Composition 105: Modulation
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- Let's talk about Modulation - what is it, when do we use it and how?
0:00 Intro
1:38 Overview
3:16 Original Theme
3:56 Common Tone Modulation
6:10 Secondary Dominant
9:21 Sequence
11:39 Diminished Chord
16:20 Minor V
19:09 German 5-6 Chord
24:33 Circle of Fourths and Fifths
27:07 Chord Overview and Recap
31:33 Final Remarks
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Since there’s some confusion: When I say G-major 7 I mean G7 / Dominant 7, not G-major with a major 7 (Gmaj7). All 7-chords in this video are dominant 7 chords, there’s not a single major 7. The reason I tried to avoid Dominant7 and other functional terms is because ppl without a theory background don’t know what that is. So the major is simply referring to the chord, not the 7. Additionally, in Germany (where I first learned about harmony), we don't use the same word for the chord and the intervals. Chords are classified as Dur and Moll whereas intervals are classified with major and minor. Old habits and all...
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@@AtlasBenighted Ah thank you! I thought I had pinned it but apparently not. 😅
It is very confusing without explanation
It's good for you that you pinned this comment but I understood it right in the video. Which is very well done and useful, thank you.
As a hobbyist suffering from chronic key entrapment, you just gave me several 'get out of jail free' cards 😂 Love the new look also.
There is no other youtuber as clear! Super professional, though easy to understand! So much know how presented this nicely is not what we are used to find! Fantastic!
This has officially became my favorite CZcams channel!!! Passing on knowledge in such an easy and natural way is truly a gift! 🙏❤️
You don't need makeup, you look great.
I agree! You look lovely! 🥰
Totally agree. :)
True
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Anne-Kathrin, thank you for great videos! But since you mentioned it yourself, I've could have sworn you hade an extremely well made makeup in this video.
Golden summary, an incredible, well thought out and planned class on practical modulation theory. I believe your calmed, down to earth, humble style of explaining things with this clarity shows that you're a top notch professional. This is the kind of content the community needs.
Discovering this channel has been a joy.
I can't express how grateful I am.
Thank you for sharing these gems, I respect your work and efforts and wish you the best in your journey
You look equally competent with or without the make-up. Just know that it really doesn't matter. It's your charisma, insights and communication skills that makes you so good at this CZcams thing.
I live in Austria but I've never heard of Hollywood Worksop, so thank you for the tip-top tip!
Edit:
DamnitI I looked into that workshop. Really interesting and even pretty reasonably priced, but I don't have the days free to go all the way to Vienna and stay overnight 😢
There is so much pure GOLD here!!
The way you lay out all of these methods and explain conversationally about the nuances and reasoning really makes it accessible and understandable. Just purchased the MIDI. 🙂
PS: The alt version of the Minor V where you land on Eb major - what a really cool feeling of "pleasant surprise" whenever the melody starts without the chord even changing. (Felt like the "5" and it's suddenly the "1".) Mind blown!
Thank you. These are great!
Thank you so much, Anne. Very inspirational!
Thanks Anne! Really enjoyed this video!
Very nice and clear, thank you Anne-Kathrin!
Thanks Anne you’re awesome
Thank you Anne very helpful!!! 👌
Thanks from the bottom of my heart !
What a wonderful exposition! Bravo!
Thanks good seeing you and hearing again you sharing your insights.
Excellent.
Thank you as always for this wonderful video.
So many CZcamsrs overcompensate trying to make their videos "interesting" with all kinds of rapid cuts, FX, loud voices, constant attempts at humor, etc., etc. but I enjoy how calm you are in your videos and the relative simplicity of discussion, example, discussion, example, etc. :)
Yes you were missed very much...🙂Thank you for this
Another fantastic video! Thank you very much for this content.
Thank you for continuing to make these!
Really cool video. Thanks for that
Happy to see a video from you again, so much valuable information in here (as always)!
This was really helpful - thank you Anne. (And welcome back!)
Absolutely brilliant video - thanx!! 🎉
These videos are amazing. I hope to see more and more of them.
Thanks Anne-Kathrin for a well explained video. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot.
Really love listening to your videos, so informative and chill, thankkkk you!
That was really lovely, thank you for the music.
Best music tutorial I’ve seen in months. Can’t wait to get started.
Great video Anne. Very thorough. I really love the depth of information you use to cover your topics. Makes the information much easier to digest. Keep up the great work! 👍
Great sounds design ...congrats
I love learning new modulation techniques and this video is brilliant!
Welcome back! Enjoyed the post and looking forward to the counterpoint video you mentioned.
Fantastic video, thanks for the content!
Great to see you again.
No makeup is fine.
Very helpful your instruction.
Thanks Again
Beautiful ❤️!
I've understood more from this video than pretty much everything else I've either watched or read - thank you!
Lovely lesson. Easily understood. Thank you so much.
Thanks a lot Anne, there's some really useful information here! I always struggled to get my head around the German 5-6 (I learned it as the 'augmented sixth'). I like your way of just remembering it has the same tritone as a regular Dom 7 chord. Much easier to remember! A lot of these modulations sounded lovely as well. Thanks!
Yes............missed you Dern. This was, as usual, a great lesson with lots of useful info. I always learn so much from ypour posts. Cannot thank you enough. Wish you blessings. 🙏🏾🌞
Fantastic video. Modulation always has been fly-by-night for me, and now I feel I could actually do it with purpose.
Thank you for all of this, you rock!
Hi Anne! This is simply fantastic. True, there is a lot of resources about modulation but you make it so clear and understandable. Many thanks again. Keep going. A big hug from Italy
One of the best compo tutorial ever
I love the mod- through Gm / Fm. Creates mystical ambience. Lovely
It's fantastic how clearly you describe aspects of harmonic theory Anne-Kathrin!
Fantastic video thank you so much!
Thanks again for these videos. I’ve been thinking about modulation a lot recently, so the timing and usefulness of this was perfect! Also, the no makeup look suits you!
So glad your back Anne-Kathrin
Very good Tutorial, keep it up and well done!
A lot of complex information packed in a very simple to understand form. I knew about all these modulation paths but this is the clearest explanation I have heard so far
Really love your content. You are a great teacher, you make sometimes very complicated subjects, like modulation, and how to achieve it, easy to understand. Thats the sign of a great teacher!
You are brilliant. Thank you.
There is so much valuable information in your videos and you have a way to explain complicated stuff in a very practical and useful way. That is awesome. I had a hard time remembering and understanding the german 5-6 chord but you just went straight to applying it in a simple way! That is golden! Thanks a million!
Agreed 👆 Also, the way she explains it, isn't the German 5-6 chord the same thing Jazz musicians use all the time and call a "tritone substitution"?
Or is there a nuanced difference?
The 5-6 chord is in jazz parlance a tritone substitution for the dominant of the new key. For those that like to think of it that way. In this case I find the classical theoretical explanation for the 5-6 more convoluted than the jazz theoretical explanation for the tritone sub. Just goes to show there are always multiple ways of think about music theory.
Of course there is. And I think it is a good thing that nowadays you can use the simple explanation. Sometimes it can be fun to analyze the function of each chord. In other cases it's just enough to know that it will work when you use it that way.
Very clear, dense but easily useable, and a wonderfully elegant use of one theme for demonstration. I appreciate your example of thoroughness in setting out each progression possibility for diminished 7ths, too. Thanks very much!
One helpful way I came across for interpreting dim 7ths is to think of all 4 chord tones as potential leading tones for the next harmony.
Missed your videos! As always, super helpful for hobbyists like me to see clear examples of fundamentals. Thank you!
Helpful?! Probably the most useful video I've watched on the subject ever. Seeing it in piano roll really helps crystallise it. Thank you!!
Thank you! I keep wondering if the piano roll is more helpful than sheet music but I figured it's something everyone can read (as opposed to sheet music).
im gonna have to watch this video too many times. thanks!! LOTS of information and resources.
Fascinating ❤ ty
The minor trick is very interesting, thank you. The entire video is very inspiring and we'll done. Tomorrow I'll exercise these on diferentes already made piece of ideas I have. Big thanks.
The most usefull modulation tutorial I've ever seen. Suscribed, and thank you.
I just found this channel and it's pretty cool. I have been playing music as a drummer for 53 years. I'm self-taught and never had any formal training. Since 2006, I've been writing music on the computer, first under the name "Correlate of Consciousness" and lately "27 Goats". I have watched different people teaching theory and am slowly picking stuff up.
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Thank you Anne. A Great and simple explanation of modulation. My personal favorite is the secondary dominant, it always feels like a very elegant way to change the key.
This is a great video. Havent come across someone talking about all types of modulation like this when browsing yt just yet.
Love your explanations! Please make more composition tutorials!
Thanks!
Only halfway through and totally energized. Fascinating; super useful; beautifully explained and demonstrated. Thank you. 🙏
Glad this is helpful!
V.educative. Thank you muchly!
This is so helpful. Thank you for this tutorial.
Brilliantly explained, thanku 🙌
Wow, just found your channel and im sad i didnt find it earlier. Super awesome
Quality content as always 🙂
A very comprehensive video with good explanations of some types of modulation. As I'm a very bad piano player and a lacking knowledge of music theory I sometimes struggle with harmony. I subconsciously used one or two of the techniques mentioned in the video and know I can put a lable on it and dig deeper. Thank you.
"lower one note in a diminished chord and it becomes a dominant chord" I jumped up went to the keyboard and my mind was blown. I have been playing for 30+ years and never saw that. Thanks
Solid. Gold.
Very useful ! Thanks.
Wow, some great modulation strategies - the German 5-6 was a totally new one for me!
Yes, you were missed. Looking great.
Glad I found this channel
was just at the Bloc ⬛ love this overview
Fantastic stuff. Just new to this world and you are immensely helpful. Learning a lot from you. THANK YOU. I bought you a few coffees!! Cheers and all the best.
Moin aus Bremen. Sehr instruktives Video, Anne. Danke!
Wonderful explanations Anne-Kathrin 🙂As always. You have great ways to verbally explain those simple tonal shifts (modulations) to students. We - jazz musicians/composers use these techniques all the time on daily basis, but when it comes to explaining in simple words "how we did it" it becomes a chore sometimes... You do it so wonderfully ! I am gonna forward this (and all of your videos for that matter) to all my students. Thanks for a wonderful content !! 😃
Hey Anne, I heard your contribution to a Hallmark episode my wife was watching, great job. I even told my that I knew you lol. Keep doing what you’re doing,sounds great.👍
Awesome video!! I had one professor refer to the sudden type key changes as "Cymbal Crash Modulations".
Très bon, et l'exemple mélodique utilisé est magnifique.
TVery good, and the melodic example used is magnificent.
Thank you ! examples are very helpfull, to understand modulation.
Couldn't solve a too-long scene and came across this video during dinner....problem solved!!
Thanks for the great content as usual Anne!
Great info! Maybe it's just my inner jazz musician, but shifting into a new key with ii-V-I has always worked well for me. It works especially well for modulating by thirds. Disney has lots of great examples of this.
Gear change! Made me laugh. I think we called it a phrase modulation when I studied, though it was implied that the modulation occurred at the beginning of the new phrase.
Thank you! 🙏
Thank you Anne-Katherine for the great info. You are always clear and concise. PS you look great without the icing.
Terrific refresher. Papa Bach himself wrote parallel 5ths on occasion, even in four-part choral pieces. Sometimes, it’s the lesser evil. Everything is trade-offs, and if it sounds good, it is good.
Oh. And, yes. We did miss you.
Not on purpose he didn't. Not given lengths he would go to to avoid them.
Was enjoying a movie on Hallmark channel recently and saw you were the composer. Congratulations. Nice work!!!
Thank you!
I like to use common tones between sections even if they don't modulate. Although my application of these tutorials may be rather different than orchestral works I always get some useful information out of them. Looking forward to the next one 🙂