Best way I’ve recently found to handle this stuff is working with Scaler 2 and manipulating the notes in the midi clip. With a reasonable ear, it’s super easy to choose interesting and abstract chord progressions. It’s not necessary to know why they work, just that they work for you. Previewing all the chords with a button click makes it easy to just use your ears and hear the emotion. Also worth stating, if you just pick a Key, and put a quantizer on, and noodle for a bit, you can come up with super dynamic progressions. Thanks for the video! Great work as always!

I think I got one, a cheeky one... Use. Your. Ears. Seriously. By just messing around with the piano roll in a DAW you can achieve a lot of awesome chord progressions. I mean, music theory is very valuable, but you don't always need to know the rules to be able to break them successfully. That's why the human race grew ears 😄

@@ramonmff5158 Yeah. He could easlly go at last minutes of video in major-minor-minor-major and that would change whole feel of the riff/chord progression. But that what differents great music from any music - feel. Feel is all about emotion and music without it is just a noise or plain harmony without a context.

​@@ramonmff5158I believed that once, when I was a sweet summer child. I can definitely say that the little I've learnt has leveled up my craft. For instance, it's easier to figure out modes, and use them on purpose rather than by accident. Using your ears is important, but they can only go so far (especially if one's ears are untrained).

Teaching peoples ear's is probably a better way to go about the entire thing. Theory is great for tone def people or analysts that dissect other peoples work or catalogue. Story telling using noise. That is pretty much what disciples of music do. The choice resides with the story teller. Any chord/sound progression can impress a feeling. It can be totally random. A progression icky sounding or otherwise is totally irrelevant if we are talking about feelings and story's in music totally subjective. Which I think throws off newer people to theory. Theory does not write itself if just provides a reference for options. Take it or leave it at ones own discretion. I beat my brains with to much in theory in the past thinking it was the answer to everything. I was dead and horribly wrong and certainly wasted far to much time in "logic mode" and not "creativity mode". Theory is a tool, a reference set. If I find something interesting on my guitar ( Chord wise ) I will dissect it with theory to see what some options are using theory and pulling out a circle. I do think that is how theory is supposed to be used. IT'S JUST A THEORY! A MUSIC THEORY! ( Exit conspiracy theory voice )

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wonderful comment. thank you travis!!

Then I woke up

wonder how her boyfriend would react . But seriously though; I'm here to learn; I just downloaded FL Studio after a week of watching Beat making content .

A more fitting view of looking at music theory is that it makes it easier to describe what you do/did/want to do, instead of treating it like "rules" 💪

​@@Merczidyes it's a descriptive language. music theory is quite a bad name for it, musical analysis suits better imo.

Like grammar, music theory is descriptive, not prescriptive.

How does the saying go? ... if you play a bum note but only play it once, it's a mistake but if you keep playing the same bum notes, it's jazz 🙂

Music theory is "descriptive", not "prescriptive".

As a (primarily) guitarist who desperately wants to be a killer bassist, I love this so very much.

Yeah man, everyone's playing a C major until you play and A on your bass and everyone's playing an Am7. fun stuff.

@@ryanflynn5805 super fun. i'm just a dumb uke girl, but at least i know that's why i got 4 strings

im a guitarist and i don't need to be told that. My ears already have that covered.

Any advice on writing bass parts when working with sample loops? Always tricky for me when I don’t necessarily know the chord progression

So would you say, his language has been reharmoninized? 😅

@@feralfarmgirlhaha nice one

It is a bit of a bummer because I can’t watch these with my kids around anymore

​@@GadiantonsRobberI mean, how old are your kids? If they're like 5th grade or older, I guarantee they're hearing and saying much raunchier things with friends when you're not there. I used to teach middle school and high school. You would not believe some of the crazy shit I heard kids say sometimes. I had one kid tell me to (exact quote) "get off my dick" when I wouldn't let him skate by without actually trying to do math in math class. I mean look, we all have different takes on this, but personally I think some spicy language is far more appropriate for kids than the kinds of glorified violence we expose them to in media all the time. The conversation I always had with my students was about how swearing is conversational spice. You add a pinch of cinnamon or cayenne to make a dish more vibrant; a well placed "fuck" does the same for language! You just don't eat a spoonful of cinnamon. As the adult, just like you teach your kids to cook and use spice judiciously, you can do the same with swearing. Plus there are cool effects like the fact that swearing diminishes your experience of acute pain. Literally every kid I explained it to that way would swear less afterward. It helps define the power and purpose of swearing while removing some of the transgressive appeal that makes it so enticing for kids. I would also say don't worry too much about a cool video on music theory including the word "balls" occasionally, and instead keep your kids shielded from Roblox streamers and the like, which crazily can be a right wing radicalization pipeline. Anyway! Sorry for the rant. It's something I'm weirdly passionate about. KZfaq has become a really weird kind of censorious, where saying fuck gets you demonetized, but it's totally fine for Ben Shapiro to put up videos saying trans people are demons in disguise, or whatever that precious little snowflake is crying about now.

@@GadiantonsRobber This channel has been pretty pg-13+ for a while now

everything was just in its right place

mf woke up sucking on a lemon

Radiohead - Everything is in the right place ;)

Reminded me a bit of Hans Zimmer - Interstellar

btw, if you have sylenth1, there's a preset for this in splice.

Yes! Thanks so much.

Great writeup.

Same. For some reason this video topic has been like burning a hole in the back of my head for weeks and I figured I might as well get it out into the universe so I can move on to other topics haha.