Learning Modes & Modal Interchange With Zelda Ocarina of Time (and FF7)
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Following up on my previous video teaching basic music theory with music from Ocarina of Time, I use music from the same game to teach the more intermediate concepts of modes and modal interchange. It turns out that this game's music is harmonically quite colorful, and it uses both of these techniques!
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Your videos are long, and every second is on point and informative. You are a great teacher and an excellent video editor
Thank you Aviv. Honored to be of service 🙏
Super glad I stumbled upon your videos. Been interested in Koji Kondo's music for a long time as I always felt there was "more than meets the eye" in his musical composition. To me it always sounded "simple" (as in flowing and natural, never chaotic) but still complex somehow - now I know some of the reasons why! Great content - keep it up.
Soreanol Glad this was useful for you!!
You are a great teacher
today was the day that i finally got what the modes are about, i really love this videos!! thanks a lot!
So glad to hear that!
Very cool to have VGM examples! Thanks for sharing! 🙏
14:13 When Kondo was playing these 4 notes he was (un)conciously quoting Yasunori Mitsuda (from the Chrono Trigger OST) :p
Haha indeed, to be fair, it’s been named the Mitsuda lick, and not the Kondo lick. That’s just the first place I heard it
Halfway through the video I was going to ask you to make one for FF7. I was so happy when I reached near the end of the video and saw a couple of examples of FF7. Great video! :)
Thank you! Yeah it was pretty fun to realize that this is in FF7 as well. I've been playing the remake lately and digging the OST!
great video. Really inspired me to start writing
Glad to hear that!!!
At 19:33, is that a sort of tritone substitution?
lol hello veritas what a small world
awesome info once again!
Great video, thank you so much
One can consider the Dorian mode as an Aeolian mode with a major 6th degree instead of a minor one.
Therefore :
-The ii is no longer diminished but minor
-The IV is no longer minor but major
-The major bVI becomes a diminished vi°
Using any of these chords in a minor context will give to the music a dorian feel.
One may also consider the Lydian mode as a Ionian mode with an augmented fourth instead of a perfect one.
Therefore :
-The ii is no longer minor but major
-The major IV becomes a diminished #iv°
-The vii° is no longer diminished but minor
One can also evoke the lydian sound by extending the I chord with a #11, as it is often heard in jazz.
There is a theory that classifies modes from the brightest to the darkest in the following order :
Lydian
Ionian
Mixolydian
Dorian
Aeolian
Phrygian
Locrian
Just like Ionian and Aeolian are considered to be relatives, could we then considerate a similar relation between two other modes ? Could Lydian be the relative of Dorian for example ? Or would it be the relative of Phrygian, Locrian ?
Overall it seems to me like a theory that doesn't have had yet any influence on the common music, but it may be interesting to search more on the subject.
Borrowing chords from modes that are parallel to the one the key implies is called Modal Interchange, or Modal Mixture.
Let's presume a chord progression is in C major, we could then use Modal Interchange to borrow chords from C lydian, C mixolydian, C dorian, C aeolian, C phyrgian, and C locrian.
By doing so, we then access to a larger palette of colors than the one a key only may suggest.
Classic uses of this concept :
bVI - bVII - I
The quality of the I chord being major, it is the tonic chord of a major key that doesn't contain the bVI nor the bVII. Those two chords are then borrowed from the parallel aeolian mode.
Koji Kondo uses this precise borrowing in the Kokiri Forest Theme (13:40).
He also likes to invert the order of the chords mentionned above as :
I - bVII - bVI
It can then loop around or go to an other chord like bIII, which also evokes the aeolian mode.
Bonus : if the bVII is a dominant 7th chord, it is borrowed from aeolian, but if it is a major 7th chord, it is borrowed from dorian ! So it would be interesting to write a repertoire of common borrowed chords with extensions and indicate the mode they are borrowed from.
The Phrygian Turnaround :
iimin7 - bIImaj7 - Imaj7
If the iimin7 and the Imaj7 chords indicate the color of an ionian mode, the bIImaj7 clearly emphasizes the bII degree of the phrygian mode, hence the name of the turnaround.
The whole thing could be embellished with differents extensions, like the maj7 #11 sound for the bII chord seen in an other Gavin Leeper video.
@@martialpanyvino There’s an old Adam Neely video on the subject that’s quite cool!
@@gavinleepermusic Oh thanks ! I'll try to look for it ;)
I'm really grateful for all your videos, even though summer holidays prevents me from studying i can still improve thanks to you
So thanks a lot :)
Thank you for the analysis and all the well thought out examples!
Well, I'm super late to the party. Just would like to say this was incredible! Very well explained and with solid examples. Can't wait for the next one! I believe the "Shadow Temple" soundtrack doesn't fall under Tonal Harmony, does it? Pretty sure Jabu-Jabu doesn't either. There is some really "out there" stuff in Zelda music. Always learning!
No rush here Vinnie! Glad you made it to the party haha.
Hello, I am very interested in this Zelda analysis, so could you answer me when I can watch the third video with the secondary dominants, etc. Thank you so much.
Glad you like it! Oh do you have a question on one of my other videos? I’m happy to answer if you do!
@@gavinleepermusic I meant: is there a third part of this zelda musical analyisis series?
If the answer is yes, could you write me the url to see it please?
If the answer is no, could you write me the url of a video of yours where you explain in please?
Thank you and sorry for the botherings to you.
Dude I love your videos. Could you analize the song Standing Still by Hi Standard? This song has chord progressions that seem weird but they work and I would like someone explains the theory behind.
19:34 is it a tritone sub?
I sooooo badly want you to make more videos, and post more content faster!!!!
Starbird Beats awww thank you dude! I'm getting much more time for this rn so who knows, next one might be sooner :)
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Modal interchange is Modulation.