Use the secrets of Disco music to learn how to break the rules of any Minor Scale !
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2022
- Make your music richer, more original and broaden your musical palette forever. The standard minor scale contains 7 notes. Let me show you how you can use all 12 notes in your music by showing you where and when you can break the rules.
This video started off as a tutorial for our latest release - F9 TRAX Electric DIsco II. By the time I'd finished it I was amazed that I'd included the use all 12 notes we use today - I had no idea that Disco could be used to explain how and when this is possible
I'm not classically trained and have learnt all of this over several decades - This video will only briefly dip into the theory of music and is 100% practical - Absolutely no musical scoring is used. I use the commonly used A minor scale here ( all the white notes ) to make it easy to show you when the tricks start.
The video starts off with the basics ( that may be a recap for many of you ) but please watch all the way as the ideas at the front are used all the way through.
I truly hope this sends you off in a brand new series of directions - I only wish TH-cam was around when I started - It would have saved me more than 25 years of learning this stuff piece by piece
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James in all these years you have never delivered anything other than a superb tutorial. I’ve learnt so much from you. More theory tutorials like this would be amazing. You make whatever you present so accessible. Thanks for the many vids and inspiration.
Thank you so much Gary - This is great to hear .. I actually must admit I didn't know I'd get to all 12 notes when I started the video so was ever so pleased when I got about 2/3 of the way through
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I learnt more in this 30 min video than i have learnt in the last 30 years of playing!
Some of those chords were so good.
This video has unlocked a whole new world in my writing. Thank you so much!
Brilliant to hear - let us know how you get on testing this
One of the best channels on TH-cam. James is so genuine and articulate. I love how he goes into so much detail and history of what he's covering. Plus, he has such a lovely, relaxing voice. Audible, sign him up!
Thank you for your support Lewis- means an awful lot
@@F9Audio as does your response James 😊. I really enjoyed your discussion with Will from EDM tips by the way. The Power of Now certainly opens you up to a completely new way of looking at life and I was really pleased that you covered mental health in a discussion about music production. Keep well mate and thanks again for the great content.
This tutorial in shown in just midi or the pianoroll would be top notch and a dream to visualize!
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!
James I had no idea your piano chops were as amazing as they are! wow. So if I understand anything by the end of this video is that the rule is there are no rules 😂
Think of all scales as the tried and tested route on a long journey - follow them to the letter and you'll def arrive, .. Know how to take a seemingly random detour, and you might just discover a beauty spot you had no idea about ... The trick is to know which turning to take and when
This is the knowledge level i aspire to be at before i die, all this theory naturally following while creating music, thank you for reminding me of where hard work can lead me 🙂
Groundbreaking video. More like this please. You could go over typical 80s, typical Synthwave etc chords.
This is just pure gold!! So many knowlegde and tips in such a short time... really, really valuable. Thanks!!!
Wonderul to read over a coffee this morning - I'll try and run deeper into the Modes we just touch on here and how they can be used - a lot of modal music out there at the moment so I'll try and explain ithe most useful ones in easy terms
As a newbie in the keyboard world, I've gotta say that sounds like great tip - thanks James!
Glad I found this channel, mega helpful. 🙂
I found that slash joke WAY too funny! Ha ha!
Such an amazing channel, and incredible that a musician has such a 100% perfect voice over voice. Awesome. Thank you!
Many thanks for this and your lovely reply and I didn't expect it tbh on my post the other day, I had an accident when I was 16 and my tendons and nerve were cut on my right hand, i am left handed so did not make too much fuss, but keyboard skills were a bit truncated, they reconnected my tendons and nerve but me pinky and next finger don't work as expected. Noticed on the video not much pinky work lol, so i am going have a go at learning the shizzle. Mousse T verbage lol.
Oh goodness - what a story ! ... Yes I've always thought the best results come from getting as much out of a few digits in action as possible - hope this really works for you
Raising the F to the F# in this A minor example changes the scale to the A Dorian mode. Modulating the scale of your chord progression into the occasional Mode is what adds the spice. For those of you who don't know, Modes are the in-between scales. One of them sounds ultra minor (used a lot in heavy metal), the regular minor which you know, another is minorish. Another is majorish. The regular major which you know and there is another that is ultra major (used a lot in classical and movie soundtracks). And there is the last one that hardly anybody uses because it just sounds too weird.
Yes exactly right - Although I deliberately keep away from the theory as I find knowing these via practice makes it much easier and way more fun for those who find the terminology of theory daunting
I've tried learning the names of the different modes, but it's all Greek to me. ;)
Yep! All in a nutshell. To understand this sentence, can took you years. Music is wonderful.
Very thankful for this insight. Your too generous James. Have learned so much from this channel over the years. 🙏
2:01 Those two chords reminded me of the into to 'Sound of Eden' by Shades of Rhythm, a very old dance rave tune from 1991! 🙂
"Here's another chance for you to dance with me."
I know it very well indeed - yes the held rote with those chords is such a fav for me - absolutely 1st thing I ever learnt
I saw this video on FB and came here looking for more of your helpful golden nuggets of music theory delivered in an enthusiastic and down to earth way.
Will try to get as many more like this out as I can in the coming years - always having to balance the commercial work as I don't want to turn this in to a click-baity channel but whats fascinating is I've suddenly found I've gathered up tons of systems and working methods over my 20+ years in Music / Audio and I love how handy these seem to be for people ...
Fantastic video thanks! Love Slash popping in & out 😅
So many things I've half learnt over the last few years suddenly crystallised with this amazing tutorial - great work! Electric Disco II and Origins have been game changers for me as well, can't wait to see what is coming next! 🙂
SO pleased you loved it Matt - You know it was only halfway through making this video I realised I was going to be able to get all 12 notes into it by the end - I wish I'd have made this years ago as a lot fell into place for me too !
wow.. thank you! haven't quite absorbed all of it yet but i definitely learned what's available to me and will be revisiting.
A pleasure Randall - try it one bit at a time and find your own uses of each concept - It's way too much all at once, but you'll hopefully love it once you grasp .. All the best to you in 2023
Well, I know what I'm going to be doing today, straight to Ableton and ready to learn more.
Please let me know how you get on … I was so pleased at the end of this video as I honestly didn’t know it would turn out to use all 12 notes when I started …. I came into music without formal training and sometimes bringing everything you’ve picked up over the years is enormously enlightening .. What I love is I’m still learning every day …
Please do check out Julian’s channel too - he’s just amazing
Here's the video from him I mention th-cam.com/video/pZpeYO3iat8/w-d-xo.html
@@F9Audio i absolutely will!
Just also wanted to say, that you are without a doubt the best music tutorial channel on TH-cam. I love the way you present every video, and that you give advice that dosent just apply to one DAW, a lot of the tutorials out there are ableton tutorials or logic tutorials and you never really learn much other than how to navigate around the interface of the software. I first discovered you with your video with point blank about making a drum track back in 2020, when I was 13. I am now 14, and since then I've started recording an album, build a studio and learned an immense amount more about music and music production. You and you're videos have been an immense help, and a huge inspiration. Thank you so much
Best chord tutorial I ever saw and so accessible. Thanks a lot James.
Pleasure 🙂
I'll say it again,top job for the way you explain things.I played the flute until 19&I was grade 8 standard,so being monophonic it was a huge minefield when I came to chords,so thanks again 👍
So good to hear - Thank you !
Amazing stuff..- thnx
I’ve now watched this video 3 times and it just gets better. I’ve also just bought the Ableton/Kontakt Deluxe version just so I can have the piano sound. Even though I have Keyscape/Korg M1 And Triton plug-ins that piano is a must.
James please do another video covering passing chords.
Thank you so much for the excellent Feedback ! .. Yes love to hear feedback for video ideas - just wish I had more time ... Thank you so much for your support - we can only make patches like this thanks to our customers
Respect! Ur So generous🙏
Great tutorial! wish I knew this back in 95 so many good songs I was trying to learn by ear, might not have sold my asr-10 due to lack of motivation.
ASR 10. That was and is a piece of history.
thanks , thanks but really thanks for sharing. regards
Very insightful - Thanks a million.
Part of my New years resolution was to improve my keyboard playing skills . (Slacking of at the moment )
Thanks for encouraging me .....in a way.....
I really hope it does - I spent years trying to find all these tricks as there seems to be very little information on this outside of theory - do check out Julians' video as mentioned above - it's fascinating to see all the different modes and examples of them from pop culture ... It's a non stop journey by the way - I'm decades in and still finding something new every week
Hey James great tutorial, going to throw some of this inbetween my piano lessons but what's the piano sample ? Is it from of the Polybrute or another library ?
Absolutely amazing! Thank you James! What do you think of Logic Pro’s Retro Synth?
Thank you ! ... It's pretty good, but I'll be keen to see where else they go in the coming years as there's so much potential now with the M1/2 etc chips
I love your music demos. Do you have a Spotify channel?
Hi James, great lessons mate. That piano you are using gives some real vibes off, is it part of the EDII pack?
YES ! ... TRAX Electric Disco II - Had so many comments about this - It's a belter and so much fun the play
Thanks for this amazing video, very good! Your speaker voice has unfortunately far too low volume. I have to be ready with the volume control all the time not to disturb my neighbors or burst my eardrums.
Is this one of your piano sample libraries James? Scrap that I just got to the end of the video
Ha ha ... Yes its a rather special patch developed for our Electric Disco II TRAX pack - 2 individual sampled pianos re-sampled in stereo ( one 70% left, one 70% right and then carefully processed ) - The Bass player Guy Pratt told me of this trick and It's dynamite .... More coming like this and for a whole range of Samplers.
i have a "livePA" type setup i make all my music i Cmaj/Amin and easy transpose with decent modern sequencer.
the Mic volume was too low in video, compared to massive chord stabs, appreciated tutorial!
Any plans of dropping FL studio packs?
Hi Alan - It's a toughie as we can't convert to the current internal sampler format, we are looking into it though
Mpc chord packs please
On the case :)
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Im hoping I’m not stepping out of line by introducing one of the best products available
Scaler2 - unbelievable 😎.
Great Vid !
Volume of the voice is too quiet and piano too loud