2 Techniques to Harmonize Any Melody on Piano (Chord Trees & Cadences)

In this music theory tutorial, I teach you two "tried & tested" ways to figure out chords for a song in real time, using clever music theory concepts, standard chord progressions and cadences. We take a melody in F major and harmonise it first with respect to the melody notes, looking at weak and strong beats. Then, without considering the melody, we use classical cadences (authentic, deceptive and plagal), jazz 2-5-1 cadences and the four pop chords in cyclic order (1-5-6-4, 5-6-4-1, 6-4-1-5, 4-1-5-6). 🏫 Courses, Workshops or Private lessons ➡️ https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 00:00 Performance 00:26 Introduction 01:51 Melody on F major 03:15 Two Ways of Harmonising the Melody 04:10 What are WEAK and STRONG beats? 05:23 Harmonising w.r.t. Melody 12:45 SUMMARY of Harmonising w.r.t. Melody Notes 14:14 Without considering the melody 14:59 Classical Cadences/ Authentic Cadence 16:26 Deceptive Cadence 17:12 Plagal Cadence 18:46 Combining all Cadences 20:26 Jazz Cadences (2-5-1) 23:47 4 Pop chords in Cyclic Order 24:49 Harmonising with 1-5-6-4 25:18 Harmonising with 5-6-4-1 25:44 Harmonising with 6-4-1-5 25:58 Harmonising with 4-1-5-6 26:26 How Chord Progressions impact Melody? 26:54 Where Cadences DON’T WORK 27:27 SUMMARY ============================= 📹 Our Video Courses (Everything for Life Bundle) ➡️ https://learn-music.nathanielschool.com/ 🎹 Piano Courses & Private Lessons ➡️ https://piano.nathanielschool.com ============================= ▶️ Related Lessons & Playlists 🎵 Music Theory lessons ➡️ https://geni.us/PianoTheory 🎹 All our lessons on Chord Inversions (Playlist) ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNNL05e9FT9ygtrGwGFmfyvMyGWH52EC 👂 Ear Training lessons ➡️ https://geni.us/EarTraining ============================= 🎓 Learn Music with Nathaniel School of Music & Jason Zac ➡️ https://nathanielschool.com 📚 All our YouTube lessons (1000+) by skill level, topic & genre ➡️ https://learning-portal.nathanielschool.com ============================= 💰 Donate on PayPal ➡️ https://geni.us/DonatePayPal 📸 Instagram ➡️ https://instagram.com/jasonzac 📞 +91 77604 56847 (Mobile & WhatsApp) 📧 Customised & Private Classes ➡️ music@nathanielschool.com 🎧 Listen to Jason Zac Music ➡️ https://riffs.jasonzacmusic.com/ #HarmonizeAMelody #Cadences #MusicTheory