Do seventh chords belong in electronic music?
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- Here's a music theory nugget: use seventh chords without getting overwhelmed!
Many online resources overcomplicate this subject, making it hard to follow. In this video I explain why you might want to use seventh chords, and how to use them easily and tastefully.
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Contents:
0:00 Who is this for?
0:55 Music theory recap
4:03 Seventh chords
4:45 Simpler way to make seventh chords
6:16 Fred Again example
6:31 Let's play a guessing game
8:18 The song reveal
8:43 Recap summary
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Frankly, I suspect most of the problems people have with theory is down to the layout of the piano keyboard itself. The way the black notes are interleaved makes it difficult to visualise scales and suchlike, as it's never the same pattern/shape of keys for the same chord as you move up and down. This is why I suspect it's actually easier to learn theory on something like a guitar, a major seventh is exactly the same shape, you just move up and down the fretboard.
Great tutorial Oscar. First I thought you would talk about the C7 (often used in blues), but it is the Cmaj7th
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While your point about note efficeny is correct a lot of piano players, myself included, double the bass note by adding the octave. This adds an ever richer sound that can be easily applied to what you've brilliant explained here.
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When using inverted chords, that change the first note of a chord, i mostly inverted the base note on the base synth as well. I felt the base note needed to be the same as the first note on the chord. But that isn't the case.
Most videos only show the chord and not the corresponding base note. Thanks for clearing this up.
I'm a piano player and this is what I do when writing songs. To my ears it's a much richer sound.
@@tonycowin oké, so it might be oké after all 😀
Wonderfully well explained
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Very helpful, had to screenshot the chart at the end of the video. I'm use it as a cheatsheet 🎹
What a perfect way to teach this 😁
Oscar: Do seventh chords belong in electronic music?
Me, who has just listened to Jarre's Équinoxe 4, which afaict has an A7b9: Yes, obviously they do.
Also that chord progression: Am - Cmaj7 - E - Am... I guess you called C 1 for ease, instead of called a 1 because that is a pretty typical functional harmonic chord progression. :)
So simple things, but so interesting from your manner of providing info =)
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Great tutorial, Oscar. I loved your singing, too!
Its time for a new music theory and I think its coming soon. Old ways are so unnecessarily complicated. Thank you for bringing it into the world Oscar ❤❤
I agree that it’s been a frustrating road to learn the simple practical basics, without wading through super deep bach analysis or jazz theory. Its not that complicated to make music that works for 95% of listeners :)
Thanks ! Super tuto
7th Chords always love!
They are also pretty much madatory for a liquid dnb track.
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You really want to sound mature, throw in some minor 9th chords. That's the "neo-soul" chord. It's like a stronger version of the house chord, the minor 7th, and it seems to fit a house or hip-hop vibe, but ive heard them in hard house and even 90s trance. Now maybe it's more pigeonholed to soul and house vibes.
6:21 example of minor 7th
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Hasn't that soul minor 9th been the 'house chord' since like the beginning? They often have the root note in the lower octave, right? To me the house chord is an inverted minor 9th. A(lower octave)-G-B-C-E. And then often transposed up and down with sampling or chord memory.
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I don't worry too much about chords. I compose with digitakt so playing chords would be quite a hassle. I may use sounds that are samples of chord like sounds but I don't think too much about it. When there is some pad sound(s) at the background and then there is lead synths with delays and reverbs it will create sustained sounds on top of that pad which create those same harmonic interactions between sounds as chords do. It can be as interesting as with any chord progressions. It should not be thought that you need chords to make sonically interesting music. In techno I think main emphasis is not rhytmical components. Even a short lead stabs contribute to that rhytmical shape of the track. Then mood is set by using interesting pad or any other weird sounds which are not that much about creating shapes as melodies and drums are. Sometimes that distinction is quite hazy though as some sparse sounds together may also create some interesting patterns of their own.
But to your question. That dissonant nature of 7th chord would fit electronic music quite well if just context is right. Techno in that sense needs to be little bit tense and disorienting at times so why would not 7th interval fit there just fine.
Thx. Now i get it
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Slashed Chords...
Gotta love those 6/9 chords
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Great video!
Btw the B note is SI not TI 😊
Yes, they do. Hugely.
Is it just me that hears that first chord in this vid and instantly starts singing 'Changes' by David Bowie?
Yeah, Changes starts with a CM7 and moves up chromatically.
Chicago house = 7th chords
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I'm still learning Ableton, so forgive my presumption, Oscar.
I watched a couple of videos from LNA's channel. She's using Ableton 12 which probably won't run on my old laptop where I have my Ableton live 11. LNA has so many tools at her finger tips including "Chord" and "Scale" which got me very excited. When I saw your video I thought what if they wer in 11? So I googled and found this ua-cam.com/video/gYbeLbNaBfg/v-deo.htmlsi=jxa2YERB2146OJ-U tutorial which tells me where to find and how to use these tools. Pretty cool. I'm sure your users would benefit from such tools as these and maybe others. WTF is "Groove"?
"WTF is "Groove"?" A groove is how a beat or music performance is syncopated (how it "grooves", with some notes delayed, some played ahead of time, some played on the beat, etc). If you know "swing quantize" it's the same thing but more generic (swing is just a specific type of group). In Ableton and other DAWs, you can apply a grouve to a MIDI clip, and the notes in the clip will move (slightly or a lot, depending on how much you apply it) to follow the "groove". Ableton comes with many preset grooves, but you can also make your own, or extract from an audio clip.
So, for example you can take a one-bar clip with 8 eight notes (which sounds robotic), and apply a salsa or funk groove to it, and those notes will move around, so that they have the same feel/rhythm as the groove clip.
These tools are in 11 too, only new thing in 12 is that it’s easier over devices to use scales because you have a button for it in each device. I recently got a Korg NanoKey Studio as a Controller which helps much with Scales and Chords. No need to update to 12 if it’s the only things you need
at least you decided to sing :p
they do
Quick answer without having watched the video.
Yes
we can also think of seventh chords simply as quantized harmonic overtone.
What does quantized harmonic overtones even mean?
I've never thought seventh chords this way. Makes sense, thank you for suggesting this!
@@OdysseyWorks lets take piano sound. If u press one key only It does not only contain the fundamental (based on which the pitch is perceived) frequency but also multiple overtones stacked above it..
so when we play C actually it also contains C (first overtone) then G, C, E, G, Bb and so forth..
if x is freq of fundamental, first overtone is 2x, second overtone is 3x and so forth.
Important to note the amplitude of higher overtone is decreasing.
So if we play C major (CEG) actually we re simply emphasizing the overtones that already exist.
Now related to this video, most of analog synthesizer of the old days were not polyphonic, hence they utilize waveshaping, filtering, or different synthesis methods to manipulate overtones rather than stacking it on top of each other.
@@OdysseyWorks in this video the guy use keys based controller to stack sound on top of sound.
These keys are controlling the exact frequency of the second, third and fourth sound.
That is what i meant with quantized harmonic overtones.
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Leaving some 🩵 (thanks for making the theory simple that it totally clicked for me, I've always struggled)