I listened to 190 Zelda intros (Here’s what I learned)
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- How do you write a great and compelling introduction to your music?
🗡 Using Zelda's Music To Explain Harmonic Rhythm • Harmonic Rhythm Explai...
With The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword coming out soon on the Nintendo Switch, I thought I’d use the Skyward Sword soundtrack as a model for how to pull in your listener and get their attention. Time for some Legend of Zelda Music Theory!
Musical intros are short and simple, but at the same time writing an effective one that pulls your listener in and sets up your music can often be a challenge.
In this video we’ll look at three different types of introductions: gestures, crescendos, and vamps. Then we’ll listen to examples that combine these elements into more complex structures.
Be sure to check out another video on the music from Zelda games, Using Zelda's Music To Explain Harmonic Rhythm: • Harmonic Rhythm Explai...
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I totally agree! Ryan gives something very useful to learn in every nugget!!
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Agreed
This is great. I was having trouble articulating the non-theme components and I think what I was looking for is Gestures! Thanks for outlining this so clearly!
Glad it helped, let's hear what you come up with!
The pattern is "Contrast".
Who would've thought only three basic techniques would suffice?! Great breakdown, thanks so much for the insights!
This week on tuesday I had my final exam in music theory at school. We had to choose a piece ourselves and even though I'm extremely happy with the piece I chose and the score I got, I would've LOVED and actually kind of dreamed about using a Zelda song to present my analysis. So even though I wasn't able to do that it makes me very happy to see someone else analyse and praise some of my favourite musical pieces of all time!
Edit: it's also a funny coincidence that this video is as long as our presentation was supposed to be!
How did it go? And which syllabus? I passed grade 5 theory in abrsm but my teacher said it wasn't necessary to continue further, now I kinda wanna try to write write exam myself.
@@chilledbit oh I'm so sorry! I though I ready responded to you.. Honestly I can't quite tell you what you want to hear from me me, because I'm German our system is probably different to yours👀 It went great though! Even though I was pretty nervous it went away as soon as I started talking since we had to hold a presentation. I got full score so I think it's safe to say that it went the best way possible!
Aww unfortuante u couldnt chose a Zelda theme but at least u had fun with ur piece!
Funny story from me tho - I was hyped for BOTW ever since they hinted at a new game changing zelda game back in like 2014ish - but then it came out when i was busy with exams and i missed the hype train and ended up deciding to buy a guitar instead of a switch hahaha.
Now, i'm a composition major at uni and for our last theory unit, we had to analyse a piece made during or after the 20th century. My brain went, wait a min, I can do contemporary music then... can i do the breath of the wild trailer theme? HAHAHA And so ended up writing a 2000 word essay on it - finally convincing myself to buy a switch and play the game. It was so much fun but I love how it took me an assignment to actually get the game lol.
Found this channel, binged half the videos and instantly subbed! ❤️❤️
This video is GREAT! Thank you so much!
I can’t describe how much I appreciate you! Other channels usually explain music theory as extremely boring and in long videos but this is so short and easy to understand by using stuff im interested in as examples. You’ve earned a subscriber!
Thank you very much Ryan!
I shall try these things!
Thank you again, and this time for the video!
In the case of Groose’s there and the complex introduction, I think it’s a device used to over-exaggerate his character (which, if I remember correctly from when I played it YEARS ago, he’s kind of an egotistical try-hard). It’s a great take!
Really love your channel, Ryan. I’m a high school music educator and just started a Music Composition class last year. Your content has really been helpful in pointing out where I need to start beginner composers. Any other ideas you could share, one teacher to another, would be greatly appreciated!
I'm really enjoying your videos. You're presenting the musical content at the perfect level. Helps simplify things to a comprehensible level. Keep it up!
Thanks!
You have great video's. I enjoy how you breakdown the segments of the video; very well organised👍🏿
I loved this video!!!!!! You're so good at communicating these concepts in a way can understand. Skyloft is my all time favorite from the soundtrack, so I made a cover of it and it's literally now my favorite track on my spotify discography
All your videos are incredible! I love how much information you take and break down into super clear nuggets that are easy to digest and apply. You have a really awesome teaching gift!!
I really like your editing and videos in general. It seems effortless that you know all this stuff - it’s a shame this video got overlooked! Great work.
This channel improved my compositions tremendously, thanks
Dang you are AWESOME! Great information in concentrated doses.
Hello, Ryan, I really love your videos! Very informative and helpful!!! I am a music composition student and not only your videos are helpful, but they are very inspiring and encouraging me in studying! Thank you, Ryan! I wish you a great day ahead!! ❤
Great video. I only found it because you mentioned it in ostinato video. If I was searching for how to compose intros, I would probably skip over this because the title sounds like it's about Zelda. Might benefit from a title change... "Composing Intros -- learning from 190 Zelda songs" or something like that... But... Just one random internet dude's opinion.
Great stuff!
Thank you for this tutorial and continued success in your work, I just sub’d recently and am looking forward to checking more of your tutorials.
Wooow this is such a great video!
Thanks Ryan for this vid - it helped put terms to a lot of the things that popped up in my pieces and gave me a deeper understanding/clarity - im sure this will help in the future. My sister would always say that a lot of my music sounds like its out of a zelda game HAHAHA - but after watching ur video, I realise that I used a lot of structural elements/musical choices common to zelda osts without realising - that's probably one of the reasons why my pieces had that zelda touch hahaha. Nice to realise this now hahaha.
I like your funny words music Man
In all reality I don't know how I ended up here but you seem very into what your talking about and so I'll keep watching!
normally with a youtube channel i find, i spend a couple of days devouring its videos and then I run out. With your channel there just seems to be an ENDLESS series of videos. And you aren't just repeating yourself. Good work
i learned more from you than i did from any teacher
Great channel just found it and have learned a lot from every video so far. Would love it if you broke down more zelda music!
aweome content. just watched the ostinato vid really good advice packaged simply
Nice, can’t believe I haven’t seen this video after following you for a while ! Request for you to cover banjo kazzoie music !
I hate when a gesture is better than the actual piece. The introduction blows me away, and then the rest feels lackluster by comparison.
Anyways, thanks for the video! You’re very good at making your points easy to understand and easy for us to actually apply.
Great video Ryan. I have head of some of these terms before but wasn't sure how you would use them
Thanks, hopefully they give you some ideas!
Thanks!
I love your channel.
Fascinating!
Thanks!
Good stuff. Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
The music intro I love the most is Toby Fox's "Megalo Strike Back" and so many remixes omit this that it's aggravating, like the intro is one of if not the most important part.
Your videos are good
Absolute genius
Best intro in all music history is from Bedřich Smetana in "Vltava" poem.
bro im so high rn and now im understanding music theory now
Excellent video. Are there different types of intros for trailer music or longer cinematic pieces or will those still follow either of the three, gesture, crescendo, or vamp? In a cinematic piece where it has a longer ambient introduction that has hints of the main melody shining through here and there, would this be an example of a vamp?
I could be wrong about this but I think Groose’s theme alludes to the pirates from the Wind Waker as he is their ancestor (again, I think). Both themes have trombone accompaniment material that moves back and forth between a few chords with similar rhythms.
you shuld do an analys of the music in Xenoblade Chrinicles specially Definitive Edition and 2
Good idea. Colony 9 Night is one of my favorite tracks to listen to while I'm studying or working on non-music things.
@@RyanLeach I often listen the Elpys and Gormott forest themes from XC2 when working
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I came here from the ostinato video.
Ey why don't you make a complete course of composition and orquestation... O would be great
I’m working on it
Please do dark souls
What exactly is a vamp? Never heard of one before. From context here, it sounds like a vamp is an intro that uses the accompaniment as an intro without the melody the accompaniment normally goes with. Am I right, or have I misunderstood?
A vamp is when a chord or sequence of chords repeats indefinitely until it’s time to move on to the next thing. Imagine a band playing the first two chords of a song over and over while the singer talks about how great it is to be back in this city and tells a funny story or whatever.
@@RyanLeach Thank you, I understand better now.
Where is the difference between an ostinato and a vamp?
Ostinato is melodic, vamp can just be chords
1000 views ✅
Thanks for helping it get there!
too many hours to admit in breath of the wild means it is well north of 200 hours
ha not even close
Thanks!