The EMOTIONAL Meaning Of Chords [Music Theory]

OH My Fkin God. WHY is there not more on this!?
I've been looking for videos on this exact topic for ages, no idea how I must have missed your video on this before as it's over 3 years old.
All this nerding out over theory becomes completely pointless in my opinion, ESPECIALLY when they can't relate it to emotion – which is the whole point in the first place.

thanks a ton for this video, it's very helpful

the first one - theraupetic calming feeling.

The first chord feels like a mellow midsummer afternoon in the sticks.

The first word to come to mind was "pensive".

I didn't think I would learn music theory from Mario

Vsauce with a Viking bird 😂

Student guitar is out of tune.

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That poor kids posture though. Ouch!

"Complete Chord Mastery" sounds awesome for me, but I'm producing in my DAW with no instruments except for a small MIDI piano. Might upgrade later, but is there anything similar to this "Complete Chord Mastery" that is not for guitar that someone know of?

a very good initiative ,but video is ruined by your moron not-responding student. sorry.

Thanks for the lesson!

I get the theory sir, and then how about the real emotions of the words of the song. Sometimes it may differs with the emotion of the chords.??

I appreciate your lession
Makes sense

Wow! I've loved the lesson. Thanks teacher

This is a pretty dang genius concept. I feel like everyone should know this.

Yo, Mr. White

If u used a sad chord they would of understood u better and would be able to tell u how they fell

Such valuable lessons!!

You've just proved that math is not a boring and cold pure science of the mind - there is much emotion hidden in those pattern and numbers ;-)
Thank you for this great video upload.

This is the first time I ever came across your channel and the words spoken would never be forgotten. It's so much more meaningful to create a progression based on writers' emotion

I gotta say a chord is more like a sense, you can't describe it it without knowing what it leads or follows. Just as intervials defines emotions even as we normally used to speak id depends on how we say it, thats the inteval and feeling comes from.
So its not just about a chord but rather be a scale..

Rasputin is the inly person I'm willing to take musical advice from

We could philosophize all night about the metaphysics of emotions.

If one cannot write by ear, here you go.

OOOOOOhhhhhh COmmmmoooooon,
CHords are easy... MAJOR chords are bright and happy, MINOR chords all are written for SAD songs
Dominant 7 chords reminds me of ROck n Roll...

ALL other funny chords, jazz chords all sounds broken to me, or disonants or OUT OF TUNE

Good

I just discovered the Zizek of music theory

YOU ARE THE BEST GUITAR TEACHER EVER!

It could be broken down to the emotion of each interval. Chords as colection of intervals

Thank you. I needed this like you would not believe.

I think I'm going to show this video to some friends, but then I'm going to recommend that instead of trying to analyze the chord in a vacuum, such as BbMaj7 for example, they first establish a tonic such as A Major. After playing A for a bit and getting a feel for it, THEN play BbMaj7, but write it in their book as bIIMaj7. Then repeat the process using Am as their tonic.

Another thing that might be helpful in pinning down those emotions is to make a rough estimate first for each chord. This way, you will end up with GROUPS of chords: happy, sad, melancholic, strange, mysterious, dark, etc. THEN you take chords from one particular group IN PAIRS and compare them with each other, trying to figure out what's the most important thing that DIFFERS them. This way each of the groups will split into SUBGROUPS, each with more revised emotions, more detailed, more particular. Then you do the same inside those subgroups to make them even more refined. This way it's easier to pin down those emotions, because once you have two chords that have very similar feel, it's easier to pin down that one particular thing that differs them, because now it's the only variable in the equation. It's much harder to do when you have two dissimilar chords, because then they contain a whole lot of emotions and there's too many variables to consider, and that's why it is harder to tell the emotion in detail.

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What I learnt is..Even a meldody has great emotions but each note depends on what comes next or left..ie.intervals. Not only chords has feelings, a set of 3 notes without any harmony can create so much emotion ,which depends on modulations, othewise a singes ability to express with slides and glides create mesarable feeling. Westerners might not have any idea about that but loose stringed instuments is a good exaple..
Timber ,yes

His accent is fun to listen to

This video is really really helpful. Thank you for putting this up.

The greatest part of the lesson ,to me , being taught here isn't what exactly each chord is suppose to make you feel. It's that you even ask yourself the question in the first place. Define an answer for you. The answer does't even matter really ,as he states , it's different for everyone. But you define your unique musically language by just asking yourself the question and applying what it means to you. Instead of of just applying notes and chords from a theory stand point. Apply them from how they make you feel and the theory explains it, not creates it.

Thanks for sharing. That's very important.

Love your channel. I play lap steel in open tuning, not regular guitar, but lots of your material is still super helpful.

“There are two answers: no, and fuck yes”

Ciao Tommaso, sei un grande maestro...

I am emotionally aroused by Lydian sound the most.
I also cannot restrain myself from emoting to a IV-V-vi-iii progression

I have something similar to an "Emotional Chord Book" but it don't talk about one chord only. For example I will take a I chord to a IV and ask my self how does it feel. Or a ii to a vii°. It helps me get through creating emotional chord progressions too. This is just a personal view about theory but I hope you find this usefull as well.

Just Science

I think the emotion of a chord depends also on how you play it as much as the notes in it. e.g. a Cadd9 strummed aggressively with staccato might feel like a rush of happiness while the same chord being played slow and free may feel like a more relaxed kind of happy.

I love thinking about this stuff and your channel is such a goldmine of knowledge! Bula from Fiji 🇫🇯