 Hi everyone this is Jason here from Nathaniel. In this lesson I'm going to introduce you and then teach you and dive in to 10 of my favourite chords which I've ended up using in a lot of my music, the riffs which I put out on a daily basis as well as a lot of my albums which I compose as well as collaborations with other artists. So in no particular order I'm just going to get started and the first thing you need to know when we are approaching these chords or 10 chords as I've put together would be some of the chords are resolutions that means you would end your music with them in a very sort of mystical or a very interesting way. All of these chords I think are very interesting. So I'm not going to be saying that the major and the minor chord are my 10 favourite chords because that we all know. So these are some chords which are very different, very exotic, have a very unique flavour. So some of them you would say are going to end the composition on a very theatric or a very epic note. Some of the chords could be used as passing chords just to connect or bridge chords as I call them to move from one chord to the other in a very interesting way, in a very artistic way. And the other ones I guess could be dominant chords. Dominant chords are the chords which are just before the landing. So what we do just before the tonic chord is very very exciting. There are a lot of options. So a lot of these chords which are played, well some of them could be used very particularly in the major scale alone. Some of them would be used more in the minor scale but some of them could actually be used for both. Some of them incredibly enough could be used even without a scale. Like you don't even need these chords to be part of any scale. So before we get cracking with the lesson it'll be awesome if you could subscribe to our channel, turn on the bell if you haven't already. Leave us a comment, it'll be great to hear from you. Hit the like, share the video, anything else you'd like to do on this channel. Let's get cracking. So the first chord which I'm going to introduce you to is the minor major 7th chord. Really strange sounding name, right? Minor major. So how do we build this chord? It's a minor chord as a base. So I'll explain it on D. That's your D minor. And now you take a major 7th which is nothing but the interval with respect to the D major scale. That's why they say D major 7th. So what will be the major 7th of D? D, E, F, G, A, B, C sharp, okay? Or you could move down a step and you'll get your C sharp. So D minor with the C sharp up top. It just gives you a very, very mysterious vibe, right? Very James Bond vibe as well. So I tend to use this at the endings of all the songs I end up writing and most of the songs I write are on the minor scale. And then after a few years I figured out, you know, how does this work? Why does it work so well? You know, because this chord is actually part of the minor scale. It's part of the D harmonic minor scale. So that C sharp is actually part of the harmonic minor. It's very much part of the sound, part of the vibe, you know? And another nice way to color up this chord. If you have an extra finger is you could add that E which brings it to a 9th interval. So D minor, major 7th, major 9th, okay? Beautiful chord. So one way to use it is just play it, you know, just use it and that's it. You know, just play this. If you're a movie team or a background score composer, just play that and people will be quite happy, you know? So another way to use this is within a chord progression in a minor chord sequence. So if you take G minor, A major and then you resolve it to D minor, okay? So to make that more interesting, you could go G minor, A normal, A major and then D minor. So I usually use this whenever I'm ending a song. So if you listen to any of my music, you'll find that it just ends like that. I just like that ending and I don't know. It's just part of my thought process, I guess. So either end with that minor major 7th or minor major 9th. Both are really awesome. So we've looked at the minor major 7th or the minor major 9th, a great flavor chord which you just add just like that to the music or it could be the tonic chord of a minor scale, more particularly the harmonic minor scale because that C sharp is part of the D harmonic minor. So let's now move on to the next of my favorite chords.