3 Gorgeous Harmony Exercises to Supercharge Your Chord Progressions

[@jtonemediaholdings108]

2nd exercise sounds like great is thy faithfulness

[@Piano_ssam]

I'm also a piano tutorial KZbinr, but I've been your subscriber for many years and I'm a fan of learning a lot :-) You are the teacher of teachers! Please make a good lecture for the rest of your life, my teacher 🥰🥰

[@RayfieldA]

The first melody arrangement reminds me of David Benoit from late 80s, early 90s. Very nice.

[@tyronnhamilton254]

Excellent video.

[@JohnZornAscended]

I like to use the bass as a guide to outline a chord. Take for instance a maj7. For every note of the voicing of the inversion. You find a substitution chord. Fun exercise in creativity.

[@NoahKellman]

Not sure if I fully understand, do you mean like you are converting the chord, but then finding a different chord for each bass note of the inversions?

[@JohnZornAscended]

@@NoahKellman Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. The bass part is a cheap visualization trick so you don’t get lost.

[@LeonMarvel]

Beautiful and VERY helpful!!

[@NoahKellman]

Thanks Leon! Glad you liked it and found it helpful

[@jamienguerrero]

Is there a notation error in example 1? Left hand first chord should have Bb. I was a little confused at first why the first two left hand intervals shared the top note.

[@jamienguerrero]

Very beautiful and super helpful nonetheless! Just adding this note in case anyone else tripped like I did.

[@NoahKellman]

@@jamienguerrero thanks for adding this! Yeah I think I just preferred the shape the way I ended up playing it in the video and didn’t realize during the editing process 🤣

[@MR-th8xk]

Great Video. Great Site. But in the first sheet music transcription - “5: Chord Scale Departure” - shouldn’t the second note on the first beat in the bass clef be a B-flat instead of an A-flat? In other words (as you demonstrate on the keyboard) a sixth in the left hand, instead of a perfect fifth. In any case, I purchased the pdf and look forward to practicing all the examples. Thanks for all the dedication and hard work.

[@davlasry]

Amazing chords, thanks for sharing! Somehow the last chords of the 1st exercise sounds quite muddy/too low when I play it on my keyboard. However when I hear you play it it sounds great. Can it differ from one piano/keyboard to another?

[@NoahKellman]

Yeah 100%! I’m using a specific sound that I like on my computer. Different pianos definitely have different amounts of overtones and just overall timbres so it can make a huge difference. Just try moving the exercise up a few keys!

[@newmat]

I have one question. First you take a shape down diatonically. Got it. Then you shift to a shape and move it down. Mostly got it. Following the bass you travel G->F->Eb->D. Step->step->step->half-step. Why the half step at the end?

[@NoahKellman]

@@newmat great question! Literally the answer is just because I wanted to demonstrate how simply you can shift to your destination using this type of movement.

[@NoahKellman]

@@newmat we go from using diatonic motion to intervallic motion and then I basically just chose to land where I landed. That’s part of what I love about some of these exercises is that they give you material that helpsyou stick the landing harmonically wherever you need.

[@thereallybigdotcom]

does the thing for sale have pdfs? says midi and audio...

[@NoahKellman]

@@thereallybigdotcom Hey, yes it does.

[@jamesnewberry2945]

I think that this one of your best presentation The voicing is excellent TY Oh btw what model is that Casio it sounds great on my end!

[@NoahKellman]

Thanks James! It’s a Casio Celviano Grand Hybrid running the sound of Pianoteq through my computer!

[@jamesnewberry2945]

@@NoahKellman TY I new something was different

[@JoeLinux2000]

Exercise 1 has an Ab written where you play Bb.

[@NoahKellman]

@@JoeLinux2000 thanks for the heads up! Which bar?

[@MrChancle84]

@@NoahKellman Hi, beautiful move! I think he is talking about the very first chord, it has Db and Ab in the left hand on the pdf, but you are playing Db and Bb, sound great both ways hehe

[@NoahKellman]

@@MrChancle84oh yeah duh! I think I decided I like the Bb as I was making the video 😅 thank you both for pointing it out

[@pianostoriesimprovisations8419]

Bar 1, first lefthandchord. Love your channel!

[@paulinskipukprogressive4903]

This is so useful and valuable - and beautiful to try out But please avoid playing demo sequences really fast - we need to know the notes are, and in this video you frequently dash off a series of chords so fast that it's impossible to follow the detail

[@NoahKellman]

Hey Paul thanks for the feedback! I figure you can always slow down the video in the settings, or also use the sheet music, but I hear you will keep it in mind! Cheers

[@brunochartreux]

Definitely don't take out the parts where you dash off - those are the most interesting! Thanks!

[@dannuttle9005]

I can't understand Eb(sus2)/G. It has the major third in it. How is it a sus2? I see that as an Eb9/G.

[@froboy12342]

the F is probably an add2 technically

[@NoahKellman]

Yeah @froboy12342 is correct! Technically I’d be an add2 or add9. People call it different things. However, I prefer to call is a sus2 because it implies a very specific shape: a sus2 triad on top, 125, then the 3 underneath. That’s a personal preference but in my opinion it implies the exact shape I want to hear, make sense?

[@libertycowboy2495]

Over my head

[@NoahKellman]

@@libertycowboy2495 keep practicing you’ll get there!

[@JohnZornAscended]

It’s not. Lol

[@kencory2476]

A little muddy at the bottom.

[@NoahKellman]

You can just transpose it up for a cleaner sound