Dear Good Sir, I have always wanted to learn the piano but been too intimidated by the instrument and by my teacher. You have brought in me such confidence -I follow your channel - practice everyday without fail. if only you knew how thankful I am. Please continue making these videos. Thank you for everything

Your grasp on the piano keyboard never ceased to amaze me. You have really kept me "going" on my piano lesson. Thanks alot.

I've been watching and listening to many hours of tutorials on theory and practice. This 11 minutes has increased my understanding by two or three octaves. Thank you, so very much.

You are one of my favorite people to learn from because you are so knowledgeable about music and humble about your approach. The vocal accent is a bonus! :-)

I loved that Fmaj on the A sequence. I dig those kind of "tension" chords.

Thank you as ever. Your videos have helped me understand so much better how music works and how the building blocks fit together.

This is quality stuff. I had the same concept in my mind and I have been practising this way for a while now. I was so surprised after watching this video.

Thank you 😊 I love this video! Makes so much sense...helps to see the bigger picture when playing songs that helps so much. Great video!!

Thank you for this lesson. Beautiful music and wellexplained theory.

What a fantastic explanation! Thanks a lot. I had the similar idea and you made my understaing perfect.

Mangold I learned piano by site reading everything, but a couple years ago, a teacher showed me the scale degrees and they are liberating! This is why a pianist can go on stage (at least w pop tune) and an index card that says the key the song is in and then all Roman numerals! It's cool! Also effective tool for composition.

As usual: great video! Thank you!

Love this info man. Thanks for getting me to look at music through degree relationships as apposed to scales/chord relationships. You are a piano genius, I love how fluently you understand the keyboard. Great inspiration 🤙🏽

MangoldProject Thank you for this informative lesson on understanding harmony I found myself caught up in the trap of asking myself "what chord is this?"

Love your video lessons. My english is not good, but i can understand your contents 90%. Besides your musical knowledge you have a nice and easy accent. Thank you so much!

You are an excellent communicator of harmony, Sir.

It is worth listening to the video just to hear you play!

Thank you very much, blessed teacher

This is exactly wat I needed to hear. Learning without proper guidance is hard lol

Really need to understand how to recognise the "key" of the chord progression. An A for example, can occur in many scales and not always as the root node. Please do a video on that! Love your content!

Love this movement make the melody,tnks a lot

A great lesson that sounds good, too... Thanks.

This was excellent, thank you!!

Thank you for this useful video on the importance of learning chord progressions in terms of scale degrees or note intervals between the root notes! Have you written any videos to show common scale degrees between root notes and melodic notes played on the main down beats? This would really help me learn how to identify what chords to play with any chosen song in the process learning how to play piano by ear.

Thanks this is a very clear explanation, helped me a bunch!

holy cow it takes youtube 2 freaking years to finally recommend me this!!

Holy shit this blew me away. Thank you you are a great person for making this video.

Great presentation. A very useful skill to learn.

thank you for this amazing lesson , all the best :)

great explanation... so helpful for the new learner like me :D thank you

Finally I found what this is called this is the music theory I need to learn

May god bless you 🙏 I hv learnt a lot of things from your lesson

Awesome tutorial

What a video thank you

Great lesson

Greattttttt video.

Was waiting for Clapton to come in on guitar when he played the first example haha. Love this lesson

Vidéo at 9:24 so beautiful but so short. Always in yours videos an incredible exemple but if only it was more longer. " Merci en tous cas ", it's already so generous.

Brilliant

Thank you so much for this Sir🙌

Thank you.

Cool lesson by this man! Just don't rush it sir and name 🙏 EACH keynote or chords by LETTERS! Thanks much!

Thanks :) Thanks again :) I have learnt alot from your videos ! Could you please do a video on how you play that small licks/connected notes between Chord to Chord ?

Thanks a lot! You are pretty amazing!))

Very nice please upload more videos

beautiful

Your videos are definitely helping my theory learning. This video made me look at chords in a way I never paid attention to before. The way you are using he entire octave to play the chords, gave me a different look. Thank you. Very nice job. Easy to listen to as well. +k+

That was killer man. It'd be cool to know why that last chord in the progression worked. For most of the video you emphasized the dominant function. Was the last chord in the progression a substitute for the dominant? Was it serving a dominant function? Was it borrowed from another key -- the parallel key?

👍 @9:27 This what I want to do. Great stuff. Thank you! 👍 and new subscriber.

So good😙😙

Oh, Sir, this is so helpful! Only thing is, I have to slow the playback speed down to catch everything you're doing. Others on here use some kind of color over the keys during sounding of the notes to help viewers identify what keys are being depressed. Any chance? I know that would be quite a bit more work for you... Anyway, my sincere THANK YOU! Reminds me of my days as an applied music major before I dropped out of university. Shoulda never done that

Really interesting and comprehensive video! I have a question for you, if you don't mind: I've a fairly good grasp on how the the different scale degrees function in a MAJOR key, but when it comes to chord progressions in minor keys or even modes (like Dorian, Mixolydian, and so on), I often don't know what function a particular scale degree chord has or how to use them in a progression. Are you planning to do a video about this sometime in the future? I'd be really curious how chord progressions work in (for example) the Dorian or Phrygian mode.

yes in common this theory resolving how to know the song as what majority human ear expected. like the last prog, a-c#-d-fmaj7, it similiar to c-em-f-fm expected. but i think every musician have their own prog style, they make it to have like an identity/characteristic, to be different from others. especially in specific genre. it is right? edited: is this what they teach in music course? this is like i knew this for years, but you register this clearly in my brain. thank you so much sir. and that 'funky named' too lul.

I would love the day that you finally play with some minor scales.

Did you make the video regarding recognizing different keys?Thanks

Mangold Guy! Very nice lessons. Clear. Articulate. Knowledgeable. But, in this case, maybe too much ado about not a whole lot. So about all I extracted from this one was the usefulness of being able to recognize/use different degrees (I, II, IV etc) for the purpose of transposition. When this lesson REALLY came to life for me (both to the ear and to the head) was in your treatment of that last progression. This is my long-winded way of saying --- please --- do more in the way of demonstrating sophisticated progressions --- ideally used in recognizable songs --- and also some effective, unexpected, interesting substitutions within those progressions. These comments are not in any way a criticism/complaint. Just, basically, a plea. Thanks.

Hi, thank you for this video. I have a short question. After studying music theory for a while, I am thinking as you suggest, thinking in numbers/degrees is more helpful. However, I couldn't help but notice how easy it is for you to choose a different key and know the notes of that key. Would you suggest to memorize the notes of a key through repetition? Or is there a better approach to get to that level where like you, you know immediately the different notes that are part of a given key?

From now on you are my piano teacher, if I may be your student. Carlos from Sweden

God bless your intentions against paino teaching

Was the FMaj7 a tritone substitution? (I just came from your other video) :)

Thanks

8:27 bless you

This is helpful again. I have perfect pitch, but it's getting in the way of thinking in terms of scale degrees. E.g. I'll hear G Major before recognizing it as the fifth degree. Will repetition help bring out the degrees? Thanks!

I played that 1-3-4-6 progression but instead of the F chord I played f-a-c-a-e-d-a-b melody over G and it sounded pretty good. Not sure where to go from there.

How can you think about where you are in the scale degrees without figuring out what chords you have to play. I can think of it as certain numbers resolve each other, but I can't understand how I can know where I'm at and what variation of the next number I should play.

This a ANALYSIS of the last chord. It made my ears perk up. It is very long for clarity. The READ MORE IS LONG. I COMPARE IN C. Here goes I normally think of what goes with what.. I did enjoy this a lot . Stared at this chord progression for.a good while. Realized I was a little weak in the key of A , so I went back to good old C. A is. 6. In the key of C, so b6 is Ab. it's also a.G# so. a #5. I noticed that David's base was the b7 (G) of the key of. A with a Fmaj7. The F Maj 7 base.(F) is 2 whole steps below the parent key 🔑 of A. So using that as a pattern..I go down two. whole from steps .C. (Ab)..So I would play an Ab maj7. With a Bb base.In the C. So chord notes Bb Ab C.Eb G. are notes of (Root b7 9 11 13) is a Bb13 sus 4. NOW let's see if this right by David's example. G base with Fmaj7. Fmaj7/G.. So it's a G something. G F.A C E.. G13sus4 Makes sense . Resolves to a A major chord very nicely . G would go to Root..F to.E. A is root, and E is 5.

can you make a video on how the bass or the left hand work and how choose the bass notes and move the bass hand according to the chord the notes and how you choose notes between the bass notes??

How could he make this Eb to Ab progression so beautiful?

I've been trying to wrap my head around scale degrees. Especially detecting song progressions of popular songs by ear. I've been failing dismally. All I can recognize is the (1) or Root. After that its down hill. Any ear training tips, anyone?

What was the song called in the beginning?

Hi: This is truly amazing. Do you have the C to F and the Eb to Ab Progression written in a music sheet, it would bring a multiple impression to playing. Please let me know, if this is possible. Thank you, R

How are chord degrees set for minor keys? Are they set in reference to its relative major key or set independently? For instance, is A in the key of A minor vi in reference to C major or i ?

I guess this thinking also applies to other modes besides ionian and aeolian. The question is what progressions do work in each

im playing a song, that has the following chords: Dmaj, F#m, Gmaj and last BbMaj. How does this Bbmaj work in this key of Dmaj?

How did you know that the 6bmaj7/7b would fit in the progression?

Maybe musical theory is too complicated for historical reasons. It would be much simpler if they were 12 notes numbered. And degrees numbered also. 4th degrees is 5 semitones. It's complicated to figure out major scales for every root and get from c to f and eb to ab. But if c is 1 f 6. eb is 4 and ab is 9. Everything seems easier. Intervals. Scales degrees and so on. We are already used to 12 basis system with our hours. For example sixth degree of Bb (11+9=20) 20h=8pm so 8 which is G. You channel is great.

What's the 1st degree in the key of Am? A or C?

Thanks for the video...but don't you think maybe explaining the relationahips of these degrees to each other and why it resolves to a certain degree would help a learner more? Just my two cents, I've learned alot from your videos and greatly appreciate your music wisdom.

I thought you were going to play a I - iii - IV - iv right there but a FMaj7/G popped up on surprise, where did you get the bVI Major7? Did you borrow it from the Key of C?

Same concept of thinking as the Nashville number system

How do you play so gracefully and perfect?

During the last chord progression I inmediatly recognized "If you don´t know me by now" song (except for the last chord). I guess that´s a good way to internalize them, isn´t it?.

I am a complete beginner, which video set should I watch

When you say a common resolution of a ii chord is to the V chord which goes to the I chord you are only speaking about chords right? If we talk about scale degrees in a melody those have their own tendencies right? For example, in a melody the supertonic wants to go to the tonic right? and the subdominant note wants to go to the mediant. Is this correct?

Never understood the usage of the word "resolve" in this context. Progress/ conclude/ settle - I can understand. But why resolve? BTW, what are the three more you played between the first chord progression example (I - IV)?

got one question. you played Fmaj7/G same as 6maj7/G. but the 6th of a major is a F#. It makes me confused. Can you please explain why?

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I still confused...which finger i play..please

Just curious if you can analyze the piano piece from the ikea lamp commercial directed by spike Jonze. The music was created by Jonze's brother, Sam "Squeak E. Clean" Spiegel Thanks

It would be great if you were able to have notation on screen or midi download as I am a guitarist and usually do my piano work in piano roll. LOL

i still don't get it why people using # or b to tell some chords. why can't they just focus in one pattern. like if once use # notation, then just keep using # sign. or if once using b, then keep using b. (i'm sorry if i don't get it. i'm still a new beginner but i really passionate in music. i never have a music teacher or something, just by watching youtube or music website. so i have difficulties in understanding music terms etc. and i don't speak english good enough too to learn things fast. it's not my first language. so please, i'm sorry, i don't have any intention to make someone offended and angry by my question in this comment. if i offend someone, sorry, it's simply because of my lack of knowledge about music and language. also i need a suggestion of what should i learn first step by step to get the idea of music theories. what should i learn now and then before i can understand the other things. cuz when i learn music, it's so random clicking between videos that i thought interesting. so im afraid i miss some learning flow that i should learn first. i just know things, but not really have a good understanding about them. like, i know basic cdefgabc, i know major minor chord and scales. but just the basic of it. i have a confusion too when looking at C7 vs CMaj7. it has different notes. what is the difference? what makes that is that? umm.. i mean. i can hear the difference, i know the note is different, but why? what's the purpose? for me it was like "C7 is C major seven, and then i see CMaj7. i see Cm7, but i dont see CMin7." what is that? why is that? it's so interesting. i really excited to know more and more. i love music so much. i wish i had someone to teach me music when i was a baby. my life will be much better. please teach me.teach me everything. i love the way you explain things on your videos. adopt me as your grown up baby. please be my dad who teach me something that i love and guide me to the right path. thank you for making all of these videos. thank you so much. love, best wishes, and respects from Indonesia. gbu sir

It looks like some of those degrees would make for strong login passwords... Fmaj7/G 6bmaj7/7b

Yes e and a are very near to èach other

How did you know F maj 7 was going to work there?

Do you give private lessons?

when you make video about how to find the key in a song

Cool ... but I think you could have explored the I - IV progression (C -F) better ... when you say V degree resolves to degree I, you're doing exactly the same, the interval from G to C is a fourth, so again, you're on I - IV progression domain (IV and V are total 'brothers' in music harmony). There's the real beauty ;-)

hello

I love your videos, but i am not learning a thing. I've watched it 3 times. I actually play great, I always have, but I really want to understand the piano better, not just memorize songs.

Hi. You seem like a great teacher, but i feel it is impossible as a viewer to follow two handed playing.