Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 21 minutes ago

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If you’re stuck with writing music try this! In this guitar lesson you’ll learn all about the chromatic mediant and why they the favorite composition tool of many progressive Rock, Prog Metal bands and film composers like John Williams, Max Steiner and Hans Zimmer. The Chromatic mediant and chromatic submediant is an amazing strong and powerful chord to create inspiring music that sound mystical, ominous and even unnerving. Not only film composers use it for their film scores like John Williams did for his Star Wars film music, but also Rock and pop artists use it too like the Doors when they wrote “Light my fire” and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers when they came up with the intro for “Under The Bridge”. This video is pointed at guitar players who need a crystal clear guitar tutorial about the chromatic mediant.

0:00 Introduction
01:03 What is a mediant
03:13 Chromatic mediants
07:11 Chromatic submediants
09:26 Parallel and relative scales
12:08 Chromatic mediants in the minor scale
16:39 Chaining chromatic (sub)mediants
18:07 Songs and film scores
22:07 Conclusion

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Artwork: (c) 2021) Rob van Hal




Used:
Strandberg* Boden Prog NX (www.strandbergguitars.com)
Ibanez JEM 7vb (www.Ibanez.com)
Ibanez SD GR Bass (www.Ibanez.com)
Takamine GD930 (www.takamine.com)
Castilla Classical Guitars

Oktave MK-012 microphone
Axe FX II (www.fractalaudio.com)
Neural DSP plugins (neuraldsp.com/)
Fireface UCXII audio interface (www.rme-audio.de)

Sony FX30
Sigma Contemporary 30mm F1.4

Aperture Studio Lights
Godox Softboxes


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(c)2023 Rob van Hal, Netherlands

Subjects in this video:
Music theory, film score music, chromatic mediant, chromatic submediant, double chromatic mediant, common note modulation, modal mixture, modal interchange, film score music, writing film scores, writing music for films, functional harmony, song writing, guitar lesson, guitar tutorial, QJamTracks.