When you think you understood something, minor scale, minor chords, play slowly. You click a guy video, somehow you always manage to learn something new. "Suspended chords that want to resolve", aha moment let's try it in the DAW you haven't had opened in two weeks. I got a list of chords and scales and what emotions they convey. But lack the context of when to use them, there's a lot of hidden music knowledge that only exist in the minds of veteran musicians. Nobody writes this down in books and if they do it's a small paragraph in a 300 page book. That's why these videos are great.

Dunno what all the fuss is about - everyone calls my efforts "sad" 😄

When I was young, I had lots of piano lessons. I always wanted to learn how to improvise and to really understand how music is working, but the teachers only taught me to play the notes, to write down scales and chords, without any explanation how it all is linked together, and what you can do with it. A few months ago, I have found this great channel, where Guy is explaining in a great, comprehensive, funny and fully inspiring way how to put all these pieces together and to be creative with music. Now, after 40 years, learning piano playing in a new way and creating music is so much fun! I'm also listening to music in a different and more distinct way now. Thank you so much Guy for your great videos!

You sir are simply amazing…loved it. Lots of love and respect from here in Iran 🇮🇷

The chord shifts and suspensions were thing I hadn't thought of. Well done.

The final little piece was absolutely beautiful.....

Used this Twinkle Twinkle example from one of Guy’s courses in a KZfaq video, making it sad .. or at least wistful. Worked a treat with just piano and strings and adding a little rhythmic variation.. and had immense fun doing it. Somehow he makes it easier to ease one out of a rut. Great man 💫

I’m glad i just discovered this channel! Love the metro gnome. And you have an uplifting energy in your video, awesome!

Sad music is a three step process: 1) Rubato 3) Profit Seriously, once you change the second chord -- the possibilities are endless. Great tips!

The first channel I’ve ever clicked the bell notification for. So glad I did. Love this Guy!

"I managed to squeeze a tear from a porcelain gnome" is now my go-to phrase for any success.

"Twinkle twinkle, little star" was turned into a sad, or rather a scary song in one of the trailers for Dead Space, whilst not being in a minor key.

What a wonderful illustration of how to write a piece of music that conveys the emotion of sadness! Cheers, Guy!

I was listening to a playlist on CBC, and heard this composition based on the same twinkle, twinkle, little star theme, and it goes through a number of moods, including sad and dramatic. Dohnanyi- Erno Variations On a Nursery Song

Please make this a series! A video on how to write *happy* music is exactly what I need right now.

Guy, please note to Mozart variations. 12 Variations on 'Ah, vous dirai-je maman', K.265/300e on those 12 variations he really gives lots of different moods. Please never stop, I am always looking for your videos and teaching. Love your work. A truly inspiration. Thank you

He's giving away tricks that The Cure have used for decades

I've loved watching Guy's videos since his DP4 days & I've learned more from them over the past few years than any other YT channel. Then I found out in Aug/Sept last year that my dear friend David Goodall was working with Thinkspace, marking / mentoring. Sadly David died in September. In many ways, he reminded me of Clive. Two great musicians who had a positive impact on me and my music. Cheers to you both. (Pete). Keep up the great work sir

really like 3.03 well explained, simple and rubato, long lyrical ideas, suspensions.🙌

I would love to see a how to video about layering

Thanks Guy. A nice "howto" video would be changing keys in a piece (at least it would be for me :) ).

As ever, Guy, superb. You are an excellent communicator and teacher.

People think Minor is the Saddest. But... I noticed it's More Sadder to use a Major key like F. ...but introduce a B Minor. Now you got Sadness. (Yesterday by The Beatles uses this)

Terrific job defining the word sad. Love it. Here's what sad means whether or not you like it. Now define poignant please. Really skillful instruction. I've seen a few of your vids, and I've enjoyed this best. ❤

I LOVE your videos. I've learned a LOT just from watching your process. Thanks!

Fascinating as always Guy! - impressive segue to the ad!

Great wealth of knowledge for music producers..

Great video! I’ve never cried so much on hearing a nursery rhyme in my life 😢😂😊

As always great video and info. I happen to be working on music for different emotions and used twinkle as a starting point. Thanks!!!

Excellent Guy, that Gnome really made me laugh when he cried. Thanks for a great segment.

you're a genius

Super Super Inspirational! can't get enough..

Yay BBCSO :) 7:15

Superb video, many thanks for this, and I learnt some new musical concepts.

Grandpa alwalys on 🔥🔥🔥

This is probably sort of related but slightly more focused. I am very interested in post romantic music like, for example Bruckner, seven symphony. I know this is a huge topic post, Romantic harmony, but I was wondering if you could see what you can distil into a 15 or 20 minute video. I really enjoy your presentation style, and your perceptiveness. I think I will have to get my own garden gnome, and paint him with musical symbols, just as an inspiration, and a reminder of your great videos

Thoroughly enjoyed the video. Thank you!

Fantastic Guy. Please cover other emotions as well 😀

Example @ 2.00 " alternating maj/min Twinkle " has turned into 1st half of the verse from" What a wonderful World " . LOve the later suspensions.

Even cheerful music can sound sad when you're not feeling cheerful. A lot has to do with your state of mind.

Hey, i absolutly love your work, and you kind of convinced me to seriously give a go in music composition. I have quite a decent base of knowledge in music, i am a music teacher after all, however, i have never compose on computer. My main proble is i have no idea WHERE to start, what DAW to use for example ? All the inforamtion i got on the web is soooo overwhelming. I advice would you give to a beginner such as myslef ? Again, thanks for that amazing chanel of yours !

"Hello everyone!!!! 😁😁😁😁 Today, we're going to be writing sad music :))" (Amazing video as usual Guy!)

Brilliant tutorial Guy

Dear Mr. Michelmore, I've just subscribed to your channel, and to say that I'm impressed is to say nothing at all! I have a question if you perhaps don't mind it: are the examples that you've played in this video-and, I shall surmise, the other ones-available as sheet notation (or, second best, MIDI files; I could make the former from the latter indeed), in the free or the paid course, or anywhere at all? Sheet music is much easier to analyse to me. Thank you!

Great video. The only thing you need to write sad music, is a porcellan gnome! All points Guy mentioned are valid. I just realized how powerfuk rubato is to drive the mood. I'm just not sure how to apply it technically in the DAW. Should I make stepwise tempo jumps or drawing S curves? Or should I add a few beats to a bar, e.g. making one 6/4 bar instead auf a 4/4? Another thing is sound / instrument selection. Guy applied it by using strings. To me there are a couple of obvious choices to convey sadness. For examples the already mentioned con sordino strings, a soft piano or an oboe.

Oh and more videos with the gnome please

Can you make a video about how to build chords to a melody that aren't in the key of that melody/things you shouldn't do when using for example augmented chords (cause they don't naturallly occur in the normal major minor scales)

I just this morning happened on Jake Lizzio's (Signals Music Studio) KZfaq video on the Phrygian mode. At about 7:30 he plays Happy Birthday in Phrygian. Perhaps its more "dark" than "sad", but it's certainly not "happy".

Squeezing tears is my raison d'etre!11!! :)

A friend of mine when writing sad piano compositions swears by the use of minor chords, closed lid, and slightly detuning the piano.

you had me at "metro-gnome"

Great Tutorial

How do you get into the composer community? I'm interested in pursuing a career but I don't know anyone who is experienced in this choice of career.

You want a Sad Song? Look up "Care Alot" from The Care Bear Movie. Man, that's a tear jerker!

Here you go friends: 0:00 - Introduction 0:22 - Introduction of the mighty Metro Gnome 0:53 - Step #1: Using the Minor Key 2:21 - Different approach to harmonization (using contrast by making use of chord 3) 4:22 - Step #2: Making use of Suspension (a sense of yearning) 6:26 - Step #3: Long, lyrical emotional lines (play slow and make sure the instruments can play long notes for dynamic movement) 8:22 - Difference between lyrical beauty and sad (all about context) 9:26- Step #4: Rhythm and simplicity (e.g slow with very simple accompaniment, or even using rubato to make it seem like music is floating) 11:32 - Bringing everything together

Well done, Guy. You can join me, and together we can corner the market for crematorium music :) I bet we will do well. The thing that made me really sad with the video though, was the absence of your S88. That alone brings tears in the eyes of a cast iron gnome. Looking forward to your next video. Have a happy Valentines with your wife.

Hey Guy, could you do a slow beginners video on how to record several tracks of keyboard audio into a DAW please. Cheers Ears

Would it make sense (disregarding the monetary issue) for a producers/directors to hire a different composer for some of the markets they're targeting for release, based on their different perception of music and how it affects that particular audience? You mentioned how a minor key doesn't necessarily mean sad in some cultures, and that question came to mind.

Great video as always Guy. Is that one of Mark Knofler's recently auctioned (£8m total sales) guitars in the background? :)

I hope a next episode, very awaited: How to make happy, funny or joyfull music like Offenbach (who was a real genius because doing this kind of music seems realy difficult in my opinion).

i didn't understood the 2 point very well, can someone explain in a simpler way?

According to Nigel Tufnel, D minor is the saddest key.

4:47 gives a vibe of wise men say.. Only fools rush in.

What kind of Studio monitors do you have?

Can you teach mixing and mastering (for film music) how to use fx what is right and what is wrong to get a good result?

Diminished chords and a hangover.

Use DMinor- after all it’s the saddest key

Excuse me while I go squeeze a tear out of the porcelain gnome, if you know what I mean.

I would like to know how to practice playing the piano, if I want to be a composer and not necessarily a concert pianist. I get that is probably isn't detrimental to learn everything, but what elements should I focus on learning first to be able to compose for an orchestra in a DAW like you, sensei?

How do you even put such non-metrical pieces into that rigid grid of a DAW, or a musical staff, for that matter?

Hello Guy, I have a question which i hope you can answer(if not it's totally ok), does in the course "Harmony Two" we get to know more about those sad techniques? I already have the course "Composer Blueprints Training" and im hungry for more like that course. Thank you and have a nice day! Ps: I have also the courses "How to write music" and "Learn music theory"

Is it just me or did that very first change from major to minor key, almost sound like a Danny Elfman score? Did we crack the Elfman code?

I have a how to question. How do you create a feeling of forward movement in a piece where you have to use an instrument with a fixed pedal tone, like a tagelharpa with its drone string? I am having a hard time trying to drive the action of a film scene having to stay around the same tonal centre, sinnce there are only so many chords that fit the key of the drone string..

Answer: Be Sad, or ask Lucifer/Satan like Jim Morrison from the Doors or Ozzy Ozborn did (which I don't recommend).

I have a hard time staying in key, what can I do? Do I need to memorize the chart of A-G?

Can you please make a video on how to make horror music

its sad or nothing for me. minor key ftw.

All you have to do is remember that one time you lost 6tb of your backed up sample and music library because of two mirrored drives failing at the same time. The sad vibes flow like a tap after that.

I bought the music for video games course Guy, but I can't find the discord Chanel?

Special effects top notch

👌I make ambient, new age.Wich are the best scales for that?Modes?

How to write spaghetti western music. Also, Reggae... thanks.

Hi Guy. Chromaticism should be added to the list.

Hello

Important question, Guy: does Metro Gnome actually have a valid ticket for the Metro? (I am very sorry)

Funny, sounds like Christmas to me.

Where did the S88 go?

Easy just use Dm - the saddest of all keys

Did I just catch you casually playing and oct + 3rd on your LH?! How big are your hands?! 😂😂

My secret is that I am sad

Swapped out MIDI controller.

Arnold is gone 😂😂

No changes needed my music is already sad lol

Hang on… a new keyboard?

there’s something other than sad???

Thanks! Another perfect example for making something sad: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5OqoadntrHGops.html 🙏

Personally I peel onions……

Is this sad enough?! ;) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nrSPgbdkx5fYhWQ.html

How to write happy, uplifting music when not feeling bouncy

I don’t think most people in the west are writing music for other cultures, so minor cords will always be sad.