this guy has abs on his ears

Rick, I'm a 30 yr veteran film composer and arranger producer in Australia. Your videos are without a doubt the best educational material I've witnessed. Great work man.

"Get coffee" might be the best composing advice I've ever heard.

1:18 "In The Heart of the Sea" 6:50 A "Double Suspension" - a Sus4, Sus2 chord 8:04 HIS SYSTEM: Find the obvious melody line 8:46 "Let's take a loot at some basic TRIADIC FORMULAS... 9:34 "You HAVE to know these..." 9:42 listening to some real film scores... 10:00 "START BUILDING A CATALOG OF SOUNDS" in your head... 12:21 MAJOR SCALE MODE FORMULAS: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian 16:59 Splicing KORNGOLD themes with JOHN WILLIAMS' compositions 18:11 No, John Williams did NOT steal his material from others.

I've always wanted to be a film composer, it's one of my biggest dream ever, but althought I've been producing music for six years, althought I've been pasionnated by music since I'm a little boy, I didn't know how to begin, how to compose. Film scoring was actually a whole new world, and I was completely lost, I couldn't find my way. Rick, I've just discovered your channel, and honestly, I think that I just found my guide in your videos. I've searched a channel like yours for years, thank you so much for transmitting your knowledge and help the beginners who are, just like me, lost in this wonderlful universe of film and orchestral music.

more film scoring? yes. 😎

I like the strings sound you're using

tl;dr: Ear training, ear training, and more ear training. The good news is that this ear training will also serve you well when gigging, not just when transcribing.

Funny story: George Lucas originally wanted to use programmatic music for Star Wars (alla 2001: A Space Odyssey). Spielberg convinced him to have a chat with his friend 'Johnny'... and the world was never the same again.

YOU ARE NOW MY TEACHER. THANK YOU FOR SIMPLIFYING THIS

Ennio Morricone, Rick... Ennio Morricone...

How does this only have 80,000 views? This is definitely one of the most well thought out videos I have seen regarding music theory in general. Absolutely superb my friend!

I love that mimicry is actually PART of a film composer's normal workflow. I have very little formal training but I've been playing mockingbird guitar over songs I like my whole life -- it's a very natural way to work for me and I honestly love learning that there's a specialization where it's normal&expected to just hear a track and imitate it.

For me, a beginner, this was fabulous. Not only showing a little system, but how to listen & what to pick out. For some reason your mode section made more sense to me here than all your other vids...it all makes perfect sense and drop dead easy to follow. Can't wait for the other vids in this series. Little by little, this stuff is coming together. Another Great Beato presentation :)

As someone who wants to learn to and hopefully one day compose for film and media all of your videos explaining film scoring and such are invaluable, thank you for taking the time to make these videos, they really are helping me and I'm sure many others work towards their musical goals.

Ok…have to chime in. You are FANTASTIC! I'm a gear head with my own studio who is an accomplished graphic designer aspiring lifetime musician (jazz guitar) and Metheny fanatic - did a week long workshop with Pat, Antonio Sanchez and Christian McBride. Your videos are so on point and inspiring I just have to give a GIANT thank you. You're an unbelievable resource and a generous person with your wealth of knowledge. Wish I had run across your videos before I started to put my studio together but am thankful to have access to them now. Thank you!!!!!

What a generous lesson, thank you so much! I was once a composition major in another lifetime.and wanted to score films. love your videos

Rick! I'm so grateful I found our channel!!!

Getting back to film scoring myself, I appreciate even more what you do. Thank you so much!!!

You're an incredible help. I have been trying to really understand how theory works. Singing the notes in the scale is an incredible help!

Rick,you are amazing,there are no words to express how much i love what you offer,it is changing my life,thank you!

Rick, I have talked several times about the modes with different musicians and this is the first time I understand how the modes work!! Thank you very much!! Great great work!!

Such a great point, "You need to be able to sing the scale the chord scale." That's something I need to teach my students. Thank you for that!

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I love this Rick. I've been thinking a lot about the way theory can become this abstracted, conceptual thing--how it can become removed and intellectually quarantined from the 'direct experience' of music (rather than supporting it). Not here. I'm amazed by the extent to which the modal half steps you focus on relate directly to the experience of specific emotional colour in each mode. Tremendous.

Very excited for this series! Great work as always Rick!

ive always played by ear and find most notes. Rick, youre way of putting this theory over to new and budding musicians is fantastic. Im a fellow veteran film composer and arranger here in England. Well done and keep it up! i really enjoyed listening to this :)

Brilliant as always Rick . Thank You . Great that you raised the topic of "temp" music and 'demoitis' . Temp music or guide music can be really tricky to get along with at times . Even if upon first listen you think to yourself " I don't like that at all " , it's rare that there isn't helpful information conveyed to you by the editors : even if it only relates to tempo ( most often the key if you are writing to a final edit , as is the case for TV ) , mood and/or entrance points etc .

You are really one of the best teachers one can ever have

Amazing video! Having been a full time musician for years I've just started to dive into orchestration recently and I found your videos really helpful! Even the things I already know about, it's really beneficial to refresh and take a look at it from a different perspective. Your musical knowledge and intelligence are admirable. I like how you prioritise theory and transcription, the most important tools for any musician. Many thanks and keep up the good work! P.S.: I know there are too many great contemporary composers to talk about, but I'd like to hear your views on the music of my favourite one, Ennio Morricone.

Really looking forward to this film scoring series!

Thanks Rick for this series, very much appreciated!

This is the greatest demonstration I've ever seen on using Ear Training to decifer music, fantastic video. You should have a TV show on a network or in cyberspace.

You are just amazing. Your videos are pure gold.

Great video, Rick. So impressed! Looking forward to the Electronic film scoring series.

I truly and dearly WANT your grand piano! It sounds fantastic!

Rick, just letting you know: if you did a "complete beginner to intermediate" music theory (cinematic scoring) course, I would most definitely pay at least $100/mo. for a 9-month course. I'm serious.

Thank you Rick! Great video, great series! Can't wait for more.

Incredibly helpful, Rick. Thank you for what you do.

Very nice, Rico, very nice. A smooth intro into filmscore thinking. One of your many gifts, my friend, is TEACHING and there is no doubt that you understand how to bring knowledge into the mind from the ground up. I think what I like knowing about ALL music is how the bits and pieces of everyone's music makes the rounds into everyone else's music. In short, it's HARD to be original, isn't it ? But we MUST listen carefully to our own souls and draw from that eternal wellspring !!

Great lesson,loved it.Very excited about what is coming next.

Thanks Rick ~ just came across your stuff on KZfaq ~ not a musician here at all ~ but you so eloquently explain what I hear in my head ~ thank you so much from a frustrated composer who can neither read nor write but only speak.

Your videos are so great. I learn so much from them. Thank you for sharing the knowledge.

Great stuff Rick .... really looking forward to this series

Thanks Rick! Keep these videos coming !

You have just opened an amazing AHA! for me. I watched with my mouth getting further and further open as you drew the little ovals indicating the half steps and... WOW! Everything just gets shifted left! The whole thing just rolls along with the pattern moving left. Off to buy your book :-) THANK YOU!

I asked for this exact thing in the last live video, thanks a million Rick!

Your channel is brilliant! I love the analysis, very well done!

This is pure gold. Thanks Rick!

The best vid yet I've seen! Can't wait for more on film score theory.

Best video on copying music or using other music to develop your ear. However, I have been scoring films recently and creating original music for 30 years. I never listen to the temp score unless the director is totally not digging what I'm doing, or I'm running out of time and need to use a guide to make sure I have music on all the spots the editor feels needs it. If I can't watch a scene and help propel the emotion with original composition, why do they need me. Just buy cheap music house music and have the editor place it. Great music theory class though and I love your content. Very informative. Your ear and understanding of music is superhuman. I just choose to try and see what comes out from whatever feels right from years of watching movies and listening to music.

That studio space has an awesome vibe to it

You know Bob Ross? You are Bob Ross for music. You should really have a show on TV or KZfaq where do exactly what you do right now. Just talk about interesting music Theories. ;)

I always enjoy these videos, Thank you Rick!

Love your approach to scoring...

Rick I attended theory class in college and hated it!!! If you were the teacher i would have continued my music career 30 years ago. I am learning a lot. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge.

Love this videos, Rick, thanks!

Rick, thank you so much for your channel and for taking the time to help us in the music world! If you are ever in Nashville, I would love to show you my studio!

Can't wait for the future videos in this series

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Thank you very much! This is so useful! Never ever music theory was so interesting to learn!

Great video as always, Rick!

Hi Rick I always appreciate about your lectures that don't exist in our country in proper for me Your videos are exactly what I want to learn Although I am a student of classical music, someday I want to do some beautiful and various musics just like you do!! Thank you soooo much😁😁

This is so awesome. Thanks for making this and posting!

Thank you Rick, this lesson is a HUGE help!

Great series! I look forward to the next chapter.

Excellent video Rick. Thank you.

Good stuff, as always! Really got me thinking deeper about chords

This was a great video. Real examples tied into the theory. Thanks Rick

This video was awesome Rick! A lot of valuable information.

I love you man !!!! this is what Have been searching for !!!!

more film scoring yes! love your videos, you make all this theory very easy to understand, thanks!

Thank you for the videos that you produce. Very helpful.

Thank you very much! Perfect lesson

Great video thanks for your work!

Thank you for these! I want to work as a composer for films and games and this is great! Looking forward for the ucpoming videos!

Love the videos Rick, please keep them coming. I am doing my best to get my tracks on TV and film, so more on getting orchestral arrangements together on the synth would be great. Thanks so much. :)

I wish I would have went to school for this when I was younger. It angers me that no one told me this was something you could do when I was younger even though I expressed it to my parents. This is such talent.

You are the Boss. I’ve been learning scoring orchestral on KZfaq. Thank Good I found you

Great tutorial Rick, thank you. so helpful.

awesome video. Been hoping for something like this

Very instructive! Thanks, Rick!

Thanks! Can't wait for next episode! Also, I would love if you could talk about Marty O'Donnell sometime or perhaps have a Sounding Off with him.

Thanks Man your videos are amazing!

Thanks Rick, your videos are great.

Looks like super advanced theory. I can somewhat follow the first part of the application on the keys. I can follow based on chord scales going diatonically. I guess come up with melody first. But what you did spreading the chords on the bass was killer .that bottom sound is the sound i fully am into . cheers brilliant teaching

Great channel! So much to learn about music!

Great tutorial and really instructive !!! Thanks a lot!

God bless ya Rick..but it was so over my head so fast. Love how you try, and im sure someone picks this up like STING and a 16year old school girl.

amazing lesson, Rick. Greetings from Argentina

Love your Film Scoring videos Rick :)! Saludos from Argentina

Thank you for doing this, it is really appreciated!

Amazing Rick Beato!!

Good that you mentioned Ralph Vaughan Williams as he is probably one of the most overlooked composers who has a plethora of modal harmonic moves that have made their way into the standard Hollywood sound. JW is smart to study all the past masters.

I trained my ear this way, and although I am not bubbling over with the terminology, I learned how to visualize this way when I create characters for my personal writings....

Thank you Rick for sharing your amazing body of knowledge, people like you help turn KZfaq into an online university.

yes for more scoring!!!!

Ur incredible bro ... I need to start at the very first video and go all the way thru...

Please do a video about Danny Elfman and that 1950s horror movies sound he's inspired by. I've noticed he loves the augmented 4th (or diminished 5th, take your pick :) interval, like in his 'Beetlejuice' or 'Simpsons' themes, or as it used to be known 'The Devils Chord'. I'd love to learn how to write like him, specially that scraping stings sound he loves using. I noticed John Williams totally ripped off that creepy Elfman style in his 'Home Alone' theme.

Needed this theory refresher 👍🏾