The SECRET Anime Chord Japan has been hiding from us?

[@zekromplayspiano]

Wow I love finding smaller creators who make such well put together videos about obscure content. I also love this chord and will be stealing it from the japanese because it's great.

[@CadenceHira]

thank you so much! and absolutely, the blackadder chord is so underrated

[@ImDzp]

you got me good calling breath of the wild a first-person shooter. super informative video.

[@aislingoda6026]

i spat tea everywhere orz

[@aidandix7296]

So, I looked into the いきすぎ (ikisugi) thing out of sheer curiosity... At first I didn't think it was too bad and then I looked in images and found a Japanese meme, watched the video on KZbin and now I understand EVERYTHING

[@kerokeroq]

The meme started when a drafted baseball player actually appeared in a gay video. An impassioned performer in the video shouted "Ikisugi", which spread the line, and one keyboardist called the black adder code the "Ikisugi code", making it popular among Japanese. The name has spread.

[@APARIARANCELANIBALBENJAMIN]

yarimasune!

[@Awakia1]

This chord also shows up in Fire Man's stage for Mega Man Network Transmission. It comes during a super simple repeating melodic figure that just keeps getting spiced up.

[@Tekni]

those shakunetsu and shining star ones reaaally caught me off guard damn, actually got goosebumps Thanks for the video, really cool stuff !

[@tsg_frank5829]

This is pretty sick, i wish there was more discussion around what Japanese composers have been doing with these chords. It's a super interesting topic to me

[@alexonfire8]

Idek how I got recommended this. However, it has completely captivated me and I’m definitely going try to implement this into a song one day. Thank ya for the great video Chief!

[@guzax729]

4:03 this bassline broke my brain

[@Cyred_Akaao]

This is the first time I've heard of this cool little chord, and it sounds really fun to play around with! Great video on the subject, I always love learning about new chords I can use in my music!

[@gregc6044]

2:02 *that sounds so good*

[@sarang69]

Thank you very much for this interesting and informative video! Please allow me to add two things: 1. I think this chord did first appear in music of late romanticism. With a very short research I could find an example in Scriabines Piano Sonata No. 4, seven bars before the ending of the first movement, induced by a contrary chromatic movement. 2. In terms of jazz theory it seems absolutely adequate to me to interpret the use of this chord in many cases as a SubV. In terms of classical theory I'd sometimes describe it (of course depending on the special context) as the second inversion of a major triad with "dis-altered" fifth - often in the function of a dominant, although without a 7 -, for example in a progression like: c-f-a-c - cb-f-a-c# - bb-f-a-d (the forementioned example from Scriabine is very close to the retrograde version of this progression); so the second chord has the b5 as the base tone and the #5 as the upper tone (a previous commentator wrote something very similar; I beg your pardon for repetition😉). Anyway, your video is very inspiring, thanks again!

[@gavinleepermusic]

These are great examples! Thanks for making a cool video!

[@ghostnoteCE]

this is good stuff.I will definitely use this chord in my writing! You should continue these analysis type vids

[@CadenceHira]

thanks for the kind words! glad you liked it, I already have a few more analysis vids lined up and will hopefully continue after that

[@denishegemann6177]

@@CadenceHira Awesome! :)

[@iwantahat]

@@CadenceHira yay!

[@tannazare]

4:55 "As much as we all enjoy cartoons for children, let's move on to a more mature medium, video-games." I feel triggered

[@blueoceanbeats]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@blueoceanbeats]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ( IM CRYING INSIDE)

[@RT-xm8xu]

イキスギコード海外進出してんのまじで草

[@1page465]

Ikisugi chordsの発音良すぎて吹いた

[@HEHEHEIAMASUPAHSTARSAGA]

One place I've seen a blackadder is the track Gentle Rain from Mother 3. There, it's an C+/F# chord resolving to F major.

[@Beatboxmarimba]

Thanks for sharing the secrets of the Blackadder. Such a tasty chord!

[@thespeedyyoshi]

HUH. Wow, that's actually really interesting. I've definitely HEARD the chord before, but to be able to notate it and see it constructed from the ground up. You have AMAZING content btw, and I hope more people see your videos! ^^

[@もうはみ出さない]

ikisugi chord 無理やり訳するならorgasmuch chordになるんだろうか

[@APARIARANCELANIBALBENJAMIN]

ikisugi! iku! iku !iku ! Ah!

[@bangryak]

Videos like this make me realize how little music theory I actually know. The K.K. Bossa example was amazing! I'm surprised people didn't find examples of the blackadder chord in bossa nova, it seems like it fits right in that genre.

[@dliessmgg]

I like to call this chord the Japanese augmented sixth chord, to connect it to Italian/French/German augmented sixth chords, which also conventionally go down by a semitone.

[@CadenceHira]

Ongaku Concept (the guy who i referenced in the vid) calls it that as well! makes sense to me and fits nicely with the naming convention

[@BlairBenzel]

very well done once again

[@Dappis]

Now this is the content i want on my recommendations

[@LucasBere]

gonna be stealing this from now on haha. Great job again!

[@CadenceHira]

thanks Lucas :D

[@t3hgr8gabbo]

I think the least confusing way to approach the chord is as a minor chord suspension of the tonic from both directions. Eb->D, F, A, C#->D

[@gaetanodepaola2ndchannel179]

Very interesting, I'll keep this in mind. Thank you for the video, would love to see more!

[@storm8y744]

I know an instance of this chord being used in a jazz tune by bill evans that I really like called "Re: Person I Knew'' it has has a C pedal point throughout the tune and the second chord is an F#+/C which then resolves to Bb/C

[@tangysbodaciouschannel427]

Excellent Video! (:

[@01kyu]

Another function of this chord that isnt mentioned is how it can also function as a V7 Aug in 3rd inversion. For example D maj7 -> Daug / C (enharmonic blackadder) -> Gmaj7 / B.

[@Yuluco]

Ty for listing the songs used :D

[@KINGOFPIZZA92]

I'm really happy to have discovered you, super interesting videos explained well and also with transcriptions with lots of good examples, you're amazing! Did you compose the Naruto remix at the end of the video?

[@CadenceHira]

thanks! and yes that's me

[@Veq_]

You can find this chord in Bill Evans piece Re:Person I Knew

[@ianmoore5502]

well earned sub. Coltrane changes vid started me on my journey, now I wanna watch more of your vids

[@m1a32]

This chords will be great in midi format

[@taiteakopyte1286]

...and also will be easier to catch it with the ear 😁

[@nickl2854]

Your videos are fantastic

[@NuclearFantasies]

Well, this chord is definitely going into my bands next song.

[@Vic9994546]

I think about it as an augmented chord with either a bas a major second, minor seventh, or tritone interval down from the root of the Augmented chord I play

[@preblalar8798]

Just analysed 'Liszt - R.W - Venezia' composed 1883, surprised to find the Blackadder chord, though not used in the same way.

[@Acevgm]

Great video! I'll definitely be stealing this lol

[@justinadijanto6679]

Good Stuff!!

[@Jay-uv5xg]

this is blowing my mind

[@Lmask13]

Love these kind of videos

[@THEHAR0LD]

Personally I'd see it as an Augmented 6th style chord. It's basically a French 6th, but with the 3rd replaced with a 2nd, which in a standard Aug6th voice leading would resolve up a semitone going enharmonically from the m7 to M7 of the key (assuming it's resolving to the dominant and not a secondary dominant), which I believe is a fairly common voicing in Japanese pop music. If I were to name it, I might call it a Japanese 6th to fit with the Italian, French, and German naming convention, but naming things because the name sounds cool is perfectly valid, especially since most of the examples in this video use it slightly differently, even though it still mostly has a pre-dominant function

[@slimmyTM]

great video!

[@CadenceHira]

thanks!

[@fphantom]

this is cool! love the sour (but kinda sweet) tension it adds I tend to voice it also with the 13th of the root.. e.g. C Bb D F# A (Bb+Maj7/C ? lol)

[@gavinleepermusic]

I like your shorthand for quartal chords. Is that usage common?

[@CadenceHira]

Thanks! I haven't seen anyone else use this specific shorthand, but I'm sure there are similar notations out there

[@gavinleepermusic]

Cadence Hira Well I'll gladly copy you haha

[@bjorn5990]

JUICY

[@jackquentin1950]

Am I crazy or does anyone also notice that anime songs tend to go a half step down in their progressions to create tension? (Sorry, I don't know any musical theory so I'm describing it as best as I can) Like say you got a chord G then you'll go into F# major next while the melody goes higher.

[@みーぴョん]

海外にも波が広がってる！！ 田中秀和の名前を海外にも広めてくれてありがとう！ I love Tanaka Hidekazu (MONACA) & His musics! My resent favorites is "Batsu to batsu" by Kano, "Susume otome" Idol master, "V ji joushou victory" Shakunetsu no takkyu musume, "Onnanoko ni naritai" by mafumafu, "GO-MA-N-E-TSU" Tenka hyakken

[@CadenceHira]

Thank you for the recommendations, I'll check them out! :D

[@みーぴョん]

@@CadenceHira Thank you!

[@narulizard]

to me; the colour of the blackadder is kind of this preparatory phrase in the music. in the japanese, iki sugi (going to extreme/ going to cool)* implies that "we are going even further beyond"** kind of a "plus ultra"** kind of saying. thus with the progression, yes it climbs and instead of a reaching the summit/apotheosis, you hit this colour of the blackadder and realize you can "go even further beyond"**, thus it sells the climb of the progression. I can only imagine what it would be like to hit that super satifying I from V after the blackadder. *sorry my japanese is super rudimentary **sorry anime fan, had to get those dbz and heroaca references

[@CadenceHira]

nice references lol, also yeah i definitely agree

[@Needmore27]

Actualy, Ikisugi or イキスギィ is Japanese internet slang that came from Japanese gay video which means 'cumming hard'. The man who coined ikisugi chord term even said that listening this chord is like having a strange relaxation feeling after urinating.

[@narulizard]

O__O.....

[@CadenceHira]

@@Needmore27 O__O

[@Michail_Chatziasemidis]

You could also interpret it as an augmented chord with a minor 7th in third inversion built on the minor third degree of the scale, i.e. a bIII6#/2, which then resolves to the tonic; in functional harmony, it would be a counter parallel dominant 7th chord, i.e. a dG5#/7. That way, it never lacks a third. When used as a secondary bIII6#/2 → V (or as a (dG5#/7)[D]), it could be named as a "Japanese augmented sixth" chord (or Jp2), bearing resemblance to the usual German, Italian and French chords.

[@スライドドア-o6t]

イキスギコードは海を越えるんだね

[@andreil7766]

yea it's a cool chord

[@yuuchi404]

high quality tho i thought you are a big youtuber til i saw the amount of subcriber

[@TylerClibbon]

that song is actually the best song, its just a F 7 #11 chord though

[@vikhneshmanoj1748]

Went over my head. Nice outro BTW

[@musicmaker2645]

Cadence one day I want to be your friend from japan

[@sprenzy7936]

I friggin love jpop im kinda envious of japanese music nerds because they get to experience music at the fullest

[@golyko324]

Great video. whats the name of outro music ?

[@CadenceHira]

The Hokage Dies in Bossa (by Cadence Hira)

[@Rhovanion85]

Lyrics in Romaji “because I’m dumb” LOL

[@speedyperalta2833]

nice

[@Nabilanjay285]

JAPAN SONG HAS THE BEST CHORD PROGESSION

[@kinakl1417]

I heard that Hidekazu Tanaka actually applied for Nintendo as a composer and went to the final interview, but failed and participated in the current MONACA. (google translated)

[@CadenceHira]

never knew about that, neat!

[@j.7485]

Yo is your ending song a bossa version of the MGS theme? Nice

[@liangwu988]

7:14 at that C9(#11) the melody needs to be F# D Bb D instead of F# D B D I love the content of Blackadder, thx and it gives me a lot more to explore!

[@jayna1140]

1:57 Mh, I'd disagree, inversions are a thing after all, I'd just call it a dominant chord with #5 in the soprano and b5 in the bass.

[@_Mojius_]

Please make more vids!!

[@WaitingForTheHook]

Is this the same as the first chord in the Beach Boys' When I Grow Up To Be A Man?

[@VeigarEUW]

I dont get it how you can find out those chord progressions, I always sit there trying to get one chord correct but I cant hear which inversion a chord is, if there is a seventh or other extensions and sometimes I cant even hear if its major or minor. I wanna analyze jpop and rock so baad to be able to write my own music but I just cant figure it out. Are you born with that ability to hear the chords?

[@CadenceHira]

Not at all. I have absolute pitch so it does help, but a lot of being able to figure out chords is a combination of practice+experience. Definitely practice hearing the basic chord qualities and sevenths, then start adding extensions/inversions/hybrids etc., then practice analyzing tunes you like. It's perfectly fine if it takes a while, by doing this your ears get good quickly and listening to a genre you're well versed in turns into "confirming the expected chords" vs "analyzing the exceptions", allowing you to analyze tunes much quicker. Hope this helps!

[@VeigarEUW]

@@CadenceHira Well I still dont believe in myself yet but you defenetly motivated me to keep at it😂

[@鋸筋イ]

Ikisugi chord…

[@APARIARANCELANIBALBENJAMIN]

yarimasune!

[@jayhu2296]

never subbed so fast in my life

[@JeongYongKim1]

lol you used Korea version of Shining Star song what sa nice surprise as a fellow of Korean :)

[@ianequilala1978]

should it be E# for the A augmented? I know E# is F but if you’re spelling a chord it should be in successive order, right? and if it’s E# the triads just reads a first inversion of F augmented over an Eb. so can you guys help me out, im totally confused. 2:41

[@CadenceHira]

it should technically be E# but i hate E#

[@taiteakopyte1286]

This has been so informative. I knew that Japanese music is unique...and there you go, you've just proved it 🙏🏻

[@km6206]

it's pretty much just tritone substitution by my ear. Doesn't really need a new name. Maybe it's more ambiguous cause the tritone sub doesn't have a 3 in it. But, so what if it doesn't have a 3? Still sounds like tritone sub. Nothing really new here except you spell it in a weird slash notation.

[@CadenceHira]

It definitely is tritone sub, i don't think they're mutually exclusive. the whole "blackadder" stuff is just noting the specific, strangely ubiquitous voicing (augmented triad over root a tritone/major 2nd down. the voicing+no3rd makes the chord hybridized, thus the slash notation)

[@vinyabhuvan5639]

cadnece i deisre this greatily i cannot sdeiny

[@m00nrabbit_]

4:49 if it's the same tak that did a bunch of music for rhythm games then yeah they must be a bit of a weeb bc theres a renai circulation remix on their soundcloud from 2011 lol

[@dat_21]

So a SECRET chord is 7#11? Not sure I can say that is a secret chord. It's been used in jazz and other related music since ages ago.

[@CadenceHira]

You got clickbaited! Please smash that like button and hit that bell!

[@rillloudmother]

rhythm isn't everything, but it is the only thing.

[@italyisntreal]

I loved that anime lmao

[@dansflams]

subbed

[@PeterReidJones]

LIFE. IS. GOOD. OMGGGGG 💚💚💚🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🤩🤩🤩🤯🤯🤯

[@sethleejazz]

how is it possible that japan is so far ahead of the united states musically we are just now discovering something they have been using for literally years

[@24pm17]

so basically use Dominant 7th chord to play anime song ? right ?

[@CadenceHira]

9, #11, no 3rd no 5th 👍

[@omniscientomnipresent5500]

Ah yes, BOTW the FPS... Heresyyy !!!

[@snuffcassette7555]

ok this is cool but can someone tell me how to play this on guitar and how to use it to my dumb guitar player brain?

[@oliviashoe]

yummy!!

[@ivanjurlina6869]

Koakuma chord progression is better,even westerners are starting to use it now.

[@tanuki532]

2:02

[@Scyriate]

"first person shooter breath of the wild" Bruh, its an third person open world fantasy rpg.... And anime isnt just for kids, theres a lot of mature shows.

[@CadenceHira]

i have 700 hours on botw and it was definitely a snowboarding simulator also, hayao miyazaki famously once said: "anime was a mistake, it is nothing but trash" i'm gonna have to take his word for it homie

[@kiame-music]

@@CadenceHira Although I can’t argue with the words of Hayao Miyazaki, I do think that there are a lot of anime directed at more mature audiences such as Sharktale and Cory in the House.

[@hare48music]

"The Blackadder functions in a nonfunctional way" dude I hate music theory

[@CadenceHira]

welcome to the club

[@inudoginuinu]

イ　キ　ス　ギ

[@sinaruden9280]

Concludes talking about anime: As much as we love talking about cartoons for children... Calls Nintendo games Mature lmao. honestly don't think their audiences differ much in anyway

[@landonrose2178]

*nods in pretending to understand jazz*

[@handledav]

cho

[@mcbroseph69]

"say our root is e-flat" ..... UGH why wouldn't you just show us the chord from C like a normal person?!

[@heyitspixl]

1v1 me in botw

[@roblaw7537]

so Eb7#11

[@CadenceHira]

nope. add 9 and omit 3rd, also is hybridized and has the specific closed voicing in upper structure

[@luhanpost2014]

Can you talk about kpop more???

[@CadenceHira]

you fool

[@luhanpost2014]

@@CadenceHira wait I thought u we’re gonna talk about one of these nights but ur gonna talk about fool????

[@taiteakopyte1286]

Lol 🤣🤣... K-pop has almost no originality in music. All it takes is just from the west... copycats 😂😂

[@Partizan7060]

I laughed

[@logosecho8530]

Sorry i tried but this chord just sounds like harmonic vomit. will come back next year.