Jamiroquai Virtual Insanity Jazz analysis.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- In todays video we look at the uncanny similarities between Virtual Insanity
and
1) The Bee Gees "Stayin alive,"
2) Bill Withers Just the 2 of Us,
3) Fly me to the moon
4)and Stevie Wonders " Is'nt she lovely"
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It's super super satisfying to see a short video where the person gets to the point
Unlike the American TH-cams
I just discovered 4 of my favourite songs are basically the same :D ahaha
Jajaja
@@pamelamontecino3667 Lmao
Me too hahahah
Same
Same hah
This one is a great breakdown. Jamiroquai is a great band, but they are heavily inspired by funk music. To musicians, many of these songs use the same chords and progressions so I wouldn't say they consciously copied but it is a fresh take on the motifs of these songs. From a music theory perspective, its just telling us why those songs work and sound the way that they do.
Well said
100% agree
Stevie wonder meets the bee gees is probs how you'd best provide a comp for Jamiroquai, so that's super rad!!
so this tells us, that great and slightly similar songs can be built on the same chord progression, thats great
I just started listening to their music and now you're doing this analysis. This is perfect
Same!
Dig deep. Lots of classics
Vids like this make me so incredibly envious of young musicians and the information they have at their disposal.
Great work brother. Months ago I spent 3 class periods with my music theory class on this tune and my own analysis of it. So glad to hear your thoughts on this wonderful tune. Never noticed the obvious melodic similarities to Stayin' Alive! I focused only on the chords because it's all circle of 5ths stuff. Love the modal interchange (intro/outro) and use of the Augmented Dominant too.
Virtual Insanity also has a really interesting 7-bar phrase, unlike the normal 8-bar phrases we expect!
Actually the band Pomplamoose does a pretty cool mashup between Virtual Insanity and Stayin Alive.
The algorithm took me here, and it’s wonderful. I hope you’re going to do some other harmonic analysis of songs unexpectedly jazz, it’s really amazing
I like how you freeze fried the videos to avoid copyright
Fantastic breakdown!!!
In his early albums, Jay Kay was always referring to Stevie Wonder and funk/jazz music as a main inspiration.
Jamiroquai the best in the world
My face for twenty plus years
This blew my mind! Amazing stuff! Currently my favorite channel on youtube.
Awesome analysis and teaching. One of the best on TH-cam. Jazz Duetts thank you
Brilliant breakdown analysis. I've often seen this in tunes BUT this is an excellent explanation.
this is one of the most educational videos I've ever seen .....and entertaining as well.
Now I know why I love certain songs, they have the same jazz seqence. Thank you for this video, it is very interesting 🤔
MG estate would love it to have found this : ) Joking aside, if you know about the 60s, and 70s jazz/funk/soul music, you realize that Jay Kay & Co. have a deep love for and understanding of this music, and that they have really studied the greats. Check out Cosmic Girl for example... Reminds me of The Gap Band's "Baba Baba Boogie". Maybe you can do a video about this Nick?
There's so many songs that use 4th based motion. especially in jazz
This is magically awsome, your analisys. I subscribed immediately and gonna follow your channel. Warmest greetings from St Pete, Russia.
great, just finished a video with a Russian song yesterday!
These amazing hidden clever musical connection are now revealed to the world, thanks to you JazzDuets. You're enhancing the access to musical wizdom. Cheers in minor Eb !
Those explain why Fly me to the moon, Just to two of us, stalyin' alive and Virtual Insanity are my favorite songs
wondered why I love all those songs
Good video! I love jamiroquai 💖
This is awesome! Very nice analysis and video!
You rock brother. Amazing channel
Have been looking forward to this!
Only thing missing is the roman numerals. Thanks for the analysis!
Really love the usage of the drum tracks!
Hi Nick, can you analize High Times and/or Too Young to Die from Jamiroquai? Are very interesting progretions, constant structures, quartal chords, etc.
YES
bocho999 my favorite song by them of all time
Mr. Moon Well if it’s Mr Moon who gives the sign, then that’s the sign that goes 🤷🏽♂️👌🏾
jamiroquai is spelt wrong at the beginning of the video :) anyway you're one of the best jazz teacher out there
I just know I LOOOVE this video so much...
Que grande y genial trabajo querido amigo! , una excelente idea para motivarnos a expandir el oido. Un abrazo
very nice chord progression, thanks for the video
lots of songs use this "2 of us groove" Everytime we would have a gig, our band would warm up the crowd (and our instruments) with variations of this progression and randomly cycle through all the different songs that extend from it. Eventually... maybe 30-45 minutes in, the vocalist would show up on stage and finally sing one of these songs.
Excellent, This is just brilliant. Thank you.
Bravissimo nick....wonderful...you are great...
Great analysis, would never have spotted the Isn’t She Lovely link..
Nice..
Inspiration for My music
beautiful analysis
These chords are so uncommon. I'm amazed and at the same time feeling disappointed that I'm not good at advance chords. But I'm eager to learn
Best Musical Explenation Channel !!!
I think the most interesting thing about Virtual Insanity is that the verse's chord progression is only 3.5 bars long (14 beats long). In the first verse it switches back and forth between 3.5 and 4 bars, but the second verse keeps the 3.5 bars structure.
you seem to be confused. You may wish to check out the pdf analysis
@@JazzDuets I'm 100% positive that the second verse is structured in phrases of 14 beats. I would notate it as 3 mesures of 4/4 and one of 2/4. I hope I made it clearer.
Well...
That explains why I love all these songs
Amazing video man!
Sir you are just amazing as ever !
Thanks for this video. Great stuff!! Cheers.
I always liked this song and never knew why, now I know!
I dont know a lot about music theory, but I do know that at least Pomplamoose made the same observation as you did in that it sounded like Stayin' Alive and made a mashup of it.
Impecable, como siempre..
Awesome! Thanks for this channel I've suscribed!
Thank you do this! Brilliant!
I was just thinking about analysing this song yesterday! 😂 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Next level musicology here. Ace.
No wonder this song got me hooked
Thank you for sharing 🎶🎶🎷✌🏽😎
0:35 it sounds like there is more in this chord than just #5. Maybe #9 too? RH? Ab (C#) D F# maybe?
high quality content as always
Awesome video! You earned a subscriber from me!
This is so cool, I had to grab my guitar and I definitely learned something today 👍🙏
Chorus is also the same as Bobby Caldwell's What You Won't Do for Love
What a great song that is!
Mad cool facts! Love stuff about chord progressions, you've earned a new sub, cheers :)
That's why the song feels so familiar...
Great video, thanks
Show how strong root movement is key to most everything.
Do you upload the covers that play for examples anywhere? They're wonderful on the ears. This analysis was very cool to see!
Actually this song is inspired by brazilian songwriter Djavan on his track "Samurai", which counts with a feat. by Stevie Wonder on the harmonica (CBS, 1982).
I know Samurai and have played it many times. I did not know what you say though. Love Djavan
It also sounds very similar to 'Persona 3 ost - Blues in Velvet Room'
Minor pentatonic is insanly common within melodies, especially since the scale fits over basicly any chord
Absolutely awesome 😄 How ever did you notice those similarities?😄🤔
30+ years transcribing tunes, I start to see patterns everywhere
@@JazzDuets They were really well known songs, but I think I make "seclude" myself into one song when transcribing. Awesome work anyway.
It's a favorite of mine, also some of the similar ones. Makes sense :)
Also a bit of Steely Dan
Phantastin! Thank you ...soooooo much!
Very nice! Thx!
By the way, it is Jamiroquai and not Jamiroquia cf. 0:04
80s strikes again! And I wondered why I like Jamiroquai so much..
80s ?? Jamiroquai is in the 90s... Bee Gees and others are from 70s and before..
No 80's at all in this video...
Stereotypes and Dunning Kruger stroke again...
@@garryiglesias4074 aw shit, you're right :(
magical...thanks
Guys we have to understand and accept the fact that you cannot reinvent the wheel, you can only put different tyres around it. So, music, as we know it, is in a way the same. Would you say that "sweet home chicago" is a copy of Blue Monk" just because they both use a 12 bar sequence of 3 chords (I-IV-V)? Or would you say that between "What I do for Love" and "Just the Two of Us", there is plagiarism? I, personally say no. They are different songs. Just accept them for what they are and let's comparing and scrutinise for the slightest similarities we can find. Just enjoy the music! As a professional musician, I hate the excessive copyright pressure that is deterring natural creativity. Anyway, this my opinion. I know that not every will agree and I would love to read what you think. :-) Take care all!
Lovely!
Good job, thank you !
very impressive
Is it me or has this song gotten more popular as of recently?
Love this. And it says a lot succinctly. :)
Amazing! Thank you!!
wow, this was incredible
Brilliant! Enjoyed this alot!
that outro omg
Brilliant
Great channel
The Harmony sounds a bit like Handel's Passacaglia.
0:50 the Benny Goodman version of Isn't She Lovely.
I fucking love this song😍
Impresionante
This wasn’t an analysis. This was just “look these songs really sound alike”
It smell a mashup potential.
En primera, desde el principio Steve wonder siempre fue una inspiración para Jay Kay en todos los sentidos.. Influencia en voz, música, acordes, estilo, etc. Él mismo lo dijo, y en segunda, yo antes de saber que Jay kay se inspiró en Steve, era obvio el sonido de virtual insanity muy parecido al estilo de algunas canciones de Steve, así que no es ninguna sorpresa si estás inmerso en el mundo del funk, soul, disco, jazz etc, porque sabrás que algún artista o banda contemporáneo se inspiró en un músico de los años 70'... Esto ya lo sabía 😒👍
The first chord to Virtual Insanity sounds more like a an Ebm7 rather than dominant, no?
Fantástico!
Brilliant!