Had to pause in the middle of the video to say: Your editing, your teaching, your musical talent, your voice, almost everything seems perfect to me. I went into this with bad vibes and already feel much better. Lately producing felt stagnant to me, but you give so much dimension to chords, it is unreal. I feel like i need to get more complex, but the fun in creating gets lost. Thanks for reminding me on how to get things going again. Wishing you the best on your journey.
I love this song and have been bumping it on my “lofi beats to help you pretend to work” playlist since it came out. You are one of the few RUclips tutorial creators whose music stands on its own, keep up the great work all around.
i love these chords that vibe videos lol. i switched majors when none of my peers in my music course seemed interested in the artists like yussef dayes and alfa mist and am very happy when i see internet videos mentioning these composers and the harmonies they write. thank you :)
Your videos are fire. The way you teach theory and integrate it with different styles is amazing. I learn a lot with each of your tutorials and, above all, a different perspective to make my own compositions 🙏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻
Absolutely amazing. You condensed knowledge and wisdom I learned the hard way over 10 years of producing and practicing the piano. Vertical and horizontal, improvised and composed. Balance and imbalance. Listening and connecting to the sound. Less is telling more. Thanks for this amazing reminder and production, really inspiring
How to distill the essence of a jam into a song is incredibly valuable for my style and the stage I’m at in my music journey, so thank you! Also appreciate the production value and your taste in music and voicings - I love Alfa Mist, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Robert Glasper (also Nujabes, Emancipator, Bonobo, Phaeleh ...)
You are an excellent teacher!! I cannot stress this enough. I understood everything on multiple levels, and was able to apply it to my own music immediately. I feel like this knowledge has become part of me, and I even feel like I could teach it, lol. I wish all the tutorials on youtube were this good. fr. thank you!!
You made my day a thousand trillions better. A couple years ago when composing randomly without focus (when you just play things for hours till something sounds good out of nowhere, which is the most unproductive way to achieve your goal) i just did that exactly cadence relationship you teach without knowing. But that made me aware of that cadence and I start noticing it in a lot of songs, even ones released after that. But now I understand what happened cause you dissected everything in a way that even my dumdum brainy got the full image. And is pleasant like school days when I understand some mathematics. Barely happened, but still
I just realixed after a couple weeks of watching all your videos I accidentally forgot to subscribe. So I fixed that. Man these videos are so good. The quality of the production is just crazy
I clicked on the video. Got immediately confused. Then to my surpris concluded it was in fact a great click. Awesome video man, explained a bunch of things that I previously had only half understood. Playing over the barline can breathe live into a boring melody rhythm !
hey Jaron! great video (again!). Found your channel a few weeks ago and I'm really enjoying and learning thanks to the way you explain and deconstruct harmony, melody and theory. Keep it up! Great job, cheers from barcelona!
i wrote a song a long time ago, when i got my first keyboard and first crush.. it was called "bf". because that was the chord progression. at 12yo i "found" these EXACT chords by putting the keyborard in 'fingered' mode and pressing a bunch of keys until it sounded cool. then i figured out how to play the right keys by ear. then i wrote a song... i used a tape recorder (and two tapes) to record me drumming on various things at home: (tape 1)the toybox was the kick, i used a toy to hit the bedframe as a snare and i think i 'beatboxed' the hats. then i played it in the stereo and played my keyboard over it, while recording with the tape recorder(tape 2). then i wrote my lyrics (BARS) and recorded them on the first tape.(usually on the other side, but i was 12. it was 1996) i basically invented low-fi hip-hop for a girl, now that i think about it. (t.k. kirkland vibes) when i played the song i wrote for her she cried, because she was embarrassed and she didn't "like me like me". but everybody thought the song was dope. but i kinda hid my music after that because.. mah pride.
of course my song sounded like an ambitious 12yo made it. with the lowest of quality. and absolutely 0 knowledge. its basically just a "drum" beat, two chords with some noodling on the high end, and a 12year old (who listened to outkast and goodie mob RELIGIOUSLY), 'rapping about how he should be her boyfriend because "boyfriend starts with bf, and it would be def" just for contex.
This video popped up at the exact perfect time for me. Writing some jazzy beats trying to figure out why they sound so basic and bland even though I'm using minor 9th chords and stuff.
You are up there with Adam Neely when it comes music education, man. Your videos are superb! Your way of teaching is just perfect. For musicians on all levels! What I am wondering is, what is the theory behind the notes played by the fretless bass that aren't the root note? (Very nice bass playing btw)
I don't fully know the answer as I'm not a bass player nor am I Jaron, but my guess would be that the bass is just playing around on the chord tones of the two chords, particularly the main chord tones and then finding good voice leading and complementary motion to go in between chords, so you could for example go from the Db in the Bb minor 11 to the C in the Fminor 11 (which is a half-step down) and then jump up a minor third to the Eb. Enclosures or when you kind of go above and below a note you want to hit before you actually hit it are pretty powerful too. You just gotta make sure you hit the root note at the same time you hit the chord if you want the harmony of the chord to come out as you intended. I think the fundamentals of like a walking bassline in standard ballad jazz are definitely applicable to all genres and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what he was pulling from here
5:23 I instantly recognized this chord from the silent hill 2 soundtrack called "Magdalene". Out of curiosity, I checked to see if it was actually that chord and woah...
Kind of, in the way that a voicing is just another way of "spelling" the notes in a chord. However, the distinguishing feature of an inversion is the note that's in the bass. Depending on the chord tone that's in the bass, it will give the chord a different quality. For example, if you play a major triad with the root note in the bass, the function of the chord is basically just your tonic or your home base. However, if you put the third in the bass (AKA first inversion), the chord sounds a lot less settled. Try it out and get familiar with the sound of a first or second inversion chord, and I guarantee you'll start hearing it in a lot of music! Feel free to message me if you have other questions too :)
@@audendykes4355 Sweet! Thanks so much. That actually psuedo answered another question id been kicking around. All i have heard about for invertions has the notes in the same order. R-3-5 regardless of wich is the bass, it goes in that order. 3-5-R, 5-3-R. Never R-5-3 or the like. I havnt looked into it so is this dependent on the instruments capabilities, or is that a Voicing instead of Invertion? and Ive just been thinking about it wrong?
@@johngriffon2118 I don't actually play guitar so I'm not sure if you're referring to like the order in which you pluck the strings, but generally the lowest note you play is going to be perceived as the root note of that chord. So if you take a C major triad for example, which is C-E-G, and then play E as the lowest note and C and G above, then that chord is in first inversion technically. If you played C->G->E, that would still be a root position C major triad but in a different voicing. So again it's really about the lowest note in the chord, because the human brain will kind of recognize the harmony of a chord based on the lowest frequency in a chord. And regarding the capability of different instruments to play inversions, any instrument that can play more than 1 note at a time can technically play a chord, so guitars, pianos, and a lot of other stuff lol. I hope that answered your question!
RIP Ryuichi Sakamoto, truely an inspirational composer and human being.
Omg. He was my childhood hero. :'(
Had to pause in the middle of the video to say: Your editing, your teaching, your musical talent, your voice, almost everything seems perfect to me. I went into this with bad vibes and already feel much better. Lately producing felt stagnant to me, but you give so much dimension to chords, it is unreal. I feel like i need to get more complex, but the fun in creating gets lost. Thanks for reminding me on how to get things going again. Wishing you the best on your journey.
for real. i had the exact same experience. he's almost too good!
same
exactly
the video quality just SKYROCKETED with this one! I am AMAZED.
Thanks Heimekyo!
God this must've taken SO long to produce, your effort is noted and appreciated Jaron
going from an f chord to a b flat chord is literally my favorite chord progression haha
as a hip-hop producer, it's been my secret sauce for years. he basically broke down the exact keys i play. lol
I love this song and have been bumping it on my “lofi beats to help you pretend to work” playlist since it came out. You are one of the few RUclips tutorial creators whose music stands on its own, keep up the great work all around.
One of my favorite channels
Your videos are consistently among the best producer and theory videos, and this one is my favorite so far. Amazing work. Thank you!
i love these chords that vibe videos lol. i switched majors when none of my peers in my music course seemed interested in the artists like yussef dayes and alfa mist and am very happy when i see internet videos mentioning these composers and the harmonies they write. thank you :)
Had to comment cos after all these years, i FINALLY get how chords work, no more flukes. Thank YOU!
Yo! I've been just using my ear and "feel" for like 20 years, no lie. THIS video made it click.
Your videos are fire. The way you teach theory and integrate it with different styles is amazing. I learn a lot with each of your tutorials and, above all, a different perspective to make my own compositions 🙏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻
Absolutely amazing. You condensed knowledge and wisdom I learned the hard way over 10 years of producing and practicing the piano. Vertical and horizontal, improvised and composed. Balance and imbalance. Listening and connecting to the sound. Less is telling more. Thanks for this amazing reminder and production, really inspiring
Thank you for your explanation of music, Jaron. Finally I understand something of music!
the birds chirping in the back made this extra beautiful
Quiz 1 - Bach, BWV 1080, Fugue
How to distill the essence of a jam into a song is incredibly valuable for my style and the stage I’m at in my music journey, so thank you!
Also appreciate the production value and your taste in music and voicings - I love Alfa Mist, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Robert Glasper (also Nujabes, Emancipator, Bonobo, Phaeleh ...)
You make it feel like a friend is patiently explaining this to me, and that totally got rid of the anxiety I normally feel around theory.
You are an excellent teacher!! I cannot stress this enough. I understood everything on multiple levels, and was able to apply it to my own music immediately. I feel like this knowledge has become part of me, and I even feel like I could teach it, lol. I wish all the tutorials on youtube were this good. fr. thank you!!
Your bass playing sounds lovely.
this i s next level of music theory explanation, I'd wager he's better explaining this than any professor I could pay
One of the best videos i've come across in a long time. Amazing musician, amazing teacher. The video was laid out perfectly too. Thank you.
You made my day a thousand trillions better. A couple years ago when composing randomly without focus (when you just play things for hours till something sounds good out of nowhere, which is the most unproductive way to achieve your goal) i just did that exactly cadence relationship you teach without knowing. But that made me aware of that cadence and I start noticing it in a lot of songs, even ones released after that. But now I understand what happened cause you dissected everything in a way that even my dumdum brainy got the full image. And is pleasant like school days when I understand some mathematics. Barely happened, but still
Oh great vid btw liked and sub 🔥🎉💜
I am out of words of how freaking amazing the video quality and the content is! keep up!
alfa mist,Knxwledge, sakamoto all have banger music
love this guy so much my goodness
wow bro you spitting, great video. Love how i know what you’re saying but never knew some phrases, great stuff.
my man the way you edit & explain some of these concepts is super well done and helpful. Great stuff!
I just want you to know that your sense of humor is coming across, in case you had any doubt. Great video.
Another banger video, this rules so much
I just realixed after a couple weeks of watching all your videos I accidentally forgot to subscribe. So I fixed that. Man these videos are so good. The quality of the production is just crazy
Great video, and I love the typo at 12.47 - i'm almost hoping that it is intentional!
THIS. This is what i've been tryna sus out for ages oml thank you!
On fire man! Amazing video as always
Thanks for the positivity Goose!
I clicked on the video. Got immediately confused. Then to my surpris concluded it was in fact a great click.
Awesome video man, explained a bunch of things that I previously had only half understood.
Playing over the barline can breathe live into a boring melody rhythm !
I understand very little, but your videos are a great inspiration to learn music. Thanks! elsewhere is a magical track ❤
Quiz #5 Yes!
But but… if a song just descided to break off and meander like the first example for 30 secs or even a min before going back in… I’d LOVE that.
bro you know what you did with the way you recorded this man. trippy
Best production tutorials on YT. Keep it up, proud of you :^)
love this guy
you're the best teacher i ever had
very educational, me like these videos mon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are a true inspiration, i hope one day i will have the same knowledge as you
Great video!
Hey Aron, thanks for checking it out!
I usually omit the 5th in my minor 11 voicings, but leaving it in is pretty cool too
thank you for the insight that was very helpful, and "elsewhere" is a banger!
Thank You so much for this lessons. The way you approach the topics it's very clear, keep making these type of videos!
hey Jaron! great video (again!). Found your channel a few weeks ago and I'm really enjoying and learning thanks to the way you explain and deconstruct harmony, melody and theory. Keep it up! Great job, cheers from barcelona!
Incredible explanation. Fantastic video. One of my all-time best subs.
Jaron, ill walk with you anywhere
I can’t wait for everyone to sound like “chords to vibe” to
what a great video
THANK YOU!!
Dope video and really nice tune, reminds me of "world without words" and I think most of what you said there also applies to that track
Those chords are beautiful..
Absolutely amazing attention to detail
*permanent smolder*
you are the goat
nice piano sound!
just wow ❤
i wrote a song a long time ago, when i got my first keyboard and first crush.. it was called "bf". because that was the chord progression. at 12yo i "found" these EXACT chords by putting the keyborard in 'fingered' mode and pressing a bunch of keys until it sounded cool. then i figured out how to play the right keys by ear. then i wrote a song...
i used a tape recorder (and two tapes) to record me drumming on various things at home: (tape 1)the toybox was the kick, i used a toy to hit the bedframe as a snare and i think i 'beatboxed' the hats.
then i played it in the stereo and played my keyboard over it, while recording with the tape recorder(tape 2).
then i wrote my lyrics (BARS) and recorded them on the first tape.(usually on the other side, but i was 12. it was 1996)
i basically invented low-fi hip-hop for a girl, now that i think about it. (t.k. kirkland vibes)
when i played the song i wrote for her she cried, because she was embarrassed and she didn't "like me like me". but everybody thought the song was dope. but i kinda hid my music after that because.. mah pride.
of course my song sounded like an ambitious 12yo made it. with the lowest of quality. and absolutely 0 knowledge. its basically just a "drum" beat, two chords with some noodling on the high end, and a 12year old (who listened to outkast and goodie mob RELIGIOUSLY), 'rapping about how he should be her boyfriend because "boyfriend starts with bf, and it would be def"
just for contex.
Amazing video, your videos are always golden and ur music is always beautiful
Excellent communicative cadence!
bro i love the way you explain this stuff these videos are so amazinggg thank u
amazing, you should get more views. So much crap out there, and this is the real deal!! And YES to sample pack, plz
God bless you . This is gold
Dude you make music theory fun!!!!
Such a good video, this is going to be very helpful
dude you are so good at teaching!
love the style on this, great work brother
Nice.
love your videos, dude! so clear and thorough and practical
also your fretless bass playing is hella impressive!!
Excelent video, thank you! And great production too!
love these
why the bassline gotta be so nice tho
ur the best
You freaking rock
Love your content, keep it up !
Thank you for you for this!
Really nice work thank you !
Ryuichi, Robert Glasper AND Knowledge? Let’s see if the video delivers !
your videos are solid
This video popped up at the exact perfect time for me. Writing some jazzy beats trying to figure out why they sound so basic and bland even though I'm using minor 9th chords and stuff.
yay love these!!
such a beast
Your bass looks and sounds awesome! I've been thinking of buying a fretless. What is it?
There's a fine line between total dweeb and coolest dude on the internet. Great video.
You are up there with Adam Neely when it comes music education, man. Your videos are superb! Your way of teaching is just perfect. For musicians on all levels! What I am wondering is, what is the theory behind the notes played by the fretless bass that aren't the root note? (Very nice bass playing btw)
I don't fully know the answer as I'm not a bass player nor am I Jaron, but my guess would be that the bass is just playing around on the chord tones of the two chords, particularly the main chord tones and then finding good voice leading and complementary motion to go in between chords, so you could for example go from the Db in the Bb minor 11 to the C in the Fminor 11 (which is a half-step down) and then jump up a minor third to the Eb. Enclosures or when you kind of go above and below a note you want to hit before you actually hit it are pretty powerful too. You just gotta make sure you hit the root note at the same time you hit the chord if you want the harmony of the chord to come out as you intended. I think the fundamentals of like a walking bassline in standard ballad jazz are definitely applicable to all genres and I wouldn't be surprised if that's what he was pulling from here
5:23 I instantly recognized this chord from the silent hill 2 soundtrack called "Magdalene". Out of curiosity, I checked to see if it was actually that chord and woah...
The piece is little fouge in g minor by bach. Its a fouge
Very insightful videos. Any chance you would do a dream pop track tutorial, perhaps a Beach House style track?
I love you
How are you making videos on the exact artists I listen to?? Keep it up, love the content.
Is voicing the same as an invertion? Or is it a similar concept, but different mechanic? (Beginner guitarist for knowledge reference 😅)
Kind of, in the way that a voicing is just another way of "spelling" the notes in a chord. However, the distinguishing feature of an inversion is the note that's in the bass. Depending on the chord tone that's in the bass, it will give the chord a different quality. For example, if you play a major triad with the root note in the bass, the function of the chord is basically just your tonic or your home base. However, if you put the third in the bass (AKA first inversion), the chord sounds a lot less settled. Try it out and get familiar with the sound of a first or second inversion chord, and I guarantee you'll start hearing it in a lot of music! Feel free to message me if you have other questions too :)
@@audendykes4355 Sweet! Thanks so much. That actually psuedo answered another question id been kicking around. All i have heard about for invertions has the notes in the same order. R-3-5 regardless of wich is the bass, it goes in that order. 3-5-R, 5-3-R. Never R-5-3 or the like. I havnt looked into it so is this dependent on the instruments capabilities, or is that a Voicing instead of Invertion? and Ive just been thinking about it wrong?
@@johngriffon2118 I don't actually play guitar so I'm not sure if you're referring to like the order in which you pluck the strings, but generally the lowest note you play is going to be perceived as the root note of that chord. So if you take a C major triad for example, which is C-E-G, and then play E as the lowest note and C and G above, then that chord is in first inversion technically. If you played C->G->E, that would still be a root position C major triad but in a different voicing. So again it's really about the lowest note in the chord, because the human brain will kind of recognize the harmony of a chord based on the lowest frequency in a chord. And regarding the capability of different instruments to play inversions, any instrument that can play more than 1 note at a time can technically play a chord, so guitars, pianos, and a lot of other stuff lol. I hope that answered your question!
@@audendykes4355 Absolutely lol. Thanks you answered i perfectly. Been wondering about it for a while now.
@@johngriffon2118 Happy to help! feel free to message me if you ever have any other questions :)
Bach - Die Kunst der Fuge
Could you share in a video about your bass tone and playing style. Just listening to your latest work on Spotify it’s a beautiful restrained tone
quiz 4 - sequence
Looks like the rest have been answered.
Assuming the orientation hes talking abiut is the lick?
quiz 3 - enclosure?
why Knxwledge?
Probably because he’s one of the better known producers who makes this style of music and uses this type of chord voicings I would assume.