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.
Why guitarists USED TO play more in tune! (Microtonal Frets)
Classical guitarist Brandon Acker shows how guitars with tied-on gut frets, as used 300 years ago, can play more in tune than modern fixed metal frets.
Teenage engineering OP1 - Live looping [Thoj]
Musician Thoj performs a live looping session on the Teenage Engineering OP-1 synthesizer, building a deep house track layer by layer.
Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In A Guitar Amplifier?
Guitarist Jim Lill spends a year testing where guitar amplifier tone comes from, swapping tubes, rectifiers and bias types.
Sonification & The Problem with Making Music from Data
Tantacrul examines sonification, the practice of turning data into sound or music, and critiques how scientists and musicians, including NASA and CERN projects, use it well and poorly.
Justin Bieber 800% Slower
A Justin Bieber song slowed down 800% with the PaulStretch program, turning a pop track into a long ambient drone.
What Makes This Song Great? "Into You" MAX MARTIN
Rick Beato analyzes the music and production of Max Martin through Ariana Grande's Into You, breaking down its layering and songwriting craft.
In The Bleak Midwinter - Jacob Collier
Jacob Collier layers ten vocal parts to arrange and perform Harold Darke's carol "In the Bleak Midwinter", with inventive harmony and tuning.
Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale | World Science Festival
Bobby McFerrin uses audience participation at a World Science Festival event to demonstrate how instinctively people follow the pentatonic scale.
Eduard Artemyev - Siberiade theme (1979)
The main theme from Eduard Artemyev's score to the 1979 Soviet film Siberiade, an electronic piece that features the ANS synthesizer.
Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)
Australian comedy group Axis of Awesome perform a sketch showing that dozens of pop hits share the same four chords.
Just Intonation vs Equal Temperament
A short demonstration comparing just intonation with equal temperament, played so you can hear how the tuning compromise changes intervals and chords.
iMUSE Demonstration 2 - Seamless Transitions
A two-minute demonstration of LucasArts' iMUSE adaptive music system in Monkey Island 2.
#VoCo. Adobe Audio Manipulator Sneak Peak with Jordan Peele | Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe's VoCo demo from the MAX 2016 Sneak Peeks, co-hosted by Jordan Peele, showing software that changes words in a voiceover by typing new ones.
Music Software & Interface Design: Steinberg's Dorico
Tantacrul critiques the UX and UI of Steinberg's Dorico music notation software, comparing it with Sibelius and user testing it with real musicians alongside his own attempt to compose in it.
Iannis Xenakis - Metastasis
A score-following video of Iannis Xenakis's 1950s orchestral piece Metastasis, showing his graphic, mathematically derived notation as the music plays.
Dan Tepfer: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
A Tiny Desk concert in which pianist Dan Tepfer plays with a Disklavier player piano driven by a program he wrote that responds to his playing.
How Children Develop Perfect Pitch
Rick Beato discusses a theory of why some children develop perfect pitch, based on early exposure to music.
Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret"
Seventeen-year-old Ray Kurzweil appears on the TV show I've Got a Secret in 1965, playing a piece of music composed by a computer program he built.
jacob collier tunes the piano
A one-minute clip of Jacob Collier tuning a piano, remarking that it is not in tune at all.
Larnell Lewis Hears "Enter Sandman" For The First Time
Drummer Larnell Lewis hears Metallica's Enter Sandman for the first time on Drumeo and learns to play it by ear, using his musical vocabulary.
Jacob Collier Explains Music in 5 Levels of Difficulty ft. Herbie Hancock | WIRED
WIRED's 5 Levels format with Jacob Collier explaining harmony to a child, a teen, a college student, a professional and Herbie Hancock.
Amiga Samplers : Budget dance music in 1990
debuglive makes a 1990-style dance track on an Amiga 500 with a Stereo Master sampler and cheap secondhand records, showing how sampling and trackers worked within tight memory limits.
Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank | Het verhaal achter het nummer
A Dutch Top 2000 a gogo segment in which Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) explains how The Rockafeller Skank is built, in his studio.
The Art Of Poison-Pilling Music Files
Musician Benn Jordan explains and demonstrates adversarial noise that poison-pills music files against AI training and scraping.