Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers · the Producer's Guide to Harmony, Chord Progressions, and Song Structure in the MIDI Grid. by Allen, J. Anthony -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Copyright Table of Contents 1. Introduction

1.1 What is Music Theory? 1.2 The Most Important Rule of Music Theory 1.3 Our Method: No Pianos, No Singing 1.4 Do As I Say and Do 1.5 A Bit About Me

2. The Keyboard Layout

2.1 Why Do We Care About Pianos? 2.2 A Brief History of the Piano Roll Editor 2.3 Finding the Piano in the Piano Roll Editor 2.4 Navigating The Keyboard 2.5 Semi-Tones 2.6 Black and White Keys 2.7 Flats, Sharps, and Naturals 2.8 Enharmonic Notes 2.9 Whole-Tones 2.10 The 'Semi' and 'Detune' Knob on our Synth

3. Finding C

3.1 Why C? 3.2 Locating C 3.3 Middle C 3.4 Why Do We Care about Middle C? 3.5 Let's Get a Little Technical

4. Octaves

4.1 What Are Octaves? 4.2 Sonic Similarities 4.3 The Ratios on a Guitar 4.4 Octave Key Points

5. The Perfect 5th

5.1 Finding a Perfect 5th 5.2 Why Are They "Perfect?" 5.3 What Do They Sound Like? 5.5 Try it - Power Chord Riff with Perfect 5ths 5.6 Try it: Melody with Eastern Inflections

6. Being "In Key"

6.1 What Does it Mean to be "In Key?" 6.2 The Elements of a Key 6.3 The Key as a Template 6.4 Half-Steps and Whole Steps in Keys 6.5 The Pattern of a Key

7. Major Scales and Major Keys

7.1 The Root 7.2 Try it 7.3 Supertonic: The 2nd Scale Degree 7.4 The Mediant: The 3rd Third Scale Degree 7.5 The Subdominant: The 4th Scale Degree 7.6 The Dominant: The 5th Scale Degree 7.7 The Submediant: The 6th Scale Degree 7.8 The Leading Tone: The 7th Scale Degree 7.9 The Ableton Live Scale Device 7.10 Song Analysis

8. The Basic Triad

8.1 Major vs Minor 8.2 Octaves & The Guitar 8.3 Moby, Porcelain

9. Diatonic Chord Progressions

9.1 The Pattern 9.2 Diminished Triads 9.3 A Note About Chord Abbreviations 9.4 The Chords of C Major 9.5 Producing with the Diatonic Chord Progression

10. Inversions

10.1 Root Position 10.2 Inversion Types 10.3 Moby, Porcelain, Take Two. 10.4 Producing with Inversions

11. The Other Intervals

11.1 Interval Inversions 11.2 The 4th 11.3 The 6th 11.4 The 2nd 11.5 Suspended and Add Chords

12. 7th Chords

12.1 Producing with 7th Chords 12.2 The Structure of a 7th Chord 12.3 The Four types of 7th Chords 12.4 The Diatonic Chord Progression with 7th Chords 12.5 The Dominant 7th Chord 12.6 Chord Function, Tendency, and Resolution 12.7 The "Psycho Chord"

13. Roman Numerals

13.1 Roman Numeral Notation 13.2 Using Roman Numerals 13.3 Examples of Roman Numerals

14. Song Analysis: Zedd, "Daisy"

14.1 The Bass Line 14.2 Finding the Key 14.3 The Chords 14.4 The Analysis

15. Minor Keys

15.1 The Minor Scale Pattern 15.2 Minor vs. Major 15.3 The Minor Key in Music Production 15.4 Relative Keys 15.5 Minor Diatonic Chord Progressions

16. Song Analysis: Skrillex, "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites"

16.1 The Main Section 16.2 The Second Section 16.3 The Third Section 16.4 Could this be in E ♭ Major?

17. Minor Scale Variations

17.1 The Ripple Effect 17.2 Fifth-Related Chords 17.3 The Harmonic Minor Scale 17.5 Chords in Harmonic Minor 17.4 The Augmented Chord 17.6 The Melodic Minor Scale

18. Song Analysis: Noctuary (Bonobo)

18.1 The Bass Line 18.2 Passing Tones & Arpeggios 18.3 The Chords 18.4 The Analysis

19. The Circle of Fifths

19.1 What the Diagram Shows Us 19.2 Writing Outside of the Key 19.3 Changing Keys 19.4 Modal Borrowing 19.5 Going Further

20. Song Analysis: Ghosts N Stuff (Deadmau5)

20.1 The Bass Line (0:45) 20.2 The Key 20.3 The Chords 20.4 What is Wrong Here? 20.5 Don't Forget About Inversions 20.6 The Second Section 20.7 The Analysis

21. Accompaniment Styles

21.1 Arpeggios 21.2 Automatic Arpeggiators 21.3 Arpeggiated Inversions 21.4 Steady Rhythm 21.5 Alternating Bass Note Rhythms 21.6 Other Standard Patterns

22. Song Analysis: Windowlicker (Aphex Twin)

22.1 The Bass Line 22.2 The Chords 22.3 The Pattern 22.4 The Analysis

23. Using Dissonance

23.1 Defining Dissonance 23.2 Diabolus in Musica 23.3 Adding Dissonance 23.4 Prolonged Resolution

24. Song Analysis: No Way Back (Richie Hawtin)

24.1 No Chord Progression 24.2 The Elements 24.3 The Pitches 24.4 The Analysis

25. Texture & Density

25.1 Texture in Chords 25.2 How Many Notes? 25.3 Extended Harmony

26. Song Analysis: Everything You Do Is A Balloon (Boards of Canada)

26.1 Density & Lines 26.2 The Chords 26.3 The Key 26.4 The Last Chord 26.5 The Analysis

27. Modes

27.1 What is a Scale? 27.2 A Little History 27.3 Mode Shifting 27.4 Mode Qualities 27.5 Using Modes

28. Song Analysis: Get Lucky (Daft Punk)

28.1 The Chords 28.2 The Key 28.3 Modal Harmony 28.4 The Analysis

29. Chromaticism 30. Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix: Common Chord Progressions About the Author

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