This video gives you a chance to see, hear, and play with me at your piano each one of these different types of substitute chords and we'll do a lot more examples of each than we did here in the written part of the lesson.Ĭhord substitutions are for intermediate to more advanced students for the most part but beginning students can gain insight into how chords work throughout our piano music and start understanding what they and we hear in our music all of the time.
#D FLAT DIM3 SUBSTITUTE CHORD HOW TO#
Once you know what a chord substitution is and why we use them, then you can start moving on to the first type that we use, how to find it and how to play it on the piano. This is a lot of information to process.don't try to "get it" all at one time. (see image #3)Īgain, this one is pretty complicated so don't worry about fully understanding this one right now, just be aware of it, learn what it is called,and then give it a listen as we play different samples of it at our keyboards in the final step where I go over all of this at the piano. Our substitute chord is a Db Major Chord. Again, we move up 5 from G and end up on D, and then we move down that one 1/2 step/semitone and we end up on Db. In this case, however, we're building a Tritone off of the V chord, which is the note G. That F# is our Tritone, or we also call that a diminished 5th. Now we simply go down one 1/2 step (or semitone) from G, and we end up on F#. For example, the 5th tone of C Major is G. A Tritone is the 5th tone of a scale minus one 1/2 step. (Don't worry.I go over this in the video!) In this progression, we start with the V chord, (see image #2) and are replacing that with a Major Tritone Chord or a chord built on a tritone of G. I'll show you how we actually can alter some of these common tones in the video portion of this lesson. Tritone substitutions are the most difficult to understand because they are "rule-breakers" when it comes to common tones. Next, we're going to look at the most common chord substitutions that we actually use.sort of like math formulas. Pay attention to key signatures when you do this, but this is an easy way to find a great new chord that will work almost all of the time.** **Now that you understand intellectually how chord progressions are formed, here's a tip to help you find your new chord really fast! Simply move down 2 notes down from the 1st note of your chord. I will show you another example of this with a G Major chord in the video section at the end of this written section.so make you catch that extra example of this to really help you understand the concept. The D minor chord contains the notes D, F, & A. The F Major Chord contains the notes F, A, & C. (see image #2 & #3)ĭ minor is a good substitute for F Major because both chords share 2 common notes: F & A. Our example here replaces the F Major chord with a D minor chord. The first rule that we need to know about doing this is that the replacement chord, or the new chord, must contain at least 2 of the same notes as the old chord. These chords are "I-IV-V-I" or "1-4-5-1" chords. In image #2 you can see these chords listed out with the appropriate Roman Numeral ( how we signify the name of the chord based on the tone of the scale that it starts with) underneath it. There are certain chords in the entire scale that we substitute other chords for much more than the other chords. Remember that a chord substitution is when we replace one chord with another.
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