Learn Amazing Cinematic Chord Progressions

In this video we will break down 3 different ways to make cinematic chords that film composers use. These techniques are outside of traditional music theory and will help open up your ideas to more interesting way of making film score music. Ideas included are often used by composers like John Williams and other cinematic film composers composers.

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[OM-mdki]

Whered you even learn this kind of deep stuff? More lessons on weird progressions, techniques, film sounds like lydian. This was sooo deep man. Thank you for the ideas

[ethanpunto]

Came for cinematic music techniques but also ended up adopting a new jazz techique, the augmented chords in the superimposed triads section jumping around with the left hand jumping/descending with it worked very nicely at the end of some passages

[DDthecomposer]

Finally a composer of film music who does a break down of the most exciting exciting cinematic chords. I am specializing in genre film music and these are the more commonly used approaches which I so desperately have been wanting to learn

[AlexSonicsMusic]

Absolutely outstanding content. Clear, concise, wonderfully realistic mockups. I'm a huge fan of common tone movements, but the chromatic movements seem very juicy as well. THANKS a billion!

[eduardotepoxteca]

This is the kind of stuff I was looking for, I always wanted to learn this kind of techniques or progressions there's something about movies and video-game scores that is just magic. Thank you sir

[BeyondtheNotesPiano]

Wow. I’ve been looking for someone like you to learn from. Just watching 5-7 min and a whole new world opened to me. Made me fall in love even more with film scoring (which I’m new to) and it even made me tear up I was so excited 🤣🤣 I love the way you teach and your personality! Totally looking into your course now after this comment. Thank you!

[seanmcdermott]

I can't believe how much my approach to composing has changed since I stumbled across your channel. What a talent you are! Thanks for all of these incredible insights.

[zxprophet]

added the sneaky E major on the first example but great lesson ty so much

[camthesaxman]

It's crazy how cinematic you can sound just by plopping down random triads that only share one note with the next.

[nitinmistry]

I can't read music, but your video really helped me understand and apply a simple technique to come up with custom chord progressions given a starting point.
Very well explained.
Thank you.

[desoconnor]

Outstanding content …no waffle ….brilliant flow rate and idea development..thanks 🙏

[DaveBessell]

Thank you, very nice compact explanation of these techniques.

[grahamstott]

Awesome! What fantastic relevantly simple techniques. Thanks for sharing.

[indikasampath]

I literally wrote this down..thanks..good job

[drewb]

this is one of the most helpful composing videos ive ever seen thank you so much for explaining it so simply

[richardbarcaricchio]

How does this have so few views?? Fantastic.

[JohnSk]

Aside the great tips I like that you are using PSamples for your mockups and the combinations btw other devs.

[PowerRedBullTypology]

For the most of my time into compositon (just for fun) I did not knew any music theory or know how to play anyone's else's music. I did not even knew anything other than the idea that chords were made of a few (like 3 tones). So I just combined any 3 notes that I fancied into a chord. With things like 7 chods I only used 3 tones becasue I did not know chords could have 4 of them. I usually just had the 5 missing (so 1, 3, 7)
I also did not knew of scales, but was always attacted to chord progressions with chords that did not all belong in the same key. They had that 'magical' feeling that filmscoles could have and seem to create a more intense experience than in key chord progressons. The method I used to combine chords was just to keep one of the 3 tones/notes the same and move the others around. This made it accessible enough while not feeling too predictable (as in key can feel predictable).
While I would probably still recommend people to know theory, I think the way I learned it was much more fun and exciting as a journey than some starting with basic chords in a major scale. I do not think that would have captured me from the start.

So i can imagine that if people do know much theory like I did, they can enjoy such methods as they not as much feel like you have to know as many rules (like scale "rules"). Then you can start out in a somewhat more playful manner.

[johnmac]

Fantastic lesson, thanks. Subscribed and liked 😀

[ryanicenhower]

Well if this isn’t just an absolute gold mine of information. Definitely subscribed