Coloring with Sound - Ben Levin

Harmony is paint for your ears! Let's form chords like a painter.

[halflearned]

Ben during summer 2017: Let's make a whole composition!
Ben during fall 2017: Some chord progressions!
Ben during winter 2017: Intervals only!
Ben in spring 2018[*]: ....Sounds?

[jackpepperpwb]

I like that I tend to learn ways of thinking about music from you. It makes you stand out from a lot of music channels.

[JCT]

Lately when I've found myself in a rut or writers block I'll watch Ben do his thing and before is over I'm jamming again.

[russell_szabados]

I admire your continuing commitment to learning and appreciate your generosity by sharing these concepts. This is very inspiring. Thanks and happy holidays.

[davegoldsmith]

I owe my musical growth to so many YouTube channels, you being the latest, Ben. YouTube may be the greatest musical multi tool ever, and it keeps getting better all the time thanks to so many great musical minds not being greedy with the knowledge they have. I thank you for reinvigorating my alchemical marriage to harmony.

[THE_ODOUR]

Ben I love your videos. They really make me think outside of the box and approach everything in a new and creative way. I am a very classical musician who is stuck thinking fuctionally and I find your videos open up a lot of creativity. Thank you so much you are a LEGEND

[jorisbressan]

Dear Ben,
I just discovered your channel via your session with Adam Neely and hell man!
I love the way you live and speak about music, your sensibility and creativity, is inspiring.
So, thank you for sharing and you can take my appreciation as a small but sincere christmas gift :)

From a passionate musican to another

[HalfGodHalfBeast]

I just noticed: "Embrace Failure" - love it :-)

[NotRightMusic]

Ben Levin - would you be willing to share your wisdom with us on the binding differences between various fabrics for taping our mic recording devices to our shirts. It would be much appreciated around the community I'm sure. Thanks :)

[seanbutler]

You know I’ll be honest, nothing in this video really blew my mind, but I am so utterly ecstatic that you made a video talking about the difference in color between chords. It’s so reassuring to hear someone talk about things that usually just stay up in my head while I study music, and I really look forward to your videos for this reason, to hear someone else talk about these same phenomenon. It makes me feel a little less crazy when I think about these things :) thanks so much for everything you do Ben.

[renichbon]

Completely mind blown!

I like comparing harmony to mixing colors. I've, always, referred to songs as paintings. You don't really need to talk about all the painting but maybe describe parts of it; including matisse, color, light, shadow, figures, tendencies and so on.

Thank you, so much, for this. Eye opening and wonderful! You rock, Ben!

[adamjnotthecongressmanschi]

Contemporary jazz rabbi.




Thank you for existing.

[paulocone]

I really like this way of looking at harmony, mostly because I haven't learned a lot of traditional theory past the basics, and this perspective on harmony is how I already do things! I think it's much more interesting to create a strange but cool-sounding chord than to completely rely on chords I know with my limited knowledge of music theory.

[rayzor]

That was brilliant, very interesting perspective that I’ll try out with my own compositions! Thanks Ben

[wlfar]

I love the way your brain works! Thanks for sharing it with us. Inspiring ideas Ben.

[Maw_tcha]

I want that embrace failure shirt. Ben, this was an amazing video. You are like a musical scientist.

[eldraetta]

Fantastic video! The idea of letting yourself enjoy the learning process as exploration really resonated with me.

[LeroyIsMyBro]

I loved this, I'm really excited to be experimenting with ideas using this. Thank you Dr. Ben Levin.

[firestarten]

That improv head bob though. Hehe. Thanks for brightening my day

[omertabach]

This was a cool brainstorm inspiring thing. Thank you, mister Ben Levin.