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What a great lesson! I love how you rarely discount any musical choices; they're just that -- choices -- and some can be more effective than others.

Like most people, I find certain chord progressions very satisfying, but never understood how you to choose the best ones, so thanks for this enlightening this video!

Loved it a lot. This is not just a good example it is also a deep inside in the process of thinking it. Thank you a lot.

Thanks so much! Getting back into big band arranging and going back to the basics has been helping reengage my tools I learned in college

I think the 4-part chorale is what is most common to learn about when studying Bach and music in general. Voice leading rules etc, but the more complex way of treating the lines contrapunctaly and not just in vertical voice leading is the real challenge for me. Would really appreciate talking about for example, the Wiedestehe doch der Sunde aria. The foundational concepts are of course the same, but they art of treating lines, imitation etc is what people IMO aren't talking enough about.

I'm watching this for a third time, and learning each time. Gareth showed the Rule of the Octave, and that changed my life. What impresses me is Professor Green's musical knowledge, but also his ability to explain everything in such a clear step by step fashion. But what really impresses me is that Gareth is able to sit at a keyboard and his fingers have been trained to do this on the fly. I'm going to be practicing my cadences in every key until it becomes second nature. Then I will move on to the next step. Good things come to those who wait. Merci beaucoup.

I love these analyses of counterpoint, four-part writing, fugue and writing in the style of Bach. Elegant illustration, as well. Thanks.

One of the best videos you made on this subject, and that is saying a lot!

Thank you for this video. I've been looking for a such one for months! Your Videos are very informing and intresting thank you!

Well explained. As a senior (64) I am really enjoying your videos and find grade 6 a big challenging jump from 5, thanks

Thank you so much for this - you're a great teacher!

Another great lesson. Like you have said, there's more than one possibility to go about harmozing the melody. Instead of going ii-V-I in both cadences I guess we could have used Vsus-V-I in the first cadence and this way we could have achieved more variety.

Good lesson. The function of the quaver 7th in the final cadence was very important to Bach in a situation like this because it ameliorates 2 problems which would otherwise arise. 1. It distracts the ear from the fact that the leading note doesn't resolve to the tonic and 2. It distracts the ear from the exposed (hidden) 5th interval occurring between the bass and alto.

I've seen all your videos about 4part harmony, fantastic stuff. In all of them if I'm not wrong, the melody lies in the upper voice. I imagine there are special adjustments to make to ensure the melody is clearly heard if on the bass or the tenor. I think it would be a really interesting topic for a new video. Anyway, your videos keep getting better and better, many thanks

You're a brilliant teacher. This was so easy to follow. Thank you!

Excellent explanation

Thank you for this video. It was reaffriming what I was beginning to discover by studying a few Bach pieces. I'm glad that I found some of the things you mentioned, like the use of the 3 chord and inserting a chord that was outside both keys. Yay! Glad that I found your channel.

Thank you. I love Bach's music and am learning harmonization. I had analyzed a number of Bach chorales years ago, but from your teaching I am now seeing the logic of it. The II7-V-I ending is beautiful. I plan on using it for the conclusion of a hymn I am harmonizing. I have enrolled in your Bach Chorale course.

Lots of stuff there to work on. Thanks very much indeed.

Nice video!

Thank you maestro!

Love this stuff...Thank You!....🎶😎🎶

Great demo, thank you.

Love this kind of videos, so useful!

Brilliant!

Excellent explanation as always

This is beyond my level...for now. I'm trying to sightread 2 part harmonies of Bach now, and trying to play 3 part harmonies. My goodness, it's not as easy as it looks, n'est-ce pas?

Great video! Thanks so much!

... I've been thinking for awhile, what I had been Forgotten about it, hmm... O! :) A! To Thank You for this video! ;)

A wonderful lesson! Though I'm not quite sure that I've understood everything, I'll surely revisit this video and hopefully figure it all out.

Nice tuturoial sir.. .. Kindly, consider giving us four part piano playing fingering tactics, especially, batch chorales.

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Can u make a video about how to effectively use polychord & what are the great piece ever written using polychord :)

I had a go at this before watching the video ( last 4 part harmony I did was 40 years ago :) ). I got the same final cadence as you but didn't like the alto F# falling to a D. I seem to remember leading tones more naturally rising back to the tonic. That would then leave a note out of the final G - but I guess it's ok not to have the 5th of the chord present

2--5-1 in jazz come from this?

nice!

Hello Professor! I ask you one question that off the topic. Can you explain me why and How there is G# in G major chord progression?

Hey Gareth quick question, I thought the leading tone in an outer voice should resolve to the tonic. Does this rule get bypassed because of the modulation when you step down from the Vb chord? Fantastic lesson by the way.

Great video! You seem to refer to the A minor at the end of the first line as a secondary dominant. I’ve always thought that secondary dominants had to be major. The V chord in minor is minor which would be in support of a secondary dominant being minor. Is this how you’re justifying that?

Nice lesson thanks. Is the II-I movement a common thing? I've normally seen II moving to V.

Just got into orgel buchlein

I dont know too much about songwriting yet but I learn „Air ob the G string“ by Bach. I dont understand how he wrote it. Is it two voices in two different keys?