all right welcome back to part two let's continue diving into some of the features that relate to
interacting with the map and the score on mapping tonal harmony pro 8. all right so so far we've
seen how the score is always sending your touch events to the map the inversions panel and the
base detector now when you tap on the chords on the map the behavior is a bit different this is
because you can use the map to study not only the harmonic progression in the current song but tonal
harmony in general as well so the map doesn't send touch events to the chart let's resize the panel
and get rid of the chart for now remember the map is still being informed by a walking thing
as i mentioned before the map is showing only the functions that are present in the song it's also
showing essential cadences found in the song so we can see this song contains a plagal-like cadence
a perfect authentic cadence and some essential subdominant to dominant movement like two five
paths indicated by the brackets if you tap on any chord on the map the current player will play it
this is the same player that is used to play with the play along
tap on the players menu and we see that it's duke tap on the change button and load
bill now when we tap on the chords it's bill's voicings that you hear
which give us more range and upper structures let's try jim shown as a guitar player
we can change the sound to a nylon guitar over here
let's load bill again and try a rhodes sound
pretty cool now these settings also affect the play along so if i play the
accompaniment right now you're still listening to bill play on the roads
the play along and the touch events on the map and score will use the same player and instrument but
you can control the volumes of the play along and the touch events independently so there's a mixer
for the touch events and another mixer for the play along let's take a look at the touch mixer
so here's the regular audio mixer i don't know if you've noticed
but the bass player is also playing when you tap on a chord
you can also control the midi volume of the notes played in the two instruments
the midi volume affects how strongly the players are hitting
the chords let me change the sound to piano to show you what i'm talking about
if i set the chord's midi volume to 100 the max
i am basically telling bill to play the piano as loud as he can
but i can still lower the volume of the piano in the audio mixer
or i can tell him to play really softly and then turn the audio volume up or down
this is the same with the bass sound also
as you've probably heard the chords are sometimes rolled you can turn this feature off
here and then all of the chords will be played as block chords
i like using rolling chords for the guitar sounds but that's completely up to you
the rolling is totally random also so you get the feeling that someone and not something
is playing the chords for you
it makes the experience more musical in my opinion alright so let's say you want to study the entire
map see what's possible try new ideas and do some harmonic ear training so in order to do this
you need to ignore the song that is currently loaded and access the entire map so open the map
display preferences under the maps menu and turn on this i button so you can see all the chords
all right don't panic you're looking at the complete map
in the key of d major and d minor with all possible functions open the levels menu
and choose diatonic cool so there are all the basic diatonic chords in d major and d minor
you can tap on any chord and explore different possibilities
this is in my opinion the best feature in mapping tonal harmony pro once you start exploring harmony
using the map you're going to discover hundreds of cool harmonies and harmonic
progressions you have to understand that the map knows harmony even if you don't
the chords available to you at the moment and where they are located in the map will secretly
guide you to try things that have worked before and will always work let me show you what i mean
let's experiment a bit first let me show you how to change keys just
open the key submenu here and tap on any key on the keyboard to switch the song to that key
so now the map is an f now in g and now in a flat
you can change to major or minor using the house at this level
the hue of the map is the only thing that you can see changing
but in other levels when writing your own songs this subtle change will count
let me go back to d minor but i want to see the map functionally now no matter which key i choose
the functions remain the same and although the chord you hear when you tap on the one
in d minor is different from the one in f minor or g minor
the relationships between all the functions and paths stay the same functions are unmovable they
always play the same role chords that are in the same region will have a similar feeling to them
and moving from one region to another will also have a similar feeling
also the tonic region releases tension while the dominant creates it and the subdominant just
adds a bit of tension and is a nice region to pass through so for example i can try one minor to flat
three major seven to flat six major seven and back to the one minor to release the tension beautiful
and see how the plagal cadence lights up in blue indicating this was a plagal-like cadence
but not a strong one now if i play the same progression but change the last one minor chord
to a chord in the dominant region i can guarantee that i'm going to create much more tension which
will sound like something needs to come after that there needs to be some sort of point of resolution
and it wants to resolve back to one if we change keys the song will sound higher or lower but it
will be the same song traveling the same paths around the map harmony is like an explorer's tale
you travel around the map finding new sounds if you travel the same paths you get the same song
these rules of tonal harmony are universal
so no matter which style you're in the functions will stay in the same place
granted the voicings and often traveled paths will be different but nothing else
let's try the same song in a pop rock style we're going to open the style menu here and
we're going to change the map to pop rock as you can see the available players have
completely changed their voicing styles should be totally different from the jazz standard map
let's change the instrument to a piano and the bass to electric and play the exact same
progression and just for fun and so i can show you let's change the map's color theme to light
that's gonna do it for today thanks again for joining us come back next time
as we use a walking thing to show you guys how to use the edit feature within mapping
tonal harmony pro and at the same time talk a little bit about analysis and harmony in general
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