Adam Neely would not approve of this piano default teaching
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That is double sharps / flats cancel single sharps / flats
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common in flamenco
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Used in some genreso of jazz
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very rare
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Seems odd, since the difference is aboslute
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I was just recently pointed out to me that the math here doesn’t make sense (2+7=8)
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Very unusual, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this. Highly dissonant
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Also known as A position in jazz
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B position
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Major 9th above suggests consonance with other chord tones. This doesn’t work with really weird chords, like the aug-7
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Aka sus2
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TODO: try these out
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#11 sounds makes things sound lydian
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Root motion by fifths
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A dominant chord, but with a p4 instead of the 3rd
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Ken Levine calls this chord a sus chord that doesn’t have a tritone. harmony is weird
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Ken levine uses the 11-7 / 5 as the default sus chord.I suppose the 2-7 / 5 is very similar though, as a more subtle resolutionThis highlights that the main force of the resolution comes from the 5-1 root motion
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groups are related by thirds
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Things that make a cadence stronger:- root motion by fifths- use of the diatonic tritone- Ending on the diatonic root (as opposed to a substitute chord)There’s a whole spectrum of cadences