Hey Ben, really loved these ideas. I think i've been subconsciously choosing these chords in my progressions for years, because they all sound great to me. What was the name of the book you recommended in the video?
It's not good generally speaking to fixate on 'why' with music theory as to be honest we don't really understand why vibrating air at certain frequencies is enjoyable in the first place. Many people have theories and methodologies on this stuff, but the reality is that good frameworks allow interesting creative ideas without being an exact science most of the time.
I don't agree that we shouldn't ask why something is the way it is if we don't understand it. Not knowing why is a great reason to ask the question! Maybe you won't get a definitive answer, but curiosity can take you to new places! People have already thought about why we enjoy music in the fields of philosophy, musicology, psychology at least. We definitely have *some* idea about that. Maybe you used that as an off the cuff example?
@@n00dl3 It’s more that, scientifically speaking, there isn’t any understanding of what makes music sound ‘good’ in the first place so any rule sets we create are purely arbitrary. I prefer to think of harmonic and rhythmic concepts as ‘tools’ - I don’t need to understand the mechanics of how a power drill works to be able to create amazing things with it, and in the same way you don’t need to know why chromatic mediants are good harmonic choices for this to be a powerful compositional choice. There are so many tools out there to learn, I personally don’t have time to try and dig into the deeper meaning of ‘why’ as I’m too busy trying to use them all to create music!
The reason is because chords are stacked thirds. So when you have two chords that are a third apart, there are a lot of common tones between them, which helps ground any change in key. If you were to do this with seconds or fourths, the two chords don't have as many notes in common, so a key change is more difficult to navigate smoothly.
Very nice Mate, thanks! This appeals to me a lot more than memorising “chromatic mediant” options
I now understand how a lot of my favorite songs were made. I guess I just really like the sound of changing keys through thirds :) Thank you!
Dude this helps so much, thank you, i was getting tired of just diatonic chords and basic key changes.
Glad it helped, thanks for watching!
Thanks!!
Nice sound twists
Hey Ben, really loved these ideas. I think i've been subconsciously choosing these chords in my progressions for years, because they all sound great to me. What was the name of the book you recommended in the video?
really informative, thank you! :)
Finally unlocked by writer’s block!
thank u so much but ｉwonder why 3rds do the Magic not other intervals
Topic is chromatic mediants 🤯
It's not good generally speaking to fixate on 'why' with music theory as to be honest we don't really understand why vibrating air at certain frequencies is enjoyable in the first place. Many people have theories and methodologies on this stuff, but the reality is that good frameworks allow interesting creative ideas without being an exact science most of the time.
I don't agree that we shouldn't ask why something is the way it is if we don't understand it. Not knowing why is a great reason to ask the question! Maybe you won't get a definitive answer, but curiosity can take you to new places!
People have already thought about why we enjoy music in the fields of philosophy, musicology, psychology at least. We definitely have *some* idea about that. Maybe you used that as an off the cuff example?
@@n00dl3 It’s more that, scientifically speaking, there isn’t any understanding of what makes music sound ‘good’ in the first place so any rule sets we create are purely arbitrary. I prefer to think of harmonic and rhythmic concepts as ‘tools’ - I don’t need to understand the mechanics of how a power drill works to be able to create amazing things with it, and in the same way you don’t need to know why chromatic mediants are good harmonic choices for this to be a powerful compositional choice.
There are so many tools out there to learn, I personally don’t have time to try and dig into the deeper meaning of ‘why’ as I’m too busy trying to use them all to create music!
The reason is because chords are stacked thirds. So when you have two chords that are a third apart, there are a lot of common tones between them, which helps ground any change in key. If you were to do this with seconds or fourths, the two chords don't have as many notes in common, so a key change is more difficult to navigate smoothly.
Can you do a video on voice leading?
Yeah for sure, It was a topic I wanted to cover anyway!
What guitar is that?
Munson Avenger - small British custom shop, they build great stuff!