This is a fantastic video! As a young composer, I've been trying to figure out what I can do to improve my sound, and these seem like trivial things yet I didn't know any of these techniques! Thank you!

John Williams is an absolutely brilliant composer. I love his arrangements and melodies. Thanks Rick for this lesson. You're the man!

As a self-taught composer and amateur filmmaker, I really appreciate this channel. I've watched a few of your videos now and they are frankly much more interesting and easy to follow than any of the music theory books I've (attempted) to work through. Thanks!

Thank you so much Rick. I have been trying to figure out all of these cool 'moves' that John Williams uses, and you summarised some of them so beautifully here. Please continue enriching the world! Thank you :)

Oh my, what musical gifts you have! Wow! Kudos for using your gifts and sharing with those of us less gifted.

I'm so glad i stumbled upon your site Rick. This is excellent work, very helpful and informative. I can't wait to watch and learn from your other videos. Thanks!

Amazing! Rick, your videos are absolutely blowing my mind! Thank you so much for the information and the inspiration. Can't wait to integrate this into my playing and writing 😁

This is tremendously helpful. I've forgotten half of the stuff I've learned and sometimes feel like I'm stuck using the same techniques over and over. Thanks for those master classes!!!!

This is utterly fantastic Rick! You present it great, deliver amazing intel and make that discovery of a new world a lot of fun. Many, many, many thanks for this!

Man i am truly grateful to you since there are not so much people sharing their knowledge to get better at songwriting and filmscoring. Keep this nice work, your just earned a new fan

This is fantastic! I've use a couple of these tricks in compositions, but I had to hunt and peck quite a bit to find them. I can't wait to start applying these ideas. Thank you so much for sharing!

Thanks Rick, I am just starting to get into film score, and this explanation is very helpful. Looking forward to more videos!

Fantastic videos you make Rick. I had kind of given up on music theory but after I found your channel there is hope again. Thank you so very much for sharing these wonderful and inspiring videos.

This video is invaluable, so very simple yet it holds the key to many doors. Thanks Rick, I have been watching a lot of your videos lately, especially those around music for film. I've watched this particular video somewhere between 5 and 10 times, finally got around to actually writing this stuff down :D I came to this channel with a slight knowledge of music and the modes from my studies on the bass guitar. You've really managed to set out these ideas in a way that I feel I can take and make my own, and I did not feel that way before. One person's musical journey changed for the better, thanks and keep going! :)

this is so informative and inspirational. Thank you, Rick!

Thanks a lot for your great video and channel, Rick!!!

thank you. May the Force Be With You.

Amazing video, Rick! Thanks for sharing this!

This is fantastic, Rick. Thank you for your videos.

I used to be very happy to find this video channel-channel.I wanted to thanks on your time for this wonderful learn!! I undoubtedly enjoying each little bit of it and Ive you bookmarked to take a look at new stuff you youtube channel post.

This is amazing, I really admire your work and I'm so grateful, keep up! I'm recomending you to all of my friends

Such a helpful video! Thank you very much for taking the time to do this. Would love to see a video like this in the style of John Barry! Thank you again!

Thanks Rick! I just saw your channel, Im taking notes on all of your videos! Thanks for the knowledge!

Thank you for making all these videos, it's amazing.

Thanks a lot Mr. Beato! Its is a very gentle gift from you.

This has to be the best channel ever! Thanks Rick for the work you put into the videos.

Nicely explained! Enjoying the videos. Great work!

Right from the beginning, this video is full of goodies. Thanks Rick :)

Thanks a lot for your videos! I'm pretty new to orchestral composition, so this is very helpful for me.

Loved this...excellent...thanks, Rick!!! 💗💗💗

Great deconstruction. I graduated from college as a music major (even though I went into a different field). At 5:00, yes I DO know that progression from the great Bernard Herrmann. John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith both knew Herrmann and they were able to do their own spin on those progressions. Superb job!

Always interesting to see that Holst used many of these progressions long before Williams and other film music composers. Thanks for this - as always - very instructive video!

Thanks so much Rick! Bought Nuryl for my newborn, and went to school for composing music. All your ideas & videos are so inspiring, thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏🏼 love it!

we want the part 2! Your lessons are awesome, thanks Rick!

Lydian progression is also very Alan Sivestri...

I spent my younger years figuring out all these harmonic combinations, so this wasn't new info for me... YET, I watched the entire thing and enjoyed every minute of it! Thanks Rick! Great stuff!

Great vid. I actually think Alan Silvestri employs these techniques more than anyone else, though...especially in the 90's.

Great explanation. Makes me want to go back and listen to the John Williams soundtracks again. As someone else mentioned, some very simple ideas but ones that I didn't know. Some great ideas for building a tool box of chord changes to use in various situations. Thanks again.

The cool thing about the two major triads a tritone apart is that they are basically a really cool voicing of a 7 (b9 #11) chord. For example, take the one that you did with Bb and E. The notes are Bb, D, F, G# (the 7) B (the b9) and E (the #11). This kind of thing is why I really enjoy your videos, because the theory that you teach is multi-layered, not just simple 101 stuff.

Such a great video! Going to try some of this out! Thank you rick!

Wow, I never learned so much in ten minutes! Thank you sir!

Love this. Been experimenting with film score style improvs. This helps me to think every deeper into the possibilities

I love this. I'm learning a lot with 2nd half of video. I like how organized you make it

Hi Rick, another new subscriber here. Just wanted to say thanks for this, I've loved Williams' work since I was a kid but have never analysed it quite like this. Fascinating stuff. I'll add my voice to those already keen to see a similar look taken at Jerry Goldmith's style too! I'd realised quite a while ago that Williams seemed to have drawn a huge amount of inspiration from Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World". It wasn't until you pointed out those tri-tone separated major chords that Williams is fond of that I clicked to them being the exact same interval that starts the New World's 2nd movement however :) Anyway, thanks again. Great stuff.

This is great! Thank you, Rick!

great video Rick thank u !!!!

Thanks for these wonderful informative videos, Rick! You're great! :)

Thank you!! This was very helpful.

Thanks for all the videos.. very helpful. and well explained.

Thank you Rick! We wait for part two!

Great video! Thanks a lot for your job!

Great video, Rick. This is priceless stuff.

Great video Rick - the sound gets epic so quicckly! Also, 5:29 Sounds like Watcher of the Skies - Tony Banks of Genesis 1972/73 especially the live version. I could "hear" the next chord coming too.

Just found your channel, what a wealth of knowledge, thanks for making these videos!

Very inspiring and amazing video, and a great motivation to compose something right now!

Great stuff as always Rick.

Wow! Spooky how often these devices pop up in his music. Great video.

I'm kind of binging your film scoring playlist.I'm learning so much and definitely incorporating these things into my own music. I'm a student in SUNY Fredonia learning composition and I'd really love to be a film composer.

This is great stuff. I watch a lot computer related music tutorials and videos but stepping outside to look at some music theory does really help. Great work Rick. You got in me a subscriber and a fan :-D

This is amazing information! Thank you!

Thank you Sir, Awesome video!

This is amazing. I wish you did courses for film scoring. Thank you so much.

That was a beautiful presentation! Thanks!

Thanks for this tutorial, it's awesome!

These are the most informative music theory videos I've ever seen on youtube!

That was inspiring! Thanks, man.

This is a perfect video, inspirational!

This is wonderful and informative!!!

this is like those shows that reveal secrets of the great magicians.

love your videos, thanks for uploading

Just found your channel! Very educational. I look forward to reviewing them.

Wonderful. Thanks!

Hey im a highschool student taking music theory classes and this really makes the class more fun thank you.

Great insight, thank you!

Love this...Hope you do more!

Thank you so much for your videos. Greetings from France

Great information! Also, cool magic shorts change at 1:29 :D

Brilliant thank you 🙏

Watching this video and the part where you talked about the chords clashing made me realize that it's actually a gift to have emotional regulation issues because it could lead to fantastic music.

Finally! The video that I wanted to hear before I died! I can die happy now.

Thank you Rick!

Woww, you rock!! Thanks a lot for this video!!

superb lesson mr Beato. I hear that shostakovich, mahler, wagner, used allot of these techniques as well. the more I study about composition the more I understand the importance of ear training. It is no use hearing a symphony in your head if you cannot write it down!

Very helpful thanks Rick

Hi Rick - thanks for all the great videos! Not sure if it was in this video or another (I've been binging) but at one point you mentioned JW's use of Maj 7th chords in 3rd inversion, with the minor second interval on the bottom giving the triad more bite. I've seen it all over his scores myself, and I love the sound. I'm wondering if you'd be able to expand on that in a future video - maybe talking about how best to use it, pitfalls to avoid (i.e. how to avoid it sounding dissonant), ranges where it's effective, which sections can pull it off (I always associate it with high brass), etc. Thanks again!

Subscribed. Thank you Mr. Beato!

Very well explained!! Good channel.

Thanks Rick! Great video, Subbed!

Love the piano statement at the start - who and what is that? Apart from that - thanks for your great, informative clip - looking forward to part 2.

Please do Part II to this video. Great information here. All pretty basic stuff, but just seeing all this information in one place, at one time, is fantastic!

John Williams is a genius, thank you for this lesson 🙏

If you wrote a book about chords working together and moving around like at 9:50, I would pay my kidney for it haha SO COOL

Thank you so much for this. Just getting into your videos... I'd love to see one about epic progressions as used in many trailers or heroic cues. Thanks!

This popped up for me today, 2021, and all I could think was contest using all the techniques!

Pure gold these tutorials!

that D (pedal) with D and E always sounded "American" sophisticated to me. I hear it a lot in films, but also musicals... go listen to "tonight" from west side story!

you are the best teacher ever thank you sir!

thank you so much for being helpful.

Amazing. So inspiring.

It's incredible just how much depth can be found in simple harmonic movements between triads. I've been stuck in a diatonic way of thinking for so much of my life, this video is a great primer to expanding past that way of thinking.