I'd like to think that F#m7b5 chord is more of a major II chord - more of a D13/A. Jacob loves playing around with ii-V-I progressions and use all sorts of voicings and inversions.
yeah exactly, has the same vibe as that Dmaj on When I was Your Man, D-F-Fm-C, "now my baby is dancing but she's dancing with another man". It even lands on an F as well, diferent base, but very similar sound in my opinion
Your overworking yourself by thinking 13s. F#m7b5 is just easier to memorize and to pick up without doing the math in your head on extensions. Rather not D13 , but maybe D7/A to shape out the 2-5-1. Also makes sense to play it this why in terms of harmonic phrasing and contrary movement behind the theory.
There are many piano teachers on TH-cam, but you are the most relax. And it is great that you use the letters instead of the notes. Playing great piano is already tough enough. But you make it a bit easier. Thank you enormously. 🙏🏻
This one is probably the coolest and most musical of all your great one-zies. More than just a cool voicing, it’s a gorgeous phrase with, for me, new melody and harmony to learn on my keyboards. Thanks, Simon, for all your good work and generosity. I need to check to see if you’re sharing any Robert Glasper’s progressions and voicings.
Thanks for the video! One small thought - for what it's worth I prefer to analyze the f#m7b5 as a d7add9. From a music harmony perspective I believe this chord is functioning as a V/V (i.e. secondary dominant of the G7), so it's simpler to understand the progression when analyzed that way.
Yeah this progression is surprisingly vanilla, but it works so well! You also explain the voice leading in a really good way. Dunno why, but that 13 in the final C chord in your rendition doesn't sit right with me. I'm all for the tense or unresolved chords, but to me the A from the F#m7b5/A (or Am6) through to the G7sus4 wants (desperately) to resolve to the stable G in the C major chord. A part of me also wants to hear a b9 in the G chord, like G11b9 (if that's the correct notation, I'm rusty. Then again it would lose that simplicity.
Great video. I don't know if you're aware of this, but 'He Won't Hold You' is actually in Jacob's songbook. There you can see the chords and voicings that he prefers to use.
@@Piano_Pig you're welcome! Sorry I haven't been able to return to the academy yet... a lot has happened since we last spoke in regards to my health and stuff.. but hopefully I'll be back soon!
I know Jacob is widely regarded as an extraordinary musician. But I must confess that in spite of trying to like his work, I cannot really understand it or even enjoy it. Thanks for this video, without the singing and other arrangements I can now appreciate the beauty and simplicity of this progression. Best!
I'm with you. I can tell from listening to him talk about music that he definitely knows his stuff. But the sound he creates doesn't really do it for me. This is a great little progression, but is it really that much better than all the great gospel musicians before him? I remember him playing a jazzy blues piano riff and everyone talking about how revolutionary it was, and like sure it sounded good, but better than all the greats that have come before? I don't really get why everyone bills him as the musical prodigy of this age
This may not be his best example his genius but his acuity for harmonies and the deconstruction of difficult pieces has created his legend. Many musicians are great, he is separated by his willingness and ability to explain what makes the music work. I've mentioned to someone of my friends that there are more highly skilled multi instrumentalists like him, but many don't put themselves out there. He has had the benefit of great tutors and guidance but he does the most with his gifting. In my humble opinion, that is.
In my opinion, it's definitely a G7sus4, quite a popular voicing and an easy one to remember - just play the root and then a triad starting one step below that root. Steely Dan uses it often I believe. Functionally I think it serves as a dominant pulling back towards the tonic, and not as a sub dominant F. But that's just my opinion.
@@ViaOSCard he's plays G in the bass and F,G,A,C on top. There's no hint of a G7 because the D&B is missing from the G7 chord. There's no quality of a G7 sound imo due to those missing 3rd and 5th notes of G major.
@@ephjaymusic As far as I understand, in a sus4 chords you replace the third with the fourth, so I would not expect a B there. As for the D, well, the 5th does not add much to character of the the chord, I believe. Even for triads - play the root and the third, and you can pretty much tell that it's a major or minor chord. Play the root and the fifth, and it's just a power chord, a bit less characterised in my opinion.
@@ViaOSCard I don’t think you realize this, but your first response is actually proving OP’s point. No reason to call it G7sus4 when the intuitive way to memorize it is as an F major in the right hand and a G in the bass: precisely the definition of F/G. You said “just play the root and then a triad starting one step below that root” and I just want you to know that this aligns more with F/G than G7sus4.
@@SpencerTwiddy I don't necessarily think that the easy way to memorize a voicing dictates its chord's functionality. There's always the role of context too. In this context that chord really feels like a G in my opinion. F/G conveys the voicing better, but G7sus4 conveys the function better I think
Hie Mr Simon really appreciate the content. Humble request here, please do a review on the "Hymn To Freedom" especially just the melody and bass of the song like you did here: 6:09
Thank You for the beautiful progression breakdown! Why is the chord notated F#m7b5 if it is also a D7 with 9, skipping the root D? And it tends to play the D-role in the progression, as I hear it )
Can someone help me (a music theory noob) understand what the f#m7b5 is doing there? I love the sound of that chord, but I don't really understand its place there in terms of like roman numeral analysis or why it sounds so good.
there is something irritatingly self-satisfied about the way collier yucks it up for the camera every time - like some musical messiah. non of this stuff will be around in 200 years time (Hello Mozart!) this chord progression is frankly underwhelming piglet's own yt channel intro chord progression is way more groovy find them here "THE PIANOPIG INTRO CHORDS" yes. as another commenter said. the haircut is an improvement.
Thanks. Don't explain too much. Then all the secrets are known... Some music looses it's mystery once I know how they play it... So from some pieces I prefer not to know...
I'd argue that when you know what's happening and can really hear the music, it enhances the experience and allows you to see the true depth and beauty of it.
@@Piano_Pig Right. A good other opinion. But for me I lost the mystery for some songs. And then I notice it does not interest me anymore. Real easy songs never interest me (I can compose that even when I'm sleeping). It has to be more complicated (how did he ever think of such a chord progression!) But when I can follow what he does and I can play it too... I loose interest. Be blessed with your gift. Your explanation is very clear. Great & thanks.
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In the great words of Jacob Himself, “less is only more when you know what more is.”
Oh wow... That definitely explains why all of his covers are so phenomenal
Yeah, the simplicity of it is great. Makes me realise how simple is so often better than complex!
Exactly! 🙂
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how to write simple but beatiful chord progressions?
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@@Piano_Pig how to write simple but beatiful chord progressions?
This song made me sob my eyes out when I first heard it. My favorite tune of his.
Same!
Thank you, this is a lovey progression, I am glad that I found this video.
I'm so happy you made this video, He won't hold you is one of the most beautiful songs Jacob has done
I'm with you on that one!
I'm impressed you're able to pick up the voicings in the last few bars. Such a lovely progression. Well done.
I'd like to think that F#m7b5 chord is more of a major II chord - more of a D13/A. Jacob loves playing around with ii-V-I progressions and use all sorts of voicings and inversions.
Makes more sense
yeah exactly, has the same vibe as that Dmaj on When I was Your Man, D-F-Fm-C, "now my baby is dancing but she's dancing with another man". It even lands on an F as well, diferent base, but very similar sound in my opinion
Your overworking yourself by thinking 13s. F#m7b5 is just easier to memorize and to pick up without doing the math in your head on extensions. Rather not D13 , but maybe D7/A to shape out the 2-5-1. Also makes sense to play it this why in terms of harmonic phrasing and contrary movement behind the theory.
the moment I saw F#m7b5 I started scrolling for this comment
To be fair I made this video in a bit of a rush and that was bad harmonic analysis on my end! You're definitely right on that one.
This is amazing, thank you Simon for everything you have donde for the music and your followers. U inspire us
Thanks Alan! Much appreciated 🙏🙏
Truly he does he has helped me so much with my growth.
very much reminds me of "Somebody To Love." Very lovely sound, thank you for the video!
You should listen to Jacob's rendition if it, it's strikingly similar.
I love this song. This melody is so beautiful
There are many piano teachers on TH-cam, but you are the most relax. And it is great that you use the letters instead of the notes.
Playing great piano is already tough enough. But you make it a bit easier. Thank you enormously. 🙏🏻
Thanks man, I appreciate the comment! 🙏🙏
Simon, you simplify the tune well. The song sound like Gospe, R & B, and Jazz too me. Beautiful song.
That F chord put you at home relaxing heavenly no worries great! playing
This one is probably the coolest and most musical of all your great one-zies. More than just a cool voicing, it’s a gorgeous phrase with, for me, new melody and harmony to learn on my keyboards. Thanks, Simon, for all your good work and generosity. I need to check to see if you’re sharing any Robert Glasper’s progressions and voicings.
Thanks man! Got plenty of Glasper progressions on the channel :)
Unbelievable. Thank you for your service sir, can’t wait for more.
You're welcome! 🙏
Need more like this please 🙏🏻 love from India
That F# min sub for the Dmajor in that 251 is beautiful!
It really is!
You mean Dminor?
not me almost cryin...so beautiful.
Thanks for the video! One small thought - for what it's worth I prefer to analyze the f#m7b5 as a d7add9. From a music harmony perspective I believe this chord is functioning as a V/V (i.e. secondary dominant of the G7), so it's simpler to understand the progression when analyzed that way.
No need to call it D7add9. D9 would work!
True, the D9 makes it a 2-5-1. I guess the F#m7(b5) does work as a viiº/V also but I like the D chord analysis better.
Nice man this is a perfect video format. Inspiring, yet to the point, practical and level 10 coming from something simple. Thank you!
Thanks Jon, I appreciate the comment! 🙏
More like this please. So nice but made simple by your teaching.
Great breakdown, thanks!
My pleasure! 🙏
Beautiful and thanks for breaking down the theory
My pleasure! 🙏
Gorgeous!
I love this! I will learn this for sure!
I’m sorry but I have heard this progression before in the song “ if the world was ending “ also a beautiful song
Beautiful! Gave me goosebumps!!! :)
Yeah this progression is surprisingly vanilla, but it works so well! You also explain the voice leading in a really good way.
Dunno why, but that 13 in the final C chord in your rendition doesn't sit right with me. I'm all for the tense or unresolved chords, but to me the A from the F#m7b5/A (or Am6) through to the G7sus4 wants (desperately) to resolve to the stable G in the C major chord.
A part of me also wants to hear a b9 in the G chord, like G11b9 (if that's the correct notation, I'm rusty. Then again it would lose that simplicity.
Please do more jacob collier tutorials. Big fan
Phenomenal
beauitful!
Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure!
Great video. I don't know if you're aware of this, but 'He Won't Hold You' is actually in Jacob's songbook. There you can see the chords and voicings that he prefers to use.
Nice video man.
Nailed it again Simon.
Thanks Alwyn, much appreciated 🙏
Thanks - you Rock !
You're welcome!
Beautiful
This is Jacob,beings your descent cannot comprehend my progressions.
Your character and style of talking are so humble, thank you for the video
Hokot hoisa bondhu!
Reminds me a little bit of Robin Gibb's last song, Don't cry alone
This is really great man. Can’t wait to try this tonight 😍
Let us know how it goes
Thanks Matt! It's a fun one to play around with, enjoy!
Please do Mac Ayres chord progression
Great !! Thank you so much !!
You're welcome! 🙏
ok good good key of c what a relief.
Simon's the man ! :)
🙏🙏🙏
It’s „He won’t hold you“ btw
My mistake!
Umm this is amazing
Oooooooh loving the new set up and hair cut Simon!
Thanks Ayesha, much appreciated 🙏
@@Piano_Pig you're welcome! Sorry I haven't been able to return to the academy yet... a lot has happened since we last spoke in regards to my health and stuff.. but hopefully I'll be back soon!
Plus 1 for the haircut !!
@@jackbussy3133 looks great doesn't it!
Amazing!
Wow
I know Jacob is widely regarded as an extraordinary musician. But I must confess that in spite of trying to like his work, I cannot really understand it or even enjoy it. Thanks for this video, without the singing and other arrangements I can now appreciate the beauty and simplicity of this progression. Best!
I'm with you. I can tell from listening to him talk about music that he definitely knows his stuff. But the sound he creates doesn't really do it for me. This is a great little progression, but is it really that much better than all the great gospel musicians before him? I remember him playing a jazzy blues piano riff and everyone talking about how revolutionary it was, and like sure it sounded good, but better than all the greats that have come before? I don't really get why everyone bills him as the musical prodigy of this age
agree
This may not be his best example his genius but his acuity for harmonies and the deconstruction of difficult pieces has created his legend. Many musicians are great, he is separated by his willingness and ability to explain what makes the music work. I've mentioned to someone of my friends that there are more highly skilled multi instrumentalists like him, but many don't put themselves out there. He has had the benefit of great tutors and guidance but he does the most with his gifting. In my humble opinion, that is.
@@SirNoxasKrad damn. Either it's too complex and 'lacks emotion' or it's too simple and it's been done before, can never please everyone
Sounds like Queen "Somebody to Love"
For the F#m b5 (or maybe Am b6) I notice the music doesn't show the F#. I do like the voicing of the chords. I agree it had a gospel feel.
My mistake! That sneaky F# escaped the video! 👀
Nice video and what make is your overdampered in the background
Nice👍
When the melody and the bass are played Alon, I hear an echo of Aaron Copeland.
Hi, Lovely progression but where's the f in sharp in bar three written ?
Ahhh I forgot, my mistake!!
Hol up... this is jst Queen - somebody to love
nice😊👏👍
@4:41
Thanks for the awesome breakdown! Question: isn't the G7sus4 you're playing actually just F/G or an F add2?
In my opinion, it's definitely a G7sus4, quite a popular voicing and an easy one to remember - just play the root and then a triad starting one step below that root. Steely Dan uses it often I believe. Functionally I think it serves as a dominant pulling back towards the tonic, and not as a sub dominant F. But that's just my opinion.
@@ViaOSCard he's plays G in the bass and F,G,A,C on top. There's no hint of a G7 because the D&B is missing from the G7 chord.
There's no quality of a G7 sound imo due to those missing 3rd and 5th notes of G major.
@@ephjaymusic As far as I understand, in a sus4 chords you replace the third with the fourth, so I would not expect a B there. As for the D, well, the 5th does not add much to character of the the chord, I believe. Even for triads - play the root and the third, and you can pretty much tell that it's a major or minor chord. Play the root and the fifth, and it's just a power chord, a bit less characterised in my opinion.
@@ViaOSCard I don’t think you realize this, but your first response is actually proving OP’s point.
No reason to call it G7sus4 when the intuitive way to memorize it is as an F major in the right hand and a G in the bass: precisely the definition of F/G.
You said “just play the root and then a triad starting one step below that root” and I just want you to know that this aligns more with F/G than G7sus4.
@@SpencerTwiddy I don't necessarily think that the easy way to memorize a voicing dictates its chord's functionality. There's always the role of context too. In this context that chord really feels like a G in my opinion. F/G conveys the voicing better, but G7sus4 conveys the function better I think
Are you doing it in a different key for simplicity? Sounds amazing regardless though.
He originally plays it in C half sharp, so I had to change it to either C or C# - and C was chosen for simplicity 🙂
Today I learned there is such a thing as a half sharp scale...
Hie Mr Simon really appreciate the content. Humble request here, please do a review on the "Hymn To Freedom" especially just the melody and bass of the song like you did here: 6:09
Song makes me feel some typa way 😩
It really gets me! So beautiful 🎹🐷
Are you using the Keyscape C7 for this video? 🤔
I am indeed! I use that for all my videos 🙂
@@Piano_Pig haha that’s awesome! I was playing along and I couldn’t stop thinking how similar they sounded. #Spectrasonics is the best 👌
Probably nitpicking here, but am I the only one hearing a Fsus2/A (with the same voicing as G/B) instead of Amin7 in the first chord ?
it's about how it sounds and not how it looks : D
Nice progression. Are you missing the F# in the notation?
Ooops! Yes I am! Sorry about that
I think that G7sus4 is actually F/G or so called G11, right?
F/G is just a shortcut way of writing G7sus4. You couldn't call it G11 because that implies it contains the 3rd, which it doesn't.
Am I the only 1 being reminded of the Cyndi Lauper tune “ True colours”??
It's called "He Won't Hold *YOU*".
My mistake!
what does Piano Pig mean?
Whatever you want it to mean 🐷🐷
@@Piano_Pig was curious if there was a inside joke or something
Buen video..como siempre
...nos compartirias mas tecnica de bill evans?..
There's definitely more Bill Evans videos on the way! 🙂
Thank You for the beautiful progression breakdown!
Why is the chord notated F#m7b5 if it is also a D7 with 9, skipping the root D? And it tends to play the D-role in the progression, as I hear it )
You could definitely view it as a D7 voicing in its 2nd inversion if you prefer :)
What kind of software do you use to show the keys?
Check out 'Chordie' - that's a free and easy to use software that does a similar thing
Can someone help me (a music theory noob) understand what the f#m7b5 is doing there? I love the sound of that chord, but I don't really understand its place there in terms of like roman numeral analysis or why it sounds so good.
Maybe look at it as a D7 in its 2nd inversion, acting as a secondary dominant leading to the G7.
What software do you use
I use a lot of software 🎹🐷
@@Piano_Pig to display the virtual piano
It originally starts in Db sounds way better, kinda lame yo put it in c to make it “easier” for viewers.
There's an old South African gospel song with the same chprd progression
What's it called?
yo you're lookin healthy man
Thanks man! Feeling healthy too 🙂
@@Piano_Pig that's good to hear man :)
he won't hold me😂
Imagine if it was just I VI IV V lol
You left the F# out in the notation
I know... my bad!
F#min7flat5 is a pretty tortured reading of Amin with a color note.
there is something irritatingly self-satisfied about the way collier yucks it up for the camera every time - like some musical messiah. non of this stuff will be around in 200 years time (Hello Mozart!)
this chord progression is frankly underwhelming
piglet's own yt channel intro chord progression is way more groovy
find them here "THE PIANOPIG INTRO CHORDS"
yes. as another commenter said. the haircut is an improvement.
Thanks. Don't explain too much. Then all the secrets are known... Some music looses it's mystery once I know how they play it... So from some pieces I prefer not to know...
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I'd argue that when you know what's happening and can really hear the music, it enhances the experience and allows you to see the true depth and beauty of it.
@@Piano_Pig Right. A good other opinion. But for me I lost the mystery for some songs. And then I notice it does not interest me anymore. Real easy songs never interest me (I can compose that even when I'm sleeping). It has to be more complicated (how did he ever think of such a chord progression!)
But when I can follow what he does and I can play it too... I loose interest.
Be blessed with your gift. Your explanation is very clear. Great & thanks.
Jacob Collier loves using drop two chords, that's what gives it that gospel sound
Amazing!