Summary of minor chord substitution posts

Filed in Free Lessons on November 15, 2009



As you know, I have been posting a lot on minor chord substitutions lately.  Because of some problems I had with the videos, one post had a bad link in it.  So, I wanted to summarize and organize the posts in one place.

First, read and print off http://www.greghowlett.com/blog/free-lessons/110209.aspx. 

In the two videos below, I walk through this post.  Watch them a few times if you have to in order to understand what I am doing.  This strategy is very important and you need to understand it well to apply it.

Part 1: http://www.greghowlett.com/blog/free-lessons/110509.aspx
Part 2: http://www.greghowlett.com/blog/free-lessons/111309.aspx


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Carol Ramsey Pantele
11/17/2009 9:47:23 PM

Greg,
I appreciated your post about learning - I feel that I stalled out IN college even though I was a music ed major. (Having to memorize so many things really slowed me down). I am currently a Yamaha teacher (8 years) - and because my ear has improved so much using solfege, my improvisation has also improved.
I have been enjoying your lessons - trying to implement a little bit at a time. I do have a question though about the chord substitutions. How do your 'part singing' congregation members handle the change in harmonies?

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Greg
11/17/2009 9:52:47 PM

Carol, I do not advocate making these chord changes for congregational singing. Use them only when you are accompanying a melody line or playing by yourself.

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jocelyn
11/18/2009 4:19:59 AM

Can we use the chord substitutions to a soloist?

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Greg
11/19/2009 12:34:39 PM

Jocelyn,

Yes, you can use practically any substitutions you want when accompanying a soloist as long as they work with the melody.

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