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[@CharlesCornellStudios]

Jake appreciation thread GO

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[@spoonerooneyy_]

I jake appreciation 👍

[@andrewmaloney6038]

LFG JAKE

[@zacherybutler6773]

Yo Jake you the homie

[@eezypredator3585]

Is Jake your protegé or somethin?

[@shaunkara]

THIS is probably the most inspiring, liberating and mind-expanding lesson I've ever received since Victor Wooten's "there are no wrong notes" speech

[@meownime5304]

Omg yes !!! Victor Wooten spoke in a college near me and I was awe struck listening to him. So inspirational.

[@lopezfam7317]

God bless you and God bless anyone reading this! Hope you have an awesome day! Seek him while you can! Jesus is the way and the only way and he is returning soon! Whenever you think you aren't loved... Remember the ultimate sacrifice was for love! ENDING YOUR LIFE IS NEVER THE ANSWER! For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV The wages of sin is death (hell) but Jesus paid our debt on the cross, for our salvation! We must turn to God and away from our sinful ways, Confess Jesus is Lord and believe with our hearts that he was risen from the dead by God, and we must be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and The Holy Spirit and live by His word and Commandments! Trust that God will help with the rest! Seek God today before it's too late! Today could be your last day on earth! Have a blessed day!

[@lopezfam7317]

Dios te bendiga y Dios bendiga a Todos los que estan leyendo esto! Deseo que tengan un hermoso dia! Buscad a Dios mientras pueda ser hallado! Jesus es el camino y el unico camino y regresa pronto! Recuerda cuando te sientas que no eres amado... el mayor sacrificio se hizo por amor! EL SUICIDIO NUNCA ES LA RESPUESTA! Porque de tal manera amó Dios al mundo, que ha dado a su Hijo unigénito, para que todo aquel que en él cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna. S. Juan 3:16 RVR1960 La paga del pecado es muerte (infierno) pero Cristo pagó nuestra deuda en la cruz para nuestra salvacion! Debemos volvernos a Dios y apartarnos de nuestros caminos pecaminosos, confesar que Jesús es el Señor y creer con nuestro corazón que fue resucitado de entre los muertos por Dios, y debemos de ser bautizados en el nombre del Padre, del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo y vivir por Su palabra y mandamientos! Confia que Dios ayudara con el resto! Busca a Dios, antes de que sea muy tarde! Hoy podria ser tu ultimo dia en la tierra! Que tengas un hermoso dia! ---❤️❤️❤️

[@tomvanderwulp5092]

Both are amazing

[@evedotcom]

Had to come back to this comment to say thank you for the heads up about Victor Wooten omg 🤯

[@sonofzingo7]

Moments like the one at 5:53 are way funnier when you remember Jake is the editor

[@crux9390]

this is actually really fucking funny. also awesome cause Jake is a beast for this vid

[@clipsmasterproductions7479]

Awesome

[@justinchey2281]

Love how uncomfortable Jake looked every time you said the funny music words.

[@Chigger]

"I like your funny words, music man."

[@afelias]

I feel like Jake had an internal "is he being real or is he fucking with me" needle that was slowly teetering side to side as Chris started naming chords and positions and stuff.

[@moleedaboi]

​@@afeliasthat's true. Music lingo sounds like BS to most people.

[@qwqeqrqtqz]

This is exactly how I write music. It takes forever to write something longer than a few bars, it's really hard to get a consistent theme/style going, but at least it's never boring. It's more like coral growing slowly bit by bit, not like building a house from a floorplan, but that's what works for me. I really like the video. Gotta play random chords again sometime soon

[@marcoslays]

yes! i’m starting to write orchestral music and it’s really difficult to maintain a theme

[@jaimegomez3114]

That's great insight.

[@MasterKnutA]

I've produced music for 12 years. Try to start humming the song, before you even sit down at the piano/software. Record it on your phone, then later find chords that fit. Then you can just change key and transpose however you'd like. But the song is already finished, so you won't be stuck on themes. Good luck, you got this, both of you!

[@slbaaron]

As a self-taught composer (and piano player), that's half of my compositions, it gets easier if you keep at it for 10+ years which I have. But the other half, especially earlier on, is to lift things from music you find particularly interesting. If you have any levels of theory knowledge, you can do the 2nd part of what Charles is doing here on someone else's piece and take those in bits and pieces and throw it into your own thing. If you don't have the knowledge, then literally steal them without understanding anything and then "tweak" to your ears pleasing to make it more your own, it's a lot easier than from scratch, but it's not super easy to forget the original. It usually takes a more dramatic change in tempo, rhythm for me to go on my own way. Also this is a pretty chord driven writing style here which I used to do a lot of, but melody driven writing with (re)harmonizations afterward or rhythm driven writing where the change or accents of chords / melody are all focused on a rhythm can feel more fun and intuitive to me as melody / rhythm has a stronger push of natural progression than chords IMO. Maybe because I used to be a drummer.

[@lopezfam7317]

God bless you and God bless anyone reading this! Hope you have an awesome day! Seek him while you can! Jesus is the way and the only way and he is returning soon! Whenever you think you aren't loved... Remember the ultimate sacrifice was for love! ENDING YOUR LIFE IS NEVER THE ANSWER! For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV The wages of sin is death (hell) but Jesus paid our debt on the cross, for our salvation! We must turn to God and away from our sinful ways, Confess Jesus is Lord and believe with our hearts that he was risen from the dead by God, and we must be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and The Holy Spirit and live by His word and Commandments! Trust that God will help with the rest! Seek God today before it's too late! Today could be your last day on earth! Have a blessed day! ❤️

[@oldladyhater]

I feel like a super cool addition to the videos would be an overhead cam pointed downward at the keyboard, so that we could have footage of the player's hands as they play. You're doing something similar with the CG graphics already, that illustrates specific notes, chords, scales, etc. But I think it would be so cool to have that perspective of the player's hands as they play that you don't really get from the current front-facing setup. Just a thought. Cool video though regardless of anything!

[@illusion5739]

@E R I N A 👇 ok

[@4talaya]

It will, is if you don't have perfect or relative pitch

[@DethpickleDave]

Good lord, yes. 100 thumbs up. The graphics are fine, but seeing what you're playing from the correct side of the keyboard would be miles better. Good stuff. And let me clarify... for anything specifically instructive like this, the normal playing perspective would be helpful. It's not necessary for all your content.

[@oneeyemonster3262]

The trick is to play G min Bb maj7 B min7 all in a SONG. There's millions of things you could do..but if you knew music theory You can tie it in and resolve it back to the G min chord ( if you want to) G min7 add 11 is just G min PENTATONIC. G min Bb Maj7 B min7 Ab min Db dim D7 into G min Most people are going see the B /Cb chord as N6 of Bb Maj ( b2 of Bb) ....................................................Ab chord as N6 of G min ( b2 of G min) or tritone sub or tritone of D7 You can play them as WHATEVER. Not just maj7 , dominant or dim Minor chord sounds cool... If you use the Full dim H/W scale you can stack MAJOR, minor, dominant or dim chords...every b3 intervals too i just add Ab min and Db dim. He could had easily play B min then D7 into G min Then F7 Eb min E Maj7 D7 into G min again.. It's not BASIC music theory..and Im not WRONGS for playing chords/notes outside the Bb Major/G min as the parent REFERENCE key

[@lopezfam7317]

God bless you and God bless anyone reading this! Hope you have an awesome day! Seek him while you can! Jesus is the way and the only way and he is returning soon! Whenever you think you aren't loved... Remember the ultimate sacrifice was for love! ENDING YOUR LIFE IS NEVER THE ANSWER! For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 KJV The wages of sin is death (hell) but Jesus paid our debt on the cross, for our salvation! We must turn to God and away from our sinful ways, Confess Jesus is Lord and believe with our hearts that he was risen from the dead by God, and we must be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and The Holy Spirit and live by His word and Commandments! Trust that God will help with the rest! Seek God today before it's too late! Today could be your last day on earth! Have a blessed day!

[@andrewtruttmann6825]

Yeah I fall into the trap of just playing root chords over an over again, this is really helpful

[@jamesmosher1071]

Same here. This video helps me think out of the 3rds box!

[@b0unce805]

One of my favorite musicians said “MUSIC before Method” which means the goal as a musician is finding/creating sounds you like and then afterwards use theory as a way to conceptualize it. This is a great exercise and I’ll definitely try this out!

[@blaeser13]

Just curious, who is the one of your favorite musicians?

[@b0unce805]

@@blaeser13 Gospel Keyboard player by the name of Deyquan Bowens. He said that during a livestream once and it stuck with me lol

[@blaeser13]

@@b0unce805 Nice, thanks for the reply!

[@chiken1638]

I'm doing it wrong then lol Ive learnt how to read notes and find what key your in but I barley know how to play lol one of the only problems I have is using both hands at the same time

[@b0unce805]

@@chiken1638 simple reps

[@lashesfordaze]

Polychord fractions. A great way to learn, remember and incorporate complex chord sounds into your playing.

[@frankijupiter9301]

Man with magical illustrated arms presses white and black buttons chaotically and magical jazz alien translates button sounds into number sentences.

[@imrepalagyi2684]

I love how Jake is a little anxious from doing this video because it is just unnatural as hell to talk to a camera when you aren't used to it. :D Really shows how much of a professional you are, Charles.

[@Kris102]

yeah lol He's doing great though

[@JakHart]

13:36 This chord has some serious Howie Mandel vibes. I absolutely love it.

[@luca__3044]

Thats how i started learning piano.. and ukulele aswell.. just exploring the instrument and finding patterns that fit good together.. later i recognized that as scales n stuff xD.. still much to learn, but the journey is a blessing 🙏 hope you and everyone reading this has a beautiful day! ✨

[@SubtleHawk]

I still think it's easier to learn theory as you learn an instrument. This is basically just the same as theory only you're figuring it out yourself instead of someone else telling you about it, which would be faster and more efficient. Doesn't mean you need to go to school for it. A lot of free info is available online.

[@pjamito]

That look Charles gave to Jake at 7:22 had me laughing. And btw nice chord progression, Jake!

[@Yipper64]

You know something interesting. In all other fields of art, its difficult to find more advanced stuff. Like the majority of stuff you find on the internet is directed at beginners. With music however, I see the opposite. Nothing really teaches you the basics, what you can do without music theory, Ive never found a video walking you through on a step by step basis making a musical piece. But here, for once, I see you making a video, on how someone might play chords without music theory. And then you explain it, like youre talking to someone with lots of music theory knowledge, explaining the theory behind it, despite the person playing it having none of that theory. Its just interesting to me that music is so complex that most people interested in it dont really need the basics but already kind of know that part. At least thats how it seems to me.

[@lantzskidmore9386]

I find that intermediate stuff is skipped over! There’s plenty on “here’s where middle C is, make sure you’re wrists are straight”, then there’s plenty of advanced and theoretical stuff. Meanwhile, this is for people who know the piano somewhat well (or for people who are classically trained trying to transition into more improvisational styles, like jazz and songwriting). It’s the problem I found with learning the saxophone - I rented one and learned it quicker than most (obviously a university student with previous experience in trumpet will have an easier time than a middle schooler with no music practice at all under their belt), but the materials I found were either VERY very beginner stuff or advanced transpositions.

[@oibruv3889]

Majority of stuff on youtube is beginner content being sold as something special.

[@sincerelyjayp]

I've been searching for this video for 5 years! Such an invaluable, inviting conversation for beginners alike to start exploring harmonies without rules. In high school I always wondered how people started to create such beautiful progressions, and this video finally gave me peace of mind in that regard. Thank you for all your amazing content Charles. A diamond in our community.

[@BustyCatbot]

I just pick a scale in my DAW, slap down root notes, and add more notes until it sounds good to me, and I've gotten some pretty damn good results out of that

[@kitty_basspiano]

Thank you, I will definitely try this with my students 😍 In music schools there's way too much theory before they really use their ear with attention, and creativity.

[@MasterKnutA]

I've been falling in love with J-pop recently. They often use the famous 4-3-6 progression. With some minor 5th Chord to create tension. This video will definitely help me create more beautiful chords. This is mainly how I found your channel. You're such a great musician and teacher. I've played piano for over 20 years, but it's just this month I've started learning about roman numerals. I know a lot of people make fun of not understanding anything in your comment section: "Don't understand, but love his enthusiasm". However, you make this really easy to grasp, and lots of people will benefit from this 👏🏼✨🎹

[@cooldebt]

If you love J-pop maybe check out Pat Bartley and J-Music Ensemble. Pat does some brilliant TwitchTV streams where he just improvs over J-Pop or VGM. It's great listening.

[@MasterKnutA]

@@cooldebt thank you! 🎶🤩

[@gabrielsb95]

This really incentivizes that part of my brain that always wants to spend practice time doing random shit

[@kevinmackler]

this is such a useful video. i had formal training for years but when i went to try and do stuff on my own this is sort of where i got hung up. big love to jake who crushed it!

[@necroticpoison]

9:45 That chord sounds pretty cool with the distance between the lowest note and the rest of the notes, it kind of sounds like there's some beating between the notes.

[@muzikamor2923]

I want MORE of Jake's reactions 😂😂😂 that could be it's own channel lmao

[@TARSProduction]

Thanks for useful and joyful content, Charles!

[@KofiePerson]

Jake looked so anxious but he made a very nice voicing. Definitely sounded very jazzy

[@avemarduk3718]

I'm just now seeing this video and I just have to say... Somebody was eventually going to do it, and I haven't seen it in the comments yet, so I'll do it lol... What Jake plays at 14:30 is... (and I've tried to simplify this to the most basic root position, accounting for repeating notes, also with one inversion to try and represent most accurately what he plays for the last chord in the sequence) 1st chord: *_F6/11(no5)_* with an F Major 3rd on top (F, A) F, A, Bb, D, F, A 2nd chord: *_Ab6/9_* with an Ab(add2) triad on top. (Ab, Bb, C) Ab, Bb, C, Eb, F, Ab, Bb, C 3rd chord: *_E6/9_* with an Ab on top. E, Gb, Ab, B, Db, Ab 4th chord: *_AbMaj9/13/F_* and if he played the F right next to the G he plays with his right hand middle finger, it would've been a root position AbMaj9/13... But since he plays the F an octave lower with his left hand ring finger, it's an AbMaj9/13/F. F, Ab, Bb, C, Eb, G

[@davidrodriguez7291]

This is genius, this a great way to both give us confidence and the ability to learn thank you 🙏

[@rgallitan]

I literally play around like this on the piano all the time. What I need to get better at is getting in the habit of recording it every time so I can remember what the hell I did.

[@modernmusicofthedarkages296]

This video was exactly what I needed. I’ve been struggling with chord inversions a lot lately and since I’m auditioning for a Jazz study this year I really need to know all these different voicing. But with practices like these I can definitely enjoy exploring the path down to the finish line

[@DrMax0]

Absolutely great! That's how I taught music "theory" to my daughter. We called it "Töne finden" = "find the tones". She learned some theory afterwards. That "lack" of theory didn't never kept her from playing super crazy stuff on the piano.

[@jamesuMusic]

Jake, PLEASE don't stop making good videos at charles' expense.

[@matthewcupido4354]

That's an awesome chord progression, Jake! 💪🏼

[@amwow6827]

Man I wish I could find a music teacher like you!! This was amazing and inspiring

[@aussiesil80]

This is brilliant Charles, from someone who just messes around playing my favourite songs (badly), knowing nothing of the theory, this simple concept here speaks volumes!

[@DaveGouda]

This is an awesome video. I'm a music producer who really struggles to play keys. I love piano but I'm awful at it, and when I sit down at the keyboard I just get overwhelmed with what I should play and default to known chords and progressions, mostly the root chords and I make something that sounds boring. It was great to see how blind exploration can create some interesting sounds. I've heard a lot of visual artists say "paint like a child" and I think it applies well to music as well. When we're children we're not afraid to play something that sounds bad, but when we grow up we start to judge our own creations because we have perspective on what sounds "good" and "bad". I think this is a great way to break out of that habit.

[@TheSeeking2know]

Nice personal application and examples. Exploration keeps things interesting.

[@sunsetarchitect]

I agree. I am primarily a guitarist/producer who also can struggle with keys. I mean, I can play some songs and do some practiced runs that seem "parlor" impressive. I have chords and scales down, as transferred from guitar thinking, but I think counterpoint or polyphony is one of the uses of keys that kind of boggles my mind. For me, practicing two separate lines at once always seemed to require sheet music. It's a different way of thinking, but it's what makes the keys so powerful. I guess a similar principal applies to drums. Guitar usually keeps a single rhythm line, as varied as that line may be, while piano and drums may have many different rhythmic chunks going at the same time.

[@sevenfoldismDrummer1]

I think so far this is one of the best video you ever made for beginner who try to learn piano

[@mihailyanchev1905]

I have a good ear for harmony, but know very little music theory. This approach is so liberating! Thank you so much Charles Cornell.

[@setermd]

My cat: Steps on piano Charles: Ooooo, interesting

[@Emad_Attar]

amazing approach! once being graduated from Music University, your brain is stuck to all the rules and this is exactly what fresh graduates need to get out of the box and make new experiences. Music University is amazing, we learn lots of techniques, which are super useful for surviving in the industry and making money. But the way of seeing things, is an artistic thing, has nothing to do with what we've all learnt in the university. Respect and please do more videos like this.

[@Tartarus88]

I wanna learn so much about music theory but don't have the recourses but this channel helps me a lot

[@RobinsMusic]

You have internet, you have all the recourses

[@anthonyumana7013]

Start with the major scale, and learn how to make it in every key, then learn about intervals, after that chords and other music theory aspects will make way more sense. Trust me

[@oibruv3889]

Books can be downloaded for free on the Internet. I would start with something like harmony and voice leading by aldwell and schacter.

[@sunsetarchitect]

I just saw you with Sungazer in Denver. It was such a great show and congratulations on the induction!

[@ZachLowz]

My problem is I struggle finding the next chord to play. I can hear it in my head where the movement wants to go but struggle getting there.

[@BlvckSteve]

I am a beginner pianis t and watching this video, I think its a good way to start.... There are many thing we do wrongly but this will help clarify things

[@thenauman]

theres alot to learn here even outside of being applied strictly to piano! i am mostly a guitar player and this concept of using your ears to shift almost random shapes into lush, full and gorgeous chords is something ive done for years because of lack of music theory knowledge.

[@AulisA.O.T]

3:37 😊 smile!

[@samuel.a.arango]

Why does Jake look like he was held at gun point for this video?

[@geekiish]

MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS PLEASE!!!😭

[@arpanroy3585]

We want a whole lot more like this kind of videos. Take love Cornell❤

[@mrpk646]

13:40. Nice sound that. I'll play around with it when I get home. This is really cool content Charles. Especially for me, I've been playing about 8 years, but don't know much theory, nor do I read.

[@0010Kev]

Wow what a great video! As a novice piano player who mostly plays by ear and wonders where to go sometimes this video is really an inspiration to sit down at my piano and just 'play' and come up with things that sound good to me. You never know where it might lead right? Thank you guys!

[@ajjustice4488]

Awesome video🔥 made learning and playing chords less complicated🙏🏾💪🏾💯

[@Seanderson3]

jake playing a g minor chord led me down a 20 minute rabbit hole of me looking at a whole bunch of my old music and i'm not sure how i feel about that also jake's a cool guy 👍

[@alXmarkW]

Such a good mix of introductory ideas with advanced insights! I had to rewatch a few moments to internalize the various finger voicings you flew through- but it really helped me see how multiple chords can live within a single hand shape. Thank you for the lesson

[@darkslayerlion286]

14:35 - I'm a FL user and imma compose those notes sequences into some full Jazz music,it sounds so good in my head you don't even know... Like you said I don't need to know music theory in detail to compose my own sounds.

[@shlubshlubbweh3515]

In my opinion, *as soon as I have any reason to play a note / sound in a musical context, this is considered as music theory* . If I play a major chord because it sounds happy, this is theory. If I play "HONK" after "VROOM" by wanting to make a car-like effect, this is theory. If I wanna play random notes, this is also theory, because it being random is a criteria itself. I think the so-called "music theory" nowadays is more of a bunch of theories that have been proved to work especially well... But to me, the worst thing for a musician wouldn't be not to know music theory, but rather, *to satisfy itself of its current music theory and stop searching further* . Take Jacob Collier, considered by many as an irreplaceable genius, at the end, how did he get that much theory? It's not a blessing or anything, but very likely, all he did was just accepting that there could be stuff that he wouldn't know yet, and so he would always have considered that he could go further and further (Well there're probably willpower and brain condition too but I aint go that far). I think a very good approach for new composers would be to question everything : "Why does it work like that?", "Could I do the contrary?", then build their own music theory. I must say nowadays, "industrial" music (especially western) kinda sounds more and more... Déjà vu, many producers seeming to barely understand anything in music theory, just sticking into what they already know... (Although Japan sure did understand they could push theory further instead of doing the same thing again and again, so for me, it's one of the best place to look for modern music). Because at the end, the time signature, the tempo, the key, the instruments,... all these are just parameters that make the music actually "understandable" by the human brain, and there's nothing telling that it would stop working if one tweaks any of these. Also, finding the best parameters ever to make the ultimate song is a nonsense to me. Like in everything in art, if something becomes too common, people will be used to it and will be more likely to enjoy something else.

[@jimmyboyblue]

any time Jake plays anything: ANOTHER TRIUMPH!

[@shirleym.7005]

SOOO helpful! And it was nice meeting Jake!!

[@northofbrandon]

Man this content is top-gosh-darn-shelf

[@kevin.skorupa]

Can you review the music from the NieR games? I've fallen in love with the minor chords and vocals in the music.

[@hellishlycute]

have you seen 8-bit music theory's video on nier?

[@kevin.skorupa]

@@hellishlycute Yes I have and it's phenomenal. There are some that I'd love to see covered more in depth, such as Shadowlord, but I also love tracks such as mourning, snow in summer, and Grandma. Maybe I just really love the vocals, but the music from those games is just some of my favorite.

[@johntai4020]

I second this

[@cooldebt]

Nier music would be great although my experience is really limited to the jazz covers by The Consouls like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqSYnoWmoMmora8

[@khalilboutira1177]

I'M THANKFUL FOR THIS!!!

[@mscman13]

I love this video SOOO much! As someone who really loves music theory now, I got my start playing around on the keyboard (or sax) in my room and just experimenting and seeing what sounded good. There are even chord progressions that I came up with when I was a lot younger that I've only learned in later years what they actually are.

[@jakekeys88music]

It's definitely a fun way to explore and bond with an instrument. I'm at home on piano but really studying and trying to understand the guitar now. I know a bunch of chords. Just messing around with the theory I know and trusting my ears and what sounds good has led to some wonderful inspirations and given me extended practice times on guitar to see where it all leads (and then take some of this stuff and toss it back to piano...and slowly tossing piano stuff to guitar).

[@SegNode]

Great video, would love to see more of these teaching-style videos. Would love to see Jake again too.

[@samus88]

Haha The dude's face expressions as Charles talks about chrods are priceless.

[@macehead]

I kinda want a sample pack of "Jake drops hands on piano" chords

[@MasterfarceTheatre]

6:43: One of the best ever bro moments on KZbin starts here.

[@drpebblez]

Jakes randomly making super cool chords Meanwhile my hands break.

[@ianbaker3060]

I just got your MORE KEYS sweatshirt for my birthday recently and i just want to thank you so much for all this great content that both is informative and funny

[@luispereztasso]

As a guitarist who just puts some pads and some fills with my midi keyboard in my demos this is absurdly useful.

[@ianlarsen3920]

This is a very helpful, useful video. I'll probably be coming back to this one often. Thank you, Charles and Jake, for sharing your musical gifts and lesson with us.

[@MrJdsenior]

Yeah my brain when immediately to that F6 first inversion, too!!!! It didn't, I lied. I was kinda laughing along with Jake in the same total confusion when you started into the "I could call it" loop. When you hit B minor I though, ah, time to write a mass. :-) Cluster voicing...barber shop? I don't even play piano but your videos are always informative and interesting even so, from just the standpoint of listening to music with greater knowledge and a appreciation for what is going on. I pointed out to one organist that was playing some humongous organ with many very wide rows of stops that if you played that organ twelve hours a day, trying each different combination of stops available you couldn't BEGIN to have gotten all of them. You could give one hundred people one thousand years each and you still wouldn't have covered even the tiniest percentage. With music you have voicing, many instruments, dynamics, timing, perhaps text, etc that means the same is FAR more true there. It's pretty amazing when you think about it. There will never be, even if man is around a million more years, all the music written that can possibly be. WELL, let's get started. You need to tone Jake down a bit, that dude is just way too wild and out of control. Seriously though, nice job learning Jake. I've been saying forever that I'm going to pick up a keyboard and learn...you on the other hand, are doing it. Good luck in your endeavor. You've got one HELL of a teacher there, when he does, I will say that. Sometimes when he really starts digging into theory it makes my hair hurt, but I would take some music classes from him any time. He really knows how to keep it fresh and interesting.

[@howardron543]

Its delightful to discover new beautiful sounds

[@Oetam]

The second chord kinda sounded like a chord in the intro of Miles Davis’ “Someday My Prince Will Come”

[@delilahs8037]

Thank you so much for this. it's so helpful. I'm always here for the enthusiasm on this channel

[@TinyMaths]

Jake playing 'slick' without even trying to.

[@Jonzoo]

Nice riff Jake!

[@Jose_diazlife]

Dude this is awesome, James u save us all the time. This is amazing🥰😍

[@danothan127]

This reminds me of when remi was cooking in the ladies house in ratetouille. He's coming up with all these things and the brother is just going "uh huh ya"

[@hansfijlstra5932]

I believe that these two very sympathetic human beings manage to show the magic of music or harmony or how you want to call it! To keep it short: it’s magic!

[@Mtaalas]

This is why I started out by just smashing the keyboard and enjoy the all the wonderful sounds that came up... all the theory, the context the "what the hell is that?" came later... But I feel it's valuable part of going forward.

[@armandogiordano1226]

This is what I' ve been wanting to put in words for so long.

[@tapdancer4327]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This was such a fantastic resource, 11/10 content!

[@DVain]

Noice. Also check out soundtrack of Kirby Forgotten Lands, specifically Blizzard Bridge. Solos in that one sound super jazzy

[@tomkelly6374]

Very inspirational. Your vids always make me want to jump on the piano after watching!

[@anemoiacApache]

Amazing format, more of this!

[@DavidOna]

This really helps me a lot and changed my perspective in playing thank you!

[@carlostolosa6530]

more videos like this Charles 🙏🙏🙏

[@TheZiiFamily]

Wow thats helpful and also you had double notes in there (two keys played at the same time with no space in between the notes) I always thought the rule of thumb was to never let that happen ever but it actually sounded alright with the rest of the keys

[@nugboy420]

Jake the photogenic natural or something like that. Also sick sleeves dude!

[@ejb1011]

Love this video. Please do more of this!!

[@laureanobartolome3417]

Great video now I'm gonna see it

[@DanWatsonMusic]

I definitely thought you were going to roast those "chord packages" sold to new music producers.

[@MGNarwhals]

I would love to hear an improv progression from you with a voice-over of your thought process AS you are playing? Can we get a little something like that?

[@SeahorseTrash]

I call my by-ear method “Fuck Around & Find Out” where I do exactly that

[@JakHart]

Ok, now we're talking. I study music theory, I try to learn as much as I can, but damn, it's really dull. This exercise makes it a much more enjoyable experience. I think I'm going to have to make a video about this. Good sir, thank you for this and all that you do.

[@Cat6768]

wish i had a friend that was a musical genius

[@morgancrain2613]

I have a decent mindset on music theory and I like watching "no music theory required" videos so i can unlearn the "rules" when writing and use music theory to analyze.

[@chrisjamesr77]

11:38 I immediately thought "that's the first chord Freddie plays on the piano in the Queen song You Take My Breath Away." Though now that I looked it up, it's a half step off, the Queen song starts on Cm7 apparently! Maybe the voicing is very similar, interesting. (I'm a guitar player, not a piano player lol) Also, the chord sequence Jake came up with reminds me of something Adam Neely would play, especially the last two chords, lol....I'm not quite a point where I can name a chord instantly by hearing it, but I think I'm slowly getting there. I kinda do the same thing on guitar myself sometimes actually, I'll mess around and put my fingers in weird places, and sometimes end up with something that sounds cool, then I try to figure out what the heck I just played!

[@eriknestaas2270]

Absolutely incredible lesson!

[@star24ize]

Can you do a video similar but combines melody and chord? This style is really helping