Little Blue - Jacob Collier | Piano Tutorial

This is the piano tutorial for Jacob's newest single Little Blue!

[@NC-nk4pp]

This is gonna have so many views once Jacob’s song gets more popular. This us an amazing tutorial

[@QuintenPieters]

Thanks a lot! One can only hope :)

[@asmodeuszdewa7194]

that's awesome, I wasn't looking for it by I'm glad the algorithm knows me so well (slightly scary too)

[@risyanggiazmifaizingik3078]

love that 4 chords B9 F#9 C#9 G#9 yayyy thanks man!!!

[@ajomathew86]

magic of circle of fourths

[@jas_bataille]

I normally don't need tutorials, but for a Jacob song I think it's not embarrassing to need a little bit of help figuring out all those changes! His live version is completely different tho from what I could tell, and well it's on guitar with a capo on

[@QuintenPieters]

Yeah his live version is great as well, if there’s demand for it I could make something for that in the future

[@JesseGardner]

@@QuintenPieters Consider this a hand raised! :)

[@mcfeerr]

Yes, please! I'm learning this to perform, and I'm basically working with the Mahogany (live ) version. If you could do a tutorial on tha, it would be wonderful. @@QuintenPieters

[@tomaskieffer]

Bro... Your tutorial is magical... Thank you.... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@QuintenPieters]

Thanks a lot!!

[@simonkaerts2228]

Immediately fell in love with the song, amazing that you have this tutorial already. Loved your cover!

[@QuintenPieters]

Glad you like it!

[@MrWeatherallScience]

Thanks so much for this - a great job - easy to follow and well explained.

[@QuintenPieters]

Glad it was helpful! :)

[@StephenHsiang]

Bravo, Quinten. I think I will be able to play after watching this. Thanks a lot.

[@QuintenPieters]

You can do it! :)

[@elisabethpearl9790]

Excellent tutorial, thank you

[@Lengsham]

Fantastic Tutorial. Happy you explained chord symbols, otherwise I would be playing something totally different! The extra notes you've added to the harmony make all the difference. Thanks.

[@QuintenPieters]

Glad it was helpful!

[@xandava5255]

Thank you so much of this!

[@gregonline6506]

aaaaaah! Thx so much!

[@QuintenPieters]

No problem!!

[@pat6792]

Lekker gedaan Quinten. Prachtig nummer

[@bazingacurta2567]

This song is great, many thanks for the tutorial! Very good!

[@DriveByWire]

Beautiful 🙂

[@jeffroweb]

Thank you!

[@10freekie2]

For the a minor to a major at 10:12 charles connel actually thinks this also happens in the song itself :)! I just saw that in his video iirc! Anyway, lekker bezig man :)! Nice how you can transcribe this so easily, I had a lot of piano lessons and have a ‘feel’ for the chords but cannot name the more difficult ones as I never really learned that system.

[@Hoick]

love this, helpful!

[@denizardeche]

Thanks !

[@QuintenPieters]

No problem!

[@mcreycm]

Great

[@Hugohopman]

Hi, first off great video! I was wondering about the second added 2-5-1 progression in the second verse. You go for Bbm7 into Eb into Fm, but i would argue the Eb to be Eb7#9 (possibly b13). Thoughts?

[@QuintenPieters]

Yea i could definitely hear that! The way i make these things is by listening a couple times and then just playing it a lot, so sometimes stuff gets ‘lost in translation’.

[@ekpiyalichai]

Thankyou for this 🤍

[@Proghead88]

It's hard to hear because the bass isn't strong but I think the first instrumental interlude starts on F# going circle of fifths and the outro is the one that starts on B. Also, that last chord in the 4 key modulation is a G#m6 (IIm6 in F#) or Abm6 (IVm6 in Eb) not Abm11.

[@QuintenPieters]

I’ll have to check that out with the bass thing, for the Abm6 I’ll go ahead and say that’s just the way I like to play it. Thanks for the feedback though!

[@MrTheBagger]

you are right but on the final quaver I think he lifts the Cb to a C natural in the alto part -

[@ernestguinovart1651]

Muchas gracias! Me voy al piano ahora mismo! 😅

[@mrpastek]

cool, thank

[@amsl1]

This is great thank you :)

[@hvanmegen]

Haha.. goed bezig Quinten.. thnx voor de tutorial.. kan goed merken dat jij ook een groot fan van 'em bent :)

[@QuintenPieters]

Hahaha bedankt, dat ik ben ik zeker :)

[@thijsjansenjazz]

Nice quinten!

[@Retrobrio]

Nice tutorial! I'd call that Abm11 an Abm7(add 2&4) because with 9's 11's and 13's the upper extensions replace the root intervals therefore an Ab-11 would not include the 3rd nor the 5th which in this case it does hence my suggested naming convention. Thanks for the nice tutorial!

[@QuintenPieters]

Hi, the jazz convention is leaving out the small intervals in favour of the big ones. A jazz pianist knows what to play (and what to leave out) for a minor 11 chord. Also, when there’s a seven in the chord, big or small, 2 should be 9 and 6 should be 13! At least, that’s what my harmony teacher used to say (it rhymes in dutch!)

[@bransonpage]

The Eb near the end of the second verse should be an Eb7 #9

[@pat6792]

Ik was trouwens ook bij Jacob in Tivolli!

[@thekeyoflifepiano]

I can't imagine a Jacob Collier fan struggling to figure out a diatonic chord progression. Good tutorial though!

[@jas_bataille]

That... is a LOT more than just a diatonic chord progression with all the extensions and the resolution switches, and not everyone majored in an harmonic instrument... and not every Jacob fan is a musician.

[@KingaSzanto]

​@@jas_batailleThank you for saying this! Makes me feel less stupid. Massive fan (was on the Mahogany choir for this song) but not a professional musician.

[@NickMarshallMusic]

I'm struggling to hear that b3 on the Abm11 you mentioned in the recording. I think an Ab9sus4 works fine. Any thoughts?

[@QuintenPieters]

It's all subjective really! I decided to go for the Abm11 in my version, feel free to do something else in yours of course. This tutorial is really for the way I play the song :)

[@AkosTothHotClub]

Start similar as Pat Metheny's James, then Halleluja.

[@editsbydaan6048]

Hoe kom je er precies achter hoe je de akkoord speelt? (Welke omkering en wat je precies met je linkerhand en rechterhand speelt qua notem van het akkoord) of is de melodie leidend dat je de melodie meestal met je rechterpink speelt? Probeer een soort van structuur te vinden hoe je die akkoorden het beste speelt met een melodie

[@QuintenPieters]

Je kan t het makkelijkst kopieren van wat ik doe denk ik! Maar vaak idd pink en ringvinger rechts melodie en de rest de akkoorden over verspreiden

[@editsbydaan6048]

Thanks. Als ik eenmaal de melodie in mijn hoofd heb met de juiste akkoorden gaat t vanzelf

[@ThonColinFilms]

Please can you give us the notes for the error chord? 😊

[@QuintenPieters]

Which one do you mean?

[@ThonColinFilms]

@@QuintenPieters the one where you have written my bad! You have corrected the chord, but I’m not sure what the notes are, which we play in each hand?

[@QuintenPieters]

@@ThonColinFilms the notes I play are correct, I just wrote the wrong chord name! So you can still just follow my hands and you can just ignore what I wrote down

[@RobinsMusic]

Nederlands?

[@QuintenPieters]

Haha yup