The Jacob Collier CHROMATIC Harmony Shift Trick | Q+A

- 0:00 Overcoming self-criticism as composers/songwriters
- 4:33 "Tritone is a newt echnique" (YES THIS IS SPELLED CORRECTLY)
- 4:49 But avoiding parallel fifths is good!
- 6:50 What Would Jacob Collier Do?
- 9:03 Certainly we can enjoy music of other cultures, even if we can’t understand it.

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[EannaButler]

That last section on listening to new musical constructions down low to train the brain subconsciously is excellent! Thanks!

[yiwutcmmedicalenlightenmen]

I was studying in Shanghai in 1990 and was given a ticket to the chinese traditional opera. I have a well honed ear for classical, bebop, blues, rock but the lead lady's voice sounded to me like a dentists drill! But, since I was going to be stuck there for 2 hours I closed my eyes and listened intently, stretching my hearing and trying to hear what it was about. Sure enough after 20 minutes I suddenly found it equisitely beautiful. I got home and wanted to buy it on CD which proved very hard. It was called "World Music" then so I went to the W-Music specialist shop in Amsterdam (called Au Bout de Monde) where they didn't have ANY chinese opera and looked at me like I had a hole in my head when I asked for it!

[fivetimesyo]

EXPLAIN THE TRITONE I won't be able to sleep until I figure it out...

[d.l.loonabide]

Ornette Coleman said something like that he didn't think about whether he did something that was good or bad, but that he DID it. Sorry I don't have the exact quote.

[MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Keep sending your questions! :-)

00:00 Overcoming self-criticism as composers/songwriters
04:33 "Tritone is a newt echnique" (YES THIS IS SPELLED CORRECTLY)
04:49 But avoiding parallel fifths is good!
06:50 What Would Jacob Collier Do?
09:03 Certainly we can enjoy music of other cultures, even if we can’t understand it.

[fedeveraFV]

The advice at 3:56 is clearly something to keep in mind. There is light in it. Greetings from Argentina :)

[christopherheckman]

(1) "Enjoy" is the key word. (It's at the end of every one of these videos.) I ran across a quote along similar lines a few months ago: "Mathematicians don't do math because they find it easy; they do it because they enjoy how difficult it is." (Matt Parker, Humble Pi).

(2) There's no Parallel Fifth Squad in the local police department!

(3) (08:45 Moving the chord down) "how many times I want" ... either that or until your hand rips apart.

(4) 11:45 You might say, "Keep the Bach in the back."

[mannoplanet]

Interesting video. I have noticed that when I go to another country I tend to like music that the inhabitants of that country label as simple and corny. Same with foreign people who come to my country. I think they have "backward" tastes but really they pick up the essence of the culture at its most understandable.

[greglawrencemusic]

"There are no rules in music, -but there are rules of thumb."

[TheKangas]

A newt is a salamander and the name is derived from the mythical sea legend Triton (half man-half fish). When a chord contains the tritone - the augmented 4th that is the functional "engine" of a dominant 7th chord, we can exploit the symmetrical nature of this interval.When Beethoven explored methods of development through modulation, a favourite chord was the diminished 7th. C#, E, G, Bb. There are FOUR tritones in there, each one of which may resolve in two different directions. Basically the newt can resolve in two different directions as it can live underwater or on the land (2 different musical resolutions)

[Ailsworth]

In mechanics, the forced fit never works. in music however, one can do anything.

[alastairbaillie]

Newts are also known as Tritones (viz., named for the mythological Triton) in historical literature, and "triton" remains in use as common name in some Romance languages, in Greek, in Romanian, Russian, and Bulgarian. ... Laurenti's Triton was renamed to Triturus ("Triton-tail") by Rafinesque in 1815.

[justincase]

I thought that parallel fifths and eighths applied primarily to voice leading in vocal arrangements

[WebPanama]

Thanks. The volume was a bit low today.

[jasonb]

"tritone is a newt echnique" is supposed to be "tritone is a new technique"

[LesterBrunt]

I think there is difference between enjoying music from other cultures and understanding music from other cultures.
Music is culture and culture is learned behavior imprinted by our environment. Most of us living our culture barely understand anything of it. You don’t need to understand the intricate details of catholic mass to recognize a Gregorian chant as Christian. You just need to have watched a couple of movies growing up where you see a cross and hear some chant music and you are set for life. You don’t need to understand the in depth history of rock music to be able to play it. You chose the songs you like based on the circumstances you grew up in, the music you heard, the music that was available to you. That is what shapes your musical identity. All this is inseparable from the enculturation you experienced. And most of it is completely subconscious. You don’t consciously decide what your culture is going to be. It is a lived process. And that is why it is very hard to have a meaningful understanding of other cultures. It is like how they say you can’t learn jazz from a book, you have to play it with other people; you need to live it in the moment. That is not to say you can’t enjoy or learn from other cultures. It is very insightful and a world of inspiration.

[arpeggioblues]

We all remember how the roman catholic church tried to prevent certain types of music they they deemed evil.. Tritone, for example.. So, they did try to be the traffic cop of what was acceptable or not.. Also, just wanted to say.. My experience with Music Theory is that it is ONLY a guide to what composers have done before, and the most popular and acceptable compositional techniques, etc.. We look at what was written over the last 500 years, and surmise from what we hear, what the common features of these compositions present.. Theory, is an observation and a "Guess" of what the composers were doing.. make sense? Learn music theory, then throw it away, and compose what moves YOUR SOUL.. that's composition..

[xyzyzx]

The affective response of music is innate and cross cultural, but the learning of culturally different musical structures and systems, isn’t innate.

[maximoferrer]

Dude I want you as my goddamn professor

[chiju]

Thank you. Please address your sound issue. You were difficult to understand.