How to reharmonize a song using example of Beatles' Yesterday cover tutorial
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Thanks for watching! What other lessons do you wish we did and what was your favorite part of this one?
Please do an all red one reharm. For the people that already know the easier stuff.
It takes a while to wade through, but I think we covered most of it here: www.learnpianolive.com/reharm Let me know if there are any specifics I missed or if you have any additional requests.
I see a few comments complaining about the way you explain things, but the two videos of yours I've watched so far have probably been more helpful than any other reharmonization video I've ever seen on CZcams. I guess your style just really works for me!
Great! Can't please everyone all the time I guess :) Glad it connected for you
The chords at the end were really nice and the theory points so useful
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
This is great man! Awesome lesson! 👍👌
Top notch! 👏🙏
Cheers from Lisbon! 👊
So glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Still my favorite reharmonizing video after all theses years 😊
Wow, thank you!
I agree! This is my fav video for reharmonizing too
Super. Great lesson. Thanks so much
So glad you liked it!
Great stuff!
Thank you
You're a genius man!
So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks
really awesome lesson (even for a guitarist like me) and the teaching was very clear by example.
Wonderful! Glad you enjoyed it!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 great job‼️‼️‼️‼️
Thanks!
absolutely amazing! :) i am blown away! thanks for giving me ideas. I am just starting out in reharmonization as i realized i have been playing the same chords over and over again that they sound boring already. My goal now is to try to freshen up old hymns that i play at church using reharm. I gotta say this is fantastic!
Great! Hymns are a lot of fun to freshen up. You might like Jim Martinez's stuff www.jimmartinez.com/html/cdgallnew.html Jazz renditions of hymns are kind of his niche, and he's a monster player to boot!
thank you for your reply :) I am really enjoying your series on reharm. My other challenge (among many many others) is how to know which kind of voicing to use after deciding what chord to put in-betweens. I have learned that voicing is what separates a bad, good, and a great sounding chord. Do you sell any books or resources or a chart of great sounding piano chord voicings that I can practice on and memorize?
I have been searching for a piano voicing resource and most that I found are rootless voicings. I wanted a piano voicing chord chart that is purely for piano because in our church we don't have a bassist because we are a conservative church, and piano is only our accompaniment instrument.
I don't personally sell any voicing materials other than what the subscribers get at the website. Voicing is a tough one, because there are no good or bad voicings. It's like a series on "The right color to paint your house." It really depends on the mood you want to create. You can look at the characteristics of the colors, but the right color is the one that creates the vibe you want.
What is the book/ books that you are working from and how do I get them?
Good videos, concepts well explained. Thanks for putting them on line
A book that I'm constantly updating called "Non Linear Music" is a condensed collection of these PDF worksheets and cheat sheets I make for my lessons. They are included for all my LearnPianoLive subscribers.
Well explained and some great ideas here. I agree with the poster below, nosson77, this was the perfect level video for me. Thank you, I learnt something and you inspired me to find some other chord reharmonisations for this song.
Fantastic to hear! Thanks for letting me know
Forgive me if you touch on this in other lessons but I just ran across your channel in the last couple of days. This is advanced reharm but do you have additional concepts included on your sheet such as: voice leading, rootless voicing, constant structures, etc?
Yes. I think we briefly hit all of them at the reharm workshop link in the description
I love seeing the process. Great job! "DminorSus" doesn't exist right? Dsus replaces the 3rd whether it be major or minor.
Correct. Not sure where it showed up in the reharm. I'm hoping I was turning an existing Dm into a sus and just wrote the sus next to the existing chord. Or as a learning tool, it might be appropriate thing, but it doesn't exist out in the real world.
What is the book you are using in these lessons/. It looks pretty good.
It's Non-Linear Piano. Not in print anymore. I can send you the light version, but the full version is just broken up into our live lessons now
Dude you can't please them all. You're the first person who explained reharmonization in a way that is NOT "here I'm using the flat 11 followed by a diminished chord which brings me nicely up to the Dm7..." aka showboating, but actually explaining each "trick" by category and trying to give examples of what works and what doesn't. It gives me lots of hope that I can in fact learn enough of this stuff on CZcams to begin practicing!!
There are some other topics I'm interested in, in case you haven't done videos on them: how to approach minor songs if that's any different; how to reharm, when accompanying, playing a running bass; is it possible to get something closer to big band jazz with the piano rather than slow ballads? What harmonies makes soulful / gospel music and can reharm be used to achieve that too?
Sorry, a long wish list 😊
Cool. Thanks for the feedback! I've got your stuff on the list. A lot of it is covered in past lessons in the archives. Quickly - walking bass is just about connecting chord roots with step-wise movements (and 1/2-steps when necessary to delay getting to the next chord until beat 1) using quarter notes. Minor keys are pretty similar, but it's VERY common to take the root of the 1 chord down by half steps in the right hand while the left hand keeps the 1 of the chord the same. Reharming while accompanying (in real-time) is just a matter of doing it enough NOT in real-time that you're familiar with the moves and can think that far ahead. It's no different. Right now you can probably already substitute an Am every time you see a C. BAM! That's a reharm. Become as familiar with the other techniques and you can do those one the fly too. "Big Band" piano sounds like you're talking about stride. Is that right? Something like this? czcams.com/video/kgmnlwjTRRw/video.html
Thanks for helping with my vocal writing test-out at berk lol
haha - really?
What program do you use for your worksheets?
It's a Windows 10 app called Xodo. Probably not the best. Just working with what I've already got
Interesting !
Thanks !?
No problem ?! Can I find that practice sheet from somewhere btw ?
There is one on the Amazing Grace tutorial www.learnpianolive.com/advice-lessons/759-free-piano-lesson-reharmonizing-amazing-grace-on-the-fly.html Only some of the additional materials for lessons are free to the public. Gotta leave something for the paying subscribers, you know?
Yes of course :) Thanks!
How does he know what keys make up the melody? Just by ear?
Yeah, sorry :( That's ear training stuff, and those are separate lessons. The premise of the reharmonization lessons is taking a melody you already know (by ear or sheet music or synthesia or whatever) and putting a unique set of chords behind it. We don't really deal (in the reharm lessons) with how to get that first step of learning the song in the first place.
Can I ask... How can I take a set full of song/chord charts for a small pub gig... and use this technique only every once in a while on some songs? What would be the first things you would try that would not be deemed too jazzy for the gig... but maybe like The Beatles... who did some great moves.
Adding 7's to minor chords is pretty safe. Preceding chords by their 2-5 is also pretty popularly palatable.
Do you have any video on reharmonizing happy birthday? That song uses the same chords over and over again. It is nice to surprise people at birthday parties with fresh chords :) hehe
Not yet, but that's a great idea! Speaking of Jim Martinez, here is him with piano giant Geoffrey Keezer playing Happy Birthday at jazz pianist Joe Gilman's private birthday: czcams.com/video/0N_aaptBCqc/video.htmlm20s The video that precedes this segment is pretty amazing too, where they all play Autumn Leaves together.
Sorry - it was Jim's party
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What do you mean when you say A is not in the key of F?
I'd need the time stamp on the comment to be sure, but I'm guessing I was talking about the A chord and not the note. You're right to think A is in the key of F, but the A chord has A-C#-E. The C# doesn't fit in the key of F, so it's going to stick out if you use an A [chord] in the key of F
gotcha, thanks
Very interesting. When ever I see videos on chords they are either way to advanced (what sound to me like crap I.e. jazz stuff) or too simple like basic chords. First video I've seen on interesting chords that actually sound good. Although I have to wonder is my ear staying to what sounds like crap to most regular folk.
I think the key is not to put too any new ideas at once and to try and really own the chords and get the right expression out of them with the melody, the way it's sung, maybe some interesting chords needs the song to slow down to really appreciate it's effect etc.
You asked "is my ear staying to what sounds like crap to most regular folk." There's no such thing as regular folk. You let your ear decide what's great for you and there will always be a community that agrees with you.
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You prolly already know this , but your pdf goes to your twinkle reharm page
Btw, love the immersive style of how you are teaching these concepts.
Yeah - the Twinkle was the song we used for the complete workshop. We do reharms like this one every few weeks, but we don't have time to get to all the concepts on every song. The PDFs for each individual song are available to students at the site
"That's sounds beautiful. I love that... Bummer"
It's possible I'm missing the point of these reharms.
Playing music is like writing a story - in a well-written story, sometimes the characters surprise you (the author) and don't react the way you thought they would or wanted them to, but you have to let them be themselves. Sometimes you've got a great idea for a chord or a song and it just falls flat. Then sometimes you mess up or try to play something horrific and it just comes out so much cooler than you could have planned. I'm picking these reharm methods at random just to demonstrate how to execute the tools. The results often surprise me! I've actually learned a LOT more about reharmonization by teaching these than I had by my own playing before. I guess it's like how if you write a lot of stories you can get in a rut, but if you go to a workshop where they force you to "Now write a fairy tale...now write a mystery...now make the bad guy win...now write in the voice of a Jew during the holocaust..." you discover a lot more about yourself and your writing than you would have if you only stuck to the stuff that you were inclined toward.
These videos are really good but I dont think he is good at explaining them or articulating what he wants to say so at times it is very jarring to watch.
way tooooooooooo mcuh talk talk talk talking. I gave up
Sorry! Give up on me, but don't give up on the reharm! I'm sure someone else out there explains it in a way that's a better fit for you
He's not really talking as such. He's thinking his way through the reharmonization...almost a "stream of consciousness" presentation. Good job. I enjoyed it.
These videos are really good but I dont think he is good at explaining them or articulating what he wants to say so at times it is very jarring to watch.
Thanks for the feedback