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I’ve been playing jazz piano for many years yet I’m still learning, Noah has given me insights and creative ideas to so much of what I thought I already understood. He’s added so much to my playing, Can’t thank Noah enough.
"No lack of emotional resolution". Dude, yes, yum!! Chord colors. Float away with those sus sounds, and the irony is that its from old church music: a 'religious' sound.. the resolutions tells us that "everything will be okay" if you 'believe' etc! Your enthousiasme for sound is one of your many gifts!
The harmonic world of the SUS Chords and the Add4 applied from simple triads to more complex ones with extensions is so colorful. This are nice tensions. Thank you very much Noah for sharing the universal knowledge of music.
Having been classically trained and being an amateur composer, these videos are a useful way to extend the palette of chords and sounds available. Definitely worth a follow. 👍
Bonjour Noah, Merci beaucoup pour ce que tu fait pour les passionné de piano jazz. Chaque post donne de la lumière à mes journées et m'aident beaucoup à progresser. Continu, tu donnes du bonheur. Merci.
I agree on the sus2 vs 9. I teach music and often have to tell students they’re not inversions of each other, as you say, the 2nd wants resolution whereas the 9th doesn’t. If you’re looking for ideas I have one for you which I don’t think you’ve covered, though you’re welcome to use it. It’s only two chords but sounds very nice. It’s actually min11 dropping down a semitone to #11(no 3rd), but the easiest way of viewing it is with slash chords: G / A to Gb aug / Ab So, A, G, B, D Ab, Gb, Bb, D Works well in all keys
sus chords are such a wonder to listen to and coming from guitar and starting to larn the piano is just amazing what you can do with the voicing, such a joy to hear and to add to your harmony compositions, thanks for this
The sus13 chord revolutionised my playing, and especially my composition. I call it the master key chord, because you can modulate so smoothly with it!
I always love your videos Noah. As a teacher myself, you always give me a fresh perspective. I had no idea that 9's become 2's when any note is emitted from core 1357. I always thought 2's were referred to when no 7th was present in the chord. It's learning small details that make me excited to watch each new video you post. Also, I am currently taking your Reharm and Resolutions course and it's exactly what I was looking for. Glad to see your platform is popping off, you definitely deserve it. At some point I'll be ready sit down to a private lesson with ya 🤙🏻
Gee Sus! This is useful information. Thanks Noah. I truly appreciate what you do. guys and girls like you are the heroes of youtube. Yourself & piano with Johnny & London Contemporary School of Piano are the three most valuable CZcams channels for me at the moment. Hope to send all three of you a gratuity soon, in thanks for your efforts.
Hy I'm nceba nkalatay from south African and you videos have helped me improve my playing in church thank you. Much love from me and plz do continue with the help full tutorials.
Absolutely gorgeous stuff. Have recently started getting jazz lessons for the first time and I can't get enough. Very keen to try out these sus chords, thanks for making such a great video (I know ill be watching it through a few times).
Watching this makes me once again marvel at our equal temperament system and how creative and inspiring such a symmetrical musical system can sound when in the right hands! Thanks for the inspiring yet practical guidance.
these chords are often written in the books as F/G or Fmaj7/G wether you want it 9 or 13. personally i like to use them a lot in ballads, they're a lighter version of dominant chords! u can also resolve them before going to the first degree if you want to delay.
Thank you very much for the lesson. Many roads lead to Rome. Personally, I treat Csus4 as superimposing Mixolydian C chord C7 (bottom) with Mixolydian Bb,+4+7 (in the right hand) in the Ionic scale F. Then Gm7 is Doric G. The best example is "Mayden Voyage" by Herbie Hanckock. With the chord D sus4 you can play the scales: Lydian, Doric and the Ionic scale is like a landing pad - mother. The rest are combinations. Greetings 😇
I've been recently researching how to play and compose piano pieces and found it rather convenient for this video to appear before me. I'll be sure to check out the rest of the videos on this channel!
What blows my mind about these dominant sus chord is that the min9 sound is all over it, which is such a subtle resolution going back to the I chord. Finally, I understand what makes this a modern sound over those super extended dominants w/ dimished sounding tensions!
Good day, it's really worth being subscribed to your channel. I never imagined it could be be utilised profoundly well. Very well executed by through your skills. Everyone could really learn a lot everytime. Wonderful techniques and clear explanations. I really appreciate it. God Bless you more.
Really enjoyed the video. Sadly I didn't quite get everything you said yet. But I imagine this is very helpful. I saved the video so I can watch it again, when I'm ready for those techniques. Thank you :)
Thanks for the video. The application of sus chords always eluded me. This video sheds light on this topic and I'm looking forward to using more in my practice and performance applications.
This is awesome, man. Love the way you have explained the concepts. 🙌🏾 I’m a huge fan of using sus chords in this way. Inverting those minor 9 chords in the right hand creates some juicy harmony.
I've always viewed suspended chords as more of a low-tension dramatic tool, but you made me realize their incredibly diverse usage in jazz music too. Great video! 🙏
Hi, I'm a teacher here in the Philippines. I love how the chords are played in that way. Hope I could have played those sus13 chords in a piano to my learners so they could appreciate the beautiful sound of these chords.
Had fun playing along with you on this. As best I could since I am intermediate at best. Honestly, I had a hard time following along with much of what you were saying but I stepped to my piano and played that sus chord and then just played up and down the piano on it and it sounded very nice. Thanks!
I’m constantly discovering new things that can spice up my playing 1 video at a time. Though I admit that it does take time for me to internalize these different concepts and tricks so I’m glad I could always go back to these videos as reference when trying to relearn them. Love your vids, and also the recent influx of your shorts on my video feed. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
Amazing! As a guitar player, I like to just slam my forearm on a big section of the piano and even jam a foot or two on there occasionally. It generates a horrific chromatic cluster that desperately wants to resolve.
Interesting. One thing I learned is the relation between sus and slash chords. A iiVi from a real book using mainly dominant 7 chords is immediately awful. Nobody plays like that. And even if you don’t have the basic theory about extensions (broken 9ths, eg, Donna Lee) or sus chords, the mind sort of finds them eventually. I saved this video for future reference. The idea of a fold-away piano has blown my mind. Thanks for the lesson
Great tutorial and application! When I studied with Ralph Peterson (rip), he tells us whenever we see a 7sus chord, play the maj7 a step below, in first inversion, especially in his songs, so C7sus4 --> Bbmaj7/C. To me, it was also as you said, a sort of "life-changing" moment. Sometimes I also just write in like Bbmaj7/C instead of just C7sus so I can get whoever's playing chords (I sometimes play other instruments) to use that voicing. Oh yeah fourths too
What a coincidence coming across this video while i had just started practicing sus 4th and sus 2nd chords a few days ago in their basic 3 note versions (R-4-5 and R-2-5). It had been suggested to me by a friend to familiarize myself with their sound, all inversions, both hands, all keys. I'll get to their chord extensions at some point though these also have a very nice sound. It was interesting that an inverted sus 4th chord not only creates a sus 2nd chord a perfect 4th away, but also a chord in 4ths in it's 2nd inversion!......btw, thanks so much for all the material you share here and in your other videos.
Hey TropiCool, Thank you for your comment. While you didn't win the Piano de Voyage, you were randomly selected to win free entry to my Reharm & Resolution Mastery course as a surprise part of the Give-a-Way! This is not spam-- this is actually Noah here typing this. We will go through an authentication process to make sure we are really communicating here. When you see this, please go to my website jazzpianoconcepts.com and leave me a message there with the subject "Reharm Give-a-Way" Then, I will email you back and ask you to edit this comment to contain a specific code so I can make sure it's really you. All emails from me will come directly from an email address that is directly connected to that website URL so you will know it's really me. Cheers and congratulations!
The suspended chords like sus4 and sus2 are very useful to combine with different chord dispositions like quartal harmony, sound really beautiful. Thanks for the video!
What a cool trick to use sus chords, and transpose them up minor thirds! Really makes it sound super out, and I like it that way! Thank you for your great content:)
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I love sus chords. I'm glad we have such an amazing teacher like you among us. Now I can finally complete my music tasks.
i see what u did there
yea he teaches very interesting stuff, not like the bunch of imposters out of there
i hate you all
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I used to vent about not being able to understand chords. I was sabotaging my progress by not studying theory.
It is unbelievable how much free content we can access nowadays over the internet. A appreciate every creator for sharing his knowledge 🙏
Thanks, Julian! Us educators appreciate you saying that 🙏
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I’ve been playing jazz piano for many years yet I’m still learning, Noah has given me insights and creative ideas to so much of what I thought I already understood. He’s added so much to my playing, Can’t thank Noah enough.
Just wanted to say a late thank you for this kind comment, Stephen.
"No lack of emotional resolution". Dude, yes, yum!! Chord colors. Float away with those sus sounds, and the irony is that its from old church music: a 'religious' sound.. the resolutions tells us that
"everything will be okay" if you 'believe' etc! Your enthousiasme for sound is one of your many gifts!
The harmonic world of the SUS Chords and the Add4 applied from simple triads to more complex ones with extensions is so colorful. This are nice tensions. Thank you very much Noah for sharing the universal knowledge of music.
I need to watch this again. Getting back into piano after many many years off. Thanks for posting!
I love moving from sus to altered to get that beautiful inner voice movement.
Don’t say it, Don’t think it
I learned something new, and agree! The C 13 sus is a beautiful open-sounding chord!
I always find myself inspired and fired up on my piano journey after watching your videos. Thanks for always being a blessing!
Thanks, Ajoni! So glad you have been enjoying them. Means a lot.
"All we're doing here is making that V chord sus"
I KNEW that G7 couldn't be trusted!
Having been classically trained and being an amateur composer, these videos are a useful way to extend the palette of chords and sounds available. Definitely worth a follow. 👍
Thanks Jez so glad you find them helpful
Bonjour Noah,
Merci beaucoup pour ce que tu fait pour les passionné de piano jazz.
Chaque post donne de la lumière à mes journées et m'aident beaucoup à progresser.
Continu, tu donnes du bonheur.
Merci.
I agree on the sus2 vs 9. I teach music and often have to tell students they’re not inversions of each other, as you say, the 2nd wants resolution whereas the 9th doesn’t.
If you’re looking for ideas I have one for you which I don’t think you’ve covered, though you’re welcome to use it. It’s only two chords but sounds very nice. It’s actually min11 dropping down a semitone to #11(no 3rd), but the easiest way of viewing it is with slash chords:
G / A to Gb aug / Ab
So,
A, G, B, D
Ab, Gb, Bb, D
Works well in all keys
Honestly I was missing out.
Thanks for this revelation of such soulful chords
sus chords are such a wonder to listen to and coming from guitar and starting to larn the piano is just amazing what you can do with the voicing, such a joy to hear and to add to your harmony compositions, thanks for this
The sus13 chord revolutionised my playing, and especially my composition. I call it the master key chord, because you can modulate so smoothly with it!
I always love your videos Noah. As a teacher myself, you always give me a fresh perspective. I had no idea that 9's become 2's when any note is emitted from core 1357. I always thought 2's were referred to when no 7th was present in the chord. It's learning small details that make me excited to watch each new video you post. Also, I am currently taking your Reharm and Resolutions course and it's exactly what I was looking for. Glad to see your platform is popping off, you definitely deserve it. At some point I'll be ready sit down to a private lesson with ya 🤙🏻
Gee Sus! This is useful information.
Thanks Noah.
I truly appreciate what you do.
guys and girls like you are the heroes of youtube.
Yourself & piano with Johnny & London Contemporary School of Piano are the three most valuable CZcams channels for me at the moment.
Hope to send all three of you a gratuity soon, in thanks for your efforts.
Hy I'm nceba nkalatay from south African and you videos have helped me improve my playing in church thank you. Much love from me and plz do continue with the help full tutorials.
Thanks for the tips. The moving up in minor thirds was new for me.
I'm learning to make my playing interesting and currently I am picking up on your tutorials.
Absolutely gorgeous stuff. Have recently started getting jazz lessons for the first time and I can't get enough. Very keen to try out these sus chords, thanks for making such a great video (I know ill be watching it through a few times).
This is amazing..simply given the easy way to formulate sus chords
Watching this makes me once again marvel at our equal temperament system and how creative and inspiring such a symmetrical musical system can sound when in the right hands! Thanks for the inspiring yet practical guidance.
Thank you for this video. I love sus chords and you gave me some really awesome insite and how to incorporate it better..Thank you so much!
these chords are often written in the books as F/G or Fmaj7/G wether you want it 9 or 13. personally i like to use them a lot in ballads, they're a lighter version of dominant chords! u can also resolve them before going to the first degree if you want to delay.
Thank you very much for the lesson. Many roads lead to Rome. Personally, I treat Csus4 as superimposing Mixolydian C chord C7 (bottom) with Mixolydian Bb,+4+7 (in the right hand) in the Ionic scale F. Then Gm7 is Doric G. The best example is "Mayden Voyage" by Herbie Hanckock. With the chord D sus4 you can play the scales: Lydian, Doric and the Ionic scale is like a landing pad - mother. The rest are combinations. Greetings 😇
One of my favorite chords
Thanks from a french beginner pianist ! That’s amazing !
These kinds of chords help me alot when I'm playing for my church, even though I'm started playing relatively recently I sound really good. THANKS 😊
I love the trick shifting the sus shape in minor 3rds. Simple to play but adds a feeling of colour and complexity
Such an amazing lesson!
Nicely explained and presented! Thanks
Feel the exact way with that Csus13! I can play that for ages and not want to move away from it!
You are the best teacher
Thanks for the great info, you’re channel is amazing !
I've been recently researching how to play and compose piano pieces and found it rather convenient for this video to appear before me. I'll be sure to check out the rest of the videos on this channel!
Thanks I appreciate that! Glad you found it
these chords arr just soothing
Looking forward to practicing your tutorial 👍🏾
Gsus, that sounds good.
This is gold bud!! 🙏
Love your content man!
I've been watching your videos for about 2 months now. You're such a huge inspiration to me as I am currently learning piano
Thank you so much!!!! This will help me a lot to perform
This is really interesting to get such vast knowledge for free
What blows my mind about these dominant sus chord is that the min9 sound is all over it, which is such a subtle resolution going back to the I chord. Finally, I understand what makes this a modern sound over those super extended dominants w/ dimished sounding tensions!
Wonderful content and knowledge nuggets!
Thanks, Noah. Very interesting.
Good day, it's really worth being subscribed to your channel. I never imagined it could be be utilised profoundly well. Very well executed by through your skills. Everyone could really learn a lot everytime. Wonderful techniques and clear explanations. I really appreciate it. God Bless you more.
Really enjoyed the video. Sadly I didn't quite get everything you said yet. But I imagine this is very helpful. I saved the video so I can watch it again, when I'm ready for those techniques. Thank you :)
Thanks for the video. The application of sus chords always eluded me. This video sheds light on this topic and I'm looking forward to using more in my practice and performance applications.
Wow this video is so helpful! Thanks so much Noah for sharing this. Absolutely loved it! Will be using this quite a bit!
Sure thing, Brian!
I've always wanted to know more on this subject. Thanks Noah you're the best.
Thank you for your lessons . My playing have improved greatly. Thanks again.
Oooh ! The going up in minor thirds thing is definitely a trick I have heard Chick Corea do, but it went by in a blur - thanks for elucidating that!
Thank you ! Tried this on autumn leaves and it sounds so refreshing and modern, I love it !
This is awesome, man. Love the way you have explained the concepts. 🙌🏾 I’m a huge fan of using sus chords in this way. Inverting those minor 9 chords in the right hand creates some juicy harmony.
I've learned so much about the language of jazz from your videos, thank you!
Many thanks for exposing us to the limitless magic of the sus chord. Feel musically nourished already. Doubt if anyone needed this tutorial more.
Omgoodness.....Thank you so very much!!! I finally understand Sus Chords 👍 Absolutely Beautiful.
Always so informative. The mystery and challenge of the piano are becoming less so ... thank you.
Alas... I was waiting... ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I've always viewed suspended chords as more of a low-tension dramatic tool, but you made me realize their incredibly diverse usage in jazz music too. Great video! 🙏
Hi, I'm a teacher here in the Philippines. I love how the chords are played in that way. Hope I could have played those sus13 chords in a piano to my learners so they could appreciate the beautiful sound of these chords.
Mas magaling si Jonny May magturo ng Jazz.
Believe me. Noah's courses are worth the attention and time. Thanks Noah!
Thank you so much, Noah! I always get inspired to play my keyboard after watching your tutorials.
Great infos, txs a lot fo sharing your knowledge.
Had fun playing along with you on this. As best I could since I am intermediate at best. Honestly, I had a hard time following along with much of what you were saying but I stepped to my piano and played that sus chord and then just played up and down the piano on it and it sounded very nice. Thanks!
The sound of the sus chords is soo sweet! love it! Great video Noah!
Love the concept of moving up by minor thirds! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
Lovely tutorial :)
Hi Noah
This Video IS REALLY REALLY INTERESTING AND FULLY PACKED WITH LOADS OF COOL THINGS TO ADD TO YOUR PIANO PLAYING
A MILLION THANKS 😎👍
this video was super helpful! I have been playing jazz for a few months now and was kinda lost on what to improve on. this was awesome!
Wow, thanks for great tips. I used something similar by ear, but this explanation is so useful for clear understanding of using sus chords
I’m constantly discovering new things that can spice up my playing 1 video at a time. Though I admit that it does take time for me to internalize these different concepts and tricks so I’m glad I could always go back to these videos as reference when trying to relearn them. Love your vids, and also the recent influx of your shorts on my video feed. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
I’ve never finished one of your video without having learned crazy new stuff !! Thank you so much for the treasures you give to the world !
Another great YT music creator and teacher. Thanks for the knowledge and I hope to get on your next offered course.
Great content! Thanks
Wonderful!
Thank you for posting this, I'm learning and this concept is what I have been stuck on. Again, 😊 thanks.
Been following on IG for a long while…always love your content. Decided to dive in last night and here I am.
Thanks really appreciate that 🙏
Amazing! As a guitar player, I like to just slam my forearm on a big section of the piano and even jam a foot or two on there occasionally. It generates a horrific chromatic cluster that desperately wants to resolve.
I love sus voicings, espeically with the flat 7 when voiced 1 4 b7, the open fourths is a nice sound
Great video!
Interesting. One thing I learned is the relation between sus and slash chords. A iiVi from a real book using mainly dominant 7 chords is immediately awful. Nobody plays like that. And even if you don’t have the basic theory about extensions (broken 9ths, eg, Donna Lee) or sus chords, the mind sort of finds them eventually. I saved this video for future reference. The idea of a fold-away piano has blown my mind. Thanks for the lesson
liked and subbed - you taught me more in 5 minutes than I have learnt in a year - thanks!
Great tutorial and application!
When I studied with Ralph Peterson (rip), he tells us whenever we see a 7sus chord, play the maj7 a step below, in first inversion, especially in his songs, so C7sus4 --> Bbmaj7/C. To me, it was also as you said, a sort of "life-changing" moment. Sometimes I also just write in like Bbmaj7/C instead of just C7sus so I can get whoever's playing chords (I sometimes play other instruments) to use that voicing.
Oh yeah fourths too
That's a neat piano.
This is some absolutley amazing knowlage that I think is essential to developing your piano playing skill. Thank you so much for sharing this Noah!
Your videos are so useful and impactful. Thanks for the free content.
Another awesome lesson, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, Noah!
So much stuff to learn from you, man. Thanks! I''m a jazz teacher and seeing great educators online inspire me to be better in every level.
Hey Eduardo, so happy to hear that 🙂 thank you for your comment, means a lot and keep up the great work
Love this
Great ♥️thats exactly what i needed, those jazzy chords to extend my Improvisation skills 👍🏻
What a coincidence coming across this video while i had just started practicing sus 4th and sus 2nd chords a few days ago in their basic 3 note versions (R-4-5 and R-2-5). It had been suggested to me by a friend to familiarize myself with their sound, all inversions, both hands, all keys. I'll get to their chord extensions at some point though these also have a very nice sound. It was interesting that an inverted sus 4th chord not only creates a sus 2nd chord a perfect 4th away, but also a chord in 4ths in it's 2nd inversion!......btw, thanks so much for all the material you share here and in your other videos.
Hey TropiCool, Thank you for your comment. While you didn't win the Piano de Voyage, you were randomly selected to win free entry to my Reharm & Resolution Mastery course as a surprise part of the Give-a-Way! This is not spam-- this is actually Noah here typing this. We will go through an authentication process to make sure we are really communicating here. When you see this, please go to my website jazzpianoconcepts.com and leave me a message there with the subject "Reharm Give-a-Way" Then, I will email you back and ask you to edit this comment to contain a specific code so I can make sure it's really you. All emails from me will come directly from an email address that is directly connected to that website URL so you will know it's really me. Cheers and congratulations!
Dude, I love this new look and the new chords as well.
The suspended chords like sus4 and sus2 are very useful to combine with different chord dispositions like quartal harmony, sound really beautiful. Thanks for the video!
What a cool trick to use sus chords, and transpose them up minor thirds! Really makes it sound super out, and I like it that way! Thank you for your great content:)