Jazzy Chase Music Cue with Pitch-Class Sets and a Schillinger Rhythm

[@c.contrafactum584]

One of the best channels out there, yet extremely underrated. Thank you for your content.

[@FransAbsil]

Adnan, thanks for your kind contribution to the comments. How did you land on this channel and did you find what you were looking for? The best I can do for the channel appreciation is adding quality content. I hope that others, visitors and subscribers, will increase its visibility through shares and likes, or maybe come up with great ideas for support.

[@c.contrafactum584]

@@FransAbsil It's a pleasure. Last year I studied Messiaen's "technique of my musical language," and I was looking for more diverse ways to look at music and composition. I had recently found Schillinger's system and bought the two volumes. From what I understand, though, is that the system was compiled after Schillinger's death, and so many of the ideas are obscure. While looking and researching online, I found your channel! I will eventually study through the system and your channel will be an indispensible resource. If you have any advice (or a specific video) on how to go through the system, it would be helpful. As for the channel's popularity, I recommend contacting the major music theory/composition channels here on youtube, and maybe collaborate with them. I think many of them are American, and it might bring in more viewers/traffic to these well-made videos.

[@FransAbsil]

@Adnan, after reading the Messiaen texts quite some Schillinger approaches will seem familiar. Permutations and combinations of integer number sets, depicting patterns in the time and pitch domain (scales, modes), etc. His notation sometimes is confusing, or with minor inconsistencies. My e-book, Guide to the Schillinger Theory of Rhythm, is meant as an introduction, and presents alternative notation and many examples, discussed in detail, that explain the techniques. In the SSoMC the book and subject order is quite straightforward. The counterpoint and instrumentation parts can be read in any order. The Special Theory of Harmony contains an excellent summary of classical tonal harmony. For me the General Theory of Harmony, with its Strata approach was a great help in writing for large ensembles, layering synthesizers etc. The book on Instrumental Forms will provide many ideas for writing interesting parts, based on a given setting. I teach these aspects to my online students. On my channel there are episodes about specific techniques from various SSoMC books, most of them from the Special Theory of Harmony. For more details on how and what to study from the Schillinger books it's better to communicate through e-mail. Thanks again for your comments and suggestions.

[@jx003]

This is cosmic and full of energy. Very deep music The bass line is wicked!

[@FransAbsil]

Thanks for your comments! The idea was to create a familiar jazz idiom with ingredients from a different style (atonal music pitch-class sets). That cooking should have yielded a deep bass, cosmic synthesizer and wicked brass. Somewhere along the line I must have been mixing ingredients in the wrong proportions ;-)

[@joebvelez52]

Thank you for this video, I have been studying book 1 Theory of Rhythm.

[@FransAbsil]

@joebvelez52 You're welcome. I assume that you studied the original Schillinger volumes. I use the rhythm patterns regularly, as may be obvious from the examples on this channel. However, I am not always pleased with the generator mechanisms. I do modify those considerably before using.

[@joebvelez52]

@@FransAbsil I am studying the original Schillinger volumes very slowly. I understand the generator mechanisms and I am trying to use it in conjunction with the Cuban clave structure.

[@danmcgirr4210]

This is great! The new video style is really helpful too.

[@FransAbsil]

Thanks, Recently I moved from fairly static slide presentations to more dynamic videos, using the ScreenFlow software. As a consequence however, I am currently trying to improve the Finale (line thickness) settings for movie display. Glad to hear that these 'experiments' are being appreciated.

[@danmcgirr4210]

The videos are much easier to grasp now. Great stuff.

[@EllieMcEla]

"jazzy"

[@FransAbsil]

And atonal; it's doable ;-)