What are Harmonic Warmups?

Adam Maness goes deeper into some of his YouTube Shorts to explain how you can put the theory of harmony into your practice routine.

0:00 Intro
1:55 3 Voicing Structures: Drop-2, Drop-2, & Mu Major
4:47 Diatonic 7ths
6:15 Secondary Dominants
14:55 Secondary 2-5's
21:33 Mu "4-5-1"

[BobMazzo]

Adam, for me personally your shorts are some of the most useful ones that I've seen. Otherwise, I find shorts to be primarily a waste of time. I'm actually teaching my son the "hinging exercise" short. Okay fine, I learned it first ! 🙂

[jonnyroxx]

I’m a guitarist and composer and I just can’t tell you how much I appreciate your channel.

I feel that I’ve caught you (or you’ve caught me) in exactly the right time of my musical development. Your lessons have helped me exponentially in my understanding of music. I cannot thank you enough for the free content you make available to YouTube and I cannot recommend strongly enough the instructions you offer on your website. Just, Thank You 🙏🏻. You have changed my life. You have helped me express myself in ways that I have been aspiring to for many years, but have until now been unable to achieve. Again, thank you 😊

[amos]

I came from IG to see if you had a YouTube channel in the hopes that you expanded on the shorts. It’s like you read my mind! Thank you!

[careygoldfine]

Adam, this was one of the best piano/harmony video lessons I’ve ever seen. You clearly explained and demonstrated the theory while providing the practical application of it *and* a cheat sheet that we can practice with later. Thanks too for taking the time to consolidate your recent ‘shorts’ into one more comprehensive video. You’re amazing! Thanks again.

[kevinkilpatrick]

🫡 i just realized you don’t need to specify the right hand inversion to fully describe the voicings for a lot of this since describing “drop (number)” with the bass note gives you all the information you need ! very cool. (ie drop 2 exercise is inversion 3 in the right hand for the secondary dominants if you were to un-drop the “2”)

[joshuachenault]

These are gassing up my guitar practice today! Thanks a bunch!

[Buckleupbucko]

Everything you guys put out is practical and easily digestible. We all appreciate it ❤

[mosesheba]

Iv'e been following your tutorials on youTube for many years and it has been a great joy in my life. I'm 90 years old and your lessons fill my days with great pleasure. Would love to take your course, Hearing Great Harmony but my budget just can't swing that kind of expence. I'll have to be content with your great vidios.

[ismaelsanchez-martinez]

These longer videos are so welcome! Sometimes I watch your shorts and have no idea what's happening because I don't understand all the jargon. This video helped A LOT in that regard. Thank you!

[davidanthony]

yes this is the way right here. hearkening back to the video a couple weeks ago about the future of the channel... shorts that tease a concept and then a long form video to break it down in depth 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[gkgunn]

Free musical gold here. Maybe the greatest practice routine ever! Thank You!,

[shuriflwrs]

this channel has been huge for my songwriting and overall musicianship. thank you, thank you, thank you!

[MichaelWelling]

love this ...gets a little complicated but super smooth sounds and super useful

[garygimmestad]

I'm loving these 'warmups.' My fluency is taking off. Thank you! Applying that fluency to tunes is a whole other kettle of fish . . .

[TheBLUETOOTHpoet]

Absolutely EXCELLENT TEACHING ! YOU ARE MY BEST TEACHER presently. Thank YOU ! Making Music IS BEAUTIFUL !!!

[Jwumonkofficial]

Thank you for enhancing my practice sessions!

[lolitsmatt]

Dude, my knowledge of music theory, structure isn't that great. I'm more of a riffer/improvisational player, but your teaching and explanation is speaking my language. I think I just found the best teacher for piano on youtube!

[DJazium]

This is super. I've been wanting to go back and practice these shorts, but this video gives me enough to work with for a while!

[paulnelson]

The PDF I received is a Bob DeBoo Pulse Memory exercise, not Adam's Harmony exercise.

[suchadameedee]

I saw the "shorts" and I am very glad to have now the PDF 🎉