@@CadenceHira The lyrics are pretty much about that, it's meta-irony on music itself and it's pretty brilliant imo A fantastic song from a beautiful album, please give it a try if you feel like it :)
RE: the "My Ordinary Life" example, that song has this chord progression because it heavily samples the soundtrack of an anime called Nichijou: My Ordinary Life. Specifically the song "Koigokoro wa Dangan mo Yawarakakusuru" which means "Love softens even bullets". I highly recommend checking out the rest of the soundtrack too, there are a lot of gems to be found there!
Yessss, Nichijou's soundtrack is so simple yet beautiful Koigokoro wa Dangan mo Yawarakakusuru is one of my favorites, I recommend checking out "hesangasong" who arranged it for piano beautifully :)
I freaking love music theory. 20:55 at first this sort of reminded me of the main theme of Animal Crossing Wild World, mostly the I - IV - ♭VII7 - ♭III progression
4 minutes into this video and I think I'm in love with this channel already Edit: 7:40 "looking at the melody, we can see it's literally the same thing copy-and-pasted but downwards; this is called a sequence..." I CAN'T- That's the most hilarious way of explaining sequences I've ever heard 10:06 I did not imagine I'd hear all of a sudden my beloved FMA OP but here we are
The way you presented the theory using images and musical examples was just amazing, a learned so much with this. Please keep up with this kind of video ❤
Y'all really jazzed up the sad Naruto song for the outro lmfao💀 Really cool video! The first time you played the progression at 4:58 my brain IMMEDIATELY went to I Will Survive and now you got me thinking about every song I've ever heard with this progression🥴
Omg you won't even believe the sheer excitement that hit me when I saw this pop up. New Cadence video, _and_ it's a twenty minute long deep dive on the chord progression that I just so happen to be obsessed with at the moment? Can't wait till I get off work to watch this!
My fav progression, probably. I like how it shows up in all genres. For a recent example, it’s used in a cool way in the ED of the anime Metallic Rouge. Variation 3 shows up in a lot of jazz (you can also hear it in the Kemono Friends OP)
Fantastic video! Even though I have very little knowledge of music theory, I was able to follow along. Plus, your obvious interest and love for the subject is infectious.
I haven't finished this video yet so maybe you say it later but a good note is that in Fly Me to the Moon (and others) the reason the melody "follows the pattern of the bass" isn't necessarily because it wants to follow the bass, rather because the chord tones land on beat 1. If we think of Fly me to the moon in C Major (or A minor), it's apparent. Chord 1 is A minor and the melody is C (the third of the chord), chord 2 is D minor and the melody note is F (the third of the chord), chord 3 is G7 and the melody note is B, I'm sure you see the pattern. Etc etc. same for other standards like Autumn Leave and All the things you are. When improvising it's fun to follow these movements as you land on the chord tones on the first beat of the bar every time.
Actually All the things you are is a good example of this because it changes keys a few times and the melody note follows the key change with the 3rd of the current chord (at least in the first bit)
Wow, I want to thank you for this video. I’m a intermediate guitar player and my knowledge of music theory amounts to ‘chord progression = arbitrary sequence of diatonic chords and sometimes you can borrow chords.’ This video contains so much useful information. I feel like I can write my own music with more purpose than before. Thank you!
i appreciate you separating western musical concepts form being the "norm". it is true the western ear likes to hear chords resolving down the 5th, here in stepanavan armenia we like hearing chords resolving on the microtonal 4th with vomit noise ran through gain and a wah pedal, completely different from the euro-centric vision of music.
Great work as always! I love this progression. My favourite variation is the one that starts on the IV, but it is indeed very hard to find any examples that don't substitute the V for the viio7. One particular example I really llike is the B section Star Festival from Super Mario Galaxy. First of all, it uses the tritone sub of the V/ii which is always juicy. But what I love about it is the way it facilitates an extremely stealthy key change. The A section (or intro? I'm gonna call it the A section) is in E major, and the B section, which uses the circle progression. is in B major. But because it's using the IV variation of the circle progression, it starts on E, which was the tonic of the previous section. On top of this, the A section had already introduced A# as a chromatic note, smoothing the transition even further. By the time you finally reach the resolution to B six bars into the B section the modulation has slipped by unnoticed. Or at least, it did for me until I learned to play it and suddenly realized that the key signature on the page no longer matched what I was hearing.
Excuse me what's all this informative and well presented music mumbo jumbo? I'm trying to watch djivvi's technique with the 9 Iron! Please consider this for me and the greater Nintendo Switch Sports golfer community.
love this video! super interesting! just a slight nitpick tho (ik) but the nyan cat song is actually called "nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" and it's by daniwell ~however the original song uses hatsune miku for vocals and the actual nyan cat song is a cover by momomomoP using momone momo for the vocals but that's more hyperspecific in terms of credits~
23:04 My first detailed composition uses this chord progression (albeit a simpler version, just the default versions of the chords)! This video was a major reason to do so, its such a beautiful progression and this helped me understand it!
So... I made another response to this on my channel... jk not really. This is really well done and provides a MUCH better explanation of the "Circle of 5ths" than I've seen elsewhere
@@CadenceHira I've made a few response type videos before that I'm not a fan of the way I did them, so I really want to make sure I have something to add in a positive way before I make those types of videos. Your last video was right on target for something I've spent WAY too much time looking into so I was primed for that one, plus it was a banger video you made!
Great video! I especially love getting to know pieces of music that use these concepts I had previously just seen on a textbook or in a classical setting. I just wanted to share (at 13:25) that due to classical voice leading conventions (for example, making the melody move chromatically as in b2-1-7, instead of leaping a diminished third from b2-7 directly), is it fairly common for the Neapolitan chord to differ the dominant chord and instead use that inverted tonic minor chord. However, again due to classical conventions, this second inversion minor tonic chord bears the same function as the dominant chord, albeit just having the suspension of two of the voices, just as you pointed out, (in this example in f minor, f and ab) that fall down to the most powerful notes of the dominant (e and g). I hope this is interesting!
Cool channel, i have music i can invent in my head but no way to write it down, i feel like mr. Krabs saying beep boop bop I learn from these channels so hopefully one day i can make sense of the noise in my head
I love your channel soo much please keep going your videos are both so informative and genuinely sotheme of the funnest music theory videos out there! ❤ I really wish you had a patreon to support you?
This is an excellent video that did actually teach me a few things, but I still can't get over the fact (in a funny haha way) that all the text is in the Musescore jazz font. Still a good video though. Earned my subscribe.
Man I can only ever think of "I Will Survive" when i hear this progression. Also I feel mother 3's love theme has something similar to all this, I think.
I was just about to comment about the Neapolitan chord, I'm shocked that you beat me to it. in fact in my opinion Bb is the chord that founded the city of Naples
22:26 have you heard piranha plant lullaby? I’m not entirely sure but when i play the song on piano i do exactly what the tiktok does in the left hand and play melody with my right.
ooo I just took a look. It looks like it does the same thing as the rhythm heaven example by actually breaking the pattern (CEGB and then CDF#A instead of CEF#A)
One of my favorite circle progressions is in Dirty Work by Steely Dan. The verse goes vi-ii-V7-I-IV-bVII-I. Getting around the Tritone by borrowing the bVII makes it feel very funky and cool
In addition I like a “reverse” circle progression too, like Hey Joe or the piano riff from Boogie On Reggae Woman. Not sure where the tradition comes from but it feels very American and bluesy, maybe something to do with the plagal cadence and gospel?
Firstly, I really hope that your content/ channel blows up randomy over night Secondly, many thanks for your overview of the circe progression, i couldn‘t find anything useful on the internet :(
6:42 did you seriously put an among us reference in here cause it sounds more like they're saying "among the stars"? Isn't that what they've always been saying?
I had an idea on the Vivaldi's seasons progression and to my ears, if you just keep going after that C it's a sweet transition into the version starting on I, and even better it still sounds good if you loop it again starting on the iv as long as you extend the final Fm across 2 measures The progression completely falls apart after that but it goes for longer than I expected
23:00 This one's a small one, but the intro to Good Night by Dreamcatcher. The song itself uses the minor version you talked about at the beginning of the video, but the intro uses the major version of the chorus. If that's anything...? UPDATE: I found a better example of the major version "Nothing's gonna change my love for you" by George Benson Chords: I IV ii° V/vi(aka III) vi II ii V
Variation 3: Does "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" by Frankie Vallie count as an unaltered version of the pattern? The tiktok example immediately sent me to that song.(As well as being cited in one of the original Japanese videos on Royal Road)
Question: To denote a minor chord, you add a dash, but I was taught to use lowercase numerals. Is one way more standard or "more correct" than the other? I II- III- IV V VI- VII° v.s. I ii iii IV V vi vii° (P.S. this looks pretty silly in a sans serif font lol)
good question, so I generally prefer using dashes and that's what berklee and the jazz/contemporary world suggest for chord notation for the sake of consistency and order of information (i.e. III-7 reads horizontally as "three minor seven" vs. iii7 which, in a faster/sight reading setting is more ambiguous) The lowercase numeral notation makes a lot more sense in classical analysis contexts, since there are less frequent 7th chords or tensions to notate. Honestly though, unless it's for homework just use whatever you think looks best, I think notation is kind of just made up and any notion of more or less correct is mostly just for consistency in an academic setting. I use both "-" and "min" interchangeably in my videos just depending on how I'm feeling lol.
It’s been scientifically proven that the best way to learn music theory is while watching Nintendo switch sports gameplay
i been on that golf grind what can i say
5:56 that is a GREAT observation!!
thanks David!! some circle of 5ths magic for sure
I've been wondering for the longest time why it feels like that progression "rhymes" like that. Eye opening moment
And then there's Mild High Club - Homage, where the scale degrees are LITERALLY IN THE LYRICS for some reason
that is COOL! didn't know about this tune
that 4-7-3-6-2-5-1 does put my mind at ease anyway😌
HOLY SHIT LMAO
@@CadenceHira The lyrics are pretty much about that, it's meta-irony on music itself and it's pretty brilliant imo
A fantastic song from a beautiful album, please give it a try if you feel like it :)
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RE: the "My Ordinary Life" example, that song has this chord progression because it heavily samples the soundtrack of an anime called Nichijou: My Ordinary Life. Specifically the song "Koigokoro wa Dangan mo Yawarakakusuru" which means "Love softens even bullets". I highly recommend checking out the rest of the soundtrack too, there are a lot of gems to be found there!
Yessss, Nichijou's soundtrack is so simple yet beautiful
Koigokoro wa Dangan mo Yawarakakusuru is one of my favorites, I recommend checking out "hesangasong" who arranged it for piano beautifully :)
Nichijoū is my favourite of the three animes I've ever watched ever
punched my laptop at "let me play among us stars", good job
Same
I freaking love music theory.
20:55 at first this sort of reminded me of the main theme of Animal Crossing Wild World, mostly the I - IV - ♭VII7 - ♭III progression
To me it sounded like: IT'S MY LIIIIFEEEEE - DON'T YOU FORGEEEEETTTT
4 minutes into this video and I think I'm in love with this channel already
Edit: 7:40 "looking at the melody, we can see it's literally the same thing copy-and-pasted but downwards; this is called a sequence..." I CAN'T-
That's the most hilarious way of explaining sequences I've ever heard
10:06 I did not imagine I'd hear all of a sudden my beloved FMA OP but here we are
man i hope this channel is one of those that blows up randomly. your content is pretty good
The way you presented the theory using images and musical examples was just amazing, a learned so much with this. Please keep up with this kind of video ❤
Y'all really jazzed up the sad Naruto song for the outro lmfao💀
Really cool video! The first time you played the progression at 4:58 my brain IMMEDIATELY went to I Will Survive and now you got me thinking about every song I've ever heard with this progression🥴
Is Bossa Nova just sad songs played really fast with maracas?
Omg you won't even believe the sheer excitement that hit me when I saw this pop up. New Cadence video, _and_ it's a twenty minute long deep dive on the chord progression that I just so happen to be obsessed with at the moment? Can't wait till I get off work to watch this!
damn i never noticed that phrasing in virtual insanity! thats so cool
It's hard to overstate just how masterful virtual insanity is as a whole
a classical music example of a major circle progression is the in first movement of grieg’s goldberg suite
My fav progression, probably. I like how it shows up in all genres. For a recent example, it’s used in a cool way in the ED of the anime Metallic Rouge.
Variation 3 shows up in a lot of jazz (you can also hear it in the Kemono Friends OP)
Fantastic video! Even though I have very little knowledge of music theory, I was able to follow along. Plus, your obvious interest and love for the subject is infectious.
WHERE WAS THIS VIDEO WHEN I WAS TAKING AP MUSIC THEORY THIS IS AWESOME
omg im going to rewatch this video so much to study it
dude these videos are so bangin
I haven't finished this video yet so maybe you say it later but a good note is that in Fly Me to the Moon (and others) the reason the melody "follows the pattern of the bass" isn't necessarily because it wants to follow the bass, rather because the chord tones land on beat 1. If we think of Fly me to the moon in C Major (or A minor), it's apparent.
Chord 1 is A minor and the melody is C (the third of the chord), chord 2 is D minor and the melody note is F (the third of the chord), chord 3 is G7 and the melody note is B, I'm sure you see the pattern. Etc etc. same for other standards like Autumn Leave and All the things you are.
When improvising it's fun to follow these movements as you land on the chord tones on the first beat of the bar every time.
Actually All the things you are is a good example of this because it changes keys a few times and the melody note follows the key change with the 3rd of the current chord (at least in the first bit)
why does this creator only have 19k subs.....keep up the good work!
Wow, I want to thank you for this video. I’m a intermediate guitar player and my knowledge of music theory amounts to ‘chord progression = arbitrary sequence of diatonic chords and sometimes you can borrow chords.’ This video contains so much useful information. I feel like I can write my own music with more purpose than before. Thank you!
One of your best videos. Usually I'm lost but this was really well paced and easy to understand. GOOD JOB 🤗
Targets from Melee is such a good song
i appreciate you separating western musical concepts form being the "norm". it is true the western ear likes to hear chords resolving down the 5th, here in stepanavan armenia we like hearing chords resolving on the microtonal 4th with vomit noise ran through gain and a wah pedal, completely different from the euro-centric vision of music.
this post has been fact checked by real armenian patriots
Babe wake up new cadence hira Nintendo video just dropped
this video slaps
Great work as always! I love this progression. My favourite variation is the one that starts on the IV, but it is indeed very hard to find any examples that don't substitute the V for the viio7.
One particular example I really llike is the B section Star Festival from Super Mario Galaxy. First of all, it uses the tritone sub of the V/ii which is always juicy. But what I love about it is the way it facilitates an extremely stealthy key change. The A section (or intro? I'm gonna call it the A section) is in E major, and the B section, which uses the circle progression. is in B major. But because it's using the IV variation of the circle progression, it starts on E, which was the tonic of the previous section. On top of this, the A section had already introduced A# as a chromatic note, smoothing the transition even further. By the time you finally reach the resolution to B six bars into the B section the modulation has slipped by unnoticed. Or at least, it did for me until I learned to play it and suddenly realized that the key signature on the page no longer matched what I was hearing.
she never misses
5:15 "a bit minor there" is fitting for the anime canon.
Excuse me what's all this informative and well presented music mumbo jumbo? I'm trying to watch djivvi's technique with the 9 Iron! Please consider this for me and the greater Nintendo Switch Sports golfer community.
i'm honestly dogwater with the 9 iron i'm getting really cracked at wedge tho
love this video! super interesting!
just a slight nitpick tho (ik) but the nyan cat song is actually called "nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" and it's by daniwell ~however the original song uses hatsune miku for vocals and the actual nyan cat song is a cover by momomomoP using momone momo for the vocals but that's more hyperspecific in terms of credits~
thank you for the correction! will update in my spreadsheet
i about screamed when i saw Jamiroquai AND FMA in one thumbnail. whilst also trying to get into music theory. this video is FOR ME
did i just get weezered by a music theory video
o wiju. ona li pona suli.
Did I just get fucking weezered by a music theory video?
yes you did =D
Every Dragon Quest soundtrack is full of this progression in so many unique ways
The way I was singing fly me to the moon already
Gotta love this video. You learn, you have fun, you get some wii nostalgia. Nice.
6:42 wait a minute
Very informative, I’ll definitely have to try out some of these variations ❤👀
Absolutely in love with these videos, my brain grows 5 times larger
AAAAAAAH new cadence hira video dropped!!!
23:04 My first detailed composition uses this chord progression (albeit a simpler version, just the default versions of the chords)! This video was a major reason to do so, its such a beautiful progression and this helped me understand it!
Great Video. Your last example "Check Why Should I Care?" By the Who. This is definitely no Tik Tok exercise.
So... I made another response to this on my channel... jk not really. This is really well done and provides a MUCH better explanation of the "Circle of 5ths" than I've seen elsewhere
LOL it's the looming threat of the andrew merideth response video that holds me to a high standard! thank u for the kind words tho!!
@@CadenceHira I've made a few response type videos before that I'm not a fan of the way I did them, so I really want to make sure I have something to add in a positive way before I make those types of videos. Your last video was right on target for something I've spent WAY too much time looking into so I was primed for that one, plus it was a banger video you made!
Great video! I especially love getting to know pieces of music that use these concepts I had previously just seen on a textbook or in a classical setting.
I just wanted to share (at 13:25) that due to classical voice leading conventions (for example, making the melody move chromatically as in b2-1-7, instead of leaping a diminished third from b2-7 directly), is it fairly common for the Neapolitan chord to differ the dominant chord and instead use that inverted tonic minor chord.
However, again due to classical conventions, this second inversion minor tonic chord bears the same function as the dominant chord, albeit just having the suspension of two of the voices, just as you pointed out, (in this example in f minor, f and ab) that fall down to the most powerful notes of the dominant (e and g).
I hope this is interesting!
The last example ABSOLUTELY count I don't care
23:45 YES! i knew i had heard that progression before
Cool channel, i have music i can invent in my head but no way to write it down, i feel like mr. Krabs saying beep boop bop
I learn from these channels so hopefully one day i can make sense of the noise in my head
20:56 PvZ's closing theme "There's a Zombie on your Lawn" has a pretty similar progression imo, for the first 5-6 chords at least
You are my new favorite channel
This chord progression SLAPS. 2:15
babe wake up, new cadence hira vid just dropped
i was gonna take a music theory class at my college but this is free content
WOOOOO RHYTHM HEAVEN MENTIONED ‼‼🐒🥋🎊🥳🍾🎊🪓🗿
sina li insa e kulupu pi jan Misali seme?
@@jan_Eten li! mi ken toki e toki pona kin.
YEEEEAAAAH LET'S GO (also nice emoji choices, I see what you did there)
Such a good video, thank you for making this!
thank lord I found your channel this is perfect!!!
I love your channel soo much please keep going your videos are both so informative and genuinely sotheme of the funnest music theory videos out there! ❤ I really wish you had a patreon to support you?
thank you!! and patreon coming very very soon (next video :D)
This is an excellent video that did actually teach me a few things, but I still can't get over the fact (in a funny haha way) that all the text is in the Musescore jazz font. Still a good video though. Earned my subscribe.
21:52
I would LOVE to see an April fools video where you analyze a SiIva video
INCREDIBLE THANK YOU! made stuff i knew make more sense
7:02 *insert dicaprio point and whistle*
Man I can only ever think of "I Will Survive" when i hear this progression.
Also I feel mother 3's love theme has something similar to all this, I think.
18:42 The Acacia Strain t-shirt? DOPE
As soon as you played the example of the circle I heard Animal Crossing 😁
I was just about to comment about the Neapolitan chord, I'm shocked that you beat me to it.
in fact in my opinion Bb is the chord that founded the city of Naples
22:26 have you heard piranha plant lullaby? I’m not entirely sure but when i play the song on piano i do exactly what the tiktok does in the left hand and play melody with my right.
ooo I just took a look. It looks like it does the same thing as the rhythm heaven example by actually breaking the pattern (CEGB and then CDF#A instead of CEF#A)
I’m gonna need a video in the anime canon to understand this
Cadence Hira is my favorite way to learn music theory
Nice video 👍
21:21 IM AN ESPERANTIST, THE LANGUAGE WITH THE LARGEST
CONGLANG COMMUNITY
a, mi en sina li insa e kulupu pi jan Misali. toki pona li sewi e toki Epelanto =D
@@jan_Eten waiting for jan misali to finish his toki pona series so i can know what this says ://
You mention a lot that this only applies to Western styles of music. Would you ever cover the theory behind other styles of music?
next video :)
One of my favorite circle progressions is in Dirty Work by Steely Dan. The verse goes vi-ii-V7-I-IV-bVII-I. Getting around the Tritone by borrowing the bVII makes it feel very funky and cool
In addition I like a “reverse” circle progression too, like Hey Joe or the piano riff from Boogie On Reggae Woman. Not sure where the tradition comes from but it feels very American and bluesy, maybe something to do with the plagal cadence and gospel?
6:42 among us stars (read the sheet music)
Firstly, I really hope that your content/ channel blows up randomy over night
Secondly, many thanks for your overview of the circe progression, i couldn‘t find anything useful on the internet :(
6:42 did you seriously put an among us reference in here cause it sounds more like they're saying "among the stars"? Isn't that what they've always been saying?
no you're right, i was stressed out at that point in the transcriptions and added amogus to feel a fleeting moment of joy
2:58 In this loop, the chord that feels most like home to me is the G7. But I can see how one might interpret it differently.
This video is insane... virtual! That is to say, great job!
0:55
Reminds me of that one purple cube
Love the NewJeans and TWICE shoutouts.
The last one reminds me of piranha plants lullaby from Super Mario 64!
6:43 mågus
3:50 tumbling down tumbling down tumbling downnnn
"let me play AMONG US stars"
Genius
"Freely, as if you're not the CEO of a media conglomerate" hahaha excellent
mood
commenting for the algorithm
doin the lords work
Among us in fly me to the moon!
6:37 AMONG US STARS
holy crap! it's polygawn!
love the video! i...i also love autumn leaves tho😓
Can we PLEASE get a full cover of my ordinary life? Please?
Check our Sakamoto Ryūichi’s “Happy End” for more variation
Youe videos are great
12:07 “Freely, as if you’re not the CEO of a media conglomerate.” 😅😅😅
I had an idea on the Vivaldi's seasons progression and to my ears, if you just keep going after that C it's a sweet transition into the version starting on I, and even better it still sounds good if you loop it again starting on the iv as long as you extend the final Fm across 2 measures
The progression completely falls apart after that but it goes for longer than I expected
23:00 This one's a small one, but the intro to Good Night by Dreamcatcher. The song itself uses the minor version you talked about at the beginning of the video, but the intro uses the major version of the chorus. If that's anything...?
UPDATE: I found a better example of the major version
"Nothing's gonna change my love for you" by George Benson
Chords: I IV ii° V/vi(aka III) vi II ii V
Variation 3: Does "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" by Frankie Vallie count as an unaltered version of the pattern? The tiktok example immediately sent me to that song.(As well as being cited in one of the original Japanese videos on Royal Road)
Question: To denote a minor chord, you add a dash, but I was taught to use lowercase numerals. Is one way more standard or "more correct" than the other?
I II- III- IV V VI- VII°
v.s.
I ii iii IV V vi vii°
(P.S. this looks pretty silly in a sans serif font lol)
good question, so I generally prefer using dashes and that's what berklee and the jazz/contemporary world suggest for chord notation for the sake of consistency and order of information (i.e. III-7 reads horizontally as "three minor seven" vs. iii7 which, in a faster/sight reading setting is more ambiguous)
The lowercase numeral notation makes a lot more sense in classical analysis contexts, since there are less frequent 7th chords or tensions to notate. Honestly though, unless it's for homework just use whatever you think looks best, I think notation is kind of just made up and any notion of more or less correct is mostly just for consistency in an academic setting. I use both "-" and "min" interchangeably in my videos just depending on how I'm feeling lol.
I love your videos! But please lower the volume of the examples, I always get jumpscared lol
This is epic
Lit every Vivaldi single piece