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I absolutely love your description of progression as being non-linear but rather three dimensional - orbiting around a tonal “nucleus”. I’ve studied harmony for six decades and I’ve never heard it described in such a pithy way. Good on ‘ya! ❤
Yeah, I thought that was great! I'd love to see some kind of visual representation where the root is the star and the other chords orbit at different distances
My thoughts as well. I've played the piano for over 3 decades, and it is apt. Interestingly, we can choose to have multiple 'nuclei'. For example, So What from Miles Davis is a great example. Or, we can use 3 nuclei, such as D / F# / Bb. But we need those 'bases'.
Circle of Fifths is way too complicated for me... I just remember that the last sharp rises a semitone to the key, the flat before is the key (except for F major) and the relative minor scale is 3 semitones below major. And obviously C/a has no key signature.
@@ania5038 Eh, that's more of a "shortcut" to remembering keys than actually understanding it. The circle of fifths is simply a cycle of keys. It's much easier to visualize using the pattern of the piano keyboard and the pattern of the major scale (T-T-HT-T-T-T-HT). If you start on C, you get no black keys. If you move to G, you notice that the pattern on the keyboard is almost the same-two black key "skips," a pair of side-by-side white keys, and then another two black key skips. But now, since you started on the second note of the other group of black keys (F#, G#, A#), there has to be compensation; since the black note you skipped in C Major (A#) was pushed to the right by one note (F#) you have to skip a white key instead; F has to be sharp to lead into the G. The same goes for F Major but the other way around. It starts the same with two black key skips, but since you started in a bigger group of black keys (F#, G#, A#), there has to be compensation; since there are more black notes from the start of the scale, going to the next white note is not part of the pattern. Thus, the B has to be flat. The way I taught myself to understand it is that the scale is composed of 12 semitones. A perfect fifth is composed of 7 semitones, sharing no common factors with 12; thus, by going by an interval of 7 semitones, you go through all 12 keys. The only two intervals that can do this (apart from the obvious minor 2nd) are 7 and 5 semitones. See the correlation? 7 + 5 = 12. The best way to memorize keys is just to practice them. It may take a couple weeks as it did for me, but simply memorizing the order (FCGDAEB for sharps and BEADGCF for flats) and then going through all of the keys is the best way to go about it.
just want to say I very much appreciate how you processed the audio in this. I can tell it was mixed with care. the piano sounds super clear and you can still hear it when you are talking. super natural and crisp. hats off to you, great video.
An overview like this keeps a student's mind always aware of the purpose of their learning. When too many specific details are thrown at them without a "big picture" perspective, it just feels pedantic. This video completely blows that attitude out of the water, so thank you 🙏
@@HeadbangoO what exactly are you trying to say? The reply you are replying to just saying that the school system in place doesn't help you connect the information that you're learning, it just throws it at you
@@OdaKa I’m not trying anything, nor taking quotes as absolute truth. There are different music schools with different purposes, you just have to be aware of what you’re aiming for and where you choose to learn…
@@HeadbangoO You're clearly making an effort to communicate something... and stating that Bthelick doesn't get something, but what that is, is very obfuscated.
I’m a metal guitarist trying to expand my musical understanding, and I have to say the way you teach musical concepts is exceptional. I’m a visual learner and your style helped me grasp the concept with ease. Bravo.
As a guitarist, you will be functionally aware of “harmonics”… Seventh and fifth fret harmonic tuning, 12th fret intonation, pick squeals, etc…. Start there with an observation of how the string is openly vibrating with harmonic resonance for a deeper understanding.
I am a disabled Vietnam vet who is totally new to the world of music. I am trying to learn as much as I can, and this 9-minute video has explained more to me than all the other UA-cams I have watched. I am subscribing to your channel and hope to buy your book soon. Cheers.
I hope your musical journey brings you joy! Here are some of my favorite music UA-camrs, if you're interested: Adam Neely, David Bennett Piano, 12Tone, Polyphonic, and David Bruce Composer.
This is your calling, Nahre. Your videos are most interesting and you have a natural talent for opening peoples' eyes when it comes to music/piano theory. You instinctively know how to connect with people and get your points across effectively. This video alone immediately became one of my favorites. Keep it going, Nahre. People who aspire to be good musicians need you! 😊
I never had this broken down before. This was awesome. Also amazing how row row row your boat can be as deep or as simple as you make it out to be. Amazing work!
What a brilliant way to explain things!! Using the visual with the auditory, showing how vibrational frequencies are music, color, and pretty much everything. Perfect metaphors (the rose and bouquet!!! ) Love this!
This is how I explain it to my students even at 5 years old. They totally understand it in the context of the color wheel, spinning planets, a well told story and context. Do you hear colors ? Many of the young children I teach do. It’s so beautiful. Thanks for this. I’ll check out your book!!!
You have a unique way of allowing the listener within to actually experience not only what you see, but feel and hear as well. A very gifted and sincere approach. Some teach what they’ve been taught, others teach what they know. It’s obvious that you’ve been given a gift, that you couldn’t possibly keep to yourself. Thank you.
The way you are able to describe how music works and flows together is unlike anything I’ve seen on UA-cam. Thank you for this video and I’ll definitely be looking into your book
I've lookled at a LOT of youtube music instruction videos. You really are a wonderful teacher. Your approach to harmony (and the ability to impart it clearly) is epic!
Your talent for getting at the essence of a thing is so impressive and the fact that you’re also so amazing at making that easily understandable to others makes it even more so. I love seeing whatever new and interesting things you have been thinking on to share with us all; just bought the book and I’m stoked ♥️ Thanks for being all you are and doing all you do, this world is better for it.
I am glad that several people introduced you to me. I have a former student who introduced me to Adam Neely's videos. Through his videos, I was introduced to you. I really enjoy the journey that you are on. I play some of your videos for my music --like this one--to my music appreciation class. I hope that I can read your book over the summer. Thanks again for what you do.
Hi! I just bought your book! The reason is that you are very very smart and I want to learn from you. I love your comparison of circle of 5th to color wheel, I’m quite accustomed to both and it never occurred to me to connect them. Also, the idea that chords are 3D and have weight is so beautiful. I hope to spend lots of great time with your book! Greetings and keep up good work!
This lectue is mindblowing! To say that you showed me the light is an understatement. I feel as if I can hear the light, see the sound and smell the touch. I am in love!
You are so gifted in explaining things simply. Thank you very much. I am a classical music amateur and I follow anything you post. It's such an incredibly high quality that you offer in all of your videos - be it your piano skills, the presentation, the video quality, the rhetoric, the creativity, the ... you name it. Anything you produce is like a gem.
I'm not a musician, but love music. Mind blown by this. Thank you - I'm amazed by the analysis (matter of fact) and by how natural and graceful the harmonies and playing is.
Nahre, the way you teach music is like an artist who can paint a picture with only words and the viewers see it clearly. Keep the great content coming. You are the best.
Watched this video and immediately bought your book. Love the music color analogy, it's how I've always thought about it too. Everything is vibration ⚡️
I don't know why but with your stuff i just, GET it, like really quickly in comparaison to other methods. I really love your approach, you include not just sound but color and mood to your explanation, and this really help me. I will strongly consider to buy your book!
So beautifully and humbly explained. It was a wonderful learning experience, even when one knew it before. You capture and convey in a small video so much; it says both about your depth of understanding and skill in communication. Thank you.
I'm only 4 minutes into it, already fell in love with her. Who in the world explained harmonies so beautifully and so comprehensively??!..Cannot thank enough and will check her content.
@6:22 an underrated moment in this video. I think the arrangement works not just because there's the Am and Dm blending. But also because you do really great work with the Left Hand to build in a bass line. As you play the melody, the top note of your Left Hand starts out with a C and then you play increasingly lower notes B, A, F, and then finish off with the C chord. The piece is so powerful becuase your Left Hand is moving in one direction (downwards) while your Right Hand is moving the opposite direction (upwards), but both hands resolve on the same chord (C major) an octave apart... Long-winded way of saying, the movement in the Left & Right Hands in opposite directions but that resolves together is also a key part of what makes the music sound so good. There's a journey in opposite directions that ends in the same place -- the journey makes you feel like you're Row, Row, Rowing a Boat
What a great comment explaining the music with such simple and descriptive words making it easy to visualize, even as I just think back on what I had heard. Very nice.
This video is so good and so right. This was exactly the reinforcement I needed for things I have seen presented in a less clear fashion. It is presented here in a way I think only a masterful musician and natural educator can achieve. You have a style, Nahre. It is a graceful, "less is more" sensibility and it is wonderful.
Thank you! You make music much more understandable. I love the analogies of the flowers and color wheel. For some reason it makes music more visible. Great teacher!
❤Congrats on the new book, I ordered it ASAP! I hope it is a best seller. I like your videos and explanations so I hope to learn more about the music theory from you and your perspective to see what I missed, misunderstood, or thought I knew but didn't... and it's probably all of the above! LOL. I got the PDF download and I'm reading it right now! I appreciate the effort it took to write a book, and it is very well illustrated! I'm skim reading the parts I already know, such as the piano keys and such, but I looked ahead and I know it doesn't stay introductory for long so I don't want to miss any gem or nugget of information along the way!
Actually I discovered you and your videos just a short time ago. I have been a professional musician, pretty much my entire life and even though I took formal lessons for about 15 yrs, I never had the opportunity of formal schooling; e.g. conservatory. I really enjoy your videos: well produced, informative and you are a personable and knowledgeable young lady. Thanks for the effort you put in !
Nahre, Your video helped me understand my guitar notes and chords a lot better. Thank you so much for your direct approach and calm atmosphere while teaching/explaining this very important concept of music. It will help me to visualize the notes and chords as playing. I appreciate your kindness in putting the effort to help others!
I am 62 and just learning about music theory. I wanted to learn how to sing harmony and stumbled across this world that explains so many things! I have always been envious of other's talents. Why did I NEVER know this? Music is my soul!
Hey Nahre. Thanks for this video. I am a seasoned guitarist who started teaching my 12 year old girl how to play the guitar. One of the struggles that I have is explaining everything that makes sense for a 12 year old. You just nailed it. I asked her to watch your video and now it's all making sense to her. Hope you continue making these videos. Cheers!
@@dr.strawberry5773 I play some ukulele, but not well enough to call myself a musician I guess. Truth is, I try to drop a like and a comment on all her work for the engagement.
@@RTKdarling hey man. creativity, art is expression. it doesnt take being a profesionnal. it doesnt take making money from it. doesnt take virtuosity. all it takes is a habit. run 5 times a week. u're a runner. period. its just about doing it for its own sake. playing. possibly exploring emotions/thoguhts. maybe making goofy shit that makes you and ur friends laugh. dont attach a metric to your identity. i dont know you obviously, so im super assuming but saying this for whoever needs to hear it. making music is just FUN AS HELL (in the proper setting/mindset). if you do it, u're a muscian. now you can preface that by saying "ehh i dont practice as much as i should. im early in journey" all that jazz. BUT! dont overthink it and do it just to do it. and be silly about it. no wrong answers :) :) :)
Harmony is beautiful and I think a lot of kids/adults get to focused on learning songs, their fav tunes, instead of using their own creativity to make beautiful music.
I love the color wheel analogy. That’s incredibly helpful. One of the coolest things I learned about music theory was Modal Mixture. I learned that you can borrow notes and chords from other scales and other keys. Then that taught me how to use all 12 notes in a way that is actually musical.
It's always a pleasure to listen to you talking about music ! I will check out your book for sure ! I will keep the "a chord is a bouquet de rose" 😍so poetic ! ❤
What a well prepared and concise explanation. You are really skillful to present all these abstract components of music in such a practical manner. Thank you so much. I play several instruments and I can really use these concepts to imprive my composing skills. Thank you again.
Beautifully explained. I particularly loved your comments on context, a concept I initially found difficult to grasp in the beginning of my composition studies. You have given me better tools for explaining this to young piano students!
I think the fact how I hesitated greatly to watch this video, illuminated for me how terrifying I find Harmony, especially as a musician who did not get the opportunity to go to music school and is now trying to just grapple with what feels like overwhelming mountains of history, theory, and on top of that trying to improve my overall playing on both cello and piano. I really respect Nahre, I think she is brilliant and if I could take lessons/an in-person class with her, I would absolutely, so I took the opportunity to buy her book. I intend to go over it tomorrow while I am at work and read through it on my Ipad and take some notes. I took the opportunity to also grab her uplifting piano warm up exercises (Beginner and intermediate), the major sevenths, and the 5 Uplifting ones in all transpositions, alongside "Solitude", one my favorite pieces Nahre has written. I look forward to going over it all and trying to play it as well. If I remember, I will check back in with my thoughts on my purchases.
That is so great ESKAR ENTERTAINMENT! I love Nahre's videos as well, and I am a classical pianist and teacher for 40 years teaching now, earned BM and MM in piano performance with work in pedagogy as well. My Dad was a trained composer, with degrees and I was always scared of harmony because he knew it SO SO well. He was a jazz musician and arranger before he studied classical composition(!) I have discovered over the years that in school it was not taught well (ie, all the rules, etc.) When it's related to SOUND and playing, and all of that, for me, it became much more interesting and also fun. That was in grad school when I was "on my own" ie had finished most of my coursework. So, your attitude and determination will take you so far!
One of the very few purchases I've made from a UA-cam channel and I couldn't be happier to support you Nahre. I've watched your channel for many years and previously purchased your short tutorials. Thanks so much for sharing your incredible talent, skill and knowledge.
Well done! Thank you for simplifying a complex topic with color comparison. Made the subject feel grounded in something that many people can relate to.
I want to comment on the quality of your video. The information was clear, the background music complemented your voice well, that little count down did keep me in when my mind wanted to wander off. It felt very natural and comfortable....Of course, a lot of that is not cinematic skills, but your personality coming through...Well done.
You definitely surprised me when you said that one note contains others; the overtones. This is something that I have never known! Your analogy to colors made sense (i.e. blue + red = purple). However, I also want to mention the theory of “color bias.” It is a similar concept to what you explained. For instance, in theory, blue and red *do* make purple, but it has to be the right kinds of blue and red. If the red “looks like” it wants to turn blue, then we say that it has a blue bias; same with blue, it can have a red bias. When you mix these two together, it makes that really nice purple. Some reds have an orange bias, as do some yellows; mix these two and you get a nice orange color.
Actually, not to be rude but it isn't always true; it's more of an instrument thing. Like, when you play a C using a pure sine wave, it's only that C, it's just that any instrument more complex than a simple (sine) wave more frequencies "in" it. So it kinda depends on the instrument, she should probably have explained that :)
This was VERY good! Thanks a lot for breaking it up like that. I learned it all in the conservatory years ago, and it is funny how a different perspective like yours can make it all make a lot more sense!
You explain so easily, wish I learnt this way music theory in the past... Amazing channel, I watch and follow up your content. Thanks for sharing with us!! 😍
Great stuff, and even though I'm familiar with the concepts you explained here, this adds perspective and a layer of understanding that I didn't have before, so thank you! I would love it if you did a video (or even a book!) explaining jazz rules. I've performed classical all my life and recently started learning jazz and it's like starting over, so grasping the concepts is making me feel like a rank novice musician! 😆
@@Pictor13 Totally. But first I need to understand them before I can break them. There are definitely rules but it's so completely different from classical that I have a hard time wrapping my head around them.
Not sure if you've learned since, but if not, Piano with Johnny has a great jazz pathway for beginner/intermediate/advanced players to build and understand jazz principles.
@@Un1234l I did find a great jazz teacher that I learned from for several months, but time constraints forced me to put it on hold. I'll check out Piano with Johnny. Thanks!
@@mortlieb8239 Look up Piano with Jonny's 1 Year Practice Plan I have to try that out myself as the practice fundamentals are nery sound, but I too have had big time restraints to be able to get started
If any of you are lost, Harmony is when more than one note is played together, like a chord, that would be Harmony. Melody is when individual notes are played one after the other.
Thank you so much for this, I've been desperately trying to understand this stuff for the longest time and have gotten so confused by every 'music theory EXPLAINED!' video I've watched or book I've tried to read about the subject. It's been so utterly frustrating to hear music in my head and have no idea how to get it out but this video has genuinely been a lightbulb moment in that it sets the emotional context for the technical aspects. Thank you so much.
Thank you for this Nahre. The frosting on the cake for me is that you are clearly pronouncing you "Ts"! How refreshing it is to feel that I am not alone in this effort to preserve the correct pronunciation of the the English Language. It's becoming so popular for people to drop the sound of the "T" when they speak and it makes me gag! ; ( I'm a trumpet player and so articulation has always been important to me .Thanks Again!
Ooooo I loved this. A great example of the context/moment phenomenon is in Debussy's prelude "Voiles!" The majority of the piece sits in a really dissonant whole tone frame of reference before exploding into this glorious pentatonic moment!
"As an artist, we can utilize some or all of the rules. It really is up to us." I love this. A really refreshing reminder to keep in mind when learning any form of art theory.
@@RatPfink66 EXACTLY! YOU NEED TO SPEND YEARS LEARNING THE RULES WHICH WERE LEARNED OVER 100'S OF YEARS IN ANYTHING. Only Then, can you start disobeying them. Too many people in all fields today just go to the "Well I am Feeling it This way", very entitled, and lazy.
@@WindTunnelRacing I do not think Nahre is advocating that. I think that she is explaining in terms of SOUND, and in a more creative way how these rules apply to actual music! So much theory is taught by what I call "fill in the blank theory" If you watch her other videos you will see the way she challenges herself to apply the rules and principles, and gets to the basics of the topic at hand, as a commenter wrote below "less is more".
@@WindTunnelRacing Weak perspective tbh. Learning the rules just gives more clarity and more tools. But you can still do just what you feel. You can slam your instrument around all you like. It's still music. And if you like it no amount of pretentious grand-standing from selfish music-consumers can change that.
I've been teaching art as a subject for decades and also write music; I have never seen the connection between music and colour before: using the colour and harmony wheel stogether is wonderful and you are a natural teacher. More power to you
You didn't just put heart and soul into your book ... But you put ALL your heart and soul into EVERYTHING that you do I LOVE Your passion for music *Kisses
This was very, very good. The bouquet analogy and the orbiting analogy, the “context and moment” concept, and especially the seemingly effortless playing of chords and sequences to demonstrate structure and progression…really engaging. I haven’t taken a music lesson in way over 50 years and don’t own a keyboard, but this and many of your other videos make it seem doable and certainly make it feel like “oh I’d like to do that!”. I wish you all the best with the new book and thanks so much for doing these videos.
This explanation was so beautiful and well thought out! I hope that you are teaching at a university, because you have the ability to make a lot of students excited for Music Theory
Thanks for the lesson and your simple and understandable approach to a complex subject. Music is both science and art and it is the art of it that makes it so beautiful.
Amazing video. Great explanations, and your way of thinking about harmony is genius. Really made me broaden my own view on harmonics. Also you are the first person ever to make me realize the circle of fifths can be useful, and I'm a bachelor in Musicology....
As always your speech is perfect, for a profane like me as a non-musician, even if long-life listener. I will never stop to thank you when I meet your videos
I learnt piano in a dark room blindfolded. Can't read music but can listen and play... You learn harmonic pictures in your brain real quick just from listening.
I've been introduced to a few good piano instructors on UA-cam over the last 2 years but this is the SIMPLEST explanation of Harmony I've ever heard. I think it is your Gift of the use of Analogy.
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Thanks so much! Also, have you heard of Yunchan Lim? I just came across his interpretation of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes and it’s truly stellar
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I would love to hear you play Heitor Villa Lobos. Thank you for everything.💗
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As a visual artist, I really love the connection you make between sounds and colors. It really speaks to me.
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I absolutely love your description of progression as being non-linear but rather three dimensional - orbiting around a tonal “nucleus”. I’ve studied harmony for six decades and I’ve never heard it described in such a pithy way. Good on ‘ya! ❤
Yeah, I thought that was great! I'd love to see some kind of visual representation where the root is the star and the other chords orbit at different distances
My thoughts as well. I've played the piano for over 3 decades, and it is apt. Interestingly, we can choose to have multiple 'nuclei'. For example, So What from Miles Davis is a great example. Or, we can use 3 nuclei, such as D / F# / Bb. But we need those 'bases'.
This has to be the most humble book announcement ever! Congrats on the release!
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And I love it even more because of that, great job!!
@@skylarsmith2340me too. I am not a musician but I think I am going to go buy it
As an art student comparing the Circle of Fifths to the Color Wheel blew my freaking mind! Well done!
finally i understood it too
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Circle of Fifths is way too complicated for me... I just remember that the last sharp rises a semitone to the key, the flat before is the key (except for F major) and the relative minor scale is 3 semitones below major. And obviously C/a has no key signature.
@@ania5038 Eh, that's more of a "shortcut" to remembering keys than actually understanding it.
The circle of fifths is simply a cycle of keys. It's much easier to visualize using the pattern of the piano keyboard and the pattern of the major scale (T-T-HT-T-T-T-HT). If you start on C, you get no black keys. If you move to G, you notice that the pattern on the keyboard is almost the same-two black key "skips," a pair of side-by-side white keys, and then another two black key skips. But now, since you started on the second note of the other group of black keys (F#, G#, A#), there has to be compensation; since the black note you skipped in C Major (A#) was pushed to the right by one note (F#) you have to skip a white key instead; F has to be sharp to lead into the G.
The same goes for F Major but the other way around. It starts the same with two black key skips, but since you started in a bigger group of black keys (F#, G#, A#), there has to be compensation; since there are more black notes from the start of the scale, going to the next white note is not part of the pattern. Thus, the B has to be flat.
The way I taught myself to understand it is that the scale is composed of 12 semitones. A perfect fifth is composed of 7 semitones, sharing no common factors with 12; thus, by going by an interval of 7 semitones, you go through all 12 keys. The only two intervals that can do this (apart from the obvious minor 2nd) are 7 and 5 semitones. See the correlation? 7 + 5 = 12.
The best way to memorize keys is just to practice them. It may take a couple weeks as it did for me, but simply memorizing the order (FCGDAEB for sharps and BEADGCF for flats) and then going through all of the keys is the best way to go about it.
@@TheUnderscore_ I've played piano since I was 4 and I'm 28 and got up to Grade 10 lol it works for me.
just want to say I very much appreciate how you processed the audio in this. I can tell it was mixed with care. the piano sounds super clear and you can still hear it when you are talking. super natural and crisp. hats off to you, great video.
An overview like this keeps a student's mind always aware of the purpose of their learning. When too many specific details are thrown at them without a "big picture" perspective, it just feels pedantic. This video completely blows that attitude out of the water, so thank you 🙏
"School is about collecting dots, not connecting dots" - Seth Godin
@@Bthelick You don't get it, knowledge is pedantic, welcome to idiocracy.
@@HeadbangoO what exactly are you trying to say? The reply you are replying to just saying that the school system in place doesn't help you connect the information that you're learning, it just throws it at you
@@OdaKa I’m not trying anything, nor taking quotes as absolute truth. There are different music schools with different purposes, you just have to be aware of what you’re aiming for and where you choose to learn…
@@HeadbangoO You're clearly making an effort to communicate something... and stating that Bthelick doesn't get something, but what that is, is very obfuscated.
I’m a metal guitarist trying to expand my musical understanding, and I have to say the way you teach musical concepts is exceptional. I’m a visual learner and your style helped me grasp the concept with ease. Bravo.
What do you make of Kerry King aka Slayer then?
As a guitarist, you will be functionally aware of “harmonics”… Seventh and fifth fret harmonic tuning, 12th fret intonation, pick squeals, etc…. Start there with an observation of how the string is openly vibrating with harmonic resonance for a deeper understanding.
I am a disabled Vietnam vet who is totally new to the world of music. I am trying to learn as much as I can, and this 9-minute video has explained more to me than all the other UA-cams I have watched. I am subscribing to your channel and hope to buy your book soon. Cheers.
I hope your musical journey brings you joy! Here are some of my favorite music UA-camrs, if you're interested: Adam Neely, David Bennett Piano, 12Tone, Polyphonic, and David Bruce Composer.
@@emilyrln Emily: Thank you so much. This is very helpful information for someone like me who is new to this wonderful world of music. Cheers!
@@jeemalsoknownasjimhawkins1294 You're very welcome :)
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Check out Rick Beato channel, he's great educator!
@@Livsie Hey, Livsie: Thanks for the suggestion. I will check him out. Cheers!
You are an incredible teacher
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This is your calling, Nahre. Your videos are most interesting and you have a natural talent for opening peoples' eyes when it comes to music/piano theory. You instinctively know how to connect with people and get your points across effectively. This video alone immediately became one of my favorites. Keep it going, Nahre. People who aspire to be good musicians need you! 😊
I never had this broken down before. This was awesome.
Also amazing how row row row your boat can be as deep or as simple as you make it out to be. Amazing work!
What a brilliant way to explain things!! Using the visual with the auditory, showing how vibrational frequencies are music, color, and pretty much everything. Perfect metaphors (the rose and bouquet!!! ) Love this!
I'm a musician with major in violin and conducting and I only want to say that this video is just beautiful! Very well explained! Best regards
This is how I explain it to my students even at 5 years old. They totally understand it in the context of the color wheel, spinning planets, a well told story and context. Do you hear colors ? Many of the young children I teach do. It’s so beautiful. Thanks for this. I’ll check out your book!!!
You have a unique way of allowing the listener within to actually experience not only what you see, but feel and hear as well. A very gifted and sincere approach.
Some teach what they’ve been taught, others teach what they know. It’s obvious that you’ve been given a gift, that you couldn’t possibly keep to yourself. Thank you.
The way you are able to describe how music works and flows together is unlike anything I’ve seen on UA-cam. Thank you for this video and I’ll definitely be looking into your book
WOW! your descriptions with the color wheel and context are suuuuper cool!! Totally saving this to pass on to my students. Fabulous!
I've lookled at a LOT of youtube music instruction videos. You really are a wonderful teacher. Your approach to harmony (and the ability to impart it clearly) is epic!
Your talent for getting at the essence of a thing is so impressive and the fact that you’re also so amazing at making that easily understandable to others makes it even more so.
I love seeing whatever new and interesting things you have been thinking on to share with us all; just bought the book and I’m stoked ♥️
Thanks for being all you are and doing all you do, this world is better for it.
I am glad that several people introduced you to me. I have a former student who introduced me to Adam Neely's videos. Through his videos, I was introduced to you. I really enjoy the journey that you are on. I play some of your videos for my music --like this one--to my music appreciation class. I hope that I can read your book over the summer. Thanks again for what you do.
Hi! I just bought your book! The reason is that you are very very smart and I want to learn from you. I love your comparison of circle of 5th to color wheel, I’m quite accustomed to both and it never occurred to me to connect them. Also, the idea that chords are 3D and have weight is so beautiful. I hope to spend lots of great time with your book! Greetings and keep up good work!
Such great finesse you possess, while playing. It is an absolute to watch and hear you play. I mean, row row row your boat became so interesting now!
How fluid you are. Keep the passion flowing!
This lectue is mindblowing! To say that you showed me the light is an understatement. I feel as if I can hear the light, see the sound and smell the touch. I am in love!
I love how your playing makes even the simplest things sound so musical.
You are so gifted in explaining things simply. Thank you very much.
I am a classical music amateur and I follow anything you post. It's such an incredibly high quality that you offer in all of your videos - be it your piano skills, the presentation, the video quality, the rhetoric, the creativity, the ... you name it. Anything you produce is like a gem.
I'm not a musician, but love music.
Mind blown by this. Thank you - I'm amazed by the analysis (matter of fact) and by how natural and graceful the harmonies and playing is.
Nahre, the way you teach music is like an artist who can paint a picture with only words and the viewers see it clearly. Keep the great content coming. You are the best.
That was an amazing comment.
Man. You turned row row row your boat (2:30) into something beautiful. The "merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily" got me.
Watched this video and immediately bought your book. Love the music color analogy, it's how I've always thought about it too. Everything is vibration ⚡️
I don't know why but with your stuff i just, GET it, like really quickly in comparaison to other methods. I really love your approach, you include not just sound but color and mood to your explanation, and this really help me. I will strongly consider to buy your book!
4:26 "I've put so much heart and soul into this." You should have titled your book, "The Heart and Sol of Nahremony." 😀
Lol
So beautifully and humbly explained. It was a wonderful learning experience, even when one knew it before.
You capture and convey in a small video so much; it says both about your depth of understanding and skill in communication. Thank you.
I'm only 4 minutes into it, already fell in love with her. Who in the world explained harmonies so beautifully and so comprehensively??!..Cannot thank enough and will check her content.
@6:22 an underrated moment in this video. I think the arrangement works not just because there's the Am and Dm blending. But also because you do really great work with the Left Hand to build in a bass line. As you play the melody, the top note of your Left Hand starts out with a C and then you play increasingly lower notes B, A, F, and then finish off with the C chord. The piece is so powerful becuase your Left Hand is moving in one direction (downwards) while your Right Hand is moving the opposite direction (upwards), but both hands resolve on the same chord (C major) an octave apart... Long-winded way of saying, the movement in the Left & Right Hands in opposite directions but that resolves together is also a key part of what makes the music sound so good. There's a journey in opposite directions that ends in the same place -- the journey makes you feel like you're Row, Row, Rowing a Boat
What a great comment explaining the music with such simple and descriptive words making it easy to visualize, even as I just think back on what I had heard. Very nice.
"Memorize notes as if you are memorizing new faces of people - each of them looks different. "
a great , first book nahre :) hope for more in future!
This video is so good and so right. This was exactly the reinforcement I needed for things I have seen presented in a less clear fashion. It is presented here in a way I think only a masterful musician and natural educator can achieve. You have a style, Nahre. It is a graceful, "less is more" sensibility and it is wonderful.
Thank you! You make music much more understandable. I love the analogies of the flowers and color wheel. For some reason it makes music more visible. Great teacher!
Your compassion for music and teaching is amazing, thank you for the knowledge and the smiles.
❤Congrats on the new book, I ordered it ASAP! I hope it is a best seller. I like your videos and explanations so I hope to learn more about the music theory from you and your perspective to see what I missed, misunderstood, or thought I knew but didn't... and it's probably all of the above! LOL. I got the PDF download and I'm reading it right now! I appreciate the effort it took to write a book, and it is very well illustrated! I'm skim reading the parts I already know, such as the piano keys and such, but I looked ahead and I know it doesn't stay introductory for long so I don't want to miss any gem or nugget of information along the way!
I've never heard anyone explain a I chord and a V chord like breathing. You're the GOAT Nahre 🐐🐐🐐
I also found it such a helpful analogy, and so true to the embodied experience of listening and singing.
Thank you Nahre, I loved this video. Im sure alot of us could listen to you all day!
Actually I discovered you and your videos just a short time ago. I have been a professional musician, pretty much my entire life and even though I took formal lessons for about 15 yrs, I never had the opportunity of formal schooling; e.g. conservatory. I really enjoy your videos: well produced, informative and you are a personable and knowledgeable young lady. Thanks for the effort you put in !
Nahre, Your video helped me understand my guitar notes and chords a lot better. Thank you so much for your direct approach and calm atmosphere while teaching/explaining this very important concept of music. It will help me to visualize the notes and chords as playing. I appreciate your kindness in putting the effort to help others!
The most peaceful harmony lesson I have ever attended 👍👍
I am 62 and just learning about music theory. I wanted to learn how to sing harmony and stumbled across this world that explains so many things! I have always been envious of other's talents. Why did I NEVER know this? Music is my soul!
Hey Nahre. Thanks for this video. I am a seasoned guitarist who started teaching my 12 year old girl how to play the guitar. One of the struggles that I have is explaining everything that makes sense for a 12 year old. You just nailed it. I asked her to watch your video and now it's all making sense to her. Hope you continue making these videos. Cheers!
You make very good use of your stretch. Never seen anyone have that much precision. Bravo !
Thanks for explaining that so beautifully. I liked your descriptions almost as much as the musical harmonies themselves.
2:30 That "Row Row Row Your Boat" Harmony was so beautiful 😊
Even as a non-musician your content helps me hear and appreciate music better.
First humble, true comment, I see here in a while!
buy an instrument man its fun!'
@@dr.strawberry5773 I play some ukulele, but not well enough to call myself a musician I guess.
Truth is, I try to drop a like and a comment on all her work for the engagement.
@@RTKdarling hey man. creativity, art is expression. it doesnt take being a profesionnal. it doesnt take making money from it. doesnt take virtuosity. all it takes is a habit. run 5 times a week. u're a runner. period. its just about doing it for its own sake. playing. possibly exploring emotions/thoguhts. maybe making goofy shit that makes you and ur friends laugh. dont attach a metric to your identity. i dont know you obviously, so im super assuming but saying this for whoever needs to hear it. making music is just FUN AS HELL (in the proper setting/mindset). if you do it, u're a muscian. now you can preface that by saying "ehh i dont practice as much as i should. im early in journey" all that jazz. BUT! dont overthink it and do it just to do it. and be silly about it. no wrong answers :) :) :)
@@dr.strawberry5773 I play for my own enjoyment, as I do other things to make money. As mentioned by these wonderful comments, music is fun!
Harmony is beautiful and I think a lot of kids/adults get to focused on learning songs, their fav tunes, instead of using their own creativity to make beautiful music.
i love the paralels with color so much! thank you so much nahre!
I love the color wheel analogy. That’s incredibly helpful.
One of the coolest things I learned about music theory was Modal Mixture. I learned that you can borrow notes and chords from other scales and other keys. Then that taught me how to use all 12 notes in a way that is actually musical.
It's always a pleasure to listen to you talking about music ! I will check out your book for sure !
I will keep the "a chord is a bouquet de rose" 😍so poetic ! ❤
The best and most comprehensible explanation of harmony ever! Well done and thank you so much!!! 👏😃👍
What a well prepared and concise explanation. You are really skillful to present all these abstract components of music in such a practical manner. Thank you so much. I play several instruments and I can really use these concepts to imprive my composing skills. Thank you again.
Crazy, I’ve followed your channel for a year or so and I’m just now seeing this super upload. Fun to listen to, earned my sub
Beautifully explained. I particularly loved your comments on context, a concept I initially found difficult to grasp in the beginning of my composition studies. You have given me better tools for explaining this to young piano students!
I have no solid "music theory" knowledge, but that 10 minutes gave me a better "theoretical" understanding, thank you ❤
I think the fact how I hesitated greatly to watch this video, illuminated for me how terrifying I find Harmony, especially as a musician who did not get the opportunity to go to music school and is now trying to just grapple with what feels like overwhelming mountains of history, theory, and on top of that trying to improve my overall playing on both cello and piano. I really respect Nahre, I think she is brilliant and if I could take lessons/an in-person class with her, I would absolutely, so I took the opportunity to buy her book. I intend to go over it tomorrow while I am at work and read through it on my Ipad and take some notes. I took the opportunity to also grab her uplifting piano warm up exercises (Beginner and intermediate), the major sevenths, and the 5 Uplifting ones in all transpositions, alongside "Solitude", one my favorite pieces Nahre has written. I look forward to going over it all and trying to play it as well. If I remember, I will check back in with my thoughts on my purchases.
That is so great ESKAR ENTERTAINMENT! I love Nahre's videos as well, and I am a classical pianist and teacher for 40 years teaching now, earned BM and MM in piano performance with work in pedagogy as well. My Dad was a trained composer, with degrees and I was always scared of harmony because he knew it SO SO well. He was a jazz musician and arranger before he studied classical composition(!) I have discovered over the years that in school it was not taught well (ie, all the rules, etc.) When it's related to SOUND and playing, and all of that, for me, it became much more interesting and also fun. That was in grad school when I was "on my own" ie had finished most of my coursework.
So, your attitude and determination will take you so far!
How's the process going?
One of the very few purchases I've made from a UA-cam channel and I couldn't be happier to support you Nahre. I've watched your channel for many years and previously purchased your short tutorials. Thanks so much for sharing your incredible talent, skill and knowledge.
Well done! Thank you for simplifying a complex topic with color comparison. Made the subject feel grounded in something that many people can relate to.
I want to comment on the quality of your video. The information was clear, the background music complemented your voice well, that little count down did keep me in when my mind wanted to wander off. It felt very natural and comfortable....Of course, a lot of that is not cinematic skills, but your personality coming through...Well done.
You definitely surprised me when you said that one note contains others; the overtones. This is something that I have never known! Your analogy to colors made sense (i.e. blue + red = purple). However, I also want to mention the theory of “color bias.” It is a similar concept to what you explained. For instance, in theory, blue and red *do* make purple, but it has to be the right kinds of blue and red. If the red “looks like” it wants to turn blue, then we say that it has a blue bias; same with blue, it can have a red bias. When you mix these two together, it makes that really nice purple. Some reds have an orange bias, as do some yellows; mix these two and you get a nice orange color.
Actually, not to be rude but it isn't always true; it's more of an instrument thing. Like, when you play a C using a pure sine wave, it's only that C, it's just that any instrument more complex than a simple (sine) wave more frequencies "in" it. So it kinda depends on the instrument, she should probably have explained that :)
Hi Nahre! I am a new subscriber and i think your videos are really helpful and you are a fantastic pianist and great at explaining topics!
I have been so looking forward to this book!
Would be fantastic if you release a hard-copy version of it too! 🎶
This was VERY good!
Thanks a lot for breaking it up like that. I learned it all in the conservatory years ago, and it is funny how a different perspective like yours can make it all make a lot more sense!
2:30. The most beautiful and calming version of row row I've ever heard!
You explain so easily, wish I learnt this way music theory in the past... Amazing channel, I watch and follow up your content. Thanks for sharing with us!! 😍
Great stuff, and even though I'm familiar with the concepts you explained here, this adds perspective and a layer of understanding that I didn't have before, so thank you!
I would love it if you did a video (or even a book!) explaining jazz rules. I've performed classical all my life and recently started learning jazz and it's like starting over, so grasping the concepts is making me feel like a rank novice musician! 😆
Jazz, one rule: challenge the rules
@@Pictor13 Totally. But first I need to understand them before I can break them. There are definitely rules but it's so completely different from classical that I have a hard time wrapping my head around them.
Not sure if you've learned since, but if not, Piano with Johnny has a great jazz pathway for beginner/intermediate/advanced players to build and understand jazz principles.
@@Un1234l I did find a great jazz teacher that I learned from for several months, but time constraints forced me to put it on hold. I'll check out Piano with Johnny. Thanks!
@@mortlieb8239
Look up Piano with Jonny's 1 Year Practice Plan
I have to try that out myself as the practice fundamentals are nery sound, but I too have had big time restraints to be able to get started
If any of you are lost, Harmony is when more than one note is played together, like a chord, that would be Harmony. Melody is when individual notes are played one after the other.
no one is lost
I was so its a big help xp@Cm0nd00d
I was lost, thanks Bill
Thank you so much for this, I've been desperately trying to understand this stuff for the longest time and have gotten so confused by every 'music theory EXPLAINED!' video I've watched or book I've tried to read about the subject. It's been so utterly frustrating to hear music in my head and have no idea how to get it out but this video has genuinely been a lightbulb moment in that it sets the emotional context for the technical aspects.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for this Nahre. The frosting on the cake for me is that you are clearly pronouncing you "Ts"! How refreshing it is to feel that
I am not alone in this effort to preserve the correct pronunciation of the the English Language. It's becoming so popular for people to drop the sound of the "T" when they speak and it makes me gag! ; ( I'm a trumpet player and so articulation has always been important to me .Thanks Again!
Ooooo I loved this. A great example of the context/moment phenomenon is in Debussy's prelude "Voiles!" The majority of the piece sits in a really dissonant whole tone frame of reference before exploding into this glorious pentatonic moment!
"As an artist, we can utilize some or all of the rules. It really is up to us." I love this. A really refreshing reminder to keep in mind when learning any form of art theory.
But first you damn well better learn ALL the rules.
@@RatPfink66 EXACTLY! YOU NEED TO SPEND YEARS LEARNING THE RULES WHICH WERE LEARNED OVER 100'S OF YEARS IN ANYTHING. Only Then, can you start disobeying them. Too many people in all fields today just go to the "Well I am Feeling it This way", very entitled, and lazy.
@@WindTunnelRacing I do not think Nahre is advocating that. I think that she is explaining in terms of SOUND, and in a more creative way how these rules apply to actual music! So much theory is taught by what I call "fill in the blank theory" If you watch her other videos you will see the way she challenges herself to apply the rules and principles, and gets to the basics of the topic at hand, as a commenter wrote below "less is more".
@@WindTunnelRacing Weak perspective tbh. Learning the rules just gives more clarity and more tools. But you can still do just what you feel. You can slam your instrument around all you like. It's still music. And if you like it no amount of pretentious grand-standing from selfish music-consumers can change that.
@@RatPfink66 We certainly don't want to be creating anything new cuz that's a sin of course
The best lesson on harmony I've ever witnessed: simple and straight to the point.
this was the best way i’ve ever heard harmony described! so beautiful, and i love the rose analogy 💜 i’m so excited to write music now :D
I've been teaching art as a subject for decades and also write music; I have never seen the connection between music and colour before: using the colour and harmony wheel stogether is wonderful and you are a natural teacher. More power to you
I can only agree and even though Ive only seen this one video it convinced me to order the book :)
What I heard when Nahre was talking about her new book: "I put so much heart and Sol into this..." 🙂
This video is like relaxing ASMR while learning harmony :')
Nahre, thank you for making this! As a beginner/intermediate student, I appreciate learning about fundamentals in accessible and practical ways.
I was engaged the entire time and was hoping for more. You are inspirational and such a great teacher, thank you Nahre!
You didn't just put heart and soul into your book ...
But you put ALL your heart and soul into EVERYTHING that you do
I LOVE Your passion for music
*Kisses
Agree... True....
This was very, very good. The bouquet analogy and the orbiting analogy, the “context and moment” concept, and especially the seemingly effortless playing of chords and sequences to demonstrate structure and progression…really engaging. I haven’t taken a music lesson in way over 50 years and don’t own a keyboard, but this and many of your other videos make it seem doable and certainly make it feel like “oh I’d like to do that!”. I wish you all the best with the new book and thanks so much for doing these videos.
This explanation was so beautiful and well thought out! I hope that you are teaching at a university, because you have the ability to make a lot of students excited for Music Theory
You're so intelligent and such a good teacher. Really excited about your book!
Thanks for the lesson and your simple and understandable approach to a complex subject. Music is both science and art and it is the art of it that makes it so beautiful.
Your analogies are spot on and really make things clear - circle of fifths and colors, harmony rules and fashion, etc... Love it!
Amazing video. Great explanations, and your way of thinking about harmony is genius. Really made me broaden my own view on harmonics. Also you are the first person ever to make me realize the circle of fifths can be useful, and I'm a bachelor in Musicology....
The circle of fifths is my favorite thing in music. I just looove it, it is the single most important thing I use to play by ear.
Absolutely you can learn every key asap.
Circle of 4ths is just as good to. Since it's counter clockwise
Just a great presentation! WOW! I’ve always wanted to have a better understanding of the basics of music. Thank you so much!!
As always your speech is perfect, for a profane like me as a non-musician, even if long-life listener. I will never stop to thank you when I meet your videos
I learnt piano in a dark room blindfolded.
Can't read music but can listen and play...
You learn harmonic pictures in your brain real quick just from listening.
I am not a musician, but Nahre is a gifted teacher. I admire her charity in her willingness to share her secrets. I'm going to buy the book.
Got brainwashed. Why not buy a book on how to ice skate? Which can't be conveyed with words.
Ilusha, That's an awesome idea! Also, I'm learning about music and Nahre's approach clarified a few items for me.
Nahre, that's the most beautiful row row row your boat I've ever heard, gosh. Keep playing it!!!
I've been introduced to a few good piano instructors on UA-cam over the last 2 years but this is the SIMPLEST explanation of Harmony I've ever heard. I think it is your Gift of the use of Analogy.
I enjoyed your chat on harmony and found them immensely interesting. Thank you
What keyboard do you have Nahre Sol?