Using Music for Better Video Edits

Learn about improving your visual storytelling skills by using music and making better video edits on screen.

Introduction

• Do you want to learn how editing music creates a better edit?
• What you need to know before watching this course
• Exercise files

1. Key Signature

• Key signatures
• Major and minor keys
• Common chord progressions
• Modal music
• Chromatic and pentatonic music
• Open fifths

2. Time Signature

• Tempo, bars, rhythm
• Phrases
• Sonata form
• Rhythmic engines

3. Rhythm and Pacing

• The difference between rhythm and pacing
• Editing to the beat
• Elongating tracks
• Rhythm of speech
• Pauses and silences

4. Tension and Release

• Tension and resolution in music
• Creating tension with rhythm and tempo
• Harmonic tension
• Dynamics tension

5. Instrumentation

• Strings
• Woodwinds
• Brass
• Percussion
• Voice

Conclusion

• Goodbye