From David Bennett Piano.

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The Neapolitan chord, or Neapolitan sixth, is a concept very much tied to a certain era in classical music, however the idea is often stretched to describe various other styles of music. So today we are going to look at what make a chord Neapolitan, and also crucially what makes a chord NOT Neapolitan.

Here’s my video on Tritone Subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSvO5Tb18tI

The outro music to this video is my track "Blue" which you can hear in full on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0wKKJoOZd8JQJDgGU8sb8V?si=dcs5zn4JRDO7oVCEkfK6YQ 🎶

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This video was edited in part by Matt Servo

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0:00 Neapolitan Chord
0:09 Moonlight Sonata
1:14 Pop song examples
3:40 Major key Neapolitan chord
4:38 TV & film scores
5:42 Neapolitan 6th
9:31 Chopin
10:46 Hooktheory
11:24 Neapolitan = Naples
12:14 Roman Numeral label
13:00 Not all bII chords are Neapolitan
14:58 Tritone Sub vs. Neapolitan
16:01 Phrygian vs. Neapolitan
18:25 Blue by David Bennett