Why Cadences are Crucial for How Music Feels
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- Musical examples from Breath of the Wild of the thing beginning composers don't pay enough attention to: cadences.
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This video explores the importance of cadences in music composition, breaking them down into three categories: authentic cadences (perfect and imperfect), half cadences, and deceptive cadences. We look at examples from the game 'The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild' and learn how to use them to create balance, tension, and surprise. We also explore how to use a deceptive cadence and how to create a powerful resolution.
#musictheory #composition #cadence
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Dude, ending on a diminished chord is such a chad move! For real though, that sounded awesome!
Ha thanks
@@RyanLeach chad 😂
02:27 "Ravioli's Theme" I love it
Pasta bird
The BotW soundtrack is utterly wonderful, always happy to see videos discussing it!
Edit: Not sure if was autocorrect or just shots fired at Revali (perfectly warranted IMO), but that's a great typo at 2:27!
I’m always happy to have an excuse to do something involving BoTW
i didnt even notice that lol. me and my sister call him ravioli unironically, idk how we started it i dont remember.
@@ThatPigeon00 my sister and I*
@@jarlwhiterun7478 who cares?
I'm happy that you touched upon the rhythmic side of cadences. I feel that rhythm and form should be much more central themes in today's (beginner) music theory discourse.
I definitely need to do some more videos on the importance rhythm
For sure, I think part of it is that it's much harder to teach (at least in a passive fashion such as using videos online). But it's definitely not given enough attention IMO
Here in Brazil, there are many music genres that have rhythm as one of the defining elements. There are even religions (such as Umbanda or Candomblé) that have rhythm as a very important thing. Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to take music lessons, I only learned a little theory by reading a few books and I learned some stuff out of curiosity and taking notes by listening to records, but I don't know anyone in my neighborhood who has studied theory either, who I could talk to. I would love to see a video about rhythm.
That resolution to the diminished chord was surprisingly powerful and gut wrenching. Nice.
This is by far the greatest and most helpful explanation of cadences I've ever seen
I greatly appreciate you showing both the sheet music and piano visualizer when demonstrating the pieces of music! Makes playing along and analyzing the songs so much easier.
Always appreciate any analysis of Zelda music I can get!
The long awaited Cadence video
Ha, thanks for waiting!
I agree with Derek elsewhere in the comments, your production and editing keep getting better and better. You found non-generative alternatives for visual interest, really well done. I particularly enjoyed the image from the "Sending Bokos to Outerspace" video (a pretty fun video also 🙂) and just perfectly placed in your narrative. Also, the care with which you chose the clips from the BOTW shows both the time you took and how well you know that game, lol. I also really appreciate the time you take to respond to questions and comments, even giving links to where folks can find things like the OST from Final Fantasy. Lastly, thanks for doing a good job of calling out the material you pull inspiration and info from, like Alan Belkin's work and in this video Cedric Davie's Musical Structure and Design. You are really helping to fill out my music library and source materials for study.
Thanks Mark, I had a lot of fun making this one and I'm glad it came through
I'm so glad BOTW is getting the recognition of how amazing its music is!!
Not much to say, other than: Great video.
Informative, well articulated and presented, neatly edited with both visual and audio demonstrations.
Well paced, assumed just the right amount of knowledge to go into the topic.
Thanks!
This is great. I would love to see a video on some of the best fighting game music composers and marrying playstyle to composition
FanTASTIC editing! Makes the video come to life
Awesome video with easy to understand explanations! It’s awesome to see you use video game music as examples in a lot of your videos.
BOTW has some awesome tunes to choose from, so that’s always a plus.
Notably, the D-flat chord you referenced is better analyzed as an inverted G7 chord with flat 3rd and 5th, which shows why we parse it as a dominant.
This is a great reminder video! Thanks.
I’m currently writing a short, vaguely-Sonata-like-form movement for wind quintet. Truthfully, it’s intended much more just as an exercise for learning Dorico than a “serious composition.”
However, its harmonic movement is faster than usual for me. There are cadences, but they don’t really rest much. The “temporary stasis” is more “temporary” than “stasis”!
However, that’s evolved into something of a secondary goal for this composition, so I’m finding myself learning about more than just Dorico!
It's been inspiring to see your channel grow so much dude! I enjoy tuning in and seeing what you make. I would say the 2nd cadence example is a stretch for A.C., considering it's a minor v to i... Definitely a different, modal flavor. Though I know you are stretching common practice period analytical language to accommodate a wider range of genres, so maybe some cheating is OK :)
That last chord in Daruk's Theme is basically a minor key Neapolitan Chord (except the 3rd is usually in the bass) which in Classical music is usually used to set up the Dominant.
bIImaj7#11 is also a common voicing in flamenco, though it's usually Fmaj7#11.
Wow that movie cadence you did sounded amazing
One of my pet peeves is when a chord progression feels like it repeats endlessly without any resolution, so I appreciate this
THANKYOU - I finally understand what cadences are, after hearing about them for so long!
Also, I am a huge fan of Ravioli's Theme :P
Finally someone brought up this topic
This was surprisingly educational! Great job presenting some intermediate level music theory in a way that is graspable even for beginners! I look forward to checking out more of your videos.
In UK music theory, a Rest cadence is known as a Perfect cadence, and a Half cadence is known as an Imperfect cadence. It took me a while to understand why you were calling a V-I cadence an imperfect cadence!
Thanks. I was kinda confused with these US vs U.K. music theory terms. Also, deceptive cadence is interrupted cadence. The video didn’t mention about plagal cadences. Unsure if it’s the same term used in the US or not.
@@MCSCMusic i believe it is. A plagal cadence over here is a IV - I
Enjoyed this analysis of some of the BoTW soundtrack! I love listening to the music as I play.
THIS IS WHAY I'VE BEEN MISSING!
My compositions always feel wandering and unfinished because I always forget to write cadences. Thank you so much for this video!
Don't worry. I've been writing music for 50 years and never even considered the concept of cadences. Instead, go by your ear, and try and come up with an interesting chord progression. Too much attention to things like cadences leads to cliched writing.
@@PaulGordonBusby Indeed! Nowadays you see rules for everything... painting, writing poems, composing, chord progression rules etc. etc. But if oneself is sensitive to some form of art, they do not need rules... rules are generalizations of art forms that were already created, and IMO a real artist does not need them. Rules may help to understand, analyze or classify art, but should not be required in the process of creation unless the creator lacks sensitivity or feeling.
thanks. as a beginner it was easy to follow trough.
beautifully explained, though many things went above my head. I need to work more 🤯
TL;DW (backed by Laiz's complete musician):
A cadence is the end point of a sentence, whether it is conclusive or not.
authentique cadence (AC) ends in V I
Half cadences (HC) ends in I
perfect authentic cadence (PAC) soprano does 2-1 or 7-8 and bass 5-1
imperfect authentic cadence (IAC) soprano ends in 5 or 3
contrapunctal cadence (IAC too) if the bass does something which is not 5-1, like 7-8 or 2-1
On the cusp of 100k subs. Damn glad to be on of them!
Thank you for being one of them!
Thank you for the video on cadence.🎶🎵🎶
Cadences are pretty much the only thing I remember from my courses in music theory. Don't know the correct english terms but I especially remember what would literally translate to "deceptive cadence" and "elliptical cadence". And something called "Classic Vienna cadence".
Great video! I feel like I should point out though, that the half cadence chord in Daruk’s theme is technically not Dbmaj #11, if it were it would have the 5th “Ab”, and 7th “C”, and 9th “Eb”. Db add#11 is closer as then you don’t need the 7th and 9th, but the chord still contains Bb the “6th”, not a 5th as it would with the Db add #11 (or the 5th can be omitted, but still, not a 6th). What it actually is, is a G-7b5 in 2nd inversion, the notes of G-7b5 being G, Bb, Db, and F - which are indeed the exact notes of the chord in question, but with the Db in the base, hence 2nd inversion. This works as a half cadence because it is still a V chord, but the chord quality has been altered from Dominant to half-diminished. Furthermore, the b2 root is a common substitute for a V as seen by its ubiquitous use in tritone substitution, so our ear accepts it well.
@Guy Dude I think you’re coming at this from a very jazz perspective where chord symbols on charts are freely allowed to be reinterpreted in many different ways, and that’s totally fine. And I agree that naming by function is important, though you seem to be implying by your example that if the half dim chord is not part of some cyclic 2 5 1 based progression than it is not functioning as such (which again is a very jazz way of thinking, and not applicable to more classical theory, see the 2nd chord in the “dance of the sugar plum fairies” for example). But I’m just stating EXACTLY what the chord actually is. It is not a major#11 because it does not contain all the essential constituent notes of a major #11 chord. There is no other way to name this chord with these exact notes than Gmi7b5/Db (or 2nd inversion or however you want to say it). If you try to name this chord from the Db root you would have to call it something like Db6 add#11 which is not a chord that is used in common jazz or classical theory jargon (and it misleading implies the presence of an Ab). And the only reason you should ever name a chord with some kind of strange name is if the chord in question cannot be named using conventional theory jargon. In this case though, everyone knows what a half dim chord is. Everyone knows what an inversion is. So that’s what you name it.
Put another way, if you did a theory exam and the question was “name this chord: ‘Db F G Bb’” and you wrote down “Dbmajor #11” as your answer, you would fail that question. It’s really as simple as that.
4:05 - Indeed, in my view at least, the harmony going V-I mostly just gives a sense of progression. It doesn’t produce an effect of resolution unless the harmonic rhythm also pauses there.
im glad this channel exists and that i stumbled upon it😛
Wow I needed this video many years ago, but I’m very happy to have found it now. Nice🙂
Havent played Breath of the Wild but my goodness the music is amazing. Stockkk
Thanks for mentioning the book "Musical Structure and Design" by Cedric Thorpe Davie. I just purchased it, and it seems great so far. It might be cool for you to make a video identifying, as few as possible, a set of books that would be useful to beginning composers.
I love finding new music theory channels.
I think it will be a cool video idea to do US vs U.K. Music Theory Terms, why it’s different and where these terms originated from.
Wow, this is very clean and helpful work ! Here sir, have my sub !
Thanks a lot for your work, it opens me an all new world !
You’ve got me thinking I should do an Alan Menken video soon
@@RyanLeach Hope to see that !
Loved this video, great use of the botw soundtrack!
Cadence tempo intervals and SUBJECT matter are the 'story' and are the what and how of lasting music, and is what i have learned as a neophyte musician.
Never thought i could play but what do ya know.
STORY/SUBJECT
Tempo and cadence
Time and refrain
Chorus
Rinse lather and repeat.
Opus made.
Db69 chord. Nice 😎
I don't read music so I very much appreciate the piano role!
Scarbo in the thumbnail 🤝
One piece of classical piano music ends on a dominant seventh tonality. It is the Prelude op. 28, no. 23, by Frederick Chopin. It is odd, but then followed immediately by the dramatic closing Prelude in d minor.
All your videos on different kinds of harmony and non-diatonic chords have been extremely helpful for me, but I was wondering if you might make a video on modulation... I've been incorporating everything I can from your videos into my music so far and it's made my compositions far more satisfying and less basic/boring, but this topic always seems to get glazed over. Perhaps that's because it's assumed that it's a fairly basic thing in composing and I just need to study theory more seriously. But as it is, whenever I feel like the next thing I should do is build upon or re-energize a theme in a new key, I can never figure out how to get there. Thanks for all your help! Please keep making all this great and informative content for beginners like me!
It's not that's it's considered too basic, modulation can actually be a difficult topic for people to wrap their heads around. You're right I am due for a video on the topic!
If you meant "basic" as a "fundamental" component, then you may be right. But, as Ryan said, it's upper level material.
That YT algorithm is doing you all sorts of favors, you've got a sub from me today, good stuff
The graphics are looking a lot better!
Loved this, Ryan!
Thanks, I had fun making this one!
Weirdly enough deceptive cadence feels like home to me? But the "home" chord feels deceptive.
Maybe is because I got so used to hearing chord progressions like that since I do it pretty often in my music production
"Ravioli's Theme"
This is great, thanks!
I literally wrote it down..thanks
Hey Ryan, great video as usual, thanks for being always so clear and structured! I was wondering, where do you get these video game scores? Do you translate by ear? Same goes for the playbacks, are they yours (from your daw which I guess is Dorico) or are they from the original soundtrack?
Sometimes by ear, sometimes I see if someone has saved me the trouble and already done a transcription. A good resource is www.ninsheetmusic.org
And in this case all the recordings are from the original soundtrack
btw my DAW is Logic, I only use Dorico for notation not production
@@RyanLeach thx! Id there an official digital version of the soundtrack that can be purchased? Only thing I found is a 5 CD pack in Japanese
@@Ph_Blais it’s all available to listen to on TH-cam
Thank you. This helped me understand a philosophical paper from 1878.
I know, right?
Super well done!
Love BoTW music! Thank for the analysis :)
2:55 Could you explain what happens here, it sounds so beautiful..
Great video, love to see why music makes you feel certain ways!
Sure. After the C chord that I talk about in the video, it goes to Bb, which is the bII of Am. It's borrowed from the Phrygian mode, which we actually see used in a few other themes in this video. Must be a common thread in the BOTW music!
Part of why it works so well is that there's this loooong descending bass line from that C all the way to the final cadence. C - Bb - Am - Am/G - F - E
very interesting and importent.
Brilliant! Subscribed!
This video was good overall. I like how you draw out Big Concepts, both connected to and despite any details. The emphasis in your videos is great teaching in that regard. Most of the examples are good, too, and it's certainly fun that you pulled them all from Breath of the Wild. That said, I do disagree on two examples. Your example in Kass's Theme is the end of a sub-phrase, not a cadence, so that section of the video is not as illustrative as it might have been. Also, Revali's Theme is a missed opportunity: the cadence to F minior probably *sounds* (to most ears) like a deceptive cadence; there's an (intentional) feeling of it not being *fully* resolved all but the last time we hear it, and that aligns well with the story line it's punctuating. And the LAST time we hear that theme, it cadences on an F major chord instead, sort of a "compromised" but stronger feeling of resolution.
I definitely think it’s best to determine whether you’ve established a cadence in an existing chord progression based on your ear and not with music theory
I say that as someone who’s all aboard the theory train and studies it every day.
You may not have a V-I, IV-I - hell, you may not even resolve to the I at all. And yet, your progression may be complete. The less you use these very, very well established cadences that have been used in countless pieces, the less you sound generic
Love this dude ❤
Thanks!
just wanna say, youre way better at teaching me cadences than my actual music theory teacher
I'm not sure if I'm mistaken but as I'm practicing the information from this video I noticed that Ravali's Theme ends with a "v i" and not a "V i"? Subbed btw :)
The “Hudson moves out” had me dead every time it played 💀
You scored "Šišanje"?!! Wow, small world... :)
I even got to go to Belgrade for the premiere!
Not video game related, but in the ending of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "A Canterlot Wedding: Part 1", composer Daniel Ingram cleverly uses the Deceptive Cadence for a pun. For context, the whole episode builds up to making us think the new character Princess Cadence is evil and will be exposed as such, only for the protagonist Twilight Sparkle to seemingly be proven wrong...only for Cadence (or rather, an imposter disguised as her) to pull the rug out on her (and the audience) when no one else is around by revealing that she really is evil and fooled everyone. As the episode concludes, the music outright ends with a Deceptive Cadence.
I love raviolis theme
Shout out to my boy mr Plagal ✊🏻
Using BOTW to make me study for my theory test is a genius move
4:33 "IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC"
2:28 Ravioli's theme 😂
Hi, At the end of video you call D7b9 as the 5 chord of Gminor scale
Isn't wrong? Because Dm is the fifth chord of that key?!
th-cam.com/video/UdL96RvzQzE/w-d-xo.html
Wow👏🏻
How did you know I wanted to make music?? I never spoke to my cellphone about it xD
Ravioli’s theme 🧑🍳
In Ravioli's theme, you've got a C minor7 going to F minor. The C isn't a dominant chord, so it can't be a perfect authentic cadence.
Ah good catch. The V should actually say v. In which case some would even call it a Plagal Cadence but that’s ridiculous to me, how the moment functions in the form and the degree of resolution is the what matters
Excuse you but at 1:51 that is a minor 5 to minor i it does not have the raised leading tone like a perfect cadence 😢
hey i did not watch yet this video but does it mean that authentic cadence means that you dont end your "16/16" loop with same notes so it does not sound like boring loop, but it has some progression. am i clueless or did i understand from first sentences what you meant
Also giving different vibes about track. i dont directly mean major and minor but i mean how the sound feels... it can feel alot of more than just happy or sad. i mean it can sound mystic or agressive or like anything between sad and happy. just
im person who have 0.0001% music theory, but i have quite sharp understanding how tones "feel"
Thanks for this video, I've been waiting for this topic to come up! Mostly because I have a question that I've been struggling with for quite some time now: How, if at all, does one use cadences in non-standard harmonies?
Major scale and Harmonic Minor scale are a trivial case, because the fifth chord is Major, but that's not the case in, say, Dorian mode, where it's a Minor chord instead. And then there's that harmony based on chromatic mediants (I'm not sure what's the name - it's the hollywood one where you move by thirds) - there seems to be no fifth chord at all in such harmony.
Focus more on the sense of punctuation and the feelings of rest, incompleteness and surprise, rather than the specific details of the chords. bVII to i in Dorian will give a feeling of rest, for example
@@RyanLeach Thank you so much for the answer!
Amazing video! I have question though, how do you tell the difference between an imperfect and a deceptive cadence? Is it the melody (whether it uses the relative minor or the major key root note as the note in the melody)? To me it essentially is the same whether you write it as the i of the relative minor or the vi of the major key
The feeling of rest versus surprise. The key word in "Imperfect Authentic Cadence" is "authentic", the fact that we've come back home harmonically.
Can you please answer a question for me that's been gnawing at me for a very long time?
Why are we calling it D Flat Major instead of just calling it C# Major? I've been slowly learning
theory on my own after playing piano for 30+ years only by ear.. and this is one of the main
things that has been driving me up a wall! I don't understand why we would call something
flat if we could just as easily call it a C# major? I guess I could easily Google it but at least
I'm being interactive on your channel and in your comment section?
Great question, there are several reasons for choosing sharp or flat.
One is that we already have a "C" chord in the piece, C minor. To oversimplify a bit, when you use a standard 7 note scale like the major or minor scale, you only have one of each letter. So C Db Eb F G Ab Bb C. But not C C# Eb etc because that would look weird, like I said we already have a C so we don't also want the C# to confuse us.
Another thing to think about is the 'direction' of the note. In this case the chord goes from Db to C. C# would rather go up to D.
And the last reason is the function of the chord, which is the Roman numeral. In the example you're talking about, the chord functions as a version of a II chord, in this case bII. And so if you're going to use the Roman numeral bII, you would also label it with the lowered second note in the key, Db.
@@RyanLeach Thanks for the explanation. Still a bit confused but mostly because I'm still so new in regards to theory. It's awesome that I'm finally having moments where I'm connecting the dots from the 30 years of playing by ear and this last year of learning more about theory. Your explanation confused me a bit, but I feel like in another 6 months of learning more about theory.. I'll come back to your original reply with an "ahh hahhh!" moment and it'll all make perfect sense.
2:34 just realized it says ravioli instead of revali.
Evidently I process music differently, though perhaps that is a consequence of language rather than music
nice
How do you find these video game scores? Do you learn the composition by ear and write your own score or you find them on the internet? I'm asking because I'm trying to learn the OST from the first Final Fantasy game for the NES, but I have to learn them by ear. I wish I could find the score and make it easier on me.
www.ninsheetmusic.org/browse/series/FinalFantasy
I do a lot of these by ear, but that link is a handy resource too
Ravioli?
Im in a C major scale , lets say i play a C chord in root position; but play a G note in the lower octave, do i still have the quality of a C chord or a G chord ? would it be leaning toward the quality of the I of the scale or the V of the scale?
Root position means you have the root in the bass (aka on the bottom), so if instead you put G on the bottom then you aren't in root position anymore. Instead you'd have a second inversion chord. More info -> th-cam.com/video/YBHY-0mmKkA/w-d-xo.html
@@RyanLeach an inverted C chord with G in the bass is still a 1 chord right ? but why do we do inversions tho? it changes the quality of the chord ; sometimes it becomes another chord. I just wanna know when i do inversions; it wouldnt change the purpose of the chord; because every chord has its use
@@melorams22 Yes if there's a note other than the root in the bass you put Chord/Bass Note, so C/G in your case. And yes C/G is still a one chord but it feels a bit different. There are a bunch of reasons to do inversions, mostly to make the bass line more interesting or more melodic
@@RyanLeach thanks man , great musical content btw. I always watch them
Where would you fit the plagal cadence?
under Davie's categories probably "rest"
how do you classify this cadence. Instead of the ii-V-I, it gets ii-V-VI. e.g Dm- G- AM7.
Deceptive
@@RyanLeach but deceptive cadence examples on several texts and theories revolve around V going to vi i.e. G --> Am.
How about G --> A major seventh with two stray notes. Just like the ending chords of Lately by Stevie Wonder
@@RenanteNate vi is the most common but it doesn't have to be. Per Wikipedia: "A cadence is called 'interrupted', 'deceptive' or 'false' where the penultimate, dominant chord is not followed by the expected tonic, but by another one, often the submediant."
Often the submedient but not exclusively
While I wish minor v’s counted as PACs, they don’t within western classical music. Without a leading tone we’re really in F aeolian
Yes, this is a correct spotting of an error. What I get when I make videos too quickly!
The true intrigue comes from how we get to each cadence. "The piece is in C minor........mostly............"
Can we use cadences for modes too?
Yes but the chord choices are a bit different. I don’t have a video for it but try searching for “cadence chords in modes”
@@RyanLeach thanks ❤️
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