The Secret Scale that Hollywood Composers Use | Music Theory Lesson - OMNI Music Publishing

[@JoshLucan]

Also the planing major thirds in Empire Strikes Back when the camera goes to empty space right after the opening crawl! Dear lord, I puzzled over this for so long. There is a hex scale in Persichetti's book that I thought could be the source but showing how it's been used in the repertoire really clears this up. Mystery solved! Thank you.

[@halfindy]

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!

[@bpe-music]

Thanks so much for the Franz Schreker "Prelude to a Drama" shoutout. It is such a magnificent wonderful piece I fell in love with the first time I heard it live at the Wiener Musikverein with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna under Ingo Metzmacher in 2012 (yes, I still remember that experience almost 10 years later). SOOOO many composers, especially for film, owe a lot to Franz Schreker, Ernst Krenek and many others :-)

[@scottglasgowmusic]

THIS SCALE! So many films. Then POLYCHORDS! You know how many scores I have done where the cadence is that C# / Amin you discuss at 7:50? Too many! Reminds me of what Charles Ives was doing in his "Unanswered Question". Great video post!

[@muzikmystro]

Tim/ Dallas, you gent. Thank you for this video. My students will be delighted. And I’m greatly looking forward to the Star Trek score, whenever Omni are able to publish it. Stay safe and well x

[@jangoisbaddest]

Please, make more of these videos! :)

[@chromaticswing9199]

Wow, I was surprised to see such high quality content with a random click. Your editing, narration style, humor, concepts, and examples are all top notch. I'll watch your other videos, and as it stands right now, you have just earned a subscriber through an excellent video. Can't wait to see what comes next!

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

Chronos won't have this shit

[@homeofcreation]

One of the best Music Theory book I ever bought.

[@TheDetective86]

I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the examples of the Augmented Scale. Keep up the great work, Tim.

[@milessafford]

More videos from this channel, please!!! Great stuff.

[@Tauramehtar]

I have always wondered what gave those John Williams passages their particular flavor. This really gets to the bottom of it. Great video. I am going to have to practice with this scale in my own compositions.

[@bobblues1158]

I have owned the Slonimsky Book since 1969. That and Barry Harris and Louis Armstrong, Duke, Art Tatum . Bird and Bud -Monk is still a mystery. I will include Vincent Persichetti ´s 20th Century Harmony and Paul Hindemiths´Two Voice Writing. And I am a Jazz player. Endless!!!

[@handznet]

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[@CJCalvertMusic]

Incredible video - great content, and you have a fantastic teaching style. Please keep creating these!

[@fuglbird]

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

[@KaceyBakerFilms]

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

[@GenuineHeather]

Wow. Just wow. Fantastic. Thank you for doing these videos!

[@JbPianiste]

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.

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[@edbuller4435]

Fantastic Stuff...thank you so much.

[@turnerhortonmusic]

great video! Please keep 'em coming!

[@scottgilesmusic]

Very well organized and informative!

[@drew6524]

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.

[@omarirm]

Gracias! Gran video! Muy bueno, realmente fantástico.

[@PentUpPentatonics]

I've been googling fruitlessly for years trying to understand what you just explained so succinctly in 10m minutes.. These sounds are so distinct to my ear but I never had a clue what was going on or how to replicate. I can't read music so it's always been such a mystery to me. Can anyone point me toward more resources like this that just explain interesting textures and harmonic ideas simply without relying on notation? Thanks for the excellent video, please make more!

[@vadimkozlov3228]

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.

[@chrisf5828]

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

[@journey624]

Which edition of the Slonimsky book would be best to pick up? There is a updated breezier 'guitar' version and older editions floating around. Great video btw and thanks for letting me know of which 'version' to pick up.

[@brettchassen2888]

AWESOME 👍

[@KrystofDreamJourney]

Fantastic stuff Tim !

[@sorartificial]

Very nice video, I notice there are different augmented scale and this particular full name is augmented hexatonic

[@whittymusic]

Love this!

[@liimlsan3]

1:50 - All my life I've thought of Chromatic Mediants as "the thing from the pianissimo organ chords in the bridge to "Watcher of the Skies.""

[@yadinmichaeli12]

Really cool thank you for the lesson 😊

[@nowhereman1402]

Brilliant, thank you

[@basscat111]

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.

[@MePeterNicholls]

More! This is top content

[@GeorgeStreicherMusic]

Love this! Example of this would be in the choir for the opening titles of Jurassic Park?

[@omnimusicpublishing974]

Williams used the Romanian minor for the opening Jurassic chord (with an added F when the shakuhachi comes in). However, Don Davis used a D augmented scale for the opening chord in Jurassic Park III.

[@TimHareMusic]

Only you would know this, Tim 😉

[@baardmanbeats]

great vid!

[@ericmpereira]

I appreciate the Giant Steps background piano

[@ericmpereira]

While talking of the three-part division of the octave*

[@omnimusicpublishing974]

@@ericmpereira You caught the reference! I was wondering if anyone would notice....

[@KrystofDreamJourney]

@@omnimusicpublishing974 I love it too ! After all Coltrane studied Slonimsky’s Thesaurus on daily basis :-)

[@scottfoster3643]

Fantasztikus

[@RomanWaves]

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

[@thegoodgeneral]

Whoa, wait... where did you get the score for The Phantom Menace? Is it from a live performance score, where an orchestra plays to picture? Or did Omni publish this score?

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Tim has hidden depths :)

[@ralphmarshall1000]

If you’re missing a folder, you’re page turner is standing on it.

[@TheBob0111]

5:17-5:18 Illuminati confirmed? 👁 👽👽 👽👽👽 👽👽👽👽

[@GuitarUniverse2013]

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

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

7:14 this is an harmonization to highlight the aug triad, and another typical consequence of chrom. mediants, easier explained so

[@Labyrinth1010]

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

[@farnaztabatabaee]

Why didn’t you continue?!!😢

[@aierterkorekamusiccomposer6949]

Do you offer online classes?

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

i do

[@alanluevano5393]

ye

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

i think these examples are harmony based, not scale based. The scales are natural consequence of some chord progressions.

[@franciscoaragao9672]

C - D# is not a minor third, even inside the american pragmatism.