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Circle of 5ths Level 2 - Intermediate to Advanced

This course takes musicians to apply more advanced music theory into their playing - Tritones, Tritone Chord Substitutions, Jazzy Chromatic Chord Movement, 36251 Turn Arounds.

It is important for all musicians, whether you play guitar, piano, ukulele, violin, harmonica, or any musical instruments to develop an intimate knowledge of the Circle of 5ths. The Circle of 5ths is a visual picture that tells us the relations between keys, scales, chords, chord progressions, tritones, tritone chord substitutions, pentatonic scales, blues scales, 7 modes of music, etc.

The Tritone chord substitution is one of the most commonly used chord substitutions in jazz. By using tritone chord substitution, you often get a beautiful chromatic bass line in the song and especially in turn arounds.

When it comes to more advanced music theory, students get confused and give up in their struggle to advance in their musicianship.

Here's the secret: Learn to use the Moving Circle of 5ths Dynamically! When you know how to move the circle around to understand Tritones and how the interval is created in the Dominant 7 chords, you will understand why professional musicians do such smooth voicing because they know how to concentrate on the 3rd & 7th tones easily.

In this Circle of 5ths Level 2 course, I will show you how to use the Circle to do Tritone Chord substitutions with Dominant 7 Chords and Minor 7 Chords. In this way, you will have many more options in your music compositions other than the normal Diatonic Chord Progression & Secondary Dominants that you learned in Circle of 5ths Level 1 Course.

When you do Tritone Chord Substitutions, you begin to learn advance music harmonic sounds, and the importance of doing smooth voicing, chromatic bass line chord movement in turn arounds that audience loves to listen to.

In this course, I will also show you when Tritone Chord Substitutions work and when they don't work. There are some rules you need to follow so that you create beautiful harmonic sounds in your piece of music, whether reharmonizing a song or in the writing of your own songs.

You will be doing a lot of assignments so that you learn to find the answer yourself. What you discover sticks with you much more than what you are told. It is easy for me to lay out all the answers and theory for you. What is unique in the course is that I will coach you along to help you think and discover the answers for yourself in a creative way.
The following topics will be covered extensively:

    Tritone Chord Substitution
    Tritone Wants to Resolve
    Tritones in All 12 Dominant 7 Chords
    Advanced Harmony: Put in Tritone Chord Substitution
    Two Magical Ways to Find the Tritone Chord Substitutions
    Tritone Chromatic Movement
    Song Application - Little Brown Jug - Putting in Tritone Chord Subs
    When To Avoid Doing Tritone Chord Substitution?
    Improvisation on ii7 V7 I
    Jazzy Turn Around - 3 6 2 5
    Formula for the Jazzy Turn Around 3 6 2 5 in C Key
    Turn Around in Eb Key - Misty
    Improvise on the 3625 Turn Around in all 12 Keys
    Tritone Chord Substitution to Minor 7 Chords
    Minor 7 Chord Substitutions
    Golden Rule of Tritone Chord Subs
    Applying Golden Rule to 36251 Progression
    Apply Tritone Chord Substitutions to E7 A7 D7 G7 C
    Only Need One Circle to Find Tritone Chord Substitutions

What are the requirements?

    have a basic understanding of Chords: major, minor, dominant, augmented, diminished
    understand Circle of 5ths Level 1 - 12 Basic Major Keys, 12 Major Chords, 12 Major Scales
    have a basic understanding of chord progressions in songs

What am I going to get from this course?

    Over 127 lectures and 3 hours of content!
    IDENTIFY the 3rd & 7th tones easily in Dominant 7 Chords
    CREATE smooth voicing with the 3rd & 7th tone to the Tonic Chord
    UNDERSTAND why Tritones create such tension sounds
    USE the CIrcle of 5ths to find Tritone Chord Substitutions in One Flash
    FOLLOW the golden rule of Tritone Chord Substitutions
    TURN a boring chord progression into Interesting harmonic sounds with Tritone Chords
    SPOT the places where Tritone chord substitutions do not work
    HAVE LOADS OF FUN understanding complex music harmony
    APPLY Tritone Chord substitutions into their music composition
    APPLY Tritone Chord substitutions into Little Brown Jug
    UNDERSTAND why Tritone Chord Sub is not desirable in some places
    STUDY the first line of Auld Lang Syne
    CREATE Turn Arounds in long measures
    CREATE Turn Arounds with Tritone Chord subsitutions
    APPRECIATE the beautiful descending sounds of chromatic chord movement

What is the target audience?

    This course is suited for aspiring musicians who want to take their understanding of music into higher professional levels.
    This course is suited for all musical instrument players: Guitar, Piano, Ukulele, Violin, Flute, Harmonica, etc

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