How To UNLOCK Melody From HARMONY (modern musical composition concepts)

so I'm sitting outside at this coffee shop a couple hours ago and a guy comes up to me he goes are you Rick Beato and I said yeah he's like wow I can't believe it I've watched a couple hundred of your videos I said oh cool cool and I said what he sits down we start talking I said what kind of things you interested in he goes well I really like film scoring and when you talk about modes and I said well what do you like about it and he says well you know you'll explain something I'll hear it something that's you know in the orchestra let's say let's say it's something like this even if it's a simple board like that and when I hear it voiced with strings like that it doesn't connect what it is but then if you change the sound let's say I played the same thing on piano and I say oh that's just a C major seven chord right cge be just demystifying things like that I said oh cool I'm actually making a video like that actually that's not true I'm making a video about things way more complex than that but it's using the same principle so I want to call this let's say sound painting or something like that it's how to take sounds and create orchestrations around it very simple ones or how to create lines out of a chord progression for example let's say I take it I find a chord like this right that's a C minor 11 chord I'm playing C G then F G b-flat okay now I'm gonna show you I'm gonna play a piece that I just composed for today and I'm gonna talk about the kind of sounds I'm using ice it started out as an improv and I started out with some just basic voicings like I think the first hand played was which is da b-flat and C octaves okay this could be a couple different scales could be a D Phrygian could be da om there's really not a complete sound there then I think I went to something like that which would be more like an E flat Lydian chord but in inversion and then I did maybe something like this and then I think I'd played this and then I went down to a flat Lydian I'll play the piece I'm gonna put on the screen the sounds the voicing sounds I'm playing now when you're looking at them when they flash up there it might say a flat Lydian if it says a flat Lydian it means that I'm using an A flat Lydian scale to create this sound if it's a linear sound or whatever it is but everything within it in the orchestration and in the lines is just that let's check it out [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] let me explain to you a little bit about how I'm building these melodic lines using chords okay so let's say we take the key of F kaolian M G a flat B flat C D flat D flat now I believe at one point in the video I played C sus4 do a flat sus for two EPs us for and repeated it those give me all the notes of FAO Liam but they're constant structures so I can play a line like [Music] like that would be a an example of using these constant structures to create a linear idea I'll play it slow so I'm doing five no pattern I'm playing apps less or see sus4 and I'm sorry yeah then I'm moving up to that D flat to the flat six [Music] and that's how you develop these ideas so go back look at the chord structures that are in the video while the music's playing and then experiment with them if you have questions put them in the comments below and remember please subscribe hear them everything music YouTube channel if you're interested in the Beato book which has many ideas like this in it go to my website at wwlp.com and if you believe in this channel and want to support it you can join the Beato club also on my website thanks for watching

Channel: Rick Beato

Views: 119,399

Keywords: songwriting lesson, how to write a song, songwriting tips, chord progressions, film composition, film composition tutorial, film composition techniques, Film scoring, film scoring 101, jazz improvisation, jazz piano, modal scales, John Williams, Thomas Newman, james newton howard, Hans Zimmer, Music theory, Djent, the darkest scale ever, how to write chord progressions, how to write chords for a melody

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Length: 7min 16sec (436 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 07 2018