Anime’s SECRET chord progression.

[Pauavi]

what i learned from this is “Never Gonna Give You Up” is an anime song

[troysmithfr]

"Never Gonna Give You Up" actually uses an altered version of this progression (ii7 as opposed to IV)

[Meatball]

"Much richer chordal harmony"

4 chord loops in America: 😒
4 chord loops in Japan: 🤩😍🥰

[aidanepply-schmidt]

Another piece to this:
Japanese is a monophthong language and that influences their melodic choices— Melodies have more energetic movement and fewer long notes.

[ozb]

The 4, 5, 3, 6 progression is also used in pop punk.

[Jodus_MacGotuss]

This is a really cool songwriting lesson! I'm not so sure I like the narrative that western tonic-based chord progressions are 'boring'. A huge portion of all classic and contemporary music is composed in that style, including some of the greatest and most influential music ever made; everything from bach to the beatles to kanye west, so dont treat it like its any lesser :)

[williamnelson]

If you want to hear this in more of a western fashion there's an amazing indie band called Good Kid, who actually have a song called Mimi's delivery service as a homage to KiKis delivery service and how it pioneered this style today

[CharlieKnolesPlus]

Great video. Also that guitar tone is nice.

[Nickshreds]

Fantastic!! This was really well explained.
I would also recommend anyone interested in Japanese music to delve deeply into metal, rock, classical and jazz from Japan.
Joe Hisaishi who composes Studio Ghibli soundtracks is a great start

Ryuichi Sakamoto is another amazing composer. Very different to Hisaishi.

As far as metal and rock I could list bands all day.
Some important bands from Japan to me! X JAPAN (thrash metal with classical influences. they wrote a classical metal song called Art of Life which is about 20 minutes long and is a beautiful piece of art, lyrics all in english), L'Arc en Ciel ( a big band from the 1990s who play rock, jazz rock, and experiment quite a bit. Some of my favourites include Hoshizora, Forbidden lover, HONEY and more), Dir en grey ( warning extreme progressive metal with horror music videos so avoid the music videos. Try their ballads first, I'll, Jealous, Hotarubi, and for heavier stuff MACABRE ( 12 minute long proggy goodness), the GazettE, LUNA SEA( Popular in the 90s along X JAPAN one of the biggest bands ever in Japan. Their music is very emotional and is not as focused on guitar solos but songs like End of Sorrow, Mother, Ray are all fantastic examples of their musicianship)

This is all my opinion by the way and none of it is fact!

[victorzaidan]

very interesting, I have no aptitude for music (or listening), but I really like to know about different types of composition

[Aigis]

Music is great because people will be saying the most random things you've ever heard and act like it makes sense. This language is crazy and it's great

[doppelganger]

The Guitar matches your shirt perfectly

[ИгорьГригорьев-иь]

One of the most used ones are IV - III(iii) - vi - v - I

[Defqnt]

Never gunna give u up starts on a ii7 (minor 2 7th chord) instead of the IV chord buts rlly close in sound

[Tabloid_Hedron]

Who else thought 'Miyazaki never wanted ghibli films to be considered anime'

[エルフェンリート-li]

You can also just see it as a progression resolving on the tonic of the minor parallel key.

[swedishbloke]

Fun fact, kikis delivery service is heavily inspired by my home town, with the church in the intro being the “judgement church” of Saint Maria

[johnsmovies]

Idk that part at the beginning kinda just sounded like Band of Horses or My Morning Jacket

[mufiku]

Well, I myself have developed my own chord progression consisting of 12 chord back in 2006.

Cant guarantee it will sound good, but many left with tears hearing it.

[Jeffrey-epez]

Together Forever is a better example of the Royal Road progression.