Name: 「ハーモニー」って何？5段階のレベルで説明 | 5 Levels | WIRED.jp
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Hello everybody, my name is Jacob collier and I'm a musician.

I've been challenged today to explain one simple concept in five levels of increasing complexity.

I'm positive that everybody can leave this video with some understanding at some level.

It's when people sing together and it sounds nice?

Have you ever heard a song called Amazing Grace?

The melody on its own just goes that melody on its own is kind of lonely, right?

I can decide how I want this melody to feel and the more notes there are, the more exciting it is, that's what musical harmony is.

I think basically it's like one person has the lower voice and like girl usually has the higher voice and then they blend it together.

Harmony is about injecting melody with emotion so that ultimately you leave home and you return home and you've learned something along the way.

So a nice place to start is with the idea of a triad triad is a three part harmony basically.

So have you ever heard of this idea of like major chord and minor chords?

Yeah, so this is C major and then this is C minor.

If I go, there's right now, I don't know where I am and my job is to get back home, but to make it to make this cord makes sense.

So I might go, oh man, that sounds really good.

I was surprised like happened my job as a harmonizer is to find that narrative and make it make sense.

That was interesting because I didn't think that that would work together because there were two completely different sounds, but then like it just made it happen and it just was like amazing magic essentially.

What harmony is is like a language, right?

And so as with any language, the more words you're capable of speaking in the language, the more you can say.

All right, so in harmony, this might be how many notes you can think to add to accord to make it feel a different way.

Have you ever heard of the circle of fifths?

On one side we have a lot of the notes which make us feel brighter.

You know like these kinds of these really bright sounds and the other side is a lot more to do with the darkness of a key center.

So we're home and f but imagine we're taking a quick visit to B flat, but then the sun comes out.

Yeah, and if we keep going in that direction.

Yeah, so this is really, this is like a gleaming blade or something, you know?

Amazing Grace, let's play it in its simplest form.

Let's try one more version where we add some colors.

Alright, so let's visit the B flat with a bit more imagination just to see how things feel.

So it's F major seven, but it's over A, Which is F.

seven over a B flat major seven with an energy in it.

So what harmony does is just gives us even more tools to tell those stories.

Nice emotional device when it comes to harmony is just thinking about how to arrive somewhere, you know, it can be so sparse, it could be so rich and it can be really emotional.

So this idea of the overtone and undertone in the harmonic series.

Only until I started listening to singing barbershop quartet and as I was a violinist as well, then I finally understood the idea where the overtone series came from that if a bunch of singers were to nail accord or have it perfectly tuned the overtones, you would hear a tone that necessarily wasn't being produced by one of the amazing about harmonies that it exists in nature.

For example, you have the octave and in the fifth and the fourth and then the but that's a little bit sharper, that's fine.

And then the intervals get increasingly small beneath that note, you have the undertone series, which essentially is like a reflection of something in the same way that when a tree grows in nature, you have the branches which go upwards in the roots which go downwards.

So it's quite a nice thing to think about this being the key center, the floor, the ground and then these two different directions of ways in which it can express itself and the differences in the sensations without lots of the time.

I think when it comes to re harmonization, harmonization, people think that the solution to the problems come when we add more notes, I think that people forget that you can work with the notes you already have by just rearranging them.

Just the simple idea of inversion, inversion of the simple triad of F major.

Because I can do, I can delay the gratification of going home first of all, just by using inversions even before we add notes to the chord.

One thing that I was very joyful to discover is that every single melody note works with every single bass note.

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