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this video is great for two reasons 1. it does a great job explaining music theory and both manages to appeal to people with little knowledge while not feeling boring to people with a decent level of knowledge (I'm in the latter group I'm not brilliant but I know a decent amount) 2. it got me to watch attonemnet which was one of the best films I've ever seen so it's a massive plus for that

I just absolutely loved and deeply enjoyed this podcast! It felt it was the perfect articulation of something I've always felt but never quite put into words-the incredible effect that music like Bach and Rachmaninoff has on me. It's as though he tapped directly into the soul of what draws me to those compositions. Spotify once called me a "Vampire" listener, saying I embrace "a little darkness" by gravitating toward more emotional and atmospheric music than most. I've always felt a boring person because I've loved this music since child. Hearing this master class, with such insight and passion made me feel seen in the best way possible. I don’t know if this will ever reach you, Sam, but thank you. I'm deeply grateful for what you shared here. 🙌🎶

This is the sort of quality content the likes of the BBC would have produced years ago when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s... that's long gone. Thankfully we have RUclips now!!

Thank you, Sam! Your visuals help me progress on my own vocal journey. I don't read music, but I my ears can hear what you mean - the visuals inch me closer to understanding the written 'words'.

very useful video

It wasn’t the music progression that made you feel something. It was because it’s a hymn. Hymns speak straight to our spirit and for a moment we are close to God. That’s what you felt.

Sam! Frutai! El que, el com, el dedenvolupsment i tot tan ben documentat! Ets un fiera. Només dos peròs: pots parlar un pèl més slowly i pujar el volum de la teva veu? ❤

This is the most generic chord progression

Love your passion, but it's just a twist on a deceptive cadence. Of course, all of this is relative. The soft MA 7 chords after the climax in the Barber Adagio really move me as this moves you.

I love this stuff. I never quite understand the mechanics, but i try to, because i really want to get it. Then i realjse that it doesn't matter because i ALWAYS feel it. Thank you for a wonderful video and for using many of my favourites to illustrate. Wonderful. Thank you so much.

Amazed to be here before you hit 100k subs

Great video!!! well written and a very charming host!

Wow, so talented and GQ handsome. I'm melting. 🔥 ... and it's not because of the music.

I’m leaving to watch a less irritating video

23:59 The Clue Chord 🔎

Watching your video was a high quality and very enjoyable moment

I played trumpet in high school band long ago but, though I love music, I'm ignorant of the theory. Presentations like this one will surely enlighten me a little. An example of a mystifying progression, that actually never resolves to my ear, is Hans Zimmer's "Chevaliers de Sangreal". I'm curious if that's the progression we're talking about in this video??? I've often thought that if someone actually composed a proper resolution to that short piece, it would necessarily be absolutely stunning. ???

Surely I won't get goosebumps after 20 minutes of talk and a tiny little clip of the Rach #. . . 3? Yep. Every time. Thanks.

lets hear that in some metal or hard rock...

Three minutes in. No emotions detected. Over and out.

Wonderful analysis! Takes me back to my college days as a music major. 🎵

Everyone knows the root of all cord progressions is Roots Dm7, Dm, C, Bm7. Search Jack black sax a boom chords

Yes, I have it on my phone and often play this sequence. You are right.....goosebumps. The wider sequence including the hymn can be found on the internet as "Elegy for Dunkirk." I have included a link to the scene with music here but other links with just the music soundtrack are also available. ruclips.net/video/KGt6KEpwTX8/видео.html

It comes from the hymnal Dear Lord and Father of Mankind..however in this movie it is sung out of tune and not very moving.

Chords that rise and rise and rise.... This reminds me of the chord progression of "The White Tree," from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack. Sometimes I even use that song as a meditation song, for visualizing Earth emerging from darkness, into the light. Also....some of Yuki Hayashi's music in anime. Like, if you search for "Get over that hurdle." And the chords climb in "I'll be your hero," too. I don't know if it's the same thing as what you're talking about exactly, but I really greatly love and appreciate the build and movement upward in scales that progress across these songs.

Great job!

button your shirt tarzan, this is supposed to be about music, not your man-cleavage

Dont sit on your mic bro

My town in England was where this was filmed, thats redcar beach

So great. The only crazier trip around the circle of 5ths is Elton John's "Ego." ruclips.net/video/8yvciOGFQk4/видео.html

This is an incredible video! Subscribed and can't wait to explore more. Bravissimo!

When you mentined Rachmaninov, I really thought you'll bring up the 18th variation from Op. 43. IMO the most moving passage of any classical music I've listened. Great video otherwise!!

Oh yes, I've had passages move me deeply all my life, the kind you may try to hide all you want, your hair will stand, your eyes will widen, your feet will leave the ground, you will give an angry look at anyone not listening, whatever, it WILL show. Somewhere near Debussy's Gymnopedies or when they modulate in Symphonic Prog but I never took the time to identify the progression as you did, good idea, I shall do that.

Bach, Bach, Bach!

I had no idea what I had got into when clicked the thumbnail here. This is such a high quality delivery of music theory, history and almost a story telling. Take a bow sir.

Disagree. Art relying on sentimental emotions never lasts the test of time. It becomes lugubrious to the next generation. These films are a perfect example. I personally would stay away from this approach. See any Kubrick film that uses music as a direct form of irony, not supporting the forced upon sentiment. His films will always be remembered. Not these.

one thing i also really love about this chord progression is you get to use the entire palette of the key signature that you're in, it's really an exercise of relative pitch for anybody listening, from beginners to experts. even if you don't know much about theory, you can hear the movement between the notes as they're sliding through the key, and when you involve dynamics too, there's such a lovely sense of tension building up all throughout it ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thank you so much for the video!! you were right, hearing these different examples of the progression makes me want to play with them a lot haha. i think a lot of Japanese music as well, parts of it feel very reminiscent of the Royal Road progression. the IV chord feels so important for this sense of nostalgia or melancholy though. i find myself hanging onto it very often, or using it as a starting point when i'm leaving the tonic to explore other chords

Wonderful video, so much passion for the music. What model is your electric piano, please? Lovely sound!

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I am distracted by the carpet.

excellent video!

Thee are no chord progressions Bach didn't use. :-))

It takes the snail 11 days, right? Because at the end of the 10th day after he’s fallen back to meter 10, he can go all the way during the 11th day, and once he comes out the top of the 15th m you can’t fall back again.

Vangelis - Mythodea Movement 6 Karl Jenkins - Benedictus I'm not a musician, but the chromatic is similar.

Wow! This video must have taken about a month to put together. Nice job.

I’m not too knowledgeable on music theory, but the chord progression talked about in this video reminds me of a part in the dream theater song ‘illumination theory’, around the 8:50 mark of that song

Is this music theory? What study of music focuses on evoking emotion through the use of motifs and chord progressions?

Nope, nothing….

Incredible production.

Oaaah I just found my favourite RUclips channel!