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When I see Chet Baker, Liszt, and Ravel in the same thumbnail I’m sure to click.

Pink Floyd's early song “Cirrus Minor” uses a chord progression that walks down from E to B by a half-step every measure; I only realized this recently, but it explains some of the eerie, dreamlike atmosphere.

Wow, I assumed that this video had like 200k views or something while I was watching it. Fantastic video! Anyway, for other examples of chromaticism, King Crimson is a complete goldmine for that kinda stuff. A good song example of it’s in Elephant talk ftom the Indiscipline album. Especially at the beginning

"Flight Of The Bumblebee" - Rimsky-Korsakov

This channel is severely underrated

Superb analysis of some of these famous pieces. Thank you so much for doing this!

Superb narration and great animations! This channel deserves a serious upvote.

Very fresh on the take. Concept is tight and i learned so much, now i can approach my piano with even more abstract methods.❤

Great effort, great analysis, very interesting delivery! Can't wait for more :)))

This is EXACTLY the video I needed thank you genuinely

Using those leading tones in chord progressions are just so satisfying

Great video. It was very helpful with your examples included with staff notation

This video is quite well put together and very interesting so thanks! I think you are going to have much more subscribers and likes if you continue to make videos like this and algo starts to recommend you to more people

This was a great video, really helpful way of explaining things. Thank you

Related to this, and the next step in the same direction: Strategically introduce notes that are not just from outside the scale, but outside the _tuning system_ that you are using for most of the notes. Blue notes in jazz/blues are a great example to start with, and sometimes in the performances of jazz greats you hear short runs of notes that are fractional semitones apart (and these occur too strategically and reliably to be mistakes). Of course, that is subject to your instrument being capable of pitch bend (or alternatively, having a tuning system that is a superset of the tuning system you are playing in most of the time, so that the fractional notes are ready to go when you need them). Of course, it is also possible to make good music using fractional semitones most of the time, as in many of the works of Ivan Wyschnegradsky, and in a profusion of recent works by diverse creators on KZfaq, but also even in a rare smattering of works from the late Renaissance/early Baroque, when a small subset of harpsichords, fretted instruments, and occasionally even pipe organs had split flats/sharps.

A real find! Understandable and informative. Subscribed.

Wow thanks for this video, really brought some new ideas to my mind when composing. Very professional prdouced video, hope you get some more views! 🙏☺️

You have under 3k subscribers? Thats honestly insane, this video was interesting and very well put to together!

Great demo of this man! Frolic was such a good example to use :D

This and Victor Wooten alone have helped me in less then an hour's content, in comparison to just the scales and a slew of theory information given to us.

So helpful, thank you!!!

Fantastic video! I know this takes a lot of work. *thank you*

Great video, good visualization 🙌👍🤘

Here for this type of content. Keep it up. Notifications on. 🤘

Metal riffs, a combination made i n heaven

Thank you ✨

Really enjoyed this!

amazing! thank you!

great video, loved the section on ravel; would love more content on the importance of texture as exemplified by ravel for example his une barque sur locean or jeux deau

Very educative and enjoyable content.

Thank you for making this video

Beatles, Jimmy page, Tony Iommi, David Gilmour, Dave Mustaine, Ritchie Blackmore, Chuck shuldiner, Dimebag Darrell, Marty Friedman. All of these guys use Chromaticism

Funk and metal are full of chromaticism too! All though I guess that's more riff based🤔 my first thought was "A new level" by Pantera, but it's everywhere Btw: you said at 1:07 that you might make videos for all those others and I'd LOVE that! 🙌 You explained Secondary Dominants better than I've heard!

fantastic video

Cool vid. Subscribed.👍

I had no idea how this weird „wind effect” heard in Ravel, Debussy and Bartok was called. Now I have a name for that. Thanks.

This was a great video thanks. I already use some chromaticism in my music.

Good stuff

Thanks 🙏

Saw Rex, instantly clicked, now I am learning

One thing not mentioned in this video: bluegrass bass lines regularly use chromatic approach notes just before switching into a new chord.

Well you should watch the Unanswered Question 6 brilliant lectures about the evolution of western harmony from Bach to Schöenberg including the polytonality of Stravinsky and the 12 tone manipulations of Schöenberg and Berg. He provides the most dynamic exciting overview of western post tempered tonal evolution by introducing this yin yang idea of the opposing forces juxtraposing the diatonic containment of chromticism where diatonicism is a moderating force for tonal clarity or keyness and chromaticism is a force embues everything it touches with ambiguity and or the violation of expectation. Bernstein uses this brilliant very composerly overview to address Mozart symphony #40 in G minor 1st movement where Mozart modulates through the entire circle of 5ths in the development section during the development section in lecture 1 to establish how this system of diatonic containment of chromaticism works.

Hi,really enjoyed your video😊 could you analyse the first ten bars of Bach’s 1st cello suite prelude in G major at all?🙏Many thanks.

nice work

Another great bassline that I believe is chromatic and is moving up is Kendrick Lamar's Untitled 05, which is inspired heavily by Miles Davis' Nardis

Wow! Great video! Can you make video about orchestration texture ? (Ravel or Bartok)

Just found you and already subbed. High quality content, very well explained and presented. Just incredible. You deserve a lot and lot of views. Gonna share this with my friends and other musicians. I really am tired of the diatonic scale and itch to go chromatic but I struggle with it, so videos like this, and the next one about secondary dominants really helps. Could you do more techniques and theory about chromatic harmony? How we can use notes, chords, etc from outside the bounds of the diatonic scales. I particularly like the theory of using dimished 7th chords to lead into any of the adjacent notes of any of the notes. I am really interested in lessons like that and would love to see more such videos. Thanks a ton.

amazing video

The one bit in the Curb theme is like the musical equivalent of a guy slipping on a banana peel.

Good!!!

American blues by Grateful dead would be a good example of a chromatic bassline going upwards during the transition into the chorus and into the chorus

Good vid. thank you. I am an example of overusing chromatism..

Nice video. My musical brain is kinda fucked up in the sense that heavy usage of harmonic chromaticism is by far the most important attribute music can have for me. I would probably have musical anhedonia without it. I think I realized early in my musical life journey that I really liked chromaticism and just ended up overindulging in it like a drug addict.

Hey man, I just came across your video after a couple hours trying to piece apart a song which I am trying to learn by ear and publish a chord chart for. The song is called 'For a Dreamer Night's the Only Time of Day' by Forgive Durden. I think the piece opens with a chromatic move upwards. 4 major chords ascending chromatically before jumping into the first verse. It sounds like there are other components later in the song that I am not very adept in hearing yet. I've published just over 40 chord charts and most of them use diatonic melodies and harmonies. I would be ecstatic for any tips in regards to looking at this song.

{This is the 2nd half of an earlier comment} so Bernstein takes one step by step through how Mozart uses his initial theam and modulates through the circle of Fifths but how he starts this whole (very modern for his time) tour de force from the unlikely key of F# minor. Bernstein further uses architectural parallels found in Chomskian Linguistics to illustrate how phonology syntax and semantics (the three areas of inquiry of linguistics) provides illuminating analogues between music and language. This further provides the basis for interdisciplinary insights into the most fundinental mechanisms of human affective response. It's exhilarating to glimpse the history of Western Music as a history of how composers used mechanisms in phonology syntax and semantics to amp up the ambiguity in the music untill eventually the music reached the precipice of tonality itself; to see the history of western music as a composer driven high speed power dive into higher and higher levels of chromatic density via modulation melodic chromaticism and chromatically altered harmonies. To eventually create the 20th century crisis which gave birth to modernism in music. But it's even more fascinating to understand that the 20th century crisis took place in all the arts.

Great video

I want to send you a track to see if you have a grasp on the theory behind a piano solo improvisation. What's the best way to do that?

what a great video...i think musicians/composers from all walks of life use chromaticism more/much more instinctively than they realize...this is clearly the "spices" of music...

I like to think of chromaticism in terms of chords. I’m guessing you’re probably familiar with modal mixture. I like to approach chromaticism as part of chords that are borrowed from other modes. For instance, if I’m in D major, I could grab a C# major chord, and approach the C# major like I might in C# melodic minor - G# A# B# C#.

You should do an analysis on Tame Impala's 'New Person, Same Old Mistakes"

Listen to the bassline in Muse - Hysteria. 😊

Cool video. Check out Barry Harris’ chromatic scale, cool way to get some instant bop chromaticism

Elliott Smith - Condor Avenue

Good video, but yes barely scratching the surface. I studied musicology and I'm composer myself. So keep up!

Don't forget Chopin, he essentially pioneered it or at least was the first to use it to the extent that he did.

Hey, I can suggest a nice ascending chromatic bass line! Listen to Woody's Roundup (from Toy Story 2), it's in the chorus. One of the longest ascending lines I've seen, it goes like this: D, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B, then back to A for a V-I cadence to tonic D. It's interesting to follow how the bassline is harmonized, with many of the chords being inversions or diminished chords. Randy Newman, who composed it, really knows his harmonies. Oh, and it's a great song, too. I listen to it with my toddler all the time. She loves dancing along!

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I swear, lol...before reaching 8:05, I thought of Richard Rodgers...they always have a song in their musicals that does some chromaticism in some point, notes not in the scale, like "Shall-we" in The King and I, Cinderella, there is always something like that in their songs, lol...I mean, lol, probably in a lot of other things, perhaps only noticed because it's musicals, etc...

great video!! tho talking about chromaticism and not mentioning habanera from carmen is crazy, i thought thats the most popular example hahaha :))

Chromaticism is everywhere in Muse's songs Thought Contagion is a great one

For anyone interested in more contemporary examples of chromaticism, check out Cardiacs. Their music is like chromatic mediant heaven.

3:26 in this case, the key is not A# but Fm. Same three sharps but definitely another key!

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Hey man i would suscribe if you keep doing videos from this lenght ot longer

Yoo I saw rex orange county in the thumbnail and I was like I have to watch this video

Hey look, I think I found something like this bartok chord at 13:48 in the death core track 'unmasked' by 'darko us' at 3:23

That approached note should be spelled b# 3:40

Hello, how do I know what chord to use based on scales or melody I make?

14:30 I don't necessarily agree. You don't have to noodle around if you have a great ear. Developing a great ear means being able to play chromatic melodies in your head without having to rely on your instrument. Takes a lof of work getting there though. It means you basically have deeply engrained in your brain the sound of every interval between two given notes in the chromatic scale of every mode you want to play. Helps developing an intuition for modes too. Means everything you can come up with in your noggin' you'll be able to immediately translate into sounds with your instrument. Certainly the classic composers that were featured in your video are able to do that to high level of fluency.

Y entonces llega la Marcha de los Gladiadores de Julius Fučík: 😎😎😎

Wow

Great video just one little thing the volume of musics you use is not balanced with your voice keep up

It gets even more interesting when you get out of equal temperament.

Just a little correction. It's BEla BArtok, not BartOk. The stress is on the first syllable.

I really loved and found your video useful for my own song/riff writing, though I reall think that you overlooked HEAVY METAL (and many of its sub genres) and their effective use of chromatism in their writing of progressions/riffs. I believe I'd have been a GREAT and more diverse example.

I think you forgot to mention Metal, Metal has quite a LOT of chromaticism one of the most popular metal songs Master Of Puppets by Metallica uses Chromaticism in the first riff of the song which I think makes it such a great song too, another example is Holy Wars… The Punishment Due by Megadeth it’s a little less chromatic but still uses all the notes

The Curb Theme doesn't Modulate, it's in C the whole time, decending chromatically thought the chords. I VII bVII VI bVI V I

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Scale are merely guidelines at best.

It seems to be a very good video, but please allow automatic subtitles that people who don't understand english fluently could watch it easier. Thanks.

This feels like an americanised Dave Bennett video

What I’ve learned, is that you?

Please, will someone go and tell Einaudi.

Chromaticism in popular Mario songs?

"Chromaticism makes music interesting" DSBM artists: No

Minor scale can't be described as melancholic, sad, sorrowful and even dark. A lot of joyful and happy songs are in a minor scale. Same as major is not happy, bright and so on. We have to admit that both scales can't be described in terms happy/unhappy. We have to admit that minor sounds "minor" and major sound "major" and this can't be described in simple terms.

tons of metal is a lot of chromaticism

1:01 waaait wtf ;p you didn't play the note you presented separately at this moment when playing the whole octave at 0:58. C'mon, are you trying to fool us or what?

death metal is another genre that heavily uses chromaticism