One minute: This is a triad
One minute later: If you superimpose the key centers and think of minor chords as 4ths which are just upside down 5ths which is really just major chords but flipped you can cadence to an adjacent key center which will make your music live longer than you.

The scariest thing he said...

“I still cannot mechanically do what I hear in my head...” 😳

when you show up to a jacob collier masterclass but you don't like harmony

Jacob: Do you guys like 2-5-1's?
me: "Hell yeah"
Jacob: "Yeah, I'm not super keen myself"
me: "me either."

That feeling when you don't understand it but you do understand it at the same time.

My man dresses like he's a sage from the top of some holy mountain... he teaches the ways of harmony to  any seekers of knowledge who are brave enough to make the journey to his abode!

I didn't know that he could play a normal C chord

"Harmony gets better the more notes you add"
Me: lays my whole body on the piano
ah yes, haremoney

I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that I think this guy is as close to knowing what it would have been like to see Mozart back in the late 1700s. Pure youthful talent, relentless energy and enthusiasm, game changing ideas around what music can be. Incredible.

1:30 Jacob's brain forcing himself not to play 7th 9th 11th inversion flat 5 add 13 chords

"there are worse things than that, like shipwrecks"

13:19 "...when you compose a song, you imagine that this song has a long lifespan, it's going to last probably longer than you, (hopefully longer than you) so you have to leave room in the song for people to see themselves, because if people just see you in the song, then it doesn't really help anybody other than maybe you, and if they can see themselves in it, then that's what will make them fall in love with it."

"Be a child for as long as you can"

Yes.

Jacob has literally 1000+ years of musical wisdom in his 25-year-old body. Just INSANE!

0:00       Intro, “Does anybody here like harmony?”
0:40       Triad and inversions
4:07       His theory about Major and minor chords
7:37       Resolving tension
               8:52       Cool improvisations
9:31       Cadences
13:13     Improving ear and technique
14:39     “You can make every note work with every chord” – Jacob Collier 2019
17:10     Arranging tips
18:16     Baby notes (Formant)
20:02     Rhythm
24:53     His life decisions

Watching him just makes me want to get up and make music

When you’re in your twenties and you’re smarter than almost all living musicians

The fact that Jacob said he is not capable of the things in his head scares me because whats hes making now is absolutely jaw dropping. I wonder whats in his head😂

"My harmonics are in tune, the piano is out of tune"
- The Jacob Collier

Starts asking if they know what harmony and major triads are.

Ends with possible explanation to dark matter particles and the expansion of the universe.