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Chromatic Mediants: Secret Chord Progression Tricks of Great Composers

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Today we look at a super useful music theory trick, and importantly why every great composer make use of this music theory trick! Film composers, like Howard Shore make good use of this music theory trick in the Lord of the rings and the rings of power sound tracks. Almost in every theme. So I highly recommend you learn this technique of you want some quick inspiration for your next song, game score or film score!

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CONTENTS
00:00 Music Theory Trick intro
00:20 Howard Shore example from Rings Of Power opening theme
00:43 Music theory behind Rings of power
00:50 What is a Mediant / Sub-Mediant?
01:23 Music theory in 10 minutes
01:38 A major Mediant examples!
02:27 Questions on music theory?
02:41 Music – Goodbye!