Your editing has so many bells and whistles to it actually makes what you're saying harder to understand. More is less. Generally tho, its a good Video!
with beach house it seems like so much of their popular music is diatonic and focuses on the sound design more than the harmony, but if you look into their earlier records and even just the less-listened to songs on the rest of their records, they have some super cool harmonic elements. don’t know how big of a beach house fan you are, but your comment has inspired me to write an entire synopsis on beach houses harmonic progression over time😭bare with me. one song off their debut (self-titled) album that i really like is Auburn and Ivory. it’s basically in F harmonic minor and goes between Fmin and Gdim for the first half, but about 2/3 the way in it modulates to the relative major (Ab) for a bit and then does this cool kind of delayed resolution back to F minor it goes from like Bbm- Eb7 - Gdim - Fmin. really cool sound i’d recommend checking it out. House on the Hill-of the same record-has some cool harmony in minor too. Devotion is my favorite record of theirs. they really seem to love minor tonality with hints at the relative major in their first couple records. they do this on the track You Came To Me (where they also use a chromatic mediant-they don’t do that much). another track with really cool harmony is Gila, super cool Aeolian stuff mixed with harmonic minor and some great guitar melody. with Teen Dream and Bloom, so much changes. no more songs in minor modes for either of these record. Teen Dream is very diatonic, little to no key changes, mostly focused on the harmonic language i talk about in the video with these “Beach House” chords and mostly traditional functions. this is really the beginning of that style for the band. though, Teen Dream has a cool track called Zebra that uses some non-diatonic harmony that i really like. that being said, i absolutely love the entire record; nothing wrong with some great diatonic music with incredible. Bloom is the same way but expands the harmonic language a bit with smooth modulations on tracks like New Year, Lazuli, and Troublemaker. Depression Cherry also has no songs in minor, and sticks with the grounds set by Teen Dream and Bloom. Thank Your Lucky Stars lends itself to what i believe is Beach Houses first modal song, The Traveller, which is in C Dorian. also, we get back to minor modes, having 3 songs in minor on this record. i can see why they separated this release from Depression Cherry-it just feels different. then on 7 they introduce some really new and interesting sound design that is a bit divorced from their previous music. this is where, to my eye, they have their second and final modal song in their discography, which is Lemon Glow. it’s in E Phrygian, if i’m hearing it correctly. admittedly, i haven’t listened to Once Twice Melody that much. have combed through it a couple times, but not much has stood out to me as much as their other records. however i think the fact that they really experimented with their production with songs like Runaway and Sunset is pretty cool. i’m sure it’ll grow on me over time, but i can’t speak much to the harmony since i haven’t listened to it much. there’s my little rundown of beach houses journey with their harmony/tonality. i know i didn’t name a ton of specific harmonic devices but, i always recommend their debut album and Devotion if that’s something you haven’t checked out. lots of cool harmonic tricks you can learn just be transcribing those chords. thanks for watching the video i appreciate the support!
i still cant belive how much quality your videos have; the examples, audio, and the visual side as well. i have a singular criticism tho. the blank grey background is too noisy and it got me distracted while i was watching the video. idk if its incidental or purpesfully put there but it would be great if you did some tweaking with it and find the sweet spot. thanks for the great video!
thanks man, really appreciate the support! as for the gray background, i only noticed that after uploading because that’s an unfortunate biproduct of what i think is youtube’s processing of this video. the video looked completely fine and normal in premiere and after effects. oh well, different colored background next time i guess haha. thanks again for the support!
This is a really cool video though I hope in the future you could try to use less direct samples of the songs (maybe live versions) so that that don’t get copyright claimed. Though I’m not sure how important that is to you
glad you liked the video! yeah im gonna experiment with different ways to show examples in the future, as this video got 4 claims. since what im doing is almost certainly fair use, im disputing these claims, but it still is frustrating that 10-15 seconds of a song prevents monetization right at the outset. maybe live versions or cover versions are the way to go! thanks for the suggestion.
@@blankyd3360 not quite, since it still functions as a dominant chord you really just can call it a V6 or Bb 6. Calling it a G minor inverted chord would kind of take away that dominant implication. Just think of it as a dominant chord / chord 5 but with some added tension, it still does the same job as a regular chord 5, but just has a bit more spice to it.
very educational, not a lot of channels write out the music to demo these little traits, good job man
Your editing has so many bells and whistles to it actually makes what you're saying harder to understand. More is less. Generally tho, its a good Video!
This is so great. Have you noticed any other chord progression or harmony/melody traits that Beach House tends to reuse in addition to this?
with beach house it seems like so much of their popular music is diatonic and focuses on the sound design more than the harmony, but if you look into their earlier records and even just the less-listened to songs on the rest of their records, they have some super cool harmonic elements. don’t know how big of a beach house fan you are, but your comment has inspired me to write an entire synopsis on beach houses harmonic progression over time😭bare with me.
one song off their debut (self-titled) album that i really like is Auburn and Ivory. it’s basically in F harmonic minor and goes between Fmin and Gdim for the first half, but about 2/3 the way in it modulates to the relative major (Ab) for a bit and then does this cool kind of delayed resolution back to F minor it goes from like Bbm- Eb7 - Gdim - Fmin. really cool sound i’d recommend checking it out. House on the Hill-of the same record-has some cool harmony in minor too.
Devotion is my favorite record of theirs. they really seem to love minor tonality with hints at the relative major in their first couple records. they do this on the track You Came To Me (where they also use a chromatic mediant-they don’t do that much). another track with really cool harmony is Gila, super cool Aeolian stuff mixed with harmonic minor and some great guitar melody.
with Teen Dream and Bloom, so much changes. no more songs in minor modes for either of these record. Teen Dream is very diatonic, little to no key changes, mostly focused on the harmonic language i talk about in the video with these “Beach House” chords and mostly traditional functions. this is really the beginning of that style for the band. though, Teen Dream has a cool track called Zebra that uses some non-diatonic harmony that i really like. that being said, i absolutely love the entire record; nothing wrong with some great diatonic music with incredible. Bloom is the same way but expands the harmonic language a bit with smooth modulations on tracks like New Year, Lazuli, and Troublemaker. Depression Cherry also has no songs in minor, and sticks with the grounds set by Teen Dream and Bloom.
Thank Your Lucky Stars lends itself to what i believe is Beach Houses first modal song, The Traveller, which is in C Dorian. also, we get back to minor modes, having 3 songs in minor on this record. i can see why they separated this release from Depression Cherry-it just feels different.
then on 7 they introduce some really new and interesting sound design that is a bit divorced from their previous music. this is where, to my eye, they have their second and final modal song in their discography, which is Lemon Glow. it’s in E Phrygian, if i’m hearing it correctly.
admittedly, i haven’t listened to Once Twice Melody that much. have combed through it a couple times, but not much has stood out to me as much as their other records. however i think the fact that they really experimented with their production with
songs like Runaway and Sunset is pretty cool. i’m sure it’ll grow on me over time, but i can’t speak much to the harmony since i haven’t listened to it much.
there’s my little rundown of beach houses journey with their harmony/tonality. i know i didn’t name a ton of specific harmonic devices but, i always recommend their debut album and Devotion if that’s something you haven’t checked out. lots of cool harmonic tricks you can learn just be transcribing those chords. thanks for watching the video i appreciate the support!
brilliantly done, keep at it
I love these videos. thank you 🙏
i still cant belive how much quality your videos have; the examples, audio, and the visual side as well. i have a singular criticism tho. the blank grey background is too noisy and it got me distracted while i was watching the video. idk if its incidental or purpesfully put there but it would be great if you did some tweaking with it and find the sweet spot. thanks for the great video!
thanks man, really appreciate the support! as for the gray background, i only noticed that after uploading because that’s an unfortunate biproduct of what i think is youtube’s processing of this video. the video looked completely fine and normal in premiere and after effects. oh well, different colored background next time i guess haha. thanks again for the support!
really great channel bro
thank you for good video
Deserves more views
Hmm I really think you might be onto something here
Video is way too high quality to be this unknown good stuff man
Awesome video!
Very good job. 👍💪
Amazons Video!
Do the weeknd next! Plz
This is a really cool video though I hope in the future you could try to use less direct samples of the songs (maybe live versions) so that that don’t get copyright claimed. Though I’m not sure how important that is to you
glad you liked the video! yeah im gonna experiment with different ways to show examples in the future, as this video got 4 claims. since what im doing is almost certainly fair use, im disputing these claims, but it still is frustrating that 10-15 seconds of a song prevents monetization right at the outset. maybe live versions or cover versions are the way to go! thanks for the suggestion.
Like everyone else is saying; keep going!
Isnt it just a Gm?
in isolation it seems like it would be but in context it doesn’t seem to function that way
Homie did not watch the video
@@elijahstewart3231 I was just confused 😭😭
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personally i think this video is a waste of time all hes saying is beach house uses a V chord with a 6th instead of a 5th
Is it a iii chord inversion then
@@blankyd3360 not quite, since it still functions as a dominant chord you really just can call it a V6 or Bb 6. Calling it a G minor inverted chord would kind of take away that dominant implication.
Just think of it as a dominant chord / chord 5 but with some added tension, it still does the same job as a regular chord 5, but just has a bit more spice to it.