I watch a LOT of music KZread channels and this is by far the best one on composing. Very practical -- pretty much all you need to know do to a lot.

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm glad you're finding the content useful!

Amazing Simon... you're such a great teacher, and your delivery style is perfectly paced and calm. A joy to watch ! 🙂

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Alan, Thanks for much for your kind words! I've been focusing on the pace over the last few videos, so great to know!

It's like your explaining the grammar of the music language. Love how you find all these patterns, formulas and strategies to break making music into small digestible components.

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you - yes hopefully its helping to break down the various techniques which composers use. Thanks for watching!

I am so glad I found your channel. You are a great teacher!

Had Insomnia today and was up at 4.00am - ended up watching the entire 'Music Theory' playlist back to back. Already most of the way through your other videos. They are brilliant and such a good way to learn how to compose music. Thanks for these - you do a great job. Look forward to 'completing' all the videos and seeing more when you relase them :)

Thank you! Very simple, but informative. Your examples are great!

So interesting and remarkable how using minor seventh interval fills out this basic track with rich harmonics right there :) Again great video

Best teacher ever

Thankyou sir love from Nepal 🇳🇵❤️

I just love this. All I've been looking for ❤❤❤

@composingacademy8270

7 ай бұрын

Hi, I am so pleased you have found it useful! Thank you for watching!

So glad I stumbled onto your channel

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Welcome! Thanks for watching!

very helpful and to the point! great work with all the animations and visuals, everything's nice and readable. will definitely check our other videos

Wow, this is really mind-blowing!

@composingacademy8270

7 ай бұрын

I am so pleased you have found it useful!

Love how you are so intuitive!

@composingacademy8270

10 ай бұрын

Appreciate the comment, thank you!

Fantastic vid. Thanks so much.

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

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I really really appreciate this channel, such a legendary channel

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words!

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Thank you for the lesson

@composingacademy8270

6 ай бұрын

You're welcome, thank you for watching!

Very well explained ! thank you !

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Brilliant!

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Explained the concepts so well! Thank you!

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome, thank you.

Very informative! Many thanks!

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching - I'm glad it was useful!

I just love your vids, Man!

@composingacademy8270

Ай бұрын

Appreciate it, thank you for watching!

totally enjoyed this - thank you so much ! :)

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

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@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

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@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Most welcome, thank you for watching!

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@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

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@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

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@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

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@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

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@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I always find it amazing that the minor sixth and major third have such a different sound despite consisting of the same notes (likewise with the major sixth and minor third).

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Yes that's very true!

this is really useful :-)

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

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@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, really appreciate the comment!

Awesome!

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I'm trying to learn starting from scratch, and this is so incredibly helpful! Sub'd!

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for reaching out - I'm glad it was helpful. Thanks for the Sub!

Thank you Simon. This one has always been topical. I currently explore intervals am chords progressions that Two Steps From Hell used to create some compositions I love

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I love Two Steps from Hell and always find it useful experience to transcribe and analyse their chord progressions. Thank you for watching!

Thank you Simon I’m new to your channel I just subscribed. I enjoyed this video although I just play by ear I can learn something for sure.

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Michel, many thanks for the sub. I'm glad you enjoyed the video - thanks for watching!

This is exactly what I needed, thank you so much. I often come up with melodies sounding in my mind for months but I'm afraid to create music out of them because when I try, I struggle to achieve the same mood that I imagined in my mind, or the mood gets cheesy and does not progress at all. One thing that's still a mystery for me is how a single note added to a major triad can suddenly make it sound sad and not major at all. I keep scratching my head and thinking - hm, is there any rule of thumb to know when adding a note will completely transform a triad to the opposite mood, and when the initial triad will still win and won't let the additional note have such a serious transformative effect? Not even sure how to express this transformation in correct musical terms. Maybe it's worth a separate video.

Sensacional!!!

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you so much for putting this together! Hopefully you will cover descending intervals too 🙏 😊

@christopherheckman7957

2 жыл бұрын

As well as 9ths, 10ths, ...

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I'm definitely planning on revisiting, to look more at descending and intervals over an octave as well. Thanks for watching!

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2 жыл бұрын

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@user-oc8jp2bk2y

10 ай бұрын

@@composingacademy8270 yep waiting for that too. I didn't find any source stating that ascending and descending ones have different "moods" attached to them.

I hope you make more quality videos, have fun.

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, lots more planned! Thanks for watching!

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@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Wonderful, clear and concise explanations with great examples that are easy to follow. I might suggest channel visitors listen to Hans Zimmer' "Man Of Steel" and you'll get the idea of how powerful and breathtaking Intervals can become. Well done Simon!

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your feedback! Oh yes I should have mentioned Man of Steel as its a great, relatively simple example of intervals, especially the major 7th I find!

Holding a pedal note really adds to the interesting sounds of the intervals. Wonder if the melody would lose its effect if harmonized.

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Quite possibly yes as harmony of course can change the feel of a melody completely. It all helps add to the limitless possibilities available when composing music!

Your channel is one of the best ones to teach in simple steps. I wish I could learn more from you by some course :)

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

I have a course, 'Cinematic Music Made Easy' re-launching in September, if you are signed up to my newsletter more details will follow soon. Watch this space!

@JamesNoteology

4 ай бұрын

very informative, how do you decide if a melody is going to be ascending or descending?

Just for that, I'm going create a piece full of unresolved Major 7ths. They don't always have to resolve. And if anything, sometimes you end up birthing an even better song by allowing the Major 7 to just be.

The minor 6th reminds me of the altered version of the main Star Wars theme, but minor.

this was priceless. if it's Convenient for you then we would like the interval distance for bout 10 to 20 notes ( 1st 3 bars) of every popular riff. after I heard the likes of Schindlers list Mia Sebastian Lala land forest Gump Amelie Married life - Up I realised that it's just not the 1st interval.. but the successive ones collectively which truly create the impact and mood needed to touch the hearts and minds and seduce the day lights out of ppl ( like me) I am 45 and just started teaching myself the piano during the last lockdown in my country. But for the last 100 years or so I have always wondered bout the secret sauce that goes into playing these initial notes which make the most jaw dropping theme riffs

7:42 it reminds me to Man of steel theme

Thank you for this wonderful insight how the notes relate to one another. I am trying to come up with Meshuggah type riffs using the 1/2 whole diminished scale but i am getting stuck at the morse code/binary/rhythms they use...can u help me in coming up with something simple that sounds like basic meshuggah with all the elements.

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for reaching out. I'm afraid I've never come across Meshuggah before (I've just googled them after your suggestion) so I'm not sure if I'm the best person to go through their harmonic traits :-)

If you don't mind me asking, what is voice you have used for background.... Pad... BTW this tutorial was very informative.. Thank you.

Please do this with modal scales/intervals!

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea!

Can you make a video on Intervals and the emotion, but descending intervals Please!

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Hi, thank you for the suggestion, I will add this to my ideas for future videos!

Very helpful sir Sir please I'll be glad if you can make a video on how to choose a perfect time signature when trying to compose a piece or if you already have a video like that you can refer me to it,thank you 🙏🙏. Love from Nigeria🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it was useful! Thank you for the video suggestion - I will make a note now to include a video on time signatures in the future!

Hi Simon, very good video. May I ask what is the music composing software that you are using on this video? it seems to have all the things I want (both Paino Roll and Notation Editor together)

@mortengu1385

Жыл бұрын

the black GUI looks like Cubase...

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Hi Paul, Apologies for the delayed reply. It is indeed Cubase, but I then recreate the notation separately in another program called Finale. I then combine the two together in my video editing software. I hope that helps

how you do the baclground sound ? behind the piano sound i search this so long cant find it

I have a question, or two, not related to inervals... what program are you using? Many of the DAW programs look so intimidating to a beginner like myself, but the program you are using looks fairly straightforward... also, and this is probably a dumb question. But the sound playing in the background of each example. What was that?

We play note inside intervals only or we play intervals after that we can play notes high or any note interval Please reply

What program (DAW) are you using to input keyboard notes?

@composingacademy8270

Жыл бұрын

Hi, apologies for delay. I use Cubase Pro 11. Hope that helps!

Intervals are like my favorite thing in a melody, but you're often told not to use "leaps" in a melody. Maybe that's more for singing and not for instrumentals?

@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Yes make sure that you don't have lots of big leaps. Moving by step (minor or most likely a major 2nd) will help to give you the most cohesive melody (throw in a few jumps for good measure). Try to avoid lots of leaps by anything over a 5th though

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@composingacademy8270

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!