#146 - Composing In Exotic Keys! (2 Easy Music Theory Methods)
Added 2021-01-29 14:01:02 +0000 UTCTime for a very special lesson from your Patreon wishlist! I want to show you 2 easy methods for composing in awesome exotic keys :) We are working with Harmonic Minor and Hungarian Minor in this video - but you can use the methods for any scale/key you want to use!
Make sure to download the tabs and guitar pro files for the 2 compositions below! I also added backing tracks of the arrangements in case you want to learn them. Which method do you prefer? Do you write your songs in specific keys or do you just put riffs and ideas together?
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Chazz zz
2022-06-21 23:08:55 +0000 UTCI know this is older lesson. But you have the download for lesson like your newer lessons?
Chazz zz
2022-06-21 23:08:50 +0000 UTCthanks for the input.
Steve Shaw
2021-02-02 15:53:58 +0000 UTCVielen Dank Bernth ;) So you are using a pretty similar setup that I am using... (Cubase 10.5, instead of Focusrite a Steinberg UR44C and instead of Kemper my Ironheart Studio which also goes directly to my PC....) At least it is pretty interesting that you achieve such sounds with just that basic setup... I just don't know, what I'm doing wrong here xD but I guess the Kemper does a lot to that... I have to emulate a good cabinet for my amp signal. Anyhow, danke noch mal ;) @Steve Focusrite isn't a bad thing. Really not at all and as you can hear here you got some real good sounds of it. But in case you are using Cubase too, I would suggest a Steinberg interface as well, since the connection between Cubase and the intereface should be better (a little at least) that way. (but of course: both will work under common circumstances and on the end of the day it comes down to personal taste - I do prefer the black/greyish look of the Steinberg UR over the focusrite)
Sephiroth
2021-02-01 17:52:07 +0000 UTCThanks Bernth, I am looking at the focusrite scarlett2i2, 3rd gen bundle at the moment from Thomann as a starting point.
Steve Shaw
2021-02-01 15:17:51 +0000 UTCI'm working with the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, my Kemper profiler signal goes right into that :) It's a really basic setup but works well for me! I use Cubase 10 (pretty much only the included plugins for mixing) and the GGD Invasion drumkit! Hope that helps :)
Bernd Brodträger
2021-02-01 07:14:32 +0000 UTCJust what I was thinking of asking.
Steve Shaw
2021-01-31 16:30:10 +0000 UTCCool video! I am very interested in you're recording hardware (do you directly play into an audiointerface and emulate all digital or are you using a real amp and if how to you record it? Doesn't seem like traditional amp to mic. And of course what software and plugins do you use? (Cubase and kontakt obviously but what do you put in the insert effects for example?) Would like a video about all of that too... but I would understand if this would a little crush the boundaries of your project here. I, too, am doing recordings at home and yet didn't achieve such a good guitar sound even after years and you just seem to record it and that's it. (and that's even just a rough mix of yours...)
Sephiroth
2021-01-31 12:07:39 +0000 UTCAgree that watching these lessons in Cubase and going through your thinking while putting together the musical concepts/lessons while recording is golden. Thanks again Bernth!
Pierre Forsell
2021-01-30 22:46:05 +0000 UTCMan, you‘re really awesome! Doesn‘t your mind sometimes feel like bursting by all the musical ideas stacked into it? Seems like you could write songs in a time and quality others (like me) cannot even think of. Very encouraging to get better!
Michael Sax
2021-01-29 22:28:58 +0000 UTCCan you actually stack takes in Cubase? One per loop in the same track? Edit: Layers! Just by watching your videos, I can really pick up so much related stuff
Arvid Richter
2021-01-29 14:46:20 +0000 UTCGreat video, this is pretty close to what I'm doing at the moment, and actually has given me some confidence as I often wonder if I "should" be focusing on finding riffs that work together VS adding drums and bass to a single section, but I do that to get an idea for the sound. Would be great to get a video on any techniques for coming up with multiple sections / riffs that work well one after the other to help structure a song. I'm not bad on coming up with sections like you have here, but feel like when I make two in the same key they don't work well together, and I wonder if there's some trick to picking scale degrees for a verse and chorus, for example
Dominic Vermeulen-Smith
2021-01-29 14:43:21 +0000 UTCI love this kind of study, best lesson to date in my opinion!
David W Harper
2021-01-29 14:19:14 +0000 UTC
