Music Theory for Techno

Thanks! This is very helpful, not just for techno but to all kinds of music in general.

Great videos and great work! However, as a new to music production, I'm kind of confused about what to start with when it comes to learning music theory and techniques in DAW.

Awesome. As ever.

Thanks for the wonderful explanation boss 🤟⚡️🔥👊 thank you 🙏
Let’s techno!

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Oscar leading us into the next Techno Renaissance!

Would psychoacoustic sound design be an interesting subject for you to cover?
I want to physically model a modern civil defense siren, I mean the new digital ones, that are designed around the idea of psychoacoustics, inducing fear and alertness. 27 years alive in this world and I still get a massive climb in heart rate when I hear it.

Thanks! So interesting !

Thanks bro been making techno for 20 years i think was doing most of this without ever being taught these videos are great always looking for different ways to do stuff

How the fuck he perfectly explained the harmonic architecture of techno?!??

Wetfarts… lol! Makes me want to make a detuner called the Shartinator..😂

Just wanted to drop in and explain why a hit (snare, kick, tom or whatever) are more atonal, from a physical perspective. Technically speaking, percussion is more transient, meaning an event that's not occuring over a longer period, but is more happening at one moment. One of the most transient things that can happen is a step, going from 0 to 100% from one step to another. This event has every possible frequency in it, not just multiples of the lowest frequency. A continuous tone, on the other hand, only has multiples of the lowest frequency in it. Timbre is exactly this: if we play an A at 440 Hz, the timbre is defined as how strong the tones at 880 Hz and 1320 Hz etc. are. A transient event has more than just the multiples of the lowest tone in it thus being more "atonal".

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Excellent breakdown. This was Beyond perfect. Thank you! (Coming from classical music theory this was a really comfortable way to understand this entire music genre.)

This is the most ironic title for a video ever 😂

This is the most ironic title for a video ever 😂

Great video but as many musicians you put SFX too loud :)))

Wow the volume for the phrygian

This is one of the videos that increased my level. Is jut 🤯

Techno is not music.

the western music system is the decapitator

I can’t believe you dragged this out for 11 minutes

Should the kick be 5th to the root note of the baseline?

Lovely, thanks

This is so fucking great!!!!!😊

Thank you for the pure advice. I have been overthinking it all along... best advice I received was to stop polishing turds.........if it doesn't sound right Don't be afraid to delete it.

Great video

Alrights, next lesson, how to focus camera 🤣.. okay just poking fun great lessons all throughout

The history of techno was made by people without any knowledge and the whole point was that people just made what sounded good in house music without any theory

OSCAR - your ability to cut up the complicated stuff and make it simple - its our of this world!!! Keep it up - you are the best 🤜

This is a useful application of standard music theory to techno. But "music theory for techno" could instead revolve around inventing music theory concepts that are unique to techno and not found in standard music theory. For instance, a lot of the creativity in techno comes from changing the timbre of the sounds (what you've called the 'sound character') and of course the groove. I'd love to see a techno music theory that's not based on standard Western music theory but is actually its own separate system with its own values.

This can be really helpful if you're aiming for more ... classic club techno (no offense) but if you want to have your own sound and make music no one else (you know of) does it's best to use as little "out-there" knowledge as possible and create your own rules. And taking things even further, don't even follow your OWN rules 😆. My first-ever handle was Drum Doctor and now, decades later, percussion is still the most important part in my songs. And you can do crossovers like techno plus industrial/powernoise/movie soundtracks/ebm etc. For me there IS no limit, I try to reinvent the wheel with each new project so as to sound fresh and original. And to also NOT get obsessed with perfect mixing and mastering, otherwise you'll just get a perfect-sounding song you've heard a thousand times before. A good example of dark/hard/industrial techno would be music by Tomohiko Sagae which is not for the faint of heart. You'll know what I mean by just looking at most of his song names. 😳🤟

awesome lesson!!

Interesting... I always thought the melody wasn't a big deal. Select note and use the auto arpegiator.
More about layering the rhythm section in an interesting way. And knowing 4 8 16 32 64 128 and in extreme cases 256 and 502.

You should review the tutorial “EDITING THEORY For VIDEO “ 1- Chapter one : Sync audio and Video

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First 25 seconds was all I needed to hear . That's definitely the science of a perfect loop

awesome video! I loved whenever you gave examples, and wished there would be some more examples.

This is my favorite music creation channel on YT. Period.

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My hero!

Always something I didn't expect to learn... I'm so glad I happened upon your channel...Hooked!

I've been producing for a while, and I did a few experiments where my chord progression went on and on like a story, 32 bars long. 😊 when you know the rules, it gives you the freedom to break the rules. It's a delicate thing, because it's easy to say you're breaking the rules when in reality you're just f**King around. Anyways, that's my 2 cents

I don't even want to make techno, but I found this interesting anyway!

You look familiar

Do you have any other course about music theory I know how to make things sound good on synths. But working out how to sequence them in logic to the scale and cords so they work in a track no idea. I would love someone to teach me this

Instant subscribe! I want to learn to compose music for games and this looks mighty useful.