One popular example for each Diatonic Am F: "Crazy On You" Am C: "House of the Rising Sun" A C#m "Lay Lady Lay" A F#m: "Shout" Chromatic A F: "It Won't Be Long" A F#: "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" A C: "Stepping Stone" A C#: "Oh Canada" Am F#m: "Light My Fire" Am Fm: "Sleepwalk" (vi-iv) Am Cm:"That Thing You Do" (ii-iv) Am C#m:? Double Chromatic (need some help from film scorers!) A Fm: ? A Cm: ? Am C#: ? Am F#: ?
@YTbeber5 жыл бұрын
Please note that Dock of the Bay is A C# (orig. G B) at the beginning (mes. 1-2) not A F#. The move M to M, m3rd lower (G E) occurs, but at mes. 9-10, 11-12 and 15-16, or in the whistled coda. G G G E.
@Simeon_Harris5 жыл бұрын
Rick Beato did a vid on these with some film score examples. worth checking out. john williams is the don of these type of modulations.
@xasancle5 жыл бұрын
Thanks but without Artist it's difficult to find them if one does not know any clue.
@nicolasschlindwein67085 жыл бұрын
Double chromatic: prelude Lohengrin - Wagner
@HommaKnarf5 жыл бұрын
Am C#m: morning bell.
@AntoineMichaudGuitar5 жыл бұрын
These videos with the white board are my favorite videos from you. Very well made and informational!
@matzelauda66735 жыл бұрын
The fact that you manage to explain these advanced concepts in such a concise way, tells a lot about how solid your understanding of these concepts is. Awesome!
@aylbdrmadison10515 жыл бұрын
Linguistically literate, precise and clear. A major part of this is his understanding of English is far better than many who have it as a first language here in America. We desperately need to rebuild our public school system to working order. Doing nothing to at least make them as good as they were 30+ years ago, is doing our children the greatest disservice.
@scottgourlay14734 жыл бұрын
@@RustyMadd what you said is the most sad, yet truthful thing. I always find myself telling my friends, and family, and they think I'm just overly concerned... The important things in life we humans should be focusing on in order to advance mankind are no longer given any concern.. For instance; education, technology, health, truth, knowledge, wisdom, ethics, equality, and prosperity for "all" human beings.. This is why...because the resources, capability, and technology have never been more accessible, or so abundant, and possible than ever before... Sadly mankind has decided that the man made imagination created fictional thing we call wealth/money 💰 is more important then all the above mentioned...Now I'm not suggesting one type of government over another or anything like that...It's just that I hope sooner than later we realize, and ensure our children get the learning environment needed to see what is truly fundamental, and important for us to live the best life possible.. That the worth, and investment in our children gives us the best rate of return on ourselves, and our worth comes in the form of wealth through knowledge.. So with little chance of loss, yet abundance of effort; we can ensure the continued existence of mankind on earth.. So that we can spread the joy of music across the universe as we leap from galaxy to galaxy forever leaving melodies, and harmony everywhere we stop!!! :)
@torontodough27553 жыл бұрын
Sorry but he didnt even explain how he got C#. He just writes it on the board lol. Can C# be B or any other note?
@vleaky34302 жыл бұрын
what it mean when he says a minor 3rd or a Major 3rd above or below a Am? pls help a newbie
@PRODBYS1LENT2 жыл бұрын
@@vleaky3430 learn about intervals, aka the distance between notes
@anthonyberno13324 жыл бұрын
I feel like this video is the video I have been waiting for. The fact that there are 'rules' for breaking the 'rules' blows my mind every time.
@bonbonpony3 жыл бұрын
If there are rules to break, this only means that they weren't rules to begin with, just a bunch of lies.
@jarofghosts3 жыл бұрын
@@bonbonpony They aren't rules and they aren't lies, music theory is just a way to describe why/how some things work
@joeldcanfield_spinhead18 күн бұрын
yup, I'm with you @anthonyberno1332 breaking rules is easy; breaking them and still making good music is less easy unless Tommaso shows us how
@joshchristian85983 ай бұрын
OK so now I am subscribed... I remembered this very useful video and have been searching fir it for a while...and it dawned on me that it might be in my history...well it wasn't because I had deleted my history a couple of times but saw another one of your vids and recognized the graphics... this is huge for me as a composer. May seem really simple to the game or film composer who began life that way but for a metal guitarist this is gold!!! TY
@ashleythorpe79332 жыл бұрын
The progression it often called the 'Tarnhelm', due to the muted horns playing it alone when Alberich puts on the Tarnhelm- a magic helmet- in Das Rheingold (Dating from 1853)
@MusicTheoryForGuitar2 жыл бұрын
Yes :) I covered that in another video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b7iqqad-q7KvpnU.html
@estermoreiradequeiroga5064 жыл бұрын
Thanks man, very well done and schematic
@sccrguy6105 жыл бұрын
Dvorak New World Symphony: Largo (2nd movement) opening chords.
@morganphillips51755 жыл бұрын
I love and watch your channel all the time. I recently went to watch the new Lion King movie with my family. When they played the main title I instantly thought of this video and knew how they got the arrangement.
@skateebee4 жыл бұрын
Love the techno groove in the background!
@chrisevanz5 жыл бұрын
Superbly clear and practical.
@nickpenacl_3 жыл бұрын
Love this video ... just subscribed , thanks !
@zross84714 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting! Always wondered how those chords we're moving.
@FabioTogna4 жыл бұрын
Great lesson. Thank you!
@vsm65 жыл бұрын
Really insightful. Please make more videos like this with practical examples
@EdoLS_5 жыл бұрын
A very good example of 5:30 is Morning Bell by Radiohead
@Supernautiloid5 жыл бұрын
Cut the kids in half...
@jobpopping51195 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing!
@AlexDainese4 жыл бұрын
Life in a glasshouse.
@dragmio3 жыл бұрын
Why is this so interesting?! I just wanna watch music theory videos forever! :D
@DJVipFlash2 жыл бұрын
This is really useful! Thank you!
@bruri75222 жыл бұрын
Very informative awesome video. Thank you!
@Majnun745 жыл бұрын
Wow! This really works! I had no idea. I can play all those chords, I just never thought to play them this way.
@aylbdrmadison10515 жыл бұрын
Listen to Rush, and I believe Genesis made use of them too.
@aylbdrmadison10515 жыл бұрын
Because of Rush, I've been playing these chromatic mediants for decades. So it's really nice to have a cool sounding name to give them now too. TY for that and the great lesson as well. ^-^
@jfo30004 жыл бұрын
Hemispheres album...
@JoshuaMRichard5 жыл бұрын
Wow. That Am to Fm sounds menacing. Very cool lesson Tommaso!
@4dityanarayan5 жыл бұрын
The Darth Vader theme begins with that progression (which is where I first came across it). Truly a dark, sinister chord change!
@7177YT4 жыл бұрын
brilliant! thank you!
@Add9Sus45 жыл бұрын
Awesome explanation! I was experimenting with this and it often sounds really good if you try to minimize the movement of the bass note from chord to chord (like for example if you're doing A minor to C# major it sounds really nice if you do the C# major in 2nd inversion so that the bass note is a G#, that way it moves down only a half step)... I'm not a guitar player so not sure how easy that is to do on guitar but it can make these chords sound even more interesting if you play some of them in inversions and use voice leading to minimize note distances
@MusicTheoryForGuitar5 жыл бұрын
Yes, definitely! It's not particularly hard as long as you pay attention to parallel octaves... you have to pay attention to those with all instruments anyway :)
@coastercook3 жыл бұрын
I have come back to this video many times over the years and credit you with adding chromatic mediants to my musical vocabulary. I've been in situations where a CM comes up and no one knows why these chords fit together. I just explain CMs to them and link them to this video. Big thanks for this lesson.
@MusicTheoryForGuitar3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sending people here, and I'm glad it helped you :)
@ephjaymusic4 жыл бұрын
What a delightful tutorial!
@chrisrosencrans10 ай бұрын
If you play a bunch of chromatic mediants and play over the top while targeting the 3rd of each chord it sounds soooo good
@antiv4 жыл бұрын
Instant sub. Great tempo of explanation and no bs.
@giotheproducer24765 жыл бұрын
the first 8 chords (2 series of 4) of "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush are also an example of how chromatic mediant relationships build an "oblique" passage through the main key , leaving it and returning to it
@redouandaghirihaouhaou2 жыл бұрын
Amazing video. Simple but really educational!! Good work
@Jinseng2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this man. I’ve been learning chorale style writing in theory and I’m excited to mess around with this w chord inversions
@TigerRichards Жыл бұрын
Not a guitar player. Still an awesome instructional video -- best of the chromatic mediant videos I've seen so far. The table you built answered a question I had -- "Do I go up/down a major or minor third? Pick a major or minor chord? Now I have a better basis for why one or the other. Thanks!
@dhaneshs1315 жыл бұрын
How is it that you make everything seem so simple? Love these videos Tommaso.. thnx
@jonescrusher14 жыл бұрын
Best explanation i've found.
@tukkerintensity55755 жыл бұрын
So happy to have found your channel - it's a wealth of interesting information and explained like a champ! kudos!
@basildog0073 жыл бұрын
AMAZING man! You just opened a door for me! I knew all these progressions without understanding the underlying explanation... Of course it makes sense, one common note keeps the story going! But weirdly when starting on A major, the secondary chromatic mediants sounded best to me.
@jonoshei79565 жыл бұрын
So friggin awesome!
@thomasbuck62505 жыл бұрын
Finally someone made the videos, that I've looking for so long. More of this, man!
@pvillez4 жыл бұрын
Thank you I alway enjoy your video. Nice to see other points of view of our beautiful sublime language.
@GrantSchinto5 жыл бұрын
Great lesson! Worth watching again and studying
@RoninOB4 жыл бұрын
The example you give of the Am to F choices, sounded very very close to The Ninth Gate movie theme without even trying. Excellent explanation, really opening my understanding.
@gruforevs5 жыл бұрын
great video, even from the perspective of someone familiar with the topic it was a good refresher. The sound examples were especially useful.
@mundomundovich22655 жыл бұрын
Piano player (learner rather) here. And this is very helpful and interesting.
@christophespoto5 жыл бұрын
Very, very, very cool! Amazing theory, amazing sounds! Thank you very much!!!
@beanieism4 жыл бұрын
Very, very cool! Now I can easily provide a spooky/edgy soundtrack to any situation!
@danpoolemusic4 жыл бұрын
love your stuff!!
@blacklab2825 жыл бұрын
Really great!! Thank you very much for this video!!
@craigpriceguitarist5 жыл бұрын
Great lesson thanks
@TomthebombMusicBlocks4 жыл бұрын
Legend! Thank you for this tutorial!
@estevancarlos3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful presentation of this concept.
@machinehead8915 жыл бұрын
Yeah! Love this! Thank you for the video Tommaso, awesome as always.
@nuke974 жыл бұрын
Wow, I have always been aware of this particular sound in movie themes. I'm amazed that you pointed this out. Thank you.
@jmbelkadi4 жыл бұрын
..Absolutly Great Lesson..
@redhotbenny845 жыл бұрын
Really great! Love your style of teaching. Very accessible
@michaelhansen89595 жыл бұрын
Thx for this great lesson
@Sylvanoskovich5 жыл бұрын
Main Title from Basic Instinct (Jerry Goldsmith) is also a wonderful music using those technics. Thanks for your amazing videos ;-)
@ericwatkins85233 жыл бұрын
I'm not even a guitar player and this is great, thank you!
@equisde87215 жыл бұрын
Wow... excelent channel, this deserve more likes!
@khorumas5 жыл бұрын
This is amazing! Thank you! :) Okay... It's time to create a bunch of chord progressions and also watch some moves :)
@remco27775 жыл бұрын
Fascinating video again! Thank you very much!
@robinsturegren36225 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video! I've always wondered about that Am - Fm change during the guitar solo of Dream Theater's The Ministry of Lost Souls (I mean it sounds great, but I never knew why they did it, or how it even worked out). Definitely going to look more into this stuff!
@zygmuntziembinski30114 жыл бұрын
Great video again, i shouldn't learn to play guitar i schould stay "A list film composer" writing [with chromatic mediants] endless progressions to high budget movies ...
@johnxaviermusic5 жыл бұрын
Easily digestible!! I am a “SUBSCRIBER”. Thnx. Keep ‘em coming.
@fabianhernandez44854 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!
@SamuelPeckman5 жыл бұрын
Very good. Thank you.
@SearchfortheMeaning4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful... I play piano and guitar but mainly guitar. These theory lessons speak very clearly to me. I write arrangements for m ariachi bands. Your lessons are priceless! Thank you maestro.
@MorisoniProductions3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and explaining so very clearly... it's really useful and really appreciated!
@jdavidojeda5 жыл бұрын
Your videos are really great, thanks...
@RaoulVega4 жыл бұрын
I compose many of my black metal music using moves to double chromatic mediant chords, and I never knew the theory behind this before. This video is extremely helpful and interesting! Thank you so much! lml
@timothyj.bowlby55243 жыл бұрын
This is, as usual, a wonderfully straightforward way of explaining a very powerful creative tool to have in your arsenal. The SPELLING of chords is so vital to being able to do this. I just wish that you'd use notation in your discussions as well.
@GRUNGETIME15 жыл бұрын
I love your Videos ! Really inspiring , thanks mate
@carlobuongiovanni79344 жыл бұрын
Hello, i find your you tube lessons very interesting, even if i play piano and not guitar there are so many interesting harmony and theory explanations very useful for any kind of instruments and for writing music in general.
@4CloudySky5 жыл бұрын
This is gold! Thank you for explaining this so clearly!
@MelodyPainterStudio3 жыл бұрын
Thanks man, I make a progressive rock music interlude with this lesson.... I play in Em than Cm
@7775Kevin4 жыл бұрын
Excellent thanks
@Ivan_Ku.5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@avishayberckovich33264 жыл бұрын
thank you !!
@geompon65054 жыл бұрын
If you play it with distorted tone and tremolo picking you get instant black metal.
@keithcourneyea16095 жыл бұрын
I've been listening to Michael Romeo's latest album which i'm sure has some of these constructs. Now to go and figure some of them out. Thanks for the insight.
@dennispowell91045 жыл бұрын
Very well explained . Thanks a lot
@Shivanshu.Bisaria4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic explanation
@The_official_c5 жыл бұрын
this is great man🙌
@tylerkane45595 жыл бұрын
You are a brilliant human being Tomasso! Thank you, cheers 😊
@aesu11922 жыл бұрын
Beautiful video, I love your enthusiasm in your teachings. A little question though, when will you want to add chromatic mediants in to your composition? In terms of functional harmony, what role do you think chromatic mediants play?
@Jesse-mh6hv5 жыл бұрын
This is the first video I watched on the channel
@paulbanks2445 жыл бұрын
TI AMO!
@nielsenjesp3 жыл бұрын
You should talk about the (in)famous Gesualdo!
@billitones5 жыл бұрын
very cool
@korkenknopfus5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and clear explanation, thank you!
@faselblaDer3te5 жыл бұрын
Thank youuuuu!
@guitar_nerd5 жыл бұрын
this was very interesting, thanks!
@bubblekeiki73955 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! Thanks a lot for the high quality content!!!
@cibrshrink5 жыл бұрын
Great stuff!
@buskingaustralia29844 жыл бұрын
Why do people dislike your vids they are very good
@squid-squad4 жыл бұрын
Good stuff, brother. I've done a little film scoring but stick with the classical guitar and what I call the "backtone" electric guitar for "sound world," which is filmic. You are always crystal clear!
@mikepro5004 жыл бұрын
Diablo I & 2 - Tristam Village
@RolandoCruz5 жыл бұрын
Good video! I think i 've learned this from hearing and reading Coltrane changes. And i still use them in my on music.
@Collect-AI2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your video. I have a few question. How are chromatic mediants with 7th chords used? Thank you
@LeandroLoan4 жыл бұрын
The Coda session of Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen also have it.