Explaining the WEIRD CHORDS in The Owl House's Theme Song 

5:42 "I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this." Sister, you have entirely too much faith in me.

But that’s just a theory, A MUSIC THEORY THANKS FOR WATCHING

This is making me realize how much music theory has escaped my brain since taking classes 😭 but honestly super helpful. I miss hearing ppl talk abt this kinda stuff

My brain hurts, but I'm glad I watched! It helped me get some awesome ideas for future chords and lead progressions! Indie producing is hard, lol!

Music is such a beautiful and wondrous thing. The only reason I even watched this cartoon was that I accidentally turned the channel right as the theme song started to play and I liked it SO much that I sat and watched three of the re-run episodes and ended up enjoying show! Anyway, thank you for spending the time to create a video essay about these complex music theory topics. Makes me want to break out my viola and play around!!!

So that's why this song slaps

Wow, this is fascinating! It's really impressive that you coined the idea of of the relative axis interchange. Are there music theory journals? Maybe you should try to get it published.

Why are there so little likes? This is amazing

This is absolutely incredible. I knew my ears identified that the theme was in C minor, but I am very glad that you went the extra step to effortlessly elaborate a full analysis. Incredible.

Hey , this is neat ! Very smart stuff ! I like how you mix very conventional jazz theory with your own ideas ! I have a question : this axis thing (wich I love) , how can it be genralsed to other church modes ? I'm talking about that because the theme from "enchanting grom fight"(when Luz and Amity make some extra cool dance moves) is written in C# dorian. Anyway , as a theory nerd I enjoyed this video ! Keep up the good work dame Hira !

Great analysis here. I'm suprised more people have analysed this song. It's pretty wild considering it's from a kids show and Disney to boot.

Interesting of an analysis of chromatic and doubly chormatic mediants in the term of "Axis Interchange". Chromatic mediants are a series of chords that share a note relative to each other. For the example above, Abmaj7, when taken to its root of G#, shares a D# with the B chord (or you can change the B chord into a Cb chord, where the Eb would be shared between Cb and Ab). Fdim7 could easily be written as Bdim7, which can count as a type of leading tone chord into Cmin. To be honest, I feel like this is the chord progression here. Cm: i - VI7 - VII - V/VII - viio7 Normally, V/? chords are used to transition into the chord it's aiming for. However, in this instance, VII acts as its own root chord in this progression, and V chords can interchange between the viio and itself. With that, measure 9-12 could be written with the following progression, which goes into something interesting... Cm: i - VI7 - VII - bII - viio7 The bII (Db) chord is used instead. Db also can function as C#, which would be the ii chord of B if not for the fact that it's major. In other words, this piece uses a Neapolitan chord that functions as a iio-V-i, which is common in minor keys. As for the last two measures of B(#11) going into C, B already has three leading tones (B-C, D#-E, and F#-G). However, adding the #11 F acts as the seventh of a G7 which would resolve down to E as well, giving even more of a tension than it already would. --------------- However, your analysis is really good from a visual standpoint. It creates a better idea of how mediants connect to each other through this "Axis Interchange", as well as how tritone chords are connected. I enjoyed this analysis you made and I hope your videos continue to do well!~

i’ve been watching a bunch of your videos cause they line up with my interests and while i may not understand most of the things you’re saying, the stuff i am able to wrap my head around is so cool!! i love learning about why things sound the way they do, so this is really awesome!

Looks like I made a good choice for my monthly watching a video on advanced music theory when I know nothing about music theory session

this is so cool, never seen anything like this before. definitely going to have to give it a go when composing-

I just found your channel and I love it. Amazing work

this is awesome thank you for doing this

I was scrolling through your channel from the Mario one, saw this, gasped, and immediately clicked

around 5:16 you mention how the Fdim7 could function as a Ddim7 chord since C minor already has a D half-diminished chord. imo the easier explanation is the Fdim7 functioning as a Bdim7 from C harmonic/melodic minor for that viidim7/i cadence. either way, good stuff

By the way, the axist stuff is similar to a concept called the Axis of Tonality, which is used to extend the concept of functional harmony to the 12-tone serialism of Bela Bartok. The implementation is a little different (for example, Bartok uses major and minor chords built on the same root interchangeably), but the equivalences it draws basically do the same thing as your model of extending modal interchange. 12tone has a good video on the subject.

aw yeah, diminished 7ths! 12tone's favorite chord for this exact reason, and one of mine as well (though my real weakness is half-diminished 7ths with the 7th in the bass).

music theory is amazing

Me watching this: Uh-huh so you add 489 and 593 and you get fish! My mom who understands: 👁👄👁

I'm not so good in English music theory, so it's really hard to understand some things, but it was interesting to watch, and get some new ideas.

this video is amazing

I don’t understand music theory at all but cool!

oh my fucking god dude i cannot do music theory there is so much MATH

Do one for the Eda's Requiem chords!

haha, im so going to fail ap music theory. i have no idea whats going on

Hey it's me again , I thought out your axis stuff. As you told me , it doesn't work most of the time , but I figured (with m a t h s) when it can be usefull. I sent you an e-mail with my reasonings.

Inject kpop content into my veins por favor

Can you talk about kpop more?

Can you talk about kpop more