Voice Leading: Pachelbel's Canon
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- Voice Leading...what is it? It's simple really, but leads to complex outcomes. Here's a great example that Johann Pachelbel gave us a few centuries ago!
00:00 Demonstration
01:24 Thesis
01:48 Introduction
04:38 Lesson
10:09 Wrap Up
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LOVE this exercise! Been working on a bunch of EVH tunes, and between that and your other videos it's really helped me to finally start to utilize triads in a much more natural way. Can't wait to spend some time with this on the other string groups! Are there any other classical pieces you can think of offhand that would lend themselves to this exercise?
Look up the Bach etude I wrote here, and the Schubert etude as well, they both utilize triads extensively.
@@curiousguitarist Thank you!
Another example of lifting lessons from classical music and putting them "on the fretboard, where they belong". These lessons are so interesting because they illuminate musical truths and techniques that most teachers never get to. Thank you for guiding us deeper, as always!
So good to have you here, Russell, glad you're enjoying the channel. Stay well!
Chris, that was by far the best version of Pachelbel’s Canon I’ve ever heard. Thank you so much 😊💚
Dont get me wrong chris plays it wonderfully but i highly recomend checking out trace bundy's acoustic guitar arrangement of the piece its my personal favourite rendition
O..M..G.. this video comes at such a PERFECT time for me..based on what I’ve been working on in my playing, the song I’ve been using to work on it, etc. I have never understood Voice Leading..but I’m beginning to see a light off in the distance. As usual, incredibly well done and explained! Thanks Chris!!
So good to hear, Dave. What tune are you working on?
Great lesson. Thanks
Of course!
Awesome stuff! I've been working on VL basics, but making me run through 8 chords of such a beautiful song really helps! Have a great week, Chris! 🍒
You too Timmy!
Way to get your point across even for slower learners. I really enjoy your wonderful and educating lessons and especially how you always find clever ways to concrete the point.
Thank you, Tian, I really appreciate that and I’m glad you enjoyed this one!
I totally loved this lesson because Ive heard this song many times but never actually gave the title much thought and now i understand it.
Thanks Hairu! It’s amazing how you can find the answers to so many musical questions inside just about any tune. And then picking the most familiar examples helps us all hear it together.
Dear Sir. I address you with the utmost respect because you are an extraordinary teacher (person, too, for sure). I lament your absence from most of my life.
Oh kind sir! I celebrate the intention of your comment, and fondly wish I had started this earlier too…for BOTH our sakes!
I just cranked up the high gain and rocked this out at 180 bpm. Wonderful lesson!
Nice, Pachelbel metal!🤘
Love, love, LOVE it! Thank you for posting this, Chris!!!!!!
To be honest, I actually posted this for you, specifically. Thanks for all your support and effort JG!
@@curiousguitarist You are too kind & have left me with a huge smile! Thank you!
Chris Thank you, one more time!
Amazing lesson and beautiful progression.
I follow your chanel from the beginning you definetely have
the most influence on my playing and knowedge of the fretboard.
Many Thanks! ~
You are so welcome, and thanks so much for being here since the beginning!
Words cannot express my gratitude…
Wow, thanks Scott!
Learned a new rule and got to work with a piece I'm already really familiar with from a new POV. Great lesson.
Excellent! Can't beat these tunes for providing un-muddled context.
great lesson from you of voice leading.nice chord progression song (canon).thanks a lot for such an inspiring lesson.
If course, glad you’re here.
6:23 sounds like Let It Be, then 6:43 sounds like Good King Wenceslas. Listened to it again and heard Whiter Shade of Pale followed by When A Man Loves A Woman. I’m absolutely fascinated by how much of music gets recycled in new and interesting ways. 🤯
Welcome to a much wider world!
It's now getting near the holidays, and I swear I heard 'Jolly Old St Nicholas' in the opening phrase.
As soon as you said 'triads', badda-bing, got it. Now, I am basically acquainted with descending or ascending chord melody on top, but I think I grasp the approach here. Cool.
And you're absolutely right, the best way to instruct is with examples. This is a very good one.
BTW, when I stumbled on, and worked out Pachelbel's Canon by ear (in C) ages ago, my ear put a ii instead of a IV in the final cadence - in my case, my ear preferred C-Dm-G to the closing C-F-G.
So did I kind of discover ii-V for myself all those years ago? 🤫
Absolutely wonderful lesson ! Thanks !
You're very welcome!
Thanks for introducing me to this concept...never heard about this...Always awesome lessons!
Glad you liked it, Kevin. I've got another voice leading video here as well, but it uses an original progression and melody. Same idea though.
Chris is THE WAY!
Hopefully that way leads somewhere great :)
great video Chris. Do you have any lessons on audiation? thanks👍
Not yet! In fact this is the first time I've looked into it (spurred on by this comment in fact).
What an amazing concept!
Status: STUDYING THIS NOW!
Thank you so much for the suggestion!
Well that’s cool. The melody is created by using the inversions, so it just flows
Even when you say it in a comment it still blows my mind! Thanks Mark!
Thank you Chris! 😃
My pleasure, Audrey!
Love this!
Wonderful. Again, good for any instrument or anyone writing melodies! I wonder if you need a "Curious Musician" sticker on some of these videos!
Happy to now be a Patreon
Thank you so much! I appreciate your support, I'll see you in there!
That's some nice guitarcheology right there I tell ya.
That was beautiful
Thank you!
WoW!! Love that
Whoa Chris, voice leading is really deep... lol
Sure is...its sorta like...well...all music?
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Ahh, very Karl Jungian of you "Hass been in our sub-conscious for centuries" - love it... "The Collective conscious of guitarists"
Ooooh I like that angle :)
@@curiousguitarist Thinking about this a little more, considering that, for a very large majority of humans, while we may not know, from a theory perspective, what is happening in music, our ears often respond the same, we can all understand that "major is "happy", minor is ""sad" we can HEAR it (Even though we may not be able to explain it) but we can all tell when something "resolves" and when it doesn't. Across nations of people the world over, all cultures have music, just as they have art. From that perspective, music really is part of the collective consciousnesses that Jung described. I think if I was still collage age, I would do a thesis on the "Why's" of how(and why) music works across cultures even when they don't have much else in common...
I think you may have inadvertently hit on an interesting socio/philosophical insight.
(Now if i could just play the blues....)
The truth is in the classics!
So true!
Imagine what Vivaldi, Bach or Pachelbel could've done with today's instruments!
Indeed! I often wonder that same kind of thing...what would Jimi Hendrix be doing right now, Peter Green, many others.
Thanks MJ!