10:03How Pixar uses Music to make you Cry
4.94M viewsHow Pixar's composers use leitmotif, orchestration and harmony to build emotional payoffs, with Up and other films as examples.
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18:53Why West Side Story is a Masterpiece
1.04M viewsAnalyses Bernstein's West Side Story score: the tritone motif, rhythm and how music tells the story.
23:28Decoding the Music of The Matrix
615K viewsHow Don Davis's Matrix score uses atonal and minimalist techniques.
14:36Ear Training and Sight Singing: The Superpower you get from Music School
1.52M viewsWhat ear training and sight singing are, how they work and why trained musicians hear music differently.
16:24How Trailer Music Tricks You
1.96M viewsExplains the techniques behind trailer music: braams, risers, slowed-down covers and pacing.
22:15How the Music Spoils Sweeney Todd (and why that's a good thing!)
2.2M viewsHow Sondheim's Sweeney Todd score foreshadows the plot through motifs.
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31:30The Musical Moral of Into The Woods
1.33M viewsHow Into the Woods' score carries its moral through motif.
21:34The Perfect Musical Symmetry of Avatar the Last Airbender
1.29M viewsMusical symmetry and motif in Avatar: The Last Airbender's score.
27:11The Problem With Auto-Tune
2.19M viewsWhat Auto-Tune does technically and how pitch correction changed recorded vocals.
12:58The Sound of the Spider-Verse
4.07M viewsBreaks down how the Spider-Verse score and sound design mix hip-hop production with orchestral leitmotifs.
25:45Why Pipe Organs Sound Scary
1.95M viewsWhy pipe organs are associated with horror: the instrument's acoustics, history and film usage.
15:50How Disney uses Language
2.35M viewsLooks at how Disney songs use language, rhyme and lyric setting in translation and in the original English.
7:41How Mel Brooks 'Produced' Let It Go
187K viewsA 8-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
23:51How a Superhero Theme Works
432K viewsA 24-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
22:20How the Music Spoils Sweeney Todd (and why that's a good thing)
A 22-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
14:12How the Music in Black Panther Tells a Story
392K viewsA 14-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
3:40How to Control Someone's Mind with Music
261K viewsA 4-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
3:52How to Deal with Writer's Block
85.5K viewsA 4-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
5:14How to Evoke the Voice of God
320K viewsA 5-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
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24:39How to Listen to Music Incorrectly and find Superman in the Avengers
1.45M viewsA 25-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
19:27How to Transform a Leitmotif
337K viewsA 19-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
11:26How to take your Performance to the Next Level
253K viewsA 11-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
7:16Instrumentation in Steven Universe
516K viewsA 7-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
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8:09The Double-Edged Nature of Video Game Music
315K viewsA 8-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
10:05The Gateway to Coco's Memories (spoilers!)
398K viewsA 10-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
19:03The Joker's Musical Madness
1.12M viewsA 19-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
12:24The Sequels to Silence
235K viewsA 12-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
14:05The Song that Changed my Life
584K viewsA 14-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
8:08The Struggle with Multiplayer Music
328K viewsA 8-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
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14:57Transformers: What the Soundtrack Could Have Been
676K viewsA 15-minute video from Sideways's catalogue; the title names its topic.
Books that go with these videos
- Tonal Harmony, Kostka, Payne & AlménBy Kostka & Payne, the standard music theory text
- This Is Your Brain on Music, Daniel LevitinA neuroscientist and former record producer on how we hear music
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