Hirohashi-sensei told me that the image I used to represent her isn't her. Her image can be found on her site here. makiko-hirohashi.com/en/about-makiko-hirohashi-en/

@illyfish1951

Жыл бұрын

where did you even find the image you used? lol so confused

your explanations are a work of art itself man thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

Glad they help dude!

My brain just kept on shouting BREATH OF THE WILD the whole way through this video (especially the first section) so thanks for putting my fave game music into more context!! ☺️

@denimator05

10 ай бұрын

For me it was the last session with the IV/IV that seems especially BOTW-y to me

I love this series on japanese music theory. I've been trying to understand a lot of contemporary chiptunes jazz music that I havent seen very much content about the modulations and passing chords ext. From these videos I was able to find many examples in the songs I wanted to analyze. Big thanks.

@onpatrolforthejuice

7 ай бұрын

If you have ever listened to the chiptunes artist fearofdark his songs are crammed full of these kind of movements. Also stuff from your other vids. Like backdoor 2-5 and chromatic mediants and the like.

As ever, this analysis is immensely appreciated. Your previous explanations on quartal harmony were pretty transformative to how I want to write and this goes one further for structure. You need more subscribers as this is really excellent content.

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

Alex John Ernest Vincent Thank you so much! Glad the videos are serving you.

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

If you think this deserves more following, please consider sharing it out with your friends 🙂

This is really fantastic. IVofIV is really a proper “western” explanation of what I’ve been trying to figure out for a while, I approached it from a very different angle but your approach is much more digestible.

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

I'd be interested to hear the angle you've approached it from!

That was awesome. Great work!

Great, love these vids

Love this vid, thank you!

So cool!! Please keep up your amazing videos :)

Great stuff Gavin! Thank you! 🙏

Thank you for this! Amazing

Thanks for your content, man. I appreciate the effort you put into these!

This channel is like a hidden gem, great video

Thank you for this!

Awesome stuff, I've been looking for for more people who make videos about this area of theory and such. Great video!

please keep making these amazing videos! I love how you explain everything and make it actually useful

Thank you, it’s really interesting to have theory like this shown practically. Appreciate it (:

Super! Thank You!🥳

God, this was revealing. Thank you so much!.

Thank you so much for this, I tend to get lost in the beauty of the sound, so now I have to watch it again to actually understand it. please don't stop posting your ideas and theories. Your videos really give me a logical standpoint when composing pieces like this.

Such a master! Thanks for your videos!

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Joaquín Reyes Thanks for watching!

Thank you for the time you take to teach this!

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your time watching and learning!

Thanks for the analysis and education. This would inspire me to get off my butt and try out new stuff!

keep up the good work, really like all your Japanese music analysis !!!

@jonathanng5043

4 жыл бұрын

really would love to see more!

thank u :D Great Video

Finally, I can learn jaoanese chords progression from you. I truly love how the harmoy of japanese music flows

thank you gavin chan!

Veeery nice, thank you! Also I like how you use tempo to let chords “breathe” in our piece!

Very cool stuff! Thanks for sharing! (In the Chon Homey’s group that is)

I am thankful!

thank you so much !

wonderful, precious, spectacular, thrilling

This is one of the greatest videos I've ever seen, thank you so much for compiling this info 🙏

@gavinleepermusic

3 ай бұрын

So glad you found it helpful!

Good stuff 🙂

Thanks!!

Lowkey only clicked because theres jacob collier picture on thumb, ive never watch your vid before and never really heard of japanese music. Glad jacob collier picture can lead me here! Subscribed

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

TheMrMRsmoke Hooray! Haha I’ll tel my friend who made the thumb that we got one haha 🎣🐟

Wowzas I got a lot out of this, love it!

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

Music by Gestalt Happy to hear that!

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

Consider sharing if you think it will help others in your friend group!

Thank you for all your content I do not know why this last month I feel so bored of music, I think I need just new points of view to see music and this is very interesting. Thanks!

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

I’m very happy that I can provide some of those new perspectives for you!

Hmmm... I didn’t know the circle of fifts could be so deep and dense packet of music theory in song writing. Thank you for this new knowledge what I just unlocked. 👍

Great video

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

Thank youuuu

now about my 3rd time rewatching this still awesome

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

lowlight : ) thank you! I put a lot of time into making my videos contain lots of info. It’s awesome to see people taking the time to digest that info fully. Lmk if you have questions!

@lowlight1063

3 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic Yeah i wasn't informated enough when i first watched this. Now i think i can understand it fully

More more more!

@gavinleepermusic

Жыл бұрын

More soon!

thank you for this! i can tell i'm going to be referring back to this video often, you really did a great job on it nitpick begins it's "quartal" and "quintal," not "quartile" and "quintile" (1:24) nitpick ends

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

_amaranthine whoopsie, you're right! My inner statistician was thinking in terms of distributions hehe. Thanks for pointing that out.

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

I've added this to the "Corrections" section of the video description.

Wow, this is super cool and exactly the kind of thing I needed. I've been feeling super bogged down and kind of lost, but these explanations and insights are gonna get me to deep dive and probably go learn some of these songs. Thanks so much man

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Gruntamole So glad you found it helpful! Go forth and dive deep 🙂

Now this is impressive

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

Hope it was informative!

I think it eould have been interesting for you to dig into how these trends wrre translated from pre-western musical trends.

5:30 that’s the sound of “Zelda breath of the wild”

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

Some BOTW vibes for sure!

@CaswellMazzei

4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah i noticed that too

Awesome!!! I’ve learned so much from all your videos. Have you heard Tricot’s album: THE ? If you did a video exploring it that works be super helpful. Artsick, Oyasumi, Omotenashi... kickass album with really really weird emotional chords.

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Theo! Glad the videos have helped. Tricot is a big influence on my previous band, Approaching Aphelion. I've seen them live, and even met them once (they're guitarist is a total goof haha). Anyway, I agree with you that that album is utter gold, and that they do use many of the common harmonic devices that I've identified.

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

May consider doing more work on their music in the future.

Dude you’re special

@gavinleepermusic

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate you saying that so much. Thank you 🙏

Damn, music really is magic

@gavinleepermusic

2 жыл бұрын

It sure is!

Wow this is awesome, I will have to try this soon, I feel like Kohei Tanaka does this alot on his solo piano themes, "the time of promise" from his one piece score comes to mind!

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank Jon! I actually don’t know One Piece that well. Are there other songs you recommend I check out?

@jonaschalewmusic549

3 жыл бұрын

​@@gavinleepermusic Oh I can definitely throw you some deep cuts, he's from that generation of pen & paper composers, his writing is a big part of why I love that series! And thanks as always for the great content Gavin, really learning some great tools here! One Piece The worlds number one Oden store One Piece Soundtrack- Together Episode of Alabasta - Yuuzora o Pell no Se ni Notte One Piece OST • Stampede • Beginning of cooperation Kohei Tanaka - ONE PIECE [20th Anniversary Suite]

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonaschalewmusic549 Wow Jon, "The Time of Promise" is great! Definitely a lot of quartal and quintal voicings in there. I'll dig into the others now. I think you'd really dig some of the discussion on our Discord. Consider joining up!

@jonaschalewmusic549

3 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic will do! Thanks!

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonaschalewmusic549 Holy wow dude! Every one of these recommendations is a certified banger! The suite at the end had me crying at various point. Gorgeous!

I think those stacks of fifths and fourths were used in the breath of the wild soundtrack. They sound super familiar.

@ErnestoComposer

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed they were, utilized I think to give the music some of that open-air feel with the game, along with some of the fantasy and mysticism that comes with the sound. And of course, it’s very Japanese!

I still don't grasp it but the circle of 5ths: I learned something new. My method of doing music is weird and it doesn't work well with this method of knowing every scale back and forward. I want to understand it but in a way that's effective and fast, not just effective. Going from one scale to the next's 4th is something I can't just know to do, I shouldn't have to know it either I feel. I have to look into that scale, find the 4th and then go from there. No disrespect of course it's an issue on my end. This video was enough to get me to open my DAW, though It still felt a bit pointless. Thank you nontheless, this was a good video

4:35 sounds like intro to bowsers theme in the final boss in super mario world, which is pretty fitting

@gavinleepermusic

8 ай бұрын

Oh good ear! Yeah it definitely does a 4th stack just like this.

Amazing. Thank you 🦄 I was wondering if you'd have any recommendations (or if you personally have written) any books in depth ablut chord harmony and chord progressions? Been looking so long for a good reference to go back to every now and then, but hard to find good books focusing especially on this - any recommendations, anyone? Thanks in advance ✨

@gavinleepermusic

Жыл бұрын

No books that I know of yet, but hmmm maybe I should write one 🤔 There also may be a paid course soon, but you didn’t hear it from me 🤫

@Lost.In.Spacetime

Жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusicthat would be cool if you write one! Do you have any recommendations for a reference like something you used or refered to when first learning about the theory? Thanks a lot!

I have heard that chord 4:30 in Joe Hisaishi’s Opening for anime called “Arion”

@gavinleepermusic

2 жыл бұрын

Oooo I must check this out now!

For some reason I really like it when the diminished vii° chord pops up in anime/J-pop music. How could that be?

Quintal voicing : Chords built by stacking fifths upon each other Quartal voicing : Chords built by stacking fourths upon each other In the common practice, we often see voicings made of combinations of stacked fifths and fourths, but sometimes we can see chords purely built on stacked fifths or fourths. In that case, the more fifths or fourths we stack on each other, the more color it gives to the harmony. According to Jacob Collier, since stacking 6 fifths upon a note uses all the notes of its lydian mode, the overall color is brighter than a chord built on 6 fourths which would evoke the locrian mode. Reminder : Lydian is often considered the brightest of the major modes, while locrian would be the darkest of the minor ones. We could then extend this polarity between darkness and brigthness by stacking again 5 more fourths or fifths upon this 7 sounds chord (lydian or locrian mode as a chord). The chord we obtain would then contain all the 12 notes of the chromatic scale. The pronunced spice of such a chord justifies its rarity in common practice, and questions how one might use it in a musical coherent way. However, adding only one note outside of the lydian or locrian mode by stacking 7 fifths or fourths upon a given note is a compromise to evoke the tail of this sound in a more conventional harmonic context, as Jacob Collier often does. He labels this extra note as a #15 extension if its the seventh fifth of a quintal chord, and one may label it as a b15 if it was the seventh fourth of a quartal chord. Side note : Since the fourth is the latest extension of a chord stacked with 11 fifths, it may explain why the sound of a major 11th chord is so often replaced by the sound of the #11th evoking lydian. Such a spice is however usable, and Whitacre shows it by putting a semi-tone apart both the majord 3rd and the fourth of a given chord. This clashing interval provides a strong tension, which sound particulary good on vocal pieces.

@martialpanyvino

Жыл бұрын

The more conventional way to approach a chord is by using a chain of fifths such as : IV - vii° - iii - vi - ii - V - I (The I chord being the chord we want to approach) Such a chain of fifths could also occur in a minor scale : iv - bVII - bIII - bVI - ii° - V - i A less common decision would be to approach a given chord by a chain of fourths, in a major or in a minor scale. The progression in a major scale would be : V - ii - vi - iii - vii° - IV - I And the one in a minor scale : V - ii° - bVI - bIII - bVII - iv - i If the chain of fourths in a major key seems to be the less common one, the three last chords of the second chain are often used in a different order labeled as the backdoor cadence : iv - bVII - I Therefore, it might be interesting to work around these less popular chains to find out how to use them in a coherent musical way. Finally, just as the quality of each chord of a chain of fifths might be changed for major/dominant chords only, so could it be for the chain of fourths wether we're in a major or in a minor key. It seems to me that this is what Jacob shows in his masterclass while talking about Keith Jarrett, playing Bbmaj to Fmaj to Cmaj (all major chords, chain of fourths based on the c minor scale). There is also an example of a chain of major 7th chords all built a fourth apart in a piece called Blu by Sakamoto analysed in Gavin's video about Tonal Fluctuation

@martialpanyvino

Жыл бұрын

According to Jacob Collier, approaching a chord by a chain of fifths is going from brigthness to darkness, where as approaching it by a chain of fourths is going from darkness to brightness. To illustrate his theory, he uses C as an anchor point in the circle of fifths to show that approaching it by the right implies using a chain of fifths and resolving with a perfect cadence, as approaching by the left implies using a chain of fourths and resolving with a plagual cadence. Since approaching C from the right side of the circle implies using C major scale chords, while doing so from the left side of the circle requires the C minor scale chords, he theorizes that resolving from a chain of fourths is like emerging from darkness, and by extension one could argue that resolving from a chain of fifth would be getting darker. This whole theory implies such things : If going from right to C is arriving from brigthness and getting darker as we arrive, it makes B the brigthest part of the circle as C is our anchor point. If going from left to C is emerging from darkness that makes Db the darkest part of the circle as C is our anchor point. Gb/F# would then be the flipping point, simultaneously the darkest and the brigthest point However i do not believe in this theory myself. Expanding these chains of fifths and fourths the longest it is diatonically possible breaks the so-called symetry between a left dark side and a right bright side of the circle of fifths. There is then always a point where the chain flips from one side of the circle to the other without it giving such an impression of going from darkness to brightness.

@martialpanyvino

Жыл бұрын

In classical analysis, the V/V chord is a II7 chord which accent the tension of a perfect cadence, followed by a V before resolving to the I. The concept of a IV/IV is quite similar, since it uses a sequence of major/dominant chords a perfect fourth from each other to resolve to the I. In C major, it would be : Bb maj7 - F maj7 - C maj7 Two uses of this IV/IV are displayed here. The first one is to modulate up a fourth (in the sub-dominant key) by suddenly playing the IV of the new key, which is in the original key the IV/IV. The second one is to modulate down a fourth after several expositions of the IV of the original key. Such a modulation is really effective when it concludes a piece, recontextualizing every chord as the x/IV in the new key which becomes the main one. Therefore what we thought was the IV all along was in reality the IV/IV Such a principle could be extended. By concluding a piece in a different key that the one it has been all along, the whole harmony seems to be tinted with a new color, and since there is a wide range of modulations possibilities, there is a wide range of colors to play with.

At 7:20 that note standing out called dissonant is in my opinion not so dissonant. When you expect the song to be just a standard minor scale I can imagine that it catches you off guard. (I see you typically calling it out as a part of jazz choices) in fact I believe it more to be a folk scale. Dorian to be exact. It is pretty common in Celtic music and also in Scandinavian songs. An other reason that it catches you off guard, is because the right hand melody starts of only in a pentatonic minor scale. So it leaves out the notes that make it natural minor or any other minor scale for that matter. So the one time this B is being played it shows you the actual scale. I didn’t know this song but love it. Thank you for sharing this

I finally understand what to do with the circle of fifths 😮 Do you use it to compose chord progressions by finding the next chord by going in a consistent direction?

@gavinleepermusic

Жыл бұрын

So glad this helped! I pretty much use it in every way I described in the video. Notes, chords, and keys :)

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Going up fourths: B E A D G C That's Sailor Moon's transformation! First notes of "Moon Prism Power Make Up"

@gavinleepermusic

2 жыл бұрын

Oh cool! Nice, I actually had never heard that before.

@LinXGUA

2 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic Oh, in the comments of that song people say that not all dubs of Sailor Moon used that theme. They use the progression as you explain it in the description box: as a transition to enter to the key. I think that's pretty clever for a transformation scene. I really liked your video, and learned a bunch of stuff from it! This comment section was interesting too: I never heard of circle progressions before (I IV viiº iii vi ii V I). It seems that it's pretty common in classical music, also its minor version (i iv bVII bIII bVI iiº V i), which I recognized on Schumann's 'Of Foreign Lands and Peoples'. Again, great video!

@gavinleepermusic

2 жыл бұрын

LinXGUA Thanks! Glad you enjoyed! Come join us on Discord some time :)

@LinXGUA

2 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic Oh, I found another example: Saint Seiya's 'The Phoenix Flaps its Wings'. The intro goes up in fourths: F - A# - D# - G#, then C - F - A# - D#.

@gavinleepermusic

2 жыл бұрын

LinXGUA could you link me?

what chords do you use for the plagal and perfect chain examples at 8:33? are they excerpts of larger pieces? i'm currently trying to figure out a model of "inverting" chord progressions between perfect and plagal since i've been kind of unimpressed with how the standard notion of "negative harmony" handles it, so i'm looking for as many examples of plagal chain progressions as i can find, since they're not nearly as common as perfect chain progressions. also, while i'm here, what a great video, damn. seriously, i find myself coming back to your work frequently for reference and study, your videos tend to be dense with information in a way that a lot of similar creators' works are not. keep it up homie

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to miss this! Glad you enjoyed this video. In one of the chains, I just used all major 7 chords. In the other, minor 7 chords. I'll let you figure out the rest for now ;)

@moonman57

3 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic thanks!!

Really really good contents. I first found your Japanese chord progression videos and find all of them very very helpful. Tha nk you. I was carefully thought processing to learn the contents in this video and got a question. Can we just call your IV of IV chords (in your composition) "extended dominants". C - F - Bb is circle of fifth going down. Kind of 4 going up. (Cup half empty, half full kinda thing) also I see u r playing all with #11, so it would be "extended altered dominants". Also modulating up a fourth (or down a circle of fifth) is smooth cuz only one difference in accidental. I love these music and am really lazy to analyze like you do. Thank you soo much for all your contents.

@gavinleepermusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you ChanHo. My most recent video on Tonality Fluctuation offers a much more comprehensive framework for IV/IV. If anything, I’d call it more of a secondary subdominant, esp because the #11 hints at extensions according to the Lydian mode, which is associated with the 4th degree of the major scale. As always, use whatever framework is most elucidating and helpful for you without being more arcane than necessary

@chanhokim7750

2 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic oh i see how you approach with mode. Makes sense. Seeing things in many perspectives makes theory a lot more understandable. Thanks!

@gavinleepermusic

2 жыл бұрын

ChanHo Kim yeah exactly. Often multiple lenses can shed light on different aspects of a song

Would you analyze the Japanese ichika Nito?

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

Ichika is cool and definitely does many things that I've taught about. Any songs in particular that spark your interest?

@j0taro213

4 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic in my particular taste it would be Orb or Lost but I would still be very happy with what most attracts you

I have a question about the diagram shown at 7:55, if the song is written in Cm wouldn't this section be a modulation to the tonality of the third degree instead of the fourth?

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for you question! I see, so you're hearing the song in the relative minor (Cm) compared to where I'm hearing it (Eb). That's equally valid if it feels more right to you. Either way, the progression still proceeds along the circle of fifths. Instead of going [IV iii vi ii V I IV] for Eb, it would go [bVI v i iv bVII bIII bVI]. I generally like using Ionian (here Eb) as my reference.

Does anyone know what do i need to watch before this, so I understand this better. When he presented the Nichijou opening I went straight into FL studio to try and recreate the chord progression but I soon enough was lost and terrified by how am I not understanding why in the piece it sounds good, and in my piano roll it sound bad.

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

lowlight Hey there! If you're having trouble with this, I'd recommend watching my Learning Music Theory with Zelda Ocarina of Time video. It starts out a bit more basic, and may help you to understand 251, 6251, etc. Lmk if that helps!

@lowlight1063

4 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic I think if i squeeze my 2 last brain cells hard enough to think, this whole thing is quite understandable. Just a sequence of fifths leading from one point to another right? Well maybe from a different direction sometimes, but it all comes down to simple things. I now understand the problem of mine is in the arrangement of this sequence. I am particulalry finding problems with when do I 7 or when do I maj7 or min7 (if min7 is even a thing idk) or maybe not put seventh at all, or maybe I should stack 7ths, 9ths or 11ths like a mad man. Your music theory videos are gold for me, maybe I am just not looking deeper into them or something. ._. P.S I think my actual problem is that I don't know some essential things that I missed and went straight to secondary dominant things, like when you start watching a movie from a point in the middle and you don't know what is going on.

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

lowlight Yes, from the way I'm seeing you write about it, I think some work on your fundamentals would really serve you. I kinda focus on intermediate and above, generally speaking. There are many great channels on YT that are more aimed at beginners, which could be a good supplement.

I'm really, really curious what you would think of this analysis (not mine btw): kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZpaOk5uhntWepsY.html and how it would tie up to what you were talking about the non-functional chords, the impressionist and jazz techniques used by Hisaishi

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Nicolas Galipeau Yeah man I've seen this video and it was one of the inspirations behind my channel! He and I are talking about the same thing regarding impressionist quartal voicings :)

@nicolasgalipeau3632

3 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic Oh I see! Thanks for the answer! I'm binge watching all of your videos haha

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Nicolas Galipeau Come join us on Discord if you want to discuss more!

@nicolasgalipeau3632

3 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic Not sure if I have the level right now but I'll come say hi :)

:D!!!

If I had to find one or two things that in my opinion could improve these videos, they would be: Colour the pressed notes of the piano you show, because sometimes it's hard to see what keys are being pressed. Write the chords on top of the scale degrees, for example in the minute 10:43 English is not my main language so, sorry if I sound mean or something :(

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

Felipe Álvarez These are great notes of feedback and easy changes for me to make in future videos. Thank you! And nice English 😉

@felipealvarez7113

4 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic ^u^

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

Felipe Álvarez If it helps, the majority of my examples are transposed to C major, so IV (almost) always means some kind of Fmaj7, ii a D-, etc. You'll probably have fun figuring out the extensions yourself :)

Bro is literally Japanese Adam Neely

@gavinleepermusic

11 ай бұрын

Haha Neely’s work is definitely a big inspiration for the channel!

yooo what was that song at the end?

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

moistaku New original I wrote called Step by Step!

@jammieswitdanny4836

4 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic where can i listen?

@gavinleepermusic

4 жыл бұрын

moistaku Will let you know when I release it!

Hello , I want to know did you delete/hid the video that is about the harmony analysis of The Legend of Ashitaka ? I often re-visit that video to study the harmonies of that piece and it is becoming a recurring habit of me, Just found out that you deleted it, Is it about copyright issues?

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Kwok Edwin Hello! If you're talking about my Legend of Ashitaka analysis, that did get taken down due to copyright. It's available on my Discord if you join us there!

@kwokedwin9628

3 жыл бұрын

@@gavinleepermusic Woah, I don't know you got a discord, definitely coming to it!

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Kwok Edwin See you there! Link in description.

3:45 why do display the 4ths as being 5 semitones away I thought 4ths were simply 4 semitones apart.

@Liam-pf7ih

2 жыл бұрын

a perfect fourth is 5 semitones because it is the distance from the 1st to 4th note in a major scale. 4 semitones is a major third (for example, 3rd note in c major is E so C to E is a major third)

11:46 This would also explain why Pentatonic Scales are used so much in Japanese Music (besides the historical context of course) since the Pentatonic Scales are very flexible, enabling you to modulate the harmony to the IV or V of a key while keeping the melody intact. i.e: A melody in C Pentatonic Major can be played without changing a single note in C Ionian ( I ), F Lydian ( IV ) and G Mixolydian (V). A melody in A Pentatonic Minor can also be played without changing a note in A Aeolian ( I ), D Dorian ( IV ), E Phrygian ( V ). Great video by the way, I've been binge watching your videos and my only critique is that I want more! ;P PS: NieR Automata OST - Peaceful Sleep also uses this harmonic progressions, I'm starting to find them everywhere. A video on melodic analysis of Japanese songs would be great also, for example, I've found similarities in Legend of Ashitaka and Gwyn - Dark Souls OST, melodies emphasizing a sus4 sound (5-4-1) in both songs. And Gwyn is full of fancy sus chords also (susb2, sus#4, and common sus 2 and sus 4).

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Lorenzo M. Gutierrez Agreed! The idea of superimposing various pentatonic scales and keys against each other is something explored a lot in jazz soloing since everyone generally learns pentatonics first and they're a short cut to phrasing soulfully. I'll check out your recommendations! Glad you've liked the videos! Consider joining our discord. I think you'd enjoy the conversations there.

@gavinleepermusic

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah this Nier song has a couple real colorful harmonic choices. I hear IV/IV and a backdoor ii V in there, for starters :)

you looks like singer of foo figther kkkkkkk

WAIT A MINUTE you forgot the most important I-IV-VII-III-VI-II-V-I thing!!!

the stacked fourths are also used in zelda breath of the wild

mr beast

Atonalism ≠ non functional They are two different things

英語分かりませんです

Good content, could be shortened to 5min without the extra history and stories. But no content is perfect I guess

I absolutely do not understand this video