I watch a LOT of music KZfaq channels and this is by far the best one on composing. Very practical -- pretty much all you need to know do to a lot.

Amazing Simon... you're such a great teacher, and your delivery style is perfectly paced and calm. A joy to watch ! 🙂

It's like your explaining the grammar of the music language. Love how you find all these patterns, formulas and strategies to break making music into small digestible components.

Hallo Simon, wieder mal ein super Beitrag für mich, der mir sicher helfen wird. Darüber habe ich ehrlich gesagt, gar nicht so drüber nachgedacht. Sehr hilfreich ist auch, dass Du immer gleich Beispiele dazu gebracht hast. Dies hilft enorm, die Sache zu verstehen. Also vielen Dank !! DK

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I am so glad I found your channel. You are a great teacher!

So interesting and remarkable how using minor seventh interval fills out this basic track with rich harmonics right there :) Again great video

Thankyou sir love from Nepal 🇳🇵❤️

Had Insomnia today and was up at 4.00am - ended up watching the entire 'Music Theory' playlist back to back. Already most of the way through your other videos. They are brilliant and such a good way to learn how to compose music. Thanks for these - you do a great job. Look forward to 'completing' all the videos and seeing more when you relase them :)

Wow, this is really mind-blowing!

Best teacher ever

Thank you for the lesson

I always find it amazing that the minor sixth and major third have such a different sound despite consisting of the same notes (likewise with the major sixth and minor third).

Holding a pedal note really adds to the interesting sounds of the intervals. Wonder if the melody would lose its effect if harmonized.

Thank you so much for putting this together! Hopefully you will cover descending intervals too 🙏 😊

Love how you are so intuitive!

Thank you! Very simple, but informative. Your examples are great!

Wonderful, clear and concise explanations with great examples that are easy to follow. I might suggest channel visitors listen to Hans Zimmer' "Man Of Steel" and you'll get the idea of how powerful and breathtaking Intervals can become. Well done Simon!

Fantastic vid. Thanks so much.

Brilliant!

Thank You So Much Sirjee

I just love your vids, Man!

I just love this. All I've been looking for ❤❤❤

this was priceless. if it's Convenient for you then we would like the interval distance for bout 10 to 20 notes ( 1st 3 bars) of every popular riff. after I heard the likes of Schindlers list Mia Sebastian Lala land forest Gump Amelie Married life - Up I realised that it's just not the 1st interval.. but the successive ones collectively which truly create the impact and mood needed to touch the hearts and minds and seduce the day lights out of ppl ( like me) I am 45 and just started teaching myself the piano during the last lockdown in my country. But for the last 100 years or so I have always wondered bout the secret sauce that goes into playing these initial notes which make the most jaw dropping theme riffs

Thank you!!!

Your channel is one of the best ones to teach in simple steps. I wish I could learn more from you by some course :)

I really really appreciate this channel, such a legendary channel

Gracias!

Very useful knowledge 🙏🙏🏿👍🎩✨

So glad I stumbled onto your channel

very helpful and to the point! great work with all the animations and visuals, everything's nice and readable. will definitely check our other videos

Thank you

Thank you Simon. This one has always been topical. I currently explore intervals am chords progressions that Two Steps From Hell used to create some compositions I love

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Great one!

totally enjoyed this - thank you so much ! :)

Very informative! Many thanks!

Very well explained ! thank you !

this is really useful :-)

Outstanding video

thanks for this helpful video🙏

Thanks for the content. Great channel. Subscribing. Shout out from chile🇨🇱🍷

I'm trying to learn starting from scratch, and this is so incredibly helpful! Sub'd!

Just for that, I'm going create a piece full of unresolved Major 7ths. They don't always have to resolve. And if anything, sometimes you end up birthing an even better song by allowing the Major 7 to just be.

Thank you Simon I’m new to your channel I just subscribed. I enjoyed this video although I just play by ear I can learn something for sure.

I hope you make more quality videos, have fun.

Awesome!

7:42 it reminds me to Man of steel theme

The minor 6th reminds me of the altered version of the main Star Wars theme, but minor.

If you don't mind me asking, what is voice you have used for background.... Pad... BTW this tutorial was very informative.. Thank you.

Sensacional!!!

Please do this with modal scales/intervals!

Very helpful sir Sir please I'll be glad if you can make a video on how to choose a perfect time signature when trying to compose a piece or if you already have a video like that you can refer me to it,thank you 🙏🙏. Love from Nigeria🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

Can you make a video on Intervals and the emotion, but descending intervals Please!

This is exactly what I needed, thank you so much. I often come up with melodies sounding in my mind for months but I'm afraid to create music out of them because when I try, I struggle to achieve the same mood that I imagined in my mind, or the mood gets cheesy and does not progress at all. One thing that's still a mystery for me is how a single note added to a major triad can suddenly make it sound sad and not major at all. I keep scratching my head and thinking - hm, is there any rule of thumb to know when adding a note will completely transform a triad to the opposite mood, and when the initial triad will still win and won't let the additional note have such a serious transformative effect? Not even sure how to express this transformation in correct musical terms. Maybe it's worth a separate video.

Intervals are like my favorite thing in a melody, but you're often told not to use "leaps" in a melody. Maybe that's more for singing and not for instrumentals?

how you do the baclground sound ? behind the piano sound i search this so long cant find it

Thank you for this wonderful insight how the notes relate to one another. I am trying to come up with Meshuggah type riffs using the 1/2 whole diminished scale but i am getting stuck at the morse code/binary/rhythms they use...can u help me in coming up with something simple that sounds like basic meshuggah with all the elements.

Explained the concepts so well! Thank you!

We play note inside intervals only or we play intervals after that we can play notes high or any note interval Please reply

Hi Simon, very good video. May I ask what is the music composing software that you are using on this video? it seems to have all the things I want (both Paino Roll and Notation Editor together)

I have a question, or two, not related to inervals... what program are you using? Many of the DAW programs look so intimidating to a beginner like myself, but the program you are using looks fairly straightforward... also, and this is probably a dumb question. But the sound playing in the background of each example. What was that?

What program (DAW) are you using to input keyboard notes?

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