Math Rock And Emo Harmony: The Basics

This video explores some of the core harmonic features used in Math Rock and Midwest Emo. It should be noted that these are my views and observations about the genre. Also, these views also relate to bands that fall within a certain umbrella of the genre. There are certainly more diverse kinds of harmony found within the style, though as someone who's played this kind of music for a long time, and also listened to it, these are tropes that I find commonly.

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[ryanqashidy]

Did i understand ? Nope
Did i watch it till the end pretending i'm understand? Hell yes

[leafbelly]

Math rock is slowly evolving back into jazz.

[matthewpappas]

Lol. This dude explained math rock with the prowess of an Ivy League professor.

[Nico-uxwr]

The Bob Ross of guitar, you're my ASMR fix

[danhendricks]

“This ain’t a scene, it’s an arms race (to find new voicings)” -Trevor Wong, basically

[danielmackeigan]

Dude, you should be teaching in UC Berkley with such a knack for quality instruction. As a Maths teacher and guitar enthusiast, I fully appreciate this on all levels. Well done!

[jessebeam]

Articulate, thorough, intelligible, and structured.
This video is incredibly helpful to a beginner, like myself.
Thank you so much, Trevor.

[antonvoltchok]

This is an outstanding technical breakdown of the genre, thinking it’d be a safe bet to say the best out there. Incredibly coherent and to the point, killing it Trevor.

[Zaotar]

This is a ridiculously good explanation of a difficult and opaque subject.

[DP-zwnl]

you are so unbelievably intelligent, talented and articulate. you speak theory related to mathrock with a musical verbiage, specificity, and finesse. while most people just tap around on the fret board and remember hand shapes.

id love to take lessons with you

[manassehcohen]

Trevor, you're awesome. Anyone that has an intermediate music theory knowledge can learn a lot from your videos. Thanks a lot for everything you post!!!

[K-Viz]

Baroque music also has alot of these large leaps. Though more represented as counterpoint rather than horizontal harmony.

[AutumnAfox]

Thank you for this, I hope you keep making videos on harmony as I find them really helpful in my songwriting

[lukejenkins]

I just wanted to say that the like to dislike ratio on this video makes me incredibly happy. Also thank you for the tutorial.

[tbrown]

Your chord knowledge is truly amazing.

[onesyphorus]

opening up that emoath hole wide enough now I'm getting tutorials. I love this

[Anybuhl]

I'm not hugely into math rock but I still find your videos to be the most helpful.

[freelancegyno]

i love that the chon riff you chose is the song that introduced me to the genre, and my favorite chon song lmao

[zachjal]

Your teaching is great! I play in a math band and am teaching, and I can tell you this is super well rehearsed, concise and to the point. Love it.

[ufosigma]

Thank you for this explanation. Concise and complete.