Sonic Concepts Media

03/19/2024

WHICH PIECE OF MUSIC INSPIRED THE TATOOINE DESERT THEME FROM STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE? Find out in my new playlist, the "Essential Symphonic and Choral Playlist". These will be tracks that have inspired film soundtracks or are just amazing in their own right. I'll share interesting stories about them as well when appropriate. In this case it's "The Rite of Spring - Part 2: Le Sacrifice". If you listen to the short comparative example below you will hear the same background bed behind the melodic content. I'll try to post one a week. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4_RXk3rbwBN5uVpLVyVikl_IgRc-s3if

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FO9sxl821Q

Tatooine theme

07/11/2021

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJU1mlFYzWc&t=6s

Welcome back friends! In this episode we'll talk about chord symbols for seventh chords, the reasons for proper notation practices, chord inversions for tria...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZjdDjX_y4s

In Episode 21 we'll discuss shorthand notation for the seventh chord formulas, how to create a seventh chord on any root, the seventh chords with their corre...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfpPTqxetJg&t=172s

In this episode I interview veteran drummer John Ferraro who's extensive credits include working with Larry Carlton, Eddie Van Halen, Boz Scaggs, Barry Manil...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnzBGUuz-pI&t=61s

In Music Mechanics 20 we'll cover how to create a triad on any root, the major/minor/augmented/diminished triads, enharmonic triads, tips to create triads qu...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZoqaCk_Ji0&t=51s

Welcome back friends! In Music Mechanics 19 we'll cover interval inversion, harmonic and melodic interval inversion, how to determine or create an interval b...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4512djEz28&t=210s

Music Mechanics 18 discusses how to handle problematic interval identifications, shorthand notation for interval qualities, enharmonic intervals, harmonicall...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukTD0dHHBGk&t=32s

Music Mechanics 17 introduces the beginnings of harmony with intervals, including an interval's number, quality, major/minor/augmented/double augmented/dimin...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNafmcptBLY&t=39s

Welcome back friends! In Music Mechanics 16 we'll cover permutations of the 43 common subdivisions, discuss identical attack families, syncopation, swung 1/8...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM9i_NiL0qg&t=289s

Welcome back friends! In Music Mechanics 15 we'll review the definition of “common” rhythms, discuss the improper practice of “hiding” the beat, and we'll in...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tHYlm45tI&t=5s

Music Mechanics 14 continues with rhythmic notation, discussing time signatures, a waltz, 4/4 (common time), 2/2 (cut time), ties, dots, double dots, beamed ...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sz2hFqceGE&t=234s

Music Mechanics 13 continues with the Circle of Fifths, "cheats" to quickly determine a key signature, the correct method to notate accidentals in a key sign...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6TvaAcRmcY&t=28s

Music Mechanics 12 explores parallel major and natural minor scales, key signatures, relative major and minor keys, cautionary key signatures, the circle of ...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efi7G6BZ1xo&t=112s

In Music Mechanics 11 we'll discover the natural minor scale, the natural minor scale formula, minor scale fingerings, enharmonic natural minor scales, major...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw9vBykbhWY&t=240s

In MM10 we’ll explore the major scales, correct fingerings on the piano, enharmonic scales, scale degrees, and scale degree characteristics. We’ll also cover...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgsYCeooVkA&t=426s

Welcome to MM9! In this episode we'll discuss how to use the major scale formula to correctly create and write major scales, the term diatonic, diatonic and ...

12/11/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVJ5wk1Nuwg&t=3s

Hi friends! In this week's episode we’ll talk about notes, stems, flags, beams, rudimentary notation principles, half and whole steps, define what an interva...