Extend Major, Minor & Dominant 7th Chords Using Voicings & Jazz Harmony
Learn how to make simple Major, Minor and Dominant 7th chords more colourful using beautiful voicing techniques and jazz music theory concepts. Explore 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th chords along with their tensions, as well as all the exotic intervals that use the b2, the tritone and the sharp 5 / b6. 🏫 Courses, Workshops or Private lessons ➡️ https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 00:00 - Performance 00:32 - What we aim to do in this Lesson? 01:53 - Inversions Essentials 02:27 - When and how to color triads? 03:58 - The Key of F - Major Chords 04:13 - Major 6th 05:28 - Major 7th Extension 07:18 - Major 7(b5) Lydian 09:16 - The Major 6/9 Chord 11:11 - Major 9th 12:39 - Add Chords 13:57 - Add (2+4) 14:50 - Exotic Voicings 16:17 - In a Nutshell for Major Chords 16:38 - Revoicing the Notes - Spread 17:28 - All Major Embellishments in the Key of G 18:44 - Minor Chord Embellishments 19:01 - Minor 6th 19:47 - Minor 7th 20:47 - Meandering a bit! 21:06 - Minor (Major 7th) 22:10 - Suspended Minor❓ 23:28 - Add Chords for Minor 23:56 - Cluster Add Chord 24:25 - Exotic Minor Flavours 24:45 - Minor 9th 25:46 - Add #4 & Phrygian 26:15 - Minor 11th Chord 28:08 - Revision on the Minor Key of F 31:04 - Forming the Dominant 7th Chord 32:07 - Jazz Tensions - 9, 11 & 13 32:27 - 7(b5) and 7(#5) 33:33 - 9th Chords 36:18 - 13th Chord 37:27 - Dominant Flavours on G 38:42 - How to Communicate with fellow musicians 39:42 - Arranging these voicings wisely 41:02 - Preparing ahead with an actual song ============================= 📹 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 📞 Call +91 98454 65411 · 💬 WhatsApp chat +91 77604 56847 📧 Customised & Private Classes ➡️ music@nathanielschool.com 🎧 Listen to Jason Zac Music ➡️ https://riffs.jasonzacmusic.com/ #ExtendedChords #JazzHarmony #PianoChords
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