Lesson Info
30. Song 2 Analysis - Arrangement
Lessons
Introduction
00:58 2Basic Music Theory Terms
08:07 3Keyboard Layout and Octaves
06:19 4Working out Major Scales
08:58 5Perfect 5ths
06:42 63rds - Part 1
08:05 73rds - Part 2
07:39 8Perfect 4ths
04:36Chords and Inversions - Part 1
10:05 10Chords and Inversions - Part 2
09:13 11Chord Progressions - Part 1
10:22 12Chord Progressions - Part 2
08:26 13Inversions
08:53 147th Chords
09:48 15Chord Extensions
08:09 16Suspended Chords
02:40 17The Circle of 5ths
04:30 18Minor Scales
08:09 19Chords in the Natural Minor scale
09:56 20Harmonic and Melodic Minor
09:30 21Write the Chords, then the Melody
09:03 22Write the Melody, then the Chords
18:01 23Arpeggios
08:00 24Writing Bass Parts
11:35 25Writing Bass Riffs and Adapting Melodies
14:10 26Song Analysis - Chords, Part 1
10:17 27Song Analysis - Chords, Part 2
05:58 28Song Analysis - Melody
08:55 29Song Analysis - Arrangement
07:30 30Song 2 Analysis - Arrangement
05:04 31Song 2 Analysis - Chords
08:55 32Song 2 Analysis - Melodies
06:34 33Song 3 Analysis - Chords
11:41 34Song 3 Analysis - Melodies and Arrangement
06:55 35Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 1
10:22 36Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 2
18:47 37Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 3
18:49 38Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 4
08:21 39Create a Song from a Chord Progression - Part 1
08:16 40Create a Song from a Chord Progression - Part 2
08:07 41Create a Song from a Melody - Part 1
07:27 42Create a Song from a Melody - Part 2
09:05 43Modes Intro
04:10 44Ionian
00:43 45Dorian
04:31 46Phrygian
02:09 47Lydian
01:35 48Mixolydian
02:13 49Aeolian
00:39 50Locrian
01:50 51Dorian Mode Example
09:12 52Pentatonic Scales
12:27Lesson Info
Song 2 Analysis - Arrangement
Hello. In this lecture, we're going to do another song analysis and we're going to have a look at another one of my tracks and basically just deconstruct this and I'll show you how and why I wrote it like this. I'm gonna look at some of the music theory of why and how I wrote it like this too. So in Ableton Live Nine and you might notice straight away, there's all this space here at the top. The reason is, is the way I normally arrange my music is I write loads of it. You can see down here it starts at about 60 minutes. So an hour in I just arranging and trying new ideas. And eventually I came up with an arrangement that I liked and for the purpose of this demo, I just deleted all these here and well, I saved as a new project and deleted all the other arrangements that I didn't actually use. If we have a look in the session view of able to live. This is just another view where I like to write a lot of my music and trigger in clips with different module synths. These are some of the cli...
ps I use. So it's a massive project really. And it's just been arranged down to four minutes or so. So remember when you arrange a music, a lot of the time, it's not gonna be perfect. Straight away. This probably took me maybe a couple of hours to write and then maybe several days just to arrange it and find an arrangement that I'm happy with and then to mix the actual track. So when you're writing music, just remember about the arrangement and taking the listener on the journey, it's not just about playing in certain chords, playing in certain notes. It's about arrangement, which is as important as the writing, the music, as the mix in the music, as the synthesis arrangement is super important too. So some of these tracks here actually have midi data and audio data, the audio data, a lot of it has been revamped. So basically, I've taken this mini midi signal and re-recorded it through a synthesizer and then through an amplifier and then put it back into, able to live. It's quite complex, but it just allows your music to have a different kind of sound, make it more unique and makes it a bit crunchy and crispy and dirtier for an amplifier. I've got a workshop called Beyond the Music Workshop where I explain all this, but I just make you aware of what these audio waves actually are and they have certain things here. I've done some sampling. Love some sounds, frying pan sounds, that kind of thing. Um And then re amp the synthesizer, all these different drum parts, big riffs bass part, another base part, a pluck sound, a side chain, another ref uh more refs, horn refs, reamed horn refs whos sound effects and some vocal samples here. So obviously, how you write your music and getting the notes to work and create a melody is very important. But also think about arrangement, this track is being arranged so much to get this four minutes. As you can see, like I said before, an hour's worth of arranging before up here. It was huge. I remember doing this. I spent a lot of time just trying to find this arrangement and I came up with this arrangement that I'm eventually happy with. You can also see if I zoom in. It doesn't start banging on the bar here. It doesn't start in the what you conceive or consider the right place. But when I put a few effects and it'll start to get some movement in the song. I have a little section and then it comes in on bar one. So there's little tricks and tactics you can use like that, but a lot of it is just write loads and loads and loads of stuff and then arrange, arrange, arrange, don't expect to get it right straight away. I've seen people do live streams where they wanna live, stream a whole track in one hour doesn't work like that. If you want to make a song that you're happy with or you think it's decent, it's gonna be a lot of trial and error. Even the huge artists don't create a song in one hour. They spend a lot of time just going through fine picking dotting the I's Crossing the Ts just making slight adjustments until you're happy with it. Don't rush, take your time. So with writing music, take your time and think of stuff you're happy with and also arranging, take your time. So this lecture is just really about arranging and seeing my project here. How much stuff I've actually got in it just to arrange it down to four minutes. There's loads of different clips, loads of different stuff just to these four minutes here. So just remember that when you're writing music and you're arranging, take your time, don't rush. And if need be, make maybe 1020 different arrangements until you're happy with what the next lecture we're going to be looking at the chords and some of my melodies and how I actually worked it out.
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