Secrets Of FILM MUSIC Composers: Chromatic Mediants Made Easy

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  • Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024

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  • @matzelauda6673
    @matzelauda6673 5 лет назад +114

    The fact that you manage to explain these advanced concepts in such a concise way, tells a lot about how solid your understanding of these concepts is.
    Awesome!

    • @aylbdrmadison1051
      @aylbdrmadison1051 5 лет назад +4

      Linguistically literate, precise and clear. A major part of this is his understanding of English is far better than many who have it as a first language here in America. We desperately need to rebuild our public school system to working order. Doing nothing to at least make them as good as they were 30+ years ago, is doing our children the greatest disservice.

    • @scottgourlay1473
      @scottgourlay1473 4 года назад

      @@RustyMadd what you said is the most sad, yet truthful thing. I always find myself telling my friends, and family, and they think I'm just overly concerned... The important things in life we humans should be focusing on in order to advance mankind are no longer given any concern.. For instance; education, technology, health, truth, knowledge, wisdom, ethics, equality, and prosperity for "all" human beings.. This is why...because the resources, capability, and technology have never been more accessible, or so abundant, and possible than ever before... Sadly mankind has decided that the man made imagination created fictional thing we call wealth/money 💰 is more important then all the above mentioned...Now I'm not suggesting one type of government over another or anything like that...It's just that I hope sooner than later we realize, and ensure our children get the learning environment needed to see what is truly fundamental, and important for us to live the best life possible.. That the worth, and investment in our children gives us the best rate of return on ourselves, and our worth comes in the form of wealth through knowledge.. So with little chance of loss, yet abundance of effort; we can ensure the continued existence of mankind on earth.. So that we can spread the joy of music across the universe as we leap from galaxy to galaxy forever leaving melodies, and harmony everywhere we stop!!! :)

    • @torontodough2755
      @torontodough2755 3 года назад

      Sorry but he didnt even explain how he got C#. He just writes it on the board lol. Can C# be B or any other note?

    • @vleaky3430
      @vleaky3430 2 года назад

      what it mean when he says a minor 3rd or a Major 3rd above or below a Am? pls help a newbie

    • @PRODBYS1LENT
      @PRODBYS1LENT 2 года назад

      @@vleaky3430 learn about intervals, aka the distance between notes

  • @BarrettTagliarino
    @BarrettTagliarino 5 лет назад +104

    One popular example for each
    Diatonic
    Am F: "Crazy On You"
    Am C: "House of the Rising Sun"
    A C#m "Lay Lady Lay"
    A F#m: "Shout"
    Chromatic
    A F: "It Won't Be Long"
    A F#: "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
    A C: "Stepping Stone"
    A C#: "Oh Canada"
    Am F#m: "Light My Fire"
    Am Fm: "Sleepwalk" (vi-iv)
    Am Cm:"That Thing You Do" (ii-iv)
    Am C#m:?
    Double Chromatic (need some help from film scorers!)
    A Fm: ?
    A Cm: ?
    Am C#: ?
    Am F#: ?

    • @YTbeber
      @YTbeber 5 лет назад +2

      Please note that Dock of the Bay is A C# (orig. G B) at the beginning (mes. 1-2) not A F#.
      The move M to M, m3rd lower (G E) occurs, but at mes. 9-10, 11-12 and 15-16, or in the whistled coda. G G G E.

    • @Simeon_Harris
      @Simeon_Harris 5 лет назад +2

      Rick Beato did a vid on these with some film score examples. worth checking out. john williams is the don of these type of modulations.

    • @xasancle
      @xasancle 5 лет назад

      Thanks but without Artist it's difficult to find them if one does not know any clue.

    • @nicolasschlindwein6708
      @nicolasschlindwein6708 5 лет назад +1

      Double chromatic: prelude Lohengrin - Wagner

    • @HommaKnarf
      @HommaKnarf 5 лет назад +2

      Am C#m: morning bell.

  • @AntoineMichaudGuitar
    @AntoineMichaudGuitar 5 лет назад +106

    These videos with the white board are my favorite videos from you. Very well made and informational!

  • @anthonyberno1332
    @anthonyberno1332 4 года назад +15

    I feel like this video is the video I have been waiting for.
    The fact that there are 'rules' for breaking the 'rules' blows my mind every time.

    • @bonbonpony
      @bonbonpony 3 года назад

      If there are rules to break, this only means that they weren't rules to begin with, just a bunch of lies.

    • @jarofghosts
      @jarofghosts 3 года назад +4

      @@bonbonpony They aren't rules and they aren't lies, music theory is just a way to describe why/how some things work

    • @joeldcanfield_spinhead
      @joeldcanfield_spinhead 2 месяца назад

      yup, I'm with you @anthonyberno1332 breaking rules is easy; breaking them and still making good music is less easy unless Tommaso shows us how

  • @vsm6
    @vsm6 5 лет назад +23

    Really insightful.
    Please make more videos like this with practical examples

  • @chrisevanz
    @chrisevanz 5 лет назад +5

    Superbly clear and practical.

  • @coastercook
    @coastercook 3 года назад +4

    I have come back to this video many times over the years and credit you with adding chromatic mediants to my musical vocabulary. I've been in situations where a CM comes up and no one knows why these chords fit together. I just explain CMs to them and link them to this video. Big thanks for this lesson.

  • @zross8471
    @zross8471 4 года назад +2

    Thanks for posting! Always wondered how those chords we're moving.

  • @joshchristian8598
    @joshchristian8598 5 месяцев назад +1

    OK so now I am subscribed... I remembered this very useful video and have been searching fir it for a while...and it dawned on me that it might be in my history...well it wasn't because I had deleted my history a couple of times but saw another one of your vids and recognized the graphics... this is huge for me as a composer. May seem really simple to the game or film composer who began life that way but for a metal guitarist this is gold!!! TY

  • @morganphillips5175
    @morganphillips5175 5 лет назад +5

    I love and watch your channel all the time. I recently went to watch the new Lion King movie with my family. When they played the main title I instantly thought of this video and knew how they got the arrangement.

  • @RoninOB
    @RoninOB 4 года назад +5

    The example you give of the Am to F choices, sounded very very close to The Ninth Gate movie theme without even trying.
    Excellent explanation, really opening my understanding.

  • @dhaneshs131
    @dhaneshs131 5 лет назад +9

    How is it that you make everything seem so simple? Love these videos Tommaso.. thnx

  • @skateebee
    @skateebee 4 года назад +2

    Love the techno groove in the background!

  • @estermoreiradequeiroga506
    @estermoreiradequeiroga506 4 года назад +3

    Thanks man, very well done and schematic

  • @Majnun74
    @Majnun74 5 лет назад +3

    Wow! This really works! I had no idea. I can play all those chords, I just never thought to play them this way.

    • @aylbdrmadison1051
      @aylbdrmadison1051 5 лет назад +2

      Listen to Rush, and I believe Genesis made use of them too.

  • @Add9Sus4
    @Add9Sus4 5 лет назад +17

    Awesome explanation! I was experimenting with this and it often sounds really good if you try to minimize the movement of the bass note from chord to chord (like for example if you're doing A minor to C# major it sounds really nice if you do the C# major in 2nd inversion so that the bass note is a G#, that way it moves down only a half step)... I'm not a guitar player so not sure how easy that is to do on guitar but it can make these chords sound even more interesting if you play some of them in inversions and use voice leading to minimize note distances

    • @MusicTheoryForGuitar
      @MusicTheoryForGuitar  5 лет назад +2

      Yes, definitely! It's not particularly hard as long as you pay attention to parallel octaves... you have to pay attention to those with all instruments anyway :)

  • @DJVipFlash
    @DJVipFlash 3 года назад +1

    This is really useful! Thank you!

  • @JoshuaMRichard
    @JoshuaMRichard 5 лет назад +6

    Wow. That Am to Fm sounds menacing. Very cool lesson Tommaso!

    • @4dityanarayan
      @4dityanarayan 5 лет назад +4

      The Darth Vader theme begins with that progression (which is where I first came across it). Truly a dark, sinister chord change!

  • @tukkerintensity5575
    @tukkerintensity5575 5 лет назад +5

    So happy to have found your channel - it's a wealth of interesting information and explained like a champ! kudos!

  • @FabioTogna
    @FabioTogna 4 года назад +2

    Great lesson. Thank you!

  • @nickpenacl_
    @nickpenacl_ 3 года назад +1

    Love this video ... just subscribed , thanks !

  • @antiv
    @antiv 4 года назад +2

    Instant sub. Great tempo of explanation and no bs.

  • @bruri7522
    @bruri7522 2 года назад +1

    Very informative awesome video. Thank you!

  • @ephjaymusic
    @ephjaymusic 4 года назад +2

    What a delightful tutorial!

  • @Jinseng
    @Jinseng 2 года назад +2

    Thank you for this man. I’ve been learning chorale style writing in theory and I’m excited to mess around with this w chord inversions

  • @gruforevs
    @gruforevs 5 лет назад +4

    great video, even from the perspective of someone familiar with the topic it was a good refresher. The sound examples were especially useful.

  • @jonescrusher1
    @jonescrusher1 4 года назад +2

    Best explanation i've found.

  • @dragmio
    @dragmio 3 года назад +2

    Why is this so interesting?! I just wanna watch music theory videos forever! :D

  • @christophespoto
    @christophespoto 5 лет назад +2

    Very, very, very cool!
    Amazing theory, amazing sounds!
    Thank you very much!!!

  • @7177YT
    @7177YT 4 года назад +2

    brilliant! thank you!

  • @GrantSchinto
    @GrantSchinto 5 лет назад +2

    Great lesson! Worth watching again and studying

  • @basildog007
    @basildog007 3 года назад +4

    AMAZING man! You just opened a door for me! I knew all these progressions without understanding the underlying explanation... Of course it makes sense, one common note keeps the story going! But weirdly when starting on A major, the secondary chromatic mediants sounded best to me.

  • @timothyj.bowlby5524
    @timothyj.bowlby5524 3 года назад +4

    This is, as usual, a wonderfully straightforward way of explaining a very powerful creative tool to have in your arsenal. The SPELLING of chords is so vital to being able to do this. I just wish that you'd use notation in your discussions as well.

  • @redouandaghirihaouhaou
    @redouandaghirihaouhaou 2 года назад +3

    Amazing video. Simple but really educational!! Good work

  • @giotheproducer2476
    @giotheproducer2476 5 лет назад +3

    the first 8 chords (2 series of 4) of "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush are also an example of how chromatic mediant relationships build an "oblique" passage through the main key , leaving it and returning to it

  • @EdoLS_
    @EdoLS_ 5 лет назад +12

    A very good example of 5:30 is Morning Bell by Radiohead

  • @machinehead891
    @machinehead891 5 лет назад +3

    Yeah! Love this! Thank you for the video Tommaso, awesome as always.

  • @mundomundovich2265
    @mundomundovich2265 5 лет назад +2

    Piano player (learner rather) here. And this is very helpful and interesting.

  • @RaoulVega
    @RaoulVega 4 года назад +5

    I compose many of my black metal music using moves to double chromatic mediant chords, and I never knew the theory behind this before. This video is extremely helpful and interesting! Thank you so much!
    lml

  • @aylbdrmadison1051
    @aylbdrmadison1051 5 лет назад +5

    Because of Rush, I've been playing these chromatic mediants for decades. So it's really nice to have a cool sounding name to give them now too. TY for that and the great lesson as well. ^-^

    • @jfo3000
      @jfo3000 4 года назад +3

      Hemispheres album...

  • @redhotbenny84
    @redhotbenny84 5 лет назад +2

    Really great! Love your style of teaching. Very accessible

  • @pvillez
    @pvillez 4 года назад +1

    Thank you I alway enjoy your video. Nice to see other points of view of our beautiful sublime language.

  • @nuke97
    @nuke97 4 года назад +1

    Wow, I have always been aware of this particular sound in movie themes. I'm amazed that you pointed this out. Thank you.

  • @ericwatkins8523
    @ericwatkins8523 3 года назад +1

    I'm not even a guitar player and this is great, thank you!

  • @beanieism
    @beanieism 4 года назад +3

    Very, very cool! Now I can easily provide a spooky/edgy soundtrack to any situation!

  • @blacklab282
    @blacklab282 5 лет назад +2

    Really great!! Thank you very much for this video!!

  • @estevancarlos
    @estevancarlos 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful presentation of this concept.

  • @4CloudySky
    @4CloudySky 5 лет назад +2

    This is gold! Thank you for explaining this so clearly!

  • @sccrguy610
    @sccrguy610 5 лет назад +11

    Dvorak New World Symphony: Largo (2nd movement) opening chords.

  • @chrisrosencrans
    @chrisrosencrans 11 месяцев назад +1

    If you play a bunch of chromatic mediants and play over the top while targeting the 3rd of each chord it sounds soooo good

  • @jonoshei7956
    @jonoshei7956 5 лет назад +3

    So friggin awesome!

  • @khorumas
    @khorumas 5 лет назад +4

    This is amazing! Thank you! :)
    Okay... It's time to create a bunch of chord progressions and also watch some moves :)

  • @TomthebombMusicBlocks
    @TomthebombMusicBlocks 4 года назад +1

    Legend! Thank you for this tutorial!

  • @remco2777
    @remco2777 5 лет назад +1

    Fascinating video again! Thank you very much!

  • @thomasbuck6250
    @thomasbuck6250 5 лет назад +2

    Finally someone made the videos, that I've looking for so long. More of this, man!

  • @craigpriceguitarist
    @craigpriceguitarist 5 лет назад +2

    Great lesson thanks

  • @Sylvanoskovich
    @Sylvanoskovich 5 лет назад +4

    Main Title from Basic Instinct (Jerry Goldsmith) is also a wonderful music using those technics.
    Thanks for your amazing videos ;-)

  • @SearchfortheMeaning
    @SearchfortheMeaning 4 года назад +1

    Beautiful... I play piano and guitar but mainly guitar. These theory lessons speak very clearly to me. I write arrangements for m ariachi bands. Your lessons are priceless! Thank you maestro.

  • @michaelhansen8959
    @michaelhansen8959 5 лет назад +2

    Thx for this great lesson

  • @MorisoniProductions
    @MorisoniProductions 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge and explaining so very clearly... it's really useful and really appreciated!

  • @equisde8721
    @equisde8721 5 лет назад +3

    Wow... excelent channel, this deserve more likes!

  • @johnxaviermusic
    @johnxaviermusic 5 лет назад +2

    Easily digestible!! I am a “SUBSCRIBER”. Thnx. Keep ‘em coming.

  • @robinsturegren3622
    @robinsturegren3622 5 лет назад +5

    Very interesting video! I've always wondered about that Am - Fm change during the guitar solo of Dream Theater's The Ministry of Lost Souls (I mean it sounds great, but I never knew why they did it, or how it even worked out). Definitely going to look more into this stuff!

  • @TigerRichards
    @TigerRichards Год назад

    Not a guitar player. Still an awesome instructional video -- best of the chromatic mediant videos I've seen so far. The table you built answered a question I had -- "Do I go up/down a major or minor third? Pick a major or minor chord? Now I have a better basis for why one or the other. Thanks!

  • @jmbelkadi
    @jmbelkadi 4 года назад +2

    ..Absolutly Great Lesson..

  • @bubblekeiki7395
    @bubblekeiki7395 5 лет назад +2

    Amazing video! Thanks a lot for the high quality content!!!

  • @danpoolemusic
    @danpoolemusic 4 года назад +2

    love your stuff!!

  • @fabianhernandez4485
    @fabianhernandez4485 4 года назад +1

    Thank you so much!!

  • @zygmuntziembinski3011
    @zygmuntziembinski3011 4 года назад +2

    Great video again, i shouldn't learn to play guitar i schould stay "A list film composer" writing [with chromatic mediants] endless progressions to high budget movies ...

  • @carlobuongiovanni7934
    @carlobuongiovanni7934 4 года назад +1

    Hello, i find your you tube lessons very interesting, even if i play piano and not guitar there are so many interesting harmony and theory explanations very useful for any kind of instruments and for writing music in general.

  • @jdavidojeda
    @jdavidojeda 5 лет назад +2

    Your videos are really great, thanks...

  • @dennispowell9104
    @dennispowell9104 5 лет назад +1

    Very well explained . Thanks a lot

  • @korkenknopfus
    @korkenknopfus 5 лет назад +1

    Very interesting and clear explanation, thank you!

  • @GRUNGETIME1
    @GRUNGETIME1 5 лет назад +4

    I love your Videos ! Really inspiring , thanks mate

  • @tylerkane4559
    @tylerkane4559 5 лет назад +5

    You are a brilliant human being Tomasso! Thank you, cheers 😊

  • @avishayberckovich3326
    @avishayberckovich3326 4 года назад +1

    thank you !!

  • @guitar_nerd
    @guitar_nerd 5 лет назад +2

    this was very interesting, thanks!

  • @Ivan_Ku.
    @Ivan_Ku. 5 лет назад +1

    Thank you!

  • @SamuelPeckman
    @SamuelPeckman 5 лет назад +2

    Very good. Thank you.

  • @Shivanshu.Bisaria
    @Shivanshu.Bisaria 4 года назад +1

    Fantastic explanation

  • @7775Kevin
    @7775Kevin 4 года назад +1

    Excellent thanks

  • @ashleythorpe7933
    @ashleythorpe7933 2 года назад +1

    The progression it often called the 'Tarnhelm', due to the muted horns playing it alone when Alberich puts on the Tarnhelm- a magic helmet- in Das Rheingold (Dating from 1853)

    • @MusicTheoryForGuitar
      @MusicTheoryForGuitar  2 года назад

      Yes :) I covered that in another video: ruclips.net/video/9RzvDMFLKvA/видео.html

  • @keithcourneyea1609
    @keithcourneyea1609 5 лет назад +2

    I've been listening to Michael Romeo's latest album which i'm sure has some of these constructs. Now to go and figure some of them out. Thanks for the insight.

  • @squid-squad
    @squid-squad 4 года назад +1

    Good stuff, brother. I've done a little film scoring but stick with the classical guitar and what I call the "backtone" electric guitar for "sound world," which is filmic.
    You are always crystal clear!

  • @RolandoCruz
    @RolandoCruz 5 лет назад +1

    Good video! I think i 've learned this from hearing and reading Coltrane changes. And i still use them in my on music.

  • @The_official_c
    @The_official_c 5 лет назад +2

    this is great man🙌

  • @Jesse-mh6hv
    @Jesse-mh6hv 5 лет назад +1

    This is the first video I watched on the channel

  • @cibrshrink
    @cibrshrink 5 лет назад +1

    Great stuff!

  • @aesu1192
    @aesu1192 3 года назад +1

    Beautiful video, I love your enthusiasm in your teachings. A little question though, when will you want to add chromatic mediants in to your composition? In terms of functional harmony, what role do you think chromatic mediants play?

  • @xasancle
    @xasancle 5 лет назад +1

    Just GREAT. Thanks a lot 👍🏼

  • @CavinaCave
    @CavinaCave 5 лет назад +1

    Keep these coming. Love it.

  • @zorranism
    @zorranism 4 года назад +4

    There are interesting examples in black metal music where minor triads move in minor second intervals. It results in some sort of creepy gothic sound

    • @Permaclok
      @Permaclok 4 года назад

      Literally every Dimmu Borgir chord progressions

  • @paulbanks244
    @paulbanks244 5 лет назад +1

    TI AMO!

  • @MelodyPainterStudio
    @MelodyPainterStudio 3 года назад

    Thanks man, I make a progressive rock music interlude with this lesson.... I play in Em than Cm

  • @nielsenjesp
    @nielsenjesp 3 года назад

    You should talk about the (in)famous Gesualdo!

  • @AndreaSergon
    @AndreaSergon 5 лет назад +1

    THANK YOU!!!!

  • @geompon6505
    @geompon6505 5 лет назад +3

    If you play it with distorted tone and tremolo picking you get instant black metal.

  • @raystaar
    @raystaar 5 лет назад +179

    The background filler music is a mistake. Makes it hard to concentrate.

    • @ephjaymusic
      @ephjaymusic 4 года назад +5

      Yes, please remove the background music.

    • @mastertimb
      @mastertimb 4 года назад +4

      "Arranger Things" theme song.

    • @TomGrubbe
      @TomGrubbe 4 года назад +16

      I didn't even notice it.

    • @peanutbutter1998
      @peanutbutter1998 4 года назад +4

      Increases your listening skills? I guess? Idk I like to think positively

    • @HaharuRecords
      @HaharuRecords 3 года назад +1

      I really want create cinamatic music with great lyrical songs.. 🤗🌱

  • @jamesmaxwell5415
    @jamesmaxwell5415 5 лет назад +2

    And now another strange topic makes total sense!

  • @billitones
    @billitones 5 лет назад +2

    very cool