How To Play Daniel Caesar & H.E.R.‘s “Best Part” With Jacob Collier

Grammy-winning musician Jacob Collier recently sat down with Genius to break down the chords for Daniel Caesar and H.E.R.’s 2017 collaboration, “Best Part.” Collier first became known for his multi-instrumental rearrangements of popular songs such as Michael Jackson’s “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing),” and caught the attention of Quincy Jones in 2014. In this video, the 24-year-old musician puts his talent for explaining musical concepts to work.

[BoostedComposer]

Y’all should just have a video series of Jacob breaking down popular songs. Instant hit video series.

[Reyrzy]

GENIUS GETTING AN ACTUAL GENIUS ON THE CHANNEL

[adammarshall]

Always nice to see JC operating at 0.5%

[sambkingmusic]

Getting Jacob Collier to explain this chord progression is like getting Einstein to teach high school kids how fractions work

[bramvierstraete]

If I were Daniel or H.E.R. I would flip out about this. Jacob just called your song an all-time classic!

[yi]

He made himself dumber for the sake of us, a true skinny legend

[ArtbMusic]

It's probably the first time Jacob Collier is using standard tuning since the age of 3

[jan]

It's great to see a musical genius like Jacob who knows all the chords and notes in the book get so enthusiastic talking about a 4-chord song. A lotta guys with intermediate/advanced knowledge of music theory act so dismissive towards pop songs that repeat a few chords over & over.

[shrugs]

this is like having Stephan hawking explaining how to access your emails, not a dig on Daniel Caeser its just Collier is insane

[jamesuMusic]

I feel like Jacob is trying so many things to see what he's good at.

And he's better than everyone at all of it

[denizozbay]

Wait is that the guy who was explaining harmony to 5 different people in the video of wired

[myself]

Million dollar idea here: get jacob collier to discuss music theory with new wave rappers. Would honestly be pure gold to watch him try to explain the chord progression of "hideaway" to lil xan or some shit.

[joelmathew]

i really hope more people discover Jacob through this

[hussey]

I can imagine Daniel reacting like “I just searched up good chord progressions”

[louiezar]

Jacob Collier always reminding us of how untalented we all are

[JSMallard]

This is like an anime cross over what just happened

[jalfredprufrock]

This was like watching Shakespeare do a breakdown of London Bridge is Falling Down.

[kathleenreyes]

he's exceeded just being an artist and has become the art itself imo

[GabeWilliams]

I didn’t expect to get so much raw understanding of music theory from this, he defiantly made some things click for me in that last half

[JayTowns]

glad you guys got jacob on the channel! would love to see more like this.