Jacob Collier reharmonizing Hey Jude
Вставка
- Опубліковано 7 вер 2021
- Transcription of Jacob's reharmonization from the Wired video.
Yes, I transcribed the speech while my editor froze for some time and the frames were stuck lol.
The original video: • Jacob Collier Answers ...
And yes, do let me know in the comments if you have any particular transcription requests.
Note that I'd be a little less frequent with the uploads as my semester is going in full swing right now and I'd be fairly busy tho.
I'd bounce back soon tho dw
Disclaimer: The content in this video has been used for educational purposes in accordance with section 107 of US Copyright Law.
#giantsteps #jazz
Correction: 0:41 is A
no
oh my gosh you actually... **gasps**
HOW DARE YOU BLEU na jk
Ok ty
We all make mistakes
I guess he took a sad song and made it better
this is top comment in my heart
better, better, better.....
I think he took a sad song and made it sadder.
Legendary comment
@@bleuorb naah nah nah nah nah naanaaah
speech transcription is my new favorite thing
AI could do it but lmao yes, the quarter tones
GatCherzzz
Oh okay, but personally I don't like it that much 🤔
It made me laugh the whole time 😂😂
(the fact that there's speech transcription)
I love how when he hits a new harmony, he’s like “woah”, like a kid discovering something new. It’s hilarious.
"What are you doing, bro?" asked Jacob Collier to himself. And no one could answer him.
@@LazarusIsBackBaby It's sad how dumb all of you have gotten.
Nous les musiciens sommes avant tout des enfants qui s'amuse avec la musique
!!
I love that we get to be in his brain, if only for a little while :)
I imagine Morgan freeman voicing this
50th like
You might not make it out alive
@dosieis nueve you don't know his compositions
One of the amazing things about him is that, unlike many experts, he can actually explain things in ways understandable to relatively "regular" people
Ok so when he does it it's "reharmonization" but when I do it I "have no concept of music theory"
Jacob : "You see, in music, there are rules. And if you follow them, you're a fool. But if you don't learn them, then you're also a fool. So do whatever sounds cool."
i mean, yeah
Learn the rules like a master, then break them like an artist
Really makes me appreciate the original version more
Lmao, same, know Jacob was just playing around here, but definitely like the one Paul landed on a lot more, haha.
LMFAOOOOOO
i love and respect jacob but im with you, some things shouldnt be reharmonized lol
@@matthewturner8 I mean, he's not saying those sound good or superior in anyway. He's just using Hey Jude to show quick examples
Leave well enough alone, if Jacob was to reinvent the wheel, my guess is it would still be round.
It's funny, I respect his knowledge and his enthusiasm, which I admit is infectious... and yet I dislike every musical decision he makes. He is just the antithesis my tastes. And I love that he exists.
I thought I was the only one
What do you mean he's your opposite? And explain your dislike of his music
@@dardhadard837 No. My statement stands on its own.
As long as you dont dislike your own existence we are good. Jacob is bad!
I get it. I like him but hate his compositions
I think the hard part is not the work itself, but the availability of a near infinite number of options. Hearing one in your head that will resonate with the audience of your choosing and then doing it properly is the hard part. Or you could dgaf and just do what you like and hope the audience likes it. Two very different approaches
You put it perfectly
I think the hard part is knowing all the options available.
Most of the time if you follow your ear it will lead to the most predictable results and its not as creative
Just realized you meant dgaf as in don't give a fuck, rather than the chords d, g, a, and f. Lol
@@Ryanin2D I didnt realise that until you pointed it out😂😂
This
Jacob: “that, Rachel, is what reharmonization is”
Rachel: *has skulked away in fear Jacob will call on the class, never to reharmonize, herself*
Horush
This dude is such a legend
The guy can literally modulate to half sharp..legend is an understatement
@@bleuorb He's talking about you, you are the legend mate
@@bleuorb half sharp? lol do you guys even know anything about music theory? that would be quarter tonality. Modulating a half step is generally actually pretty simple, just # or b everything one note lol
@@insanedrummer89 I don't think you're aware of the fact that Jacob Collier modulates between quarter tones
D is the 4th of A and G is the 3rd of Eb....is there something I'm missing here? What is so cool about this video?
You gotta admit the time change to 5/4 wasn't necessary
Super necesssary
well twas satire on elitist music theory nerds but ok
@@bleuorb I love it
@@OsvaldoBayerista Masvidal agrees
@@hermanpops lmao, Usman too
0:06: "Ok enough speech transcription :p"
0:19: Am I a joke to you?
Ah when I'd merged the sheets and the video hehe
Adjove2You
Man explained 2 chords and then his excitement got the best of him and he went off
I have a feeling you’re gonna crack 10K soon
Done. The algorithm has blessed him with this video. I got it recommended today.
@@teocantsleep4611 sin,bigAlzzz...
Collier's speaking pitch revolves around B1. Such deep voice!
no it doesn't lol
I'm guessing you mean B2?
@@jds71828 Speech transcription at the beginning on the video ☝️
@@HenryArko You're misreading. When it looks like it's saying "A1", it's really saying "A ½ sharp" or "A ½ flat". Anyway, only a true bass would have that sort of speaking pitch.
@@jds71828 Okay I get it
This is impressive and so excessive
Sounds like JC alright
basically collier
This is outrageous... this is contagious!
as soon as you said that was enough, I KNEW you wouldn't stop there.
it was a party trick lmao
I don't know much if anything at all about music, but I find it crazy that so many people dislike what he does and the decisions he takes. like, I've heard like what, 5-6 song he has made, and all of them are so out there, so unusual, and tickle my brain in just the right ways. like, even when he makes discordant or overly harmonized stuff, they stick to my thoughts like glue, like seeing a new color or understanding a optical illusion, and being like "damn, i didn't know you could do that". I find myself coming back to most of his songs I hear and adding them to my playlist, plus, his lyrics tend to be so wholesome and heartwarming as well, this guy really has changed my whole view on the concept of music
Exactly my experience.
I love watching Jacob, he makes me excited for music again. Makes me want to start playing my guitar again and just fiddling around like I used to.
You literally just wrote new words to a great song
"If it ain't broke - don't fix it"
1:16 - I rewatch the video just for this part. These melodies are so emotional and dreamy!
Dude I love this kind of stuff. Chord inversions. Landing on different key chords in the scale, adding tension to resolution.... BRILLIANT!! My professor (music) was the one who recommended this. Each mode completely changes the whole feel of the song
This day will be remembered as the day i finally understood a Jacob Collier's video.
Naz,not aft using catalogue,Collins dictENaz!!
Collier is a true musician;
Given the opportunity to teach, in a professional manner, without any fluff and distraction, he just couldn't resist the 'pitch bend' while highlighting the basic melody of the tune. (nice of you to put that in the transcription as well 😂)
Love the subtle annotations! The cleverness forced me to subscribe 🤩
That is really easy. Keep one note in your hand. You got it!
Dickens : it was the best of times, it was the worst of times
Collier: of all the ages, epochs and contemporaneous stretches of the current space time fabric we could exist in, it could be said that what we are experiencing, at this moment, is a superstition of both the absolute optimal human experience and the nadir of what we could possibly live through, both existing, together, somehow, simultaneously. At the same time.
This reads like a Reggie Watts speech.
Some sequences of chords affirm the concept of centuries-old harmonic gravity, while others defy such. Achieving balance and logic is paramount to a successful alteration.
I have always wanted to see what speech would look like transcribed into sheet music. Thank you for showing it to me
THANKS, I WAS EXPECTING SOMEONE TO CLIP THIS FROM A LONG TIME!
This is great!
It really makes you realize how good the original is, and how you can't improve on it.
Uhhh not really, he just used it for an example of reharmonization. He didn't try to imrpove it.
The simpler the better, thats why pop music is pop music
Nah he made it so much better
"not really a right and a wrong, there's just what do you feel is good"
I think by this point we have established what collier feels is good, and it's 1:21 for minutes on end
“Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should”
"Hey guys I can take a popular song and improve it using my genius with different chords, expect then it isn't the song we know and love so what's the point?"
totally bro, thats why you shouldnt post this comment even tho you can
@@forestsunset9617 IMPROVE? LOL
Just be you have an account and can post a comment, doesn't mean you should
Thank you for sharing this with us all!
NO NO NO NO theres only one way to play "hey jude" leave it be... its #1 on the "don't mess with" list
But isn’t this guy some kind of genius?
I need a full version of this now. Brilliant!
it really does take a mind that is open to trying out “wrong” to get something new and fresh
your tab is so great
"Hey Jude, Don't be afraid"
"What are you doing, bro?"
You know what this means.
''I'm fingering A minor''
@@colorsofsound4782 what?
"What are you doing, bro...." That was hilarious.
I feel like this totally explained everything I had been missing with reharmonization haha. Guess I didn’t pay enough attention in school. This is great.
I love that the talk is notated as well. :-) :-D
The original sounds way better than any of the reharm.
the reharm sounds like if Radiohead wrote Hey Jude,
“Take a gooood song, and make it wo-o-o-orse.🎶🎵🎼
He never said his reharmonization was better
BBS
Like what are you doing bro
I like the reharm a lot
Or maybe you're just cringe and can't understand that he's just having fun and doing something really quick, without much thought into it. Take your negative opinion and stick it up your bottom.
I love the transcript of what he was saying inside the score!!!😂😍
I go to the new comments and all i see are people bashing on him reharmonizing this song... He's answering a QUESTION on what REHARMONIZATION IS and this is what sounds good to HIM not to mention all of this being improvised
Sometimes simplicity is key . Don’t over complicate things
@@olihhayes you a beatle ?
You don't need to be a Beatles' fan (and I'm not) to listen and observe this re-harmonization is really painful.
P.s. I think Jacob is a REAL musical genius!
Couldn’t agree more
Was not the point...
@@mattiaditacchio4212Do you not think a musical genius would have genius amount of good taste? Everything he does, I think ok ok good, interesting. Oh…… Bad. NOOOO! Jacob STOP! Sigh. If he had that self-awareness button it would so different. He’s also got a terrible breathy voice.
He is rly amazing and his Brain is just mind blowing but I rly rly don't like a lot of stuff he does, to me it often feels super overloaded (especially his interpretation of "here comes the sun" where the best part of the song was basicly non existend)
I couldn't agree more. Such a smart guy, my only guess is that he just has so many ideas that he wants to put into his songs and this kinda results in most JC songs being like "wow that's really interesting but also I'll never listen to this again". That being said, props to him for making the music that he wants to.
agreed
@@natepearson9804 depends.. I can’t get enough of ‘all night long’ can you?
yea brah he should just learn ableton and make dubstep fuq it
Totally agree. Weird and interesting. But not exactly pleasurable to me
F'ing little jazz cat couldn't help himself with that pitch bender wobble knob
I'm MINDBLOWN that he is writing the tones he's speaking in, on the music staff. WHAT
NoTEsssABstraktGraFiX(noKeyLassee2redBelzAA!!)ArtistaNo!!
You can use any chord from any keys to any song freely according to your mood.
Also every note could be considered an extension of any chord 🤯
DaVinCiTsar!!
Great video and great explanation
love how he only explained the re of re-harmonization
that's awesome! I learnt heaps from these young musicians:
Collier
Marcin
Riaz
Alien Weaponry (metal band)
I like how you had to write metal band after alien weaponry.
this dude is so self-indulgent, i dont get the appeal.
All artists are self indulgent in some sense.
He turned Hey Jude into Radiohead!
Bro went full jazz on that. Nice.
the bad thing is you're hearing these notes everywhere around you, also you can't escape from it and you can't dispel it
Tri!takENlitBoolbout?!
...What
Take your meds
He really made this sound shittier than anyone else could imagine
Terribly bad. He can’t even play his own example to the end. The use of microtones in folk music is also stupid, this music is meant to be sung by any one. Also the harmony is meant to be related to any player. He plays the most insane alternative in a tutorial. The tutorial is bad, cause most people can’t even harmonize a cadence, but he is there looking overcomplicated in order to show “genius”. Imature child. He better stays giving concerts, as music theorist it is a disaster here
Hey Jude - Radiohead
Jacob Collier really is the Jacob Collier of music.
1:16 is the most heavenly thing I've ever heard and I'm not even exaggerating
That was the worst part. It stressed me out actually.
How can a man be so talented yet can’t make a SINGLE SEMI DECENT LISTENABLE SONG????
Lol ikr
He’s popular because he does make good music. Not everyone likes the same type of music my guy.
@@matthewbro7 I totally agree, there’s no wrong opinion on what music you like, but I’ve never heard someone so unbearable who’s looked up to as the best thing to happen to music since Beethoven
@@matthewbro7 you can’t lie, his fans are delusional, I must admit he has one of the best understandings of music today, but he can’t create a single song that sounds somewhat okay
@@nick_wells6105 99% of the people would find bethoven pieces boring and bad ( im not saying that they are one the same level, but is a good way to look at It)
i physically cant stand these "this made me appreciate the original version more" comments, i know its their own taste in music, and paul mccartney is one great musician, but this cant change the fact that hey jude is a very very cheesy song musically, i would never listen to it myself, and jacobs play around version is by far the best i heard, i like the undescribable taste he put in, its not perfect, but its refreshing
bro has completely left the key of F
I really wished he would go on and do a complete cover of the song.
0:00 wouldnt be surprised if Jacob started using sentences in one key to another lol
i love how everything he says is also on the score
Putting all the frosting on the cake does not always make it better
there is no "better"
I bet, the reharmonization didn't sound good to most people... And at the end that is what matters
Is it really tho?
Never heard hey Jude, so it sounded great to me. Loved the sound
I don't wanna seem pretentious, I know only basic music theory and I enjoy many music genres, including jazz. And while the original version of Hey Jude is beautiful, after certain amount of listens it gets overplayed, whereas the reharmonizations Jacob showed feel refreshing, it portrays a different feeling/emotion to me.
@@Mederic005 I think that The Beatles in their later works were able to find the perfect balance between being experimental/inovative and still sound appealing to the ordinary people, which just shows their genius :D
Man this guy is over hyped
WOW!! Esse cara é um grande arranjador!!
Good effort was put in that video 😄
Finally someone did it. Thank you very much 😉
completely wrecks it, ''nothing you do is right or wrong'' lol
BlaaaHKOenWritesLit!¿¿¿☆●□■♧
just because you can, doesnt mean you should.
That is so cool thanks J!!
Idk, I wonder...at what point does it become a different song when you change the harmony so much (and time signature, to boot)?
Typically reharmonization has a purpose (like make it jazzy, or prog rock, or whatever). But still, the audience has to recognize the song, right?
I think it makes them rubbish, sing Yesterday a simple 2 to a 1 melody in F and play any other chord bar a triad, and it sucks.
I've tried, I've sung Beatles songs for money, and even a simple FM7 sucks.
It gives less room for Harmonic interplay.
Look at Yesterday he goes up in IV's to get to D minor and Bb.
He throws in E minor (not E*) to A7 to D minor to C Bb and he sings the Melodic minor scale against the chords it's genius.
And Jazz like 11 V 1's
I think this attitude sucks.
If I want that complexity I'll go Chick Corea Coltrane Parker etc.
If I want some sophisticated harmony with well crafted pop I'll go towards Steely Dan.
Jazz can only influence Pop it can never supersede it.
@@harrisfrankou2368 I hear what you’re saying - there’s a reason why the original works so well. But reharmonizing well known songs was at the heart of what the jazz icons you named did for years.
@@JamesRone All true it jusnt wasn't as Avant Garde then.
Is what I mean.
Some guys are nearly jarring at every chord intentionally.
The final parts are not the song though. It’s like something you could use in a film score. A variation on a theme. It’s unnatural for a song to transpose every few bars. It would be like altering the pitch. The beauty of Hey Jude is the simplicity. It doesn’t matter how you cover it or copy it, the talent is writing such a song to begin with. Another reason songs are written to a key is because the writer sings in that key. It’s unlikely you’d write across 5 keys in one song because most people don’t have that range.
Your Colliers were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
fookin legend m8
i'll come back when this reaches 1m views.
WitchAIsleMazeDatBeNaaweh?
You could do that, but I don't think anyone finds that new version any better better:) for theory learning is cool though
The Transcription is hilarious.
Wow brilliant ….going to try this with a ton of songs now
The latest hype. I've never heard any original hit from this guy.
So, reharmonizing means changing chords to ones that don’t work. Got it 👍🏻
extraordinary!!!!
brilliant ! thank you
"Just so you know, there are infinite ways to reharmonise anything." For a 30 second melody, on an 88-key piano, playing chords at a rate of 180 bpm, there are actually (2^87)^5400 ways . It's a lot more than the number of particles in the universe, but ≠ ∞. In fact, ≪ ∞.
Mathmatically yes, but to the human scale, if no amount of human activity can exhaust it in any perceivable future, then it is practically the same as infinite.
@@qiang2884 Agreed. But just highlighting that perhaps there's a double message in this video: only a small *proportion* of them actually sound good?
You're limiting yourself to the 88 pitches of the piano. Jacob has already showcased it's possible to go outside of that with his reharmonizations. When you enter the world of microtonic music there are indeed infinite ways to reharmonise anything, because there's infinite ways to split up the frueqeuencies.
@@NervylHraje Right you are - I stand corrected!
idk what is going on but its cool
Sickening to have that ease at it!
just because you can, does not mean you should
Awesome, but now you need to add a percussion line for the "clunk"s when he plays the keyboard keys XD
i don't think anyone leaving comments are musicians lol
Seriously. You don't need to like his reharmonization to see the value in what he's saying.
Wonderful video! Like👍.
Thank you very much! 💗
Have a great day! 🌅
Dude took hashbrowns and rehashed them