Do seventh chords belong in electronic music? 

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“Mature music” baby shark in the background lmaooooooooo epic

Good to see you got your heating fixed Oscar! Frankly, I suspect most of the problems people have with theory is down to the layout of the piano keyboard itself. The way the black notes are interleaved makes it difficult to visualise scales and suchlike, as it's never the same pattern/shape of keys for the same chord as you move up and down. This is why I suspect it's actually easier to learn theory on something like a guitar, a major seventh is exactly the same shape, you just move up and down the fretboard.

Great tutorial Oscar. First I thought you would talk about the C7 (often used in blues), but it is the Cmaj7th

Thank you Oscar. Overtime I have watched almost all your videos. I am finishing your course this week. Your content has changed my life and how I view music for the better. ❤

Hi Oscar, I really appreciate all your efforts and I absolutely enjoy all your youtube content. Although I already absolved many purchased courses by other artists, I would like to add your courses also to my arsenal, but at the actual prices I simply can't justify the additional purchase. Maybe you could eventually consider a great Christmas or New year sale e.g. a fantastic bundle price, I forecast an enormous explosion of your sales figures. But also if not, I would like to say thank you for all of your interesting and encouraging ideas.

While your point about note efficeny is correct a lot of piano players, myself included, double the bass note by adding the octave. This adds an ever richer sound that can be easily applied to what you've brilliant explained here.

Love your take on those classic music theory topics. Really straightforward and easy to understand. My two picks are quite melancholic today. Enjoy “Yotto - Turn It Around” and “Parallel Voices - Still”.

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oscaaar!! i swear this time , my new tracks will be based on theory and not will be just an happy accidents development. i swear! jajaj thxs for the knowledge ♥

your videos have been very helpful as I’ve been trying to improve and expand my knowledge, thank you!!

Really appreciate the way you break down complex ideas into fundementals ! Keep up the good work (:

When using inverted chords, that change the first note of a chord, i mostly inverted the base note on the base synth as well. I felt the base note needed to be the same as the first note on the chord. But that isn't the case. Most videos only show the chord and not the corresponding base note. Thanks for clearing this up.

Thank you so much Underdog!! Always appreciate the vids

Great tutorial, Oscar. I loved your singing, too!

This was pure gold! It certainly improved my understanding, much appreciated! =)

Oscar: Do seventh chords belong in electronic music? Me, who has just listened to Jarre's Équinoxe 4, which afaict has an A7b9: Yes, obviously they do. Also that chord progression: Am - Cmaj7 - E - Am... I guess you called C 1 for ease, instead of called a 1 because that is a pretty typical functional harmonic chord progression. :)

Amazing as always

The Man sings! Reverting to ableton now :) Thx Oscar

So simple things, but so interesting from your manner of providing info =)

Fantastic. Thank you

Very helpful, had to screenshot the chart at the end of the video. I'm use it as a cheatsheet 🎹

What a perfect way to teach this 😁

thanks mate, much appreciated!

Wonderfully well explained

EXCELLENT video!!!

Its time for a new music theory and I think its coming soon. Old ways are so unnecessarily complicated. Thank you for bringing it into the world Oscar ❤❤

7th Chords always love! They are also pretty much madatory for a liquid dnb track.

Thanks ! Super tuto

I don't worry too much about chords. I compose with digitakt so playing chords would be quite a hassle. I may use sounds that are samples of chord like sounds but I don't think too much about it. When there is some pad sound(s) at the background and then there is lead synths with delays and reverbs it will create sustained sounds on top of that pad which create those same harmonic interactions between sounds as chords do. It can be as interesting as with any chord progressions. It should not be thought that you need chords to make sonically interesting music. In techno I think main emphasis is not rhytmical components. Even a short lead stabs contribute to that rhytmical shape of the track. Then mood is set by using interesting pad or any other weird sounds which are not that much about creating shapes as melodies and drums are. Sometimes that distinction is quite hazy though as some sparse sounds together may also create some interesting patterns of their own. But to your question. That dissonant nature of 7th chord would fit electronic music quite well if just context is right. Techno in that sense needs to be little bit tense and disorienting at times so why would not 7th interval fit there just fine.

you’re a fine teacher

You really want to sound mature, throw in some minor 9th chords. That's the "neo-soul" chord. It's like a stronger version of the house chord, the minor 7th, and it seems to fit a house or hip-hop vibe, but ive heard them in hard house and even 90s trance. Now maybe it's more pigeonholed to soul and house vibes.

Thx. Now i get it

Yes, they do. Hugely.

Great video! Btw the B note is SI not TI 😊

Next broadcast: Slashed Chords...

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Chicago house = 7th chords

Is it just me that hears that first chord in this vid and instantly starts singing 'Changes' by David Bowie?

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Nice one Oscar, its like you were well aware what might go with my coffee, ten hut sir YES sir 🫡

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Much appreciated. I'm still learning Ableton, so forgive my presumption, Oscar. I watched a couple of videos from LNA's channel. She's using Ableton 12 which probably won't run on my old laptop where I have my Ableton live 11. LNA has so many tools at her finger tips including "Chord" and "Scale" which got me very excited. When I saw your video I thought what if they wer in 11? So I googled and found this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gYbeLbNaBfg.htmlsi=jxa2YERB2146OJ-U tutorial which tells me where to find and how to use these tools. Pretty cool. I'm sure your users would benefit from such tools as these and maybe others. WTF is "Groove"?

at least you decided to sing :p

they do

Quick answer without having watched the video. Yes

we can also think of seventh chords simply as quantized harmonic overtone.

How about for those of us that are amazing at nothing? 😏

Yes, move on.

Oscar you are a bad singer. LoL 😂 Btw, thanks for the class. Love it 🖤🎶

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Absolutely fantastic! Shall we be friends?

Leaving some 🩵 (thanks for making the theory simple that it totally clicked for me, I've always struggled)