Can A Chord Ask A Question?

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What kind of chords do you need to sound unresolved? How can you use ambiguous harmony to ask questions within your compositions? Like if there could be music behind these very questions, what would it be?
Thanks to Chris for editing this video
Video recorded using:
Earthworks PM40
Earthworks SV33
Hallet Davis Baby Grand Piano

[@IrnBruNYC]

Joni Mitchell referred to the chords she achieves with alternate guitar tunings as "chords of inquiry."

[@dckmusic]

Again, I love how you just take us on a journey of playing around and seeing what happens (and hearing what happens).

[@simonezanella5953]

Amazing video, as usual. P.S.: I love that scary D flat chord. As soon as I can sit at my piano, I'll definitely work on that sound. Loved it ❤

[@Josh_Fredman]

Was actually thinking of Looking for the Answers before you mentioned it, heh! I love this kind of sound; reminds me of some of my favorite things about Debussy. I always think of it in terms of "suspended" chords, but like you say there are many different ways to think about it and many things to do with these chords.

[@streetlegal008]

I think that Richard Carpenter may have used some of these ambiguous chords in the Carpernters recordings. But it was such a smooth effect that no-one noticed how clever it was.

[@akemi122]

youre the best aimee! Thanks for another awesome video

[@enajitepela]

This was the best music theory video I've ever watched and I've watched tons of them. Thank you

[@dmitriveremeenko9028]

Thank you! To me with Ab bass & Eb bass are the most beautiful 🌸🕊

[@seanhallahan14]

Awesome! Definitely stretch material for me, but perfectly wonderful stretch!! Thank you.

[@andrewstillwell1191]

That was awesome, please 🙏 do more videos like this one. ❤

[@davidsummerville351]

I harmonize that in a pentatonic scale of any kind. Beautiful, soft harmonies that go anywhere as you have pointed out. Thanks 😎🤓

[@StavrosMusic]

This is a great vid - thanks gave me a lot of ideas

[@robertfoose9453]

Nice, Aimee. I've been playing around in a similar way with all-interval tetrachords. My results, as you may expect, were less mellow (more scary), but some useful melodic and harmonic structures are hidden in them too.

[@MrSupersidewinder]

Now that you have made the western musical system into your sandbox... The world is your oyster... And my heart is yours❤🎉😊

[@Time-Trvlr]

Ive met people with personalities like these mixes of notes. What I should say is, without the thread of a melody these note combination stay,,, unresolved, and clash in my ears.

[@howtodoitdude1662]

Check out Billy Joel’s song ‘And so it goes’. Great chords.

[@michellemonet4358]

❤❤yes!❤❤

[@mtaur4113]

3:58 Ab goat 🐐

[@alanhirayama4592]

Maiden Voyage!

[@dhpbear2]

3:30 - The 'Hendrix' chord?

[@McEffinHat]

you are an excellent teacher and I love your content. but vertically oriented videos are terrible in general and particularly bad for showing your hands at the piano

[@XX-nf6kj]

It looks horizontal to me? 🤔