If this doesn't get you making better music I really don't know what will. I don't believe in formulas per say, however this truly is a way to 1. get people started making music 2. not get frustrated 3. expand on ideas and music theory. Such a great job man, you're a treasure for this community for sure.
The haters should keep silent man....he didn't tell you it works all the time, it is meant to keep music sounding in key...no one can teach you to be a great musician you have to want that for yourself and work hard to make that transformation. Some of us are gifted and others help us to realize our talent. This guy will get those with natural talent that don't know music theory ascend their musical pieces to greater heights....the haters need to ask themselves if they know so much music theory why aren't they already great!?
I can really appreciate the lesson in this tutorial. I've been watching a lot of how-to tutorials lately, but none of them have really inspired and enlightened me like this has.
Thanks for the videos and the info that you share for free. I learned more in an hour of watching your video's than I gain in a month reading books on my own.
Game your tutorials really helped me a lot i don't wanna lie i used to skip to the latest vid u post n never understood anything till i watched them all in series these tutorials took me from zero to sidekick i will make sure when i finish school i purchase the (music theory essentials) so i can go from sidekick to hero
MIND BLOWN! Oh I am sooo in! At this point it would be easy to apply other tools where you think it might work like Sus4 at measure 15 & 31. Oh wow! I'm so mad that someone didn't show me this earlier!
If you're serious about music you wouldn't be wasting your time on youtube looking for quick fixes, you'd study music theory properly, which doesn't even cost $250...
Matt Yep, anyone can study music theory without having to spend a dime. There is even an open source book on music theory that can be accessed online by everyone.
Instead of paying for this you can type music theory in the RU-vid search and the first thing that came up was a playlist of a Yale music theory class. It's online for the public
Here's what I do. 1)Put keyboard in front of me 2) plug away at chords until I find a nice progression. 3) Profit Here's what to do if you don't play keyboard or know any music theory. 1) Drop down menu in piano roll 2) Chords 3) Lay down chords until something sounds good Keep it simple, if it sounds good, it sounds good. If it doesn't, try something else.
Thanks a lot for your completely crystal-clear explanation for the chords. It helped me so much. And I like your point of view of music teaching. By other way, your pronunciation is so easy to understand for non English-native speakers.
Man this just expanded my the music theory in my head , i knew music theory and scales but they were just locked now i feel like im finally free out of that lock !!! I just cant thank you enough bro you're a heroe , a life saver thank you again and again 💜💜
For those of you interested in learning music theory take the time educate yourselves. This video is just him trying to sell his product but he is giving you incorrect information. He is calling the note names incorrectly, and has built his scale wrong as well. No music will sound good if the key signature is not being followed. The chords sound basic because he is playing each chord in blocked chord form, and he has not inverted any of the chords. The progression is also constructed poorly. There are many resources out there that will educate you on music theory, this is not one of them.
+James Chipadza Mixing and mastering goes a long way into getting a finished product, but sound selection is first. If you're using a cheap stock piano preset, it's not going to sound like a Grand. Look into some third-party plug-ins and sample packs, as FL's stock sounds aren't the greatest.
This was another fantastic lesson. I love the quick explanations. I kinda followed your progression but changed it so it was my own, and then I threw on two gross beats and made something that kinda sounds like a Kanye track. All in about an hour while I paused and watched the video. Thanks!!!
you are amazing, I never thought I'd actually buy something off a tutorial but I like results, actions speaker better than words, everyone must buy this if they are serious about music, will be buying! 100/10 quality and realness man, simply amazed
Hi please tell me how to fine chord for an artist if they come for beat the song is SHE IS MY LADY........................................ THE ONLY ONE THAT I LOVE that is the song I don't know how to start making the beat for him
That sounds a bit like "when you go down, it always sounds sad, because energy goes down" or from the opposite point of view " when you go up, it always sounds happy, because energy goes up", but in my opinion that is only one side of the coin. I think the rhythm plays a very big role as well as the direction the notes are played. Either way, great vid, Game, keep up that great work!
may i ask how do you know how to use which scale after you have mapped out all the leading tone as in the video? Or have you picked the scale first and then mapped the all the note that are within the scale? Really hope for your answer!
A few issues with your video: -Calling your top voice a leading-tone (even a pseudo-leading-tone) may not have been the best idea in a video that is ostensibly about voice-leading in chord progressions. That'll get very confusing when people actually learn what a leading-tone is. -Why on Earth would anybody write an extended progression with entirely parallel movement, and without any voice-leading? That's madness! -For all your talk of trying to develop your own sound and explore your creativity, coming up with a purely diatonic progression in triads was perhaps not the most indicative process you could have approached the topic with. - You might want to be a little less objective when talking about the moods created by certain melodic movements. These things are subjective, and I certainly didn't feel your octave-transposed Cmaj to be sadder or more melancholic than the original version up an octave - in fact, it felt a lot happier to me (perhaps I got more sense of 'energy' from the fact that each voice was leaping further, so there's more movement, and perhaps if you'd inverted it and just stuck that upper G down the bottom, then that might have sounded sadder to me - having the descending interval, but minimal movement). - Why would you make a video on chord progressions without even a minor passing mention of harmonic function? That's like the single most important thing in creating a powerful progression. -Please stop saying calling techniques 'technology'. - You've not made the distinction between the bottom voice of a chord and a chord's 'root'. The two are not the same thing (even if they are in your video, having used only root-position chords), and calling them by the same name is going to confuse people when they learn about inversions. - You said that they transpose the bottom note down an octave in traditional music theory, and called that very 'to the book'. I challenge you to find a harmony manual which suggests that. Sure, the root is often doubled within a chord's voicing, but never like that, and never on every chord in a progression. - Please don't call chord-classification (something which has been formalized since the 16th Century) 'revolutionary'. I get that you're trying to make a short and simple video to get across basic musical ideas to absolute beginners, but you're teaching a wealth of bad habits and ways of thinking about music in order to create non-functional diatonic progressions without voice-leading, and it's just not worth it; it's going to stunt more people's musical education than it will help.
Couldn't have said it better myself, a pretty pretentious take on "music theory". I think the most important thing about this video is that going down a scale is not sad, nor is going up happy and, contrary to the videos teachings, Minor and Major tonality DOES indeed have all to do with the emotion and feel of musical sound and cadence. I've wasted money before but I'll die before I spend 2 grand on anything like this.
Don't get me wrong: it's a verified psychoacoustic phenomenon that stepwise upwards movement is more often called 'happy' by listeners than downwards stepwise movement (all other things being equal), but I guess my point is that all other things are almost never equal, and that there is A LOT more to consider on the subject (such as functional tonal harmony, as you suggest; or timbral quality for an alternate suggestion) than "up = happy, down = sad", and either way, it certainly doesn't work with the kind of octave-displaced parallel movement he was trying to demonstrate it with.
what so it has to be really complicated then does it?I dunno ...guess everyone wants a "short cut " these days : ) you seem overly analytical ...just saying ,i dont know much about melody so am hoping these videos will help !I m more rhythm orientated.
I'm not saying that anything has to be complicated. Some of my favourite songs are incredibly simple. All I'm pointing out is that a lot of the information, wording-choices, and approaches in this video are misleading, and could unwittingly stunt a learning musician more than they help.
cool man ... yeah i find the video s good but hav nt only just got into fl tutorials ,what would you suggest as starting points for learning to create melodies??
This is amazing, definitely considering buying you guys' music theory packs. Thank you so much for helping thousands and thousands of aspiring producers. Off-topic, for the love of god, please post a link to that image you used as a background, it is simply wonderful.
Hoy are making the chords in the opposite direction. Your chords are never using inversions to smooth transitions and you add a seventh over a chord made on the fourth as a bass note. ???????????????????
This is considered as top secret by music schools, thanks for sharing it. Would this formula work by laying out the scale note in another channel and using the ghost notes as a guide?
to me it's more logical that the notes at the beginning are BOTTOM notes of the chords. Becase, like you said, we work out chords in our mind with hearing only one, dominant note, and that note is the "root" of the chord, and root is always the bottom note. After all, chords even get their names based on the BOTTOM note, because it is the most important note. And when we think in our minds about a chord, we think of its root, bottom note. But this way could work too I guess.
Buzy So I understand a little English, I'm Brazilian and always on your channel, but there are things I do not understand, can you activate them as subtitles?
These type of videos convinced me to buy your music theory package. Is it a download item or it will come in the mail if I buy it? are they dvd's? there' are not specs about the package on the website.
Hey busy I got a quick question. I'm paused at 4:44 while reading this, and I was following along using a violin sample. I really didn't like how "booming" the sound was, and how the notes never faded like your piano between note transitions, it's just a sustained obnoxious tone. So I decided to copy and paste my current chord progression, use another violin sample I liked more, paste it to the new sample's piano roll, and although the instrument changed, it still sounds like the first violin sample, every note. Can you explain how to trade instruments without fully having to delete your chords or melodies? Thanks man.
