 Jason here from Nathaniel School of Music and in this video series we are going to talk about chords and more particularly about the chords you already know triads major minor and so on the three note chords and how one can make those a little bit more exciting maybe a lot more exciting and also bring out other elements and other emotions into the sound like make a chord sound a bit more eerie or a bit more dreamy or a bit more mystical and so on so I have about five tips so we will divide this series into five parts and with each part there will be one approach to to different kinds of harmony usage it could be using chords it could be using some jazz harmony or simpler intervals like fifths so yeah stick around in the first part we are going to basically talk about extended harmony so you may have heard in the intro video how I played a simple triad a set of simple triads the one six and five so that's the chord progression which I'm using for this entire series it could be any popular progression but I've just gone with the one six two five which is very popular right and so on so to make it a little bit more interesting or colorful the first thing to note is a scale has seven notes and seven triads right the seven triads which are part of the scale are major minor and diminished in the order being one four and five is always major two three six is minor and seven is diminished so I'm choosing D major scale for this entire series and I'd encourage you to do it on D as well the C majors sometimes very over used by pianists so it's good to like do it on the D major scale so D major has seven notes D E F sharp G A B and C sharp the seven chords are D major E minor F sharp minor G major A major B minor C sharp diminished and lastly D major it's not really a new chord it's just the same thing which I added so to build a chord all we need to know is the use of thirds so if you take D and you want to build a third from D you skip the second which is E and play the third which is F sharp similarly from E E's third is G F sharp's third is A G's third is B A's third is C sharp B to the D C sharp to E and D with F sharp so these are the sets of thirds we have and as you continue you can add another third from F sharp and that's pretty much your D major triad then you have the E minor triad F sharp minor these are all building using thirds so the first principle which I wanted to mention was if you already know your triads you form them using thirds right and then so if you already know your triads you form them using thirds right you've done a third here you've done another third here you can also add another third so a third from A would be C sharp as you can see it makes the sound a lot more colorful and a lot more thematic and a lot more jazzy as well if you will you know that's the major seventh sound and similarly with E minor you can play the triad build the extended third similarly with F sharp minor with its extended third and we call that third or we call that remaining third as a seventh a seventh interval because three five seven it forms a seventh interval from the root generally when we speak of a chord we definitely need to acknowledge its root so the D major root is D and we build it accordingly D F sharp A C sharp and with sevenths you can also add even more thirds to the equation you can have sevens you can have ninths so we say nine when you go beyond the octave seven this would be eight the octave and then you add the ninth and after a while you sort of wish you had more fingers so you can play the remaining intervals like the 11th now the 11th from D will be octave plus the 11th right so to play it it's going to be a little tough so you'll have to play a few with this hand and so on and so forth now with once you go beyond the nine and the 11 and then finally the 13 what we can also do is we can play those intervals with different tensions so if you have the D chord I can add its ninth I can add its 11th or I can even make the 11th maybe a sharp 11 and different chords have different tensions we can talk about that perhaps in a later video but for now we'll just stick to the scale D major seven notes D E F sharp G A B C sharp okay and now let's look at the chord progression again building it with basically these colorful chords so with with D this is how we used to play it and this is how we are playing it currently and now coming to B minor normal B minor adding the seventh making it a B minor seventh chord E minor with the seventh and then A with its seventh okay so let's try and roll that over the entire progression so I'm going to start with the seventh B minor seventh dominant seventh or A seventh and with the seventh you can also extend the harmony so you have the nines and you can also do a flat nine I'm going to show you that now so you have D major ninth which is a major seventh with the added nine there on top B minor ninth but A dominant seventh plus the ninth you can also add some tension by flattening the ninth I've also put put together a a small chart which you can go through so whenever you're looking at a chord you can actually color the nines differently depending on the the type of chord you use you can have a normal nine which will be this you can have a flat nine or you can have a sharp nine lot of tension use a lot in these Jimi Hendrix songs use that voicing a lot and this is the flat nine right so maybe we'll talk more on nines, levens and thirties in a future lesson but what you need to take from this is it's all starting from thirds you basically have a third giving you harmony another third giving you a triad another third giving you a seventh and then you build it from there to add nines levens and thirteens as well okay so any chord progression the in fact the chord progression I use is quite popular but any chord progression can also have this sort of vibe or you can bring about this sort of a colorful vibe or a jazz kind of sound if you will you can take like anything maybe a one five six four which you use in a lot of these songs right for example beatles is let it be is the first line is on that even this can be quite interesting maybe also what happens is your vocalist or if you are the vocalist you actually have more notes to sing on don't you if you have a triad a lot some of the notes you sing may not work very well within that triad but then if you have like a ninth chord you have about harmony notes you have five notes which you can sing on right so try to work on that and you can do this for pretty much all the pop songs you know whether it's let it be or knocking on heaven's door or that recently released taylor swift song I'm sure right so all the best with that and again just to recap in this lesson we've used thirds to form extended harmony beyond the triads in the next lesson we are going to learn other styles like power chords and quartal voicing so what you may want to do is check out the link in the description we have all of our lessons sort of charted out with all the chord charts with everything notated as well and pretty much all the animation and the summary of what we've done so head over there and immediately try and download that and practice it and I'll see you in the next lesson cheers