13 ESSENTIAL chord progressions from game music - STEAL THEM!
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Published 2021-10-04
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//Chapters
00:00: Intro
00:23: The swiss army knife of harmony
01:26: A more subtle resolution
01:50: The victory theme
02:44: Instant jazziness with tritone subs
03:47: Neo-soul chords??
05:13: Banjo's augmented chords
07:25: The secret to fantasy/RPG music
08:26: A Zelda country song
10:40: A Zelda tearjerker
12:47: A Zelda ballad
14:10: Darkness sans minor chords
16:17: The secret to Latin/Western music
17:34: The Moon :)
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All Comments (21)
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Milk Bar is such a bop what the heck
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Please ignore my unfixed shirt collar. Sincerely, Johnny McMcGannis.
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I'm a self-taught musician who has been making music for years, and I only recently realized what a chord progression actually is so I don't have to slap random notes together that sound good anymore. Thanks for giving examples!
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Wow, that was comprehensive! There is at least one take away for everyone here, I'm sure. I've never played Banjo, but that chord progression is seriously versatile. I love how Kirkhope used the augmented chord.
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Brilliant, Matt! I'm an indie game dev, and just started adding music to my games (free loops composed by other people) - and it makes SUCH a difference. So now I want to make my own tunes. Being completely clueless about music, I discovered your "beginners guide" yesterday, and together with this, I feel there's a starting point for me to make sense of it all. Love your explanations of how these progressions are motivated. Miles above my head for now, but so much study material... thanks!
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Would love to see more progression videos
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So that III in banjo is a bit more interesting. Not only is it a major III, it's a chromatic mediant, but also a V of vi. Since it moves to vi, it's better to analyze it as a V of vi rather than III. What makes it so good is that chromatic motion of the voices from the 5th of the scale (G of C,E,G) to sharp 5th (G# of E,G#,B), to the 6th (A of A,C,E)
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Your channel is very underrated, your explainations are very good and practical unlike the other channel. You could take some music like sonic 2 and analyze explain the chord progression or more video like this one !
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Definitely would love to see more of these. Incredibly useful for kickstarting ideas and great insight into what makes these progressions tick. Thanks.
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Man... I like you channel. This best music content, that i ever seen
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'Bout to steal all them juicy chord progressions
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When I was listening to you break down the Moon from ducktales, I kept hearing another song in my head and quickly looked up adventures of Lolo 2 ending. When I was a kid, I use to input the code for the final boss level so that I could beat the game and listen to the ending song. The color changing was also cool. Neat how songs can sound so alike.
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This is awesome - going to be studying this! PS I've been binging your podcast and am absolutely loving it. Great work!
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so much useful information in 1 video! and your music choice is awesome as well!
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Discovered your channel 3 days ago, I believe your channel will grow fast!
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More videos on composing techniques please! I'm here for it
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Love it! Really enjoying all of your videos.
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That was great. Made me think more...
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Wow this was awesome I didn't realise you had so few subscribers
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Splendid video! Thanks for the knowledge
