How to Spice Up Your Harmony! :D [Harmonic Relativity] Part 1 - Basics 

This might just be THE BEST tutorials on youtube. One of the things that make it so special is that you teach and go through stuff so fast. Though I might have to back a couple of seconds to understand it sometimes I thought this is much more interesting. The other tutorials on youtube are soooo slow and boring and barely teach something, and this is so much beter. I'm very glad I found your channel, you just got youself a new subscriber!

His white board makes his heart happy.

"Makes me wanna kill myself... metaphorically speaking..." Nice save! :D

Hey, please don't ever stop teaching! Not enough people with your mind set teach openly like this, keep going it's great!

I don't know where to start. I just feel you unlocked harmony. lol. Unbelievably good stuff.

You've just changed my way of seeing things, thank you.

I have a BM in music and I have to say this was quite engaging. I feel my professors were so obsessed with atonality and the progression of modern music. God forbid I use a tonal progression. Thanks for this great video!

I'm not going to smother you with compliments like everyone does, you deserve them of course you amazing tutor. All I want to say is simply, thank you so much. I am a game and film composer you said ''This is good for game composers'' with the reference to caves or whatever. You were so right, you truly have helped me in my composition journey. Keep it up

Very interesting and helpful. I agree with you about videos being boring when somebody talks slow and steady. Your speed is perfectly fine. The way you organized this video made it easy to perceive. Thank you for making this video, and please make more.

This is really awesome. I get so stuck in traditional keys and diatonic harmony, and then adding a flat 6 or the occasional non-key chord in once in a while for colour, but this is a really interesting way of getting away from that in a logical and very musical way. Can't wait to get to my keyboard!

OK this is brilliant. Takes away the 'strict' theory and actually provides a really excellent tool for composing.

This is AMAZING. Im 46 and have been a musician /composer since I was 10 and this is the best explanation ever seen.

This is the best tutorial I've had since doing the Royal Academy Jazz Course nearly 30 years ago!!!

Man you are really good at teaching this things. The fact you speak fast, clear and with a good dose of humor makes you really easy to follow, so much that even though I've seen a video about a similar method in my native language I got the hang of it right here in english.

Man, every time I want to go back to writing new music, your tutorials are always there to give me all the strength and inspiration I need. Can’t emphasize enough how much you’ve changed my life.

Very good! Always opening up new horizons.

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JJ, I have literally spent two dozen hours at odd hours trying to find these videos again. I saw a few of them about 5 years ago and they explained chord relatioships and mediants so well in composing, but i didn't really have time to study them properly. so i've been combing for hours on hours ( i was positive your name was david for some reason) I am so glad to have found them! thanks again

I really love this approach. It's so easy to get stuck in your own harmonic bubble sometimes. This is a great creative exercise to get out of it. Thank you!

Hey Jay, just like everyone else on here, I'm absolutely blown away by this system, it's so practical and also allows space for subjectivity and personal expression. Seriously great work man, all praise much deserved, and great teaching methods and pace. I think the reason why people love to see videos like these is that they can be practically applied so easily, rather than the contemporary waffle of the modern day composing professor, where nothing is good or bad, everything is subjective and ultimately very little is learnt. Thanks for this, I will certainly be using this technique going forwards.

Jjay can you release your code book for the cord relationships? :) you say it's subjective. And yes that's true but I'm pretty sure it would be helpful to us. And it will give us go to chord relationships for writing film & game music ... mind sharing by email? :) I just came back to this video after having to learn a few things. I'm understanding it much better now too...

the first minute had me for the next hour. Great job! Finally a teacher that can talk about a topic in depth without losing people's interest.

Maaaaaaaaaaan You just opened a musical Pandora box! Thank U! I've always felt this but never knew how to express it!

Great video! Thanks for taking the time to share this with us! Much appreciated!

JJay, you are one of the best composers, and one of the most INSIGHTFUL composers, I have EVER seen... I have the absolute highest respect for you, the HIGHEST respect, from a fellow composer. :) -Benjamin C. Gessel

You're a genius! Deviating from the tonality and use foreign harmonic progression is something I've never heard of. Thank you so much for that! Keep it up!

I have a BA in music composition and have never seen anything like this. Awesome job man. This was seriously transformational and I watched from start to finish and was never bored at all. Love the practicality, perfectly explained, and LOVE the orchestrations to demonstrate! Keep it up!

THANK YOU. This is exactly what I needed to see and hear. Fog and thickets of muddled theoretical thinking cleared in a single view of this. Can't wait to start on the follow-up videos.

I saw a lot of music harmony videos. You video is what I always wanted to see but can not found. It's awesome! Waiting for part 2 ...

I learned more here than 2 years of tuition. Thank you dude!

just realised Fm -> Am -> Cm is max richter's the trees, really cool

Quickly sketched that out, huh? That's a movie-quality composition right there my man.

I've just discovered your channel, please don't stop doind videos, all of them are awesome and very hepful for people like me!

Wow! This is a great way to break out of the traditional use of chord progressions!

This is a brilliant creative exercise. Thanks for sharing.

Hola JJ, greetings from Madrid, Spain. Very, very, very good job. Your approach to new creative progressions has inspire my own creativity, THANK YOU. Looking forward for the upcoming videos

This is awesome! I just recently came across this style of composing but didn't use it in combination to do a chord progression, yet. You're explanations are quite good and the speed of talking is absolutely right for not getting bored. I appreciate that! :)

just stumbled across this video! immediate subscribe! this is exactly one of the techniques I use to write my music :D it creates really cool interested chord progressions

Thank you J.J. for sharing your insights on this rare concept which not a lot of people teach. I think this is extremely valuable - a gem in the world of music theory tutorials online.

this is amazing! it changes everything for me! Thank you so much!!!! not only the technique is awesome, but your teaching is just FANTASTIC.

Really interesting idea. And I agree talking fast is a nice contrast to other videos. Only by speaking as quickly as you do can you add things like: "Wait! Sorry, I'm an idiot. Kill me." without even breaking pace. Great stuff. Keep it up, we have pause buttons if we need 'em.

That was a theorygasm for me. Just what I needed !!

Wow! One of the most interesting and informative videos I have seen. Thank you for your effort to make these

dude you are a fantastic teacher, I can feel my writing skills actually increase as I watched. Keep up the good work by far on of the best videos I've watched on you tube so far.

Really enjoyed this. Some great ideas to get started when things are a little stuck. I will definitely use this. Looking forward to more videos. Thanks for sharing.

Most underrated RU-vid video ever!!!

Third year University music composition student here, and I absolutely love this!

Dude this is so interesting - so good to have different takes on harmony to keep things fresh and exciting. Thanks a bunch!

JJay Berthume, thank you VERY MUCH for giving this presentation! This has opened up so much for me about harmony.

Some emotions are brought out even more in progressions of 3 chords or more, but they can be arranged utilizing this method, or in combination with this technique. I hope that is helpful to others, and this video was very helpful to me. Thank you jjay

This might be one the single most insightful video I've found on these topics. Subbed and will be studying from these videos. Thanks for making them :)

wow that second song you put together was crazy good

Oh man, it drove me nuts, I was forgetting how this was called, and I remembered it as "relative harmony", but I had no success. Finally, I remembered your name and now I can send it to my brother :D

Just finding your videos now (sorry for the late reply) but this is 100%, 24 karat pure gold. I can't tell you how much help this is. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

This video came out last year and I'm watching it just now because I didn't know you before! What's more, I bumped into your "Iguana Man Ending Credits Theme" on Soundcloud and I immediately loved your style. This video was more than helpful, man! I love your way of teaching this kind of things, it just makes everything simple and not boring. Thanks to you I see harmony in a completely new light now! Man, believe me, you are amazing!

Dude, amazing stuff! Seriously, thanks a lot!

Very interesting. Great for days when you can't come up with a chord progression. I can really appreciate how your brain works..

Very inspiring and well thought out! Thank you!

Thank you J Jay, i really enjoyed all your video.

This is one of the best videos I have seen, amazing system I am going to try it tomorrow.

Amazing Vid!! It’s so helpful, thorough, efficient, and entertaining! I was going down a rabbit while in search of this concept (chord relationships) and I’m just really glad I found your video.

Absolutely brilliant watch

My mind is completely blown! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!! (btw I love the fact that you didn't make it slow like most instructional videos on RU-vid)

This is great. I sometimes tend to achieve (if I'm lucky) some of what you teach, just by hearing it in my head. But my theory has always been weak, and you are inspiring. So now on to all of your material I can find! Thank you heaps.

This was amazing. Thank you for evolving the way I see music.

This is the first video i ever watched at .75 speed. Haha, dude you have ants in your pants and speed in your coffee. Great vid though

This is one the most useful tutorial on YT hands down ... Amazing man, never stop such great videos

Great video, though I realized ten minutes in that I really need to brush up on basic music theory first. Neverthelss, I am putting this in my favorites and subscribing so I can get back to it once I've worked out basic music theory. Thanks alot in advance! The fact that I could follow for about ten minutes with little understanding of the prerequisite music theory is very telling of your capabilities to teach, I think!

Thanks so much for sharing! Looking forward to more videos!

“Music is the art of thinking with sound”

Very creative approach. Thank you for posting this.

Cant wait for part 2! Love all of your videos!!

Best video on the subject! Genius! Yes,it is fast,but that makes us think faster!

Great vid! Thank you, very useful for getting out of a rut,writers block etc.

Absolutely loved this tutorial, packed with so much useful information and unlike so many others, you had a great pace. Can't wait to try this out, thank you for sharing your knowledge! Will definitely be donating to your campaign:)

Really cool video! Love when I find new creative tools to work with, and this system and ways to come up with new and exciting harmony really resonated with me as I've always felt that the feelings and moods you get from harmony stems more from the chord relationships rather than individual chords by them self. I've written down a ton of chord relationships with the feeling it gives me/my references, but never had a system other than roman numerals to categorize them, and this system makes a lot of sense and will be a great tool to come up with new progression and combining mye chord relationships collection, can't wait to test it out :-) Thanks man!

Hey JJay, I really like your videos, I hope I can understand it like you some day. What videos/boos or whatever would you recommend for understanding the Basics?

Hi JJay, thank you so much for the great video! It's really helpful, but there is one thing I am still a bit confused. When you are jumping between different CRs how do you determine which key is the tonal center? In other words, which key should you write your melody in? Thanks again!

You do have an interesting way of looking at chord theory without getting into the complexities of music theory and analyzing these chords in there respective relationships to a given piece.

This is such a good video, can't believe I only just found it.

This is wonderful, JJay. Thank you so much for this lesson and all of the other lessons :) I so often get stuck in certain progressions, and especially in certain keys and this is such an incredible way of breaking out of that. I'm very excited to compose something today. Thank you thank you thank you

This video shows an amazing view of extremely practical music theory. Thanks you!!!

Wow that was great ! Thank you JJay !

This is amazing! Thanks so much for this. Super organized and extremely informative.

This is absolutely amazing. I've played music my whole life and just recently started to learn theory and this idea has got me more excited to write than anything ever has. Thank you so much. I'll definitely make a donation sooner or later. I'm kinda poor :(.

Please write a book about this. It's great material.

Thank you for taking the time to do this... this is an incredible tool!!!

wow, this guy explains everything so well, i'm exciting!

YOU OPEN MY MIND DUDE THANKS A LOT MAN

I wish I could play the piano like that. Amazing!

Really really interesting stuff...looking forward to trying it...Thanks!

Very cool System! Very inspiring and intriguing! You have some real talent my good sir! JJay Berthume

Fantastic video! Thank you for teaching us these techniques!!!

Yes! Literally the best music theory video ever! Thank you!

Just woooow ! I just wish I was more into theoric music . Great demo !

Jjay, what music composition software are you using? It resembles Sibelius with NotateMe and Photoscore, but not exactly. (My Twitter /@jboushka has a photo of some of my music, a slow movement passage in B Major that has some progressions like those in this video.)

Once again, a great video, JJay! Loved every second of it! :) Keep up the good work!

How man, the fact that you're trying to categorize that minor second "Horror Space Movie G" on the fly. I laught so hard !

This is incredibly useful - thank you!