No shit. Classical musicians actually inventing something new and actually making it sound good while Jazz musicians basically just put a bunch of chords together and end up making something that was already done by a classical musician. Who would have thought? 😒
There’s something which sounds surprisingly like a negative harmony-like progression in Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 6, E-flat minor, and in my view it can be used to describe a buildup of a wave, the rising of a force or power, or the ascent of something to some higher level before the reprise comes in. It’s fantastic!
Interesting chord progression you describe here. Of course, depending on the way you ask this question you could get a lot of different answers. Supposedly if you’re thinking of human constructs, John Cage’s As Slow As Possible would be the longest since it’s planned to take the most amount of time so far. But maybe the criteria is different, and you want to think “ longest chord progression in a song that one could actually here in a sitting,” or something like that. It might also have to be identifiable as a chord progression! How repetitive is it allowed to be? Sadly, I don’t know of many songs that have extremely long chord progressions of the top of my head. (With microtonality, you can create chord progressions that go on forever mathematically)
Hi I'm new and obsessed with this channel. I have a question out of curiosity: do you have perfect pitch? And what do u think about having it or not? Amazing vid, fantastic visual, explanation, funny (vids in general) , like dude there's everything. Anyway keep up the astounding work.
You know a lot about this. If there is 1 book, website or video that explains about scales, intervals and chords in a logical and understandable way, what would you advise? Or any other reader of this comment, please? I am not stupid, play classical piano for 50 years now (Chopin polonaises level), so I am familiair with the practice and some basic theory. But I always found any book I tried to read about music theory chaotic, illogical and contradictory so I never got it. Please help, anyone? What did it for you, where did you find the wholy grale that made your brain click into this Gear and did it?
Personally, I come more from the mathematical side of music theory, but I found it very helpful to play and study Slonimsky's 'Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns' and a specific book called 'Foundations of Diatonic Theory: A Mathematically Based Approach to Music Fundamentals' by Timothy Johnson. Additionally, there's a concept related to what is discussed in this video, which is that of 'Intervalic Cycles' (basically the repetition and concatenation of intervalic sequences). You might find that concept interesting.
Thank you for this very well made video... can you tell us what chopin piece this comes from? Also what do you think of etudes, op. 25: no. 11 in a minor? (Winter wind)
I'm no expert but I think he's referring specifically to 7th chords which sound very unstable and are looking to go somewhere. 7th chords always resolve to the 5th below them in that by going from a G7 chord you drop down to the C maj (the 5th below it) it resolves that tension and you feel a sense of resolution. This also has the effect of modulating to a new tonal center as C maj now feels like home base.
I mean I like your channel and your videos, but I really dislike how you have to name it "the epic progression" and include the, in my opinion, stupid term "super ultra hyper mega meta lydian" (as a concept its awesome, but I reeally dislike the term). Those terms are just buzzwords to make them sound cool, but they have no scientific foundation.
The foundation is in math, which is one better than being founded in science. It posits a pattern, of continuing the lydian scale upwards, and observes interesting properties of the resulting abstract object. The name resulted from someone letting themselves find amusement rather than being a smug, intolerable wet blanket.
