Rick you are honestly the teacher I could never afford... and I mean that with the most respect and appreciation as I could ever muster. Please keep these coming!!
Ah, it's a shame you stopped doing these Rick. I really enjoyed the Thomas Newman videos, and Howard Shore is one of my all time favourites. Silence of the Lambs is one of the most underrated scores ever written in my opinion. Your channel is first class and has taken me down so many rabbit holes over the last few years. Nothing like watching an extremely knowledgable and talented person talking about what they love. Thank you for the sunrises i've seen after watching your videos all night!
That move from C aeolean to Bb Lydian is sooooo beautiful! Just love how that sudden E natural just instantly takes you to a totally different emotion.
RIck, you are hitting it our of the park on these videos. I don't think there is anybody doing this better than you. Not only do you give us great examples, but your explanations on WHY it works is invaluable insight into the creation of moods.
I've been looking for a video like this for a long time! Thank you so much for making this Rick. Any chance you could do a video going more in depth about the Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit soundtrack? The music in those films is absolutely incredible and there are so many different techniques going on. I think the LOTR films have some of the best character themes in the past decade of film music (in my opinion, I'm sure others will think otherwise). Either way, thank you for making this, I learned a lot!
Rick, your channel is quickly becoming my favorite music youtube channel (and I follow a lot!). Thank you for the video and for being part of my musical journey!
One of the Shore scores that really influenced my work for the darker/dissonant stuff is the Crash score. I love the electric guitars and all those #11 / b9 harmonies! Really such a unique and bold score. I hope you will be talking about that in part 2 or 3. Can't wait!! 😊 Enjoying your videos!
ooh more of this please. I am surprised at the complexity of this as compared to the Hans Zimmer examples. interesting point though that zimmer often keeps things simple and can sound more 'out' whereas Shore uses a lot of subtle complexity that i think ends up with a more diatonic linear sound. love the LOTR soundtracks - learnt loads as always Rick. thanks.
What happened to The Music of Howard Shore Parts Two and Three Rick? Been four years since you indicated you had almost enough material for their posting!
lovely video! Would be awesome if you could make a video more about LOTR since its my absolute favorite soundtrack! Some cues are real tricky to transcribe for me (for example ""The Bridge of Khazad Dum") and would be great to see your take on it :)
I really like how Howard Shore manage to picture the sound, for the Silence of the Lamb even without watching the movie, you have a feeling of suspense, something bad going on, it also has a feeling of modernity and eerie. But of course if you want to create suspense use tension intervals :)
Watching the opening credits to Cronenberg's Dead Ringers. Howard Shore's score is absolutely heart-breaking. He actually finds a way to make D major sound sad.
24:59 look on my face when I hear Mary Poppins music in a movie about a cannibalistic serial killer. (The music itself is astonishing. I'm making my 3rd own mock-up already.)
Thanks for your videos, maestro :-) You're extremely knowledgeable and a great teacher. Keep up the good work! Greetings and best wishes for 2017 from Berlin/Germany.
Amazing!!!! i learned a lot from this video really well explain i love how he starts with that sinister type of sound that i love and modulates to finish in sore of hopeful and grateful sound
Hey Rick, I just discovered these and I'm loving everything you're uploading! I wish I had these to refer to while I was working on my Music B.A., it would have made those years so much easier! Do you think you could do a video on Jeremy Soule? I've always loved his work and would love to be able to write like him!
Would like one clarification. Clearly you're not using the term "Aeolian" as a synonym for "natural minor" key like many people do, so what is your distinction here? Lack of functional harmony? Please explain, thank you.
Rick, just found your channel today and I love understanding the reasons why a composer sounds the way he/she does, had to subscribe! Keep up the good work! Just a thought, maybe do some analysis of video game composers like Jeremy Soule. Best!
I am a songwriter who just recently found an opportunity to score a short film, and these videos are an amazing resource. Any chance you will do one exploring Jon Brion? He's the favorite film score composer of a lot of the singer/songwriters that I know.
Great feature. I actually have to transcribe much of your note interpretations into a text file to apply the lesson to some DAW sketches and study. Thanks...good stuff.
Hi Rick ! I think the first cue can be analyzed easily with the neo-riemannian tonnetz. Amaj Fmaj Dmaj are 3 major triads that shares the A note, first as the root, then on Fmaj A as the third and on Dmaj A as a fifth. I love your videos ! I'm a Beato fan.
Hello Rick You are truly inspirational I enjoy Your work here and I learn a lot ! With all the respect this Eb aug chord that resolves to Cm I think is more of a G7#5 allthough it could be many other things as You mentioned. If We play Eb aug with the add9 then it is only a G7#5.Anyway I learned too much out of this video that I already started to use this chord with this beautiful cluster of D and Eb as sub V on the IIm7b5 V7alt Im thank You keep it up. all the best !!!
Been watching your videos for a while. Thanks for doing one of my favorite composers. Glad to hear Danny elfman is coming up! Would you consider doing a video on what sound libraries you use?
It is a great video !! If I could suggest an improvement to get the most out of what you explain, it would be to put a small score snippet instead of telling the notes or looking at a reverse keyboard. Would be awesome ! Thanks for sharing your analysis on these scores
Rick, I notice you regularly using the term "Lydian triad" for 1-#4-5, and I like that / haven't found that from many other sources. Does that mean one could call 1-b2-5 a Phrygian triad? or could certain other combinations be appropriate for mode-named triads? loving the videos. Thanks.
Also I notice something funny, on minute 9:04 when you are talking about the pattern E,F#, G and the Violins doing in high strings B,C if you invert the BC for CB the whole patter E,F#, G, C,B is the Batman theme !!!! (Danny Elfman)
Thanks for another great video. I was wondering if you could consider making a video about the godfather theme music? It's some of my favorite and I would love to understand the concepts behind it better. Especially the main theme and the finale theme.
Rick Beato Maybe try looking at the 4 hand versions. For the ballets, there was always one used for rehearsal. There are two hand transcriptions too of course. Either of these would reduce the scope of material. Some of the dances from Rite of Spring are very nice on just piano.
Thank you so much for these essays -- very enlightening! Personally I preferred Shore's scores for Naked Lunch, Se7en, and Ed Wood. Any chance of a Ryuichi Sakamoto piece?
Hmm... I just found you.... great channel. I do write some music myself, but not as good as you. But Jerry Goldsmith maybe? I mean he maybe made the most scariest scores of all time like Alien and Omen for instans, but many beautiful themes as well and great Sci-fi music like Star Trek.
Having collected film music since 1975, I have long believed that the only film composers whose work will truly stand the test of time are Ennio Morricone and Bernard Herrmann. It may have had a lot to do with the fact that they orchestrated their own music. Shore, Horner, Goldsmith, Bernstein...they do very little for me; heresy, I know. Please do Morricone soon.
Hey Rick, awesome videos! Would you do a video on modern orchestral production techniques? As in mixing, recording, plugins/hardware used and so on? There's not much info on this on the web.
Great explanations as always. I love the fact that I can go back and forth with the video because this is a LOT of information to absorb. I'm curious, do composers such as Howard Shore, John Williams or Hanz Zimmer sit there at their pianos and pick a key and a chord and go, "you know what I need here, I need a modal change here, oh and here I think I will move up thirds on the Bflat phrygian scale and back back down 4th intervals in the G aeolian scale." or do they just tinker until they find something nice and the explanations come from that?
The explanations always (for the most part) come after. We get the rules of part writing from Johann Sebastian Bach, but he wasn't thinking about those rules, he was just trying to make music that sounded good.
Great video, Rick! Shore's music is so unique and refined. He really knows his craft and usually does all his orchestrations himself... all by hand! Could you also discuss the music of Elliot Goldenthal? He has such a jaw-dropping intellect and is able to combine different genres masterfully.
Can anyone explain to me the difference between the "Aeolian sound" and the "natural minor sound"? Rick calls it the Aeolian sound throughout the video but I can't understand what makes it different from calling it the natural minor sound, unless it's simply a semantic issue.
Rick reads us some letters again. No analysis beyond that. Sorry to be harsh but why are the notes impactful? The presence of an A going to an F means nothing to me. Why does that interval create emotion? That's what I always want from this channel, but never find.
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Have waited 4 years for part 2 of this video, still come back from time to time to watch it again. Hoping for part 2 one day
I was just thinking this and came to this video to encourage that sentiment.
Damn same here haha, some day
Same!
Rick you are honestly the teacher I could never afford... and I mean that with the most respect and appreciation as I could ever muster. Please keep these coming!!
I got so excited when I saw Howard Shore!!! My favorite film soundtrack of all time is TLOTR!
Ah, it's a shame you stopped doing these Rick. I really enjoyed the Thomas Newman videos, and Howard Shore is one of my all time favourites. Silence of the Lambs is one of the most underrated scores ever written in my opinion. Your channel is first class and has taken me down so many rabbit holes over the last few years. Nothing like watching an extremely knowledgable and talented person talking about what they love. Thank you for the sunrises i've seen after watching your videos all night!
My favorite composer. LOTR changed my life. And he grew up in the same neighborhood as me :$
oh my god if i was you i would create a temple for him there
I really love these older videos where you go over the famous orchestral themes, you should do one of these kind of videos again.
That move from C aeolean to Bb Lydian is sooooo beautiful! Just love how that sudden E natural just instantly takes you to a totally different emotion.
Met Howard last year! What a remarkable man.
Still waiting for the part 2 ;) Shore is my favorite film composer, I'd love to see more of you analyzing his work.
More on Shore please!
RIck, you are hitting it our of the park on these videos. I don't think there is anybody doing this better than you. Not only do you give us great examples, but your explanations on WHY it works is invaluable insight into the creation of moods.
Love watching this video. I grew up with Howard Shore’s music from the Lord Of The Rings movies. Can’t wait for part 2.
Just wowzer! It’s amazing how free Mr. Shore is at harmonic language. Thank you for your great transcription and explanation, Master Beato! 😃🎶🎶🎶
Thank you soooooooooooooooo much for these videos Rick. Absolute gold content here, you're really helping me out.
Sad that there was never a part 2 to this.
I love Howard Shore.
I've been looking for a video like this for a long time! Thank you so much for making this Rick. Any chance you could do a video going more in depth about the Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit soundtrack? The music in those films is absolutely incredible and there are so many different techniques going on. I think the LOTR films have some of the best character themes in the past decade of film music (in my opinion, I'm sure others will think otherwise).
Either way, thank you for making this, I learned a lot!
Rick, your channel is quickly becoming my favorite music youtube channel (and I follow a lot!). Thank you for the video and for being part of my musical journey!
You are very welcome! Rick
One of the Shore scores that really influenced my work for the darker/dissonant stuff is the Crash score. I love the electric guitars and all those #11 / b9 harmonies! Really such a unique and bold score. I hope you will be talking about that in part 2 or 3. Can't wait!! 😊 Enjoying your videos!
All the sudden, I want to go back to Music College and start from Zero With Rick. Had amazing Professors, just a few like Rick :)
man, you are an qll around music teacher. would have loved to have u my training days. thanks a bunch.
Oh Lordy, so much useful material on your RUclips page. Terrific stuff, Rick !!
ooh more of this please. I am surprised at the complexity of this as compared to the Hans Zimmer examples. interesting point though that zimmer often keeps things simple and can sound more 'out' whereas Shore uses a lot of subtle complexity that i think ends up with a more diatonic linear sound. love the LOTR soundtracks - learnt loads as always Rick. thanks.
I remember Lighthouse. One of my favorite groups back then...and still.
I love it when composers add the other-worldly parts. My favorite is the Bespin from Star Wars V.
What happened to The Music of Howard Shore Parts Two and Three Rick? Been four years since you indicated you had almost enough material for their posting!
lovely video! Would be awesome if you could make a video more about LOTR since its my absolute favorite soundtrack! Some cues are real tricky to transcribe for me (for example ""The Bridge of Khazad Dum") and would be great to see your take on it :)
Will you be looking at any Vangelis scores?
I really like how Howard Shore manage to picture the sound, for the Silence of the Lamb even without watching the movie, you have a feeling of suspense, something bad going on, it also has a feeling of modernity and eerie. But of course if you want to create suspense use tension intervals :)
Watching the opening credits to Cronenberg's Dead Ringers. Howard Shore's score is absolutely heart-breaking. He actually finds a way to make D major sound sad.
just subscribed and I must say I love your channel. keep the great work up
Thank you Andii!
24:59 look on my face when I hear Mary Poppins music in a movie about a cannibalistic serial killer. (The music itself is astonishing. I'm making my 3rd own mock-up already.)
Where's part 2? I need more LOTR!
Thanks for your videos, maestro :-) You're extremely knowledgeable and a great teacher. Keep up the good work! Greetings and best wishes for 2017 from Berlin/Germany.
Amazing!!!! i learned a lot from this video really well explain i love how he starts with that sinister type of sound that i love and modulates to finish in sore of hopeful and grateful sound
Hey Rick, I just discovered these and I'm loving everything you're uploading! I wish I had these to refer to while I was working on my Music B.A., it would have made those years so much easier!
Do you think you could do a video on Jeremy Soule? I've always loved his work and would love to be able to write like him!
Did not know he was Canadian! That's awesome.
These videos are great little tid bits of insight. thank you
Would like one clarification. Clearly you're not using the term "Aeolian" as a synonym for "natural minor" key like many people do, so what is your distinction here? Lack of functional harmony? Please explain, thank you.
Rick, just found your channel today and I love understanding the reasons why a composer sounds the way he/she does, had to subscribe! Keep up the good work! Just a thought, maybe do some analysis of video game composers like Jeremy Soule. Best!
Amazing breakdown ❤️
Oh man...more LotR stuff would be awesome!
I am a songwriter who just recently found an opportunity to score a short film, and these videos are an amazing resource. Any chance you will do one exploring Jon Brion? He's the favorite film score composer of a lot of the singer/songwriters that I know.
Great content. I'm barely getting into trying to score films, so this is very helpful
Hey Rick, Howard Shore is an amazing composer isn't he? I'll be roaming around your channel for more great videos, Happy new year! :)
Great video, but where's the second part? :(
Great feature. I actually have to transcribe much of your note interpretations into a text file to apply the lesson to some DAW sketches and study. Thanks...good stuff.
Hi Rick ! I think the first cue can be analyzed easily with the neo-riemannian tonnetz. Amaj Fmaj Dmaj are 3 major triads that shares the A note, first as the root, then on Fmaj A as the third and on Dmaj A as a fifth. I love your videos ! I'm a Beato fan.
NicoloVerrini I call them Cobainian thirds because Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) had a bunch of songs with that progression :)
lol btw your last name is Italian ! Beato means blessed !
I know, that's pretty cool :)
NicoloVerrini verissimo!!
Hey Rick, i would love it if you did a similar video on the music of Joe Hisaishi as he is my favourite composer!!! :)
Matthew cooper agree :)
WHERE IS PART 2!! :(
would love this one going into some of his horror films with cronenberg
@RickBeato do a part 2 with David Cronenberg OSTs. THE FLY would be a killer or Dead Ringers!
Hello Rick You are truly inspirational I enjoy Your work here and I learn a lot ! With all the respect this Eb aug chord that resolves to Cm I think is more of a G7#5 allthough it could be many other things as You mentioned.
If We play Eb aug with the add9 then it is only a G7#5.Anyway I learned too much out of this video that I already started to use this chord with this beautiful cluster of D and Eb as sub V on the IIm7b5 V7alt Im thank You keep it up.
all the best !!!
Your videos are great! I think I could follow along better if I could see the keyboard rightside-up, however.
Thank you so much for this video, i love to learn about this. Especially because my dream is to be a film and game composer :D
Been watching your videos for a while. Thanks for doing one of my favorite composers. Glad to hear Danny elfman is coming up! Would you consider doing a video on what sound libraries you use?
It is a great video !! If I could suggest an improvement to get the most out of what you explain, it would be to put a small score snippet instead of telling the notes or looking at a reverse keyboard. Would be awesome ! Thanks for sharing your analysis on these scores
You know, a composer who wrote a number of scores that became iconic, but whose name one never hears
Maurice Jarre
Rick, I notice you regularly using the term "Lydian triad" for 1-#4-5, and I like that / haven't found that from many other sources. Does that mean one could call 1-b2-5 a Phrygian triad? or could certain other combinations be appropriate for mode-named triads?
loving the videos. Thanks.
Yes, a Phrygian Triad is 1 b2 5 and a locrian triad is 1 4 b5. These terms I use like a sus2 or sus4.
Also I notice something funny, on minute 9:04 when you are talking about the pattern E,F#, G and the Violins doing in high strings B,C if you invert the BC for CB the whole patter E,F#, G, C,B is the Batman theme !!!! (Danny Elfman)
thanks so much your lessons are so useful
Thanks for another great video. I was wondering if you could consider making a video about the godfather theme music? It's some of my favorite and I would love to understand the concepts behind it better. Especially the main theme and the finale theme.
Yes! Great score! Please do it!
Hey Rick, would it be possible to do a video like this on stravinsky?
Of course. I'm planning on it. I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to do it. It's actually easier when I have a score I can put on the screen.
Rick Beato Maybe try looking at the 4 hand versions. For the ballets, there was always one used for rehearsal. There are two hand transcriptions too of course. Either of these would reduce the scope of material. Some of the dances from Rite of Spring are very nice on just piano.
Love that intro...not too many people can read wikipedia from their cell like you do... keep up the good work!
Great video as usual. I was just curious, would be able to do a lesson on compositional styles of Beethoven and Bach?
Please tell us about the music of the Lord of the Rings
Hi, Rick have you ever thought about setting a camera in the top of you facing down so that it is easier for us to see what you are actually playing?
Hi Rick, could you please make a video on Chromstic Mediant Modulations in the score of LOTR??
Please take a look at his score for Cronenberg's, SCANNERS...you'd have fun with that one, too.
Nice! What string patches are you using?
Thank you so much for these essays -- very enlightening! Personally I preferred Shore's scores for Naked Lunch, Se7en, and Ed Wood.
Any chance of a Ryuichi Sakamoto piece?
Crash as well is a great score
awesome sir
I friggin love shore
Hmm... I just found you.... great channel. I do write some music myself, but not as good as you. But Jerry Goldsmith maybe? I mean he maybe made the most scariest scores of all time like Alien and Omen for instans, but many beautiful themes as well and great Sci-fi music like Star Trek.
Having collected film music since 1975, I have long believed that the only film composers whose work will truly stand the test of time are Ennio Morricone and Bernard Herrmann. It may have had a lot to do with the fact that they orchestrated their own music. Shore, Horner, Goldsmith, Bernstein...they do very little for me; heresy, I know. Please do Morricone soon.
Hey Rick. I love this video. What kind of string VST's do you use and how you you suggest getting professional string/orchestral sounds?
Love your videos!, you should make one of Michael Giacchino's Music :)
Thanks Rick, this was very useful and informative. May I ask what sample are you using for the oboe? I particularly liked that one.
Hey Rick, awesome videos! Would you do a video on modern orchestral production techniques? As in mixing, recording, plugins/hardware used and so on? There's not much info on this on the web.
Yes I will!
I missed this one , I had mentioned you doing Howard Shore piece a couple of weeks ago in chat. But you did it already.
Came across this recently. Wondering where the other parts are. 🤔
Thank youu Rick.. Greetings from Colombia.. I hope next will be Danny Elfman
el man es un teso
N/N ive requesting danny elfman for a while now.
I will do Danny Elfman within the week. I have a Hans Zimmer then Danny E coming up :)
yaaaaay !! thank you so much
THANK YOU I HAVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG :)
Vaughn William's all over this first track.
Great explanations as always. I love the fact that I can go back and forth with the video because this is a LOT of information to absorb. I'm curious, do composers such as Howard Shore, John Williams or Hanz Zimmer sit there at their pianos and pick a key and a chord and go, "you know what I need here, I need a modal change here, oh and here I think I will move up thirds on the Bflat phrygian scale and back back down 4th intervals in the G aeolian scale." or do they just tinker until they find something nice and the explanations come from that?
The explanations always (for the most part) come after. We get the rules of part writing from Johann Sebastian Bach, but he wasn't thinking about those rules, he was just trying to make music that sounded good.
Hey Rick. Are there any basic charts available to outline these changes open for public view or study?
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Can you please do some more on the LOTR soundtrack
I hope the next one will be John Barry! :)
Yes please! perhaps an anlysis of his brass sections?
could u do a tutorial on string and woodwind runs
Yes
Where can you buy the score to Anduril? Can't find it anywhere online!
Great video, Rick! Shore's music is so unique and refined. He really knows his craft and usually does all his orchestrations himself... all by hand! Could you also discuss the music of Elliot Goldenthal? He has such a jaw-dropping intellect and is able to combine different genres masterfully.
Is there a part 2??
There's something of the music that plays when Arwen and Aragorn are talking in The Silence of the Lambs theme.
Howard Shore made a short sample for the scene in porn theater in the movie departed...... i been looking for it but its no where to be found
19:49 hippity hoppity this chord change is now my property
4:44
Can anyone explain to me the difference between the "Aeolian sound" and the "natural minor sound"? Rick calls it the Aeolian sound throughout the video but I can't understand what makes it different from calling it the natural minor sound, unless it's simply a semantic issue.
Different terms for the same thing. "Aeolian" is just the Greek name for the natural minor scale in a modal context.
Rick reads us some letters again. No analysis beyond that.
Sorry to be harsh but why are the notes impactful? The presence of an A going to an F means nothing to me. Why does that interval create emotion? That's what I always want from this channel, but never find.