even videos showing the major III or II non-diatonic chords, I will definitely be watching to support the videos as soon as they come out. Thank you so much!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thank you! It’s hard for me to get these out quickly since it’s not my full time job (yet???). But I have the script for the next one, which focuses on the ii chord, and I’m going to start recording this week. My long term plans basically involve adding a new chord with each video, eventually moving onto inversions, chords in minor keys, or outside of the key like secondary dominants.

[@aimeegoren6310]

You are the best!

[@IrfansyahHakim]

I love it. I hope many lesson videos like this

[@curtpiazza1688]

Great teaching method! 🎉 😂

[@fiscaldisco5234]

Thank you for this!!!

[@miritsm]

gorgeous video, thank you!!! you are good!!!😊

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I appreciate it!

[@gedinchristian603]

Very good ear traing for chord progressions. We need more. For example a great and depht course.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks! I could probably keep this series going indefinitely. I’ll be gradually adding in all the diatonic chords, and then inversions, and then 7ths, and then minor keys, and then secondary dominants and modal mixture, and so on

[@annahonorato8636]

I need more 🥺 Thanks ❤

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Working on lesson 3 right now, which adds the ii chord. Should be able to release it next Wednesday, May 15th.

[@WilliamMartinez-lm1sk]

Hello, well explained, great job, thank you. 🎼🎶🎹🎵🎸.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thank you for watching! Planning on to release a new video in this series each month. September will introduce the vi chord.

[@supremel3vel469]

thanks a lot!! these help ❤

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I'm so glad! Hopefully I can finish the 3rd in this series sometime soon.

[@coelhocointech9841]

I was ready to purchase the list

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

You can still buy the special edition, which features chords in the key of H

[@drorkartash8232]

Do you think one should first master the single notes intervals ear training before moving to identify chords?

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I think it's better to go back and forth. REALLY mastering intervals is a very long road, and every concept ties together. The best thing to do is to alternate between chords, intervals, and sight singing because they all support each other.

[@drorkartash8232]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy Got it. Many thanks.

[@JMSG76]

It was hard but I got some right... Thank you! (I can't do much more than tell it a chord is higher or lower so I'm scared of not knowing in what key it is or if different structures...)

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Awesome! This is fairly difficult until you’ve memorized which chords are I-IV-V in which keys. Memorize C and then go from there.

[@rafalvarezsevilla]

can you do some more sight reading videos? you make the best videos on ear training i've found so far, thanks for your amazing work, instant sub and will recommend your videos to every one of my students and musician friends, you're awesome man!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks so much! I’m doing a bass clef edition of my sight reading video this month. This video was actually meant to be an hour long, but creating the chord progressions/animations took so much work that I realized it would take months to finish. So, I’m going to keep this series going for a while in exactly the way you mentioned, and then eventually collect all the exercises in an hour-long video. I’m also planning a video that is an hour of scales in October.

[@rafalvarezsevilla]

nice man that approach is perfect :) very excited and already rang the bell, won't miss any of your videos now! @@joeluegersmusicacademy

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Just throwing this out there, I’m looking for 20 or so people to watch my videos before they go online just to potentially catch any mistakes in my more information-dense videos. If you’d ever be interested to do this, you could send me an email at ([e-mail]) and I’ll add you to the group. I put brackets around my email, or it would automatically add a hyperlink to my website.

[@marcoaureliocoelho15]

Man its perfect!!! Thanks a lot!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Planning on making this a very, very long series.

[@marcoaureliocoelho15]

Can't wait man!!!@@joeluegersmusicacademy

[@tigermoosearmy]

more please and i know its hard with youtube but and you do this popular pops songs ?

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I’ve had the script written for the third lesson for a while, hopefully it will be the next I work on.

[@izio4408]

You are awesome

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks so much! You’re awesome!

[@incredibad85]

As funny as it was educational. That’s all that really matters. The tension concept does make sense, thank you. Hopefully practice makes progress, because I have to squint my eyes to hear that intently. 🥴 *me listening for the chord change*

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks for watching! Yes, it should get easier. It’s kind of a trap to think “I got this” or “I don’t got this”. Music is more about getting a little better every day for the rest of your life.

[@mikeysplace]

So what if your ear is getting confused about the tonic home chord. For example confusing the 4 or 5 chord for the tonic chord. Especially when moving between keys. C major: C = I and G = 5. But confusing G major: G = I and C= IV? Same issues with other closely related keys, F, D and etc. that have flip flopping I, IV and V's. I think my brain will try to assign a different tonic, and I get the order mixed up. It's like my brain makes its own key change😂😅? Another issue I found is confusing the chords in F where perhaps inversions are used bringing the sounds closer together. For example I(FAC) root, IV(F,Bb,D) 2nd inv', V (EGC) 1st inv'? Or even the opposite if the chord progression just uses root position chords throughout going home say and octave above throws my perception of gravity off. 😅 Any thoughts?

[@Andrea-xw4xe]

I always thought chord progressions would be in ascending order, but what I am finding is that if it is in key of CM for example, then a c chord can begin on c4, while the Iv chord can be located on F3, which means my ear cannot follow and hear if the chord is above c4 giviving me the option to hear if whether or not the chord moved up beyond the one chord, so now I have no anchor point for my ear to follow if the chord went up beyond the one chord. Relying on tensity levels between the 4 and 5 chord is not working for me. I play violin and thought I always had a good ear, but I have never been able to figure this out. I hear chords moving below and above, but I am always unsure 😢

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

To further complicate things, you can rearrange the notes of the chord or give individual notes to different instruments. The thing to do is memorize which scale degrees are in which chords. The I chord has 1-3-5 in any order, IV has 4-6-1, and V has 5-7-2. So, if you can play scale degree 7 and it sounds okay, then you are probably working with a V chord. Hope that makes sense.

[@laynestaley5741]

Hey man, great videos and a very unique way of teaching. I have a question, as you are a music teacher. What books for theory would you recommend? I know the basics, but would like to learn some more advanced skills.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I first learned out of a series of workbooks called “master theory”. They start pretty basic but get more advanced eventually. If you’re wanting a really in-depth look, I would do some college textbooks. This is what I had in college: www.amazon.com/Tonal-Harmony-Introduction-Twentieth-Century/dp/0073401358/ref=asc_df_0073401358/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312128059570&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8362767923577367848&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016680&hvtargid=pla-582636936128&psc=1 I also used a very advanced book called “20th century music theory” but I can’t currently find it.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

It’s also worth mentioning that if you REALLY want to know theory you need to learn some basic piano, if you haven’t already. I learned out of “Alfred’s adult all in one piano method books 1-3”

[@laynestaley5741]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy Thank you very much! I will give these books a try. I bought The Beato Book recently, but it's not very friendly when it comes to learning. It's more of a dictionary for theory, rather than a learning book. I bought a cheap Yamaha keyboard exactly for the purpose of learning theory, as i can't really play those big chords on a guitar. So i will check out those books as well. Thank you again man, i appreciate it!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

@@laynestaley5741 No problem! I should probably mention that I’m currently writing a book about theory and ear training with links to video components. It probably won’t be done until January 2024 but I’ll post about on my channel at some point.

[@laynestaley5741]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy Great, I'll check it out once it's published

[@prophetswish7166]

I can score 100% on the scale degree training so I figured I can just use the root note to tell what chord we are on, but im having trouble hearing what the root note actually is. Do you have any excersizes on hearing each note in a chord.

[@prophetswish7166]

I started to hear the roots more as I finished the rest of the video, but I think i may need practice on that

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Good question. Try listening with headphones so you hear the bass guitar better, if you’re not already. It’s hard because the root of the chord is only the root of the scale for the I chord, so you can’t use all the scale degree tricks. I’m planning on making a video where I play a chord and then you sing the individual notes.

[@CozyGoes]

0:55-1:15 was so based love your videos lol

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks! I assure you, someone did get fired about that, and they are now struggling to support their family, LOL!

[@andyhuckleberrywilliamsoni3873]

Has the video to recognize non-diatonic intervals been made? I do not find it. Grazie 😀

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I have my hour long interval exercises under the playlist “epic ear training”, but no lessons yet on chromatic intervals.

[@andyhuckleberrywilliamsoni3873]

Thanks a lot @@joeluegersmusicacademy

[@ammarfy]

Subscribed!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks so much! More of this series to come.

[@nerilad1735]

hahahahh I got an ad exactly when you asked wouldn't it be awful staying on V7 instead of resolving to 1

[@tomernir91]

There were progressions not started from the 1, so if you’re not giving the tonic before you start the progression, how should I know the reference of the degree?

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

That’s a great question. I realized this and started including a reference tonic in the 2nd video of this series. To be fair though, you don’t get that with real music and things can sound a little ambiguous until you’ve heard the progression repeated a few times. I listen to the intervals between the root notes and use that to narrow down which one has to be the tonic if we are analyzing things in a traditional major key.

[@tomernir91]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy Thank you Yes, I see what your saying Thank you for your channel! It’s amazing!

[@primoroy]

These I get, it's the 7ths, minors, augmented, and diminished that stump me.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I’ll get around to those eventually. Working on the ii chord video now. The trick is to understand how those chords usually function. For example, if you hear a dominant 7th chord, it will be the V chord 99% of the time. Or if you hear an augmented chord, it’s probably substituting the V in a minor key or is following a I chord as part of a line cliche.

[@primoroy]

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[@noli0408]

nice

[@rafalvarezsevilla]

also, i think it would be nice if you'd always include notation in every one of your videos, with a software like ChordieApp that would be pretty easy i think, and would help to at least passively also get better at sight reading :)

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Good idea. Sometimes I avoid it because so many instruments read different clefs and I try to keep it universal. Some guitarists seem to avoid notation altogether. More recently I’ve been displaying the notation from my Logic files and including it with things when appropriate, so in the future I’ll probably keep it about 50/50 depending on the lessonz

[@rafalvarezsevilla]

yes on some things it might be too much and clutter the video unnecesarily or when doing ear training exercises it would be a way to be cheating =D but maybe if it's without notation in the first time a chord/interval is played and the second or third time or when its revealed you show the notation? maybe something like this would work, more work though :) @@joeluegersmusicacademy

[@-Dominique]

GAAD is, Leaps: 2 up, 5 down, then up 4

[@Jack-vm1fg]

Im having a hard time with this. I did great with the interval training, but i feel like not enough guidance was given to identify these.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Yes, depending on prior experience it takes a lot longer to improve your aural skills on chord progressions. The best thing you can do is to learn a lot of chord progressions and think the Roman numerals as you play the chords. It also helps to sing the root notes in a comfortable vocal range and listen to the intervals that separate them. For example, the roots of IV and V are a major 2nd apart, so if you hear that whole step in the bassline it gives you a clue to where you are.

[@moagi5811]

YES!!! I'm really struggling

[@JosefCarlos]

I love you

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Love u too, lol.

[@LegacyX1000]

vi-IV is my fav chord progression. 2 chords simple 😂

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Good one to solo over, because there’s only one note that’s different between those two chords.

[@LegacyX1000]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy that chord change / interval was the first one I could recognize. Now it makes sense! There’s only a one not difference amazing

[@kisakyeenoch5735]

I like 1 4 5 4

[@mingisfixon6452]

For some reason I simply CANNOT hear the last one properly. I can deffo hear the 4th chord correctly, when relates to the 3rd one, but when I put everything in context, I'm hearing it all incorrectly

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I bet your ears are trying to put each example into the key of the previous one, or if a chord progression starts on something other than the I chord it is throwing you off. The trick is to get good at doing a mental reset each time, zero in on the intervals in the bassline, and practice singing different scale degrees over the chords. All of this takes considerable practice. And patience.

[@mikefranz5354]

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[@Lawproto90]

I like this exercise! I had some troubles identifying the Progression 5. It is much more natural for me to hear it as a Mixolydian I-IV-bVII-IV. What do you think?

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

A melody usually gives more context to a chord progression, so it can be heard either way. Our ears always tend to want the first chord to be the tonic.

[@Andrea-xw4xe]

I don't get what people are playing. I am trying to figure it out on keyboard what is going on. When I played the G chord in 2nd exercise all in 1st pisition, it didn't sound anything like IV V V I

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

IV V V I is the 3rd progression. I say the answer after each chord progression, so maybe you’re off by one? The exact voicings I used on the piano were G-GBD A-AC#E A-AC#E and D-ADF#

[@Andrea-xw4xe]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy okay, thank you for your response. This makes sense.

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[@elmo93111]

Hands free yes, but not brain free. Thanks for that!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Yes a thousand times to that.

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[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

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[@joafus]

As a metalhead, I want you to say sorry in the name of all diminished And half-diminished chords 😡😡😡

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Never!!! Hahahahaha

[@havenprice]

I feel so dumb. Intervals i could pick up immediately, but this? Im getting 100% wrong dear lord.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I think the best way to get better ultimately happens outside of this video. You need to learn a bunch of chord progressions, analyize them, and then actively think "I" "IV" "V" while you are playing these chords. Eventually you can put it at the back of your mind, but until then you need to build a harmonic vocabulary. You can also use headphones to hear the bass better and listen to the invervals the bass is playing. Or you can sing different scale degrees over the chords to see which ones sound good and then use process of elimination from there.

[@iahsetlucho9662]

Bro just named diminished as trash😭

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I only threw it in the trash because my incinerator was broken. To be clear, diminished triads work great as passing chromatic chords, but as a vii chord it almost always works better to play a V6/5 instead or a fully diminished 7th.

[@XrizShowdaddy]

Is there a kindergarten class on this? My ears are not hearing 🤣🤣🤣

[@mahdih2141]

That was super easy 🥱😪

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I’ll throw in extra chords with each video in this series until I have stuff like secondary dominants and inversions. This will be the easiest one.