There are many videos on Prelude in C, this is the best one!
@ryanabshier3 ай бұрын
I missed replying the this comment, but super huge thanks! Glad you liked it
@colinjames246924 күн бұрын
This!
@NoBody-xg1wg2 ай бұрын
I've played this since I was 10.. but since I learned most popular music by ear, I can't PLAY something these days without truly understanding it.. so as an adult, I did what you did, analyzed all the chords, and love the fact that old Johannes was using - or inventing - jazz chords centuries before they were universally adopted.
@OreyTelevision Жыл бұрын
Thank you for breaking down everything in this piece :) I appreciate your support. I see your future. I'm getting into music in an extreme scale recently
@ryanabshier Жыл бұрын
Sweet, hope it's super helpful to have a lot of the info packed into one place. What pieces are you working on right now?
@OreyTelevision Жыл бұрын
@@ryanabshier lots of Jacob Collier ones haha
@ryanabshier Жыл бұрын
@@OreyTelevision Nice! I haven't listened to him really at all. Maybe I should check it out, have any suggestions of things to get started with?
@OreyTelevision Жыл бұрын
@@ryanabshier Everlasting Motion, Ocean Wide Canyon Deep, and Little Blue
@Roy-pl4ye4 ай бұрын
Agree with other comments - excellent lesson. I'm learning piano by myself, only started three months ago and have only basic chord theory and some scales, and understood everything here. Really helped me understand what Bach is doing, and opened up my use of seven chords. I felt like I was already hitting a wall after three months of practice and this helped me break thru. Fantastic stuff.
@ryanabshier4 ай бұрын
Awesome! Breaking through a wall always feels great and I'm glad to help. Yeah, chords are helpful in like 2 stages. The "What" are they, helps you to memorize and sightread better. Then the "Why" are they, which also helps a bunch with memory, but also really assists in interpretation.
@a.j.97225 ай бұрын
By all means the best analysis on Bachs Prelude. Thank you!
@ryanabshier5 ай бұрын
Thanks. That's great to hear! Glad you found it helpful. Are you playing this right now?
@zimamup5 ай бұрын
Ryan, this is by far the best video I've watched on youtube on music theory, the interrelation between chords in a piece of music, a story of Bach, the chord progression and tricks on how to make them more interesting and not so predictable and finally, how to make music meaningful for other aspects of our lives and understand it in a whole new light. Thank you so much for presenting the importance of this piece that so many teachers suggest to beginners disregarding the wealth of music information it contains. Many thanks, once again and I wish you all the best.
@ryanabshier4 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for the kind words. I really love theory, like really love it. So for me it's fun to share the cool aspects of it and to really dig into a piece. Most famous pieces do something brilliant or clever and the "aha" moment when you see it is so satisfying. I don't remember if you commented on my other chord video, but I did another massive video like this on Moonlight Sonata. Same idea, but Moonlight chords are more sophisticated than Prelude in C, so the video is a good stepping point after this one.
@zimamup4 ай бұрын
@@ryanabshier Actually, I'm still trying to learn how to learn to play a piece of music like Moonlight Sonata or any other similar masterpiece. I wonder if there is a way, some method or a sequence of chords or musical sentences that could help memorize the melody and chords and carve them into the long-term memory in a systematic way.
@ryanabshier4 ай бұрын
@@zimamup That's a great question and big topic. For me, chord progressions stick very rapidly. It's tough to sum up briefly how to improve, but I'll give you a couple main thoughts. 1. Focus on sound. For example: you could memorize Moonlight have a bunch of G#7 chords that go to C# Minors. You can try to just memorize the letters, but if you focus on the driving sound/nature of the V7 chord "wanting" to go to the i chord, your ear helps you. 2. You then combine point 1 with some knowledge. And this just gets easier over time. So now that I've played a ton of pieces that go i - VI - iv - V - i, if I see that progression in Moonlight I can quickly commit it to memory. So point 1 is what to do now, and point 2 is to encourage you going forward. It does get easier. However, it is a great idea for a more fleshed out video in the future and I could express my thoughts more completely.
@CCLinGameOnABC5 ай бұрын
I have long wondered what goes in Bach’s Prelude in C major that creates such simple and yet melodic delights. Recently chord structures and chords progressions have also become the center of my learning focus. I suspect that KZbin can read minds, and introduce your tutorial to me. Thank you for the comprehensive tutorial.❤
@ryanabshier4 ай бұрын
Awesome, so glad you enjoyed the video! It's so fun to take a deep dive into a piece like this. And yes, you probably wondered aloud what makes Prelude in C brilliant and KZbin delivered, haha.
@Mariposa_463 ай бұрын
I have seen so many references to the Roman numerals associated with chords and now you have finally given me the key to understandind what I, ii7,V, I is all about. I can't thank you enough. What an instructor.
@MattBartonGoogle5 ай бұрын
Immensely helpful! Perfect amount of detail for someone like me who is new to this piece
@ryanabshier5 ай бұрын
Awesome, glad it was helpful. Also good for you starting learning this great piece.
@stevenbrown5087 ай бұрын
Wow, I can't wait to watch this. Thank you! There's a surprising gap on KZbin for creators making educational piano content (I mean explaining the Theory) and that's so helpful to people like me who have trouble affording a teacher.
@ryanabshier7 ай бұрын
Awesome, I hope it was super helpful and you learned a lot! I actually have another coming out soon where I analyze chords in Moonlight Sonata. Same idea, just the next level of complexity.
@stevenbrown5087 ай бұрын
@@ryanabshier Oh, I love that! That's on my list to learn as well as prelude in e minor by Chopin (currently learning). I'll be watching your vids multiple times sitting by the piano lol, I appreciate your time putting these together! Edit: Adding that it was extremely helpful watching this!
@boriscartes70123 ай бұрын
Thank you for the detalied analysis! I’ve learned a lot with the video. You do have amazing comunication skills to teach music.
@MultiCugel3 ай бұрын
Fascinating, so much in this video. Been listening to this music all my life but never understood how it was constructed. Many thanks!
@bichthanhtruong4262 ай бұрын
Thank you for all the time and efforts to make this video! I learned a lot from the detailed analysis and clear instructions. Looking forward to more videos like this on Bach from you
@ryanabshier2 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! It's always nice to hear someone learning from them. If you love Bach you're in luck. I'm actually working on a big WTC fugues video right now where I'm teaching how fugues work by looking at how Bach writes them in the 1st Book.
@JWentu3 ай бұрын
Wow! this was truly fantastic. Have been listening to classical music for decades but I (almost) never played any instrument. Last year I said to myself: let's learn just ONE easy piano piece, just ONE. And I chose the C prelude from WTC. Well, I didn't manage to learn it during the summer, ... but I was near :) I am so happy to listen to you explaining each and every step of it because in my immense ignorance of music analysis I was able to relate to what I learned. This was a fantastic ride and I think I'll be watching this again (and maybe find time to learn the prelude again, who knows!) thanks for your work!
@TomLeg3 ай бұрын
Good for you, JWentu ... love this piece
@meraklmuskulpesent83133 ай бұрын
Dude, that's the best introduction to the harmonic analysis I've ever watched. Thank you. Please make more harmonic analysis videos.
@ryanabshier3 ай бұрын
Thanks a bunch! Love that it was helpful. I did the same thing with Moonlight 1st movement, kinda like the next level as the chords are more complicated than this one. And literally right now I starting editing one for Chopin Etude Op 25, No 12. I think it'll be the next video I put out in a week or so, so great timing!
@sonomabobКүн бұрын
Well done! Makes so much sense. Thank you.
@francksertelon95416 ай бұрын
Thank you! I wanted to learn about the chords of this piece and I ended learning so much more. You really know how to teach. Bravo.
@ryanabshier5 ай бұрын
Thanks. You're very kind. Glad you found it helpful!
@donparker45212 ай бұрын
Chord mantra: ceg b dfa! Now you can spell every triad (basic chord), just pick 3 letters at a time. Play and say the notes, and try to have some fun!
@colinjames246924 күн бұрын
You are a very good teacher, sir.
@colinjames246924 күн бұрын
+subbed
@mvseelam5415Ай бұрын
This is amazing. Thanks so much for this breakdown. It really helps me
@puputintin52963 ай бұрын
This is fascinating ! Thank you so much!
@nicolasabuin86392 ай бұрын
THANK YOU!!! This detailed analysis is fascinating. Really brings out the educational side of Bach, almost feels as teaching these chords and their progressions was the goal of this piece.
@alexarcadia72893 ай бұрын
Excellent! Thanks for sharing this knowledge.
@ryanabshier3 ай бұрын
You're welcome! Thanks for checking it out!
@j2000rocks Жыл бұрын
Really fantastic!
@ryanabshier Жыл бұрын
Thanks, hope it was helpful! Do you play piano?
@j2000rocks Жыл бұрын
@@ryanabshier self-taught since I was a kid but started taking lessons as an adult. Just discovered you a few weeks ago. Never paid attention to music theory until I started harp playing two years ago. Was trying to attempt this piece on both harp and piano. This theory lesson was immensely helpful in breaking this piece into the chords. I’ll let you know if it helps playing it.
@ryanabshier Жыл бұрын
@@j2000rocks Oh sweet! I have a diatonic harp, but can't do too much with it. Really fun to mess around with though. Yeah, I decided I wanted to do a pretty in-depth video. I figured there's a lot of "5 minute everything you need to know about music theory" videos out there, so hopefully something bigger and more detailed will serve some people well. Glad you liked it. And don't worry if not everything sticks in like one day, haha. These are concepts that are taught over a year or more of music theory, so give it time to sink in.
@jaiklar24 ай бұрын
Amazing teaching! I just study piano as an adult, and it made music make much more sense to me
@ryanabshier4 ай бұрын
Nice! One of my favorite things to hear is that the videos are helpful. I did one on harmony in Moonlight sonata as well if you want kind of a "next step" harmony video (it's a little bit more complicated, but not too much).
@roberthubbard56963 ай бұрын
Ok, it took three listens but now I get it. A little note on the screen for the measure number would help. Really good on the third listen for a non musician. Thanks!
@apianofan5 ай бұрын
Wow, this was so helpful! Thank you!
@ryanabshier5 ай бұрын
Thanks for checking it out and I'm glad it was helpful. Are you studying this piece or just having fun learning chords?
@apianofan5 ай бұрын
@@ryanabshierI am taking private piano lessons and am currently learning this piece. I am appreciating this piece further more after watching the harmonic analysis in your video. Thanks again.
@ryanabshier5 ай бұрын
I love hearing that. Yeah, the piece really cool once you dive into and see where the chords are driving.
@kristinamusik74146 ай бұрын
Exactly when I start to both analys and play this. Thank you.
@ryanabshier6 ай бұрын
Awesome timing! Hope the analysis was super helpful. How the learning going?
@sanjeevsampath7 ай бұрын
explained so well. thank you
@ryanabshier7 ай бұрын
Thanks for checking it out. Hope it was really helpful!
@TomLeg3 ай бұрын
Stupid how simple this is. Why couldn't music lessons have been like this in 1963?
@mrsuperdrose12 ай бұрын
I agree. Spend a whole life time trying to figure this piece out and so many like it and never succeeding. Finally Epiphany. Job very well done. Thank you, Ryan.
@srothbardt2 ай бұрын
Very interesting. Well done
@moy9022 Жыл бұрын
Well explained. 🎹🎉
@ryanabshier Жыл бұрын
Thanks for checking it out!
@moy9022 Жыл бұрын
@@ryanabshier l like to learn piano theory from all directions. Your is very well written. Thanks again.
@ryanabshier Жыл бұрын
@@moy9022 Thanks a bunch, that's nice to hear. It takes a bunch of work so I love knowing that it's helpful!
@moy9022 Жыл бұрын
@@ryanabshier very helpful. Your explanation enhanced my music knowledge.looking forward for your next uploading.
@kingofdrama32362 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot for this great explanation. Do you have a video where you explain all the different functions of a key?
@melodicar22875 ай бұрын
Excellent ! It help a lot!
@ryanabshier5 ай бұрын
Great. Hope you're enjoying learning some chords!
@lifeofthetheatreАй бұрын
Thanks for the time you gifted us with this video ..really fascinating AND instructive. But from the eight measures of the standing on dominate G (I think there are 8!) you kind of stopped naming the chords, or rather you did not write them out. I am working this out FOR MYSELF on guitar and i was wondering if you might write out the chord symbols from measure 24 (G7) to the end. Of course on guitar it’s simplified but that is why i love your video. I got lost after measure 28 (the F#°7) till the end. ( G7 - G/C - Gsus7 - G7- F♯°7/G - ??? - G/C - G7 -C7 - F/G - G7 - C -G7 -C ) That is how I understood it so far. Thanks for any help! Keep up the good work!
@mrlarrybobjr9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the great video. I like this song a lot. I knew one day I would sit down and work out all these cords so I knew them my name and with modern technology and you making this great video I got through it really easy good job bud.
@ryanabshier3 ай бұрын
I somehow missed this comment from months ago. Just wanted to say thanks for the kind words and I'm glad it was so helpful!
@bitti1975Ай бұрын
One of the new things I noticed while watching the video is: Bach is not only repeating the exact same chord Progression, I, IVmaj7, ii7, V7, I in C after doing it in G, but he is also using the exact same inversions! So these are literally the same notes transposed down a fifth. It's one of these things you always subconsciously knew they are there, but it never reached the surface of the rational mind.
@scottrhoden2 ай бұрын
Great video! Now subscribed. Do you happen to have a printout of all the chords in the piece. (I should’ve taken notes the first time.) 😂
@ryanabshier2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. No, I don't have a printout 😔 The way I do these is to add text boxes over the score in my video software, so I can pop them in one at a time. But it does sadly leave me without a final version. Guess you could skip around and look for the hard ones again. Maybe that was intentional for me...to like...increase learning or something...at least that's the story I'm going with.
@richardkana756721 күн бұрын
thank you this is great
@mariosaat3 ай бұрын
Great job man! Thank you.
@gdasilva3531Ай бұрын
Hello. Great video thank you. It would be awesome to see a sheet with all the chords on it.
@frankseibel9386Ай бұрын
How lazy is that?!
@rebanelson607Ай бұрын
I learned so much from this - supscribing!
@patrickomalley1513Ай бұрын
Hi Like this thank you. instead of changing key to G in measures 4/5 could we treat the D7 as a secondary dominant and stay in C throughout.
@bitti1975Ай бұрын
These fully diminished chords always perplexed me. I kept wondering what's supposed to be the root. Now you just mention "look into how it's written out instead of just looking at the keys", and it felt like scales falling from my eyes...
@JWentu3 ай бұрын
Before a serious final comment, let me tell you at a certain point you reminded me of the wonderful Friends scene when Monica explains Chandler the erogenous zones of the female body: one, two, five, one, two, four, two, five, seven seven SEVEN SEVEN SEVEN!!
@wchen2340Ай бұрын
:-D
@alexgoriatchenkov11 ай бұрын
So glad I found You. I do play this piece but now with your help get much more to keep in mind! TY
@ryanabshier11 ай бұрын
You're welcome! This is such a good intro to chords. I always tell people that the 1st couple pieces you work on with chords in mind can be challenging, but it really starts helping after you get the hang of it.
@kamoans2 ай бұрын
Good analysis concept but very fast presentation. Marking the notes on a score presented on the screen would be helpful also.
@jasoncdebussy2 ай бұрын
I don't think I have ever seen anyone pull so many faces and wave their arms around so much in a video! Calm down!
@Mariposa_4625 күн бұрын
Please leave. We don't need snark, we just want to learn.
@roberthubbard56963 ай бұрын
So interesting and hopeful until you started mis-stating the measure numbers and what a mess! Can’t follow after 23. Lesson: Bach is way too hard. No help here.
@ryanabshier3 ай бұрын
So, I have a completely honest question for you. How does me "mis-stating" the measures numbers take you from "interesting" to "what a mess"? Like, if you feel like you were enjoying a video for 45 minutes, which is much longer than most videos, how does "mis-stating" measure numbers turn the whole video into "no help here". Was it not helpful for the first 45 minutes and you watched anyways? Also, important to note. The measures are on the screen for you to look at, so even with no measure numbers you could follow. But most importantly, I literally mentioned that some edition don't have/add an extra measure in. At the exact moment you are talking about, measure 23, there is a well known extra meaaure/missing measure. But even if that wasn't the case, and I did say measure numbers wrong, why do you feel the need to be so harsh with a comment about a video you stuck with for 45 minutes?