Most disturbing sound I've ever heard in my life was hearing my little sister try and play 3 blind mice on the violin and sing along with it. I thought she was possessed.
@@spicykimchi1 I was just coming down here to say that! Jake you accidentally ripped off the Tristam theme XD ruclips.net/video/AnMR6SOBa9k/видео.html Time stamp is right where the melody sounds like the theramin here. Listen to the whole track though, it's great!
What's crazy about music, you hear something and INSTANTLY paints a picture in your head of something it relates to. That "Detective chord" is perfect example 🔍
The "James Bond chord" in the key of E is E, G, B, D#, F#. Best if you play the E as 12th fret harmonic on the bottom string and then a diagonal slant upwards for all four fingers from the G on the 10th fret. Sounds great!
Minor b6 - 0:50 Minor Add 9 - 1:55 Minor Add 2 - 2:24 Minor Major 7th - 3:32 Augmented Major 7th - 4:07 i-bV Chord Change- 5:08 Cluster Chords - 6:33 Explaining The Feelings And Sounds Of The Chords - 7:36 Tips And Advice - 8:05 Support For Patreon Or Channel - 9:07
I love the part in the Beatles Julia where there’s a walking down beneath the E minor chord for a brief part of the progression. And that song goes through so many different feelings and places and for a moment you’re in this very dreamy sort of dark place
I'm so glad you started with a reference to Twin Peaks. The music is what really drew people in back then and many I think, didn't realize it was the soundtrack that put the flame to the pipe. And they all wanted.., another hit.
The Scariest & Creepiest Chords are the ones I played when I was first learning the guitar, trust me they were very Uncomfortable and Unsettling and you definitely don't want to use them. 😲😲😬😬
I'm a jazz guy so none of the chords above sound creepy because I'm already used with dissonance, but cluster chords do the job for horror movies scare scenes
The Silent Hill 3 soundtrack has always had some of the most haunting songs on it. Granted, some of them just invoke a feeling of depression for me more than fear. But some are down right creepy
That Eminor to B flat minor is pure opeth. The song off the storm corrosion album called drag ropes has some creepy chords in it. Steven Wilson and Mikael Akerfeldt made it and it’s brilliant if you haven’t heard it. Wish they’d make another one
Minor ♭6 Minor add9 (aka add2) Minor Maj7 (aka "Detective chord") Augmented Maj7 i - ♭iv (tritone progression) cluster chords (notes that don't fit any chord structures, such as E F D♯)
That first theremin part (6:08) legitimately gave me chills. That's not easy to do. Congrats! Addendum: I think that the speed of the melody also plays a large part of the spookyness.
They don’t sound exactly the same. They technically are, but the voicings on the instrument matter and the actual absolute pitch also matters. Intervals, even the same “size”, aren’t all necessarily equal.
I've always been enamored with spooky sounds, especially the most haunting and graveyard-ish. If I didn't suck at playing guitar I'd be exploring that a lot. It's the reason why I've always had a special place in my heart for two of Cradle Of Filth's albums "Cruelty And The Beast" and "Dusk And Her Embrace". They are full of delicious spooky tones and riffs.
The change from the one chord to the tritone minor chord is actually the main progression used in Gollum's Theme from Lord of the Rings. Great sound right there. Just listen to it when it goes like "Where once was light now darkness falls ...". Amazing
When you started singing that melody over the Bbm - Em progression I was strongly reminded of the song Years Ago by Alice Cooper from the album Welcome to my Nightmare. A very eerie song - and album.
This was a great demonstration. Some of these chords really remind me of the incredible music from the Diablo games. Now it's time to try these chords out with some dark synth and see what I get!
Holy shit dude. I've been following you for years and I love your content (I sometimes see you on r/musictheory), but this video was honestly mind blowing. Never thought about using cluster chords, I always thought they were trash due to me playing only acoustic guitar but I will try with a synth in a DAW now honestly. Also the editing is great and your look of pure horror is convincing as fuck man. Also, Isnt that Emb6 not just a Cmaj7 in Inversion?
Lol thanks! I was thinking about posting this in r/musictheory , figured someone could add some extra chords to the list. And yes, Cmaj7 in first inversion would be an Emb6. It has dual citizenship between both roles, pretty sure I touch on that in my Bruno Mars video, either in the video or the description itself.
@@SignalsMusicStudio Yea good reminder for me cause I am into Jazz and to hear a maj7 in a different context made me realize that it sounds way different. Of course the inversion has something to do with it also. And only thing I still remember about that Bruno Mars video is the unusual use of the minor2 chord in Pop music. I am very sorry that I've failed you :P
Some of my favorite chords and these are all used very heavily in black metal. The example at 3:14 is basically the first part of Deathspell Omega's Abscission.
Just wanted to say thanks for this video. I'm still learning music theory and songwriting, but was able to utilize these concepts in a "spooky" track I made. It gave great flair beyond the basic 3-chord progression by adding in 7ths, 6ths, minors and so on.
One of RUclipss most under rated channels. Jake Lizzio, in my opinion has been the most instrumental guy in my guitar playing learning journey. I hope he is doing well and is achieving great success out there. 🤘🤘
This was the best “one of these types of guitar lesson videos” in all the years ive watched them . Really looking forward to put it into practice . Good vid 🎉
I call the voicing of EmAdd2 on guitar the “Floyd Chord,” because they use it ALL of the time, which helps shape their kinda dark sound great. Breathe, the end of Wish You Were Here live, Welcome to the Machine, I could probably think of more (edit: including Hey You, which I love), but because of how much I love Gilmour it makes it’s way into my writing a lot.
Great vid Jake. I like the way you've selected a human emotion and then collected a group of chords that evoke that emotion in various ways. Useful for those of us who write music . . .
SUPER !!!!! I just learned more here than I learned in Music Theory 40 years ago..... "No Me Nu Me Na - - - No Me Nu Me Na - - - Repeat up 1/2 step - - - Repeat that until scale is complete, then receded back down the scale.
Lately I've been wanting to expand my theory and chord knowledge into the death metal stuff I play, and this is amazing for that. I wanna do more with my music than just play the same 3 power chords and call it a day. Thank you so much for this because now I can make cool progressions in slower/clean passages that still sound evil af!
I love it when I see one of your videos, click on them, and you start the video like this one or how you did with the Maj/Min7 chord. Its very well done
Thank you for the tips, been playing for 38yrs. From Beatles, pink floyd, led zeppelin, to metal. All self taught. I hope you keep it up... Learning something new everyday even if it's a couple of notes adds to your tool bag of life lessons.....
These chords, because they sound so dissonant and shattering to our perception of normality (about 60-70 percent of the cue in a game by my estimate), are exactly the sort of thing acclaimed music composer Akira Yamaoka has used for the Silent Hill games - which are soon to make a comeback, and rightfully so!
At 4:30 I started getting genuinely creeped out. The other ones were interesting and I like them, but I have heard them before. But the augmented add 7? On top of the added voiceover and images? I’m gonna have nightmares dude.
Great chords. As a long time music teacher I already knew them, but i want to complement you on your great guitar sound! Great lush chorus there and a beefy but also bright sound
Could you do a video on 6th chords? I don’t mean It6/Ger6/Fr6 chords, because those are widely discussed and explained; Rather, I mean Maj6 and Min6 chords. They’re underused and underappreciated!
The cluster chord you play reminds me of Ligeti's Lux Aeterna from 2001 A space Odyssey. Quite unsetteling. Also James Bond Theme has the em, emb6, em6, emb6 progression. Nice video.
You can hear the Em9 with the low F# in Black Sabbath's Planet Caravan. Low to high E B F# G B E They also use the E to Bb progression in Symptom of the Universe.
At the very basic level, as you of course know, it's about chromaticism, or half tones. The jazzy mellow Cmaj7 has the B and the C, but it makes a big difference if you play the 7 as the highest note or in the bass, which turns the Cmaj7 into a C/B, which is something totally different, emotionally and therefor functionally. Successive half tones are worse The tritone is a different beast. There I would conjecture it's about the fact that its just intervals are not elementary. The best you can get in the neighborhood of it is 7:5, which is not as "simple" as 4:3 (fourth), 5:4 (major third), 5:3 (sixth) or even 6:5 (minor third). Another view on the tritone is that we may find pure symmetry scary and prefer skewedness more. The tritone is (when tempered) smack in the middle of the octave (interval = sqrt(2)). Thirds, fourhts, fifths and sixths are skewed and complement each other. Anyway, another great video, and yeah, let Adam Neely knock on our door!
@Ramadan Steve Well, he was leaving it out in the open as to why these chords sound spooky to our ears. A mathematical explanation is indeed not something that pleases everyone, so I understand why he leaves it out. But I don't understand why you should be so hostile to a comment that answers the question. Wait, I do understand: we're on the Internet ...
a minor add 9 chord to me is one of the most beautiful sounds, like you said it has that mystery component that always catches my heart. And make that into a m7add9? I'll marry that chord man.
Voicing and context. If he went from Cmaj7 to an Fmaj7 we'd hear it as major. Well, a poorly voice lead one haha. The fact that it oscillates between 6 and b6 fools our brain into hearing E-b6 instead of a Cmaj7 inversion.
@@manny75586 The F Maj7 is the (N6 chord) of E Harmonic min b2.. You can play the C #4 ( lydian)with the octive and maj7 above the octive (open B and E)..Hammer back and forth between the F and F# You can even play the Ab dominant ( Ab, 3,b7, 3) That;s the N6 after the G MAJOR You can even play the C dim...against the open Low and high E. It;s just C lydian b3 or Lydian #2, C min ( C, b3, b7...or C7 (C, 3, b7)..against the open E, B, E. it's just C lydian #2, b7 You can even play Bb dim instead of Bb min...to make it darker. against the Open E How you get used to turning the minor's tonic into a DIMInished? Play B Harmonic MAJOR.. it's AKA Lydian dim ( E lydian b3....you can make it min or FULL dimished....Bbdim would make all the since in the world to ya. or F#7 into B Maj7 or B min. = Bb dim
The major and minor scales are the exact same notes, the same as every other mode of major. The most important thing is usually how you order and frame the notes, that context is what changes the atmosphere of the music especially since you're rarely going to be playing any chord in a vacuum.
"Why are these chords so creepy?". From my belief (merely a music enthusiast - I had 4 weeks of formal music classes in my life lol) the dissonances cause an unnerving feeling on us, which make them sound as if we're in danger somehow. As you said, maybe it's a topic for Adam Neely, but also biomusicology (saw this term for the first time a few weeks ago) may have some answers to this as well. I love that music allows many different approaches to its study.
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Most disturbing sound I've ever heard in my life was hearing my little sister try and play 3 blind mice on the violin and sing along with it. I thought she was possessed.
Basically any song that my sister was trying to play on her first two years. We used to confine her to a room three doors away...
😂please shut up!!
LMFAO 💀 I bet. I can just imagine.
Reminds me on my viola final in high strings class in college. I’m a piano player. It was NOT stellar lol. Still got a B.
@Zalekie B 😂
Associating chords and emotions is something you do very well.
Adam neely does very well too
6:06 is hands down the best look of horror I have ever seen this deserves an oscar
I don’t know how you kept from blinking here. That’s a scary look!
It kind of reminds me of running around poor Tristram in Diablo 2.
@@spicykimchi1 I was just coming down here to say that! Jake you accidentally ripped off the Tristam theme XD
ruclips.net/video/AnMR6SOBa9k/видео.html
Time stamp is right where the melody sounds like the theramin here. Listen to the whole track though, it's great!
@@spicykimchi1 it's tristam. ruclips.net/video/XheJnmLAwhk/видео.html
haha I know, totally! I laughed my ass off
Ukuleles not scary? Then why do my friends and family run away when I play?
Happy Halloween.
Yea, my uke (Ruby) is bout as scary as my pretty pony...🎃👻👹🎠
Lmfaoooooooooo funny
@@charlesharper7292 No-one has ever not called My Little Pony at least a little creepy...even bronies!
Cletus Beauregard, not on purpose.
@whiteaxxxe Why do bagpipers walk when they play? To get away from the noise.
You called the Minor Major 7th chord the "Detective Chord." I like it.
You mean like, "Secret Agent Man"?
@@TheBlackbelair Or my personal favorite, Codename: Kids Next Door
It's the oo7 chord.
“...taken me to places i wouldn’t wish upon my worst enemies.” r/Guitar 😂😂
Hahaha I realised that too 😂😂😂
Henk De Vries lol
What's crazy about music, you hear something and INSTANTLY paints a picture in your head of something it relates to. That "Detective chord" is perfect example 🔍
Welcome to the wonderful world of ear training.
But if no detective shows existed what would you think
@@deanhotter6054 a gumshoe just walked into my cave
That detective chord is the 007 joint
The "James Bond chord" in the key of E is E, G, B, D#, F#. Best if you play the E as 12th fret harmonic on the bottom string and then a diagonal slant upwards for all four fingers from the G on the 10th fret. Sounds great!
Minor b6 - 0:50
Minor Add 9 - 1:55
Minor Add 2 - 2:24
Minor Major 7th - 3:32
Augmented Major 7th - 4:07
i-bV Chord Change- 5:08
Cluster Chords - 6:33
Explaining The Feelings And Sounds Of The Chords - 7:36
Tips And Advice - 8:05
Support For Patreon Or Channel
- 9:07
Left on Minor b6
@El_Pimpin_Shizz but that was the very first one!
@@bulldawg7232 im a quitter sorry
"It's like endless possibilities, but none of the possibilities are really that good." Poetry.
My Name 😂😂😂
@@TyCarr Sounds lovecraftian to me!
Lol I laughed at that
My Name good grief! You have been sadly undereducated if you call that poetic! 🤣
That line had me shrugging lol
I love how he looks scared to death yet he is the one creating the scary music. Truly a very funny and talented person.
Gathered a lot of music theory knowledge for a 16 year old ( looking guy)
This is great stuff! I love creepy musics sounds.
Thank you to everyone who donates to Jake so we can get this amazing content for free
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Black metal bands like Blut Aus Nord, Deathspell Omega, Spire - some of the darkest extreme music on the planet.
I heard there was a secret chord..
That David played to please the lord
but you don't really care for music, do you?
THAT SCARED THE PANTS OFF OF THE LORD
@@SignalsMusicStudio
David: "Yo Lord, check out this dope chord!"
*Plays an augmented major 7th chord*
Lord: "Oh shit!"
@@SignalsMusicStudio but you dont don trousers while haunting, do ya
I love the part in the Beatles Julia where there’s a walking down beneath the E minor chord for a brief part of the progression. And that song goes through so many different feelings and places and for a moment you’re in this very dreamy sort of dark place
3:14 And we've just learned how to write a song like Akira Yamaoka.
as soon as i heard that chord i thought of Laura's Theme
Honestly!!
Yeah man silent hill 2 with that Em add9. A bit James Bond like too!
I'm so glad you started with a reference to Twin Peaks. The music is what really drew people in back then and many I think, didn't realize it was the soundtrack that put the flame to the pipe. And they all wanted.., another hit.
Yeah, probably wouldn't have worked with the little rascals theme.
Thanks for this Hallowe'en treat! The look on your face at 6:06 elevates this video to a whole new level.
Exactly what I was looking for, especially the creepy arpeggio. Perfect for my Halloween pickin' :) Thanks!
The Scariest & Creepiest Chords are the ones I played when I was first learning the guitar, trust me they were very Uncomfortable and Unsettling and you definitely don't want to use them. 😲😲😬😬
Been playing these creepy chords for years after playing metal songs. I love playing them after a jam session 'cause it makes me feel calm.
7:57 this minor maj7 is in Pink Floyd song "Us and Them", I love it a lot, so mysterious and cool.
I'm a jazz guy so none of the chords above sound creepy because I'm already used with dissonance, but cluster chords do the job for horror movies scare scenes
The Silent Hill 3 soundtrack has always had some of the most haunting songs on it. Granted, some of them just invoke a feeling of depression for me more than fear. But some are down right creepy
That Eminor to B flat minor is pure opeth. The song off the storm corrosion album called drag ropes has some creepy chords in it. Steven Wilson and Mikael Akerfeldt made it and it’s brilliant if you haven’t heard it. Wish they’d make another one
This has been your best cinematic presentation I have seen. Loved it.
These little 'chords to evoke a particular mood' lessons you do are so useful.
Minor ♭6
Minor add9 (aka add2)
Minor Maj7 (aka "Detective chord")
Augmented Maj7
i - ♭iv (tritone progression)
cluster chords (notes that don't fit any chord structures, such as E F D♯)
The minor triad is very popular in some sub-genres of heavy metal. I've been using it myself a lot of times in my compositions.
6:11 its alomst like Tristram theme from Diablo
That first theremin part (6:08) legitimately gave me chills. That's not easy to do. Congrats!
Addendum: I think that the speed of the melody also plays a large part of the spookyness.
Dude you are brilliant! Psychology of music, love it!! As a guitarist since I was 15, I always have been attracted to the dark, dissonant melodies.
Is it weird that I find all these chord’s beautiful and not uneasy at all.
Great video!
I find it really appropriate that you would go into mostly E Minor for these chords, which is definitely a haunting key in its own right!
In equal temperament all keys sound the same? (unless you have perfect pitch)
They don’t sound exactly the same. They technically are, but the voicings on the instrument matter and the actual absolute pitch also matters. Intervals, even the same “size”, aren’t all necessarily equal.
I've always been enamored with spooky sounds, especially the most haunting and graveyard-ish. If I didn't suck at playing guitar I'd be exploring that a lot. It's the reason why I've always had a special place in my heart for two of Cradle Of Filth's albums "Cruelty And The Beast" and "Dusk And Her Embrace". They are full of delicious spooky tones and riffs.
Shift open chords around.
The change from the one chord to the tritone minor chord is actually the main progression used in Gollum's Theme from Lord of the Rings. Great sound right there. Just listen to it when it goes like "Where once was light now darkness falls ...". Amazing
Wow, man, you did it again. A simple way to demystify a concept and approach to guitar.
@2:11- that's 'Silent Hill' right there!
Great teacher, Jake is! Thank him, I do! (to his patreon supporters, my gratitude goes, as well!)
The "Unsolved mysteries" early seasons with Robert Stack is one of the scariest theme music i've heard.
What's the chord prog for that?
The add9 chord is well used in the song, Theme of Laura by Akira Yamaoka from the game Silent Hill 2. ❤
Was sifting through comments to see someone say this! 🙌
When you started singing that melody over the Bbm - Em progression I was strongly reminded of the song Years Ago by Alice Cooper from the album Welcome to my Nightmare. A very eerie song - and album.
This was a great demonstration. Some of these chords really remind me of the incredible music from the Diablo games. Now it's time to try these chords out with some dark synth and see what I get!
4:41 i Agree, augmenteds can sound dark. Also, they can sound like Rivendell.... nice vid as always, enjoying this last ones specially. You rock-!
Okay, I'm a guitarist of many years and know my chords but this taught me what else I have to learn! Kudos!!!
Holy shit dude. I've been following you for years and I love your content (I sometimes see you on r/musictheory), but this video was honestly mind blowing. Never thought about using cluster chords, I always thought they were trash due to me playing only acoustic guitar but I will try with a synth in a DAW now honestly. Also the editing is great and your look of pure horror is convincing as fuck man. Also, Isnt that Emb6 not just a Cmaj7 in Inversion?
Lol thanks! I was thinking about posting this in r/musictheory , figured someone could add some extra chords to the list. And yes, Cmaj7 in first inversion would be an Emb6. It has dual citizenship between both roles, pretty sure I touch on that in my Bruno Mars video, either in the video or the description itself.
@@SignalsMusicStudio Yea good reminder for me cause I am into Jazz and to hear a maj7 in a different context made me realize that it sounds way different. Of course the inversion has something to do with it also. And only thing I still remember about that Bruno Mars video is the unusual use of the minor2 chord in Pop music. I am very sorry that I've failed you :P
I feel like I’m teleported back into every 90s 00s sitcom Halloween episode. Love it!
Getting Diablo vibes from this. Great vid, as always!!
Happy Halloween 🎃... Thanks for this...
Some of my favorite chords and these are all used very heavily in black metal. The example at 3:14 is basically the first part of Deathspell Omega's Abscission.
Just wanted to say thanks for this video. I'm still learning music theory and songwriting, but was able to utilize these concepts in a "spooky" track I made. It gave great flair beyond the basic 3-chord progression by adding in 7ths, 6ths, minors and so on.
One of RUclipss most under rated channels.
Jake Lizzio, in my opinion has been the most instrumental guy in my guitar playing learning journey.
I hope he is doing well and is achieving great success out there. 🤘🤘
This was the best “one of these types of guitar lesson videos” in all the years ive watched them . Really looking forward to put it into practice . Good vid 🎉
Your example for the EmAdd2 on synth really reminded me of "Hey You" - especially with how you rolled the chord on the electric piano track.
I call the voicing of EmAdd2 on guitar the “Floyd Chord,” because they use it ALL of the time, which helps shape their kinda dark sound great. Breathe, the end of Wish You Were Here live, Welcome to the Machine, I could probably think of more (edit: including Hey You, which I love), but because of how much I love Gilmour it makes it’s way into my writing a lot.
Great video. This is what I've been looking for for a long time. Thank you for your clear & helpful instructions.
Great vid Jake. I like the way you've selected a human emotion and then collected a group of chords that evoke that emotion in various ways. Useful for those of us who write music . . .
This is the video I've been searching for, amazing. Thank you!
Zappa used 1 2 5 chords in his compositions a lot, really helped his unique sound .
Jazz
SUPER !!!!! I just learned more here than I learned in Music Theory 40 years ago..... "No Me Nu Me Na - - - No Me Nu Me Na - - - Repeat up 1/2 step - - - Repeat that until scale is complete, then receded back down the scale.
Jake: *Mentions Laura Palmer*
Me: well, guess I'm rewatching twin peaks now
*plays Laura Palmer theme
Me - damn, now I need to listen to early Moby tracks.
Go!
Just finished a rewatch. The return is way better the second time around.
Again.
You get it
That chord you like will come back into style.
The devils triad used by Sabbath
Lately I've been wanting to expand my theory and chord knowledge into the death metal stuff I play, and this is amazing for that. I wanna do more with my music than just play the same 3 power chords and call it a day. Thank you so much for this because now I can make cool progressions in slower/clean passages that still sound evil af!
3? You're wild!
I love it when I see one of your videos, click on them, and you start the video like this one or how you did with the Maj/Min7 chord. Its very well done
Thanks for sharing!
You have an excellent channel that gives alot of tips to musicians!
Keep up with the fantastic content!
Agree! :)
@@andersabjorn4397 Yay! :D
@@CarnivoreIntelligence :)
This is so phenomenal!! I love these minor chords melodies!! There's something lurking around every corner 👏🏾
The intro had a very "amnesia feel" to it
Thank you for the tips, been playing for 38yrs. From Beatles, pink floyd, led zeppelin, to metal. All self taught. I hope you keep it up... Learning something new everyday even if it's a couple of notes adds to your tool bag of life lessons.....
These chords, because they sound so dissonant and shattering to our perception of normality (about 60-70 percent of the cue in a game by my estimate), are exactly the sort of thing acclaimed music composer Akira Yamaoka has used for the Silent Hill games - which are soon to make a comeback, and rightfully so!
Enjoyed all the videos you make. I appreciate the time you spend on them. Thank you.
At 4:30 I started getting genuinely creeped out. The other ones were interesting and I like them, but I have heard them before. But the augmented add 7? On top of the added voiceover and images? I’m gonna have nightmares dude.
Love your work! Was looking for inspiration for some metal riffs and you delivered!
"It sounds confusing but it's really easy" Yeah, for YOU Jake, it is!
Great chords. As a long time music teacher I already knew them, but i want to complement you on your great guitar sound! Great lush chorus there and a beefy but also bright sound
As he’s playing the cluster chord “this is like psycho killer stuff”
Made me laugh for some reason.
Jake ,
You are by far the BEST ON YOURUBE !!! Keep up the awesome work bro !!!
Could you do a video on 6th chords?
I don’t mean It6/Ger6/Fr6 chords, because those are widely discussed and explained; Rather, I mean Maj6 and Min6 chords. They’re underused and underappreciated!
lol the look during the chord change part with the theremin is awesome. Useful chords and stuff.
Me, at 6:14: "My God, that's terrifyi- oh, it's just Celine Dion. Nevermind."
I think it's the librarian ghost from Ghost Busters. The good one, not the shite one.
@@Midiman741 It is actually from Raiders Of The Lost Ark! It's the scene when the Nazi's open the Ark.
@@cooldude879012 ahhhh I see it now!
That moog theremin is badass! I love the old campy horror movies with those sounds. Thanks!
Intro's giving me Opeth vibes
Opeth💜
the minor triad bit made me immediately think of Opeth.
😄 the part with the theremin is just gold. But seriously, this video helped me a lot with a song I'm writing. Thank you so much! 🙏
haha yeah that was awesome
The cluster chord you play reminds me of Ligeti's Lux Aeterna from 2001 A space Odyssey. Quite unsetteling. Also James Bond Theme has the em, emb6, em6, emb6 progression. Nice video.
That last chord was basically in the PS1 Resident Evil games and basically any survival horror game from that decade. I love it.
the EaugM7 reminds me of half the Hitchcock "Vertigo" theme.
I call it the "E Uh-Oh" chord.
Cool video dude. By the way, you have a voice that was seriously born for radio and ad voiceovers.
E minor add9 is used in America's "A Horse With No Name" too, it didn't sound creepy there, I think everything's a matter of context.
Remarkable presentation and it's very fluid. Subbed!
5:54 gives me that feel of a cursed dungeon and i have to defeat a vicious deamon in order to save the village of trist... Wait a sec ...
Yes! Another Diablo fan!
Right!
This video is basically Tristram soundtrack explained.
First thing I thought of from the start! Great catch.
I think that Tristram theme is the darkest sound ever.
That EmAdd2 you played on the synth in stead of the guitar sounded very much like the opening to Jill Tracy's "Evil Night Together"... I like it!
6:13 Yeah I'm not falling asleep tonight
You can hear the Em9 with the low F# in Black Sabbath's Planet Caravan.
Low to high E B F# G B E
They also use the E to Bb progression in Symptom of the Universe.
When I hear the Spy Chord I want to say "Mister F!"
Lorem Opossum MIISTAH EFFF
@@jamesb1710 Bond? James Bond? ruclips.net/video/U9FzgsF2T-s/видео.html 2'42"
Loved the vid. I will try those chords out immediately! Thanks, Patreon subscribers!
At the very basic level, as you of course know, it's about chromaticism, or half tones. The jazzy mellow Cmaj7 has the B and the C, but it makes a big difference if you play the 7 as the highest note or in the bass, which turns the Cmaj7 into a C/B, which is something totally different, emotionally and therefor functionally.
Successive half tones are worse
The tritone is a different beast. There I would conjecture it's about the fact that its just intervals are not elementary. The best you can get in the neighborhood of it is 7:5, which is not as "simple" as 4:3 (fourth), 5:4 (major third), 5:3 (sixth) or even 6:5 (minor third). Another view on the tritone is that we may find pure symmetry scary and prefer skewedness more. The tritone is (when tempered) smack in the middle of the octave (interval = sqrt(2)). Thirds, fourhts, fifths and sixths are skewed and complement each other.
Anyway, another great video, and yeah, let Adam Neely knock on our door!
@Ramadan Steve Well, he was leaving it out in the open as to why these chords sound spooky to our ears. A mathematical explanation is indeed not something that pleases everyone, so I understand why he leaves it out. But I don't understand why you should be so hostile to a comment that answers the question. Wait, I do understand: we're on the Internet ...
a minor add 9 chord to me is one of the most beautiful sounds, like you said it has that mystery component that always catches my heart. And make that into a m7add9? I'll marry that chord man.
Em b6 is just the inversion of Cmaj7, which is too bright. Voicings matter.
Woww i never noticed that
Try playing a banjo sometime, some chords are not possible in certain tunings unless you have a bass player giving context
Voicing and context. If he went from Cmaj7 to an Fmaj7 we'd hear it as major. Well, a poorly voice lead one haha.
The fact that it oscillates between 6 and b6 fools our brain into hearing E-b6 instead of a Cmaj7 inversion.
@@manny75586 The F Maj7 is the (N6 chord) of E Harmonic min b2..
You can play the C #4 ( lydian)with the octive and maj7 above the octive
(open B and E)..Hammer back and forth between the F and F#
You can even play the Ab dominant ( Ab, 3,b7, 3)
That;s the N6 after the G MAJOR
You can even play the C dim...against the open Low and high E.
It;s just C lydian b3 or Lydian #2,
C min ( C, b3, b7...or C7 (C, 3, b7)..against the open E, B, E.
it's just C lydian #2, b7
You can even play Bb dim instead of Bb min...to make it darker.
against the Open E
How you get used to turning the minor's tonic into a DIMInished?
Play B Harmonic MAJOR..
it's AKA Lydian dim ( E lydian b3....you can make it min or FULL
dimished....Bbdim would make all the since in the world to ya.
or F#7 into B Maj7 or B min. = Bb dim
The major and minor scales are the exact same notes, the same as every other mode of major. The most important thing is usually how you order and frame the notes, that context is what changes the atmosphere of the music especially since you're rarely going to be playing any chord in a vacuum.
So glad this showed up in my suggestions! Great video, great channel...subscribed!
"Why are these chords so creepy?". From my belief (merely a music enthusiast - I had 4 weeks of formal music classes in my life lol) the dissonances cause an unnerving feeling on us, which make them sound as if we're in danger somehow. As you said, maybe it's a topic for Adam Neely, but also biomusicology (saw this term for the first time a few weeks ago) may have some answers to this as well. I love that music allows many different approaches to its study.
And some alarms and sirens, like ambulances and police vehicles, use tritones and other dissonant intervals to make people more alert, don't they?
This video should be called guitarist with the golden voice
I definitely enjoyed listening to you and learning as I worked. Thank you
6:06 just exploded with laughter