Not coming from a classical music background, his music always has that simplicity. He made his limitations as a musician as his strength by compensating with his sound engineering and digital music production techniques i guess.
Yes! Especially love his 2001-2010 period... silent revolution... we didn’t realize that we had begun to expect certain sounds n styles for youth songs... he created that expectation in us!
Quite articulate with the analysis and crisp presentation. These HJ songs, like Ilayaraja songs for another generation, toned urban romance in popular film loving youth quite a lot. It did have a signature and will always be remembered as special and distinct in the Tamil film world.
One small disclaimer: In order to see similarities, I transposed everything to C. He might have had those songs in B minor, etc. This episode is half based on Carnatic principle: neglecting the “key of” concept in western music and only focusing on the tonic pitch called shruthi, so that we can see the similarities between the songs 🙂🙏
Great insight! Thanks for sharing your analysis. Often we know what is happening, but are unable to put our finger on what "it" is. You are an expert at pinpointing that "it".
There are also other typical music elements that's unique for Harris and makes him stand apart:- 1.Catchy preludes😍 2.Vocal harmony🎙️ 3.Gibberish✨ 4.Pro in - Guitar, Sax, flute🎶 5.Four chord composition🎼 6.Sound quality😎 7.Fill in, mixing n mastering.🔥
Awesome work! Love it. Don't give up and please give us more content. Wish you all the best and hopefully you will be rewarded by youtube for your hard work.
I have Listened to so many types of reviews and musicplanations but this is unique. Great job Su. ❤️ And Please do analyze and teach us variety of composers and their styles. Thanks
Beautiful.. Harris really nails it with guitar solos and back up. Unnale unnale song in Bb minor I think is a gorgeous guitar based song. The last solo that's there only in audio version is simply unplayable in my opinion. ❤️ Great musical content in your channel. Ps. If you decode that solo, please make a video with notes 😁
@@suvaissance Mam, Im a hardcore fan of Harris since my age of 8. I learnt music, became a Keyboardist n Organist, and now slowly steping into programming only bcs of Harris. He's my inspiration, hero, Godfather, etc.🎼😍💖🎶 #HJ_forever!❤️
What I love most about Harris Jayaraj is that most of the time, his albums would be 100% great songs. With other composers, there might be one or two songs in an album that are not comparable to the rest of the good songs. Shame he's not producing much these days 😩
Thanks a lot Ma'am, I requested for part 2 yesterday you uploaded it today. Thanks a lot. Please teach us more in the music space. Abt Rahman, Ilaiyaraaja, about Anirudh's bgm for master. Thanks ☺️🙏
Yes will get to it. This topic of HAJAX was so big I had to divide it up, and deal with small amounts in each episode... 3 episodes more to go... We will definitely see how there are many non-HAJAX songs in future episodes. I admire HJ sir for creating a body of work with similar properties... enough to be called a genre! Harris genre!
I am not anyone in a position to judge or comment how someone of that caliber should conduct their career… I talk about what we can learn from the inspiring things that they have already created, if I find interesting things to say about their works… What I’m saying is… this is a “learning from and being inspired by music, film and artistic works” kind of channel… I am not judge and jury…
Nicely put. And no, I'm not requesting you to do a trash video of his recent songs. Let me rephrase it this way: will you at any point be reviewing his recent songs? And why they're probably not resonating well with the audience, but in a technical way like you have done for his past songs? Or maybe about some others who have exhibited longevity and what's the technical reason for it?
@gurusito ok… thanks for clarifying… long answer alert… My thoughts on longevity: I don’t believe creativity “juice dries up” as people say. Once a person has shown his intellectual talent, it is my belief that it doesn’t ever go away (unless in exceptional circumstances like Alzheimer’s etc)… it’s like what they say about riding bicycles… The circumstances around them, their personal preference for how much work they want to take on, coworker personal relationships, they might go through heartbreak, these things may change. The core intellectual ability has never left them. If I am in IT field and suddenly leave it to start a dance school, no one measures my longevity in IT. But if I am doing awesome in films, and leave it just to do concerts and do only 1-2 films per year, why people should discuss longevity? This is my thought on the matter! If I find something interesting to say about any music, and if so estimate the research and production time will be within 1-2 weeks, I will do it! So yeah I might do his recent music, but I have a long list of already pending episodes for which brief script has been written (Harris 2000’s music is in that list). It also has to do with my listening habits. I tend to avoid listening to music (contrary to what people expect) in daily life. I want silence when not working on music for this channel! I thought I was weird but slowly got to know that many musicians (esp. those who produce/ compose) tend not to listen to music to relax, or jog, or while driving etc.
Short answer: I am not sure one can control longevity with some sort of skill… even though one has the skills which they learned always with them, one can still end up choosing another path… so many other factors determine how long we do the same thing. Some people like to try different things!
என்னால் தமிழில் பேச முடியும். இருப்பினும், இந்த சேனலின் நோக்கங்களில் ஒன்று தமிழ் கலைஞர்களைப் பற்றி ஆங்கிலத்தில் பேசுவது. இந்த இசைக்கலைஞர்களைப் பற்றி தமிழர்கள் மட்டுமின்றி மற்றவர்களும் புரிந்து கொள்ளட்டும்...
The present generation much hyped with hip pop or rap wTevea but those genres Harris handled in his songs were out of the mark ! We can even discuss that! For ex yeno yeno pani thuli the second interlude rap portion !
Best keyboard tip (from me)... is to develop very sharp ears. Listen very carefully. Play what you hear. That’s all I do. Really that’s all. Listen to every track - the beats, the bass, the chords, recreate. If it doesn’t yet sound like the original, listen for why our version is different... keep improving... get it closer n closer. Of course to reproduce exactly, you need the same equipment that they had. So choose songs which CAN be reproduced with what you already have. This is my approach.
