Songs to recognise different chord types by ear
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 7. 06. 2024
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0:00 Introduction
0:45 Major triad
1:17 Minor triad
1:45 Major 7th
2:46 Minor 7th
3:20 Dominant 7th
4:14 Diminished triad
4:51 Augmented triad
5:30 Sus4
6:53 Sus2
8:00 Major 6th
9:35 Power chord
11:00 the Hendrix chord
12:10 the Bond chord
13:22 Open Ear
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đ REVISION: at 2:10 I say that both chords in âThis Guys In Love With Youâ are Major 7ths but actually I now think only the latter one is (just like the Oasis song). On the keyboard though I do play both chords as major 7. Sorry for any confusion.
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It's amazing. I find that some of my fretboard misfires are exotic chords that I can use!
@@johnchastain7890 Kronos keyboard does that - tells me what jazz chord I accidentally played. If I tried to use it for ear training, I'd be cheating because I'd already know what chords I programmed or played, tho...đ€Ł
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my favorite chord is Bb/C (b flat slash c)
A whole David Bennett video without a single example by Radiohead?! It's like an unresolved sus4 chord! đ
Yeah, too bad Radiohead doesnât use suspended or extended chords in any of their songs⊠oh wait
@@zwsh89wakeâŠfrom your sleepâŠ
@@internetic2496 nice double meaning with that choice of reference (like wake up and smell the coffee, but also, the song that references is like all sus chords!). Bravo
@@zwsh89 thank you!
Lol.
1:55 Sounds also like Gymnopédie No.1 by Satie, but it's a different key
That's where I thought he was gonna go
I heard it and I was like dude that's not oasis that's Erik Satie
Absolutely.
It is so obvious that it is hard to imagine he missed it.
Yes!
@@colmx8441 maybe he didn't want to use examples from classical music
Have you ever considered doing a video about particularly long songs, like for example Pink Floydâs âEchoesâ?
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NGL when you mentioned very long songs and Pink Floyd, I thought about Dogs.
@@naikigutierrez4279 Dogs is great too
Weezer's The Greatest Man That Ever Lived is pretty long... kind of. Let's just talk Weezer!
@@DavidBennettPiano I'd love for you to go into what makes super long songs epic! Echoes, Xanadu from Rush, Heart of the Sunrise by Yes, so many you could choose from!
I still think the Maj7 chord is one of my favourite sounding chords. They just sound so warm and endearing. That real love-y and homely, yet jazzy quality to them.
For me it's the sus4 chords. I abuse these all day long on guitar đđ
It has a hopeful dreamy quality to it.
Try Maj7 add 9
Maj7 chords truly are lovely. Imaj7, Imaj7, IVmaj7, IVmaj7, Imaj7, Imaj7, iiim7, IV6, repeat is a really pretty sounding progression on piano, purely in major key without the usual sickening sweetness.
Andy Partridge of XTC says that Maj7 chords sound cheesy. I can't make up my mind about them. Maybe it's because Coldplay uses them a lot.
The thing I always found neat about Crazy Little Thing Called Love was it was a Freddie song through and through. Man didn't really play guitar, he wrote the song using some of the few chords he knew on guitar and let his musicianship shine elsewhere in the composition.
This is probably the hardest part of ear training for me. I can recognize all the chords in this video easily enough. But once you start adding in upper extensions or getting into slash chords and dense clusters, I find it very difficult to tell what I'm hearing. I like to think I have good relative pitch. I mean, I could play you back a melody very quickly. But it's so much harder to pick out the individual notes of a complex chord than it is notes of a melody.
That brings me to my suggestion: maybe do a second part of this video where you tackle more complex chords? I know you've done a video about upper chord extensions. But that was about songs that use them and not really the best songs to identify them by ear. I want to know how to recognize a Cmaj9#11 when I hear it, for example.
Rick Beato has books on that....identifying by ear. And he teaches it rather well.
For major 7 chords I always think of Gymnopedie no 1 by Satie. itâs iconic
Brilliant! So much fun to watch this. I was guessing WAY more songs based off of one chord than I thought I would!
David, Letting you know how much your videos are appreciated. Iâve been playing guitar for 15 years or so⊠recently in the last 2-3 years (pandemic hobby), Iâve really explored the music theory behind it all. And itâs seriously comical how much my training has been paralleled by you releasing another video on the exact same topic I was just focusing on that week!
From the Beatles (favorite band ever). The ear training. Circle of 5ths to various progressions. Youâve been my mentor from afar! Itâs an awesome connection-so again, thanks for all the content!! Keep it up brotha
Another chord fun to discuss in the context of pop music is the Dominant 7/flat 9. For decades this was known as the signature guitar sound in "I Want You (She's so heavy) " . Then over time audio from the Get Back sessions began showing up, where one can hear George Harrison messing around with that chord in a different song during the rehearsals ("Something" I think, but can't recall for sure right now). When we all saw the Jackson film in November 2021, we saw George ask the visiting Billy Preston to tell him the name of a chord which George played on the piano. George apparently liked how different the flat 9 chord was from the sharp 9 he had used in "Taxman". Anyway, he figured out how to put it into John's song instead of one of his own.
In the classical world, Holst and Mahler around 1900 explored the realm of 9ths and 11ths and the uncertain resolutions they can create, in such works as "Mars" in the planets, and the 2nd symphony of Mahler, again to cherry pick a few works.
The Beatles liked using oddball chords and progressions in their songs. (And people are still arguing about the chord that opens up "A Hard Day's Night".)
@@christopherheckman7957 the chord that opens A Hard Day's Night is called a G7sus4. It's been well established that is its correct name since at least 1982. I was 15 and went to a Billy Joel concert at Madison Square Garden in New York that year, and he talked about the chord, then the band played it. Needless to say, I grabbed my guitar when I got home that night and he was right. I then played A Hard Day's Night every time I touched a guitar for at least the next three years or so. đ
@@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849 Check out "The Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles" (Dominic Pedler, from 2001). It's got a whole chapter devoted to this chord.
I never know how to play-let's say-C7â9 (C Dâ E G Bâ). Instead, I play C#°7 (Dâ E G Bâ). It's just missing the root note. But in a band setting, the bass would probably be playing the root, so all is well. To recap, go up half a step and play the °7. You can always stick in the root if you've got any fingers left.
Man I think you donât know how much these videos help. You always keep giving and giving!
1:55 Pretty sure Herb Albert borrowed this from Gymnopédie No 1 by Erik Satie. Even if you don't know Satie, or French elevator music, or classical music at all, you know this piece, and it's my personal piece for maj7.
For min7, my song is Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack, although sometimes my brain also uses Lady Marmalade. For min7 add 9, it's So What by Miles Davis.
One other song that my brain uses is Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston. The opening chord progression is C -> Caug -> C6 -> C7. That's a lot of chord qualities packed into a very small space.
Getting better at this, thanks to composing my own music. Love the chord progression videos and ear training like this. Thanks for all the tips, David.
I've recently been watching your videos a lot, and also have recently been thinking about doing ear training to recognize chord types. So this is really helpful, thank you, great videos man
I really love the dominant seventh suspended fourth chord, which is prominent in Bargain by The Who. Itâs especially climactic on the V chord. V7sus4 to V7 is an amazing progression.
How about Wuthering Heights? The last chord before the chorus is an F7sus4 (on "Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights Heath-") and it's super climactic. It's a iii7sus4 chord there.
Walking On The Moon anyone?
@@Landmaaler Oh I never realized those were 7sus4 chords nice
You might like Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage, whose tonic chord is D7sus4
@@Landmaaler Do you mean Andy Summers first, chiming, chorused slow raked chord just after Stings opening bass riff? Think that is a minor 11th. Really beautiful.
Iâve been watching your videos recently and also recommended them to another friend, for somebody like me who has really small amounts of musical theory knowledge your videos are really helpful. Iâve also downloaded OpenEar in hopes of increasing my chord identification skills a bit more and just expanding my usable chord range, thank you for your work
Love your well thought out videos.
It really helps to understand and recognize the chords and interval relationships giving the examples you do.
Canât thank you enough
This is more of a Chord Progression, but Michael Jackson's "Black or white" actually opens with a "sus4, Major, sus2, major" back and forth movement, and is almost fully based on that those chords, and it sounds amazing.
When you played this exact progression while explaining how sus2 differs from sus4, the first thing that came into my mind was that Song!
That information was absolutely brilliant David. Keep up the good work young man.
Every time I hear a major 6th chord The fool on the hill by The Beatles comes to my mind. I was 100% sure it would be one of the examples when you played the chord
I always think of John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy" for that chord.
That song has some really pretty passing tones and extended chords. Very dreamy....
More examples (first chord always):
2:48 Xm7: Love like Blood - Killing Joke
5:33 Xsus4: Dancing with Tears in my Eyes - Ultravox
9:39 X5: Killing in the Name - Rage Against The Machine
4:54 Also a very nice X+ in Synchronicity II by the Police: first one on the "bo" of "Mother chants her litany of boredom..."
I have never, in over 40 years, noticed that Ghost Town begins with diminished chords that ascend chromatically. Keep on moving and - more to the point - keep on grooving, David!
Time and time again you are absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for all your work. Unbelievable that this and all of your content is free to watch
Right?! the didatics os this guy is amazing
Thanks!
Brilliant choices for the examples! Very enjoyable.
David Bennett is the BEST music theory teacher that I have ever viewed. He instructs using our favourite songs of different genres
'Woman' from John Lennon uses both sus4 and sus2 in its main riff. Would have been a better example than an arpeggiod one. Another remark on chord qualities: it's easy to, for instance, hear the difference between a major and minor chord, but the moment you put them in context of music this suddenly becomes entirely different. Therefore, studying listening to individual chords is not very productive. More productive is to listen chords in actual musical context between other chords. I'm very curious how far his 'ear training' thing can take you. There are a lot of 'for beginners' vids and some people are able to play basic songs on youtube by ear (esp when he chord progression is recognizable as a known progression, the base follows the prime of the chords or it all stays very much in) but I doubt many people can listen to 'any' song and follow what is played just like hat when it's more complicated.
Doesn't Argent's 'Hold Your Head Up' do that, with the added bonus of a 13th a bar or two later?
@@tonybates7870 that's a sus2-7, that extra 7 makes it a less clean case of a sus2.
This was super helpful! Thanks David!
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Excellent, David, thank you for the upload.
Great summation, thanks for sharing.
I learn so much from your channel. Thanks.
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As always a great video, bravo maestro!
Thanks!
Excellent video on a skill all could practice beneficially, David! Thank you!
This kind of lessons really helps people who doesn't have formal music theory study like me, really appreciate your works, thank you so much and keep on going.
Always appreciate your lessons, always learn something :)
SIxth chords are sparkly! They even work as an alternate resolution to the plain old major triad. And when you need it, sus4's are a smoother replacement to the ordinary dominant 7th. Let's hear it for dissonance!
when can you replace a dominant 7th chord with sus4? Can you give me an example to understand please
I always use a 7sus4 (or 2, but those are just dom 9th chords) instead of a regular 7th chord. I like the slight dissonance, usually resolve to the dom7 before going to the IV. (I 7sus4 - I 7th)
@@empresaglova1268 The Csus4 has the same "flavor note" (F) as the G7. Try it!
True about 6th chords being a bit dated. In the 60s and 70s (likely earlier) a 6th was a great way to end a tune if you were a lounge pianist or similar. Sounded even better (and cornier) if you raised it a half step for three repetitions, before backing down to the natural with some show-offy arpeggios to boot.
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Itâs amazing how many songs I could think of when you played the chords. Thanks.
I've been trying to understand basic music theory for years to apply to my own songs and none of it ever clicked. This year is starting to change that after I found this channel! Seriously all the examples and explanations you give are just so good I'm just kind of mad nobody ever made it this straightforward or easy to understand. You're really a master teacher. Thank you for this channel because without it I'd still be making zero progress
Another brilliantly crafted teaching video. Thanks so much.
Just in case you didn't know it, your content is amazing. Clear, helpful, and interesting.
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I absolutely love your videos!
David, thanks for the great instructional video! I share it with my students.)
I love these vids...... just love em!
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Open Ear looks like a good app. From what little Iâve seen of it so far, Iâd strongly recommend it!
Waaaaay back in the â80s and 90s, Iâd recently taken the usual Freshman and Sophomore Music Theory and Ear Training, and I used to have absolutely killer ears!
*_My oh my_* how the once-mighty have fallen! After decades of work work work, and a decade of learning Mandarin Chinese, I finally found some time to sanity-check my ears: It was a lesson in utter humiliation! I was mistaking M6s and m6s, iii chords for iv chords, etc. Sometimes even confusing P4s and P5s - possibly the most common-but-novice of ear-training mistakes! (Granted, thatâs only in harmonic/simultaneous presentation, but still!)
However these sorts of apps, and these sorts of videos, have helped! Thanks, Mr. Bennett!
Good video. Another good example for Maj7 is Simon and Garfunkel's "Old Friends". For m7 I instantly thought of the beginning of "Bohemian Rhapsody". Another track worth mentioning is Joe Jackson's "It's Different for Girls", which arpeggiates a power chord on guitar, allowing the vocals to move between major, sus4, and sus2. And while "Michelle" uses the "Hendrix" 7#9, it's far clearer in The Beatles' earlier song "You Can't Do That".
Great Vid! Thanks!
Two other noteworthy examples of suspended 2nd chords in action are the main loops of "History" and "Lucky Man" by The Verve. Both songs use Dsus2 and Asus2.
Thank you David. Your videos are excellent. I learned something new even after playing piano for 50 years.
Thanks!!
2:57 Did anyone else think of "Bohemian Rhapsody" instead of "Rocket Man" when David played the Gm7?
I thought of golden slumber by the Beatles.
I thought of Great Gig In The Sky.
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Your the man. Using examples.. This is much better than just someone talking about it.
This was a great idea for a video. Most of the examples were repeats of the same chord which makes those examples better than if it was just a song where the chord is played once.
Amazing man thank you
Sus2 is my favourite. Such a chilled out but almost melancholy feel to it.
Whatâs the dif between a sus2 and a 9th just wondering
@@Marco-jftsj A 9th cord has the 9th additional to the 3rd. A sus2 has the 2nd *instead* of the 3rd.
@@tw11tube ohhhh wow that makes since idk why i didnt think ab that thx!
I have always had the feeling that the first chord in the chorus of Radiohead 's Lucky is a Sus2. Is that correct?
i love how lights theme from death note uses Dsus2 Dm and Dsus4
thanks David!
Another brilliant video
Suspended chords are interesting because a sus2 is another sus4, just in an inversion. For example, Asus2 and Esus4 use the same notes, so if you're clever with your inversions, you can do interesting stuff with it.
I can sus that!
Or, even more simply you can just use them for colour. Instead of playing A for two bars, go A Asus2 A Asus4 A Asus2 A. It's like adding a little melody in your chord by shifting the third around. Very handy things.
8:00 for anyone looking for a modern pop song that opens with a major sixth chord, Jukebox the Ghost's "Nobody" is about as clear an example as you'll ever find. The rest of the progression is also great, and full of just about every chord quality in this video.
David, you are a wonderful teacher
Yet another juggernaut of essential fundamental wisdom for the development of musical sorcery. Thank you David!
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Also: I copied and posted and credited the ending Bond clip to my Instagram for the rest of the world to see. It was an awesome finish.
What an awesome video. I never got into music because I thought the theory was beyond me, but I might get back into it after this
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"Fool on the Hill" was my mom's favorite Beatles song. Always makes me smile
Hi David. Another great video and some wonderful choices for the different chord types. If you do another Q&A in the future, my question for you is, what do you think of the artist Nick Drake and his music?
what i loved from this channel is because he give us example of what his explained
I noticed you liked my comment i made a while ago about Ghost Town by The Specials opening with diminished chords .
Nice to see you referenced the song in this video.
A great Maj7 song is Old Friends/Book Ends by Simon & Garfunkel. Not only are the first two chords Maj7 chords, the melody consists on the Maj7 notes themselves.
Brilliant thanks
Fantastic video. I use the doubled-up root power chord in guitar all the time in the D position. So 5th on the A string, root on the D string, 5th on the G string and root on the B string. It's a very comfortable shape, a nice medium voicing, you can easily morph the A or B shape into it, and it doesn't have a 3rd which would otherwise sometimes be too sweet, but it still functions as a major chord.
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This is a brilliant idea for a video.
Wow thank you!
Fun fact: The C - Fmaj7 loop, cited here for Oasis, is also both _Imagine_ and _Band on the Run_ .
Untrue. The first chord in "Imagine" actually includes a major 7th at the very end of the chord, but the second chord is a straight F major in second inversion with a chromatic walkup at the end from the 3rd to the sharp 4 (which also happens to be the 7th of the C). So really it's exactly the opposite of what you said. It's C maj7 followed by F.
If you don't believe me, watch this tutorial and then listen to the original song. He's clearly teaching it correctly here.
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@@rome8180 Translation: "True, but I didn't think of it so it's time to get picky." By your level of pickiness, David's own Oasis example would be "untrue" for containing only 1 Maj7 chord, instead of 2 Maj7 chords as he'd set up from the Bacharach example. What we're looking for here is Maj7 feel, on a plagal loop (I - IV). With _Imagine_ there is such a wash of sound involving E, A & B notes functioning variously as major thirds, sixths & sevenths that improvising pianists add the E note to the F chord without blinking. P.S. the C chord is often a straight C (no 7th), sometimes a Maj7 and sometimes a 9th / sus2. But, you see, I don't really give a crap because I'm talking vibe.
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@@jcarty123 yes, but David made that disclaimer when he shared the Oasis example.
Also, if we're going to say where the major 7 is used doesn't matter, then we're only talking about songs with a C-F chord progression. And there are thousands of those.
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The first chord in Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" is a suspended 2nd chord. He uses a capo on the second fret and plays Bsus2 - F#m - A - E - Bsus2, using open chords two frets up.
For Sus Chords: If you listen to "No Good" by the Prodigy, at the 1 minute mark you get a really powerful synth sequence that essentially just hammers wildly between a Minor, a sus2 and a sus4 (I believe c minor, but my absolute pitch is still kinda garbage). But that was so ear drilling, it always helped me to keep the ring of those chords.
You are some sort of genius my man
Great teaching Congrats!
Thank you!
Sus2 resolves nicely into its minor. It's typical on guitar to switch Am->Amsus2->Am or Dm->Dmsus2->Dm, because you just need to lift the index finger. There are lots of songs which use that.
Minor sus2 doesn't exist you either meant sus2 or madd9
@@tfwnoyandere you are absolutely right. Itâs not really correct to write Amsus2, I meant Asus2. Just wanted to highlight there is a binding to minor, not major in possible usage.
I wouldn't have commented but I got curious since you could have been implying a minor chord with an added second (madd9) which is my favourite chord
@@tfwnoyandere I also like it, especially Emadd9. Despite itâs dissonant (f# and g in just one semitone from each other), it sounds great. Sus2 is basically the same, but having minor 3d note excluded, hence sounds less dissonant
if you check out the last video i uploaded you'll see why dissonance is my goal lol
Thanks a lot David. I think we are all waiting for part 2 for more unusual chords. Keep up the good work!
Some chord progressions keep the root note the same but change chords by just moving the 'sus' note. e.g. 'Safe from Harm' by Massive Attack: Bm, Bsus2, Bsus4, Bm... which works nicely as the main hook of the song is a continuous 1 bar bass loop
the maj, sus4, maj, sus2, maj theme appears in liturgical music, "I Need You" by George Harrison, and a whole lot of Byrds and folk music.
I love your work
I think of that dominant 7(#9) as the Taxman chord
Can you do a pt2 for more advanced players? Iâd love an analysis of the âtonic chordâ of different scales such as most famously Maj7#11 for Lydian and 7 for mixolydian but also like Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Locrian to start with, maybe also harmonic minor, melodic minor, double harmonic major, double harmonic minor, harmonic major, and their modes as a treat. Iâve mastered sorta bebop harmony (the theory if not the practice as those scales and chords are hella difficult to stretch physically and voice mentally on guitar) but Iâd like to have a primer in modal/free/fusion harmony. Maybe this is above most of ur audienceâs head, but itâs where Iâm lost rn. I saw a Rick beato video on the native triads and seventh chords of each scale (he was doing Lydian dominant and double harmonic major) so I thought your simple clear mind could help. Thanks!
Thank you for this informative video! I tried to download OpenEar for iOS, and I received a message from the Apple App Store that the app is not available in my country/region (I am in the USA). Thanks again!
My example for Dominant chords is not a particular song, but "la cadencia andaluza" (Andalusian cadence I think?). It's just that classical flamenco cadence Am, G, F, E7 with that E7 being so clearly a Dominant everyone gets it when I tell them.
Also, I feel sus2 to minor chord feels like sus4 to major, probably because of the semitonal movement although in a different direction. Metallica's The Unforgiven is a great example.
Ah, the Babylon 5 chord progression, lol
Excellent.
Great video. Very informative.
Is OpenEar no longer available in the UK?
Following the link for the app store says it's not available.
The Bond chord is also used in Hey Bulldog's middle 8!!
yes, they did it all!!
If you omit the 9th, you get the "Bernard Herrmann" chord, which he used in a lot of Hitchock's movies.
Fantastic.
Damn, you make good vids!
Thank you!
@@DavidBennettPiano No, no. I thank you!
Another example of the minor chord with a major 9 (DmM9) is heard on Pink Floyd's "Us and them"
For the last example, aside from James Bond, I would pick âitâs probably meâ by Sting, which opens exactly with the chord you played yourself. Check it out.
The very first chord in "Under the Wheel" by Split Enz uses exactly the same chord that David played in this video.
Another great video! Two questions: Is a 7#9 chord also known as an 11th? And aren't minor 7s just inversions of major 6s, e.g., C6 and Am7?
I immediately thought of a song when you played the sus4 to major, itâs this little piano part in Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mannâs Earth Band, at about 4:45 in the song. It took me awhile to remember what song it was from, but I got it, and Iâll probably use that as a reference, thanks for the reminder!
In my mind I always relate the Dominant 7 (#9) with "Shoot to thrill" by AC/DC.
You should make more videos where yr just chilling out at the keyboard.Just playing..It sounds so natural and cool !
Sus2 is Purple Rain too.AND Song To The Siren
Sariaâs song (or the lost woods theme from ocarina of time) for augmented chords.
Itâs the main melody.
Major 6th was used in My Black Dog by Josie Charlwood... I believe. If you haven't heard of her before, she's definitely worth checking out
Yessss Josie is the best!