ster and Unnamed Chords
Lesson 15 from: Music Theory for Electronic Musicians 2: Minor Keys and MoreJ. Anthony Allen
ster and Unnamed Chords
Lesson 15 from: Music Theory for Electronic Musicians 2: Minor Keys and MoreJ. Anthony Allen
Lesson Info
15. ster and Unnamed Chords
Lessons
Welcome and Overview
04:15 2Analysis: Shame on Me (Avicii)
22:25 3Minor Scales
06:27 4Relative Keys
11:03 5Minor Diatonic Chord Progressions
12:09 6The Case of the Melodic and Harmonic Minor Scales
05:26 7Analysis: Ghosts N Stuff
26:08 8The Circle of Fifths
09:48Changing Keys Within Your Track
14:00 10Analysis: Get Lucky (Daft Punk)
26:06 117th Chords in Minor
16:38 129ths and 13ths
09:08 13Suspended Chords
05:03 14Reading a Chord Chart
11:02 15ster and Unnamed Chords
03:47 16Analysis: Everything You Do is a Balloon (Boars of Canada)
21:14 17Writing Melodies for Chord Progressions
14:32 18Writing Chord Progressions for Melodies
13:54 19Counter Melody with Apreggiators
12:24 20Analysis: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Skrillex)
28:26 21Bass lines: Follow the Root Note
13:23 22Bass Riffs
08:49 23Get Muddy
03:02 24Analysis: Windowlicker
12:44 25Chromaticism
03:43 26Thanks and Bye!
01:15Lesson Info
ster and Unnamed Chords
Okay, One more thing about cords before we move on. Ah, and do another analysis. And then we look at, um applying some of these things We're gonna do some some just production exercises on and and actually write some music and look at baselines and melodies in particular. Since we've spent the majority of our time so far on cords, um, chords will still be a major part of baselines and melodies going forward. But, um, we'll be applying them a little bit different. So the last thing I wanted to talk about was, ah, what happens when you have a cord that doesn't really fit into any of the rules? Uh, sometimes you might just like, ah, slap your hands down on a keyboard and say that was a cool sound, but it doesn't fit into any route. 3rd 5th pattern, right. So I could say, OK, this is cool. Um uh oh, I kind of randomly throwing notes around. Okay, here we go. You're like, OK, that's a cool sound. It's it's sounds a little dissonant and terrible, but, um, let's say for the sake of argument t...
hat you love that sound, um, we could analyze this and stare at it all day long and say, How does that fit into our route? 3rd 5th What's the key? What's the What's the root? That's gonna be a losing man's game? Uh, because it's not going to fit into those. And when we have cords that just don't fit into any pattern, we really kind of just call them cluster chords. Ah, cluster cord means it's got a whole bunch of everything. It's kind of are default name for stuff, so ah, it's a cluster cord. It doesn't fall into the route through fifth pattern. Um, it probably could. I mean, we could analyse it and find a good name for it if we really wanted to. And if this was like hardcore music theory, we would do that. We would analyze it until we found something that would work as a name for it. But we don't care about that. Were not like trying. Teoh get our master's degree in music theory here. We're just trying to write some cool stuff, so let's just call him cluster chords. Once things start getting ah past the rules that we've talked about so far to us, they're just gonna be close records. We don't really care about him. Um, after that, if that being said, you decide to go get a master's degree in music theory, you will find names for these things and there are more names for them, but nothing that really concerns us. Maybe someday we'll do, Ah, a, uh, music theory for electronic musicians. A tonal version in which we talk about complete, like Chromatis ism. Like anything goes. I doubt that would have any practical use for any of you, so we'll probably never do that. But if you really want to see it right in the comments of of this class and and we'll see, maybe maybe it will be worth doing. I don't know. Um so cluster chords, big groupings and notes that don't have a easy name that we can put on them. There you go.
Ratings and Reviews
MikeD
Well, I slobbered all over you after your first class and this one is as good or better. I realize people don't go to college for 12 years and learn what you shared in a few hours and you didn't earn your doctorate with just this stuff. I mean Julliard must offer a lot more, but you have advanced my knowledge by miles and I've got to say thank you. Make some more of these simple, common talk courses - I'll buy them all.
Ben Küstner
Real Great Course. I learned a lot about Music Theory and now am jamming better than ever on my keyboard. Thanks Allen
Nick van Lochem
This course its so good he makes it al sound so easy. that ists easy to remember and use in your creations.