Using AUGMENTED chords | what, where, how

/ michaelkeithson
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This video aims to explain what augmented chords are, where you can find them and a few examples of some ways you can use them and incorporate them into chord progressions.
Hopefully this might be useful to someone!
MK
Video chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:44 What is an augmented chord?
04:15 Storytime
05:33 Where do they come from?
07:02 Some use cases
12:42 More line clichés

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Such A chord progression Possibly called A line cliché as it would sound familiar and predictable .

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Wow you summed up my same experience exactly!

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[@Pablo360able]

I love augmented chords. I've used them, plus the various exotic seventh chords that contain them, in a number of the songs I've written. Most commonly, aside from cropping up in line cliches, it comes down to using V+ (or, equivalently and quite often more precisely, bIII+) as a dominant-function chord.

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The way you teach theory in incredible and i feel that you use of simple numerical dictation for chord progressions opens your audience up to thousands of MIDI and synth musicians who cant read notation. So many options in C Major i would have never considered, and there is a lifetime of possibility in those pivot chords, cant thank you enough!

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Thanks Ryan! Really appreciate the kind comment. Glad you're enjoying the content 👍

[@roundchaos]

Whoa, that modulating progression at 10:44 sounds incredible, so seamless!

[@timball8429]

Thanks Michael. Love the modulation bit at the end. The “cliche” in line cliche is basically because cliches are predictable. We know the punchline… the direction is expected. Therefore a line cliche means we know the next in the sequence as we can predict it.

[@michaelkeithson]

Hey Tim, thanks makes perfect sense! Thanks for sharing 👍

[@Pablo360able]

"Now, what's the scale that the augmented scale comes from?" Me, an intellectual: "Chromatic."

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Line Cliché: Babyface: Tender Lover Line Cliché & modal interchange: Madonna & Babyface: Take a Bow

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I recall that back in 1970 I began hearing people around me speaking music terminology. I only remembered a few things from music class in eighth grade. I wanted to know what they meant by chords and keys and progressions etc. I went to the library and took out books on music theory. Next I figured I better get a musical instrument so that I could apply what I learned. I bought a guitar. I was an art student at the time so my investigations were more of a hobby, not a favorite word of mine. I really like your videos as they are taking me into unknown territory. Thanks.

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Thanks for your comment Patrick, we're all on different journeys as musicians and all have different destinations, I'm pleased to be part of yours and glad my content is helping you. 🙏

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Brilliant! Your words are like keys (no pun intended) that open doors in my mind. Well done, sir.

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I love your videos man!! Such an amazing context for those musical concepts!! Thank you

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[@starfishsystems]

I had exactly the same confusion about "-" being used to denote minor chords. Thirty years of looking at least sheets for popular music, and in every one of them, the notation for A minor seven was Am7. Then someone gave me The Real Book for my 45th birthday, I think it was, and as I flipped through it (pretty drunk at the time) I remember thinking, man, this is way more daunting than I expected. These jazz people really love their diminished chords, don't they? Look, I can understand if there is a truly universal practice of some irregular notation that has lingered for historical reasons, and we just have to go along with it. But that's not the case at all for minor chords. The justification for "-" is therefore marginal at best, an affectation rather than a coherent argument.

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[@JacobGreer51]

Incredible video Michael!

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[@ryanharris2462]

Another incredibly useful video! I thought augmented chords were just a bit of an oddity, I didn’t realise they’re so versatile and useful. Thank you. Please keep cranking out this awesome content!

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Cheers Ryan, glad there was something new in there for you 👍

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THANKS SO MUCH! you are an awesome teacher Michael :) also, love the editing style!

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[@pikupixel5094]

augmented chords are so nice!! I find myself using augmented chords as passing chords a lot, I think that stacked thirds sound is really ear catching, and really makes you hear how each note is pulled into its next position something this video made me realize is i never really experimented with sitting on an augmented chord long enough for all its qualities to sink in. it has such a mysterious sound haha. thank you for another great watch!!

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Thanks, glad you enjoyed it and it made you think! Cheers

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I’ve been struggling with modulation. This has given lots to work through. Thanks for the video. You’re a great presenter.

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Another brilliant tutorial! My primary instrument is the alto sax, but I dabble with keys, mostly as a learning and compositional tool. A couple of things I noticed is that a) the C , C+, C6 progression sounds very much like Miles Davis's It Never Entered My Mind b) I really love your chord voicings

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[@gettingkilt]

That second line cliche c6 to c7 to F to Fm to C sounded so familiar. By the end of it I was singing lyrics. Burton Cummings' Stand Tall is even in the same key, though I'm sure plenty of songs use that progression.

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🙏 Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for leaving a comment.

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I dont usually comment on KZbin, but i discovered your channel today and found this video really well-made and very instructive. Having a solid foundation in music theory, i still learnt a lot and your beautiful piano play (and singing!) have given me great inspiration for my own music. You've won a new subscriber! Greetings from Germany

[@michaelkeithson]

Hans! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. I really appreciate your support and encouragement and thanks for the sub! Really glad you enjoyed the video and even more pleased that it's inspired you too! Thank you 🙏

[@nkonzosimelane8450]

Thank you for this lesson!

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You are very welcome! Hope it was useful.

[@enricooler1433]

Also, Augmented chords really do have that b13 sound

[@Duplicitousss]

I am a self-taught guitar player with some, but limited, theory knowledge and I could never understand why sometimes I would see a major chord followed up by a minor chord of the same root (e.g. F followed by Fm). This chromatic walkup/walkdown makes absolute sense and before the video had even finished I was picking classical-sounding progressions on my acoustic that sound great. Amazing! Thank you so much, immediate Subscribe. 👌 Also a begrudging thank you to the evil KZbin algorithm overlords for sticking this in my feed...

[@michaelkeithson]

Hi Scott, thanks for your comment. All hail the algorithm overlords, I'm pleased they looked favourably on us both this time! Glad you enjoyed the video and that it inspired you to explore more too. You should check out my video on Modal Interchange, that F-Fm movement crops up there too in a cool way. Cheers!

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This was gold!

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I like how you explain things

[@Pablo360able]

One fun thing about your second line cliche example, with the Fm: Using the idea of negative harmony, Fm (as the negative of G) itself acts as a dominant chord pointing back to C, just like how C7 was a secondary dominant leading to F. I just think it's neat.

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[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Christopher! Glad you're enjoying the content. Thanks for the comment 🙏

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SUper clear as ever with easy play along tempos....Some fun little practice nuggets...And who cares if they're CLiche's when they can be great vehicles / transition points to wherever you want to go. Hat tip to you once again !

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[@corentinmusique]

Fascinating! As always. I love that last part about modulation. Between the diminished chords in the previous video and now with the augmented chords I can modulate in all directions. On the other hand, it's starting to exasperate my double bass player! 🤭😅

[@michaelkeithson]

Hey Corentin, cheers for the comment. Who needs a bass player anyway! 😂

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yeah, it`s magic. Thx!

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This is a really good lesson. I don't even play piano I am a guitar player but this is super helpful.

[@michaelkeithson]

Awesome! Glad it was useful. The piano such a brilliant visual instrument to teach on as it's so linear, good to hear it was nicely transferable for you. 👍

[@VirtualModular]

Same here, I play guitar mainly and never learnt theory previously so when I think about intervals I visualise a keyboard in my head instead of the fretboard, just seems easier! I hadn't thought of using augmented chords to change key, but I knew diminished chords have the same function. I'm guessing it works because they're both symmetrical? Anyway, this is becoming one of my favourite channels for theory stuff, keep up the good work. 👍

[@michaelkeithson]

@@VirtualModular Cheers, glad you're enjoying the content!

[@klastotes]

I appreciate the general aethetic of this video: your voice, ambience, lighting, the chords of course. Its soothing, pleasant is what I want to say I guess. Too much content is flashy and animated these days.😊

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks man, really appreciate your comment. Glad your enjoying the vibes 👍🏼

[@blehoo1]

Brilliant stuff Michael- keeping it simple. Would love to know how to seamlessly improvise through some of these changes without just using the blues or pentatonic scale all the time

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks for your comment. Improvising over an augmented chords you might typically use the Phrygian Dominant scale, sounds scary but it's the 5th mode of the Harmonic minor scale, so for a G7+ use C harmonic minor scale. Also, try the whole-tone scale. Improvising in general is a big subject with lots of different approaches, I'm planning on doing a video about approaches to improvising so stay tuned for that sometime in the future!

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BRILLIANT!

[@michaelkeithson]

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[@rhoydotp]

guessing a line cliché because everyone uses it 🤔 😊… great video, btw. i play guitar but this help me understand this better especially thinking about stacked maj 3rd instead of raising the 5th.

[@michaelkeithson]

Awesome, glad there was something useful in there for you. Cheers 👍

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Where u been ? :) nice to see you back. The mysterious music tutoring channel.

[@michaelkeithson]

I was gonna ask you the same question! I've been posting every two weeks like clockwork, where have you been? 😉 Ha! Thanks for watching 🙏

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Feels like illegal to watch it for free. Always adding value. I hope you can have video about parallel minor modal mixtures. I know you have video talking about modal interchange but it's facinating the pull of parallel minor interchange in particular. Hope to see ways to use it in a chord progression as well. Thanks for these channel michael you saved us

[@michaelkeithson]

Ah, thanks for the kind comment, I appreciate the support and really pleased you're enjoying the videos. Are you talking about modal mixture between a major key it's parallel minor specifically, ie C major and C minor or something else?

[@michealjoseph9943]

Yes, I believe that’s what he’s talking about. I also find it interesting as well, when in a major key like C for example, to modulate up a minor 3rd to E-flat major; This is essentially the same thing but changes the home base root to another major key; I love this sound.

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Thank you!

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You are very welcome Edward!

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Thanks so much. Excellent as always with great practical examples.The only thing that's unclear is your lighting situation 🙂🙃🙂

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Sweet! For a little extra jazzy feeling try, at 7:47, a C add 9 in lieu of the plain C. I echo so many of the earlier comments about your presentation of the subject matter in such an easy to understand manner.

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Beautiful

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🙏 Thank you!

[@geopardalos]

That progression at 9:32 is the same as in Green Day's "Last Night on Earth" (except the key).

[@SocialLoners]

This is amazing content, i love all the different examples, and i have been facinated by the idea of key signature changes and how to do them seamlessly so i love how you included a couple of ways to use it that way :D one question i had looking at the symbols is, what does the ø mean? like in Dø, keep making these videos please, they are so helpfull, im not sure how many more types of chords there are, but i have been analysing some music relating to my musicology studies and realised theres some cluster of notes i have no idea what to name, if you could make a video about that that would be great :D i usually try to find out what the chord would be if i try stacking them in thirds but thats not allways possible

[@michaelkeithson]

Hey, thanks for the comment 🙏. Glad you're enjoying the content. The ⌀ means half-diminished or minor7b5. I'm actually just working on a video all about half-diminished chords so keep an eye out next week! Could you give me a specific example of what you mean by the cluster chords?

[@SocialLoners]

@@michaelkeithson i couldnt find one of the ones i was struggling with so ill just make one up, how about c,c#,d#,e ? essentially what i meant with cluster is that they are close together and not easy to put in thirds (i realised a lot of them can be upper extentions omitting 5 etc but would it be something like c#m(maj7 b9?(not sure what the d# would be) omit 5)? looking forward to the half diminished video :) (if i understood it btw a half dim is a dim 7 with a sharp 7?) thnx for the reply :)

[@SocialLoners]

@@michaelkeithson side note, dø means die in norwegian but ⌀ and ø is not the same i see now, how did you get that symbol?

[@michaelkeithson]

@@SocialLoners A half diminished is a m7 with a b5, so E half diminished is E G Bb D. I think it's tricky to talk about those cluster chords without the context and knowing what the bass note might be. Often there could be various ways of naming them. Sorry I can't be more helpful. That's interesting about the symbol and its meaning in Norwegian. I didn't realise there was a difference between the two shapes either!

[@SocialLoners]

@@michaelkeithson i found an example now analysing bach corales, the notes are E, c, d#, a in order from low to high, what would you name this chord? The context is the chord before was Em and three notes change but the e stays in the bass, then changing back to a different voicing of Em after while the bass still stays (rn im calling it an Am add#11 over E as thats the closest i got to making sense of it)

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[@michaelkeithson]

Welcome Alex, take a look around, make yourself comfortable. It's good to have you here! 😉

[@LucBoeren]

Great vid, thanks a lot! Did u actually end up going to the conservatoire? Because i believe i heard u say in another vid u also worked for a game studio?

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks man. Yeah, I did go to music college for three years and did play music full time for about 3 or 4 years but then have worked in video production since then but this year I’ve started to get back more music work again.

[@PavelSochev]

Magic

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Nice job Micheal !! Sounds like George Benson - Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love Of All" :).

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Ira! 👍

[@robertmariano]

According to the musician,David Bennet, whose KZbin channel is David Bennet Piano, the term Line Cliché is derived from The Great American Songbook, which contains songs from the 1920s to the 1960s. There is so much of that pattern in the songbook that it became a “cliché”, hence LINE CLICHE.

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks for sharing Robert, who are we to argue with David Bennett! Makes sense. 👍

[@worblyhead996]

I haven't really looked deeply into augmented chords at all and is on my ever growing list of concepts to get my head wrapped around. I was looking at the the song "Some Day My Prince Will Come" in the Real Book and there are some augmented and diminished chord usages. I want to use this song as a starting point for getting my head wrapped around some of this. I also want to compare the original with how Miles did the song so I have a bit of work ahead of me :)

[@michaelkeithson]

Hey man, thanks for the comment. I think generally in a jazz context the those augmented chords in Someday My Prince are interchangeable with altered dominant chords, I tend to play them as #9 and #5 although they work just as well as simple augmented chords. Happy practising!!

[@jakemf1]

I wonder when you speak at the end of using the augmented chord as a pivot chord to get to other key how many of those do players hear? The line cliques work because they are familiar to the ear. Just a thought might be a good suggestion for a follow up video

[@simonbailleur8835]

Nice video, can you make one about negative harmony?

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks Simon! Negative harmony is on my list, hopefully I'll get to that sometime soon. 👍

[@artiemixx9319]

What piano are you using in this video? Very nice timbre.

[@michaelkeithson]

Hi Artie, it’s a Nord Stage2 EX, although I don’t remember which piano patch it was. They have a number of piano sample options on their website that you can install on the board and occasionally add new ones. Great keyboard although it’s not that new there’s now a Nord Stage 4 available.

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Pls sir is there any private courses you taking on piano class from beginners to professional? I haven't seen someone who explain and makes things easier the way you do. Pls I would like for you to make a video on the right approach or concept to use in playing the twelve keys without having to play only one key and transpose.

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[@michaelkeithson]

A little before my time I think! 😂

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@@michaelkeithson no doubt, but it has more line clichés than a Jeffrey Archer novel.

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Before watching: aug7 dominants when you want to draw stank faces (the good kind) on your band members. Bonus stank when you tritone sub it!

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[@damiens4601]

Wait so my b13 chord i always play when V - i is actually an augmented chord ? And i can use it to do V- I ??

[@julianplacencia]

16:15 What's the "m" in ivm stand for?

[@michaelkeithson]

It just means minor. For some people the lower case letters is enough to signify it's minor but not everyone interprets it that way. Like a lot of things with modern music theory there seem to be multiple ways to write the same thing. Sorry for any confusion.

[@julianplacencia]

@@michaelkeithson thanks, your videos are fantastic

[@geraldjackson1782]

Think I will stick to Boolean algebra! So much easier. You are a good teacher however. Music theory so arcane! Imagine you have been baking for years and then somebody tries to explain the molecular construction of glutens and how heat impacts physical properties of a food. Suddenly it stops being fun.

[@michaelkeithson]

Ha! I agree that there are sometimes when music theory seems unnecessary but there are also times when it unlocks something amazing. Imagine you’ve been driving all your life with your comfortable but average car, then someone shows you how to take all the bits a create your dream car. Whether you choose to learn and create it is up to you!

[@CrashExhibition]

“Yeah I knew they were minor seven, but eh, I’m messing with atonality and dissonant sounds at the moment maaaan” and begin clicking your fingers.

[@michaelkeithson]

😂 Ah, I missed a trick! Definitely should have tried that!

[@paulmitchell5349]

Line cliche because a leonine cliche would be too loud, and with the 'eon ' bit, too long.

[@TruthSurge]

they just feel suspended, to me. Like a sus 4 feels like it SHOULD resolve to the maj chord so that aug you played in the intro just felt like it should go back to the first chord (cuz the 5 was raised instead of the normal 4). Unresolved but a little more suspenseful sounding to me. Also probably useful in key shifting since they are symmetrical. 3 of them in a key and 4 dim 7 in a key so.... you can find common notes and move to new keys I'm assuming. hmm watched and yep. just as I thought. haha nice vid.

[@michaelkeithson]

Thanks for the comment. Yeah, it definitely has an unresolved sound to me too although I don't think of it like a sus chord, for me, the resolution of a sus chord feels like it's back to the original chord. So, C Csus4 C Csus2 C. Those C chords feel like the resolution but to my ear the C+ wants to resolve somewhere else that has that next chromatic note of A, so resolving to the Am or F, although I guess that's solely in relation to where it's come from. If I play a C then a C+ I feel like it's heading somewhere else but if I just play a C+ it could resolve in either direction to the C or F or Am. Interesting! Thanks for the conversation starter!

[@TruthSurge]

@@michaelkeithson Well, where a sus 4 is asymmetric, then it is clear where that will resolve to (i think). But as the augmented chord is symmetric, it can resolve to 3 different chords, all of them sounding equally as good (I think). Because it's just your point of ref because what really is the difference? It's all 4 notes apart so the ONLY ref as you said is just what chord you started with and then it's likely you want to hear one over the other. But since aug is just a major chord with raised 5, I do feel it's a suspension waiting to resolve just like sus 4. Aug is just sus 5. HEHE. but... WHICH sus 5? there are 3 possible chords so..... Just how I see it. Keep it simple. hehe thanks for the vids and reply. I should explore the aug chord more and try to use it to write some horror soundtrack. Incorporate that with the "Hungarian" scale. hmmmmm