For this tutorial, you continue to learn the music theory and practice that forms an integral part of any dance musicians production skills.
Runtime: 3 Hours 30 Minutes.
11 Videos
You will learn the theory of harmony, what it is and its purpose in music. This includes the construction of both chords and progressions for dance music.
Using various practical applications you’ll know how to compose chords and progressions, and how to create pads/strings for dance records.
You should have a solid grounding in scales and modes. If you haven’t already, watching the bass tutorial would be beneficial.
In this edition of the Fundamental series, you continue to learn the music theory and practice that forms an integral part of any dance musicians production skills – this time you will be concentrating on chords and harmony – more specifically the design of harmony, the composition, and construction of chords, chord structures and flow, progressions, and the use of pads and strings.
For this tutorial, you will focus on the musical theory and practical applications for the composition, programming, production, and engineering of harmony and pads/strings for dance records. Although it could be argued that some dance records do not employ harmony, many do, and those that don’t (such as Tech House or Techno) do benefit from an understanding of chord design as many producers will compose and then sample a chord to create their stabs. So the skills you will learn in this tutorial are important to your music production.
You will cover in-depth the music theory for chords. We introduce you to the theory of how both chords and chordal structures (harmony) are composed. This includes a look at how chord progressions typically evolve and how this theory applies to every chord progression. The sessions then move on to cover the principles behind chord composition, structure, programming, synthesis, editing, and processing of pads and strings in order to add the all-important harmony that can be central to many dance records.
Note: for this tutorial, you should already have a basic understanding of musical scales, as discussed in Fundamental: Music Theory, Bass.
Session 01: 10 Mins.
Building Chords: The basic theory.
Session 02: 20 Mins.
Major and Minor Chords: Differences between Major & Minor chords.
Session 03: 10 Mins.
Extended Chords: How seventh & ninths are created from standard triads.
Session 04: 22 Mins.
Basic Progressions: Theory of joining different chords.
Session 05: 25 Mins.
Advanced Progressions: We now examine how we can use the theory.
Session 06: 30 Mins.
Minor Progressions: How a progression is formed .
Session 07: 30 Mins.
Creative Progressions: We tie all the theory together.
Session 08: 15 Mins.
Harmonic Rhythm: how we can employ it in progressions.
Session 09: 30 Mins.
Strings and Synthesis: The basic theory.
Session 10: 30 Mins.
Pads and Synthesis: How we can synthesize pad timbres.
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