This video was a Patreon only video for the past couple months. I'm currently revamping and expanding resources on Patreon to be more user-friendly in the future by utilizing the Patreon shop. I anticipate my next two longform videos (one on post-tonal theory, and another on text settting) will require a 30-day review period with youTube, but they'll be available on Patreon as soon as they're finished, if you don't want to wait out the youTube process.
Yet another example of "i went to four years of music school for composition and I wasn't taught this incredibly useful and simple to understand technique". Thank you for this video, really great and very well presented.
I think an issue with music theory is that what it means to different people, and how it is taught by different teachers, varies widely. What music theory is today is also distinct from what music theory used to be. There is plenty of bad theory out there (and I started this channel in part to offer a counterbalance to that), but there‘s also a lot of great stuff that depends on the teacher and school (and the student!). If you like how I casually imitate many musical styles, for example, realize that that‘s the result of extensive formal education which I don‘t think was worthless. TL;DR Depends on school and teacher.
@@claudiakramer4516 I definitely disagree with that I think there is a lot more nuance to it than that, but in my particular school, I really had to carve my own way and find the teachers that I needed, rather than there being a lot more covered that I feel should have been general knowledge for composers. Like I shouldn’t have been getting the same theory classes as the performance majors most likely, where I was excelling and they (excellent performers) were struggling. It’s not a one size fits all
Right there with you haha. I've been playing guitar for over 20 years now, and learning music theory along the way... I have no idea what he just showed me in this video😂
@@kateamanak You discovered my online alter ego! In addition to teaching college music classes and going on tangents about film music in them, I’m also…………. actually I guess online is pretty much the same (but with animations!)
@@GalenDeGrafThe magic of TH-cam can empower you to make a short "Harry Had a Little Lamb" Edit: I guess the concept of your channel probably forbids you to reveal your magic to shorts-consuming muggles. I can totally understand that.
"It's easier to make an idea with less options" as someone who deals with indecision and analysis paralysis, thank you so dang much. I should not get into creating music (I don't have the background or resources) but like. this is definitely a subject I really like
Thanks for the kind words! I still think of myself as more music teacher than youTuber. At the moment, I use this platform to experiment with how we can teach music theory online and improving music theory’s image to make people see it as more "creative pursuit" and less "set of rules." I hope this channel can inspire some *teachers*, though! The growth and interest in this channel has been amazing, so hopefully more teachers will see and adopt approaches I’ve been sharing here!
3:25 i let my guard down and fell asleep. i saw lucy of narnia talking to aslan the lion between the forest and the grassland. and i was behind her until 3 second before the music ends. i woke up. dang, the dream was so real.
Holy moly sometimes the algorithm is creepy. I’ve been wondering how to do something like this. I had an idea for a series of songs. But each one would have a different emotional theme. Yet I wasn’t sure how that was accomplished. Then this scrolls by. I hadn’t even said this out loud. Yet here is the path start leading in the way I wanted. Wild stuff
Glad to hear it, and welcome to my channel! TH-cam usually recommends this video first, but I actually made it as a follow-up to my "How to make a musical theme fit any context" video, which covers the theory in more detail.
This is brilliant and quite useful for both composition and creating new arrangements for existing songs. I've already applied some of the techniques for interval mapping in some of my classical guitar arrangements of video game music.
I haven't red notation for many years and even I can tell every individual note I can't follow the melody. That's what's happening when you use piano roll for so long. That doesn't take away from how good the video is. I just wish things were more imediate for visal creatures🙂
I've always heard Mary had a little lamb as not having a IV chord at all. Where you are playing the IV I always use 1. I still like the scaling idea though!
Thank’s so much my friend 😊 The Lord’s love + grace be with you His Hope + peace, in Life, and beyond the grave Hope you are all well and resting in Jesus saving love + grace 😊 Warmest Love + blessing’s friends 😊
I don’t like the idea of plugins just to avoid learning theory, but from a standpoint of streamlining workflow where possible, it seems like a pretty simple task to have something that will find and replace MIDI notes in a region. Going from C major to C minor would be a command to replace all A, B, and E MIDI with Ab, Bb, and Eb.
My man is just talking about things he’s learned while working out; literally just information you can follow or not and ppl are PRESSED 😭😭 Insecurity is crazy
Any advice on how someone who is quite familiar with playing and hearing music but has little to no knowledge on music theory can get to a level that this is understandable? Cheers
I would recommend you at least learn 1) how to read notes in treble and bass clef, 2) all major and minor scales, 3) the notes of all major and minor triads. Once you‘re quick with those, I‘d recommend going through my playlist "how to transform and develop musical ideas“ in order. This video is the fourth video of the series so some things may not be clear here without seeing those previous videos first.
In this video, for the heroic amazing grace, the original song is changed from f major to f minor,( and the content creator changed a couple note to make it sound better, i dont know the theory behind this) u can search what is major and minor
When you use scalar mapping to transform a theme, the music sounds completely different in many cases; the music is not the same, the music becomes something different. Tom Sisson
@@tomsisson660 As pedagogical exercises, these were designed to be maximally transformative by using not just scalar mapping but also reharmonization and big changes of orchestration. Scalar mapping without such dramatic changes of orchestration can be more tame. If you want to hear less pronounced transformations, check out the examples in my "How to make musical theme fit any context" video.
@@robertporteles4697 I‘m looking into possibly making a larger formal course of some sort, but at the moment I‘m just posting supplemental content to Patreon. For my next video on post-tonal music I have a pack of 30 audio files and worksheet to practice non-tertian trichord ear training. I‘m hoping to have that video finished this month before classes start in September.
You don’t even need to “learn” piano…you just PLAY! You should be able to play anything on any scale. So…play the song in the normal key, then just….CHANGE it. Just have to fully understand that it’s all the same song over and over”here” instead on “there” because it has a sad or happy feeling. You don’t need to know the differences or the theory. You just move around to get the sound you want. Eventually, you just do it without thinkin about what you doing. And not even knowing the technicals.
More than a smidge I'd say! These exercises are designed to be maximally transformative by combining scalar mapping with reharmonization and orchestration. This is the fourth video of the series, but if you'd like scalar mapping with less dramatic changes of harmony/orchestration, I suggest checking out "How to make a musical theme fit any context"
Do you people know that if you just forget about all this and just sit down on the keys and play Sim play just play and explore the feelings in the sound you get when you put your hands in certain positions and things like that. Did anybody ever have to teach you to whistle in tune no right it’s the same thing but with your hands just sit down and play. Forget about all of these things you will just do them without realizing it. It’s like when you learn to speak English you didn’t go to English classes Probably?
I think my whistling has a very limited range even though I’ve been whistling for a couple decades, and there are also several types of whistling I’ve never been able to figure out. Would always appreciate some tips on how to increase my whistling range and techniques. I don’t quite follow the last point because (in the US at least) students still do take English classes in school, and those classes improve reading levels and literacy.
I was hoping this video offered more details about my approach to some of the exercises in the demonstration video which was released a while back. I actually did this video first, and used some material from it to do the channel trailer which then blew up. I don‘t plan on making any more channel trailers so the next stuff I‘m thinking about will all be new! This fall, I‘m toying with some Lord of the Rings style scalar mappings, post-tonal theory for film music, and a discussion of text setting.
You make a beginner's and non-storyteller's mistake. You think everyone knows what song you're using as a base. You should put it at the beginning, in the simplest and silliest way. And then hearing the "magic"... It's like me saying, We will make several reharmonizations of the song "Contigo Perú". I'm sure you don't even know it, but all Peruvians know it by heart. Greetings.
As I mention this in the video, this is not a standalone video. (It is actually the fourth video of a series.) The first video in the series does play Amazing Grace and that is found in the first video in the playlist "How to transform and develop musical ideas".
@@GalenDeGraf So for distracted people like me, making a review like in the TV shows "Previously in the previous chapter", wouldn't be too much... I also want you to know that I really liked your video, and that my intention is for more people to see you, and I only give suggestions. Thanks my friend.
This video isn‘t really about going full evil, but if that‘s your goal you might consider 1) instrumentation such as synths and distorted guitar 2) harsher dissonance 3) jagged rhythms amd odd time signatures 4) more aggressive dynamics
As someone who grew up playing basically nothing but metal-ass 5th chords on a guitar, I need lessons like this. Anybody point me at someone who does this shit on a guitar neck?
This video was a Patreon only video for the past couple months. I'm currently revamping and expanding resources on Patreon to be more user-friendly in the future by utilizing the Patreon shop. I anticipate my next two longform videos (one on post-tonal theory, and another on text settting) will require a 30-day review period with youTube, but they'll be available on Patreon as soon as they're finished, if you don't want to wait out the youTube process.
My spine chills love you for this video!
Yet another example of "i went to four years of music school for composition and I wasn't taught this incredibly useful and simple to understand technique". Thank you for this video, really great and very well presented.
And you paid for it too 😂😂
@@johncanthearyou for sure. Hell my university literally just closed down. Strange times.
School, especially music school is a waste of time when it comes to theory
I think an issue with music theory is that what it means to different people, and how it is taught by different teachers, varies widely. What music theory is today is also distinct from what music theory used to be. There is plenty of bad theory out there (and I started this channel in part to offer a counterbalance to that), but there‘s also a lot of great stuff that depends on the teacher and school (and the student!). If you like how I casually imitate many musical styles, for example, realize that that‘s the result of extensive formal education which I don‘t think was worthless.
TL;DR Depends on school and teacher.
@@claudiakramer4516 I definitely disagree with that I think there is a lot more nuance to it than that, but in my particular school, I really had to carve my own way and find the teachers that I needed, rather than there being a lot more covered that I feel should have been general knowledge for composers. Like I shouldn’t have been getting the same theory classes as the performance majors most likely, where I was excelling and they (excellent performers) were struggling. It’s not a one size fits all
Do I understand any of this? No. Did I stay and listen to be amazed? Absolutely.
Gostei do que você disse. Muito bem.
Right there with you haha. I've been playing guitar for over 20 years now, and learning music theory along the way... I have no idea what he just showed me in this video😂
😂
@@happilyisolated I loved this comentary
That uncanny moment when TH-cam recommends your undergrad music theory teacher... But as a TH-camr with thousands of subscribers. Amazing work!!
@@kateamanak You discovered my online alter ego! In addition to teaching college music classes and going on tangents about film music in them, I’m also………….
actually I guess online is pretty much the same (but with animations!)
Legend says that Hagrid once said: "You have a lamb, Mary!"
Dang! Missed opportunity that I didn‘t call that one "Harry had a little lamb".
@@GalenDeGrafThe magic of TH-cam can empower you to make a short "Harry Had a Little Lamb"
Edit: I guess the concept of your channel probably forbids you to reveal your magic to shorts-consuming muggles. I can totally understand that.
“I…Have a what???”
"It's easier to make an idea with less options" as someone who deals with indecision and analysis paralysis, thank you so dang much. I should not get into creating music (I don't have the background or resources) but like. this is definitely a subject I really like
That Harry Potter style is utter perfection. I'm not yet fluent enough in music theory to do it myself, but I'll bookmark this for later!
I really liked the octatonic example. . . Severence is a "delightfully unsettling" world, and this would fit right in! Great idea.
A lot of TH-camrs explain music theory so much better than my music teachers
Thanks for the kind words! I still think of myself as more music teacher than youTuber. At the moment, I use this platform to experiment with how we can teach music theory online and improving music theory’s image to make people see it as more "creative pursuit" and less "set of rules." I hope this channel can inspire some *teachers*, though! The growth and interest in this channel has been amazing, so hopefully more teachers will see and adopt approaches I’ve been sharing here!
When I heard you mention it, I was reminded of this great advice. “Never finish with Debussy, always finish with the Bach.”
😂😂😂
Little touches of harp for the whole tone example was the diamond coating on the bit that drilled this idea into my brain.
A great example of this is the Super Mario World soundtrack. Nearly every song is a reworking of the same motif
3:25 i let my guard down and fell asleep. i saw lucy of narnia talking to aslan the lion between the forest and the grassland. and i was behind her until 3 second before the music ends. i woke up. dang, the dream was so real.
Holy moly sometimes the algorithm is creepy. I’ve been wondering how to do something like this. I had an idea for a series of songs. But each one would have a different emotional theme. Yet I wasn’t sure how that was accomplished.
Then this scrolls by.
I hadn’t even said this out loud. Yet here is the path start leading in the way I wanted.
Wild stuff
Glad to hear it, and welcome to my channel! TH-cam usually recommends this video first, but I actually made it as a follow-up to my "How to make a musical theme fit any context" video, which covers the theory in more detail.
I didn’t understand much, but loved every second of it!
Most informative and interesting. Really loved the orchestration of the first chromatic example particularly.
This is good teaching, well explained, examples, understandable, and very high quality. Thank you, I have new ideas to play with!
Been looking for this scalar mapping term for a long time.
"Mary had a lydian lamb" That got a laugh
This is brilliant and quite useful for both composition and creating new arrangements for existing songs. I've already applied some of the techniques for interval mapping in some of my classical guitar arrangements of video game music.
I like the octatonic It's so simple. And sounds alien.
Wow. Exactly what I want to see. Subbed right away!
(I can hardly believe this is the same YT algo that fed me som much horrendous BS)
this is incredibly useful! thank you very much, sir!
Man! I wish they had a course like this in college.
Amazing! Well done, dude!
Mary Had A Little Lamb chromatic is amazing! I need to start writing chromatic songs…
Wow! So much cool exciting music theory composition techniques in this tutorial!
This is brilliant! Thank you.
5:00, I didn't know mary had a little lamb could sound so beautiful 😭
This is amazing and incredibly informative stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Incredible concept
This is brilliant! Tank you.
The Chromatic one sounds almost like a Bartok piece. Nicely done.
@@BrentLeVasseur Thanks! That one is based on Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta.
@@GalenDeGraf That’s what I thought! And it’s one of my all time favorite Bartok pieces.
Whole Tone rocking those Majora's Mask Great Bay vibes. ❤ favorite one
That octatonic example sounded like a song from Alice in chains the break down part he is signing over the melody. Its really like it.
Bravo, very well done. I just subscribed to your channel.
3:14 - 4:03 I can hear John Williams's "Binary Sunset" theme, somewhere in there ... a "happier" version 😆
BravoooOooOo and Thank you from Argentina!!!
A perfect example of years of study and still feeling like you know nothing
Very nice! thank you!
I haven't red notation for many years and even I can tell every individual note I can't follow the melody. That's what's happening when you use piano roll for so long. That doesn't take away from how good the video is. I just wish things were more imediate for visal creatures🙂
at 5:01 gives “mary had a little lamb” a new meaning
uhm what. this is incredible
That last one could easily be a new theme for the Alien franchise. Or some other drama-horror flick.
this is completely useless to me, but it was fantastic so i'm obligated thank you.
Thank you so much sir 🎉❤❤❤❤
Dang, that first one turned a hymn into a new Star Wars theme.
Noice!... Great video!
The minor version of amazing grace is very Howard shore
Absolutely! A great example of minor-melody-harmonized-with-only-major-chords is Howard Shore’s theme for “fellowship”.
super like button needed
I've always heard Mary had a little lamb as not having a IV chord at all. Where you are playing the IV I always use 1. I still like the scaling idea though!
I don‘t think of that spot as a IV chord either. I wanted to add a little reharmonization to the original to keep the vid from getting boring there.
great!
A wanna master all of this
Thank’s so much my friend 😊
The Lord’s love + grace be with you
His Hope + peace, in Life, and beyond the grave
Hope you are all well and resting in Jesus saving love + grace 😊
Warmest Love + blessing’s friends 😊
4:53 if you applied the 2x playback, you'll get a Pokemon Background music
That last Amazing Grace sounds like Musc for Strings Percussion and Celesta by Bela Bartok😂
if there were a plugin for DAWs that did this everyone would want to buy it.
I don’t like the idea of plugins just to avoid learning theory, but from a standpoint of streamlining workflow where possible, it seems like a pretty simple task to have something that will find and replace MIDI notes in a region. Going from C major to C minor would be a command to replace all A, B, and E MIDI with Ab, Bb, and Eb.
Bartokian Amazing Grace is the stuff of nightmares! Maybe instead of Amazing Grace, it’s The Miraculous Grace?
My man is just talking about things he’s learned while working out; literally just information you can follow or not and ppl are PRESSED 😭😭
Insecurity is crazy
Mary had a lydian lamb 😂
Cool.
Any advice on how someone who is quite familiar with playing and hearing music but has little to no knowledge on music theory can get to a level that this is understandable? Cheers
I would recommend you at least learn 1) how to read notes in treble and bass clef, 2) all major and minor scales, 3) the notes of all major and minor triads. Once you‘re quick with those, I‘d recommend going through my playlist "how to transform and develop musical ideas“ in order. This video is the fourth video of the series so some things may not be clear here without seeing those previous videos first.
In this video, for the heroic amazing grace, the original song is changed from f major to f minor,( and the content creator changed a couple note to make it sound better, i dont know the theory behind this) u can search what is major and minor
Your awesome
When you use scalar mapping to transform a theme, the music sounds completely different in many cases; the music is not the same, the music becomes something different.
Tom Sisson
@@tomsisson660 As pedagogical exercises, these were designed to be maximally transformative by using not just scalar mapping but also reharmonization and big changes of orchestration. Scalar mapping without such dramatic changes of orchestration can be more tame. If you want to hear less pronounced transformations, check out the examples in my "How to make musical theme fit any context" video.
I may not call myself necessarily our ear necessarily great but the fact that I can transpose a song makes me think I have an ear for music
"You may need to watch another video first"
Nope... I need to watch a year's worth of videos first!
Somehow I don't think the 3rd and 5th examples have a small lamb at all :D
Do you have some classes in a platform like udemy?
@@robertporteles4697 I‘m looking into possibly making a larger formal course of some sort, but at the moment I‘m just posting supplemental content to Patreon. For my next video on post-tonal music I have a pack of 30 audio files and worksheet to practice non-tertian trichord ear training. I‘m hoping to have that video finished this month before classes start in September.
@@GalenDeGraf thanks for answer , have a great Life!
How do you remap a meoldy ??
See description, or watch just this: th-cam.com/video/6joUB_0BOiE/w-d-xo.html
I think octatonic can sound moody but the default sound to my ear is like transcendental/ineffable. Thanks in no small part to messiaen probably haha.
You don’t even need to “learn” piano…you just PLAY! You should be able to play anything on any scale. So…play the song in the normal key, then just….CHANGE it. Just have to fully understand that it’s all the same song over and over”here” instead on “there” because it has a sad or happy feeling. You don’t need to know the differences or the theory. You just move around to get the sound you want. Eventually, you just do it without thinkin about what you doing. And not even knowing the technicals.
The instrumentation has a smidge to do it with it tbh
More than a smidge I'd say! These exercises are designed to be maximally transformative by combining scalar mapping with reharmonization and orchestration. This is the fourth video of the series, but if you'd like scalar mapping with less dramatic changes of harmony/orchestration, I suggest checking out "How to make a musical theme fit any context"
🙇♂️💓🍀🎶 😊👍
Do you people know that if you just forget about all this and just sit down on the keys and play Sim play just play and explore the feelings in the sound you get when you put your hands in certain positions and things like that. Did anybody ever have to teach you to whistle in tune no right it’s the same thing but with your hands just sit down and play. Forget about all of these things you will just do them without realizing it. It’s like when you learn to speak English you didn’t go to English classes Probably?
I think my whistling has a very limited range even though I’ve been whistling for a couple decades, and there are also several types of whistling I’ve never been able to figure out. Would always appreciate some tips on how to increase my whistling range and techniques.
I don’t quite follow the last point because (in the US at least) students still do take English classes in school, and those classes improve reading levels and literacy.
I'm a little disappointed that you used some of the same pieces in this video that you used in a previous one
I was hoping this video offered more details about my approach to some of the exercises in the demonstration video which was released a while back. I actually did this video first, and used some material from it to do the channel trailer which then blew up. I don‘t plan on making any more channel trailers so the next stuff I‘m thinking about will all be new! This fall, I‘m toying with some Lord of the Rings style scalar mappings, post-tonal theory for film music, and a discussion of text setting.
@@GalenDeGraf Oh, alright 🙂
You make a beginner's and non-storyteller's mistake. You think everyone knows what song you're using as a base. You should put it at the beginning, in the simplest and silliest way. And then hearing the "magic"... It's like me saying, We will make several reharmonizations of the song "Contigo Perú". I'm sure you don't even know it, but all Peruvians know it by heart. Greetings.
As I mention this in the video, this is not a standalone video. (It is actually the fourth video of a series.) The first video in the series does play Amazing Grace and that is found in the first video in the playlist "How to transform and develop musical ideas".
Here‘s that vid:
th-cam.com/video/Ve-ASqMnT6U/w-d-xo.html
@@GalenDeGraf So for distracted people like me, making a review like in the TV shows "Previously in the previous chapter", wouldn't be too much... I also want you to know that I really liked your video, and that my intention is for more people to see you, and I only give suggestions. Thanks my friend.
@ivonmorales2654 Thanks for the input!
"Non-storyteller" ? Who the f are you? Chekhov? Get a grip.
Ничего толкового. Вокруг да около и ничего из перечисленного не в точку
It’s not dark enough and to your esteem it’s actually, light. Your wasting my time.
This video isn‘t really about going full evil, but if that‘s your goal you might consider 1) instrumentation such as synths and distorted guitar 2) harsher dissonance 3) jagged rhythms amd odd time signatures 4) more aggressive dynamics
As someone who grew up playing basically nothing but metal-ass 5th chords on a guitar, I need lessons like this.
Anybody point me at someone who does this shit on a guitar neck?
3:15 played and i immediantly went: star wars?