3rds - Part 2
Lesson 7 from: Music Theory for Electronic ProducersTomas George
3rds - Part 2
Lesson 7 from: Music Theory for Electronic ProducersTomas George
Lesson Info
7. 3rds - Part 2
Lessons
Introduction
00:58 2Basic Music Theory Terms
08:07 3Keyboard Layout and Octaves
06:19 4Working out Major Scales
08:58 5Perfect 5ths
06:42 63rds - Part 1
08:05 73rds - Part 2
07:39 8Perfect 4ths
04:36Chords and Inversions - Part 1
10:05 10Chords and Inversions - Part 2
09:13 11Chord Progressions - Part 1
10:22 12Chord Progressions - Part 2
08:26 13Inversions
08:53 147th Chords
09:48 15Chord Extensions
08:09 16Suspended Chords
02:40 17The Circle of 5ths
04:30 18Minor Scales
08:09 19Chords in the Natural Minor scale
09:56 20Harmonic and Melodic Minor
09:30 21Write the Chords, then the Melody
09:03 22Write the Melody, then the Chords
18:01 23Arpeggios
08:00 24Writing Bass Parts
11:35 25Writing Bass Riffs and Adapting Melodies
14:10 26Song Analysis - Chords, Part 1
10:17 27Song Analysis - Chords, Part 2
05:58 28Song Analysis - Melody
08:55 29Song Analysis - Arrangement
07:30 30Song 2 Analysis - Arrangement
05:04 31Song 2 Analysis - Chords
08:55 32Song 2 Analysis - Melodies
06:34 33Song 3 Analysis - Chords
11:41 34Song 3 Analysis - Melodies and Arrangement
06:55 35Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 1
10:22 36Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 2
18:47 37Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 3
18:49 38Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 4
08:21 39Create a Song from a Chord Progression - Part 1
08:16 40Create a Song from a Chord Progression - Part 2
08:07 41Create a Song from a Melody - Part 1
07:27 42Create a Song from a Melody - Part 2
09:05 43Modes Intro
04:10 44Ionian
00:43 45Dorian
04:31 46Phrygian
02:09 47Lydian
01:35 48Mixolydian
02:13 49Aeolian
00:39 50Locrian
01:50 51Dorian Mode Example
09:12 52Pentatonic Scales
12:27Lesson Info
3rds - Part 2
Now we're going to have a look at our digital audio workstation and now we're going to put in other cords and by writing out these notes here, tone tone semitone, tone, tone tone semitone, try and remember that TT ST tt S so two Ts and S3 Ts and S tone tone semitone, tone, tone tone semitone. So remembering that we can write out all the notes in the scale. So CD EFG ABC um that's the C major scale. So if we're starting the D, we can just follow the notes here. So remember it's the first, the third and the fifth. So 123, 12345. Let's hear this. Does that sound happy or sad to you? So it's the first way of working it out. Hopefully that should sound a bit sad. Cos it's a minor cord and the other way of knowing it's a minor chord is to count up one, 234. So it's four and then 12345. So that's four and five and four and five is a minor. So that's a minor chord. So this is ad minor. It's in the scale of C major because it's using the C major chords, but it's ad minor chord. Let's try anothe...
r one. Let's start on F. So remember F the third and the fifth. So 123. So let's add in this one, which is an eight and then as in ac. So according to our scale here, the root is an F, the third is an A and the F is ac. let's hear this. Does that sound happy or sad? Hopefully, this should sound a bit happier to you. Of course, it's a complete generalization, but it does kind of work. The way we can work this out also is to count up. So 12345. So it's five between F and A and the 1234. And it's four semitones. Just any of these notes chromatically, chromatically just means all the notes. So it's five and four. Let's have a look at this five and four. It's a major. So F is a major. So we just made or wrote in F minor and sorry, D minor and F major. And of course, we can stack these together and we don't see minors, see major as well because that's just the root chord, which is just the 1st 1st note of the chord. So let's put in these notes here. Let's start with F major and then let's type in the second one. If you remember it was called D minor. So let's go back to Dee and it was four and 5123412345. And then that's put in safe, which is a major cos it's the scale of C major 123451234. Let's just drag this over. Now, we can play this, to be honest, this note sounds a bit high so we can put it down an octave. So we just find another c let's play this back the best sounding chord progression, which is just a series of gods, but it works. OK. Let's put in a baseline now. So what we can do is just find this pattern for a baseline. Remember this WC wasn't up here, this sea was up here before and let's just delete all these notes that aren't the low ones. Basically, that's the easiest way of doing a baseline. So it's FD and C let's just play this. The base is normally lower. So you can drop this in octave. So this should be a lot lower. We can even add a bit of rhythm. This is just making it like s some chords and a baseline just from what we did, just working out the notes in the scale, working out the route, the third and the fifth and then putting the different chords together, the F major, the D minor and the C major. If we go back to here, we remember we wrote out the C major scale and we can work out all the notes and all the chords that go with C major. Of course, we can use different scales and different keys. But for now, let's just stick with this. Uh Let's add in the fifth. So the fifth of F for in C major is 12345 or we can work out this way. So C so F major five and 412345. So it's got an A as a 3rd, 12, 1234 and C is the fifth. So F ac, so we can use that C in our baseline as well. So let's add in but down. Ok, let's do a similar kind of thing with ad let's use this pattern. Then let's go up that, that actually go down to the fifth. I think that sounded cool. Ok, so the fifth of D was D minor if you remember. So it's four and five, but it doesn't really matter for the fifth. It's the same note for a major chord or a minor chord, but let's work it out. So we've got one, 234. So DNF 12345 A, so we can use the A in our baseline. So let's copy this pattern. That's eight and the C, let's use this pattern as well. The C is twice the length as you'll notice here. Let me just copy this over twice. Another thing we can do, we can just copy this over and because A is the same for major and minor, it doesn't matter that we copied it over. Still A G which is the fifth to work it out. Remember C major? Because it's the first chord of the scale. That's the root chord. So let's work this out. C and E, 1234 and A G. So A G should be our, the, let's cop this over again. Let's hear this with the baseline. It's not the best kind of uh um pattern in the world. It's not the best chord progression, but it works. Let's add some drums in. Let's see if this works with the drums. Let's increase the tempo a little bit, 100 B PM. There's a way to just throw together some cords and it fits us all in keys all in tune. The baseline with the fifth sounds fine. All I did was throw on a drum loop. I think it sounds all right. The way we did that is just to work out what the third was. And then we know it's a major or minor chord. And to also work out all the notes in the scale with tone tone, semi toone tone, tone, tone semitone, then you can write out all the notes in the scale after a while. You'll just remember you'll know that C major is just the white notes and then when you go through the other scales N keys, you'll realize certain patterns. For example, D major has an F sharp instead of an F. And when you go through tone tone semitone, tone, tone tone semitone, you'll realize these different patterns. And of course, because we're using the piano roll editor, we can just go through and drag these up. So let's just um do this. Now, let's drag this C to ad, of course, we need to do the same with the base. So drag all this and find the C and drag it to ad. Now, let's hear this back. So it's the same pattern. It's just a bit higher. It's a tone higher which is two semitones or two of these notes on the side can do the same. Let's drag it down. So let's drag this down to a sharp, let's find this pattern here. Oh And drag this down to an, a sharp as well. So that's a really quick way. We can write in some chord progressions that actually work. I've seen a lot of producers try and do it by ear, which can work if your ear is trained well, you can write out the chords. I know Dad Mouse does a lot of this by ear. But if you're new to music production, if you're new to writing music, you will really need to know what you're actually doing what the chord names are, what notes go well together. You need to train your ears to realize that, say this chord and this God fit together might not be the most interesting chord progression, but it works. And it's better to have something that works and is simple and something that doesn't work at all and sounds horrible. So I hope you found this lecture useful. So, in this lecture, we've gone through the difference between major chords and minor chords. Basically, major chords are happy minor chords. A sad, really simple way of putting it. But the way of working out a major and a minor major is five and four. So count up five, including the first note and minor is four and five. And if we write out all the notes of our scale with tone tone, semitone, tone, tone tone semitone, please remember that tt ST to ts, you get really quick at doing that, then we can actually work out all the, all the cords that fit in our scale, which is really useful. We went over quickly diminished and augmented. Augmented is a bit bigger, diminished is a bit smaller. We'll look at these later on and the difference of how you can change a chord to a major and a minor basically just drop the third a little bit to make it a minor, make it a bit a minor chord a bit higher the third to make it a major. But this will come into place a bit later on. And that's basically it. So from this lecture, I recommend just going out or going on your digital audio workstation, writing in all the notes of your scale and just going through it and drawing in all the possible chords you could use. So just remember the, the route the third and the fifth, then try and work out if it's a major chord or a minor chord, the five and the four and if need be maybe an augmented and diminished, but we'll look at this later on in the next lecture, gonna give you a really interesting pattern. A really cool useful pattern that will allow you to work out if a chord is a major or minor and which chords go where in our key. So, thank you for watching. I hope your phone is useful and stay tuned for the next lecture.
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