How to Survive ANY Song: Harmonise a Melody by Ear (What a Wonderful World)
In this harmonisation tutorial, you learn the chord progression of "What a Wonderful World" and develop numerous ways to harmonise the melody. Jason Zac from Nathaniel School of Music shows you how to survive any song by harmonising the great Louis Armstrong tune using jazz theory, diatonic theory with ChordTrees, cadences, borrowed chords, secondary dominants and bass movement. Throughout the lesson you use only your ear and music theory to figure out the chords as close to the original as possible, a skill you can apply to any song. 🏫 Courses, Workshops or Private lessons ➡️ https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 00:00 Performance 00:47 Introduction 01:54 Why I chose “Wonderful World” 02:46 Key Signature & Scale 04:10 Harmonisation of “I see trees of Green, Red Roses too” 04:48 Bass Movement 06:42 Non-Diatonic Chords 09:28 Harmonising “Me and you” 12:09 What does Bass actually do in Band? 12:52 Different Keys using secondary Dominant 14:53 Harmonising “And I think to Myself” 19:10 Harmonising “What a Wonderful World” 20:35 Why Music Theory is Important? 22:39 Harmonising “World” 26:14 Harmonising the B Section 30:18 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 📞 Call +91 98454 65411 · 💬 WhatsApp chat +91 77604 56847 📧 Customised & Private Classes ➡️ music@nathanielschool.com 🎧 Listen to Jason Zac Music ➡️ https://riffs.jasonzacmusic.com/ #WhatAWonderfulWorld #Harmonisation #EarTraining
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