Found this channel a little bit ago and it’s a pretty great source of information. Watching this video right now
Covers basic theory of chords and scales
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I’ve attempted to speak with you all on this over the years about 3rds and 7ths but you did not understand me.
I’m about 20 mins in and I understand everything in a theoretical way, even though I don’t catch all the terms and things he’s talking about. It’s very western-centric though, saying things like “the basis of most traditional tonal music in existense”. Like yeah bruv.
It is pretty specific to jazz theory. My understanding is that 3rds and 7ths are the identifying notes in a chord, so playing those really solidifies the chord tone (and throwing them in your jazz solo makes you sound like you know what you’re doing).
They’re basically like power notes lol. You can imply a chord change with just the 3rd or the 7th.
I haven’t finished watching the video yet tho.
And yeah he’s pretty western centric, but it is theory (which is pretty western to begin with as far as I’m aware). It’s nice to know the rules so you can break them.
Like I’ve been looking at a lot of my favorite songs and interestingly enough most of them are 1 chord vamps, so it’s cool to know about how powerful and establishing a 3rd or 7th can be so I can maybe try and avoid or use sparingly or remove from a chord to make a less dominant or less resolving chord
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Look into stacked 4th chords and listen to McCoy Tyner.
The so what chord is sexy as fuck. Love that voicing and also a huge fan of sus chords.
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Interesting tidbit; those chords were played by Bill Evans on Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue and I studied music with Bill Evans’ bass player Chuck Israels.
In Miles’ autobiography, he said that Bill Evans was his favorite piano player and he used to call him up at night to listen to him play.
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I think the guy does a pretty good job keeping everything clear and concise which is why I like his videos
Yeah, definitely gonna check out his stuff more. Just a bit averse to music dudes saying “you can’t do that, nobody does that”. You can do what you want kinda. Here’s Collier explaining what I mean.
Nah, you can do what ever you want.
Knowing theory just gives you the knowledge to know what you did and perhaps repeat it again.
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That’s what I said man.
It’s mainly useful when you want to show others what you’ve done and how to play it I guess.
I was agreeing with you.
I started writing something about knowing the language to communicate with other musicians.
Oh yeah for sure. I mean music is super complicated and well probably never really make sense of all of it. It’s this huge balance of the relationship between one note and another and the last several notes over some span of time and expectations and subverting those expectations and so on.
I like that “strong decision vs weak decision”.
We all have our own idea of what sounds good really. Our own “theory of harmony” which is built from our musical experiences, interests, and exploration.
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Tbh I like barely understand the concept of chords. Like I get them but they also feel made up to me. I don’t know how to explain it too well. To me a chord feels like a term for multiple voices, and then that term has been a bit “bastardized” by instruments like piano and guitar that are very good at playing chords.
And then people say classical indian music doesn’t really have chords even though there’s a drone playing the 1 and 5 while the player explores the space between and around those two reference points
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Mate of mine just sent me this, plus a ten minute stonker of a tune he made.
Not sure what all this is but it sounds sweet.
@cyclopian @swerver @mks @pokus @clone and them lot will probably know.
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I see that your friend has got himself a bit of modular kit.
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I thought so. I could tell from the colourful straws everywhere.
you’re back on the beats man good to hear
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Drum Machine Designer. aka DMD is free sampler in Logic. It is similar to the QSampler; which is great too.
Load your breakbeat as a wav/aiff to an audio channel. Create a blank midi channel. Drag the region to the blank space grey area below the channels you already have. It will let you pick a few options, and one is DMD. It will then load a Midi file for playback of the slices it makes via hitpoint/transient detection. You can then edit the Midi to trigger the playback of your slices and many parameters within the sampler. It is so fast.
a bit late…oh well
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