 Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel and in this final part on how we are trying to create these minor sounding chord progressions, we are going to actually take a little tangent away from the minor tonality which is generally considered gloomy and a bit more sorrowful to something which is very brave and epic hopefully. So let's get cracking right away. The whole purpose here being we need to end on that D minor which is the minor tonic. Earlier we learnt G minor, A major, D minor, G minor, A major, D minor. So ultimately all roads are leading to the minor tonic but if you want to create it like a you know long and winding road kind of effect as we say instead of that A major tonality you can play a A minor tonality. So then it's like three minor chords right? It has to be sad. It's like you're you know moving on a desert searching for water and it's like you're about to pass out or something. So it gives you that long journey difficult road kind of effect or that A no sunshine when she's gone kind of effect. So you go right there's no hope here. This is very gloomy. What did we do there? G minor which is the four minor, still the predominant A minor which I'm playing. I'm not playing that that more dominant chord or that major A I'm doing A minor and back to D. Just get the hang of that. You can even do minor sevens of all these. Right? Now you could groove with this but generally it's on the more sadder variety. Now this lesson is about creating a brave sound right? So generally when I think of something brave I'm always looking at maybe the weaker force or the weaker group or troop or army which is trying to kind of you know get their act together and somehow defeat the more stronger people right? So it's always from the perspective of the weaker team or the weaker group but then eventually you want to see them win the battle or win the game and then you feel like awesome right? Because yeah that's generally bravery. You're trying to going against all odds and overcoming your goal. So to create that vibe I'll just give you a few options okay? What did I do there? Instead of doing... I can do something like replacing the G minor with a more positive chord that's F major. So instead of G, A minor and D minor which are like very mournful, I'm going with some hope. F major. And to give it even more hope you can replace that second A minor by a C major. So two major chords and then ending with a minor. Use a lot in rock right? You could even start with the minor D minor and loop it as a four chord progression. D minor. That's the A minor that's a struggle which you haven't forgotten. Or the more hopeful option or the braver. I can imagine a few rock songs using this chord progression right? Yeah so you could play around with all of those opportunities. You can do G minor, C so that C major adds that element of bravery or that element of hope. You need not or don't have to play the A chord as A major because that immediately kind of gives you that earlier vibe which we were going for. So the second chord or the middle chord or the dominant chord if you will can either be C major or A minor. Both work really great. But the first chord could either be G minor or add even more hope by playing F major there. Start with F with that and if you want to make it even more epic if you will you can start with B flat. Start with B flat. You want to end gloomy you know depending on your story which you're trying to imagine. Okay so the epic option could be B flat. So if you take the key of D minor you'll find that all your minor intervals F major, B flat major and C major. A great trick to remember this by is in a minor scale all your minor intervals that's the flat 3, the flat 6 and the flat 7 are all going to be major chords. Okay I repeat in a minor scale the flat 3 will be F major, the flat 6 will be B flat major and the flat 7 will be C major. So it's quite a cool observation you know come to think of it the flat 3, flat 6, flat 7 which you make minor the major versions of that exist in that scale itself and that's what gives you that brave or that hopeful or that epic sound. So there's a lot of hope and bravery and an epic vibe from within a minor scale you know which you may not get when you're playing on major. Okay so I'm just gonna jam on some of these possibilities again and maybe explain you as I go along or just hum some random stuff and hopefully you get a taste of what we're trying to achieve. It's a three chord sequence or a basic four chord sequence you're trying to end on that minor tonality the minor tonic but all the chords before that we're changing it but still serving the same purpose which is a predominant kind of pulling to the dominant which is the middle chord and then the dominant pulling to the tonic that's pretty much what we've discussed or discovered in this entire lesson series. Okay so let's see how it works it's just some random explorations you go what did I do there F C D F major C major D minor maybe replace the C with A minor you can go all outside gloomy epic quite like that tune so you need to bring in those three major chords D flat F C at least two of them so we've moved from something very melancholic you know and very mystical to something more brave hopeful and which you could theoretically use in like a pop rock song come to think of it why does pop music just have to have that same one five six four chord progression I'm sure you've heard a lot about it and watched a lot of videos on that sort of a thing right where almost every pop song is on that chord progression so hopefully this lesson series has taught you a few things about expanding your knowledge of chord progressions also serving a minor base or a minor tonality because a lot of our themes are based on you know human thoughts and human emotions and human experiences so these are very much human themes and human experiences which we go through daily or the minor progression or the minor chords this this progression or this tonality can also be used for a little bit you know chaotic stuff or dystopian stuff or unreal stuff you know things which don't even exist on planet earth which you're trying to imagine so it's a very artistic thing it's a very it could even be a very romantic thing you know it could be a very realistic kind of thing talking about what life is all about at the end of the day right so I hope this lesson series was useful and you can use it in your music and your compositions and in your piano practice again this is Jason here from the Nathaniel School of Music don't forget to like share subscribe to our channel if you haven't already leave us a comment for things you'd like us to teach you further we are planning to do a lot more at the music school so do keep us in the loop with what you'd like to learn as well and there are hand written notes for this entire lesson series as well as whatever we discuss and any topics which we will ever do so head over to patreon for about five bucks you'll be able to get all my hand written notes for everything which has ever been done from the beginning of time cheers