Andrey Stolyarov is a Russian-born American composer, conductor, singer, and educator. As a composer, he has received national and international recognition for his works. Andrey is an adjunct professor of music theory at The Hartt School and Capital Community College, and is the Minister of Music at Gilead Congregational Church in Hebron, Connecticut. He is an active professional singer, currently performing with Voce, CONCORA, and the Composers Choir.
Additional, Andrey enjoys making covers of pop music occassionally :)
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I won’t finish any of your videos until you get a better microphone. It’s so irritating for you to be playing such great chords and have the worst sound on RU-vid.
This deserves MORE views. Obviously for people to arrive on this video, they NEED to have typed the correct search term and show up from the correct trajectory. When you start to imagine "what it takes for someone to TYPE that search term in the FIRST place", you begin to notice the MISSING keywords in the description or even in the title of the video. These keywords become so obvious, yet in and of themselves (or if they were to be used standalone) they would sound so REMOTE and completely UNRELATED to this video 🥰🥰🤩🤩🤩 Keep it up and share some more on the Circle of Knowledge. Things You Don't know that You Don't know (i am bit worried about the double-negative there, i feel that this narrative could be semantically improved by rephrasing this double-negative into a much more CONCISE phrase)
I’ve seen tons of these videos from you In my opinion which means absolutely zero nothing this one was truly beautiful it’s the 4th b flat maj to b flat minor that makes it that beautiful !!!! I am totally bias I do that major to minor thing every possible minute I can and I don’t even know why but I do…… and for some reason I always add the the 9 after it ….. most of the time I like to put it at the very end of the sequence but I like how you threw in one more….. but you have to admit it’s a tiny bit not as elegant for normal humans
it's a variation of the Tritone Sub Normally it's C7 to F, the tritone sub is where C7 is substituted with Gb7 So Gm - C7 - F (ii V I) is now Gm - Gb7 - F7 It can be applied every time you want to perform a perfect V-I cadence. The video title 'extended plagal cadence' is slightly inaccurate, as the last 2 chords (bII - I) is derived from the perfect cadence V-I Still, the chord progression sounds beautiful 💖
I'm not much of a guitarist, but I might suggest voicing the triads further up the neck and playing the tritone down low. If you want to use the open E or A strings to do this, you can play an Abmaj & Ebmaj chord, and add the E & A open strings respectively
I can make a whole video on this question, but the short of it would be: 1) start simple, and don't be afraid of making mistakes. 2) scales are incredibly important - if you learn your scales really well, harmony will start to follow naturally 3) listen to lots and lots of music, actively - don't just listen for pleasure, but actually listen intently for various details that might stick out to you and make note of them... Then, try to replicate those details somehow whether at the piano or with your voice
"Lydian makes things feel bright and weightless" 🙂 * _Uses the #4 to sledgehammer the chord down into the muddy, swampy depths of the bottom octave where the tritone's low frequencies overpower & smother it_ *
I think the embellishment and arpeggiation kind of weakens the effect of the point you're making tbh. I would have played the chords relatively straight so that the viewer had something clear and clean to compare the previous set of chords to before I started playing out like that. But I'm just some guy on the internet, so don't take my word as gospel.
@@vinaypamm1 yeah I didn't have my mic this time, just my phone. I ordered an adapter for my zoom H6 so hopefully that will come soon and it'll be a big upgrade to the sound!
Wow Fantastic. Sounded like Chopin. You could actually compose a lovely melody line to this progression. keep it going. I too am a fan of harmony and its movement. Getting to learn a lot from you.
This is very cool sounding but very curious on your thoughts on the “why” it works. Been loving your shorts btw it’s been a great resource for me while I’m learning theory and piano
@@AntonioDoesMetal thanks for watching! The "why" is a combination of common chords, meaning chords that are shared between both keys, as well as a smooth baseline!
to my ear, the B minor -> C major feels like a iii -> IV in G, so it never feels like it's reaching a satisfying resolution even when you go back to the tonic. I suspect that's where the 'longing' is coming from.
