Lesson 34: How Modulation Works

[artofscore]

simply the best teacher on youtube. the quality of your videos is second to none in content and implementation. big thanks for your effort! cheerz

[PiacentiniChannel]

Hi Seth! I just wanted to let you know that your videos helped me test out of harmony classes going into masters. I recommend these to anybody who ACTUALLY wants to learn music theory concisely, at your own pace, and with a great teacher! Looking forward to more!

[johnmatthewtennant]

I love your term “breakaway chord”! Something I’ve often referenced but never had a concise term for

[yonikrakauer]

These lessons are a gem. Don't stop uploading!

[lawrencetaylor]

I love these lectures but my lack of ear training holds me back. I can imagine the college professor stopping his lecture and pointing me out as a fraud...and he'd be right. But I'll listen in anyway.

[rizzbod]

Insane video, you explained me so well that I can imagine while sleeping

[gwalla]

This remains one of the best instructional series about music theory, and absolutely the best specifically about common practice period music theory. Clear and engaging, and gets into some of the fiddly details that sometimes get glossed over. I've been basically teaching myself from Music Theory YouTube, and while I may be deep into Dunning-Krugerland, I feel like I get a lot out of these.

Looking forward to the video on augmented 6ths. I'm still a little bummed that GUIM stopped uploading before getting to the promised final installment of his series on them.

[doublechindoge]

*Step aside professor, modulation is my specialty.* 😏
_Ok, so what you're gonna wanna do is open up FL Studio, and open up Sytrus. Just right-click the X modulation knob, create automation clip, then use the mod tab and modulation matrix to map the X mod knob to either some FM or RM to another operator. You have now used modulation to make a dubstep bass._ 👏👏

[laudrupli]

One of your best lessons yet. And you'd already set a really high bar!

[manasjadhav]

Keep making these beautiful lessons! Big Thank you!✨

[ShombitKumarPodder]

Was waiting for this video. Thank you soooo much. Love from India, dear Seth Monahan.

[AnatomyofaTrack]

I'm learning a ton from your videos, thanks for making them!

[PhistyMcNutz]

I can only imagine the effort that went into making these videos:

using the same font and colour for each T, D, and SD label, and aligning them perfectly

showing the same-sized, and same-opacity colour-coded circles to help us follow the bassline

overcoming vertical space constraints in the Haydn Op. 20, No. 4 example, by showing the analysis only when the system is playing

[CalebCarman]

In the Mozart Sonata 18 example, the original score doesn’t include the g# in the left hand. Might swing the perception more towards being an open cadence than a modulation.

[pedromsrodrigues]

Thanks for the great work! Waiting for the next video!!!

[dakotapederson]

Amazing video! One of the best explanations I've seen thus far. Just a suggestion, but I think it would be beneficial to include at least one example of how these techniques apply to music outside of the classical/romantic era. Every book and explanation I've seen always does it with classical era music, but it would be neat to see how these same techniques apply to orchestral music of the 20th century and beyond. Do you by chance know of any books that has a modern take on these techniques? Whenever I'd compose, for the longest time my modulations sounded very "classical" when I wanted to get that modern sound, but I can't seem to find many resources which can explain it from the perspective of say Shostakovich or Bernstein or any other 20th century composer.

[edisonhamilton]

Seth, are you available for skype lessons? I'm looking to do score study and absolutely love your approach. Your channel is exceptional!

[rogerioconstante]

Hi, i'm teacher in Pelotas's Federal University, Brazil, and liked your videos very much. I'd really like to use them in my classes, but they don't have subtitles in portuguese. So i would like to translate to portuguese and made the subtitles for some of them. I'd like to ask you if i could send you these portuguese subtitles so you could put it in your videos and my brazillian students (and other portuguese speakers) would be able to understand your videos. Thanks.

[slwankaedbey]

I'm new to this channel and I love the series, and your teaching skills and engagement with the topic steals my attention.
Could you recommend us a good book about four part writing

[escaper_piano]

Yess this is what I was looking for 😁😁