The 7 Levels of Jazz Harmony
Why Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange recommends it
Music Stack Exchange users point people to it when asking how jazz harmony works and where it leads, since it shows each stage of complexity with a concrete example.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2019 to 2024.
What it is
Adam Neely reharmonizes the chorus of Lizzo's 'Juice' through seven escalating levels of jazz harmony, from basic ii-V-I movement and tritone substitutions to constant structures, free non-functional harmony, and microtonal xenharmony. Each level is labelled with a pepper of increasing heat, and the levels roughly follow jazz history.
What people said
Recommends Alphonso Balvenie · 2019-09 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Super Ultra Hyper Mega Meta Scales”
I think you're talking about "jazz", which can get pretty deep down the rabbit hole of theory. Check out Adam Neely's take on it in his video when he gets to "7th level" jazz theory: [this video]
Recommends lvr123 · 2024-12 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “How should I be "thinking" of jazz chord progressions?”
There is not one jazz style. You have to understand the history of jazz and its various roots. The jazz comes from the early forms of Blues, which implies a certain form of chord progression (I7 I7 IV7 I7 V7 I7). The jazz comes also from all the musicals of the early 20th century built on the tonal classical system. In the bebop area, you had also that particular attention to the ii V I. Jazz composers took similar paths as the classical composers also: extend the tonal system to its furthest limits, even further than its late 19th century evolution. Even get rid of it, and think modal instead of tonal, … I could also speak about the non-western influences: Africa, India, … This is all to sa
Cites Juan Topo · 2019-11 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “What is the harmonic function of a Eb/F in the Dm tonality?”
What is the function of the Eb/F chord. How does it relate to the Dm harmonic field? The question comes from 0:30 time at Thank you