I'm a classical musician and fan, but still appreciate jazz and music, i'm also an f1 fan and I know Charles is one too because he commented on the f1 channel a couple times
I'm not a big fan of pop music, but from a production standpoint this song is really impressive. It's hard to make the bass sound that loud and full without the mix being total mud. It still feels like there's plenty of "space" in this mix.
the mix on this is fucking incredible. and the mix on the SNL live performance was incredible as well. maybe they were playing into the same VST or amps that they mic'd but its phenomenal
I am not educated in music (but I used to be a classical musician but that's not important) and that bassline isn't very difficult to pick up. I'd be disappointed if Charles couldn't pick it up first time - it's very basic.
@@Gamez4eveR LOL love your username my guy. And yeah maybe it's not difficult for you or more experienced musicians, but for some such as myself I believe that's quite a skill, and I wish to obtain that kind of ear with more practise
@@madhavraghu did you started a teombone joke but didn't finish it? Back in high school music teacher made joke of each others instrument and one of them went along those lines. XD
I really appreciate your mentality to shed the whole, "I'm a jazz musician I shouldn't like pop music, because it's garbage no substance." As a jazz school grad, I went through my college life looking around at the people around me shaming pop music..while I kept saying, "It's just different than what you're currently studying. It's complexity and real meaning just isn't based in it's 4 chord progression. Could be lyricism, could be groove, could be production, could even be a little tag or hook that you can't get out of your head.. It's meant to make people feel good, not break the bounds of harmonic language at every moment." Long comment short, I appreciate you and the work/art you do.
As our Lord and Savior said, "The more chords you know, the more courage it takes to not play them." - Jacob Collier (Obviously context matters though lol)
wow jason, there needs to be more level headed and genuine people like you out there. thanks for your contribution to making the world a little bit better :)
What's up with the trend of highly educated musicians trying to "pay their respects" to pop music? Adam Neely does it all the time, even David Bruce, a Contemporary Classical composer, did it. Realising that Jazz - or what have you - isn't the only music does not have to entail glorifying other music that perhaps isn't that interesting in the first place. A "recovering Jazz elitist" should probably check out things like Contemporary Classical music and Art Rock, and perhaps look to a different musical culture like Arabic or Chinese. While there is truly a craft to making pop music, this fascination with it is in my opinion unwarranted. To me it seems like a somewhat dishonest and overly apologetic appeasement towards musical laymen who cannot stand the fact that other people might enjoy more complex music than they do. A chef does not have to apologise for being an "elitist" if they tell us that McDonalds is culinarily uninteresting but addictively tasty. Remember that.
@@jwaj The study of the relationship between music and cultures and how they affect, inform, and influence one another. You go to school for it. There are very few undergrad programs at universities and more masters programs. You must first be a musician to get into any of the programs. We focus heavily on observer-participant research.
I don't see the point of your comment but congrats we need more ethnomusicologists and musicologists with knowledge in social sciences, the world would be better 😎
Not sure if it's intentional but that is what's happened! I actually found this channel via the non-meme content. Took me a while to warm to the meme stuff!
Redoxoful it is rather simple. I used to be mystified that my teacher could do this years ago when I was learning at first but the longer you play instruments, the better you understand your instrument, and the more you really listen the easier it becomes. :)
I love dua lipa’s music I appreciate that her tracks have a summery vibe without fully leaning in to the stereotypical summer sound- The problem is when the radio won’t stop playing the damn song every 5 minutes
As someone who is learning self teaching themselves music theory, your breakdowns recently have been clarifying. It's definitely because you're applying it in real time and with prevalent music! Thank you! Truly!
@@aixide Honestly wikipedia, I think that watching a video about music and then using wikipedia to understand whatever didn't make sense is useful. If you don't understand something you're better off moving to a different page on wikipedia and then working your way through them. So if you don't understand dorian scales for example you could google it. Then you can learn about modes and if you don't understand them you could move back to scales. If there is something you completely don't understand you could google youtube videos as things are often explained far more simply. As soon as you get a rough idea of how something works you can head back to wikipedia. You'll find yourself moving from idea to idea really quickly. The only disadvantage of this system is that you don't get musical examples of the concept.
@@aixide there are many awsome channels like 8bit theory 12 tone Rick beato and Adam neely you might want to check them out! And if you do check them outstart with 8bit theory he has a playlist of videos where he is explaining the basics in short vids!
It's difficult to play truly random stuff with "no purpose" if you have practiced this stuff a lot. Also, a good musician can make pretty much anything sound good.
Charles, as if it’s common knowledge: the 4 of this E minor 11 chord could clash but since its just a passing tone it’s ok Also Charles: *does a 2 min explanation of relative minor*
Okay I love all your comments about this song but you didn’t say anything or get to the disco part where it drops and it’s like 20 seconds and a feel good awesome disco style part.
Happen till like the middle party of the note, I think he accidentally picked a pretty dang good sequence of notes. Course you could do work to make it make more sense, but I actually think it has good potential
This comment section is amazing, it’s a mixture of musicians of all levels and people who don’t know anything about music, it’s really amazing to see. Also if you have no clue about music, please keep watching music theory. It’s a lot of information to take in but it can really be fun once you start to understand it!
@@realizacjadzwieku-kacperda8137 it's definitely NOT a basic skill, and it requires quite a lot of practice to get the chords in the same key. People with perfect pitch will have it much easier to get the key right tho
@@deathtrap5556 I mean...ear training is a pretty introductory thing they teach you in music school. Being able to determine the color of a chord (with all the extensions and all that) is a skill to be sure, but lots and lots of people have done the work to master it, and with some styles of music, it’s absolutely necessary
@@MostLikelyMortal ear training doesn't help with charlie puth is doing. While it is indeed part of one of the basics taught, for people who don't have a knack for it have a difficult time getting it right. Charlie Puth's perfect pitch means he doesn't even have to press any other key get every single note correct. To get to his level of musical ear through only learning requires lot of practice and is generally not focused on.
@@abiyyuharahap overplayed. usually pop song getting old very fast, so while people still play the song because they just recently heard it, you already move on from the song and "forced" to heard it again, and again, and making you hate the song.
I think everyone loves the fact that Charles just expresses however he wants without worrying too much. This is why he's such a great RU-vidr and even teacher. His way of being is just amazing, and how he explains music theory is just outstanding!!!
When you began to talk about the relative minor, I considered skipping ahead, as I already understand the fundamentals of music theory. But your ability to explain even the simplest of musical concepts in a way that is still engaging and exciting is the best I've seen, probably ever. You're a legend, Charles. now talk about vulfpeck
I think this is the first time I've seen an "OK Boomer" comment be the minority. Or even have 0 likes. I don't know who exactly I'm proud of, but I'm proud of some party involved here.
I don’t particularly like modern music but I love Dua. She has some great songs and as a bass player, I appreciate the instruments role in her songs especially this one. It got me moving in the 1st 5 seconds. Amazing song!
I don’t know music theory but I love that bridge when the melody of the chorus doesn’t change but the Chords progression take another turn, it so Good and I wish I knew what’s happening there.
@@seanmarciniak744 The thing is once you actually show up in the music industry you realize you're never gonna be anywhere near the best, and genuinely there is no such thing. My dad is a studio tech in Nashville and he quit "being a guitar player" when he realized there are homeless people on the street there who could kick anyone's ass at [insert any instrument here]. Music is just about being siked by what everyone around you is doing, and throwing your own voice in there sometimes
BRO LITERALLY EVERYTHING YOUVE SAID ABOUT THIS SONG IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT. So stoked you did this song. From “not liking pop music” to breaking down the song I agree with it all
As a "jazz elitist" myself, I wholeheartedly agree. Maybe repeated views of a certain Polish teenage girl covering the tune with her bass helped me a bit to realize how good it is. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XdBR-SrP6uU.html
Switched on Pop is a podcast that is also from “recovering jazz elitists” who break down pop. If anyone in the comments wants more of this listen to it!
Damn. Homeboy came off so humble in the intro and within 10 mins demonstrates a boat load of deep and instant knowledge of music theory. Love this 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
The reason styles like this often use chords that clash is because they’re throwing back to older house and jungle, where people used keyboards with ‘Chord Memory’, you’d hold a chord down and save it, then it would just transpose the chord to whichever key you pressed. It paid no regard to key though, it just moved the same intervals up and down to whatever root note you pressed.
Finally someone said some thing about house legacy. Those 2 chords FOR ME are actually references. And one of them is Maceo Plex’s “For your love” (Stevie Wonder sample) anyway. Those chords and the cadence of those, the producer most likely winked to older house heads!
hey! really love these more educative videos you do. as a small note, i feel it would help quite a bit if i could see a transcription of the chord changes you discuss as you play them, so that i can pause the video and work everything out at my own pace.
I love how anytime he ever gives the tiniest thing that he would do different, or that is negative he immediately follows with "THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT ITS FINE GREAT LOVE IT AMAZING FOR WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO DO"
So funny how in the last video when he said he was going to be complementing a pop song I thought exactly about this bad boy. The baaaasssss though, the intro just already does it for me!! 😭
As a recovering Lindy Hop dance elitist, I love watching other recovering art elitists share their journeys 😂 love these videos just as much as the rants!
Once you realize Pop has its purpose, it’s not a far leap to then getting the intentional simplicity/ opportunity forgone in the repetitious lack of a classical bridge
As a sort of recovering jazz elitist myself, this actually opened my eyes into mainstream music more and made me actually listen to these songs you've reviewed so far! Thanks dude!
As a “play by ear” musician, I learn more about music theory from these videos than I did in my college music theory class (that I got a D in) - keep making them!
Love the focus on music theory in these videos - it’s why I watch. Thanks for using pop songs for education! Breaking them down for how they’re written and why they’re written that way is great content for aspiring songwriters and producers.
I'm sure you've said this in many of your other videos, but it's so comforting to hear a Jazz musician say that it's ok to enjoy an otherwise well crafted song just even if it fits more in the "mainstream pop" genre. Even though I'm not much of a musician, I too have been inherently dismissive of mainstream pop music for a number of years, even if sometimes it's just fun. Always work towards the person you want to be, even though it's hard--good luck friend and thanks for the great video!
Will Smith (Seeing the sky): “Ah haha! Ah that’s hot! That’s haught!” Charles (Hearing the lick): “Oooh.. That’s nice! Ah, yeah yeah yeah! That’s nice!”
I love how in the same video, he’ll casually touch on which upper extensions work melodically over which 7th chords or chord functions, but then feel the need to take the time to break down a rudimentary concept like relative minors 😅 In earnest though, I’m absolutely loving this series. I’ve been getting into so much more pop music in the past year or so, because there’s value in a lot of it if you take the time to listen out for it. They’re earworms for a reason. And I find it really educational listening to someone with a much more developed ear (and theoretical knowledge) than I have dissect such tunes to find what makes them work (or not work).
Literally as he was explaining relative major and minor, I was internally screaming because I actually understood what he was talking about before he explained what they were!!!
Honestly love the direction you are taking, in the same way a lot of mainstream music has become repetitive, there is so much talent within there for awesome licks and simply producing feel good music. Seems as though people with expert level music knowledge are so quick to dismiss that music purely for being mainstream so well done to you mate, a role model for others
This song sounds so much like the supporting music that they’d play behind the jump cuts of scenes from coming attractions they’d show before a movie... in the 90’s.
@@CharlesCornellStudios Hi! I'd love a video critiquing clips of small gigs in bars and such, especially big band style, or those with a soloist and a few rhythm insruments, i.e. sax, bass, trapset etc.
@12:02 This is a dance track trick with dynamics. When the listener gets into the rhythm of the track through most of the song, when the break loses the beat, it still goes on in the head of the listener. You can see it on the dance floor, especially if the song has the kicks going, the dancers will still be moving right along to the tune and seemlessly groove right when the rest of the song syncs back in after the break is over. Mr. Cornell you should consider doing a video on dynamics because it is a very simple concept and it is ubiquitous in popular music but most people won’t know about it.
Yeah, but not everyone is so talented to follow the beat. That's why you'll see dancers suddenly draw in, they're not sure of the beat and don't want to stick out as not following. When "the rest of the song syncs back in," it really kicks in, just to make sure to catch the flailers. Is that what you mean by dynamics?
i remember listening to that for the first time, putting in my headphones and just being swept away in his music. masterpiece is almost an understatement.
I would love that, but for a completely different reason: because _I don't get it._ To me, it sounds soulless, more like a collection of musical flexes than a song. And I really want to know what I'm missing and, more importantly, how people who love it experience it (subjectively).
Bud, the song works because it introduces a generation to sounds that my generation knew worked. Bass that grooved, chords that provided a memorable texture and mostly because this format got people on the dance floor. Essentially disco-funk but played by new kids. Somewhere Bernard is smiling.
I love it that he goes from extolling the virtues of a funky bass line - let alone that it's supercool Dua Lipa's bass line! - to talking about 'relative minor' theory - you have to love his unbridled enthusiasm for (apparently) all things musical!
based on what I've heard starting 3:45, I request a smooth jazz cover of Don't Start Now - playing those progressions like that on the piano just sounds so good!
I like your channel because I grew up playing the piano without any real instruction and just got an ear for it. I can play almost anything I hear on the spot but I have no idea about 9ths and 10ths and whatnot. But now I can follow along and match my instincts to terminology at my leisure thanks to you. Thanks man.
I believe that I am completely tone deaf, and sometimes when you show the difference in melody I don’t hear it at all, BUT MAN it is soooo entertaining to watch you talk so passionately about music! And I just loove how constructive and objective you are! Great job!
The fact that you make educational videos like these for people starting to get familiar with music theory is awesome! Can we see an advanced analysis of one your personal favorite tunes??
This song has an awesome breakdown bridge after the second chorus so I don't know why you complained about there not being something different. That breakdown is then added to the final chorus to make it even more amazing.
Thanks for your explanation of the "minor 3rd thing," Charles. It explains why my feeble transcriptions of songs I'm trying to learn are often different (by three half-steps) than the chords others seem to be hearing. I'm an old dog learning a new trick (playing guitar with my paws) and you're helping me A LOT!