6 AWESOME chords in 1 VOICING!

In this video I'm sharing a really useful chord voicing that I use all the time and can have so many different functions. Hopefully it might something useful for you too.

Cheers! MK

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:22 - What are 'voicings'?
03:55 - The Magic Chord voicing!!
04:10 - Dom7 voicing
05:23 - Altered voicing
06:35 - Phrygian voicing
07:40 - Half-diminished voicing
08:28 - minor 6/9 voicing
09:23 - maj7 #11 voicing

[morganahoff]

I'm one of the guitarists who watches your videos, and what I really like about what you do, is that you talk entirely in terms of scale position. After years of playing guitar, I came to the conclusion that C, E, G, Bb etc. is of little consequence -- it's really all about scale position, especially when it comes to the guitar, where you can just slide the whole pattern up a few frets and you're in a different key. That's why the way you talk about playing piano is useful to guitarists too.

[archonlian]

I am a guitar player and this is hands-down the best music theory channel I have seen yet. I love the understated, direct presentation as much as the content. Congratulations on a wonderful channel that is free from all the usual tropes. Best wishes.

[Knowyourintent]

Your channel is GOLD
Your content is perfect for where I am at in my musical theory journey
In addition to the content, I love your teaching style and personality, and the subdued lighting is awesome too.
It's obvious you put in a lot of work in creating each video.
Please know that all that effort is greatly appreciated 🙏
Greeting from New Zealand

[AiMeditations]

Thank you Michael Keithson for giving the people what they want! You are a diamond geezer, and you are sewing the seeds for other people's compositions.

[pawlowski]

I only play guitar and I watch every one of your videos. Super helpful

[scottfoster]

Holy Horseballs! your channel is the gift that keeps giving

[pedrosura]

Ok. Im addicted to these videos. I confess

[swtmol]

Autumn leaves (Roger Williams) was a favorite of my late fathers… took me back in time ❤️

[RochelleM]

Michael, with the science, you have out done yourself again. I only have two words (Absolute Genius)!!

[gtrdoc]

I'm a long time guitarist and recent piano player. Love your vids! I would encourage ALL guitar players to familiarize themselves with the notes of a keyboard. It makes it SO much easier to understand all those extended chords as each individual note can be instantly recognized unlike a guitar fretboard.

[shukizshuk]

13:28 it’s my first comment ever on a YouTube clip. I like the way you say ‘nice’ after playing something you just explain. It’s totally how it feels to me - nice.
Hope my comment won’t make you self conscious about it.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and love for that wonderful phenomena - music.

[YatJac]

This was already one of my favorite shapes - for dominant chords - and you expanded my understanding exponentially. It was always there and i didn’t see it until you pointed it out. Thank you!

[housethegrate]

I knew what the voicing was gonna be before even watching. My theory and composition teacher in college was an amazing jazz pianist and he taught us this same thing and called it the Swiss Army voicing.

[Miloteclas]

Michael, thank you very much for this valuable content for us. I was intuitively discovering the various functions of this voicing, but your explanations took me to another level. God bless you!

[igorlukac]

An extremely high-quality explanation in a short period of time. Great, Thank you

[seanperkinsmusic]

I've watched this video 6 or 7 times now. This is an epic piece to the puzzle of music

[jefrisnedy]

i'm a guitarist from philippines and ur videos made me realize a lot about my years of playing. finally named all the techniques that i am currently using. thank you so much

[billhasty]

Great Lesson. I always look forward to you dropping a new video, and always learn something new. Thank you Michael.

[mathmusicstructure]

The naming conventions for chords really break down when you move the root, even though the sound of the resulting chord fits lots of contexts. This type of exercise can help iron out relationships between chords. Thank you for the video!

[skull]

i really like the way you explain music theory concepts, even though i know a lot of this stuff already it's really nice to hear it the way you present it with context