It's fascinating how it resembles narrative theory, like in Euripides. Chord progressions are narratives or stories because they are transitions where tension or conflict encountered and released. It has something to do with the way our brains make meaning out of time, transformation, or chronologies of events.

It would be really cool if you create a chart/PDF that summarizes these emotional musical concepts.

At 0:30, there's actually a great book that explains pretty much everything in this video that was published back in 2008, and also features the harmonic circular scale (the actual name for your chord diagram at timestamp 10:40) and why it's better at explaining chord progressions than the circle of fifths. It's called "How Music Really Works" by Wayne Chase. It's in chapter 6 but I recommend reading through the earlier chapters about how intervals within chords interact with each other to make complete sense, based on psychoacoustics and how our brain responds to frequency ratios of intervals. There's also different categories of progression types that produce different emotions such as fifths (downwards as C to G, or upwards C to G), thirds (C to Em, or Am to C), seconds (C to Dm or Am to G, and chromatic ones (escaping the scale, C to Bb for example). Chord intervals such as 6ths or 7ths (distance between the bass notes of different chords) don't exist within the harmonic scale because they are complementary due to the circular nature of the scale and how octaves don't define chord progression qualities (whereas the octave does matter in melody). A lot of the concepts aren't new either, the circular harmonic scale concept at 10:40 was also introduced way back in 1959 in Victor Zuckerkandl’s book "The Sense of Music," which Wayne said was a source in his research. So that shows the solidness of the concept if it can be explained and put to use a half a century later by different people!

This video is criminally underrated. Great explanations of something we don’t hear often enough!

Thought i was gonna watch for a couple minutes and get bored. Ended up watching the whole thing and being surprised it was already over. I could listen to an hour of this content. Seriously well delivered. It's got that chill, simple vibe that just invites you to sit back and listen. Liked and subbed, looking forward for more!

This was an incredible break down of these concepts! Thank you for sharing!

Your way of conveying these concepts in existential terms is truly mind blowing. I am very glad I stumbled upon your channel!

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Wow, amazing, was looking for this on YT for a long while. Many thanks for taking us on your journey of learning. Subbed

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This was an incredibly detailed explanation of these chords. As a writer as well as a musician, this makes so much sense to me. Thanks!

great lesson ! I really liked the fact you showed the chord relations as the songs were playing it really helped to visualise what you were talking about

god it’s so refreshing to hear someone talking about something actually interesting and not yelling on youtube

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Truly amazing educational content. Thank you so much for sharing this with the world!!!!

Very interesting to hear this explained with the chords written out and with musical examples.

Love it! Thank you.

I've watched a ton of music theory videos and this one is great. i dig how you present the concepts. thank you very much

Wow, I’ve been studying and creating music professionally for years now and you just connected so many dots for me in 14 minutes. Thank you sir, this was incredibly helpful 🙏🏼

You are an amazing teacher bro! The way you broke down tonics and functional harmony is everything! You perfectly explained why notes go together something I haven’t been able to grasp until now! So many dots being connected. Thank u 🙏🏾

Outstanding video to someone with no classical musical training. Gives me a sense of direction in music making. More vidoes like these are a must!

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Great video man! You did a great job explaining this. I struggle a lot with this while studying music as a young musician, but I think you were able to convey the message quite clear. I hope to see more awesome videos like this one in the future!

Some unique and helpful insights there! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you brother. Big help.

Best explanation yet and I have done hundreds of hrs of research on this topic.

good shit, i've been loosely familiar with these concepts after hearing them over and over from different sources and this video really feels like the start of actually putting the theory together into a coherent framework.

That's very interesting and thanks listened to everything..so many beautiful sounds

I’ve been playing guitar for a little while and just started learning piano to help me learn music theory. Your explanations make a ton of sense to me even though I am at an early stage with the instrument. Would love to see more videos like this. Great job man!

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Love this video really helped me better understand the chords n stuff more than I have been before

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Great video, thanks.

this should be a series I love the language you use very descriptive just subscribed to see this turned into a series

I immediately subscribed upon watching this video. Really appreciate your work, keep it up!

great talk and thought provoking. thanks for sharing...

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Wow this is indeed really great stuff. All the best

Great video and really well presented and explained!

brilliant video man. As someone who has delved into music theory in the last few years, everything you said resonated with me, even down to the emotion you prescribed to each degree (when you said nostolgia for 13th my jaw dropped cuz thats what I alwasy think of) Great work! Keep it up! would love to see some videos that tackle more advanced concepts as well. subscribed

Hey man, fantastic video, delivery, information, and giving just enough personality to keep it extremely pleasant to watch. I subbed, lookin’ forward to more content from you for sure!

Very nicely explained

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really well thought through and helpful. thank you

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Killer lesson! Subbed and ty!

I absolutely love the narrative you chose to use to explain it. Though I am a beginner in learning the theory, I always LOVED listening to music, and it was soooo hard to find material related to music and emotions but you really hit home on this one, so thank you so much!! Looking forward to more content!!

This is the best theory and composing video I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a lot over the years. Thank you 🙏🏼 love your presentation and style. New sub.

Truly one of the best music tutorial videos on KZfaq. I hope your channel blows up. Would you possibly do a video similar to this one analyzing, and explicating in a similar way about melodic intervals and melodic figures and their possible emotional and narrative meanings?

Great video! Thanks for making this!

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the first couple of minutes of your video had me seated *subscribed*

Nice work man. Thanks for

Thanks so much, that was amazing 👏!

Best video I’ve seen in about 13 years. Thank you. This is something I’ve not only thought about, but how I ALWAYS think of music. It’s just how it’s always worked in my mind as I’m playing piano or guitar.

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Dude thanks ! I play ( self taught) seeing feeling colours the tech is only descriptive the way you deliver these colours of.that emotion cuts through way.cool

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Explained so perfectly!

this is great, also note how the harmonic circular scale sort of maps to the hero's journey

One of the best music theory discussions I’ve heard. Well done! Subscribe button hit

Bro, your content quality is insane! ! I found a lot of gems for my music. Thanks a lot!

Great lesson, very interesting and condensing class on modes and moods of chords! I'm going to listen to your music. Thanks for creating, man!

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Dude… This is so good. Brilliant.

Amazing video, really gave me a fresh perspective on concepts I’ve understood for years. Nice one!

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that’s the best thing about this topic i’ve ever seen

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Amped to play with concepts thanks!

one of the best videos, thanks bro

This video is excellent! Thank you for sharing music from an emotional perspective! It feels as if for the first time someone speaks my language when it comes to music theory. I wish you made a course that teaches music theory from the very basics in this type of language. Once again, thank you!

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"Social construct" is the foundation against which every musical performance, live or from media, is experienced. So your emotional presumptions are based in part on this common thread. But temperament changes the actual math, so not all Maj7 or m7 chords, for example, are equivalent, the overtone series changes - on a piano or guitar, a string section automatically corrects for it.

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Man you make me want to dig in theory once again. Thank you

Thank you sir. That was quite great knowledge. I will have to watch this vid thrice more to fully grasp the knowledge. May be I ll watch it after 6 months. That works wonders for me.

Great explanation

I like how you put the chord number on screen as the music is playing in tne background. Great video!

Great video bro and well articulated! Subbed

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100% agree

Finally someone explaining this, the emotions. Thanks mate.

I enjoyed this nice overview and feel like it describes the diatonic soundscape just enough to not get bogged down by overthinking it. I appreciate your time. I spent so much time learning to play all major scales, their relative minor scales and associated triads and seventh chords on piano. At the end, I found little inspiration for actually creating unique ideas and tend to just pick up my guitar and play whatever I want without even thinking about theory. Guitar just lends itself to nice ostinatos and pedal tones - at least the way I tend to play it. I'll usually convert my ideas to midi and only analyze them after the idea is mostly complete. Only when my arranging hat is on, do I really start to consider this stuff. It's invaluable when it's time to state my ideas clearly through an entire group of instruments - voicing chords in a flattering way, doubling octaves, etc - makes mixing a breeze. But before that, I still prefer the chaos of just feeling out note combinations without considering how they are described in the language of theory.

Awesome video. More like this please!

God bless you brother this vidoe is so informative keep up the work

I had to turn the playback speed down, so dense of information! (or hitting my dense brain). Great stuff!

I'm so glad that you emphasize that this is not science and likely involves a lot of societal preconceptions. Enables me to actually enjoy the talk.

When you were speaking about the gravity of the two chord, you made me think of the word redemption or turnaround really like turn around as in end of the cycle and signaling the turn back towards the light, and thus sort of the beginning of our redemption arc 😮

Good. Subbed

Today you find so much about technique, but barely nothing about convey emotions. One of the best vid`s 👍