Great question, and very worth clarifying! "Amazing Grace" uses only notes of a pentatonic scale, and--since the pentatonic scale is a subset of a major scale--the melody can hence be measured at the outset either in terms of a pentatonic scale or in terms of a major scale. Each starting point will produce different musical results when transferring those relationships onto another scale. (As an example the opening interval C-F would be +3 scale steps in major, but only +2 scale steps in pentatonic.) I've chosen to think in terms of major since I found those results more compelling, and also a lot easier to follow in quick a demonstration. However, you absolutely can start by saying it's pentatonic instead of major as I've done in this video. EDIT: Explanation video is out now! ua-cam.com/video/6joUB_0BOiE/v-deo.html
There seem to be two fundamental questions within the comments section of this video: 1) "How does the technique work to map from one scale to another?" 2) "Why do these variations sound different?" There are several comment threads that are about aesthetic choices, which I‘ve enjoyed reading through. Even though the first question in this thread was more about how the technique works, I can follow up on your comment as well (which is more about why they sound different). In the video, I demonstrate how a technique might inspire and interact with other musical choices. Mapping onto another scale was the starting point, but there‘s a lot going on in addition: orchestration, reharmonization, ornamentation, and metric adjustments. When all these combine, that’s when things get really interesting, but scalar mapping also takes on a lesser role in why these transformations all sound so different. And sidenote just to be clear for anyone reading this thread: if people here don‘t understand how I got from a melody that was already pentatonic to a different melody that was also pentatonic, I don‘t blame you at all, because this was only a *demonstration*, not an *explanation*. I will put out a longer explanation video to youTube later. If you can’t wait for that one, the Patreon site already has a different 15-minute video of exercises with more info than you get in this one. EDIT: Explanation video is out now! You can watch it here ua-cam.com/video/6joUB_0BOiE/v-deo.html
@@GalenDeGraf Ah, when I said choices, I wasn't referring to orchestration, harmonisation, metre or anything; I was referring to the scalar mapping itself. What you're dancing around in this video is the idea of cyphers: taking some input notes, transforming them using some form of algorithm, and producing some output notes. You choose the algorithm. But not only that, you also chose how to interpret the input notes. You interpreted the original melody as degrees of the major scale, but as was pointed out, an equally valid interpretation is as degrees of the pentatonic scale. Or the chromatic scale is equally valid. You could interpret it in the octatonic scale and omit notes that don't map. You could interpret each pair of notes as one input. Or each note as a pitch-duration coordinate. Or hell, just take an enigma machine and type the letter names of your note input! There are so many ways of interpreting the input; that's what I meant when I said this is more about aesthetic choices than following an algorithmic scalar mapping. Now, when we're introducing the idea of melodic transformation, it can be useful to assign terms to basic transformations, e.g., transposition, inversion, augmentation, retrograde... But once you get beyond those basic transformations, it becomes less important to teach specific transformations than the idea of transformation itself.
The minor version is really surprising. I thought exclusively using major chords to harmonize would overshadow the minor/sad sound, but somehow it shines through.
I find a lot of the character on that one comes from the orchestration too. If the chords were in the brass section, it would sound far more triumphant. And that‘s what happens in Howard Shore‘s "fellowship" leitmotif in his score to Lord of the Rings (minor melody, harmonized all major triads, but usually orchestrated with more brass for the chords). Using strings as I did softens the character a lot.
Depending on which chords are used as harmonies, that mapping/harmonization combination often ends up leaning lydian to varying degrees. I touch on this some in the longer video of exercises.
Warning: Octatonic version and chromatic version should be listened to only in daytime. Furthermore, you have to look out for psychopathic killers and evil demons while you listen to those versions. Clearly something very evil is about to happen....
I love the pedal tone composition for the octatonic melody! That's such a good way to make such a unique harmonic pallet all stay grounded and well... not bad.
This is a cool idea! But I almost love even *more* your VISUAL choices here. The thumbnail was so enticing, and the imagery during each variation is so evocative! Keep it up, man!
So this is great. I've been a bassist for decades, using it to write simple pop songs using a lot of tapping....About 5 days ago I started to really try to learn piano and I can attribute my enthusiasm to do so through wanting to play the theme to Severence. Now although on a bass I'm very good at playing left and right hand somewhat independently (although there is a lot of call.response) keyboard is completely different and a real buzz to accomplish. Day 1 left hand, 2 I got the firsy little M7m7 melody thing, day3 trying that decending but on day 4 it was better and today I got it...but man it's really weird learning stuff like that at my age (51). This explaination of themes really is great for trying out different styles of improvisation I'm sure and helps to define a lot of advanced theory composors obviously use...I'm sure I heard some Marvel cinamatic themes in there!!! Thanks very educational stuff!
youTube said I should make a channel trailer, so here it is! It's also a trailer for two longform theory videos on moving a theme between different scales. The second of those videos is a set of exercises demonstrated in this video and you can already access it through Patreon. There are also exercises in that video that weren't in this video, like my Debussy style whole tone mapping and a Harry Potter style chromatic mapping.
The octatonic is just on another level, each of these prints out different moods and they are all very interesting at least I have learnt something new today
Major - The churchlike experience Minor - The most sad and depressing thing I ever heard Octatonic - The sci-fi version Chromatic - Sounds like something demented Pentatonic - Incredibly relaxing
That was very interesting. In my own music I have mapped a pentatonic melody from one pentatonic scale onto another pentatonic scale (for example: A-C-D-E-G to A-B-C-E-G or A-Bb-D-Eb-G) and from one 7-tone scale to another like major to minor to dorian, etc. I like the effect these changes have; it's recognizable yet also intriguingly different. But I haven't done the kind of mapping you presented here from a major to an octatonic. Even more intriguing. Thanks.
I get a Chrono Trigger feel from these different versions. Love it!
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L-o-v-e-l-y work! The Chromatic is lovely scaring, haha... And the Octatonic with the pedal... No words, it reminds me some Gurdjieff compositions... the color...
I was thinking a lot about Dmitri Tymoczko‘s "A Geometry of Music" as I did this. It‘s been at least a decade since I read Lerdahl’s "Tonal Pitch Space“ though. Thanks for the rec to revisit it!
Lovely! Did you consider also working your way through the modes? I doubt Mixolydian would have felt terribly different, but I'd love to hear Amazing Grace in the Locrian mode!
Yes! Variation between modes can be much more subtle. Locrian mode with b5 has some similar flavor to octatonic, but I wanted to keep this video short and maximize difference between versions. I do some discussion of modes in the other related videos to this one within my playlist "how to transform and develop musical ideas" as well as very briefly in the video (currently Patreon only) "how to practice transforming themes, scalar mapping" if you‘re interested.
in the chromatic version i hear a bit of the horn part from Rhapsody in Blue's love theme (3 descending notes where the accent changes each time around)
So glad to hear you like the music! I've just put up the music in this video (plus the inverted Amazing Grace from another video) into a Soundcloud playlist you can access here: on.soundcloud.com/AL63bZ99qu7xwAPUA
I first sketched the pentatonic variation at the piano, more or less with the notes you see on screen in the video, and it DID feel boring that way. The harmonies were nice and lush with sevenths and ninths, but there wasn't much feeling of going somewhere. So I compensated by making the growth happen in the orchestration. I put together an ensemble that combines all the instruments from the previous variations. Midway through, the strings swell, and I split the horn into a duet. If you found it interesting, maybe that could be part of why?
In Rings of Power, there's a way to think about Bear McCreary's "Sauron" theme as an octatonic mapping of "Halbrand" which is then played backwards. There are other ways to analyze it (see Bear's blog), but I analyze and animate it that way over here if any of you are interested: ua-cam.com/video/j0SpAYg-ZiY/v-deo.htmlsi=fjcCYvgham0kHJ-9&t=1005
And another Middle Earth sidenote: the idea of having a minor melody harmonized with only major chords was inspired by Howard Shore's iconic "fellowship" leitmotif.
Were the tempos all the same, it seemed like the Minor one was longer, strung out, and the Octatonic one was quick. If they were not the same did you find each worked best in a specific BPM zone.
There were changes to tempo, and also to the rhythm and meter of the melody. When making these sorts of changes, a good rule of thumb is to make sure notes on strong beats stay on strong beats, but all the tempo and rhythm choices I made were based on the stylistic aesthetic I wanted to achieve and not directly related to the scale itself.
Major Scale: The Emperor and his Imperial court are all gathered in the church as his prince sits beside him. Minor Scale: Several years after the Revolution and the ousting of the Emperor, the prince remembers his time in the Imperial court. Octatonic Scale: The Prince sees life within the Republic and witnesses the grotesque social engineering brought by the Grand Revolutionary Council. Chromatic Scale: The Prince, angered by the Republican revolution, gathers a mob of people to retake what is rightfully his and reinstall the Empire, no matter the cost! Pentatonic Scale: The Emperor appears to the Prince and his plotters as a ghost, wishing them luck before the final battle against their Republican overlords and telling them to rule better and more just than he ever has ruled his people.
Great video pal. By any chance going forward could you apply the names of the left hand chords aswell as the notation and sheet music. I'm self thought and I find that helpful.
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind for the future. I was mostly focused on the melodies for this video, but I'm glad to hear people are digging into the harmonies in there as well!
Hey! Loved the video. I wanted to ask you how you chose the notes you were gonna use in the chromatic scale. Like what was your criteria to change the notes? Thanks
This is only a trailer, and I‘ll put out an explanation video later. The quick answer is that you define the intervals of a melody according to scale steps of an underlying scale, and then transfer those intervals onto some other scale. I’ve treated Amazing Grace with a major underlying scale (though you could do it as pentatonic instead). In major, the melody starts with +3, then +2 scale steps for the first two intervals. So for a chromatic scale it begins with +3, then +2 SEMITONES since those are the steps of a chromatic scale. (And then continue for the rest of the intervals.) Check back on my channel later for the longer video with more info and examples!
The MELODY for that one used all notes in an F minor scale. Most of the harmonies were either Db major or Ab major chords (sometimes with sevenths), and all the notes for those chords can be found in the F minor scale. That allowed them to fit together. (I also threw in Gbmajor7, so that might have felt like a little wizardry, since that chord uses a note, Gb, that is not found in the F minor scale.)
In my experience, it sits somewhere between "sinister" and "tense" and these probably correlate mostly with tempo. One of the reason it always has some tension is the high number of augmented and diminished intervals built into the scale. In media music it is frequently used at fast tempos for tension in chase scenes (and I followed suit in a screen scoring sample of an animated chase you can watch on this channel).
@@crumblebob2297 A piece of music can be transposed to different keys by moving all notes up or down by the same amount. G major is common for Amazing Grace, but if you move all notes down a whole step it would be in F major (in my experience, a more comfortable key/range for congregational singing).
Galen, is amazing grace not already a pentatonic melody?
Great question, and very worth clarifying! "Amazing Grace" uses only notes of a pentatonic scale, and--since the pentatonic scale is a subset of a major scale--the melody can hence be measured at the outset either in terms of a pentatonic scale or in terms of a major scale. Each starting point will produce different musical results when transferring those relationships onto another scale. (As an example the opening interval C-F would be +3 scale steps in major, but only +2 scale steps in pentatonic.) I've chosen to think in terms of major since I found those results more compelling, and also a lot easier to follow in quick a demonstration. However, you absolutely can start by saying it's pentatonic instead of major as I've done in this video.
EDIT: Explanation video is out now! ua-cam.com/video/6joUB_0BOiE/v-deo.html
@@GalenDeGraf Thank you for the clarification.
This question highlights that this is not as much a compositional technique and more a series of aesthetic choices.
There seem to be two fundamental questions within the comments section of this video:
1) "How does the technique work to map from one scale to another?"
2) "Why do these variations sound different?"
There are several comment threads that are about aesthetic choices, which I‘ve enjoyed reading through. Even though the first question in this thread was more about how the technique works, I can follow up on your comment as well (which is more about why they sound different). In the video, I demonstrate how a technique might inspire and interact with other musical choices. Mapping onto another scale was the starting point, but there‘s a lot going on in addition: orchestration, reharmonization, ornamentation, and metric adjustments. When all these combine, that’s when things get really interesting, but scalar mapping also takes on a lesser role in why these transformations all sound so different.
And sidenote just to be clear for anyone reading this thread: if people here don‘t understand how I got from a melody that was already pentatonic to a different melody that was also pentatonic, I don‘t blame you at all, because this was only a *demonstration*, not an *explanation*. I will put out a longer explanation video to youTube later. If you can’t wait for that one, the Patreon site already has a different 15-minute video of exercises with more info than you get in this one.
EDIT: Explanation video is out now! You can watch it here ua-cam.com/video/6joUB_0BOiE/v-deo.html
@@GalenDeGraf Ah, when I said choices, I wasn't referring to orchestration, harmonisation, metre or anything; I was referring to the scalar mapping itself. What you're dancing around in this video is the idea of cyphers: taking some input notes, transforming them using some form of algorithm, and producing some output notes.
You choose the algorithm. But not only that, you also chose how to interpret the input notes. You interpreted the original melody as degrees of the major scale, but as was pointed out, an equally valid interpretation is as degrees of the pentatonic scale. Or the chromatic scale is equally valid. You could interpret it in the octatonic scale and omit notes that don't map. You could interpret each pair of notes as one input. Or each note as a pitch-duration coordinate. Or hell, just take an enigma machine and type the letter names of your note input! There are so many ways of interpreting the input; that's what I meant when I said this is more about aesthetic choices than following an algorithmic scalar mapping.
Now, when we're introducing the idea of melodic transformation, it can be useful to assign terms to basic transformations, e.g., transposition, inversion, augmentation, retrograde... But once you get beyond those basic transformations, it becomes less important to teach specific transformations than the idea of transformation itself.
so this is how a movie score composer makes a movie music theme for different scenes. thanks for sharing.
Definitely! My next longform video will include how John Powell uses this technique in his score to How to Train Your Dragon.
"i used to make more music theory puns, but i'm trying to scale back." 😅
Oh my god thats crazy 😂😂😂😂
Lol
Should have done scale Bach smh
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You don’t even skip a beat. It’s a minor flaw in your personality. I don’t c major change coming though.
octatonic was way more mysterious than necessary, perfect
I imagine actions from Starwars scene:)))
Your pentatonic mapping made me flash back through 50 years of "Western" TV and movie themes and realize they're all basically this lol
The minor version is really surprising. I thought exclusively using major chords to harmonize would overshadow the minor/sad sound, but somehow it shines through.
I find a lot of the character on that one comes from the orchestration too. If the chords were in the brass section, it would sound far more triumphant. And that‘s what happens in Howard Shore‘s "fellowship" leitmotif in his score to Lord of the Rings (minor melody, harmonized all major triads, but usually orchestrated with more brass for the chords). Using strings as I did softens the character a lot.
The music really swells, its bitter sweet
I think the major chords function more as rootless minor chords in that context. The first few bars establish a minor/Lydian sound.
Depending on which chords are used as harmonies, that mapping/harmonization combination often ends up leaning lydian to varying degrees. I touch on this some in the longer video of exercises.
it doesn't. it's literally just Db major. more specifically, Db Lydian. that's probably why you're so confused.
The minor one sounded like something straight out of LOTR soundtrack
It sounded to me more like StarWars
I LOVE the octatonic one
Check out this subtle octatonic mapping from Middle Earth! ua-cam.com/video/j0SpAYg-ZiY/v-deo.htmlsi=fjcCYvgham0kHJ-9&t=1005
Reminds me of Severance theme ;D
Sounds like Erik Satie a mix of his Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes
Warning: Octatonic version and chromatic version should be listened to only in daytime. Furthermore, you have to look out for psychopathic killers and evil demons while you listen to those versions. Clearly something very evil is about to happen....
😂😂😂😂
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I agree
I like how this was unironically what religious leaders in the middle ages believed
I love the pedal tone composition for the octatonic melody! That's such a good way to make such a unique harmonic pallet all stay grounded and well... not bad.
Agreed! Credit to Theodore Shapiro on the pedal tone idea there!
The minor over major and the pentatonic were gorgeous
Yep, it amazed me how putting minor lead part over major chords could make a mood different from either major or minor.
Each version is different from the others, interesting, and musically convincing.
This is a cool idea!
But I almost love even *more* your VISUAL choices here. The thumbnail was so enticing, and the imagery during each variation is so evocative! Keep it up, man!
@@KalebPeters99 If you dug the visuals in this, let me know what you think about my most recent vid, or some of my Middle Earth music analyses!
So this is great. I've been a bassist for decades, using it to write simple pop songs using a lot of tapping....About 5 days ago I started to really try to learn piano and I can attribute my enthusiasm to do so through wanting to play the theme to Severence. Now although on a bass I'm very good at playing left and right hand somewhat independently (although there is a lot of call.response) keyboard is completely different and a real buzz to accomplish. Day 1 left hand, 2 I got the firsy little M7m7 melody thing, day3 trying that decending but on day 4 it was better and today I got it...but man it's really weird learning stuff like that at my age (51).
This explaination of themes really is great for trying out different styles of improvisation I'm sure and helps to define a lot of advanced theory composors obviously use...I'm sure I heard some Marvel cinamatic themes in there!!!
Thanks very educational stuff!
pentatonic was nice... thank you for playing through them all with no talking between lol. Your demonstration is very easy to listen to
youTube said I should make a channel trailer, so here it is! It's also a trailer for two longform theory videos on moving a theme between different scales. The second of those videos is a set of exercises demonstrated in this video and you can already access it through Patreon. There are also exercises in that video that weren't in this video, like my Debussy style whole tone mapping and a Harry Potter style chromatic mapping.
The octatonic is just on another level, each of these prints out different moods and they are all very interesting at least I have learnt something new today
Major - The churchlike experience
Minor - The most sad and depressing thing I ever heard
Octatonic - The sci-fi version
Chromatic - Sounds like something demented
Pentatonic - Incredibly relaxing
The minor version was more like superhero / fantasy game or movie, not that sad.
I did not trust the octatonic
Octotonic does sound like an arcade video game
But the chromatic sounds like something the Phantom would write
If that's the saddeset, you're in for a treat buddy
major can sound very sad too
Pentatonic one made my morning glorious. I mean it - this is really cool
That was very interesting. In my own music I have mapped a pentatonic melody from one pentatonic scale onto another pentatonic scale (for example: A-C-D-E-G to A-B-C-E-G or A-Bb-D-Eb-G) and from one 7-tone scale to another like major to minor to dorian, etc. I like the effect these changes have; it's recognizable yet also intriguingly different. But I haven't done the kind of mapping you presented here from a major to an octatonic. Even more intriguing. Thanks.
Oh I'm so happy to see Severance, I love that show and it needs to be praised more
Show and score are both so great and original!
Minor version reminds me of Ennio Morricone’s film scores!❤
Can't believe I only just discovered your channel, amazing work !
Awesome vid! I'm learning more about writing, and transformation and variation is my personal obsession.
I get a Chrono Trigger feel from these different versions. Love it!
L-o-v-e-l-y work! The Chromatic is lovely scaring, haha... And the Octatonic with the pedal... No words, it reminds me some Gurdjieff compositions... the color...
i love how much joy this brings you and me
god i love this so much. i wish this was taught more in schools.
I’d never heard of the octatonic scale before but I love that version!!
Pentatonic sounds gorgeous
Pentatonic actually gave me an eargasm
Definitely a feeling of release by having the most consonant one right after the most dissonant!
limiting pitches is one of the most power tool.
pentatonic scale is actually crazy
Octatonic scale gives lavender town vibes... good.
Fabulous demonstration!! Thanks!
That Octotonic was sick!
I enjoyed the Octatonic and Pentatonic. Minor over major chords was interesting as well
This is so useful! I'll need to check out those exercises soon here.
I’d listen to this pentatonic for 10h straight up
Glad you liked it! I’ve got all these up on Soundcloud now if you want it as a single track.
on.soundcloud.com/6mCC1zc1zexXTqhz9
Beautifully demonstrated and illustrated, thank you!!
Very interesting video. I'm sure people will find it useful. :)
I prefer minor. Has a nice touch to it
One of the best discoveries I've had this year: you
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This is so peculiar... I barely orientate in English music terms, but I think I understand the concept subconsciously... And it sound wondrous 😇
Nice video Galen! Incidentally I've just been rereading Lerdahl's Tonal Pitch Space, this seems quite closely related.
I was thinking a lot about Dmitri Tymoczko‘s "A Geometry of Music" as I did this. It‘s been at least a decade since I read Lerdahl’s "Tonal Pitch Space“ though. Thanks for the rec to revisit it!
THIS IS INCREDIBLE.
So basically
Major = happy
Minor = sad
Octatonic = mystery thriller
Chromatic = scary
Pentatonic = hopefull
Thank you very much Galen!
For me Music Theory is like Rocket Science. They're nice, okay, for me y'all are geniuses that are able to understand a bit of what's happening.
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Minor sounds straight outa middle earth 💗❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
How to flip a sample tutorial without getting caught,Part 1. 😁 Dude, great job!
Minor looks majestic🧐
Lovely! Did you consider also working your way through the modes? I doubt Mixolydian would have felt terribly different, but I'd love to hear Amazing Grace in the Locrian mode!
Yes! Variation between modes can be much more subtle. Locrian mode with b5 has some similar flavor to octatonic, but I wanted to keep this video short and maximize difference between versions. I do some discussion of modes in the other related videos to this one within my playlist "how to transform and develop musical ideas" as well as very briefly in the video (currently Patreon only) "how to practice transforming themes, scalar mapping" if you‘re interested.
the minor over major sounds very starwarsy great
the backgrounds got me
Amazing job dude
75K views in 2 weeks for a channel with 5K subs is wild
La pentatonica è veramente affascinante.
in the chromatic version i hear a bit of the horn part from Rhapsody in Blue's love theme (3 descending notes where the accent changes each time around)
Octatonic my beloved
The chromatic was surprisingly cringy! It sounded good for a horror type scene.
Thanks for the demo
really interesting... I will try it
Can you make each of these a seperate video? I'd like to just listen to possibly the minor and pentatonic versions because they sound so nice.
So glad to hear you like the music! I've just put up the music in this video (plus the inverted Amazing Grace from another video) into a Soundcloud playlist you can access here: on.soundcloud.com/AL63bZ99qu7xwAPUA
@@GalenDeGraf Thank you so much! Can't wait to listen to it!
amazing grace sounding like starwars in octonic and minor👍🏻😎
I generally love the octatonic vibes
I naively expected something more trite from the pentatonic version. It was interesting - beyond my understanding what and how.
I first sketched the pentatonic variation at the piano, more or less with the notes you see on screen in the video, and it DID feel boring that way. The harmonies were nice and lush with sevenths and ninths, but there wasn't much feeling of going somewhere. So I compensated by making the growth happen in the orchestration. I put together an ensemble that combines all the instruments from the previous variations. Midway through, the strings swell, and I split the horn into a duet. If you found it interesting, maybe that could be part of why?
So brilliant !
Intersting idea. Thanks.
I was expecting the chromatic version to be scarier. Guess that’s what I get for listening to extreme sub-genres of metal for years lol
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Glad you enjoyed it! The programs I used can be found in the description.
I must say that minor amazing grace sounds just like a starbound soundtrack.
Thank you ❤
Muitíssimo bom, incrível... Ganhou mais um inscrito!
Aw thanks you so much
why does the minor one sound like a fantasy film like LOTR??
Howard Shore‘s "fellowship" theme in Lord of the Rings is a minor melody with all major harmonies. In that regard, they’re similar.
The octatonic one is very impressive. The pentationic melody makes no sense, because the original is already pentatonic.
See the pinned comment if you want info about the pentatonic mapping.
You didn't changed only the scale. You also changed the time signatures.
As well as the harmony and orchestration!
Octatonic& chromatic sounds about right when I wake up at 3am and sleep-singing...roflmao.
The minor sounds like the theme from star wars with the triplet from b6👀
In Rings of Power, there's a way to think about Bear McCreary's "Sauron" theme as an octatonic mapping of "Halbrand" which is then played backwards. There are other ways to analyze it (see Bear's blog), but I analyze and animate it that way over here if any of you are interested: ua-cam.com/video/j0SpAYg-ZiY/v-deo.htmlsi=fjcCYvgham0kHJ-9&t=1005
And another Middle Earth sidenote: the idea of having a minor melody harmonized with only major chords was inspired by Howard Shore's iconic "fellowship" leitmotif.
you mean rings of propaganda? xd
Rings of Power oh no 💀
I have issues with the writing in Rings of Power, but the music is top notch!
@@GalenDeGraf it better be for that budget haha, but seriously poor fucking Tolkien must be rolling in his grave.
Really interesting and “ear opening” … very enjoyable, thank you!
Were the tempos all the same, it seemed like the Minor one was longer, strung out, and the Octatonic one was quick. If they were not the same did you find each worked best in a specific BPM zone.
There were changes to tempo, and also to the rhythm and meter of the melody. When making these sorts of changes, a good rule of thumb is to make sure notes on strong beats stay on strong beats, but all the tempo and rhythm choices I made were based on the stylistic aesthetic I wanted to achieve and not directly related to the scale itself.
The pentatonic version was almost in major chords
Never realize that the chromatic scale sounds so tragic 😥.
Would the choice of scales to map to be more of an emotional choice than an aesthetic one?
Major Scale: The Emperor and his Imperial court are all gathered in the church as his prince sits beside him.
Minor Scale: Several years after the Revolution and the ousting of the Emperor, the prince remembers his time in the Imperial court.
Octatonic Scale: The Prince sees life within the Republic and witnesses the grotesque social engineering brought by the Grand Revolutionary Council.
Chromatic Scale: The Prince, angered by the Republican revolution, gathers a mob of people to retake what is rightfully his and reinstall the Empire, no matter the cost!
Pentatonic Scale: The Emperor appears to the Prince and his plotters as a ghost, wishing them luck before the final battle against their Republican overlords and telling them to rule better and more just than he ever has ruled his people.
My guy, Amazing Grace is already pentatonic!
Yes! See the pinned comment.
Great video pal. By any chance going forward could you apply the names of the left hand chords aswell as the notation and sheet music. I'm self thought and I find that helpful.
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind for the future. I was mostly focused on the melodies for this video, but I'm glad to hear people are digging into the harmonies in there as well!
The minor over major makes it sound like there are 2 melodies
The string section had some independence.
Hey! Loved the video. I wanted to ask you how you chose the notes you were gonna use in the chromatic scale. Like what was your criteria to change the notes?
Thanks
This is only a trailer, and I‘ll put out an explanation video later. The quick answer is that you define the intervals of a melody according to scale steps of an underlying scale, and then transfer those intervals onto some other scale. I’ve treated Amazing Grace with a major underlying scale (though you could do it as pentatonic instead). In major, the melody starts with +3, then +2 scale steps for the first two intervals. So for a chromatic scale it begins with +3, then +2 SEMITONES since those are the steps of a chromatic scale. (And then continue for the rest of the intervals.) Check back on my channel later for the longer video with more info and examples!
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Can anyone explain why the minor over major worked. Did he use the conplemenary minor scale of the major chords or some other wizardry?
The MELODY for that one used all notes in an F minor scale. Most of the harmonies were either Db major or Ab major chords (sometimes with sevenths), and all the notes for those chords can be found in the F minor scale. That allowed them to fit together. (I also threw in Gbmajor7, so that might have felt like a little wizardry, since that chord uses a note, Gb, that is not found in the F minor scale.)
Very nice :) Do you explain somewhere how you did it?
@@blackrachmaninov Yes! See my video "How to fit a musical theme to any context"
@@GalenDeGraf fantastic thank you :)
Ben Johnston also did it!
octatonic is from the shadows
chromatic from the graveyard
how do you map amazing grace onto a pentatonic scale when the melody of amazing grace is pentatonic in the first place?
See the pinned comment!
can octatone version be made to not sound sinister?
In my experience, it sits somewhere between "sinister" and "tense" and these probably correlate mostly with tempo. One of the reason it always has some tension is the high number of augmented and diminished intervals built into the scale. In media music it is frequently used at fast tempos for tension in chase scenes (and I followed suit in a screen scoring sample of an animated chase you can watch on this channel).
sounds like star wars soundtrack
The Major key sounds like what you would hear in a church. What's the music?
Why the major notes start with F. The original song is in G. Somebody help?????
@@crumblebob2297 A piece of music can be transposed to different keys by moving all notes up or down by the same amount. G major is common for Amazing Grace, but if you move all notes down a whole step it would be in F major (in my experience, a more comfortable key/range for congregational singing).
@@GalenDeGraf Wow! exactly the info i was seeking thank you!
2:57 severance 🤔?