Video Game Music No.4 – mDecks Music
Practical techniques for writing evocative video game themes using line clichés, extended dominants, motivic development, and upper-structure reharmonization.
This lesson demonstrates how to use line clichés, extended dominant sequences, tritone substitutions, and upper-structure chords to create memorable progressions and harmonic ambiguity. It walks through concrete examples and reharmonizations, showing how to target chords, harmonize chromatic basslines, and reinterpret chords as altered or double line-cliché shapes. The lesson also covers motivic development—rhythmic and shape-based transformations—to generate variation and cohesion within a theme. Ideal for composers wanting practical strategies to enrich video game music with advanced but usable harmonic and motivic tools.
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