Harmonic Progression
This video corresponds with material from chapter 7 in your textbook, which has some very useful diagrams that summarize this information. Please check that out!
0:00 Introduction
1:18 Tonic triads
2:29 Dominant triads
3:52 Supertonic triads
4:50 Root movement by descending fifth
6:11 Submediant triads
7:19 Mediant triads
8:41 Leading tone triads
10:03 Subdominant triads
11:29 Three common exceptions
BILL HILTON – Learning piano chords in difficult keys
Sometimes as a pianist it’s easy to get ‘trapped’ in just a few keys that you feel comfortable with. That’s not necessarily a problem, but it can mean that you find yourself in trouble if you’re playing piano in a band, or accompanying a singer, and you’re asked to play in a more difficult key – working the chords out on paper is straightforward enough, but you can find that they don’t fall under your fingers on the piano keyboard as easily as chords do in more familiar keys. In this tutorial I look at a simple exercise you can do to get familiar with the different chord shapes in every major key (and ever minor key, if you use a minor chord progression).
Chord Function
An interpretation of the concept of chord function. (My first attempt using Final Cut Express.) I try to show that in any major key, chord I feels like ‘home’, II and IV are ‘away’, III and VI are ‘neighbours’ and V is returning. Do you agree?
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