so much style in this video. the music. the education. the talking while teaching. the outfits. glasses. watches that are always changing. the set is so cool. carpets. artwork in the background. the lighting. the video movements. the editing. really is top tier.
Finally I found someone who can teach me what I really want to know. Chord progressions that break out of the common progression ruts that bore me to tears.
A shout out to the bassist for the way he frames these chord progressions as well as the drummer for keeping them rolling along. To me, the thing that isn't said but shouldn't be ignored are the embellishments he uses in the final chords in these progressions. This brings back fond memories of the Yacht Rock music of the late 70s into the 80s that I loved as a kid: songs by Michael McDonald, Bruce Hornsby & the Range with "That's the Way it is", or Christopher Cross and "Sailing" with the minor 7ths. A little Steely Dan, too as they would walk through the chords. Good stuff!
First time I've sat down and practiced moving around fourths instead of fifths. Sounds great, thanks for posting. Would love to see uses for hopping around in other intervals like thirds
I've learned more about music theory with these shorts in the last 2 weeks than in the last 2 years, and I don't even play the piano!! (I play guitar....) Thanks Open Studio
Very cool exercise. Will try this out myself. Watched 3 times to get the pattern: Ending points are em and GM. You just keep the minor trend for em ends, and Major trend for GM ends. Thus: c g d a e Eb Bb F C G As the longest runs. Each time take a step back; circle of 5ths (4ths) each time. Super easy, super chill, super effective. Awesome delivery.
Cool how they played the A section as an exclusively minor progression down one side of the circle and a major progression to round it out. Tasty example of the power of choice in music theory!
I'm this case he's going from G to Em. But he starts stacking 4ths to arrive to Em and then to G. You can do that visually by just using the circle of fifths as he shows. Helps a lot that way.
@@diynevala I can explain that part in *relatively* simple terms, if you care to understand it a bit more. There are (usually..) 7 notes in a given "key" in music. For the sake of this comment, "scale" = "key" as well. The name of the key, or scale, comes from the first note in the series of 7. One example is the key of C, which consists of the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. These are all the letters involved with music btw (there are "flats" and "sharps" but it's the same A-G letters. There's no H). In this example, the note F is "the 4th" and G is "the 5th." Basically, a "4th" is just moving up the scale to the fourth note. Same for a "5th," you just count up to the fifth note. Now... if you were to apply this logic to every key, and visualize it, you'd end up with a circle (seen in the video). This circle is called the Circle of Fifths, and it's an easy way to navigate to satisfying sounding music, among other things. You'll notice that, clockwise, it goes "C, G, D, A, E, B, etc." because G is the 5th of C, and D is the 5th of G (key of G is still the same letters, but starting from G, so it's G, A, B, C, etc.) and then you continue until you end up where you started. And since there are only 7 letters in music, that means if you go counter-clockwise, you'll be going in 4th's. You'll notice the first letter to the left of C is F because of exactly that.
@@Joshsclips Ah, so actually: 4th is 3 notes up from 1st and 5th is 4 notes up from 1st, that is 3+4=7. Not to confuse others, but this is how I understand this internally. I have always struggled with the major/minor or half/whole steps, piano (having black keys) is confusing for a beginner.
I had to pause the short about halfway through because the power that all these notes carried struck so many of my heartstrings, such incredible melody just from the charisma that they all have together as a team and band.
Wicked execution in teaching chord progression and passing chords and how to think in structuring the walk up and down….., I’m loving this. Thanks from a guitar player
I studied piano jazz performance something like 30 years ago, and I wish I had a teacher like you back then. I REALLY enjoy listening to all your videos. Thank you.
I’m a self taught piano player. I studied guitar since I was 12 and just applied everything I could over from guitar to piano, but to getting a lesson from a guy like this would advanced my playing over night lol. Really cool stuff.
Makes my whole heart swell. I don't know all the theory but gosh this was beautiful. My ears recognize all of it even if I don't have the practical knowledge to support what I have developed as a natural ear player!
Loved the vibe. It's gonna take a minute to absorb this when I get a chance to sit down with my guitar. Thanks for the instruction. Great tool for jamming or song writing, or just exercising the brain.
Take it through 12 keys and you'll be stacking bagels.
We're professional musicians, we're already stacking bagels. Rent ain't paying itself.
Haha
A dozen bagels
Q: what’s the difference between a musician and a dozen bagels?
A: dozen bagels can feed a family of four
This comment is in fourths. 4D Comment!
These shorts have unlocked chord progressions for me in an amazing way.
It's so great when some kind of execise, combinatory experiment or whatever is still made beautiful music!
Agreed. These videos have been incredibly enlightening and they're in perfectly digestible, bite-sized pieces. Love 'em.
So glad to hear some positive vibes. I believe this is an awesome lesson.❤
@@PabloVestory yeah true , I love that maths and melody are definitely are on the same venn diagram of music
Fantastik
The 4 fourths up is so freaking good when it lands on the Em.
Yeah
Yes! I can't stop listening to that part 🔥
The sixth degree is the most melancholically beautiful place to do a cadence! The “baroque’s” did it a lot!
I think it may be because he made them all 7 chords
This is probably the most beautiful sounding “lesson” I have ever heard.
man who you telling 😮
Not just a chord progression, but a wonderful piece of music that I could listen to over and over.
It's catchy and its a lesson. It's a win.
I listen to it on repeat for weeks now. I´d love a song with that theme.
so much style in this video. the music. the education. the talking while teaching. the outfits. glasses. watches that are always changing. the set is so cool. carpets. artwork in the background. the lighting. the video movements. the editing. really is top tier.
It looks very nice indeed.
I need whole albums of this stuff to chill out to; it's sheer brain-bliss.
me too
I wish I had these guys as teachers 30 years ago.
Me too. I've only learned to play the piano with sheet music. I'm stuck now with this and dont know how to change...
@@jonaskissling8343 just keep practicing! It will happen eventually
@@brookiekeys thank you so much for your encouragement! 🤗 I appreciate it...
Im getting time warp vibes off the 4 plagals
Same same
YVAI
I heard it too! =)
"Let's do the time warp agaaaaaaaaaainnnnnn". :) ua-cam.com/video/S91wQbYYX3Q/v-deo.htmlsi=DYpSuDcIeIQZEHW1&t=44
Even in the same key lol! That can't have been an accident...
That last progression definitely had me doing the time warp again.
We're showing our age LOL I was thinking the same thing mang
I thought it reminded me of Rosanna for a for some reason
Love the guys backing you up, the piano in tune, and the chord dial! You make it possible to really hear this.
Finally I found someone who can teach me what I really want to know. Chord progressions that break out of the common progression ruts that bore me to tears.
As a guitar player I've learned so much more about harmony and playing changes than on any guitar site. Thank you! Love it!
I’m just a singer, but this makes me want to learn piano because every one of your videos just tingles my brain
Do it! Affordable digital pianos are pretty ok these days, and learning a bit of piano is great for any singer :)
“Just” a singer… Don’t sell yourself short, the voice is the original instrument!
What if Alicia keys thought she was just a singer
I’m a singer and learning keys has made me and INFINITELY better singer
This channel is without a doubt the best on UA-cam
A shout out to the bassist for the way he frames these chord progressions as well as the drummer for keeping them rolling along.
To me, the thing that isn't said but shouldn't be ignored are the embellishments he uses in the final chords in these progressions.
This brings back fond memories of the Yacht Rock music of the late 70s into the 80s that I loved as a kid: songs by Michael McDonald, Bruce Hornsby & the Range with "That's the Way it is", or Christopher Cross and "Sailing" with the minor 7ths. A little Steely Dan, too as they would walk through the chords. Good stuff!
Love yacht rock bro. I was jamming on a yacht rock Playlist at full volume last friday
Guitar player here, love this channel's content.
Same! Taught me loads of useful bits
My ears have such a pleasant time listening to these shorts. Solely why I started following in the first place!
First time I've sat down and practiced moving around fourths instead of fifths. Sounds great, thanks for posting. Would love to see uses for hopping around in other intervals like thirds
I've learned more about music theory with these shorts in the last 2 weeks than in the last 2 years, and I don't even play the piano!! (I play guitar....) Thanks Open Studio
“Let’s do the Time Warp again!”
It’s just a fourth to the left… and then a fifth to the right…
LOL
Was coming to say that lol
ah just spotted your comment. yep I got that
Heard that too!
Very cool exercise. Will try this out myself. Watched 3 times to get the pattern:
Ending points are em and GM.
You just keep the minor trend for em ends, and Major trend for GM ends.
Thus:
c g d a e
Eb Bb F C G
As the longest runs. Each time take a step back; circle of 5ths (4ths) each time. Super easy, super chill, super effective. Awesome delivery.
Cool how they played the A section as an exclusively minor progression down one side of the circle and a major progression to round it out.
Tasty example of the power of choice in music theory!
These videos are just so tasteful and pleasant to listen to 😌
Do the drummers also have to practice in all the keys? 🤔 I think so.
Yes, all of the drum keys
Wholes, quarters, eights, sixteens, triplets and tuples, do one hand of each at once , then do the dotted notes too and you're good to go.
Why is the drummer a guitar player's best friend? - Because he doesn't care what key you play in!
drumming is atonal I think? so all drum sounds apply to every key!
Yes sir!!
The theory goes way beyond me, I just enjoy the sounds going so delightfully together.
I'm this case he's going from G to Em. But he starts stacking 4ths to arrive to Em and then to G. You can do that visually by just using the circle of fifths as he shows. Helps a lot that way.
@@matiasgoinheix366 I mean, that is all theory, and they are just foreign to me. 4ths, 5ths...
@@diynevala I can explain that part in *relatively* simple terms, if you care to understand it a bit more. There are (usually..) 7 notes in a given "key" in music. For the sake of this comment, "scale" = "key" as well. The name of the key, or scale, comes from the first note in the series of 7. One example is the key of C, which consists of the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. These are all the letters involved with music btw (there are "flats" and "sharps" but it's the same A-G letters. There's no H). In this example, the note F is "the 4th" and G is "the 5th." Basically, a "4th" is just moving up the scale to the fourth note. Same for a "5th," you just count up to the fifth note. Now... if you were to apply this logic to every key, and visualize it, you'd end up with a circle (seen in the video). This circle is called the Circle of Fifths, and it's an easy way to navigate to satisfying sounding music, among other things. You'll notice that, clockwise, it goes "C, G, D, A, E, B, etc." because G is the 5th of C, and D is the 5th of G (key of G is still the same letters, but starting from G, so it's G, A, B, C, etc.) and then you continue until you end up where you started. And since there are only 7 letters in music, that means if you go counter-clockwise, you'll be going in 4th's. You'll notice the first letter to the left of C is F because of exactly that.
@@Joshsclips Ah, so actually:
4th is 3 notes up from 1st and
5th is 4 notes up from 1st,
that is 3+4=7. Not to confuse others, but this is how I understand this internally.
I have always struggled with the major/minor or half/whole steps, piano (having black keys) is confusing for a beginner.
@@diynevala you’re correct, I worded it differently intentionally in an attempt to prevent confusion
I had to pause the short about halfway through because the power that all these notes carried struck so many of my heartstrings, such incredible melody just from the charisma that they all have together as a team and band.
OH MY GOD THAT SOUNDS SO BEAUTIFUL
I can't overstate how helpful the visual is for this video.
Thanks!
This guy’s playing is seriously so beautiful. Every video of him - just perfect.
THese little exercise ideas are so interesting. I love your youtube shorts.Such "simple" useful and clever ideas.Thanks
YFAI
Love how by the end, you were doing the Time Warp again. 🎉
Ah ha, yes that's it! I knew it was a great progression, but didn't place it. Amazing that is a standard jazz progression.
Nice. I even felt the previous one was a little time warpy, and then the final one was dead on.
Thank you. I was looking for someone to say this.
@@priorscience haha same! and Im not even that big of a fan of the movie.
Thanks for this lessons .i just want to ask one question
Do you have to major when going to major chord
And minor to go to minor chords?
I can listen to these all day
Wicked execution in teaching chord progression and passing chords and how to think in structuring the walk up and down….., I’m loving this. Thanks from a guitar player
Absolutely brilliant!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Absolutely profound way of teaching! In less than a min you have covered sooo much! Brilliant!!!
WOW!!! The left side of my brain just blew open! Amazing! Flows so well when you see the circle of fifths dial!!
I don't care to learn piano. But I listened to this like 30 times In a row. This is so pretty.
ARE you kidding me ... I LOVE this.
I can’t get enough of this stuff, absolutely pure music
I can’t!!!! It’s too good! Thank you for this amazing content! 🎷 ❤
Country mixed with jazz mixed with Charlie Brown. Now we're happy. I love it.
I have listened to this over and over, such a crazy good set of progressions.
These guys really show you how to get"mileage" out of the "circle of 5ths"!!🙏👏💯👂👍
I studied piano jazz performance something like 30 years ago, and I wish I had a teacher like you back then. I REALLY enjoy listening to all your videos. Thank you.
This little bit of business is extremely inspiring! I'm already humming melodies along with the chord changes. Thank you 👍🏽!
I’m a self taught piano player. I studied guitar since I was 12 and just applied everything I could over from guitar to piano, but to getting a lesson from a guy like this would advanced my playing over night lol. Really cool stuff.
If this was a song I’d listen to it a lot.
4 4ths sounds like Elton John. I always love these shorts!
Ugh, so beautiful! Thank you. xx
you have revived my love of music theory. thank you 🙂↕️
Que grande José María
God bless you ❤
Makes my whole heart swell. I don't know all the theory but gosh this was beautiful. My ears recognize all of it even if I don't have the practical knowledge to support what I have developed as a natural ear player!
Wow this was equal parts inspiring and beautiful
This channel has rounded out my music theory knowledge in large and applicable ways. Very fortunate to have found these guys.
What a great exercise! Adam you are the man! Thank you
I want to listen to this as a whole Song. I love it.
Wow.... very nice vibe.. so sweet sound... thanks
Do you make records at all? So great.
Good to see David Cross playing bass like this, 💪
Ya tengo la secuencia de mi próxima canción 😂...son lo mejor. Gracias!
I really really love your approach!
I seeing in loop many many times.
groovy and delicate
How can you not love these guys
I'm sure you guys get this all the time but Thank You! Everyday you get my brain working and stuff comes out, its great!
Such an amazing creative player
What a great sound.
Love this! Thank you.
May the fourth be with you
Amazing stuff! Happy new year 🎉
These guys are ahead of the game!
So beautiful ❤
It all makes sense. So simple yet so great.
your voice leading is so awesome, its not just the chords its really about how you play them
Beautiful ❤
Loved the vibe. It's gonna take a minute to absorb this when I get a chance to sit down with my guitar. Thanks for the instruction. Great tool for jamming or song writing, or just exercising the brain.
I could watch you guys jam forever ❤
Thank's for this Pearl
So simple, yet so great!
I wish this was a full song !
Great team, great videos. Keep it up.
Being able to communicate is everything in music. This man is well-connected!
Man, You are a great teacher!!!
you are truly a magician of harmony, congratulations, I always follow you, if only I could play a little like you do, I would be over the moon. 👍😐
Love this. So much.
🎉❤ Beautiful
I just watched this 10 times and I'm still not sure if I'm done yet
So much creative musical possibility in one minute. Incredibly well presented.
Love this! Such a fine concept!
it sounds so good... thanks for this
this is one of the first shorts from this channel I can actually understand completely. thanks!!
Thank you 👍 Just the best!
This is fantastic. Thank you so much.
I love the circle, what a great illustration, en vivo
Painfully beautiful.
This is a super lesson 👏
I was hearing some Bob Seger there for a minute...such a nice groove.
The visuals are really helpful! Thank you!!!
Oh my...🤯
That was beautiful
This makes me feel good.