The ULTIMATE Music Theory Crash Course (in under 25 minutes)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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MY GEAR:
DAW (Music making software): Logic Pro and Ableton Live
Studio monitors (speakers): Yamaha HS8's
Headphones: Audeze LCD X (open back)
Camera: Canon 80d
Computer: Mac Studio with M2 Ultra chip and 2 TB hardrive
Midi controller (keyboard): Komplete Kontrol 61
Interface: Scarlett Clarett 2 pre
Desk: a cheap one from ikea
Chair: also a cheap one from ikea
My favorite plugins that I use the most:
XFER Serum
Sylenth 1
Nexus 3
Kontakt
RC 20
Valhalla Shimmer
Valhalla Vintage Verb
Shaperbox 3
XFER OTT
Fab Filter Saturn 2
Fab Filter Pro C 2
Arturia Pigments
Baby Audio Comeback Kid
Output Thermal and Portal
LABS Soft Piano
Hardware that I use behind the scenes but not in videos:
Elektron Octatrack (my fav)
Elektron Digitakt
Korg Minilogue XD
I've been reading about music theory for almost two years now, watching videos too, trying to understand scales and chords and harmony, and this was the most clear and concise explanation of everything. I am in awe at how clear it is now. You have become an expert in explanations.
I’m so happy to hear that. Glad I could help! 🤙
Learn one scale at a time. People try to learn everything at the same time and in the end they spend more time learning and being confused. It's not a rocket science but it takes time for the brain to process and put things in order. Practicing scales on instrument is the best. Even if it may seem pointless it calibrates your brain. Do you ever listen to a song and say "I get the Dorian feel?" That's when you played the Dorian scale up and down. Now you can instinctively use it without even thinking what notes are you playing. Than see where Byzantine, Hungarian, Jewish, Japanese an other scales overlap with the minor scale.
100%. Just starting out and this video is succinct, clear, and organized incredibly! Thank you!
Just a couple minutes in and I've gotta say - this is a very clear, digestible, and simple introduction to music theory so far. It's exactly what I've been looking for. Your voice feels calm and confident, and your overall demeanor feels encouraging. Thanks, man. Keep up the great content!
Crazy that we can learn this for FREE in 25 minutes. Well done video!
If he doesnt do it someone else will haha but hes one of my favorites. Hes too good and doesnt gatekeep😊
Honestly,
I’ve been watching A LOT of videos about music theories , scales , chords progression … name it all you want . But your video , man, love it! Especially about the harmony’s and melody’s . Often deleted projects because I would get frustrated of not creating a harmony in some sort . You cleared a lot of questions as well .
Thank you Alex !
Now I throw you a challenge ;
Make a video on how to choose your sounds and match them with the other sounds that you would choose so it’s sounds good ! On a plugin for example . Or another video on melodies ; sorts of melodies , complexity etc.
Notes:
19:00 - re-articulating chords for house music
22:20 - find the tonic of the scale you're in (or the relative scale) and repeat it to get in the 'mood' for making music
you were waaaaay better than my Berkley college of music professor when it comes to music theory. I've asked helped so many times and he completely ignored me while flirting with one of my other classmates at the time: mind you this was online. you've explained this so much better and I love the examples. his examples were on a traditional piano -_- I needed a daw software to understand. this was beautiful! can't wait to finish the whole video!
As someone who loves music but is completely lost by music theory...
This is an amazing video.
Thank you+
This is unironically the best video I have ever watched about music. I have watched tens, if not over a hundred videos on pure music theory and I ALWAYS come back to your channel. Thank you.
Plain and simple! I wish my school music lessons were like this one. Just amazing, thank you very much!!
Ive struggled to understand music theory for years now and this video seriously helped. Thank you, Great content!!
I'm a beginner, but I was able to understand most of this. Kudos for great explanations 👍🏻
Love your videos, I always learn a lot from them! One video I'd like to see more on is sound selection. Seeing how you choose certain sounds/ where they come or how they're made would be amazing. Your sound choices are always such good ones especially for the feel or emotion that you're conveying through your chords! tysm for all the help you provide!
Yes! I have sound selection videos coming.
@@AlexRome I'm glad to hear! Thank you again for all the great info and help you provide!
This is the video I need 100%, literally don't need to watch any other videos after this, THANK YOU!!
Yup you got it!
Your clear explanations and your vocals are like magic ♥️
Alex... I'm also watching this 😊 thank you so much! Great break down! Congrats 💪😀🤌
This is an amazing video, super clear introduction to music, super beginner friendly and easy to understand. I learned a lot from this video.
You can see how much hes amazed by music and its awesome
Alex Rome, your channel is at my top list of 100 music production channels that I have subscribed over 4 years that I watch such tutorials. The second one is "EDM Tips". Make a song like LiQWYD, or at least explain some technique's that he uses. Thanks a lot !!
This was insanely clear & easy to watch! I’m always forgetting one thing as soon as I learn another, including basics. 🤣But this helped my instantly remember it all! Great video, & keep up the good work! 👍
Man, just awesone 🤙🎧 Thank you for keeping theory simple!
Thanks for the golden drop about music theory topic.
This is very well explained, you’re the best 😊 👍👍
wow, this video is so so brilliant, I've learn many things now, thanks a million, you rock !
he basically just dropped the best music theory tutorial ever
Fantastic video. Great information is a digestible way!
Great video this and it's free 😎
My only suggestion would have been to add arpeggiation how to for trance 💚
Thankyou for everything ❤
This is such awesome advice, thank you for this video!
man, ive learned so much from you. thank you
With this video I am sure i will be 20% better... For sure.. Alex Rome is the King.
Fantastic video, thank you!
Please make more videos like these
I LOVE THESE CHORDS 🙌🏻🙌🏻 🤣
Half steps are also known as semi-tones. That will be useful when transposing sounds in Ableton.
Best music theory ever...❤
Thanks Alex, love the video. would love to see you build a track using modal melodies and harmonise with modal chords, thanks again, your videos are inspiring, love your passion.
Now I just gotta get all the complicated out of my head, Thanks for keeping it real for the non Mensa people.
you're on FL Studio too now?! hell yeah
ur vid help me alot!!! love u guy
tbh I haven't done anything with music in forever and barely did anything when I knew how. just never really knew anything. low-key just letting it go by which is sad but I don't know what to do. Especially when in reality I don't know much. I know audio engineering but not producing. but its been years soooo yeah
Thank you 🙏
Great video!!!
wow this is a valuable video
I like our tones and semitones
This is a very interesting Video with a lot of content.
God I love this guy 🎹
never got the "I II III IV V" etc thing with chords or what the "third" "seventh" etc. were with their notes. I've tried to find out before but nothing stuck. Now I fully understand it.
This video goes hard
thankyou sir
Thanks you 😁🔥
Thank you for this briliant guide, I often scrap music ideas due to not getting the chords i want to fit because i lack music theory. This will hopefully be a big help and a learning tool for me in the future.
Great to hear (: use it as a reference for sure.
That's really cool 😎🔥
Hey best music teacher next time do marea we've lost dancing plzzz,❤
BRAVO
I have a question: you describe the interplay between individual notes and chords/chord progressions that are combined to form a melody. But isn't it the case that a chord progression can also be a melody without individual notes? I mean, you can write a melody with just chord progressions instead of adding individual notes from a scale.
Great video! Just noticed you say c# and b flat were the same. I know you meant Db but I had to say something
Also, 2 notes played at once is called a dyad/ diad. An interval is the measurment between any 2 notes.
Can you give us a crash course on how to produce like sky white 👀 reference track sky white - olha vocè
You are great
At the end when you switched your melody from the minor to the relative major how did you know which notes to move so that it would fit in the relative major?
Fresh off the rollers
bro im using that 23:14 :P
What piano plugin and preset did you use during this video?
Can you do a break down of the song Escape by Deadmou5 and kaskade? Pretty plz.
Dude is switching Daw like Pete Davidson switching women
обьясняет хорошо
how do we kno what the notes are called ?
🎉
Hi Alex, I love watching your videos! 🔥🔥Just emailed you about a potential collab. Looking forward to your response!
First.
harmony is actually even simpler than that, it's literally the chords, no melody required
I’m sharing this video with my music teacher and asking for a refund.
Be sure not to headout alone brother, somebody's gon fall, it shouldn't be you 😂😂😂
😂😂
Alex you are the best! I love your tutorials!!! Keep on rocking 🙏 🎸🌶️
I’m considering buying a DAW, and I’m stuck between three options. FL Studio, Ableton, and Logic Pro.
I know that you use Ableton and Logic Pro, so which one would you recommend?
Honestly, most of the DAWs do the same thing. Some people favor some over others. I can from ACID Pro. It crashed constantly on my plug-ins, so I switched to something similar - FL Studio. If you use a Mac, Logic may be the way to go. Alex, for example, uses many DAWs since each DAW has strengths and weaknesses. Try a DAW, and if you don't feel it, toss it and try another.
Try to master a DAW, then you can try others and see if you like it better. But mastering a DAW is the key. I mastered ACID, so when I switched, it was different, but still familiar. So, the transition was fairly easy. Eventually, I may try other DAWs if I feel FL Studio isn't doing everything I want. Although I hear FL Studio is used mostly for samples and beats, I make Ambient/Techno and find the piano roll very useful.
Keep in mind, music should be fun and expressive. Like any art, expression comes from you, not the tool you use.
@@theunknownstarwalker thanks for the advice! It’s greatly appreciated. I’ll go for a cheaper option for now, I think. I was sceptical before, quality wise, but this helped. Thanks!
Simple, organized(1,2,3 approach) and to the point. Thank you.
Alex: Now that's where the fun stuff starts".
* who's been having fun since*👁👄👁
Thank you man
11:36 when start playing your dance progression I noticed that there are much more spaces in between each notes, why is that and while doing that how are you following the rules of “2 spaces above base note=minor”, “3 spaces above base note=major”?
Thank you for this video Alex! Very helpfull you Im actually starting to understand music theroy.
You da best man...everytime i make 120bpm dance i always use minor chords...i suck with major 😢
This was brilliant. Much better explained than anyone else. Would love for you to go into more music theory and uses from using chord pallete (free M4L device) in Ableton Live. Thanks Alex!
What I don't understand with chord progressions is when you have something like at 14:53 for example, you have chords in different keys. How does this not change the key of the whole song? Is that normal for songs to change key that much, and if it is what happens to the elements that you have to keep in a certain key like a bass or something?
Great video, thank you!
thankyou bro. you peiced theory with example & made the clearest sense ive ever understood of all these relationships👌
This is Gold, thank you for this 🙏
Thanks for your help.
Which plugin do you use for this kind of dark sounds? 21:49
Nice one again Alex, always seem to upload just at the right time for me haha, love it, keep it up as always
Lovely. Part 2 how to build a beat around an acapella.
What is the song at the beginning? I swear I’ve heard it but can’t remember the name
Thank you so much for this!
Ive got to say this is a great video.. easily understood
Great, as always. You are MIDI Master.
You are a legend!!thank yo=u
Muy buen videoooo🔥
Thank you
Solid
THANK YOU!! Recently i’ve been struggling with chord progressions because they’re not harmonizing well with each other.
thank you for the best music theory tutorial ı've ever watched. you are rally explaining everything
Thanks bro so much for making this video!! No one could ever explain some of the questions i had, unless it was like a 3 hour long video, here, you explain it perfect, helped me a lot!!! i cant believe the stuff about music theory i was missing. and its addicting on how you explain stuff it makes me want to open my DAW and start making music.
Best refresher course I ever did take, man. (Admittedly skipping through some sections) But dude seriously... on top of a refreshing my theory, you also taught me something entirely new. So, thank you.
I love it Alex. Been trying to make music for 2 years. Watching your videos have helped me