Not just in jazz/popular music- in Baroque and Renaissance music you can find the “Lament” bassline, which is a form of the descending bassline line cliche; a mostly chromatic descending baseline with different chords harmonized above it. My favorite example would be the air “When I Am Laid In Earth” or “Dido’s Lament” from Henry Purcell’s opera, Dido and Aeneas! Really cool lament bassline with very interesting harmonization choices.
Why did you delete your other videos, like How to play Bossa Nova in 1 minute, How play Latin in 40 seconds, How to play Funk in 1 minute, etc and squabbling. I always loved those videos, and that's mainly why I joined this channel. Can you please upload them back
I love how simple these pianists always make this look, and then I go dust off my piano, sit down for 30 minutes pressing random keys trying to make something remotely similar to what their doing, get fustrated at how bad it sounds, and then put it down until the next time a random TH-cam short inspires my miserable ass to try again for another 30 minutes
@@TheUnderscore_ Right, they seem to abuse the IV-V-iii-vi and then just add secondary dominants for variety. I still love it, but it is quite repetitive
@@monkeymoose4877 My older sister made a joke about it a while ago saying that it makes sense for Japan to do something like get the most effective procedure and do it over and over again.
Something I found interesting is that if you use a line cliché, or lower the root note of a diminished seventh chord, you get a dominant chord. I use diminished sevenths this way a lot to build perfect cadences. There’s my two cents.
I smash my head against a keyboard until I find a good sound and then I recreate it and work off of it until I give up and scrap it. Sometimes it works. I think. I can’t rember
I'm probably one of the few who understands what you're talking about, and, just to amplify & clarify, flatting *any* note in a Dim7 chord yields a Dom7. Guitar players (me) learn that fact because a certain dim7 grip can produce four dominant seventh chords out of the diminished seventh fingering, each a flatting of a single note in the chord.
What i like about these videos is that as a self taught beginner in music, these videos always are like "remember that one thing you did you were never able to replicate? Thats what it was"
YES!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE CHROMATIC DESCENT FROM THE ROOT OF THE vi YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dude, you get it. Lines cliche + secondary dominants + mario cadencemario cadence + throw in a iv minor == most goated harmonic vocabulary
Oh my gosh, I've HEARD the line cliche before and it was so beautiful and I wanted to replicate it SO badly but I didn't know what it was called and it was driving me CRAZY but thanks to you, I FINALLY know what it's called and how to play it and oh my goodness, thank you so much for this video!!!
This is what plays at the end of a story where it flashes the character's experiences so far, and the ends with them walking into the sunset. It's that beautiful.
Gonna be honest, every time I see one of your uploads I forget why I subscribed (I don't play piano). Then by the end my jaw is on the floor from the melodies you construct and I am very glad that I subscribed
0:09 immediately reminded me of smb underwater theme (or was it the smb2 title screen i was thinking about? theyre basically the same song so it doesnt really matter i guess lol)
Listening to the section @ 0:47... The progression, and how you highlighted the minor 4 chord... Reminds me of the Knuckles version of Mirage Saloon Zone in Sonic Mania. :)
this video is an absolute life saver; i have heard this kind of chord progression so many times in so many different songs and i have tried so hard to find some kind of musical term for it thank you
i literally started the last year with a literally 120$ yamaha keyboard and i could probably do this, is not about being that "talented child". I personally hate the term "talented " because it nullyfies the absolute work of the person. What i recommend you is to study theory like crazy and play around with every single New concept that you can learn, like if you learn how to do a chord, stick to a scale that has that chord and play, it all is just about learning and playing, and obviously, liking it.
@@mrbencker1074 really good points mate. an important skill is 'learning how to learn' which you seem to have. A lot of people who aren't good at learning yet will mistake that for innate gifts
If I’m trying to teach someone guitar that’s the first concept I try to get out of their head. I think mostly everyone that hasn’t tried it believes that creating music comes from some innate talented place, and having some sort of natural skill or aptitude can definitely help, but in my experience it’s about 95% muscle memory, repetition, theory, exposure to music you want to emulate, jamming experience, composition experience, and overall just a willingness to put in the necessary time and effort to get good at something you want to get good at. I tell everyone I failed out of lessons as a kid and ignored music for almost the first two decades of my life and I made it work, so you can too
I am composer so i can agree that this chords are really usefull (actually most in classical music). And try play this kind of chord progresion in minor, it sounds beautifull.
As someone who knows nothing about music theory or even all the notes, casually playing the piano I’ve learnt to improvise based on absorbing different compositions. I know that a certain chord will go well together, so I group those notes to create a harmonious melody…
Just using your ear and raw sense of music is often better than trying really hard to think about theory, as long as you know what chords look like and have inspiration from good music you can usually find some fire progressions.
I already knew this. It's uncanny... every time a lesson says "cheesy" or "cliché", that seems to happen. Weirdest f'n coincidence ever. I can't explain it...
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See, I don't play piano, but this man makes me want to spend every day practicing it
Same
I do and have been for three whole years and still arnt half of what this guy is.
@@choose_8731 i play saxophone but this guy makes me consider piano lol
@@Garouriel I play sax too! And I’ve been trying to learn piano on a 2 octave midi keyboard.
@@thecenterist lool same
Not just in jazz/popular music- in Baroque and Renaissance music you can find the “Lament” bassline, which is a form of the descending bassline line cliche; a mostly chromatic descending baseline with different chords harmonized above it. My favorite example would be the air “When I Am Laid In Earth” or “Dido’s Lament” from Henry Purcell’s opera, Dido and Aeneas! Really cool lament bassline with very interesting harmonization choices.
OH MY GOD, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS EXACT VIDEO BUT DIDNT KNOW THE NAME OF THE CHORD PROGRESSION I LOVE YOU
my man just invented jazz
OMG THIS SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE THE one OST THE RESEMBLANCE IS UNCANNY
You taught me 5 years of piano in one minute
Wowwww! This chords sounds sooo amazing! Thank You for your nice video and your contribution! Kind regards from Luxembourg, Marc
this kind of sounds like Be Our Guest especially when he starts the right hand improvisation
That one Sega soundfont instrument being used as the melody, is kinda nice
That’s how the bass player loses his job
I want the full ver of this
My god how did you become this good man
Finally someone that obsessed over the minor 4
Why did you delete your other videos, like How to play Bossa Nova in 1 minute, How play Latin in 40 seconds, How to play Funk in 1 minute, etc and squabbling. I always loved those videos, and that's mainly why I joined this channel. Can you please upload them back
everyone wants to play, everyone wants, but not everyone puts in the work :)
this is magic
Nunca Mais Te Machucar by Só Pra Contrariar uses this progression on its main riff
Sounds likes something straight out of Mario
This sounds like Casino Paradise from Sonic Advance 1
If only I listened to my mom and actually practiced at a young age, I'd be half as talented as you TT
mannnn ive always done this when improvising and didnt this was a real thing lol
We have gone to the state of madness where we call inanimate and things we are unable to see pretty
SO GOOD
I love how simple these pianists always make this look, and then I go dust off my piano, sit down for 30 minutes pressing random keys trying to make something remotely similar to what their doing, get fustrated at how bad it sounds, and then put it down until the next time a random TH-cam short inspires my miserable ass to try again for another 30 minutes
To be honest, I didn't conpletely understand this but the song is pretty cool :)
Snipperclips energy
I don’t know anything about music theory but it sounds nice 🙈
make a song out of this please I love this.
playing the piano for 10 years now. seeing stuff like this makes me feel like a complete idiot.
Bro just hit 100k
Strawberry Fields Forever👀
I love it. I’m going to add it to my waltz.
thank you very much for the information. also, how coincidental that this is the 45th comments
After every one of your videos I look at my piano and say "See?! Why can't we be like THEM?!"
You are in a toxic relationship
Your piano knows about the synth. You'll need to have a talk.
My piano be like: I feel like we need to break up *breaks*
@@madster01 lol
@embrr2xThat is literly me😭😭, just look at my piano then praying🤌🏻
This feels exactly like Japanese video game music. Absolutely love it
super mario bros underwater theme!!
tbh I thought it was; he just sampled it
Just Japanese pop music in general tbf. It's very copy-paste for a lot of their chord progressions.
@@TheUnderscore_ Right, they seem to abuse the IV-V-iii-vi and then just add secondary dominants for variety. I still love it, but it is quite repetitive
@@monkeymoose4877 My older sister made a joke about it a while ago saying that it makes sense for Japan to do something like get the most effective procedure and do it over and over again.
0:13 "Am I the only one who remembered the soundtrack of the water levels from the old Super Mario games?"
Nope ✊🥺
❤
i really love your videos, man. wish i had someone like you to watch back in middle school, might not have quit playing if that was the case lol.
It's never too late man! Do the things you love
Something I found interesting is that if you use a line cliché, or lower the root note of a diminished seventh chord, you get a dominant chord. I use diminished sevenths this way a lot to build perfect cadences.
There’s my two cents.
Galaxy brain
I smash my head against a keyboard until I find a good sound and then I recreate it and work off of it until I give up and scrap it. Sometimes it works. I think. I can’t rember
I'm probably one of the few who understands what you're talking about, and, just to amplify & clarify, flatting *any* note in a Dim7 chord yields a Dom7.
Guitar players (me) learn that fact because a certain dim7 grip can produce four dominant seventh chords out of the diminished seventh fingering, each a flatting of a single note in the chord.
Google Barry Harris
🪙🪙
What i like about these videos is that as a self taught beginner in music, these videos always are like "remember that one thing you did you were never able to replicate? Thats what it was"
Ikr soo true
YES!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE CHROMATIC DESCENT FROM THE ROOT OF THE vi YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, you get it. Lines cliche + secondary dominants + mario cadencemario cadence + throw in a iv minor == most goated harmonic vocabulary
Piano noob here, can you explain what he's doing?
@@craxelle He's playing piano.
@@E0O2X314FT omg so clever
Oh my gosh, I've HEARD the line cliche before and it was so beautiful and I wanted to replicate it SO badly but I didn't know what it was called and it was driving me CRAZY but thanks to you, I FINALLY know what it's called and how to play it and oh my goodness, thank you so much for this video!!!
Wow, this definitely sounds like something I'd hear from super mario
It reminds the underwater theme at the beginning
true
@@santalfredos17 same
@@santalfredos17 it reminded me of the castle theme, actually
@@mariam8275 for me smbu credits
0:08 to 0:19 is literally the 2nd part of the underwater theme of Super Mario Bros 😭
I am not alone !!! We have the same ear my guy
Also Eels' That look you give that guy and Rochard Cocciante "Coup de soleil" and so many more !
After 12 years of piano playing experience and as a pianist myself, I love this method. It helps every time and is totally worth practicing.
This is what plays at the end of a story where it flashes the character's experiences so far, and the ends with them walking into the sunset. It's that beautiful.
Gonna be honest, every time I see one of your uploads I forget why I subscribed (I don't play piano). Then by the end my jaw is on the floor from the melodies you construct and I am very glad that I subscribed
0:09 immediately reminded me of smb underwater theme (or was it the smb2 title screen i was thinking about? theyre basically the same song so it doesnt really matter i guess lol)
Alternate title: How to save princess peach
Sounds just like the underwater theme from super mario bros
Anytime a line cliche is added somewhere in a song, it just feels more soulful.
Listening to the section @ 0:47... The progression, and how you highlighted the minor 4 chord... Reminds me of the Knuckles version of Mirage Saloon Zone in Sonic Mania. :)
this video is an absolute life saver; i have heard this kind of chord progression so many times in so many different songs and i have tried so hard to find some kind of musical term for it
thank you
Your solo is just beautiful 😎
Man, I sure am glad I decided to waste my life doing absolutely nothing instead of becoming awesome at piano like this
If only I listened to my mom and actually practiced at a young age, I'd be half as talented as you😭
If you practised the last 20yrs you would be as good now, but if you practise the next 20yrs you can be as good one day too
i literally started the last year with a literally 120$ yamaha keyboard and i could probably do this, is not about being that "talented child". I personally hate the term "talented " because it nullyfies the absolute work of the person. What i recommend you is to study theory like crazy and play around with every single New concept that you can learn, like if you learn how to do a chord, stick to a scale that has that chord and play, it all is just about learning and playing, and obviously, liking it.
@@mrbencker1074 really good points mate. an important skill is 'learning how to learn' which you seem to have. A lot of people who aren't good at learning yet will mistake that for innate gifts
If I’m trying to teach someone guitar that’s the first concept I try to get out of their head. I think mostly everyone that hasn’t tried it believes that creating music comes from some innate talented place, and having some sort of natural skill or aptitude can definitely help, but in my experience it’s about 95% muscle memory, repetition, theory, exposure to music you want to emulate, jamming experience, composition experience, and overall just a willingness to put in the necessary time and effort to get good at something you want to get good at.
I tell everyone I failed out of lessons as a kid and ignored music for almost the first two decades of my life and I made it work, so you can too
“That’s fine” *shakes finger violently*
I’m getting mixed messages, and I’m also getting nervous
You could also name this video "how to write an anime opening". Swear, it all comes down to chromatic movement
The amount of confused joy I received from this is unreal
It's so cliche and yet so tasty! ANGERRRRRRR! But nice. :)
0:11 this sound. Sounded normal but..
MARIO COMES
It's 6:30 AM and I wake up with this instrument part. Then it's nice.
🤠✌🏻You Are A Great Pianist My Friend🤠✌🏻
🤠✌🏻Congratulations🤠✌🏻
I am composer so i can agree that this chords are really usefull (actually most in classical music). And try play this kind of chord progresion in minor, it sounds beautifull.
Having played a lot of Mario as a child, this gives me an overwhelming sense of nostalgia.
Ok it's just mario party after 0:30
Also Omori theme cause he hit the V7/ii then ii and eventually the borrowed iv
Alternative title:
How to write Pokemon music
I love Pokemon music btw
This makes me want to put all my energy into creating a Pilotwings⁶⁴-esque game and get you to do the soundtrack.
Would be incredible
That’d be insane! Throwback haha
Sometimes I just need a tutorial like this, enough with the theory show me how these songs are actually composed lol
This music has such Pokemon Vibes! (Espacially Pokemon Diamond and Pearl!)
really useful stuff for the music illiterate pianist such as myself. i do everything by heart so having a basis on a tip like this helps a lot
Didn't hear El Lick, thumbs down ;)
The first part sounds just like the underwater music in Super Mario
As someone who knows nothing about music theory or even all the notes, casually playing the piano I’ve learnt to improvise based on absorbing different compositions. I know that a certain chord will go well together, so I group those notes to create a harmonious melody…
Just using your ear and raw sense of music is often better than trying really hard to think about theory, as long as you know what chords look like and have inspiration from good music you can usually find some fire progressions.
@@landofbol1098that’s what I do for every chord, all ear:)
I keep coming back to this video to appreciate how satisfying the melody you wrote is. It's just so good. I really want to analyze this
Play on 1.25 speed, and you got an instant Sonic game song
it sounded like the super mario bros underwater theme for a moment
I already knew this. It's uncanny... every time a lesson says "cheesy" or "cliché", that seems to happen. Weirdest f'n coincidence ever. I can't explain it...
This sounds like the underwater theme from Mario lol
Ever since I’ve touched the keyboard I’ve been addicted to playing this progression in every scale I’ve learned lol
Any one else getting super Mario vibes?!?!?!😮
Ngl the first few seconds reminded me of sonic.exe
Why do I feel like I just played a level from a 3d mario game
the first song i thought of when hearing it was the mario land theme :)
I was wondering why this sounded so fire and then realised it was a hello foe video
Sounds like a Super Mario Brothers theme.
this is definitely my favorite chord progression especially in strawberry fields
I'm literally on my 5th piano lesson, and this guy is making me jealous.
The Beatles - Strawberry fields forever 🤔
that ending really just 😩👌
I need a full version of this
Its literally “For once in my life”
This sounded like a chaves(el chavo) song
Bro I NEED entire version of that song
Should be illegal to be this good at something
0:12 Reminds me of pluto projector
Do some tutorial man, easy to watch hard to do
Someone get this man 100k plz
00:19 was so powerful to me
Discovered I'm a master of cheese, but not nearly as cheesy as this man
I was not expecting this to be such a jam. Wow, amazing job, good sir.
piano is just a giant code where if you press the right notes it unlocks different songs if you think about it🤔