How to Write Chord Progressions with Extended Chords, Secondary Dominants and Chromatic Mediants
Writing chord progressions isn't hard if you know a few basics — neither is it difficult to make them a little more "jazzy" with chord extensions, secondary dominant chords, chromatic mediants and one or two other straightforward techniques. In this tutorial I cover ALL the basics of building a chord progression, and also show you how you can take your progressions to the next level.
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Chapters:
00:00 Stuff you can do with this tutorial
01:24 Music theory basics 1: scales and chords
04:09 Music theory basics 2: diatonic chords, tonics, dominants
06:38 Resolution and V-I cadences in chord progressions
09:51 Adding chords other than V and I
13:11 Two exercises: building basic chord progressions
16:12 Enriching progressions with chord extensions
20:40 More on chord extensions
23:56 Non-diatonic chords: basics and secondary dominants
23:26 Exercise: extending chords in a progression
29:05 Other non-diatonics: the “magic second” (II7) and shared/neighbouring tones
32:27 Chromatic mediant chords
38:08 Four essential tips
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Bill Hilton
Welcome to my piano channel! Most of my videos are piano tutorials. Hopefully you'll find them useful if you want to improve your piano playing and learn improvisation skills for jazz, blues and ballad styles. I'm not aiming at complete piano beginners,...