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Brilliant!

Playing those chords on the electric piano reveals that Bartok was a great jazz musician, way ahead of his time.

@1:36 every time I see an A#/Bb reference I think of the line from the Goonies during the organ playing scene lol Andie: "I can't tell if it's an A-sharp or a B-flat!" Mickie: "If you get the wrong note, we'll all be flat."

Chewy Chordal Goodness™ Good stuff as always, Keith!!!

That piano is Chick Corea Elektric Band covering Bartok

Works either way

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Hearing the scherzo of the 2nd quartet changed my musical world at 12 y/o

You had me at "chewy chordal goodness." Great harmony lesson!

I think you're right. The cycle of 5ths is usually shown backwards.

Chewy chordal goodness is right.

Really enjoying the Bartok stuff! The 2nd quartet includes one of my all time favorite passages in the 1st movement ("Moderato") starting around the 3:20 mark and ending at 3:44. Really love that passage and can remember the feeling I got first listening to it a couple decades ago.

Please keep showing us all of these amazing beautiful dissonant chords! Wow. I’m learning so much from you. I’m obsessed with crunchy harmony haha.

I've thought a lot about so-called quartal and quintal harmony, but never from a twelve-tone angle. Maybe because any stack of seven or fewer fourths contains notes from a diatonic scale (several, if you stick to less than seven notes). I've got some interesting results exploring voice leading between quartal chords and closely-related ones arrived at by moving one voice a semitone in either direction. I cataloged all these possibilities. The smaller stacks can work like a pivot or a bridge to a surprising number of harmonic places, especially if they're placed over a bass not found in the stack of fourths. Consider a four-note stack like B E A D It can also be stacked in fifths: D A E B It can be understood as a 7sus4 chord: E A B D In its most compact form it's Forte set class 4-23 having the prime form 0257. Add one more fourth to the stack and you get a pentatonic scale. Et cetera. Really quite fascinating if you ask me. Yet as I said, I haven't thought much about twelve-tone matters involving fourths. Odd, since these chords can be voiced in ways that don't imply tonality as strongly as triads do.

Quartel sextads. Your videos remind me of my music theory classes back in the nineties. Maybe a Bulgarian rhythm video in the future?! Time signature of the week lol

Loving the Bartok stuff!!

You're a big fan of Bartok! :D May I make some chord of the week suggestions?

Hello! Really love this series Keith. Do keep it up! Anyhow, watching this video I couldn't help but to ask if one could also think of this chord as being F7+11, derived from Lydian Dominant, fourth mode of the melodic minor. It would have root F, third A, natural seventh Eb, the ninth G and sharp eleventh B. In my head, and the way the chord is voiced, that seems to make a bit more sense, but perhaps I'm mistaken. I'd love to know what you think about this! Best regards, Lamberilio

I am pretty sure this is the exact same chord that is known from a very cult/cliche sound effect commonly associated with horror/ thriller jumpscare/dark realisation similar to 'da Da DAAAH' or the screaming violins in jaws and the Psycho shower scene from some similar very fameous classic horror/thriller back from the golden days like the 50s or 60s perhaps. If you dont know which sound effect i am talking about then try the following visualisation, istead of playing it spaceous, mysterious ambiguous, aetherly and ambient and vert string pad like, instead first imagine the chord being played broken up from the bottom to top like how you did at 4:00. Now imagine it being done by something like horns and wind instrument (maybe a full orchestra or a bigband) and with a subito forte or marcato on each note followed by a crescendo after the full chord is revealed that escalates untill thevwhole chord is literally shoyting and shaking whereafter it instantly cuts off to silence completely. I might be wrong but it definitely reminds me of it alot. It could also be Major 7ths instead of minors perhaps🤔

Subbed! Awesome video

The “Green Chord” from Wicked is also the exact same chord as the 5th bar from the “Main Title” in Wizard of Oz. Except “Main Title” has a flat 7th (F) above the bass G.

Sir, You look like Alex Webster (bass player) from Cannibal Corpse, also similar speech and voice! Just shorter hair! Relatives?

Enjoy your breakdowns and insights muchly, Keith. Glad to be a new subscriber. Ditto on Dream Theater. ♪♫♪

Sounds like Funnels by Alan Holdsworth

Sounds like Funnels by Alan Holdsworth

it sounds like a pile of minor seventh chords stacked together.

GREAT LESSON! I enjoyed it and I'm already subscribed to your channel. But one thing I learned during my Orchestration lessons from a long time ago, is that such chords are gems with a self value...... BUT it's in the capacity, audacity, sensibility - to call it somehow - of resolving it in a pleasant way to the ear of the listeners. That's the reason why I don't like Debussy's so much. I can realise that the guy was a genius, but for my personal taste it's like his music have more tensions as releases. But, again, it's a matter of taste.

the Chord Of The Week series is so good. thank you

Hey there, are you able to share the sound library you used? I saw vienna, I dont know if thats all you used though. Its really well written by the way, I would love to be so good one day!

I think about these more as quintal/quartal clusters on a descending F to C# where he is gradually condensing the cluster from 5th's to 4th's. I wonder if he was actually thinking about what the chords technically are or if he wrote it more just on the intervals and feel.. idk maybe both, the guy is ridiculous. He is a master of using quartal/quintal harmony and leans heavily on it in much of his writing. You should absolutely watch the other Ghibli movies if you haven't yet. Hisaishi's music is so unique and creative - IMO he rivals John Williams as one of the greatest film composers of all time.

Quintal/Quartal chords that get more quintal until the 4th one which is completely quartal.

Great vid as always Keith. I would add that the perceived dissonance is also from the motion between chords. The first 2 chords can be thought of in the same key, the 3rd chord introduces the Bb which is new to the key, but not altogether abrasive. It's that last chord with the new F# and C# that catches me off guard and makes it feel more off-putting than the previous 3, despite being the same chord sonority.

Keith, I love your videos. I'm learning a lot about chord structure from you. Keep up the fantastic work!

Lovely

Keith sometime could you do a breakdown of the strange chord and melody in the transition scene around 18:26 in Apocolypse Now? Its haunting and I dont understand it! th-cam.com/video/uqOW0jAMBhg/w-d-xo.html

So disappointed with the harmonisation used in the film. 😭

love that chord!

great video usually don’t enjoy watching stuff like this but you’ve got a lovely energy and i can tell we are hearing the same thing !

With that chord they are going for the King Crimson Discipline sound - love these videos

I love when a composer is able to see creatively simple chords such as these but he renews them with amazing voicings

…”a way to introduce dissonance into consonance” I like that, because that is what is all about when you start to spread out notes from a simple, 5, 6 or 7 note chord. Love your videos 😊

Love your videos dude! 🤙

Love this movie! I've noticed that the first chord is a major Kenny Barron voicing haha.

Those minor ninth intervals adds something special otherworldly. Btw, I got one for you if you run out of ideas :) The chords for the Godfather part II featured in the beginning of this video th-cam.com/video/QvTII8ZFSjI/w-d-xo.html

Beautiful explanation - I enjoyed (if that’s the right word) how you struggled to describe the feel of the last chord: not grounded like the previous chords, but… what? What’s the opposite of grounded? Ethereal perhaps? Or spiritual. If you listen to the chords knowing that the composer was writing for a film called Spirited Away, suddenly the inversions and high root notes make sense, as they float away from musical terra firma, pulling us upward. Thanks for your vid - loved it.

Thank you for these videos. I learn something when I watch them…

Movie is amazing. Thanks for this!

Absolutely beautiful chords on the keyboard! All the ways you have shown these in this instruction are so nice to hear. "Beautiful and sparkling" is such a great way to describe them too!

I too was introduced to this wonderful film through my daughter, and was equally inteigued by the music. It almost felt like the intro to the Ocarina of Time video game. One of the most compelling anime films and scores!

One of my favorite scores ever!