Voice Leading Explained: Why Every Musician Needs It
🎓 Take your music skills to the next level with in-depth courses: https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 In this Voice Leading Lesson, you will understand how this music theory topic is important for music composition with 5 roles that it plays to make harmony come to life and sing out! Also, understand the different between Chord Inversions, Voicing & Voice Leading. 🎼 Chord Inversion Playlist- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNNL05e9FT9ygtrGwGFmfyvMyGWH52EC 💡 Modern Piano Voicing + Arpeggio Flow- https://youtu.be/BYsa73GUqYM 🖐️ 5 Elegant Piano Voicing Techniques - https://youtu.be/mgkPhQaVaQQ 🔑 2-5-1 Piano Voicing Made Easy - https://youtu.be/68c00OOM-ag 📹 Our Video Courses (Lifetime Bundle): https://www.nathanielschool.com/members-videos 📇 Courses, Workshops, Videos, or Private lessons: https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 👉🏼🏡Visit our Channel for more Tutorials & Performances - https://geni.us/NathanielYouTube 🎓 Learn Music With Nathaniel School of Music & Jason Zac: https://www.nathanielschool.com/ 🎼 Register for our virtual workshops & lessons: https://geni.us/UpcomingClasses 🎶 Learn all about our flagship course, "Music Method": https://www.nathanielschool.com/musicmethod 📚 All our YouTube lessons (1000+) categorised by skill level, topic & genre all in one place: https://www.nathanielschool.com/freelessons 🐣 All our Beginner Piano Lessons in one Place: https://www.nathanielschool.com/free-lessons/tags/beginner-1 ⏳ 00:00 - Performance 01:10 - Importance of Voice leading 01:41 - What we will learn? 02:11 - Chord Inversions vs Voicing vs Voice Leading 03:38 - Voicing Considerations 04:52 - Minor 9th Cluster 05:41 - 6/9 & Quartal & Quintal Voicing 06:35 - What is Voice Leading? 08:08 - What happens to these Voices? 08:51 - 1. Smooth Harmonic Transitions 09:29 - Singable Melody 10:29 - 𝄢 Role of the Bass 11:16 - Cadences - Plagal & Authentic 12:42 - The hope for the Listener 13:09 - 2. Make a Single Chord Last Longer 13:48 - The Suspended State 15:26 - The Bottom - Line Cliche 15:56 - 3. Melodic Movement 16:12 - The familiar “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” 17:14 - Making it interesting for the Harmony Singers in a Choir 18:03 - 4. Each Part gets a chance to Shine! 18:45 - 5. Open vs Closed Voicing 19:15 - Clusters of Seconds (Skyfall - Adele) 20:08 - F minor with ALL Intervals 20:41 - Close vs Open Voicing 21:33 - Spread Voicing for Singing & Ear Training 22:33 - What lies ahead and Conclusion 📧 Customised & Private Classes: music@nathanielschool.com 📞 Call +91 98454 65411 · 💬 WhatsApp chat +91 77604 56847 👨👩👧👦 Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/jasonzac 🎧 Listen to Jason Zac Music: https://geni.us/AbsenceYouTubeJZB 💰 Donate on PayPal: https://geni.us/DonatePayPal #VoiceLeading #MusicTheory #PianoChords
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