You have a great way of explaining concepts by using simple descriptive terminology. You've given me a new way to approach songwriting which is something I've always struggled to get started with. Thanks, subscribed!
Another brilliant video. Appreciate you taking it back to pop; though I also love it when you show more advanced approaches. Great teaching. Valuable info as always.
First one is still my favourite. The D is the 9 (2) as you said. Pushing up to the third. Clever and Ive noticed the use of it in some trance songs already (Synaesthesia by the Thrillseekers). In Gmin but melody starts on A. Genius
yes. i'm extrapolating a sort of new term from the work 'isorhythm'... when you repeat a rhythm with different notes. here we've got a repeated rhythm AND melodic contour.
@@ImpliedMusic Ah. Thank you. If I had enough music theory that I'd ever heard the word "isorhythm" it would have been even more obvious (ah, the gigantic holes in the knowledge of the self-taught.)
Thank you from Oxford UK. I enjoy your videos as I do not read music but can follow along because of the piano roll. Am I correct in saying that chords are diatonic but the melody is pentatonic?
Yes, but the pentatonic scale is also diatonic i.e. it only uses notes from the scale. For the major pentatonic scale for example you remove the 4th and the 7th notes from the major scale to arrive at the pentatonic.
@@originalvonster Thanks. The reason I am asking is because some of the chords had the 4th and 7th in the piece while the melody only had the pentatonic notes.
@@johausen5074 Thank you. As you can probably tell, I am a beginner when it comes to theory. I do find it really interesting to try and get my head around it. Pentatonic in the right hand and Diatonic in the left is a new one for me to think about.
Very interesting as always ....but what I didn't fully understand is, when the tonality of the scale is different from the tonality of the melody and how this affects what we consider Chord 1, 2, 3 ..etc. When I saw that you were using a different tonal center for the melody, my mind went that you were using a mode of that scale from which the chords were formed. So is this the reason why some say, chord cadences don't function in modal scales?
I feel like I'm going to hear pentatonic melodies every time I turn on the radio now, because all of your melodies here sound straight out of a generic pop song.
7:47 Ambient Theory? I want to learn all about that!
Me too!
You have a great way of explaining concepts by using simple descriptive terminology. You've given me a new way to approach songwriting which is something I've always struggled to get started with. Thanks, subscribed!
Have always left melody till last, this will definitely help incorporate it from the start
Many thanks!!❤
My first time seeing one of your videos. Very cool. Following.
Really enjoy your videos and the way you present theory. I'll think of this every time I hear the Tennessee Waltz!
Another brilliant video. Appreciate you taking it back to pop; though I also love it when you show more advanced approaches. Great teaching. Valuable info as always.
Thanks Chris. Food for thought as usual…
Beautiful, Chris!
These videos might be more time consuming, but they are so engaging
This was a good video, in fact very good. But then it became Awesome.
Wow.
Bloody great video thanks. The third one was very sufjan stevens
Ex 3 was great!
I'm just fooling around on the piano and I really enjoy your teaching!
Example 3 brings back memories of the joy of my 3 dogs, but at the same time, the pain of their passing away.
Constraints are important for creativity
Very good point
I always feel like your videos leave me so inspired!
very nice work again and looking forward to the ambient theory video 😍
Many thanks, very useful. You are great!
You are welcome!
Thank you for the education and inspiration!
First one is still my favourite. The D is the 9 (2) as you said. Pushing up to the third. Clever and Ive noticed the use of it in some trance songs already (Synaesthesia by the Thrillseekers). In Gmin but melody starts on A. Genius
I love these videos, thanks!
what a great teacher!
That ascending minor triad arpeggio starting on the 5th doesn't belong exclusively to Beethoven,
yet he somehow owns it. It Is Moonlight.
@8:43 is the word 'isofigure'? If so, I can deduce "equal figure"-does it have meaning beyond the symmetry of climing/falling notes?
yes. i'm extrapolating a sort of new term from the work 'isorhythm'... when you repeat a rhythm with different notes. here we've got a repeated rhythm AND melodic contour.
@@ImpliedMusic Ah. Thank you. If I had enough music theory that I'd ever heard the word "isorhythm" it would have been even more obvious (ah, the gigantic holes in the knowledge of the self-taught.)
That last melody is a bit of an earworm!
Thank you from Oxford UK. I enjoy your videos as I do not read music but can follow along because of the piano roll. Am I correct in saying that chords are diatonic but the melody is pentatonic?
Yes, but the pentatonic scale is also diatonic i.e. it only uses notes from the scale. For the major pentatonic scale for example you remove the 4th and the 7th notes from the major scale to arrive at the pentatonic.
@@originalvonster Thanks. The reason I am asking is because some of the chords had the 4th and 7th in the piece while the melody only had the pentatonic notes.
@@paulc7798 The chords use all 8 notes - but the melody only the pentatonic ones it seems.
@@johausen5074 Thank you. As you can probably tell, I am a beginner when it comes to theory. I do find it really interesting to try and get my head around it. Pentatonic in the right hand and Diatonic in the left is a new one for me to think about.
Beautiful! What piano sound/plugin are you using by the way?
@@SongSecretsMomNeverTaughtYou pianoteq
Very interesting as always ....but what I didn't fully understand is, when the tonality of the scale is different from the tonality of the melody and how this affects what we consider Chord 1, 2, 3 ..etc. When I saw that you were using a different tonal center for the melody, my mind went that you were using a mode of that scale from which the chords were formed. So is this the reason why some say, chord cadences don't function in modal scales?
I feel like I'm going to hear pentatonic melodies every time I turn on the radio now, because all of your melodies here sound straight out of a generic pop song.
@@slowfreq yep.😉