PickVidsBest Music theory, synthesis & production Videos
The 103 Music theory, synthesis & production videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 14 introductory, 14 intermediate, 74 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Tantacrul, Adam Neely, Rick Beato.
Sample Breakdown: Daft Punk - One More Time
A short Tracklib video visualizing the disco sample that Daft Punk's One More Time is built from.
Making of "The Prodigy - Voodoo People" in Ableton by Jim Pavloff
Jim Pavloff rebuilds The Prodigy's 'Voodoo People' in Ableton from its listed samples.
I BOUGHT A WHOLE CHURCH ORGAN - Part 1 The Organs Removal
Part one of Look Mum No Computer's series on buying a whole church pipe organ, covering how it was removed from its home.
New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythms | Loop
Adam Neely's Ableton Loop 2017 talk links rhythm, pitch and synaesthesia.
How We Made MuseScore 4 - Music App Design is Challenging!
Tantacrul walks through how the MuseScore 4 team was built and how design decisions were made for the overhaul of a huge legacy notation app.
Lazerhawk ~ Redline Full Album
A full-album upload of Lazerhawk's debut synthwave album Redline, with the track list and timestamps in the description.
The most mind-blowing concept in music (Harmonic Series)
Andrew Huang explains the harmonic series, which he calls the foundation of almost all music.
Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they're all on this hard drive)
Adam Neely interviews Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin about their project to generate and copyright every possible melody as MIDI.
Pachelbel Rant from 2006 [Official High Quality Re-Post]
Comedian Rob Paravonian's 'Pachelbel Rant', a comedy bit showing that the chord progression of Pachelbel's Canon underlies countless pop songs.
Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014
Andrew Sorensen's OSCON 2014 keynote in which he live-codes generative music on stage using his Impromptu environment while narrating his computational and musical choices.
Why It's Impossible to Tune a Piano
A minutephysics video explaining why a piano cannot be perfectly tuned, comparing equal temperament with just intonation and the math of harmonics.
Which key is the saddest?
Musician Adam Neely examines whether certain keys sound sadder than others, looking at the history of tuning systems and temperaments and at how instrument timbre shapes the emotional character we hear.
電磁祭囃子 in NEO TOKYO 🏮
A short music video by the Japanese group Electronicos Fantasticos, led by Ei Wada, playing festival-style music on repurposed old electronics.
Sam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi
Sam Aaron live codes an ambient electronic set using Sonic Pi, the music programming environment he created.
Pachelbel Rant
Comedian and cellist Rob Paravonian rants about having to play Pachelbel's Canon in D, and shows how many pop songs reuse its chord progression.
Sam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic Pi
A long live-coded DJ set in which Sam Aaron creates all the music in real time by writing code in his Sonic Pi system.
Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018
Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, gives a demo-heavy GOTO Chicago 2018 talk on live coding music.
How Music Works 1 - Melody - Part 1
The first part of a four-part Channel 4 (UK) documentary series presented by Howard Goodall, this episode covers melody and why tunes affect us so deeply.
Dan Deacon - Bromst - In The Studio
A Pitchfork TV documentary following Dan Deacon in Montana as he finishes his album Bromst.
The rigs we've created for chipsynth MD's emulation.
A Plogue developer shows the custom electronic test rigs built to measure the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis sound chip (YM2612) for the chipsynth MD emulation.
Emulating the DX7 the HARD way
An episode of Plogue's chipresearch series on emulating the Yamaha DX7 from the hardware up.
Microtonal Guitar (Fixed Fret) - Tolgahan Çoğulu
Tolgahan Cogulu demonstrates a fixed-fret microtonal guitar, playing music that uses notes between the usual twelve semitones.
Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor on organ, shown with a Music Animation Machine bar-graph score instead of traditional notation.
4 Chords | Music Videos | The Axis Of Awesome
A comedy-music medley from the Australian band The Axis of Awesome showing that dozens of famous pop songs use the same four-chord progression.