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Music Theory and Chords for Beatmakers and Producers
Rating: 4.2 out of 5(23 ratings)
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Music Theory and Chords for Beatmakers and Producers

Learn to Create Amazing Compositions with Major and Minor Chords, and Understand Where and When to Use Your Notes
Created byRiley Weller
Last updated 6/2020
English
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What you'll learn

  • Music Theory Fundamentals
  • Major, Minor, and Diminished Chords
  • How the Notes All Relate to Each Other
  • Counting Beats and Staying in Time
  • Comprehending Chords within Scales
  • Putting Chords into Real-World Practice
  • When You're Allowed to Use Certain Notes
  • Making Your Music Sound Better and Humanistic
  • Understanding Scales

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 1h 51m total length

  • How to Ask Questions + Leave Review1:44

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  • Counting Beats as Beatmakers24:42

    Count beats in four-four time to stay in time while building drum loops. Learn to place notes on beats and off-beats with syncopation and swing for dynamic, danceable grooves.

  • How Notes Work in Music6:18

    Understand how notes and octaves relate to frequency and tuning for beatmakers and producers, from piano roll basics to fundamental frequencies and scale constraints on notes.

  • Understanding Scales10:08

    Explore scales by starting in C major, learn which notes and chords fit a key, distinguish major and minor chords, and build muscle memory through one-scale practice for beat making.

  • Comprehending Chords Within Scales16:22

    Explore how chords fit within a scale and translate across keys. Learn major and minor chords, interval patterns, and diminished tones for beatmakers and producers.

  • Advanced Chords and Inversions6:47

    Master advanced chords and inversions—root, first inversion, second inversion—plus Asus4 and Asus2, and explore major and minor seventh sounds to boost creativity for producers.

  • Putting Chords into Real-World Practice20:25

    Put chords into real-world practice by building a four-chord progression in C minor, crafting catchy loops in the piano roll, and refining on-beat and off-beat phrasing within the scale.

  • Working with a Bassline and Seeing How Our Music Theory Lines Up18:12

    This lecture shows how to build a bassline that follows a chord progression, using scale notes, octaves, ghost channels, slides, and careful note separation.

  • Making Our Music Sound Better with Available Free Tools4:16

    Learn practical tricks to make chords and loops sound more professional and human, such as nudging notes with shift and the scroll wheel, adjusting velocity, and changing chord progressions.

  • OUTRO2:45

    End your exploration of music theory and chords by mastering major scales, building catchy progressions like C–G–A–F, and improvising with left-hand chords to fuel beatmaking.

Requirements

  • A Basic Knowledge of Notes and Music Theory Will Help You Accel in this Course
  • A DAW to Practice Counting Beats, Making a Drum Loop, and Building Chords Over Top

Description

This course stresses on the importance of being a beatmaker behind music theory knowledge

When you're a beatmaker, all you want to do is create amazing beats.

But in your early years the main thing holding you back is your comprehension of chords, scales, and basic music theory fundamentals.

In over my 10 years, I have not only discovered how chords and scales work, but I've found a really easy way to explain it, too.

Put it this way, on your piano, you have 12 notes available to you, which repeat on each octave, right?

Well, just because you have your 12 notes available, doesn't mean you're actually allowed to play all of those notes.  This is where the key and scale come into play.

My promise to you with this course is after watching it, you will gain such a concrete basis for understanding the notes available for you to play, how to count beats, and comprehend the major and minor chords to be creative with.

The course structure is as follows:

  • Counting Beats and Being Creative

  • How Notes Work in Music, and Why Frequency/Pitch Matters

  • Understanding Scales and the Notes Available to Use

  • Comprehending Major and Minor Chords within Your Scale (Also Inversions and Advanced Chords)

  • Putting Our Chords and Music Theory into Real-World-Practice

  • Working with a Bassline and Seeing How Our Music Theory Lines Up

  • Making Our Music Sound Better with Available Free Tools


If you don't know how chords and scales work, this is your biggest hindrance as a producer.

Let my years of experience help jump-start your beats and save you years of learning in my course 'Music Theory and Chords for Beatmakers and Producers'

# GratuiTous

Who this course is for:

  • Beatmakers Wanting to Reach that Next Level in their Productions
  • Producers Wanting a More In-Depth Knowledge of Music Theory
  • Composers Wanting to Gain Insight to the Notes They're Allowed to Play

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