Insane how bad he made it sound

This guy is one of the most talented retards in music ask me how I know.

I’ve never seen someone who is so good at music theory fail to understand what makes music good

i fucking hate this guys whole deal but idk kinda liked this one lol

"Oh what goes with C" You can literally put and chord with C and it "goes with C"

For chord progressions to be progressions, the chords need to actually resolve into each other. Otherwise they’re just random collections of notes. Changing keys on every chord sounds like shit

@slfchkoutbandit The chords actually don't need to resolve into each other. Modulations and secondary dominants are a thing. But I'm sure you've never heard of them.

@slfchkoutbandit I absolutely have bc I have a degree in music theory lmao but secondary dominants still gesture toward the dominant of a different key and thus still have a sense of direction

@slfchkoutbandit It's very embarrassing that you took music theory and don't understand basic reharmonization

@slfchkoutbandit I don’t know what has given you the impression that I don’t understand reharmonization. I said it sounded bad

He’s objectively very talented and is objectively very good at music theory and makes objectively horrific music. Absolutely awful and unlistenable

He had exactly one good idea at 0:52 and the rest is straight bullshit while he pretends to be Bernard Purdie going "WOAH" at what he plays, fuck offf man

fascist persuasions notwithstanding, jacob collier is to music as elon musk is to technology. the fundamentals of music pipe through him and yet are somehow never really absorbed by him, so he creates these passages that are mind bogglingly shit all in the pursuit of originality

He was asked about reharmonisation and so was explaining what it is by using the example of reharmonising Hey Jude. The chords he chose didn’t resolve well, which is why he went “ope” at the end. He was kinda aware that it wasn’t a good reharmonisation but it did teach the lesson

Every time I see this guy I relive the frustration of taking AP music theory with someone who had perfect pitch.

Jacob Collier is the textbook example of the difference between knowing music theory and understanding music theory

I mean obviously this is not what the original song's intent was but also this is what you sound like lol

To be fair, the question was about reharmonising the melody, which he probably did on the fly, and reharmonisations are novel and recontextualises the melody, so if you're used to the song, they're bound to sound strange.

"What are you doing bro" is what I ask everytime I see this fool

This reminds me of that scene in the movie Amadeus, in which Mozart heard a Salieri composition, and then proceded to "change it" and made it miles better... except here it's the opposite, it's as if Salieri took a Mozart song and turned it into shit.

i don't like his music generally but imo it sounds great. also it's an exercise, he's not pretending that it's an improvement.

I don't like his music but this was just an example to illustrate the concept of reharmonization. And it's not bad, it's just jazzy and slightly dissonant. It's a style. He's not saying he made the song better, he gave an example.

The most nothing artist of all time

I don't like him too much and it didn't sound that good but he also says that in the video, that theres not a right or a wrong, more that you should play what you feel is right so it feels kinda stupid to dog on him for playing it that way.

the problem with Jacob Collier is that music comes so easily to him that he's permabored with everything that sounds "good" to 99.9% of people; I'm not hating on the guy, I think he's a good soul and his heart's in the right place, I just wish he'd dial it back a couple notches

Reharmonization is a scam. A good songwriter finds the right chords the first time.

I'm not the biggest fan of his music, but as a demonstration this helps to get the point across (and sounded cool imo)

The song went from hopeful to "fuck am falling down the stairs am so confused" and this guy says it's all right. No bruh you ruined the intent of the song

it’s okay to not like his music but yall whine about it in such a nasty and rude way

It’s good

I hate his fans, transcribing his speech, fuck man... This reharm can work well for your own compositions, but if you get up on a bandstand and play those changes to a tune you should be sent to a prison camp.

I hate how much people glaze him 😭😭😭

i dont think he’s saying it wouldve sounded better if the bealtes wrote it that way

There are infinite bad songs that the Beatles didn't write

Bad is an overstatement it’s kind of cool

"what are u doing bro" me @ 90% of what this dink does the music school student in me will never allow me to not loathe this nerd

I hate him so much. Musikklinja gone terribly wrong. He needs a beating.

Why does he make me so grouchy

If Collier is telling people that reharmonization simply means replacing the existing chord with any random chord that also happens to contain the melody note…well, that’s not very helpful, musical, or in any way in the spirit of reharmonization, to say the least.

Lucky there was nobody around to make the Beatles do it that way.

This is how johnny greenwood made the score to OBAA