I'm sitting here thinking about my time in barbershop, the minors, minor 7ths, chords with 9ths ... the overtones of barbershop, when humans use their ears to tune chords into tighter harmony than the standard divisions of a piano. Sends good shivers down my spine, every time.
Thank god this video exists, I've always knew about minor and major chords and have always wondered about things like suspended chords but the other videos on TH-cam aren't practical at all and explain things way to complex... but I understood everything from this instantly, your a god send mate.
After like 20 years of playing around as a hobbyist, I hadn't really thought of chords this way, I'm glad you made this video! Thank you! I've been way too stale in my triad-thinking.
Cool vid! The “key” is to not worry about which key you’re in, or whether or not you’re in key. A) we’ve all been hearing western music our entire lives, and a five year old can hear a bum note. B) some of the most interesting music has a chord that “doesn’t belong”. A little theory knowledge can help with knowing how to get around, and finding your way back to resolution, but I encourage everyone to use the keyboard, and not their mouse or sequencer when composing. I started out as a music piano roll “drawer”, and this way is so much easier and more productive. Thanks for sharing.
Hey J, don't sweat if you feel like you've got it "right". Your music is superb, we're here 'cause we love it, and I for one delight in the notion of learning more about what methods you use. More please!
This is amazing. For some reason, this clicked when I got my Ableton Push and I've started seeing chord relationships. I wonder why there are not more music theory teachers that explain these things in such a simple way, sometimes looks like the world wants us to think that basic music theory is complex when in reality you can break it down to simple formulas like 1-3-5.
I think I learned more about chords from this video than I’ve learned in the last 15 years of randomly playing keys with no formal training. Thank you so much for this.
This is so helpful! I remember finding cool chords like this on the piano before I really knew what chords were and was just messing around. Goes to show how simple it is!
Please do more of these videos! I'm definitely the type that prefers to feel things out and teach myself, and I really appreciate lessons that are easy to grasp. You'll have a view from me on every one of these videos if you keep making them.
Thank you so much, Jeremy. This is exactly what I needed to get better with chords. I was taught how to use triads in class, but only on an Ableton Pushpad, and since I don't have one of those, I couldn't recreate it on a keyboard, since I make my music with my laptop's keyboard. Also, thank you for commenting back on my comment on your last video, it really meant a lot to me. Thank you.
More videos of this type please! IMO there's a lack of videos with practical & digestible tips on how to start writing/composing music. 'Move one finger, feel something' is a way better approach than drowning yourself in theory
2 things this awesome video did for me: 1. Helped me understand chord music theory clearer (as im diving more and more into it). 2. Also sold me on the D05 as well. Please keep up the awesome videos!!
Superb insight into your mind of awesome compositions. The cool wobbly lofi sound and chord progression C -> Fadd9 at 3:30 reminded me of FEZ (Disasterpeace). Lovely!
Dang that patch is cool. Something really cool to incorporate into chord progressions is the Neapolitan chord. You can basically use it where you'd use a 4 chord, and it just makes everything a whole lot more interesting imho. You can also change from the natural major to the natural minor in any key using the Neapolitan as a passing chord. The easiest example of this is taking C major to C minor, which would be: C -> Db -> Cmin or C -> Dbmaj7 -> Cminmaj7 (if you're feeling really adventurous.) Just in case anybody is actually reading this and doesn't want to google what a Neapolitan chord is: A Neapolitan chord is formed by taking the flat second major triad of the scale you're working in. So in C major, the second is a D. Flat that to get a Db, and then form a major triad to form the Neapolitan chord. In C minor, you do the exact same thing. I'm not a musical genius or anything but I believe that's why you can transfer between the major and minor scales in the same key, because the Neapolitan is relative to both.
I've always forgotten what the Neapolitan chord was, but you've just made me realise that it's the II of Phrygian mode :) has that eastern vibe that rivals i - V for pleasurable tension imo.
This is so helpful! endless thanks man for genuinely teaching us and not just baiting partial knowledge for profit. This seems like a great exercise for learning chords
Watched this when you uploaded and came back now. Would love to see more! Perhaps scales, melodies with certain chords, choosing a key and knowing what goes with it. Just the tip of my iceberg. Thank you for this video!
I love music theory! I joined chorus at my high school to learn more about it and how it relates to vocal performance. This is great hearing about the instrumental and fundamental sides. TH-cam needs more music! I'm looking forward to hearing more about it from you, Jeremy!
Super informative! I've had trouble coming up with unique chord changes in my tracks but this is a great simplified explanation of how to move them around. More videos like this please!
This was really good practicable advice! I think the powerful difference inversions can make is often overlooked in standard music theory videos, it's really noticeable that your theory thoughts are really tied in with your practice of music making.
I'm just getting to this level, it's great advice to try to find the chord relationship by just moving one finger and working out what the new chord is. Thanks so much, I'm going to have a lot of fun with this.
Thankyou Jeremy...this is my level...and only a couple of days ago I was doing this very thing on someone's piano...exploring triads and variations..what a coinkydink.
This is a really good video! I really love your instructional/showcase sort of content here. I have a bit of music theory under by belt, but only a bit, so I'd love to hear more on the process for making melodies and the like. Thanks for all this!
Nice! I also use the “move one finger” technique when I’m feeling like something is off or I want more from my chords. Would love more theory stuff, keep up the great work!
I think it's good that you're doing theory videos. I'm even less formally "learnt" than you, and I appreciate hearing from all levels, because sometimes things don't click until you hear them a certain way.
I've been writing chord progressions for a long time, but I've never thought to use the method you showed. I really like that way of thinking about things, I'm definitely going to give that a go.
dude all of your videos are amazing! You should be way more popular than you are. I love the educational stuff a lot, its super easy to learn from what you're doing. I'd love to see more!
yo jeremy i am relatively new to the channel but I have already learned so much about music from your videos, and on top of that have gotten some unbelievable jams out of the deal as well. YOU RULE, THANKS!
I'd love for you to do some more music theory stuff. It's stuff I'd like to learn but its so hard to just jump into and there's such a wide range of videos that are either super basic or way over my understanding level. You seemed to do a good job of explaining it in easy to understand terms.
This is such a nice and good video explaining things simply. I love your beat making videos, but seeing more of these would be incredible as a person starting off making music too.
While a lot of newbies hasn't got a lot of money for keyboards and work in fl studio or logic with akai-controllers, this chords lessons will be very usefull for them. So I'm waiting for another one. It will be awesome, if you tell something about how to make simple melodies, control mood, make counter-melodies, and whats the difference between minor and major. But first of all - counter melodies is so actual) Thank you!
This is super nice!! I play the guitar and often find myself completely lost when moving to the keyboard for pads/keys parts because, well, things aren't in the places I expect them to be haha, but woah, this was a super useful and easy to grasp video!
I'd recommend naming the chords as you move them around as practice, too. Make it so your improv can be reproducible - if you can attach names to things you're doing, it's easier to remember.
Chris Anderson yes.. I’ve done similar chord noodlings but the challenge is always remembering what you’ve done, especially if you don’t have a theory background. Most of the time I try to remember the ‘shapes’ of chords I like, if I don’t know the proper names
Well laid out, and appreciated by me! I am doing these things on my microkorg and it is great fun. Next step for me would be to better grasp the diffrent scales and which chords fit together (and how to transition). Also playing styles (mostly sticking to sustain sounds now). Thanks for this!
ahh jeremy.. I love you. I dont understand music theory at all. I can read notes, and play them on my Sax, but thats about it. Thanks for this dreamy escape from my reality for a moment. Even you teaching sound like some souldfood made by a god. Keep it up :)
This was super relaxing to watch... Almost meditative. Thanks for keeping it simple. When it comes to music theory I can only take one small idea at a time & I need to process and interpret into my own haphazard way of working. I mostly see chords as shapes, so it's about adding triangles on top of triangles for me... (my music teachers never had much luck getting me to absorb the traditional methods) 😅💙
That was a really good video, I have been playing for years with no classical training. Oddly i do exactly the same thing to feel my way through chords.
Music theory is the fuckin beans man, I doubt it'll get as much reception as the OP-1 videos so fair enough if you don't want to make this a series, but personally I'm slammin that like button
This was brilliant. Something I've been trying to explore and struggling a little bit with is creating tension by using notes outside of the key. Sometimes it's great but other times it's hugely jarring. If you were needing ideas for a similar video I'd love to see how you tackle this. PS. Totally bought some POs and an OP-1 after watching your videos and been having a blast and with your recent OP sound pack
Nice - Red now also Means Re-chording!
loopop Ha!
how lucky i am to receive music theory content on this fine day
As below so above and beyond I imagine-drawn beyond the lines of reason
Truly feel blessed
I'm sitting here thinking about my time in barbershop, the minors, minor 7ths, chords with 9ths ... the overtones of barbershop, when humans use their ears to tune chords into tighter harmony than the standard divisions of a piano. Sends good shivers down my spine, every time.
Getting Adagio for Strings/platoon feels.
Thanks again J
Never would’ve guest you played flute, but now that you’ve said it I can so see it
Thank god this video exists, I've always knew about minor and major chords and have always wondered about things like suspended chords but the other videos on TH-cam aren't practical at all and explain things way to complex... but I understood everything from this instantly, your a god send mate.
pad machine indeed... what a beautiful sound
After like 20 years of playing around as a hobbyist, I hadn't really thought of chords this way, I'm glad you made this video! Thank you! I've been way too stale in my triad-thinking.
Cool vid! The “key” is to not worry about which key you’re in, or whether or not you’re in key.
A) we’ve all been hearing western music our entire lives, and a five year old can hear a bum note.
B) some of the most interesting music has a chord that “doesn’t belong”.
A little theory knowledge can help with knowing how to get around, and finding your way back to resolution, but I encourage everyone to use the keyboard, and not their mouse or sequencer when composing. I started out as a music piano roll “drawer”, and this way is so much easier and more productive.
Thanks for sharing.
Hey J, don't sweat if you feel like you've got it "right". Your music is superb, we're here 'cause we love it, and I for one delight in the notion of learning more about what methods you use. More please!
This is amazing. For some reason, this clicked when I got my Ableton Push and I've started seeing chord relationships. I wonder why there are not more music theory teachers that explain these things in such a simple way, sometimes looks like the world wants us to think that basic music theory is complex when in reality you can break it down to simple formulas like 1-3-5.
I think I learned more about chords from this video than I’ve learned in the last 15 years of randomly playing keys with no formal training. Thank you so much for this.
This is so helpful! I remember finding cool chords like this on the piano before I really knew what chords were and was just messing around. Goes to show how simple it is!
This was very insightful for me. I swear, every video you post inspires me to pull out the old Miniak and plug away at it.
"Moving single notes around". So that's why you like arps so much
i just recently discovered your channel and just wanted to let you know that you're an absolute god
Please do more of these videos! I'm definitely the type that prefers to feel things out and teach myself, and I really appreciate lessons that are easy to grasp. You'll have a view from me on every one of these videos if you keep making them.
I do love it when a youtube video is actually super useful and not just memes, your channel is a blessing. Thank you
Thank you so much, Jeremy. This is exactly what I needed to get better with chords. I was taught how to use triads in class, but only on an Ableton Pushpad, and since I don't have one of those, I couldn't recreate it on a keyboard, since I make my music with my laptop's keyboard. Also, thank you for commenting back on my comment on your last video, it really meant a lot to me. Thank you.
More videos of this type please! IMO there's a lack of videos with practical & digestible tips on how to start writing/composing music. 'Move one finger, feel something' is a way better approach than drowning yourself in theory
2 things this awesome video did for me:
1. Helped me understand chord music theory clearer (as im diving more and more into it).
2. Also sold me on the D05 as well.
Please keep up the awesome videos!!
Yes please Jeremy. This. More of this! Thank you!
Ahhh what a refreshing introductory chords video. Your delivery is on point :) thank you!
As someone who managed to play music for 7 years in school without learning what a "third" was, this was super neat to see it put so succinctly.
Superb insight into your mind of awesome compositions. The cool wobbly lofi sound and chord progression C -> Fadd9 at 3:30 reminded me of FEZ (Disasterpeace). Lovely!
Dang that patch is cool. Something really cool to incorporate into chord progressions is the Neapolitan chord. You can basically use it where you'd use a 4 chord, and it just makes everything a whole lot more interesting imho. You can also change from the natural major to the natural minor in any key using the Neapolitan as a passing chord. The easiest example of this is taking C major to C minor, which would be: C -> Db -> Cmin or C -> Dbmaj7 -> Cminmaj7 (if you're feeling really adventurous.)
Just in case anybody is actually reading this and doesn't want to google what a Neapolitan chord is: A Neapolitan chord is formed by taking the flat second major triad of the scale you're working in. So in C major, the second is a D. Flat that to get a Db, and then form a major triad to form the Neapolitan chord. In C minor, you do the exact same thing. I'm not a musical genius or anything but I believe that's why you can transfer between the major and minor scales in the same key, because the Neapolitan is relative to both.
A good example of a Neapolitan chord is at the end of the Star Wars theme / blockade runner, that chord is niiiice
Didn't even realize that! John Williams is the freakin man
I've always forgotten what the Neapolitan chord was, but you've just made me realise that it's the II of Phrygian mode :) has that eastern vibe that rivals i - V for pleasurable tension imo.
Yeah it's that too! Good catch!
This is so helpful! endless thanks man for genuinely teaching us and not just baiting partial knowledge for profit. This seems like a great exercise for learning chords
Keep on that teaching. Just adds to your awesomeness.
Watched this when you uploaded and came back now. Would love to see more! Perhaps scales, melodies with certain chords, choosing a key and knowing what goes with it. Just the tip of my iceberg. Thank you for this video!
I love music theory! I joined chorus at my high school to learn more about it and how it relates to vocal performance. This is great hearing about the instrumental and fundamental sides. TH-cam needs more music! I'm looking forward to hearing more about it from you, Jeremy!
Super informative! I've had trouble coming up with unique chord changes in my tracks but this is a great simplified explanation of how to move them around. More videos like this please!
Thanks for doing a educational video. You talked a lot about how you didn't want to do this, but I'm glad you did. Even so, trust your instincts
Great video! Pls do more of those... really appreciate the new angle your videos give me on my little projects!
This was really good practicable advice! I think the powerful difference inversions can make is often overlooked in standard music theory videos, it's really noticeable that your theory thoughts are really tied in with your practice of music making.
I'm just getting to this level, it's great advice to try to find the chord relationship by just moving one finger and working out what the new chord is. Thanks so much, I'm going to have a lot of fun with this.
I guess Inwill watch this video at least a dozens times! You don‘t find this essential stuff often - thank you!
Thankyou Jeremy...this is my level...and only a couple of days ago I was doing this very thing on someone's piano...exploring triads and variations..what a coinkydink.
great video, side note, this was the most calming/peaceful sound to listen to
Great lesson AND the D-05 sounds really good. Such a better music teacher than me 😇
I found this really useful and would enjoy seeing more educational content from you in the future!
this is brilliant, would love more of these
Really enjoyed this video, it was cool to have bits of theory talked about in a more practical and accessible way
This is a really good video! I really love your instructional/showcase sort of content here. I have a bit of music theory under by belt, but only a bit, so I'd love to hear more on the process for making melodies and the like. Thanks for all this!
By moving one finger at a time we see how chords overlap... great video, very informative.
Nice! I also use the “move one finger” technique when I’m feeling like something is off or I want more from my chords. Would love more theory stuff, keep up the great work!
I think it's good that you're doing theory videos. I'm even less formally "learnt" than you, and I appreciate hearing from all levels, because sometimes things don't click until you hear them a certain way.
great work ! simple and clear for whoever has little music theory's notions
I've been writing chord progressions for a long time, but I've never thought to use the method you showed. I really like that way of thinking about things, I'm definitely going to give that a go.
Thanks for your videos too!
Jeremy, honestly, your content is always useful and inspiring. Thank you!
Great video, I'd love to see more.
dude all of your videos are amazing! You should be way more popular than you are. I love the educational stuff a lot, its super easy to learn from what you're doing. I'd love to see more!
This is so helpful and really timely in my keyboard progression! I'd watch as many of these as you can do. Thank you sir!
As someone who is recently getting into composition I found this incredibly insightful and awesome :) thank you for this!
yo jeremy i am relatively new to the channel but I have already learned so much about music from your videos, and on top of that have gotten some unbelievable jams out of the deal as well. YOU RULE, THANKS!
Do more of these please ! You do a great job at explaining the concepts of music theory!
literally one second before you said it, I was like "uuuuhhhhh yes Badalamenti...twin peaks..."
I'm loving your new educational type videos. Looking forward to what else you have in store :)
This was wonderful! I'd love to see more of this! I'm going to send this to all my music friends now.
I'd love for you to do some more music theory stuff. It's stuff I'd like to learn but its so hard to just jump into and there's such a wide range of videos that are either super basic or way over my understanding level. You seemed to do a good job of explaining it in easy to understand terms.
This is fantastic! Thanks, Jeremy. This helps me a lot with trying to find some progressions for basic songbuilding.
I actually started to get into Music theory recently, so this video was released at the perfect Time, thanks!
This is such a nice and good video explaining things simply. I love your beat making videos, but seeing more of these would be incredible as a person starting off making music too.
While a lot of newbies hasn't got a lot of money for keyboards and work in fl studio or logic with akai-controllers, this chords lessons will be very usefull for them. So I'm waiting for another one. It will be awesome, if you tell something about how to make simple melodies, control mood, make counter-melodies, and whats the difference between minor and major. But first of all - counter melodies is so actual) Thank you!
Yes please! I’d be super cool to see more stuff like this!
I liked it Jeremy. Theory is very fun to me :) I'm a violin player with some theory background and I loved to see the piano approach
This is super nice!! I play the guitar and often find myself completely lost when moving to the keyboard for pads/keys parts because, well, things aren't in the places I expect them to be haha, but woah, this was a super useful and easy to grasp video!
I'd recommend naming the chords as you move them around as practice, too. Make it so your improv can be reproducible - if you can attach names to things you're doing, it's easier to remember.
Chris Anderson yes.. I’ve done similar chord noodlings but the challenge is always remembering what you’ve done, especially if you don’t have a theory background. Most of the time I try to remember the ‘shapes’ of chords I like, if I don’t know the proper names
Amazing break down of your process, thank you Jeremy!
Well laid out, and appreciated by me! I am doing these things on my microkorg and it is great fun. Next step for me would be to better grasp the diffrent scales and which chords fit together (and how to transition). Also playing styles (mostly sticking to sustain sounds now). Thanks for this!
This was a super gr8 jam packed knowledge video that is def gonna be used by me :) I’d really appreciate more !!
Wow this was really useful! Thankyou Jeremy! I would love to see more videos like this in future
I liked this basic set up enough to write this comment. I’d love for you to dig deeper. More theory tutorials please.
Super vidéo, la théorie musicale avec ces pads rend le concept étudié attrayant et fun ! Keep going like this!
ahh jeremy.. I love you. I dont understand music theory at all. I can read notes, and play them on my Sax, but thats about it. Thanks for this dreamy escape from my reality for a moment. Even you teaching sound like some souldfood made by a god. Keep it up :)
All of your shots are so aesssstheticccccc
The humility is real, lol! Me here learning from you like a baby; you saying there's a whole college of stuff to learn.
Thank you for this gem on this fine day. Now im gonna go feel something.
I love your music theory videos! You're so good at explaining this stuff!
Your video was very interesting, and I hope you will make others in the same style for music enthusiasts! The work you do on TH-cam is awesome!
awesome vid. I love when I get simple but useful music theory like this
That pad is so beautiful
Videos like this are great. It just makes me want to get back into Ableton and noodle around.
it's cool that you take the time to show people how to walk away from the triad
That was beautiful and educational at the same time. Thanks!!
Any and all music theory videos very welcome! Thanks!
Love this perspective!
This is great, thank you for making it!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this excellent lesson !!!!
This was super relaxing to watch... Almost meditative. Thanks for keeping it simple. When it comes to music theory I can only take one small idea at a time & I need to process and interpret into my own haphazard way of working. I mostly see chords as shapes, so it's about adding triangles on top of triangles for me... (my music teachers never had much luck getting me to absorb the traditional methods) 😅💙
That was a really good video, I have been playing for years with no classical training. Oddly i do exactly the same thing to feel my way through chords.
Music theory is the fuckin beans man, I doubt it'll get as much reception as the OP-1 videos so fair enough if you don't want to make this a series, but personally I'm slammin that like button
Thanks heaps for this Jeremy! I don't have any music experience and love watching your videos, this makes me want to go play something!
This was brilliant. Something I've been trying to explore and struggling a little bit with is creating tension by using notes outside of the key. Sometimes it's great but other times it's hugely jarring. If you were needing ideas for a similar video I'd love to see how you tackle this. PS. Totally bought some POs and an OP-1 after watching your videos and been having a blast and with your recent OP sound pack
This is the second request for this so I'll definitely talk about it.
got me to take notes on music theory again. thanks bud
Awesome stuff Jeremy! Would really enjoy more!
Simply wonderful. Thank you for encouraging inventive playing for us simpler folk 😎
Totally loved it, do as many like this as you d like!! I ll watch!
This is great!
beautifully demonstrated
Please do more videos like this! It really helps :)