When I started learning about music theory as a child I really couldn’t comprehend what it was. As an adult, I am fully aware it is a complex system of emotional manipulation.
it's *highly* environmental, especially influenced by language. like, try writing lyrics set to music in Mandarin, where "tāng" means "soup" with a high tone but "sugar" with a rising tone. hence, the things you learn in european music theory don't quite land the same way with other cultures, although that's changing somewhat as coca-colonization continues. (see also Amerika by Rammstein)
Stop watering down the word manipulation, what would life be without getting others to feel emotion? To arouse empathy to express ourselves? It's only manipulation if it's insincere and to mislead...
The down-a-third up-a-fourth and rising 5-6’s are versions of what’s sometimes called a Monte and it appears in the slow movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Chopin’s E major prelude. It also creates a several implied canons between the bass line and upper parts. Also, another Bach example (there are countless) of that rising chromatic bass is in the Allemande of the 5th French Suite in G major. An even more powerful example is from BWV 622 from the Orgelbüchlein. That Rachmaninoff really is special!
thankyou for pointing out the clarinet concerto (2nd movement). This melody (including harmony) is losely based on (or just coincidently shares the tune with) a German folk song ("Bunt sind schon die Wälder")
The pace: awesome The editing: Beautiful and easy to follow The explainations: very easy to understand The setup and background: like a seasoned RUclipsr The music examples: perfect The mic: 🥫
I've always heard this called the "anime progression" because of its prominent use in Japanese animation, J-pop and video games. They call it the "royal road" progression (王道進行, Ōdō shinkō) It was also used in the Mario movie.
You already understand the most important thing then. Theory can be very fascinating to help understand it and appreciate it more.. I find I enjoy great music even more because of it and can understand better why some music is mediocre as well.
That's how I felt when I decided to become a musician...musicians were like wizards bring me lightning in a bottle. But every time that I opened the bottle to try and understand the lighting, it simply escaped. So I learned how to catch it myself. And yet I still can't tell you where the lightning comes from, even being able to explain so much more about it. In truth, I think you are closer to that location than I am now. The most I can do is show you my bottle collection as proof that it exists.
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.
Your analysis is solid, and your examples are delightful, but it’s your unique graphical presentation that really puts you in rare air. So many smart choices in notation font, color schemes, and shapes. Like Rachmaninov building on his predecessors, it’s clear to see who your RUclips inspirations are, how you’ve internalized the pieces of their presentations that resonated with you, and then added your own whimsical and playful touches. If you enjoyed the digital art creation and video editing in this project, you could make a career of this.
This video is amazing, it’s like stumbling across a book that you identify with so strongly. I knew we were on to a winner with him talking about that great moment from atonement. Guy is basically listing every piece of music that had ever destroyed me and explained why. Love it.
Ok now I just want to hug you 🤗 This is so thoughtfully put together and the love and passion you have for it is so evident! Thank you for spending your time creating such a beautiful video, I love everything about this! Lost count of how many times I got goosebumps watching this, music is my glue 🥹🎶
This guy is an awesome teacher. I am not into music, per se, don't understand why this came up- but I am so happy it did. I learned so much. My husband is into music theory, he really enjoyed it. I had no idea music was so complicated. This is so well researched. He uses words like phrase and idiom- people really trained in music - I guess to them it's like "reading with ears", the music itself is telling a story.
Amazing video; super interesting. Assumed you'd have hundreds of thousands of subs with production and education quality like this, must have been lucky enough to find you early, thank you for the video and all the best going forward
Read the novel. It’s leagues better than the movie. There was one scene in the novel where I was bawling like a baby. And it was nowhere in the movie. It’s when Kiera Knightley’s character does her nursing rounds in London just as the Dunkirk evacuees hit the London hospitals. And she tries to nurse, then holds, a French soldier in her arms as he dies. God damn. Very powerful stuff. Ian McEwan shot up in my estimation to top tier after reading this marvelous novel.
Sam, what you are doing here is simply great. Profound knowledge, enthusiasm - in all styles -, pedagogical competence, speed - and last but not least, you use the medium of video in such a pleasantly targeted way! All your graphics are accurate and have the right sense and timing. Please keep it up. Listening to you talk about music is a blessing and extremely stimulating. By the way, you had me at the short excerpt from Trifonov's Rachmaninov - it's exactly this passage that has given me goose bumps over and over again. Apart from the fact that he (Trifonov) knows better than anyone else how to play this music in a way that makes sense in terms of its formal structure, far removed from any gimmickry... I'm really looking forward to your future contributions!
I've always found the Beethoven Emperor part you used to be one of the most moving pieces of music for me. It's partly due to childhood memory and association, but mostly because is it so astoundingly beautiful.
Sam’s “Well, that’s…not bad” and dismissive shrug at 5:33 RE that exquisite clip from the Emperor, were doubtless deliberate understatement and proverbially British phlegmaticism, which as a fellow Brit, I’d normally appreciate. Yet this reaction, (in an otherwise IMHO faultless and exceptional video), kind of knocked me for six, and took me a while to recover from, such is my love of this piece, which, like you, I have fond associations with, (in my case at least partly with the exceptional 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock).
I am not a musician, and love this kind of explanation. I used to listen to the late Antony Hopkins, "Talking about Music" on Radio 3 doing it so well. As for the Hymn, like so many of those my generation sang at school (Boys' Grammar with a Headmaster who fought in WWII) - it brings tears to my eyes too.
Perhaps you are the one person who can tell me the unbelievably sorrowful music that was played by news stations when showing the ravages of Katrina. I only heard it a few times after the initial coverage because I was in Katrina and we heard nothing. When I heard it I remember having a profound response to it. That music captured everything about the human experience of having lived through it and of hearing bit by bit all the lives that were lost.
VI-V-III-VI is by far the most common chord progression in Japanese music. II-V-III-VI is the progression to Rick Astley “Never Gonna’ Give You Up.” Check out David Bennet’s video on this topic.
He's concentrating more on the V iii vi part and the IV can be a ii. Funnily that's also the part that I had been concentrating on when improvising. I like that he gives more examples from Classical and film music. In my classification it will stay the Japanese progression because that's easy to remember.
As a devoted music composer hobbyist on my free time, this video is a masterpiece. Mr. sir, can you please make a video like this for every chord progression in existence? Thank you very much. The comparison between ancient classical chord progressions, their echos in modern pop music, variations in between, and the exploration of all the different flavors in depth is a much needed resource. Please do more!!!!!
I've been exploring the piano music of Clara Wieck-Schumann. Her harmonic progressions are like none I've played before. They are deliciously unusual, and occasionally borderline brutal.
I too noticed the Hubert Parry tune in Atonement. It is used very movingly in the movie. The beautiful hymn is sometimes heard above the sounds of war.
Parry is so well known for amazing progressions! Listen to his “I Was Glad”…it is exhilarating! So good that they used it both for the Queen’s funeral and the Coronation.
Aha, I hardly understand the first thing about music but your explanation makes things clear. Now I understand why the healing power of music, to me, is so much stronger than whichever form of medication. Could either be J S Bach or one of his many fellow composers but today there are filmscores that can have the same effect on me. Thank you! I will never stop listening to music
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'.
You got the point on min 8:50 The origin, at least in classic counterpoint (Fux), it’s “simply” a 5-6 upward fourth species progression. But it can be very ornamented and extremely beautiful if you write with sensibility. Good video!
This is such an incredible video! It's by far my favourite chord progression! As mentioned in another comment this is called the Monte in schema theory, with the Chromatic bassline version, the Ascending 5-6 version, and the Monte Principale version (with the up a 4th down a third bassline). I love this progression so much I've featured it on my website thelibraryofsonorities alon with many examples (some rach, beethoven, chopin and more!), you might find it interesting! Thanks to you I've added 3 more examples!
I’ve been seeing your videos around for a while. I can’t wait for in 5 years where you have a massive catalog of music theory videos for me to obsess over like David Bennett Piano
I really appreciate the way you breakdown the structure of music. Watching this gives me the feeling of finally gaining some type of grasp on something that, to this point, was so ephemeral and elusive. Thanks for sharing!
Great video! I’ve always found myself accidentally doing one of these chord progressions near the end of playing Star-Spangled Banner, and it turning into We Wish You A Merry Christmas… nice to know why I have the musical urge to do that now!
Great video. Got 3 grade 8s including theory by age 17… stopped playing at 20 and now 60. All the terms you are using are reawakening my memory and I’m following everything all making sense.
I really, thoroughly enjoyed this video. much appreciation from a fellow brit swell as pianist! keep spreading your passion and knowledge. You have a natural proclivity for teaching
SAM YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!! For real 😂 I’ve been trying to explain this obsession to my musically inclined friends (and I’m not), and was having a hard time describing this chord progression. When they asked me what genre of songs do I listen to, I always say any genre so long as they have “this something approach 😅😅. When you mentioned the Hallelujah with minor chord as the 3rd… I AUTO HATE THE VERSION LOOOL. It just removes the drama in the flow. Thank yo from the depths of my appreciation ❤
"Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" the hymn in the movie Atonement is such a sublime and expressive piece that mirrors the human aspiration to persevere despite head winds and setbacks.
It's my favourite hymn by far. When done in a cathedral with an organ and using different settings it is utterly divine. The words too are just perfect.
This is the greatest explanation of music I’ve ever watched. I must have manifested this because I was asking myself where to find a good channel that could make it simpler to understand music theory, and voilá: here we are! (I wasn’t remotely doing any search for music theory channels, the algo just put this video in front of me) Subscribed!! ❤
Rare are the ocassions when I subscribe just watching one video. This is one of those ocassions. Hope to see more of this content from yours and may your channel grow a lot.
Thank you so much for your beautiful presentation! I love how you brought examples from different eras and genres with easy to understand illustrations. I’ll share with my students!
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
Wow such an amazing video, thank you so much! I'm amazed by the numbers of different examples coming from different genres and the passion and yet clarity you put in the explanations. Wonderful job really!
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.
I do believe there is something truly beautiful about the V-iii-vi progression, but I think a lot of your examples highlight the effectiveness of a sequence rather than the harmonic progression itself.
Utterly fascinating breakdown, brimming with insight, and clever transitions, examples and pedagogic illustration. Here, take my sub already. Fantastic job!
When I started learning about music theory as a child I really couldn’t comprehend what it was. As an adult, I am fully aware it is a complex system of emotional manipulation.
I think it hacks our innate sense of vocal intonation to read others’ emotions
it's *highly* environmental, especially influenced by language.
like, try writing lyrics set to music in Mandarin, where "tāng" means "soup" with a high tone but "sugar" with a rising tone.
hence, the things you learn in european music theory don't quite land the same way with other cultures, although that's changing somewhat as coca-colonization continues. (see also Amerika by Rammstein)
I wish I could understand what this whole comment section is all about but I'm so lost.
@@290revolver290Perhaps you are understanding and the majority of the comment section is lost...
Stop watering down the word manipulation, what would life be without getting others to feel emotion? To arouse empathy to express ourselves? It's only manipulation if it's insincere and to mislead...
The video is unbelievably high quality for a channel this small. You got my sub! I'll spread the word a bit too
Dang, I wasn't expecting that when I checked the watch and subscriber counts.
Likewise, was just about to post the same thing. Great content, well produced, have a sub and keep up the good work :)
Likewise! Appreciate the clear explanations and clean editing, and human-written captions
+1
The down-a-third up-a-fourth and rising 5-6’s are versions of what’s sometimes called a Monte and it appears in the slow movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Chopin’s E major prelude. It also creates a several implied canons between the bass line and upper parts.
Also, another Bach example (there are countless) of that rising chromatic bass is in the Allemande of the 5th French Suite in G major. An even more powerful example is from BWV 622 from the Orgelbüchlein.
That Rachmaninoff really is special!
5-6 was also a way to work out the octave's rule before the model from Fenaroli which is the most used now
thankyou for pointing out the clarinet concerto (2nd movement). This melody (including harmony) is losely based on (or just coincidently shares the tune with) a German folk song ("Bunt sind schon die Wälder")
Thanks so much for saying that, it had me a little bit dying that he did not mention the monte sequence, as it is the basic principle :))
Bunt sind schon die walder
The pace: awesome
The editing: Beautiful and easy to follow
The explainations: very easy to understand
The setup and background: like a seasoned RUclipsr
The music examples: perfect
The mic: 🥫
Exactly! Shame for a otherwise great video. Also i think he is not perfectly in focus. Or at least a bit blurry somehow.
@@schraderclemens6122 no he was just born that way
Agreed. It needs some EQ adjustments at the very least.
He can use Adobe’s online Audio enhancement AI for free.
@@ChronoMune Well, he will age very well
I've always heard this called the "anime progression" because of its prominent use in Japanese animation, J-pop and video games. They call it the "royal road" progression (王道進行, Ōdō shinkō) It was also used in the Mario movie.
Wouldnt that be IV V vi iii?
This is not that. though.
I don’t know anything about music. But I know what I feel. And it’s amazing that someone can talk about what seems like magic to me.
You already understand the most important thing then.
Theory can be very fascinating to help understand it and appreciate it more.. I find I enjoy great music even more because of it and can understand better why some music is mediocre as well.
That's how I felt when I decided to become a musician...musicians were like wizards bring me lightning in a bottle. But every time that I opened the bottle to try and understand the lighting, it simply escaped.
So I learned how to catch it myself. And yet I still can't tell you where the lightning comes from, even being able to explain so much more about it. In truth, I think you are closer to that location than I am now. The most I can do is show you my bottle collection as proof that it exists.
The magic is the little kid practicing their instrument just bc they love to play. Theory naturally follows, especially for piano
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.
Your analysis is solid, and your examples are delightful, but it’s your unique graphical presentation that really puts you in rare air. So many smart choices in notation font, color schemes, and shapes. Like Rachmaninov building on his predecessors, it’s clear to see who your RUclips inspirations are, how you’ve internalized the pieces of their presentations that resonated with you, and then added your own whimsical and playful touches. If you enjoyed the digital art creation and video editing in this project, you could make a career of this.
This video is amazing, it’s like stumbling across a book that you identify with so strongly. I knew we were on to a winner with him talking about that great moment from atonement. Guy is basically listing every piece of music that had ever destroyed me and explained why. Love it.
Absolutely!! 🌟🌟🌟👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Ok now I just want to hug you 🤗 This is so thoughtfully put together and the love and passion you have for it is so evident! Thank you for spending your time creating such a beautiful video, I love everything about this! Lost count of how many times I got goosebumps watching this, music is my glue 🥹🎶
Without music you'd be unstuck? 😭
This guy is an awesome teacher. I am not into music, per se, don't understand why this came up- but I am so happy it did. I learned so much. My husband is into music theory, he really enjoyed it. I had no idea music was so complicated. This is so well researched. He uses words like phrase and idiom- people really trained in music - I guess to them it's like "reading with ears", the music itself is telling a story.
Truly a 10/10 video dude. Completely surprised when I stumbled across this. Graphics, explanation, having like 10 examples, really great stuff.
Amazing video; super interesting. Assumed you'd have hundreds of thousands of subs with production and education quality like this, must have been lucky enough to find you early, thank you for the video and all the best going forward
Oaaah I just found my favourite RUclips channel!
Atonement is legitimately the greatest film ever made and the score is unforgettable.
Read the novel. It’s leagues better than the movie. There was one scene in the novel where I was bawling like a baby. And it was nowhere in the movie. It’s when Kiera Knightley’s character does her nursing rounds in London just as the Dunkirk evacuees hit the London hospitals. And she tries to nurse, then holds, a French soldier in her arms as he dies. God damn. Very powerful stuff. Ian McEwan shot up in my estimation to top tier after reading this marvelous novel.
This is exceptionally well made, wow! Subbed
I dont often have time to sit through 20+ minute videos these days but you held my attention supremely. I loved this! Liked and subbed!
The song in Dunkirk is a hymn. We used to sing it at school.
A stunning hymn!
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
Sam, what you are doing here is simply great. Profound knowledge, enthusiasm - in all styles -, pedagogical competence, speed - and last but not least, you use the medium of video in such a pleasantly targeted way! All your graphics are accurate and have the right sense and timing.
Please keep it up. Listening to you talk about music is a blessing and extremely stimulating.
By the way, you had me at the short excerpt from Trifonov's Rachmaninov - it's exactly this passage that has given me goose bumps over and over again. Apart from the fact that he (Trifonov) knows better than anyone else how to play this music in a way that makes sense in terms of its formal structure, far removed from any gimmickry...
I'm really looking forward to your future contributions!
I've always found the Beethoven Emperor part you used to be one of the most moving pieces of music for me. It's partly due to childhood memory and association, but mostly because is it so astoundingly beautiful.
Sam’s “Well, that’s…not bad” and dismissive shrug at 5:33 RE that exquisite clip from the Emperor, were doubtless deliberate understatement and proverbially British phlegmaticism, which as a fellow Brit, I’d normally appreciate. Yet this reaction, (in an otherwise IMHO faultless and exceptional video), kind of knocked me for six, and took me a while to recover from, such is my love of this piece, which, like you, I have fond associations with, (in my case at least partly with the exceptional 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock).
I am not a musician, and love this kind of explanation. I used to listen to the late Antony Hopkins, "Talking about Music" on Radio 3 doing it so well.
As for the Hymn, like so many of those my generation sang at school (Boys' Grammar with a Headmaster who fought in WWII) - it brings tears to my eyes too.
incredible video. Never really noticed this chord progression but this video made it one of my favorites. i would love to see more vids like this!
Your editing is so good omg!
Perhaps you are the one person who can tell me the unbelievably sorrowful music that was played by news stations when showing the ravages of Katrina. I only heard it a few times after the initial coverage because I was in Katrina and we heard nothing. When I heard it I remember having a profound response to it. That music captured everything about the human experience of having lived through it and of hearing bit by bit all the lives that were lost.
So glad that your channel popped up in my feed! Fascinating to an old piano hack!
VI-V-III-VI is by far the most common chord progression in Japanese music. II-V-III-VI is the progression to Rick Astley “Never Gonna’ Give You Up.” Check out David Bennet’s video on this topic.
yes! I'm surprised this isn't rated higher. This is the classic Japanese anime chord progression.
He's concentrating more on the V iii vi part and the IV can be a ii. Funnily that's also the part that I had been concentrating on when improvising. I like that he gives more examples from Classical and film music. In my classification it will stay the Japanese progression because that's easy to remember.
@@empizano if you're talking about the royal road progression, that's IV-V-iii-vi.
As a devoted music composer hobbyist on my free time, this video is a masterpiece. Mr. sir, can you please make a video like this for every chord progression in existence? Thank you very much. The comparison between ancient classical chord progressions, their echos in modern pop music, variations in between, and the exploration of all the different flavors in depth is a much needed resource. Please do more!!!!!
The depth of research is impressive.
Yes, an actually informative video on a chord progression, rather than rambling that a lot of channels do!
Thank you so much for having the bookmarks with each of the pieces of music listed!!
A questioned is asked. An unresolved answer begs our senses. Then we get a (somewhat) resolved answer. Beautiful work you have done here.
Great job! I want to study music theory with you. It makes musical sense of everything I’ve listened to for 60 years! Thank you!
Fabulous content. Keep it going. Thanks
I've been exploring the piano music of Clara Wieck-Schumann. Her harmonic progressions are like none I've played before. They are deliciously unusual, and occasionally borderline brutal.
This is an incredible video! Subscribed and can't wait to explore more. Bravissimo!
iv been seeing this singular video on my recommended for the past 2 weeks
iv finally watched it
damn this one is good
Me too, the algorithm really likes it, too
Wow! Blown away with the content of this video. The 25 minutes flew by. Congrats man, great work! The way you talk about harmony is super inspiring!
I too noticed the Hubert Parry tune in Atonement. It is used very movingly in the movie. The beautiful hymn is sometimes heard above the sounds of war.
Parry is so well known for amazing progressions! Listen to his “I Was Glad”…it is exhilarating! So good that they used it both for the Queen’s funeral and the Coronation.
Amazing work, and with high-quality animated graphics!
Excellent analysis. And that scene from Atonement and its music are some of the best in the business.
Brilliant - definitely have to watch this again and again.
This is the most inspiring theory video I've ever seen!
We South Indians have Maestro Ilayaraja's music which has everything in his music ,Chord progression Grand master...
Really, REALLY love the way you explain the function of the music, both in a theory and emotional context. Splendid video!
What a coincidence, I was just in the process of composing something that features this progression. Great video!
Wonderful content. I highly appreciated your musicality. Keep up the good work!
Aha, I hardly understand the first thing about music but your explanation makes things clear. Now I understand why the healing power of music, to me, is so much stronger than whichever form of medication. Could either be J S Bach or one of his many fellow composers but today there are filmscores that can have the same effect on me. Thank you! I will never stop listening to music
Thank you Sam! I'm so glad that I found your channel. Keep up the excellent work. ❤🎹
Amazing video and music recommandations
Oh yes! Thank you for the great footnotes that you add. 💗
Just found your channel through this video. Amazing stuff, keep at it!
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'.
You got the point on min 8:50
The origin, at least in classic counterpoint (Fux), it’s “simply” a 5-6 upward fourth species progression. But it can be very ornamented and extremely beautiful if you write with sensibility. Good video!
This is such an incredible video! It's by far my favourite chord progression! As mentioned in another comment this is called the Monte in schema theory, with the Chromatic bassline version, the Ascending 5-6 version, and the Monte Principale version (with the up a 4th down a third bassline). I love this progression so much I've featured it on my website thelibraryofsonorities alon with many examples (some rach, beethoven, chopin and more!), you might find it interesting! Thanks to you I've added 3 more examples!
I just discovered your channel and I love it and I love how well done the videos are. RUclips needs more of this
Incredible content. Very impressive.
Great job. Fantastic examples. Beautiful presentation. Well done!
Fab video! I love your presentation style. Keep it up!
Why is this channel not famous???
It's only 6 months old with over 7,000 subscribers. He's well on his way!
Amazing video! You make it easy to understand for novices.
Surely I won't get goosebumps after 20 minutes of talk and a tiny little clip of the Rach #. . . 3? Yep. Every time. Thanks.
This was unbelievably well done. Thank you so much for your work.
I’ve been seeing your videos around for a while. I can’t wait for in 5 years where you have a massive catalog of music theory videos for me to obsess over like David Bennett Piano
Just discovered your channel - really amazing! Please keep making videos like this
I really appreciate the way you breakdown the structure of music. Watching this gives me the feeling of finally gaining some type of grasp on something that, to this point, was so ephemeral and elusive. Thanks for sharing!
very well put together - thanks for creating this video
Great video! I’ve always found myself accidentally doing one of these chord progressions near the end of playing Star-Spangled Banner, and it turning into We Wish You A Merry Christmas… nice to know why I have the musical urge to do that now!
Great video. Got 3 grade 8s including theory by age 17… stopped playing at 20 and now 60. All the terms you are using are reawakening my memory and I’m following everything all making sense.
Great explanation. Now I understand how that works.
I really, thoroughly enjoyed this video. much appreciation from a fellow brit swell as pianist! keep spreading your passion and knowledge. You have a natural proclivity for teaching
12:17 immediately made me think of Randy Newman’s “when she loved me” from Toy Story
You're right
"Bluer Than Blue" by Michael Johnson (ruclips.net/video/n3ZThfylM6I/видео.html)
@@markwvh oh man.. this is so good..
Thank you
SAM YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!! For real 😂 I’ve been trying to explain this obsession to my musically inclined friends (and I’m not), and was having a hard time describing this chord progression. When they asked me what genre of songs do I listen to, I always say any genre so long as they have “this something approach 😅😅. When you mentioned the Hallelujah with minor chord as the 3rd… I AUTO HATE THE VERSION LOOOL. It just removes the drama in the flow. Thank yo from the depths of my appreciation ❤
Watching your video was a high quality and very enjoyable moment
More of this please! Interesting stuff
the productive quality on this was just so impressive. good on you, man. cant wait to see what you do next
"Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" the hymn in the movie Atonement is such a sublime and expressive piece that mirrors the human aspiration to persevere despite head winds and setbacks.
It's my favourite hymn by far. When done in a cathedral with an organ and using different settings it is utterly divine. The words too are just perfect.
The words are the second part of a poem by Byron about drug addiction.
@@joeobyrne9348It’s a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. Beautiful poem; Beautiful setting.
@@davidmam Nope. John Greenleaf Whittier.
I've played the tune Repton loads of times in my church boy days.
This is the greatest explanation of music I’ve ever watched. I must have manifested this because I was asking myself where to find a good channel that could make it simpler to understand music theory, and voilá: here we are!
(I wasn’t remotely doing any search for music theory channels, the algo just put this video in front of me) Subscribed!! ❤
Instant sub after this appeared on my feed. Been watching synthesizer channels and suddenly - musicology!👍👍👍
really awesome content. keep up the great work!
Rare are the ocassions when I subscribe just watching one video. This is one of those ocassions. Hope to see more of this content from yours and may your channel grow a lot.
The ascending bass line creates a beautiful uplifting feeling. The suspensions are beautiful and of course the hymnal feeling only adds to its glory
This is so incredibly interesting, well-produced, informative, and thought-provoking! Thank you for this :)
Thank you so much for your beautiful presentation! I love how you brought examples from different eras and genres with easy to understand illustrations.
I’ll share with my students!
One of the greatest scenes in cinema.
Yes. Done in one long take. Better than the whole “Dunkirk” film.
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
Quality teaching. Thanks 🙂
my heart is a snail now thank you 🥹
Wonderful analysis! Takes me back to my college days as a music major. 🎵
Wow such an amazing video, thank you so much! I'm amazed by the numbers of different examples coming from different genres and the passion and yet clarity you put in the explanations. Wonderful job really!
Highly appreciate the effort you have put into make these videos ❤
Fascinating. Long time since I did any analysis
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.
I do believe there is something truly beautiful about the V-iii-vi progression, but I think a lot of your examples highlight the effectiveness of a sequence rather than the harmonic progression itself.
Thank you Sam! Enjoyed watching this😊
All the music in that film was beautiful. One of my favourite films ever.
The whole score is beautiful, one of the best.
These kind of videos really help me in my music writing. thank you
Utterly fascinating breakdown, brimming with insight, and clever transitions, examples and pedagogic illustration. Here, take my sub already. Fantastic job!
Subscribed, what an amazing video !
Tha k you. Your teaching style and the visualizations are awesome and very clear. 👍
Thanks for filling a gap in my knowledge and stimulating my interest in how harmony works. Best wishes. Dave.
Your content is CRAZY good!!!