Yohan Kim Amazing Grace Gospel Jazz Reharmonization Tutorial

[00:00:02][Music] you you hey how's everybody doing today it is Elijah music here with a gifted hands School of Music and we are going to be breaking down this Johann Kim reharmonization his version of Amazing Race so let's jump right into it so the key that Johann is playing Amazing Grace and is in e-flat major [Music] all right a flat major so we have our E flat major scale which is one two three four five six seven one seven six five four three two and one all right so e flat major is where the key word and so today there are a lot of nuances there's a lot of little licks and trills and fills that he's doing in his playing but what I'm going to do is not focus in on that and this is necessarily the note for note subjects but I want to focus in on the chords and how it relates to the key and what he's done to pretty much make this song his own okay so you can take some of these ideas these concepts and apply it to your version of Amazing Grace or even just look at what he's done for this song and then apply it to other songs as well and just ideas for reharmonization in general okay so let's get right into it so the first chord is he does [Music] which is just an e-flat major chord and I'm adding the two alright so adding a color tone right there and since he's playing solo piano he's playing the melody line with that just okay he's playing that which is the melody line so that's our first chord the one chord and then he does this [Music] he plays that and that wasn't get in his right hand you're just playing the melody line and he's just embellishing upon the mother noon line sing grace okay so that's the medley line right there and then the left hand is doing and you have that run that lick or it's really not racially and so all this is is we're taking uh so in the regular version of the song we if I do write probably them so instead of going sitting on one dominant one too for what he's doing is going to the one I'm a and that is a version of your flat set someone that's essentially what he's playing a flat seven chord which it is so your flat seven is D flat C sharp everyone look at it D flat and he's making an innominate chord and then he added some alterations and kind of made it this 13 with the sharp 11 and a 9 and he split it up broke it up and made it an arpeggio okay so put the basics if you didn't want to play all of the extra million lines if you're accompanying somebody you could just play me saying grace [Music] okay and then and so this is technically the forecourt because what you're playing is a a flat major with the ad - and he put in him like a drop - voicing alright so you can take that and then what he didn't and his version was just our page 8 it once again that's what he played and this is the basic chord that he's playing however you want to look at it okay that's the basic reward that he's playing so what we have so far is [Music] and then he dropped down because what he's doing is how sweet right so 4 over 6 to the 2 goes to the two and then the 3 with a walk down to the 3 ok 1 flat 7 4 over 2 or not dark 4 over 6 to the 2 and then 2 3 sweet this sound and then the next progression is [Music] so that progression all that is is a bunch of passing chords or what we know a secondary dominance stacked upon each other and they're used as passing chords to get you from place to place so our angle is right here that's a so we're trying to go to the six that's where we end up right from the three and so to get there he goes a long way it takes a long detour and the detour is okay so if you look at this the base is doing okay and all these are secondary diamonds so moving in fits a to D is 1/5 D to G is 1/5 and G to C is 1/5 which is our six core okay so this is the first chord at a 7 with a sharp 9 the next chord is a d7 sharp 9 so these are all dominant chords in this progression so a7 sharp 9 f d7 sharp 9 g7 which is you slur into the g7 you can do it from a or B flat to give it a little bit of twang chamber 1 you feel more comfortable with and then to the C minor so one more time this and it doesn't walk into the 87 sharp knife do you 7:00 sharp 9 g7 2 C minor 7 okay and all together we have [Music] all those passing chords and then he does this little more air so all that is is just a passing movement but you're really not even going anywhere it's like you start on C and you end on C so that's just something to add a little bit of flavor and to feel dead space that would be in the song and all you don't is you playing the C minor play this C minor voicing then you play C minor to this inverted B flat major chord the B flat major add to [Music] and then this is a rootless c7 so C dominant 7 and I'm once again I'm slurring from the E flat to E [Music] and then up and then back down but instead of ending on C minor you end on C 7 so that's it so after that you have and so when I look at those that movement is I look at that as a F F dominates us yeah f9 sus or F dominant seven with the sus in they're going to SM so this is like attention and release because you you're making people feel like this needs to go somewhere and then it resolves [Music] and then it goes [Music] which is this C C dominant or c-sharp c-sharp dominant with a nine flat 11 at their tips is the same chord that we played in the beginning of the song it's a different voice I'm rolling my our patient in my left hand okay so Leslie we have from the top and I'll talk it through so we have [Music] does [Music] to the five US that's the flat seven as a dominant chord so c-sharp dominant altered and then we're walking it down the same chord just walk you down chromatically so this is C C seven altered B seven altered to B flat altered which is our five chord so he's walking it down chromatically from the flat seven to the five all right so flats out to the van and then once so this is your five chord B flat in two three four five the B flat a flat chord but we're making it minor once this so b-flat minor 9 you get was like this I once was lost which is basic flat major chord are painted in the left hand this is another common gospel movement so this is the same cord so we moved from root position or the root in iron base and on left hand to move into the third and on the fangy so it's kind of like inviting the court here to here and I'm twinging or slurring into that G you see a lot of advanced players use those slurs to create that flavor and make your court sound like they're moving much more so then he does to e-flat b-flat minor today flat you've letting the right hand before that minor on your right hand today flap your right hand is doing right so we're here [Music] and then you go back to the two again [Music] he does it [Music] which is your ascetically your one chord with this - in it over the three f minor your to corn - you're 1 over 3 to 1 over 3 and then he does the same movement with the passing cords [Music] d23 to your six and then you have this movement again [Music] you have that woman again [Music] and this is another version of you want from your sus chord F that's a to assess to a dominant f9s which is your to court obsessed to F dominant with a nine on top two five two five and when you hit the five chord its us and then it resolves to a seven a dominant seven with a flat nine show that let's see how we can do that once a 3 or a 1 over here 3 six - who says - dominant 5 sus 5 dominant I'm just five dominant to one chord which is a basic he majored it with the - there's multiple times and then he changes keys by because he goes to F major all right so let's look at that second half that we have one more time just to make sure we have this minor five to your 1 1 over 3 to the 4 2 one over three and the passing force to the 6 - five says five dominant to the one and then then you're in this is your five of your new key so C is a five of yes alright alright so I'm going to play through this whole song or through the first part of this song one more time and we're going to talk through it just to make sure we covered everything and so I can explain to you the numbers and everything how it works together now I'm gonna be playing it this time though as if I was accompanying a soloist or a vocalist so I'm not gonna play the melody line on the piano I just kind of hum along as I'm explaining the chords okay here we go yep the one chord right it's the flat seven later everyone but it's a flat seven with the dominant for over six - the - this is our one over r3 and we have our passing chord progression which is this a7 d7 g7 to see mine all right another little faster progression to C B flat over dc-7 b-flat already again I say - that's our 2 chord which is usually minor but this time we're making sus 2 dominant [Music] another flat 7 chord and we're walking it down to the five and a half steps automatically alright so that's a sharp 11 a sharp 11 with a flat nine and we're walking it down okay to our five once minor five B flat minor [Music] as a 1 and then this is the one over 2 3 to the forecourt - to know and then the passing progression again [Music] that's another version of our two core for going from suss to dominate [Music] this is our five core this is a - oops - two five so essentially those chords even though they're different chords - - than a five but it's doing this a same or similar movement it's one from our two quarters going from susta dominant then we do the same thing for our five chord such - dominant but this time this dominant as a flat back now I see and then our basic one chord and then you can't transpose it's what he does [Music] and then it goes to F major but we're not gonna cover that today if you want me to cover it please comment below and make your requests be known we might come back and do the rest of the song if we get enough people asking for other than that though please like comment and subscribe if you haven't already we have material coming we have lessons coming to every Monday Wednesday and Friday so in order to stay notified please subscribe so you can see every time we post a video if you have a specific request comment below let us know exactly what you want to see what you want to hear what you want broken down because we want to help you all become the best musicians that you can be okay so you're spreading love for today love you all I hope you're having an amazing week so far and just keep pressing on with whatever it is that you are trying to accomplish go out a great day and I will see you later on in the week [Music]