The calmest teacher. I'm glad i found your channel. As lazy kid, i skipped reading notes my teacher would give me. Now i regret it and getting back on it.
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Excellent lesson! Great clarity and demonstration! Thank you so much! I've grown leaps and bounds in these 22 minutes! God Bless you Sir! I'm a guitar player learning logic Pro X and piano. This was one of the BEST lessons on UA-cam in theory with out controversy!
the way u explained intervals was just too good, i understood everything on this video, and now i will face music exam without fear, and i still have three four months more to go, greetings with admiration from Botswana
11:21 Haha, I instantly heard the B section of Chopin Ballade 1. I adore this man, what a patient teacher with a clear passion and love for music. These videos are a fantastic resource for anyone wanting to learn about music.
Thanks for the lesson! Another tip I found was that perfect intervals are always either natural to natural sharp to sharp and flat to flat. Helps identify it easier
Thank you. You where very clear and unambiguous. I've been trying to wrap my head around this concept for sometime now and you just cleared it up with simplicity and clarity. Thank you so much
I wanted to thank you for your Vocal tone and the wonderful clear and easy way of explaining Music. I am in collage for Music and Theory. I was struggling in class until I saw this film. Now it’s clear and I can move forward. I am joining all of Music Matters courses. Thank you for the free lesson as it helps the poor and disadvantaged . Bravo , Thank you . Jonathan Nagy… Vero Beach FLA. . USA
I am a Chinese English is NOT my first language and I have been watched lots of similar music theory in Chinese but your one is the best and easiest for me to understand, thank you
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At last!!! you are the best teacher I have experienced, in music theory. I had a great deal of difficulties, understanding, But your way of teaching is like guiding me to walk step by step without stumbling on my face. your way showed me, that I can and able to understand music theory, in spite of my fear. Thank you very much for your attribution, to those frightened students. Bless you.
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Excellent stuff, I prefer reading intervals instead of reading chords. Intervals are like shorthand on paper. I go one step further and I choose to see only 4 intervals. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and tritone. A fifth is an upside down 4th A sixth is an upside down 3rd A seventh is an upside down 2nd The tritone is always a tritone. This greatly helped me in sight reading as well as improvising by cutting the “workload” in half. Thanks again…I’m binge watching your channel and you have inspired me to buy a computer and start composing music again. (It’s been a few years)
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I have NEVER been able to understand this PROPERLY until now. You are an incredible teacher. You speak in a way that children can understand but not condescending to adults. Absolutely brilliant. Subscribed!!
Thanks for your clear and thorough explanation. I looked at a few videos to understand intervals and yours was the easiest to understand. Much appreciated!
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Thank you for making this so clear. It takes time to understand this and I feel that I am finally getting to grips with this. You have a very calm presenting style.
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I took two courses of piano and the teacher did speak of this but never in a way that I could connect it all together , as part of a big picture. Thank you so much,you explain it very well for us beginners😊
This is music theory with and understanding. Many seem just say or show with no logical explanations or with complicated explanations. This is the first time I am learning what is harmonic and melodic. There differences and similarities. Wow!
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This is an older video which you probably aren’t checking in on. But I really enjoyed this video and I’m glad you have this available for people like us to learn from. Thank you.
your lessons are wonderful! Thanks a lot. I only started learning music, especially classical violin at the age of 19, during lockdown period, and its mostly your UA-cam courses that guided me!
Thank you so much! I did not understand this topic at all and was super scared to ask my teacher... After finding this video, I got to understand it way better, now I can complete the homework given by my teacher with ease :D
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Yes but here’s the explanation. Major chords have a major 3rd and perfect 5th above the root note. Minor chords have a minor 3rd and perfect 5th above the root note. Diminished chords have a minor 3rd and diminished 5th above the root note. Augmented chords have a major 3rd and augmented 5th above the root note.
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Great explanation. What really does my head in is, say, C to E, which is a major 3rd. But if I drop that E by an octave it stops being a major 3rd and suddenly becomes a minor 6th. Once you get that you're well on the way to becoming insane!
Yes. The joys of inverting intervals but there’s easy logic. When you invert perfect intervals they remain perfect. Major/ minor intervals swap with each other. Augmented/ diminished intervals swap with each other. The number of the original interval + x = 9.
Hi there - love your teaching videos. You mentioned that you wouldnt get into why it's called a perfect interval etc. Have you done a video at all on the science of music at all?
Not done a video on that yet but it would be a good topic. As for Perfect intervals one reason they are called Perfect is that when you invert them they remain Perfect eg turn a Perfect 5th upside down and it’s a Perfect 4th. Other intervals change their character ie majors swap with minors when inverted and augmented intervals swap with diminished.
Professor - you may not understand this ( being from Great Britain) but take this as a great compliment: You are like the Mr. Rogers of teaching music theory. Thank you for all you are doing. You send me to my piano with new perspectives. I never knew whole, half , quarter and eighth notes had different names in England.
this also helping about finding some basic chord for beginner 4 basic triads Major Triad will have Root + Major 3rd + Perfect 5th minor Triad will have Root + minor 3rd + Perfect 5th diminished Triad will have Root + minor 3rd + diminished 5th Augmented Triad will have Root + Major 3rd + Augmented 5th 7th chord Maj7 will have Root + Major 3rd + Perfect 5th + Major 7th min7 will have Root + minor 3rd + Perfect 5th + minor 7th Dom7 (Dominant 7th) will have Root + Major 3rd + Perfect 5th + minor 7th minMaj7 (mMaj7) will have Root + minor 3rd + Perfect 5th + Major 7th Half diminished 7th (m7b5) will have Root + minor 3rd + diminished 5th + minor 7th Full diminished 7th (dim7) will have Root + minor 3rd + diminished 5th + diminished 7th
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Thanks for video it really help me but one thing that I am not sure is example if we are in the key d major and the note D to natural F would be minor third right? Because if it major third it would be f sharp?
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I'm not sure when he's filming this, He realize he can help people like me who live at the edge of the world, who always want to learn music, But could never afford and find place to learn!
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Another great video thank you! You mention at the end the "next video" about recognising how the intervals look and sound. Where will I find this? Been looking all around your channel but no success as yet...🤔
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I can say I'm solid at sight reading 2nd because that's very easy, I think a little in 3rd and 5ths, but when it comes to 6ths and 7ths, even 4ths, my mind just goes blank. Also in descending melodic interval, MY MIND LEAVES! I definitely need more practice 😂 I'm in a choir so I need to have the ability to sight read confidently. Thanks for the videos!
Excellent video :) I have two questions if I may: Would it be right to say the interval between C# and F is a diminished 4th? What would a perfect or a major interval be if its double sharped?
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Music representation sometimes seems like the imperial measurement system. I'm pretty sure there would be a more intuitive way (analogue to the metric system) to think of notes and intervals, one that accounts more explicitly for the sharps and flats and where there's no ambiguity when referring to interval names.
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the explanation is really clear, thank u for that! but its still a whole lot of information to take in so i need time to absorb all of that. music theory is killing me😆😆
very well said - understanding the difference in steps is more import than the actual name/ knowing its a "D" E" or F" ect. . . . for playing and singing.
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Don't Major and minor in single notes (not scales) only refer to the third degree because when making up chords you say flattened or augmented for everything that's not the third degree. I'm sure I'm wrong but can anyone clear this up for me
So, to name all possible intervals correctly I need first to learn all twelve major scales? Or could I determine an interval name by counting the semitones in it? (And memorising the number of semitones in all perfect and major intervals) For example E to G. I count notes - E, F, G - so it's a third. I count semitones - 3 - it's a minor third. (As I memorised that major third has 4 semitones in it) Or take Eb to G. Same process again, now I get three notes and four semitones so it's a major third. Now at the moment of writing this I have no idea what notes are neither in E major scale, nor in Eb major scale, but I guess my calculations are correct? What do you say about this method? Are there any cons to using this or maybe I'm overlooking something and actually getting incorrect results? I mean it just seems faster to me to memorize major/perfect intervals in semitones and compare to semitones I counted than remember and recall a needed major scale every time.
It’s certainly possible to count the semitones. In my experience people find it difficult to remember how many semitones are in each possible interval. All major scales follow the same pattern (tone tone semitone tone tone tone semitone) so it’s quick to work in the major scale of the lower note.
@@MusicMattersGB it's just puzzles me a bit that in this video you simultaneously expect the viewer to know major scales and also have a section to remind what sharps and flats are. But isn't knowing the scales should already include knowledge on accidentals? Anyway, I'm very grateful that you took time to reply me (and very fast too!). A great video, despite my critique I subbed to the channel.
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Has anyone ever tried to invent music theory using base 12 arithmetic? For example, a major chord is 0,4,7 and a minor chord is 0,3,7. A sus2 is 0,3,7 (same as minor?). A sus4 is 0,5,7. Or maybe use deltas: Major=>4,3; Minor=>3,4. To me it's as important to know how the names of these notes came to be (which you dispensed with on the word "perfect"...are major notes "imperfect"?) as it is to know the intervals. I can see naming something diminished. But I would name the opposite something like "enhanced". And why do I need names for double diminished? Why don't I call it my its "perfect" or "major" name? And why use notation doubling the flat symbol but creating a whole new symbol for doubling the sharp symbol? Music as a discipline has more "whys" in it than any other discipline I have looked into. It's like confusion was a deliberate intention.
Counting semitones is a useful way to calculate chords etc. I suppose like many other things the theory of music has evolved. It’s not entirely logical but there is a lot of logic behind it.
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This is an absolutely marvelous explanation of intervals and it is the most concise one I have ever seen. Great job!
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wow what a teaching ......superb...... i am spending quarantines with music matters tutorials videos
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Even my music teachers cant explain better than him,hes so good at explaining!
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The calmest teacher. I'm glad i found your channel. As lazy kid, i skipped reading notes my teacher would give me. Now i regret it and getting back on it.
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me too. I also now regret it
It’s a story I hear often but it’s never too late to address.
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Great teaching. Very helpful & clear explanation thank you
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THANK YOU for this detailed and logical information and careful explanations! A missing stone in my foundation. Very grateful
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Sir, I wish I had had you as a music teacher!
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@@rositaortiz9438 Yes! He is a great teacher!
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Thanks to this channel, and his paid courses, you do!
Excellent lesson! Great clarity and demonstration! Thank you so much! I've grown leaps and bounds in these 22 minutes! God Bless you Sir! I'm a guitar player learning logic Pro X and piano. This was one of the BEST lessons on UA-cam in theory with out controversy!
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the way u explained intervals was just too good, i understood everything on this video, and now i will face music exam without fear, and i still have three four months more to go, greetings with admiration from Botswana
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Haha, I instantly heard the B section of Chopin Ballade 1.
I adore this man, what a patient teacher with a clear passion and love for music. These videos are a fantastic resource for anyone wanting to learn about music.
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Thanks for the lesson! Another tip I found was that perfect intervals are always either natural to natural sharp to sharp and flat to flat. Helps identify it easier
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Thank you. You where very clear and unambiguous. I've been trying to wrap my head around this concept for sometime now and you just cleared it up with simplicity and clarity. Thank you so much
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I love you maestro for your. Patience and explaining in detail what i am a looking for. Clearly explaining! !
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I wanted to thank you for your Vocal tone and the wonderful clear and easy way of explaining Music. I am in collage for Music and Theory. I was struggling in class until I saw this film. Now it’s clear and I can move forward. I am joining all of Music Matters courses. Thank you for the free lesson as it helps the poor and disadvantaged . Bravo , Thank you . Jonathan Nagy… Vero Beach FLA. . USA
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I am a Chinese English is NOT my first language and I have been watched lots of similar music theory in Chinese but your one is the best and easiest for me to understand, thank you
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I admire you for being able to understand English. I tried learning Chinese but gave up - I should have started 60 years ago!
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You're lessons are just brilliant. You sir are a gift to all those learning the piano.
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Very clear explanation for nonmusic people. This is what I need to help my nephews and nieces in their music lessons.
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At last!!! you are the best teacher I have experienced, in music theory. I had a great deal of difficulties, understanding, But your way of teaching is like guiding me to walk step by step without stumbling on my face. your way showed me, that I can and able to understand music theory, in spite of my fear. Thank you very much for your attribution, to those frightened students. Bless you.
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You've explained it so WELL ! This is exactly what i was looking for. Thank you for taking time to explain it !
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Excellent stuff, I prefer reading intervals instead of reading chords. Intervals are like shorthand on paper.
I go one step further and I choose to see only 4 intervals.
2nd, 3rd, 4th, and tritone.
A fifth is an upside down 4th
A sixth is an upside down 3rd
A seventh is an upside down 2nd
The tritone is always a tritone.
This greatly helped me in sight reading as well as improvising by cutting the “workload” in half.
Thanks again…I’m binge watching your channel and you have inspired me to buy a computer and start composing music again. (It’s been a few years)
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I have NEVER been able to understand this PROPERLY until now. You are an incredible teacher. You speak in a way that children can understand but not condescending to adults. Absolutely brilliant. Subscribed!!
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Thanks for your clear and thorough explanation. I looked at a few videos to understand intervals and yours was the easiest to understand. Much appreciated!
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I've seen many videos trying to understand intervals. This is, by far, the easiest one to follow. Thanks for your explanation!
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The best explanation from the master himself!
Good job prof, you're doing well!
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Thank you. I struggled in understanding this concept among books and other google hits until I found your video. You are helping many people.
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thank you sir i had so much problem but after watching your video i was clear as water
thank you very much sir
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wow its like a online class, thank you very much sir! i hope you can help others with your teaching!
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Utterly fantastic. I cannot express how much joy this gave me. Thank you.
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Excellent.
Explained clearly and with useful, intelligent musical knowledge.
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Thank you for making this so clear. It takes time to understand this and I feel that I am finally getting to grips with this. You have a very calm presenting style.
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You are a god when I need to learn theories of Western Music, and thank you sir for lessons.👍
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Superb! Crystal clear teaching! Learned a lot. Thanks.
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bravo for the level of your lesson! Very useful and special knowledge, to one who wants to walk in this road, in piano!
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I took two courses of piano and the teacher did speak of this but never in a way that I could connect it all together , as part of a big picture. Thank you so much,you explain it very well for us beginners😊
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This is music theory with and understanding.
Many seem just say or show with no logical explanations or with complicated explanations.
This is the first time I am learning what is harmonic and melodic. There differences and similarities.
Wow!
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Great way to understand piano keys. The teacher is a great educator!
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Your explanation is marvelous. You are very good teacher. Keep it up.
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I might improve my sight reading and music theory. Great video!
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MIGHT improve?!
Not good enough
Thank you very much for the lecture. It helps me a lot. As a Korean I could understand every single words you speak. I will join your UA-cam.
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Wow! You’re more clear voice than many teachers! And clear explanation! Thanks for making this video! It’s very accurate!
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This is so helpful!! Thank you for explaining all this in an organized and easy-to-understand manner.
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Thank you so much good sir. This is really going to take just as much practice as playing/learning the instrument. Many thanks!
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This is an older video which you probably aren’t checking in on. But I really enjoyed this video and I’m glad you have this available for people like us to learn from. Thank you.
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Thank you so much! I did not understand this topic at all and was super scared to ask my teacher... After finding this video, I got to understand it way better, now I can complete the homework given by my teacher with ease :D
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Thank you for you explanations very interesting
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great video - very easy to follow. thank you
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You are an excellent teacher!! Maybe even the Greatest!! Thanks!!
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Thank you so much your really a good mentor and your have motivated me a lot starting the previous video for sight reading ; Bravo
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Fantastic explanation. Your videos are incredibly insightful. Thank you very much
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You Sir, are an absolute legend! Wow! It all finally makes sense. A million times Thankyou!!!
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Very helpful and presented perfectly. Thank you
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I don't understand augmented and diminished do you have any video that talks about that?Thankyou
Yes but here’s the explanation.
Major chords have a major 3rd and perfect 5th above the root note.
Minor chords have a minor 3rd and perfect 5th above the root note.
Diminished chords have a minor 3rd and diminished 5th above the root note.
Augmented chords have a major 3rd and augmented 5th above the root note.
Thank you so much for the lesson! This was very helpful
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I unexpectedly learned that I didn't know about some basics! E. g. that you ways need to think from the major scale of the lower note.
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I agree, great job explaining theory. Thank you.
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thanks professor your explainations are crystal clear
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Great explanation. It was easy to understand. Thank you. Good job!
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So clearly explained, brilliant 🤩!!
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thank you very much :) exactly what i needed.
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Great explanation. What really does my head in is, say, C to E, which is a major 3rd. But if I drop that E by an octave it stops being a major 3rd and suddenly becomes a minor 6th. Once you get that you're well on the way to becoming insane!
Yes. The joys of inverting intervals but there’s easy logic. When you invert perfect intervals they remain perfect. Major/ minor intervals swap with each other. Augmented/ diminished intervals swap with each other. The number of the original interval + x = 9.
I enjoy and learn so much from your videos. Thank you so much from New York. Question, should we consider the unison as perfect as well?
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You're a great teacher, sir. Thank you.
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This is a great video, you make it very easy to understand and I learned something new!
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sir but if we reduce one semitone from the perfect 4th interval from C... do we get diminished, i'm bit confused on that part
Yes. A 4th that’s one semitone smaller than Perfect is Diminished.
Absolutely correct.
Thank you! This has really helped me with intervals.
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Your explanations are very helpful
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Hi. Are there any study books and / or exercises to recommend for help reading intervals? Thank you.
I think there are apps.
Hi there - love your teaching videos. You mentioned that you wouldnt get into why it's called a perfect interval etc. Have you done a video at all on the science of music at all?
Not done a video on that yet but it would be a good topic. As for Perfect intervals one reason they are called Perfect is that when you invert them they remain Perfect eg turn a Perfect 5th upside down and it’s a Perfect 4th. Other intervals change their character ie majors swap with minors when inverted and augmented intervals swap with diminished.
@@MusicMattersGB is it true that perfect intervals share the same distance in major and minor scales?
Perfect intervals are a fixed distance regardless of the scale ie 5 notes and 7 semitones apart.
Professor - you may not understand this ( being from Great Britain) but take this as a great compliment: You are like the Mr. Rogers of teaching music theory. Thank you for all you are doing. You send me to my piano with new perspectives. I never knew whole, half , quarter and eighth notes had different names in England.
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Very helpful. You saved me from being yelled at by my piano teacher. Many thanks
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this also helping about finding some basic chord for beginner
4 basic triads
Major Triad will have
Root + Major 3rd + Perfect 5th
minor Triad will have
Root + minor 3rd + Perfect 5th
diminished Triad will have
Root + minor 3rd + diminished 5th
Augmented Triad will have
Root + Major 3rd + Augmented 5th
7th chord
Maj7 will have
Root + Major 3rd + Perfect 5th + Major 7th
min7 will have
Root + minor 3rd + Perfect 5th + minor 7th
Dom7 (Dominant 7th) will have
Root + Major 3rd + Perfect 5th + minor 7th
minMaj7 (mMaj7) will have
Root + minor 3rd + Perfect 5th + Major 7th
Half diminished 7th (m7b5) will have
Root + minor 3rd + diminished 5th + minor 7th
Full diminished 7th (dim7) will have
Root + minor 3rd + diminished 5th + diminished 7th
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Is this the same for guitar 🎸. Thank you 😊
Absolutely
My question: How, by what means was the melody of the La cathedral engloutie by Debussy achieved ?
A combination of melodic and harmonic thinking. The magic is achieved by how the two are conceived together
Very well explained thanks a lot
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Thanks for video it really help me but one thing that I am not sure is example if we are in the key d major and the note D to natural F would be minor third right? Because if it major third it would be f sharp?
You are absolutely correct
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What was the perfect 4th in D major again?
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I'm not sure when he's filming this, He realize he can help people like me who live at the edge of the world, who always want to learn music, But could never afford and find place to learn!
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Another great video thank you! You mention at the end the "next video" about recognising how the intervals look and sound. Where will I find this? Been looking all around your channel but no success as yet...🤔
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I can say I'm solid at sight reading 2nd because that's very easy, I think a little in 3rd and 5ths, but when it comes to 6ths and 7ths, even 4ths, my mind just goes blank. Also in descending melodic interval, MY MIND LEAVES! I definitely need more practice 😂 I'm in a choir so I need to have the ability to sight read confidently. Thanks for the videos!
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Excellent video :) I have two questions if I may:
Would it be right to say the interval between C# and F is a diminished 4th?
What would a perfect or a major interval be if its double sharped?
Correct. C# to F is a Diminished 4th. Cx to F is unlikely to happen in any known key but it would technically still be Diminished.
Your videos are helpful and I WOULD REALLY APPRRCIATE IT IF YOU MADE ANOTHER VIDEO ABOUT TRIADS IN GRADE 5.
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Hi sir❤
Can people sing harmonic intervals? I mean 2 or more notes at the same time? and chords are a harmonic interval?
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Two notes sounding at the same time form a harmonic interval. When it comes to singing that is done one note at a time.
So clear! Thanks a lot!
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So, it’s like enharmonics for intervals? Love this video btw. Very informative!
Glad it’s useful. Certainly enharmonics affect intervals.
Does the double flatting of the major 6th @ 17.08 turn it into a perfect 5th
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Correct
At last someone who not only knows their subject but can communicate it.
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Music representation sometimes seems like the imperial measurement system. I'm pretty sure there would be a more intuitive way (analogue to the metric system) to think of notes and intervals, one that accounts more explicitly for the sharps and flats and where there's no ambiguity when referring to interval names.
There are certainly possible alternatives but the system is very logical. Think of it as a language with its own vocabulary and grammar.
@@MusicMattersGB the language comparison is very fitting. By the way, great video!
Many thanks
Hello I am having problems with understanding the M10 intervals
Think of a 10th as a Compound 3rd
Crystal clear!
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the explanation is really clear, thank u for that! but its still a whole lot of information to take in so i need time to absorb all of that. music theory is killing me😆😆
Keep at it and you’ll get there
very well said - understanding the difference in steps is more import than the actual name/ knowing its a "D" E" or F" ect. . . . for playing and singing.
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Incredible video! Thank you 🙌🏽
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Don't Major and minor in single notes (not scales) only refer to the third degree because when making up chords you say flattened or augmented for everything that's not the third degree. I'm sure I'm wrong but can anyone clear this up for me
2nds, 3rds, 6ths, and 7ths can each be minor or major eg B is a major 7th above C; Bb is a minor 7th above C.
So, to name all possible intervals correctly I need first to learn all twelve major scales?
Or could I determine an interval name by counting the semitones in it? (And memorising the number of semitones in all perfect and major intervals)
For example E to G.
I count notes - E, F, G - so it's a third.
I count semitones - 3 - it's a minor third. (As I memorised that major third has 4 semitones in it)
Or take Eb to G.
Same process again, now I get three notes and four semitones so it's a major third.
Now at the moment of writing this I have no idea what notes are neither in E major scale, nor in Eb major scale, but I guess my calculations are correct?
What do you say about this method? Are there any cons to using this or maybe I'm overlooking something and actually getting incorrect results?
I mean it just seems faster to me to memorize major/perfect intervals in semitones and compare to semitones I counted than remember and recall a needed major scale every time.
It’s certainly possible to count the semitones. In my experience people find it difficult to remember how many semitones are in each possible interval. All major scales follow the same pattern (tone tone semitone tone tone tone semitone) so it’s quick to work in the major scale of the lower note.
@@MusicMattersGB it's just puzzles me a bit that in this video you simultaneously expect the viewer to know major scales and also have a section to remind what sharps and flats are.
But isn't knowing the scales should already include knowledge on accidentals?
Anyway, I'm very grateful that you took time to reply me (and very fast too!).
A great video, despite my critique I subbed to the channel.
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Has anyone ever tried to invent music theory using base 12 arithmetic? For example, a major chord is 0,4,7 and a minor chord is 0,3,7. A sus2 is 0,3,7 (same as minor?). A sus4 is 0,5,7. Or maybe use deltas: Major=>4,3; Minor=>3,4.
To me it's as important to know how the names of these notes came to be (which you dispensed with on the word "perfect"...are major notes "imperfect"?) as it is to know the intervals. I can see naming something diminished. But I would name the opposite something like "enhanced". And why do I need names for double diminished? Why don't I call it my its "perfect" or "major" name? And why use notation doubling the flat symbol but creating a whole new symbol for doubling the sharp symbol?
Music as a discipline has more "whys" in it than any other discipline I have looked into. It's like confusion was a deliberate intention.
Counting semitones is a useful way to calculate chords etc. I suppose like many other things the theory of music has evolved. It’s not entirely logical but there is a lot of logic behind it.