Tritones

[@iammusic1950]

So many nuggets in here. I picked a few to work on. Thank you Sir.

[@clintonmoore2831]

Nice lesson JJ I understand even more on how to use tritones better than before just by this lesson. I have played this video many times and caught glimpse of light but now I fully understand about tritones in Gospel music. THANK YOU

[@rain73ful]

A very nice video. Showing all the chords as you play them makes it easier to understand all the transpositions that you make. Good job.

[@rexmundi2237]

Substituting tritones suddenly puts you in the sophisticated world of Jazz. Nice.

[@bubbajonesmusic]

The best tritone explanation I have ever been given.

[@jakejacobs126]

Glad I could help out.

[@stephenstegall7592]

Wow

[@LawrinMaxwellsmpc500]

So awesome!!! I really appreciate what you share to the KZbin community. Thanks brother!!!

[@bbayuba]

This is awesome. A simple explanation of tritones. I have had problem understanding it now it's just so simple to understand. Great job.

[@aaroncoleman7310]

The best tritone tutorial Ive ran across!!!!!

[@danieldavis4120]

this video changed my entire perception of chords - thank you!

[@earlfitzsimmonds6795]

Thank you so much!I am a keyboardist also that loves and plays gospel music and when I listens to the musicians this is the language they use i couldn't figure out what they were playing now I do!Time to practice!

[@zacharyfernandez8269]

Man I could listen to your playing and THAT SOUND for days... Amazing...

[@kickstand801]

wow. for chords that is considered to be the "devil's intervals" he made them sound quite heavenly. brilliant.

[@aumenarys]

It wasn't considered devilish in the Early Middle Ages, they used it a lot it seems in gregorian chants, I found this interesting!

[@dfaria1000]

Great learning, Beautiful chords and wonderful progression. Thank you for sharing.

[@bkwavy6823]

Kinda hard to follow, even for an intermediate player. But I was able to grasp enough information to improve my skills. Got completely lost in most of your examples. I have barely any clue how you were able to form all the right hand chords for all those tritones. I assume that's just something I'll have to experiment with. For now I'll be working with the inverted sus2 chord, sharp 9 and 5, and flat 9 and 5 over each tritone. Hopefully I'll get there, but thanks for the info

[@jmadruga78]

Best piano class ever.

[@Eiliyah107]

Thank you for explaining this clearly. Love this. ❤

[@William_sJazzLoft]

It all comes together for me now. I knew a tritone chord was used for passing. But I've not seen many practical examples. This is good.

[@Frst2nxt]

you're an excellent elucidator of music theory.

[@Bmilez13]

You're so talented man. God bless. You so coordinated.

[@woejinslow]

basically, both dom C7 and dom F#7 have a tritone of E and Bb. so you can use those two chords interchangeably. so a circle of fourths can become a chromatic decentsion of dominant chords. looks like he isnt stopping at dominant chords that share tritones, but also altered dominants, hence the tritone in the left, but an Ab chord in the right. Cdom 7 with b6 aug9. or C altered dominant.

[@jasonchamness8792]

Hey boss, really quick correction: a tritone sub is typically when you substitute the dominant 7 of the key with they key's tritone. For example, instead of Dmin7 - G7 - CMaj7, the tritone sub would be Dmin7 - Gb7 - CMaj7. Super hip sound. If you mentioned this and I missed it my apologies, keep it up man.

[@jakejacobs126]

You're absolutely right and thanks for your support.

[@Zilegil]

Pianodownloads I guess what you're doing is pointing out that a rootless dominant seven chord is rooted in a tritone

[@jakejacobs126]

So you would actually use a Db7 instead of the G7 with the Db being a tritone away. I didnt catch that at first.

[@pemungkah]

I have wanted to *really* understand how this actually worked since ever. *Thank* you, both of you!

[@94mac]

Was that a 7-3-6 in A flat around 3:50 or so. I know you said Bb but I hear Aflat as the tonal center there especially with the C tritone to f minor

[@logiclab1]

I keep coming back to this video. It's very helpful. I like to put the 13 up against the 7 to clusterize (is that a word?) it! E-A-Bb D-G-C. Thanks very much J.J.

[@jeremyvanbriesies1940]

i would love to know what sounds you use because that s90es sounds beautiful ....i have the same piano but mine does not sound so nice like yours

[@jakejacobs126]

I mostly use Grandeur by Native Instruments. Also check out Keysuite from UVI. Their Austrian grand sounds amazing.

[@kabalayouri419]

Can you please do a video about chord voicing? And how to make those? I'm french excuse my bad english !

[@humblemusicianandy6385]

yo JJ great video man...do you have any tutorial videos out as yet?

[@miguelmanguiob1090]

I love your piano lessons. But, how do you know what chords to play in the right hand when playing tritones? I hope you could answer my question.

[@markjaylandes]

+Miguel Manguiob Lots of chords can go with tritones. A simple formula I use is go one full step down of either note of the tritone. For example, your tritone is E and Bb, then play a D or an Ab chord. Another example; your tritone is C and F#, play a Bb or E chord. Another substitution of the RH chord is playing Jazz 4ths instead. Example-LH tritone is C# and G, you could play B major or F Major, OR you can play LH-C# and G RH-B, E, A or LH-C# and G RH-F, Bb, Eb.

[@axeljosemancillaalfaro9744]

Me gusta el tema de los tritonos! Puedes ampliar el tema de tritonos?

[@dry509]

Nice sounding keyboard. What are you using to make the sound?

[@tioanthony17]

Correct me if im wrong but on your lesson playing tritones for Cmajor do you play the diminished 7th on the bass

[@looppool]

1st, thanks so much for this video. I"m learning a lot. But I am confused about something you did early on in the video (at 0:48) You said that you played E and Bb as the major 3rd and dominant seven to get your tritone. Then you said if you just go down chromatically and play Eb and A that you have the tritone for F..........................but isn't the interval from Eb to A the Major 3rd and Dominant 7 of B? Hold on, I just got it. The tritone is equidistant in the scale so Eb to A can be the tritone for F or B. They are just inverted. Do I understand correctly? This is all brand new to me and I"m coming up with exciting songs because of it. Thanks!

[@kingjliow]

+Rick Walker  E and Bb is a tritone away. a Tritone is when notes are three whole steps apart (E - F# - G# - Bb). but i think this "Tritone" theory or technique (well correct me if i'm wrong) its about building chord with its foundation is the Tritone within that chord (look at +Terry Bailey comment, not so far below) but i'm still questioning the idea behind playing a Tritone chord when the Tritone on the left hand is not related to the chord on the right, but still sounded right anyway. i mean c'mon, look at 7:50 even the chord app can't figure it out haha.

[@kjarrij]

At 7:50 he is playing a D altered chord, or a D major dominant chord with a flat 9 and a flat 13 (D7b9b13). You play this chord by picking out the tritone with your left hand (the third and flat seventh) while playing a major triad , three whole steps down from the root (in this case, a Bflat-major chord) with your right hand. Rootless of course, which is why the chord app doesnt't know what the fuck he is doing. Right after the chord he plays a G minor though, which underscores that it was a D dominant chord.

[@oericjean]

awesome, can you please tell me which software do you use to show the notes on the sheet music when u play? thanks very much. God bless u.

[@MrToshtoshtosh]

siiir!!! you are the man!!! you just helped me man!! God bless you!!

[@myingratealbinochild4825]

Excellent video ! Thank you.

[@relishmusictv1986]

what software would be use to detect chords from song?

[@glennyodermusic]

So pro! Would love to see you play with a band!

[@jakejacobs126]

Glenn Yoder There are some arrangements on the hnsmusic channel...Thanks for your support. :)

[@Nahuel_Ramos]

Great lesson! BTW How do you get that sound at 2:51? : - P

[@franciscobrandaocarega]

Thanks for these great lessons!

[@jakejacobs126]

Your very welcome. Thank you for the support.

[@psalms6539]

wow, great lesson. I'm going home now to work.... i would also like to offer.... when you're talking about the bass line and it's sub, you can say you can sub any bass as a tritone as well. if the bass if Ab, when D would also work...... Ab would be the forth or D the chromatic or visa versa .....

[@jakejacobs126]

+James Gibbons This video covers that. Thanks though

[@korgado]

What program or application do you use to display the chords you play on the screen?

[@AKINSEYE1000]

This is wonderful! Thank you for sharing this.sir, can you help by making a video that explains tritones using a sequence of chord progression commonly used in worship and then substitnthy it with fri tones e-g. C→F→G as theCommon chords .. Kindly help us the beginners . Thanks.

[@frosty1041]

Great Tutorial! 👌

[@jacobvo3694]

what is your keyboard , sir? Tks

[@William_sJazzLoft]

'On your rootless your major becomes minor and the minor becomes major.' Now for me that's intuitive

[@osbourneburnett184]

Great stuff. But how can I use tritones in regular songs. This is not being explained .

[@jakejacobs126]

Osbourne Burnett define regular...

[@osbourneburnett184]

Pianodownloads how can I use tritones in hymns, gospel or any song. None of the youtube videos explain this.

[@richievpiano]

Tritones traditionally found in Western Euro Classics and American Jazz. Regular song {Pop?} is for the most part do not use Tritone in the manner presented. J. Hendrix was mentioned but his style was his own. The presentation does not express a [Pop] genre

[@ecyor24]

why is E and Bflat the tritone for the key of C major?

[@kjarrij]

What hnsmusic means to say is that it's the tritone in a C major MIXOLYDIAN scale. Because the distance between E and Bflat is a tritone, and it is the only tritone you can find between two notes in the C mixolydian scale. There are other major scales of course, most common is the ionian, but if he were talking about the C major ionian scale, the tritone would be between F and B, the 4th and the 7th.

[@fritzjackson4336]

It is for C7. The 3rd and 7th interval is only a tritone if the chord is dominant. A tritone is a fourth plus a half step or 6 half steps (notice that that's half of the 12 notes in the chromatic scale). That would mean the 3rd and 7th of a C7 is a tritone as they're 6 half steps apart. If you lower the 3rd and 7th of C7 a half step, you still have a tritone, but it's the 3rd and 7th of the four of C7 (F7), but this time, the 7 is below the 3rd because of the nature of tritones. Realizing this brings you to the Tritone substitution. The 3 and 7 of any two chords that are a tritone apart are the same, just inverted. For example: the 3 and 7 of a C7 is E and Bb respectively. If we go a tritone from C (up or down, doesn't matter since it's 6 half steps), we get F#7. The 3 and 7 of an F#7 are Bb and E respectively. Another example: Gmin7's 3 and 7 are Bb and F... *tritone interval*... C#min7's 3 and 7 are F and Bb. This means that for any chord in a song, you can replace it for the chord a tritone away *a tritone sub*. Usually use it in the context of a stagnant chord and make it a 2-5 otherwise it may sound off.

[@FatPeaceman]

which keyboard is that?

[@jeconnaisprintempsdamoino6516]

I like it...God bless !

[@emilrostad9720]

Probably a dumb question, but when you have E and Bb in your left hand, why is this the tritone for C? I just don't understand, someone please explain?

[@terrybailey2015]

Emil Rostad Not a dumb question at all. Tritones are defined by notes being three whole steps apart, and the exact middle of an octave. (from E to Bb is three whole steps and from Bb to E is three whole steps, completing the octave) Each dominant chord has a tritone between the major third of the chord and the minor seventh of the chord. (for a C dom chord, the major third is E and Bb is the minor seventh) So for a D dom 7 chord, F# is your major third and C is your minor seventh, which also happens to result in...a tritone and so on and so on.

[@alanasthomas]

+Terry Bailey OK, I had the same questions as Emil, so where I am confused is what would make me want to play a C dom chord versus a C maj chord? What if I didn't know to play a C dom chord versus a C maj chord? How then do I differentiate when the E and Bb tritone would be best versus a C and F# tritone? Are you only allowed to substitute tritones on dominant 7th chords?

[@kjarrij]

It's a matter of taste, some music genres (like blues for example) use a dominant chord as a base chord. But it is more orthodox to use a C maj chord, generally speaking. "How then do I differentiate when the E and Bb tritone would be best versus a C and F# tritone?" A C and F# tritone implies the C major lydian scale, while the E and Bb tritone implies the C major dominant scale. Two very different worlds. "Are you only allowed to substitute tritones on dominant 7th chords?" As far as I know, yes.

[@instrumentalistjade8367]

ill practice this to ky korg tritone. Thank you

[@cliffordcandoallthin]

If anyone can answer that would be great...he said the tritone for E-Bb belongs to C...but why is it that he is playing with a Ab chord....so confused?

[@jakejacobs126]

Makes a C7 #9 #5 when you put it all together. Using this to pass to Fm7 like in the video is an example of where you can go.

[@cliffordcandoallthin]

I didnt not look at it like that.Thanks for taking the time out to explain!

[@jamesrobinson529]

THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!THANK YOU!!!

[@mecca777]

a ton of jazz chords.....nice!

[@AdrianCharras]

Exelent !! Thanks

[@leonleon3773]

very helpful thank you

[@xTEETSx]

not really explaining any of the how's or why's just what's and when's, all in all a pretty vague explanation that doesn't help much

[@jakejacobs126]

Troy Teter II I would suggest doing a review of music theory. I to VI using dominant 7 chords is pretty common. There are many ways to explain how and why. This is just one way of doing a common movement in a fancy way.

[@xTEETSx]

I know that I to VI wht dominant 7 chords is a common motion, what I'm saying is you aren't explaining it very well in the video, I can't watch the video and immediately apply the theory to other instruments, as in what certain tritones go with what intervally related chords to it and why, as well as other reasons

[@jakejacobs126]

Troy Teter II I understand. Everyone learns differently. How is easy. It's why that's subjective to the resulting sound. Science can explain but it's the art of music that keeps me from answering why. I could say,"Because it sounds good." But that probably wouldn't help you. Hopefully you find what your looking for. Thanks for the support and comment.

[@richievpiano]

This is a choppy presentation. The material is there but it does not flow evenly. What may be helpful, if you want it to be, is a written cheat sheet with chord names and intervals on the staffs.

[@Aztekian]

Thank you sir.

[@josuedezign6290]

Is it me or did I hear a burp on 2:52?

[@AndresLilloSax]

I like this lesson but ... I think that you teach a little fast and I can't get it all I don't know if you understand me. Maybe if you teach lesss examples in to a less velocity, it will be nice. That Nine chords after de tritones confuse me a lot. Greetings from Chile (Sorry for my english)

[@seriadobr]

Andres Felipe Lillo Rojas Same as you. He is a great player but he could do another videos with more basic stuff.

[@josephmasonga8714]

Andres Felipe Lillo Rojas same to me, teaching need techniques not only compentency

[@AndresLilloSax]

You're right, thanks!

[@phillucky3695]

NICE 1 BOSS

[@felixayala05]

Play latin licks with those chords, sound like Palmieri. :)

[@Comedytub3]

The video was titled 'tritones', but I didn't learn about tritones. You teach like we already have knowledge of what you're doing. You could've done at least 2 minutes on just the absolute basics for those that would get stuck.

[@blroy1018]

Nice!

[@bochasotes]

Sería muy bueno que tradujeran los comentarios del músico, el sonido es muy bueno pero hay que entender sus porques

[@tshepokgosidikaelo9513]

pls do phat chords for me

[@linograce2495]

Bro I understand the tritone but what i dont really understand is the right chords

[@kalM856]

espetacular . dificel! rápido

[@josephmasonga8714]

i like the competent you are but the way you teach is a little bit not friendly to students may you try to make it a bit slow and avoid to mention a different chord while you play another chord . another explain more the title of your post rather than mentioning a lot of chords. thanks

[@rich3326]

*breathes loudly in Bbdim7*

[@imkwyl_jr]

reminds me of tom dubois from the boondocks

[@daramolaoluwadamilareayodeji]

Interesting

[@carlosarredondo3]

You play very well, but man, your all over the place when explaining🧐🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@jjuan4382]

Devils music!