I think a really interesting video idea would be how to write accompaniment to a melody. There's little to no content on this on youtube and it would be a huge contribution to the community if it's possible.
The music for LOTR is without doubt one of the most beautifully composed musical soundtracks ever made. It really teleports you right to the realm of Middle Earth. Whoever that hired Howard Shore to compose for LOTR should get a raise!
Honestly as someone who is a HUGE classical fan... I'm inclined to agree. I think LOTR is the greatest musical masterpiece ever composed. It even surpasses Rach 2 and 3 to me.
Lets take a moment to appreciate the fact that not a single element of these movies was out of place or weak; perfect cast, practical and CGI effects from a studio that cared, unmatched music thats a milestone of human ingeniousness on its own, amazing action, meaningful dialogues, no useless characters, etc etc etc. Stars truly aligned to make the perfect trilogy.
OMG! I also have that book and I love it! So glad you made a video on the Themes of LOTR! What's impressive is the sheer amount of further themes Shore has written! For example, the Ents. There is the general Ent Theme, THEN a Theme for Treebeard and THEN a theme called "Small Stones", that describes the relation of the ents and the hobbits! In other words, he didn't really have to go THAT hard, but oh boi he did haha
@@monoverantus Heyy Mono! Also cool to see you here! Didn't expect that! :) I actually also have a UA-cam Channel (I don't upload that regualy, but I do videos on all kinds of art) Here is the link! ua-cam.com/channels/1PG6oJw_4CrfV4WE8JZpMg.html
2:18 that was definitely D dorian, which is also the mode the beginning of the Gondor theme is in (not minor) - based on the orchestral harmonization which plays a G major chord.
The Phrygian dominant for Lothlórien really catches your ear in the film, it feels very unique. I'm not quite sure, but I think it's the only motif in the films that uses that particular mode?
Indeed, but it has a connection to Sauron's theme. Lothlórien is in Phrygian dominant, which just as Ryan said, is one of the modes of harmonic minor, which is the scale of Sauron's theme. Howard Shore has said that they're linked since they're both from the Second Age, older than all other characters and cultures in the score.
This soundtrack is a milestone for me and one of the main reasons i wanted to start making cinematic music. The movies will not be the same without this incredible soundtrack. Those are my favorite movies and trilogy of all time. Thank you so much for making this video!! :)
Ryan, ALL of your videos are fantastic! I'm so grateful that UA-cam recommended your channel to me! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! 🎻🎷🎺📯🥁🎹
For an in-depth study of the music of the Lord of the Rings, I strongly suggest this series by Barnaby Martin from the Listening In channel: ua-cam.com/play/PLT_X8AVnjkAA7cIU6CsMs0Xn7CGbDUwef.html
His 3 video's about LotR are amazing. I also think Jaime Altozano deserves more credit, though since his videos are in Spanish, they may be harder to get into
Just getting started with this channel Ryan, and I’m so glad I found it! Your content is clear, concise and I’m learning so much. The Em over Fm is just fantastic, you can’t help but be drawn in by its seductive quality, much like the Ring itself!
The Shire theme is one of my favorites! This was really fascinating to learn about. I've been composing short pieces for the D&D game I'm in, and this gives me an idea for how I can take my compositions to the next level. Not just using an instrument to represent each character, but a mode as well sounds fantastic!
This video is amazing! I was quite familiar with the LOTR soundtrack, as I recently wrote a paper about it, but the polytonality in the "ring's theme" was new to me. Thank you! :) This little, yet so big detail makes this theme so much better!
Thank you so much for this video! I'm currently struggling with motifs for a project and this really helped me. All your videos are amazing and super useful so thank you for the good content On a side note, could you tell me what sound libraries you use to make playback or mockups sound more realistic? it would be really helpful as well
It's worth pointing out that outside of the actual themes, which are often more or less harmonized with standard chord progressions, the whole score moves almost exclusively in chords that are thirds, seconds or fourths apart. The whole Farewell To Lorien for example is basically little more than chord relations by thirds. It's a constantly moving soundscape with themes in between.
This is perfect! My sister has actually commissioned me to write music for a podcast of hers. This video has offered much inspiration to me. Considering that she suggested that I try something of Middle-Eastern sound for my music, the discussion of the Phrygrian Dominant scale was very helpful. I will certainly look into this more. Thank you, Mr. Leach, for being ever-ready to offer such informative videos!
Ryan: How about you share about your most lord of the rings relevant emoji Me: (never watched it and think it is a documentary about the corporate conspiracy behind ring industry) 🕵♂😈
I wish I could recalibrate my brain to know stuff that enhances life, like music theory, instead of purchasing and purchasing process theory. If we only had more than one life.
As someone who's studied the book extensively, I really recommend it. The first section explains all the themes in detail and how they connect to other themes, and the second part goes track-by-track, describing how every theme is used in the scene. Perfect to read while listening to the score!
@@monoverantus that is all the convincing I need, thank you I definitely will get it then! Since lotr is some of my all time fav franchises but I haven’t really gotten into the music of it, and would def help with composition as well
@@dyroth It will for sure help with composition. Howard Shore is extremely knowledgeable with music theory and it shows very much in his scores. He also has composed traditional concert music not associated with film.
Thanks for all of your videos. I really appreciate your approach. One thing I noticed The realm of Gondor music is missing the sixth scale degree, so I would say it could either be natural minor or Dorian. Unless those notes are filled in by the harmony, in which case it would be definitively one of the other
Love the video. Maybe, if you think is a good idea, you could create some videos about Gustavo Santaolalla. To me, his music is always touching, not in a soppy way. Thank you for all the hard work you put on the channel, best wishes from Argentina!
Thanks for a great video about LOTR's incredible soundtrack! I think my favorite theme is the Rohan fanfare, while the theme is definitely in Dorian I think it is exciting how it starts out on A minor and you don't really know where you are harmonically until the D major chord arrives. I could listen to those four bars repeat all day...
Always enjoy video analysis on LotR music. Would love if there was a version of the LotR films with all audio but the music muted. Would be neat to see how the motifs line up to action on screen.
Thanks for another great video! I've learned so much from watching your videos and putting them in to practice! I love these videos about themes; they've helped me tremendously in expressing more complex emotion in music! Just curious, could you make a short video explaining polytonality in more detail? Thank you so much!
Love these quick snippets. I use them as writing ideas to see what I can come up with, learning about chromatic mediants has really helped in my writing. If you ever do one of these for John Williams, I would love to see the score to ET looked at, I feel it is grossly underappreciated.
I've heard that the nine notes that compose the ring theme (one for each of the nine kings of men who received the magic rings) are the same notes that form the theme of the Nazgul. Whether it's true or not it's amazing nevertheless.
Hello, Ryan, again, a wonderful video! I have a question: Since you said that the phrygian dominant mode seems to us a kind of middle eastern mode to us, do you think that some people from that region could possibly think of the elves as unconsciously closer to them in terms of music?
This video has been the most useful to help me understand writing for characters and places. This is most excellent. It helps with getting the feel one is looking for. A terrific explanation.
Thank you for making a video about LOTR! Easily one of the most impressive soundtracks I have ever heard, and I feel doesn't get nearly enough attention!
Fantastic video. I've been playing piano for years but due to circumstances never got very far. So learning these more in depth things about some of the most beautiful music in the word is such a treat!
9:10 I think it’s easy to hear the root as A minor if you imagine the E at the end not being the last landing note but accompanying B as the “end” so to speak
The Dorian progression is one of Pink Floyd's favorites ("Breathe","The Great Gig In The Sky",parts of the instrumental sections of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond",etc.).
The D Major scale for the folksy Shire theme makes sense from the perspective of so much British Isles folk music being played in that key, particularly on the tin whistle, which of course features prominently in this cue.
I wouldn't call the ring theme polytonality. I think the B is just a #4 suspension (or appegitura?) above Fm. And as you can see it does resolve up by half a step. I think it sounds so omnious because this disonant is pretty spicy Also you can call the chord mM7
I’ve been puzzling over how to explain the ring theme without polytonality, and possibly in terms of modes, because modes are the subject of the video. I haven’t come up with anything that feels right (and I might also be in over my head) but here are my ideas: 1) Could this be considered combination of E phrygian (a flavor of minor) and E phrygian dominant? E phrgyian contains all the notes in the melody including the A natural. In E phrygian dominant, F minor is the chord built on the 2nd scale degree, and the scale contains both the A natural from the melody and the G#/Ab from the F minor chord. In other words, E Phrygian is the mode used when the chord is E minor, and E Phrygian dominant is the mode when the chord is F minor. Perhaps this would qualify as modal interchange if the key is considered E Phrygian. 2) This is maybe less precise, but the sixteenth notes at the end of the first bar (b c b a c…) could be considered a prolonged ornament anticipating the b natural of bar 2, in the E minor harmony of bar 2. For some reason we hear these notes from the end of bar 1 in the context of the harmony of the next bar.
I only recently discovered your channel. I'm trying to get into composing for orchestral instruments, and I've already learned a lot from your videos. Thanks so much :)
In the ring theme, I always just thought of that B natural over the Fm chord to be a non-chord tone, not polytonality. Perhaps because we get that step-wise resolution to the C, that's the way I hear it.
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Excellent video. Just found your stuff and will leave a good comment for the algorithm's sake. Excited to dive in deeper and explore my chord progressions further.
I'm always looking around for more examples of using interesting modes and mixtures of modes to express my music, thanks for these examples! I like how these not only show how each choice works for a given character or setting (like how Smeagol's theme sounds twisted like him), but how they contrast with each other to create interesting dynamics between characters and settings (Lothlorien vs Rivendale).
The Rivendell motif always struck me as being a broken augmented chord... You're thinking of the odd note as a b6, which does make way more sense on paper since the 5th is also present in the motif, but what better way to represent the highest of beings than with an augmented chord, right? That's how I always interpreted it.
My favorite LOTR theme is the Dwarrowdelf theme (A Journey in the Dark 2:05 to 3:18). It's the perfection, out of this world. Beautiful, sad, grand, it totally makes the scene and maybe the movie to me. Any tricks from there?
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I think a really interesting video idea would be how to write accompaniment to a melody. There's little to no content on this on youtube and it would be a huge contribution to the community if it's possible.
The music for LOTR is without doubt one of the most beautifully composed musical soundtracks ever made. It really teleports you right to the realm of Middle Earth. Whoever that hired Howard Shore to compose for LOTR should get a raise!
Honestly as someone who is a HUGE classical fan... I'm inclined to agree. I think LOTR is the greatest musical masterpiece ever composed. It even surpasses Rach 2 and 3 to me.
@@matthewarant377 comparing the soundtrack of a whole trilogy of movies to a piano concerto doesn’t make much sense
Lets take a moment to appreciate the fact that not a single element of these movies was out of place or weak; perfect cast, practical and CGI effects from a studio that cared, unmatched music thats a milestone of human ingeniousness on its own, amazing action, meaningful dialogues, no useless characters, etc etc etc. Stars truly aligned to make the perfect trilogy.
HOWW did he pump out all these insanely haunting themes in ONE trilogy??? It's just beyond me, still my favorite OST of all time.
Because he spent years working on it
History of the Ring manages to be mysterious, captivating, and sinister all at the same time. It's such an incredible theme.
OMG! I also have that book and I love it! So glad you made a video on the Themes of LOTR! What's impressive is the sheer amount of further themes Shore has written! For example, the Ents. There is the general Ent Theme, THEN a Theme for Treebeard and THEN a theme called "Small Stones", that describes the relation of the ents and the hobbits!
In other words, he didn't really have to go THAT hard, but oh boi he did haha
Fancy seeing you here ; )
@@monoverantus Heyy Mono!
Also cool to see you here! Didn't expect that! :)
I actually also have a UA-cam Channel (I don't upload that regualy, but I do videos on all kinds of art)
Here is the link!
ua-cam.com/channels/1PG6oJw_4CrfV4WE8JZpMg.html
2:18 that was definitely D dorian, which is also the mode the beginning of the Gondor theme is in (not minor) - based on the orchestral harmonization which plays a G major chord.
Yes, dorian, not natural minor, and there is no seventh in the melody.
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The Phrygian dominant for Lothlórien really catches your ear in the film, it feels very unique. I'm not quite sure, but I think it's the only motif in the films that uses that particular mode?
Indeed, but it has a connection to Sauron's theme. Lothlórien is in Phrygian dominant, which just as Ryan said, is one of the modes of harmonic minor, which is the scale of Sauron's theme. Howard Shore has said that they're linked since they're both from the Second Age, older than all other characters and cultures in the score.
@@monoverantus Makes sense, thanks!
Two of my favorites things combined. Ryan Leach and LOTR
This soundtrack is a milestone for me and one of the main reasons i wanted to start making cinematic music.
The movies will not be the same without this incredible soundtrack.
Those are my favorite movies and trilogy of all time.
Thank you so much for making this video!! :)
Glad they are your fav movies as they are for me. Hard to find people out there who like these movies like I do
Ryan, ALL of your videos are fantastic! I'm so grateful that UA-cam recommended your channel to me! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! 🎻🎷🎺📯🥁🎹
Awesome video as always. I am wondering if we can get a video on the music of Max Steiner or Eric Korngold.
Loved this video! I would love to see the same video with characters from Star Wars!
For an in-depth study of the music of the Lord of the Rings, I strongly suggest this series by Barnaby Martin from the Listening In channel: ua-cam.com/play/PLT_X8AVnjkAA7cIU6CsMs0Xn7CGbDUwef.html
His 3 video's about LotR are amazing. I also think Jaime Altozano deserves more credit, though since his videos are in Spanish, they may be harder to get into
As usual, what you taught us in this video was incredibly useful and I’ll be mixing modes with less fear now! Thanks 🙏
very helpful explanation- for me Shore’s score really lifts the film, and your explanation of his use of scales and modes helps explain why.
I'm in love with every second of this video! Detailed, informative, and well-communicated! Thanks for sharing this ✨
Just getting started with this channel Ryan, and I’m so glad I found it! Your content is clear, concise and I’m learning so much.
The Em over Fm is just fantastic, you can’t help but be drawn in by its seductive quality, much like the Ring itself!
The Shire theme is one of my favorites! This was really fascinating to learn about. I've been composing short pieces for the D&D game I'm in, and this gives me an idea for how I can take my compositions to the next level. Not just using an instrument to represent each character, but a mode as well sounds fantastic!
This video is amazing! I was quite familiar with the LOTR soundtrack, as I recently wrote a paper about it, but the polytonality in the "ring's theme" was new to me. Thank you! :) This little, yet so big detail makes this theme so much better!
I really wish Shore had composed the entirety of Rings of Power as his work for Middle Earth is very much his magnum opus.
I could watch music analysis videos all day. Great content, thank you!
Thank you so much for this video! I'm currently struggling with motifs for a project and this really helped me. All your videos are amazing and super useful so thank you for the good content
On a side note, could you tell me what sound libraries you use to make playback or mockups sound more realistic? it would be really helpful as well
It's worth pointing out that outside of the actual themes, which are often more or less harmonized with standard chord progressions, the whole score moves almost exclusively in chords that are thirds, seconds or fourths apart. The whole Farewell To Lorien for example is basically little more than chord relations by thirds. It's a constantly moving soundscape with themes in between.
Great video. I love the idea of chromatic mediants
This is perfect! My sister has actually commissioned me to write music for a podcast of hers. This video has offered much inspiration to me. Considering that she suggested that I try something of Middle-Eastern sound for my music, the discussion of the Phrygrian Dominant scale was very helpful. I will certainly look into this more. Thank you, Mr. Leach, for being ever-ready to offer such informative videos!
I don't think there's ever been a set of films with music as deep and iconic as LOTR and Star Wars.
Fascinating! Thanks for explaining this - more complex than I imagined.
One of the greatest soundtracks. Thank you for this modes use explanation.
ryan: spends 10 minutes talking about LOTR
me: comments about ALTTP
Great Video.
Small correction to 2:15
you played a d dorian scale and called it natural minor.
Damn! Good catch, should’ve had a Bb there
Love the examples of mode mixture to establish mood and character!
Any tips on writing melodies over harmonies where the chords are a third apart?
I suppose that this version of the Fellowship theme starting with D minor chord was used somehere in the movie 🤔 In an action sequence I think
Great presentation! I'm going to order that book! I've only just gotten into using chromatic mediants, well, consciously at least :)
Ryan: How about you share about your most lord of the rings relevant emoji
Me: (never watched it and think it is a documentary about the corporate conspiracy behind ring industry)
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Good suggestion to buy a book explaining The Lord of the Rings' themes by Adams. Thanks for your work!)
I wish I could recalibrate my brain to know stuff that enhances life, like music theory, instead of purchasing and purchasing process theory. If we only had more than one life.
Really good video, really interesting!
In fact, all the videos I've watched from you were interesting!
Am I the only one who thought that the Shire Theme in minor sounded very similar to "This Land" from the Lion King?
I barely understand anything about music theory, but these videos are somehow still really interesting to me, pretty cool!
Shire Theme - "This is my Father's World..."
Damn this is so interesting, does the book explain why/how they go about making the music/capturing the feeling? May pick it up
As someone who's studied the book extensively, I really recommend it. The first section explains all the themes in detail and how they connect to other themes, and the second part goes track-by-track, describing how every theme is used in the scene. Perfect to read while listening to the score!
@@monoverantus that is all the convincing I need, thank you I definitely will get it then! Since lotr is some of my all time fav franchises but I haven’t really gotten into the music of it, and would def help with composition as well
@@dyroth It will for sure help with composition. Howard Shore is extremely knowledgeable with music theory and it shows very much in his scores. He also has composed traditional concert music not associated with film.
Thanks for all of your videos. I really appreciate your approach. One thing I noticed The realm of Gondor music is missing the sixth scale degree, so I would say it could either be natural minor or Dorian. Unless those notes are filled in by the harmony, in which case it would be definitively one of the other
Very nice video! I got that same book when I was studying music production but I haven't read it in a while!
Love the video. Maybe, if you think is a good idea, you could create some videos about Gustavo Santaolalla. To me, his music is always touching, not in a soppy way.
Thank you for all the hard work you put on the channel, best wishes from Argentina!
Wait... what an interesting take, never thought of this
I played the shire theme on my Tin whistle while watching this video :D
Most interesting and educational. Thank you.
Thanks for a great video about LOTR's incredible soundtrack! I think my favorite theme is the Rohan fanfare, while the theme is definitely in Dorian I think it is exciting how it starts out on A minor and you don't really know where you are harmonically until the D major chord arrives. I could listen to those four bars repeat all day...
Yes the sound track for this movie was tremendous.thanks for presenting this topic, well done.
Smart explanation and examination of LoTR themes. The book sounds interesting too.
Didn’t understand most of this but enjoyed it nonetheless!
the music from lotr is my favorite and most nostalgic music
I love the lord of the rings soundtrack so muuuch!!!! Thank you so much for this
Very interesting and clear presentation, thanks!!
Great video! Any tips for going from an improvising, instinctual musician to actually writing music?
Always enjoy video analysis on LotR music. Would love if there was a version of the LotR films with all audio but the music muted. Would be neat to see how the motifs line up to action on screen.
This exists! Search for Monoverantus, he's just finished the whole trilogy.
0:00 Intro
0:38 Shire Theme - Nautral Major / Ionian
1:43 Realm of Gondor Theme - Natural Minor / Aeolian
2:48 Rohan Fanfare - Dorian
3:54 Lothlorien Theme - Phrygian Dominant
5:25 Fellowship Theme - Major Chromatic Mediants
7:10 Smeagol's Theme - Minor Chromatic Mediants
8:05 Rivendale theme - Major / Minor Mode Mixture
9:00 Ring Theme - Polytonality
Thanks for another great video! I've learned so much from watching your videos and putting them in to practice! I love these videos about themes; they've helped me tremendously in expressing more complex emotion in music! Just curious, could you make a short video explaining polytonality in more detail? Thank you so much!
I don't have a Lord of The Rings emoji, but I really enjoy the music of the ring pretty good melody with a rare harmony, is so great
Lots of great stuff in this! You did a lot of research on this and it shows. Im curious though about the chords used in the Lothlorien theme.
I doesn't have a chord progression. When the melody is played in F Phrygian dominant, the whole theme plays over an open F drone.
A video about the modes and LOTR! Amazing!
So many great things shared in this video! My dad has that book, I should really borrow it.
Love these quick snippets. I use them as writing ideas to see what I can come up with, learning about chromatic mediants has really helped in my writing.
If you ever do one of these for John Williams, I would love to see the score to ET looked at, I feel it is grossly underappreciated.
loved the video, thank you! 🧝♂️
This was killer man. Never heard the term chromatic medians before…. Really love this approach to modes and themes. Thanks!
I've heard that the nine notes that compose the ring theme (one for each of the nine kings of men who received the magic rings) are the same notes that form the theme of the Nazgul. Whether it's true or not it's amazing nevertheless.
Great video. Thanks for making it, brother! Greatest films/scores of all time. What a gift we were given.
Wow I have to comeback to this video once I can take notes, it's very insightful about the character of each of the themes! Thanks Ryan
Hello, Ryan, again, a wonderful video! I have a question:
Since you said that the phrygian dominant mode seems to us a kind of middle eastern mode to us, do you think that some people from that region could possibly think of the elves as unconsciously closer to them in terms of music?
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the F natural in Rivendell theme is actually from a Supermixolydian mode
I was literally just looking for your videos on modes.
This video has been the most useful to help me understand writing for characters and places. This is most excellent. It helps with getting the feel one is looking for. A terrific explanation.
Thank you for making a video about LOTR! Easily one of the most impressive soundtracks I have ever heard, and I feel doesn't get nearly enough attention!
Have you checked out Monoverantus? He's analysed the whole score from start to finish
@@bygon432 I have not, thank you! I'll have to check it out.
Great.... You, Adam Neely, Jake Lizzio and Ben Levin make music theory PHILOSOPHICAL.
Great explanation! I really appreciate you going through multiple themes to compare and contrast.
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Fantastic video. I've been playing piano for years but due to circumstances never got very far. So learning these more in depth things about some of the most beautiful music in the word is such a treat!
I'm binge watching Ryan Leach's videos. Awesome resource!
9:10 I think it’s easy to hear the root as A minor if you imagine the E at the end not being the last landing note but accompanying B as the “end” so to speak
Great video, thanks for the expert analysis. Off to listen to the trilogy soundtrack…
The Dorian progression is one of Pink Floyd's favorites ("Breathe","The Great Gig In The Sky",parts of the instrumental sections of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond",etc.).
Really interesting and inspiring. There is so much more to music than the basic major and minor scales that I was taught.
The D Major scale for the folksy Shire theme makes sense from the perspective of so much British Isles folk music being played in that key, particularly on the tin whistle, which of course features prominently in this cue.
Ring leitmotif...clash of the b and c, AND the A and Ab. Of course, with the notes e and f. Lots of half step clashes.
What a discovery Ryan, absolutely adore your videos. I am writing a Requiem for my DMUS, and am learning a lot from you!
I wouldn't call the ring theme polytonality. I think the B is just a #4 suspension (or appegitura?) above Fm. And as you can see it does resolve up by half a step. I think it sounds so omnious because this disonant is pretty spicy
Also you can call the chord mM7
But what about the A natural?
I’ve been puzzling over how to explain the ring theme without polytonality, and possibly in terms of modes, because modes are the subject of the video. I haven’t come up with anything that feels right (and I might also be in over my head) but here are my ideas:
1) Could this be considered combination of E phrygian (a flavor of minor) and E phrygian dominant? E phrgyian contains all the notes in the melody including the A natural. In E phrygian dominant, F minor is the chord built on the 2nd scale degree, and the scale contains both the A natural from the melody and the G#/Ab from the F minor chord. In other words, E Phrygian is the mode used when the chord is E minor, and E Phrygian dominant is the mode when the chord is F minor. Perhaps this would qualify as modal interchange if the key is considered E Phrygian.
2) This is maybe less precise, but the sixteenth notes at the end of the first bar (b c b a c…) could be considered a prolonged ornament anticipating the b natural of bar 2, in the E minor harmony of bar 2. For some reason we hear these notes from the end of bar 1 in the context of the harmony of the next bar.
Wow! I always thought Shire theme is in minor! There is so much longing in this music... It's pleasing and painfully beautiful
I only recently discovered your channel. I'm trying to get into composing for orchestral instruments, and I've already learned a lot from your videos. Thanks so much :)
In the ring theme, I always just thought of that B natural over the Fm chord to be a non-chord tone, not polytonality. Perhaps because we get that step-wise resolution to the C, that's the way I hear it.
Yea thinking of the B as a #4 makes sense, but the A natural in the top part doesn't really gel with the Fm chord
These soundtracks made me realize at a young age how much emotion music can evoke. Well-written music has such power to make you feel so many things. I honestly believe these movies would be nothing without their soundtracks. Also, here are your requested emojis.🧝🏻♂️🧙🏻♂️🎆🎇✨🌋🎺📯🎻🗡🏹
Excellent video. Just found your stuff and will leave a good comment for the algorithm's sake. Excited to dive in deeper and explore my chord progressions further.
I'm always looking around for more examples of using interesting modes and mixtures of modes to express my music, thanks for these examples!
I like how these not only show how each choice works for a given character or setting (like how Smeagol's theme sounds twisted like him), but how they contrast with each other to create interesting dynamics between characters and settings (Lothlorien vs Rivendale).
outside major chords make your music sound more major and outside minor chords make music sound more minor: wonderful tip.
The Rivendell motif always struck me as being a broken augmented chord...
You're thinking of the odd note as a b6, which does make way more sense on paper since the 5th is also present in the motif, but what better way to represent the highest of beings than with an augmented chord, right?
That's how I always interpreted it.
Amazing. I've just discovered your channel and it's ridiculous how much it helps me as a music arranger.
My favorite LOTR theme is the Dwarrowdelf theme (A Journey in the Dark 2:05 to 3:18). It's the perfection, out of this world. Beautiful, sad, grand, it totally makes the scene and maybe the movie to me. Any tricks from there?
A major chord from outside your key sound more major; and a minor chord from outside, more minor. Fantastic! Thanks!