80's Synth Keyboard Chords Explained - Triad Suspensions + Simple Harmonic Transitioning

Aimed at synthwave producers to add some harmonic color to their songwriting. I want to share what I know. That is the reason I made this. I know you can use something from it. This can take your songwriting away from using the bass notes as roots of the chords you choose.
I think it is more helpful that I am not a virtuoso keyboard player. I have my limitations. I enjoy learning new harmonies and chords at my own pace for writing. What I am saying is, that you can see it is clear and simple enough to understand and apply to something you are writing.
By the end of the video I cover medieval style vocal harmony (how I perceive it, anyways). To me it is better that I show you upfront how simplistic it seems to combine various triads with different, yet related, root notes (i.e. bass lines). Instead of searching the net for someone to explain something in music that is cool and also simplistic and realistic enough is no easy task. You get more textbook style teaching and little to no results in the practical and true area of songwriting that is unpredictable, genuine and full of flavor. I love the 80's synthwave music and some of the tracks I've heard are mindbogglingly great. I just don't hear enough suspended chords / various ideas you will see here. I love hearing quality musical knowledge behind songwriting, it is highly satisfying to someone of good taste. My background is in guitar, jazz and classical etc. I am no expert in anything, except maybe 20th century serialism and mystical avant garde. But the term expert is misleading. It only means that you feel a certain level of achievement that is difficult to find elsewhere and confident that the lessons you could give are at the height of your own studies and those of others in the field of study. But to me, chordal music and even 80's popular music (like I say, prog rock also contains influences of the 80's and some of these triads with different root notes). Instead of going all the way through a jazz-level training, the chords can benefit anyone because I took an approach that is satisfyingly simple enough to be of any use, as I have found many music instructional videos to either be too pretentious and book-learned for any cool results, or to be bothered by too broad a mindset and include too many things at once, or maybe just uninspiring. So much of what you want to get out of musical composition be it songs or symphonies has to still (and I mean still) be done by yourself, with your own ears, and with your own interpretation of how the chords are constructed, progress through the changes and how you relate to them on such a personal level that is beyond anyone to flat out show you how to do it.

Видео 80's Synth Keyboard Chords Explained - Triad Suspensions + Simple Harmonic Transitioning канала John Gilbert