I like how you don’t have a full five minutes of intro like a lot of other music channels on TH-cam. You get right into the learning, it’s cool. Thanks for your content
Bro my teacher set us to look at this vid, usually bad ones, but you are amazing at explaining, no intro, no pauses, you get right to the point. Thanks man
Same here, maybe I had an idea, but I found out about sequence 8 yrs ago or so and has improved my songwriting as I can imagine where the tune should go. In fact using sibelius, I copy and paste a sequence of notes a lot of the time and move them up or down. Great vid, I love all your stuff, fantastic, the talented Mr Bennett!
Enjoy Slurm thank you ... yeah I really wanted to hit home that sequence occurs in almost all styles, that’s why I put Nirvana next to Greatest Showman 😉😉
this is (imho) part of the reason 'people tend to hate Jazz' (there's a Rick Beato video on this exact subject). I love jazz but some jazz songs tend to drone on with a solo/improv and there's little or no sequence. Thus you have nothing to latch onto to cling to the music. You just feel like you keep floating in this space with no ground or direction. For example there's a couple of Allen Holdsworth songs I really love; and Lounge Lizards do this too. There's a lick in the beginning that's really catchy and cool. But then it immediately goes into a chaotic solo and that lasts for 90% of the song. Only sometimes briefly returning to the lick at the very end to wrap things up. If find myself wanting to hear those riffs again and again and I'm let down. Thus a lot of their songs end up sounding very similar; just chaotic soloing. And the improv tends to be so intense and chaotic ( especially if very chromatic) at times that it begins to lose emotional impact as well. Then you're going in the direction of turning into white noise. If you throw everything into the pot you end up with nothing because it all sounds the same. Idk if that made any sense but it's how I see it. I still love lots of Jazz btw; and I love both Holdsworth and the Lounge Lizards
@@AlexR-ph8mn Sometimes it is the case that they are repeating things. But they are modifying the theme in ways that maybe only fairly well schooled ears would recognize. Inverting lines, moving them into another mode, stretching them out, etc...
This so much. I love the structured big-band swing jazz. AABA or AABC sequence, you can dance lindy hop to it and know exactly where the phrase will end so you can do your little dance flourishes. I refer to the other kind of jazz as "wandering jazz", you never really know where it's going to take you.
Your videos are all highly useful. Elsewhere, more often than not the explanation of music theory feels detached from the real world music. However, you make it super clear the relation to actual songs, along with concise description of concepts.
this video is very good and showed me that this technique is used very often in music. i realised that i use this technique subconscious when i improvise with the guitar. thx mate ! :D
Love these videos - so accessible and I always leave feeling like l've learnt something that's ready to be applied to playing... and listening to music. Keep up the good work!
@@DavidBennettPiano wow, thanks for the answer! 😃 And yeah, I totally mean it! I want to learn every cool thing in music, so that I can be a talented artist, and if I'll ever be a that, I'll remember how much you helped me!🕺have a nice day! 😇 😎
Im SO glad you made this video. I know it's some time ago, I just discovered it. It pains me how little logic is found in current pop. Hopefully with videos like this new writers will understand and be able to incorporate these technicques in their music. Thank you!
its basically in the form of fugues - take a melodic hook, repeat it, transpose that up or down , modify the original hook slightly, transpose etc, speed up, slow down, use different instruments...
Blomljud by Swedish band Moon Safari, has a motif that appears in almost all the songs of the album. 11 songs, with different styles and moods... United by the same motif.
okaykina im not sure bout that, it sounds to me like there’s only first note in lower pitch but you can hear notes from main motif so it doesn’t turn into sequence
The first two notes are the only thing that actually change throughout the melody. D - C - B -Bb. The chords are weird and cool too but I don't wanna type that much lmaoooo
I found that the repeated motifs created a sense of tension that resolved with the "turnaround" melody. The final note of the phrase resolved all the collective motifs. It felt like stacking dynamite and the last phrase exploded them.
Good way to think about melodic structure. Goes hand in hand with the idea of a question and an answer. Or in this case 3 questions of increasing urgency and one succinct answer to respond to all 3.
This is funny. The President of ABC records was at the recording session when Louis Armstrong recorded "What a Wonderful World". He hated the song so much, he tried to stop the session, and made such a fuss that he was physically thrown out of the studio. He cancelled all US publicity for the song, so it didn't do well in the USA - but it was a number one hit in the UK. Gradually, over time, the song became popular in the USA as well.
It was only 8 hours after I watched this video and I already spotted a sequence. In Yung Lean - Red Bottom Sky on the verse : Ice's dropping red bottom sky' we have motif introduced to us. And when he repeat the verse he sings in lower pitch so yeah, that's a sequence ;)
You're confusing a motive with a sequence (similar approach but quite different techniques) and it can be misleading to students watching this video. A sequence is either or both melodic and harmonic, where a model "x+y" is repeated. A motive only gives you a gesture, something that repeats, an "x". The most classic example of a sequence is the Pachelbel Canon, where you can hear two harmonies "x+y" repeated over time in a specific pattern (descending 3rds), but not just one single gesture as your example with Beethoven's 5th. That is simply a rhythmic motive used to arpeggiate first a I chord, then a V chord.
Also, you're confusing what a sentence is with a sequence too. A lot of your examples show what a sentential phrase structure is, with an initial idea repeated and then developed leading to a cadential module. Sure, sentences can have sequences, but none of your example did have one. They were simple phrases repeated in different harmonic contexts to satisfy a cadential point. Furthermore, your Game of Thrones example is actually an example of a period, with a phrase ending on a half cadence and then a parallel response ending on a tonic harmony. Sequence is not simply transposing and is also not functional, therefore when a phrase articulates specific harmonic functions, likely a sequence is not present.
I think even just the opening melody of clocks by cold-play on the piano is a great example of motif repetition. Or the opening to thunderstruck by ac/dc on guitar. Perhaps?
As u brought up Adam Neely I liked this vid then the advertisement under the thing had a pic of a car and said “help the needy” but I read it as “help the Neely” weird coincidence
enjoying your content and variety of examples form different genres and time periods. can you give examples of songs with very little sequence and repetition? i feel like as humans we do not like these pieces bc we gravitate to sequence and repetition. are there any popular songs like this?
So let me get this right... legitimition repetises? Seriously, though. The simple stuff is the most effective. Sometimes this stuff needs pointing out. Thank, David!
I like how you don’t have a full five minutes of intro like a lot of other music channels on TH-cam. You get right into the learning, it’s cool. Thanks for your content
David Bennett: The Father of Effective Music Theory Videos
Thank you!
Yes! Always interesting, and usually unique to David Bennett's channel.
Bro my teacher set us to look at this vid, usually bad ones, but you are amazing at explaining, no intro, no pauses, you get right to the point. Thanks man
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This.
I've been a songwriter for over 30 years and this stuff never occurred to me. Mind blown. Thanks.
Same here, maybe I had an idea, but I found out about sequence 8 yrs ago or so and has improved my songwriting as I can imagine where the tune should go. In fact using sibelius, I copy and paste a sequence of notes a lot of the time and move them up or down. Great vid, I love all your stuff, fantastic, the talented Mr Bennett!
Very nice video! I like that you use examples from a few different styles.
Enjoy Slurm thank you ... yeah I really wanted to hit home that sequence occurs in almost all styles, that’s why I put Nirvana next to Greatest Showman 😉😉
this is (imho) part of the reason 'people tend to hate Jazz' (there's a Rick Beato video on this exact subject). I love jazz but some jazz songs tend to drone on with a solo/improv and there's little or no sequence. Thus you have nothing to latch onto to cling to the music. You just feel like you keep floating in this space with no ground or direction.
For example there's a couple of Allen Holdsworth songs I really love; and Lounge Lizards do this too. There's a lick in the beginning that's really catchy and cool. But then it immediately goes into a chaotic solo and that lasts for 90% of the song. Only sometimes briefly returning to the lick at the very end to wrap things up. If find myself wanting to hear those riffs again and again and I'm let down. Thus a lot of their songs end up sounding very similar; just chaotic soloing. And the improv tends to be so intense and chaotic ( especially if very chromatic) at times that it begins to lose emotional impact as well. Then you're going in the direction of turning into white noise. If you throw everything into the pot you end up with nothing because it all sounds the same. Idk if that made any sense but it's how I see it. I still love lots of Jazz btw; and I love both Holdsworth and the Lounge Lizards
Much of jazz melodies are built on motifs. Many times it's improvised but they do it by having good ears.
@@AlexR-ph8mn Sometimes it is the case that they are repeating things. But they are modifying the theme in ways that maybe only fairly well schooled ears would recognize. Inverting lines, moving them into another mode, stretching them out, etc...
This so much. I love the structured big-band swing jazz. AABA or AABC sequence, you can dance lindy hop to it and know exactly where the phrase will end so you can do your little dance flourishes. I refer to the other kind of jazz as "wandering jazz", you never really know where it's going to take you.
Great video with some really nice examples. Keep it up!
Thanks David for all your help and support so far!
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This guy is awesome. He explains advanced theory concepts WITH examples that I have actually heard. Very good.
Your videos are all highly useful. Elsewhere, more often than not the explanation of music theory feels detached from the real world music. However, you make it super clear the relation to actual songs, along with concise description of concepts.
That ending with Leonard Bernstein was beautiful
I was looking for this kind of analysis videos, thank you man! SUbbed
I hear a lot of motifs in blues and rock, especially blues based rock. A riff in one key and then they play the riff over the fourth chord
this video is very good and showed me that this technique is used very often in music. i realised that i use this technique
subconscious when i improvise with the guitar. thx mate ! :D
What do Coldplay and Beethoven both use?
Their ears
Oh wait...
Too late
more like neither of them use their ears lol
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@@oboebuddy15 Modern coldplay is trash compared to old coldplay
Cocaine?
Love these videos - so accessible and I always leave feeling like l've learnt something that's ready to be applied to playing... and listening to music. Keep up the good work!
I'm so lucky I found your channel. Your content is amazing!
This channel is so good. It's too good that it's unbelievable.
Thank you!!
ive learned more about music watching your videos than i ever did at school. in the marching bad no less. Thanks for the content mate
You are so good at explaining music. Thank you, I love your channel so much!!!
Thank you! 🙏🙏 that really does mean a lot
@@DavidBennettPiano wow, thanks for the answer! 😃 And yeah, I totally mean it! I want to learn every cool thing in music, so that I can be a talented artist, and if I'll ever be a that, I'll remember how much you helped me!🕺have a nice day! 😇 😎
But Beethoven actually also used inversion on the motif in his fifth symphony.
Great content David.
Im SO glad you made this video. I know it's some time ago, I just discovered it. It pains me how little logic is found in current pop. Hopefully with videos like this new writers will understand and be able to incorporate these technicques in their music. Thank you!
Jakub Urbánek actually, a lot of it is really clever.
lovely! ;your background song jamming with bernsteins speech at the end, such a groove!
your videos about melody are brilliant!
I learn so much from this channel as a producer. If you ever see this....Thank you bro.
Thank you
I'm glad I found you David! Thanks to your Locrian vid and Google algorithm!
I learned it and remember it as question and answer, tension and resolution, quite simple for listeners to grasp and feel.
its basically in the form of fugues - take a melodic hook, repeat it, transpose that up or down , modify the original hook slightly, transpose etc, speed up, slow down, use different instruments...
Really well made. Great job!
I love how this dude stares straight at the camera the whole time 😂
Maybe he just fixed his script near the camera?
0:59 The lick intensifies
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I love how you sometimes end your videos with good old Lenny. It leaves me feeling good. 😊
Blomljud by Swedish band Moon Safari, has a motif that appears in almost all the songs of the album.
11 songs, with different styles and moods... United by the same motif.
You are brilliant! Thanks for the videos
Thank you!
These are very good examples for the young learner. Thank you so much!
SEAN SADAPHAL: Okay!..From 840 AD to 912 AD, Saint Notker of Switzerland developed sequence for the church...
Thanks...Be careful, and stay calm...
This video deserves way more views, execellent job
Dude. This video is awesome. Very well explained.
thanks man. good job on the music theory videos. we are waiting for more!
Wow! One of the best lessons I've ran across in some time. Of course, I am pretty ignorant when it comes to music composition! I just subscribed.
downhill2400 thank you so much - I’m really glad you found it useful. Thanks for subscribing.
yknow, megalovania is a good example too
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okaykina im not sure bout that, it sounds to me like there’s only first note in lower pitch but you can hear notes from main motif so it doesn’t turn into sequence
Yup, the riff doesn't change, just the bass
The first two notes are the only thing that actually change throughout the melody. D - C - B -Bb. The chords are weird and cool too but I don't wanna type that much lmaoooo
A tutorial on counterpoints would be great please🙏... you're videos have contributed much to my understanding of music.. thanks
Thank you very much for this
wow! I had thought that motif *was* sequence! Interesting :D
Man i love coldplay, And your channel.
Great video David, well done!! ✌️☺️
Great video! Thank you for your content.
What a great channel and videos! I hope you keep growing it, well done!
Great script great videos you’re very talented man
Outstanding educational video
Thanks 😊
i love this channel
Excellant content as usual.
Very nice informative video.
Minuano 6/8 by PMG is another example, in the “main theme” after the long intro. Very interesting video as always!
Cool video! I like your presentations!
Hi David, you are broadcasting extraordinary videos. Please add subtitles. Thanks...
Thanks a lot for the enlightening!
Louie's "What a Wonderful World" has always struck me as a Christmas song even though it's not.
Trumple Stiltskin That's why they describe the song as an evergreen.
It's a variation on "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
I found that the repeated motifs created a sense of tension that resolved with the "turnaround" melody. The final note of the phrase resolved all the collective motifs. It felt like stacking dynamite and the last phrase exploded them.
Good way to think about melodic structure. Goes hand in hand with the idea of a question and an answer. Or in this case 3 questions of increasing urgency and one succinct answer to respond to all 3.
Excellent!
Thank you for the excellent lesson. I am recently exploring songwriting and making melodies!!
My favourite is the chromatic sounding sequence where you take a sequence and move it up a half step every time.
I’ll sometimes use that during improvisation
Good information thank you
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Exactly!
@@DavidBennettPiano hello! Your videos are fantastic!!!
This is funny. The President of ABC records was at the recording session when Louis Armstrong recorded "What a Wonderful World". He hated the song so much, he tried to stop the session, and made such a fuss that he was physically thrown out of the studio. He cancelled all US publicity for the song, so it didn't do well in the USA - but it was a number one hit in the UK.
Gradually, over time, the song became popular in the USA as well.
Your videos are awesome
Wow. Thank you for this wonderful lesson
Wow babe. I'm learning something here.
💜💗💖babe talk to me more about ✨musical motifs✨😽😽😽😻
Really informative and to the point. +1
they both used this thing called:
h a n d s
It should be a crime that a label took down the "what is a melody" video
reallly nice man!! is that bernstein at the end? edit, ok bernstein
Thanks for this lesson . I recently heard the soundtrack 'Battle for Hogwarts' .. from Deathly hallows 2 . I think it uses sequencing too ..
*WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD*
This has always been in my music, though never intentionally.
there is a very beautiful Bach like sequence in a song called Homage by Mild High Club
my preferred example *in the house in a heartbeat*
Bernstein! I remember watching this show in TV when I was a kid.
It was only 8 hours after I watched this video and I already spotted a sequence. In Yung Lean - Red Bottom Sky on the verse : Ice's dropping red bottom sky' we have motif introduced to us. And when he repeat the verse he sings in lower pitch so yeah, that's a sequence ;)
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
A sequence on all 12 notes.
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The first 8 seconds were all I needed
Very good Video! I think this will help me a lot to improve my style of music.
You're confusing a motive with a sequence (similar approach but quite different techniques) and it can be misleading to students watching this video. A sequence is either or both melodic and harmonic, where a model "x+y" is repeated. A motive only gives you a gesture, something that repeats, an "x". The most classic example of a sequence is the Pachelbel Canon, where you can hear two harmonies "x+y" repeated over time in a specific pattern (descending 3rds), but not just one single gesture as your example with Beethoven's 5th. That is simply a rhythmic motive used to arpeggiate first a I chord, then a V chord.
Also, you're confusing what a sentence is with a sequence too. A lot of your examples show what a sentential phrase structure is, with an initial idea repeated and then developed leading to a cadential module. Sure, sentences can have sequences, but none of your example did have one. They were simple phrases repeated in different harmonic contexts to satisfy a cadential point. Furthermore, your Game of Thrones example is actually an example of a period, with a phrase ending on a half cadence and then a parallel response ending on a tonic harmony. Sequence is not simply transposing and is also not functional, therefore when a phrase articulates specific harmonic functions, likely a sequence is not present.
I think even just the opening melody of clocks by cold-play on the piano is a great example of motif repetition. Or the opening to thunderstruck by ac/dc on guitar. Perhaps?
Would it be an idea to discuss a future topic about how motifs can be linked so the music flows cyclically when repeated? Chords in progression also
Like Prince said himself, there is joy in repetition
Mesmerising, the guy hardly ever blinks, and your eyes start to water on his behalf.
As u brought up Adam Neely I liked this vid then the advertisement under the thing had a pic of a car and said “help the needy” but I read it as “help the Neely” weird coincidence
enjoying your content and variety of examples form different genres and time periods.
can you give examples of songs with very little sequence and repetition?
i feel like as humans we do not like these pieces bc we gravitate to sequence and repetition. are there any popular songs like this?
IDK man but Game of Thrones is such an epic soundtrack you always immediately get chills and wanna grab your sword and ride into war or smth
Thank you🤝🏼
Thank you!!
So let me get this right... legitimition repetises?
Seriously, though. The simple stuff is the most effective. Sometimes this stuff needs pointing out. Thank, David!
Me looking at this video: "What's Sequence?"
You: *explains it in the first 10 seconds *
"Oh ok"
Who would ever think that paranorman would be teaching me about the most interesting concepts in music?
yes, you find it everywhere... ive written them myself.
Similar to how classic blues songs repeat the first line, but usually with different phrasing.