Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Asience" 【Music Theory Analysis】 (Harmony, Melody, & More)♫🎹 Johnny JAM🎸

   • Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Asience" 【Music Theory...  
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. Have you ever wondered what makes Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Asience" a timeless masterpiece? It's more than just a beautiful melody. It's a perfect storm of harmony, structure, and subtle aesthetic choices. In this complete deep-dive analysis, we deconstruct every layer of the piece to reveal the genius behind the beauty.

This video is your definitive guide to understanding "Asience," whether you're a composer, musician, student, or simply a deep music lover.

In this analysis, you will learn:
🎨 The Harmony: How Sakamoto "paints with chords," using a specific vocabulary (Maj7, sus4) inspired by Debussy and Satie.
🚶 The Progression: The secret to its seamless flow using a stepwise bassline and gentle, non-tense cadences.
🌸 The Scale & Melody: How he blends a Western Major scale with a Japanese "pentatonic feel" and uses the principle of "Ma" (space) to create a melody that breathes.
🎻 The Big Picture: How instrumentation, rhythm (rubato), and a simple A-B-A structure complete the masterpiece.

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The complete anatomy of a masterpiece. dissected every layer of Ryuichi Sakamoto's iconic piece, "Asience," in one definitive video.

We explore:
✨ The Impressionist Harmony
🤫 The Descending Bass Trick
🎵 The "Breathing" Melody
🎻 The Lush Instrumentation
...and every other detail that creates its effortless beauty.


If you've ever wanted to truly understand the genius behind this piece, this is the video for you. It's a deep dive for musicians, composers, and anyone who loves beautiful music.

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I created the definitive guide to Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Asience."

This one video covers everything: the Impressionist harmony, the stepwise bass progression, the "Ma" principle in the melody, and the final instrumentation. It's the complete blueprint.



This video is a masterclass in composition, covering five critical layers of the piece:

The Harmony: We start by exploring Sakamoto's "Impressionist" palette, analyzing his choice of lush, non-functional chords that prioritize mood over movement.

The Chord Progression: We reveal the simple but brilliant trick of the stepwise descending bassline, which gives the piece its signature, seamless flow.

The Scale & Modes: We uncover how Sakamoto adds emotional depth by subtly referencing musical modes and a Japanese pentatonic feel within a standard Major scale.

The Melody: We analyze the genius of the melody's simplicity, its arch-like shape, and its profound use of "Ma" (間)—the artistic use of silence.

The Final Polish: We look at how instrumentation, a flexible tempo (rubato), and a classic song structure bring all these elements together into a cohesive whole.



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