Chromaticism
Lesson 25 from: Music Theory for Electronic Musicians 2: Minor Keys and MoreJ. Anthony Allen
Chromaticism
Lesson 25 from: Music Theory for Electronic Musicians 2: Minor Keys and MoreJ. Anthony Allen
Lessons
Welcome and Overview
04:15 2Analysis: Shame on Me (Avicii)
22:25 3Minor Scales
06:27 4Relative Keys
11:03 5Minor Diatonic Chord Progressions
12:09 6The Case of the Melodic and Harmonic Minor Scales
05:26 7Analysis: Ghosts N Stuff
26:08 8The Circle of Fifths
09:48Changing Keys Within Your Track
14:00 10Analysis: Get Lucky (Daft Punk)
26:06 117th Chords in Minor
16:38 129ths and 13ths
09:08 13Suspended Chords
05:03 14Reading a Chord Chart
11:02 15ster and Unnamed Chords
03:47 16Analysis: Everything You Do is a Balloon (Boars of Canada)
21:14 17Writing Melodies for Chord Progressions
14:32 18Writing Chord Progressions for Melodies
13:54 19Counter Melody with Apreggiators
12:24 20Analysis: Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Skrillex)
28:26 21Bass lines: Follow the Root Note
13:23 22Bass Riffs
08:49 23Get Muddy
03:02 24Analysis: Windowlicker
12:44 25Chromaticism
03:43 26Thanks and Bye!
01:15Lesson Info
Chromaticism
okay as we wrap up this class, um, there's a couple other things I wanted to point out one in particular. Um, and that's we've looked at cords, baselines, harmonies, diatonic chord progressions, all kinds of diatonic stuff. Diatonic means in a key. Um, there's a whole other kind of music. And if you get more in the music theory, um, you'll find ah, whole other kind of music. That's not diatonic. Um, that isn't in keys. It is chromatic music. Chromatic means it uses all pitches just freely. And there are a lot of different systems for organizing music in a bunch of different ways that are completely chromatic. Um, I'm not going to spend any time talking about it in this class because it is wildly unuseful to you if you are writing dance music or anything in the related genres of popular electronic music or semi popular electronic music. Um, but I do want to acknowledge that it exists. Not everything is in key, and there are some pretty wild sounding music. Music's, I think, is the right...
word for that out there that are completely chromatic. Here's a little taste. Ah, this guy's Arnold Schoenberg. He's Ah, one of the kind of founding fathers of complete Chromatis ism and some of the organizing principles behind it. Way. It's pretty wild stuff, right? And, uh, I would encourage you, though, to be open to it, because one thing that you'll see is that the more elements of Chromatis ism that you can incorporate into your music, meaning stuff outside of the key is when it gets more interesting. If you go completely chromatic like every note you're going to use all the time, Uh, then you're going to create a mess. But, um, the more outside the key you get the more interesting and unique it sounds. So don't be afraid to go outside of the key and experiment. Ah, which is throwing notes in that make no logical sense. If they sound good, they sound good. That's the most important thing of this whole class. If it sounds good to you than it's right, there's no ah theory explanation required, if you like the way it sounds. So I encourage you to check out some chromatic music. Check out the composer of Schaumburg, Um, spelled just like this, and there's many other composers. If you just look up Wikipedia page for, ah, chromatic chromatic music or 12 tone music. It's sometimes called. I want to be really fancy. We call it Dodik. A phonic music sometimes. So check that out. I don't think it will be super useful to you in your own, uh, production, Um, needs. But, um, as a musician, I think I think it's important for all of us to know that this other musics out there so So when you get some time, check it out.
Ratings and Reviews
MikeD
Well, I slobbered all over you after your first class and this one is as good or better. I realize people don't go to college for 12 years and learn what you shared in a few hours and you didn't earn your doctorate with just this stuff. I mean Julliard must offer a lot more, but you have advanced my knowledge by miles and I've got to say thank you. Make some more of these simple, common talk courses - I'll buy them all.
Ben Küstner
Real Great Course. I learned a lot about Music Theory and now am jamming better than ever on my keyboard. Thanks Allen
Nick van Lochem
This course its so good he makes it al sound so easy. that ists easy to remember and use in your creations.