Augmented 6th Chords Made EASY!

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Many musicians find Augmented 6th chords to be confusing, and possibly made up by their theory professor. Today on Two Minute Music Theory, we seek to dispel the confusion with Augmented 6th Chords Made Easy!

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Hey, I'm Jesse, a composer and music theorist. I believe that Music Theory is a practical and valuable artform for all musicians throughout their lifetime. On this channel, I am making videos to help all musicians grow in their understanding of music theory and how it can make them a better musician.

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My theory final is in 7 hours and you just saved my life. Thank you for this video.

saraskinner

The Jazz theory equivalents:
- Italian sixth: bVI7 (voicing without 5th)
- French sixth: bVI7#11
- German sixth: bVI7

boptillyouflop

A lot of music theory texts and material are super gatekeepy. Your explanation of the secondary dominants cleared up almost 20 years of mystery for me.

patandmacmusic

You're so well spoken and the video is put together very well! It's been ten years since I learned this and now I have to teach it. Thanks for re-teaching me!

jeffreyvukovich

do-fi-le! I laughed OUT LOUD! Well played, Sir! 😂

katieburnham

Jesse - it's good to have a sense of humor. But even better to ignore those who don't :) Consequently, as we used to say in the old (hippie) days: Keep on Truckin!

enriquesanchez

This was SO neat to hear you mention the pull from 5 to 1.

One day I was following an observation I made on MANY pop music melodies, and I realized, so many of the Beatles songs that are so catchy ? And many others? START on 5 and resolve to 1.

The 5th in my mind is tne nearest relative to the octave in that, the octave is 1 to 2, the fifth is 1 to 3.

So, while I no longer play 'songs' when I do just 'play', I so often give a LOT of weight, or maybe I should say gravity to the 5th.

So neat though to hear you mention that gravitational pull to 1 from 5 though.

Thanks so much for making these videos.

timmiltz

Thank you very much. I have been struggling to grasp the rules behind this so I can understand why. You cleared that up more than anyone I have asked or watched. I appreciate your clarity and way of explaining. The Aug6 wants to resolve outward and the D7 wants to resolve inward helped. Though they have the enharmonic equivalent notes they are are leading to different resolutions (different keys).

AmandaKaymusic

Studying this now in college. Thank you, your video was super helpful and much easier to understand.

jorgecorante

gotta love the parallel 5ths at the very end lol. But it was a really nice refresher!

UltraLeetJ

Thinking about going to grad school, and of all the skills I've used out in the professional world, I've even heard the phrase "augmented sixth chord" so rarely that I forgot how to use them. This video explained it perfectly, without dumbing it down too much to where it got slow, and completely cleared out all the cobwebs. Thanks!

NickRosaci

Listen to the end of the second movement of Bach's First Brandenburg Concerto. Bach writes a "German" 6th chord, but gets out of the parallel 5th problem by first resolving it onto a "French" 6th.

georgesdelatour

I believe I'm a noob when it comes to music theory but this video was so well detailed and explaining, this will help me imitate and understand an overwhelming majority of music I usually listen to. Thank you!

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