Why yes, I *do* want to learn from a music school dropout. Different perspectives bring different insights and that's a beautiful thing. Thank you for another theory video!

The subtle note editing is so awesome. I bet that took forever

Really great video Jeremy. Love the annotated notes ‘floating’ above the Keystep. Thanks so much.

Possibly the most useful music theory ramble I've ever heard. 9/10, recommend you advertise yourself as LEARN MUSIC THEORY FROM THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK and retire from the view revenue.

I know you said you arent even that experienced but i think that is exactly what made your video click with me, most people get tooo technical and they lose me while they do that cause i end up not knowing whats going on

I bought a practically brand new microKorg the other week for $200 off of craigslist. Last night I sat down and actually played music for the first time in years. I was trying to figure out "Song for My Father" by Horace Silver. It was so much fun. I'm definitely going to use this video as a guide to possibly writing a little music going forward.

This has without a down, been the MOST imformative, easy to understand, fun to learn and EYE OPENING video I have ever watched on Melody. Wow, I cannot wait to make more music with a better idea of thinking what tension am I creating and what am I really trying to say in music? I think I found myself feeling like I didn't need to know this stuff because it was "too technical" and every musician always says "let it come naturally, there are no rules in music" well NO actually the 6th note wanting to resolve into the 5 and the 7th note wanting to resolve into the 8th will actually be very HELPFUL when creating a melody so that I can think in more of a CHORDAL TONE fashion and REALLY express the sounds that I want. Thank you so much Jeremy! Just subscribed!

Honestly, I’ve been writing music since 2012 and this video has taught me a few things.

Excellent! And I did find it informative. More blathering please!

Thank you talking hands, this helped. In all seriousness, this was fantastic! Experience is one of the most important assets that a producer can have, like you said. Thanks for sharing what you've learned with us!

This is perfect for both the beginner and the avid professional lost in the pursuit of perfection! Sometimes, it's good to go back to the basics and just knock out a few melodies until you find one sticks.

Petition: If a song has more than 3 "accidentals" in it we should now call them "On purpose"

Dude YES every time I try to watch a basic music theory video on here I want to tear my hair out. This is nice.

Best melody video on the site imo. Something about how you explained it and summarised it was perfect and now I’m gonna be practicing my scales. Honestly it would be amazing if you made more tutorials on music production. And obviously op-1 videos are amazing too.

I've been trying to learn this on KZfaq for a month and u you just took a month worth of content and made it intuitive and I understand it now. This is awesome

Ya know, anyone can go get a table and some equipment and a camera but only RED can add the little sparkly graphics and endearingly rambing but also very informative narrative to go with it. Amazing work yet again. Thank you for all that you do.

Really enjoyed this. Hearing information in a really informal way somehow makes you hear it differently and learn something new. Like when someone covers a song you've heard before but uncovers lyrics you thought you knew. :)

Absolutely! I used to sit down with a guitar and just play with/against Final Fantasy and other RPG music. Video Game soundtracks are the best because they loop! This also helps with improvisation too.

This is the best explanation of melody I have ever come across. I have never understood it until now. THANK YOU.

Jeremy! Your timing of releasing this is perfect. Just last night I was trying to explain these concepts to my cousin and your video does a much better job than I did. My formal knowledge of music theory consists of half a year in high school where I sat in on a music theory class because I had no other class to be in. Great job and great timing. Thank you!

Thank you for doing a video like this, I really enjoy learning from you. Please do more of these I will be at the front of the line for everyone ! Love ya bud

Dude this is like a friend to friend conversation, this was so damn helpful

I just finished a short community college course where we worked through the first part of "Edly's Music Theory for Practical People", and I have to say it was a pretty great book. The chapters are dense, but well written with helpful exercises. It opened my mind up so muc, and is helping guide my practice to try and integrate the ideas taught in it.

Teachers, learn from this man. He drew my attention with the prospect of mastering melodies. That got me excited and lured me into a music theory lesson ... I graduated in music, for God's sake! Great video man. If I ever decide to teach again, this is exactly what I'm doing.

When you held that B, I was shouting at my screen for you to resolve that. ARGH! 😅

So cool man,so cool.Love the effect when you play keys and their names show up at the same time.Very informative.

Grrreat! Lovely fluent blues melodies , and it’s nice to see that you share your experience and approach to music theory.

I dropped out of a classical piano performance degree just last November. I'll always wonder what could have been, but I don't regret my decision. Even if it means I'm waiting tables right now and trying to do my best to provide value to others with my passions for art, music and collaboration and will never have a piece of paper to back me up. I just want to say, I really appreciate you and your content has been a huge inspiration to me. Some day's I've watched your content, even last year when I was at university and got a rush of giddy excitement with your Op-1 videos. Heck I even saved up and bought a bloody Seaboard after consuming a bunch of videos including yours which got me excited like a child on Christmas Eve about the possibilities this piece of tech might have. I'm yet to actually put it to use as I only this week bought BitWig and started to learn audio production for the scores I'm writing as gifts to fellow KZfaqrs to use for their content. And now I've ended up in front of one of your videos and am watching it whilst sketching logos for my brand/s which I've been super excited to start and been working on for months now and have enjoyed every moment of getting up at 3-4am just to pursue my interests before my day job. So it's a long message, but I just want to share the impact you've had by simply being you're authentic self and want to thank you because I likely will never get the chance in person. I wish you all the success, and look forward to being inspired by you in the future and perhaps making it as one of your contemporaries in the KZfaq / Music world in the next 10 years when I've provided enough value and practiced the craft enough to be one of it's ambassadors. Thanks for being you. Your Pal, Connor.

I love how you call musical instruments "input devices"!

Currently going for my Bachelor's in Audio Production. I feel like the way you explain your thought process and your sense of humor in other uploads finally lets people know what it feels like to be a musician. That's what made me sub so long ago and keeps me coming back for every vid. Thanks for another great one, Jeremy.

Thanks J-man. This was a great intro to music theory and using scales over chords. I wish there was more of this kind of tutorial in the synth community. Love your video production chops; it's a pleasure to watch.

This is great. You see so much of the same stuff rehashed on production channels. This was pretty novel to me and introduced plenty of new ideas for me to play with. Thanks

The floating notes were a great touch! Great info man!

THIS IS AMAZING STUFF!!! Please keep doing more of these videos!

I'll have to watch that Tutorial a few times as I grow playing on the keyboard. Really appreciate your work.

This was exactly what I needed. Thanks very much Jeremy.

The way you design the digital effects and how you use them to explain things are more useful then my ten years of music. Thank you thank you thank you!

Thanks a lot, that really gave me another perspective on getting ideas for melodies!

Thank you for the simplification! You've inspured me !

You're visuals are so pretty and really help explain things! Thanks ! Great video

I've needed this video for so long, and never even knew it! Thanks, Jeremy :D

This is a nice simple instruction to melody. Really enjoyed the visual of the notes as well, I felt that helped the whole presentation.

This was great! I’m definitely going to listen to music and play along

Great! I play by ear and never learned to read music. Now I know a few technical words to explain to some others how, where, and why I can hook melodies together and even include"out of key sounding notes" that transition into surprisingly attractive melodies while also creating the illusion of changing chords so much. Thanks a lot for the knowledge. The end of the video gave me a good laugh. Sad but true is the four note stars!

Really awesome video. I feel like everyone can learn something from this

Wow thank you for a making this video! I hope to see more music theory stuff on your channel, bc you're great at explaining

Every video you put out is so quality

"It's effing four notes" 😅 No need to worry about academic background, your music speaks for itself so please tell us the secret sauce! I've been digging into music theory and learning classical piano, now I want to rewatch your old op-1 videos (free of NiN 1 sec songs), like "I Need U" to see and understand chord and melody relationships.

HOLY CRAP! I loved this! ❤️

Thoroughly appreciated this video. Thanks man

It was super informative and helpful! Thank you Jeremy

Thank you! I really enjoyed this. I would watch more music theory videos if you make them. Thanks for always putting out great content and being inspiring.

I think this is best video you've done so far. Thank you.

This is incredibly helpful for people like me who want to start making music without too much background! Keep it up :)

Yes yes ive been waiting for this so much. Thx

Some very excellent advice here. Solid fundamentals that I think would help a lot of folks starting to work on melodies. I use these techniques myself though I don't much think about it anymore. I guess with my melodies, I have this weird thing where I subconsciously sort of assign a thought or almost personality to each note and I tend think of a melody as telling a story where parts of the "sentences" flow and other parts punctuate the point being made. Not talking about lyrics, literally just notes but I feel them in that way. I guess I try to make my melodies "talk." David Gilmour from Pink Floyd is an excellent example of making his guitar talk which, in turn, I think results in more emotionally powerful audience response.

Thank you Jeremy..really great video love it

This is a great video! I'd love more content like this.

Thanks for sharing this I'm gonna start practicing this right away

Thanks for the great video. I think the information you shared will help me a lot. Keep up the good work.

This is actually helpful cus I’ve been just messing around on different music making things and haven’t come up with anything too good. I’ll learn my scales now!

Thanks man,,,, closet music guy here,,, that was a lot of info quick. Beautiful ✌🏼🙏🏻❤️

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS

Pick a scale, start somewhere, make your way back to the tonic. A lot of melody is just round-about ways of resolving back to the tonic. Try it.

Besides being interesting and informative, this video was lovingly produced. The notes floating off the screen was beautiful. Great video!

Please make more theory blabbering videos! You are so good at explaining this stuff!

Great as always, Thank you!

This helped me so much, thank you.

thanks, really learnt something, please make more videos like that!

Clear, informative, and aligned with what I already know of music theory. Well presented, and I enjoyed it. I'd like to see one about writing chord progressions at some point?

I was just looking up how to come up with melodies 2 days ago, what a blessing!

there's so much intuition and gut feeling that goes into the sound - when you say things like "that wants to resolve to ___" it strikes me that people who are tone deaf, or not good with perfect/absolute pitch, will have no idea what this means. Sure, in my ears I can hear the tension in a bnat and how it needs to go up to a c to feel complete, but for many people out there this sort of explanation is just devoid of a connection with their ears. personally I loved this one from you and it's lovely to hear you just kind of free-talk without a heavily edited script and such, and for the sake of people I work with I hope some day a good balance between "you'll know it when you hear it" and "this is the mathematical arrangement of what works best" will be found :) p.s. the hint about keeping rhythm was very good, I'm going to have to share that with my friend that does not like learning music theory unless I hide it somehow :D edit: I wish I could heart that you keep hearting my comments

Informative! That would have been tedious to edit. Gold star for all of that work!

Ahhhh awesome process video, thank you

a concise, no nonsense music lesson good work \m/\m/

Thank you so much this was super helpful

Thanks for an awesome video Jeremy! I don't know any theory at all, I just play what my ears like :) BOOM! (And I got kicked out of music school because I couldn’t figure out how to read notes)

12:03 This is the first video of yours I've watched so I just guessed you were kid friendly but then you cussed which threw me off 😂🖒

Great video. A lot great tips in there.

nice one jeremy..yes it was helpful/encouraging....i like my keystep...very handy

"You don't want to just play the easy notes" great insight, thanks

Thank you for this!

Awesome graphics for this video, man!

I’m trying to teach myself music theory via KZfaq and this helped out so much just understanding the meaning of playing in key

yaaay informative Jeremy makes a return!!!

Great video. I prefer to learn from people who worked stuff out themselves.

Ty for the video!

Cool note overlay!

you're so humble man

thanks for this!

Thank you soo much for this!

this is incredible thanks so much for the explanation I always just heard people say "do what sounds good" but that doesn't mean anything to me.

Incredible video!

That was a great video. I'd love to see you do some walk throughs like this when your making a tune on the OP-1, I think it would help me and Im sure others out there.

love you too, thanks for the sharing it help me so much

Awesome 👏

Hey man thanks this was what i needed!

Thanks man!! Alot!!

I still don't understand how you don't have more subscribers... 🤯

This probably deserves more views.