Totally agree 👏👏👏

I can’t believe these videos don’t have more views and you more subscribers. This series is GOLD. I’m binging all of them. What a treat. Thanks for all the hard work!

One day, hopefully twenty years ago, this will make sense to me.

Jaws has such a variety of music. People always talk about the dark stuff, but never the pretty stuff or fun stuff. Great video!

Love that you include exercises. I've been working alot with the hexatonic scale recently. I practice by moving a major 7(omit 5) voicing up a (hexatonic scale) degree. It switches between minor and maj7 but sounds amazing when you start the left hand at a different part of the scale, or have it play an entirely diff hexatonic scale.

You can go either clockwise or counterclockwise… Your music will still remain the same 😂

More videos on Bartok please 🙏🏼 Great content 🔥

Wait. Wagner gets videos demonetized now?

What an excellent zoom-in!

Blur's Coffee and TV uses this chord

In mathematics we define CCW as the positive rotation

After kay flock Igor Stravinsky is the greatest

always felt it was also debussy with his radical thinking of harmony that started the 20th century (of music)

loved this chord when I first heard the piece (when I was a teenager) ! and still do, this was like meeting an old friend:)

Ermeto Pascual definetely borrowed a few harmonic concepts from Claire

genius

Wow. Never thought about it that way. That makes sense. I gotta sit down and try it out.

They're both octatonic subsets which were hallmarks of not only both of their sounds but in general, of early 20th century European composers. So it very well could be a coincidence. But Bartok also had deeply ambivalent feelings towards Stravinsky, seeming to simultaneously appreciate Stravinsky for doing everything that Bartok thought modern music should be doing while also doing it not very well (too much literal repetition and actual quotation for Bartok's liking. He, like most avant-garde composers of the era, also despised Stravinsky's turn to Neoclassicism) So it's not inconceivable to think that Bartok might have made nods to Stravinsky's music to show him how it's done. But again, there's only so many ways you can bunch up notes of the octatonic without the chords starting to sound like each other.

That song is crazy. I just recently heard the weird intro. I've only heard the song billions of times on the radio, but I'm sure the DJ was talking over that part.

The stink face is by far the ultimate musician’s compliment.

If you look hard enough, you can probably find the same chord in Classical or Romantic music, since they can be interpreted as D major and Eb major triads with a bunch of suspended notes. It's a similar idea to the 7 note chord in Beethoven's 9th, which is a diminished 7th chord over D minor.

Heck yes

Clare Fischer has the richest and most satisfying harmony of any Jazz pianist that I've ever heard. He is a master of arranging and voice leading. Despite the harmonic complexity of much of his music, it never comes across as distasteful or esoteric.

Magical. Always loved this soundtrack

Not finished with the video yet so don't know if you mention it but I read somewhere that he was one of Herbie's favorites. I really wish there were more videos of him 🎶

Math-metal time

Triads, in second inversion especially, are like harmonic superglue. They can make anything work.

Beautiful harmonies! But two of the chords are not noted correctly (not what you played). The second chord was notated with a G and E (6th) at the bottom, but you played a 7th G to F. Then the last chord was notated with an E octave in the bass, but you played and said it was a 10th from C to E.

Or E flat diminished with maj seven and nine added 😁

I’m huge fan of Bartok’s viola concerto, but even being a musician and huge music appreciator myself I have to admit that Bartok is hard to listen to! I really need to dig deeper into his music more. Great video by the way!

To me, it doesn't move like a clock going in one direction. From middle C going right to G you have a P5, from C going left to F you have a P5. If you flip the circle with C going right to F or going left to G you have P4. 🤷

4:51 this too

Now play the Law and Order theme song please. I think Bartok wrote that too.

Functionally you get this from the F major 6th diminished scale of chords, where you go to the C# dim7 chord and move the G and Bb up the scale to A and C, borrowing from the F6 chord. Then he just uses the stankiest sounding inversion of that

Plenty used chord on the xxth century, specially by bartok though. Had hours of fun coming up with permutations of progressions using this chord and his axis system That is, before i got a white collar job

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It's sort of an inverted Hendrix cord

Skyrim battle music

Brad Mehldau uses this all the time, although without a lot of the doubling.

5:47 My mind immediately goes "F minor 11 over G".

6:28 Some of those mistakes sounded good those. Especially at 6:07. Very different vibe even though it's just one note difference.

Maybe this isn't a helpful way of looking at it, but personally, I see those first three chords all as being different levels of tension over the V7 (G7). You can look at the E minor over F minor as a structure from G mix. b2, then G13 as a less tense colour taken from plain G mix., before upping the tension again with a structure taken from (maybe) G super loc. I doubt he thought of it that way though. Like you said, he wrote this with the movement of each voice in mind.

The first time i heard the rite of spring i was shocked to hear how much Stravinsky had borrowed from John Williams’ Star Wars soundtrack ;)

Been watching loads of these weekly chords man so good, love from UK!

This is amazing. I was planning on making my own electric version of this movement but now there's no point. Were all the parts performed on keyboard? (minus the drums)

Isnt that first one nearly identical to the chord in augurs of spring section?

i like your eyes halo

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Mario world castle

Not every melody is best understood by describing it in chord terms.