Bela Bartok's Infinite Tonality

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Bela Bartok is often considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century, but his works leave us with a bit of a conundrum: He often claimed that his compositions were based on tonal principles, but, well... they kinda weren't. At least, not ones that theorists of the time would recognize. Bartok seemed to think about chords completely differently from his contemporaries, and thanks to the tireless work of theorist Erno Lendvai, we have some idea why. Axis theory reconciles Bartok's revolutionary practices with the traditional principles of classical harmony, opening up whole new realms of possibilities for what we can do with chords.
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@AdamNeely 5 жыл бұрын

Very cool! I had never heard of this particular approach to tonic, subdominant and tonic, but it's really nifty. Also, seconding the idea of "I'm a music theorist, and we are very fun a parties" merch.

@gepmrk 5 жыл бұрын

It's disappointing that they didn't cover this at Berkeley.

@subscribetobanbasstabs2599 5 жыл бұрын

love you adam

@RyanRenteria 5 жыл бұрын

Arne Hanna I definitely learned this at Berklee, in “advanced harmonic concepts”. We applied this same concept to the Coltrane changes. Think about giant steps, it changes between G B and Eb, which you may have noticed is the same relationship as the three chords that the OP chose (A F and Db). They’re all major thirds apart. So you can analyze giant steps for example as a multitonic system of symmetrical key centers, or as sub dominant-dominant-tonic with pitch axis, etc etc

@captainalex8003 4 жыл бұрын

You forgot dominant.

@Isabella-jx5kw 3 жыл бұрын

@@captainalex8003 you forgot he didn’t giv a fuck boi

@LimeGreenTeknii 5 жыл бұрын

Expanding brain meme: 1. Bringing a guitar to a party 2. Playing the host's piano at a party 3. Bringing your accordion to a party 4. Bringing sheet music in case there's other musicians at a party 5. Arguing whether the iii chord has tonic or dominant function at a party

@tridentremixes5449 5 жыл бұрын

6. Not learning music theory outside scales

@kevin_maxwell_smith 5 жыл бұрын

this is amazing

@jeffirwin7862 5 жыл бұрын

So shall it be done. imgur.com/a/j8OJs0H

@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaao 5 жыл бұрын

I have actually been at a party where someone brought their button accordion and played it

@pmnt_ 5 жыл бұрын

@@jeffirwin7862 i'm not familar enough with the comment meta on youtube, so take this: !redditsilver i.imgur.com/5pgnDKF.jpg

@roseopheliashepherd8379 5 жыл бұрын

"I'm a music theorist, and we are very fun at parties" with a drawing of a slice of cake with a candle in, is a Merch idea I would buy!

@JosephofWalton 5 жыл бұрын

It definitely made me laugh.

@Kass686 5 жыл бұрын

As a music theorist myself, I would absolutely buy one as well!

@mcmire 5 жыл бұрын

I second this!

@lizs004 5 жыл бұрын

I want that t-shirt!!

@jacksonpropst5892 5 жыл бұрын

I need this in my life

@enterrupt 5 жыл бұрын

Another feature of the axis chords is they are related through the fully diminished 7th chord, which as a symmetrical chord, is enharmonic to the 4 keys on the axis points. I learned this from Barry Harris videos.

@brennanlable 5 жыл бұрын

same with augmented chords! the 6th diminished scale/harmonized bebop stuff can be thought of with augmented chords and can help connect modulations easily and if you use the bebop scale as your harmonic foundation you are left with a 4 note compliment not in the scale to form the chromatic scale.

@HanBurritoz 5 жыл бұрын

You should look into Bartók's polymodal chromaticism! He often superimposes a Lydian scale ontop of a phrygian scale on the same root, giving us acces to all chromatic pitches. By using the "guide notes" from each scale (Let's use D as the tonic) b2 (Eb) resolving to the 1 (D) and b6 (Bb) from the phrygian scale to the 5 (A) and the #4 (G#) to the 5 and the 7 (C#) to the 1 from lydian. If we were to use the hungarian minor scale (1, 2, b3, #4, 5, b6, 7) and it's chromatic complement sharing the 5 (1, b2, 3, 4, 5 6 b7) We get even mote "guide notes" In G for example: 2 -> b3 = A ->Bb (Not the other way around because of the minor scale) #4 - > 5 = C# - >D b6 - > 5 = Eb - >D 7 -> 1 = F# - > G and b2 - >1 = Ab - >G 4 -> 3 = C - > B (Because it is the b7 from the Dominant) 6-> = E - > F So we get these 2 chords. One with a Dominant function and one with a Tonic function. A C# Eb F# Ab C E to G Bb D F a nice tonic Gm7. If you think there is no way Bartók is using this in his music, check out his 2nd string quartet, or pretty much most of his music!

@mitrayar 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for such a lovely explanation I'll save it for later use

@ivyssauro123 5 жыл бұрын

His second string quartet is amazing! My favorite probably

@mackenlyparmelee5440 5 жыл бұрын

Truly fascinating

@rafadawabe 5 жыл бұрын

you must be fun at parties

@ivyssauro123 5 жыл бұрын

@@rafadawabe probably more than you that have nothing to add

@brobison75 5 жыл бұрын

Oh those Bartok chords are savory.

@pjlk00 5 жыл бұрын

7:10 giant steps

@archerparks4617 5 жыл бұрын

Or a really fucked up row row row your boat

@adamkelly5478 5 жыл бұрын

Nice! I'm totally trying this when I get home...

@aloysiuskurnia7643 3 жыл бұрын

as soon as I got to 1:46 I look for Giant Steps in the comment

@Vininn126 5 жыл бұрын

This is also incredibly helpful for understanding chord function

@Moinsdeuxcat 5 жыл бұрын

The "dominant chords" in this theory are exactly the dominant-seventh chords that have three notes in common with the viidim7 (and one note a semitone apart). This might be another explanation for why they work as dominant function : they "emulate" viidim7. Indeed, in C : viidim7 = B D F Ab V7 = GBDF has three notes in common bII7 = Db F Ab B (I write notes in equal temperament without caring about enharmony to make my point clearer) bVII7 = Bb D F Ab III7 = E Ab B D For sub-dominant function, a similar reasoning could explain that F, B, D, Ab have it : they have three common notes with vidim7 = viidim7/vii, so they can be seen as "secondary dominant" for the same reason. The weirdest part is considering say F# as a tonic chord in C. Most people probably... wouldn't agree. (for Eb and A, this is reasonable) I like how people have been comparing your example with Giant Steps, this is a funny coincidence : Coltrane changes are basically the same principle as the one shown here but with major 3rds instead of minor 3rds. (there are not a lot of other options, because 12 doesn't have that many divisors).

@Drummerfly9000 5 жыл бұрын

Moving (resolving?) across the branches is such a strange sensation. It feels equally consonant and dissonant.

@RaymondDoerr 2 жыл бұрын

brilliant presentation. thank you. the picture illustrations were well drawn out and made sense well. Thank you.

@stevonico 5 жыл бұрын

The progression at 7:10 reminds me of the first few changes in Giant Steps

@rik-keymusic160 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! 👌 I heard it too 😂

@anthonydemitre9392 5 жыл бұрын

this is one of the coolest videos I've seen Thanks! Mr.12tone

@piercenn6353 5 жыл бұрын

Love what youre doing here and your content is extremely impressive!

@ewegenia 5 жыл бұрын

I love when people do anything with Bartók, he's one of my favourites. Thank you!

@iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiivy 5 ай бұрын

Fascinating video over a topic I'll definitely have to look more into! At first, when you played the A -> F -> Db -> A progression, I wasn't so sure that it sounded like Bartók to me, but then when you made the split chords, the resemblance was almost uncanilly perfect! Awesome video!

@NicholasMonks 5 жыл бұрын

LOVED this video. Completely fascinated!

@musicmangm7572 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. If not for you and others like you. It would be likely that some of us would not have access to such knowledge. So again thank you and God bless!!!

@Pedraga 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome channel. Congratulations!

@rhandhom1 5 жыл бұрын

This is quite fascinating. I must use this as inspiration.

@kiro9291 5 жыл бұрын

I'm totally gonna play around with this when making songs now thank you

@rajin95 5 жыл бұрын

I liked the topic, one of my favorite videos from you in a while. The function of chromatic chords is something that isn't talked about enough. I chalked most of them up as pre-dominant before I saw this video

@thonovo8129 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful! Thank you.

@MarcoPellegrino1978 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! Nice to follow even if it's definetly a heavier topic! The "Garnet" bit was great :)

@robwolfe6120 5 жыл бұрын

Props for explaining this in under 8 minutes! I learned a lot.

@yvancluet8146 5 жыл бұрын

As a music theory nerd myself, I very rarely get to learn anything new. On this video, not only did I learn something new, I also learned something exciting that I can put into my own music. Thanks 12tone :D

@columbus8myhw 5 жыл бұрын

Novel and actionable

@kathrynschekall9160 5 жыл бұрын

Yvan Cluet Same. I came here to comment that this was the best video on 12tone that I have ever watched as a music theory nerd - but you beat me to it :P

@yvancluet8146 5 жыл бұрын

@@kathrynschekall9160 glad you discovered this cool thing too !

@yvancluet8146 5 жыл бұрын

@@kathrynschekall9160 cool channel btw ;)

@dibblethwaite 5 жыл бұрын

I agree although I have used bII, III and bVII as substitutes for V I never thought to extend it to tonic and subdominant. Doh!

@ShaharHarshuv 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Definitly gonna try to use this theory in something I'll compose

@rogthefrog 2 жыл бұрын

This video is now my favorite on all of KZfaq

@marcpocola6292 5 жыл бұрын

7:08 sounds like giants steps

@ZipplyZane 5 жыл бұрын

I'd argue the the functionality of the IIIm chord is ambiguous, and can go either way. It has equal parts of the tonic (1 *3 5* ) and the dominant (2 *5 7* ). How it functions depends on whether you emphasize the 3 or the 7. The VIm chord also has this issue. But it has the relative minor to fall back on that makes it feel like it's most often a tonic chord. Or you can use the system I prefer, where only I is actually tonic, and VIm and IIIm are both pre-pre-dominant, since they aren't perfectly at rest.

@ZipplyZane 5 жыл бұрын

amazed wanderer But the IIIm7 has a leading tone in its fifth: 3 5 *7* 9. I'd say the real problem is that it's just a IM7 chord without the root which makes it still sound tonic. Maybe that's it, actually. A IIIm chord is just the IM7 chord without the root, but is not any extension of the V chord. Thus it feels tonic in a jazzy context.

@mykeinso1364 5 жыл бұрын

4:46 Garnet)

@johnfoster7762 5 жыл бұрын

Nice, I've really been needing a video on this, I've been pretty unsuccessful at researching axis theory on my own. EDIT: Excellent video, axis theory personally appeals to me a lot. I love "edges of tonality" type stuff. Also, the four pitches associated with each axis(?) form a different diminished seventh when sounded together. Probably not useful for anyone but there you go.

@AlexKnauth 5 жыл бұрын

That diminished seventh thing explains why it works so well for dominant-function chords, I think

@mikebryant4146 5 жыл бұрын

As a big Bartok fan, thanks for spelling out his harmonic ideas. Can’t wait to discuss this at my next party.

@grigoridj 5 жыл бұрын

Nice video. I like to think of these axises as families of diminished chords.

@BlowingShtUp 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting observation on the "collapsing scaffolding". I like it! And yeah, I'd be in for a T-shirt too

@jimsneider4296 4 жыл бұрын

Damn thats such a cool concept, you can do so much with this if you combine it with just 251s and Minor to major and vice versa reharmonizaion. thank you for sharing!

@lorenzopasini8309 5 жыл бұрын

Great video

@enricopersia4290 5 жыл бұрын

That final Bartok's way to afford the chord progression is amazing, Using both minor and major thirds at the same time it's a thing even Hendrix has done his own way, and the results, well...we still talk about it today :)

@greggz 5 жыл бұрын

This is awesome!

@TheWlfx 5 жыл бұрын

My high school didn't have theory as part of music we just played music. Now that i'm at college and got some theory experience I understand most of your videos. I feel like if i'm slowly being able to decode your video. Slowly but surely.

@cherishedpresent Жыл бұрын

i stumbled onto this EXACT theory on my own in a sketchbook after my first music class... I'm about to study tf out of Bartok's book. O.o

@giampierogirolamo7134 8 ай бұрын

Thank you❤

@KeytarKris 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for makin' music theory more awesome and fun

@raytsh 5 жыл бұрын

"Axis Theory" sounds more like a contemporary djent band to me. :)

@udomatthiasdrums5322 2 жыл бұрын

love it!!

@JazzGuitarScrapbook 5 жыл бұрын

Cool! I remember checking Lendvai out about 20 years ago, randomly picked up his book because it looked interesting, and it was - I think it had a big influence on the way I think about harmony, but I think he's pretty obscure....Thanks for reminding me. It's worth pointing out that AFAIK this is something that Lendvai invented to describe how Bartok's music works, I don't think Bartok ever expressed these ideas himself. Barry Harris would call this 'Brothers and Sisters' - he uses the same axial symmetry but mostly for dominant chords as you demonstrate. Also the common technique of parallel minor modal interchange fits into this theory, although things like the Neapolitan 6th chord don''t preserve their traditional function.

@quietmind42 5 жыл бұрын

What Bartok pieces would you suggest checking out to hear this in action?

@12tone 5 жыл бұрын

One that Lendvai cites a couple times is Bluebeard's Castle, which uses this model to move back and forth between C and F#.

@gundixino 4 жыл бұрын

12tone also it’s worth mentioning that Bartók’s maj/min chords are also called “bitercial” chords (I think?), something that Jimi Hendrix used frequently, so much so that it was dubbed the Hendrix chord among guitarists. Sorry for being a year late haha

@jackiepike1466 3 жыл бұрын

Suite for piano, opus 14

@mikewtallen443 5 жыл бұрын

🙌Giant Steps🙌

@jeejeeism 3 жыл бұрын

I think I need some sleep right now and tomorrow I'm going to watch this over again, maybe in half of speed and with memo. There was quite much interesting theory of tonality presented in fun way thou

@jeggor461 4 жыл бұрын

A - F - Db - A progression also can be described using lattice concept. Lattice is just organized n-dimensional ratio space, where step in each dimension meaning multiplication of previous pitch by some multiplier (prime number). If we have 2d lattice, where horizontal axis correspond to multiplication by 3 (basically step by perfect fifth) and vertical axis is correspond to multiplication by 5 (major third) and we pick notes from some major scale in this lattice (where tonic is in the center of coordinates) then we will see, that major scale is consist of three corner-like overlapping structures (triads) - first (tonic) in center of lattice, second (subdominant) on the left from center and third (dominant) on the right. If we rotate this structure by 90 degrees then subdominant will be beneath tonic and dominant above (or vice versa, depends on direction of rotation), what means they will be one major third apart from tonic, just like F and Db in A - F - Db - A progression. So this is basically "major" scale, but S and D are major third apart from tonic, not a perfect fifth. Although scale created from covered pitches will have only 6 notes, but also it is possible to build both major and minor version T, S and D triads.

@gepmrk 5 жыл бұрын

From which we derive the following: chords move down by semitones, by major thirds, by perfect fifths; and up by whole tones, and perfect fourths.

@djtripp7077 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, first 12tone video I understood all of, we're getting somewhere!

@AlexKnauth 5 жыл бұрын

This is so interesting!

@Operaandchant90 5 жыл бұрын

I cracked up in a public library when you mentioned Bartok's split chord use. He was utterly, gloriously insane. Thanks for the video?

@robindetalhouet5946 5 жыл бұрын

Damn this channel is so good

@jacobmoore4193 5 жыл бұрын

Another video Adam Neely will like. I didn't know of Bartok before he brought him up in his videos.

@ivyssauro123 5 жыл бұрын

I knew of him but he made me appreciate it even more, specially his quartets

@Tabu11211 5 жыл бұрын

This video has really love with me up. In the struggle to understand what the hell is meant by median and what the hell is that kind of function could possibly be for the three cord I figured that since the three is dominant of the six it might as well just be a dominant. And now there's a good explanation for that outside of what I thought

@mcmire 5 жыл бұрын

This was super cool! I've been wondering about ways to interpret existing modern music and create more of it, and honestly, the traditional functional harmony theory isn't doing it for me - it seems way too simple and I keep thinking there must be more to it. The axis theory is something I hadn't heard of before and it too seems a little too good to be true, but it's interesting at least (it looks similar to Coltrane's studies of the circle of fifths). I also wonder what would happen if you combined the axis theory with the "negative harmony" theory.

@Mandoshifflet 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!...now playing "Wild Thing" with all the new options

@kevin_maxwell_smith 5 жыл бұрын

this seems like a very good way to conceptualize the variety of extensions dominant chords get in jazz not to mention chromatic mediants sound hip af

@mashcot 5 жыл бұрын

Hello ! I would say that the axis theory was making sense only for Lendvai, which was a way for him to reconnect Bartok's music with his own background in Riemanian theory as you explained, but overall it seems that Bartok himself wasn't really thinking in that perceptive. And not a lot of theorists followed Lendvai's idea. I suggest one article by Janos Karpati titled "Axis Tonality and Golden Section Reconsidered", and I assume you are familiar with Elliott Antokoletz's book on Bartok's music which don't use this approach at all.

@FriendlyIndex 5 жыл бұрын

had a couple "OH THAT'S WHAT THAT IS?" moments. Well done, thanks.

@royschwaben9646 5 жыл бұрын

Twenty years (almost) now I've played music and read books and papers and websites from every corner of the globe across centuries. Hard to find boring junk that nobody cares about. I've read my copy of Harvard Dictionary of Music cover to cover and followed many sources it cites. I breathe this nonsense. I've never heard of this theory before. I'M SO EXCITED!!!!! THIS IS AWESOME!!!

@travo6805 3 жыл бұрын

How have I never heard of this?

@sergejbozinovic6096 5 жыл бұрын

Music theory parties are the best parties. Especially with costumes!

@zacharygh 5 жыл бұрын

Came to this video because of Bartok, came out with Frank Sinatra?! Best 12tone video yet. Thank you so much for this.

@GDitto 5 жыл бұрын

At 1:57, I love your topology reference!

@drmdjones Жыл бұрын

Correction: the label "subdominant" applies only to the IV chord. The function that leads to dominant function is called "predominant."

@joeylopez9808 5 жыл бұрын

Could you explain John Coltrane’s “Tone Circle”? I think its fascinating but dont know how it functions.

@kdizzle51100 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder how many composers who delved into chromaticism (like Bartok) also thought about microchromaticism? At the end of the video you mentioned that Bela Bartok made use of "split chords," which use both the major and minor third. This reminded me of the neutral chord, which is used a lot in other tuning systems and is constructed using a root, fifth, and neutral third, which is between a major and minor third. Speaking of, if you haven't already you should make a video about other tuning systems, like 5- or 7-limit tuning, or even 19, 31 (my personal favorite), or 313 EDO (which sounds really cool). Sevish is a really awesome artist who works a lot with those.

@FischerDefilementory 4 жыл бұрын

I remember being taught that the function of the III chord is very context sensitive, and also down to inversions and voice leading. Since there's only one leading tone, it can be easily obfuscated, and thus lose the dominant function, if it's not featured prominently.

@DavidRubertone 3 жыл бұрын

I first heard about it and thought this is rock guitar pentatonic/ blues scale theory, except for the tritone which is more of a jazz concept. Love Bartok

@charlottemarceau8062 5 жыл бұрын

That was a horrifically good explanation of something quiet fiddly (!) :)

@TheApostleofRock 5 жыл бұрын

This one I will have to watch again lol. I think I missed pretty much everything

@linkVIII 5 жыл бұрын

I'll be honest. I had no idea what the video title mean and my first response was to pass on the video. Then I remembered that your videos are always interesting and worth my time and I clicked. (Might have had the same first response to a baiting title but probably wouldn't re evaluate clicking)

@linkVIII 5 жыл бұрын

Really liked the video

@luizcadu 4 күн бұрын

Whether the IIIm is dominant or tonic, in my opinion, depends on the context in which it appears. That is to say, it depends on the harmonic moment that is suggested by the melody or other prominent musical idea. It is possible to use it as a substituition chord in a moment where you'd expect a V. Most of the time it is used as tonic, though.

@Viviantoga 5 жыл бұрын

...Did you increase the intro metronome's bpm by a couple beats for this vid??????

@StanleyGrill 3 жыл бұрын

Coming to your party about 2 years too late, but it was fun anyway. Another way to think about all this is to ignore chordal harmonies altogether and look at the notes in the scale and where, in a tonal framework, they go. Bartok was a brilliant contrapuntalist, and his contrapuntal voicings create all of these harmonies in passing. So all of those related or substitution chords are ways that the 12 tones in the scale move towards and away from resolution.

@arthurverlaine6434 2 жыл бұрын

This one was a banger

@trantuanlam1210 4 жыл бұрын

What Bartok pieces (instrument solo) would you suggest analysis about axis system?

@Brandinoooo 5 жыл бұрын

Could you do a video on transposing music maybe? I've been wondering about that for awhile. There's only so much one can learn from high school band

@sagecarter2368 5 жыл бұрын

Could you do a video sometime on Schenkerian analysis?

@Guerin78 5 жыл бұрын

Re: the function of the III chord: I'd argue that, much like the bVII, the III's function is largely dependent on context and voicing. If you use it in second inversion, or use the leading tone as a focus of the melody, that note's drive to resolve more than outweighs any stability from the key's third. If the leading tone is in an inner voice (or just omitted, as the fifth of the chord often is), then its function is more tonic than dominant.

@SamuelKristopher 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe the first 12tone video I couldn't get my head around from the first watch.

@12tone 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's a very dense topic. I really struggled to make it even kinda accessible.

@paulperkins1615 2 жыл бұрын

When the music theorizing gets serious, my head spins, but think I got a little better idea of why I like Bartok. Something about changing the harmonies a lot but not so much that I can't recognize the familiar harmonic functions.

@rodrigopessoa1795 2 жыл бұрын

I do think to myself in terms of modal interchanges of neighbour and relative keys, like in A F Db A I see: A, the tonic , F, from A minor, Db is not Db, is C#, the V from F# minor, the relative minor of A major. A, the tonic. Seems more simple.

@brunomartelli8163 5 жыл бұрын

Hey there. Great channel ! I would like to suggest analysing a tune called "Once in a Lifetime" from Michael Ruff including the Piano Solo

@user-qd2of7wl6s 2 жыл бұрын

is there a writing-mistake? in #05:24? it should be D-flat major. thank you for uploading this brilliant video!

@aidanlogan4384 11 ай бұрын

"this is why we havent talked much about chord qualities" oh OKAY COOL that was killing me

@ninetyone9191 5 жыл бұрын

Hey, you should do a video outlining the arguments for iii being dominant or tonic. I personally believe it's dominant because Persichetti has a chapter in Twentieth Century Harmony where he discusses chords based on cycles of thirds rather than the cycle of fifths and in that cycle, iii replaces the usual V, and he gives several examples where he freely switches between the cycles to end the phrase in V-iii-I rather than a V-I

@ninetyone9191 5 жыл бұрын

This is my only exposure to the use of iii chords besides my theory teacher just saying not to use them, so I'd see to see some other arguments

@mikesimpson3207 5 жыл бұрын

I forget the name of this method, but I was taught functional harmony differently. The "vi has tonic function" thing is nowhere to be seen. How it goes is that (in Major) I is the tonic, V and viidim are 1st class, ii and IV are 2nd class, vi is 3rd class, and iii is 4th class. The higher class, the more distant it is from resolving to the tonic. This is basically because much traditional harmony moves by fifths or fourths in the roots, meaning that iii would tend to go to vi, vi to either 2nd class chord, then either 1st class chord (more often V), then to tonic. iii and vi are viewed as "de-stabilizing" chords in this system, I assume because they blur the line between the two relative keys. For example, if I start by playing C, then a. It is impossible to determine whether that is I-vi in C, or III-i in a until some further progression clarifies the context.

@babalonworking6 5 жыл бұрын

interesting!!

@vidaofficial7483 5 жыл бұрын

hmm... I get the concept but a cant figure out how to apply this to a minor scale... any ideas?

@Mrius86 5 жыл бұрын

I think I can make a video that explains this more clearly. I'll begin working on it right now.

@patrickhodson8715 2 жыл бұрын

What is the drawing at 1:10? He does that one all the time but I can never get what it's supposed to be

@augustincitrin9305 5 жыл бұрын

question on the tritone substitution of the backdoor resolution: why does the G# not act as a leading tone in the resolution to A, shouldn't it? Should it not then be a stronger cadence? Why is it so week if it has both the backdoor resolution and a leading tone resolution?

@12tone 5 жыл бұрын

That's a good point! The main reason I consider it weak is just that root movement by 3rd is generally the least powerful motion. All the other resolutions are going by either a perfect 5th or some kind of 2nd, which feel more resolve-y to my ears.

@chipparkerson2701 5 жыл бұрын

I am curious to know if anyone has ever tried using this axis theory to re-harmonize any jazz/pop or rock songs. If so I like like to know how it worked out.

@TsunamiBeefPies 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite moment was the tectonic plates.

@tingotalango5473 Жыл бұрын

Well, the thing is that degrees other than I IV and V have a kind of duality... The way I see it, vi for instance is mostlyTonic and a bit of Subominant (e. g. vi V I, vi sounds like a subdominant there), and the iii chord is mostlyTonic and little Dominant too....