THE VIDEO SHELF · music harmony
Jacob Collier Explains Music in 5 Levels of Difficulty ft. Herbie Hancock | WIRED
WIRED's 5 Levels format with Jacob Collier explaining harmony to a child, a teen, a college student, a professional and Herbie Hancock.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a gentle explanation of harmony for beginners and cited as the model of the 'explain at five levels' format.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- WIRED
- Topic
- music harmony
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I liked this explanation of harmony using different levels of musical comprehension (by Jacob Collier, featuring Herbie Hancock) [VIDEO]
mushishi on Hacker News · 2018-01
In The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differentlyYes, Rick Beato. He covers all sorts of stuff to different extents. Like music theory in ten minutes: [LINK] .. but he has hundreds of videos on keys, modes, analyzing popular music, the works. If you really know nothing you might enjoy this attempt at …
petercooper on Hacker News · 2023-03
In Coltrane: A music theory library with a command-line interface
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