The longest chord progression

In this video, I break down the "epic sequence", a fabulous chord progression that passes through every major and minor key without repeat. This progression reaches wide in the world of music theory, with connections to the circle of fifths, jazz chord extensions, and the super ultra hyper mega meda lydian (or super dark) scale.

[薔薇-km]

Damn, this Super Ultra Hyper Mega Meta Lyidan arc resolves in such an interesting way.

[segmentsAndCurves]

Can't wait to watch this...


tomorrow.

[moadot]

I actually thought of this chord progression before! Nice to see I'm not alone!

[marshallgrey]

Basically classical giant steps, Chopin did it first ahahah

[Cheddagoblin]

jesus this production value is nice. you def should get more attention

[arielburbaickij]

6/5 (minor third)*5/4 (major third) = 5/4 (major third)*6/5 (minor third)= 3/2 (perfect fifth) with gcd (12, 5)=1 -- now all nicely audiovisualized ;-)

[taxfraud]

I heard this used in the coda of Chopins 2nd. Ballade. Amazing channel

[sandryushka]

There’s something which sounds surprisingly like a negative harmony-like progression in Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 6, E-flat minor, and in my view it can be used to describe a buildup of a wave, the rising of a force or power, or the ascent of something to some higher level before the reprise comes in. It’s fantastic!

[ragingoracle]

Stepping clock-wise through the circle of 5ths looks like..

[eduardoelhage]

Why did you stop making videos!!! I really need them and others musicians as well. They are so well produced and very interesting.

[stephenweigel]

Interesting chord progression you describe here. Of course, depending on the way you ask this question you could get a lot of different answers. Supposedly if you’re thinking of human constructs, John Cage’s As Slow As Possible would be the longest since it’s planned to take the most amount of time so far. But maybe the criteria is different, and you want to think “ longest chord progression in a song that one could actually here in a sitting, ” or something like that. It might also have to be identifiable as a chord progression! How repetitive is it allowed to be? Sadly, I don’t know of many songs that have extremely long chord progressions of the top of my head. (With microtonality, you can create chord progressions that go on forever mathematically)

[lacuunarmaris]

Hi I'm new and obsessed with this channel. I have a question out of curiosity: do you have perfect pitch? And what do u think about having it or not? Amazing vid, fantastic visual, explanation, funny (vids in general), like dude there's everything. Anyway keep up the astounding work.

[Yer_baby]

Thank you for this very well made video... can you tell us what chopin piece this comes from? Also what do you think of etudes, op. 25: no. 11 in a minor? (Winter wind)

[nathalieflintrop]

Does this sequens have a name in classical music theory? I feel like it does but I wouldn’t know what it’s called

[paulmetdebbie]

You know a lot about this. If there is 1 book, website or video that explains about scales, intervals and chords in a logical and understandable way, what would you advise? Or any other reader of this comment, please? I am not stupid, play classical piano for 50 years now (Chopin polonaises level), so I am familiair with the practice and some basic theory. But I always found any book I tried to read about music theory chaotic, illogical and contradictory so I never got it. Please help, anyone? What did it for you, where did you find the wholy grale that made your brain click into this Gear and did it?

[rodrigoappendino]

What do you mean by a chord "resolves" to another? And by "modulating to a new tonal center"?

[kjl]

At that point is this even a chord progression, or a musical form?

[MCMeru]

I mean I like your channel and your videos, but I really dislike how you have to name it "the epic progression" and include the, in my opinion, stupid term "super ultra hyper mega meta lydian" (as a concept its awesome, but I reeally dislike the term). Those terms are just buzzwords to make them sound cool, but they have no scientific foundation.