Jazz Piano Tutorial - Harmonic Rhythm
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This Jazz Piano Tutorial is about Harmonic Rhythm.
Songs have a given beat, and the melody takes on a specific rhythm on top of the beat. The harmony (that is, the chords) also takes on a specific rhythm on top of the bear and this is called the ‘Harmonic Rhythm’.
The Harmonic Rhythm is the ‘rate at which the chords change’.
This is quite an interesting and important topic because it influences the strength of a chord progression and even the function of a chord.
We hear chords in Groups of 4. And we can allocate a relative strength to each of the chords in that Group of 4. This looks as follows:
S W s w;
where 'S' is greater than 's' is greater than 'W' is greater than 'w'
As I mentioned before, the Harmonic Rhythm affects how strong a chord progression sounds; or more specifically how strong a cadence sounds. And the most common cadence is a V7-I perfect (authentic) cadence.
A V7-I cadence sounds stronger if the V7 chord is on a relatively weaker beat than the I chord.
So a stronger chord progression has a V7 on a weak beat resolving to a I on a stronger beat. And if you have a look across various Jazz Standards you will find that this is the case around 95% of the time.
And in fact, the location of the V7 chord in relation to the Harmonic Rhythm can even affect the ‘function‘ of the V chord. That is, the usual ‘function’ of a V7 chord is to resolve down a 5th to the I chord (like a G7 resolving to a C). The function of the G7 (it’s whole purposes or point in life) is to move to the C (the Tonic Chord). For a V7 to sound like it is in a Cadence (V7 of a V7-I) it generally needs to be on a weak Harmonic Rhythm beat.
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@connor6842 7 жыл бұрын
Your lessons are gems! thanks so much!
@WalkThatBass 7 жыл бұрын
No worries, Connor. Cheers.
@joshcollins9125 2 жыл бұрын
This is great. Well done. Some guys complaining because there are four videos. I’m sat here wondering where the other three are so I can watch them. Links please?
@RhetoricalTouches 5 жыл бұрын
Ammazing! That is so important
@mwasie 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@blastvid4646 6 жыл бұрын
1:35 Did you mean to generally try to put a dominant chord on a weak beat, and not the tonic? Or did i missunderstnad?
@Psychotron72 7 жыл бұрын
schweeeeet
@edoardolaspada 7 жыл бұрын
Hi, I'm a drummer. I've been told that to understand where I am in a jazz song, while others are soloing, I can listen to the armonic rhythm and to its change. I would like to know how to understand what is the armonic rhythm of a given song, given that I have the sheey music from the real book to look at.
@WalkThatBass 7 жыл бұрын
So the harmonic rhythm is the the speed at which chords change. If chords change every 1 bar, the harmonic rhythm is 1 bar. If chords change every 1/2 bar, the harmonic rhythm is 1/2 a bar. By listening to how often and quickly the chords change, you can follow exactly where you are in a song. So if you have a chord progression that goes: Em7 | A7 | Dm7 | G7 | CMaj7 | So chords are changing every 1 bar. So if you hear that chords have changed 3 times, then you know you are up to the chord G7 and almost at the end. The harmonic rhythm is just another way to feel time (like feeling the beat moving forward). You feel the chords themselves moving forward and you can know where you are in a song.
@soaringvlogs 3 жыл бұрын
“How often chords change in a song.” 3:45 “Weak and soft chords? “ sounds stronger when the dominant chord is on a week but then resolves to a tonic chord on a stronger beat.” TONIC? Is first scale degree. The tonal center If strong tonic is played in the beginning like in blues it doesn’t sound like a cadence and doesn’t need to resolve ex.) 7:00 Some songs only have a harmonic rhythm in one bar 9:40 WHY You’ll need to know about harmonic rhythm when composing etc
@isaacshaw1596 3 жыл бұрын
Over complication. You can explain harmonic Rhythm properly in 5 minutes. As done by music matters. You don’t need four over complicated videos. I understand music theory but that was a mess.
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