jacob collier being a musical wizard for one minute

jacob collier being a musical wizard for one minute

#jacobcollier
#jazz
#chords

[augustobresciani]

I swear when charlie said "this is why I have so much trouble dating, because nobody gives me the feeling..." I thought he was about to propose to jacob

[sedzanithilivhali]

To me this is just two guys making a bunch of noises with their mouths and instruments. To them it's an entire conversation with plenty of emotions being exchanged. Crazy

[apothecurio]

Right. you can resolve to the fifth of any note in a four note finished chord. Actually makes lots of sense. Diminished chords were always called “portal chords” for a reason.

[aintnocapinhere]

Bruh these two are scary with music knowledge
Also your editing is super good, it made the video 10x more fun to watch

[riXter]

Any harmony textbook - chapter „diminished chords“ - page 1: You can take any diminished chord and it goes always in four directions equally.

Musicians: Meh 😒

Jacob Collier: You can take any diminished chord and it goes always in four directions equally.

Musicians: Say 🤯😱

😂 sry guys... couldn’t resist

[PabloEnver]

Basically a Diminished chord is like a dominant b9 rootless chord. Take the dim chord B-D-F-Ab. Add a G on the bass, you got G7b9. Add a E on the bass, you have E7b9 chord. Add Bb, you have Bb7b9, and the same with C#, you get a C#7b9. That's why it works so well for modulating in this case.

[JeffreyLByrd]

This was very impressive back in the early 1800’s when Wagner figured it out.

[nagolici]

totally didnt expect that ending about problem with dating

[AlvaroALorite]

I love Jacob with my whole heart. But this is not wizardry, this is common knowledge even in "simpler" classical harmony

[yaskynemma]

Omg he was just flirting with jacob at the end and he didnt noticed

[JimManeri]

This is like 2nd semester music theory. Diminished chords are the thing that gets us to wiggle to remote keys.

[teresadelag]

Hey! These are really good. If you got any more of these I'd love to watch. Great editing and transcriptions really help! Thanks

[Meatiecheeksboy]

This is Barry Harris' Family of Four Dominants. Check it out if you want to know more.

[chex]

hes just talking about how versatile diminished chords are. They can resolve to so many different chords and as such are an incredibly useful tool when writing chord progressions.

[talleywa]

My favorite part about music composition is it's one of the few skills in which actively going out of your way to break the rules can actually improve your craft.

[jeremiahdaniel]

Thank you so much for this video and the entire editing!!!
Makes us mortals begin to understand something.

[juanfenaranjo]

Romantic and Post Romantic composers using this 100 or 150 years ago like, the normal thing to do, but now we get impressed... xd

[jacksongrace]

You can actually have every fully diminished 7th chord go to any major or minor key.
To do this you need three methods, each that goes to a key a half step from each other (because if you have these three, then you have methods for the rest of the keys):

- First you can use the method described in the video.
[e.g. A dim 7 -> Bb (minor or major)]

- You can also resolve three of the notes from the fully diminished 7th chord up a half step to create a dominant 7, and resolve V7 - I.
[e.g. A dim 7 -> F#7 - B (minor or major)]

- Finally you can have two of the notes from the diminished chord resolve down to create a minor 7 and have this minor 7 resolve in a ii - V - I.
[e.g. A dim 7 -> Dm7 - G7 - C major]
Also, to smoothly go to the minor, you make the minor 7 be a half dim 7 instead.
[e.g. A dim 7 -> Dhalfdim7 - G7 - C minor]

These are the best ways I have figured out. There is also a cheeky way to get to C by using the original method and making the chord it resolves to instead be a dominant chord, then resolving that chord V7 - I [e.g. A dim 7 -> G7 -> C (major or minor)], but I wanted to show three unique ways. If you'd like clarification on anything here, feel free to give a reply :)

[alanmassalov]

sorry to bother, but in 0:34 the resolving chords are actually Bb, Db and E, Jacob just says out loud what note do we flatten in dim chord to get the to the resolution (like in the first one - F# becomes F, so it's a F7 to Bb and etc)

[jasonsan]

DAMN!!! I never thought about diminished chords like that even though I play some of those changes. 🤯