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Live Stream: Thursday, October 9th at 6:00pm ET (check your local time zone)
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Hi guys! We are back with Live Lesson EP083! This month’s topic is: What Makes Music Sound Scary?
In this session, we’ll dive into the science and theory behind horror music. We’ll explore examples of pieces that sound scary and others that are simply spooky!
This month’s topic should stir up some great questions! So please post all you have below and I hope you join us for the live stream. 🙂
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Oh man, I am so pumped for this topic! This should be interesting. Despite being an anxious person, I do enjoy horror movies.
I think one thing that can make music sound scary is a minor key but especially musical dissonance. I think something about that is automatically unsettling to the human brain.
Another thing is when there is a slow, steady, deep rhythm in horror movies – that triggers an ancient fear within us, that emulates the pace of a t-rex’s slow, ominous stride. That isn’t true, I just made that up. …Or is it?!
Can’t wait for this one!!
Thanks for this, Matt! It’s given me some very helpful ideas. I’m working on an arrangement of a song which is not scary but does have a sudden shift in mood to become sort of dark and alarming. I already switched to minor chords to signal that shift, but I can see where adding a minor with a major 7, or maybe an add 9, will heighten the effect.
I really enjoy the lessons that push a little further into music theory, to see how and why different effects can work.
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