How to Play "Sinking Feeling" on Piano

I describe my chords and thoughts behind them for the "Sinking Feeling" on my new record, "VS4."

If you like the song, please consider buying it on iTunes:
http://tinyurl.com/JackConteVS4

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[deadeaded]

I wonder if you actually plans all this stuff out as you're composing, or if you just write stuff that sounds nice, and then find patterns and chord progressions to help explain. Is your composing informed by the theory as much as your explanation would have us believe?

[JackConteExtras]

@deadeaded - that's an amazing question. i think it's a little bit of both. i definitely am more theoretical than not when it comes to writing, but even if i'm not actively making those decisions on the fly, they are little bits of my music vocabulary from my past that keep rearing up their heads in my compositions. so am i seeing flying numbers and chords charts while i'm composing? no. but perhaps the reason i "hear" certain progressions is because i've heard OF them. yeah?

[ubikspraymusic]

Since you already show many of your production tricks on VideoSongs, why don't you make videos showing some of the things you do when mixing and mastering? It would be awesome!

[Killrekob]

Everytime I watch you I feel inspired to compose, Jack. Thankyou.

[barbaric37]

you sir are a true musician, you never cease to amaze me.

[r0dnify]

Please make more videos like this one! :D

[joeberrymusic]

The "september" chord you were talking about is B-7/E, which could also be written as Esus. Both are arguably the same thing/sound, but it's a very common chord in jazz. Herbie Hancock's song, "Maiden Voyage" i think popularized that "sound." When you switched to the actual "september" chord, it's E-7/A OR Asus :)

[TravuhsWree]

I agree

[paroledimusica]

Thank you for this amazing explanation, it push me to go to the keyboard to compose something! :-)

Hope to see this kind of videos more often in the future. Thanks again! :-)

Filippo

[myoozzick]

Jack, please make a video where you go through and talk about all your effects pedals.

[AmuseMe543]

Thanks for this video Jack. The segment from about 5:30 on where you talked about the chorus and how you used different bass notes to avoid resolving chords progressions really gave me some good tricks to use in my own songwriting. Thank you so much.

[uckazaz]

this song has a very nice chord progression. feels like extended sub-dominants but with some more tension and color in it. brilliant!

[JyrzRox]

I'm gonna research perfect cloning technology so I can have one of you! :D