$109 USD Sale Price: $99 USD
Duration: 5 Hrs 24 Min
By studying many of the greatest themes to come out of Hollywood, this three-lesson course will teach you the most common harmonic progressions in Hollywood film music and the emotional and musical associations they tend to have. Learn how to use harmony to evoke the perfect emotions in your themes!
Lesson 1 – Diatonic Progressions
- Preliminaries
- Our Use of Chord Symbols
- Theme Harmony – General Principles
- Associations and Their Progressions in Major Keys
- Innocence – Reverence – Americana
- Noble – Heroic Quest – Majestic
- Personal Loss – Intense Sadness
- Emotionally Touching
- Emotionally Painful
- Of Great Importance
- End of a Phrase
- Associations and Their Progressions in Minor Keys
- Heroic – Beginning of a Phrase
- Beginning of a Phrase
- From a Past Time – Pirates
- End of a Phrase
Lesson 2 – Chromatic Progressions
- Associations and Their Progressions with a Major Tonic
- Awe-Inspiring & Fantasy-Based
- Heroic
- Outer Space
- Love, Romance
- Rural America – Cowboys – Action Heroes
- American-ness (Culture, People, Places, etc.)
- The Extraordinary, Wonder, Amazement, Otherworldly
- The Thrill of Discovery
- Associations and Their Progressions with a Minor Tonic
- Suspense, Mystery, Dark Humor
- Great Dangers – Mysterious Objects
- Evil, Villain, Antagonism
- Hope in Adversity
Lesson 3 – Advanced Techniques
- Associations of a Tonic-Chord Melody Over a Non-Tonic Chord
- Bittersweet Emotion
- Jubilant, Overjoyed
- Associations of Tonal Chords with Other Scales
- Octatonic Scales: Tension, Danger – Comedy
- Hexatonic Scales: Strange, Mysterious – Comedy
- Associations of Ambiguous Tonics
- Incomprehensible, Incredulous
- Ambiguity
- Surprise Chords for Distinctive Theme-Writing
- I–bIII
- bV–V
- bVI–biii
Learn the rules of classical harmony with examples drawn from film music whenever possible. First we lay out progression types according to where they occur in a phrase. Then we start with simple progressions and gradually make them more complex, with assignments and answers provided as you go. And if you need to brush up on reading music, there will be a bonus comprehensive course on reading music that includes online flashcards, assignments with answers, and online quizzes so you always know how you’re doing.
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