Wow! This kind of content really shows how the internet and RUclips are gold. It used to be you had to go on an actually safari with lions tigers and bears snapping at your heals to acquire such knowledge. Thanks. I love it.
Did you ever listened to Carles Cases' Soundtrack of "Dagon"? Especially at the end and the final credits. I would highly appriciate an analysis of the Score, the scales and the chords. I think it would fit to explanation of chromatic mediants.
Diatonic-Symmetric harmony and the Psychological Dial two concepts from The Schillinger System of Musical Composition. Great practical demonstrations. Many Schillinger techniques appear throughout this series without recourse to the mathematics. Rhythmic Resultants, Symmetric Scales, etc etc
great pick up. my teacher Dr Roland Wiggins was a certified Schillinger method teacher, and a great deal of that approach percolated into my own thinking.
@ImpliedMusic Awesome. I really like what you are doing and have been binge watching your videos since I came across them yesterday. I know of Roland Wiggins through my own Schillinger studies and research. Thanks for what you are doing. Subscribed .
I would love it if you could do a video explaining the tools you use to visualize what you’re playing. The combination of seeing it in piano roll mode and text makes the concepts so much easier to understand!
Great suggestion! i use several tools, including Synthesia (my shorts) for that vertical stream with the keyboard at the bottom, and for longer form videos Logic and Chordie simultaneously. i capture everything in real time with Loopback audio and the Mac OS screen recorder, edit it together with the camera shot(s) after massaging the audio a bit. really it only takes like 11 hours. ;-)
Great teaching on this topic that opens up harmonic possibilities. If you can though, occasionally show us what you're doing in standard notation as well as midi? At least for me and I assume others, that would really help.
thanks. i think it's time to begin integrate a little notation into the explanations. particularly this topic. i suspect a good proportion of my subscribers and casual viewers aren't musically literate, but notation will always be the most efficient way to precisely show a concept.
Hi Chris, I am glad I found this channel. Super interesting stuff! You can also use chromatic mediants for modulation, it’s very uplifting. (For example a whole new world from Aladdin). Looking forward to dig into the other video's!
Another terrific thought-provoker. I googled Neo-Riemannian theory (google helped me spell it), and definitely plan to dig into it. BTW, what were the chords for that major chord progression? There were some cool moves in there.
Thx Chris your vids are 👌. Is this concept of chromatic (and double) mediants applicable to scales other than the ionian (whole-half-pattern) and its modes, for instance double harmonic major (min third-whole-half pattern), and its modes. If so I'd love if you could elaborate for us. /T
great question. certainly applicable. with the observation that what makes chromatic mediants work smoothly are common tones, (between the two centers) and the more unusual scales and modes will offer a limited set of those common tones. but it works, it just takes a bit more monkey-wrenching to grease the transitions.
I think this technique is really interesting! Since game scores keep getting mentioned, i have to say though... yes, *modern* video games tend to use this technique and they sound kinda like movie scores... and they're all so bland! You really could take the music from one game and put it in another and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. In other words, I kind of associate the chromatic mediant sound with forgettable music 😂 I don't think it's the technique itself that is at fault though. Your major example in the video sounds a lot like banjo kazooie, which has music that is fondly remembered by many, for example.
Nice to see your still very much active. Thanks for sharing.
Always!
You are a great teacher. I totally understand the concept instantly. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I totally agree :) Thank
Wow! This kind of content really shows how the internet and RUclips are gold. It used to be you had to go on an actually safari with lions tigers and bears snapping at your heals to acquire such knowledge. Thanks. I love it.
Great expansion. Looking forward to seeing since applications!
Did you ever listened to Carles Cases' Soundtrack of "Dagon"? Especially at the end and the final credits. I would highly appriciate an analysis of the Score, the scales and the chords. I think it would fit to explanation of chromatic mediants.
Hell yeah, I am writing a lot of electronic Cumbia and here in Portland I can't find a keyboard player, so this is really good!!!
This is brilliant Chris! Looking forward to more on this subject 🙂
Diatonic-Symmetric harmony and the Psychological Dial two concepts from The Schillinger System of Musical Composition. Great practical demonstrations. Many Schillinger techniques appear throughout this series without recourse to the mathematics. Rhythmic Resultants, Symmetric Scales, etc etc
great pick up. my teacher Dr Roland Wiggins was a certified Schillinger method teacher, and a great deal of that approach percolated into my own thinking.
@ImpliedMusic Awesome. I really like what you are doing and have been binge watching your videos since I came across them yesterday. I know of Roland Wiggins through my own Schillinger studies and research. Thanks for what you are doing. Subscribed .
Piano roll view = graphical notation 👍👍
More please :-)
I'd really love to see a video with explanations about the Neo Riemannian Transformations. There are hardly to find good ones.
I would love it if you could do a video explaining the tools you use to visualize what you’re playing. The combination of seeing it in piano roll mode and text makes the concepts so much easier to understand!
Great suggestion! i use several tools, including Synthesia (my shorts) for that vertical stream with the keyboard at the bottom, and for longer form videos Logic and Chordie simultaneously. i capture everything in real time with Loopback audio and the Mac OS screen recorder, edit it together with the camera shot(s) after massaging the audio a bit. really it only takes like 11 hours. ;-)
Great Clip. Thanks for your way of teaching. What was that "neo ....." thing at the end of the clip? I' deeply interested in that triangle pattern.
Neo Riemannian theory. I’m no expert. But yeah.
I suppose "Coltrane changes" employs chromatic mediants, with shifting centres set up by dominants: BM D7 GM Bb7 EbM, etc.
yes. that's a great way to analyze Giant Steps.
Great teaching on this topic that opens up harmonic possibilities. If you can though, occasionally show us what you're doing in standard notation as well as midi? At least for me and I assume others, that would really help.
thanks. i think it's time to begin integrate a little notation into the explanations. particularly this topic. i suspect a good proportion of my subscribers and casual viewers aren't musically literate, but notation will always be the most efficient way to precisely show a concept.
Thanks@@ImpliedMusic
Hi Chris, I am glad I found this channel. Super interesting stuff! You can also use chromatic mediants for modulation, it’s very uplifting. (For example a whole new world from Aladdin). Looking forward to dig into the other video's!
Yes! The Schumann piano impromptus are full of those modulations
Another terrific thought-provoker. I googled Neo-Riemannian theory (google helped me spell it), and definitely plan to dig into it.
BTW, what were the chords for that major chord progression? There were some cool moves in there.
yeah, thanks. i probably should have spelled it in an overlay. those chords are in the video... over on the right side, under 'major.'
Thx Chris your vids are 👌.
Is this concept of chromatic (and double) mediants applicable to scales other than the ionian (whole-half-pattern) and its modes, for instance double harmonic major (min third-whole-half pattern), and its modes. If so I'd love if you could elaborate for us.
/T
great question. certainly applicable. with the observation that what makes chromatic mediants work smoothly are common tones, (between the two centers) and the more unusual scales and modes will offer a limited set of those common tones. but it works, it just takes a bit more monkey-wrenching to grease the transitions.
Way over my head from easy read but interesting .shows I dont know much.intimidating.
Stick with it. I’ve had those same feelings
I think this technique is really interesting!
Since game scores keep getting mentioned, i have to say though... yes, *modern* video games tend to use this technique and they sound kinda like movie scores... and they're all so bland! You really could take the music from one game and put it in another and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. In other words, I kind of associate the chromatic mediant sound with forgettable music 😂 I don't think it's the technique itself that is at fault though. Your major example in the video sounds a lot like banjo kazooie, which has music that is fondly remembered by many, for example.
agreed. memorable music IMHO is about melody/rhythm. just playing a Chromatic Mediant chord sequence is a 30% solution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Riemannian_theory