Music Theory in 16 Minutes

Hello friends and today is the day, so I will explain all the essential elements of

music

theory

in less than 30

minutes

. There is a challenge for you. Well, now

music

theory

has two halves. This is how music is written and how it is organized. For most people, the way the music is organized is much more important, so we'll leave out how it's written and focus on the organization. Now, this is a note, since most of you probably know that sound is caused by vibration. the faster the vibration the higher the note the slower the vibration the lower the note so if for example you double the frequency of that note you get that if you have the frequency of that note you get You are wrong now if you look at the camera keyboard.

You'll notice that there's a certain symmetry, a certain pattern to the whole thing, that there are these repeating patterns of two quarter notes, three quarter notes, two quarter notes, three quarter notes and those split each time you double the frequency, the distance between that one and that one. one at the same point in the pattern is called an octave, and that's because one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, well, the white one, there are eight white notes, if you then take that octave, the We divide into 12 equal steps to obtain all the black. and white notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ok, now the distance between any note and the next note up or down is called in the United States a half step, that is, a half step and in the UK is it's called a semitone, it's a semitone to half a state, do a full step, as you can probably work out, so if we go one two, that's a full step, that's a full step, or in the UK, that's one tone, okay, then half. step full step semitone tone wait I can't keep talking about that note and this note we have to start giving notes and names and thanks to a 6th century Roman philosopher named Boethius we can do that he thought it was supposedly a wonderful idea he was the first to think on this, but thought what a great idea to give these notes names that are letters so that one is called a.

Guess what exactly c d e f g is called now that we go back to a to the octave. We call that one again abcdefg abcdefg, etc. until the end, so all these days all these are B all these are cities okay, ah, what was that? Yes, the quarter notes, what shall we call them? Well, start with this one, go half a step. up what's it called it's called G sharp if you go up half a step that's G go up half a step you get G sharp what happens if you go down you get G flat then your half step down you get the flat note half a step up you get the sharp note which is called D goes up half a step we get D sharp we go down half a step we get D flat right ah well seen what happens if we play a and we go down half a step a flat okay, okay, what happens if play gen goes up half a step but it's still the same note, but called G sharp, so that note can be G sharp or flat.

Actually, it's not that complicated a game. It's like you want to get to North Street and someone tells you how. When you get there you get R, go down E Street and turn right or you could say R and they have Church Street and you turn to get to the same place, you're just coming in different routes and it's very similar, so half a step up from G a G sharp half seat of A to A flat and G sharp and a flat turn out to be exactly the same note, so we know what an octave is, we know how it is divided, and we know how to name the notes next question what is a scale and why mind that it probably sounds eerily familiar what you're hearing when you hear that scale what makes it sound like a major scale the answer is it's the pattern of intervals a whole scale is like this, if you play starting any one on the keyboard interval you start from the bottom and work your way up with a full step, a full step, a half step, a full step, a full step, a full step, a half step, it will sound like a major scale, the same in UK English if you go tone tone semitone tone tone tone semitone is skip that's what a major scale is it's an interval pattern starts on C goes up one full step another full step then half a step then three full steps plus one two three and a half steps full step full step half step full step full step full step half safe step UK English okay go up one tone tone semitone tone tone semitone start anywhere and will sound in a different place, but you will still be recognizable as a major scale start for example in G full step full step half step full step step full don't panic we can't go to that F because we need to go up a full step so we have to go to F sharp and then finish with half go there so UK English tone tone semitone tone tone semitone so To play a G major scale we have to use an F sharp and F sharp is what is known as the key signature of the G major scale in other words I can't play G major without an F sharp, that's what the key signatures are , they define what you need to be able to play that scale, take another one, for example, and start in D full step, full step to F sharp, half step, full step. full step R, another full step takes us to C sharp, so to play the D major scale we have to use an F sharp on the C sharp, so we have to use two sharps to play the D major scale and that means the key Singh change D major has two sharps F sharp and C sharp simple like that okay so far so good now you've probably heard of major and minor what this whole major and minor thing is about well they're just different scales and they are simply different patterns of intervals, so we know that a major scale goes whole step whole step whole step half step whole step whole step whole step whole step half step or tone tone semitone tone tone tone semitone a minor scale simply has a different pattern of intervals that gives it its characteristic feel, so starting with a full step, half step, full step, full step, half step, full step, then we go to a full step, half step, full step again, full step, half step, full step and then a full step, well that's the natural minor scale, let's do it in UK English, let's start with a tone, semitone, tone, semitone, tone, tone and if you start playing that sequence, an interval pattern , anyone on the keyboard you will get a natural minor, now you will have realized that we managed to play. that whole natural minor scale without using later notes, okay, so it says that the minor has the same key signature as the C major.

They're kind of like non-identical twins and they're known, so a minor is the relative minor of C major. They are united because they share the same armor and therefore share the same scale so far, so good. We've made major and minor scales and we've made all kinds of other armor. compare a major scale to a minor scale because I want to talk about intervals intervals are the distance between two notes on the keyboard, so from there to there is an interval from the Earth or there is an interval, so if we play the C major scale, okay if then Play seen a chiral minor going a full step, half step, full step, full step, half step, full step, full step, you'll notice, first of all, just focus on the first three notes, okay, and the major scale goes in the minor scale, so what are they?

We are going to call the interval between that note and that that that is called a major third because if you go up in the major scale one two three three notes you reach that note you have the minor scale you reach that note and the distance between that note and that note is call a minor third, okay, so a major third is made up of: you go up effectively four semitones, it allows you to go one, two, three, four and if you go to a minor third, it's three semitones, one. two, three now, but when we go from the third, four and five are equal in both major and minor and that is why those intervals that are a fourth are called perfect fourth because they are equal in both major and minor and that is a fifth perfect because it's the same thing in major and minor and then you get E and then you get major and minor thirds and 706 and sevenths too, but that's a minor third that's a major third, this is important because the next thing we're talking about is chords chords simply play more than one nation at a time, an interval is normally two notes and the register is normally three or more, so if we start on the first note of the scale, the root which is C, now try play, try this at home if you haven't already, the third and fifth note of the scale, so one, two, three, four, five, okay, so play one, skip one, play one, skip one , play one and what you get is a three-note chord called a triad.

That triad is known as C major because it is the chord formed in C and some major chord because the distance between the root note and the middle note is a major third. Now if we go up a note, what is the distance between that and what is not a third? major is a minor third, so it's D minor, okay, C major, D minor, and if you're looking good, we go up one, two, three, four semitones or semitones and you get a major third, you build it into a chord and you get a super major chord beginning. in D you just go up 1 2 3 semitones to get a minor third, which is the interval there, so you get a minor chord, so the pattern in a major scale can form a triad at each degree of the scale, that's called 1 or 2. or 3 called 4 4 5 ok and that's how the one called 5 6 4 C major which is G which is a quarter of G major then goes up to a minor which is called 6 because it is the sixth note of the scale and that is necessary because on the fourth sheet of this scale there is a wonderful diagram that unites us all.

This may make your brain explode, but I'll do it anyway. Here's a fantastic diagram that explains how all of this relates to each other and you'll need to look at it a little bit because it takes a little bit of time to understand it, but look right at the top, now it's SC, as we know, you can play a C major scale no quarter notes, there are no accidentals in it, so there are no sharps or flats if you go up to the fifth note of the scale, okay, you get to G now, when we try to play a major scale based on G, as we explained before , we have to use a sharp if you go up to the fifth note. of the G scale you end up on D now we play a major scale you have to use both F sharp and C sharp every time you go up a fifth you have to add a sharp to the key signature in total and it all comes down to that interval pattern we were from talking before, so every time you turn one tick clockwise, it starts at C unchanged goes to G with one sharp goes to D with two sharps goes to a with three sharps goes to E with four sharps now, right? how about we go down if we start on C and go left counterclockwise we go down 1/5 we end on F now to make an F scale we go tone tone semitone and this time we are I'm going to call that B flat black sharp so If you go to the left you will go to the flat side and every time you go one step to the left you add a flat, so that F major has a flat in B flat, which is the next one to the right has two flats one flat three flats now the closer two things are on the circle of fifths so they are more closely related, you can add another circle to the circle of fifths that is inside, which is all relative, so you can see how those relative minors are the minor scales with the same key signature, there's the major scale, okay, so C major has no sharps, a flat, a minor has no sharps or flats, G major has one E sharp minor has one sharp, ok, this is probably too much to take in all at once. just once, but take a look at this and you can download it.

There's a little sort of crib sheet that we put together that will explain all of this. said here so you can see it on a piece of paper and no one says and how it works ok, you can see that, that's very rude, it doesn't sound like that, does it, of course not. I'm sorry, but it will allow you to figure things out and I hope you find it useful and interesting. It has been quite a whirlwind tour of music theory. It hasn't even taken 30

minutes

. No? But I hope for those of you. who don't have any music theory, just start giving them an idea of ​​the way it's organized and the logic behind it and how it's not really rocket science, it's just a matter of understanding how these things go together and suddenly , I hope everything makes a lot more sense to you.

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