Spice up chord progressions with "Secondary Tensions"

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Thanks so much!

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Always a patron of the transpose button! Thanks for another great lesson! (Love how they’re following some kind of continuity! )

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I love your channel and your lessons for giving names and shape to observations I've made but never fully realized. This is where theory can be so helpful! Thank you.

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Thank you Noel!!! This is good stuff!!! It helps me tremendously. I don't really know that much.

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Thank you 😁 really cool lesson

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Jerky, the ground up remains of some animal's rotting flesh that gives you cancer... great comparison.

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This was great.

[@musicproductionvideos5019]

I think I got most of that. But I'm confused how you came to G+ chord from the Em. How did you know/decide to not harmonize the natural minor (resulting a normal G maj chord)? You used the Harmonic as if it was a given. Just trying understand that part. Already knew the secondary Doms, so this adds to that nicely. Thanks!

[@nohjoh08]

Happy to explain more, sorry I didn’t make it more clear but when you tonicize a chord you assume it’s the tonic, so if it’s a minor you assign a minor key (something with a leading tone - natural minor is not tonic’y enough to add the harmonic gravity needed). Harmonic minor or melodic minor has this harmonic gravity. The 3 chord (III) in harmonic minor or melodic minor is augmented, whereas in natural minor it’s just a plain major chord. I hope that makes sense. To summarize: Harmonic minor is more powerful as a minor key than natural minor.

[@musicproductionvideos5019]

Ok yes that makes sense to me. Appreciate the explanation.

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[@777brianyurick]

AWESOME!!! Noel...WE WANT MORE!!! How about a lesson on how J.S. Bach used Melodic Minor??? And no mumbo jumbo about going up melodic and down aeolian!!! Because we know thats BULL!!! Lol...THANX NOEL!!! We Love your stuff!!! Great Job!!!

[@mortenmller147]

Great video and great content. Very interesting and different! Quick question. When you use the "Tonicization", on minor chords, you can choose between minor, harmonic and melodic minor modes yes to pull out the tension chords. But on the major chords you stick to the major modes to take out the tension chords... Is this correct?

[@nohjoh08]

That’s what I did here, yes. Treat each chord as a “typical” (Ionian, harmonic minor) 1 chord in its own key. This is traditionally how it’s done. (It is an interesting experiment, however, to use alternative major or minor tonalities, but that’s not normal)

[@mortenmller147]

@@nohjoh08 Amazing. Thanks! Ive been trying to mess around on the 'Little Wing'- chord progression. I somewhat discovered a new world of secondary dominants. Its so full of flavours. Also i found that adding one more 'route', resolving to the secondary dominant before resolving to the tonic sounds great. I just wanted to share that back. Thanks a lot for the inspiration and sharing your knowledge

[@voyxu143]

Great ideas here.

[@Jgbaileymusic]

Thanks Noel. Why do you use V not v with the minor chords? Are the V tension chords dominant?

[@nohjoh08]

Good question. Since you want a leading tone (to give it more tension) it would make the V chord become a major chord (and in minor, the III chord an augmented and the vii chord a diminished)

[@Jgbaileymusic]

@@nohjoh08 Thanks Noel I also very much enjoyed the video on open voicing inversions. Great for making arrangements more interesting with solo guitar vocals.

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Awesome

[@claytronico]

Hallelujah is my favorite song that uses it. Scratch that, it doesn't.

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Which Schillinger book has the Voice Leading?

[@nohjoh08]

It’s in book V of the Schillinger System of Musical Composition.

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I have that same shirt! :)

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First audience here XD

[@No_auto_toon]

I aint sick of that chord progression. Just make the IV a ii7.

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Nice shirt

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Les Paul trick! 😂😂

[@9um9um9um]

lost me at 4:30

[@nohjoh08]

Was it the G+ to Em? It’s the III to i in the key of E minor. Happy to explain it more.

[@ehilf8024]

Same here. Not following how the tension chords are constructed. In particular, I don’t see how a G Aug chord can be diatonic to E natural minor (E harmonic minor is another story).

[@9um9um9um]

@@nohjoh08your end result is very beautiful and I know my theory but it’s just not clear

[@nohjoh08]

Correct. It switches to harmonic minor (that leading tone gives it more tension to where the E minor sounds like a tonic). Natural minor doesn’t have that tension as much.

[@nohjoh08]

@@9um9um9um gotcha. Yes, it’s a i in a minor key (harmonic minor or melodic minor works)