Steps to getting good at modulations: 1. Listen to Beethoven 2. Realize you’ll never be that good at it 3. Try your best to get there 4. Enjoy :) love the video as always, Rick!
Having everything written out below was very helpful as I'm learning but not so fast with music theory. It made it easier to pause and analyze, and to find the exact voicings on my keyboard. Thanks!
@@ludwigbrosch I think that in modern music, using the parallel fifth in the bass is common. You need to keep in mind that this is not classical voice leading, and those rules are not absolutes. FYI even Liszt uses fifths in the bass octaves for Totentanz.
GREAT topic. I tend to find my coolest sounding changes, which are usually modulations, completely by accident. I’ve actually developed ways to accidentally find them haha.
It’s lovely that you provide this kind of high level music content on TH-cam. It’s too complex for me to follow it all, but it’s very inspiring and challenges my usuals habits in thinking about harmony.
Those modulations are so dramatic. There's something about these modulations that remind me of John Towner Williams' music from the Spielberg movies. Love the channel.
Majors a tritone apart, P. Connelly uses a lot of these in Tomb Raider. Sounds like discovering something antiquated !revelation! My favorite chord progression. Some people hear this as a minor chord progression, oddly. G to Db
So you respect him because he covers already well-established chromatic harmony but not the uncharted territory of complex polyrhythms? Not that there's anything wrong with what Rick is doing, of course.
@@crimsun7186 The reason it's a meme is because it's relatively new. Nobody makes memes about chromatic mediant modulations because they're as old as Beethoven.
@@davorbrijacak What do you mean? Prog bands use chromatic (sub)mediant modulations all the time. "Hmmm I'm in D major, so what would sound cool and edgy? Oh, yes, I'll just borrow Bb major from the minor key, nobody has ever done this before". This technique is old as fuck, whereas rhythmic complexity is quite new in the Western world, as European music has historically been quite elementary when it comes to rhythm.
Neat stuff it's all about the voice leading. You also want to have the top and bottom note move in opposite directions so you tend to keep the soprano in a line (think monody) and the bass in skips
I've recently analysed a song on my channel for the first time and it's mostly thanks to having watched most of your videos that I could even think of trying. I'm still far away from having a deep understanding of what's happening but I really wish to thank you for having been so important in my musical path. THANK YOU RICK!
Such a great video, always come back to it. The chord progression at 2:20 has such a triumphant quality. One of the most beautiful sounds I’ve ever heard. Film scores must be so difficult to make. It can’t be easy to emphasize the imagery and emotion caught on camera.
Really interesting , love exploring the tonality between chords and I feel like I just got a 101 on it.. have to watch this again a few times and relate the information .. sure I have touched on this before when composing.. great to hear it out. thanks
These sounds are so beautiful, not gonna lie i almost felt like crying. imo thats where the most beautiful music is; in modulation s and key changes. Thats why a lot pop music is so boring and lacking emotion, its all too simple
Hey Rick thanks for doing this video, I really like when you talk about modulations and all things modal it's my favorite haha. Also I remember you saying one time in your older videos that you wouldn't do a two camera setup because there's too much editing work to be done when you start dealing with more than one camera, but I'm really happy to see that you've (assumably) gotten enough helpers that now you can do that for your videos, it really helps to be able to see your hands, even if it is at an angle rather than an overhead view, so thank you thank you thank you. Keep up the good work
Great video Rick! Thank you for providing it! Although I started to learn these topics just recently, I see now! To my ear and brain, Massive Attack created miracles in terms of using modulations in “Unfinished Sympathy” (an analysis take on this track would be amazing)! I´ll delve into more to understand these crucial subjects, thank you so much for enlightening and encouraging even a theory beginner like me! I appreciate your effort! Nahre Sol (I’m a frequent huge fan and admirer of her works and it seems I will always be like that), Rick Beato (your “What Makes This Song Great” series is 💎 and it has enhanced my conceptual perspective when analysing music, even though I don’t play guitar I gained valuable insights into its depths through your contents), David Bruce Composer, 12tone, 8-bit Music Theory, AuthenticSound, Aimee Nolte, Adam Neely, Richard Atkinson, and many other great educators of our TH-cam era are changing the rules of the game, I have learned from all of you a lot and I’m thankful for this! I mean, it’s great that we have all of you to create this Renaissance atmosphere again! You are great! Thanks, all of you! Greetings from Turkey and big respect! Btw, thanks to you, 1-1.5 years ago I discovered one and only Aydın Esen´s music as well, thank you for raising awareness on his music! 😊🎶🙏♥️
I'd love to see a video of yours that tackles this same topic from a songwriting perspective: How pros in rock or pop music have used modulations. I love your stuff on these kinds of cinematic scores. So interesting. But its your stuff on rock and pop that gives me action items to immediately explore. But either way, thanks for what you do!
Every guitarist should have a keyboard and know how to apply it, Shawn Lane once said piano made him a much better guitarist, same here. Knowing chords backwards you start to find more exotic chords and inversions on the guitar!
Meh, it's fiddly on guitar without changing the tuning or looping, and some of the earlier voicings had 8 notes anyway. F7 sus 4 and A natural not F min 7 sus 4 I meant too. I did experiment though with some variations on the piano and on the guitar with more manageable common tone voicings, this gave me a lot of ideas. G augmented/D and D locrian #6 and an F phrygian dominant type voicing with F, F#, A and E flat over C (C Dorian flat 5 from B flat harmonic major will work over that) etc. Wish I had a book crammed full of these ideas! Anyway, nuff said, but it's worth spending the time studying this at least!
This is a fantastic topic that I'm able to understand decently but almost never usually able to actually execute it in an effective way. You should do a "what makes this song great" on something Devin Townsend if you haven't. I'd like to see you analyze one of his really whacky songs.
Just heard climb every mountain from sound of music some stunning modulations gonna try versions on piano and guitar some nice feeling jazzy movements play by ear should be rewarding I feel andy (bob)yates
Music is art. Unless you have a record company or movie studio telling you what to do, you can do whatever you want. That doesn't guarantee it will sound good though.
ervser hevd so youre suspending the lower third of the am, implying an F7. but its implied only in retrospect, without ever beeing heard. the ghost of F7 linking the two chords together. Seems nice in theory- i'll check it out later :)
Great piece of insight to how to tie al these amazing sounding chords into a whole chord progression. Have you ever considered creating a whole piece or song for your channel? Such a pity to let these beautiful snippets of heavenly sounds go to waste!
Rick, it has been quite a while since I started watching your videos, and I’m tempted to buy your book. Yet, the pdf format just isn’t something I could utilize. I like actual books, and seeing as you use your book in a spiral bound format, you obviously agree. If you were to consider a special run of spiral bound books, I would appreciate it. There has to be away for you to gauge interest, and sell only via preorder. I’ll keep watching and hope it happens.
I've seen someone cover this one other time but I found this more informative coming from you rick! I know this is off topic but I was thinking about songs you might consider covering and I was wondering if you'd be able to cover any don't off the Toto four album? The mix on the album sounds extremely spacious and i can never figure out how they made the soundstage so huge. Obviously I'm sure you would know exactly how that's done. I do wonder if Toto would be blockers also
I'd like Rick to start a "What Makes This Soundtrack Great" series. So much to analyze in any soundtrack, ripe for the Beato treatment. Maybe look into Clint Mansell.
Interesting. The part from 6:40 to 7:45 sounded pretty much tonal to me, especially the last two chords. I would rather call the Ebmaj7sus4/F a Bb7/F with the anticipation of the Eb. The last chord doesn't sound mixolydian at all since there's no dominant 7. So that would be just a V I cadence in Eb (which is also the first chord of the progression, hence the strong functional relationship, even with all those modulation going on in the middle)
I think your first example is perhaps not best served by starting with Eb and then, in the next bar, using Eb to modulate. The two being so close together makes it feel like we really haven't gone anywhere harmonically before modulating.
I thought title implied that video would be about how do people use modulations to separate verses from choruses, to emphasise some ideas (what could be that ideas) or to shift listeners attention from one state to another...
Hi! I know it doesn’t have anything to do with the video, but i wanted to tell you something about perfect pitch. I know that it’s strongly belived that you can’t develop perfect pitch as an adult, but i think i can disagree. I got into music incredibly late in my life and i am now at the academy for musical theory. I started to learn everything at the age of 14 and within a few years i developed the ability to always hear certain notes/chords. By now i can get all of them right most of the time. And for me it’s just like distinguishing colors, just like you said perfect pitch is. Did i develop something similar?
Fascinating vid! Some of the changes are really sliding magically! Just a note: On 7:24, it would've been awesome if you really did put a D in that chord, cause...you said.. Lydian.. Ab Lydian... aw, fuck it, I know you meant :) !
I always get lost midway through these videos lol the complex concept and the calm soothing sound make me drowsy. One question: how would our perception of the music theory going on change if you used simple saw waves and not the orchestral instruments?
Ah! So The Swan of Tuonela uses the Lydian mode to float the magic bird through the mists that curl on that black mirror of still waters? Sounds feasible; and the possibility just improves the miracle of it all, doesn't render it in any way trite, but adds a name to the spell the strings sing. Pretty name, too. Even the name fits.
You know there's a point in a lot of Ricks vids that I realised I know absolutely nothing at all about music theory... and there a some video that are just SOOOOOO FAR beyond my understanding that it's just not worth watching other than for the stunning sounds...
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Fair enough man. Just always seems like I start thinking I'm getting a wee bit of a handle music threory, enough at least to feel like I'm making some progress and then a vid like this pops up and I'm feel like I'm back to square one.
Just listen to the sounds. I learned the sounds long before the names or theory. The more you hear something you get to the point where you say “ I recognize that!”
@@RickBeato Thanks Rick. I hear you. I guess as a (very) late-learner I'm conscious of the time factor and prone to rushing and also prone to needing to categorise EVERYTHING. To have a name and a rationale for why a thing sounds like it is. In my spotty youth I learned tunes by ear and wrote the minimal catalogue of tunes with no knowledge of theory at all but I was always conscious of that gulf and now I'm trying to plug it... patience I guess.
Videos I don't fully understand I come back to when I think I'm ready again. Even the ones I understand I sometimes come back to if I can't remember some nuisances and just to affirm my knowledge.
Cheers Rick, amazing video! But maybe I'm getting something wrong... IMHO, the last chord of the final sequence sounds more like a Eb Maj 7th with 9 and 11th... In the linear example I actually hear D notes (i.e. the Maj 7th) at around 9:12... is that right?
Steps to getting good at modulations:
1. Listen to Beethoven
2. Realize you’ll never be that good at it
3. Try your best to get there
4. Enjoy
:) love the video as always, Rick!
I like your shorter videos focused on one concept, really interesting! Thanks a lot for your work
Having everything written out below was very helpful as I'm learning but not so fast with music theory. It made it easier to pause and analyze, and to find the exact voicings on my keyboard. Thanks!
Rick's voicing is awkward, he constantly plays parallel fifth in the lower parts.
@@ludwigbrosch I think that in modern music, using the parallel fifth in the bass is common. You need to keep in mind that this is not classical voice leading, and those rules are not absolutes. FYI even Liszt uses fifths in the bass octaves for Totentanz.
What a fantastic lesson! Thank you Rick.
I realize it is pretty off topic but do anybody know of a good website to watch newly released series online?
@George Rhys I watch on flixzone. You can find it on google :)
@Kashton Cole yea, I've been watching on Flixzone for months myself :D
Beautiful composition at the end of the video, and loved the visuals!!
Thanks Nahre!
GREAT topic. I tend to find my coolest sounding changes, which are usually modulations, completely by accident. I’ve actually developed ways to accidentally find them haha.
OMG 2:40. Gorgeous.
Thanks Sooby!
H Kay could be called discoverers instead of composers.
Rick’s a composer. We’re just miners.
@@Soobysounds sound explorers
It’s lovely that you provide this kind of high level music content on TH-cam. It’s too complex for me to follow it all, but it’s very inspiring and challenges my usuals habits in thinking about harmony.
Those modulations are so dramatic. There's something about these modulations that remind me of John Towner Williams' music from the Spielberg movies. Love the channel.
Majors a tritone apart, P. Connelly uses a lot of these in Tomb Raider. Sounds like discovering something antiquated !revelation!
My favorite chord progression.
Some people hear this as a minor chord progression, oddly. G to Db
That’s so true that many people hear the Db as a minor in G to Db. Thanks Jari!
@@RickBeato I hear Doors 'Light my fire'
You're not talking about polyrhytms like everyone else. I respect you.
So you respect him because he covers already well-established chromatic harmony but not the uncharted territory of complex polyrhythms? Not that there's anything wrong with what Rick is doing, of course.
@@karlpoppins I respect him for for following the music meme train
@@crimsun7186 The reason it's a meme is because it's relatively new. Nobody makes memes about chromatic mediant modulations because they're as old as Beethoven.
@@karlpoppins These modulations aren't meme because they're not "cool" and aren't used by all the modern prog bands and djent guys.
@@davorbrijacak What do you mean? Prog bands use chromatic (sub)mediant modulations all the time. "Hmmm I'm in D major, so what would sound cool and edgy? Oh, yes, I'll just borrow Bb major from the minor key, nobody has ever done this before". This technique is old as fuck, whereas rhythmic complexity is quite new in the Western world, as European music has historically been quite elementary when it comes to rhythm.
Neat stuff it's all about the voice leading. You also want to have the top and bottom note move in opposite directions so you tend to keep the soprano in a line (think monody) and the bass in skips
I've recently analysed a song on my channel for the first time and it's mostly thanks to having watched most of your videos that I could even think of trying. I'm still far away from having a deep understanding of what's happening but I really wish to thank you for having been so important in my musical path. THANK YOU RICK!
Thank you!
Such a great video, always come back to it. The chord progression at 2:20 has such a triumphant quality. One of the most beautiful sounds I’ve ever heard. Film scores must be so difficult to make. It can’t be easy to emphasize the imagery and emotion caught on camera.
Art lassssst not a live replay, so much enjoyable when the video is like this
This man is a treasure.Iam no spring chicken and these videos give me so much inspiration!
Really interesting , love exploring the tonality between chords and I feel like I just got a 101 on it.. have to watch this again a few times and relate the information .. sure I have touched on this before when composing.. great to hear it out. thanks
Rick, these kind of videos are my favorites on your channel.
These sounds are so beautiful, not gonna lie i almost felt like crying. imo thats where the most beautiful music is; in modulation s and key changes. Thats why a lot pop music is so boring and lacking emotion, its all too simple
Yay, another piano demonstration! Thanks Mr. Rick!
I just want to sit in a room day and night and master this stuff. lol
wow this guy plays keys too!! He's amazing!!
Hey Rick thanks for doing this video, I really like when you talk about modulations and all things modal it's my favorite haha. Also I remember you saying one time in your older videos that you wouldn't do a two camera setup because there's too much editing work to be done when you start dealing with more than one camera, but I'm really happy to see that you've (assumably) gotten enough helpers that now you can do that for your videos, it really helps to be able to see your hands, even if it is at an angle rather than an overhead view, so thank you thank you thank you. Keep up the good work
Very cool! Love those major chords a tritone apart-instant film music! Thanks, as always, Rick!
This really shows the power of voice leading. I particularly liked dropping down into the Eb mixolydian in that last progression. Great video Rick 👍🏻
God man, I love your videos so much. Wish I could just spend 15 hours a day studying them
Wow, this seems so advanced to me, my head was reeling. But hearing the final composition really makes it seem practical. Very cool...
Absolutely love your composition at the end. Amazing
I got goosebumps at 7:10 when you hit the A dominant diminished
Thank you. You blew my mind with that modal sequence!
This is beautiful. The first piece reminded me of Venus from Gustav Holst, the last one without solo sounded like something David Lynch would use
Great video Rick! Thank you for providing it! Although I started to learn these topics just recently, I see now! To my ear and brain, Massive Attack created miracles in terms of using modulations in “Unfinished Sympathy” (an analysis take on this track would be amazing)! I´ll delve into more to understand these crucial subjects, thank you so much for enlightening and encouraging even a theory beginner like me! I appreciate your effort! Nahre Sol (I’m a frequent huge fan and admirer of her works and it seems I will always be like that), Rick Beato (your “What Makes This Song Great” series is 💎 and it has enhanced my conceptual perspective when analysing music, even though I don’t play guitar I gained valuable insights into its depths through your contents), David Bruce Composer, 12tone, 8-bit Music Theory, AuthenticSound, Aimee Nolte, Adam Neely, Richard Atkinson, and many other great educators of our TH-cam era are changing the rules of the game, I have learned from all of you a lot and I’m thankful for this! I mean, it’s great that we have all of you to create this Renaissance atmosphere again! You are great! Thanks, all of you! Greetings from Turkey and big respect! Btw, thanks to you, 1-1.5 years ago I discovered one and only Aydın Esen´s music as well, thank you for raising awareness on his music! 😊🎶🙏♥️
I'd love to see a video of yours that tackles this same topic from a songwriting perspective: How pros in rock or pop music have used modulations.
I love your stuff on these kinds of cinematic scores. So interesting. But its your stuff on rock and pop that gives me action items to immediately explore.
But either way, thanks for what you do!
Thank you Brian!
That C# Aeolian example at the end makes me think of the score from every family or romantic comedy movie ever made in the 90's.
Very cool. Always learn so much (after several views) from your theory videos.
Eb down to C at 2:15 reminded me of Morricone's "Orca" theme.
Would appreciate a video about modulations on guitar 😊 Thanks Rick and have a good one!
Every guitarist should have a keyboard and know how to apply it, Shawn Lane once said piano made him a much better guitarist, same here. Knowing chords backwards you start to find more exotic chords and inversions on the guitar!
@@jazzerson7087 I would not dare to say the opposite, but in the same time, I would find it interesting to see it related to a guitar.
Meh, it's fiddly on guitar without changing the tuning or looping, and some of the earlier voicings had 8 notes anyway. F7 sus 4 and A natural not F min 7 sus 4 I meant too. I did experiment though with some variations on the piano and on the guitar with more manageable common tone voicings, this gave me a lot of ideas. G augmented/D and D locrian #6 and an F phrygian dominant type voicing with F, F#, A and E flat over C (C Dorian flat 5 from B flat harmonic major will work over that) etc. Wish I had a book crammed full of these ideas! Anyway, nuff said, but it's worth spending the time studying this at least!
That's so beautiful.
Mind BLOWN!
Another great video!!! Thanks again for listening Rick. I’ve decided against it just so not to cause any problems. Thanks for your help!
Steve
Great lesson Rick. Thanks! 👍
Thanks Rick. Sharing your knowledge and skills in voice leading is appreciated.
Sparkles my music fantasy, as usual. Thanx!
Nice vid! Also, I think it would be great to shoot keyboard from the above, just to see what exact notes you do press. Thanks!
This is a fantastic topic that I'm able to understand decently but almost never usually able to actually execute it in an effective way.
You should do a "what makes this song great" on something Devin Townsend if you haven't. I'd like to see you analyze one of his really whacky songs.
Thanks for the video! Which VST are you using? It sounds incredible.
Congratulations, Mr. Beato! Top notch stuff. Greetings from Brazil
Really nice moves, Rick! Sounds amazing.
2:20 and 8:25 are such nice progressions
Nice lesson Rick thanks
That F Lydian part at 2:00 fully reminds me of a Philip Glass tune off Glassworks or Koyanasquatsi
Perhaps explain voice leading immediately after saying it will have to do with voice leading. Love all your vids!
Wonderful explanations! Great chord progressions and modulations!
Thanks for the visuals sheets, great improvement!! :)
Rick, this is a great topic - you're a great educator mate!
That #4 scared me many a night as a kid listening to Robert Stack talk on Unsolved Mysteries.
More like these Rick, Superb and if possible longer, Love super dense content.
Such a good episode!!!
rick! that sounds amazing! :D
Just heard climb every mountain from sound of music some stunning modulations gonna try versions on piano and guitar some nice feeling jazzy movements play by ear should be rewarding I feel andy (bob)yates
Seems like everyone loves Lydian. Can we go to a diminished?
ED WENZEL why would we go to a diminished when we have Lydian?
Music is art. Unless you have a record company or movie studio telling you what to do, you can do whatever you want. That doesn't guarantee it will sound good though.
That is true.
@@deanveni638 Just being cheeky. I was thinking the 1, 3 #4 as a diminished or a blue note.
Lydian dominant for supreme psychedelia (or the The Simpson's theme).
i like the camera angle with that blur in the background
This videos are the ones that tell me that I know sh*t about music theory... Thank you so much for sharing Rick
That C sus chord to am sound.... just too beautiful... little things like this is why I’m so drawn to music
ervser hevd so youre suspending the lower third of the am, implying an F7. but its implied only in retrospect, without ever beeing heard. the ghost of F7 linking the two chords together.
Seems nice in theory- i'll check it out later :)
This is the best way to "visualize" music.
Great piece of insight to how to tie al these amazing sounding chords into a whole chord progression. Have you ever considered creating a whole piece or song for your channel? Such a pity to let these beautiful snippets of heavenly sounds go to waste!
He's got some compositions/improvisations on different modes/scales as far as I know but he barely mentions it.
Rick, it has been quite a while since I started watching your videos, and I’m tempted to buy your book. Yet, the pdf format just isn’t something I could utilize. I like actual books, and seeing as you use your book in a spiral bound format, you obviously agree. If you were to consider a special run of spiral bound books, I would appreciate it. There has to be away for you to gauge interest, and sell only via preorder. I’ll keep watching and hope it happens.
You can buy the pdf and go to any print shop to get it spiral bound
Very insightful, thanks a lot!
Sounds like the beginning of Dvorak's 9th symphony, the largo movement.
I heard that too! Southpark "quotes" Dvorak all the time too.
That James Horner obviously lifted for Titanic.
Yeah Hovis
I've seen someone cover this one other time but I found this more informative coming from you rick! I know this is off topic but I was thinking about songs you might consider covering and I was wondering if you'd be able to cover any don't off the Toto four album? The mix on the album sounds extremely spacious and i can never figure out how they made the soundstage so huge. Obviously I'm sure you would know exactly how that's done. I do wonder if Toto would be blockers also
I love ten minute tidbits. Thanks
I'd like Rick to start a "What Makes This Soundtrack Great" series. So much to analyze in any soundtrack, ripe for the Beato treatment. Maybe look into Clint Mansell.
Great lesson Rick...can you please tell which woodwind software instrument were you using at the beginning of the lesson!?
It’s called Tutti by Spitfire Audio
Incredible Video! ! !
Thanks Rick!
Great vidéo
Hi Rick! Would you take some time to analyze Earthside - Mob Mentality? You’ll be blown away ;)
Interesting. The part from 6:40 to 7:45 sounded pretty much tonal to me, especially the last two chords. I would rather call the Ebmaj7sus4/F a Bb7/F with the anticipation of the Eb. The last chord doesn't sound mixolydian at all since there's no dominant 7. So that would be just a V I cadence in Eb (which is also the first chord of the progression, hence the strong functional relationship, even with all those modulation going on in the middle)
Very important topic. Something not discussed. Im the king of modulations. LOL I love the screen splitting...
Hey Rick!! Question: what’s string samples are you using here? Love your content!
I think your first example is perhaps not best served by starting with Eb and then, in the next bar, using Eb to modulate. The two being so close together makes it feel like we really haven't gone anywhere harmonically before modulating.
So you’re saying I need to write a couple I IV V’s first to get your ear ready? It’s not the 17th century bro.
As always perfect!!! :)
I thought title implied that video would be about how do people use modulations to separate verses from choruses, to emphasise some ideas (what could be that ideas) or to shift listeners attention from one state to another...
I Love This!! 🎸🎶🔥🤘🏻
Hi! I know it doesn’t have anything to do with the video, but i wanted to tell you something about perfect pitch. I know that it’s strongly belived that you can’t develop perfect pitch as an adult, but i think i can disagree. I got into music incredibly late in my life and i am now at the academy for musical theory. I started to learn everything at the age of 14 and within a few years i developed the ability to always hear certain notes/chords. By now i can get all of them right most of the time. And for me it’s just like distinguishing colors, just like you said perfect pitch is. Did i develop something similar?
wow! now we're splashing around in the deep end of the pool.. nice job splainin' Rick!
Fascinating vid! Some of the changes are really sliding magically! Just a note: On 7:24, it would've been awesome if you really did put a D in that chord, cause...you said.. Lydian.. Ab Lydian... aw, fuck it, I know you meant :) !
The whole section at 6:50 reminds me of once you by Jacob Collier. Lovely work Rick!
I always get lost midway through these videos lol the complex concept and the calm soothing sound make me drowsy. One question: how would our perception of the music theory going on change if you used simple saw waves and not the orchestral instruments?
I really wanted to know how to use modulation in jazz soloing
Ah! So The Swan of Tuonela uses the Lydian mode to float the magic bird through the mists that curl on that black mirror of still waters? Sounds feasible; and the possibility just improves the miracle of it all, doesn't render it in any way trite, but adds a name to the spell the strings sing. Pretty name, too. Even the name fits.
Bravo! Reminds me of my ear training class that met every Saturday morning when I went to UCLA. The best class I ever took there.
Haha! That’s a good thing John!
@@RickBeato Indeed!
Great video. Love your content. Keep it up! :)
In bar two if the E you resolve to was at the top of the chord it would still sound good imo
Yo keep those comin!!
Hey Rick! What sound library are those woodwinds? EWQLSO?
All Spitfire Audio sounds.
You know there's a point in a lot of Ricks vids that I realised I know absolutely nothing at all about music theory... and there a some video that are just SOOOOOO FAR beyond my understanding that it's just not worth watching other than for the stunning sounds...
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Fair enough man. Just always seems like I start thinking I'm getting a wee bit of a handle music threory, enough at least to feel like I'm making some progress and then a vid like this pops up and I'm feel like I'm back to square one.
Just listen to the sounds. I learned the sounds long before the names or theory. The more you hear something you get to the point where you say “ I recognize that!”
@@RickBeato Thanks Rick. I hear you. I guess as a (very) late-learner I'm conscious of the time factor and prone to rushing and also prone to needing to categorise EVERYTHING. To have a name and a rationale for why a thing sounds like it is. In my spotty youth I learned tunes by ear and wrote the minimal catalogue of tunes with no knowledge of theory at all but I was always conscious of that gulf and now I'm trying to plug it... patience I guess.
Videos I don't fully understand I come back to when I think I'm ready again. Even the ones I understand I sometimes come back to if I can't remember some nuisances and just to affirm my knowledge.
Very nice!
Cheers Rick, amazing video! But maybe I'm getting something wrong... IMHO, the last chord of the final sequence sounds more like a Eb Maj 7th with 9 and 11th... In the linear example I actually hear D notes (i.e. the Maj 7th) at around 9:12... is that right?
Thats a great sound 😍❤ which yamaha model is this
What VST are you playing? It sounds good.
A few different Spitfire Audio orchestral sounds
Do you mind if I try composing some variations eg over that theme? It's pretty cool!
I get some Copland vibes from this