Analyzing Radiohead's harmonies

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Analyzing Radiohead's harmonies

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One of my top 3 favorite Radiohead songs, if it's even possible to pick, "Everything In Its Right Place" is a masterpiece, an abstract dream. The harmonies of this song are a true thing of beauty, and that Dbmaj9 is my :: soulmate :: Thanks for watching! More coming soon.
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@communist_kirby Жыл бұрын

I feel like C is the key Thom feels drawn to through most of the song and can't get away from, but F is where everything is truly in its right place.

@Spectre0799 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, his whole melody is definitely in C Phrygian but the instrumental is trying to pull him away from that scale he's holding onto

@zerois2801 11 ай бұрын

@@Spectre0799we meet again

@Spectre0799 11 ай бұрын

@@zerois2801 no wayyy

@zerois2801 11 ай бұрын

@@Spectre0799 lmao I don’t even know how many times it’s been now

@vladrileynavilys 5 ай бұрын

The song is "officially" notated with 4 flats...

@jdmhexagon2584 Жыл бұрын

"I messed those chords up, but I like them, so I'm gonna keep them". Words to live by.

@iximusic Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you commented this because it reminded me to "keep" the chords, which I'd forgotten about - so I'll go write something new with these THANK YOU V MUCH! 🐈

@jdmhexagon2584 Жыл бұрын

@@iximusic Haha, awesome! 🙂

@ChrisAurora 4 ай бұрын

"No mistakes, just happy accidents". Wiser words were never spoken.

@fossphur 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know anything about Radiohead but I heard Paranoid Android on the radio and ordered OK Computer online. What I received was the Kid A disc in an OK Computer CD case and listening to it felt like the music opened a crack in my mind and let some new coloured light in that I'd never seen before. I like both albums but Kid A has always felt special to me in a way that is beyond words.

@lewlewlrw Жыл бұрын

its like it chose you 😫😫😫

@sea-ferring Жыл бұрын

I hated the MTV buzz that surrounded radiohead during the Creep days but OK Computer sucked me right in. Although OK Computer is an obvious masterpiece that inhabits the same space as Pet Sounds, the real magic only started for me when I listened to Amnesiac and then Kid A. It was that time that I truly started to love this group of musicians.

@B0K1T0 Жыл бұрын

I remember there was some wrong batch of kid A CDs as well and my mate accidentally bought one. Not sure if it was the same problem but I think it had to do something with the audio as well. (hard to remember after > 20 years :D) I think he kept it in the hope it would turn into some collector's item. Didn't see this guy for years though so I wonder if he ever sold it :D My sister had OK computer but I never really liked it much. But after hearing Pyramid song on MTV I was sold as well 😃

@sassymcgees 3 жыл бұрын

A new era has begun. Nin and radiohead have always been my top 2. You have such depth and I've seen some 'syncopated' analysis of many pieces by radiohead, but I am so excited to see you dipping into radiohead. Thank you.

@sassymcgees 3 жыл бұрын

replying to myself cause now ive finished the vid. I LOVE your appreciation for the beauty of the chords and just...idk while nin is the troubling and roaring thunder of the damages of life i feel like radiohead is the comprehension of the pain after. Still bruised, and looking outwards towards the things wrong in life rather than struggling with it internally. Its external now but that gap allows us to see the beauty and seeing your face light up highlights that. Great vid as always.

@sagittated 3 жыл бұрын

Both Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails appeal to the same parts of the brain. If someone likes one but not the other, they probably need an introduction.

@Cuzzzo42 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Same top 2 for sure. I've always thought that a Trent-Thom collab would be the greatest thing in the history of music. But the more I think about it, the more I think that a Trent-Jonny collab would just blow the shit out of peoples' minds.

@joelkulesha8284 3 жыл бұрын

@@sagittated throw bjork in and we got a party!

@marcoszeros 2 жыл бұрын

Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Pink Floyd are my top 3

@oystercatcher943 7 ай бұрын

I can’t get enough Radiohead analysis. Lovely to hear yours which is so informative. Beautiful playing and vocals thanks

@samueltronbot Жыл бұрын

It’s so satisfying to here some explanation as to why I love this song so much. There are two understandings in my head.

@ShadyMonkOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

I love how even when you don't post about NIN, you still manage to hit the nail on the head on other music I love.

@JonMurray Жыл бұрын

Urgh… The chord progressions in this song. I can’t. Just stunning.

@JonMurray Жыл бұрын

New subscriber ✌🏻

@spacevspitch4028 2 жыл бұрын

Yesss...I always thought the line "there are 2 colors in my head" and the fact that it keeps bouncing back and forth between C and F tonal centers was sweet but I've never seen anyone else point that out ❤

@constructionbootgazer 3 жыл бұрын

Hellllllllll yes. Kid A and OK Computer are two of my favourite albums. Radiohead is such a unique band that just operates on a completely different level than anyone else. Between their compositions and lyrics, there is so much thought and depth in their music. I hope you do either or both of these records like you did with NIN; How to disappear completely, The Tourist, In Limbo, etc really all beg for your analysis.

@billyalarie929 2 жыл бұрын

Did you like Amnesiac?

@DanRyanCarter 2 жыл бұрын

I fucking love this channel so much. It makes me even more emotional when I hear you talk about how different parts affect you emotionally. It's like experiencing the songs for the first time all over again ❤️

@DerekPower 3 жыл бұрын

I will always remember the day I bought Kid A. I was working as a library page. This library had a Best Buy nearby. So during one of my breaks, I went straight to Best Buy, bought the CD, and went back to work. When I started driving home, I started playing it. I still had a ways to go when I arrived home, so I resumed the rest when I got to my room. I then listened to it once through again. I knew right then and there that this album would be very special.

@australopithecus 3 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine at work lent me the cd to listen to on my headphones. "EIIRP" and the title track didn't make a big impression the first time through, but when I got to the free jazz freakouts on "National Anthem", I was like, "Holy sh**..."

@joshuastandridge 3 жыл бұрын

This song and album was my introduction to Radiohead (and more experimental music in general) and boy was it intense. I wasn’t sure I liked it, but I knew right from the get-go that it was something worth pursuing

@AndyGalligan 3 жыл бұрын

I'd say it's in F considering bVI - bVII - I is one of the most common modal mixture progressions, it just doesn't resolve every time

@owlbynight_js 3 жыл бұрын

I was hoping you wouldn't stop at NIN. Great choice!

@MrRandypanthegoatboy 2 жыл бұрын

I love this entire album, and I'll go on and say it: *I* truly believe that this is the best opening song on about ANY album....and that's coming from someone who is one of the biggest TOOL fans ever as well!!!

@absea7918 Жыл бұрын

Great video. As an "ear" guitar player, I never learned the music vocabulary, so appreciate your articulate breakdown. I think of this riff as a "barber pole" - type progression, that is always winding upward, with the C holding the base, and tension as the chords move away from it. Brilliant.

@t.andrewhanes872 Жыл бұрын

I love this song… I love Radiohead and I loved to hear you say ‘you always well up’ at a certain part of Everything In It’s Right Place… I can relate, every time I listen to “Weird Fishes”/In Rainbows, I cry. Every. Damn. Time (especially after “Everyone leaves, when they get the chance.” No other song comes close to evoking this emotion in me, it’s actually a tad embarrassing. PS: learned a lot from this video. Kudos! PPS: going to see The Smile in November. Can’t wait.

@iximusic Жыл бұрын

I get emotional at that same moment! Lyrics can really push things over the edge. LOVED The Smile's record. Have a great time!

@danielsechrest7369 8 ай бұрын

On this topic - I'd love to see you discuss why Motion Picture Soundtrack seems to elicit such an emotional response from so many people@@iximusic

@bucklberryreturns 3 жыл бұрын

Straight from the off, the chord changes are absolutely obviously happening, yet there's a couple of notes that just continue throughout... Great Radiohead song to begin this new journey 😍

@thenoble39 Жыл бұрын

Great initiative

@apinkfloydsound Жыл бұрын

I remember buying this cd the day it came out. After this song I was actually angry. I wanted it to have this killer euphoric release. And it eventually got there, but I felt so much anxiety until that point that it didn’t resolve all my anxiety. It took me several years to actually appreciate the song, and I love it now. In the opening, as soon as you mentioned the mysterious key I had a eureka moment and went, “Ahhhh! It’s actually in F and that’s why I had so much anxiety on that first listen!” I can understand the reasoning for it to be in C, but after that realization I had I don’t think I ever felt it resolve on C. F all the way! 😊 Amazing video. Thank you!

@samb6841 Жыл бұрын

I feel like mixolydian w/ a flat 6 is relatively common throughout their discography (in addition to making the tonic ambiguous, major vs minor, etc) a few of the many things that makes their music so cool!

@iximusic Жыл бұрын

You're probably right! I'm hoping to find out soon some of these "trends" by studying more of their songs.

@samb6841 Жыл бұрын

Love it. Looking forward to more videos. These are great so thank you for making them!

@claymccoy 3 жыл бұрын

Last time I saw Radiohead in concert (the year A Moon Shaped pool came out) they played this song, it was awesome.

@internisus Жыл бұрын

You are very good at describing how music theory creates specific emotional responses!

@Tatarana93 Жыл бұрын

your channel is amazing

@nous2658 2 жыл бұрын

So well done. Glad I found your channel!

@stix409 3 жыл бұрын

I love your channel so much, please never stop

@jedtulman46 4 ай бұрын

Such a beautiful video ixi

@mikegacek9182 Жыл бұрын

Keep em coming. I love you.

@MissFangs Ай бұрын

I just recently found your channel and I'm SO glad the algorithm brought you to me. Your passion for music really makes your analysis shine. And I love the vibes of your room!

@shannoneberhard9349 Жыл бұрын

So glad I found your channel 😊 thank you

@smkh2890 2 жыл бұрын

There are some fascinating chords in Radiohead, very mysterious.

@vinionsinho 5 ай бұрын

Such great insights. You are a great teacher!

@urluberlu2757 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! Very useful, I LOVE this song 🙂

@jcinurritegui Жыл бұрын

I LOVE this type of analisys. THANK YOUU

@weekendthreat5576 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating video, I'm really glad I found this!

@gueroblanco 7 ай бұрын

this is a great channel! Thank you for your videos!

@alexanderthomas542 2 жыл бұрын

Gr8 video 😘 as always xx

@seancooper967 3 жыл бұрын

You get better and better and better. Thank you!

@pdmarino 2 жыл бұрын

This was great, thank you.

@danielpalmer643 3 жыл бұрын

I love this song! One of my favorite from Radiohead. Very cool analysis as always!

@zeldacoach2528 Жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness x I’m so so glad i happened across this xxx THANK YOU ❤❤

@bollgeting 9 ай бұрын

You just got a new subscriber, this is pure gold!! ❤

@DJKuroh 3 жыл бұрын

One of the songs that made me pick back up piano when I was in high school, along with the Still stuff and Linkin Park. 😁

@odd4231 2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah! This is my favorite Radiohead song. So glad you decided to analyze it!!😁😁

@greganderson1681 Жыл бұрын

My all time fave Radiohead song! Great analysis.

@karlvanbeckum9029 4 ай бұрын

Excellent breakdown and analysis!! Love your content.

@schlurosaurusrex2827 2 жыл бұрын

You have a stunning talent to open up the essence of composition. Love it!

@FazzzyV 6 ай бұрын

Love this song, absolutely love this breakdown!

@SamKooshesh 3 жыл бұрын

YES! ixi is back and she's tackling Radiohead! Thank you ixi, and I hope you're doing great. :)

@galvinatrix1984 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Great video! I'll never be tired of Radiohead! Love your shirt! Thanks for sharing your music expertise with us!

@frankiewylde7649 3 жыл бұрын

thank you so much for doing these videos. they shed light on some questions Ive had about these beloved songs for as long s Ive heard them. as you describe the emotional quality that comes from these moments its funny how I have always felt the same way too. it amazes me how universal the clarity of communication through music can be.

@HanSolosRevenge 5 ай бұрын

WTF! Dude, this is my new favourite channel! Amazing work

@tw200rocks 2 жыл бұрын

I love your shirt, and the videotape riff knocked my socks off, thank-you!

@Venti470 Жыл бұрын

Love this song and video! Makes me think of winter.

@armadaparade2503 Жыл бұрын

I just found your channel and I gotta say these videos are giving me life in this cold and dreary northwest winter.

@foxVII 3 жыл бұрын

OH SHIT you already are doing Radiohead!!!! Thank you!!!

@daneguitarist1 3 жыл бұрын

hell yes! smartest musician teaching me more about some of the greatest stuff thank you Ixi! you rule!

@flannelogue 3 жыл бұрын

holy crap, this is legit the one radiohead track i absolutely needed you to break down!

@jameshannagan7830 2 жыл бұрын

Great job on this video you do such a great job of articulating why this pleases me absurdly because god knows I could not express it on my own.

@MrMTeee 2 жыл бұрын

I love your way to talk about my favourite music !! You're also the only one who can correlate the music and lyrics like that... Very original. I never saw it that way before

@martinpaul5232 2 жыл бұрын

I love your passion coming through as you explain the music. Amazing that just a single chord can produce such a stirring in our soul. Music is so powerful! Thank you for this.

@Rompler_Rocco Жыл бұрын

The way you articulate every minute detail exactly right, I can't even. It's a thing.

@Pragmatta Жыл бұрын

Brilhant!!!!!!!!! Thank you a lot !!!!!!!!

@NebulousFumes 3 жыл бұрын

YESS one of my all time favorite songs ever honestly! So mystical and hypnotizing!

@TapedTogether 5 ай бұрын

Your personality and how much you love music is super fun and engaging. Great teacher, thanks!

@StuartQuinn Жыл бұрын

As soon as you said there was a part that makes your eyes well up, I knew which part you meant. And as the video went on, I knew that we'd agree that the chord that breaks the tension would be the key the song is in.

@seventeendegree 2 жыл бұрын

This is so interesting to watch. I love Radiohead, especially the piano intro in Spectre.

@angeliqueahlstrom651 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that was an impeccable breakdown that really did justice to the song. A bit emotional watching how similarly it's touched you too!

@HeapsMad 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing in-depth analysis. Would love to see you play a cover if it!

@pastafari9300 2 жыл бұрын

This analysis is so good

@danielhenderson3753 3 жыл бұрын

That was so great! Kid A is one of my favorite Radiohead albums and I never quite put my finger on why, but this video helped a lot. It takes a lot to get this drummer to fall off the pulse of the song, but this song does it. Excellent work!

@Austrocylindropuntia 3 жыл бұрын

@6:50 You made me literally laugh out loud. Thank you muchly for covering this song, it’s one of my favourite Radiohead tracks.

@jcampanale 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if anyone has so succinctly and clearly explained to me why I feel the range of emotions when listening to a piece of music. Moved to tears; incredible video.

@MPoulter82 3 жыл бұрын

If there was one song I could have wished for you to analyze, it would be this one, truly. Thank you, maestra! I am immediately pulled back to 2001 whenever I hear this song, and whatever substances I had in my system while listening to this on repeat. Magic.

@davidb6691 4 ай бұрын

I really like the little drawings of the different intervals. Visualizing sounds like that really helps synesthesia folks. Fantastic work

@davidjsmith 2 жыл бұрын

I love these videos and this is the best one yet. Your enthusiasm is exhilarating.

@iximusic 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it and my excessive passion! :)

@volt7cooltangs701 5 ай бұрын

Wow! Brilliant explanation of this masterpiece. So informative to an always learning non musician. Thanks.

@RubemOliveiradePaula 2 ай бұрын

Today I was talking to my 7 year old daughter about this song. I told her that this is my favorite song. I've considered this my favorite song for around 20 years, I've always made the self teste for "what's my favorite song?" . It was time for her to sleep, than it was time for me to look for something new about that song. And I found this! What an amazing vídeo, with all that feeling! It's só good tô understand why, theoretically, I feel só good listening to it. Thank you so much!

@misubi 2 жыл бұрын

I love how you describe the feeling of the chords and notes in emotional terms like "tense" and "satisfying" and not just "dominant 7th resolving to I." As a non-trained musician this is so "yes"!

@andrewmacfarlane504 5 ай бұрын

I subscribe to very few channels, but after watching your Tori Amos video I was pretty sure I was going to subscribe...hearing you sing "There are two tonics in my head..." made me hit the button :) Great vids, thanks!

@StuartLutes 2 жыл бұрын

I know absolutely nothing about the theory and contruction of music but, your breakdown was really fascintating. This song has always elicited an intense reaction in me and to know a little bit more as to why was really interesting.

@athenaclark2567 3 ай бұрын

I firmly believe that Radiohead is the greatest band of all time because of stuff like this

@Reinshark 3 жыл бұрын

You have such great metaphors for explaining the feel of intervals! This often seems like something you either just get or not intuitively, but I think your explanations do a nice job of trying to explain these feelings for people who don’t grasp them intuitively.

@iximusic 3 жыл бұрын

I'm really glad to hear that! I'm hoping to bridge that gap. :)

@goblinboner 2 жыл бұрын

hands down the best breakdown of this i have ever seen

@SesameCake Жыл бұрын

I especially love this song and Pyramid Song because it's almost as if they have no tonal center and I don't think it's unintentional. Yorke stated that Radiohead was trying to distance themselves from other up-and-coming bands that were trying to copy their style. Hence, there's very little guitar throughout Kid A, save for the ebow on Treefingers and Optimistic. I love that in Everything in It's Right Place is very ambivalent, both tonally and lyrically. The odd time signature, the use of melodic minor although one would think it is in the key of C since it starts on it. Yet it strays from that deceptive chord to a Dbmaj9, Ebmaj and then comes F, as if it were in the key of F the whole time. I'd like to think of it as technically in the key of F minor, starting on the perfect fifth, C, and rising up the scale. Also, the lyrics are so telling and expresses a lot with very little. An exercise in minimalism. Everything is said to be 'in it's right place', but it's not. It's like someone is telling you they're happy but you can garner from their facial expression that they clearly aren't.

@jorgepeterbarton 4 ай бұрын

Majority do have a guitar, its just a bit...non-guitary. But In Limbo and Morning Bell obviously do. I'd say i can't find one EIIRP, Kid A, National Anthem and Motion Picture Soundtrack. Things like how to disappear have an Ebow doubling Ondes and the clear acoustic guitar strum. And Idioteque has what is clearly an ambient guitar loop in the 'drop'.

@epsil6644 3 жыл бұрын

The first time i heard this song i was absolutely floored. Really interesting to see what makes the song feel the way it does

@bigchiefbc 3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit yes! I remember getting it on release day and hoping it was going to be a big departure from OK Computer, and that's exactly what I got. A couple of my friends who came with me to the store were also fans of Radiohead, although not as nuts as I was, and they were definitely confused at first. This album hit me in exactly the right spot.

@thomshrike 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for such impressive insights on the song that embodied the peaking of modern music. It is the ultimate expressionist song: lyrics will tell you that everything is in its right place, but music convinces you of the opposite. Samples and other effects add so much emotion to the tune that you realize that machines are making the song more human. Similar to many other RH songs, this one is ultimately Orwellian: like the main character in 1984, you only reach inner peace when you finally give in to the pressure that is crushing you.

@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios 3 жыл бұрын

Radiohead ON DECK!!!

@DriftMusiK 3 жыл бұрын

I loved your NiN study, but I'm bursting with urgent crunchy anticipation and baited breath wondering how deep you're going to swan dive into the sea of incredible tapestries that the boys of the heady radio have weaved, and keep weaving. (This is coming from that guy who has waked up every morning for the last two years to the ringtone of Radiohead's "Daydreaming"). I know you won't disappoint. Even if you don't go further into their catalog, I always look forward to your next video.

@iximusic 3 жыл бұрын

I Will.