Unless you are an excellent melodist, if you write music and you strictly stay in key, you may be writing music that is boring. Even excellent melodists such as Tchaikovsky had to learn the art of key changing to keep his audience engaged! And this is exactly what this video is about, key changing techniques for everyone! This video starts out for beginners, but gets progressively more advanced.

We have 2 parts

Part 1 talks about abrupt key changing, and why a composer may choose an abrupt key change. Also, why do abrupt key changes sound abrupt?

Part 2 then talks about smooth key changing techniques using the relative major and relative minor scales. Also, find out how to utilize the circle of 5ths to break out of key and choose the correct key signature.

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*Original works in this video
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*Composer: Mike
5 exercises
1 abrupt key changing demo
1 improv of pentatonic scale demo
2 relative minor to major demos
1 key changing exercise (how to break out of key other than relative major or minor)

*Composer: Izaak
Title: Lurking for Symphonic Orchestra
URL: https://www.youngcomposers.com/t45506...
Comment: Beautiful theatrical style symphonic work making use of excellent melody using simple functional harmony. This piece proves that complex harmony isn't always needed to make beautiful music.

*Composer: Henry @henryng0725
Title: Fugue from String Sextet
URL:    • Six Voice Fugue from String Sextet in...  
Comment: This is a work that needs to be listened to many times. A very complex fugue, but once understood, the listening experience is incredibly rewarding. I break up this piece for you to show the melody lines.

*Composer: Johan
Title: Minuet Scherzando
URL: https://www.youngcomposers.com/t45607...
Comment: A fully engaging piece of music due to its extremely smooth key changes. I had a lot of fun analyzing this piece for this video.

0:00 Intro to Key Changing
1:09 Part I: Abrupt Key Changing (Kickoff Demo 1 by Mike)
2:48 Abrupt Key Changing: Demo 2 by Izaak
3:55 Abrupt Key Changing: Demo 3 by Henry
5:04 Music Jotter (Early Access)
5:58 Part II: Smooth Key Changing
6:18 Intro to Scales
6:37 Pentatonic Scale
6:59 Pentatonic Scale: Demo 1 by Henry
7:29 Pentatonic Scale: Demo 2 by Mike
7:41 Diatonic Scale
8:21 Smooth Key Changing (Relative Major & Minor)
10:28 I compose relative minor to major: Ex. 1
12:14 I compose relative minor to major: Ex. 2
13:23 How to break out of key?
14:21 Various Modulation Examples by Johan
14:53 The Melodic Minor Scale
16:52 Notable Modulation: Abmaj to Csharp min
17:44 Notable Modulation: Bbdom7 to Bmaj
18:17 Shared notes between keys