Hi hello please check out the extended look into the music over on Nebula by using the link in the description! We cover some of the harmony and influences that go into creating this...incredible soundtrack. Sorry, last one kbye

My dad was one of the musicians who played on this soundtrack and it’s one of his favourite soundtracks he’s ever done. Amazing score

I was the lead designer of The Incredibles video game. We were fortunate enough to have Michael Giacchino's colleagues take his brilliant soundtracks and make looped versions befitting video game levels for us. You'd better believe we gleefully used them throughout the entire game, including the intro menus and cutscenes (whenever we didn't use footage from the actual film itself). Thanks for the great insight and wonderful trip down memory lane!

His ability to hear a series of notes in quick succession and repeat it accurately first try is honestly amazing to me.

Even 17 years after it came out, this is _still_ my favorite super hero movie of all time. Everything about it is just perfect.

Let's freaking go. This is one of my all time fav soundtracks

Charles: Obviously I could go through this soundtrack all day, but there's not enough time. Mr. Incredible: I've got time.

One of my favourite “repurposing” of that motif you mentioned is in ‘Life’s Incredible Again’ when it switches from Bob reconnecting with his family to beggining to exercise again and bench press literal trains, as for the first time since the glory days, you hear the theme in its original action glory. It’s like ‘oh yeah, he’s back’

I just realized why "Life's Incredible Again" works so well with the montage - it's a throwback to early sitcoms! Listen to the themes to Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, Dick Van Dyke, etc, then listen to this piece again! Giacchino pulling inspiration from all over the place!

Michael Giacchino is an absolute legend.

Me, when you were playing along with “off to work”: You just couldn’t let us trumpet players have our moment, could you?

I love how Charles can’t help but jam out to the “Off to Work” soundtrack. This movie’s music is top notch

One track you didn’t include but is by far the best and most poignant is “Kronos Unveiled” it’s beautiful and mysterious, but also builds to an intense amount of dread.

This has to be, one of rhe BEST movie soundtracks ever, and no one can change that.

One of the things that has always impressed me about this soundtrack is its staying power. A friend was humming it once, and I instantly asked "why are you humming the Incredibles theme?" Neither of us had seen the film in... 10 years? But it's that instantly recognisable. Truly phenomenal music.

Wayne Bergeron, the lead trumpet player on this movie, has performed with my college jazz ensemble several times, including last night and I got to play lead alto with him. It was incredible.

Anyone else just get chills when you hear this soundtrack? I love the big band instruments and the same melody being played in different ways.

IMHO, the Min/Maj7 thing gives a "It is!!! Or is it?" vibe. So, I feel like the strong association with spy things is by nurture, but not a purely accidental one. Someone once heard the Min/Maj7 and thought "this fits really well for this spy thingy theme!" and it did. Then everyone heard and was like "You know what? You are right. It does!" and thus everyone started using it.

I am currently studying jazz trumpet. Incredibles was the first thing to ever inspire me. I just remember asking my dad what that "sound" was during what I now know as "life's incredible again". After thinking, he told me it was a trumpet. After that, playing trumpet was the only thing I wanted.

It feels like such a simple thrill, but I always feel "clever" whenever I notice a recurring theme / leitmotif turning up again and again in different parts of an overall score,. Some video game soundtracks make particularly good use of this device as well, perhaps having leitmotifs to represent recurring characters, locations, plot themes - or even some video-game-specific stuff such as a recurring game mechanic or power-up. Undertale and Kingdom Hearts spring to mind as video game series that do this a lot. As an example: after having played Kingdom Hearts 2 many times for years, I was amazed just recently when it was pointed out to me just how many of its soundtrack songs feature the "Organisation XIII" motif, each time being played with a different scale, rhythm, tempo, etc. Some of those occurrences seemed really subtle and hard to notice (at least to my musically-uneducated ears).

I think the association of this genre of music with spy movies is cultural. It probably goes back before Bond and ultimately gets its start in film noir.

It’s pure serotonin to hear him improvise over the “Off To Work” track😂 ITS SO FREAKING AMAZING!!! I’ve been playing piano for 11 years and still can’t do that 😂

I think for me, the "spy soundtrack" is purely nurture for me. When I was young people have been humming and singing these motifs when they were "sneaking" around

I absolutely love big band music, and I 100% thought "Life's Incredible Again" was a big band standard, not written for this film. Wow!

“Kronos unveiled” is my favorite of the soundtrack. Literally drop that track into any Bond movie and it fits like a glove.

In my opinion a lot of the “spy music” genre originated with Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn score, you have so many of the jazz elements used there that would later be adopted in the soundtracks for Bond, mission impossible and the incredibles

The Team Fortress 2 soundtrack has a similar "spy jazz" feel, which is really neat. I hope you can cover it sometime!

11:45 You riffing along side the music on the piano was f**king great.

this soundtrack made me fall in love with jazz/‘spy themed’ music. it’s so underrated and needs to be talked about more!!

13:26 Midna's Lament intensifies

Has he done How to Train Your Dragon??? That soundtrack is just.... *chef's kiss.*

I love seeing the excitement in your face when the score reaches certain parts.

Dash running on water for me was the one of the highlights of soundtrack along with Kronos unveiled

imo, the “spy chord” that we have all heard fits the nature of its context quite well. it holds you in this suspense of an unresolved chord, or perhaps an unresolved mystery/action that is yet to unfold

The Incredibles was released when I was in middle school and I had just barely started learning music. From the moment the movie was over, I knew I had just heard one of the best scores ever, and it still inspires me more than fifteen years later! Bonus fun fact: my college roommate's mom went on a date once with Michael Giacchino, said he was super cool.

This is the score that put Michael Giachino on the map for me. Now he’s second favorite composer next to John Williams. Love this soundtrack.

The Incredibles is hands-down one of the best movie soundtracks of all time.

-Nature: The way it makes us feel. The fact that it feels mysterious, and evokes a sense of wonder with slight discomfort. -Nurture: the association with spy movies and the complex assumptions we have tied to it.

Absolutely love it when films or games take a jazz influence in their soundtrack. Whether it be The Incredibles, Cowboy Bebop, Persona or even Mario, it's always nice to hear

As soon as I saw the title, 'Life's Incredible Again' immediately played in my head.

I've played this in a concert (low brass) and the bass lines are the most fun thing to play, it just feels right

I don’t know if you were aware of this, but the “Glory Days” theme is basically the same as the theme to “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, the 1969 Bond Film. It just feels like a less serious, more heroic version of that theme and it fits The Incredibles so well!

I’ve had the opportunity to meet two of the trumpet players on the soundtrack (Wayne Bergeron-lead trumpet, and Marissa Benedict) and they talked about how great an experience this soundtrack was for them. Such a great score! Wayne is still known as the “Incredibles guy” among trumpet players.

I love seeing him just play with the music and really feel it in his soul. It shows his passion for the music

I'm an animation student and just seeing the thought process in the music choices is really insightful. Especially that part where u mentioned how pausing the music can create an impact like that. Definitely want to incorporate some of this info into my next storyboarding assignment.

The sound is totally nurture. It goes back to Henry Mancini. He was a huge fan of jazz and the hepcat style of music from the late 40s into the 50s. His sound tracks for shows like Peter Gunn influenced the soundtrack for Mission Inpossible and James Bond. It helps that this big band style of jazz lends an air of excitement to the soundtrack.

We played what I thought was going to be a dippy concert band arrangement of this in community band and it totally slapped. One of the best pieces we played all year!

12:23 that run was just INCREDIBLE

This is my son's favorite movie of all time. He is now almost 19 and this movie came out about two years after he was born. He has seen this movie repeatedly and can nearly quote the whole thing! He is way into music and jazz and is a percussionist. I feel like maybe this movie could have subconsciously had some influence on him in that regard very much like how you talked about the music from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood wasn't dumbed down for kids. Thanks for this video!

Everything about this reminded me of the scene in The Emperor's New Groove where Kronk is sneaking around and singing his own backing music. And, actually, with Eartha Kitt in her role as Yzma singing some of the songs in the movie, that would be an excellent next one to examine.

Something I’d love for you to analyze is Mysterio’s theme from Spider-Man: Far from Home also by Giacchino. The use of the major intervals in his heroic theme being swapped out for minor intervals in his villainous theme as well as the chords used in his villainous theme make it a thrilling piece. Giacchino’s use of harmony is one of the things I absolutely love about his music.

I'd love to see your take on Outer Wilds' or Halo's music. Outer Wilds has become my favorite game of all time and the music plays a big role in that, and Halo's music is just iconic.

Whenever I watch The Incredibles I sit through the end credits to enjoy the combination of music and graphics. There is a segment in the middle of the credits when a low saxophone comes in and lights my fire every time.

I remember seeing this in the theater and thinking “damn, this soundtrack slaps.”

The incredible has some underrated bangers

Charles should look at the Emperors New Groove soundtrack. I remember it being the first time I had heard music like that (Jazz) as a kid. I just think it's awesome :)

this was an INCREDIBLE analysis muhaha

That recurring melody throughout a movie is called a Leitmotief! Needed to inform you all before Sideways comes in here! XD

I was hoping you'd do the plane crash scene. My favorite bit of the score. The tension of the music builds and builds until it's practically screaming and then all resolves when Elasta-Girl deploys herself as a chute. Incredible.

Extremely satisfying video to watch. Thank you for touching on the mission impossible stuff. I had always searched for that reference in the Internet but barely anyone touches on it.

You should also look at the UP soundtrack! There's another use of 5/4 in it that isn't the spy theme and it's actually really impressive.

Yes he finally did the Incredibles! Love this soundtrack

Can't mention Giacchino and not mention Married Life from Up, the greatest short story single track and award winning piece that I can't not cry listening to. Great video as always.

We need more of Charles just playing over some of these backing tracks. I'm in love with his improv style

I've always loved the Incredibles soundtrack. Such good music, and my childhood movie.

I think with those minor major sevenths, there is a “natural” vibe to them and that’s why they were chosen to evoke those certain spy movie feelings. And those feelings have been “nurtured” over time with repeated use.

Love the way you explained dissonance here, always loved this soundtrack too

Lovely analysis as always! Plus a little interval theroy and intro to the overtone series haha love to see it

There's a crazy moment in the score that I just love especially as a trumpet player..in Marital Rescue at about 2 minutes in Michael gave Wayne Bergeron a part that says "could you play this 2 octaves up?" And he DOES and it's so underrated 🤯🤯

9:30 I think the phrase is 'leitmotif,' which can get referenced and adjusted based on the scene and mood (think Howard Shore's Fellowship Theme as a widely known example). It's just a really cool tool composers can use in movie scores (and operas and such)!

Charles is so talented! So much knowledge about music and music theory stuff, I wonder if he went to a college for music. Gosh his improvisations and piano playing is so lovely

I love the way you explain each part and how you play the piano in 'off the work'. My favourite is life's incredible🥰😃😃 Greetings from Spain

I HAVE BEEN WAITING MY ENTIRE LIFE FOR A VIDEO LIKE THIS. THANK YOU CHARLES CORNELL!!!!!

I’m gonna need a video/album of Charles piano playing/noodling over the entire Incredibles soundtrack… Please!🙏

This is by far my favorite piece to play! I played it multiple times in marching band in the 4 years I was in the class and it never gets old.

I like the theory that the "spy chord" is a nature thing. It emphasizes that music is so integral that certain sounds can evoke certain emotions regardless of the context. Also, when you played the "Off To Work" score on the piano, it reminded me very much of the Mr Roger's Neighborhood soundtrack. :)

6:59 Honestly, I’d reckon that it goes even farther back to classical and opera music. I bet you could find some of the same chords in old opera arias. Especially the bits where it’s all mysterious and full of danger with the perfect 5ths and major 7ths. A power chord, but give it sexy and dangerous vibes is basically all opera 9:40 that’s a leitmotif! Another technique borrowed from opera and classical music.

I am SO glad you're covering this soundtrack!! First of all, The Incredibles, I mean...one of the best and underrated Pixar movies. I think Michael Giaccino is one of my favorite movie composers ever. He nails it every time, and I even find myself being drawn to his scores before I know he composed it. The Incredibles movie is just... ((Chef's kiss)). So good.

In my top 5 favorite movies and one of the biggest reasons is the score, such a gorgeous soundtrack, I listen to it all the time.

8:53 -- Those aren't trumpets, those are French Horns, and that just makes this considerably more badass, automatically.

You taught me more than my piano teacher, even though I'm a self-taught ;)

Brad Bird was looking for a specific sound as inspired by the film's retrofuturistic design - the future as seen from the 1960s. The movie starts in 1947 and then it goes forward 15 years, continuing in 1962, you can see the year in a newspaper Robert Parr reads. Their point was to create a movie about the early 1960s (hence retro) as if we were still in the late 1940s (hence futuristic). It's supposed to put us in the past looking at the future. That's basically why a lot of stuff we see (those sort of concept arts we see in the PS2 game somewhere near the Secrets menu, the animations made for the credits of the movie, etc) seems so grand while still being so minimalistic at the same time. My favourite tracks of this movie are "Lithe or Death" and "Kronos Unveiled". But I also like others a lot, like "Off to Work" that you showed, I really like the job they did with the themes of chic, luxurious and exotic. This movie is by far one of the best movies ever made, they literally managed to grab a 1960s 007 USSR type of movie, remove the sex and turn it into an animation, and this is the outcome. They have death, violence, brutality, suspicion of cheating, a wonderful family slowly crumbling apart for a short period of time while the husband leads a secret second life unbeknown to the rest of the family, a man turned evil by society who hides in a secret ungoverned island, it's perfect.

Love this soundtrack for years -- and I totally dig your embellishments, especially on the "Off to Work" -- sooooo smooth --- you are such a gifted musician and master of theory !!!! Thanks for the videos

One of my favorite vids I've seen from you. This type of music is so much fun, and you made great choices about what to focus on. Beautiful improving as well! Per your question, I do think it's, predictably, both nature and nurture. I do think there's something innate about the mM7 chords that is exciting and mysterious, which you hit on in the video, but it's certainly been reinforced by action-spy movies through the decades. I remember my first time watching MI as a kid, and that soundtrack complimented the feel of the movie so perfectly without me ever having seen a spy movie in the past.

With the min/maj chords, there's the augmented chord embedded in it. And the scale/sound that goes with an augmented chord is the whole-tone scale/sound. And the whole-tone scale, since only containing whole steps, has no tonal center, giving it this feeling of uncertainty and mysteriousness. So I do think there is an element of nature to the idea that we link the min/maj augmented sound to spy and space movies. Also, I think its interesting how we (or atleast I) associate the min/maj sound more with spy theme, and the pure major augmented chord more with a space theme (eg. Interstellar and other space movies I can't exactly quote). Im curious to know if anyone feels the same way.

5:00 When you play a note, the most prominent over-/under-tone (bar the octave) is the perfect fifth which is linked why it works so well I think

watched because one of the best soundtracks of all time. Subscribed because of the wonderful (amazing) piano playing and how easy you can pick up chords. impressed.

First and only video of yours I’ve seen. The quality of image. Great relatability. Elite musical IQ and obvious intellectual IQ. Having not looked for any more videos, I’m already gonna sub and Im excited to be learning and sharpening my music just from having discovered this channel. Great stuff dude!!!

This soundtrack is THE reason why The Incredibles is my favorite Pixar movie. I remember watching it when I was eight-ish yo and loving it, but didn’t know why. Not a surprise why I love Jazz today.

I opened up YT to play "Life's incredible again" to remember how a masterpiece it is, for old time's sake, and then it pops up in the home your video. Amazing.

You need to make a part 2 video bc there are just way too many good tracks from this movie you can dissect. The Incredits has so much that can be covered. Great work Charles!

I really love your deconstruction and analysis of film music. More please! More, more, more!

The specific “spy movie” sound is a bit or nature and nurture. “Nature” because the dissonance that occurs causes a sense of unease and tension which provides a good feel for the scene. “Nurture” because the chord *combinations* used have been passed down because they work and we have grown an association with them.

I love hearing you improvise with the soundtrack! It sounds pretty... hmm.. amazing :)

The final battle scene in The Incredibles 2, specifically when the ship is about to crash with the city and Frozone shoots as much ice as he can to slow down the ship always gives me chills. The brass section growing and growing with some powerful dominant chords along with the effects the trumpets make adds such tension to the scene. I love it.

This video was super interesting. I really love the way you explain things. You really know your stuff

As a bassist, I love Michael Giacchino's score on this and ADORE his score for Inside Out.

I've never been this invested into the theory behind a soundtrack before. Amazing video

This was a great breakdown. One of Michael Giacchiano's best. Life's Incredible Again and Off to Work are indeed two standouts.

What I like about your analyses apart from the knowledge, is that you point out what makes music tick. The elements that move us, and you teach it with so much enthousiasm, speed and humor. Really briliant! 🎉