REQ: Film Music Notes Action-Music Harmony in Classic Blockbuster Films

These lessons focus on the three main scales of classic action music: octatonic, hexatonic, and Hungarian minor. Learn how to extract sophisticated action writing from them with easy-to-understand techniques. Lesson 4 builds a vocabulary of common chords from hexatonic and Hungarian minor scales. Lesson 5 then demonstrates how scales play an important part in the planing of chords. And Lesson 6 reveals common ways of mixing the action scales together, either one after the other or even at the same time!

Lesson 4 – Hexatonic and Hungarian Minor Scales

Lesson 5 – Planing and Pedal Point

Lesson 6 – Combining Scales Together