Unpacking Little Blue: Jacob explains re-harmonizing chords and melody

A discussion with Jacob regarding music theory concepts regarding: reharmonization, chord inversions, chord substitution, voice leading, pivot notes, modulations, and diminished chords - as well as his acoustic guitar arrangements of his songs, and tips on how to access the seemingly limitless vocabulary of musical options that characterize his music, as a way to learn how to do it in our own music and songwriting.

He breaks down the second pre-chorus of "Little Blue," demonstrates chord voicings on guitar and piano, and shares some music listening recommendations for these concepts. This is both a guitar tutorial, piano tutorial and music theory lesson at the same time. All of this, only days after he won yet another Grammy and performed "Both Sides Now" with Joni Mitchell. What an amazing life! I certainly have looked at music tutorials from both sides now, as well.

Please forgive the audio and video quality. This was from a live Patreon zoom call, not a studio recording.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
1:02 - Question - Re: acoustic versions
3:02 - Answer - finding reharmonization options
4:30 - Reharmonization tip - triads, little blue pre-chorus
5:54 - Chord inversions
7:43 - Magic of diminished chords
8:55 - Delighting in the unexpected
10:25 - guitar playing
11:02 - guitar triad voicings
14:14 - Ted Greene recommendation

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