Crazy. I was just about requesting a breakdown of the string section as well, because it sounded so Clare Fischer to me (Prince's favourite string arranger) - now i read your comment learning it actually is a Fischer arrangement (by Clare's son).
This is so cool, I did an arrangement of this tune for a show, the more I dove into it the more I'd discover about D'angelos almost flexible use of harmony and form. I could have used this information for sure, it's challenging picking the chords out by ear, great job
Nice to see you still rocking D'Angelo. Congratulations on your newborn! Would be nice to see you dissect Erykah Badu - Other Side Of The Game, another great track by soulful R&B neo soul legends.
Great videos, my high school students had a great time jamming with Just the Two of Us in class prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. Love this tune, so slick!
I love your channel. Im a soul singer/ sax player that writes with keys. Your ideas been giving my tunes flavor. I also love your harmonic minor and Brecker licks. I use them at jazz jams.
damn, have been looping your old breakdown analysis vids, wondering where you've been, but congrats for the second kid Jeff!!! by the way, that new circle of fifths chart with those arrows are amazing!!
It's always a pleasure watching your vidz. Really helps improving harmonical understanding which (sometimes) isn't so easy for us bass players:) By the way, your back light looks like a full moon:) Keep on doing that good stuff! And enjoy the time with your second child!
Congratulations and welcome back. I've been listening to this song every day this year and now you're analyzing it. Did you spend time away spying on subscribers? If yes, thanks for doing my song first lol
This is my favorite song ever. That being said...you're off the mark in the harmonic rhythm breakdown. The Em7 chord comes in as a two count pick up, not on the downbeat. The element of swing is really important in digesting the song as a whole. Also, will there be a breakdown of the bridge/B section back into the A section?
Congrats on your second ONE! Good luck. Hey I love this this type of videos, they are pretty simple and helpful and full of good hints. Variations on 6-2-5-1 will never be out of fashion, this composition shows the author has imagination. Thanks
Jeff I love the video editing as well as tutorial content. Do you mind disclosing what program you used to edit so that the photos and text slide into frame. Thanks
I am not sure to understand B7 doesn't belong to E minor (because E flat which is the third of B7 doesn't belong to the key of E minor). From my perspective it should be Bm7 (Phrygian). Someone can explain maybe?
The way that V chords work is that if you're going from V->I they're allowed to be dom7 no matter what. This is because of how well Vdom7 resolves to a I , even if the I is minor. So when he talks about using the B7 being a secondary dominant, basically he's referring to the phenomenon that if you're going somewhere (going to the Em), the V7 of THAT CHORD will always sound good before it. So the composer's thought process here is "I'm going to Em, and a chord that always works before Em is Em's V chord" which in this case is the B7. I'm using absolutist words like "always". While it's not technically correct, it's best that you think of it that way for now until you get better enough to know when that's not the case.
If it resolves to E I wouldnt interpret it as a secondary dominant, but borrowing the 5 chord from the parallel harmonic minor. It's a really common thing especially in classical music. Ancient and common
It's like modal interchange. Exchanging phrygian for phrygian dominant aka V7 in harmonic minor. Borrowing the natural 7 as the major 3rd of the 5 chord resolves stronger than a minor 7 because it is temporarily visiting a scale with more tension.
Question. I would like to make a transcription channel for piano scores. Do I have to contact the owners of the audio performances before I sync audio with sheet music? Thanks a ton!
It'd be helpful to have something like Synthesia where one sees clearly what notes are played at any time. It's harder to follow along when you have to look where your fingers land. Otherwise, fantastic resource
Ah, the good old 6-2-5-1 progression. 😍
Would love to see more D'Angelo breakdowns, absolutely fascinated by his writing, and I love your explanations!
Congrats on your baby. We missed you :)
D'Angelo's chord progressions just blow me away... he is absolutely one of the best 2 ever do it... great video
Was really hoping to finally hear a breakdown of the Brent Fischer string arrangement in the intro.
Really was looking forward to this too
stay tuned
Crazy. I was just about requesting a breakdown of the string section as well, because it sounded so Clare Fischer to me (Prince's favourite string arranger) - now i read your comment learning it actually is a Fischer arrangement (by Clare's son).
Ahhh, from the seductive but heartbreaking intro to D'angelo's soulful singing. Though he's old his voice stays the same
old???
This is so cool, I did an arrangement of this tune for a show, the more I dove into it the more I'd discover about D'angelos almost flexible use of harmony and form. I could have used this information for sure, it's challenging picking the chords out by ear, great job
AWESOME! Please do Another Life by D'Angelo!
heavenly arranggement
Yeeeea
Congratulations Jeff. Thank you for this wonderful tutorial. loved it!
Congratulations on the beautiful baby and glad to have you back.
Congratulations Jeff
I’m late to this channel. Congratulations on your beautiful child and thank you for your great approach to music education.
I like the little drawings, welcome back!
Congrats on the addition t your family. Stay blessed.
were you reading my mind? I was just working this song out a few days ago! your analysis is always helpful!
Welcome back Jeff, CONGRATS to you and your family! Love your tutorials and I can't get enough! Sending you love from Australia and New Zealand! xxx
Nice to see you still rocking D'Angelo. Congratulations on your newborn! Would be nice to see you dissect Erykah Badu - Other Side Of The Game, another great track by soulful R&B neo soul legends.
This song was written for the same person (Gina Figueroa) that Spanish Joint was written for. She does the spoken word at the beginning of the song
Great videos, my high school students had a great time jamming with Just the Two of Us in class prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. Love this tune, so slick!
This song is 🔥
D’Angelo is genuis
Right when I'm listening to D'Angelo, great timing!
How my favourite music theory youtuber covering my favourite Black Messiah song 🥰😍
Jeff Schneider you’re beyond awesome my friend. Thank you for the great lessons!!!!
yamowant that for sure
I love your channel. Im a soul singer/ sax player that writes with keys. Your ideas been giving my tunes flavor. I also love your harmonic minor and Brecker licks. I use them at jazz jams.
Thanks I just got motivated again, I play bass and Guitar
Very interested in the string section stuff!!! Fantastic stuff as always, looking forward to more. Congrats too
Congratulations on the new born Jeff!
Hi Jeff, my vote is for the always hip, Mikey McD version of 'What a fool believes'
amazingly informative
damn, have been looping your old breakdown analysis vids, wondering where you've been, but congrats for the second kid Jeff!!! by the way, that new circle of fifths chart with those arrows are amazing!!
Great breakdown , thankyou
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing! More of D'
Cool Jeff, great to see you back! I always get a so much from your videos.
amazing
Congrats 🎉 J wish you much luck.
THANK YOU from CA
Very Well Done... Bravo!
Congrats on your baby
Congrats on ur baby girl Jeff!I I love this song,love D''Ángelo,love the vid...love you Jeff! :)
Congrats 🎊
King is back! 👑
It's always a pleasure watching your vidz. Really helps improving harmonical understanding which (sometimes) isn't so easy for us bass players:) By the way, your back light looks like a full moon:) Keep on doing that good stuff! And enjoy the time with your second child!
Congrats! thank you for the lesson
Hi. Please breakdown the Song “ sent it on. “I love Dangelo breakdowns
Thanks Jeff! Would love to hear about the string intro and also D'Angelo's use of vocal harmonies in general.
Damn just hits us w the D ..... Angelo that is
Good stuff! AlwYs guaranteed views for the life of this video!
whoa there buddy lmao
LYTE Yearz haha they didn’t have a baby for no reason 😂he knows all about that
@@jambajoby32 hahahaha true 🤣
Congratulations and welcome back.
I've been listening to this song every day this year and now you're analyzing it.
Did you spend time away spying on subscribers? If yes, thanks for doing my song first lol
I love this format!!! Hella useful!!!
I'm in really love with this song, awesome breakdown my man!
I'm playing guitar, but your channel is great, thanks for your vids! :)
great stuff, love that progression!
great video man
Jeff you're a gentleman.
glad you're back!
This is my favorite song ever. That being said...you're off the mark in the harmonic rhythm breakdown. The Em7 chord comes in as a two count pick up, not on the downbeat. The element of swing is really important in digesting the song as a whole. Also, will there be a breakdown of the bridge/B section back into the A section?
Please look into the guitar part too. I'd love to learn how to play it 🙏🏼
Love it! Thank you. Hope you sing this for your beautiful baby too :)
D'ANGELO "SMOOTH" POR FABOR
I hope you’re doing okay being the in New York and your family is healthy Jeff!
What a great track. Please do analyze the string intro as well!
Congrats!
can you PLEASE analyze Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine. Such an overlooked classic imo
Congratulations Jeff.
I love your singing 😂😂😂
Congrats on your second ONE! Good luck. Hey I love this this type of videos, they are pretty simple and helpful and full of good hints. Variations on 6-2-5-1 will never be out of fashion, this composition shows the author has imagination. Thanks
definitely gotta do the string section later
Excellent, thank you. Would you do an analysis of Wave by Jobin
YO thank you so much man!!
Can we have a 2nd part of this analysis?
Congrats on the birth of your daughter!
This is soooo DOPEE!! 🔥🔥🔥❤️🎹
Man those extensions are saucy
Nice
Congratulations on your baby girl :)
This song should be a jazz standard in its own right
Jeff I love the video editing as well as tutorial content. Do you mind disclosing what program you used to edit so that the photos and text slide into frame. Thanks
I am not sure to understand B7 doesn't belong to E minor (because E flat which is the third of B7 doesn't belong to the key of E minor). From my perspective it should be Bm7 (Phrygian). Someone can explain maybe?
The way that V chords work is that if you're going from V->I they're allowed to be dom7 no matter what. This is because of how well Vdom7 resolves to a I , even if the I is minor. So when he talks about using the B7 being a secondary dominant, basically he's referring to the phenomenon that if you're going somewhere (going to the Em), the V7 of THAT CHORD will always sound good before it.
So the composer's thought process here is "I'm going to Em, and a chord that always works before Em is Em's V chord" which in this case is the B7.
I'm using absolutist words like "always". While it's not technically correct, it's best that you think of it that way for now until you get better enough to know when that's not the case.
If it resolves to E I wouldnt interpret it as a secondary dominant, but borrowing the 5 chord from the parallel harmonic minor. It's a really common thing especially in classical music. Ancient and common
It's like modal interchange. Exchanging phrygian for phrygian dominant aka V7 in harmonic minor. Borrowing the natural 7 as the major 3rd of the 5 chord resolves stronger than a minor 7 because it is temporarily visiting a scale with more tension.
Thanks again. I use your chords for guitar. That's what I play.
Hi Jeff! I wonder If you could breakdown chord progression from Chopin prelude in e minor?
this rules
Whats the purpose of the flat 5 in the F# in the second ii V I progression of the verse?
do you do latin jazz breakdowns : Maeva in Wonderland
Yes! That string intro definitely needs to be addressed.
Can you please do a tutorial on “Kid Again” The acoustic version By PJ Morton??? Please!!
Hi! How do you split your screen and add the cam for your piano? Big thanks!
string quartet intro plssss
SP, Brasil, 2020
I love you
hows the hand?
Congrats on your new child.
This is great breakdown video! Btw, what pinao instruments are you using? Sounding really gorgeous.
what about the bridge?
Kinda like brazilian bossa. strong minor dominant
Question. I would like to make a transcription channel for piano scores. Do I have to contact the owners of the audio performances before I sync audio with sheet music? Thanks a ton!
Oh snap, u Sangin 2 😜
When people start talking music language I just take that time to think about something else meanwhile
Fuck yes
Hi jeff...
It'd be helpful to have something like Synthesia where one sees clearly what notes are played at any time. It's harder to follow along when you have to look where your fingers land. Otherwise, fantastic resource
Wow!
And - how 'bout them strings?! :-)