The Circle of Fifths Chord Progression EXPLAINED
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- Let's talk about the Circle of Fifths chord progression, and how it appears in songs you have heard before! Also there are variations to the progression and such. MUSIC THEORY
Huge MEGA thanks to KiAme, the singer and guitarist who performed all of the covers in this video! Check out his channel here: / @flyingbacon1997
Listen to the originals as well, they're all bangers! In the future, when I upload non-video game music I'm probably going to continue making covers of the tunes, because I ain't about to get copyright claimed. I've listed all of the tunes I use in my videos in this excel spreadsheet, for ease of looking up:
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00:00-00:28 Intro
00:00-02:24 What is Circle Progression?
02:24-04:02 4 Chord Circle Progression
04:02-17:28 Standard Circle Progression
17:28-19:31 Variation 1
19:31-20:47 Variation 2
20:47-22:46 Variation 3
22:46-23:45 Outro
Also thanks to random guy I found in my apartment and subsequently forced to play drums
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It’s been scientifically proven that the best way to learn music theory is while watching Nintendo switch sports gameplay
i been on that golf grind what can i say
5:56 that is a GREAT observation!!
thanks David!! some circle of 5ths magic for sure
I've been wondering for the longest time why it feels like that progression "rhymes" like that. Eye opening moment
And then there's Mild High Club - Homage, where the scale degrees are LITERALLY IN THE LYRICS for some reason
that is COOL! didn't know about this tune
that 4-7-3-6-2-5-1 does put my mind at ease anyway😌
HOLY SHIT LMAO
@@CadenceHira The lyrics are pretty much about that, it's meta-irony on music itself and it's pretty brilliant imo
A fantastic song from a beautiful album, please give it a try if you feel like it :)
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punched my laptop at "let me play among us stars", good job
Same
RE: the "My Ordinary Life" example, that song has this chord progression because it heavily samples the soundtrack of an anime called Nichijou: My Ordinary Life. Specifically the song "Koigokoro wa Dangan mo Yawarakakusuru" which means "Love softens even bullets". I highly recommend checking out the rest of the soundtrack too, there are a lot of gems to be found there!
Yessss, Nichijou's soundtrack is so simple yet beautiful
Koigokoro wa Dangan mo Yawarakakusuru is one of my favorites, I recommend checking out "hesangasong" who arranged it for piano beautifully :)
Nichijoū is my favourite of the three animes I've ever watched ever
To me it sounded like: IT'S MY LIIIIFEEEEE - DON'T YOU FORGEEEEETTTT
I freaking love music theory.
20:55 at first this sort of reminded me of the main theme of Animal Crossing Wild World, mostly the I - IV - ♭VII7 - ♭III progression
man i hope this channel is one of those that blows up randomly. your content is pretty good
a classical music example of a major circle progression is the in first movement of grieg’s goldberg suite
4 minutes into this video and I think I'm in love with this channel already
Edit: 7:40 "looking at the melody, we can see it's literally the same thing copy-and-pasted but downwards; this is called a sequence..." I CAN'T-
That's the most hilarious way of explaining sequences I've ever heard
10:06 I did not imagine I'd hear all of a sudden my beloved FMA OP but here we are
It's hard to overstate just how masterful virtual insanity is as a whole
Omg you won't even believe the sheer excitement that hit me when I saw this pop up. New Cadence video, _and_ it's a twenty minute long deep dive on the chord progression that I just so happen to be obsessed with at the moment? Can't wait till I get off work to watch this!
The way you presented the theory using images and musical examples was just amazing, a learned so much with this. Please keep up with this kind of video ❤
My fav progression, probably. I like how it shows up in all genres. For a recent example, it’s used in a cool way in the ED of the anime Metallic Rouge.
Variation 3 shows up in a lot of jazz (you can also hear it in the Kemono Friends OP)
Fantastic video! Even though I have very little knowledge of music theory, I was able to follow along. Plus, your obvious interest and love for the subject is infectious.
Such a good video, thank you for making this!
dude these videos are so bangin
Very informative, I’ll definitely have to try out some of these variations ❤👀
Y'all really jazzed up the sad Naruto song for the outro lmfao💀
Really cool video! The first time you played the progression at 4:58 my brain IMMEDIATELY went to I Will Survive and now you got me thinking about every song I've ever heard with this progression🥴
why does this creator only have 19k subs.....keep up the good work!
thank lord I found your channel this is perfect!!!
INCREDIBLE THANK YOU! made stuff i knew make more sense
Over time I've learned the name "circle of fifths progression" isn't really "correct" nor very helpful as the COF wasn't invented for making chord progressions (published by Johann Heinichen in 1728). There's actually a different real name and concept that transforms harmonic degrees into a circular scale that explains how these chord progressions work and it's explained in two different books. One book is called "How Music Really Works" by Wayne Chase, from 2008. It's in chapters 5.5.7 and 6 but I recommend reading through the earlier chapters about how intervals within chords interact with each other to make complete sense, based on psychoacoustics and how our brain responds to frequency ratios of intervals. The first half of the book is free on his website. That circular harmonic scale concept that he talks about was first introduced way back in Victor Zuckerkandl’s 1959 book "The Sense of Music," (section 186 titled "the scale of harmonic degrees"), which Wayne said was a source in his research. So that shows the solidness of the concept if it can be explained and put to use a half a century later by different people, and has much more usefulness in seeing how chords flow and move with each other than the COF. It can also explain why chord progressions other than Fly Me To The Moon or Hey Joe work, such as progressions similar to All Along The Watchtower or Here There & Everywhere, with different visualizations of progression types and the types of sensations they create.
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As someone with no music theory knowledge I can confirm you are saying words
*yawn*
@@puvendranpillay8802 lol move along doorknob if you're not going to contribute anything useful
Excuse me what's all this informative and well presented music mumbo jumbo? I'm trying to watch djivvi's technique with the 9 Iron! Please consider this for me and the greater Nintendo Switch Sports golfer community.
i'm honestly dogwater with the 9 iron i'm getting really cracked at wedge tho
Wow, I want to thank you for this video. I’m a intermediate guitar player and my knowledge of music theory amounts to ‘chord progression = arbitrary sequence of diatonic chords and sometimes you can borrow chords.’ This video contains so much useful information. I feel like I can write my own music with more purpose than before. Thank you!
You are my new favorite channel
Targets from Melee is such a good song
Gotta love this video. You learn, you have fun, you get some wii nostalgia. Nice.
Great work as always! I love this progression. My favourite variation is the one that starts on the IV, but it is indeed very hard to find any examples that don't substitute the V for the viio7.
One particular example I really llike is the B section Star Festival from Super Mario Galaxy. First of all, it uses the tritone sub of the V/ii which is always juicy. But what I love about it is the way it facilitates an extremely stealthy key change. The A section (or intro? I'm gonna call it the A section) is in E major, and the B section, which uses the circle progression. is in B major. But because it's using the IV variation of the circle progression, it starts on E, which was the tonic of the previous section. On top of this, the A section had already introduced A# as a chromatic note, smoothing the transition even further. By the time you finally reach the resolution to B six bars into the B section the modulation has slipped by unnoticed. Or at least, it did for me until I learned to play it and suddenly realized that the key signature on the page no longer matched what I was hearing.
WHERE WAS THIS VIDEO WHEN I WAS TAKING AP MUSIC THEORY THIS IS AWESOME
omg im going to rewatch this video so much to study it
badass educational content
damn i never noticed that phrasing in virtual insanity! thats so cool
I love your channel soo much please keep going your videos are both so informative and genuinely sotheme of the funnest music theory videos out there! ❤ I really wish you had a patreon to support you?
thank you!! and patreon coming very very soon (next video :D)
The way I was singing fly me to the moon already
Great video! I especially love getting to know pieces of music that use these concepts I had previously just seen on a textbook or in a classical setting.
I just wanted to share (at 13:25) that due to classical voice leading conventions (for example, making the melody move chromatically as in b2-1-7, instead of leaping a diminished third from b2-7 directly), is it fairly common for the Neapolitan chord to differ the dominant chord and instead use that inverted tonic minor chord.
However, again due to classical conventions, this second inversion minor tonic chord bears the same function as the dominant chord, albeit just having the suspension of two of the voices, just as you pointed out, (in this example in f minor, f and ab) that fall down to the most powerful notes of the dominant (e and g).
I hope this is interesting!
5:15 "a bit minor there" is fitting for the anime canon.
This is an excellent video that did actually teach me a few things, but I still can't get over the fact (in a funny haha way) that all the text is in the Musescore jazz font. Still a good video though. Earned my subscribe.
Babe wake up new cadence hira Nintendo video just dropped
Nice video 👍
this video slaps
i was gonna take a music theory class at my college but this is free content
she never misses
Did I just get fucking weezered by a music theory video?
yes you did =D
6:42 wait a minute
Youe videos are great
Cool channel, i have music i can invent in my head but no way to write it down, i feel like mr. Krabs saying beep boop bop
I learn from these channels so hopefully one day i can make sense of the noise in my head
I haven't finished this video yet so maybe you say it later but a good note is that in Fly Me to the Moon (and others) the reason the melody "follows the pattern of the bass" isn't necessarily because it wants to follow the bass, rather because the chord tones land on beat 1. If we think of Fly me to the moon in C Major (or A minor), it's apparent.
Chord 1 is A minor and the melody is C (the third of the chord), chord 2 is D minor and the melody note is F (the third of the chord), chord 3 is G7 and the melody note is B, I'm sure you see the pattern. Etc etc. same for other standards like Autumn Leave and All the things you are.
When improvising it's fun to follow these movements as you land on the chord tones on the first beat of the bar every time.
Actually All the things you are is a good example of this because it changes keys a few times and the melody note follows the key change with the 3rd of the current chord (at least in the first bit)
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love the video! i...i also love autumn leaves tho😓
This is epic
23:45 YES! i knew i had heard that progression before
love this video! super interesting!
just a slight nitpick tho (ik) but the nyan cat song is actually called "nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" and it's by daniwell ~however the original song uses hatsune miku for vocals and the actual nyan cat song is a cover by momomomoP using momone momo for the vocals but that's more hyperspecific in terms of credits~
thank you for the correction! will update in my spreadsheet
I had an idea on the Vivaldi's seasons progression and to my ears, if you just keep going after that C it's a sweet transition into the version starting on I, and even better it still sounds good if you loop it again starting on the iv as long as you extend the final Fm across 2 measures
The progression completely falls apart after that but it goes for longer than I expected
20:56 PvZ's closing theme "There's a Zombie on your Lawn" has a pretty similar progression imo, for the first 5-6 chords at least
babe wake up, new cadence hira vid just dropped
Every Dragon Quest soundtrack is full of this progression in so many unique ways
New videos, nice one. 👍
This video is insane... virtual! That is to say, great job!
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sina li insa e kulupu pi jan Misali seme?
@@jan_Eten li! mi ken toki e toki pona kin.
I was just about to comment about the Neapolitan chord, I'm shocked that you beat me to it.
in fact in my opinion Bb is the chord that founded the city of Naples
You mention a lot that this only applies to Western styles of music. Would you ever cover the theory behind other styles of music?
next video :)
Man I can only ever think of "I Will Survive" when i hear this progression.
Also I feel mother 3's love theme has something similar to all this, I think.
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Do Cry For Me by TWICE and Homage by Mile High Club count? They just give me that exact vibe. Also great video, funny, refreshing and really informative. May the algorithm help your channel blow up.
Cry For Me does if I’m remembering it right. Not familiar with the other one.
commenting for the algorithm
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i appreciate you separating western musical concepts form being the "norm". it is true the western ear likes to hear chords resolving down the 5th, here in stepanavan armenia we like hearing chords resolving on the microtonal 4th with vomit noise ran through gain and a wah pedal, completely different from the euro-centric vision of music.
this post has been fact checked by real armenian patriots
21:21 IM AN ESPERANTIST, THE LANGUAGE WITH THE LARGEST
CONGLANG COMMUNITY
a, mi en sina li insa e kulupu pi jan Misali. toki pona li sewi e toki Epelanto =D
@@jan_Eten waiting for jan misali to finish his toki pona series so i can know what this says ://
22:26 have you heard piranha plant lullaby? I’m not entirely sure but when i play the song on piano i do exactly what the tiktok does in the left hand and play melody with my right.
ooo I just took a look. It looks like it does the same thing as the rhythm heaven example by actually breaking the pattern (CEGB and then CDF#A instead of CEF#A)
So... I made another response to this on my channel... jk not really. This is really well done and provides a MUCH better explanation of the "Circle of 5ths" than I've seen elsewhere
LOL it's the looming threat of the andrew merideth response video that holds me to a high standard! thank u for the kind words tho!!
@@CadenceHira I've made a few response type videos before that I'm not a fan of the way I did them, so I really want to make sure I have something to add in a positive way before I make those types of videos. Your last video was right on target for something I've spent WAY too much time looking into so I was primed for that one, plus it was a banger video you made!
Variation 3: Does "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" by Frankie Vallie count as an unaltered version of the pattern? The tiktok example immediately sent me to that song.(As well as being cited in one of the original Japanese videos on Royal Road)
I love your videos! But please lower the volume of the examples, I always get jumpscared lol
Firstly, I really hope that your content/ channel blows up randomy over night
Secondly, many thanks for your overview of the circe progression, i couldn‘t find anything useful on the internet :(
did i just get weezered by a music theory video
o wiju. ona li pona suli.
The last example ABSOLUTELY count I don't care
6:43 mågus
This chord progression SLAPS. 2:15
Cool video. Really nice info... F you, pray to autumn leaves
"Freely, as if you're not the CEO of a media conglomerate" hahaha excellent
mood
Cadence Hira is my favorite way to learn music theory
Question: To denote a minor chord, you add a dash, but I was taught to use lowercase numerals. Is one way more standard or "more correct" than the other?
I II- III- IV V VI- VII°
v.s.
I ii iii IV V vi vii°
(P.S. this looks pretty silly in a sans serif font lol)
good question, so I generally prefer using dashes and that's what berklee and the jazz/contemporary world suggest for chord notation for the sake of consistency and order of information (i.e. III-7 reads horizontally as "three minor seven" vs. iii7 which, in a faster/sight reading setting is more ambiguous)
The lowercase numeral notation makes a lot more sense in classical analysis contexts, since there are less frequent 7th chords or tensions to notate. Honestly though, unless it's for homework just use whatever you think looks best, I think notation is kind of just made up and any notion of more or less correct is mostly just for consistency in an academic setting. I use both "-" and "min" interchangeably in my videos just depending on how I'm feeling lol.
Wow
this is the most chill music theory video
7:02 *insert dicaprio point and whistle*
I’m gonna need a video in the anime canon to understand this
The last one reminds me of piranha plants lullaby from Super Mario 64!
Love the NewJeans and TWICE shoutouts.
Among us in fly me to the moon!
As soon as you played the example of the circle I heard Animal Crossing 😁
"let me play AMONG US stars"
Genius
Honestly im surprised you didnt mention smells like teen spirit during the circle of 5ths. From Fm to Bb to Eb to Ab.
Here's one for if you went iii vi ii V7 I: very end of "Today is Gonna Be a Great Day" (by Bowling For Soup- theme from Phineas and Ferb)
Lit every Vivaldi single piece
6:42 did you seriously put an among us reference in here cause it sounds more like they're saying "among the stars"? Isn't that what they've always been saying?
no you're right, i was stressed out at that point in the transcriptions and added amogus to feel a fleeting moment of joy
16:03 I don't think that the 8th and 1st bar overlap. Taking the Ab7 chord to be the 1st bar of the phrase makes much more sense - the upbeat (and bass lead in) to the Ab7 chord is typical of the introduction to a new phrase, the composer has just decided to start the chord sequence one bar off to show that it is a different section. The stresses also make so much more sense when the phrase begins on the Ab7. Furthermore, the phrase just after the transcribed ones begins not on the bar after, but two bars after. It is natural, logical, and correct to have the three phrases as 8-8-6, rather than 7-8-7. The I chord landing on different parts of the phrase just indicates that the phrases are different musical ideas. Great video though!
I'm not sure if I hear that, the precedent of the established chord progression is too strong for me to hear the entire harmonic stress shifted over by one measure for that phrase.
Can we PLEASE get a full cover of my ordinary life? Please?
6:42 among us stars (read the sheet music)
when do we get the acacia strain theory video then...
ngl i have never listened to them my grandmother gave me this shirt i'll check them out though
@@CadenceHira LOL thats wild considering the music they make 😭
I noticed that the notation for the secondary dominants is like V7/VI. Why is it like this? I mean, thinking in C, if we have a E7 ,why dont we call it just the III? V7/VI seems to be an overcomplicated notation
secondary dominant x/y notation shows the relationship between nondiatonic dominant x and it's expected diatonic resolution a 5th down y. V7/VI in notation is distinct from III7 because nondiatonic dominant 7s written like the latter imply non-dominant function (i.e. I7 and IV7 in blues)
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6:43 💀