I played Chord Chess with Jacob Collier 

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well they're creating tungsten sheet

​@@aloysiuskurnia7643 Waiting for someone to make a platinum sheet ...

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Pretty sure they surpassed theory by the third move.

this joke requires you to be in a specific set of people that understand both chess terminology and music theory to understand

Stalemate in the end game, definitely.

Lmfaooo

As someone who loves both music theory and chess, I wholeheartedly agree

​@@aintnocapinhere As someone who loves both, it's not even close. The average joe is closer to Collier than they are to even an IM. Put in a couple thousand hours on your instrument, and you can achieve this. But even if you dedicate your whole life to chess, most people will only ever become FMs. No one can touch Magnus in classical, hes in a completely different sphere.

Agreed

​@arunkarthikma3121 Jacob is the current magnus of music if you're comparing like that, but the truth is chess is just harder than taking turns playing chords

Mah

​@@alexanderallegra432 : It's actually fairly simple conceptually. Any note can be harmonized in a bazillion different ways. So they're playing two standard jazz tunes -- with melodies that will be familiar to anyone who knows jazz standards - keeping the melody notes at the "top" of each accompanying harmony, which ensure that they're easily heard, and then building complicated and unconventional harmonies (that are often non-functional) underneath those notes. These two are just very good at constructing such harmonies, and using good voice leading to get from one to the next. But, yes, they're both very good at it. Give it 10,000 hours and you'll be right there with them.

And it's still exciting as long as you know the absolute basics of the game

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You mean Two Hyper-Super-Mega-Meta dimensional beings having a friendly conversation

I think you can omit the "like"

omg thats so heckin cute 🥺🥺....

good point!

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Yeah as I was watching the video, I expected this in the second half and was actually disappointed to learn the rest of the video time was more of the same.

@@JuneLee We need it!

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Wow, that's a really nice image!

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Or Jacob contributed to Junes evolution

Wait that’s how talking works lol, you know what I mean though

@@jayferler4617How music works, too… 😊

3:34 IDK chord = c#-9 #5 #15 add4 ??? I know the C# minor is spread out with that sharp 5 so it's not all played with one left hand... I also don't know much about theory and only just figured out what the minus sign and triangle meant, as well as being mind blown about seeing sharp 15 and 12 lolol I don't read, just self-taught with perfect pitch, but nowhere near as cool and great as Jacob; I would know, I just saw him perform live a few hours ago in brooklyn!!!

I want a song with that now

This is all relative tho, you could do this if you know the first chord and have a good ear

@@zebgordon354 first try with no errors? hell no, not me.

@@RisikoAOI think the beauty is that there are no errors!

There are no errors in conversation, either... but it's easy to say something that doesn't make sense. Some of these chord follows, in this video, don't make sense to me in their context. I also think my hands don't always play what my ears want to hear... with these 2, I'm sure that still happens every once in a while, but not as often. I'm not sure whether that's all down to experience (practice, just playing) or if perfect pitch helps that?

@@GizzyDillespee In a very loose sense, I think it just comes down to patterns. Once you understand the patterns and relationships well enough, and ingrain it, this sort of thing just becomes a bit of fun and good sport :))

Agreed. Jacob is not at all patronizing here

3:34 IDK chord = c#-9 #5 #15 add4 ??? I know the C# minor is spread out with that sharp 5 so it's not all played with one left hand... I also don't know much about theory and only just figured out what the minus sign and triangle meant, as well as being mind blown about seeing sharp 15 and 12 lolol I don't read, just self-taught with perfect pitch, but nowhere near as cool and great as Jacob; I would know, I just saw him perform live a few hours ago in brooklyn!!!

@@MelodicEgghead Actually, I'm seeing it more as an Amaj13#11add4/C#

@@jonahblank1893 You're probably right lol. Yours looks way better

Definitely something you can learn. There are many approaches to it but I like Jacob’s approach which, as I understand his explanations, is “sound-centered.” Start with feelings and raw sounds, and gradually refine. This is how I have come to teach improv and it is super fun and rewarding to do this. You don’t have to know chord names to make the sounds these guys were making. But the more you play and get new ideas and ways to put them into your own mental map, the more likely you are to recreate what you like and to consciously create new stuff. Fun journey, for a lifetime!

And actually no harmonizing of a specific tune was would be done, just random chord improvising, it looks like such fun.