The first 500 people who click the link in the description will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: skl.sh/12tone23 Some additional thoughts/corrections: 1) I tried to choose my wording carefully on this one, but just in case it didn't come across in the video, I want to draw a very clear distinction here between "different from traditional European musical vocabulary" and "bad". A lot of theorists fail to properly differentiate between those two things and wind up, intentionally or otherwise, implying that the Blues is a "lesser" art form than the harmonic language of the Common Practice period. So, to be absolutely 100% crystal clear: The Blues is great, it's just as valid an approach as Classical music, and honestly it's probably a lot more influential these days. 2) Again, I should stress that while the 12-bar pattern is helpful in understanding the Blues, it is not the extent of the tradition, nor does it represent the entire musical vocabulary. It's just a good starting point for exploration.
@HungryGuyStories4 жыл бұрын
After going back and watching your early videos, I noticed that your voice has gradually become deeper over time.
@Cesar-ey7wu4 жыл бұрын
have you some examples of recordings where harmonic 7th or microtonal blue notes can be heard ?
@east58714 жыл бұрын
12tone “I want to draw a very clear distinction here...”. Bahahahaha I see what you did there.
@andystube67134 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video about Billie Eilish's music and what makes it different? What makes it so catchy, how she writes music or mabye what scales/notes it uses. An "Understanding" this song type of video mabye?
@robertbrawley50484 жыл бұрын
No thankyou . I will pass
@chickennuggies9064 жыл бұрын
„it’s all over the place“ *draws zubat*
@paulsam41594 жыл бұрын
i don't get it and i'm upset for that
@Cyssane4 жыл бұрын
@@paulsam4159 I don't get the drawing of whatever-it-was when he mentioned a "moan". It didn't look like anything that moans -- it looked like a worm? Kind of? PS: I didn't get the zubat reference either.
@solsar30114 жыл бұрын
Paul Sam I’m guessing it’s a Pokémon go reference?
@roadogsc4 жыл бұрын
@@solsar3011 in the original pokemon games (and many other pokemon games) zubat always showed up in caves every few steps, it was a very annoying thing and was hated by pokemon players.
@KrBme784 жыл бұрын
@@roadogsc The Pokemon Red&Blue Honest Trailer referred to Zubat as "cave herpes" and it's a very accurate.
@mentalitydesignvideo4 жыл бұрын
There's no way to explain the blues and the plagal cadence at the end, and the somewhat unusual 12-bar structure without addressing the West African griot tradition and the neighbouring traditions, the Chadic/Yoruba/Niger continuum. There you get your shuffle rhythm, you get your blues scale, you get your ''staying on the tonic for as long as I feel like it, then go to the IV sound for a culmination and then go back" thing, you get a lot of 14 bar (three phrases for 12 bars and a 2-bar tag) form or similar. Introduce the V chord briefly, drop the tag and you get the blues. Also the Dorian sound of the R&B/Disco is "stay on I minor for tonic sound, then IV major for some tension, then go back" can be traced to this sensibility, I think.
@yubtubtime4 жыл бұрын
That is insightful, my dude 👍
@Markle2k4 жыл бұрын
And Malian music. I don't know if you already referred to that because I am not familiar with the slash terms you used, but the music from international Malian artists just screams "blues!!!"
@mentalitydesignvideo4 жыл бұрын
@@Markle2k Mali is one of the countries in West Africa, so yes, it's 100% in that continuum. Chad and Niger is right there and Yoruba is the largest language/culture/religion/tribal umbrella or affiliation in that region.
@saam67684 жыл бұрын
@@mentalitydesignvideo Psh. Real music theorists know its bc plagal cadence just sounds sick. the squares can keep the authentic.
@mentalitydesignvideo4 жыл бұрын
@@saam6768 Psh x2 Authentic is for squares Plagal is for theory dweebs Real men use backdoor resolution, bVII7 -> I
@diegosanchez8944 жыл бұрын
"unproven theory" *writes out Riemann function maths and music nerd? this channel's great!
@gooball20054 жыл бұрын
*math
@nelsonnicholson61754 жыл бұрын
@@gooball2005 Britain.
@karlwaugh304 жыл бұрын
**maths (for there is more one)
@oliversutton75924 жыл бұрын
5:37 Shine On You Crazy Diamond🎶
@Apost03454 жыл бұрын
I couldn't have been the only one that noticed it lmao
@mjtsuk4 жыл бұрын
Great shout out to the Riemann Zeta Function!
@AndromedaCripps4 жыл бұрын
A much more thorough explanation of the blues than I've ever heard, even in my Jazz Theory course that started by explaining the blues 😂
@songfulmusicofsongs4 жыл бұрын
Well, perhaps in Jazz they don't really care about the folk blues. It was the city jazz-blues from the beginning.
@AlbertStimson20 күн бұрын
Something I love about the harmonic seventh chord is you can practically hear a subtone two octaves below the lowest note when it's perfectly in tune and in balance. It really gives it a kick!
@liquidsolids94154 жыл бұрын
Very cool video. Any two guitar players can say to each other “12-bar blues in E” and instantly make great music together, even if they’ve never met before. Thanks!
@hannabaal1504 жыл бұрын
For years and years. It's the ticket in.
@Sierrahtl2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@bodanerius4 жыл бұрын
Check out some of the really early blues recordings of the musicians who was born in the 1800s. The 12-bar structure is a rarity, sometimes theres turnarounds but not always. Robert Johnson didnt always follow the 12-bar format. And listen to Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night. The original Black Betty, early John Lee Hooker etc. The one constant are blue notes. Both in the vocals and the open chord tunings. Not the 12-bar. That came later.
@rod97854 жыл бұрын
Yeh, add Lightnin Hopkins to that list of guys who would stick to the 1 indefinitely, then only shift to the 4 or the turnaround 5 as the story demanded, not the rules of 12 bar.
@brucekentallen4 жыл бұрын
This wasn't on his extensive wikipedia research lmao
@thebrazilianatlantis1652 жыл бұрын
"The 12-bar structure is a rarity" You're flatly wrong about that. And Robert Johnson and John Lee Hooker weren't born in the 1800s. And Blind Willie Johnson made no blues recordings. "That came later" Nope, the two blues songs that can be traced back the furthest, "Joe Turner" and "Got No More Home Than A Dog," used 12-bar.
@malaquiasalfaro81 Жыл бұрын
Drone notes and a low growl or mumble for the singing. Earliest blues were called secular spirituals, which tended to sound pretty haunting, as it moved away from a heavenly hope in spirituals, and expressed the excruciating physical emotional and religious pain of an oppressed people.
@dawgd0g4 жыл бұрын
I have been subscribed to this man for over a year now and I just noticed he is left-handed
@luxinveritate33654 жыл бұрын
Lol, I am too and it was my wife who pointed it out that he was, a couple days ago.
@mesientogut67014 жыл бұрын
Didn't he say once that the animator is not him?
@charlesporsbjer24164 жыл бұрын
@@quave_ @TokaM @Nick It used to be a right handed guy helping him on his first couple of videos. He did draw a bit better. Now he does it himself to save money and he's gotten better with time!
@hannabaal1504 жыл бұрын
They are also drawing from right to left. It does keep the hand out of the way of the drawings. I've always liked illustrators.
@want-diversecontent38874 жыл бұрын
@mark heyne we can't see through hands
@awookieandagerman4 жыл бұрын
Like I always say, everything always comes back to the two B's: the Blues and The Beatles. If you find a modern song with no connection to either one, I'll be surprised.
@anon87404 жыл бұрын
Is Shostakovich modern
@luigivercotti64104 жыл бұрын
Anon Yup, but no songs. You'll get'em next time.
@anon87404 жыл бұрын
@@luigivercotti6410 okay technically you're correct, the best type of correct. But really in a colloquial setting, like a KZbin comment section, songs are just any musical work so Shostakovich made plenty. But yes you are technically correct.
@anon87404 жыл бұрын
@@luigivercotti6410 what about early Latin American music? Like afro Cuban stuff? That stuff was kinda developed separately from what the north American blacks were doing with blues
@luigivercotti64104 жыл бұрын
Anon Emphasis on "early". When the tradition was brought to the US and became mainstream there was naturally a strong influence of the established style, in order to make it palatable to a foreign audience. And regarding Shosty, seeing as he idolised Stravinsky, ie a Jazz-God almost equal to Miles Davis in power, and even wrote an entire jazz suite, I wouldn't exactly call him uncompromised.
@reillywalker1954 жыл бұрын
One thing that becomes more apparent about the blues if you play the harmonica is that the V chord is often played as a minor v chord rather than as a major V chord. That effectively puts the music into the Mixolydian mode, further stripping away the sense of resolution to the tonic and creating a sound that's bright but wants to resolve down rather than up.
@theccarbiter3 жыл бұрын
Usually the V stays major even when playing minor blues
@PaulGarnerBlueskiwi3 жыл бұрын
The I and the V both have an ambiguous major/minor "blues" harmony. It's very common for lead instruments to be emphasising the minor 3rd of the V chord, even while the rhythm instruments are staying on the major side playing dominant 7th or 9th chords. Mixolydian fits over it, but I wouldn't say blues is "in" Mixolydian mode because then you lose this important sense of ambiguous tonality. Blues harmony is its own thing.
@GizzyDillespee2 жыл бұрын
What happens is you're on the flat7th of the I, and then you forget to let it go when you move to the V major, so that ends up sounding a bit minor too, when that happens.
@ericchin739 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's a borrowed chord. Very common technique in music, especially on the V or v chord.
@east58714 жыл бұрын
Seriously you should have started with “Hey let me draw this out for you!” or “I don’t want to draw this out any longer than necessary but....”
@LoveMostHigh4 жыл бұрын
I can't tune a guitar very well because everything sounds good to me
@hannabaal1504 жыл бұрын
Keep playin', it doesn't matter, it will sort itself out, just keep playin'.
@baronvonbeandip4 жыл бұрын
Very relatable... but with music in general.
@randomguy2634 жыл бұрын
I'd love it if you could do an analysis of Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson.
@loganwarnermusic4 жыл бұрын
Great song
@DanteMorius14 жыл бұрын
I saw the title and I was like "Yeah, I know that stuff", 6 minutes later it was more like "I KNEW SHIT MAN". Thanks for that!
@ComicPower3 жыл бұрын
The blues is the father of all American music.
@Razz4154 жыл бұрын
Ah, I remember memorizing the blues scales in High School. It was almost like magic. Made improv easy. Lost all that now that I don't play anymore, but yeah over 100 years later blues defined most of the music I listen to today.
@lucianodebenedictis60144 жыл бұрын
I think blues approach to harmony through it and its derived genres is so engrained in our generations that it's harder to explain why it's different from a common practice perspective than the opposite (how common practice has certain rules that aren't relevant in blues)
@richardwentworth69044 жыл бұрын
"You could only really use one chord quality or else you'd have to fret with additional fingers as well, so making everything dominant made actually playing the chords a lot easier." Personally I'm not aware of any early players who used a dominant tuning. I'd be surprised to find any. Besides, slides in blues are typically used for playing vocal-like melodic parts or licks (and often with additional use of the fingers for fretting anyway), not strumming chords.
@azunc94234 жыл бұрын
Has a "understanding X song" video been done on Black Sabbath? I'd really love seeing a video on "The Straightener", my favorite outro ever.
@ec0ec0ec0004 жыл бұрын
PLEASE go deeper into this topic! it left me quite intrigued.
@ZipplyZane4 жыл бұрын
I actually continue to argue that the IV7 chord does resolve to the I chord---just in a nonstandard way. It's a plagal cadence with an addtional note that brings it home--that 7th. Since it is the flat 3 or shart 2of the key, it can resolve up by halfstep to the 3. In other words, if you're in C, then the F7 chord has an Eb, which resolves up to an E. Combine that with the plagal cadence and you get a sort of resolution. I've actually used it outside of a blues context instead of the more typical Fm-C (IVmin-I)progression, when I need the A natural for the melody. It could kinda be my signature sound at this point--if I ever actually released my comps to the public.
@ZipplyZane4 жыл бұрын
@fjf sjdnx Someone else doing it wouldn't make it not characteristic of my music, any more than other people having a gruff voice makes it not characteristic of Louis Armstrong's singing.
@MischieviousJirachi4 жыл бұрын
@fjf sjdnx When? How???
@Krieghandt4 жыл бұрын
Hey music theory nerd (Hey, me too) can you discuss Phillip Tag's extended tonal present, chord loops, and dual tonality? I would love to hear your views on this subject.
@anthonybeers3 жыл бұрын
Come to Africa and listen to children scat singing in the very rural areas. Most of these components can be found in the back waters of Mozambique.
@protostargaming39724 жыл бұрын
When I was a boy down in South Illinois I heard a man playin' the blues oh what a wonderful noise He had an old guitar but not a dollar to his name Makin' music so sad but he was happy just the same He said son come on here, let me give you a clue If you want a happy life you gotta learn to play the blues
@linatwoones3 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh this is that Phineas and Ferb song right
@protostargaming39723 жыл бұрын
@@linatwoones Yes!!
@oedebiri4 жыл бұрын
European music is meant to climax and finish; it is hobby. African music is meant to continue forever; it is life.
@veridicusmaximus60103 жыл бұрын
What??? Stop!
@sepehrsetakhr49964 жыл бұрын
Please make more videos on blues! And explore it more; thanks
@jeffyutzler3094 жыл бұрын
I can't wait to watch this video. I've been hearing about 12-bar blues my whole life but I don't yet really know what it is.
@minogallone30534 жыл бұрын
there's a book called Africa and blues by Gerhard Kubik who tries to find similarities of african music and the afromerican music
@chzzyg26984 жыл бұрын
Great info! I've been studying Delta Blues lately, getting back into playing guitar again, and when I tried to dig deeper than the 20's I hit a brick wall. The recordings were getting more and more scarce, and horrible in audio quality for obvious reasons. Knowing the name W.C. Handy, gives me a starting point. Thanks!
@pilchardpliskin93814 жыл бұрын
Interesting thing about the 4:5:6:7 chord is that 19 tone equal temperament approximates it well
@fernandolamadrid98894 жыл бұрын
And 12 does too, it's just that 12 folds the three main flavours of minor sevenths into one note that can stand for all of them. 19 distinguishes the harmonic seventh but keeps the just minor and Pythagorean sevenths merged, and 22 distinguishes the just minor seventh but merges the Pythagorean and harmonic ones.
@rglover4444 жыл бұрын
Zubat.... You just HAVE To follow me everywhere huh...?
@MaceGill2 жыл бұрын
Just a note if you're jamming this into a western vocabulary, I think the juxtaposition of essentially 'minor' melodic tonality over a 'major' harmonic structure is why there was a rise minor sevenths that don't function traditionally. After all, in "C", the C7 has the presence of the minor 7th from the C blues scale, the Eb in the F7 couples with the minor third in the blues scale, etc. But there seems to be SO MANY wonderful harmonic variations! Even more so in the 20s and 30s, and I'm just talking about the 12-bar pattern here. I think it's a shame, honestly, that post WWII seems to have lost a lot of that and the 12-bar pattern has become ubiquitously static.
@plev104 жыл бұрын
This video is supposed to be about music. So why is the entirety of this presentation a series of scribbles?
@songfulmusicofsongs4 жыл бұрын
I think that's how they teach music. Because music is very abstract, they have to put first their thoughts on paper.
@colonelsanders16173 жыл бұрын
The 12 bar blues that we used in my high school jazz band warm up was | 1^7 | 4^7 | 1^9 | 1^9 | | 4^9 | 4^9 | 1^9 | 1^9 | | 2m7 | 5^7 | 1^7 | 5^7 | It was cool I really liked the 9 chords
@mrrodgers58713 жыл бұрын
the ii-V plus the quick-change makes that much more of a jazz blues than a traditional one. Plus the 9s. Not a bad thing at all, nor wrong, but just putting it in the historical context of the many blues out there.
@captainalex80033 жыл бұрын
Title: The World's Most Important Chord Progression Viewer: Ah yes, the Four Chord Song Thumbnail: Exploring The 12 Bar Blues Viewer: WHAT THE F-- *glass breaks*
@krisjaniswhittaker-lee61494 жыл бұрын
Nice use of the Riemann zeta function at 6:10
@ConvincingPeople4 жыл бұрын
The microtonalist Joe Monzo published an analysis of Robert Johnson's "Drunken-Hearted Man" which lends some credence to the harmonic seventh theory based entirely on breaking down the melodies and harmonies in such an early recording: tonalsoft.com/monzo/rjohnson/drunken.aspx
@elizabethmaravillas50604 жыл бұрын
i love hearing people rant about something theyre passionate abt even if i dont understand anything at all
@RastaLlama4 жыл бұрын
Came for the explanation. Stayed for the doodles😁
@macsnafu4 жыл бұрын
The blues progression is a great way to add movement to your music, especially when you don't know what else to do. And it doesn't even have to sound bluesy. I've added it in some rather unexpected places in my own music. 78th
@scottdrake5159Ай бұрын
I know this is from years ago, and there's probably comments that echo this, and I don't have a citation... But the harmonic seventh thing is intuitively real, and barbershop is a great example of it in other contexts.
@bean44233 жыл бұрын
they tuned they guitars like that bc the blues comes mostly from the griot tradition in the senegambia n mali. thas how the djeli storytellers use to tune they string instruments (akonting, gonjey, kora etc)
@Συναισθησις4 жыл бұрын
Great point on the harmonic 7th - this is why Western musicians need to start learning from Arabic ones and work on producing quartertones (it's possible on a trumpet, for example)!
@محمدعليمصدقكريم4 жыл бұрын
I agree
@snir-music4 жыл бұрын
A though about the harmonic seven, It's actually rooted in the harmonic series, the harmonic series of C for instance, goes C c g c e g And then a wierd something in between A and Bb. Before reaching d and completing the pentatonic scale. Many pentatonic scales in the east use the Bb instead of the western standart A. And with ear tuning, it makes sense that they found what was purely phisical harmonic sounds that appear naturally with every note played. Which is in between the sixth and seventh.
@michaelpdawson4 жыл бұрын
1:13 - "Small communities of oppressed elephants."
@turbobusa24 жыл бұрын
and now for something completely different=the foot?
@AndriyVasylenko4 жыл бұрын
Could it be that W.C. Handy just happened to hear that particular progression, and there were other variations that didn't survive? I mean, that's basic harmony, but the number of bars and structure is counterintuitive: 4+2+2+1+1+2. Though, it sounds very natural, maybe we just got used to it.
@bombercountyblues4 жыл бұрын
Interesting how on a single string or in open tunings, the 1 the 4 and the 5 are where you find the harmonic notes.
@Invert_Scrub4 жыл бұрын
It's also worth remembering that the first Boues artists likely never gave any thought to theory. Chances are, they just played what "sounded good" to them.
@MadassAlex2 жыл бұрын
I know I'm a year late to this comment, but here we go: 12 bar, dominant chords, pentatonic scales, and chromatic notes (such as the b5) are, in fact, blues theory common to blues musicians. That's what music theory is: Common understandings and terminologies about how music ought to be composed and played. Your comment was pretty frustrating because it implies a view on theory that defines it by academic or institutional verification. Music theory is just any idea about the composition of music.
@Invert_Scrub2 жыл бұрын
@@MadassAlex @Windwalk Howdy friend. I guess my point is just that the academic verbiage came after the inception of the music. I seriously doubt the earliest artists were worrying about b5s or dominants in such language. Having never been exposed to formal theory, the vast majority of them were just imitating each other or drawing on previous musical exposure. Which, as we both know, is how music and culture evolves. Of course, blues evolved from call and response, gospel, and field songs. I think we'd both agree that academic language can be very cumbersome and exclusionary. All the formal analyses and definitions came after the fact upon inspection and retrospect.
@MadassAlex2 жыл бұрын
@@Invert_Scrub Sure, but I'd argue that all of the above constitutes a form of theory. Even tuning to 12 tone equal temperament suggests a theoretical preference (or limitation). That's one great thing about music theory: There's no beginning and no end.
@Invert_Scrub2 жыл бұрын
@@MadassAlex I can agree with that. Who says anything has to be analyzed or codified for it to be considered theory? I see what you mean, any emergence of a musical preference can be considered theory.
@stitchgrimly61674 жыл бұрын
3:44 it only creates dissonance if you're using dominant 7ths (for eg.) instead of just major/minor triads, which is your next point. Continuity issue.
@humphrey91743 ай бұрын
You should really speak more slowly
@zwgrafakhsandrianos77844 жыл бұрын
All over the place = zubat!!! Hahhahahahahaaaa
@AllthedogsImet4 жыл бұрын
Music started from Africa.
@ElizabethStJohnRamirez4 жыл бұрын
For a clue to the early origins of "The Blues" you might want to watch the movie 'Rumble, The Indians Who Rocked The World'. rumblethemovie.com
@hsadreamerofrlyeh75163 жыл бұрын
The blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad thinking about the woman he was once with.
@OfficialPrinceEden6 ай бұрын
Not always it also revolves around life’s struggles loss of a friend and or family not just women that broke the man’s heart vise versa
@winstongang21152 ай бұрын
Why backwards drawing though?
@joaniebarc67634 жыл бұрын
The music born from human suffering ,the foundation of modern music, a planet constantly in flux.
@chetruane4 жыл бұрын
Do you record the audio to these videos and then listen to it slowed down while you draw everything, then speed it all back up so the drawing is timelapsed and the audio is normal? That sounds like a very strange experience.
@travsnipes14 жыл бұрын
Hey 12 tone, I recently subscribed to nebula because I love yours and polyphonic content. Could you do a video on house of the raising sun? I’m assuming they are borrowing the d chord from Dorian and that the e major chord is a secondary dominant of a minor? But I’m curious what your thoughts are? Or your fans thoughts are? Anyway thank you for all of your content. This is one of my favorite channels. Keep on rocking.
@thomasrivet28214 жыл бұрын
Not sure on either the theory or the common colloquial name, but it seems to be an early version of a "rock box" where you move through notes in a rectangle on the fretboard -- like in Rock You Like A Hurricane, you get a box as the guitar ascends G, A, C, D, or Smells Like Teen Spirit, where the box gets a bit longer, F, A#, G#, C#, passing through G to get to that upper side. House of the Rising Sun follows this box on the 5th and 4th strings. If you can find an analysis of this box pattern, you've pretty much got an analysis of House of the Rising Sun's harmony (I'm sure you could do another analysis on how it switching between 3 variations on the box influences things). I'm no expert, but I feel it in harmonic minor so the box i iii IV VI feels very much in a single scale. There's definitely something interesting going on with those minor 6th leaps (F to Am and C to E) but I couldn't tell you what except that it shows up in versions of the box (like Teen Spirit). Edit: aand almost immediately realized watching more 12tone that that minor sixth leap might feel so right because the root of the first chord pulls down a half step to the fifth of the next, creating some sense of resolution, whether it's to the i chord or the V.
@torreymckee58444 жыл бұрын
Nothing about the shuffle rhythm? Some say that the blues in more is more than just the right chords.
@songfulmusicofsongs4 жыл бұрын
The shuffle was not an obligatory component in several sub-genres of early blues... But as far as I know the 3 phrases were (which make usually 12 bars, but can be more or less).
@moe456733 жыл бұрын
You touch upon some of the questions i have about the blues but do NOT answer any of them (do the 7ths resolve? How do they work? Why does the b3 in the blues scale work over a major chord? Etc). Still, props for bringing them up (rather than just accepting it dogmatically), so you get a like from me. FWIW, i asked these questions years ago on a guitar forum and all i got was "well, you just dont understand the blues" 🙄
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@PaulGarnerBlueskiwi3 жыл бұрын
Relating use of dominant 7th chords to use of slide guitar would surely only make sense if the guitar was tuned to a 7th chord? But typical open tunings for blues slide guitar are just plain major chords. If anything, 7th chords are less convenient to play when in open tuning vs standard tuning.
@dunar67723 жыл бұрын
very disturbing and useless your continuing drawing ... is there a scope for that? Moreover, your are lefthanded and cover many times the notes you write on the staff and the succession is too quick.
@Sierrahtl2 жыл бұрын
Doesn’t the creation of cheap modern guitars actually make this possible?
@ayanab.28872 жыл бұрын
I know this is old, but it would be more helpful to have actual snippets of songs because hearing the harpsichord does not help understand where this is IRL.
@kirkmarshall28532 жыл бұрын
Wait I always thought The Blues was made when Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Dark Lord? 😂 this was a great video
@good.citizen3 жыл бұрын
thank you lefty im gonna share this over advertisingism will be useful one-day
@BrettHollett4 жыл бұрын
And this is why Beethoven and Mozart suck at music..
@frostburnspirit90654 жыл бұрын
My explanation of how it is like it is is because V IV I sounds good
@matthewodell91293 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice that 7:22 is the introductory notes to 2:45 by Elliott Smith?
@olafvanrijnsbergen11774 жыл бұрын
Why has no one pointed out that the metronome in the intro is not in 4/4. It has 5 beats.. It hurts me.
@aliquidcow4 жыл бұрын
This is really interesting, but I never really understand why anyone would use a 12-bar blues progression in this day and age. For me it's such a stock thing that it just has no emotional resonance for me. But maybe that comes from hearing too many guitar practice backing tracks.
@stevemccaslin4112 ай бұрын
The blues ain't nothing but a good man feeling bad
@donparker4521 Жыл бұрын
Is there any evidence to the concept that an even more basic blues is 1 line (4 bars) of the I, followed by 1 line of IV, then 1 line of V? ie | I | I | I | I | | IV | IV | IV | IV | | V | V | V | V | where each line is its own call and response? The is simple for just vocals (think worksongs) , but musicians got bored and needed more diversity.(?) Thank you for your time and efforts, very much a fan of your work!
@beenaplumber83793 ай бұрын
That sounds a lot like the music that was coming out of southern Africa during the early 20th century. More often than not I've heard it described as Jazz-influenced. It developed when US jazz records became available in the region (notably Johannesburg). Local musicians tried to emulate the sound using their own understanding of music, and what emerged was a lively form of music that became very popular and scared the white people! It was a separate evolution from the blues, but it was uniquely African.
@Kurtlane4 жыл бұрын
OMF! It's so complicated. So, because of the blue notes, there is no REAL way to write down blues in regular Western notation. Will quarter tones do? Or is it even further in between? What do you think about Maurice Ravel's Blues (2nd part of sonata #2 in G major for violin and piano)?
@jhellert13 жыл бұрын
Are there any songs in existence that use a 13 bar blues?
@thomasmacmillan4 жыл бұрын
If you haven't already, check out “The Hendrix Chord: Blues, Flexible Pitch Relationships, and Self-Standing Harmony” by Rob van der Bliek - from Popular Music, Vol. 26, No. 2 (May 2007), pp. 343-364.
@AnimusInvidious4 жыл бұрын
That's the first time i've heard blue notes described as "in between piano keys". It's my impression they are just notes added to a scale... for example using A# in Em.
@liquidsolids94154 жыл бұрын
You’re both right! The tritone is often referred to as “the blue note” (like you said, playing A# in E major or E minor). Bending a note so it’s somewhere in between the 12 “standard” notes can also be called a “blue note”.
@adrienbidal96224 жыл бұрын
The #4 became the "blue note" by approximation. But blue notes are often "between" two notes Basically, there are 4 of them : The second that you bend to the minor 3rd, the minor 3rd that you bend to the major 3rd, the four that you bend to the 5th, the #4th that you bend to the 5th, the 6th that you bend to the 7th and the 7th that you bend to the major seventh Often, musicians will not bend enough and will land in between, that is what it is. It can be with a slide btw As a whole tone bend is not an easy thing on acoustic guitars, the 4th will be often just bent to the #4th instead and then you have your usual blue not of your blues scale But blue scale with #4 is just a "lazy" shortcut that books and teachers teach because it is a good way to get started with blue notes But just a #4 is not a blue not, it is just a chromatism. It's phrasing, intonation and inflexion that make it a blue note :)
@mrrodgers58713 жыл бұрын
Would love a break down of the blues scale (minor-based) starting on the tonic root compared to using the blues scale from the relative minor of tonic. i.e. Bb blues, instead of Bb Db Eb E F Ab, using (moving the G to keep Bb as root) Bb C C# D F G Bb. I know that's much more common by the time we get to the mid-20s, but I'm not familiar with it before that time. Anyone got the low down on when using the relative minor's blues scale to create the major blues "happened"?
@briankeegan80894 жыл бұрын
A few thoughts on (1) the 7th chords not providing direction and (the absence of the 3rds for each if the triads. 1. 7th chords . . . are definitely used directionally, but perhaps its only left that way if you're familiar with the idiom. For example, if you were playing blues in A, it would be very common for the 1st 4 bars to go A-A-A-A7, and anyone familiar with the idiom feels E up to G as an arm waving signal of the impending shift to D. 2. Among the most common forms of blues is the shuffle, which is based in a power chord pair of the 1 and the 5, with a 5-6-dom7 melody. The missing 3rd means that minor versus major is dealer's choice. In A, play the m3 (C) and it feels more like blues, while if you play the major 3rd (C#) it feels more like country. Guitarists almost all freely trill between them, which is, again,idiomatic. At this point, i wouldn't even know what _THE_ blues scale is, because it's only a skeleton or a vestige of where I started. Over 12 bar blues in A, pretty much every note except A# works at some point. Even the F, in the 5th + 6th bars. if I feel like it. but usually hammered into an f#.
@jhutt80023 жыл бұрын
I really like the idea of harmonic 7th being in the historic base of blues. And by my own theories as well it fits perfectly: Harmonic 7th is the fourth most consonant interval out there. However, I'm huge sucker for playing blues stuff with guitar and focusing on using harmonic 7th in favor of minors just doesn't work: It doesn't sound like blues at all! Due tradition it needs that dominant dissonance. It does sound really smooth and jazzy though. If that's your thing.
@VaughanMcAlley4 жыл бұрын
At university, one of Australia's best Blues pianists (Bob Sedergreen) explained Blues in terms of two tritones- rocking back and forth between C#-G and C-F#, which fits the A7-D7 narrative neatly. It would be great if some gnarled Blues legend had told him that when he was young, but who knows?
@edcrutchfield34472 жыл бұрын
Well, that was simple (not) 😁
@ethanrummel76384 жыл бұрын
So I'm a blues guitarist, and its worth noting that part of playing over a 12 bar blues is an interesting mix of scales to fit whatever chord you're playing over. So I slip into Dorian if I'm playing over the IV and its in major, Aeolian if its minor, and might steal a few notes from the major scale over the I chord to emphasize that tonality. I suppose you could just view these as accidentals, but I honestly I am not an expert in this, and kind of learned just enough music theory to play guitar, and that's about it.
@mixolyde2 жыл бұрын
Speaking of blues, I would love to see a video on Blue Travelers' Hook and how it is a slightly modified Pachelbel Canon in A, but blues-ier.
@Typical.Anomaly3 жыл бұрын
8:13 *ALLEGEDLY* dissonant notes lol
@stairwaytoholiday4 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on Suicidal Tendencies, specifically their chord patterns on How Can I Laugh Tomorrow, When I Can't even Smile Today, it's got such a weird and awesome sound and I'd love a deeper look into it
@Sam-qc6sz3 жыл бұрын
5:38 Would that be like, on a guitar, ever so slightly bending the major sixth up but not fully reaching the minor seventh?
@jimmybright75792 жыл бұрын
Yea theirs a lot of blues men in Africa ...I think all give bits here and there
@zbr763 жыл бұрын
5:37 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond!
@ivo14233 жыл бұрын
The 4th augmented is the Blu note
@BrandyHoelscher2 жыл бұрын
Your doodles are a delight. I get distracted watching the doodles and realize I wasn’t listening. :)
@songfulmusicofsongs4 жыл бұрын
Can you also say more about the minor-major third (they often are played together or alternating or inbetween) and also blue notes (the b5 and other).
@lempamo4 жыл бұрын
this vid never showed in my sub box
@dustcircle2 жыл бұрын
You're such a good educator
@AnimusInvidious4 жыл бұрын
It would have been cool of you to explore variations on the 12-bar pattern, of which there are numerous. Another video perhaps?