Number 4 was amazing! The pedal point technique wasn't something I had ever heard in jazz before and definitely sounds like something I'd want to incorporate into my own playing. Though I am not sure it is as evocative of the original piece as much as the other levels.
Well, if you put yourself in a position "I play music for people" you would probably very carefuly take your pefrormance no deeper than level 5. Even so, very rarely. Thanks Adam, great video as usual.
Lol. Complex looking chords are just named based on the intervals of the modes of the scales they come from. Usually they are based on 7 note scales, major and melodic minor being most the common ones in jazz.
Herbie later said he realized Miles actually said "Bottom" notes and not "butter" and so he revolutionized harmony based on mishearing something lol. True jazz things
@@televinv8062 I saw Herbie talk about it in an interview this year, I think he only realized recently! The butter notes being the 3rds and 7ths, which led to all these sus-type voicings that were more harmonically ambiguous. If he played 1-2-5 (C D G) it’s harmonically ambiguous enough for the improviser to interpret that a bunch of different ways, not to mention it just sounds really cool.
@@njrous thank you! So, if I were to play some of these chords without the butter notes on guitar, use the upper voicing for the 2 and the 5? Suggestions?
Level 8 Jazz: Using tuning is too tedious at this point. Chords are instead built from octave-shifted harmonics of a fundamental frequency. Any frequency can be used as a fundamental. Any audible harmonic can be used in the chord. Level 9 Jazz: Frequencies in each "chord" no longer need to share harmonics with the fundamental. Level 10 Jazz: Frequencies no longer need to be within the audible range. Chords don't count if they contain fewer than 100 frequencies. Level 11 Jazz: Sound is an illusion. The very concepts on which music functions do not truly exist. Cast aside your instruments and be at one with the void. Level 12 Jazz: Silence.
After 4 years of studying music theory i finally understand every chord and how they function harmonically within each chord progression in level 3 and below. I feel better than I’ve had in months
@@tj-co9go It does make sense lol, you just don’t get it yet, from level 4 onwards it’s a nonfunctional feast. It requires really deep analysis to understand it pragmatically. Not that I’m willing to do such analysis but it does make sense within its own convictions
Just enrolled into jazz school after 18 years of classical violin and having my entire world I knew about harmony destroyed by my compulsory piano teacher in the first lesson was a life changing experience. Rootless voicings, and all that stuff just opened my eyes about how wrong I was thinking regarding harmonization and how little they teach you just to get by in classical training. Not even properly a week into it, barely grasping the basics of 12 bar jazz-blues and here I am thinking there is so much more to learn and I already learned more than I ever could in a traditional classical environment, because all of this would be considered 20th century and ‘contemporary music’ by their standards. Revisiting this video just enforced my feelings about it. You don’t ‘need’ a fifth, you don’t ‘need’ a root, you don’t practically need anything as long as it’s implied in context or as long as what’s being played points to the general direction of the implied harmony. Thank you for the video, Adam, it’s still a banger.
Exactly. There is sensible music that feels good, and then everything else. Just because it is above the technical understanding of newer musicians doesn't mean it sounds good. There is music made to impress or even to downgrade others, and then there is music that is enjoyable for many. Art (visual or audible) is something meant to speak - to communicate - to others, in order to share something. When the arts complexity is so intricate that few people understand, it's like a professor speaking in such elevated vocabulary that nobody understands what he's saying. And this is pathetic because in an effort to impress others, he has denied himself the opportunity to express anything. When nobody gets what he's saying, he might as well have never spoken at all.
@@4wardnthought234 I agree in a sense. Art should generally have a sense of understanding or connection from the artist to the viewer or listener. Some of the "levels" like the 5th or 6th one should probably be used once and a while opposed to all the time. But in my opinion this was a great video to see different ways of harmonizing. As it opens people to a whole new world of technicality to try to figure out and experiment with. So what if we don't use these much or all the time (pun not intended). Seeing this video at least opened up my box of thinking on harmony to see what I could do of I ever wanted more creative harmony out of a chord in a future arrangment. I have yet to learn some of this stuff, but it's honestly very cool to me. Even if sparingly used.
@@kylekotula7266 Exactly. Sparingly. As a musician of 30+ years, I can tell you, while I CRAVED the oblique, fringe stuff, once I wore it out I realized it sounds like crap. And it was only ever interesting to technically driven musicians. It is the audio equivelant of tripping balls on acid - after a while, you just grow out of it and realize that most others didn't enjoy in the first place. So jazz level 8: go back to the beginning, where sounds beautiful.
@@schwammkopfspitspill oh actually I was partially wrong, in fact you said "Tell that to Pokémon (lavender town)" to a comment saying that Earthbound could give nightmares to kids
Ok so when jazz artist play notes out of the chords they’re “playing liberated dissonance” and “doing non functional harmony” but when *I* do it I’m “playing the wrong notes” and “not qualified for the band”
A note is a mistake when it doesn’t belong to a harmonic structure. Just like a word is a mistake when it doesn’t belong in a sentence, or an ingredient is a mistake when it doesn’t belong in a recipe. Think of the reharmonizations as ways of speaking the same language but with different accents or by using a larger vocabulary. So long as the Dallas accent isn’t mixed with the NYC accent, the accent makes sense to the listener whether they are from Dallas or NYC.
I would say it's pretty much an identical change as a lot of post modern contemporary art, and it's no coincidence that Adam talked about most of this with a single artist's history. If you look at say, Jackson Pollock's history you would see something somewhat similar where it started with the obvious fundamentals of art and as time went on got more abstract and more about the ideas of what could be done with less and more.
Das Ganon - spot on. And the art comes from deciding which style/language expresses what the artist/musician is trying to say at the time of the production/performance/recording. Otherwise, art/music (anything) becomes a mechanical/craft/intellectual exercise - which can be impressive - but isn’t necessarily art.
If you have a pattern and play within a specific context then you are not wrong. Even in this liberated dissonance there's a pattern and context that's why it's distinguished as a style.
waaaait a minute "don't play the butter notes" you're talking about when Herbie Hancock was told "don't play the bottom notes" and misheard it. I'm on to you. lol, excellent video :)
When I hear jazz harmony to this degree, it reminds me of an old friend who always overused olive oil when she made Italian food Just because you have a whole bottle of the stuff, doesn’t mean it needs a whole bottle of the stuff Love the channel Adam, love the content, and I love hearing what I don’t like so I better understand what I do like 💜
but have you heard some of the albums he recommends? just because you don't like something the first time doesn't mean you should stop. i don't like jazz yet but i try to expose myself to it because as long as it sounds unusual and disgusting, i just haven't listened to it enough.
@@salty_3k506props to you but as a huge jazz guy and on top of that prog guy I really don't like that stuff at all. I love dissonance but there's a limit. It's still gotta swing and give that feel.
I think it would actually be far worse. Think about it. If you adjusted the tuning at a random way, it would be level 6 but more dog shit. He cut it some slack and tuned it in a pleasing way
I'm with you on this one, from 3 onwards, from my perspective it becomes like when you used to bang your hands on any old note as a kid, and the underlying progression disappears. If I was hearing level 3 from scratch, I wouldn't understand what was underpinning it (probably my own limited musical brain I guess)!
Level 1: You Level 2: Your best friend Level 3: Your crush Level 4: Your crush's bf/gf Level 5: The straight A student Level 6: That kids who said he/she knew nothing Level 7: The mythical prodigy who never attend classes
It's more like retune them: you've probably heard the whole "pianos are out of tune" shtick. Well it's true. In order to have all the notes the same distance apart, we compromise on how nicely the chords are tuned. Level 7 removes that compromise.
@@oscargill423 this is exactly what I was thinking the moment I heard it (probably helps my perfect pitch developed playing a just-intonated instrument), literally my first thought was “piano finally sounds right”! So when Adam called it “out of tune sounding” I got so confused lol, but at least he said “in a good way” right after ;)
@@Ramdas_Devadiga 7th chords are tetrads (4 note chords), then 9ths (five note chords), 11ths, 13ths & 15ths just stack more and more and more on top of each other. (:
I love when I'm improvising cool dissonant things, then I take the time to see what I played and it's always amazing to see that "your brain" play harmonics automatically (because I'd never have the musical knowledge to choose those harmonics consciouly). Jazz is amazing
FASCINATING for this classically trained pianist and conductor and chromatic theory instructor who knows full well what cents/commas are, but not a stitch of jazz theory!
“Don’t play the butter notes” was Herbie Hancock misunderstanding Miles Davis saying “Don’t play the bottom note” - the root. A great story, though, inspiring HH to avoid pretty clichés and dig deep in thinking about melody and harmony.
Japanese music is generally based on thier traditional progressions and harmony (which are simply brilliant and rich) but it is really similar to jazz in many places (at least up to level 4) which is really fascinating for me.
I know this is really late, but could I ask you to explain why? I'm starting to get into Jazz and trying to understand jazz harmony, and I've been exposed to Japanese music for my whole life (being half-Japanese) so I feel like it'd be really helpful for my understanding to see how they relate.
@@jakesawaguchi4928 i dont know a tonne about this but I do know that american jazz was really popular in japan in the 50s/60s so i guess maybe it influenced their use of harmony etc that spread to other types of music?
Can you post a link to some examples to these Japanese progressions/harmonies? It seems very interesting. I'll use some search bots, of course, but it seems you know some good sources...
@@error.418 I went to a George Winston concert many years ago. At one point, he donned a full set of fingerpicks, half climbed into the piano, and started playing it like it was some enormous new age confluence of harp and banjo.
Pop: Ok Level 1: Ooh that's nice Level 2: That's pretty interesting Level 3: Something sounds off... Level 4: Wait why is it so dark all of a sudden Level 5: Uhh... it sort of works? Level 6: What is this disharmonic sh*t Level 7: This... is actually oddly satisfying
Pop: sounds great, provided i'm drunk Level 1: Ooh that's nice Level 2: Sounds off, but in an interesting way Level 3: Muzak Level 4: Gross Level 5: Gross Level 6: I pray to never hear this again in my life Level 7: This... is actually oddly satisfying
Single handedly as a music composer mess around on keyboard since 8 and a deep lover of jazz who's faced a lot of challenges with simple diatonic harmony who is self taught in theory and simply goes w the flow this was the best video I've ever seen to show how to spice things up your examples on point no wasted bs time your explanation easy to understand abs love your work simply the vid i was looking for thank you so much wish you the best sir
Going from level 6 to level 7, I honestly expected another increase in chaos, to harmonic pandemonium akin to two cats fighting for dear life over the keyboard. But instead, a new dimension opens up, between the equal-tempered tones, that leads to harmonic bliss. Absolutely sublime.
@@Sedyon haha, no but seriously I do think Finnissy is a great composer, his works are incredibly expressive, but it's also probably some of the most furious and opressive music ever created, which is why I like it, but I don't blaim anyone who dislikes this kind of music. For real if I was recommending how to get into more dissonant and atonal music, I'd say go with Alban Berg's violin concerto, it's far more relaxed, has a more mysterious vibe to it and is inspired by romanticism.
his pepper analogy was perfect, because not everyone would enjoy ghost peppers, but there are people who find ways to make the dish tasty, even with them.
The level of this video is enormous... I can't even imagine the time spent working on it... Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, and in a fun way.
@@oscargill423 there are! You can have different intonations and temperaments (pythagorean, 12-eq, other just intonations, other eq temperament tunings) that only share the common starting point of A=432Hz (though "A" might not be a concept in all of them)
@@tand0r But A432 is still A432. Doesn't matter what temperament you use, 432 cycles per second is still 432 cycles per second. It's not like tuning your instrument differently alters the space time continuum.
I love coming back to this vid as a progress indicator of my own music theory knowledge. I adore how the music theory rabbit hole seems endless and continuously intriguing. This video is also still one of my favorites! ❤️
@@nate_stormIt’s best said by Adam himself, level 6 should only be used in very small doses. That example is what you would call an extreme jazz spice overdose.
@UCH4TjATO0jn0MfLLRSVgVEw Coltrane sounded like that to me the first days I tried listening. I remember thinking that it sounded like what must be played on an asylum, like only a mad person would be able to enjoy it. But the thought that something so seemingly insane could be taken seriously by so many people was tremendously intriguing to me. After 2 weeks of insisting on it, listening to it without enjoying at all, it suddenly became divine. The brain needs some time to assemble the puzzle. Coltrane is like a prophet that converted me to the world of (serious) music. Not only to music, but he converted me to a world of continuous learning, where you see everything connects and everything is deeply interesting. It's like I'm on an acid trip ever since, the world became a very interesting place. And I always feel people around me is generally unaware of that, they see quite a dull and meaningless world.
Level 7 Jazz Harmony is so lovely, that intonalism really makes all the spiciness fall into place. Level 6 is just way *too* much at least in your sample, but I was vibing with everything really well, and the Intonal Harmony was just *chef's kiss* Although that might just be because I've listened to enough lo-fi hiphop at this point that I'm very comfy with the shifts in question
Juan2003gtr You obviously don’t know shit about playing, or even listening to, classical music. The performances are often the very pinnacle of technique, analysis, and interpretation. Improvisatory music is a totally different art.
@Juan2003gtr Because my mom made me learn the piano when i was 5 and I got decently good at it? I'm not limiting myself to classical that's just the way i was initially taught
Levels I-II: Beautiful and complex harmonies giving the vocal melody a new spin that plain harmonies could never reach. Level III: The pianist knows the melody but hasn't learned the chords so he's just making it up as he goes along. Levels IV-VI: Random notes violently clashing with the melody, trying not to support it but to rape it, brutalise it, tear it to pieces with gangrenous claws and stitch it back up with its own entrails, until it becomes but a blasphemous mockery of itself thrown upon a bloody altar for the catarrhous laughter of the Dark Gods. Level VII: That's... actually really interesting.
Level 1: Nice Level 2: Still good Level 3: Interesting Level 4: Cat on piano? Level 5: Definitely cat on piano Level 6: *_Cat festival_* Level 7: LoFi hip hop
Haha XD, I think when you get to the much more dissonant ways of constructing harmonic discourse, is like when you stop buying new cars as pre-made things and just start to first buy them used and mod them more and more until you get to just buy parts and assemble them yourself (one day you might even create your engine and chasis). Like, at that level, you clearly are not doing it because it is what works best for most people.
But it’s not “out of tune” like a bunch of people who don’t know how to play. It’s out of tune to a very specific planned degree. That’s the difference between good and bad here.
Me: I don't want to keep playing pop. I want to become a jazz musician! Adam: Let's take a look at this B flat minor major seven over F major seven over C sharp five. Me : ..... "Today it's gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you"
@@jackmosgofian8816 I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now. (This song is at least more harmonically complex than the average pop song)
Well, above level 4 is non-functional also known as non-sense. Plus I'm pretty sure level 4 is where Final Fantasy music lives, so what more could you possibly want.
@@bradleyhamilton4409 sure, I'm just saying that there's a point where it doesn't feel like any one could enjoy it. Like a banana taped to a wall. People might consider that art, but I think you'd have to have fallen pretty far down your own mind to fool yourself into thinking it's art. At a point, it just seems ridiculous.
Level 1: ok Level 2: Wow this sounds really good! Level 3: I don't like it as much as level 2 but I appreciate the techniques employed Level 4: This sounds...kinda creepy Level 5: UM Level 6: WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT Level 7: Oh. Ok.
i was really preparing for the worst after level 6. It hit so fast and subtle, Level 7 was more a knife than a sledgehammer of LVL 6. Its like that pepper killed you right there and then and you just fly to heaven
I think the whole point of level 7 and 6 jazz is the fact that level 6 is basically the peak with tempered tunings. To get to level 7 you can't accel any further with chords so you start actually messing with the frequency it self. Honestly learning that really blew my mind.
Lvl 4 sounded awesome, really loved the pedal point, really gave it a groove. I also loved lvl 2, it seemed like it fit the melody perfectly to my ear anyways
Scene: Jazz club. Paramedics remove a dead body. Detective: What happened? Witness: I don't know. He was doing a piano solo when suddenly he just flatnined.
Sounds like my friend, who was is a coal mine when suddenly a grand piano fell down the shaft and flattened him. Sources say the sound it made was of A Flat Miner.
I've studied 4 years of levels 3 to 6 at uni and couldn't ever really have a grasp of their practical uses, or feel like I really understood how they worked. You made a miracle in 13 minutes. Thank you.
Was it just me or did the normal equal tempered version at 11:30 sound off at first? I think the gradual dissolution of the concept of harmony broke my brain...
0:49 Level 1 2:06 Level 2 3:32 Level 3 4:52 Level 4 5:46 Level 5 7:13 Level 6 8:56 Level 7 Thanks a lot. Big data in a so enjoyable video. Greetings from Argentina!
To be fair, level 5 is official nerd category. So id say you just got more tools to play with! Plan out a level six moment, do an album or few songs in the level 5 category, and live in levels 1-4. Thats my plan lol
@@goldenmoleful The examples in the video are not meant to actually make the song sound good though. There is awesome sounding jazz music that uses these techniques, but he overdid it here to show the techniques and theory of each "level". Even avid jazz fans will hate the sound of everything in this video after level 2 lol.
There are too many dissonances, that's the problem, the ones that no work their hearing feel this like "agression" stay with the pentatonic, that will balance everything
@@rosemosquetta I slightly disagree, because dissonance is already prominent in dominant chords, and super prominent in dominant chords with b9s, b13s, etc. To me it's more about voice leading and harmonic rhythm. The harmonic rhythm is too dense even though the melody and groove are simple, causing it to sound unbalanced. There is some dissonance, for sure, but in some of these cases, he could have left some very dissonant chords in, taken out some of the extra ones he added, and it would sound quite good. But again, he composed these to show the technique - things like tritone subs, etc.
Here are all the artists/albums he mentioned in the video: Miles Davis: Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Moanin’ Charlie Parker: The Charlie Parker Story Video clips of Duke Ellington and Thad jones John Coltrane: my favorite things, A love supreme, & Ascension Ornette Coleman: love call Anthony Braxton: For Alto Miles Davis: Miles Smiles Herbie Hancock: Flood Return to Forever: Romantic Warrior Stan Kenton: City of Glass David Liebman: Journey Around the Truth Jacob Collier: In the Bleak Midwinter Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone: Sélébéyone I’m gonna try playing auditory Hot Ones and see how many I can listen to before burning my ears off.
This is so interesting cause level 7 and just intonation is how harmonica players tune their harmonicas. To see this represented throughout a entire tune is mind bending.
Nah, it would get less views, jazz isn't popular anymore, this only has 500,000 views and 3600 comments!! ;-) Magic, Beato would be lucky to get 50,000 and 200 comments on one of his old harmony videos!
Which is your level of preferred spice? Can you handle level 6 ghost pepper?
Number 2 is the last that sounded well.
Level 7 is better than Level 6 for me. Thanks Jacob Collier.
Number 4 was amazing! The pedal point technique wasn't something I had ever heard in jazz before and definitely sounds like something I'd want to incorporate into my own playing. Though I am not sure it is as evocative of the original piece as much as the other levels.
Well, if you put yourself in a position "I play music for people" you would probably very carefuly take your pefrormance no deeper than level 5. Even so, very rarely.
Thanks Adam, great video as usual.
I love you spicy boi.
you know your playin hardcore jazz when the chords look like wifi passwords
JAJJAJA
Lmao underrated
The sheet music is on the back of the router
Lmao at this rate, jazz musicians probably can play the back of the router
Lol. Complex looking chords are just named based on the intervals of the modes of the scales they come from. Usually they are based on 7 note scales, major and melodic minor being most the common ones in jazz.
*the scooby gang remove the mask of 7th level of jazz harmony* : "it was lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to all along !"
César
The people who make those lofi hip hop study music videos: “And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for that meddling Neely.”
W
and i woulda got away with it if it wasn't for these darn kids
Great conclusion. Hilariously accurate but oddly satisfying.
WILL THAT ANIME GIRL EVER FINSH HER HOMEWORK?????
Herbie later said he realized Miles actually said "Bottom" notes and not "butter" and so he revolutionized harmony based on mishearing something lol. True jazz things
Okay! Didn't know this.
So what are the butter notes according to what Herbie thought he heard? Take any chord, Gm7 or G13 etc.
@@televinv8062 I saw Herbie talk about it in an interview this year, I think he only realized recently! The butter notes being the 3rds and 7ths, which led to all these sus-type voicings that were more harmonically ambiguous. If he played 1-2-5 (C D G) it’s harmonically ambiguous enough for the improviser to interpret that a bunch of different ways, not to mention it just sounds really cool.
@@njrous thank you!
So, if I were to play some of these chords without the butter notes on guitar, use the upper voicing for the 2 and the 5? Suggestions?
He said that in the video Jacob Collier explains Harmony in 5 different levels
Lmao I love that 🤣
My 12 year old self randomly stacking notes in finale was really just liberated dissonance.
Rest in peace 🪦
Don't forget to play proper bass notes at the bottom 🎉
So what youre telling me is that LoFi hiphop is the highest level of jazz we can ever achieve?
At least until somebody new comes along with some other crazy ideas
There is more sophisticated music in the world.
@@simonvanroij4182 please note the and analysis part. Not just a link. Thx ;)
Ohhh at 9:13 now I get this comment!
you know, Dilla groove, micro rhythm
Level 8 Jazz: Using tuning is too tedious at this point. Chords are instead built from octave-shifted harmonics of a fundamental frequency. Any frequency can be used as a fundamental. Any audible harmonic can be used in the chord.
Level 9 Jazz: Frequencies in each "chord" no longer need to share harmonics with the fundamental.
Level 10 Jazz: Frequencies no longer need to be within the audible range. Chords don't count if they contain fewer than 100 frequencies.
Level 11 Jazz: Sound is an illusion. The very concepts on which music functions do not truly exist. Cast aside your instruments and be at one with the void.
Level 12 Jazz: Silence.
so level 12 is basically John Cage's 4:32?
@@MichaelWilliams-tw7ft *distorted bass*
**jazz music stops**
@@MichaelWilliams-tw7ft Pinnacle of Jazz right there
ben g
It seems that John Cage was a master of Level 12 Jazz
Me:*headbutts piano*
Adam: "level 8 jazz right there"
NOPE! You should hardly detune (they call it A=432 Factor 9) your piano first!
@@roma540 nice roman
Jazz jazz jazz
No level 8 is all polychords, each made out of 4 diminished chords played at once, each a Tritone apart
Level 8 is playing a chord with your saxophone
After 4 years of studying music theory i finally understand every chord and how they function harmonically within each chord progression in level 3 and below. I feel better than I’ve had in months
Yeah I can understand it up to the top level but its just a mess anyways up from level 3 and doesnt make sense. Except for level 7, it is quite nice
@@tj-co9go It does make sense lol, you just don’t get it yet, from level 4 onwards it’s a nonfunctional feast. It requires really deep analysis to understand it pragmatically. Not that I’m willing to do such analysis but it does make sense within its own convictions
Imagine devoting all of that brain power to something that sounds a five year old pressing random notes.
@@tj-co9go it's actually stupid how level 7 sounds alright ahahh
@@birb7271music is for the maker, not for the "audience"
Me: *Plays 33 cents out of tune*
Section leader: Push in, you’re flat
Me: I have achieved xenharmonism
Yep.
Imagine trying to get your section to play these chords.
sax clarinet oboe or bassoon
Lol I got the 1000th like :)
Holy shit this got so many likes what
Non jazz musicians: That shit sounds horrible
Jazz musicians: now we’re gettin spicy
I think the piano is at fault because it doesn't sound clean
Agree.. I'm confused since the 3rd level.. 😞 i guess i don't have any talent in jazz
You need to have an ear for experimental music.
I think the midi piano just sucks. If someone played it with musicality it'll probably sound better
@@User-xw6kd That's a huge generalisation
Level 1: ii-V-I (Basis of functional Jazz harmony)
Level 2: Tritone subs (Combo jazz)
Level 3: upper extensions, 9ths 11ths 13ths (Big Band)
Level 4: Pedal Point (Modal Jazz)
Level 5: Non-functional harmony (Modal and Fusion Jazz)
Level 6: Liberal Dissonance and stacked chords (Contemporary)
Level 7: Microtonal harmony (L O - F I)
Im pariking here like my comment
A very nice summary, Thanks!
Aren’t the Cm7 and F7 non functional?
@@Geveretzah1 No, they are non-diatonic, but together with the Bb6, they are a ii-V-I in Bb-Major, so they have functions:)
@@joschka-bw2rc thanks for clearing it up my friend :)
Just enrolled into jazz school after 18 years of classical violin and having my entire world I knew about harmony destroyed by my compulsory piano teacher in the first lesson was a life changing experience. Rootless voicings, and all that stuff just opened my eyes about how wrong I was thinking regarding harmonization and how little they teach you just to get by in classical training. Not even properly a week into it, barely grasping the basics of 12 bar jazz-blues and here I am thinking there is so much more to learn and I already learned more than I ever could in a traditional classical environment, because all of this would be considered 20th century and ‘contemporary music’ by their standards.
Revisiting this video just enforced my feelings about it. You don’t ‘need’ a fifth, you don’t ‘need’ a root, you don’t practically need anything as long as it’s implied in context or as long as what’s being played points to the general direction of the implied harmony. Thank you for the video, Adam, it’s still a banger.
thats awesome. best of luck in your studies and your playing!
You sir have just had an epiphany
how’s jazz school going !!!
adam: "So let's take a look at this Bbminormajor7overFmaj7overC#5..."
me: "okay"
HAHAHAHAHAHA shut up you walnut
@@flatterswhite Please go away
=) same
@@dwightthestonejackson4819 me: okay xD
😂😂😂 nice chord
0:27 normal harmony
0:49 level 1
2:06 level 2
3:32 level 3
4:52 level 4
5:46 level 5
7:13 *level 6*
8:56 level 7
BIG THANKS
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Exactly. There is sensible music that feels good, and then everything else.
Just because it is above the technical understanding of newer musicians doesn't mean it sounds good.
There is music made to impress or even to downgrade others, and then there is music that is enjoyable for many.
Art (visual or audible) is something meant to speak - to communicate - to others, in order to share something. When the arts complexity is so intricate that few people understand, it's like a professor speaking in such elevated vocabulary that nobody understands what he's saying. And this is pathetic because in an effort to impress others, he has denied himself the opportunity to express anything. When nobody gets what he's saying, he might as well have never spoken at all.
@@4wardnthought234 I agree in a sense. Art should generally have a sense of understanding or connection from the artist to the viewer or listener. Some of the "levels" like the 5th or 6th one should probably be used once and a while opposed to all the time.
But in my opinion this was a great video to see different ways of harmonizing. As it opens people to a whole new world of technicality to try to figure out and experiment with. So what if we don't use these much or all the time (pun not intended). Seeing this video at least opened up my box of thinking on harmony to see what I could do of I ever wanted more creative harmony out of a chord in a future arrangment. I have yet to learn some of this stuff, but it's honestly very cool to me. Even if sparingly used.
@@kylekotula7266 Exactly. Sparingly.
As a musician of 30+ years, I can tell you, while I CRAVED the oblique, fringe stuff, once I wore it out I realized it sounds like crap. And it was only ever interesting to technically driven musicians. It is the audio equivelant of tripping balls on acid - after a while, you just grow out of it and realize that most others didn't enjoy in the first place.
So jazz level 8: go back to the beginning, where sounds beautiful.
I can believe Adam Neely made this whole video just to make lofi hip hop
basically yeah
@@AdamNeely How do you even play level 7 live ? If the same note change their tuning over time
@@BraceletGrolf you don't or use a backingtrack, anything else would be a pain
@@torram28 you sing it or use instruments that can create microtones, like bowed strings in the hands of very, very skilled musicians
@@BraceletGrolf you can also program your synth to play the several tuning of the same note on the black keys (but you have a diatonic keyboard)
**bangs head on piano** there we have some level 6 jazz
I swear I saw you in the comment section of Earthbound related videos, you were saying that Giygas wasn't creepy
@@Sedyon me, giygas not creepy? i think you have the wrong one, or i just forgot i made those comments
@@schwammkopfspitspill I'm pretty sure of what I said 🙃
@@schwammkopfspitspill oh actually I was partially wrong, in fact you said "Tell that to Pokémon (lavender town)" to a comment saying that Earthbound could give nightmares to kids
@@Sedyon oh, oh yeah
Ok so when jazz artist play notes out of the chords they’re “playing liberated dissonance” and “doing non functional harmony” but when *I* do it I’m “playing the wrong notes” and “not qualified for the band”
Exactly.
A note is a mistake when it doesn’t belong to a harmonic structure.
Just like a word is a mistake when it doesn’t belong in a sentence, or an ingredient is a mistake when it doesn’t belong in a recipe.
Think of the reharmonizations as ways of speaking the same language but with different accents or by using a larger vocabulary. So long as the Dallas accent isn’t mixed with the NYC accent, the accent makes sense to the listener whether they are from Dallas or NYC.
I would say it's pretty much an identical change as a lot of post modern contemporary art, and it's no coincidence that Adam talked about most of this with a single artist's history.
If you look at say, Jackson Pollock's history you would see something somewhat similar where it started with the obvious fundamentals of art and as time went on got more abstract and more about the ideas of what could be done with less and more.
Das Ganon - spot on. And the art comes from deciding which style/language expresses what the artist/musician is trying to say at the time of the production/performance/recording.
Otherwise, art/music (anything) becomes a mechanical/craft/intellectual exercise - which can be impressive - but isn’t necessarily art.
If you have a pattern and play within a specific context then you are not wrong. Even in this liberated dissonance there's a pattern and context that's why it's distinguished as a style.
Jazz Level 6: “Ah yes, this chord is made of C H O R D”
yo dawg I heard you like chords...
Ah, yes. Enslaved chord
Ya like CHoRdz?
Did you know that at every minute at 60bpm, 60 beats pass.
Blitz Alex holy shit dude thanks i didnt know that
waaaait a minute
"don't play the butter notes"
you're talking about when Herbie Hancock was told "don't play the bottom notes" and misheard it. I'm on to you. lol, excellent video :)
thanks man that explains a lot
Was thinking the same thing
just hear herbie talking about this in his autobiography! Best audiobook ever - read by Herbie himself
Miles: "Don't play the bottom notes"
Herbie: What could he mean by the butter notes?
Yeeee
When I hear jazz harmony to this degree, it reminds me of an old friend who always overused olive oil when she made Italian food
Just because you have a whole bottle of the stuff, doesn’t mean it needs a whole bottle of the stuff
Love the channel Adam, love the content, and I love hearing what I don’t like so I better understand what I do like 💜
but have you heard some of the albums he recommends? just because you don't like something the first time doesn't mean you should stop. i don't like jazz yet but i try to expose myself to it because as long as it sounds unusual and disgusting, i just haven't listened to it enough.
@@salty_3k506props to you but as a huge jazz guy and on top of that prog guy I really don't like that stuff at all. I love dissonance but there's a limit. It's still gotta swing and give that feel.
Level 7 goes so far past the deep end that it overflows back around to the opposite side.
Like the horseshoe theory of politics.
I think it would actually be far worse. Think about it. If you adjusted the tuning at a random way, it would be level 6 but more dog shit. He cut it some slack and tuned it in a pleasing way
evolution? sort of like zima blue
Jazz student: Do you want me to play in the key of C or G?
Jazz teacher: Yes
I feel attacked
A bit worn out by now 😏
LOOOOLLLLL
MasterStepz9 • but maybe also f#
@@Calz20Videos add f to that mix aswell, i love me some ear rape also known ass jazz
"Level 2 is where i stop thank you. After that it starts to just become dissonant noise instead of pleasing harmonies." - from the classical pianist
I'm with you on this one, from 3 onwards, from my perspective it becomes like when you used to bang your hands on any old note as a kid, and the underlying progression disappears. If I was hearing level 3 from scratch, I wouldn't understand what was underpinning it (probably my own limited musical brain I guess)!
because you are a sub huma- musician 👂
@@mansendwish 🤣🤣
@isaacpaech1430 exactly
Skill issue
12:11 “2,345,312 viewers watching”
I see what you did there
You've just won the internet. Go outside and celebrate your success.
Goddamn, I didn't even notice. Gotta love easter eggs.
Hugo Hassler It’s the intervals of “the lick”, which Adam is always playing and referencing.
@Hugo Hassler its a certain tongue movement owo
@Hugo Hassler Just play it on the piano.
By the time we get to Jazz Level 6, the line "It ain't my fault" feels like the start of an argument rather than the chorus of a feel-good pop song
Haha. I love this comment!
Underrated comment.
😂 I started to hate it all at level 3
@@dairebarefoot6763 Same
@@dairebarefoot6763 true story, hated it on 3d time, paused and went here
Level 1: The classwork
Level 2: The homework
Level 6: The test
Level 1: You
Level 2: Your best friend
Level 3: Your crush
Level 4: Your crush's bf/gf
Level 5: The straight A student
Level 6: That kids who said he/she knew nothing
Level 7: The mythical prodigy who never attend classes
Honestly the homework is always much harder than the test
level 6 sounds lile crap. adam neely knows nothing about jazz
@@dabendan79 how can u say that? have u watched any of his videos
@@volta6525 how could you say that? do you actually respect and listen to jazz?
This singer is amazing. I love her voice.
We have to agree to disagree. I dislike her singing as being whiny and petulant.
@@SherwoodBotsford Ahhh. Why even comment about her singing. She's presenting a melody to show how the levels change the deal.
'these chords are starting to sound kind of bad'
'how about if we detune them?'
*lightbulb*
It's more like retune them: you've probably heard the whole "pianos are out of tune" shtick. Well it's true. In order to have all the notes the same distance apart, we compromise on how nicely the chords are tuned. Level 7 removes that compromise.
Gru: lightbulb 😏
@@oscargill423 this is exactly what I was thinking the moment I heard it (probably helps my perfect pitch developed playing a just-intonated instrument), literally my first thought was “piano finally sounds right”! So when Adam called it “out of tune sounding” I got so confused lol, but at least he said “in a good way” right after ;)
Me: Jazz means 7th chords rite?
Adam: 7th chords = level 1
I'm scared
Honestly same
thought 9, 13th :(
I do not know what 7th chords are - damn someone guide me to a good music theory course!
@@Ramdas_Devadiga 7th chords are tetrads (4 note chords), then 9ths (five note chords), 11ths, 13ths & 15ths just stack more and more and more on top of each other. (:
Klq lắm cơ mà it's oddly satisfying and heart-warming to see a Vietnamese homie on this channel. Ayyyy!!!!
Sooo.... The highest level of Jazz enlightenment is LoFi study beats??? Mind Blown!!!! Love the vids!
I love when I'm improvising cool dissonant things, then I take the time to see what I played and it's always amazing to see that "your brain" play harmonics automatically (because I'd never have the musical knowledge to choose those harmonics consciouly). Jazz is amazing
Well said!
Level 6 - PROTIP: Make sure the synth and the vocals are *not* in the same key
Polytonality, let's go
I like playing in F Major, but I like singing in _F ShArP_
Um 666 likes
Dylan the Tactician I like my backing track in C, but I’d love to have my vocals in F#
"I'm not off key, I'm playing level 7 Jazz"
Spongebob lEvEl 6 JaZz*
tension: goose
release: juice
Nothing is more true.
gotta blame it on the goose
So you're telling me that a tense goose is releasing juice?
The GoldenKeyboard 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@kunchenliang8772 I mean it's just a theory
FASCINATING for this classically trained pianist and conductor and chromatic theory instructor who knows full well what cents/commas are, but not a stitch of jazz theory!
Level 6 Jazz: “You have to listen to the notes she’s not playing”
This is underrated
So basically, turn it off?
Isnt that the overtone lol
I could do that at home
Play every note that isnt in the original key and you good
“Don’t play the butter notes” was Herbie Hancock misunderstanding Miles Davis saying “Don’t play the bottom note” - the root. A great story, though, inspiring HH to avoid pretty clichés and dig deep in thinking about melody and harmony.
Wasn't it Barry Harris?
@@Se_bito No
Haha 69
Me: **learns how 7, 9, 11 and 13 chords work** I am ready for this video **watches video** ight imma head out
Lmao so true
Same here
@@canaldepraticadejesus6600 After level 3 the song was wrecked however, it was a lesson in harmony. God bless the UA-cam.
Same
*My friend, you have a long way ahead of you…*
Japanese music is generally based on thier traditional progressions and harmony (which are simply brilliant and rich) but it is really similar to jazz in many places (at least up to level 4) which is really fascinating for me.
I know this is really late, but could I ask you to explain why? I'm starting to get into Jazz and trying to understand jazz harmony, and I've been exposed to Japanese music for my whole life (being half-Japanese) so I feel like it'd be really helpful for my understanding to see how they relate.
@@jakesawaguchi4928 i dont know a tonne about this but I do know that american jazz was really popular in japan in the 50s/60s so i guess maybe it influenced their use of harmony etc that spread to other types of music?
I would love some examples!
Can you post a link to some examples to these Japanese progressions/harmonies? It seems very interesting. I'll use some search bots, of course, but it seems you know some good sources...
0:27 Original
0:50 Level 1 - "Bell Pepper" - II-V’s and other basic tonal movements
2:08 Level 2 - "Poblano Pepper" - Sub V’s and other stuff
3:34 Level 3 - "Jalepeño Pepper" - Crazy chromatic extensions
4:54 Level 4 - "Piri Piri Pepper"- Constant Structures and Pedal Point
5:48 Level 5 - "Habenero Pepper"- Free non-functional harmony
7:16 Level 6 - "Ghost Pepper"- Liberated Dissonance
8:58 Level 7 - "???" - Xenharmony
12:10 Epic LoFi Beat (to relax/study to)
Jazz harmony has been leading us to epic lofi beats all along
I was expecting Level 7 to be either Carolina Reaper or Pepper Spray
4 is my favorite.
12:10 - "Vanilla Icecream ... Pepper"
Nice thanks
Level 8: throw 5 cats inside an old piano, close it, press sustain pedal and start singing.
So, no joke, I went to a show where a guy put dozens of disposable vibrating toothbrushes into the piano. It was pretty close to your description.
Damián González Then call Shrödinger to determine if the "music" is simultaneously dead and alive.
@@error.418 I went to a George Winston concert many years ago. At one point, he donned a full set of fingerpicks, half climbed into the piano, and started playing it like it was some enormous new age confluence of harp and banjo.
c h a n c e m u s i c
Username I was & will be 2 busy 4 such gigs, courtesy of my thick timing armour.
Pop: Ok
Level 1: Ooh that's nice
Level 2: That's pretty interesting
Level 3: Something sounds off...
Level 4: Wait why is it so dark all of a sudden
Level 5: Uhh... it sort of works?
Level 6: What is this disharmonic sh*t
Level 7: This... is actually oddly satisfying
everything after level three was just a step into the void and then level 7 was like oh. theres still a key.
I definitely agree lol
Quinson Hon I finally found a tribe where I’m not odd man out. ;) Thanx.
Pop: sounds great, provided i'm drunk
Level 1: Ooh that's nice
Level 2: Sounds off, but in an interesting way
Level 3: Muzak
Level 4: Gross
Level 5: Gross
Level 6: I pray to never hear this again in my life
Level 7: This... is actually oddly satisfying
Listen to Jacob collier. He's a genius with Level 7. None of what he does sounds out of tune, even though it should be. He works magic with harmony.
Single handedly as a music composer mess around on keyboard since 8 and a deep lover of jazz who's faced a lot of challenges with simple diatonic harmony who is self taught in theory and simply goes w the flow this was the best video I've ever seen to show how to spice things up your examples on point no wasted bs time your explanation easy to understand abs love your work simply the vid i was looking for thank you so much wish you the best sir
Someone: you're a little flat..
Me, an intellectual: Nah, I'm just singing leVeL 7 jAzz hArmOnY
Flat is justice
Randy Jackson/American Idol: A little pitchy ya'll...
Nah dawg, you just don't get my level 7 jazz intonations.
@@gespenst0083 Heck yeah
Actually, I’m sharp, just one step below your standards
That doesnt apply to singing tho
Going from level 6 to level 7, I honestly expected another increase in chaos, to harmonic pandemonium akin to two cats fighting for dear life over the keyboard.
But instead, a new dimension opens up, between the equal-tempered tones, that leads to harmonic bliss. Absolutely sublime.
exactly the same what i feel
yeeep
6 just sounds random
7 is... sublime is the perfect word to describe it.
You're a fucking idiot. That was asinine garbage.
I was also surprised at how harmonious seven is except in the back of my mind I thought 'maybe he goes beyond pedal points to drone
Is this a joke?
"lofi hiphop beats is the ultimate level of jazz" - Adam Neely 2019
Lol, yeah right...
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST
First level of jazz harmonization: pleasant music, smooth chords
Sixth level of jazz harmonization: *INFERNAL CHORDS THAT WOULD DRIVE ANYONE CRAZY*
yeah sure, you should check out Michael Finnissy's piano concerto no. 3
@@jimit.4220 wow, it's a real pleasure for the ears ☹
@@Sedyon haha, no but seriously I do think Finnissy is a great composer, his works are incredibly expressive, but it's also probably some of the most furious and opressive music ever created, which is why I like it, but I don't blaim anyone who dislikes this kind of music. For real if I was recommending how to get into more dissonant and atonal music, I'd say go with Alban Berg's violin concerto, it's far more relaxed, has a more mysterious vibe to it and is inspired by romanticism.
his pepper analogy was perfect, because not everyone would enjoy ghost peppers, but there are people who find ways to make the dish tasty, even with them.
@@krisissupercool1 yeah
Ok, why isn't there a "microtonal beats to relax/study to" radio?
In all seriousness, microtonal music is actually really soothing to listen to. If only someone could make "microtonal beats" a reality.
@@andylu6150 If you all are interested in microtonal electronic music, check out Sevish on bandcamp
As a classical musician, I’m dying over here.
sevish, if you're reading this, please do one of these
Matthew Parkin YES. Sevish is amazing
Adam: Oh Miles Davis, please show us the way.
Miles: I’m afraid we’re going to have to use... *MATH*.
now I want to see a tenacious d jazz version where jack talks to miles in the poster
"Oh Miles Davis, show us the way to-"
*Ad starts*
"A lunchbox - that unfolds into - an eating mat!"
AHA LMAO RIGHT
RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!
Interesting
For me it was “- Skype college students from Texas A&M”
just FYI, I'm using Opera and it has ad block so I would never have to worry about any kind of ads on the internet :3
The level of this video is enormous... I can't even imagine the time spent working on it... Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, and in a fun way.
Best Jazz history lesson ever. Now I understand what I don't understand.
I understand that i dont understand
KaffiFlight nice
LMAO I UNDERSTAND YOU
I don't understand what I thought I understood
@@calumcooper3295 i understand that we dont need to understand anything besides what notes are
never did I think that the 7th level of jazz harmony would be lofi hip-hop
thanks adam, i learn something new every day.
Level 8: Every musician picks their favorite A=432 Hz tuning for their instrument without revealing it to the others.
Their favourite A=432 Hz tuning? There aren't multiple A=432s... (unless that's the joke in which case ignore this)
That's the joke.
Play something in 440 or 420, tell the 432 heads it's still 432 and they will believe you.
@@OLDSACKS Ahhh okay gotcha. A sad truth indeed.
@@oscargill423 there are! You can have different intonations and temperaments (pythagorean, 12-eq, other just intonations, other eq temperament tunings) that only share the common starting point of A=432Hz (though "A" might not be a concept in all of them)
@@tand0r But A432 is still A432. Doesn't matter what temperament you use, 432 cycles per second is still 432 cycles per second. It's not like tuning your instrument differently alters the space time continuum.
I don't know why but I keep coming back to this video every few months. Something really compelling about it
"You can pick and choose basically whatever so long it doesnt clash with the melody": definition of Jazz
So, I'm not bad at music after all
I'm just playing high-level jazz
Wasn't it Dave McKean who said, "1 bum note is just a bum note. 2 bum notes is jazz"?
Comfort for us all.
It makes me remember Wayne Shorter. There are some concerts of him tunning like level 7.
Haha good stuff
U made me laugh out loud mate thank u
Unless you have a microtonal instrument, you're at most level 6
Ad: The only way to beat a box of cheesy, fully-loaded nachos is-
Me: *skips ad*
Adam: JAZZ LEVEL 7
This feels like an in-game tip:
“The only way to beat a box of cheesy, fully-loaded nachos is jazz level 7”
@@spaghoe lmao
Hahaha
Jazz lv7: the pickle of the music world
I love coming back to this vid as a progress indicator of my own music theory knowledge. I adore how the music theory rabbit hole seems endless and continuously intriguing. This video is also still one of my favorites! ❤️
Me screaming:
What I hear: AAHAAAHAAAAHAHAH!!!
What Adam Neely hears: that's a Dbmaj7sus4dim11/F#
@@lesleykaut2766 Maybe it's one of those wobbly screams that changes notes and Adam was so good he could pick out notes from the wobblyness.
When the sound of her moans outlines a spicy jazz chord
jazz level 7 achieved
I tried that chord and its actually quite interesting :D
@@gooball2005 you must’ve never heard the intro to RIP roach
So when are we gonna get our 10 hour mix of Just Intonated Lo-Fi beats to study to?
yes
I'm waiting on the 10 hour ghost Pepper mix
You can listen to the song on his Bandcamp if you want
I watched this the other other night and I've got to say her voice has been in my head every morning since. Like a freaking angel.
I love level 6 purely because of how ANGRY the chords sound, the fact that Adam describes these intervals as "At War" is fantastic.
The piano player sounds pretty angry too
I love level 6 purely because of how shitty the chords sound
@@nate_stormIt’s best said by Adam himself, level 6 should only be used in very small doses. That example is what you would call an extreme jazz spice overdose.
Level 4 sounds angry to me
i like the little "dududun BAAH" at 7:19
Level 6 sounds like a cat walking on a piano.
With 14 feet.
On acid.
That is an apt description of John Coltrane, yes
@@thepotato513 HAHAHAHA
Miles Davis once said he tries to play all the notes at once 😂😂😂😂
Free the music from the harmony!
@UCH4TjATO0jn0MfLLRSVgVEw Coltrane sounded like that to me the first days I tried listening. I remember thinking that it sounded like what must be played on an asylum, like only a mad person would be able to enjoy it. But the thought that something so seemingly insane could be taken seriously by so many people was tremendously intriguing to me. After 2 weeks of insisting on it, listening to it without enjoying at all, it suddenly became divine. The brain needs some time to assemble the puzzle. Coltrane is like a prophet that converted me to the world of (serious) music. Not only to music, but he converted me to a world of continuous learning, where you see everything connects and everything is deeply interesting. It's like I'm on an acid trip ever since, the world became a very interesting place. And I always feel people around me is generally unaware of that, they see quite a dull and meaningless world.
:D
Level 7 Jazz Harmony is so lovely, that intonalism really makes all the spiciness fall into place. Level 6 is just way *too* much at least in your sample, but I was vibing with everything really well, and the Intonal Harmony was just *chef's kiss*
Although that might just be because I've listened to enough lo-fi hiphop at this point that I'm very comfy with the shifts in question
When you hit the 8th level, you enter a wormhole and end up playing with Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis in another dimension.
whahaha!
Thought it was going to be a Interstellar joke
get me there right now. im a drummer but i dont care
HAHAHAHA
Level 4 was my favourite. The pedal bass really does ground it and the chords can be extra spicy and still sound right.
I instantly heard that whole Coltrane with McCoy Tyner sonic landscape and felt very at home.
Me, a classically trained musician, seeing a single V7: "Is this jazz?"
There are actually quite a lot of V7 in classical music, they will always appear in cadences.
@@mysteriev7071 He was obviously exaggerating for comedic effect.
no harm in elaborating just a bit more for those wanting to learn ;)
Juan2003gtr You obviously don’t know shit about playing, or even listening to, classical music. The performances are often the very pinnacle of technique, analysis, and interpretation. Improvisatory music is a totally different art.
@Juan2003gtr Because my mom made me learn the piano when i was 5 and I got decently good at it? I'm not limiting myself to classical that's just the way i was initially taught
Levels I-II: Beautiful and complex harmonies giving the vocal melody a new spin that plain harmonies could never reach.
Level III: The pianist knows the melody but hasn't learned the chords so he's just making it up as he goes along.
Levels IV-VI: Random notes violently clashing with the melody, trying not to support it but to rape it, brutalise it, tear it to pieces with gangrenous claws and stitch it back up with its own entrails, until it becomes but a blasphemous mockery of itself thrown upon a bloody altar for the catarrhous laughter of the Dark Gods.
Level VII: That's... actually really interesting.
Level 1: Nice
Level 2: Still good
Level 3: Interesting
Level 4: Cat on piano?
Level 5: Definitely cat on piano
Level 6: *_Cat festival_*
Level 7: LoFi hip hop
Every day ends with a cat festival
Jajajajaja 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂👍
Level 7 is cats on an *_out of tune piano_*
Lmfao
@@RadenWA a _very specifically_ out of tune piano
my daughter : slapping keyboard
me : Oh my god she can do lvl 6 jazz harmony!!
lmao
I was thinking almost the exact same thing! LOL!
Level 6 was Definetly nonsense lol
Listen to music from the middle East, you will hear what he is talking about.
@@davidcoyle385 and level 7 harmony vaguely sounds like gamelan
If you ever meet someone who only knows this one line of “Juice,” you know it’s because they’ve seen this video too many times.
@@ContentConfessional lol that was me for a week after watching this video too. Welcome to the club :)
😌
I think I'm on my fifth or sixth rewatch...
i keep watching this to see how much more i’ve learned
I guess it ain't their fault
For some reason, I love the just intonation. Everyone seems to hate that sound but sometimes it just feels right.
*If out of tune is the best Jazz harmony, then my middle school band is better than Miles Davis*
lol
Haha XD, I think when you get to the much more dissonant ways of constructing harmonic discourse, is like when you stop buying new cars as pre-made things and just start to first buy them used and mod them more and more until you get to just buy parts and assemble them yourself (one day you might even create your engine and chasis). Like, at that level, you clearly are not doing it because it is what works best for most people.
But it’s not “out of tune” like a bunch of people who don’t know how to play. It’s out of tune to a very specific planned degree. That’s the difference between good and bad here.
LOL
LOLOLOL😄😄
Me: I don't want to keep playing pop. I want to become a jazz musician!
Adam: Let's take a look at this B flat minor major seven over F major seven over C sharp five.
Me : ..... "Today it's gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you"
By now you should’ve somehow
Realized what you gotta do
@@jackmosgofian8816 I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now. (This song is at least more harmonically complex than the average pop song)
@@Aurora-oe2qp not really, if you transpose it to standard tuning it's the same boring pop chords, albeit in a different order
@@iggykad Uuh... it isn't in standard tuning?
@@Aurora-oe2qp i mean if you play the aforementioned boring chords on the 2nd capo, that's what Wonderwall is
Protip: Make sure the piano and the vocals are in the SAME KEY
Why I season my piano not my vocals
What’s a key? I just play notes and say it’s on purpose
@@tuo.dobginski i appreciate this reference
@@nostalgia_junkie What's the reference to?
@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 Adam Ragusea
Number 4 was my favourite, those low notes give it such power!
it can be eligible for a mario boss battle
Well, above level 4 is non-functional also known as non-sense. Plus I'm pretty sure level 4 is where Final Fantasy music lives, so what more could you possibly want.
It's cool but it just doesn't fit the melody but on its own it probably really slap as a piano solo .
@@scottyskywalker5768yeah, it stops fitting the song at about level 2
I can see why people say jazz is like playing the wrong notes
Lmao
yeah, honestly the good stuff is Level 1 and 2, everything else is just too weird to listen to
@Vacuum Man yeah exactly! Music should be something that moves the soul, not something that you have to fool yourself into "enjoying"
@@boiboi7717 level 2 an 7 were honestly my favorite. 3,5, and 6 almost gave me a seizure
@@boiboi7717 Jazz is moving and interesting for many people, there are tastes outside your own
@@bradleyhamilton4409 sure, I'm just saying that there's a point where it doesn't feel like any one could enjoy it. Like a banana taped to a wall. People might consider that art, but I think you'd have to have fallen pretty far down your own mind to fool yourself into thinking it's art. At a point, it just seems ridiculous.
Level 1: ok
Level 2: Wow this sounds really good!
Level 3: I don't like it as much as level 2 but I appreciate the techniques employed
Level 4: This sounds...kinda creepy
Level 5: UM
Level 6: WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
Level 7: Oh. Ok.
Exactly
Level 5 made more sense to me than level 3 and 4 actually. And it sounded a lot better to me.
As a classical musician, it's totally true.
The uncanny valley of jazz =D
Level 7: lo fi hiphop
Damn I thought level 7 would just be screaming while random notes were playing and you would just say it's free jazz
Harmony : *exists*
Jazz : It's free real estate
Yeah, level 7 sounds better than level 6. Almost seems they should swap positions.
i was really preparing for the worst after level 6. It hit so fast and subtle, Level 7 was more a knife than a sledgehammer of LVL 6. Its like that pepper killed you right there and then and you just fly to heaven
I think the whole point of level 7 and 6 jazz is the fact that level 6 is basically the peak with tempered tunings. To get to level 7 you can't accel any further with chords so you start actually messing with the frequency it self.
Honestly learning that really blew my mind.
fr though I have never been able to get into free jazz, it just sounds like when band class would warm up before actually practicing
Lvl 4 sounded awesome, really loved the pedal point, really gave it a groove. I also loved lvl 2, it seemed like it fit the melody perfectly to my ear anyways
Adam: *So let's take a look at this B flat minor major seven over F major seven over C sharp 5*
Me: *h*
*h*
mom come pick me up im scared
Hi Scared, I’m Dad
No he's dad, I'm wise guy
press h to pay respects
Scene: Jazz club. Paramedics remove a dead body.
Detective: What happened?
Witness: I don't know. He was doing a piano solo when suddenly he just flatnined.
Johnny Olsson 😑 grooooooaaaaaaan okay dad
That’s a sharp wit you got there.
It’s almost like his life diminished before our eyes
that joke really struck a chord with me
Sounds like my friend, who was is a coal mine when suddenly a grand piano fell down the shaft and flattened him. Sources say the sound it made was of A Flat Miner.
I don't want to give away too much, but in order to get to the eighth level of jazz you first need to unlock note H.
In the former Yugoslav republics, we call the B note H soooo
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that doest count if it's by default
@@straightshook6493 ik, just a fun fact to throw it out there
#justgermanthings
Hazz?
This is the best video of this channel. And believe me. I've seen a lot of Adam's videos. Several times.
I've studied 4 years of levels 3 to 6 at uni and couldn't ever really have a grasp of their practical uses, or feel like I really understood how they worked. You made a miracle in 13 minutes. Thank you.
I have a saxophone but i dont have a phone, nor had 'sax'
More like hitting your piano with a sledgehammer to see what happens to the tuning
@@jaroslavsvaha6065 JKWFJEFJKJF PLS 😭
Level 7: lofi beat making highschool student
cant even play that on a detuned piano lol
Me, at the start of the video: haha that's funny
Me, now at the end of the video: oh, it is actually what happens
Was it just me or did the normal equal tempered version at 11:30 sound off at first? I think the gradual dissolution of the concept of harmony broke my brain...
Same here
Repetition legitimises
Repetition legitimises
Repetition legitimizes
Repetition legitimizes
Like moving from Algebra to Calculus. Thanks for the tutorial. I'll watch this again and try to figure it all out.
0:49 Level 1
2:06 Level 2
3:32 Level 3
4:52 Level 4
5:46 Level 5
7:13 Level 6
8:56 Level 7
Thanks a lot.
Big data in a so enjoyable video.
Greetings from Argentina!
This needs to go up!
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Just learned that I’m not tone deaf, I just have liberated dissonance set to enabled.
“Just intonated chords over dilla beats gets us the 7th level of jazz harmony” hahahah I feel like I’ve been punked
Bro i just got that lol
Levels 1, 2, and 7 were my favourite. I live for the satisfaction of the release.
Me: Yea I write jazz, I'm pretty good
Adam: Level 4
Me: Maybe I'm not so good then
To be fair, level 5 is official nerd category. So id say you just got more tools to play with! Plan out a level six moment, do an album or few songs in the level 5 category, and live in levels 1-4. Thats my plan lol
I dig level 4. Beyond it might be an interesting exercise, but too out for me.
This video should be retitled: “How to go from playing packed stadiums to an audience of none using Jazz harmony.”
Lol I realized I never liked jazz when I preferred level 0
@@goldenmoleful The examples in the video are not meant to actually make the song sound good though. There is awesome sounding jazz music that uses these techniques, but he overdid it here to show the techniques and theory of each "level". Even avid jazz fans will hate the sound of everything in this video after level 2 lol.
There are too many dissonances, that's the problem, the ones that no work their hearing feel this like "agression" stay with the pentatonic, that will balance everything
@@rosemosquetta I slightly disagree, because dissonance is already prominent in dominant chords, and super prominent in dominant chords with b9s, b13s, etc. To me it's more about voice leading and harmonic rhythm. The harmonic rhythm is too dense even though the melody and groove are simple, causing it to sound unbalanced. There is some dissonance, for sure, but in some of these cases, he could have left some very dissonant chords in, taken out some of the extra ones he added, and it would sound quite good. But again, he composed these to show the technique - things like tritone subs, etc.
pretty gross for sure. lol
thankfully he knows that tho
Here are all the artists/albums he mentioned in the video:
Miles Davis: Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Moanin’
Charlie Parker: The Charlie Parker Story
Video clips of Duke Ellington and Thad jones
John Coltrane: my favorite things, A love supreme, & Ascension
Ornette Coleman: love call
Anthony Braxton: For Alto
Miles Davis: Miles Smiles
Herbie Hancock: Flood
Return to Forever: Romantic Warrior
Stan Kenton: City of Glass
David Liebman: Journey Around the Truth
Jacob Collier: In the Bleak Midwinter
Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone: Sélébéyone
I’m gonna try playing auditory Hot Ones and see how many I can listen to before burning my ears off.
Ben Mather going to play them all for my infant and watch him become a jazz superhuman.
Thank you :)
Ben Mather you forgott Lizzo's Juice. ;)
@@mrthedw user name checks out.
he mentioned J Dilla at the end
thank you so much for making this stuff available! This is such great information!
This is so interesting cause level 7 and just intonation is how harmonica players tune their harmonicas. To see this represented throughout a entire tune is mind bending.
It's not just harmonicas... for a long time in around the Late Medieval-Baroque level 7 was, in a sense, the standard tuning!
Same with barbershop music. The just intonated version sounded far more pleasant to me.
4 sounds like boss music 💀
@@moomoongd2710 jup specifically Zelda botw/totk Boss Music.
This video's fine and all, but it could really use some more jazz harmony.
That's a risky meme
@@KevinOMalleyisonlysmallreally It's too late now.
Nah, it would get less views, jazz isn't popular anymore, this only has 500,000 views and 3600 comments!! ;-) Magic, Beato would be lucky to get 50,000 and 200 comments on one of his old harmony videos!