Fun fact for all of you to remember the major and minor differences easily: Major: M m m M M m d Minor: m d M m m M M Notice this: In the minor key, the first 2 are the last 2 of the major. Then it repeats from the beginning of the Major one minus the last 2 of course (which we already said). Major: M m m M M m d Minor: m d (last 2 of major) + (Major: M m m M M ) (first 5 of major). So in essence you only have to memorize the major one, and when it's minor, begin at the last 2 and then repeat from the major until you have 7. It's actually easier to remember this way
The reason your two 2-4-6-5 progressions sound different is because you're using different inversions for the chords, not because they're in different keys. If you were simply playing the non-inverted triads of the 2-4-6-5 chords in D# and then in G, they would sound exactly like one another, except one is 4 semitones higher than the other. I think what you're saying here is completely misleading because you're not disclosing that you're even using inversions.
answering a 2 year old comment 🤪 but a teacher once told me if sound good who gives a f*ck the theory. do whatever progression and is your call if sounds good/bad is up to you, inversions, extensions, progresions order, etc etc etc....
its pretty fast pace. music theory is like learning math for the first time. the brain needs time to adjust. we will get there some day, and all will make sense =)
Snow Da Chinx this is crazy I wrote this comment a year ago, and like now I actually know all this information and that’s crazy. Talk about growth. You got this!
Kilian Bader writing back on this post 1 year later and I know all this shit now, and I’m no longer even a music major😂🤦🏾♂️. Switched to business cause I’m greedy 🤷🏾♂️
First, play a chord, then use this scientific formula to solve for x, y, z, insert your findings into the quadratic formula and divide by the remainder of notes to build your progression.
This video is meant to be educational, but it comes off as someone wanting to infodump about how music theory works in a series of videos. I think it's great that you make these videos because it's nice to see how others perceive music theory this way!
Wow...This short tutorial, I'm not sure why just yet, was like a light switch. Seriously, 25yrs after playing gtr by ear and dabbling with piano, I've found you have moments with music when things become clear and this was the latest, thanks.
Video was going great until it hits 1:23 where it escalated very quickly without any direction of what was that. Either way, this is a very well produced video, good work! It helped me in some questions.
Yeah I understand it can be very difficult for someone who doesn't even know what the chords are. Definitely not for someone first introduced to the topic. And ironically too simple for those already experienced
This and your other tutorial video are _super_ cool. So chill, such good editing, and great information! Please, keep making these. I watched this video and I literally said something like "Man, subbed, who _are_ you, what else have you made!? I wanna watch all your stuff!"
You are the first person to explain this in a way I FINALLY understand, I took piano for 9 years as a kid and never got it, now I’m picking it up again and for a week I’ve been reading the books I have walking away more confused. You have a real gift for explaining things clearly (and editing them well visually!) Thank you 🙌
Bro this was amazing! I've tried to learn this so many times but always got bored with longass explanations with fancy terms that I didn't know. You made it short, simple and logical. I really don't think I need anymore info, all I gotta do is go experiment with different chords. Thank you so much! You made my day!✨
Thanks for taking time to explain, but the presentation left the tracks at 1:07 when the arrows and lines appeared on the circle without any indication of what they meant or how they got their. You may have got around to that later in the video (I didn't wait to see), but not confusing students in the first place is 10x preferable to trying to retrieve them from confusion.
If anyone doesn't know what a diminished chord is This is the 'formula' for a diminished chord: R-3-3 You start off on the root, then you go up 3 half steps and then you go up 3 half steps again. So if you wanna play an A diminished chord, you start on the root, an A. Then you go up 3 half steps so you play a C. Then you go another 3 half steps up, so you play a D sharp/ E flat. So an A diminished chord is: A-C-E flat I hope this helped, let me know if I made any mistakes/ said anything wrong. Btw I'm srry if it's not clear, my English isn't the best.
So for all confused folks, bawically it's like math either you feel it and practice it or you learn it from the ground up which one is easier is obvious
this super cool and clear, nice edits too.. for those who are confused.. it's because you are unfamiliar with the term.. maybe u guys should take a few step back first.. because even tho u come to understand this.. executing in on your music is a different matters.. so keep learning friends !
This makes sense to me and I can see how it doesn’t to others. Music is like a language and there are different styles depending on the country and background you’re from. There are different dialects and sounds that go with it too. Western music involves 12 major keys and 12 minor keys. The blues scales and many other types of styles are kinda a different topic so for the sake of this being simple I’d start with major keys. Each key has its own different variety of notes which is called a scale which make up every chord progression in said key using the notes from the scale. For example C major is a key with the a scale of the notes C D E F G A B C major is also a chord that has the notes C E G which if you notice is a combination of notes from the scale I just mentioned. There are multiple combinations of the notes in the scale that create different chords and different combinations of those chords that make songs that create different songs using the key C major. The chord c major isn’t isolated to one key in the sense of belonging to one key. The C major chord for example (C E G) also belongs to multiple different other keys as well. The reason I say music is kinda like learning a new language is because all twelve notes are an alphabet, the scales in each key make up the words in chords and melodies, and the music keys are the context in a sentence or song, and the grammar is music theory behind the meaning of those chords put together in a song.
These are all examples of diatonic chord progressions which means all of those chord tones fall into the scale but you can also create and experiment with random chords next to each other and these are called tonic chords and can give you a cool vibe with a lot of tension
Well the 2 examples of 2-5-1 sounded significantly different because in the first example the 5 chord was played below the 2, and in the second example the 5 chord was played above the 2. If you played both examples the same way it would simply have sounded transposed.
"It's a G Major. Okay, cool, nice. I like the way that sounds" I'm not saying this because of my personal opinion, but it's a competitive world out there
Pretty nice video, clean visuals and animations good sound quality, i think the explanation (as a fellow musician) is on point, very clear and straightforward, congrats
another thing: the 'context' of a chord can change without changing key (meaning a chord sounding different) but through the chord before it. let's say you play C major, D minor and E minor in that order. it sounds kinda unfinished, like it should go either to F major or back to D minor to complete it. now swap out the D minor for D major you will notice that instead of the E minor sounding unfinished, It sounds like an epic sad ending that could probably contribute to you crying when a character dies in a movie if it's playing in the background of the scene. very different.
Even without knowing or remembering anything about the chord progression, You'll know that the chords are made normally from thirds, And the type of thirds (Major/minor) depends on whether you land on a note that exists in the scale.
It's a ~4 minute video explaining how chord progression works... People take Uni courses on these things. It's gonna be difficult, but once your basics are clear it's easy to get. Edit: forgot to mention, really helpful video though
If someone was able to explain stuff like this while using as few numbers as possible, I could comprehend these explanations better. My brain doesn't cognate number heavy information and it struggles to catagorize and or draw references from anything labled as a numerical value. To this day after 20 years trying to understand it, I still don't understand it when people use terms like "fifths" or "sevenths" . No matter how many times its been explained to me in numerous ways, it's never clicked with me simply because of the numerical label focus. If alternative labels and concepts existed to define these things other than numerical values, I might have grasped the concepts years ago by now
Because when you build triads of each tone of a scale you do this with only the notes of that specific scale. When you try this out, you will see, that in a Major scale, you will build a major chord on the first, 4th and 5th note of that scale, while you build minor chords on the rest and that diminished one on the 7th note. And since the relation between the notes are the same in every major scale, you receive this pattern for major scales. Now you do the same with all the tones of a minor scale and you will recognize the shown pattern for minor scales.
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Fun fact for all of you to remember the major and minor differences easily:
Major: M m m M M m d
Minor: m d M m m M M
Notice this:
In the minor key, the first 2 are the last 2 of the major. Then it repeats from the beginning of the Major one minus the last 2 of course (which we already said).
Major: M m m M M m d
Minor: m d (last 2 of major) + (Major: M m m M M
) (first 5 of major).
So in essence you only have to memorize the major one, and when it's minor, begin at the last 2 and then repeat from the major until you have 7. It's actually easier to remember this way
oh this is brilliant thank you!
@@igorzawada2776 Glad I could help!
I hate when people don't appreciate the efforts to help in the comments section rather than just typing silly comments . You're underrated man. Thanks
@@ummprobablynoone3806 Thanks for your appreciation :) :) It feels good to know I was appreciated for sharing this :D
@@aqua3418 modes!
I feel like im in a physics crash course rn
I'm a physics student and i didn't understand a thing 😥
me just leaving an anatomy crash corse to prep for physics in college while also being an mc prod
Agreed...terribly explained video😢😢
The reason your two 2-4-6-5 progressions sound different is because you're using different inversions for the chords, not because they're in different keys. If you were simply playing the non-inverted triads of the 2-4-6-5 chords in D# and then in G, they would sound exactly like one another, except one is 4 semitones higher than the other. I think what you're saying here is completely misleading because you're not disclosing that you're even using inversions.
Abolutly agree. I got quite annoyed by that last part (in an otherwise good video), because it is, as you say, misleading!
Thank you, I was looking for that comment
Thank you. I was like, "Yes! I understand this," until he said that.
Yeah, I was just flabbergasted at how that would even be possible lol
answering a 2 year old comment 🤪
but a teacher once told me if sound good who gives a f*ck the theory.
do whatever progression and is your call if sounds good/bad is up to you, inversions, extensions, progresions order, etc etc etc....
My God, I was confused at the beginning, now I am IN SHAMBLES!
“I’ll leave these words out for simplicity.”
*jump right into music theory*
You want him to explain chord progressions without getting into theory? How do you suggest that? lmao
hey so i paused it at 20 seconds to tell you this, but this is the bEst editing i’ve seen for a video in a hot minute. love your style, cheers!!
It's really excessive and makes it harder to follow along
@@nollnoll20 it really doesnt tho
@@nollnoll20 low attention span lolol
So confused lol
First try to understand how the cycle of fifth works. helped me alot. ;)
its pretty fast pace. music theory is like learning math for the first time. the brain needs time to adjust. we will get there some day, and all will make sense =)
Me too lol
Snow Da Chinx this is crazy I wrote this comment a year ago, and like now I actually know all this information and that’s crazy. Talk about growth. You got this!
Kilian Bader writing back on this post 1 year later and I know all this shit now, and I’m no longer even a music major😂🤦🏾♂️. Switched to business cause I’m greedy 🤷🏾♂️
First, play a chord, then use this scientific formula to solve for x, y, z, insert your findings into the quadratic formula and divide by the remainder of notes to build your progression.
lol
lol
What the fuck
or you can just fill in a piano roll with little patterns until it sounds good
@@kevin_dasilva 😂 fr.
This video is meant to be educational, but it comes off as someone wanting to infodump about how music theory works in a series of videos.
I think it's great that you make these videos because it's nice to see how others perceive music theory this way!
Wow...This short tutorial, I'm not sure why just yet, was like a light switch. Seriously, 25yrs after playing gtr by ear and dabbling with piano, I've found you have moments with music when things become clear and this was the latest, thanks.
Exactly what I wanted to learn. The progression pattern for major/minor will open new avenues for me. Thank you very much!
Actually insanely helpful.
your editing is absolutely superb and the way you explained it was really informative, I was smiling through the entire video
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Video was going great until it hits 1:23 where it escalated very quickly without any direction of what was that. Either way, this is a very well produced video, good work! It helped me in some questions.
Yeah I understand it can be very difficult for someone who doesn't even know what the chords are. Definitely not for someone first introduced to the topic. And ironically too simple for those already experienced
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Loved this and the James Blake video!
Don’t stop making them!
THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
why's this so difficult for me
FUCK!
You need at least a bit of former understanding of music theory for this to make sense.
ignore the last part about the 2-4-6-5 it was kinda wrong but not really but just ignore it
@@Digital_Renaissance81 thanks, that's super useful !
I thought that it was so hard for years! That's why the mental block was almost impossible to remove!
this video is not only helpful but very satisfying and ur voice is so smooth. i had trouble not falling asleep.
Underrated creator. I don’t understand anything, but even I can tell.
I came to learn and now my brain is on fire
It’s 2 am and my brain suddenly needs to know this
This and your other tutorial video are _super_ cool. So chill, such good editing, and great information! Please, keep making these. I watched this video and I literally said something like "Man, subbed, who _are_ you, what else have you made!? I wanna watch all your stuff!"
You are the first person to explain this in a way I FINALLY understand, I took piano for 9 years as a kid and never got it, now I’m picking it up again and for a week I’ve been reading the books I have walking away more confused. You have a real gift for explaining things clearly (and editing them well visually!) Thank you 🙌
damn 9 years on piano without knowing chords?
Bro this was amazing! I've tried to learn this so many times but always got bored with longass explanations with fancy terms that I didn't know. You made it short, simple and logical. I really don't think I need anymore info, all I gotta do is go experiment with different chords. Thank you so much! You made my day!✨
Your channel is what made me understand this shit. So simple videos so easy to understand i love them thank you♥
I like this sophisticated way of teaching, I do stop here just to prove a point to my friends how much of a genius I am
Thanks for taking time to explain, but the presentation left the tracks at 1:07 when the arrows and lines appeared on the circle without any indication of what they meant or how they got their. You may have got around to that later in the video (I didn't wait to see), but not confusing students in the first place is 10x preferable to trying to retrieve them from confusion.
exacly.
It makes sense when you understand the circle of fifths
short, sweet, to the point. love it
Was quite heplful, thanks! It didn't make me a good music writer yet, but a step was taken.
This made so much more sense to me. That quick clip of the circle of fifths made it click for me. I’ve never understood it before
If anyone doesn't know what a diminished chord is
This is the 'formula' for a diminished chord:
R-3-3
You start off on the root, then you go up 3 half steps and then you go up 3 half steps again.
So if you wanna play an A diminished chord, you start on the root, an A. Then you go up 3 half steps so you play a C. Then you go another 3 half steps up, so you play a D sharp/ E flat.
So an A diminished chord is:
A-C-E flat
I hope this helped, let me know if I made any mistakes/ said anything wrong.
Btw I'm srry if it's not clear, my English isn't the best.
This was the video I’ve been looking for
SPOT ON!
The hats analogy helps a bunch.
These videos are gold.
Finally a theory video I can follow along with! Great work 👍
You are a music pedagogy genius.
i do not understand lol. I'll have to watvh the video again
First try to understand how the cycle of fifth works. helped me alot. ;)
Yeah this video assumes you fully understand keys and the circle of 5ths. If you dont know both really well, go learn about that first.
This video is terrible don’t watch it again lmao
Arisely It’s not bad I think it just requires some prior knowledge first
40 seconds in already lovin the amazing wordplay by this dude, bet you’re a lyricist too man
So for all confused folks, bawically it's like math either you feel it and practice it or you learn it from the ground up which one is easier is obvious
Oh my god someone actually explained it in a way that I can understand
This video is cool. If you already understand the topic. I guess it is nice also if you dont know, to see a quick summary of what is coming.
Such a beautiful explanation.!! Thank you !!! 😍
Thanks so much, my teacher explained this to me but I needed more clarification
This is so underrated. You should do more Videos
this super cool and clear, nice edits too.. for those who are confused.. it's because you are unfamiliar with the term.. maybe u guys should take a few step back first.. because even tho u come to understand this.. executing in on your music is a different matters.. so keep learning friends !
I’ve been struggling with music theory this helped a lot 👍
This makes sense to me and I can see how it doesn’t to others. Music is like a language and there are different styles depending on the country and background you’re from. There are different dialects and sounds that go with it too. Western music involves 12 major keys and 12 minor keys. The blues scales and many other types of styles are kinda a different topic so for the sake of this being simple I’d start with major keys. Each key has its own different variety of notes which is called a scale which make up every chord progression in said key using the notes from the scale. For example C major is a key with the a scale of the notes
C D E F G A B
C major is also a chord that has the notes C E G which if you notice is a combination of notes from the scale I just mentioned. There are multiple combinations of the notes in the scale that create different chords and different combinations of those chords that make songs that create different songs using the key C major. The chord c major isn’t isolated to one key in the sense of belonging to one key. The C major chord for example (C E G) also belongs to multiple different other keys as well. The reason I say music is kinda like learning a new language is because all twelve notes are an alphabet, the scales in each key make up the words in chords and melodies, and the music keys are the context in a sentence or song, and the grammar is music theory behind the meaning of those chords put together in a song.
Some people just make some concepts more difficult than it actually is. Thankfully, I understand this in another way!
this is so well edited
This was very helpful
Great video! You really helped me by mentioning the chord progression pattern-formula for major and minor chords! Thanks a lot for sharing!
i came to this video wanting to know what a chord progression was and came away remembering exactly why i have never learned music
These are all examples of diatonic chord progressions which means all of those chord tones fall into the scale but you can also create and experiment with random chords next to each other and these are called tonic chords and can give you a cool vibe with a lot of tension
Lowkey helped a lot, thank you
2:33 omg lmaooo
Chord progression in “everything I wanted” by Billie elish
😂 😂 😂
Well the 2 examples of 2-5-1 sounded significantly different because in the first example the 5 chord was played below the 2, and in the second example the 5 chord was played above the 2. If you played both examples the same way it would simply have sounded transposed.
what does the 2-5-1 mean? and where does it come from?
Cool it with the vocal fry
INSANELY HELPFUL, THANKYOU
Using Roman numerals on progressions helps to not get it mixed up with other contexts
such as using solfege for melodic tones
after years of getting high and watching youtube videos about music i finally get this :)
The video was super pretty to look at but I had literally no idea what was happening - I think I started dissociating lmaooo
You lost me at 0:51
same
Same
same
Watch a diffrent video an experiment on an instrument
These are amazing, thank you ❤
This helped me so much, thank you
thanks for making me feel like sitting in my math class again.
Very Informative ! Thank you for ur kindly sharing
this editing is so cute tho im obsessed
"It's a G Major. Okay, cool, nice. I like the way that sounds"
I'm not saying this because of my personal opinion, but it's a competitive world out there
Pretty nice video, clean visuals and animations good sound quality, i think the explanation (as a fellow musician) is on point, very clear and straightforward, congrats
Just learn 12 major & minor chords and scales. You will be able to play ANY song in ANY key.
another thing:
the 'context' of a chord can change without changing key (meaning a chord sounding different) but through the chord before it.
let's say you play C major, D minor and E minor in that order.
it sounds kinda unfinished, like it should go either to F major or back to D minor to complete it.
now swap out the D minor for D major
you will notice that instead of the E minor sounding unfinished, It sounds like an epic sad ending that could probably contribute to you crying when a character dies in a movie if it's playing in the background of the scene.
very different.
if yall are confused, i was too but I watched j allen vids on skillshare (just use the trial). his vids are a life saver i stg
This is something I’ve always commonly associated with chords but didn’t know it had a name within theory. I have a better understanding, good vid :-)
Sanding Slow Clap for such a beautiful and enlightening video g dammit! beautiful thank you!
Bravo! What an amazing video!
Wonderful video!!!
this is a really good video
This made everything
i have so many questions. i dont think i learned anything but the video was well made
love your voice dude
This feels like the video explaining The Big Short
Guys just watch “Move Forward Guitar”. He explains it in the perfect way. This dude sounds like he’s writing some essay on music theory.
Awesome video!
Yay. Now I know what I knew before. I didn't learn anything.
I dont even have a piano and this is lit
sloooowly starting to get it
Super helpful video
This is an awesome video!!!!! Thank u!!
that's how chord progression works on different songs.
My favorite chord progression is G, D Em and C.
Even without knowing or remembering anything about the chord progression, You'll know that the chords are made normally from thirds, And the type of thirds (Major/minor) depends on whether you land on a note that exists in the scale.
Loved this video it was great
Beautiful explanation.
It's a ~4 minute video explaining how chord progression works... People take Uni courses on these things. It's gonna be difficult, but once your basics are clear it's easy to get.
Edit: forgot to mention, really helpful video though
very well made video!
i never understood this.... i still dont
Prime, thank you!
If someone was able to explain stuff like this while using as few numbers as possible, I could comprehend these explanations better. My brain doesn't cognate number heavy information and it struggles to catagorize and or draw references from anything labled as a numerical value. To this day after 20 years trying to understand it, I still don't understand it when people use terms like "fifths" or "sevenths" . No matter how many times its been explained to me in numerous ways, it's never clicked with me simply because of the numerical label focus. If alternative labels and concepts existed to define these things other than numerical values, I might have grasped the concepts years ago by now
POV: When youre tryna write a song but dont know how chord progression works
1:23 but why? This is literally exactly what's keeping me away from understanding music theory, why is this the pattern?
Because when you build triads of each tone of a scale you do this with only the notes of that specific scale. When you try this out, you will see, that in a Major scale, you will build a major chord on the first, 4th and 5th note of that scale, while you build minor chords on the rest and that diminished one on the 7th note.
And since the relation between the notes are the same in every major scale, you receive this pattern for major scales.
Now you do the same with all the tones of a minor scale and you will recognize the shown pattern for minor scales.
@@fearge836 thank you so much man!
@@fearge836 I think its 1-3-5 for the major scale not 1-4-5
@@fearge836 1-4-5 is suspended fourth
@@CodeBreakerSI uhm... No? I mean the triad on the 1st, 4th and 5th Note of a major scale, not a chord made from the 1st, 4th and fifth note.
Your videos are amazing.