 Hi, everyone. This is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. In this tutorial, we are going to combine the learning of arguably our favorite song of all time, Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong, which you heard in that intro performance, as well as develop our arpeggio and chord extension and the add notes for the chord to make them sound really innovative, really cutting edge and really fancy depends on what word you want to use. So ultimately a chord extension will add to a triad. So if you take an F major chord, for instance, you're going to add a note to that and I'm going to brief you on a little bit of theory before we get started and after which we are going to apply all of our added chords, all of our jazz extensions, including some slash chords into the song Wonderful World and I'm not just going to teach you one part. I'm going to teach you the whole song. So stay tuned, bring out your keyboards and if not anything, this will also be a very good piano arpeggio drill because I'm going to involve both hands and all of your fingers. It's just going to be a nice six by eight arpeggio pattern. So get your keyboards ready. Get a notebook as well, which might help and you could pause the video and get yourself a copy of the staff notation, which is waiting for you on our Patreon page. So let's get cracking. The song is on F major scale, but before I teach you the chords and as I sing along, let's first look at the concept of some of the extended harmony or the extended chord movement. So if you take a major chord, I'm going to develop extensions or different sounding variations of major as well as minor chords. So in this lesson or in this rendition of the song. So if you take an F major chord, okay, now, how do we extend it or how do we make it more colorful, right? So you could do an add two, F, G, A, C, that's an add two. We also call that an add nine in music. You could also do an add flat two, which makes it a bit more Eastern or Arabic in nature. That would be an F major add flat two or flat nine. I prefer the add nine, which is more normal. It colors up both the major as well as the minor chord. So I'll show you the extensions for the major as well as the minor. So if you take F major, you can add the nine or you can add the nine to the minor chord. And the concept of these add notes would be during arpeggio playing because if you just squash down all of the four notes together, in this case, an add nine minor or an add two if you want to call it a two nine is two. So if you want to do it like that, it sounds nice. It sounds quite mysterious and very interesting in nature. But when you arpeggiated, it sounds really beautiful. So that's one of the main reasons why we are going to learn these extensions. So that was about nine. Then we can do an add 11 or an add four or a perfect fourth to both the major and the minor. Let's see how that goes. So this is F major. So if you have to add a four to this, there we go. That's your B flat, which is the four in the F major scale. That's a diatonic one. And you can even even do an add sharp four, which makes it a very Lydian modal sound. The Lydian mode has a sharp four, right? Can even do this with a minor chord. It's a minor add 11, as we call it very often. When it's major for some reason, a lot of them call it add four, but you can call it add four or add 11. So that's F minor add 11. That's added the tritone or the sharp 11 or the flat five, depending on what you want to call the B. You can also call it a tritone. So that's add nine, add 11. And in this lesson, we are just going to do add nine and add 11. So moving forward, you can then go add sharp five, which is an augmented fifth. That's your C sharp. You can do an add six, which is just an F major six or an F six. So add six, add sharp five, then do the same to minor. You get that add flat six, that very X files kind of sound. Then that is the X files theme, if I'm not mistaken, I hope this video doesn't get taken down. But anyway, that's add flat six. And then you have an a minor sixth chord, which is a minor chord with a major six. And all of your other extensions would be alongside the major, you can then do something with a major seventh, something with a dominant seventh or a flat seven. So if you do major seventh, the resultant chord over a major triad would be a major seventh chord. With a major chord, you do a minor seventh or a dominant seventh, it'll be called a dominant seventh chord or a seventh chord. If you do it as a major seventh on top with a minor triad, it'll be called a minor major seventh. You do a minor seventh on top with a minor triad supporting it or a minor bass, it would be called as a minor seventh chord. And then you have a few variations alongside maybe the diminished and the suspended and the augmented variety. So if I take you maybe through a diminished chord, just so that the video kind of explains all of this in some detail, F diminished. And now you add a minor seventh to a diminished chord and it becomes an F minor seventh flat five, also known as a half diminished chord. You add a diminished seventh to a diminished chord and it'll become a diminished seventh chord. Okay, diminished seventh in simple words could also be visualized as a major sixth alongside your root. Okay, so that's major sixth or diminished seventh. And when you couple it or stack it with a diminished chord, it becomes an F diminished seventh chord. And then you could do stuff with the augmented as well. Add a seventh to it. That'll be an F dominant seven sharp five or an augmented seventh, you could call it that. You could even do some extensions over a suspended chord. So if you take an Fsus4, you can add it. That'll be an F seven sus4 beautiful chord. I use that quite often in my songs. So let's now put all of these concepts together with the chords of wonderful world. And if you think about it, the chords of the song are quite simple. They in the original, it's just six by eight on triads. So the basic pattern which I want you to learn the six by eight pattern would be something like that. That's low note, middle note, high note, and the octave of the low note. So if this is your low note, low middle, high, low octave. But when I say low octave, I mean, you just copy the low note up the octave to get that nice six by eight lazy cyclic kind of pattern. So perhaps you can get this going before you take the responsibility of then playing all these other chords which I have for you. There we go. So this is the base pattern is just going up and down and the time signature you could argue is six by eight or if you want to count it as 12s, one, two, three, four, then it'll be 12 by eight or four by four in triplets. Okay. So now let's get started with the chords I have for you, the extended chords. So I'll play it and then teach. So the first line would be F major seventh, A minor seventh, then a nice little slash chord, which is a B flat over F. And then a lovely F major seventh inversion. So this goes during the verse of the song, I see trees of green, red roses too. Okay, so let's put those or let's do two chords at a time. F major seventh, A minor seventh and just observe my inversions and my fingers. I've chosen to play A minor seventh as G, A, C, E because it voices very well. It's quite smooth when you hear it alongside the F major seventh, which I banked on starting with. So let's do that. I see trees of green. I see trees of green. And now let's do red roses too. Red roses too. That's B flat over F. That's starting the B flat triad with an F bass. So it creates a slash chord sound. Red roses too. And I love this inversion of an F major seventh. You can call this an F major seventh over A. Red roses too. Some nice bass movement in there. Okay, the whole first line of Wonderful World, I see trees of green. Red roses too. Okay, now I see them bloom for me and you. Okay, let's walk through those chords. Okay, that's a G minor seventh sus four. I see them. That's G B flat C F. So it kind of removes the fifth and it plays a C. I see them bloom. Love that voicing of F ad four. So you could call this an F ad four slash A. I see them bloom. And when you play it on the piano, it's quite easy. It's just G B flat C F. Then you move your pinky in the left hand or your thumb of the right hand to A and you get the next chord. I see them bloom. Now let's do for me and you for me and you. So I'm doing A ad four for me and you. Okay, that's a ad four, which is a major plus a nice D here that creates the ad four for me and you. So what's that there? It's a D minor with an ad nine or an ad two. Okay, let's do the whole I see them bloom for me a new part. I see them bloom for me and you. Okay, and I think to myself is very easy is just one chord. I voiced it like this. It's an even in the original there's an A flat base. So I figured we'll put that in there. So that's a D flat ad nine, which is like a D flat with the nine or the two. And I think to myself, remember, it's the same arpeggio drill low, low, low, higher, higher, coming back down over six eight. I think to myself. So that's a D flat ad nine over a flat thing to myself. Okay, that's twice of that. And then what a wonderful world. I like this voicing of a it's tough to name this really the way I I've thought of naming this would be a G minor G minor seventh ad six no five. That's the name deal with that. So the the notes G B flat E F if you want to play it in this style. So I chose that because it's very easy to shift on the piano and it sounds very colorful at the same time. So I wanted maximum color and ease of shifting to a point that if you want to sing it as well as played on the piano, you should be able to play the piano blindly in the sense you should not look at the keys, you should just focus on your lyrics and your singing and do that job primarily with your conscious brain. So and I think to myself is over and I think to myself, what a wonderful word. Wonderful. Okay, again. What a wonderful. Okay, now the word world has some serious stuff in there even in the original. So I'll play it and then teach. Okay, let's look at that just world one syllable, but a ton of chords in there, which I think you'll enjoy once you learn it. So wonderful. What's that? That's an F major seventh over C. Now it goes into a beautiful augmented, but you can just look at this as, Hey, I've just played C E F A. Now I'll just move my low register to C sharp and you get that fancy augmented over C sharp bass. And then B flat major seventh over D. Okay, then we end with a C sus four C seventh because I want to come back to the tonic. So my hands were all the way there and sonically it may not sound smooth. So I just develop this broken arpeggio at the C sus four C seventh and then we repeat our verse. So let's just do and I think to myself onwards and we do the whole verse and then move on to the next part. And I think to myself, what a wonderful word. I see trees. So then it goes into the second verse, which is almost a carbon copy of the first verse. So let me just walk that through and that will also help you revise the first verse. So I see skies of blue and clouds of white, the bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. So let's revise it again, even though it's pretty much the same. A minor seventh, B flat over F, F major seventh over A, the beautiful G minor seventh sus four and then F add four over A, A add four, D minor add nine and I think to myself quite easy. And then the same as earlier G minor seventh that cool voicing without the fifth and now it changes. The last line will change very slightly and we go F major seventh G minor seventh G minor seventh flat five F major seventh over A. So let's break those arpeggios down F major seventh G minor seventh G minor seventh flat five A that's that beautiful F major seventh over A, which I seem to have a soft corner for clearly. So just love that sound. So F majors what a wonder and I think to myself. Okay. So let's now go into the B section. So I'll just play you the first sentence, which is the colors of the rainbow, the colors of the rainbow. So what's happening there that's G minor seventh with an F in the base. So I've inverted it like that in the colors of the rainbow. Okay. So pretty in the sky. So pretty I've chosen this very pretty F major sixth chord, which is I think the most glamorous of them all. So pretty in the sky. Now that's the word sky we are doing sky. Okay. That's C F A B flat A F. This is your chord. So you could call that as an F sus four over C. Okay. Let's do that line again. The colors of the rainbow. So pretty in the sky. Okay. Are also on the faces are also on the faces. So I've just moved my hand up to play the regular old G minor seventh are also on the faces of people going by of people going by I'm doing of people going by just to create some tension. I'm dividing that bar into two chords of people. That's F major seventh over a people going by I see. Okay. Let's just do colors of the rainbow until people going by. Okay. The colors of the rainbow. So pretty in the sky. Also on the faces of people passing by. I see friends. Okay. Now coming to the next line and before I may have forgotten to mention this the left hand and the right hand are playing absolutely ditto. The left hand and the right hand are doing the same arpeggio pattern and I've kind of done this for a reason. There is going to be a part two of this particular lesson a way more advanced video of arpeggios to kind of take this to the next level. So do this, wait a bit and practice it a bit rather and then head over to part two which will be released your way very shortly and I may call the video chaotic arpeggios or apocalyptic arpeggios or something like that. I've run out of adjectives for arpeggios. We do a lot of arpeggio videos on our channel and you should probably check out the arpeggios playlist in our description as well as our website a lot about them on our channel as you people have requested our loyal subscribers. So here's another arpeggio video. I see friends shaking hands. We go on a lovely D minor adds add flat six. I had to bring in that X file scored into the party. So D minor add flat six. So I see friends shaking hands. Let's do that again. I see friends shaking hands. Now we repeat that saying how do you do? Friends shaking hands. How do you do same calls? Okay. I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do? Okay. So the very last line they're really saying before we get to the I love you part again let's revise that F major six they're really saying F sharp diminished seventh and then a good old G minor seventh in root position. And then I like this broken up C seventh because it helps you come back to the verse and then carbon copy it. Okay. So that's C seventh with a G starting and then C seventh with an E starting and it goes on and on. Okay. So the arpeggio pattern I think you may have already learned this kind of pattern before but maybe you wanted to improve your voicing or enhance the voicing of the chords and hopefully this lesson conveyed those enhancements and just in a nutshell we have enhanced our chords by adding the jazz extensions the sevens the nines we've also added to the existing triad by doing add six add flat six add four etc. We've also slashed the chord we put the chord with a different bass in the left hand which could be a chord tone of the same chord or otherwise you know and a lot of this stuff is mentioned individually we leave you some of the videos in the description which cover the theory of all these things as well as other practical exercises for example there's a six by eight beginner piano video which you'll find really useful if you are kind of finding this a bit tricky and you want to start from the basics of six by eight head over to that chapter in the description and we've also explored all of these add chords and these extended chords in the terms of theory where it's really really deep dived into okay guys so in a nutshell what have we done now we've done wonderful world by Louis Armstrong an arrangement with both hands trying to play simple up and down six by eight arpeggios and making those arpeggios very colorful and unique with the added chords the extensions and the slash chords fitted in hope you guys enjoyed the lesson and the sheet music is waiting for you on our Patreon page do consider getting yourselves a copy there you'll also get the midi files as well so you can import that into one of your free midi players and get going with your learning journey like that and if you want a more structured environment to learn music you can always consider Nathaniel's school of music for a foundation course or an intermediate course at any skill level and at very convenient timings as well you can head over to our website or you can fill up a form which is in the description thanks a ton for watching the video cheers