Could you do a video about trends in song structure. It seems The Beatles would mostly write songs in AABA but that quickly went out of fashion to an ABABCB and hasn't changed. When did that happen and why?

@althealligator1467

9 ай бұрын

That's actually a really interesting video topic, I'd like to see that

@HelloCruelWorldItsMe

9 ай бұрын

Yup!

@hunter00143

9 ай бұрын

Seconding this video idea

@unacuentadeyoutube13

9 ай бұрын

Very good idea!

@tonycowin

9 ай бұрын

Just doesn't cover prog rock songs as the video will be 36 hours long.

That first Am progression is giving me so much Stairway to Heaven vibes.

@cryptooooooooo

9 ай бұрын

stairway to heaven is indeed that same line cliche in A minor

@elissaaleph

9 ай бұрын

In stairway, the line ascends 3 times.

@David-iv6je

9 ай бұрын

Guitar players do this all the time. I just learned them as "walkups" or "Walkdowns." They are all over the place. "Dear Prudence" has one as well.

@user-ve2im3vf5v

9 ай бұрын

The first time he played it I immediatly went „there‘s a lady who‘s sure…“ 😂

@fantmes

8 ай бұрын

It reminded me of The Masterplan by Oasis

I can't listen to the first three chords of the descending line cliche without hearing Pink Floyd's "Nobody Home" in my head being played over top of it

@nicholasrella6904

9 ай бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing

@WibblyWobblyBob

9 ай бұрын

This and Stairway to Heaven!

@c0nga

9 ай бұрын

it's been driving me crazy

@grantelliott370

9 ай бұрын

Agreed

@Mourour

9 ай бұрын

I think that'll be in a lot of people's heads... Exact same progression and key 😊

You’ve done it again. You’ve taken a music topic and explained it so well that I feel like I’ve known it all along. Your teaching style, the structure of your videos, the examples you use, all come together to completely transfer knowledge to your audience. It’s quite uncanny how well this works. Keep up the great work!

@David-iv6je

9 ай бұрын

Guitar players do this all the time. I just learned them as "walkups" or "Walkdowns."

@corentinsoulier5607

8 ай бұрын

It's explained well because it's an incredibly easy topic...

By the time I hear the first note in the A minor going one note lower and lower, I know I heard Pink Floyd - Nobody Home in it :)

@victorhugotoledocofre1366

9 ай бұрын

Beat me to it!! 😊

@inrainbows1829

9 ай бұрын

Yes indeed Very surprised David didn't use that example A few line clichés in the Floyd catalog

@iankaoel

9 ай бұрын

Me too!!

@danpreston564

9 ай бұрын

Came here to add this.

@laurenzpelster2499

9 ай бұрын

The opening to that song (or the song in general) is my favourite thing to play on piano.

For some reason, I gravitate towards songs with line clichés and anything that goes from major to the relative minor. It's just so incredibly satisfying :D

@roshanrai5717

9 ай бұрын

Same here man, when even covering songs I tend to turn major chords to minor at the last verses. It just gives that edgy sound, I love major to minor chords...

@jimmuir3060

9 ай бұрын

It wasn't until I understood a little bit of theory that the reason I loved so many songs was either because of line cliche, or just going major to the minor

the line cliche is so beautiful that it transcends genres. you can truly find it everywhere. 😀

for the line-cliché in James-Bond movies, we have in germany the expression "Wanderquinte", which means: "walking fifth".

Sometimes while I'm asleep, I hear your voice and it says to me, "Line Cliché". I do appreciate your videos

Oasis' "The Masterplan" uses a Line Cliché progression as its intro, the same a minor progression as the start of this video! It also uses a descending stepwise progression in its chorus as he pointed out in his video on that topic, lots of downwards motion in this song!

The end song with the perpetual falling line cliche was haunting honestly. Plus the way you went straight into it from your description was beautifully executed

I really enjoy this motion. The perpetual descending cliche at the end is one of my favorites that you've done.

@harimathur2191

9 ай бұрын

Einaudi does that. Ud like his stuff if u like libe clichés. The last part kinda reminds me of the end theme tune of the series" incredible hulk"

I think that the intro of "Nobody Home" by Pink Floyd uses this trick, doesn't?

just here to mention Ron Carter tuning his bass at 7:08 without missing a beat. what a Lord.

"Man of War" by Radiohead is one of my favourite examples of a line cliché. It perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being stuck inside a chord progression.

The best thing about David is he explains complex concepts in a very simplistic manner. Thanks man

“Ladies of the Road” by King Crimson has a great line cliche in the bridge section. It’s an obvious Beatles homage. I didn’t know there was a name for this sequence. Thanks for the vid., David.

@ninobatistamusic

9 ай бұрын

Good call!

@user-xd1ku4pf5f

9 ай бұрын

Yes. I also wanted to write about it

@nicholasrella6904

9 ай бұрын

Excellent tune. Excellent band. Excellent example.

It amazes me how many references you used were used in Pink Floyd The Wall, "Nobody Home"

Elton John‘s “sorry seems to be the hardest Word“ also has this progression. To a masterful sad effect

@derekroberts6654

8 ай бұрын

..and “We All Fall In Love Sometimes” has it too, VERY prominent on that song.

“Don’t Rain on My Parade” from Funny Girl has both an ascending and descending line cliche on the 5th of the chord

I really like line clichés! I like the way the line is very simple kind of melody but at the same time it alters the character of the background chord.

Bowie - Live on Mars, BAP - Jraaduss, Pink Floyd Nobodys home, Kevin Ayers - Lady Rachel (up and down), Summertime works perfect with a LCCP

Okay! So that is the best music lesson I’ve ever had. Ever! Dozens and dozens of songs I know suddenly make sense.

A descending "line cliche" starting from b minor can be heard in Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man". An ascending "line cliche", this time beginning with a G major chord, can be enjoyed listening to The Dave Clark Five's "Because".

@youcancallmeZimmy

9 ай бұрын

I picked up on Dylan's Thin Man progression too

George also used it in "I Me Mine". Joe Cocker's version of "The Letter" used it (perhaps a maj instead of maj7).

I have to say... These chord progression analysis videos were a little too deep for me to understand a few weeks ago, but now that I've felt my way through the white keys' major scales (and I still have many many more to learn yet), I'm finding them understandable and applicable. This stuff is GREAT! :)

The Line Cliché you had performed made me think of an assassin posing as a doctor who delivered a poison to a bedridden patient through an IV. He then observed with detached interest as his victim struggles for his life. The killer's face stayed motionless as the EEG beeps started to sound more and more frantic. It was only when the beeping steadied when the assassin turned towards his soundless exit.

@user-xf3mt3vt6m

9 ай бұрын

Bro wrote a goddamn story over a silly chord progression. Pretty cool!

@ramonacosta2647

8 ай бұрын

That's the darkest comment ever in a music theory video.

@sabershenanigans

4 ай бұрын

Honestly that sounds so much like a standard Hitman game playthrough...!

You have single-handedly taught me so much music theory. Thank you so much for making entertaining, educational videos.

Line cliches always make me think of the intro to Bye Bye Baby by the Bay City Rollers. That and the intro of Masterplan by Oasis.

The James Bond theme and Johnny River's Secret Agent Man have a minor ascending line cliche starting on the fifth. I guess that sound lends itself to clandestine activities

Now THAT was a line cliche!! Loved the ending as well as the entire video, David....plus I learned what that descending sound is referred to in music so thanks for that, too!

Probably my favourite use of min (maj7) that is not in this same line would be the 3rd chord of "Us And them" by Pink Floyd.

Just for that opening chord progression some other songs that use it are KANA - BOON - Silhouette and starmaker (both at 0 : 45) Miki Matsubara - Stay with me (1 : 12) Carter Burwell - Puppet love (From being john malkovich) Nightmare - Alumina (The death note outro theme) Fiona Apple - Limp (1 : 00) and Fast as you can (0 : 31) My chemical romance - Cancer (2 : 02) The Beatles - And your bird can sing (0 : 36) and Cry Baby Cry (0 : 11) David Bowie - Life on Mars (1 : 30) Weezer - (Girl we got a) good thing (1 : 53) Charlie Day - How did they know (from It's always sunny in Philadelphia) Elliott smith - Son of Sam (Right at the beginning although it's a little different) Eminem - Drug ballad (chorus) There's still hundreds more for that progession alone that I can't think of right now but other people are pointing out in the comments. Just thought I'd pitch in since I tried doing a compilation of these songs a while ago and it failed lol. Anyways great video as usual David

@Violn95

9 ай бұрын

One that comes to mind is the opening of Nobody Home by Pink Floyd

@hajoreuter6759

8 ай бұрын

Elton John - Sorry seems to be the hardest word

@katut3388

8 ай бұрын

sweet adeline by elliott smith aswell i think

The thing I like about the Stevie Wonder example is that it can be a sort of funk-ish thing. Funk sometimes vamps on one chord, or sometimes two chords, for a long time while they jam out. Doing a small line down then back up, back and forth, is a way to make a tiny amount of movement but stay relatively the same place, and repeat that. Good for jamming but not being too stale (wouldn't have to be funk, just common in funk). Like a Taste of Honey/Boogie Oogie Oogie type of thing

Your ending piece was legitimately epic!

Drinking game. Take a drink every time David mentions the Beatles, Radiohead or any of their members! Keep up the good work. :)

No mention of "Stairway"? An odd omission. Also an example of (perhaps unintentional) ironic prosody, in which the song is about a stairway "to Heaven", but the line cliché descends in the opposite direction that one might expect.

@rufus4452

9 ай бұрын

Stairway is a double line clichè i guess, descends and ascends(at least for the first 3 chords) at the same time.

@cryptooooooooo

9 ай бұрын

he plays the A minor line cliche a la stairway at the start

@Ghost_BC

9 ай бұрын

I also didn't understand why he didn't quote "Stairway To Heaven".

That descending A min cliche played on the piano sounded so familiar - then I remembered - Tangerine Dream , Thru Metamorphic Rocks from the Force Majeure album. Probably used in many others but that really stood out for me.

Your videos are the most valuable music analysis and educational resource available. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us all.

„The Perfect Pair“ by Beabadobee also is an extremely beautiful song that uses the line cliché very good ❤

@guitaristssuck8979

9 ай бұрын

I don't think he's in the mood for romantic songs

@sieteocho

9 ай бұрын

@@guitaristssuck8979 That's why he didn't mention "Blue Skies" by Ella Fitzgerald

Thanks so much for making this video! It seems like all my favorite songs have descending line cliches, and it's such a satisfying progression to listen to that I feel like I've been trying to find what it is for ages!

Your videos are so great. They really balance the theory with practicality and I appreciate that. No fluff, plenty of examples, and useful information :)

Neat and concise as always! 😍 And again I have learnt another one of those tricks of the art effortlessly.

Yes, it is the chord progression that I waited for so long :) Glad I finally see it

I was right. I immediately thought of the James Bond theme. Glad to see I actually knew something already lol. Still, I want to try the descending line cliche. Thank you for this video. It's very informative.

These thumbnails are absolutely perfect. Love your work, thank you

It's just now I learned the name of this device/technique/progression, the Line Cliché. I've always thought of it as the contrary to a pedal point, where the harmony changes but the bass. Thank you and I learned something!

I literally can't get enough of your videos, I love music theory so much. I was wondering, could you do a video on modulating key vs. changing key? And/or go over examples of songs that do one or the other?

Thank you for yet another fantastic music lesson

Some video game music examples: 1. Palace - Legend of Zelda II (minor ascending) 2. Birabuto Kingdom - Super Mario Land (major ascending) 3. Mipha’s Theme - BotW (minor descending) 4. Overworld - SMB2 (major descending) Also Mice on Venus, Bye Bye There!, and Casinopolis.

@rogue_114

Ай бұрын

exactly, i was hoping i wasn’t the only one who thought of mice on venus with this progression

This is fantastic stuff. Really well laid out.

Great work, David! I recommend your channel to my students

Downright inspiring. Thank you.

So many thanx for these awesome moments at the end, when you play some piano for us. These parts, I do really enjoy and I very look for it each time.

Eels "If You See Natalie" has a lovely line cliche progression.

Wow, it's an awesome resource! In the end, when David plays the piano using line cliche, I was blown away by how he handles the melodies. With one chord, he adds a melodic line that blends perfectly, and then sets up the melody for the next chord, giving it a meaning that helps connect those chords or structures. It's all about tension and resolution stuff? It would be cool to delve into that melodic topic! 👐🏻

I always really like it when you play a bit at the end of your videos. You're a really enjoyable musician to listen to. Keep that format!

I recently learned Something and took to Reddit to ask about this progression and if it had a name, got a few answers that weren't too easy to follow (very new to music theory). So this video is great and has been super helpful! Thanks :)

Love ur video about chord progressions bro. when I was watching all the videos in the "chord progressions" playlist and finally I was at the last video, suddenly a new video (actually this video) appeared. I really like that, about how you really explain about chord progressions. Keep it up bro 🔥🔥🔥

First off, let me be clear- Mr. Bennett's content is very valuable for anyone who wants to learn music theory. That said, I feel duped by the thumbnail thinking the image on the left was Elvis Costello, who I can't recall Mr. Bennett referring to in any of his previous videos. Not that my recall of musicians featured in his examples of songs using some particular paradigm is all that great.

Well done as always. Thank you.

Awesome video as always. Would be great to have a video or series of videos on melodic compositional devices such as motif, sequence, fragmentation, inversion, etc

This was really informative. I had been wondering what a line cliche was. Much appreciated, David!

This was a truly wonderful episode

so helpful for songwriting thank you David

The content of this channel is great, I've learned a lot with this chord progression videos

@DavidBennettPiano

9 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

It's only 3 notes instead of four (and not a perfect strict one), but if you want to introduce any zoomer to line clichés, you only need to play them 4 notes for them to recognize a song with one - D, D, D an octave up, and then the A below that. The root notes of that song's chord progression are [D | C | B | Bb, C] repeat - and that C B Bb is a line cliché! And yes, it's Megalovania.

Man on the James Bond theme channeling his inner Nirvana tone

That was a wonderful video. Thank you so much!

Wow. This is amazing. Thank you! :)

Great video timing for me as I'm trying to learn "Time in a Bottle" (Jim Croce). Thanks for the explanation and examples, as always.

The Boston song “Foreplay” starts out with a line cliché made by the left hand which returns to the bass tonic. All while the riff is circling.

A good example of a long line cliche that works really well is the song that Charlie sings at the very end of his "Dayman" play in Always Sunny "I was that baby boy that little baby boy was me!" It's in C major and you can get away with decending from C to E below by halfsteps C, C/B, C/Bb, F/A, Fm/Ab, C/G, D7/F#, G7/F, C/E

@ydva1317

9 ай бұрын

I think it actually just decends by half steps until the G7, where that is in root position in the real song

Excellent tutorial. Many thanks .

Instant Phil Buckle fan ! Wow ! Great introduction to him 😮

"Spotted that one" was actually thinking about it as an example

Another example would be Elvis Presley 's "Until It's Time For You To Go", the main verse has that beautiful descending line

“Been In Love Before” by The Shining Hour contains that descending chord from Aminor. 😊

Amazing analysis! WOW! Loved it. You're a PRO!

@robertabitbol6454

9 ай бұрын

Apparently, the Summertime chords have ''inspired'' hundreds of songs. Can you check it out?

This is my favorite chord progression, I was so dissapointed to find out it is called a cliché😂

Demo song was brilliant as usual!!

Quality as always!

@DavidBennettPiano

9 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊

One of my favorite chord progressions

While a more obscure example, “March of the Black Queen” by Queen also uses a line cliche as one of its central themes, specifically in A minor with the root note descending like the example you opened the video with.

Absolutely love the ending...the perpetual moving line cliche. ❤

I really liked the term you used to describe those sequences: satisfying! That they are, indeed! I recall learning my very first one, from Michelle, featured in this video. Great job, anyways!

Great song at the end. I like the dissonances a lot!

This is the first time I don't skip the ad part. You should look for musicians as sponsors more often!

Seems pretty criminal not to mention Stairway to Heaven here lol

@leonardocefalo2931

9 ай бұрын

I think it's because it actually changes the chord, it doesn not stay on A minor. It's like Am, E6b/G#, C/G, D/F# and Fmaj7. One song by Led Zeppelin _possibly_ using line cliché may be Kashmir which goes D5, Bb/D (that can be thought of as D6b) D6, D7 and D5 again

@althealligator1467

9 ай бұрын

@@leonardocefalo2931 Sure, because of that B note over the G#+ chord, right? But it can easily be argued that that's more of a melodic line over the chords Am, G#+, C/G, D/F#, Fmaj7. Not recognizing that seems pretty absurd tbh

String of Pearls, made famous by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, has a really interesting one. They also notate it a little different usually. C-CM7-C7-C6-C+-C, then back up, then back down.

13:16 DUDE YOU'RE AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND! BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR A WHILE NOW

I think there are more examples of this: While my guitar gently weeps (Beatles) and Sorry seems to be the hardest word (Elton John), to name just a few! Very interesting video, David!

@luke5100

8 ай бұрын

Gently Weeps isn’t a true line cliche because the first move is a whole step, but definitely deserves an honorable mention

You should release that line cliché. It’s very cinematic.

Shipbuilding by Robert Wyatt and Elvis Costello does this but adds a spicy diminished chord if I remember correctly.

Brilliant.

No joke this is creepy. About 15min ago I just looked up the chords for “For once in my life” by Stevie wonder and basically the whole song is made of line cliches and I had no idea that was a thing until you posted this about 10min later….how does this kind of stuff happen??

thanks David!

In the bridge of Oye Como Va from Santana they use this technique, but it's common in salsa to use it as a tumbao, some sort of rytmic "decent". For example Am, but as a, then c and e at the same time, then you do the same with g#, g, F# and you climd up again.

piece at the end was magnificent

A great and very interesting episode again, and as for that first example song, I really Michelle by The Beatles❤😊