Music Theory #2: Circle of 5ths - Dominant 7 & Tritones
What you'll learn
- IDENTIFY the 3rd & 7th tones easily in Dominant 7 Chords
- CREATE smooth voicing with the 3rd & 7th tone to the Tonic Chord
- UNDERSTAND why Tritones create such tension sounds
- USE the CIrcle of 5ths to find Tritone Chord Substitutions in One Flash
- FOLLOW the golden rule of Tritone Chord Substitutions
- TURN a boring chord progression into Interesting harmonic sounds with Tritone Chords
- SPOT the places where Tritone chord substitutions do not work
- HAVE LOADS OF FUN understanding complex music harmony
- APPLY Tritone Chord substitutions into their music composition
- APPLY Tritone Chord substitutions into Little Brown Jug
- UNDERSTAND why Tritone Chord Sub is not desirable in some places
- STUDY the first line of Auld Lang Syne
- CREATE Turn Arounds in long measures
- CREATE Turn Arounds with Tritone Chord subsitutions
- APPRECIATE the beautiful descending sounds of chromatic chord movement
Requirements
- have a basic understanding of Chords: major, minor, dominant, augmented, diminished
- understand Circle of 5ths Level 1 - 12 Basic Major Keys, 12 Major Chords, 12 Major Scales
- have a basic understanding of chord progressions in songs
Description
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Circle of 5ths Level 2 - Intermediate to Advanced
This course takes musicians to apply more advanced music theory into their playing - Tritones, Tritone Chord Substitutions, Jazzy Chromatic Chord Movement, 36251 Turn Arounds.
It is important for all musicians, whether you play guitar, piano, ukulele, violin, harmonica, or any musical instruments to develop an intimate knowledge of the Circle of 5ths. The Circle of 5ths is a visual picture that tells us the relations between keys, scales, chords, chord progressions, tritones, tritone chord substitutions, pentatonic scales, blues scales, 7 modes of music, etc.
The Tritone chord substitution is one of the most commonly used chord substitutions in jazz. By using tritone chord substitution, you often get a beautiful chromatic bass line in the song and especially in turn arounds.
When it comes to more advanced music theory, students get confused and give up in their struggle to advance in their musicianship.
Here's the secret: Learn to use the Moving Circle of 5ths Dynamically! When you know how to move the circle around to understand Tritones and how the interval is created in the Dominant 7 chords, you will understand why professional musicians do such smooth voicing because they know how to concentrate on the 3rd & 7th tones easily.
In this Circle of 5ths Level 2 course, I will show you how to use the Circle to do Tritone Chord substitutions with Dominant 7 Chords and Minor 7 Chords. In this way, you will have many more options in your music compositions other than the normal Diatonic Chord Progression & Secondary Dominants that you learned in Circle of 5ths Level 1 Course.
When you do Tritone Chord Substitutions, you begin to learn advance music harmonic sounds, and the importance of doing smooth voicing, chromatic bass line chord movement in turn arounds that audience loves to listen to.
In this course, I will also show you when Tritone Chord Substitutions work and when they don't work. There are some rules you need to follow so that you create beautiful harmonic sounds in your piece of music, whether reharmonizing a song or in the writing of your own songs.
You will be doing a lot of assignments so that you learn to find the answer yourself. What you discover sticks with you much more than what you are told. It is easy for me to lay out all the answers and theory for you. What is unique in the course is that I will coach you along to help you think and discover the answers for yourself in a creative way.
The following topics will be covered extensively:
Tritone Chord Substitution
Tritone Wants to Resolve
Tritones in All 12 Dominant 7 Chords
Advanced Harmony: Put in Tritone Chord Substitution
Two Magical Ways to Find the Tritone Chord Substitutions
Tritone Chromatic Movement
Song Application - Little Brown Jug - Putting in Tritone Chord Subs
When To Avoid Doing Tritone Chord Substitution?
Improvisation on ii7 V7 I
Jazzy Turn Around - 3 6 2 5
Formula for the Jazzy Turn Around 3 6 2 5 in C Key
Turn Around in Eb Key - Misty
Improvise on the 3625 Turn Around in all 12 Keys
Tritone Chord Substitution to Minor 7 Chords
Minor 7 Chord Substitutions
Golden Rule of Tritone Chord Subs
Applying Golden Rule to 36251 Progression
Apply Tritone Chord Substitutions to E7 A7 D7 G7 C
Only Need One Circle to Find Tritone Chord Substitutions
As you can see, we will be covering a lot of topics so that by the end of the course, you will be able to apply Tritone Chords effortlessly!
I'll see you in class,
Rosa
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Listen to what some of her students are experiencing in her Circle of 5ths Level 1 Course:
Ivan Bradley
I have been teaching myself to play the ukulele for the past few months but had been struggling to understand which chords went together and why. I was able to play by ear but it was entirely through guesswork. The circle of 5ths really helps you understand how chord progressions work and Rosa's moving version makes so much more sense than a static circle. It's only been a few days since I started the course but I feel that I have a much better understanding of music theory already. Plus Rosa's voice is so pleasant! I really look forward to listening to the videos and playing my ukulele after a long day at work.
Melody Evans
I play guitar, Indian flute, and dulcimer, all by ear. This class is helping me to understand music like I have always wanted to. Don't get me wrong, I love playing by ear; I have just always wanted to also understand music. It is a real time-saver for me when I can refer to my Magic Wheel instead of listening for the note or chord that fits. This has opened up a whole new aspect of music for me. Thank you, thank you.
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Rosa is the Pastor and Church Pianist for a local community church in Hong Kong for over 30 years. She graduated from University of British Columbia and received her teaching certificate specializing in Chemistry and teaching English as a second language. She taught public schools in Canada for a couple of years and then went on to receive her Master's degree in Christian Theological Ministry at Ontario Theological Seminary in Toronto. She started full time ministry with her husband in 1989 and received intensive Pastoral Counselling and Discipleship Training at Christian Disciples Church. They were ordained to become church ministers as Pastors in 1996 in a local church in Tsuen Wan and have been ministering to this same congregation for more than 20 years now.
Over the years, she has gone on church missions to Mongolia, Sydney, Nepal, India and expedition trips to the Holy Lands: Israel, Greece and Turkey. Wherever she went, she found herself taking up the music ministry and became the church pianist for that church.
Many people at church have asked her to teach them to play piano. As a result of her passion in playing piano, she started developing piano courses initially for church pianists online since 2008. The piano courses are very unique because she was finally willing to share her Unique Piano Method: Color Chord Improvisation Method known as CCI. The CCI method works for all types of music: Gospel, Pop and Standards.
This Piano Method is easy, fun and creative that you learn to play piano not only from music score sheets, but to play chords from fake books and eventually to play by ear. Students all over the world have requested for courses to teach them play standards and popular songs. As a result she developed 3 Great Reharmonization Method courses for them to play from fake books and play by ear. The Dreamy Piano Techniques courses, especially the one on Autumn Leaves is her students favorite. She has a piano website at Learn Piano With Rosa where she continues to offer new courses to her students. She also holds piano workshops for her local students and train church pianists.
With her education and expertise in teaching, her students love her piano courses and found her piano lessons extremely easy and fun to play piano. They are highly motivated to play piano and playing piano had never been more fun and satisfying for them. You can read their testimonies on her website.
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