I've been reading about music theory for almost two years now, watching videos too, trying to understand scales and chords and harmony, and this was the most clear and concise explanation of everything. I am in awe at how clear it is now. You have become an expert in explanations.
Learn one scale at a time. People try to learn everything at the same time and in the end they spend more time learning and being confused. It's not a rocket science but it takes time for the brain to process and put things in order. Practicing scales on instrument is the best. Even if it may seem pointless it calibrates your brain. Do you ever listen to a song and say "I get the Dorian feel?" That's when you played the Dorian scale up and down. Now you can instinctively use it without even thinking what notes are you playing. Than see where Byzantine, Hungarian, Jewish, Japanese an other scales overlap with the minor scale.
Just a couple minutes in and I've gotta say - this is a very clear, digestible, and simple introduction to music theory so far. It's exactly what I've been looking for. Your voice feels calm and confident, and your overall demeanor feels encouraging. Thanks, man. Keep up the great content!
Honestly, I’ve been watching A LOT of videos about music theories , scales , chords progression … name it all you want . But your video , man, love it! Especially about the harmony’s and melody’s . Often deleted projects because I would get frustrated of not creating a harmony in some sort . You cleared a lot of questions as well . Thank you Alex ! Now I throw you a challenge ; Make a video on how to choose your sounds and match them with the other sounds that you would choose so it’s sounds good ! On a plugin for example . Or another video on melodies ; sorts of melodies , complexity etc.
Notes: 19:00 - re-articulating chords for house music 22:20 - find the tonic of the scale you're in (or the relative scale) and repeat it to get in the 'mood' for making music
Thank you for this briliant guide, I often scrap music ideas due to not getting the chords i want to fit because i lack music theory. This will hopefully be a big help and a learning tool for me in the future.
Love your videos, I always learn a lot from them! One video I'd like to see more on is sound selection. Seeing how you choose certain sounds/ where they come or how they're made would be amazing. Your sound choices are always such good ones especially for the feel or emotion that you're conveying through your chords! tysm for all the help you provide!
This is unironically the best video I have ever watched about music. I have watched tens, if not over a hundred videos on pure music theory and I ALWAYS come back to your channel. Thank you.
Thanks bro so much for making this video!! No one could ever explain some of the questions i had, unless it was like a 3 hour long video, here, you explain it perfect, helped me a lot!!! i cant believe the stuff about music theory i was missing. and its addicting on how you explain stuff it makes me want to open my DAW and start making music.
This was insanely clear & easy to watch! I’m always forgetting one thing as soon as I learn another, including basics. 🤣But this helped my instantly remember it all! Great video, & keep up the good work! 👍
This was brilliant. Much better explained than anyone else. Would love for you to go into more music theory and uses from using chord pallete (free M4L device) in Ableton Live. Thanks Alex!
Alex Rome, your channel is at my top list of 100 music production channels that I have subscribed over 4 years that I watch such tutorials. The second one is "EDM Tips". Make a song like LiQWYD, or at least explain some technique's that he uses. Thanks a lot !!
Thanks Alex, love the video. would love to see you build a track using modal melodies and harmonise with modal chords, thanks again, your videos are inspiring, love your passion.
Best refresher course I ever did take, man. (Admittedly skipping through some sections) But dude seriously... on top of a refreshing my theory, you also taught me something entirely new. So, thank you.
tbh I haven't done anything with music in forever and barely did anything when I knew how. just never really knew anything. low-key just letting it go by which is sad but I don't know what to do. Especially when in reality I don't know much. I know audio engineering but not producing. but its been years soooo yeah
never got the "I II III IV V" etc thing with chords or what the "third" "seventh" etc. were with their notes. I've tried to find out before but nothing stuck. Now I fully understand it.
I have a question: you describe the interplay between individual notes and chords/chord progressions that are combined to form a melody. But isn't it the case that a chord progression can also be a melody without individual notes? I mean, you can write a melody with just chord progressions instead of adding individual notes from a scale.
At the end when you switched your melody from the minor to the relative major how did you know which notes to move so that it would fit in the relative major?
I’m considering buying a DAW, and I’m stuck between three options. FL Studio, Ableton, and Logic Pro. I know that you use Ableton and Logic Pro, so which one would you recommend?
Honestly, most of the DAWs do the same thing. Some people favor some over others. I can from ACID Pro. It crashed constantly on my plug-ins, so I switched to something similar - FL Studio. If you use a Mac, Logic may be the way to go. Alex, for example, uses many DAWs since each DAW has strengths and weaknesses. Try a DAW, and if you don't feel it, toss it and try another. Try to master a DAW, then you can try others and see if you like it better. But mastering a DAW is the key. I mastered ACID, so when I switched, it was different, but still familiar. So, the transition was fairly easy. Eventually, I may try other DAWs if I feel FL Studio isn't doing everything I want. Although I hear FL Studio is used mostly for samples and beats, I make Ambient/Techno and find the piano roll very useful. Keep in mind, music should be fun and expressive. Like any art, expression comes from you, not the tool you use.
@@theunknownstarwalker thanks for the advice! It’s greatly appreciated. I’ll go for a cheaper option for now, I think. I was sceptical before, quality wise, but this helped. Thanks!
What I don't understand with chord progressions is when you have something like at 14:53 for example, you have chords in different keys. How does this not change the key of the whole song? Is that normal for songs to change key that much, and if it is what happens to the elements that you have to keep in a certain key like a bass or something?
Probs best to fix these things and reupload. It’s not really the impression you want to be giving in the first few minutes of a video on a serious topic such as this. Quickly will make audience sceptical about your credibility.
