The SECRET Anime Chord Japan has been hiding from us?
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Let's explore the elusive Blackadder Chord, well known amongst Japanese music nerds but virtually unknown here in the US.
Special thanks to Joshua from Ongaku Concept for letting me use part of his vid and giving me some links to research. Check out his video on the topic! • The Blackadder Chord |...
Special thanks to Alvin Yang for letting me use part of his cover! • 【Kaguya-sama: Love is ...
Special thanks to Jen Grenrock for the new channel logo/icon! Commission her: / yoonkush
Learn more about the Blackadder Chord:
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Songs used:
Shakunetsu Switch - Shakunetsu no Takyuu Musume
Shining☆Star - Lovelyz
Temple of Time - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
K.K. Bossa - Animal Crossing: The Movie
Wii Sports Resort Theme - Wii Sports
Daddy! Daddy! Do! Cover - Alvin Yang
Wow I love finding smaller creators who make such well put together videos about obscure content.
I also love this chord and will be stealing it from the japanese because it's great.
thank you so much! and absolutely, the blackadder chord is so underrated
you got me good calling breath of the wild a first-person shooter. super informative video.
i spat tea everywhere orz
So, I looked into the いきすぎ (ikisugi) thing out of sheer curiosity...
At first I didn't think it was too bad and then I looked in images and found a Japanese meme, watched the video on RUclips and now I understand EVERYTHING
The meme started when a drafted baseball player actually appeared in a gay video. An impassioned performer in the video shouted "Ikisugi", which spread the line, and one keyboardist called the black adder code the "Ikisugi code", making it popular among Japanese. The name has spread.
yarimasune!
4:55 "As much as we all enjoy cartoons for children, let's move on to a more mature medium, video-games." I feel triggered
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ( IM CRYING INSIDE)
This is pretty sick, i wish there was more discussion around what Japanese composers have been doing with these chords.
It's a super interesting topic to me
those shakunetsu and shining star ones reaaally caught me off guard damn, actually got goosebumps
Thanks for the video, really cool stuff !
This chord also shows up in Fire Man's stage for Mega Man Network Transmission. It comes during a super simple repeating melodic figure that just keeps getting spiced up.
Thank you very much for this interesting and informative video!
Please allow me to add two things:
1. I think this chord did first appear in music of late romanticism. With a very short research I could find an example in Scriabines Piano Sonata No. 4, seven bars before the ending of the first movement, induced by a contrary chromatic movement.
2. In terms of jazz theory it seems absolutely adequate to me to interpret the use of this chord in many cases as a SubV. In terms of classical theory I'd sometimes describe it (of course depending on the special context) as the second inversion of a major triad with "dis-altered" fifth - often in the function of a dominant, although without a 7 -, for example in a progression like: c-f-a-c - cb-f-a-c# - bb-f-a-d (the forementioned example from Scriabine is very close to the retrograde version of this progression); so the second chord has the b5 as the base tone and the #5 as the upper tone (a previous commentator wrote something very similar; I beg your pardon for repetition😉).
Anyway, your video is very inspiring, thanks again!
Idek how I got recommended this. However, it has completely captivated me and I’m definitely going try to implement this into a song one day. Thank ya for the great video Chief!
I like to call this chord the Japanese augmented sixth chord, to connect it to Italian/French/German augmented sixth chords, which also conventionally go down by a semitone.
Ongaku Concept (the guy who i referenced in the vid) calls it that as well! makes sense to me and fits nicely with the naming convention
This is the first time I've heard of this cool little chord, and it sounds really fun to play around with! Great video on the subject, I always love learning about new chords I can use in my music!
I'm really happy to have discovered you, super interesting videos explained well and also with transcriptions with lots of good examples, you're amazing!
Did you compose the Naruto remix at the end of the video?
thanks! and yes that's me
These are great examples! Thanks for making a cool video!
this is good stuff.I will definitely use this chord in my writing! You should continue these analysis type vids
thanks for the kind words! glad you liked it, I already have a few more analysis vids lined up and will hopefully continue after that
@@CadenceHira Awesome! :)
@@CadenceHira yay!
Videos like this make me realize how little music theory I actually know. The K.K. Bossa example was amazing! I'm surprised people didn't find examples of the blackadder chord in bossa nova, it seems like it fits right in that genre.
One place I've seen a blackadder is the track Gentle Rain from Mother 3. There, it's an C+/F# chord resolving to F major.
Personally I'd see it as an Augmented 6th style chord. It's basically a French 6th, but with the 3rd replaced with a 2nd, which in a standard Aug6th voice leading would resolve up a semitone going enharmonically from the m7 to M7 of the key (assuming it's resolving to the dominant and not a secondary dominant), which I believe is a fairly common voicing in Japanese pop music. If I were to name it, I might call it a Japanese 6th to fit with the Italian, French, and German naming convention, but naming things because the name sounds cool is perfectly valid, especially since most of the examples in this video use it slightly differently, even though it still mostly has a pre-dominant function
HUH. Wow, that's actually really interesting. I've definitely HEARD the chord before, but to be able to notate it and see it constructed from the ground up. You have AMAZING content btw, and I hope more people see your videos! ^^
Now this is the content i want on my recommendations
海外にも波が広がってる！！
田中秀和の名前を海外にも広めてくれてありがとう！
I love Tanaka Hidekazu (MONACA) & His musics!
My resent favorites is "Batsu to batsu" by Kano, "Susume otome" Idol master, "V ji joushou victory" Shakunetsu no takkyu musume, "Onnanoko ni naritai" by mafumafu, "GO-MA-N-E-TSU" Tenka hyakken
Thank you for the recommendations, I'll check them out! :D
@@CadenceHira
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing the secrets of the Blackadder. Such a tasty chord!
gonna be stealing this from now on haha. Great job again!
thanks Lucas :D
2:02 *that sounds so good*
ikisugi chord
無理やり訳するならorgasmuch chordになるんだろうか
ikisugi! iku! iku !iku ! Ah!
I know an instance of this chord being used in a jazz tune by bill evans that I really like called "Re: Person I Knew'' it has has a C pedal point throughout the tune and the second chord is an F#+/C which then resolves to Bb/C
Another function of this chord that isnt mentioned is how it can also function as a V7 Aug in 3rd inversion. For example D maj7 -> Daug / C (enharmonic blackadder) -> Gmaj7 / B.
4:03 this bassline broke my brain
イキスギコード海外進出してんのまじで草
Ikisugi chordsの発音良すぎて吹いた
I see the chord on Daddy Daddy Do as just a passing chord, but inverted, like a V7(b13) over its 5th
to me; the colour of the blackadder is kind of this preparatory phrase in the music. in the japanese, iki sugi (going to extreme/ going to cool)* implies that "we are going even further beyond"** kind of a "plus ultra"** kind of saying. thus with the progression, yes it climbs and instead of a reaching the summit/apotheosis, you hit this colour of the blackadder and realize you can "go even further beyond"**, thus it sells the climb of the progression. I can only imagine what it would be like to hit that super satifying I from V after the blackadder.
*sorry my japanese is super rudimentary
**sorry anime fan, had to get those dbz and heroaca references
nice references lol, also yeah i definitely agree
Actualy, Ikisugi or イキスギィ is Japanese internet slang that came from Japanese gay video which means 'cumming hard'. The man who coined ikisugi chord term even said that listening this chord is like having a strange relaxation feeling after urinating.
O__O.....
@@Needmore27 O__O
very well done once again
Very interesting, I'll keep this in mind. Thank you for the video, would love to see more!
well earned sub. Coltrane changes vid started me on my journey, now I wanna watch more of your vids
Excellent Video! (:
Great video! I'll definitely be stealing this lol
Ty for listing the songs used :D
Just analysed 'Liszt - R.W - Venezia' composed 1883, surprised to find the Blackadder chord, though not used in the same way.
You could also interpret it as an augmented chord with a minor 7th in third inversion built on the minor third degree of the scale, i.e. a bIII6#/2, which then resolves to the tonic; in functional harmony, it would be a counter parallel dominant 7th chord, i.e. a dG5#/7. That way, it never lacks a third.
When used as a secondary bIII6#/2 → V (or as a (dG5#/7)[D]), it could be named as a "Japanese augmented sixth" chord (or Jp2), bearing resemblance to the usual German, Italian and French chords.
Well, this chord is definitely going into my bands next song.
this is cool! love the sour (but kinda sweet) tension it adds
I tend to voice it also with the 13th of the root.. e.g. C Bb D F# A (Bb+Maj7/C ? lol)
This chords will be great in midi format
...and also will be easier to catch it with the ear 😁
high quality tho i thought you are a big youtuber til i saw the amount of subcriber
Your videos are fantastic
I think about it as an augmented chord with either a bas a major second, minor seventh, or tritone interval down from the root of the Augmented chord I play
You can find this chord in Bill Evans piece Re:Person I Knew
I friggin love jpop im kinda envious of japanese music nerds because they get to experience music at the fullest
I heard that Hidekazu Tanaka actually applied for Nintendo as a composer and went to the final interview, but failed and participated in the current MONACA.
(google translated)
never knew about that, neat!
Am I crazy or does anyone also notice that anime songs tend to go a half step down in their progressions to create tension? (Sorry, I don't know any musical theory so I'm describing it as best as I can)
Like say you got a chord G then you'll go into F# major next while the melody goes higher.
great video!
thanks!
This has been so informative. I knew that Japanese music is unique...and there you go, you've just proved it 🙏🏻
Went over my head. Nice outro BTW
I like your shorthand for quartal chords. Is that usage common?
Thanks! I haven't seen anyone else use this specific shorthand, but I'm sure there are similar notations out there
Cadence Hira Well I'll gladly copy you haha
lol you used Korea version of Shining Star song what sa nice surprise as a fellow of Korean :)
this is blowing my mind
7:14 at that C9(#11) the melody needs to be F# D Bb D instead of F# D B D
I love the content of Blackadder, thx and it gives me a lot more to explore!
JUICY
Love these kind of videos
JAPAN SONG HAS THE BEST CHORD PROGESSION
Good Stuff!!
that song is actually the best song, its just a F 7 #11 chord though
Cadence one day I want to be your friend from japan
Lyrics in Romaji “because I’m dumb” LOL
nice
Ikisugi chord…
yarimasune!
Is this the same as the first chord in the Beach Boys' When I Grow Up To Be A Man?
Yo is your ending song a bossa version of the MGS theme? Nice
イキスギコードは海を越えるんだね
5:44 what are those chord symbols qtl3, qtl4 and what does the asterik next to the Em7(11) mean?
it's notation i made up to notate quartal chords. qtl for quartal and the number indicates how many 4ths up it goes. the asterisk next to the Em7(11) Links (lol) to the text underneath, which says kind of because I didn't feel like just calling it an Em7(11). but it mostly is.
"The Blackadder functions in a nonfunctional way" dude I hate music theory
welcome to the club
how is it possible that japan is so far ahead of the united states musically we are just now discovering something they have been using for literally years
Great video. whats the name of outro music ?
The Hokage Dies in Bossa (by Cadence Hira)
1:57 Mh, I'd disagree, inversions are a thing after all, I'd just call it a dominant chord with #5 in the soprano and b5 in the bass.
yea it's a cool chord
never subbed so fast in my life
I dont get it how you can find out those chord progressions, I always sit there trying to get one chord correct but I cant hear which inversion a chord is, if there is a seventh or other extensions and sometimes I cant even hear if its major or minor. I wanna analyze jpop and rock so baad to be able to write my own music but I just cant figure it out. Are you born with that ability to hear the chords?
Not at all. I have absolute pitch so it does help, but a lot of being able to figure out chords is a combination of practice+experience. Definitely practice hearing the basic chord qualities and sevenths, then start adding extensions/inversions/hybrids etc., then practice analyzing tunes you like. It's perfectly fine if it takes a while, by doing this your ears get good quickly and listening to a genre you're well versed in turns into "confirming the expected chords" vs "analyzing the exceptions", allowing you to analyze tunes much quicker. Hope this helps!
@@CadenceHira Well I still dont believe in myself yet but you defenetly motivated me to keep at it😂
it's pretty much just tritone substitution by my ear. Doesn't really need a new name. Maybe it's more ambiguous cause the tritone sub doesn't have a 3 in it. But, so what if it doesn't have a 3? Still sounds like tritone sub. Nothing really new here except you spell it in a weird slash notation.
It definitely is tritone sub, i don't think they're mutually exclusive. the whole "blackadder" stuff is just noting the specific, strangely ubiquitous voicing (augmented triad over root a tritone/major 2nd down. the voicing+no3rd makes the chord hybridized, thus the slash notation)
So a SECRET chord is 7#11? Not sure I can say that is a secret chord. It's been used in jazz and other related music since ages ago.
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cadnece i deisre this greatily i cannot sdeiny
rhythm isn't everything, but it is the only thing.
Please make more vids!!
4:49 if it's the same tak that did a bunch of music for rhythm games then yeah they must be a bit of a weeb bc theres a renai circulation remix on their soundcloud from 2011 lol
I loved that anime lmao
should it be E# for the A augmented? I know E# is F but if you’re spelling a chord it should be in successive order, right? and if it’s E# the triads just reads a first inversion of F augmented over an Eb. so can you guys help me out, im totally confused. 2:41
it should technically be E# but i hate E#
subbed
"first person shooter breath of the wild"
Bruh, its an third person open world fantasy rpg....
And anime isnt just for kids, theres a lot of mature shows.
i have 700 hours on botw and it was definitely a snowboarding simulator
also, hayao miyazaki famously once said: "anime was a mistake, it is nothing but trash" i'm gonna have to take his word for it homie
@@CadenceHira Although I can’t argue with the words of Hayao Miyazaki, I do think that there are a lot of anime directed at more mature audiences such as Sharktale and Cory in the House.
Koakuma chord progression is better,even westerners are starting to use it now.
LIFE. IS. GOOD. OMGGGGG 💚💚💚🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🤩🤩🤩🤯🤯🤯
yummy!!
so basically use Dominant 7th chord to play anime song ? right ?
9, #11, no 3rd no 5th 👍
2:02
ok this is cool but can someone tell me how to play this on guitar and how to use it to my dumb guitar player brain?
Ah yes, BOTW the FPS...
Heresyyy !!!
*nods in pretending to understand jazz*
"say our root is e-flat" ..... UGH why wouldn't you just show us the chord from C like a normal person?!
イ キ ス ギ
Concludes talking about anime: As much as we love talking about cartoons for children...
Calls Nintendo games Mature
lmao. honestly don't think their audiences differ much in anyway
cho
so Eb7#11
nope. add 9 and omit 3rd, also is hybridized and has the specific closed voicing in upper structure
1v1 me in botw
Can you talk about kpop more???
you fool
@@CadenceHira wait I thought u we’re gonna talk about one of these nights but ur gonna talk about fool????
Lol 🤣🤣... K-pop has almost no originality in music. All it takes is just from the west... copycats 😂😂
I laughed