Joe’s music is actually a fusion of Jazz and Debussy.

Just hearing that first chord makes me so happy.

@karmaindustrie

8 ай бұрын

Similar to "Heal the World" (first and second)

4:14 hey that spells my name

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Nooo 💀

That G7b9 is so juicy. Thanks for doing Hisaishi, have a sub

The only time I've ever listened to someone say 'btw if your liking this video you should consider dropping a like or subscribing' and I've been like 'oh yeah of course thank you for reminding me!' Seriously a great analysis, editing the panel on the right surely took some time. While there are certain parts I would have analyzed slightly different you did a fantastic job!!

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I think that Em7b6 makes way more sense if you just consider it a Cmaj9 in first inversion. That progression of the Fmaj9 to Cmaj9 is just like the Lost Woods theme from the Zelda soundtrack; that Lydian sound is so perfect for the Miyazaki aesthetic. Great content, it’s nice to have time to ponder the voicings being used with visualizations. Keep it up.

@leonwaves

5 жыл бұрын

Steven Schelling Yes, I agree. I struggled with naming that chord especially seeing that it wasn’t functional. And Zelda.. yeah it absolutely goes well! Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!

@WiresDawson

4 жыл бұрын

was hoping someone commented about this!

@enricogiust

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it’s related to all the tetracords they have in japan, they mix 4 different half scales, resulting, i.e., in a modified minor pentatonic scale. Hisaishi’s Magic is his ability to mix east and west in my opinion. He’s not afraid to show his roots

Also you are criminally underrated

@bambiwaddlefeet

4 жыл бұрын

Totally true i was about to comment that.

This is the greatest breakdown of this song ive ever heard nd i definitely would love to learn more if how to make music like this.

i have been wanting a harmonic breakdown of this theme for a while. thank you

Exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Love your vid! Great job!

Huge work!! Thanks for this

I just discovered your channel and woaw I love it 😍

Love your videos. I hope u keep doing them 💪🏽

Love this soundtrack, thanks for those voicings ! X

This was amazing, I’d love to see more score breakdowns like this. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this.

Man! This is clearly golden information! I just trying music writing as hobby, and I finally understand basics in harmonics and arrangment! Great channel, thank you for your big job!

This is amazing!

Fantastic explanation, thank you for your time and effort

you got a sub. i enjoy these gold panning adventures in music.

Very nice analysis of an iconic, beautiful score!

I *loved* this, thank you so much for this video

Great analysis! Those tension chords have so much emotions, it's beautiful. Thank you for sharing

Amazing analysis! I just arrived this channel and wow, it's incredible! Wish you more subscribers, you deserve them!!

really interesting video, thank you for giving me some inspiration with the cool chords. :)

Awesome breakdown of this beautiful chord usage.

Just started watching your channel and saw this in your uploads. Spirited Away is my favorite movie of all time and I love this breakdown.

Your videos are absolutely brilliant, amazing knowledge sharing!

Your channel is awesome. Really helping me understand theory better. Thank you!

I just discovered your channel Leon! Wow, you do an amazing job! Keep it up! This is the kind of content we harmony lovers are always looking for. I'm also a Joe Hisaishi fan so... I can't thank you enough!

this is so fascinating and useful! i've never avidly listened to the music for ghibli movies but every time i hear it i'm enraptured and want to evoke that mysticism in my own composition (i'm trying to learn how to at uni 😂), so this is a super useful breakdown of it!! thanks so much :D

This video is gold!

Beautiful. I just recently learned about secondary dominants and quartal/quintal voicings, and this video makes these concepts make so much sense! And the Roman numeral / functional analysis helps a lot too. Looking forward to more

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad you learned a bit from the video!

Pretty awesome vídeo. It Will help me in my compositions. Thank you, Bro!

Love the harmony and analysis. Thank you,

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome glad you enjoyed it!

This video is wonderful. Thank you for breaking down this piece so completely. I enjoyed every moment of your explanation. I could have watched it for an hour or more. It was very helpful. :)

Loved your harmony video! Thanks!

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Excelent man!! You deserve more views, continue like that! Cheers from Australia!

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏻

I’ve been trying to emulate this sound on piano for years and this video is exactly what I’ve been needing. Thank you and Great work 🙏

Thank you for sharing, you’re very talented and I like your style in analysing melodies 🎵

Dude this is the best produced video lesson I've seen on KZread! Great explanations, chord names written, and a virtual keyboard we can see the voicings on! Superb brother and looking forward to more of these

thank you very much ! that was really helpfull. Great insight

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it

Wonderful breakdown! You laid it out in a very clear and efficient manner. Thanks and please keep doing what you're doing!

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

So much advanced stuff for a newbie in music...but im loving this music more because of these theory lessons. Thank you!!

excellent vidéo ! congratulation for all your work !

And BTW jesus effing christ your analysis is beyond crazy.. Mad work. You rock!

Studio Ghibli music never fails to pierce my heart 😖 This was truly enlightening, thank you!

I learned a lot from your video. Thank you very much!

great video!

Thanks. It is always better to mémorise and understand the piece of music with the chords and I was not able to find those ones. Thanks so much and have a great new year.

Plz do more of this. Thank you

This deserves a million view!!! Keep the good work brother:)

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Make sure to share with others!

love it! would love some more anime harmony breakdowns!

Aye, this was awesome. I'd love to see this same breakdown for Sixth Station by Joe from the same movie, Spirited Away. But fr this gave me some inspiration to play more after seeing how those chords flowed together perfectly . Thank you

Haven’t watched yet. Already liked. Im ready

what a great content!

@leonwaves

5 жыл бұрын

al brin thanks!

Thank you!

i love this video, but i do not know anywhere close to the amount of theory i should know. This is amazing and joe hisaishi created something very close to a masterpiece in my mind

Watching this actually helped me learn the song on the piano, understanding how the chords play with each other is pretty key.

@sondrestrmme4006

3 жыл бұрын

If I'm struggling with a song, analysing the progression makes it much easier to remember, even in classical music

This video was awesome and very insightful. I am a beginner pianist as a hobby and I recently discovered Studio Ghibli movies through the musical scores for them by Joe Hisaishi. I just absolutely loved the mysterious and nostalgic feeling of the songs he composed for Spirited Away, and I was inspired to learn One Summer's Day on the piano. Joe Hisaishi is an absolute genius. Even after watching your analysis, it feels like there's just a creative element to his chord choice and melody that can't be analyzed, only enjoyed.

I'm sold to this channel.

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

thanks a lot fot his! Greetings from Spain!

that first chord got me EVERYTIME.

thanks for your video， help a lot

Amazing

Man, that was great.

I loved the breakdown of harmonic functions and seeing how the inverted chords changed the momentum of the piece. The only things I felt like could have been explained better were the roles of particular tensions. For example writing Fmaj7b5 instead of #11, and the other one that would have been helpful was the Db7(b9,#11) to G7. That second resolution works even better because it shares its 3rd and 7th like you said, but also because the tensions showed the motion of a 2-5 (Ebb or D and G.) Even so, your work was well worth a subscription.

Amazing, I just arive here and I want more

very good. i see other people complicating music theory. but you keep as simple as it can be

argh, I was waiting for those last notes sprinkled after the last chord... T_T Thanks for this thorough explanation!

The Chord progression is absolutely beautiful.

A video i keep coming back to. I think a lot of what makes Hisaishi's music so ethereal and gives it his trademark sound is how steeped it is in the harmony of traditional Japanese music, which is all very quartal and quintal. Sideways mentioned it in a video he made on Ghibli music, but to Western ears, it sounds very ethereal and pretty, but to the Japanese ear, I imagine it sounds very much like home.

One summer’s day is a beautiful and relatively simple piece.

Thank you for translating this eitherieal language for us mortals 😢. You are a saint for sharing your knowledge.

Subbed! More Hisaishi, please

Pleas do more of This thanks

amo esse canal...

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

i've never heard of quartal harmony and stacks and stuff like that thank you, i'm not a pianist but i love making stuff and I learn theory like this and try to practice it , im a violinist mainly

My GOD, I love this. Throughout pretty much the whole video I had goosebumps, from a) hearing such gorgeous chords of one of my childhood movies, and b) somewhat understanding it. I am not usually someone to beg, and as I don't know you and your channel yet, I don't know if maybe you are the content creator I've been searching for quite a while, but please - please - help us understand more of the music of ghibli films. That would be ... mind blowing, emotion wrecking, inspirational, probably. Anyway, I apologise for my outburst and wish you a good quarantine time. Stay safe. Thank you so much for this video!!!

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Thanks for your comment 🙏🏻

@ryan.carneiro

3 жыл бұрын

I second this! Plz upload more Studio Ghilbi music breakdowns! So much of emotions in the composition! I got goosebumps listening to the chord voicings and progression!

I LOVE you!

Hi thank you so much for all of these educational videos. I've always wanted to learn more about harmony of film scores and i'm glad I finally had the chance to. :) Are there any books/materials you recommend for writing film scores? Quite interested in exploring that someday. Thank you!

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

I would say get your hands on as many published film scores available as possible (like Hal Leonard publishing John Williams scores). As well as scores by Debussy, Ravel, and The Planets by Holst.

great movie

This man understand and speaks music as his first language. His comprehension is beyond anything I've seen. This man IS a teacher, no incorrect. He's an oracle.

wtf is this a reupload or does this masterpiece analysis really have less than 10K views

Thats it.... I'M LEARNING THIS SONG

Can i get your seal of approval on how well you did this theory even using proper names such as chords, fourths and leaps etc. seriously this made me understand my theory so much more. Question though which movement is primarily used strong, or weak

I had never heard the term "quartal" to describe a chord. Interesting harmony.

The “piano stories” version really does something else, Lydian tension vibes

First two chords truly remind me of Stravinsky first two chords of his Serenade in A second movement (Romanza)

Holy fuck this feels like every frame a painting but music to me

brilliant video. any tips on how to start learning to modulate

Oh, I enjoy these videos very much. Harmony is such an epic world to explore. I was thinking of creating some videos on the subject myself, and so I am wondering: How do you make the keys show different colors when demonstrating? I tried opening the midi keyboard in logic and to a screen recording of them. But they don't show a color, and thus are a little harder to detect

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

I use Synthesia to generate piano visual videos

I learned some basic 2-5-1 jazz voicings in the jazz piano book by mark levine. The voicing for a g7 is f-a-b-g which is a g13. Then the cmaj7 voicing is e-g-a-d, which is a c 6-9. I've noticed that they are used a lot but then Hisaishi removes one note. I feel like even though hisaichi doesn't have a jazz background, a lot of it is similar to bill evans style, eg like someone in love.

arigatooo

1:27 this exact chord and voicing (Fmaj 9) is used in miphas theme in breath of the wild! 😁

I will never ! Be in my lifetime, to be able to analyze Joe Hirashi song. But thanks to you and other talented musician, I could at least have a pick behind the curtain and appreciate it

Okay I don't want to spam so I'll make this my last comment unless something really important comes up, but you might want to have a lowpass cutoff on your piano sound rolling pretty steep around 15k, because the piano frequently produces a high pitched ringing, and thats a little annoying for those of us that can hear it

@leonwaves

5 жыл бұрын

Andy Chamberlain Music thanks for the feedback!

I think the melody goes instead from Si bemolle (Bb) to La (A), there's no rule that says the melody can't travel down and become for a bit the 2nd highest pitched note, one of the many ways to introduce an interesting 2-voiced contrappunto.

Perhaps you could see "F something" as like Cmaj7/F, given the C in the melody and E and B in the upper left hand over the F. it's also possible that Hisaishi simply wanted to create a diatonic chord full of tension and used those clashing major sevenths without concern for their chordal function. Just my opinion--fantastic content! Keep it up

@leonwaves

4 жыл бұрын

I agree! Some of these chords are voiced in a way that suggests they weren’t triads to begin with.

For me the second chord is a C Maj 9 (with the C on the upper voice), it makes sense with the F maj 9