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As much as I’m learning what works, I’m also realizing through these tutorials why certain things didn’t work in the past.

For anyone who might be wondering why it’s called the 5th when it’s 7 semitones up: in most scales (such as major or minor) it’ll be the 5th note of the scale. As well as the consonance of the (approximate) 3:2 ratio, another reason why it’s commonly used in electronic music is that it pretty much always stays in key when transposed, unlike 3rds for example which would have to change between major and minor if you want to stay in key. With a 5th, you can tune a second osc to a fixed 5th (or sample it) and just play whatever notes you like.

Your style of explanation is so on point. You should do more music theory videos. You have a pedagogical spirit like few of those good teachers that I remember with a smile. Not even kidding! Thanks for this!

2:25 reminded me of a very cool phenomenon that demostrates that chords are just polyrythms. In the very same way that the 5th occilates 3 times for the fundamentals 2 times, If you create a one bar polyrythm (3/2) with any percussion, could even be noise, and you speed it up to a ridiculous bpm (in the thousands) The rhythm will turn into an interval: A fifth! Same thing works for other harmonic intervals like a fourth being 4/3 and a major third being 5/4

About fifths' - it's also called "power chord" in guitar theory. You just go grab any key and pick 5th note from the major (as I like to think) scale w/ a root note and this is it. Yall remember the famous PS1 startup sound? In bass there are root and 5th note - G - from C scale played and that's why it's sound so pleasing :)

Wow, old video - but I love the explanation of 7 semitones, then showing it in the synth that you can do the same; my music world just opened up massively.. what you don't know, you don't know, thanks Music theory rocks as is more important than people generally say. To me, it's like learning the language of music, and it is evitable to need to learn it, to be able to do more easily.

It’s amazing how good of a teacher and producer Stranjah is

An amazing pianist I know once told me 5ths are very pleasing to the human ear and this video really proved that. Especially when you lowered the 5th under the root note in the first synth, really felt that.

You are an excellent teacher. I want to just as much take a class with you as I do want to rave with you.

Killing it stranjah, bless you for all your time and knowledge

Really great tutorial thank you. - learned so much on this one.

Thats was super duper helpful, thanks. As many mentioned in comments it would be very helpful to see more music theory videos from you. KZfaq bloated with general music theory videos and they rarely correlate with modern breakbeat, dnb, techno and house genres.

These SIMPLE examples are so powerful. It's exactly how someone should teach sound design. You're on the right track. Also, root + fifth is how power chords are basically constructed in genres like punk and harder forms of rock. They leave a lot more space in the arrangement for busier pieces.

Yes bro. Iv watched your videos for a while now and have learned so much doing it. Big ups bro.

You just provided me with a ton of insight and inspiration. Thank you.

Thank you stranjah for once again, providing us with some super useful content 🙌

Awesome video man, keep up the good work🙏🏻

Really helpful. Tutorial. Thank you!!

Wow man this is such an interesting video I love it. Big up Stranjah.👊

This was so great to have had spelled out. Thanks again, Bro!

My skills and understanding are growing exponentially since finding your videos man. Thank you so much, honestly 🙏💙💙

This is great! STRANJAH deserves much more recognition!

I like this geezer, he makes music making seem easy. People will learn much from watching these well made and informative vids. He knows his genre well.

Great video man thanks

Okay.. so your videos have been the key to keeping me motivated on this new journey. And I’ve truly felt my confidence and knowledge grow with each one but this one here… wow. I feel like I leveled up x10 after this. Thank you.

Thanks mate this was very helpful more music theory stuff would be great

Thanks so much, this helped me!

This one was awesome. Simple, but needed. Seeing the Netsky example was great. Nice clean sound.

Great vid Stranjah ✌️ Also Your “Diplomat” song is pure magic 🙃 One love Brother

Thanks a lot, Stranjah! This is a total gamechanger.

amazing video thank you so much

Nice description and tutorial

Great video as always buddy!

Great video man 🙏

glad to be here again tuning in !

I paid thousands to go to college and university to study music technology because I wanted to do something with drum and bass ect.. These videos literally tell you everything you need to know for production and imo does a better job helping you understand how to create the music you want.

Great to see and hear musical theory applied in sound design! Thanks 🙏

Love this teacher 🙏🏽

Just back from vacation...and my Guru Stranjah is putting me right back at my desk making music..... 🙏

Oh man, I suddenly remember a lot of stuff I learned in music school a long time ago. I really need to revise music theory, this is so good and helpful

Very interesting, everyday i learn , thank you Stranjah 🙏

Thanks for the knowledge bro!

Thank you! I want to be a music producer, so these videos insanely help me. I have learnt plenty of new things in like 2 days just by watching your videos. Thank you!

The wide usage of the term "power chord" is so prevalent for damn good reason. In common practice its the most important interval next to the octave. It leaves out the often-undesirable harmonic complexity of a chord complete with triads and more rich options for a different context, while allowing has that "filling out" effect that essentially gives the chord's root more punch, more backbone... The variance between these options is used dynamically by bands from Blink 182 to Foo Fighters to balance between emotional richness and rawer power as the name suggests. This has been carried over to dance music perfectly, and is a very impactful concept that's good to see laid out so clearly. If I'd not come to dance music from a background in rock, this would've been just what i needed as the beginner. I still learned from the way you touched on more specific applications of the 5th. You really took this one concept from total beginner level in a way that's still entertaining enough for anyone else to watch through to get some different ideas for actually using it in the music. Keep up the awesome work man, i can't get over how great it is to see more instruction for the broken side of the beat 😎

I can't thank you enough for your channel and your videos. I have no music education, never played an instrument, and so my music theory literacy is almost non-existent. I've picked up a few things here or there but never really understood the "why" behind things. this was so helpful!

Oh man, one of your best gift/vid (bro!) . Simple but , yeah. Mad.

So on point my friend! Content is pure fire!

Great video. Got my like and subscription.

good video. the 5th is all over the place. its good practice to get used to the sound of the interval (or all intervals in general)

great video thank you

Really nice explained 🌻🚀

Big in the game bro, keep up the great work 👏

Some simple and catchy tutorial, great job... Somehow in any music that the power of the fifth is the basic and the most used chord progression in every track...

Great tututorial. explained well.

You should cover how chords are fundamentally created, tetrachords, etc. I think when talking about 3rds or 5ths it's important that people get it's actually related to the key or scale. Also learning this kind of music theory opens up chords to experimentation, e.g. moving the 3rd down a half step is a minor chord! Keep spreading the word and doing what you do best. I'm always looking forward to your next video.

Cheers for the vid bro

Great video man - more on theory plz!

this tut is actually really good

Mind blown. Normally wouldn't understand theory buy you make it more understanding.

Solid bro 👍

Super helpful music theory lesson, thanks a ton ^_^

Yeah very well presented, thanks..

This tutorial is amazing 👏 Thank you 🙏....is it possible you could make a sample pack of the beats in this tutorial great sounding drums ....would love all those drum hits . Thanks 🙏 Bless

Wicked tutorial. 🔥

That was a great episode, you are the master

one of the best music tutorials I’ve seen

VERY informative

Bro your videos are pure gold! Been a junglist for 20 years and tried producing it a few times but always kinda failed at making the tracks interesting. Probably gonna give it a shot again ;) But your tuts are good for producing any style of music in any daw

Brilliant!

Nice one stranja! I don't use this enough, deffo am guna now tho!

Another Quality vid as always Stranjah! A quick tip for anyone out there. A fifth is also 5 semitones DOWN much easier to remember than 7 semitones up 5th = 5 semitones down

thank you for this ✌🏻

Dropin some heavyweight tips as always. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

Music to my ears

Been wondering how they got this sound forever. Thanks man.

Thank you a thousand times.

Amazing after less than 15 minutes and I'm already better at making music than I was before.

BIG UPS my dude!

Awesome dude honesty didn't know that after almost 20 years 😀

Never been on this channel but i enjoyed it. Indica strain brought me here

great video

Amazing

first i've heard about the 3:2 ratio, very cool

Yes! Thats the sound of good dnb! I miss tunes that sound like this, now everything has so basic melodies

On point

A small bit of theory can go a long way 🔥

could you maybe do a tutorial on "phaser/flanger basses" like in Pola & Bryson - Bad Habit

Wonderfull

One sick producer 👊🏻

At 9:43 the deep House example... there's a sample in the drums that plays a rhythm under the hats, sounds midrange, super common in house music, can anyone tell me what sort of sample this is? I've tried recreate it with hats and it never sounds right. It plays on beats 1 and 3 after the kick, what type of sample should I use for this?

Master Stranjah 🙏🏾

i really like your vids

Bruhh mans insane!!!

"Going somewhere, but never arriving"...like 90% of my tunes, haha. Great vid!

Dope, so simple...Maya Jane Coles 4 eva 🤘Besides using this for bass leads, would you say its more of a trick to use for leads in general or do you find yourself making entire songs with chord progressions that leave out the third if that makes sense? Say a rhodes progression that only uses the root and the fifth or would that be too dull/boring you think?

I know this video is a few months old so i highly doubt i will get a reply to this, but my question involved the difference between using a LFO on the B volume knob to cause the wobble sound effect compared to using a LFO on the cutoff knob like it was applied at 6:00 ? are there any big differences in how the wobble effect itself is being generated? I'm having trouble conveying my question, i guess simply put it looks like two different approaches to make a wobble effect with two different sounds and i was just wondering if there's a reason the same method wasn't applied to the other sound? would it sound different? since you're using different sine wavs does that mean it requires different methods? i hope my question isn't to dumb. Just trying to develop my skills in sound design. Thank you in advance if you see and reply to this.

Perfect 5th is also good for the kick drum if a track is busy with chords / melody...

Big TF Up!

4:44 Me listening with my headphones up loud: 💀