Jacob Collier modulating a tritone

[nc]

Hearing people talk about music theory is like listening to a conversation in a foreign language where you think you get some words but you are probably misinterpreting the whole thing.

[ivanlisak]

Just yesterday i was looking at chopin's nocturne op9. no2 he just modulates like that.. its amazing

[veedeeass]

youtube lowkey wants me to learn music theory.

1. take a dominant chord (V) and isolate only the third and the seventh
2. move the third half a step up ; and the seventh half a step down - you get the I chord (without the fifth) - very common way of resolving the voices

3. now do the opposite: resolve the third half a step down ; and the seventh half a step up. Now you get the bV chord (tritone), also no fifth.

(that's the basic reason why this works so well: the two most important notes of the chord are resolving by half steps. You can alway omit the root and the fifth without any major consequences to the harmonic understanding of the chord change. Or you can distribute them in a way that seems adequate, provided you use that half-step voice leading in the 3rd and 7th)

[kelvinnueveanimeguitar]

I don't understand a single thing which means I still have so much to learn lol

[Proxima]

I love these brief snip's that make you rationale your ideas, I've done this sort of thing for a while, but now without knowing what it's called, you make me realise I must start my progressions with this function so I have more room to move the melody. Thank you.

[Zzslayr]

Even in block chords this modulation sounds so cool. The fun part is making shapes with the modulation with arpeggios, motives, layering with several tone colors through multiple instruments. I have got to mess around with this!

[grigoridj]

Nice! So basically just a V - I to the tritone, but using inversions to get nice voice leading in the bass. Love the transcribed snippets btw, keep em comming please :)

[peterdanner]

Most of the time I find myself being the musical equivalent of ‘so, you’re saying the wrist bone connected to the, arm bone’ 😳

[DAMusic-quec]

For Nerds only:

play a dom7 chord a half step above the tonic and resolve it functionally. Also you can substitute the IV chord for a dim7 chord and resolve it up by a half step.

[pablo]

In other words, use a secondary dominant of V7/bV after a I chord and make it into third inversion to get a chromatic descent in the bass

[josebuencamino]

That bII is what's called a neapolitan chord, and it allows you to do all kinds of funky things functionally c:

[bird]

ive only recently gotten into listening to jazz, and know (embarrassingly) almost no music theory despite how long ive played an instrument - where do i start learning what these transcriptions mean and most importantly add them to my musical arsenal? it's like an itch that's been harder to ignore whenever i hear a part of a song or piece that gives musicians the stank face but i cant pin down what makes that one chord or chord progression so good nor catch what chord it is

[uncooked_ham]

It's basically the same as dropping a trembo 4th by 8 chordal beps, and stranting the remaining cladding by a tonar 7th, I think.

[drjimbo]

I just keep getting recommended this videos, and even though I don't really understand them I watch them anyway.

[tom]

I love when people flow between scales and foreign chords

[antoniomontemuro]

you're the best for transcribing this kind of stuff. thanks a lot!

[MegaMech]

Tritone substitution, tritone substitution, TRITONE SUBSTITUTION!!! Oh, now we're back in C.

[pukalo]

I'm glad there's finally a video about this specific method of tritone modulation.

[___xyz___]

0:11 literally the who wants to be a millionaire theme