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it sounds like a pile of minor seventh chords stacked together.

GREAT LESSON! I enjoyed it and I'm already subscribed to your channel. But one thing I learned during my Orchestration lessons from a long time ago, is that such chords are gems with a self value...... BUT it's in the capacity, audacity, sensibility - to call it somehow - of resolving it in a pleasant way to the ear of the listeners. That's the reason why I don't like Debussy's so much. I can realise that the guy was a genius, but for my personal taste it's like his music have more tensions as releases. But, again, it's a matter of taste.

the Chord Of The Week series is so good. thank you

Hey there, are you able to share the sound library you used? I saw vienna, I dont know if thats all you used though. Its really well written by the way, I would love to be so good one day!

I think about these more as quintal/quartal clusters on a descending F to C# where he is gradually condensing the cluster from 5th's to 4th's. I wonder if he was actually thinking about what the chords technically are or if he wrote it more just on the intervals and feel.. idk maybe both, the guy is ridiculous. He is a master of using quartal/quintal harmony and leans heavily on it in much of his writing. You should absolutely watch the other Ghibli movies if you haven't yet. Hisaishi's music is so unique and creative - IMO he rivals John Williams as one of the greatest film composers of all time.

Quintal/Quartal chords that get more quintal until the 4th one which is completely quartal.

Great vid as always Keith. I would add that the perceived dissonance is also from the motion between chords. The first 2 chords can be thought of in the same key, the 3rd chord introduces the Bb which is new to the key, but not altogether abrasive. It's that last chord with the new F# and C# that catches me off guard and makes it feel more off-putting than the previous 3, despite being the same chord sonority.

Keith, I love your videos. I'm learning a lot about chord structure from you. Keep up the fantastic work!

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Keith sometime could you do a breakdown of the strange chord and melody in the transition scene around 18:26 in Apocolypse Now? Its haunting and I dont understand it! ua-cam.com/video/uqOW0jAMBhg/v-deo.html

So disappointed with the harmonisation used in the film. 😭

love that chord!

great video usually don’t enjoy watching stuff like this but you’ve got a lovely energy and i can tell we are hearing the same thing !

With that chord they are going for the King Crimson Discipline sound - love these videos

I love when a composer is able to see creatively simple chords such as these but he renews them with amazing voicings

…”a way to introduce dissonance into consonance” I like that, because that is what is all about when you start to spread out notes from a simple, 5, 6 or 7 note chord. Love your videos 😊

Love your videos dude! 🤙

Love this movie! I've noticed that the first chord is a major Kenny Barron voicing haha.

Those minor ninth intervals adds something special otherworldly. Btw, I got one for you if you run out of ideas :) The chords for the Godfather part II featured in the beginning of this video ua-cam.com/video/QvTII8ZFSjI/v-deo.html

Beautiful explanation - I enjoyed (if that’s the right word) how you struggled to describe the feel of the last chord: not grounded like the previous chords, but… what? What’s the opposite of grounded? Ethereal perhaps? Or spiritual. If you listen to the chords knowing that the composer was writing for a film called Spirited Away, suddenly the inversions and high root notes make sense, as they float away from musical terra firma, pulling us upward. Thanks for your vid - loved it.

Thank you for these videos. I learn something when I watch them…

Movie is amazing. Thanks for this!

Absolutely beautiful chords on the keyboard! All the ways you have shown these in this instruction are so nice to hear. "Beautiful and sparkling" is such a great way to describe them too!

I too was introduced to this wonderful film through my daughter, and was equally inteigued by the music. It almost felt like the intro to the Ocarina of Time video game. One of the most compelling anime films and scores!

One of my favorite scores ever!

That was a really terrific explanation!

If you want some more amazing Bartok chords, check out the Three Etudes for piano opus 18, especially the closing sections of the second and third etudes. See the performance by Zoltan Kocsis here ua-cam.com/video/G2E058Ep99Y/v-deo.htmlsi=VGPTJfKmPyMgZQa2&t=227 and here ua-cam.com/video/G2E058Ep99Y/v-deo.htmlsi=5gtQCtIbn7jAMW8B&t=403 -- Also the Paul Jacobs performance is really good, the same passages are here ua-cam.com/video/ZJCBPp-BH78/v-deo.htmlsi=11T5wQcCluGhN-4J&t=202 and here ua-cam.com/video/ZJCBPp-BH78/v-deo.htmlsi=X6HuE3NPW9Kvq9nJ&t=401

Chick Corea was definitely into Bartok

banger channel

At worst it's a grey. That's what I always say.

Bartok's use of local traditional songs and harmonies is similar to what In Flames did almost 100 years later combining folk melodies with Melodic Death Metal: ua-cam.com/video/mv6xvYtAvUw/v-deo.html Both are SO METAL!!!

So METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those minor chords played a minor 3rd apart at ua-cam.com/video/j4iGPrUkMSg/v-deo.html is so Black Metal...love it. Interesting how having it be a b9 and #9 (compared to a b2 and #2) makes that tonality slightly more palatable...especially with the b7 thrown in there to "support" the 9.

Love the Hermann breakdown, what a talent...so smooth you don't even realize who great the music is, lol. The Major chord a 1/2 step down from a Minor chord is a staple of the Phillip Glass sound: ua-cam.com/video/6Stu7h7Qup8/v-deo.html Thanks!

Ha was going to comment that it was the James Bond chord but you already covered that, lol.

Never heard of the French Sixth aspect to this progression, bravo for pointing this out! The Half-Diminished chord is such a strange beast and amazing how it is used...even Stevie Wonder uses it in "Sir Duke" as the second chord in the chorus (resolving Fm7b5 down a half step to a EM7 - similar to an French Sixth resolution to the V chord): ua-cam.com/video/ETFvmkIA6S4/v-deo.html

Brilliant and concise analysis, thanks!

Awesome. Also love how the first chord of the Psycho "theme" is a Minor-Major 7th chord...so simple, yet so brutally effective: ua-cam.com/video/-5_pmtj7dvc/v-deo.html

Love it, great examples in the different Star Wars movies to show the versatility of the Augmented chord as well as taking a theme and carrying it over to multiple movies in the series.

Sounds great on Rhodes ;)

Didn't Robert Fripp say that his intention with King Crimson was Jimi Hendrix playing Bartok...

Marooned by Pink Floyd start with the same chord. One can argue that is one of best feeling chords that exist.

"AKSHULLY" That chord isn't at the beginning of the film, just the soundtrack. Ridley and Goldsmith historically butted heads quite a bit (See LEGEND) with Ridley asking for one thing but getting another. In the end I actually prefer Ridley's choices with the weird, creepy percussion noises during the title sequence.

Great channel!

In Russia and France its Do-Re-Mi system, where did he get DEAD?

Nice, never realized Laurie's theme was basically Michael Myer's theme inverted, nice! I always thought that Laurie's theme was inspired by the Wait Until Dark theme by Henry Mancini (two different pianos tuned 1/4 tone apart playing the same chord): ua-cam.com/video/6AOn6hqj9uQ/v-deo.html

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This score was the 1-2-3 Jaws Star Wars Superman Music punch. Drove Me to the piano…

Fantastic!

Bartók' s harmonic language is fascinating, and, as @jonsnow4372 already noticed, often based on the octotonic scale. Lots of interesting articles to be found on youtube about the subject...

Film composer here, fascinating and learned something here thanks you!