Speaking of Herrmann, could the opening of the cue where Vicki runs to the cathedral, be heard as an homage to the “travelling” motif from North By Northwest?

can be heaxotanal pretushka too

mm hmm yes nods. I learned the main theme sheet music on keyboard. I really enjoyed learning it, and really started to get a feel for Silvestri's patterns, continuing with experimentation with the BTFF 2 and 3 music. But this is way above my head. I'm not a musician, I just replicated the black dots on the paper and learned a bit more by ear.

Fun Fact: When the Joker radios for the Helicopter to arrive in 5 minutes and then looks up at the Cathedral and decides it will take about 10 minutes. The helicopter actually arrives at exactly 10 minutes from the runtime of the film.

6:48 I love those videos in which someone explains something I heard for a hundred times in a way that instantaneously lifts all the fog and snaps the puzzle piece in place!

2:14 every silvestri film score

This is so good!! Thanks for taking the time to put this together and for making it available!

Now that you mentioned, FFVII's Shinra Headquarter theme is basically an octatonic scale being played over and over

The combination of the Lydian mode and the octatonic scale was a successful strategy for Silvestri to create a compelling score for Back to the Future.

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What I love about this particular piece is the mood, it almost sounds like the music is dying. There's just something so mournful about it. I hear the organ now after being so immersed in rock & roll, especially my favorite era of 1967 with bands like Procol Harum that used the Hammond organ, and I think that was a stroke of pure genius! It's mind-blowing, too! Because Danny Elfman was not a formally taught musician when it came to composing, I believe it was something Tim Burton really pushed him to do. But he really saw something amazing in him, I mean he's one of the best film composers around.

god, this was my favorite movie to watch as a kid. I never thought I'd get into music, nor that I'd be so infatuated with the work of film composers like Elfman. But seeing it examined now, I love how dark & sad the mood of it is. This is a profound video!

The Batman 1989 score is my favourite film soundtrack. I love how it complements Burtons gothic tone but also has many memorable tracks that are seperate from the main Batman leitmotif but also add to world of Gotham. Stand outs to me include: First confrontation, waltz to the death and the main theme. I’ll also admit that I’m biased because I got to hear this soundtrack a lot when playing Lego Batman. But it’s still great.

No wonder I fell in love with the Octatonic scale, I mean I saw its potential... Repeats every two strings and every four frets, it has major & minor & half diminished & diminished chords with a minor 7 ... Its a Swiss army knife, it does anything with mikimal finger dexterity or head space but that is merely scratching the surface. The variety is mind boggling. Also what a fantastic video... Sounds like it deserves a good composition at exactly 88bpm :P

Was ready to click off the video if you said Lydian. But then I was like “ooh, augmented”. Nice.

Why is it the second inversion chords seem to be more powerful than root position or 3rd inversion?

i just discovered your channel but i see that it has so few uploads i love your way of explaining hope you do more in the future

One of the best Music Theory book I ever bought.

Amazing. Thank you. Proof KZbin has every thing you want to learn. Appreciate the video.

Great demos! I remember seeing the Cosmic Beam Experience on Dick Cavett in the early '70s. It inspired Craig Huxley's "Blaster Beam," used to produce the iconic V-ger sounds in STMP. Basically a metal box beam about 15 feet long, with heavy strings running the full length, electric pickups, processing to suit; the strings are struck, bowed, plucked, whatever, with a wide variety of implements. Very few in existence (they're awkward to house and transport). Hope you can get your hands on one someday!

please make more videos. i only found your page now. your video presentations are awesome

I can't klick the link and I'm much to scatterbrained to toe it correctly 😂 Edit: I can't find Elf on your website

7:02 "Try to imagine" why they cut some of the musical score out of this scene? I'm not a filmmaker, but I think I've got this. As good as Silvestri is at writing exciting music, the audience can still be numbed by overexposure to it. Just as it's helpful to break dramatic tension with occasional comic relief, so is it helpful to break musical tension with occasional silence from the orchestra.

Thanks for this awesome video, but I think there is a mistake at 3:00. There are 2 different scales shown for the nonatonic scale. The one on the bottom is the same as Slonimsky's #184 and I think is correct. It follows a h-w pattern from each of the notes of the augmented scale. The one on top is h-w from C then w-h from E and w-h from G#. I am a bit confused.

This is so great, more rare and exotic instruments please!

ABBY this was THE coolest video. Also very well made , sound edit etc, all very tastefully produced, . Well done . Is this YOUR personal collection?? I’m a shaker collector etc.

Very VERY cool !! I have an I have an angklung!! From eBay probably 30 yrs ago and I Love it. No one else has one around here so it’s a Looker !!

This was fantastic! What an education! Thank you.

That clip from Holst's Neptune is almost indistinguishable from the spooky Ark theme in Raiders.

Really cool thank you for the lesson 😊

great vid!

Thank you for such a clear and fascinating video. Plus, am I the only seeing a skull on the left of your background picture ? Made by the stars and dust.

Good choice to cut the music in the film version. The silence represents Marty's realization and works a lot better. That's not to say the extra music doesn't fit, it's just that the scene is stronger without it.

This is a stellar analysis and thank you SO MUCH for showing the reduced score with the music queue. Does OmniMusicPublishing sell the reduced scores in addition to full scores? Would be so helpful as reference.

When I was in music school I was obsessed with such abstractions. I composed fractal music by hand (back when 1 in 10 had even heard the word fractal) and even sold the framed notation - because it was literally fractal notation. I studied Schoenberg and Raga and everything in between always searching for some magic hidden in the very “dna” of music itself. Since humans now how a 6 second attention span and don’t understand the idea of actually listening to music without rubbing their butts against things or “pumping the bass man”, very very sadly my dream of being a composer old school was murdered by people shouting about money, sex and how tough they are in their athelesiure.. So I started doing soundtracks as my only option. This taught me a very important lesson specific to cinema but 100% true for all music: ITS ALL ABOUT THE FEELS! Soundtrack music is all about either telling people how to feel or enhancing how the movie is making them feel. Fascinating techniques are useless. I think this applies to all music. Aleatoric scales, 12 tone, polytonalism etc fascinating yes but use it for a movie and people will basically feel the same each moment as these abstract scales chords and techniques do not CONNECT TO HUMAN EMOTIONS they are ideas of the brain. To other composers they are fascinating and it’s these types of techniques which birthed the infamous statement that “his music is better than it sounds” used about Wagner. I think there is much brilliant sounding Wagner but I absolutely understand the statement- he worked so hard to be clever and use abstract techniques that often all that was lost and all that mattered was the FEELS of it. The melody, the harmony and the motion. Sometimes applying these fascinating and ever so clever ideas backfired on Wagner. He would have a beautiful leitmotif etc but would cram in so much abstract left brain logical mathematicalism into the music that it would sound AWFUL. Beware cleverness. Half a century of composition has taught me to keep it simple, don’t overcomplicate, don’t get stuck up in your head and stay in your ears and heart. It’s what you HEAR and what that makes you FEEL that matters. Play the melody of “Marion’s Theme” along with the chords just as whole notes and you’ll see what I mean. It’s not clever, it’s not innovative but it’s Einstein level BRILLIANT the way he evokes such a specific and powerful feeling from a banal ordinary chord progression as basic as that of a marching band. I spent years creating new methods, of working on the meta tonal fractal technique (so called because it was played using a special interlaced hand technique so you’d be playing octuplets of chromatic intervals so quickly that the tones would blend into a glassy texture of fractal exposition) but ultimately it was just compose what FEELS right which got me somewhere.

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Amazing video..

Just what i was looking for. This is just the sound i love, so you have given me the tools to use it. Subscribing for sure. Have a great day

This an excellent presentation of your percussion rental instruments.

The effort here is above and beyond. Thank you sir. Considering there are over 16k views I'm a bit shocked that so many can't even give a thumbs up. I'd give thousands if I could. Subscribed.

dude! new subscriber. I love this breakdown. thank you for the info!

Hello everyone, I would like to ask a question on the cord progression at 2:57. I understand: Gmin=1, Adim=2, Bb=3, Eb=6. However, how can Gmin be the first and the fifth accord, and how does Amajor fit into this progression? He has to switch keys, right? Thanks in advance.

I cannot put into words how helpful and inspiring your analysis videos are! I really resonate with the way you put them together and the theory/chord analysis that goes into them, please make more 👍

Goosebumps,,i have no words really,it's simply and sincerely a beatiful idea and you lead It at the top, Congratulations & thank you very much!

that's an amazing breakdown, thank you ! may I ask, where do you get the orchestra sheet music from ? especially qui gons funeral , much appreciated

This was a fantastic introduction to the augmented scale. Thank you! And the references are excellent.

Thank you, What i was looking for. Different ways of going beyond the major minor scale. This sounds similar to the batman score by danny elfman.

Love this!

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