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[@wellDamnJamz]

Once I understand these terms I'ma be unstoppable

[@mk4630]

Lol

[@lowercasepeople49]

You got this. And once you know Jesus you truly will be indomitable 😊

[@jwardbass4452]

I’ve been telling myself that for years 😂 but music truly does get easier when you know a good bit of theory, it’s almost always an advantage.

[@JosefPiano]

@@lowercasepeople49amen

[@wellDamnJamz]

@@jwardbass4452 man Ive seen improvement already! You ain't never lied.

[@wesleymoraes5778]

That EB7 sound is so magic

[@idnemgk]

Yes! Adam snuck that in (a "chromatic 7th" sub for the actual secondary dominant A7). Open Studio could do a great lesson on Chromatic 7ths (all of which are as equally part of a key as Secondary Dominants). : )

[@simonlutgens]

@@idnemgk chromatic 7th? This is a tritone sub

[@idnemgk]

Yes, thanks! The same thing, different name.

[@danielkrome6640]

Exactly.

[@imauz1127]

i didnt see an eb7 notation tho? I'm a classical player lmao i think i just don't understand this stuff

[@chucktangy]

1st: Cmaj7 Am Fmaj7 2nd: Cmaj7 Am C7 Fmaj7 3rd: Cmaj7 Am Gm7 C7 Fmaj7 4th: Cmaj7 Am D2/F# Gm7 C7 Fmaj7 5th: Cmaj7 Am Eb7 D7 Gm7 C7 Fmaj7

[@christopherkettlewell7386]

This is amazing, but it's made more confusing by adding a D/F# chord instead of a simple D and in the last example a tritone substitutions from A to Eb. Break it down in the simplest way possible

[@MatthewHarris47]

I agree - especially the tritone sub.

[@ernie5229]

@@MatthewHarris47Yeah, but if there are two things jazz nerds love it's secondary dominants and tritone subs. He had to use it somewhere.

[@asmo_1929]

@@christopherkettlewell7386 you could tritone sub any of those and it would make some interesting progressions. In that situation it works well because otherwise he would be going from A minor to A7, and that would sound more like a modulation and wouldn't be that seamless. And doing a first inversion on the D is also an arbitrary choice, you can do it on any of the chords you feel like, I like it because of the minor second movement in the bass.

[@greg5892]

@@christopherkettlewell7386yeah I agree. It’s never broken down well in these shorts. It comes off like a flex instead of earnest or teaching

[@G8tr1522]

it's been 5 minutes since i sat down in the bathroom, and I still haven't finished this short yet. Absolutely crazy that this info is not only free, but packed into such a convenient format. Bravo.

[@score311]

Lol

[@kelvinnot1073]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 RIGHT

[@PianoHypnoshroom]

The video loop is pretty seamless as well

[@a.j.nicoll477]

Haha that's what I said too

[@panzade]

What I was thinking…😊

[@joshL28]

Yeah I’m pretty sure that was the point haha a seamless transition in two ways

[@oscargill423]

On theme, y'know?

[@chaggle]

Facts

[@Ihadthismate]

Love how you always play in C so I don’t even have to transpose these chords to steal them

[@StratosFair]

ok, i understand what he's saying but i'm not there yet, i'll be back after a year of practice or so

[@Ronald60202]

I so appreciate what you folks do. Wanted to play as a kid; mom and dad said no, so I developed as a singer. I hear these changes and I can adapt as a vocalist. But the great loss in my life has been to be a jazz pianist. What you share here feeds me, it literally feeds me, because even as I don't know the terminology, I can follow what you're doing. Easily. Thanks for being here....

[@Akram-b3m]

I don't know how much you need to hear this but, it's not too late for you to become what you'd like, if you still have this ache to become a jazz pianist, I think you should just go for it!!

[@KevinTPLim]

@@Akram-b3myes! picking up the piano later in life has brought me so much joy and fulfilment… just give the keys a tinkle, don’t expect too much from it but try to get across the flavour of what you feel (since you can feel it). It’s helpful to have a constraint like only use white keys or only use black keys, or only use one hand and keys within a span of that hand. And focus on expressing with rhythm, tone, and note choice. Good luck!!

[@Melodysmic]

Yes! What they are saying! Learn it! Do whatever you can to get the ball rolling! Get a cheap, maybe used (but taken care of) electric keyboard. You don’t need a grand piano anymore to learn piano. 😊 I’m doing the same thing at 34 years old with learning guitar (not just playing it 😉). It’s been the most rewarding thing I’ve done in a long time aside from my beautiful kiddos. Have fun!!

[@bassescovered7037]

it’s never too late to pick up an instrument friend

[@Xinbaset]

You will surprise yourself with your fast improvement since yout ear is already developed, your hands just need to sync with it👍

[@jacob_wetzel]

The D over F# is so subtle but it kills me in that spread voicing… amazing.

[@maunlio]

I would also add an E to the D chord

[@tsvtsvtsv]

it's already in there ​@@maunlio

[@Chachoes]

Bro just casually playing the most beautiful music ive ever heard

[@u2santos]

It's safe to say you haven't heard much then.

[@Xsynth]

Y'all provide the BEST online music lessons that I've seen in over the last 20 years. Keep raising the bar!

[@ARG7822]

Sounds like a gospel progression

[@lukaslawrence8863]

yes! this is very gospel-ish progression!

[@kiwimurray2244]

This doesn’t really sound like a full on key change to me, just an interesting way to get to the subdominant chord of the same key

[@Wesrets]

To me he didn't even modulate. He just went from C ionian to C mixolydian.

[@damoncook383]

Depends what on you play after the Fmaj too

[@OskarCzechowicz-OmniMusician]

Tbh that FM7 still sounds like a subdominant for me😅

[@TorbenMahnsMusic]

I get you, but I think that's not the point though, it's a seemless transition, not really a key change or modulation. so yeah you can hear it as subdominant to C still, but I think It's more about taking more detours through relative dominant connections to approach the F more colourfully. And then after that it has the potential to guide you in a different direction. :)

[@Marunius]

Perhaps going to a less related key would remove that feeling too :)

[@OskarCzechowicz-OmniMusician]

@@TorbenMahnsMusic The title literally says "key change" ;)

[@OskarCzechowicz-OmniMusician]

@@Marunius Maybe it's too much of the classical harmony training, but for me it doesn't click. Using a series of secondary dominants doesn't make you forget the start key, it's just an "exponential" secondary dominant series targetting the IV chord. For diatonic modulation you need to put the VI chord of the target key somewhere as an anchor, then it really starts to feel like modulation. And the series was lit AF, I just was disappointed to not really learn a new modulating technique :D

[@kevinldaniel]

I feel the same way. I primarily play gospel music and what he showed us is along the lines of what a gospel piano player would do going from 1 - 4 in a free flowing spontaneous environment.

[@waynemiller6070]

It really pays to know the circle of 5ths. ii V I's will get you anywhere you need to go.

[@parsikoula]

Play C7...jazz pianist: (unconsciously adds 9) 😂

[@_sonicfive]

And before we know it we are braiding our hair and In a gospel choir 😅

[@mrquick6775]

🙄

[@pulsar-_-4504]

gotta warm up haha!

[@QuadriviumNumbers]

Don't forget the wigs! 🤣

[@kvngphresh448]

THAT. PART!

[@ChiefLevite]

Are y'all serious with these comments? 😒

[@powerthirst7717]

My god. It was beautiful.

[@caswelljohnstone200]

This is fantastic, I love everything about it, but....explain it to me like I'm a 5 year old...

[@_Snix]

First is C that’s your starting chord. Since you want to go to F try to find a chord that both of those scales share, the chord that he chose is A minor. From there you use the yo dominant then tonic (dominant is the 5th chord from where you want to end up, so if you’re trying to end on F then the dominant is C), so he played C -> A- -> C7 (because it sounds better than just C -> F. Then he played the dominant of the initial dominant, from C or C7 that’s G or G-7, he played the latter because 7ths are always jazzier. So then it became C > A- > G-7 > C7 > F Then the SAME thing again, the dominant of the G-7 that’s a D7, so play that before G-7, then do it AGAIN you end up with dominant of D7 which is A again, so he used a so-called “tritone substitution” that’s where you substitute the chord you want to play for its tritone, a tritone is the fifth but a half step lower, so instead of playing A a second time he played Ebmaj7, which is the tritone of A. so then the finished product is basically: C > A- > Ebmaj7 > D2/F#(this is an embellishment its a bit too complicated for a YT comment but you can just play D7) > G-7 > C7 > F

[@karvasukka7915]

Your comment is gold. Much appreciated.@@_Snix

[@S1R-ider]

This is smoother than silk 😮‍💨

[@viktorjangsell1849]

You need to make the F the tonic instead of just going there cuz it sounds like the subdominant still

[@Daniel-ud1pn]

Tf? My tiny baby hands are panicking at that F,C,G STRETCH!!!! On the left hand (dunno the chord name) Sheesh.. i can make it but DAMN! my pinky finger is about to snap at this rate how the heck can you play that like its less than a mm apart. Thought i was flexoble but damn, need to stretch my hands i guess. I can comfortably reach 9 keys with my fingers on the edge, but 10 is a stretch. I can reach those keys as an arpeggio, but as a chord? Sheesh. Any tips on how to reach that distance the "proper way" is it just practice so your hands will grow more flexible over time? Or am i cursed to never reach it?

[@joshuaSundeep]

For my pals who have no clue what a secondary dominant is (neither did I, so I googled it), in short it's just a Dominant (V or V7) to the Tonic (I) chord progression in another key from the original. The Tonic (I) chord, however, must be a chord that is in the original key. This is definitely a huge simplification, but I think this is the main idea!

[@6uitarbot]

Thanks .

[@1blackone]

One of those things that only sounds good on a piano. I tried comping the 2nd and 3rd versions and it just sounds like going vaguely between a " high" chord and a "low" chord with only 5 or 6 strings to work with.

[@SoggySandwich80]

Whenever he does the ✨✨✨ my brain melts a little

[@victorivanow8640]

Where to find this exact course on key changes? Exact link please🙏🏻

[@a_music_nerd]

even though i understand next to nothing about dominants or whatever, i like watching these videos because they’re very relaxing

[@spareplanet]

Perfect “pace” to this vid. I had to stop, rewind and rewatch it, and that’s great, because the alternative is a vid that’s too slow, that over explains things.

[@alexprice5479]

Hard to get that 5-1-4 sound out of my head 😭

[@kuhboom22]

You're amazing. Really inspirational.

[@VeritabIlIti]

Gotta be honest, that's not key transitioning in this case because you've just gone three miles around the get to Fmaj7, which is in the key of C. So it just sounds like a IV chord

[@lemmystop]

EXACTLY!

[@joeaquilino19]

I love this making all that mess they tried to spoon feed me for 50 dollars a half hour make sense

[@nathan1507]

Warmup so warm it got me confessing to my crush wish me luck

[@meekserge6300]

OmG I want ur tutorials bout those incredible moves🎹🎹🎹🔥🔥🔥😍😍😍 woww🔉🔉🔉... I'm still reacting with crooked face for real😬😬😬🔥🎹

[@jdiaz4877]

Adam getting gospely 😉

[@richardtemple9292]

Gave me gospel vibes especially the 3rd variation. Lord have mercy 😮‍💨

[@leodufour2]

Fuuuck, I don't understand any of it but it sounds sooo good

[@Photologistic]

Adam, you tend to rush through these things and not really explain. Which the secondary dominant of each chord, etc. a quick statement or review would be good.

[@chucktangy]

A 2nd-ary dominant chord is any chord that is the dominant of a key that is not our tonic. So if our key is C major (ie the tonic) the dominant chord is G7 (ie the 5th of C major, all notes of the chord in the key of C). If we had A7 in the progression to C it would be a 2nd-ary dominant because A is the 5th of D. D is NOT our tonic hence A7 or Am7 does not resolve to C our tonic. The key signature of the 2nd-ary dominant doesn't have to fit the signature of the tonic either. As Adam shifts from the key of C to the key of F he starts to throw in 2nd-ary dominant chords in the key of F. The first being when he adds C7 with the Bb which is in the key of F. Then shifts to Gm7 which uses a Bb again in the key of F. Things really start to get wild when he transitions to D2/F# and Eb7 whose signatures don't belong to C or F but are 2nd-ary dominants of other dominants he's playing.

[@kvngphresh448]

Babyface and Brian McKnight (to name just a couple) use this technique religiously. 💪🏾😌

[@yori4666]

My inner ear still hears a IV chord. Is there more to the story?

[@stevenmiles1285]

That was great but I understood nothing

[@ElAveline]

I do that a lot and I don’t even know I’m doing it

[@busyworksbeats]

He went crazy on this one 🔥🚀

[@myousickoflife]

Brain is melting....

[@DaDiDu_OS]

What is the new f delta key?

[@ultimatum1895]

That first C7 and the later G-7 and C7 combo is lifechanging

[@TommyLikeTom]

you said that Eb7 is the subdominant of D7, but then in a subtle text comment you say "Tritone subtitution" and expect us to understand what you mean. Luckily I do, but still, it's just not responsible teaching. The actual Subdominant of D7 is A7, and Eb is the tritone of A, that's how they landed on Eb7, and the reason this substitution is made is because otherwise there would be a Dminor and a D7 right after each other

[@grateful3300]

Thanks for this but… Why do these chords work?

[@chillipepperoni]

Watch Functional Harmony Lessons here on YT then watch Secondary Dominants, Tritone Substitutions, and Modal Interchange. Watch and learn the videos first then apply them to your playing. Improvise on 12 keys and you're good to go ;)

[@mikaellavrell]

To my ears what you are doing is just getting from the C chord (I) to the F chord (IV) in different ways. It’s still in the key of C.

[@trombonemunroe]

I'm an advanced theory guy and I still found this wonderful. Subscribed!

[@gimelmusic]

BRUHHH DID NO ONE ELSE PEEP HE WAS RHYTHMICALLY MATCHING WHAT HE WAS NARRATING WITH HIS VOICINGS 😮💀 I love this channel ❤

[@maunlio]

Too fast for me 😅

[@krypto_7155]

So like what’s the difference between a Ctriangle (which is a major 7 chord) and a C7? Is rhe C7 a minor 7th?

[@brandonzweiback1132]

Help! I’m usually pretty decent at letting theory lessons flow into my noggin, but I’m falling short on this secondary dominant here. The primary V of C is G, making its secondary dominant D. The primary dominant of the Amin added is E, and its secondary is B. Lastly, primary for F is C, and its secondary is G. How is C7 the secondary dominant?

[@RenéSaussy]

What does the delta mean?

[@SubtleHawk]

major 7 chord

[@EP-ki2zu]

think i'm love hahaha! Ahhh that harmony just does it for me.....the ultimate uplift, my heart & soul just start singing! Thanks that was amazing.....happy practising to me for the next few months! :D

[@maynardewm]

That was adding seams, not taking them away. You added all the seams.

[@krimhorn]

You know, some people can't do loops to save their lives and here it's like I'm watching a video built for an Amiga mod track

[@SilverbackG-wq1cn]

I can assure you the audience wont know what key you started in... let alone where you finished

[@sidework1]

It's all about the journey

[@LeeJeanJr]

It wasn’t until just now I had the knowledge and facility to realize I know these chords on the guitar I’m holding in my hand and I can just also play them 🤦‍♀️

[@voidzennullspace]

This sounds absolutely wonderful.....but when you employ any number of secondary dominants, especially in addition to a 2-5-1, the key change is VERY obvious. If we define seamless to be "our audience can't even tell" then we failed lol. Again, sounds absolutely spectacular but c'mon these are the oldest tricks in the book.

[@stnhndg]

TLDR; throw secondary dominant. Add even more. Assert your dominance with... well... dominants.

[@wpochert]

Billy Joel made a living doing that

[@jamesrockybullin5250]

How could you possibly post a video about the circle of 5ths without mentioning the circle of 5ths. Infuriating.

[@shakesrear7850]

It's wonderful. Wrong song. It's country by Keith Jarrett. Sorry. Do we all know this? Is there another tune that uses this? I'm grateful.

[@kultonjackson4435]

Goodness, gracious Adam. I’m tired of you giving me a new 25+ hour practice assignment three hours into the last assignment you gave me. When’s the next video?

[@HDDude1981]

Even with all of the chord progressions, I still hear the F chord as IV in C major. I didn't hear anything that actually tonicized F major

[@javixo1997]

Song recommendations that sound like this?

[@hankydoodle1000]

jazz

[@yannmondehard4171]

So all 12 keys, 5 variations to go to another of the 11 remaining keys. That's 655 things to work on. Have a great couple of years 😂😂😂

[@alexmedeiros1679]

so basically, a chord that both keys have (if any) followed by 873 quintillion 2-5-1s. got it!

[@no_ou]

I understand which chords to use but I feel like your voicings add soooo much more to that! how can I learn/practice that? using different inversions?

[@redzedproductions]

Was just wondering how to play Stevie Wonder’s “As” (great song for spring time)…I feel like the song contains these transitions (key unsure…yes yes songs in the key of life)

[@GuitarSmartsPodcast]

None of this sounds to me like a modulation, they are just longer and longer ways to get to the 4 - the F always feels like a four, I even want it to go to a minor 4, but I guess thats because we don't hear what could come next to solidify the F key - beautiful chords though, beautiful movements, all sounds so lovely and inviting to the ear. Great playing!

[@neonschaf]

Or you could have just played something in C and afterwards beginn to lay Bb instead if Bs and Boom, you have modulated.

[@orbensana]

it's beautiful....but I think the audience can tell some magic is happening. it's seamless bc now all the modulation prepping sounds like a departure from the original key and the target key becomes a relief from all the jazzy messin' around in the middle.

[@jeffreyhoward879]

I love the chords, and so love these videos but I still don’t feel that we have actually changed key to the key of F. It feels like it is a chord sequence and that we are still in C Major.

[@ivanignacio2353]

what about going to a minor key. The same applies? what changes? i mean, what is the 2ndary dominant of a min7b5 chord

[@kabalayouri419]

That’s basic gospel changes, but in my ear i don’t feel like it’s a key change, more like going to the 4 for me 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@EngineMusic]

this is just that how to draw a horse meme. step one: transition from C to F step two: become Thelonious Monk

[@ikept_the_jethryk2421]

How to draw Spider-Man in two easy steps: Step 1- draw an oval with a line through it Step 2- draw Spider-Man holding an oval with a line through it!

[@quimtorra3981]

I swear I'm trying but it's so confusing. It's hard to think all of these things so fast. I need to think a lot about it using pen and paper man, I feel overwhelmed😅😅

[@Andy-pc8sr]

Unoriginal comment, but I often wonder what would happen if we could just show Mozart or Bach this one clip

[@splatastic244]

Can people just know this stuff and play it or do people usually have to think hard about the chords they're going to play before they play it. If its the first one... how...

[@BrendanMulholland-z2j]

If you just start on the chord of Cmaj you're effectively already in the key of F unless you distinguish it via a B natural, Cmaj is just the dominant sans the 7th

[@mrlighthou5e796]

Ok you started wilding out 😂 that was dope this is my favorite channel. You’re super nice with it. I hope to be able to place this good one day.

[@user-ov5nd1fb7s]

The way you play it F doesn't sound like a tonic. It sounds sound resolved. It sounds like the 4 chord, which it is.

[@leseanpayne2805]

I dont know a lot about music but I know a lot about art and I know blending when I see it.

[@markdavenport2613]

That sounds sweet, but following along, I guess I never realized how big your hands really are. Gotta come up with my own voicing for this.

[@juliusschaller]

Why are your writing F∆ for the normal major chord Thought the ∆ means maj7 so with an additional E

[@AGoodVibe]

Can someone walk me through why the Eb works in place of A on the final iteration? How do tritone subs work?

[@reev9759]

Stop using ∆ in notation. It's antiquated, confusing, and has too many uses. Major chords do not need additional symbols or information to indicate their majorness.

[@JJBerthume]

That's gospel!

[@mincraftcreator]

Im lost. Sorry! Eb would be the secondary dominant of which chord again?

[@georgeholloway3981]

You never in fact modulate. Try singing C at the end of every sequence. It always sounds like the tonic. Why? Because secondary dominants do not modulate. They tonicise.

[@Musicdudeyoutub]

I didn't really hear any key change without adding the next chords, but anyway thanks for all the tips

[@aibrainlet8041]

Can you do one on how to transition to a relative 4th or some other transposition. ? The idea of transitiong to the common chord might be the same, but im curious what intuitions might look like for reestablishing the new key if the intervals aren't as favorable

[@agtronic]

Nothing makes me feel dumber than watching chord theory videos. Been playing guitar for over 30 years and this shit still eludes me. I guess some of us just don’t have the brain for it, even though the ears can tell that it sounds magical.

[@michaelgraff4051]

Do you have every note and interval memorized like you know that G is the second of F major, fifth of C 6th of so on?

[@CeciliaTolbert-c8g]

I love you bro you are such wonderful teacher I have adhd and autism so it’s not the easiest for me to learn from videos but the way that you construct your videos is like the sweet symphony

[@nickt4579]

Your reach with one hand is outrageous. Can you give us some examples for people who can't reach past an octave on one hand.