Whered you even learn this kind of deep stuff? More lessons on weird progressions, techniques, film sounds like lydian. This was sooo deep man. Thank you for the ideas

Came for cinematic music techniques but also ended up adopting a new jazz techique, the augmented chords in the superimposed triads section jumping around with the left hand jumping/descending with it worked very nicely at the end of some passages

Finally a composer of film music who does a break down of the most exciting exciting cinematic chords. I am specializing in genre film music and these are the more commonly used approaches which I so desperately have been wanting to learn

Absolutely outstanding content. Clear, concise, wonderfully realistic mockups. I'm a huge fan of common tone movements, but the chromatic movements seem very juicy as well. THANKS a billion!

This is the kind of stuff I was looking for, I always wanted to learn this kind of techniques or progressions there's something about movies and video-game scores that is just magic. Thank you sir

Absolutely awesome!

Outstanding content …no waffle ….brilliant flow rate and idea development..thanks 🙏

I can't believe how much my approach to composing has changed since I stumbled across your channel. What a talent you are! Thanks for all of these incredible insights.

amazing - thx for the video.

Thank you, very nice compact explanation of these techniques.

added the sneaky E major on the first example but great lesson ty so much

I literally wrote this down..thanks..good job

Awesome! What fantastic relevantly simple techniques. Thanks for sharing.

Wow. I’ve been looking for someone like you to learn from. Just watching 5-7 min and a whole new world opened to me. Made me fall in love even more with film scoring (which I’m new to) and it even made me tear up I was so excited 🤣🤣 I love the way you teach and your personality! Totally looking into your course now after this comment. Thank you!

Well if this isn’t just an absolute gold mine of information. Definitely subscribed

this is one of the most helpful composing videos ive ever seen thank you so much for explaining it so simply

One of the best videos I´ve ever seen on YT! Thank you!!

Your explanations and demonstrations are brilliant and made simple. Thank you.

I can't read music, but your video really helped me understand and apply a simple technique to come up with custom chord progressions given a starting point. Very well explained. Thank you.

For the most of my time into compositon (just for fun) I did not knew any music theory or know how to play anyone's else's music. I did not even knew anything other than the idea that chords were made of a few (like 3 tones). So I just combined any 3 notes that I fancied into a chord. With things like 7 chods I only used 3 tones becasue I did not know chords could have 4 of them. I usually just had the 5 missing (so 1, 3, 7) I also did not knew of scales, but was always attacted to chord progressions with chords that did not all belong in the same key. They had that 'magical' feeling that filmscoles could have and seem to create a more intense experience than in key chord progressons. The method I used to combine chords was just to keep one of the 3 tones/notes the same and move the others around. This made it accessible enough while not feeling too predictable (as in key can feel predictable). While I would probably still recommend people to know theory, I think the way I learned it was much more fun and exciting as a journey than some starting with basic chords in a major scale. I do not think that would have captured me from the start. So i can imagine that if people do know much theory like I did, they can enjoy such methods as they not as much feel like you have to know as many rules (like scale "rules"). Then you can start out in a somewhat more playful manner.

How does this have so few views?? Fantastic.

5:17 Nice. It's like being introduced to a new world.

great video man! Keep up the good work!

Pure gold!

I need to transcribe this commencing @11:25. You morphed into a jazz pianist at that point -- I liked it! (Helpful lesson, btw.) Amazing that it took KZfaq's algorithm two years to find this for me.

Thank u so much, i am going from piano into filmscore so this helps me on my way.

And he goes, "then you can get more advanced.." while I'm still scribbling down the very first few chords and notes from the beginning.. and it hits you.. just hire someone this good to orchestra for you lol great video

Aside the great tips I like that you are using PSamples for your mockups and the combinations btw other devs.

Wow this was amazing! You got yourself a new subscriber my friend.

Happy to be here Excellent lesson

Fantastic lesson, thanks. Subscribed and liked 😀

that was great. loved it

Just stopped by once again to keep a bookmark this video in my comment section. Composing is something I did naturally and had a great time but that was 30 years ago and I seem to no longer able to download inspiration as I struggle with health issues. But these videos help rekindle the fire. Thanks :) Happy Holidays !!!

Thank you for this. You're more informative than many others who teach the same.

LOVED this! Great presentation and examples. Thank you!

You are also an outstanding producer/sound engineer! Thanks so much for this golden information.

Amazing, great eye-opener... magic exists! :) Thanks, subscribed. Saludos desde México!

wonderful! thank you

This is just what I was looking for... What a fantastic video, thank you so much for making it!

You should make an online course just with lessons like these, wow!

Extremely valuable video. Thank you!

So inspiring! Thank you, man!

Wow, this was actually so useful! Thank you so so much for this video!!

Great stuff here.

This is so good. Thank you! Subscribed ✨

These orchestral mockups sound outstandingly realistic. Is native instruments or some very expensive library. I would be interested in taking your course if i could afford the sound libraries. Thanks 🎉

This is great!! However.. I have no problem coming up with great chords, what I struggle with is how to get the chords from the piano to this epic sounding song. I need help with what instruments to use and how and when. Do you by any chance have a video where you go through that process step by step? Thanks!

This is sooooooo helpful!!

Excellent video. Thanks 😊

Thank you for this session! This was a tremendous help!

Your orchestration sounds so good 👍🏻🤗 thanks for sharing your knowledge

Very inspiring, thank you!

WOW! This Is amazing! Thank's! Muchas gracias

Thankyou Sir!! you are soooo good!!

thank you for this, this is great

It's crazy how cinematic you can sound just by plopping down random triads that only share one note with the next.

Great!!!! Thank you so much :-)

Thanks that was enlightening.

So awesome!

Fantastic video. Please continue ❤️

breakin it down for us 1 iq folks. stunning. thank you

Excellent. Can you explain exactly what the advanced part of the pedal point chords was?

Great!!! Thanks!

Awesome!

Where have you been whole my student life? i love this video, new sub, thanks

Phenomenal work! Phenomenal channel! And as I will most assuredly enjoy your online course, Phenomenal Online Course!

Thank you so so much Michael for this fantastic video and demonstrations! Looking forward to more cinematic chord progression techniques. Kind regards and many blessings, MaxT

Great Tips!!!

The last chord in example 1 is augmented for anyone wondering

This is so great!!!!!!

3:15 This tripped me up for like a good 2 minutes lmfao. I thought you said "Amin" not "a minor" haha. I was like "That don't look like no a minor".

Awesome ! thanks

Thank you ! Amazing Learn Video

Cool!

Great. Would be very helpful if you could name the second and third chord progressions as in the first example. Very dramatic cinema!

Wow what a gem you've made here. These techniques seem really applicable to transitions or on screen events. A great add to any beginning composer's toolbox.

Excellent video

Excellent

bagus sekali ! Matur suksma

What makes some harmonic progression cinematic?

Thanks for the video, this concept opens many doors. As I understand technique #1 correctly, we are borrowing chords from the parallel keys, either major or minor, and building triads on the third or fifth degree of the key we are currently in. The last two chords in the example are B resolving to Bb; can this be seen as tritone substitution? It doesn't sound diatonic. Thanks again.

How do things look on orchestrating, what key/'s would indicated on the scores ?

Very good tips thank you ! hope you could make other videos like this ! SUBSCRIBE

Hi, very educating, what midi fader device are you using? Thank you !

thanks

Hey man!!! I absolutely love your teaching style. I learned more in this video than I have in the past 6 months. I have a question regarding the chord progression in technique 1. Correct me if I'm wrong because I want to learn. With the exception of the very first chord Cmin and the very last chord Bbmaj, isn't technique 1 in the key of Gbmaj/Ebmin? Or am I looking at this wrong? using the Nashville number system, It seems the chord progression is Cmin, 6, 3, 5, 2, 4, Bbmaj. Does this work so well because its mostly diatonic? Thank you in advance! you are the best!

6:58 - *these half-step chords out are playing are all minor ones, right?* 10:34 - *these are just major chords over a specific bass pedal note?*

Super helpful. Very practical and clear. By the way, when you express the piano part with the full orchestra you are “fleshing it out” not “flushing it out”. Something is fleshed out if it is augmented or made more whole, and something is flushed out if it is cleaned with water or forced out into the open

Hello. Actually, I have a question for you. I have no problem creating great orchestrations with logic and vsts, but mixing them afterwards is a big problem and question mark. Since I cannot adjust the levels, either my theme is not heard or the song coming out of the general master channel is very dull. Do you provide training for this? By the way, thanks for the great video. And of course, thank you in advance for your answer to my question.

It would be helpful to be able to download the midi file for this

So tight.

Can these techniques be used for creating dramedy cues?

Hiii, I rlly loved this video and it helped me alot, also what daw did you use??

Hi Sir. Amazing videos and thank you for giving us education about film scoring. I just have one question, Do you not do the measures on your mock up scores? I can see on this video that the music flows freely without following the measures. I know it could be tedious to write the tempo in a way of expressive music with at lot of retard, accelerando's and dynamic changes but how do you send the scores to the live musicians if they will not be in proper written scores? Thank you in advanced for you answer, Sir.

aw man. i wish i knew music theory...

I feel like I just ran into a goldmine of missing pieces to transition from music library mode to scoring 😮

Is chromatic movement colloquial term?

What about the chord progression to your intro sir 👀

which daw is that?

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