 Welcome to part 2 and hope you practiced all the stuff which was mentioned earlier. And earlier we looked at just basically one four and five connections in an irregular way. So that means you take the one major and you link it with the four minor instead of doing one major and four major which would be very conventional right. However, the one to the four is just an interval. It's a perfect fourth as we all know right. So one to the five is a perfect fifth. Now there are a lot of other intervals aren't there. There's the minor second, there's a major second, there's the minor sixth, the major sixth. Now, what if you explore those intervals as you play? The first thing I'm going to try and do is play D major and beside or inside the perfect fourth and the perfect five, there's an interval because there's two steps between those notes right. So the interval between the four and the five is what we call as a tritone. You could perhaps play that. So I'm going to go to D major, find the tritone from D which is basically A flat also known as G sharp and you can play a chord starting on G sharp which can be a major chord. So you're not really playing a new chord, you're playing the same major chord which you all probably know by now but you're playing it a tritone away from the root which doesn't happen in a major scale ever because a major scale doesn't give you a tritone right. So you can play D major now. So all of a sudden to my ear it sounds very interesting. You can imagine a theme which is like something not from Planet Earth or like a space mission you know, something if you're a Star Wars fan you'll get what I'm saying right. Now the chords are actually very simple chords, it's just D major and A flat major or G sharp major. It's just that no one tends to use these two chords together when making a normal song right. A lot of the film composers however seem to do that. If you listen to a lot or study a lot of the background music from Hollywood sound tracks you'll definitely hear these progressions and they actually immerse you in the movie to a point that you don't even realize what's hitting you. It's more of the experience which these chords create. So that's a simple example. I'm taking a tritone between the two chords. What else can we do? We can try a minor 6th which is also an interval which not many people use together. So let's try and form the minor 6th from D. This is D, it's major 6th is B and a minor 6th you flatten it to get B flat. And the cool thing right now is even if I don't play a chord these two notes just sound amazing together in a very mysterious way right. It's a very tense kind of sound. Now if you play D major and B flat major together let's see how that sounds. So you get a very very intense and it's very different than the last one right. That one probably sounded like you're out of planet earth. Here it's probably like you're in Egypt or something just visiting a new country and having an adventure, visiting a place you barely know right. So you have all these intervals and if you want to get a bit scary you can do major and another minor. You can go up a minor second and play that chord as a minor. So there are a lot of options really and I don't think even I've done all to be completely honest because you have 12 notes right. So that's 12 major chords and then you have to link them up with another 12 major or minor chords which are linked via an interval and there are 12 intervals. So it's a long long journey if you ask me. But it's quite interesting and it's quite inspiring when you actually play these chords why I say it's inspiring is because I feel that you'll get an idea for a song almost instantly since you've never heard this before. You've never felt it hitting your ear that often. Even in a movie you don't really study and observe the music as you would observe maybe a normal pop song which where it's only the music with the movie there's so many other elements right there's the acting there's all the you know characters on the screen and whatnot which is all awesome but the music is also there so it distracts us a bit. So this is another way to connect to major or to minor chords go use these intervals which are very very interesting you can try tritone which is very very different you can try the minor sixth you can try even the major third so for example D major's major third happens to be F sharp isn't it but in a D major scale you would be playing F sharp minor sounds quite like quite like a ballad or a pop sound but then if you change that F sharp minor to F sharp major it's quite an interesting sound you can probably start a movie with these chords if you if you want to try yeah so these are two tips for making chords more mysterious and more filmy like a background soundtrack let's recap the first tip which I have done if you are still watching this and if you haven't watched the first part make sure you watch the first part that one covers just the one four and the five the root perfect fourth and perfect fifth and all the ways you can make those chords interesting the one I talked about now covers other intervals like tritone minor sixth and what else did we play major third I think well actually you can play a lot of them I just was able to show you three or four right so again this is Jason here from Nathaniel School of Music and if you liked our videos please subscribe to our YouTube channel and share all this stuff with your musical friends as well cheers