You're very welcome Joshua - I'm really glad it helped!

Glad it was helpful Andreas! If there's anything you need more detail on, just ask!

That's great to hear, Matthew! Yes, you can find me at www.patreon.com/billhilton - we have quite a good little community over there, so it would be great if you want to join. By the way, if you have any questions or you want suggestions for more tutorials to watch in any related area you might be interested in, just let me know and I'll be happy to help.

Glad it was helpful Rahul!

You're welcome Don!

You're really welcome!

You’re welcome, Timothy!

Thanks Tony - glad you liked it!

You're welcome - really glad to hear it's helped!

You're welcome, Gurpreet - it's taken a bit of tinkering about, but I think I've settled on an approach I'm happy wth!

You're welcome Jim - I'm glad to have helped!

You're welcome Chris - any questions on anything about chords or harmony, just give me a shout!

You're welcome, Danny!

You're really welcome, Joyce! If you have any questions about any of the stuff you're finding a bit more advanced, just give me a shout!

Glad you enjoyed it!

You’re welcome!

My pleasure!

Hello from England, Patrick, and thanks for watching and taking the time to say hi!

Glad you enjoyed it Chris!

You're welcome! Minor progressions are on my to-do list - that tutorial will probably arrive in April, so stay tuned!

My pleasure!

Thanks Ruben! We haven't lived in that house for a decade now, but that floor is still the best "background" I've had for my vids. Carpet just doesn't cut it...

Glad it was helpful Scott - you're really welcome!

Thanks Jose - you're welcome!

You're welcome, Reuben!

You’re welcome Oliver - glad it helped!

Glad it was helpful! Yes, it is a bit chunky 😂 but I'm trying to make more use of the "chapters" feature these days to help people navigate their way around a bit more!

Cool - I’m glad you like it!

Harmonising melody is a pretty big subject, but I have a couple of ideas for it - so watch this space!

You're welcome!

You're welcome 😊

Thanks Sean! That’s a good idea, actually - folks such as yourself are the people I originally started this channel for, so some kind of explicit guidance (“...so you’re coming back to the piano...”) could be really handy. Let me have a ponder and see what I can come up with...

@@BillHilton Brilliant, Bill. As I hear you talk through this I can hear my old music teacher Mrs Love using these terms. thanks very much and look forward to more updates.

You're welcome!

Thank you!

You're welcome, Steve! Yes, generally speaking I think the piano makes stuff a lot clearer, because the chord structures and so on are right there in front of you. There are fewer points of reference on a guitar fretboard, and it's hard to look at it all the time without bending double!

When I was making this I had it at the back of my mind that I ought to do one on minor progressions as well, and since I uploaded quite a few people have asked, so it's in the works - I've got a couple of others I need to do first, but watch out for it sometime in April. In the meantime, with minors the tricky thing is the tonality: basically the (frequent) necessity for a major V chord - which doesn't appear in the natural minor scale - means using harmonic minor scales (which have a sharpened seventh), but they in turn create a bunch of diminished and augmented chords. So often minor progressions switch between the two tonalities. It's worth having a look at a few minor key songs to see how they work. Re keyboard for learning, yes, absolutely: obvs one of the great challenges of guitar, once you get past a basic level of playing open chords, is finding chord positions that give voicings that work well in context. On a keyboard that problem vanishes AND you can see everything clearly - I actually get quite a few guitarists watching my theory vids for exactly that reason!

Thanks Raj! You’ll find the playlist under the playlists tab on my channel page. Alternatively, everything is linked from www.billspianopages.com/beginners

In short, 1: no, there are no particular extension rules, Sawan - use your ear above all else! 2: Yes, absolutely, but again LISTEN to what you're doing and use your judgment to decide what sounds good and what doesn't. Does that help?

Yes, and they're all listed in the video, Ameelia. The rabbit hole would be describing what they all do, and why! I took the view that this particular video is technical enough, especially for the audience I have in mind, and didn't want to complicate things with, e.g., the different possible meanings of the words "tonic" and "subdominant" - basically all that Riemannic analysis stuff.

Yes indeed!

Thank you!

Hi Katie! The Patreon page is at www.patreon.com/billhilton - but if you want to buy the piano packs as a one-off you can do so at www.billspianopages.com/pianopacks . If you have any problems, drop me an email: billhiltonmedia at gmail dot com

😂 Good luck! A few years I decided to beef up my classics for exactly the same reason. Give me a shout if you get stuck/need any help at any point!

You can do whatever you like, if it achieves the sound you're after - like I say in the four tips towards the end of this tutorial, theory isn't there to tell you what you can and can't do, but to describe what musicians do, and what they find tends to work. So the first approach to take there is to try it, and use your ears: if the extension you use works, then great. In theory terms I can see how some voicings of extended chromatic mediants might become ambiguous in terms of their identities, but that's hardly a big problem. Minor keys: yes, again, depending on the effects you want to use. Try the chromatic mediants in A minor, for example. You'll notice that the bvi or bVI is just the same as either of the key's V chords (major or minor), because there's only a semitone between the fifth and sixth degrees of the scale in the minor (it's a whole tone in the major). You can also try borrowing chromatic mediants from the relative major (C, for A minor).

Thanks very much indeed, Fadhil - I really appreciate the fact that you keep coming back to my stuff!

Hello, and thanks for watching!

Hello, Gustavo!

And I’m like… 😂

Robert, I realise it's long, but if you could suggest a way of explaining a lot of quite complex music theory using many fewer words than this, I'd be glad to hear it. Given the amount of material covered, and the amount of stuff you need to know if you're really going to master it, this is about as concise as it gets. Like I said, though, if you have concrete suggestions for covering the same amount of ground with less explanation, I'm all ears!

@@BillHilton wasn’t trying to be mean ,I just learn much better just watching someone play and not talking,and trying to explain music theory about each and every little thing,like I say I could not take a lesson like this for even 1/2 hour,just my personal opinion.

I know you weren't being mean, Robert - no worries on that score at all! - and I also get your frustration. No question about it, there IS a lot of talking here. The difficulty from my point of view is trying to get all this stuff across as concisely as I can. That's one of the reasons I'm trying to make more use of the chapters function, so it's more likely having a dozen little videos in one. All feedback is good feedback, so thanks!

@@BillHilton well thank you ,you are a good player and good teacher,I’m just a bad student,need to go to principals office,lol.

@@robertmichalscheck3072 😂Don't knock yourself!

Hello!