Six Spooky Secrets Composers use to SCARE you [Music Theory / Composition]

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[MrDeadgodinme]

As a creepy heavy metal composer I can tell you that musical gold pours out of your mouth, man. You put into words many things we do subconsciously in an attempt to achieve eery sounds. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work, this channel has a bright future ahead of it.

[Unluckyification]

Other creepy instruments are the organ and the double bass. Possibly the bass clarinet

[endriu]

I don't know if it's used in horror movies but MinMaj7 is a spooky unease chord.

[a.cooper]

I’ve got another creepy instrument: violin bow on the edge of a suspended cymbal.

[GogiRegion]

While writing a video game score for an indie game I’m working on, I used a lot of these. I really like the bends. Especially on violin. In one song that’s ambient for hell has a part where everything sustains, but the violin bends up during the melody, and it sounds awesome. I also had a part in the same song where the chords go down all minors chromatically.

[AlgyCuber]

1:39 when a really loud car drives past your house at night and you cant sleep
2:02 when a racecar starts accelerating in a race
2:20 when you're in a choir class and you really wanna use the bathroom so you have to pitch up your voice
3:50 another one when you really wanna pee
4:55 when you've stayed in a ghost house for too long and you really wanna leave
5:03 when you don't know what's happening and you wanna turn around to look at the back
5:08 something else appeared but you still don't know what it is

[greyvalencia]

I actually wanted to write a Halloween song and this is so interesting! Great job

[Misternoname]

I have just discovered your channel. I am 3 videos in and I am immediately hooked. Very interesting compositional ideas!

[placer]

The waterphone is a great example of a creepy instrument. Or the sound of dropping a rock or wrench down a very long metal shaft

[Simpleton_X]

Thank you for these videos! It's hard to find videos where people explain HOW to use theory to achieve the sounds you want. But that is exactly what your whole channel is about. Love it. Keep it up!

[watercolourmark]

The always go dark and creepy when I compose in Hungarian minor, also called Double Harmonic minor or Gypsy minor, has a lot of these tricks inbuilt - it is ironically a perfectly balanced scale, but feels kind of off to our western ears. To me it feels like it is at the cusp of being harmonic - if tracks get too busy with this scale they start to fall apart, so you need to be careful.

[iantanner]

sir, I discovered your channel only a few days ago and i've been watching your content ever since. i've been messing around with synthesizers, samplers and electric bass since the late 80s, - just a personal interest sparked off by clubbing and certain substances, - and just felt obliged to say, Thank You, one can only learn so much from books and your videos contain really refreshing, and exciting ideas... the affable presentation is also greatly appreciated.

~easily the best music theory channel on youtube, imo~

[awinterstorm]

This is great; packed with information and not a wasted word. Excellent teacher.

[Praseodymium]

alternatively, this video could be called death metal music theory

[aitornavarro]

Low pitch notes (sounds), minor 2nd's, tritones (b4), chromatic ascends/descends, note clusters, chords like mM7's, Maj7+5,
sus chords, min6's, diminished chords, augmented chords, polychords one semitone apart (examples: C/Db, Ebm/D)

[nichttuntun]

Hi,
your video lessons are funny, witty and entertaining. You come directly to the point without leaving out to inform the watcher about why and how these techniques are functioning. That´s great for me as a hobbyist sound designer / field recordist, piano player and synth patcher :)
I subscribed your channel. Thank you.

[tonyattardo]

So the U.M.C. idea is basically the God chord idea, but minor instead of major. Interesting.

[ExplosionChimp]

2:21 there's a way to have the volume of one track fade in and the other track fade out to create a loop that seems like it ascends or descends infinitely.

[snnocense]

binging your channel right now, it's amazing how you translate theory into actual music and feeling, making it so much more relatable. i was looking for something like this for years. keep it up and you should set up a patreon or something similar.

[mostwanted]

I love your videos. There is not many videos on YouTube explaining chords and their emotions and connecting them with theory as intuitively and passionately as yourself. I usually never care about subscribing, but you sir I’m following straight away. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️