Are you afraid of the KEY CHANGE?

Pur Pasteur June 19, 2025
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Pur Pasteur

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Composer/educator. Pushing neoclassical piano music into new electronic landscapes, and helping other creators by providing dynamic visualizations for complex musical topics Contact for inquiries and private lessons : [email protected]

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Learn how to build every possible type of modulation, or key change, in music. To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/PurPasteur/. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. Learn to analyse them, understand why they work, and what makes a good modulation, based on examples from pop music, film, and classical repertoire. Donations appreciated : https://www.patreon.com/purpasteur Pdf of the map : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qIZ6zc9r7lZVYJDmyLmQLxP5ubEn-Yeg/view?usp=sharing 0:00 Introduction 1:40 The truck driver's gear shift 4:13 Reverse gear shift 5:46 2 emotional parameters for analysis 8:09 The monstrous II-V-I (polarization) 10:34 How to build a II-V-I 14:13 Energy input to support the modulation 15:47 The minor II-V-I 17:38 Hopelessly Devoted (the pivot note) 21:04 The devilish pivot chord 24:00 Systematic exploration of diatonic pivot chords 25:58 Karma Police (chord reinterpretation) 28:14 Pivoting down a fifth 29:47 Pivoting up/down 2 fifths (Penny Lane) 32:01 Secondary dominant pivots 34:03 The unfathomable modal interchange pivots 35:36 Sponsorship 36:30 I have nothing (Whitney Houston) 38:12 Take a Chance (DOMi & JD BECK) 39:50 The greatest modulation of all time Follow Pur Pasteur : https://purpasteur.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/purpasteur/ https://www.facebook.com/100087432349171 https://purpasteur.com/ This video was sponsored by Brilliant.

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