When You Can't Stop MODULATING...

Hey people, hope you're having a nice summer! :D This footage covers me exercising on modulations/cadences in romantic/nocturne-like textures connected into an ongoing musical flow.
That sweet 6-5-1-pattern which creates a modulation to minor will be the central topic of an upcoming video...
Cheers

[@NicoIlViolinista]

It is amazing how this improvvisation feels so much natural and still tonal ambiguous. This kind of feeling can be found also in Chopin's prelude in A minor and in several compositions by other composers as Scriabin. Loved your playing too, keep it up!

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

THX Nico! That's so nice to hear! :D

[@fcouperin]

so Romantic I almost got TB, nice :-o

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

HA ALRIGHT! :DDD

[@gooseface2690]

I could listen to you modulate all day long! So impressive! So beautiful! 👍

[@nebbykoo]

Outstanding work. You are an inspiration.

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

T H X

[@gogpoydi]

Your channel is a gold mind for inspiring classical composers and improvisors

[@maxjohn6012]

That was absolutely beautiful! I'm so deeply jealous of your ability to do this!

[@erickramirez5483]

Dude it sounds so good, keep the nice work! ❤

lovely to hear

[@EfrenUrbano]

Definitely, you could write a book or record a course! Learning from someone so skilled would be great!

[@FooVines]

Brilliant!!

[@iFINNIX]

I enjoyed the journey 😊

[@youmukonnpaku2785]

The last chords are amazing! Thank you for letting me learning that!

[@awakenwithoutcoffee]

lovely playing friend. Our masters are watching from above! I always thank them for the knowledge and inspiration whenever I finish a good improvisation.

[@scottfoster3643]

Fantasztikus!

[@RaptorT1V]

I put likes on your videos, I have an activated bell on your channel. I don't know what else I can do to thank you for such content! It's something beyond reality!

[@AcousticBruce]

I desire these abilities so much. I am working so hard to achieve this.

[@brunokalil142]

Great mentality, thats it.

[@AcousticBruce]

@@brunokalil142 absolutely! Also a love and desire for something and following that purpose will lead to a great mentality.

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

pour in love and labour and then it comes to you all by itself

[@gonenc1356]

​@@en-blanc-et-noir I'll hang this quote to my wall. Very wise and it was what I needed.

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

haha cheers

[@nickpollockpiano]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci.

[@robertocornacchionialegre]

Cool!

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

THX Roberto!!!

[@bornaerceg9984]

Great stuff! 😍😍😍

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

THX Borna! Have you been trolled by Kompositorium? :DDD Dude...

[@bornaerceg9984]

@@en-blanc-et-noir Just a little bit.. 😁😂

[@danipar7388]

Deeply underrated

[@MusicaAngela]

If I would be blunt and brutal, I would call this a Chopinesque Corelli. But your cadences are so varied that they become well-disguised by the sheer beauty. (Unlike Corelli’s ubiquitous cadences which are so obvious. Bravo!

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

Many thanks and you got me: Suzanne, you‘re 100 percent right, this is absolutely inspired by the concept of a baroque style cadence parcours… I guess this is what you are referring to, right?

[@MusicaAngela]

@@en-blanc-et-noir Yes! And I can thank you for teaching it to me through your Corelli video!

[@pedroncfidalgo]

Bravo! This is very well done. Would you publish sheet music for this improv (aside from the upcoming video explaining the “mechanics” behind it)? Would very much love that :)

[@hugueshuddlestone780]

Love you

[@Hyde2997]

I have this seekness too.. im trying to working on...

[@Poeme340]

A hint of early Scriabin, too, perhaps?👌👌

[@jesperkragh]

I would love to see and hear a video about romantic modulation.

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

Have you checked this one, yet? kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZe9Y6Gaj7iHrZo it explains exactly the procedure I use in this piece! Modulation is a reoccuring topic on several videos on the channel, although it is not mentioned in the individual title explicitely. I made as well this one that tackles ‚modulation per sequence’ in baroque and romantic stylez (2nd half of the video) kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIGXZ6aEbNl_adU in general I‘d tend to refuse to summarize romantic modulation in a single video, this is a huge and diverse topic. But of course it is a good idea… thx for watching :)

[@altekamerad]

It would be immensely valuable if you could make a video on what the numbers above the chord numbers mean.

[@NarendraU23]

"The numbers Mason, what do they mean??" Jokes aside, those numbers are figured bass. If you are in C major and the (2) chord has the number 6, then you play D note plus a 6th from D which is B. Some numbers are usually omitted for simplicity, like the 3th and 5th in a dominant 7th chord, but you can play them.

[@alexfetchina9416]

If you write a book on improvisation I would buy it for sure. Great stuff

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

Lol, I'll register that as compliment haha, well, isn't a youtube channel with all the examples played much more instructive? But I understand what you mean: with so much information spread it'd actually good to have some sort of archive that stores and orders it. Good books on improv are actually very rare... the only one I can recommend is the "Compendium Improvisation" by Schwenkreis et. al. (strictly baroque though) - this is a really good one and I'm happy to have it in the shelf. Cheers

[@alexfetchina9416]

@en-blanc-et-noir nice! Haven't heard of that one, so I'll check it out. Are you not a fan of John Mortensens' work? I only ask because that's the one book on classical improv I own and I find it very practical, so I'd love to hear some cautionary words on it if you have any

[@m.walther6434]

Best of schmalz, thanxsalot.

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

🥳

[@matiasfuentealba898]

i need the transcription of this

[@gonenc1356]

I adore and treasure your content! Is there a course by you or do you teach? I'd love to invest in this type of content.

[@edbuller4435]

This is so cool...and somewhat daunting !. Quick question isn't that #4/7 in the G seq at ;30 a diminished 7th ?

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

Many thanks... and YES! it is of course a dim 7th

[@martinschulze5399]

fantastic :)

[@fingerstyledojo]

I'm also having a hard time with those numbers that "indicate the bass motion". So in the first few measures you play a 2 5 1 leading to A, and you are clearly playing the root notes of each of these three chords in the bass. So what do the two sevens mean? please enlighten me 😢

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

That means that this is a 7th chord :D how about that? :D It's just local bass degrees + figured bass related to local key

[@fingerstyledojo]

@@en-blanc-et-noir ohhhh well that makes sense... Thank you! I thought it got to be something different because the way you explained it was so unintuitive for me haha.

[@miastamp3855]

What do the additional numbers above the chord numbers mean, are they inversions or added notes?

[@en-blanc-et-noir]

yo! These are not chord numbers in the sense of roman numerals. It is a different system: the numbers indicate real scale degrees (e.g. 6 in b minor would be the note g), the additional numbers indicate the figured bass. This way of labeling chords was well established in the 18th and 19th century. Since roughly 20 years now it received a revival in the historically informed theory scene. It is linked to a historical concept of chord grammar that‘s usually referred to as ‚Rule of the Octave… it seems like the concept gains more and more popularity because of its practical aspects

[@brunokalil142]

what are those numbers?

[@AcousticBruce]

This is what I am wanting to learn. I am intrigued.

[@kidwolfman]

Yeah man, isn’t a #6 the same as a b7 🤔

[@AcousticBruce]

@@kidwolfman technically yes. Another example: a #9 is also a b3. The case of playing Dom 7 with a #9 you would have a b3 and a 3 in the chord, and the #9 makes more sense because it is an altered chord.

[@JonathanSWorsley]

@@kidwolfman #6 implies an augmented sixth chord, which function differently to a dominant seventh

[@alessandropalazzani]

@@JonathanSWorsley aggiungo un corollario: #6 risolve salendo, b7 risolve scendendo. Almeno nei casi standard.