How I wish HARMONY was explained to me as a student
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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.
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As an art student comparing the Circle of Fifths to the Color Wheel blew my freaking mind! Well done!
finally i understood it too
Chill mal, so abwegig war das jetzt auch ned. Amis...
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.
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.
This has to be the most humble book announcement ever! Congrats on the release!
Yeah u r right...
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
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!
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Check out Rick Beato channel, he's great educator!
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You are an incredible teacher
Thanks
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
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
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'.
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.
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! 😊
You just unloaded WAY more knowledge than just harmony! This is a shockingly good example of music theory 101. Building from notes to chord to progression. Most youtube videos in my opinion completely fail at this. In fact, the most frustrating thing about music theory to me is remembering the distance between the notes and counting. This approach is better because it is showing how to go from note to chord progression while using your ears to verify everything sounds good.
So, I guess the lesson here is: use your ears!!
I am in awe of Nahre in general and here she hit the right notes again - fulfilling the expectation. But in giving the essential, she abstracts away. Two things: when we give names to specific notes (frequencies), scales, distances, etc., then we can communicate about them with other musicians. Someone at the same stage, someone two hundred years later. Understanding the essentials is of the utmost essence, and should serve as a framework for the details to hang on to.
Second, she abstracts away from tuning and distances - that influence our perception harmony. Today we tune the piano different than its predecessor of 300 years ago. If we take original old sheet music that we play on modern instruments that can mess with the composer's intended harmony that they thought they were communicating. It's not just the tuning of the central A that has changed.
This does not change Nahre's story in any way, though, understand me correctly.
Yes first comment : these are also the basics of relative theory (fonctions of the notes, called TONAL MUSIC). This is very important because learning interval is not the easiest way to understand music. It is much of a mathematical cutting choping into pieces of something that is emotional in its core. So one needs an approach based on sensations !
Second comment : i agree but i think it was designed more as an introduction. We tend to be overloaded with informations right from the beginning of learning and nahre gave a different approach. This is not enough of course but it is a great summary to get the big picture and not get scared of music. It’s like dipping our feet in water before actually going in to swim
I always learn something new from her videos, i needa start binging em...
I think this video, good as it is, should be followed by information about tempered vs harmonic tuning, as the way notes vibrate together is at the core of much of the non tempered music that is still common enough in the world of music (bagpipes, some singing and violin music, Arabic music, even Cajun accordion. The idea that twelve even divisions of the octave must be the starting point needs to be questioned a little, though I would agree with most people that it is the most convenient way to go about things.
I am very interested in non-western music, tunings, and alternative scales. I believe she briefly broached those subjects early on with her mention of "culture" and "preferences". Her goal here though was to encapsulate fundamental Western music theory in under 10 minutes. Score. If anyone could ever produces a video capturing significant elements of non-Western music in under 10 minutes, I would be greatly improved.
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.
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.
The most peaceful harmony lesson I have ever attended 👍👍
I love how your playing makes even the simplest things sound so musical.
Speaking about music is like speaking about any visual art. You are the first person I know who can make it intelligible. Thank you.
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.
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!
I've never heard anyone explain a I chord and a V chord like breathing. You're the GOAT Nahre 🐐🐐🐐
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!!!
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
"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!
What I heard when Nahre was talking about her new book: "I put so much heart and Sol into this..." 🙂
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!
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!
The best lesson on harmony I've ever witnessed: simple and straight to the point.
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!
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.
I have no solid "music theory" knowledge, but that 10 minutes gave me a better "theoretical" understanding, thank you ❤
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
"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
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!
Wonderful, thank you - and perfect timing, as I have just been learning about Harmony in my music production degree. Your videos are a joy to watch!
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.
❤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!
Thanks for explaining that so beautifully. I liked your descriptions almost as much as the musical harmonies themselves.
This is the difference between someone who learned music, and someone who KNOWS music. Its a lot more rare than you would think even in the professional world. She knows music.
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.
This just about made me cry! ❤️❤️ THANK YOU, THANK YOU so much for this! I will buy your book today. What a gift you have. ❤️
WOW! your descriptions with the color wheel and context are suuuuper cool!! Totally saving this to pass on to my students. Fabulous!
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.
Thank you Nahre, I loved this video. Im sure alot of us could listen to you all day!
how fortunate i feel to have harmony explained so well... bought the book without blinking!
You're so intelligent and such a good teacher. Really excited about your book!
I was engaged the entire time and was hoping for more. You are inspirational and such a great teacher, thank you Nahre!
Pure genius! So well presented! Can't wait to look at the book as well.
As soon as I saw your book I immediately bought it. I really like the way you explain concepts.Your play is really inspiring as well and I can't think of a better person I want to learn from.
Hopefully you'll provide more ways of teaching in the future. Thank you Nahre Sol!
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 !
Beautifully well done! Thank you for sharing and for your new book!
This is amazing! Just bought elements of music and can’t wait to get started. Your explanations are so digestible, the pacing is perfect, and I can’t wait to get to know your writing style!
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!
Your compassion for music and teaching is amazing, thank you for the knowledge and the smiles.
this is amazing, Nahre! thank you so much!
Very excited to read your book! I bought it straight away because I really admire the way you approach theory and performance.
Thank you
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 ! ❤
i love the paralels with color so much! thank you so much nahre!
You are an amazing speaker. I love how you use your hands, your voice, your environment, everything! Well done.
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.
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!
Hearing your voice explaining music and your hands playing has been the more relaxing and tasteful learning experience in a while
Context and how you teach it. A common denominator of great teachers like you. Straight into the core so it's easy to remember and hard to forget. Thank you
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 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.
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
This is fantastic! Thank you so much!
What a good lesson/explanation. I am not a piano player, I play guitar, harmonica and mandolin in the main. I stumbled across this practical and informative video by accident, and am so glad I did. I am now a subscriber, and will certainly be checking out your book 😊
The best and most comprehensible explanation of harmony ever! Well done and thank you so much!!! 👏😃👍
Wow, you are a wonderful teacher as well as an amazing performer. We can sense your passion through the excitement you show when sharing, and your understanding of the subject through the reasonable way you present these concepts. Thank-you for sharing your wonderful gift.
What a beautiful video. Thank you. Going to check out your book now!
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 :)
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.
I love you. Thanks for your book!
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
This video is like relaxing ASMR while learning harmony :')
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!
Love this and excited to dig into your book!
Nahre, that's the most beautiful row row row your boat I've ever heard, gosh. Keep playing it!!!
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!
@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.
Really loved your explanation on harmony!
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
I have been so looking forward to this book!
Would be fantastic if you release a hard-copy version of it too! 🎶
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!! 😍
Nahre, thank you for making this! As a beginner/intermediate student, I appreciate learning about fundamentals in accessible and practical ways.
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.
You are a genius. You will one day be the Nadia Boulanger of the upcoming generations of musicians.
Great explanations! Interesting and clear.
Amazing video! Thank you so much for this perspective. I appreciate the humble attitude and the subtle but important details you use in your videos to enhance the learning experience. You're amazing at this :)
Your presentation is exemplary. I have watched so many such videos that dawdle about and come across more of an opportunity for the video maker to advertise themselves as opposed to getting on with the topic itself. You get straight to the point and demonstrate the point effectively and succinctly. You certainly have a flair for educating, a natural.
Wow. Never studied music but have often sought to understand it better. I learned more in less than 10 minutes then I have in my entire life. Perfect job. Thanks Nahre.
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!
love the color wheel analogy, good video, thank you.
wow wow ..this is really beautiful Nahre. Please make more of these
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.
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....
You videos are so inspiring. I play guitar and I love learning from you. They are right when they say that personality brings audience and yours is really lovely and feels supportive and motivating. I wish you all the best!
Thank you for what you do. I am very grateful to have your channel.