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REUP - MASTERCLASS: Music Theory for Modern Club Music
🕑 Added 2025-11-07 03:13:56 +0000 UTCgod this video is CURSED haha, i don't know why but it's been crashing like crazy. sorry for the multiple uploads...
anyways, this is a music theory video that covers writing modern dance music! there's a lot of nuance and tricks to it.
if you're intermediate/advanced w/ music theory, skip to around 19 min in.
basic chords/maj/min, number system, scales
forming chords, 7th/9th/11th chords, sus2/4 chords
voicing chords/strategies (narrow/wide), inversions, pedal tones
basic MPE
voice leading - how notes move through chords
common chord progressions i use
"good" voice leading is one that satisfies your musical intentions. If you're playing a sequence of chords and they feel somehow "disjointed", maybe it's not because the chords are bad, but because the voice leading needs improvement.
EXPRESSING YOURSELF THRU MUSIC : words versus sentences. what feels aggressive, what feels soulful, ethereal?
UK chords, pitching a one shot chord, “chromatic” aka “key of rave”
what are modes? how to use them effectively in dance music
borrowed chords
Comments
Don Skotnicki
no solid rules in this stuff, it's all how you arrange it. you can do a D minor breakdown and switch to D phrygian easily in the drop, and that can sound perfectly fine if it's arranged in a way that makes sense for the tune
VYCE BLOOM
this is a killer vid. Question, say you write a chord progression... it stays the same until the drop, do the bass notes in your drop need to match the bass notes from your previous progression? Idk why but my brain get scrambled on this when making drops and build ups like you brought up the phrygian scale and my first thought was - does that mean the entire song needs to be written in the phrygian scale
ShyyMusic_
Holy sauce ty for this. Always felt intimidated by music theory, but this was super easy to understand. Ty!
