the final arrangement choice completely changed how I perceived the piece - on piano alone it sounded more wistful and very orderly, but with a full band it’s quite joyous and free spirited - thank you, that was very interesting
I teared up a bit when I heard the finished version, because it reminds me a lot of the kind of music I used to listen to when I was a kid. So full of life and hope for the future that I somehow lost along the way.
Your videos are super explanatory, it's so rare to teach like a real teaching. Most of the tutorial guys explain stuff poorly, even if they do really know the stuff (programming, music theory, etc...), because teaching is a rare skill. And also, the music you composed is really pleasing and leaves me with a feeling of desire to listen again and again.
My friend, you have corralled my monkey brain into really wanting to pursue the theory in your lessons. I'm about to break out a note book and get to work. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Seriously, My favorite video series on RUclips! Will share and donate when I can!
This is some extremely valuable content, thank you so much for making these videos ! Just found out about your channel yesterday, I was thrilled that you posted one today :)
What an amazing, inspiring video. I've wanted to compose a piece of music for years, and this crystallizes so many difficult concepts into understandable basics, that it no longer feels like an impossible thing to do. Thank you for your effort, the finished piece in the end was heavenly.
Finally got a Patreon set up! I am sincerely grateful for anyone donating (in any form or amount) to help make the crazy dream of doing this seriously into a reality. Thanks! patreon.com/lacinato lacinato.com/donate
Very nyc explanation and an example in the end shows the real beauty and potential of a good melody .No one till now explained melody making on RUclips so practically and from this view. Thanks for making this video.
I just want to tell you that I have scoured the internet looking for instructional videos like this but none of them have even come close to explaining the concepts as well, as succinctly, or as approachably as your videos. Please keep up the good work and thank you so much for creating this. I shared it with four or five of my musician friends and they all agree that this was a fantastic theory concepts.
Absolutely awesome! I just subscribed yesterday after coming across your earlier videos so this is spectacular timing :P Thank you for the insightful video :)
Modal mixture is probably one of my favorite things about writing progressions. Writing in, say, Minor over and over and over again strictly with the same chords gets dull - throwing a Dorian or Mixolydian chord spices things up and gets your attention.
Actually, on that note, I recommend you talk about the modes of the Major scale. I know you touched on it in the Distilled videos, but I feel like introducing music theory beginners to the modes more in-depth would help get the inspiration juices flowing.
Could someone quickly explain what Dorian/Mixolydian or modes in general are. I heard the words a lot recently in RUclips vids, but i have no idea what they actually mean.
@@jonaslinder8390 In the same way major and minor scales are defined by the intervals you go up (e.g. major starts at a root and goes up a whole step, whole step, half step, whole, whole, whole, half), scales like Dorian and mixolydian are just different scales formed on different patterns like these. An easy way to remember them is to compare them to major and natural minor. If you take a natural minor scale and raise the 6th, you get a Dorian scale (e.g. A minor is A B C D E F G, so A Dorian is A B C D E F# G). Mixolydian is where you take a major scale and lower the 7th (e.g. C major is C D E F G A B, so C mixolydian is C D E F G A Bb). Of course, any combination of notes like these could be called a scale depending on your definition, so why are these special? Well, the reason we call these modes is that if you take a major scale, say C major for simplicity, and decide to use a different note as your root - not C - you've got a mode of C major! All the notes of C major, but using D as the root? That's D dorian, the 2nd mode of C major. Mixolydian is the 5th mode - all the notes of C major, but starting on G. Every note is a possible starting point, of course. The other modes of C major are E phrygian, F lydian, A aeolian (aka A natural minor) and B locrian.
Great video, really inspiring, I love that you teach something different than just setting on the first idea that comes to one's mind but yet make it really digestible and enjoyable. One of the best musical tutorials I've seen on YT.
Very interesting video, even despite i feel like i already have the basic feel for writing acceptable leads, i still learned some nice things to keep in mind, and once again got reminded that i should force myself to learn/practice modal mixture to avoid stuff getting stale and stuck in one scale rigidly. Also the end of the video stresses quite an important, but sometimes overlooked thing - sound design plays quite a big role in how the melodic, harmonic and rhytmic content is perceived too.
Fucking brilliant, thank you so much for everything so far! Music theory distilled 1, 2 and 3, Choosing chords for a melody 1 and 2 and this great video have helped me overcome a bunch of hurdles I was getting stuck on (like understanding modes, how chords relate to scales and how to find suitable chords in those scales). The simplicity and intuitiveness(?) of your system for visualizing music make it exceptional at relaying the discussed concepts. TL;DR: Thank you so much, great content!
Hmmm... it's a broad question and it depends a lot on your particular musical interests. Most people would argue that 90% of which emotion is evoked by a scale is a personal/cultural thing, as opposed to something inherent to the scale itself, so I think the best thing is to just get to know the various scales in the genres you play. In other words, choose at random until you notice a pattern. :-)
@@CaseyConnor I'm telling everyone with an interest in music theory about your channel, Hopefully if everyone does this more then you can gain more subs and more funds ! You ROCK !!!
@@MichaelTrentColvin Sadly it is not, but thanks for asking. Lots of ambitious RUclips plans fell away in the face of the realities of how hard it is to get views.
I was wondering if someone would ask. :-) It's a low-C whistle, made by Susato; a crook-neck version with no keys that they don't make anymore, quite unfortunately. I accidentally cropped out my right hand in the video.
I am sorry to say but as an over 40 year composer making music and having succes and some hits, I have to pinpoint that songwriting is an emotional thing. No calculation or reasonable grounds are valid for writing melodies or chord progressions in any which way. I have you don't have the talent of how the feeling of making melodies comes to you do not try to calculate any.... They will always be wrong
So is your most useful advice for people to not try any advice from this video and quit making music if it doesn't magically happen to be a polished masterpiece after the first or second try? And if you'll say that I'm obviously exaggerating, and someone can still come up with a good composition, but maybe from the hundredth try, don't you think that ideas present in the video will obviously help to reach that goal quicker than if you'd ignore them? Or maybe you're just a troll :/
"You can't murder the melodic baby in the crib" lmao got me good
I feel lucky to have discovered your channel.
This was total genius. So beautifully explained. And the final piece is just majestical. Blown. ♡
Ive gone to music school and ive never heard creating a song directed so well and simply. I just subscribed.
...A new noodler
the final arrangement choice completely changed how I perceived the piece - on piano alone it sounded more wistful and very orderly, but with a full band it’s quite joyous and free spirited - thank you, that was very interesting
I just wanted to say it was a really nice composition you had at the end.
3blues1browns of music
Yeah, exactly!
Even I thought so.
It changes my perspective of composing music
I teared up a bit when I heard the finished version, because it reminds me a lot of the kind of music I used to listen to when I was a kid. So full of life and hope for the future that I somehow lost along the way.
Wow, good to hear, thanks.
Your vidoes are amazing man... would love those tonic training videos if possible... you're an amazing teacher. Its an honour to learn from you
Beautiful song at the end, you are so talented, and diligent! I know that took years of practice, what a joy to take in your musical creation ❤😊
I told everyone in my music class about your theory videos because they're so well done! I will be the first to buy your course when it comes out!
I learned more about music in a 20 odd minute video than all the books I've read about it!. Beautifully done.😊👍
The final arrangement made me remember to Folk Andean Music :D
It sounds like Gryphon.
Your videos are super explanatory, it's so rare to teach like a real teaching. Most of the tutorial guys explain stuff poorly, even if they do really know the stuff (programming, music theory, etc...), because teaching is a rare skill. And also, the music you composed is really pleasing and leaves me with a feeling of desire to listen again and again.
leodevbro Thanks!
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL !!!
You're one of the very few people on yourutbe that knows what they are doing
FIVE STARS ALL THE WAY A+++++
Just with the beginning I'm already inspired and I learned much. What an amazing video, thank you so much 🙏🙌
My friend, you have corralled my monkey brain into really wanting to pursue the theory in your lessons. I'm about to break out a note book and get to work. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Seriously, My favorite video series on RUclips! Will share and donate when I can!
D W you bet! So glad you like the videos.
This is some extremely valuable content, thank you so much for making these videos !
Just found out about your channel yesterday, I was thrilled that you posted one today :)
Great and clear presentation, very nice.
Yes, very clear and easy to understand
Your teaching skills are inspiring !!!
What an amazing, inspiring video. I've wanted to compose a piece of music for years, and this crystallizes so many difficult concepts into understandable basics, that it no longer feels like an impossible thing to do.
Thank you for your effort, the finished piece in the end was heavenly.
Finally got a Patreon set up! I am sincerely grateful for anyone donating (in any form or amount) to help make the crazy dream of doing this seriously into a reality. Thanks!
patreon.com/lacinato
lacinato.com/donate
The best advice about writing melodies on RUclips!!! BY FAR!!! I have been looking on RUclips for something like this for a LONG TIME!!!
Very nyc explanation and an example in the end shows the real beauty and potential of a good melody .No one till now explained melody making on RUclips so practically and from this view. Thanks for making this video.
You bet; glad you liked it. :-)
I just want to tell you that I have scoured the internet looking for instructional videos like this but none of them have even come close to explaining the concepts as well, as succinctly, or as approachably as your videos.
Please keep up the good work and thank you so much for creating this. I shared it with four or five of my musician friends and they all agree that this was a fantastic theory concepts.
Thanks a lot! I was waiting for your new upload. Going to implement every single thing from your video :)
Absolutely awesome! I just subscribed yesterday after coming across your earlier videos so this is spectacular timing :P Thank you for the insightful video :)
Absolutely lovely! I love the wistful sound of the woodwind, and i appreciate the usage of Dorian, the best mode of them all
Modal mixture is probably one of my favorite things about writing progressions. Writing in, say, Minor over and over and over again strictly with the same chords gets dull - throwing a Dorian or Mixolydian chord spices things up and gets your attention.
Actually, on that note, I recommend you talk about the modes of the Major scale. I know you touched on it in the Distilled videos, but I feel like introducing music theory beginners to the modes more in-depth would help get the inspiration juices flowing.
Aaron Myers yeah thank you... It is on my list of potential videos!
Could someone quickly explain what Dorian/Mixolydian or modes in general are. I heard the words a lot recently in RUclips vids, but i have no idea what they actually mean.
@@jonaslinder8390 In the same way major and minor scales are defined by the intervals you go up (e.g. major starts at a root and goes up a whole step, whole step, half step, whole, whole, whole, half), scales like Dorian and mixolydian are just different scales formed on different patterns like these. An easy way to remember them is to compare them to major and natural minor. If you take a natural minor scale and raise the 6th, you get a Dorian scale (e.g. A minor is A B C D E F G, so A Dorian is A B C D E F# G).
Mixolydian is where you take a major scale and lower the 7th (e.g. C major is C D E F G A B, so C mixolydian is C D E F G A Bb).
Of course, any combination of notes like these could be called a scale depending on your definition, so why are these special? Well, the reason we call these modes is that if you take a major scale, say C major for simplicity, and decide to use a different note as your root - not C - you've got a mode of C major!
All the notes of C major, but using D as the root? That's D dorian, the 2nd mode of C major. Mixolydian is the 5th mode - all the notes of C major, but starting on G. Every note is a possible starting point, of course. The other modes of C major are E phrygian, F lydian, A aeolian (aka A natural minor) and B locrian.
@@ciangrant3042 Thank you very much, very well explained!
The finished product was so good! I love it. Thank you for all the tips and for encouraging us to write and express our own music!
Thanks! And you bet -- best of luck with it.
6:40 felt like Hans Zimmer's interstellar soundtrack (docking scene) epic !
Great video, really inspiring, I love that you teach something different than just setting on the first idea that comes to one's mind but yet make it really digestible and enjoyable. One of the best musical tutorials I've seen on YT.
one of the best video I cae across. Thank you for your contribution to my knowledge.
How tf did this wideo only have 18k vews and 86 comms in 2 years ?? that helped me a lot, thank you
Loved the work you put in for the end
You have inspired me in many ways, thank you so uch for sharing you hard work :)
I appreiate you my brother ! You ROCK
Today I learned: Writing a melody doesn't have to feel like polishing a diamond.
I really like it, spreading your distilled vids as much as I can! Please keep going! Thanks)
Wow, My best friend, Thank you for your hard work in making the video. I enjoyed the good video. Have a happy day.
More videos!!!! Excellent work!! Tremendo trabajo!!! Un saludo desde argentina!!! Keep it up!!
You are an amazing tnku for helping us♥️
This was outstanding! Thank you and i will be donating!
That was phenomenal.
Great lesson !!
Very interesting video, even despite i feel like i already have the basic feel for writing acceptable leads, i still learned some nice things to keep in mind, and once again got reminded that i should force myself to learn/practice modal mixture to avoid stuff getting stale and stuck in one scale rigidly.
Also the end of the video stresses quite an important, but sometimes overlooked thing - sound design plays quite a big role in how the melodic, harmonic and rhytmic content is perceived too.
Excellent video
I love your channel. Thank you, man. Thank you.
Fantastic video!
I'll try it on my flute
Really cool video, nicely done.
What does that fundraiser mean?
The result blew my mind! Shit!
Fucking brilliant, thank you so much for everything so far! Music theory distilled 1, 2 and 3, Choosing chords for a melody 1 and 2 and this great video have helped me overcome a bunch of hurdles I was getting stuck on (like understanding modes, how chords relate to scales and how to find suitable chords in those scales). The simplicity and intuitiveness(?) of your system for visualizing music make it exceptional at relaying the discussed concepts. TL;DR: Thank you so much, great content!
Thanks, Guy, glad to hear it. :-)
Great
Thank u 🙏🏻
... Dankeschön ...
6:42 reminds me of Hanz Zimmer's interstellar soundtrack for some reason
Violations of the scale ?
My court date is next friday
nice :)
Murder my meoldic baby in it's crib ?
Sounds like a line from a death metal song lol
bro please tell me how do I find scale and key based on the emotion of the song I am trying to convey ?
Hmmm... it's a broad question and it depends a lot on your particular musical interests. Most people would argue that 90% of which emotion is evoked by a scale is a personal/cultural thing, as opposed to something inherent to the scale itself, so I think the best thing is to just get to know the various scales in the genres you play. In other words, choose at random until you notice a pattern. :-)
@@CaseyConnor thank you !
6:41 sound like instellar theme
Please make more music
nice video! Why so little views?
Sheldon Chang thanks! Any sharing/Facebooking/tweeting/blogging of the videos use always greatly appreciated and helpful in those regards!
@@CaseyConnor I'm telling everyone with an interest in music theory about your channel, Hopefully if everyone does this more then you can gain more subs and more funds ! You ROCK !!!
How is you music theory course going ?
@@MichaelTrentColvin Sadly it is not, but thanks for asking. Lots of ambitious RUclips plans fell away in the face of the realities of how hard it is to get views.
those 6 who disliked prolly jealous.
6:42 seemed like how interstellar music was made.
What is the woodwind?
I was wondering if someone would ask. :-) It's a low-C whistle, made by Susato; a crook-neck version with no keys that they don't make anymore, quite unfortunately. I accidentally cropped out my right hand in the video.
...at it's a diatonic whistle, which is why that non-scale note is a bit out of tune each time, due to the half-holing.
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To satisfy or deny an expectation .... my ex was good at that lol
I am sorry to say but as an over 40 year composer making music and having succes and some hits, I have to pinpoint that songwriting is an emotional thing. No calculation or reasonable grounds are valid for writing melodies or chord progressions in any which way. I have you don't have the talent of how the feeling of making melodies comes to you do not try to calculate any.... They will always be wrong
So is your most useful advice for people to not try any advice from this video and quit making music if it doesn't magically happen to be a polished masterpiece after the first or second try?
And if you'll say that I'm obviously exaggerating, and someone can still come up with a good composition, but maybe from the hundredth try, don't you think that ideas present in the video will obviously help to reach that goal quicker than if you'd ignore them?
Or maybe you're just a troll :/
I freaking hate c major
or a minor
The biggest question after writing have to be: should I really publish this?
The world is already a big mess, be sober not to liter it more.