Louis Cole Chord Tutorial

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Published 2024-05-30
I thought it would be interesting to work out a few Louis Cole chord progressions and learn a little about how he makes his awesome music.

0:00 Intro
0:56 F It Up
4:23 Thinking
7:40 Let it happen
11:30 I'm Tight
14:45 Outro

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All Comments (21)
  • @AlexBallMusic
    After years of assuming the UK pronunciation of Louis, I am today finding out that the s is pronounced. How embarrassing. Apologies.
  • @earlfunkton2745
    "I am not an incredible musician" - Brother, your song writing is monumental and moving
  • @ChrisSmout
    What a treat for us Louis Cole fans out there, super cool. Let It Happen was released the week my dad passed and I'm delighted I can start to understand how it works.
  • @maomusik
    Too humble maestro! you are a genius and very generous with all of us ...
  • @patfinn2697
    My fave synth human teaching my favorite Lous Cole person stuff! Pinch me! Seriously, this is heaven for me!!πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘
  • @orangeyoshi4561
    So glad to see you talking about one of my favorite artists!
  • @mikemnemonic311
    Thanks for putting me onto Louis Cole! You provide a valuable public service and should be applauded.
  • Louis and Knower coming to London 5/9 this year playing at the KOKO, it is bound to be a great night!
  • @the_synthusiast
    You certainly are a fantastic musician, you write some absolute jams.
  • @brumd
    This is brilliant! I only found out about Louis Cole's existance since 6 months or so. I came across a KNOWER song, started listening to the Knower Forever album and I already know that by the end of the year the Spotify statitics will remind me that I barely have been listening to anything else ever since. I am only starting to find out about other material and are not familiar yet with Cole's solo work (for me, Genevieve's no-frill dead-on voice is an absolute highlight). I absolutely love their insane level of musical skills, and yet, always "serving the song"by borrowing from the pop idiom and include super catchy hooks and melodies. It's really the stuff that you can listen to endlessly and appreciate more and more. And yes, being "even crappier" musicion than Mister Ball I find it very challenging to play their songs. Will try to play along with this vid tomorrow. Fun! Thanks!
  • @Chris.Wiley.
    Holy cow, I just searched for F It Up and found his live recording F it up - Louis Cole (Live Sesh). That's nuts!
  • @sharpphilip
    I love that your channel includes sound design, history, entire songs, some theory, and the occasional porno tutorial. This is my ideal content composite from a music channel. Also, I personally appreciate the β€œdifficulty level” of most of your videos: in terms of both synthesis and music theory, your videos are usually just enough of a stretch for me that they feel instructive and interesting, but never so opaque that they’re useless. Finally, I aspire to your musicianship. Even if one fine day I achieve a midpoint between my current ability and yours, I’ll be very happy indeed.
  • @GeorG939
    This video made me sing 'yeeeahuhuhuhuhuhuh' while tapping my voice box . Awesome stuff.
  • @jessemair3684
    Primary: you are amazing, thank you for still bringing us these happy videos. Your character and personality is infectious. Far Secondary: You look healthy, congrats!
  • @doublebass5y
    Did,nt need the disclaimer at the start Alex. You are also very talented. Don,t do a Rick Beato and say yeah i play guitar a bit. Then proceed to play any thing and everything perfectly. Omg yes Louis Cole and Genieve Artadi. Christ the most fabulous compositions by anyone in years . Absolutly insanely good. Love the way he just uses an Initialized patch on his synth and it sounds awesome. Fantastic breakdown ,many thanks.
  • Your breakdown of LC synths sound - that would be totally awesome! The bit about obsessing over Let it Happen - so true..:)