Coltrane Changes outside of Jazz? 

Ravel was the original jazzposter

0:10 you can’t escape from the lick also in the intro

I CACKLED when you played the Ravel. It is simultaneously beautiful and EXTREMELY CURSED. Bravo

Of course it’d be Ravel to do something that jazzy 😂

Hearing Giant Steps in Gaspard de la Nuit, is like hearing the Lick in the Firebird.

Hearing Jazz-era Scatman John in this video was a blessing.

Love the vox like analysis paired with the old internet vibe of small channels

Coltrane picked up on the three tonic system when studying symmetrical scales and progressions found in Nicolas Slonimski's Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. He was simply looking for new ways to express what he was feeling. He never claimed to have invented the system and probably would have felt funny if he knew that one day the system would be called Coltrane Changes. Still, it is without a doubt that it is his music that bought this system to world wide recognition and Giant Steps and Coltrane are what people think of when this sound and system come to mind. Coltrane demonstrated that these changes could substitute for and even overlap the tradition iV V I and ii V I progressions as he demonstrated in his modal and avant-garde compositions which followed Giant Steps. It is here were Coltrane created previously unheard of musical possibilities.

2:50 it’s weird, I was recently looking at Coltrane changes on a midi string patch and thought “wow that really reminds me of bo en. Now I’ve randomly clicked on this video and here it is. Funny.

I appreciate the way you said the words coltrane changes and jazz and twelve notes and circle of fifths and proximity

Bo En’s 2013 album Pale Machine (the one that My Time is from) uses the Coltrane changes as it’s main motif, starting with it in the intro, and all culminating in My Time at the end

Most jazz musicians know about how Trane was infatuated with the bridge of "Have you Met Miss Jones" and went through a period of shedding it constantly. Also, 2300 Skidoo by Herbie Nichols also touches on this type of movement - before Giant Steps.

3:39 the lick! (Almost)

Wuw, I always knew it. Ravel was the most important precursor for Jazz. Ravel is the GOAT in all genres!

Why does this not have more views >:(

Thank you. Nicely done. Good pacing on your delivery.

I enjoy your explanation! Looking forward for another quality content

Love your work!

Great video love the format, now I absolutely want to see the next one

Great video. It's clear, easy to follow, and incredibly high quality.

This just came up in my recommended and it is AWESOME!

great video! i didn’t realize the B section of Have You Met Miss Jones was on coltrane changes until i took a closer listen to what was going on. It’s really interesting to see everywhere else the changes are used as well.

such a cool video, thank you for making it!

Just watched this video, it's great! Your channel truly deserves hundred thousand of subs, Adam Neely and Twelvetone-like quality right there ! Subscribed!

Muse fan here, my day was made!

That was pretty neat! The video was very clear, informative, and well laid out Thanks for the explanation at the beginning. I had no idea what Coltrane Changes were, but now I'm curious and inspired Looking forward to future videos! (Whether they be songs or music theory. Love your work!)

I sorta intuitively knew what Coltrane Changes were, but this was a phenomenal explanation of it that made my knowledge more explicit. So thank you!

you are a literal godsend for introducing us to My time and Revel (?)'s tune predating giant steps! also rip dilla

This is very informative and interesting! I hope your channel become famous soon!

This channel is what i needed. big ups to the yt algorithm!!

Doing omori music made me very happy!

i fucking love My Time and the album it comes from, Pale Machine. thanks for the video!!

Great video and fascinating with the Ravel.

pale machine jumpscare! the whole album is filled with those chords in my time, its what got me into jazz!

Great start with the new format! There's lots of space in the youtube music analysis scene and it's just a matter of time when you'll be one of the big ones (if that's what you want anyway). The content is already there, just a bit of finetuning will work wonders. A bit slower speech tempo might do good. My personal advice is to embrace your humour even more. The reason I'm subbed is the truly personal Andrew Huang -collab video where you play the quirkiest melody known to man with absolutely no emotion on your face. But no need to try any tricks :) just do you, and by experience you'll see what works well and and what not. The algorithm is a tough opponent, don't give up if it fights back in the beginning. Good luck on your path!

Glad you mentioned Let's Ride! btw that Q-Tip beat was produced by J Dilla, or as he was known back then, Jay Dee. When that song first came out it blew my mind and was my first introduction to Dilla

I was so happy when you mentioned let’s ride because I love that song and q tip and j dilla

This is beautiful.

Incredible video

Wow, just found you and your channel is everything I want to be lol. Jokes aside really great stuff, loved the vid!!!!!! Your other stuff looks right up my alley, can't believe you don't have more attention by now

Great video!! I can't believe I'm lucky enough to find you when you're only 1k subs. It's gonna be 1M before you know it! I love the cross genre, harmonic analysis vibe. Keep it up! Thank you

Great video!

I don't know why you don't have millions of views

Yes !! I knew my time sounded like giant steps but I wasnt sure. Nice video !!

Such very very novel examples here, I love it

very nice! you deserve much more views imho

wow this is probably the most enlightening video i have ever watched. how utterly cerebral!

_why have i only come across this now?_ better nate than lever. thanks for making music theory accessible!

Dope vid!!!

Got this as a random youtube recommendation. Me likey.

was that a friggin upbeat cover of sorrow & sadness at the end, I need it so badly lmao

Awesome!

Coltrane changes is a speedrun of a 3-tonic system ☺️

Game changing:)

0:12 de lick

subbed! 1.8k? underrated for sure.

great vid

i actually did a full ravel section into giant steps on my channel, and it works so well!

Waw that's great !

Hey this rules thanks for making it!

thanks!

God Q tip is so damn great.

Of course my favourite moment drom Ondine is a Coltrane Matrix! i never noticed because i am so used to it being major

Great video! And for extra exemples maybe "Canned Heat" from Jamiroquai?

Ravel is such a genius, mere mortals like us will never understand what he was about.

That Ravel fragment is by the way so freaking hard to play haha

aw i love bo en

I have never yet encountered such a harmonic system in music. Maybe I just haven't noticed it, but.... it's freacking genius: a system consisting of 3 TONICs that are symmetrically arranged relative to each other in a circle of fifths! That is, roughly speaking, we are dealing with an augmented triad (if these tonics are put together in a triad, just to remember). And, to everyone's surprise, this video did not do without the genius Ravel, who invented all this a long time ago)))

i knew that knights of cydonia had cool key changes but i didn't know it was like this :0

Nice

havent watched yet but i am subbing

MY TIME HAS THE FUCKING COLTRANE CHANGES?!

There is also "Giant steps to the castle" from Shreck is Love, that has a Coltrane change, as the title with "giant steps" indicates it

That sad Naruto song in samba version at the end was awesome

fuck yeah bo en!!!!!!!!!!!

Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush also has elements og coltrane changes!

3:39 found the lick

nice

I need to make changes.

omori jumpscare

This was fantastic. I just found it a little bit confusing each time a flat dominant resolves to a sharp chord, specially when it's not needed, but I guess it's just some transcriber mistake

sure

gud sheet

On Rhodes, "Knights of Cydonia" sounds like a Vince Guaraldi cue for a Peanuts TV special.

What is Coltrane Changes if not Axis System persevering?

Great analysis, but I really have to know where that intro song is from?

I'm new to this music theory stuff (like very new, I can only tell you what flats and sharps are, or guitar anatomy) but can someone explain why Coltrane changes sound so goddamn nice

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J'avais pas compris Gaspard de la nuit...

Lmao you already had ravel in the video xD my bad

Richard Strauss "Der Rosenkavalier", Walzerfolge 1, from bar 194 (especially from bar 211) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nolsSHvB8k0.html (from 6'09'' & 6'37'')

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Bo En flat out copied giant steps down to the last chord in My Time...

ravel same key (!)

yeet

why do the Japanese play piano like that and why is it so good.

You Voice cadence?

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