Arpeggios
Lesson 23 from: Music Theory for Electronic ProducersTomas George
Arpeggios
Lesson 23 from: Music Theory for Electronic ProducersTomas George
Lesson Info
23. Arpeggios
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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
Arpeggios
Hello. In this lecture, we're going to be looking at Ar Pors. An Ar por is basically a midi effect that plays the notes one after the other. So if there's a chord with three different notes, it will just play these three notes in the pattern we determine. So in Ableton Live, we do have an Arpe to plug in this, basically just plays the notes one after the other and you can choose different patterns. So up, down, up down et cetera, different steps. So if it goes up more than one octave, a lot of digital audio workstations will have an Arpa gator built in with the daw or you can just type in the notes yourself. So let's hear what this says. All I've really done is got these cords from previously and just create a new track and just stuck on an Alp and change the scent slightly and that's pretty much it. So let's hear what this sounds like. So here's the RPJ. So we can increase the steps. So it goes up more octaves the rate as well. So what rate goes through the notes and that kind of thin...
g also going to type this in manually cos it's good to know what it's actually doing rather than just flying on a plug in. So let's just open up this clip and what it was really doing was just playing one note one after the other. So let's just type this in and we can choose any pattern. Really. An Arpeggio is great as kind of a counter melody. So it's not the main melody but something else going on a bit of movement because sometimes the chords can just be a bit static. But if we have an Arpeggio going on as well, it can create a bit more movement. So we can just use this shape and maybe just speed it up. So let's uh double time this, then let's just repeat this. We can choose different patterns. So we can have this a last night go up and octave do the same in the next chord. So use the same pattern. Remember theres also a B there, Nef Sharp there. So let's just draw in F sharp here. So we just know for later then the A here. So yeah, you can do this manually or you can just draw it in. You can use the Arpeggio plug in if you have one with most D Aws will. So it just adds a bit more flavor to your music. A bit of movement kind of a counter melody. This won't be the tune that people will be walking around humming but it's very common in electronic music to have N Pio. A lot of the time you won't even notice it's there. It's just in the background, but you probably will notice there's a bit more movement in the track. This one, let's put up an octave, we're nearly there. So the last couple chords just so you can see how to actually write in an arpeggio manually just about using the same shapes, just remembering where the notes go. That's kind of it, it's really simple. And of course, you can mix it up, you can change the pattern around. It doesn't have to be the same every time, but it's nice to have a repetitive pattern sometimes just to make it a little bit more memorable at times. So there you go. So we could move it around a bit, maybe start with the D there and then have the B at the end, then they have this f sharp up and this D Darren, let's hear this with the other tracks. Like I said, you could just select all, drag it back and then double it up. So there's some more interesting effects you can create. So it's hitting each note twice now and then go through and maybe even move some of these up and octave perhaps. So the first and the third, I'm gonna move up an octave of the cord, the second note first and the third to this kind of thing. So there's quite a few different things you can do. Sometimes using the Arpe Gator doesn't really give you as much customization as if you just go in manually and do it yourself. Obviously, it's a bit harder to do it yourself. It can be nice and easy and quick just to throw on an Arpeggio just to see what it's like. Cos sometimes might sound really good and other times it might not if you spend all this time messing around with these patterns and you realize it's not very good, you might have wasted a few minutes, but it's all about experimentation. Let's hear this. This could be great for a build up just to add a bit more movement and flow in your music and go into the synth and just change it around a bit loads of stuff you can do. That's just me quickly just messing around in the SIM. Like I said, this is not a sound design course. It is a music theory course. One way you can quickly go in, add a bit of movement into your track is by adding, adding in an arpeggio. So you can either find your midi instrument and then just throw in an arpeggio effect before it goes to the synth or you can just type in manually what you want to happen. It's just a bit more difficult, a bit harder, but I personally think is the better way of doing it. So thank you for watching this lecture all about an Arpeggio.
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