How To Create Apocalyptic Chord Progressions
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In this guitar lesson, we will explore how to create apocalyptic and dreadful chord progressions.
As we will see, using mostly minor chords in a chord progression is not enough to create that full feeling of apocalypse or of uneasiness.
It is HOW we purposefully select which minor chords we use, that the dreadful feeling reveals itself.
We will take advantage of the principle of ‘’chromatic mediants’’ to select the best chords that give us, chromatic, dissonant and weird chords to choose.
After watching this lesson, you will finally be able to craft your own chord progressions for the end of the world…
Enjoy :-)
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Thank you! Longtime songwriter but the piece about stacking minors and poly chords just opened the floodgates
"Hey You" immediately comes to mind...?
Very useful lesson😎👍
😎👍❤🖖
Love the quick spinal tap reference
Excellent Lesson Antoine! Definitely set the "feeling" of uneasiness and dread!
Love the enthusiasm. Thanks for the videos. I love music theory. Still learning.. but ill get there.
You always present things that I never would have thought of. Great stuff.
So many great storylines from this progression!
thank you, clear explanation, beautiful music and also very pleasant tone of guitar
I love the sound of those ,pretty cool when you're wanting new ideas.
Another great lesson man!
I played this thema last week....Dmi Bmi and so.Your videos are very helpfull for me.I started make ambient music 1 year ago.6.35 fantastic.
Great video, thanks Antoine!
I always forget how suspiciously similar Phantom of the Opera is to Pink Floyd's Echoes. 😂
Suspiciously stolen...
Roger Waters didn't fail to notice. He has a lyric referencing it on Amused to Death. To be fair, chromatic runs aren't that hard to compose.
I always noticed the same. Thought I was the only one lol @mrt77wv
Echoe - 1971
Phantom of ghe Opera 1985
Great progression!👍🙌
Glad to see you getting outside the diatonic box, and especially into chromatic mediants. Major and minor chromatic mediants are easily among the most interesting kinds of changes, and underutilized in most music (especially popular music).
Awesome! Thank you!
Love it man! That sounds pretty blackmetal to me! I like the melodies you added on the chord progression too
Excellent! Thank you
Sounds great!!
Awesome. Thanks.
Beautiful lesson 👍
This is how I write my stuff!! Modal music is the best😜
Good topic, Antoine!👌
Stellar 🔥🤟
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us !!!
You're welcome. Thanks for watching, Joseph!
Excellent sir
Definitely using this for writing some doom metal riffs, excellent video
This is basically the only type of song I write....well that along with some extremely heavy death metal metal guitars. Love this lesson.
Fantastic stuff !!
Many thanks!
4:00 it also the same as in Pink Floyd's "Echoes"
Yeah, Pink Floyd is a trending topic on my channel lately :-) thanks!
Great lesson Antoine, just what I was looking for. That finished piece you played reminded me of something by Steven Wilson from his Grace For Drowning album - love that album.
Oh yeah, definitely! Thanks Steve :-)
Yes, I think you mean the song Belle de Jour. I think it is in Am. Great track. It sounds so sad and dreadful but so beautiful...to me anyway LOL.
@@electricwhiterabbit yes that's the one.
Nice. Also try diminished and or augmented chords, and augmented 4ths corn increased unease.
I love Augmented chords and diminished chords
exelente, saludos desde argentina
Ooh I used this technique a couple of years ago in the soundtrack of an amateur short film
Very cool!
Ok that right at the beginning sounds like straight out of The Last of Us.
first half of the intro sounds like the outro to blackwater park.
Very Opethy!
Oh yeah, Opeth are all over this concept!
You're a genius ha
Thank you for the door-opening lesson. What are you playing for the melody, scales, arpeggios?
I'm just improvising on a natural minor scale, changing on each respective chord (D minor scale, Bb minor scale, etc)
The first progression reminds me of Freya's theme from Final Fantasy IX.
Surfing that algorythm apocalypse is always gonna get suggested
very good, congratulations video Dude
How do I do a SOLO, or improvise over chromatic mediants chord, what scales should I use for that?
I'm just changing the minor scale each time on top of each chord (improvising in D minor scale on top of Dm chord, improvising in Bb minor scale on top of Bbm chord, and so on). Thanks!
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I see, I understand, each chord you change you play its own scale, if it's a major major scale if it's a minor minor scale, right?
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When it comes to God chord or even chromatic mediants, does it work the same way? Cromatic Mediants or God Chords, is there a specific scale for these chords? or in an improvisation, improvising for SOLO that contains these types of chords, which scales should I use in relation to Cromatic Mediants or God Chords?
👍This could be a Pink Floyd song from the late sixties/early seventies era.
I like mediants, esp a minor 3rd up and a major 3rd down. Sound Floydy.
Hi there what reverb are you using :)
Neunaber Immerse Mk II. Awesome reverb!
Cool, you made black metal without distortion.
Im actually very good at doing this scary unsettling type music. The only problem is im not aware when im doing it.
When you pull some high gain on it. It become darkmetal 😂😂
Sounds like Gollums Song + Pink Floyd + Goonies Spooky parts
phantom of the opera = echoes pink floyd
so thats how opeth do opeth things
Oh yeah! I have an Opeth lesson on how they make their chords if you want to see it. Here's the link: czcams.com/video/xN4CQcJMMO4/video.html
1:00 "Lick my love pump" XD
I waited to see who would be the first one to point it out in the comments. You were the fastest, congratulations ;-)
Echoes of Pink Floyd have a sound like this
SOME BLACK METAL VIBES.INTERESTING🤔
I'm sitting here like, "Yeah, this is great, Antoine, but what's it sound like with a melody?" & you were like, "Hold my beer and listen to this!"
It's like you read my mind. Great video as usual!!
Haha, so cool!
iron maiden made a musically career out of those chord ideas!
3 steps to write shivering music:
1) learn about scales and their chords as much as you can
2) forget all about major chords and about diatonic scales
3) start writing
Dm - The key of Lick My Love Pump
Just learn Black Sabbath Songs