Symmetry 09: To plan or not to plan
This is a response video to a couple of questions from the last post, which was pretty complicated. The main thing is looking at options of how to think about pathways, which can boggle the mind prett...
3 Maj 202522min
Symmetry 11: The 8-way traffic circle
By introducing mi6 chords, we've now doubled the number of dominants available at any given time. I get into this idea here, with a very short explanation that ties into the diminished thing we starte...
3 Maj 202517min
Symmetry 10: The mystery of minor
Turning from major to minor, I do a very brief history and explanation of the major/minor duality, and then get into the cadence Fmi6 --> C. Feel free to ask quesitons, as this one goes a bit into the...
3 Maj 202519min
Symmetry 08: Dominant Chains
Here the traffic circle idea explodes into an infinite pathway concept. I reference a 1945 recording by Don Byas and Slam Stewart that can be found here. Go to 1:48 to hear the thing I'm talking about...
3 Maj 202515min
Symmetry 07: Secondary Dominants
This is a continuation of the traffic circle idea, and the beginning of a pathways concept. We are now getting to the juicy part where we connect one traffic circle to another. I demonstrate and talk ...
3 Maj 202515min
Symmetry 05 - Reverse Traffic Circle
In the last video we looked at four ways to get to a place. Now we look at, for any particular place, four ways to get out of it. For example, if you are in C (major or minor), you can make that into ...
30 Apr 202513min
Symmetry 04: Alterations of the dominant and the traffic circle concept
Moving back to application, I explain here how the four dominants that we made from the diminished create four "altered dominant" sounds. Specifically:Bb7 -> C = G7b9#9 -> CDb7 -> C = G7b9#11 -> CE7 -...
30 Apr 202517min
Symmetry 03: Diminished into Dominant 7th Morphing exercise
Back to warmup exercises, here's one looking at the diminished 7th morphing into the four dominant 7th chords that are related to it.
30 Apr 202510min
