67 Links V2

Thx @pa_l4ch_lx_xl for the help with links

This is a mega thread of usefull links for music creation (yay!) also breakcore and electronic music in general

If you want me to add or delete something pls send your suggestions to Suggestion Eater or to the 67 Music Club (you can also send your track there for feedbacks)

Competitions archive

YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT MUSIC THEORY TO CREATE MUSIC, TO CREATE MUSIC YOU NEED TO WANT TO CREATE MUSIC AND DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU OTHERWISE

But music theory helps a lot

I'm not an expert in this stuff btw. Helpfull resources for beginners like me.
Also a lot of this section was taken from /r/musictheory/

Telegram Channels

https://t.me/keetezh

Sites

rawl.rocks Western Popular Harmony and Arrangement as Seen in 12 Colors. Interactive site
VPavlenko Digital Composition
VPavlenko Study Music very good guide to electronic music theory
Open Music Theory: An open-access online textbook written by music theory professors. Includes a “Fundamentals” unit that deals with musical rudiments.
musictheory.net
Teoria: Both musictheory.net and teoria.com offer basic lessons in music theory, but more importantly, they have great drills for you to practice chord identification, aural skills, etc.!
Dave Conservatorie: A Khan Academy styled music theory site—lots of helpful video demonstrations
Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People: Convenient, one-page summaries written by/u/keepingthecommontone of just about every music theory topic you might come across in freshman or sophomore theory!
Soumyadip

Books

A collection of music theory books

Link

Videos

Learn music theory in half an hour

Yale Music Theory Course

Big Boy Music Theory Course

STRANJAH

12-tone creates ViHart-style videos on a huge range of topics, from fundamentals to 32-bar song form to atonal pitch-class sets. Usually 5 minutes. More recent videos have branched out into cutting edge music theory and are slightly longer.

artofcounterpoint has lessons in counterpoint and tonal harmony, and compositions that demonstrate contrapuntal concepts (like fugues based on the band Nirvana). 20-30 minutes.

Dave Conservatoire (also available on a standalone site) offers a Khan Academy–style website on core concepts in music theory, from basic music terms through notation software to musical forms. Anywhere from 1 to 10 minutes.

Learning Music Skills by Xander makes music theory videos aimed at giving everybody the tools necessary to write their own music. He tries to simplify difficult concepts and keep things bite size where possible.

Listening to Music with Prof. Craig Wright is a semester’s worth of recorded lectures from Yale University’s course in music appreciation. 50 minutes each.

M Theory posts Minute Physics-style lessons on notation and theory fundamentals (e.g. Accidentals, Keys, and Key Signatures). 2-3 minutes.

Michael New has lectures that go from basics (like the circle of fifths, and the difference between C major and A minor) to slightly more advanced building blocks (such as extended chords and polyrhythms). Usually 20 minutes.

Music Matters produces weekly videos covering music theory, composition, ear training skills and much more. Their most popular videos cover traditional classical harmony.

Music Theory from the Ground Up is a playlist of 18 videos introducing music theory to guitarists by Ben Levin. About 15 minutes each.

musictheoryguy provides instruction on music fundamentals from the circle of fifths to chord inversions and a variety of other notational subjects (like ornamentation and repeat signs). 5-10 minutes.

Song and Sound by David Newman offers short videos for help & practice with ear training. 1-3 minutes.

Two Minute Music Theory provides short introductions to the absolute fundamentals of music, like rests, time signatures, and intervals. Two minutes.

8-bit Music Theory analyzes video game music, largely from the era of 8- and 16-bit video games (like Mario and Sonic). About 10 minutes.

Adam Neely creates video essays on theory, composition, and his own ideas about music. Very original content on a wide range of subjects. Usually 8-10 minutes.

Beat Breakdown describes itself as “covering all sides of hip-hop production, from breaking down famous tracks to tutorials on how to make your own classics.” 5-10 minute analyses and 1-2 hour livestreams.

David Bruce is a classically oriented composer who posts videos with titles like "Bach Funked Up," "MUSIC vs. PATTERN," and "How Cory Henry Crafts a Solo." 10-15 minutes.

Dean Olivet provides analyses of popular & Disney songs. Sometimes general statistics about a whole style, sometimes demonstration of a concept in a few songs, sometimes analyses of a single song. 5-15 minutes.

Duane Shin has several piano-centric videos on important techniques in modern popular harmony (like the ♭VI–♭VII–I progression). Usually 5 minutes.

Everything Music with Rick Beato prolifically produces videos on composition, production, guitar, ear training, and music generally. Up to 60 minutes.

jazztutorial discusses topics and useful tricks in jazz harmony, ear training, and improvisation. 5-30 minutes.

Jeff Schneider has saxophone-centric videos on theory related to jazz, gospel, R&B, and so on. 5-15 minutes.

Ongaku Concept applies music theory to video game music. Occasional videos dedicated to more general concepts. Usually ~5 minutes, sometimes around 15 minutes.

Sideways posts video essays with titles like "How Pixar uses Music to make you Cry" and "Theme vs. Leitmotif." Roughly 10 minutes.

SMT-V is the “videocast journal” of the Society for Music Theory, the professional society for academic music theorists in North America. Scholarly video essays on topics ranging from repetition & music cognition through Mozart’s chamber music to the music of Portal 2. About 15 minutes.

Tantacrul is a composer with a classical bent who posts substantial video essays on topics related to music composition, including detailed discussions of specific compositional techniques, general aesthetic questions, composer's lives, and so on. 10-30 minutes.

Zeroes and Ones includes many blog posts rich in media content & transcriptions about music theory and production.