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Summary: Tritone note substitutions made easy! Learn how to read and play tritone note substitutions in piano music in this free video on music theory.

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goes too fast for a beginner

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What are Tritone Substitutions for Piano?

Now we are going to take it a step further and explain "Tritone Substitution". Remember how I just showed you the "shell voicings", we have three and seven of "D" and then seven and three of "G" and three and seven of one. Now if you do three and seven of "G" and then you do three and seven of "D-flat" you get the same as seven and three of "G". But instead of going up a fifth, we went down a half step and then we go to one. So by playing "D-flat" and hitting the same three and seven we are outlining the same chordal movement, but we are giving it a different bass and it sounds like this and it sounds pretty, pretty. So instead of going up a fifth you go down and half step. "D-minor, D-flat seven, C-major, D-minor, D-flat seven, C-major". So you can do this by checking out, if you go to "C" and you check out "C-major", then you want to check out "G-flat major" which is exactly six notes away, one, two, three, four, five, six and if you check out "G-flat major" you will get that "D-flat seven chord" and you can run "D-minor, D-flat seven, C". Or in any chord, if you are an "F-major" check out "F-major and B-major" and you will "G-minor, G-flat seven, F-major". So all "Tritone Substitution" is is instead of going two, five you are going two, flat, two, one and that is your "Tritone Substitution".

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