The Minimal Theory Video
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- Thanks to Simon Miles 1972 for this question.
NOTE: No-one ever taught me any theory, I just picked it up along the way.
Four simple (?) aspects to know :-
1. NOTES:
A, A#, B,C,C#,D,D#,E,F,F#,G,G# - and back to A !
Hint: Notes go note to "sharp" (#~) when going up, and flat (b) when going down - Crazy but that's the way it is.
Why no E# or B# ?? (or Fb or Cb?) Good question!
This is music theory - not common logical sense.
2. SCALES: (standard major scale)
Just using the basic major scale : Tone and semitone (step and half step) - from your root (or keynote)
tone, tone, semitone, Tone, Tone Tone semitone.
3. CHORDS : i.e. three or more notes played together.
Major chords use the 1st, 3rd and 5th notes in the scale.
Minor chords use the 1st, flattened third, and 5th note of the scale.
4. Chord progressions : Can by just two chords, or tree , four, five etc., i.e. one for each note in the scale (and sometimes ones that aren't!
So Simon, that's yer very basic music theory!
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Wow, I randomly got this video in my feed as I'm sitting here jamming to some lazy blues. You have such an effortless, low-stress way of explaining things. Even though I've been playing for a long time, I'll still be checking in on your channel from now on. Thanks for the video!
Hi, you are most welcome. This video was requested by one of my regular followers, so I'm always delighted to receive requests, questions, comments etc. Thanks for watching.
Thank you Andy. This helps to ease my confusion! Be safe and well.
Glad to hear it! but, please ask further questions if you need to. Thanks as always, Andy
Never thought to do Blue Moon like that! 2 chords? What about Happy Trails to You? Whoops! 4 chords. Thanks Andy!
You bet!
Thank you for putting this together. Excellent video. Would love to have one on bass runs between cord progressions.
Hi, I'm thinking this out too, but a frequent request by my one-to-one Zoom clients. so, I AM working on how to best explain what I do automatically.
As al2ways, I am impressed with your musical knowledge. George in Montana
Hi George, it is, however, minimal, but to answer the original question.
If you still are looking for any new ideas, I’d enjoy hearing your guitar/music journey centered on the types of music you’ve been drawn to, prefer to play, and if that’s different solo or when playing with a group.
Hi, thank you Oregon, and if I may, I will incorporate it with your earlier suggestion about my musical journey. Many thanks. Andy.
In short this is the Nashville Number System 1.4.5 is usually Major. The 5 Chord half the time will be a Dom7. 2.3.6 musically is Minor. Why ? ok No #'s or b's (sharp or flat) in the key of C. To make a Chord it takes 3 notes (not power chord) the First 3rd and 5th degree of that notes Major Scale D=D,F#,A E=E,G#,B A=A,C#,E . Flatten those sharps a half step and you get D,F,A. E,G,B A,C,E. Making those Minor chords. Unless you are going to be a Classical Pianist using I,ii,iii,IV,V,vi..... is confusing and archaic. Simply use 1,2-,3-,4,5.6-. Yes 2,3,6 can and in some forms of music be a Major. Any of these Chords can be any kind of Chord Maj Min, Sus, Aug, Maj7 Dom7. Whatever works for the piece of music your playing. To change Keys the 1 is ALWAYS THE KEY. And the other numbers will fall into place making Transposing very simple. In most Studio's they do not use Chord names only #'s 1's 4's 5's 6-'s..... Need to change Key's they just say "Ok let's try G" .... New to music 1,4,5 / 1,6-5,4 or1,5,6-4 / 1,6-2-5 even 2-,5,1. Will always sound good in any Key on any Instrument that plays Chords Remember the 5 chord can and usually is Played as a Dom7. You can also figure out songs 3 chords 90% it's a 1,4,5/5'7 4 chords 1,6-,4,5.... it's like the "Circle of 5ths" Only an NNS Chart is much easier to understand.
Hi Michael, you are correct of course, and thank you for your detailed contribution here. As Patrick Costello wrote : "The Nashville Number System is a trick that musicians use to figure out chord progressions on the fly. It is an easy tool to use if you understand how music works. It has been around for about four hundred years, but sometime during the past fifty years [approximately 1953-2003], Nashville got the credit". (I found that on Wikipedia!)
The number system was apparently utilised by European musicians back in the 1600s, way before Gnashville was a place.
I was taught it years ago as the NNS, but here In the UK, whilst we love American music genres, the term Nashville Number system tends to invite querulous looks - we just call it the number system.
Thanks again.
For years I asked many teachers and players if they could simply tell me "What Chords goes with What Chords ? No one could tell me 1985-2000 time frame... So I put away the guitar and pulled it out over those years. Got replies like "Different songs are in different Key's so it's all different...." Long story short I finally was told to watch a video on the NNS. And I find out it was all a lie. Mostly it's all the same when you look at it 1,4,5 and not C,F,G G,C,D... Music theory made simple. Especially since he was talking 1 4 5 in Arabic and Not I VI V...Since I now knew how music worked I immediately could play in all Key's. BTW this Forces you to pick a Key and practice in it as it is so Key centric. Also learned Mandolin , Dobro.. Learning to read music I find though in Roman #'s this info is in most music books. But none of the teachers put it together. Still I see NNS Lessons on here that waste a 1/2 hour and still don't teach what that lesson taught me. @@SillyMoustache
@@michaellandreth1392 Just found this video and comment after the same experience. Discovered the circle of 5ths and other revelations a couple of weeks ago after asking the same questions you did several years earlier. Actually put the guitar away until a few months ago shortly thereafter in frustration.
Yeah a little info goes a long way with music. If you Google Nashville Number System Chart. You will see how much easier it is to understand. Just match the Key with the Number and you'll know which Chord it will be. No Clockwise Counter clockwise... If you are following a Recipe on the back of a box , would you rather see a Chart like that, Or a Circle ? Also they are going to talk in #'s 4 Chord 6 minor... No way to communicate the position of the chord with the C of 5ths. 12 o'clock now 11 o'clock 12 1 O'clock Heaven help you on the minors.. LOL@@lucydayLucida
@@michaellandreth1392 I'll look at the Nashville number system then. Does sound a lot more straightforward. Sometimes it seems that there's a layer of obfuscation with music theory that's completely unnecessary.
As an amateur noodler at home playing accompaniments on your own, you don’t actually need any of this. I’ve been playing for fifty years as that & for the first fifteen years or so I knew no theory at all but simply thought of guitar chords as shapes, which I sometimes modified by moving a finger here or there. It was only when I started dabbling in keyboards that I began to understand how chords and scales are constructed. You can look at getting by without theory on guitar as either a blessing or a curse. It makes the instrument more accessible and less ‘dry’ but it limits to some extent your ability to play with others or construct arrangements if you get into multi-track recording. I think you need it too if you want to get into jazz. These days although I used to neglect it, I find theory really interesting and getting to grips with it has helped me a lot to develop.
Hi Jeremy, your first sentence echoes my experience very closely. When a kind contributor asks me about "theory" I couldn't tell him not to bother, so I tried to cover the basics which will either help , prompt further questions, or simply be ignored. As I have said more than once in my other videos, you can never stop learning - if you want.
Something it took me far too long to realise, but I find helpful to know, is that in most Western scales, there are 7 notes - one each (and only one) of A, B, C and so on to G, obviously starting on whatever your root note is.
BUT: the character of the scale will dictate whether the space between those notes should be a tone (two steps on the fretboard) or semi-tone (one fret). And in order to achieve that, those notes may be sharpened or flattened.
So yeah, there are 12 notes, but a single scale isn’t going to have a Gb, G and G# in it; it’ll just have one of them. Which is why we double name some of the notes (it isn’t in fact related to moving up or down). It’s because if your scale already has a C in it, and you also want it to have a note that is one semi-tone up from a C, you’re gonna call it Db, not C#.
And it’s also why when we talk about chord structure, we sometimes even talk about double flats. Musically of course, that note is way down impinging on the space of the note below! But if you’ve already got a Cb, then if you want what musically is a C, you’re gonna call it a Dbb!
For years I didn’t know why my friends with better music theory knowledge would insist “no, it’s not an F#, it’s a Gb!” - and that’s why.
Hi, at the request of one kind suggestion - I have tried to cover the basics. There are far more musically educated folk on Y/T to teach music theory, but the question was How much/how little should an amateur noodler need to know. I'm not intending to go into double flats 'cos ...... there be dragons!
@@SillyMoustache of course, it’s a great vidya! Agree, double flats sound a bit crazy. I just find it helpful (and makes life easier) to know that there’ll only be one of a particular “letter” note in any given chord or scale.
@@Saladzingers Earlier today I discovered interesting info about Arabic scales and instruments that have quarter tones in amongst our basic 12. At one point decades ago electric guitars were being produced in SA having some frets divided into quarters to allow for those notes. Blows my mind! Although, yes, way beyond the scope of this video.
Always great to review fundamentals. Thanks. One question, wasn’t familiar with the phrase “half diminished” although I think I know what a diminished and a diminished seventh are.
It is a "thing" - Bm7b5. Best google it.
Got it. So many names for these chords. I like that one on piano because it’s all on white keys (BDFA). Lacking sufficient theory, I had just thought of it as a minor seventh flat five. The chord notated as B°7 is what I suppose would be considered “full” diminished. I like to play jazz standards out of a fake book. Rodgers & Hart, George & Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Hoagy Carmichael type of stuff.
Would be nice to follow up on why some of the chord progressions (scale of each key) are minor etc.
It is really about basic maths. Too complex to go into in ten minutes.
I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. 😵💫
Yeah, no worries.
Doesnt matter. Just play.
Be-Cause Everything's Fu-Fine 😂
Glad you got it!
Very interesting it’s just remembering it all😂
Yes of course. Really, the best way is to have a face to face meeting so that I can explain it in a less time constrained situations and where you can stop me waffling and ask questions.
I won't worry BeCause Everything's Fine (Silly Moustache said so!)
It works, but I confess that it isn't original.