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LinkedIn Learning

Using Music for Better Video Edits

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Overview

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Luisa Winters

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