Jacob Collier, Part 2
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
The Reflection of the Dominant Chord in Classical Music
In classical music, how would I get to F major? I would get there from a C7 chord. So what Ernst Levey describes as one possible axis of reflection is the idea of you take F and C, which is our kind of home key. And if I reflect C7 over the axis, then you come up with this sound. In a very basic way, it's plagalizing every perfect cadence. It's almost like a more of a gospel sound. Rather than going... Yeah, right. It's going. Like what James Taylor would do,. Or Joni, if Joni goes... What she doesn't do is... She goes... Right?"
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