Nowadays you can make music on on your browser – even if you can’t really play real instruments. I have earlier written about Patatap, and here are some new finding on this field:
ACID MACHINE BETA is a in-browser tool (uses HTML5 “magic”) that emulates Roland’s TB-303 bass synthesizer with built-in sequencer. It brings the essence of building a bass, lead and drum sequence to you without the need to install any additional software! (works well on Firefox and Chrome) It allows you to easily make your own ACID house music as the well-known “acid” sound is typically produced by playing a repeating note pattern on the TB-303 (like in this classic track).
According to Make acid house in your browser with Acid Machine article Acid Machine is described by developers Errozero as a “work in progress”, but it’s already working better than a faulty TB-303 found on eBay. As well as featuring two of the famous bass synthesisers, Acid Machine also features a drum machine. Acid Machine is making the dream of writing acid house tracks in the office a reality. Play with it for few minutes and you have some interesting sounding results!
Want some more drum machines? Emulate four classic drum machines in your browser article tells about HTML 5 Drum Machine Emulator that that can emulate five different kits: Roland’s iconic TR-808 and TR-909, the Linndrum, Elektron’s Machinedrum and an acoustic drum kit. You can create multiple 16-step patterns, manipulate the pitch and volume of each individual drum sample and even save patterns for the next time you visit the page. Once you’ve laid down your beat, you can even export the whole thing as a WAV file.
Or do you want to try to play with hip hop samples? Turn your computer keyboard into an MPC and recreate hip hop beats from Dilla, Kanye and 9th Wonder with interactive hip hop sampler Sample Stitch. Sample Stitch lets you reinterpret, record and even share your creations to Facebook and Twitter.
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Evolution of Electronic Music (1929 – 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqukyEC3qWM
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Music Theory for Techno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcjT7zgs6cs
Have you ever wondered if music theory was relevant for techno? Well wonder no more!
In this video we examine:
1. How to apply classic music theory to the genre of techno
2. What the role of dissonance and repetition is in techno
3. How to get the right sound character for techno
Content:
0:00 Introduction
1:02 Rule 1: Use classic music theory
1:49 Scales for Techno infographic
2:11 Using chord progressions or intervals
3:17 Rule 2: Embrace dissonance
3:39 Ostinato insistence
4:28 The harmonic architecture of a techno track
5:11 3 strategies to make repetitive riffs
6:38 Rule 3: Sound character
7:38 DETUNE YOUR OSCILLATORS
8:53 The techno toot
9:38 The ML185 sequencer and Phoscyon
11:16 Recap of the 3 rules
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Deadmau5 Accidentally Recreates Sandstorm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT_sjisdgbk
LiveStreamFails: Deadmau5 Accidentally Recreates Sandstorm. Mirror with chat: https://livestreamfails.com/post/3911
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SARO Grand Beatbox LOOPSTATION Battle 2017 FINAL & SEMI FINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SRmy7kfuvs
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120 Subgenres of EDM (w/ examples)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTUDKu3BL7c
My first thought was to sort all the microgenres by subgenre and genre, but I’ve noticed that many of ‘em are mixes of two bigger subgenres (f.ex. dubstyle – a mix of dubstep & hardstyle), so that could’ve been pretty confusing. That’s why I placed ‘em all in alphabetical order
Let me know down in the comments if I’ve made some inaccuracies. But I’ll be very happy if you also appreciate my efforts, ‘cuz I was using a laggy laptop with 6 GB RAM and Intel Pentium processor for making this video xD
Timestamp links:
[00:20] Acid House
[00:30] Ambient
[00:40] Baltimore Club
[00:50] Bass House
[01:00] Big Beat
[01:10] Big Room House
[01:20] Brazilian Bass
[01:30] Breakbeat Hardcore
[01:40] Breakcore
[01:50] Brostep
[02:00] Bubblegum Bass
[02:10] Chill-out
[02:20] Chillstep
[02:30] Chill Trap
[02:40] Chillwave
[02:50] Chiptune
[03:00] Classic Synth-pop
[03:10] Complextro
[03:20] Crossbreed Hardcore
[03:30] Dark Ambient
[03:40] Darkstep
[03:50] Deathstep
[04:00] Deep House
[04:10] Disco House
[04:20] Doomcore
[04:30] Downtempo
[04:40] Drill ‘n’ Bass
[04:50] Drum & Bass
[05:00] Drumstep
[05:10] Dubstep
[05:20] Dubstyle
[05:30] Dub Techno
[05:40] Electro
[05:50] Electro House
[06:00] Electronica
[06:10] Electro Swing
[06:20] Euphoric Hardstyle
[06:30] Eurobeat
[06:40] Eurodance
[06:50] Extratone
[07:00] Fidget House
[07:10] Frenchcore
[07:20] French House
[07:30] Funky Breaks
[07:40] Funky House
[07:50] Future Bass
[08:00] Future Bounce
[08:10] Future Funk
[08:20] Future Garage
[08:30] Future House
[08:40] Ghetto House
[08:50] Glitch Hop
[09:00] Happy Hardcore / UK Hardcore
[09:10] Hard Bass
[09:20] Hard Bounce
[09:30] Hardcore
[09:40] Hard House
[09:50] Hardpsy
[10:00] Hardstyle
[10:10] Hard Trance
[10:20] Hard Trap
[10:30] Hardvapour
[10:40] Hip House
[10:50] IDM
[11:00] Industrial Hardcore
[11:10] Jackin’ House
[11:20] Japanoise
[11:30] Jersey Club
[11:40] Jumpstyle
[11:50] Jungle Terror
[12:00] Kawaii Bass
[12:10] Kwaito
[12:20] Lento Violento
[12:30] Liquid Drum & Bass
[12:40] Lo-Fi
[12:50] Mákina
[13:00] Melbourne Bounce
[13:10] Melodic Dubstep
[13:20] Melodic Trap
[13:30] Microhouse
[13:40] Midtempo Bass
[13:50] Minimal Techno
[14:00] Moombahcore
[14:10] Moombahton
[14:20] Neurofunk
[14:30] Neurohop
[14:40] New-age
[14:50] New Beat
[15:00] New Wave
[15:10] Nu Disco
[15:20] Outsider House
[15:30] Progressive House (Classic)
[15:40] Progressive House (Mainstream)
[15:50] Progressive Trance
[16:00] Psytrance
[16:10] Rawstyle
[16:20] Reggaestep
[16:30] Riddim
[16:40] Speedcore
[16:50] Speed Garage
[17:00] Suomisaundi
[17:10] Synth-pop
[17:20] Synthwave / Retrowave
[17:30] Tech House
[17:40] Techno
[17:50] Techstep
[18:00] Tech Trance
[18:10] Tekstyle
[18:20] Terrorcore
[18:30] Trance
[18:40] Trap
[18:50] Trip Hop
[19:00] Tropical House
[19:10] UK Bass
[19:20] UK Garage
[19:30] Uplifting Trance
[19:40] Uptempo Hardcore
[19:50] Vaporwave
[20:00] Vomitstep
[20:10] Wubstep
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Techno Rumble Mastery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbACkekJZ8
This is the techno rumble tutorial to end all techno rumble tutorials. It condenses the principles that you find in all other rumble tutorials online into 3 logical levels: the basic, the intermediate, and the mastery level.
- The basic level: making a rumble in parrallel by smearing, low-passing and ducking the kick.
- The intermediate level: adding saturation, EQ and limiting on the rumble and the group.
- The mastery level: creating a sound sculpture by adding texture, percussion and atmosphere.
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Mixing loud: Managing your dynamic range using limiters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6suaLQaTXk
Understanding how to get the dynamic range you want is part of a professional-sounding music production. It’s the key to making your music loud and punchy, if that suits your genre.
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How To Make A Song Like The Weeknd (Blinding Lights, In Your Eyes, Faith) | Make Pop Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2d3y58rSYU
Hey guys! This video has been highly requested so today Austin’s showing you how to make a song like The Weeknd!
Preview 0:00
Intro 0:26
What Sounds To Use 1:30
Find The Drum Groove 2:25
Lay Down a Bassline 6:45
Add Keybeds 8:29 (Add Keys)
Expand The Keys 10:23
Synth Leads 12:48
Verse Bass and Keys 15:12
Add Layers to Chorus 21:20
Drum Fills and Risers 22:54
Make An Intro 25:14
Breakdown of Vocal Arrangement 27:30 (Vocal Mix and Arrangement)
Vocal Mix 27:52
Vocal Sends and FX 30:02
Final Song Playthrough 35:10
Outro 37:01
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26 Songs That Only Use Two Chords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpURr5COwI4
It’s fairly rare for a song to be based on only two chords. But what is particularly interesting is that, when you do find an example of a two chord song, it will almost always be using one of only a handful of chord progressions!
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Ear Training: Those 4 chords in every song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5suM8ewzM-c
In this video we are going to train our ear together with the famous chord progression 6-, 4, 1, 5D. First, we’ll sing the roots to make sure we can feel the chord changes. Then we’ll practice the ear training exercise Melody Paths, singing melodies connecting chord notes across the chord progression.
This chord progression 6-, 4, 1, 5D has been used thousands of times in popular music, and you are probably very familiar with it already. I have created a special playlist for you so you can go listen to songs from different styles that use chords 6-, 4, 1, 5D. My suggestion is to first spend some time in this video singing the roots and the Melody Paths with me, and then go listen to the songs on the playlist
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Watch Me Remix From Scratch #Adele #Easyonme #Maryspender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewaxtOda84
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Basics Of Techno With Justin Lewis Beck | 343 Labs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbvn_cEux3U
Lewis Beck gives us an understanding of the fundamentals of techno in Ableton Live
Tomi Engdahl says:
Victor Wooten: Music Theory is SIMPLE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3vYVGMgZYY
Tomi Engdahl says:
This is why you don’t Understand Modes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1rEq_cAsFg
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Funny videos:
[YTP] MasterClass – Deadmau5 Teaches Nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB224lOlvY8
[YTP] MasterClass – Deadmau5 Teaches How to Have Kid on a Laptop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1f8w0t0SAo
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How Pythagoras Broke Music (and how we kind of fixed it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdYzqLgMmgk
How does music work? What did an Ancient Greek philosopher have to do with it? Why did he keep drowning people?
Discover the answers to these questions and more as we take a tour through musical tuning systems, examining how the power of mathematics has helped us build and rebuild our methods of creating music throughout history. Pythagorean tuning, the Pythagorean comma, equal temperament – learn what these are and how they shaped the way we make music today.
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How To Make EPIC Vocals Even If You Can’t Sing, Anyone Can Do It!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=715Nl7UNl88
In this tutorial I am going to show you how to make amazing vocals even if you can’t sing. Yes everyone can sing or at least make great vocals. I will be using FL Studio 20 along with Autotune and other plugins from Antares which is a sponsor of today’s video. I mainly focus on Autotune and Harmony Engine.
Highlights:
0:00 – Start
0:30 – Terrible Vocal Example
1:30 – Explaining How To Do It
5:57 – First Result
6:19 – Comparing The Two
6:46 – A Better Example In Practice
7:30 – Dry Vocals 2
8:37 – Explaining The Effects (More Advanced)
10:50 – Vocal With Effects
11:08 – Backing Vocal FX
11:57 – Finished Vocal
12:23 – Before And After
12:35 – Finished Result
13:23 – Outro
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I Won The Loudness War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ANEQu5Lto
I did it. I won. Good luck getting any louder than this. You can all stop this sillyness now. Loudness doesn’t matter, just make it sound good.
To those saying its distorted: there is no distortion. Its a clean, high fidelity recording of two pulse waves with complex modulation.
Sorry but the label manager said it’s still not loud enough
Tomi Engdahl says:
How Pythagoras Broke Music (and how we kind of fixed it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdYzqLgMmgk
How does music work? What did an Ancient Greek philosopher have to do with it? Why did he keep drowning people?
CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS – READ BEFORE COMMENTING:
This video has blown up, and was never expected to reach such a large audience. I’ve become acutely aware that I may therefore be widely spreading misinformation – partly through simplifications and omissions, partly through my own ignorance – and want to correct that as best I can. This list will be updated as I’m inevitably corrected further.
0:09 – Pythagoras was born (if he was born at all) on the Greek island of Samos, but spent much of his life in colonies in Italy. Supposedly.
1:36 – I want to emphasise again that all the stories I tell about Pythagoras in this video are legends, including the fact that he “invented” a system of musical tuning at all. Like many Pythagorean discoveries, Pythagorean tuning likely appeared many times around the world throughout history.
1:57 – Sources disagree on whether it was the hammers or anvils that varied in size, and whether they had twice the dimensions or twice the weight.
2:15 – Some people noted my sine waves sound a bit distorted, maybe even triangular. They absolutely are sine waves, but I did add some reverb for the ambience. Also YouTube compression is a thing. So they aren’t totally pure.
4:15 – I didn’t mention that size of hammer is inversely proportional to frequency. Size determines wavelength, the reciprocal of frequency. Everything I said here is true, but thought I’d add this just in case you thought I meant the larger hammer produced the higher frequency.
7:29 – Due to limitations with the VST I used, I could only tune this instrument’s notes to the nearest two or three cents. So none of the plucked notes are perfectly Pythagorean, they’re all a tiny bit off. All the sine wave notes I use are however precisely in tune as I made the VST for that myself.
7:30 – My version of Pythagorean tuning starts with a base note at the lowest frequency and works up. In reality, some Pythagorean systems start with a base in the middle and create equal numbers of fifths above and below. The harmonic relationships in these systems are functionally identical.
7:36 – In case you were wondering why all the intervals of the same ratio are the same length when they’re being multiplied, this diagram is logarithmic. Multiplication corresponds to addition on this diagram, so multiplication by equal values corresponds to equal length intervals.
12:06 – Obviously x = y = 0 is a solution, but then you’d have a scale with only one note. Hardly useful, so I left that out.
12:15 – There are also systems with 53 notes per octave that do about as well as 12, and many other alternatives.
12:55 – Pythagorean tuning (and meantone temperament) are examples of a larger class of tuning systems called Just Intonation, where note intervals are defined to be rational multiples of one another. Pythagorean is just the version where the multiplicative ratio is a fifth. Many musicians in this period used other types of Just Intonation, but they all suffer from similar issues. Further, in the original Greek period, nobody was using polyphonic harmony, at least in the modern sense. Grating dissonances mattered less as a result. Harmony only became a more concrete thing later, which necessitated the introduction of meantone temperament. However, the equivalent to the wolf fifth in meantone is more of a problem, and that version of the wolf fifth is the more common example than the Pythagorean one in this video.
13:11 – The Catholic Church DID NOT ban tritones. I’ve since learnt this is a widespread myth that even some of my sources fell for. Made even worse by the fact that I mixed up tritones and wolf intervals in my script despite knowing they were different (but not that different). Massive brain fart there, I apologise.
14:33 – Stevin was only one link in the chain that led to equal temperament. Many people contributed to its development. I simplified it to one person to save time, but that was definitely a mistake. Also, as is often the case, a system like it may have appeared in China even while Pythagoras was alive.
16:23 – The piano was not the first instrument to use equal temperament, merely the one that popularised it. I didn’t say otherwise in the video, but I didn’t make it clear either.
16:48 – Oh boy. I got a lot of “well actually”s for this one. Some cases I knew already – instruments without fixed pitch, such as violins or even the human voice, can switch between tunings on the fly – but some I genuinely didn’t know. Turns out many brass instruments play perfect ratios, and it’s only by the skill of composers and performers that we don’t notice. Plus, performances of older pieces are often tuned to pure ratios for authenticity’s sake. All this does not detract from the fact that equal temperament is the overwhelming standard, and I still stand by my intended point that the average person in the Western world has so rarely been exposed to Just Intonation compared to equal temperament that it might as well not exist for them.
17:00 – Some have claimed this video is biased in favour of equal temperament (with a surprising and depressing amount of vitriol). I think it probably is, mostly because I am. But the system you prefer is entirely an artistic choice. Both are mathematically flawed compromises, I just prefer the one that gives more standardisation and harmonic flexibility. Modern musical hegemony agrees with me, but you don’t have to. Electronic music synthesis means you can create music tuned to any frequencies you want. There is Pythagorean music out there if you choose to look for it, but beware: it often gets caught up in New Age, psuedoscientific mumbo-jumbo. If you find anything that claims Pythagorean tuning can heal physical ailments or that it’s being denied from you as part of a global conspiracy, steer well clear. The Cult of Pythagoras is alive and well.
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https://www.hackster.io/news/spirals-are-the-most-satisfying-way-to-visualize-music-73529fa12fad
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https://thehardtimes.net/culture/it-guy-frontman-asks-band-to-change-name-every-30-days/
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Axis of Awesome – 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
Australian comedy group ‘Axis Of Awesome’ perform a sketch from the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Footage courtesy of Network Ten Australia.
“Four Chords” by Axis of Awesome
00:52 – Don’t Stop Believing, Journey
00:59 – You’re Beautiful, James Blunt
01:09 – Forever Young, Alphaville
01:16 – I’m Yours, Jason Mraz
01:25 – Happy Ending, Mika
01:33 – Amazing, Alex Lloyd
01:42 – Wherever You Will Go, The Calling
01:49 – Can You Feel The Love Tonight, Sir Elton John
01:56 – She Will Be Loved, Maroon 5
02:04 – Pictures of You, The Last Goodnight
02:11 – With or Without You, U2
02:19 – Fall at Your Feet, Crowded House
02:29 – Not Pretty Enough, Kasey Chambers
02:38 – Let it Be, The Beatles
02:42 – Under the Bridge, Red Hot Chili Peppers
02:46 – Horses, Daryl Braithwaite
02:54 – No Woman No Cry, Bob Marley
02:56 – Sex and Candy, Marcy Playground
02:58 – Land Down Under, Men at Work
03:01 – Waltzing Matilda, Banjo Patterson
03:06 – Take on Me / When I Come Around, A-Ha / Green Day
03:21 – Save Tonight / Africa, Eagle Eye Cherry / Toto
03:29 – If I Were a Boy / Self Esteem, Beyonce / The Offspring
03:37 – You’re Gonna Go Far Kid, The Offspring
03:45 – You and Your Hand, P!nk
03:53 – Poker Face, Lady Gaga
03:58 – Barbie Girl, Aqua
04:00 – You Found Me, The Fray
04:08 – Don’t Trust Me, 30h!3
04:15 – Kids, MGMT
04:23 – Canvas Bags, Tim Minchin
04:33 – Torn, Natalie Imbrugila
04:48 – Superman, Five for Fighting
04:52 – Birdplane, Axis of Awesome
05:02 – Scar, Missy Higgins
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THE BEST *free* PLUGINS FOR 2022!! (fl studio, ableton, logic pro x)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toQmB6qs1IQ
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10 Ways To Add ENERGY To BORING Chords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l7Id2FpcHw
0:00 Intro
0:07 Trick 1 – Spread voicing and running tonic
1:15 Trick 2 – Change the articulation of the chords
1:41 Trick 3 – Use other instruments to support the chords
2:14 Trick 4 – Resolving your chord pattern
3:12 Trick 5 – Adding dynamic layers to your chord pattern
4:03 Trick 6 – Layer the chords
4:43 Trick 7 – Change the rhythm
5:36 Trick 8 – Add expression with automation
6:38 Trick 9 – Chord Inversions
7:45 Trick 10 – Pick the right sound!
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5 Rhythms That Changed My Life (Important Patterns for Ableton, FL Studio, etc…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ4Rce8QEs0
In this video, Nick shares 5 life-changing and important rhythms that can be used from anything to drum patterns to basslines, melodies, or chords!
00:00 – Intro
00:11 – Tresillo
1:41 – Hemiola
2:57 – 12/8 Bell
4:00 – Clave
5:18 – ThaDhiGiNaThom
6:23 – Outro
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Why is THIS BEAT in EVERY SONG?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5EZgA-fjnI
Axis of Awesome – 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
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“Instantly Create Pro-Level Chords & Progressions
With Over 1,200 Drag & Drop MIDI Files”
No Music Theory, Guesswork Or Trial & Error Needed.
https://web.unison.audio/midi-chord-pack-1?wickedsource=google&wickedid=EAIaIQobChMI1ZKr0YK79QIVU_GyCh3gnAwKEAEYASAAEgK_tfD_BwE&wickedid=564860589294&wv=3.1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1ZKr0YK79QIVU_GyCh3gnAwKEAEYASAAEgK_tfD_BwE
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The Bizarre World of Augmented Chords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNWDjhDo2Ak
Augmented chords are awkward, weird, and can seem useless. It took me a while to
eventually grasp on what aug chords are capable of- as well as aug7 (or +7) chords. They’re certainly a unique sounding chord, and in this lesson we go over the basics behind how the triad is built, but also how it can be used in musical settings. Depending on your knowledge of music theory, this lesson may get too advanced near the end, but it should be simple to follow for the first half at least.
In this video:
00:00 Intro
00:29 Augmented Triad Basics
02:20 Swapping V for V+
04:37 Adding Sevenths
05:48 Voice Leading
08:21 Augment Symmetry + Composing
10:54 Lydian Augmented
12:29 MinMaj7 Relationships
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The Music Theory of POWER CHORDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbhF2wnnT7M
Powerchords are the building block of rock and metal. They get a bad rap for being simplistic, but the reality is that their simplicity gives them unparalleled versatility- the ability to accommodate both major AND minor tonalities instead of being limited to just one.
Applying this ambiguity just requries a little bit of knowledge about scales and fifths, as well as the chords in a key. This video will go over the music theory of powerchords and how they fit into your scale concepts, as well as general ideas and applications of power chords and their variations.
Related theory videos-
Chords in minor: https://youtu.be/j-j4g0ktPGw
Diminished: https://youtu.be/HQ2pg7D1aks
Metallica Scale: https://youtu.be/UuqvZDDm_bk
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https://markuskaarlonen.com/space-debris
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I Produced a Song in 1 Hour Using Only Rock Climbing Gear
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VsdRxlTrTSk
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How Pythagoras Broke Music (and how we kind of fixed it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdYzqLgMmgk
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The Geometry of Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWzwb4BumIk
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Equal Temperament Versus Just Intonation Visualized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPLyULgAGQc
Video shows two oscillators on an analog oscilloscope in XY mode.
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Just Intonation vs Equal Temperament (visual demonstration)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbOimblyW2E
We use Helix Tuner to demonstrate the differences between Just Intonation and Equal Temperament on a C Major scale.
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EQUAL temperament vs JUST intonation (PURE tuning)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcCkn0p7HDE
Equal temperament vs pure intonation.
Chords are played through a simple sine wave with the standard 440hz tuning.
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PendulumSynth Ties Music And Physics Together
https://hackaday.com/2022/02/17/pendulumsynth-ties-music-and-physics-together/
Many musicians will be familiar with the metronome, a pendulum charged with generating a rhythmic tick to keep one’s performance in regular time. With PendulumSynth, [mrezanvari] takes the same basic pendulum but uses it in an altogether different musical way.
The build relies on a 10-inch plastic ball to serve as the weighted end of the pendulum, stuffed with a STM32F411CE BlackPill board, a BNO085 IMU, and an nRF radio module for sending out data for external processing. The pendulum’s motion is turned into MIDI data or CV for output to musical hardware which handles actually generating the output sounds.
PendulumSynth
https://hackaday.io/project/182341-pendulumsynth
PendulumSynth is an on-going and open-source project with the goal of mixing real-world physics into music composition and performance.
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A Collection Of 800+ Instruments [For Free]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os6fg2t8uK4
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What are the 4 chords that play any song?
Image result for four chord song play browser
The four main chord progressions used to make any music song are Roman numerals I, V, vi, and IV. The chord progression chords are always from the C major, G major, A minor, and F major melodic scales.
How To Play Any Song With 4 Chords (Step-By-Step Guide)
https://www.homemusicmaker.com/how-to-play-any-song-with-4-chords
The great thing about chords is that you really only need to know four simple chords to produce a chart-topping pop song. That’s right; four commonly used chords have created thousands of chart-topping hit songs!
What Are The Different Types Of Chords?
Several types of chords can create different elements and vibes in a song. These chords are called Major Chords, Minor Chords, Diminished Chords, and Augmented Chords. Major chords are often described as sounding complete, bright, and happy. It is the most common genre of chords, so much so that it is used to play Happy Birthday.
There are 12 major chords in all, all deriving from the 12 notes on a melodic scale. Minor chords are often described as sad or dark; however, there are some instances where minor chords can create a happier feeling, just like 12 major chords derive from the melodic scale.
Diminished chords are described as creating dark, tense, and dissonant sounds. They are created by adding a minor third note and the fifth note above the root note. When used as a guitar chord, they typically sound unstable or off-putting. There are three types of diminished chords in all.
Finally, augmented chords are described as odd and are rarely heard in popular songs. They are created by adding a raised fifth or better known as a sharp fifth. Due to their rareness, there are only four augmented chords in all.
The Idea Behind Chords
Chords are the elements of the song that gives the emotion that the musician is aiming for. They captivate the listener’s emotion, but they also help differentiate the different sections of a song, such as the verse, chorus, and bridge. If you are playing the guitar, the chord’s emotion can be felt in the strumming pattern.
Musicians who play piano use chords to add different elements and tones to the chord progressions they create. Chords also help the singer or music producer create the song’s melody, whether created with guitars, ukuleles, or piano. Chords are also important because, depending on the strumming patterns or the melody’s pattern, they also articulate the song’s genre.
Is Music Theory Necessary
Speaking of theory, many music producers are often asked if music theory is essential to create a song. The answer to that is not necessarily.
As a musician, it would be helpful to know at least the basics of music theory, such as scales, key signatures, and chords, which we just gave a mini-lesson on above. However, to make simple guitar chords, piano chords, or the most commonly used four chords, you only need to know the basics of music theory to get started.
The 4 Most Popular Chords
So now that you have a general understanding of what a chord is, you’re ready to find out which ones are the most common four-chord progressions used to make hit songs. The four main chord progressions used to make any music song are Roman numerals I, V, vi, and IV.
The chord progression chords are always from the C major, G major, A minor, and F major melodic scales. No matter how you flip this common chord progression, you will be able to find a hit song that stems from it. To see if this is true, you should take some time and listen to some of your favorite songs and apply this chord progression to the chords you hear.
Why Are These Chords So Common?
Since there are so many opportunities to make chords in music, you may wonder why these chords are so common. One of the main reasons is because they are easy to memorize.
Once you have those four main chords memorized, it’s easy to create something pleasing to the ear.
The average listener has also become accustomed to hearing those chord progressions, even if they don’t know what they are. Anything outside of those chord progressions will seem new and cool or new and odd to them.
You may be asking yourself, how can the same four chords produce so many different songs for so many years?
Different tempos or time signatures can make a song sound great for a mellow and laid-back vibe or make the song upbeat and just the right feel to turn up a party.
Different layers can dress up the four chords that can make them sort of fade in the background. For instance, certain rhythms can be the focal point of the song. This is heavily seen in hip-hop.
In other genres, the focal point of the song may be the melodies. Unique melodies can make a listener pay attention to the background’s chords, making them easy to use in many songs. Finally, the lyrics being added on top of the four chords can be an essential layer that makes one song different.
Other Chord Progressions
Although four-chord progressions are used in plenty of pop hits, musicians and producers can use other chord progressions to create songs.
Instruments That Play Chords
As a musician or music producer, you don’t have to limit yourself to a piano or guitar to create chords. If you are skilled in string instruments, you can create chords on violins, bases, electric guitars, harps, even a ukulele.
How To Play Any Song With 4 Chords
Step 1: Select a major scale to make the chords from. We will stick to the easiest chord, C Major, in all white notes for this example.
Step 2: With chords, musicians use numbers to refer to the notes. These numbers correlate to the order the letters are in. For instance, C is 1, 2 is D, and 3 is E.
Step 3: Your C major chord should now be C-E-G. If you play all of those notes at one time, you will have played a chord.
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What chords should I learn first?
Before you begin to learn any chord, you must first learn and memorize your major and minor scales. These are the notes that will create the chord. Most people memorize the chords first are the C major, G major, A minor, and F major chords.
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Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
Mika – Happy Ending
Alex Lloyd – Amazing
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Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Maroon 5 – She Will Be Loved
The Last Goodnight – Pictures Of You
U2 – With Or Without You
Crowded House – Fall At Your Feet
Kasey Chambers – Not Pretty Enough
The Beatles – Let it Be
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Marcy Playground – Sex and Candy
Men At Work – Land Down Under
Banjo Patterson’s Waltzing Matilda
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Aqua – Barbie Girl
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Missy Higgins – Scar
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