Music Theory - Chromatic Mediants in 7 Minutes!
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Published 2021-02-17
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All Comments (21)
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"Is G# in the scale of C Major?" Finally! A music theory question I can answer! :D <3
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You're seriously one of the most brilliant people. Not only do you teach extraordinarily well, but you have the brightest personality. We need more people like you! 👏🏻
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Guy......YOU are an excellent teacher and wonderful composer. Thank you for all of the help! Doug G in LV
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Right, I'm having a composing sesh later this evening, I will deliberately lob in a couple of chromatic mediants in your honour.
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My favorite use of the Chromatic Mediant is actually for modulation, since my favorite way to modulate is to pick up the entire piece and drop it back in transposed up a minor third. I "came up with" the technique by accident solely because of the mathematical properties it has. Basically, I was doing a song and wanted to cycle through modulations until I returned to the original key. I was going to do it by modulating up by 4 semitones three times, but decided to try modulating just three semitones instead (which would give me four modulations before returning to the original key). Happily, I discovered it sounded amazing to do that. Before that trick, I would often modulate to the five chord via the "five of five" technique (so to modulate from C to G, you throw in a D major first sort of thing), but modulating up a minor third didn't require any setup of the dominant or to throw in a leading tone, etc. I loved it because you could play something 100% diatonic and then instantly modulate on a repeat and it adds a burst of energy to it with a sort of surprise modulation out of the blue.
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Please keep doing these. The format is so easy to absorb and the knowledge sticks!
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You're a great teacher, Guy. Thank you for the great videos! Love you buddy!
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Thank you so much Guy! This video was extremely educational and so well delivered. I’ve been watching your videos for a year but this one is by far the best :)
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That was fun! Thanks, Guy. I'd love to see more videos like this!
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Very good!! Well explained, funny as always and simply useful to start trying it out!
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Thank you, that is very useful indeed! Really would like to see more of these short videos on advanced music theory topics
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Excellent explanation, thanks, Guy!
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One more of your incredible videos I enjoyed and learned from. Thank you Guy Michelmore!
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fantastic explanation. Thank you!
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A really great video Guy - thanks. Great sounds.
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Very clear explanation! Thank you!
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Really awesome tutorial. First time hearing such a clear explanation of chromatic mediants.❤
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Very interesting - really enjoy these music theory videos - as well as all the others of course!
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This was such a helpful and straightforward video. Thank you!
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Love your energy!
