Alternative CADENCES

[@adamjohanbergren]

Functional harmony is a deep language; you are the best grammar teacher on KZbin! Thanks, and have a great New Year!

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Adam 🙏 Really appreciate your comment. HNY! 🥳

[@aaronlim3225]

He way you make your videos an active conversation with your audience is AMAZING. You’re such a gem

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏 Thanks Aaron! Appreciate the kind words 👍 HNY🥳

[@kareemakhtar6691]

Remarkable lesson! You’ve combined 20 concepts in 20 minutes, along with excellent pedagogy!

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Kareem! Glad you liked it 👍

[@alexanderteachernyc]

I love how you commit to playing with exquisite musicality every time you play the sequence. Inspiring way to finish out the year! 🎉

[@abbesatty9498]

Yeah, to the contrary to other dry uninspiring tutorials, this channel really makes you eager to apply what you learn.

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏 Thanks Michael, I really appreciate your thoughtful comment. Glad you enjoyed it. Happy new year 🥳

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Abbe, great to hear you feel that way. Must be doing something right! Happy new year 🥳

[@abbesatty9498]

@@michaelkeithson Thanks! Happy new year to too!

[@ArminEshkoob]

I only found your channel like yesterday and I'm fr binging through all your vids. You're one of the best music theory channels here on KZbin.

[@michaelkeithson]

Welcome!! Glad you’re enjoying the content Armin. Thanks for the nice comment 👍 HNY🥳

[@Caradaoutradimensao]

This was amazing, please make a minor version of cadences. Hands down the best channel for learning harmony. Thanks a lot.

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks for the kind comment and suggestion 🙏

[@rubenchannel8237]

Hey there mate. Honestly Mike, you're a great teacher man. You really have the gift of teaching mate. Cause every video you share, it's full of theory but it's simply to understand when you explain it. Best for you in 2025 and so on Michael.

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏☺️ Thanks Ruben! Really appreciate your support and glad your enjoying the content. HNY🥳

[@papie5151]

Some the of the cadences are so dreamy.

[@noggerfelipe]

Why don't you have millions of followers? I've been following you for a while. Best tips ever, nice work 👌

[@frankeec]

These are the kinds of subs I’ve been using on guitar without really knowing how or why they worked. Thanks.

[@craiggreenwood6496]

Your videos are so good. Thank you for making them. So well thought out and explained.

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏 Thanks Craig! Appreciate the nice comment. HNY🥳

[@arty2917]

It’s crazy how you keep doing videos of the exact things I have wanted to know, and have struggled to find. Thank you, and Happy New Year!

[@michaelkeithson]

Ha! Happy to help! HNY🥳

[@leemichaelgeller4420]

Ohhhh … that Dø/Aflat… that’s just lush ❤ (a walk up with Bb is now stuck in my head) Thank you Michael… what a great video for the new year!

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Lee! Glad you liked that one! HNY🥳

[@stephendelcid]

The resolve in Db Major 7th and Ab Major 7th is the bessssst!!!

[@michaelkeithson]

Yeah, so nice! 👌

[@hanspeter5372]

9:47 you could also look up Barry Harris concept of parent diminished (easier to remember maybe) for example take ur f dim and if u move one of the notes by a halfstep u get different dominant 7 wish can be used as cadences for Cmaj. For example (f dim one noted moved at the time) bB7, bD7, E7 and ofc G7. All one big family of dom 7 chords derived from the parent diminished chord of C

[@robertphillips8737]

Beautifully done. Thank you.

[@Hans_Magnusson]

11:24 yeah, this is caused by the tritone which divides the octave in two. So the Dominant 7 needs 1 - 3 - b7 The distance between the 3 and the b7 is a diminished 5 ie a tritone, so the 5th will be the new tonic and the 3 and b7 switching places…

[@mrmagmrmag]

Really fantastic content. You (and Bill Hilton) are the best piano 'teachers' here on the KZbins I'd say (at least of all the (many) videos I have watched so far). Good stuff, well explained. I think I will go to my piano and experiment with that a bit now. How I don't miss midnight (well, the pyrotechnics around here will remind me I guess ; )).

[@michaelkeithson]

Ah, thank you 🙏 It’s great to hear that. Thanks for the comment. Hope you didn’t miss the celebrations 😉 HNY🥳

[@Merczid]

Absolute madman behind the keys and camera. Love your content and personality!

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏☺️ Thanks Thomas! Appreciate the support. HNY 🥳

[@JermaineDuffus]

one of the best music theory teachers

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏 Thanks Jermaine!

[@andrewkendall7814]

Brilliant! You should upload 30-minute sessions of your pleasant noodling for listening to over morning coffee.

[@CaveMonJones]

Another very well done video introducing some sophisticated modern Harmony in a simple way. Perhaps a cadence similar to your last one is known as the tritone ending in the jazz vernacular. (Moving up a tritone from the root note while pedaling the root note as you descend in half steps all the way to the tonic)

[@entangledbandaustralia6671]

This is brilliantly explained. I instantly subscribed as it will help my compositions. It's laid out so well that I can share it with my piano and guitar students. Thank you so much for doing this, and above all making it genuinely useful and accessible to all, with no ego or showing off.

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏 Thanks for the kind comment. Glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@mikecoyne2242]

So much to absorb here. At 7:15 when he is talking about diminished chords, I find it helpful, in terms of moving to other keys, to think not about the F dim, but about the V7 we are subbing for as a b9. So you can play a dim 7 built on any note in the V7b9 except the root. So I can very easily find in any key with very little thought. Magic indeed. Please $upport this page. I want to keep these coming.

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏 Thanks Mike! I appreciate your support and contribution to the conversation too! Hope you got the pdf in the end 👍

[@88omarz]

Awesome stuff! I’m not sure how I stumbled upon your content. I was just today trying to teach my 7-year-old some basic piano chords. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge.

[@michaelkeithson]

It was always meant to be, you were destined to arrive here eventually 😂 Thanks for the comment man, glad you enjoyed it👍

[@88omarz]

@ absolutely. Happy the algorithm worked 😃. Happy New Year!

[@aljerones99]

I've said it before and I'll do so again (albeit, more poignantly) ... I am an intermediate saxophonist and I have found your tutorials on harmony, chord analysis & progressions as well as music theory in general, more helpful and those that of other saxophonist/music education content providers. On a saxophone, only one note can be played at a time, so chords have to be outlined. Also, the popular soprano, alto, tenor and baritone instruments are not concert pitch. So, there is need to transpose. However, these fundamantal differences aside, you shine quite brightly. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, skill, charm, humour and wit, Michael. Happy new year.

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Alistair! I really appreciate your generous comment 🙏☺️ It’s great to hear you’ve been getting some value from my videos. HNY🥳

[@tonyleeglenn]

Hey Michael. I wanted to share a special happy New Year’s message with you. I’m a guitar player with around 50,000 subscribers. I just want to say that your instruction is helping me a great deal with my guitar playing, especially pertaining to chord selection and understanding of advanced progressions. You explain music theory in a way that is far superior to most people, and that includes most guitar instructional channels. I’m going to make a video to recommend your channel to other guitar musicians. Thank you so much for the fine content and for inspiring me to improve my musical skills in ways that I hadn’t expected-especially from someone who is an expert keyboard player. Blessings to you and your family, my friend.

[@michaelkeithson]

Wow! Thank you Tony🙏🙏☺️ I’m really glad you’ve got some value from my content and I really appreciate your support. Thank you. A very happy new year to you!! 🥳

[@matthewherro1075]

Awesome lesson! I’m sure the on screen chords take ages during editing but they are so nice visually and as a learning tool. Great lesson to start the new year -thanks!

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Matthew, appreciate the comment. Yes, they do take a while to add in the edit so glad to hear they’re valuable to the learning. 👍

[@caverjeffbenford7841]

Another excellent lesson I’ll end up watching several times as I work them out on the guitar. Here’s a cadence I like to use sometimes ii / ii°/ I I’ve heard it called a common tone resolution.

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Jeff! Nice suggestion, I guess it’s a combination of a couple of my single chord examples. I’ll have to give yours a spin! 👍

[@JackTheRabbitMusic]

When I write songs, I might want red to fade softly into orange and yellow. In other situations, I just want yellow and blue to clash with splotches of purple and red. I’m not technically musical; know very basic theory, but I do understand color and emotion. If I am being honest, lots of this went way over my head, but I could hear and feel it perfectly. Happy new year!

[@michaelkeithson]

Love this comment! ❤️

[@nocontextgonzalo]

this channel is too good

[@michaelkeithson]

☺️🙏 Thanks man, appreciate the kind words 🙏

[@chopper84a]

Doing a great job mate. But please can you do some stuff about apogiaturas, passing notes, suspensions, anticipations

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Alex! Appreciate the suggestions 👍

[@CamiloGaetePuga]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[@760Piper]

Great video. I learn so much from your channel. I'm adding the b7 to the bVI7maj7 cadence. AbMaj7- Bb-CMaj7. I think I learned that from you!!!

[@michaelkeithson]

Thank you! Appreciate your contribution too! That is a nice one 👍 HNY🥳

[@douglasmason6067]

Yas! The IV-ii-I move was a revelation for me for one of my earliest songs.

[@onehere9065]

fantastic content. compliments to the chef!

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏 Thank you!

[@aleksiinevatov2184]

Thank you for your video, I really liked your versions of alternative cadences and going clockwise the circle of fifths thinking, I love it tooo:) - I My personal favorite sequence in key of C is Abadd9 Bb Ddma7add9 Ebma7add9 -C Thank you once again for your work and for PDF outlines ! Greetings from Finland !

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Aleksi! Glad you liked it, I’ll have to try your suggestion too. HNY🥳

[@pinkemperor]

I really enjoyed and benefitted from this lesson! Thank you so much! I was doing some of the stuff you do with hit and miss/trial and error. I tend to write the bass steps leading to my root (with departures from diatonic "correct" tones) and if they work i try to fill in the other voices so that they move very little or function as common tones. One thing i realize is that if the bass tone and the top/melody tones make sense to the ear (flow in a pleasing way to resolve) some of the inbetween contained harmony can be interchangeable. I hope this description is not too vague

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks for the comment. I think you’ve got a sensible approach. You’re using your ears to determine what you like which is so important. I think the theory side of these things is still really useful to have as it can give new/other options and a structure to different ways of thinking. HNY🥳

[@JohnPaulRiger]

Really great! Harmonic options are so powerfully valuable. I’ve tried to study methods for song reharmonization but none make sense to me. It always seems to come down to trial and error and unfortunately most of them fail as terrible attempts to be innovative. Every now and then I accidentally stumble into something that works that might open a new door to greater vocabulary. Your approach and explanations make perfect sense. I rarely go to the lengths to understand the context of the theory behind the particular moves I love. I could but I don’t. And those moves are generally key specific instead mirroring the same moves in all keys. But I’ve saved this particular video to my favorite tutorials and hopefully can dive into this in early February. Thank you so much for sharing. This video makes perfect sense.

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks for the comment John, glad you enjoyed the video! 👍

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

I'm only beginning to understand Functional Harmony. At the end, you mentioned that one also has to be aware of the melody. Oh my, playing music is so complicated. I'm gaining much more respect for musicians. Merci for a great lesson, well explained.

[@michaelkeithson]

Hey Lawrence, thanks for the comment. Yes, it can be complex but there’s also a lot that becomes intuitive and is only complex when you start to open it up. Thanks for watching! HNY🥳

[@jasoncboy8994]

What a teacher

[@michaelkeithson]

☺️🙏 Thanks Jason! HNY🥳

[@iamfrankbiesta]

Thanks again for a very inspiring video, Michael. You are really a superb teacher. All the best for 2025.

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏 Thanks Frank! Appreciated your support this year. More of the same in 2025! HNY🥳

[@SeanJZoning]

Hi Michael. I love your videos immensely and I've been really thankful for them during my music journey. I was wondering if you could do a video on audiation sometime and maybe just go over a little on how you were able to build up the ability to "feel" where to go next during improv or share some exercises. I've been really struggling with the concept of being able to internalize the scale degrees accurately. Thank you again for everything. Wishing much success to you this year 🫡

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Sean! Appreciate your comment. Thanks for your suggestion, I’ll ponder on it and see if there’s a video in there somewhere. I think it’s somewhat of a tricky one because a lot of it becomes automatic due to the amount of time you put in and over the years that ‘feel’ becomes intuitive because you’ve done it so many times. But having said that I’m sure there will be ways to think and practice that will definitely help strengthen that side of things. Cheers HNY🥳

[@michaelkeithson]

I think you do need good knowledge of,and access to, your scales. But also an appreciation for the function of different chords or groups of chords so that when you see a chord or sequence you instantly know what your options are.

[@steveshadforth8792]

Never realised that tritone connection, love yr channel man

[@timball8429]

Thanks Michael and happy new year. A couple from me. One alternative for a G7 > C is F/G > C. Also very simple deceptive cadence is the good old Am.

[@michaelkeithson]

Cheers Tim! Happy new year to you too! Yeah, you can’t beat a good IV/V 👌

[@JAZZER5]

You load a donkey very well - I can't wait to unpack these. They all sound great. Thank you.

[@michaelkeithson]

Ha! Thanks man👍 HNY🥳

[@thewaywardtrio]

Wow really cool stuff. This is the progression from “Learn to Fly” foo fighters. Think C mixolydian and the cadence becomes a five in minor scenario like “Caravan” duke ellington. Provides great food for thought on both tunes thank you!!!

[@oldmannewman]

So good, so creative and makes me not only want to play but also challenges me to think!! Thank you!!!

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks for the nice comment Steve🙏 HNY 🥳

[@jacksaville8463]

Brilliant

[@mayzkurolostark3293]

such a wonderful video, this helps so much with getting other harmony vocabulary. Thank you so much!

[@michaelkeithson]

Great to hear! Glad you got some value from it! Thanks for the comment 👍

[@LeeRoy.Jenkinz]

This is brilliant, learning so much on this channel. Thank you !

[@michaelkeithson]

Great to hear Roy! Thanks for the comment 👍

[@halloola3636]

Very nice playing and a whole lot of content in this short video! Thanks you and happy new year!

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏 Thank you! And a very happy new year to you too! 🥳

[@healeydavid3080]

Brilliant - as usual!

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏☺️

[@mikecoyne2242]

Hey, folks. PLEASE support. Keep these amazing videos coming. I will spend the next month on this one alone. The beauty of the variety is that I can pick and choose resolutions that echo my own voice and style.

[@michaelkeithson]

Thank you Mike 🙏 I really appreciate your comment. Thanks for your support. Happy new year 🥳

[@robertrafaj8790]

I love your channel! Greetz from Deutschland, Karlsruhe. Happy new year🎉

[@karenconnell3290]

Thank you!

[@rebeccabelcher2173]

Great video! So much to learn and I really enjoy your presentation!

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Rebecca! HNY🥳

[@alexolotl8751]

Babe wake up new Michael Keithson video dropped

[@michaelkeithson]

🤣☺️❤️

[@joehickles6506]

Absolutely Love your content Michael, so slick! I thought I’d share one of my fav “Randy Newman” style cadences (in C): F C/E D7 G7sus C * keep the C as the top note throughout Cheers! And Happy New Year

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Joe!! I LOVE Randy Newman! He’s got such a distinctive style and that secondary dominant major II chord is so typically him. I was lucky enough to see him do a small recording for BBC radio a few years ago where he played some songs and talked about his new album Dark Matter. It was magic!

[@Danooo5391]

Would you recommend I learn all of these in C first & then try a few more scales? Or should I maybe practise diminished chords / tri tones on every key and then try your sequences in a few keys? I guess any of the above is good as long as I just get going! 😅 Great work, really clear teaching! 👌

[@TOM-x2t8i]

Great reminder thanks !

[@joyfulfrequencies5391]

Hello again! Thank you!

[@michaelkeithson]

☺️

[@davidbailey8602]

What a great video! Expertly explained. Love the end of level boss to finish off with. Got a question. Do you need to coordinate with your bass player when chucking in these cheeky numbers?

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks David! Yes, you’d typically want to agree on these beforehand although there are some that will still work nicely even if the bass player played the root and the replaced chords will sound more like altered or suspended chords. Also a lot of decent bass players will be able to hear what you’re doing and follow - some easier than others though.

[@davidbailey8602]

@@michaelkeithson Thanks for taking the time to reply. I've watched this video a few times now and I'm working through each example. There's so much in here!

[@sagandalya108]

Sticking a II-V between a II-V gives a great sound, Dm7 Ebm7 Ab7 G7 or Dm7 Abm7 Db7 G7. In general you can always stick chords between, before and after chords to turn your chord progressions into something new. Instead of playing a G play Am G for instance.

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks for the contribution 👍🎵

[@classixdrummer]

An interesting (see frustrating) exploration of this resolution thing is found in Chilli Gonzales’s “B Natural”.

[@stevehunt2125]

Thanks!

[@Max-no1gl]

Happy New Year Michael. Thanks for the videos as always.

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Max! Happy new year to you too! 🥳

[@ramonacosta2647]

I like B7 to C. You've got your leading tone and the tritone resolves to E G.

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Roman! I’d be lying if I said I was a fan - doesn’t do it for me. Probably due to the kind of music I’ve been conditioned to! Each to their own though! 😉

[@Hans_Magnusson]

9:15 interesting 🤔 The diminished chords are “incomplete” dominant 9th chords. The D diminished is really a Bb9 with the root (Tonic) omitted. Bb D F Ab C becomes D F Ab C as the D diminished. The 0 after the D means that the riot is left out. Now we have a back door Dominant Chord that is a Bb7 🤔 Am I totally out of sync with reality, or …

[@michaelkeithson]

Almost, you’re spelling a half diminished (also called a m7b5) - the fully diminished 7 has a B, not a C. So the result is very similar but would be, as in your example, a Bb7b9. Hope that makes sense.

[@JohnMcNally-is9pc]

Superb!

[@JermaineDuffus]

this video is such a gem thank you so much

[@michaelkeithson]

👍 Thanks Jermaine!

[@nicu6651]

Happy New Year from Romania !

[@michaelkeithson]

HNY🥳

[@basvanliempt]

Love your lessons! Happy newyear to you and your dear ones 🥂

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Bas! Happy New Year to you and yours too! 🥳🥳

[@bobquickmusic]

Brilliant video Michael ,thank you and Happy New Year.

[@michaelkeithson]

Cheers Robert! Glad you liked it. HNY🥳

[@bradenwilson]

Thank you so much… so much value in this!

[@michaelkeithson]

You’re very welcome Braden! HNY🥳

[@joelkaniki1831]

Michael please I'd like to know what you play in your interludes 🙏

[@willemniehorster9836]

happy new year! and thanks for the video!!!

[@michaelkeithson]

Happy new year Willem! 🥳

[@MissNorington]

6:50 yay!

[@jeddguantia3503]

What are the voicings of the chords @ 1:05 ?

[@michaelkeithson]

Hey Jedd, at 1:05 I played Ebmaj7-Dm7-C a slight variation of the example at about 21:00. I think the specific voicing was: Ebmaj7 = LH: Eb Bb - RH: G D Dm7 = LH: D A - RH: F C C = LH: C G - RH: E C Hope that helps!

[@ben_burnes]

Thanks as always for these videos! It's always great to sit down and spend some time absorbing new things. Now I just gotta get my butt in the chair and practice them more.

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Ben! Happy practising!!

[@CliffScherer]

Tanks a lot for your excellent videos. To me your teaching style is highly efficient and anjoyable. They helped me a lot to understand and apply harmony for making music with conscious choices. Looking forward to learn more in 2025 from you - Cheers !

[@michaelkeithson]

Thank you Cliff 🙏 Really appreciate your comment, glad you’ve been enjoying the content. More to come in 2025! HNY🥳

[@paoloda6612]

I'm not an expert but the way you reach is spectacular !

[@michaelkeithson]

🙏 Thank you Paulo!

[@KeithEndre]

Sus4 Maj7 of the tonic will also give you that nice V7/ tritone sub flavor

[@DonSolaris]

Great vid!! There was an excellent book which I for unknown reason (laziness?) didn't buy but put in my Amazon basket which Amazon somehow lost. It was about alternative composition / harmonisation / chord progression methods. I remember the reviews were excellent.... unfortunately I forgot its name. Still kicking myself for not buying it. Asked one compositor, he heard about the book as well but can't remember the title neither. So sad! :(

[@michaelkeithson]

Oooh! Now I want to know what the book is!!

[@Aashriya291]

what are the chords at 1:05 I NEED TO KNOW

[@michaelkeithson]

Ah! That was Ebmaj7-Dm7-C - a very slight variation on the example at 21:00

[@Aashriya291]

🎉 thank you so much !!

[@louismaiden8360]

Best piano resource on youtube... I've been looking for a way to really internalize these cadences (and other common progressions) in all 12 keys. Do you have any methods you'd recommend? I was simply going to create backing tracks for each cadence in 12 keys and work through them. Then learn songs in which they feature prominently or at least appear . Just wondering if you had any advice on this!

[@entangledbandaustralia6671]

Totally agree. Something I stumbled on recently is using the "key transpose" feature found on most keyboards, not to cheat, but to play along. You could then practice playing along to this video in all the different keys. Would take a while, but much quicker than creating 12 backing tracks, I hope. Let me know if this works for you? Rich

[@romanvolotov]

wonder why the V-vi wasn't included in the interrupted cadences section apart from that, this is an amazing video, tysm

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Roman. I think the vi interrupted cadence is a bit of a common occurrence so I wanted to use some that are a little less common. 👍

[@romanvolotov]

@@michaelkeithson ok, gotcha

[@Phaseish]

ISN'T YOUR A FAV A LINE CLICHE? YOU SHOULD DO THAT NEXT. concept. also :) happy new year thanks for all your knowledge you have given over the year, i am sure we all appercaite it and look at your subs :). also i think I asked you before, but what VST are you using for this , your piano sounds so good and natural and i kepe hearing the piano bench haha with my DAC, so I am thinking that you use NOIRE or something like that. Wish you nothing but the best for 2025. this series of videos you create just makes me feel that the jazz forms were the pinnacle of music and all the disco musicians, of the 70s after everything has just digressed. In the culturre of USA pop, in such a sad way. other thatn now you here a lot more 2, 5, 1's then you did I also think wow the beatles lol really figured most of this shit, out, but I am starting to feel the explination is that the music they heard of their era was so rich in harmony, compared to a teenage lennon now, and its really sad. and I am sure it drives all of us to watch MT videos and try to change shit up.

[@derenjoy3r]

But why does the Gm7 work so well in the beginning? Thats what I dont get about this... I dont see any chromatic lines or anything making the nondiatonic A# work?

[@leedress2187]

Can you tell me what the second half of the chorus in "Die with a smile" is? They change from minor chords to major chords in the second half of the final chorus. That's as much as I know. I guess it would be an interrupted cadence?

[@vannigio27]

Download is impossible. La connessione non è privata.

[@austinberner31]

Another great video. Would love to get your take on the function of VII7 to I - I believe Muse uses it in the chorus of Plug In Baby (F#7 to G)

[@michaelkeithson]

Hey Austin, thanks for the comment. I can't say I'm big fan of that cadence. To my hear ear is kind of sounds like a III7 - IV chord. In your example my ear expects something like a F#7-G-Gm-D. I don't feel it to be a strong tonicization of the I chord, if anything I feel like it weakens it. It may well be because of my conditioning through the styles of music I play and listen to but it doesn't really do it for me! Each to their own though!

[@dakshsrivastava4624]

Hello sir Do you give personal lessons or any kind of classes ?

[@michaelkeithson]

Do still have a few spots for online lessons. Drop me a note at [e-mail]

[@dakshsrivastava4624]

@@michaelkeithson done with this same email

[@ryanthepianoman27]

This is great will save this video😊

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Ryan! Glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@testtest-lc4xz]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Tadd Dameron (aka "Lady Bird") cadence. Eb -> Ab -> Db -> C.

[@michaelkeithson]

I did consider it but decided that 1)I think of it more of a turnaround rather than a cadence as it starts on the Tonic. 2) I feel there are some differing opinions between some of the chord qualities of the Lady Bird turnaround and didn’t want to invite the keyboard warriors to pipe up!

[@squashfan9526]

Michael, you've mistakenly included the text from your recent video about 7th chords in the description for this video.

[@michaelkeithson]

😬😣 Oops! Copy and paste fail! Thanks for the heads up! Good to know that some people do actually read that stuff! 😂 HNY🥳

[@squashfan9526]

@michaelkeithson Yep, some of us read! Massively enjoying your videos, great lessons, really well done, wonderful humour, you've nailed the format. And I don't even play piano, guitarist. Happy New year to you too.

[@michaelkeithson]

@@squashfan9526 Thanks! Glad you're enjoying the content. I spotted your username, I'm a keen squash player, started playing 3 or 4 years ago and now try to play a couple times a week - love it, such a great game.

[@squashfan9526]

@@michaelkeithson Good stuff. If you're ever in the Brighton region, we should have a game.

[@michaelkeithson]

@@squashfan9526 Deal! 👍

[@fransvandiesen]

Dear Michael, I certainly have problems with receiving the pdf. Neither my inbox nor my spam box does contain the pdf. By the way I love your tips and explanations, so I would regret it very much not having the document, because English is not my native language Hoping that you can solve my problems,

[@michaelkeithson]

Hi Frans. Apologies for the problem. I just checked my website and for some reason it was recognising your email address as spam. I've tried to send again now. Hopefully it comes through. If not, please email me at [e-mail] and I'll send one direct. Happy New Year 🥳

[@fransvandiesen]

@@michaelkeithson got it . Very kind of you Thanx so much!

[@michaelkeithson]

@@fransvandiesen Perfect! Sorry for the mix up. 😣

[@colleeneakins3294]

Why isn’t it a D7half dim

[@michaelkeithson]

Hi Colleen. What do you mean? Why isn’t it the ø called 7half dim?

[@johnbirkby2913]

Damn, just getting ready to go out and have seen you've posted another video. Now torn between keeping the peace or getting a right earbashing from Shewhomustbeobeyed. Oh, HNY by the way!

[@johnbirkby2913]

Just got my Rs shot off!

[@michaelkeithson]

🤣😂 Hope I didn’t ruin your new years celebrations!! Happy new year John! 🥳

[@AdrianAshMusic]

Why you never mention the Mario ending? Basically a Backdoor Turnaround, but the iv7 is in 1st inversion...

[@michaelkeithson]

Nice! Thanks for the suggestion. Never been a video game guy so must have missed that one!

[@AdrianAshMusic]

@@michaelkeithson sure! love your videos. seems like lots of folks like that Mario ending (or maybe it's just me lol). bVI-bVII-I is another way to look at it. makes a nice "interrupted cadence" ending for some songs.