Music Composition - Composing from a Chord Progression
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- Composing music in different styles using the same chord progression. Have you ever experienced the frustration of finding a sequence of chords you really like the sound of but have been unsure about how to compose a melody to fit those chords? This video explains how to use notes from the chords in your melody and how to write in a multitude of different musical styles by experimenting with changes in metre, texture, tempo and many more possible adaptations. This is a must for any composer or for anyone studying harmony, melodic composition.
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0:00 - Introduction to composing from a chord progression
0:37 - A look at the chord scheme
2:46 - Changing the chord formations
5:07 - Using the same chord scheme in different musical styles
11:23 - Adaptations to consider
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11:52 When you suddenly get chills up your spine because he's playing the exact arpeggios of Sayo-nara from DDLC . . .
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+jan cam
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This is gold! I've been whatching a lot of your vids those you have presented us and they are so good, with such a good explanation... it's almost like a gift to the humanity. For now, I just don't have the money, but I'm sure that what you have in the "premium" section of your website must be precious. You deserve all the success in life and the best of luck, Gareth... thank you, so much!
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You are certainly a marvelous teacher. You explain your tutorials in such a clear way. You will be blessed.
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you just answered to the most complex questions of my life .Thanks for sharing this video
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Thank you so much for this insightful lesson!
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Thank you very much for this highly informative and inspiring video!
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Wonderful tutorial Sir!Thank you.
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Amazing as always
What an inspiration for budding composers
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Always thought I am totally thick when it comes to music theory, now I realize, with this brilliant teaching, it all starts to make sense. Thank you very much!
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So pleased I found this tutorial, I've just started messing with composing and it has given me loads of ideas to work with. Many thanks 👍
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Wonderful tutorial. Thank you
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Absolutely brilliant video!
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Thank you so much! I can't believe how much I just learned from a 13 minute video.
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It's very much helpful, thanks.
This is brilliant - thank you so much!
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These videos are so helpful, interesting, and well presented. Thanks! :)
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This is great! I always wondered whether you were limited to using the notes in a chord and whether you had to use the whole chord or could break it up. This makes a ton of sense and even for instruments like guitar it totally makes sense to me how it works
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Thank you!! :)
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Thank you very much Gareth! Inspiring!
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Thank you, this was helpful
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Thanks! Great job
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Great video! Another thing that I've been experimenting more with my own compositions is how long you play each chord. I think all the examples you provided work really well when we have an equal time spent on each chord. I sometimes like to change that up... so, using this progression, if I was in 4/4, and played two full bars (8 counts) of C, half of bar 3 (2 counts) with A minor, the other half (2 counts) with F, and then a bar (4 counts) of G before cycling back to C, it really changes the whole feel without changing anything in the harmonic identify of the progression.
Absolutely. Rhythmic variety adds enormous character to the music.
Outstanding sir. Thank you
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Very very helpful. This is my way of composing.
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I’m a guitarist and have watched many helpful vids from this channel. Thank you!
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Bravo, best explanation ever
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I'm new to keyboard/piano. I have been self learning to read music and apply it learning different instruments. Your simple explanations are beneficial. Thanks
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Great teaching!
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Clear explanation
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Very good. Perhaps not only for composers or arrangers - would be helpful to very many people just to understand playing.
This is short enough to be motivational for some people and avoids music notation - apart from RNA type symbols - which are not dwelt upon - so could work even for people with just basic keyboard knowledge.
There are still a significant number of people who come in to music from other directions - such as guitar playing - so maybe a different way of introducing chord progressions would work for those people - but it's already really good. Thanks.
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Wish I could take lessons with him in person...he is fabulous teacher for sure!
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I found you through the suggested videos. First, your videos are very funny and informative. I just made a TH-cam channel about the song writing, so l ‘m definitely doing my research. Thanks for all your help. Please keep it up! Just subbed!
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This is so cool! Thank you so much for sharing :)
Is it possible for a lay person to analyze mozart minuets and see how the progressions are? or are they too intricate? If they are, what should i undertake to learn before attempting this?
Absolutely possible to do that. Would you like an individual Skype lesson on the subject?
I'd love to, but unfortunately, I don't have a credit card and would be unable to compensate you. (After the piano is fixed I plan to take piano lessons and hope to learn from a teacher who can guide me, if all else fails.)
The best of luck for the future
Jen Disini find sheet music and use music theory to analyze that.
Great video. Do you have any advice on writing transitions, and tying a verse to a chorus, etc.
Try to use chords that draw you to the start of the chorus eg chord V will build expectation of a I resolution at the start of the Chorus. It’s all about painting the structure and managing tension/ release.
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Great video - thank you so much - Do you have the scores available for the examples (even though they may be improvised)?
We don’t have the scores available but you can pause the video to see what’s going on.
I love these lessons.
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You explain things so clearly. I will buy your courses online! :)
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Incredible interesting!
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These videos are great, clear and concise. I've watched many now, so do keep uploading! Just wondering how you have set up the keyboard to highlight the notes as you're playing them at the bottom of the screen?
Thank you. Glad you find them useful. It's a program called Synthesia connected to a midi keyboard.
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Very excellent video. Sure better than my theory teacher. Can you make some more compisition videos?
+The Professional
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Hi Gareth, in sonata form the 1st subject in the exposition, is it ok to repeat the first subject before going into the 2nd subject in the dominant key? so can i have a 1st subject A and 1st subject A' maybe with a slight variation or maybe just repeat it the exact same again, THEN go in to the 2nd subject in a dominant key? or do you just go from 1st subject then 2nd subject? only speaking of exposition not development or anything :) oh and secondly if your composing sonata form in a minor key is it best to do the 2nd subject in the relative key rather than the dominant key?
+anton mclouglin
Hi. Thanks for your question. You could do what you suggest quite legitimately. Some composers think in terms of a first subject area followed by a second subject area. And yes - if the first subject is in the tonic minor it's quite often the case that the second subject will be in the relative major. Hope that helps. See www.mmcourses.co.uk for more.
You're a great teacher. Is there any rule to be followed ,while u move from one chord to another. For eg, if you r moving from c major to A m .what notes can u add to your melody ,so that u arrive at the destination of Am..n what shall be the destination note of your melody ,(on which note the melody should stand ) to give a real presence of Am chord. Kindly help n answer
Find a pivot chord ie in your example a chord that you can find in both C major and A minor. Once you’ve used the pivot chord introduce the G# to establish the new key. See other TH-cam videos from Music Matters on this subject.
Lennon's Imagine is written in these chords too!
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From the perspective of detroit techno / house / ambient / acid house producer, where music is largely repetitive.. Now when I am finally - after doing "music" quarter century - learning music theory, I have started to wonder some black spots in my understanding of theory, what comes to chord proression and song structure.
Does it go right, or how wrong is it to prolong that time when moving through chord sequence?
So that song would start with just one chord, keeping changes minimal as long as it is possible to keep it interesting. Then going to next step and on.
I am thinking so slow movement that it takes whole song to go that chord progression through once. Or maybe twice. But the point is that my kind of music seems not to work well if there is too much things going on too quickly. Like if fitting whole chord seq. in just one pattern and then repeating that until it's time to make it even more alive.
I guess there is no rule that prevents making some sort of combinations between those two extremeties. Maybe so that song starts with catchy hook and has just a little to none movement in chords, then increasing variety to the end. More complete melodies, faster chord sequence and bpm, some chord substitutions, tougher bassline, more drums, sound fx, and what not.
I love learning theory nowadays, but it ain't easy to implement in electronic music without loosing that certain style that each genre has.
Ofc it's good to be unique and do stuff with own authentic personal style, but I'd like to do it inside of some certain limits / characteristic that those genres have. Maybe stretch those limits a bit though.. just not too much. :D
Obviously much depends on the musical style but it’s certainly interesting to experiment with faster/slower rates of chord change, and with extended & chromatic chords beyond the basic diatonic progressions. Good to hear your perspective.
you are making my dream true
+Imagine about
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Hi again Gareth, can I just ask please how do you structure a Concerto? If I want to compose a violin concerto how do i structure it with the ABC theme, recapitulation etc, this is one I would like to know but is not mentioned in the videos. Many thanks in advance
+Victor Jones
Hi Victor. Good to hear from you again. We will in due course be making some films about Musical Form/ Structure. As for Concerto Form, there are options. A standard structure is to work in Sonata Form with a Double Exposition. So Intro, 1st Subject, 2nd Subject all Orchestra only, then repeat Exposition with soloist. Then work on through Development and Recapitulation. Hope it goes well!
Thank you so much Gareth, this helps me so much, and I look forward to your Musical Form/ Structure video in the near future I can't wait :) When I repeat with soloist is the orchestra then just doing the chords/harmony?
+Victor Jones
The soloist will take most of the key material and you will need to think about balance between soloist and orchestra but the orchestra will still have a significant part to play.
thank you
Thanks. Your video is very educative,infomative and illuminative. I REQUEST YOU TO UPLOAD VIDEOS ON MUSIC ARRANGING,ORCHESTRATION . I WISH YOUR LONG LIFE. Arun dey
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Firstly writing melody n thn laying chords on it or starting with chord progression n thn adding melody...which method according to u iz best??
It’s possible to write either way. You can begin with the melody then add chords or you can begin with a chord scheme and add the melody. See www.mmcourses.co.uk for much more.
Is this alberty bass used in pop song faded? But it's in minor.. And have same style, bass top middle top...
Yes that’s correct, it used the alberti bass pattern for the chords. See www.mmcourses.co.uk for more.
Hi Gareth, I have bought your composition videos which is excellent, just one thing though on lesson 14, you have various forms of music wrote out on the board and the last form was "Rondo" but you never explained what Rondo form was, you stopped at Ternary which was the 2nd to last form written on the board, please can you do a video on the "Rondo form" which you missed in this lesson please? Thank you
+Victor Jones
Will check this out! Rondo has a recurring A section. ABACA for example. The repeated A sections may or may not be modified. Hope that helps
I think i understand what you mean, thanks
+Victor Jones
Hi. We've just checked the film and found the Rondo explanation. (By the way it's Gareth, not Graham!) Have a good day
oops, sorry for calling you the wrong name Gareth, I have rectified it. some how I must of missed the rondo explanation then, I will check again, thank you. It would of been extra nice when you explained about the home key of theme A, then changing to dominant key theme B, progression etc, just to hear some short examples on the keyboard as to what exactly you mean, I can think things in my head but would of been ideal to actually hear a short peace as to what exactly you mean, but your lessons are really great either way.
+Victor Jones
Fair comment. And don't worry - for some reason lots of people call me Graham. Confusion with the author of that name I think.
Very methodical teacher. Learning a lot from you. May the Lord Christ preserve your life many more years in His peace.
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Mr. Green, do you suppose that compositions like Pachelbel's "Canon in D" or Bach's "Prelude in C" (upon which Gounod crafted his "Ave Maria") were developed from chord progression patterns or the other way around?
Composers can work either way but in those examples I strongly suspect that the chord scheme came first.
@@MusicMattersGB Interesting. Thank you, Mr. Green.
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What kinds of alterations should be made to play these on a guitar?
You can play the guitar chords indicated then improvise a melody that fits with the chords.
Very good video! But how do i break out of such a scheme? Like in classical music?
The scheme is simply a guide to get some workable progressions established. Beyond that it’s worth experimenting with other chords, with modulations, and with chromatic chords. We have videos on all these topics.
god this lesson is so good
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Cool ! Good teaching , wanna say much more but have not proper knowledge of English as I am a Hindi speaking person but have pretty knowledge of music.
Fabulous to hear from you. Music is an international language.
Well explained! It's a pity i cannot see your hands in the second part of the video, to see which keys you play with the left and with the right hand when the style is more advanced.
You can see the notes being played from the keys lighting up on the screen
Could you make a video showing how to improvise on the piano?
That's a possibility. In what style would you like to work?
I would say the one you think is the easiest one to begin
6:24 The time signature is 3/3, right?
3/3 is an impossibility. The bottom number must be 2,4,8,16, or 32 at a push.
I did the score with 4/4 signature! The issue is that for 4/4 it seems too complex for what it is... The score is here: musescore.com/user/27247887/scores/5095392
no the time signature there would be either 2/4 or 4/4
This is fantastic really wish I had your abilities!! think I need a brain transplant !
I’m sure you’re doing fine. Keep at it!
Me too lol.
Gareth could you make a video on grade 2 echo singing please because I can't find any video on youtube or www.mmcourses.com if there is a video could you tell me where to find it and if there isn't then could you create one?
+Archana Shukla
Hi. Yes. We have a film on this. Go to www.mmcourses.co.uk then to film tutorials then to grade 2 Aural Tests. Download the package and you'll find it all there.
WAAAAAY better than my teacher's mathematical approach to this. 😅
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Sir please make a video on serialism .😊
We have one you can watch here, we’ll look into some more! Serialism & Serial Music Explained - Music Theory th-cam.com/video/8sm3o-2cfIQ/w-d-xo.html
I would really like to see an excursion to Wagnerian harmony.
Yes. It’s fantastic harmony. We could produce a video on the subject.
Hello I was wondering why sometimes, you press key that is not in the chord you are playing at the same time ?
All the notes played either belong to the chord or they are what we call inessential notes ie they pass by step between two chord notes or they move up or down one before returning to the previous note. Much more on this at www.mmcourses.co.uk including details of our online courses and of our exciting Maestros programme.
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may i know the name of the music u played?
It’s just something I made up.
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how about non-chord tones?
+Mike Watkins
They are fine if they are passing notes, auxiliary notes, anticipatory notes.
thanks, ill look into those!
04122019: Why this scheme is not working with pentatonics scales ???
Because the chord system being used in this video belongs to a tonal system of major/ minor keys.
Thanks
Explain primary cords and secondary cords you refer to in this lesson just before video time 13.06.
l lV V are Primary chords. ll lll Vl are Secondary chords.
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Hard to believe these videos have such low views!
Thanks for your support. Some of our videos get lots of views - the Circle of 5ths video currently being the most popular - other videos attract smaller numbers but spread the word. There’s lots of Music Matters material on TH-cam and more at www.mmcourses.co.uk
But is the i, iv and v also major in a minor key?????
No. In a minor key i and iv are minor. V and Vl are major.
@@MusicMattersGB Wow thank you so much! But what about the ii and iii
In a minor key, ii and vii are diminished. iii is augmented.
@@MusicMattersGB you have no idea how grateful i am. I’ve been looking for a long time to find out about this. Thanks!!!
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For today's music , EDM, Dance, pop, or music parties. Do they have a separate music theory. Or our traditional theory applies?
There’s plenty of overlap but every genre has its own characteristics.
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Thanks to this video, I learned that it's called "Alberti Bass"!
I knew it was a thing, but I didn't know the name of it.
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You're awesome! This video is awesome! Thank you and kindly stop using the term "film". It's video. That is all. :-P
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Why am I not subscribed to you yet? TF is wrong with me??
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