Video Game Music No.2 – mDecks Music
Learn how to craft a moody video-game theme using chromatic mediants, tritone relationships, voice-leading tips, and rhythmic displacement.
This lesson demonstrates practical techniques for writing a dreamy, melancholic theme by combining chromatic mediant shifts and tritone (trone) systems to create striking chord progressions. It covers arranging chords a third apart, using augmented/diminished structures on the circle of fifths, choosing tensions that work across adjacent chords, and approaching chord tones with melodic lines. The lesson also explains rhythmic patterns and displacement strategies to add groove and interest, plus pro tips for stacking tritone-related chords to build climaxes. Includes a companion PDF with labeled chord voicings and example score references for study.
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