The Walking Dead Opening Theme | Music Analysis
Pyramind instructor Ryan Rey analyzes the opening theme music for AMC’s The Walking Dead. He talks about the music’s harmony, texture, and instrumentation.
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Pyramind instructor Ryan Rey analyzes the opening theme music for AMC’s The Walking Dead. He talks about the music’s harmony, texture, and instrumentation.
Pyramind instructor Ryan Rey deconstructs Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” from their seminal 1996 album OK Computer. This analysis will help you get a sense for how Radiohead works as a whole because they employ these techniques throughout their music.
These techniques include:
• Pedal points
• Changing meters and Odd meters
• Modes and mode mixture
• Cadences
• Planing or parallel harmony
• Chromaticism
Pyramind instructor Ryan Rey does a music theory analysis of Hozier’s “Take Me To Church”. He talks about time signature changes, the type of scale used, cadences, and more. This is a must-watch for music theory enthusiasts, as well as fans of the song.
Pyramind instructor Ryan Rey goes over the concept of polyrhythm, and how it is used in popular music. He uses examples by Rihanna, Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding, Hailee Steinfeld, and Kehlani.
A polyrhythm happens when there are two or more rhythms playing simultaneously. Ryan provides musical notation for each of his examples. This tutorial is a must watch for music theory enthusiasts, as well as producers looking to utilize polyrhythm in their own music.
Pyramind instructor Ryan Rey goes over his favorite new features in the Logic 10.3 update. He touches on everything from basic display changes, to workflow changes like track alternatives and selection-based processing.
In this tip, Pyramind instructor Ryan Rey discusses mode mixture in EDM using several track examples by Deadmau5, Zedd and Kaskade.
Creating vocal harmonies with iZotope’s Nectar plugin.
