How to practice transforming themes, scalar mapping

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  • Опубліковано 8 вер 2024

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  • @GalenDeGraf
    @GalenDeGraf  Місяць тому +26

    This video was a Patreon only video for the past couple months. I'm currently revamping and expanding resources on Patreon to be more user-friendly in the future by utilizing the Patreon shop. I anticipate my next two longform videos (one on post-tonal theory, and another on text settting) will require a 30-day review period with youTube, but they'll be available on Patreon as soon as they're finished, if you don't want to wait out the youTube process.

  • @strikingtwice
    @strikingtwice Місяць тому +146

    Yet another example of "i went to four years of music school for composition and I wasn't taught this incredibly useful and simple to understand technique". Thank you for this video, really great and very well presented.

    • @johncanthearyou
      @johncanthearyou Місяць тому +1

      And you paid for it too 😂😂

    • @strikingtwice
      @strikingtwice Місяць тому +5

      @@johncanthearyou for sure. Hell my university literally just closed down. Strange times.

    • @claudiakramer4516
      @claudiakramer4516 28 днів тому

      School, especially music school is a waste of time when it comes to theory

    • @GalenDeGraf
      @GalenDeGraf  28 днів тому +6

      I think an issue with music theory is that what it means to different people, and how it is taught by different teachers, varies widely. What music theory is today is also distinct from what music theory used to be. There is plenty of bad theory out there (and I started this channel in part to offer a counterbalance to that), but there‘s also a lot of great stuff that depends on the teacher and school (and the student!). If you like how I casually imitate many musical styles, for example, realize that that‘s the result of extensive formal education which I don‘t think was worthless.
      TL;DR Depends on school and teacher.

    • @strikingtwice
      @strikingtwice 27 днів тому +1

      @@claudiakramer4516 I definitely disagree with that I think there is a lot more nuance to it than that, but in my particular school, I really had to carve my own way and find the teachers that I needed, rather than there being a lot more covered that I feel should have been general knowledge for composers. Like I shouldn’t have been getting the same theory classes as the performance majors most likely, where I was excelling and they (excellent performers) were struggling. It’s not a one size fits all

  • @gaopinghu7332
    @gaopinghu7332 Місяць тому +67

    Legend says that Hagrid once said: "You have a lamb, Mary!"

    • @GalenDeGraf
      @GalenDeGraf  Місяць тому +12

      Dang! Missed opportunity that I didn‘t call that one "Harry had a little lamb".

  • @whoschiliisit1752
    @whoschiliisit1752 Місяць тому +19

    A great example of this is the Super Mario World soundtrack. Nearly every song is a reworking of the same motif

  • @robinthomsoncomposer
    @robinthomsoncomposer Місяць тому +7

    Most informative and interesting. Really loved the orchestration of the first chromatic example particularly.

  • @noahshighlightreel
    @noahshighlightreel Місяць тому +6

    Mary Had A Little Lamb chromatic is amazing! I need to start writing chromatic songs…

  • @somarriba333
    @somarriba333 22 дні тому +4

    Man! I wish they had a course like this in college.

  • @southamptonguitaracademy7470
    @southamptonguitaracademy7470 26 днів тому +1

    Wow! So much cool exciting music theory composition techniques in this tutorial!

  • @ArfooHuroo
    @ArfooHuroo 23 дні тому +2

    This is amazing and incredibly informative stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @MarcoAnteroMusic
    @MarcoAnteroMusic 26 днів тому +1

    Amazing! Well done, dude!

  • @EnriqueDominguezProfile
    @EnriqueDominguezProfile 29 днів тому +1

    This is brilliant! Tank you.

  • @inguiable
    @inguiable Місяць тому +1

    BravoooOooOo and Thank you from Argentina!!!

  • @billhasty5197
    @billhasty5197 Місяць тому +1

    Bravo, very well done. I just subscribed to your channel.

  • @agorgedslug
    @agorgedslug Місяць тому +1

    I've always heard Mary had a little lamb as not having a IV chord at all. Where you are playing the IV I always use 1. I still like the scaling idea though!

    • @GalenDeGraf
      @GalenDeGraf  Місяць тому +3

      I don‘t think of that spot as a IV chord either. I wanted to add a little reharmonization to the original to keep the vid from getting boring there.

  • @anandgodane8022
    @anandgodane8022 Місяць тому

    Thank you so much sir 🎉❤❤❤❤

  • @radupopescu9977
    @radupopescu9977 Місяць тому +1

    Interesting!

  • @DivanProdOfficial
    @DivanProdOfficial 27 днів тому

    super like button needed

  • @Corai12
    @Corai12 26 днів тому

    Your awesome

  • @MusArtVlad
    @MusArtVlad Місяць тому +1

    Somehow I don't think the 3rd and 5th examples have a small lamb at all :D

  • @robertporteles4697
    @robertporteles4697 Місяць тому +3

    Do you have some classes in a platform like udemy?

    • @GalenDeGraf
      @GalenDeGraf  Місяць тому +6

      @@robertporteles4697 I‘m looking into possibly making a larger formal course of some sort, but at the moment I‘m just posting supplemental content to Patreon. For my next video on post-tonal music I have a pack of 30 audio files and worksheet to practice non-tertian trichord ear training. I‘m hoping to have that video finished this month before classes start in September.

    • @robertporteles4697
      @robertporteles4697 Місяць тому

      @@GalenDeGraf thanks for answer , have a great Life!

  • @JohnMisdreavous
    @JohnMisdreavous 9 днів тому

    Any advice on how someone who is quite familiar with playing and hearing music but has little to no knowledge on music theory can get to a level that this is understandable? Cheers

    • @GalenDeGraf
      @GalenDeGraf  9 днів тому +1

      I would recommend you at least learn 1) how to read notes in treble and bass clef, 2) all major and minor scales, 3) the notes of all major and minor triads. Once you‘re quick with those, I‘d recommend going through my playlist "how to transform and develop musical ideas“ in order. This video is the fourth video of the series so some things may not be clear here without seeing those previous videos first.

  • @Ray_Wood_1984
    @Ray_Wood_1984 Місяць тому

    🙇‍♂️💓🍀🎶 😊👍

  • @SmokeyMaloy
    @SmokeyMaloy 25 днів тому

    How do you remap a meoldy ??

    • @GalenDeGraf
      @GalenDeGraf  25 днів тому +1

      See description, or watch just this: ua-cam.com/video/6joUB_0BOiE/v-deo.html

  • @TheNextDoorNeighboor
    @TheNextDoorNeighboor Місяць тому +1

    I'm a little disappointed that you used some of the same pieces in this video that you used in a previous one

    • @GalenDeGraf
      @GalenDeGraf  Місяць тому +10

      I was hoping this video offered more details about my approach to some of the exercises in the demonstration video which was released a while back. I actually did this video first, and used some material from it to do the channel trailer which then blew up. I don‘t plan on making any more channel trailers so the next stuff I‘m thinking about will all be new! This fall, I‘m toying with some Lord of the Rings style scalar mappings, post-tonal theory for film music, and a discussion of text setting.

    • @TheNextDoorNeighboor
      @TheNextDoorNeighboor Місяць тому +1

      @@GalenDeGraf Oh, alright 🙂

  • @ivonmorales2654
    @ivonmorales2654 Місяць тому +5

    You make a beginner's and non-storyteller's mistake. You think everyone knows what song you're using as a base. You should put it at the beginning, in the simplest and silliest way. And then hearing the "magic"... It's like me saying, We will make several reharmonizations of the song "Contigo Perú". I'm sure you don't even know it, but all Peruvians know it by heart. Greetings.

    • @GalenDeGraf
      @GalenDeGraf  Місяць тому +3

      As I mention this in the video, this is not a standalone video. (It is actually the fourth video of a series.) The first video in the series does play Amazing Grace and that is found in the first video in the playlist "How to transform and develop musical ideas".

    • @GalenDeGraf
      @GalenDeGraf  Місяць тому +3

      Here‘s that vid:
      ua-cam.com/video/Ve-ASqMnT6U/v-deo.html

    • @ivonmorales2654
      @ivonmorales2654 Місяць тому +2

      @@GalenDeGraf So for distracted people like me, making a review like in the TV shows "Previously in the previous chapter", wouldn't be too much... I also want you to know that I really liked your video, and that my intention is for more people to see you, and I only give suggestions. Thanks my friend.

    • @GalenDeGraf
      @GalenDeGraf  Місяць тому +3

      @ivonmorales2654 Thanks for the input!

    • @ToxicTurtleIsMad
      @ToxicTurtleIsMad Місяць тому +3

      "Non-storyteller" ? Who the f are you? Chekhov? Get a grip.

  • @AzazeltheMystery
    @AzazeltheMystery 15 днів тому

    It’s not dark enough and to your esteem it’s actually, light. Your wasting my time.

    • @GalenDeGraf
      @GalenDeGraf  15 днів тому +1

      This video isn‘t really about going full evil, but if that‘s your goal you might consider 1) instrumentation such as synths and distorted guitar 2) harsher dissonance 3) jagged rhythms amd odd time signatures 4) more aggressive dynamics