Stuck Playing Boring Chords? Watch This Video

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Doing this kind of thing with Guitar is much harder.

I think I was already doing all this

ESTO ESTA BUENÍSIMO! OJALA EN ALGÚN MOMENTO TENGA SUBS EN ESPAÑOL ❤

Of course music theory is not required. It's just a tool, nothing else. Just throw it away

Sounds similar but not exactly like ""Nadia's Theme" -- The Young and the Restless"

I have a decent mindset on music theory and I like watching "no music theory required" videos so i can unlearn the "rules" when writing and use music theory to analyze.

Thank you, I will definitely try this with my students 😍 In music schools there's way too much theory before they really use their ear with attention, and creativity.

i find it evsolutely sad how nervous he is…

Demonstrates how random jazz is. A really sophisticated way of sounding mediocre.

Jake looked so uncomfortable with your theory talk because he's inexperienced lol. But this was really cool and helpful

Why so serious Jake?

jake playing a g minor chord led me down a 20 minute rabbit hole of me looking at a whole bunch of my old music and i'm not sure how i feel about that
also jake's a cool guy 👍

This video is great. It also reminds us how important and useful it is to have mentors/teachers to help make sense of the cool things we hear.
Full disclosure: yes, I'm a music teacher.
Also: I am stealing this idea for my classroom. Thank you Chris!

play by ears. This is so cool

I wish you were my piano teacher...

Great! Very freeing

This really incentivizes that part of my brain that always wants to spend practice time doing random shit

Jake has great taste!

I just tried playing something random on my harp with my eyes closed... I played a chord and was like whoa that sounds good! Then i opened my eyes and it was a straight up C major -_-

I have a good ear for harmony, but know very little music theory. This approach is so liberating! Thank you so much Charles Cornell.

Take this mentality and add just a small bit of music theory to it and you're unstoppable. I write my music a lot like this

I'M THANKFUL FOR THIS!!!

Do you have any video about resolving random chords? I'd be interested in some techniques because I can always hear it in my head and how it is supposed to sound, but it's hard to put my fingers on it, literally.

I’ve done these steps shown and got good chords out of it, where do I go to now? I’m sitting here with a nice chord, but what do I do to get a sequence or a chord progression?

This makes me think of Jack Black and Kyle Gass writing their masterpiece together, except they know what they're doing

I've been searching for this video for 5 years! Such an invaluable, inviting conversation for beginners alike to start exploring harmonies without rules. In high school I always wondered how people started to create such beautiful progressions, and this video finally gave me peace of mind in that regard. Thank you for all your amazing content Charles. A diamond in our community.

Jazz

Jake has the spirit of Jimmy age 7

How do you play the chord of the thumbnail? You need like twenty fingers

Man, I have the opposite problem.

I know my theory very well, and no longer can I just throw around ideas. When I sit down at the piano, I see numbers and functions and "this thing works and that thing doesn't..." I wish I could just sit down and play and make shit up like I used to

I think the interesting thing about arrangements, chords, theory, and everything else.

The brass tax is, do you like the way it sounds? I've stumbled upon many chords where I just like them but to explain the theory behind them, I couldn't.

Poor Jake

Wow what a great video! As a novice piano player who mostly plays by ear and wonders where to go sometimes this video is really an inspiration to sit down at my piano and just 'play' and come up with things that sound good to me. You never know where it might lead right? Thank you guys!

Very inspirational. Your vids always make me want to jump on the piano after watching!

I grew up teaching myself to music as my family supported me by granting me access to various musical instruments and opportunities to exercise my musical whims . I got high school level music education when I played violin (poorly >.<) but for the most part over the years I played stuff that happened to sound appealing to myself and others on piano style instruments without really knowing why it was appealing. I didn't consider why what I was playing sounded good, I just played according to my instinct.

Later on in my life I learned some basic music theory and some advanced concepts...or rather learned that had already been executing these concepts without being aware of them. I cant read sheet music well and my understanding of the music theory terminology, specifically its numerical label focus on chords, is very confused.

By this I mean, the number based terms like forths fifths and whatnot, they confuse the crap out of me purely on the basis that they are numbers and not letters or non-numerical words. My brain simply struggles to process and cognate terms and concepts that are labeled by numbers or involve actively evoking mathematical concepts.

I blame that struggle on my autism...But at the very least, I have a firm enough grasp on musical concepts that I can produce music for anyone's needs if given the opportunity to try. Unfortunately, I have yet to find the market for my skills. I don't know where to go to find people who would commission me to compose and or produce music for their projects. If I could just find that market, I could finally make a living off of my passion

more videos like this Charles 🙏🙏🙏

Is Jacob mute he didn't talk like at all LOL😂😂😂😊😊

I love this video SOOO much! As someone who really loves music theory now, I got my start playing around on the keyboard (or sax) in my room and just experimenting and seeing what sounded good. There are even chord progressions that I came up with when I was a lot younger that I've only learned in later years what they actually are.

This is brilliant Charles, from someone who just messes around playing my favourite songs (badly), knowing nothing of the theory, this simple concept here speaks volumes!

Love how uncomfortable Jake looked every time you said the funny music words.

This episode was hilarious haha loved it