the log explanation made so much sense to me (fyi we also see in log) - thank you!.. would love to make the same video but with the 5th chromatic layout of the deluge
Thank you so much for this and the other Deluge videos! As someone that does not come from a music theory background I appreciate the breakdown and love that you use the Deluge to show how everything relates rather than using a staff!
Thanks! It's always nice to hear that the content is appreciated. I think most everybody will agree that the way we write music and the entire terminology of music theory isn't ideal. But I guess we'll just have to deal with it. It's the language we use to talk about music and languages are just hard to change. You don't hear a lot of esperanto conversations out in the streets these days...
When the open source start getting stronger you should definitely cover the community made firmware. There is already a nice one letting you utilize the keyboard in kit mode. Great video btw, needed this
Yes, I saw that. Looks pretty cool. I'm awfully poor at finger drumming so I'll skip this one. But I'm very excited to see what the future (or more accurately: the coders) will bring.
good question. these are chords with four notes in them, which I didn't get to in this video. The basic principle is fairly simple though. You just take your base triad (minor in this case because of the m) and than add a seventh (m7) or a sixth (m6) in relation to the root note. 7 means a minor seventh. For a major seventh you see things like maj7, j7 or Δ7. The m6 chord is a bit of a special case. So consider this on big bracket. The 6 here is a major sixth and there is no sixth chord with a minor sixth. The reason for this is that we get to these four note chords by stacking thirds as well. So we usually would get to a seventh chord. the 6 in a m6 chord is sort of a substitution for that seventh (which will then not be in the chord). The 'natural' way of sixths occurring in chords is by keep stacking thirds (1 3 5 7 9 11 13). The 13 is an octave plus a sixth. There we get major and minor versions which we label 13 and b13. Thanks for the question! Seventh chords would be a good topic for a follow up video to this one!
@@easytiger1452 härzleche Dank! And yes, it would be really appreciated! 7th chords are some of my favourites and I find they really spice up a chord progression, so if you wanted to make a follow-up video about them, I'd be super grateful, but that said, your explanation here is very clear and I think I get it.
Great video, very well executed. I have a fair understanding of basic music theory but the way you presented it brought some new perspectives. Something I ike about music theory: you can know it for a long time and then something that was right there under your eyes you had never thought about a certain way just clicks. Very cool idea and thanks for sharing
3:15 That's one of the puzzling incoherences in music theory: why the "minor second" (semitone interval) is called "minor" when actually it is the same in both major and minor scale. It should be called "diminished second" (just like the 4th and the 5th).
I got my first music theory lessons at the age of 10. I am now 58 and still don't get it. I play around with music software and hardware for decades but this part of the hobby always shuts off my brain. Your video did help me, so thanks, but why is this so hard to grasp when I clearly understand so many other topics?
Thanks a lot for the great suggestions! I'll actually have a video about all thing seventh chords on TH-cam soon. I am currently editing it. 9th chords is also a great topic, i'll keep that on my to do list. With the scales the deluge offers you get the same set of chords for all scales. The only difference is the order they are in. So not a whole lot to cover there. It might be different with the community firmware. I am not sure though, haven't had the time to check it out unfortunately.
that's one thing I love about the deluge. It goes pretty deep but at the same time you can get started with it right away without knowing anything about it. Great tool for teaching too!
Nice video man. Had a deluge for a while and been playing other instruments for over 40 years, can read sheet music etc. but ... the big thing is I never learned any music theory and that's holding me back from making things with the deluge so really, this is the perfect video.
Instant subscriber after this video! Great job explaining, wonderful lil cues added to the screen in post, and beautifully simple examples of chord shapes and progressions. I don't even own a Deluge yet, but this was still emensely helpful, thanks man!
Do you have a video tutorial or could do a tutorial on how to hook up hardware fx to deluge in a dawless setup? Do you need a mixer or interface for this or can you route it in a way where you have it send return and just use headphones without the extra gear?
There's no simple send/return solution that I could think of. A mixer would definitely be helpful. But even there it would be difficult to send individual things to a send bus. You could go mono and try doing something with the two stereo channels but that seems very impractical to me. With the limited amount of I/O I think it's just not designed for anything other than sending the entire sum through an effect box.
@@easytiger1452 i figured it out. Just run into line in. If you want to run fx say as a send and return you have to route going to your faw but with an instrument your fine. Also if you have something like zoia you can do this as well
the log explanation made so much sense to me (fyi we also see in log) - thank you!.. would love to make the same video but with the 5th chromatic layout of the deluge
thanks for mentioning that we also see in log, I didn't know that.
Thank you so much for this and the other Deluge videos! As someone that does not come from a music theory background I appreciate the breakdown and love that you use the Deluge to show how everything relates rather than using a staff!
Thanks! It's always nice to hear that the content is appreciated. I think most everybody will agree that the way we write music and the entire terminology of music theory isn't ideal. But I guess we'll just have to deal with it. It's the language we use to talk about music and languages are just hard to change. You don't hear a lot of esperanto conversations out in the streets these days...
Thank you so much for this video. The Push also has a isomorphic keyboard and I need to learn this quick for the deluge and push
You can get the sequencer to work like this in push as well - just hit the layout button a couple of times
@@GuidoGautsch ty
When the open source start getting stronger you should definitely cover the community made firmware. There is already a nice one letting you utilize the keyboard in kit mode. Great video btw, needed this
Yes, I saw that. Looks pretty cool. I'm awfully poor at finger drumming so I'll skip this one. But I'm very excited to see what the future (or more accurately: the coders) will bring.
I've watched and read a fair bit about music theory but I don't think it ever clicked as much as it did with this video - awesome job!
Quick question - where do things like m7 or M6 fit in?
good question. these are chords with four notes in them, which I didn't get to in this video. The basic principle is fairly simple though. You just take your base triad (minor in this case because of the m) and than add a seventh (m7) or a sixth (m6) in relation to the root note. 7 means a minor seventh. For a major seventh you see things like maj7, j7 or Δ7.
The m6 chord is a bit of a special case. So consider this on big bracket. The 6 here is a major sixth and there is no sixth chord with a minor sixth. The reason for this is that we get to these four note chords by stacking thirds as well. So we usually would get to a seventh chord. the 6 in a m6 chord is sort of a substitution for that seventh (which will then not be in the chord). The 'natural' way of sixths occurring in chords is by keep stacking thirds (1 3 5 7 9 11 13). The 13 is an octave plus a sixth. There we get major and minor versions which we label 13 and b13.
Thanks for the question! Seventh chords would be a good topic for a follow up video to this one!
@@easytiger1452 härzleche Dank! And yes, it would be really appreciated! 7th chords are some of my favourites and I find they really spice up a chord progression, so if you wanted to make a follow-up video about them, I'd be super grateful, but that said, your explanation here is very clear and I think I get it.
I found this very helpful, and suddenly, things make more sense. Thanks 😊
Thanks! Very glad this was helpful to you!
Thanks for the nice tutorial on the Deluge!
This is such an excellent tutorial, thank you so much!
and much awesomeness was on display.
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Great video, very well executed. I have a fair understanding of basic music theory but the way you presented it brought some new perspectives. Something I ike about music theory: you can know it for a long time and then something that was right there under your eyes you had never thought about a certain way just clicks.
Very cool idea and thanks for sharing
Thanks! Very glad I could offer some new perspectives!
Long-term Deluge Lifer here: this machine constantly blows my mind. How on earth did those guys in New Zealand come up with it??
3:15 That's one of the puzzling incoherences in music theory: why the "minor second" (semitone interval) is called "minor" when actually it is the same in both major and minor scale.
It should be called "diminished second" (just like the 4th and the 5th).
I got my first music theory lessons at the age of 10. I am now 58 and still don't get it. I play around with music software and hardware for decades but this part of the hobby always shuts off my brain. Your video did help me, so thanks, but why is this so hard to grasp when I clearly understand so many other topics?
I'd love to see a video on how other scales change the way chords are made on the deluge and perhaps some stuff about 7th and 9th chords and such.
Thanks a lot for the great suggestions! I'll actually have a video about all thing seventh chords on TH-cam soon. I am currently editing it. 9th chords is also a great topic, i'll keep that on my to do list.
With the scales the deluge offers you get the same set of chords for all scales. The only difference is the order they are in. So not a whole lot to cover there. It might be different with the community firmware. I am not sure though, haven't had the time to check it out unfortunately.
Excellent video!!
Thanks!
This was really helpful!
Many thanks for this brilliant and easy to understand breakdown of chords and intervals within the context of the Deluge. So helpful!
Isn't the Deluge an amazing machine? I showed it to a friend who is a music teacher and she was amazed, but she immediately understood how it works.
that's one thing I love about the deluge. It goes pretty deep but at the same time you can get started with it right away without knowing anything about it. Great tool for teaching too!
Its awesome you literally can set up a couple clips and have a full track in a matter of 5 minutes or less pressing a bunch of pads on grid.
What a great video. Thank you 😀
Nice video man. Had a deluge for a while and been playing other instruments for over 40 years, can read sheet music etc. but ... the big thing is I never learned any music theory and that's holding me back from making things with the deluge so really, this is the perfect video.
Really great useful video thank you so much
Really great explanations. Hope this becomes a series. For example what makes a chord progression moving between minor and major scales sound good?
Thanks for the great questions! I'm planning on at least making a part two to this. Just haven't gotten around to it.
I knew everything in this video but it was still great. Very succint, clear, and to the point.
Very clear explanation I appreciate you using the Deluge to illustrate basic music theory.
Instant subscriber after this video! Great job explaining, wonderful lil cues added to the screen in post, and beautifully simple examples of chord shapes and progressions. I don't even own a Deluge yet, but this was still emensely helpful, thanks man!
Really great useful video thanks.
Thanks! Glad you found this useful!
thank YOU!!
My pleasure!
Do you have a video tutorial or could do a tutorial on how to hook up hardware fx to deluge in a dawless setup? Do you need a mixer or interface for this or can you route it in a way where you have it send return and just use headphones without the extra gear?
There's no simple send/return solution that I could think of. A mixer would definitely be helpful. But even there it would be difficult to send individual things to a send bus. You could go mono and try doing something with the two stereo channels but that seems very impractical to me. With the limited amount of I/O I think it's just not designed for anything other than sending the entire sum through an effect box.
@@easytiger1452 i figured it out. Just run into line in. If you want to run fx say as a send and return you have to route going to your faw but with an instrument your fine. Also if you have something like zoia you can do this as well
@@joeymc5272Yes I've done this plenty with the Korg NTS-1. Good times!