Understanding Music Theory in One Hour - Animated Music Lesson
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Understand the underlying concepts covering music theory today! After this one hour course, you will understand the musical alphabet, chords, intervals, inversions, melodies, scales, modulation, borrowing, modes, and more!
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Congratulations. I am a Qualified Music Teacher in the Uk and am very concerned about many so called Music teachers online who just set themselves up without the correct musical knowledge and/or qualification. You have impressed me with your approach and teaching.
Congratulations. I would love to see youtube offering a kind of approval system so beginners can visit approved sites. You would certainly be given the teaching mark if I was on the panel. All I need now is for you to tell me you are not qualified(LOL)
Either way, your knowledge is very good.
No, not for teaching Morons but for teaching Children who want to learn Music and sometimes those who don't. I suspect your ability to read and write stems from you being taught by someone. Without teaching and learning the world would not be progressing. Sadly there are a ot of people who are anti-schools and teaching having forgotten some of the benefits they gained from it. It is clear from comment on here that some people do not like people who teach music. I will therfore remove my contribution to this channel as people are not reading my posts properly and missing the points I am making.
Hi Peter! I am sorry about Robert King. He has been banned from my channel. I really want this to be a place where anyone can comment or ask questions. You are warmly welcome to continue to contribute. :)
Thanks for that. No problem. Keep up the good work , you are doing a great job.All my comments have been in good faith in support of your channel and those wanting to learn
Great that another music teacher (who already understands music theory) is impressed.
Stephanie Jade Thanks Stephanie. I only came on here to reccomend the channel as there are too many self made teachers who earn money from you tube without the know how. Ross knows the subject so deserves credit. Music is a very complex subject. Music is loved by many people and needs good education although I do acknowledge those talented people who can just play by ear.
For anyone who needs to watch in chunks
1.Musical distance: 0:30
2.Scales: 3:12 (For anyone who wants to remember major and minor pattern, Major, WWHWWWH, Minor, WHWWHWW)
2a.Scale degrees: 7:38
3.Intervals: 11:36
4.Melody and Transposition: 22:10
5.Major and Minor Chords: 25:50
5a.Chord progressions: 28:46
5b.Roman Numerals and Chord Transposition: 32:28
6.The Tritone: 35:23
7.Other types of chords and their functions: 40:14
8.Inverting Intervals: 48:38
9.Inverting Chords: 53:34
10.The Circle of Fifths: 56:22
11.Modulation and Borrowing: 1:03:11
12.Modes: 1:08:53
hello? god is that you?
Thank you
Thanks alot
ur an amazing person thank u
thanks
Science teacher : c'mon guys..it's not music theory...
Music teacher : come on guys! it's not rocket science...
sikeres légy a kurvák közt Brian May(a guitar player of Queen and astrophysicist): listen up here, kids!
@@jessicaannoh6377 hahaha, good one
Aaaaand rocket science ends up being easier
What language is ur username cos i got
What u doing and bitch out of it
@@krinz7197 It would translate to "become successful around the whores" or alternatively "a successful fly around the whores"
Literally it means "Successful [to] be [you] the whores between" and between is used as a term for being around (not literally) a group or culture.
Fun fact: "Be" in English can be heard as "bee", in hungarian, the word for "be" is the same word as the word for "fly"
I’m gonna re watch this until I remember every second
Do you learned it?
Captain STFU
It’s probably better to choose a topic, watch this videos take on it, and search a few more videos so you’re able to learn using different explanations.
I am just taking little notes with the time stamps to remember. You can do this too.
Did you do it?
This will be my new ASMR video every night before I sleep. That'll get it in my subconscious 😜
Anyone else trying to make a dream come true?
The One Days here! Ahahah
Daunting. Plus with this boring, monotone narration I just don't think I can take it. I really tried but it just reminds me of school too much.
To be honest in 8 years of learning music, just NOW I decided to learn theory and I've been kinda successful in my career as a musician
Best comment to be related
Nope. I'm trying to make the nightmares stop.
"This next part is very simple" *starts speaking alien language*
Well it's simple if you speak *alien language*
Lmao
Lol
👽
Nice pfp
The most amazing thing in music, for me, is when everything I've been trying to learn over the last year just somehow instantly clicks and makes sense. Everything falls into place and holy scoobysnacks I know music theory!!!!
holy scoobysnacks ... my new favorite expression ;):)
I KNOW RIGHT!
That first time you play it and you do it differently than the previous 348 times...and youre like "wait...that was right..." and then you get it right again...people who dont play an instrument dont understand how quickly "dogged determination to fail as many times as necessary" can turn into "wait i accidentally did it RIGHT that time!" and what that feels like!
You also desire scooby snacks, Oreos and all the other crap that has been implanted in your receptive mind
My favorite expression two now 😂
watched with 2x speed -> its now music theory in a half hour ...
😂😂 I always watch vidoe at either 1.5× or 2× to save up time. And that's legit what I did with this video
^the real mvp
Yeah but then the pitch is off and you can't hear the actual notes
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@@zrspangle aCtUaLlY the pitches stay the same
I am a Physics Student and after watching this I think 'Quantum Mechanics is quite simple'.
lol
Damn fr? This was quite easy and I'm and 8th grader learning Geometry. I know nothing of music but want to learn to read sheet music for my guitar instead of just using tabs. Good luck with physics tho.
@@dynamics3261 Music is like language. The younger you learn it, the easier it can be.
@@zhaohuideng8836 Agreed. I taught myself the principles of quantum mechanics in middle school and junior high, so I find it quite easy to understand the seemingly nonsensical theory behind it.
Are bhai bhai bhai mujhe toh karta scales rat ke jaani hai as an exam it's tough to cram every scale😭😭😭
I just found this site and also ordered your book on Amazon. I'm 82 and I just bought a piano and am starting to learn. I'm a pilot and own my own plane, but they pull;ed my medical and I can't fly. I'm a golfer, but I had four recent back operations and I can't play. I believe the brain needs to be worked out just as any muscle does and flying kept me sharp. Same goes for golf and now I hope piano will do it for me. I've always been a jazz buff and love music.
I don't know why there has been a lull in comments here, maybe this post will start a new group of comments.
still alive?
@@Toddespiel Yep, I'll be 83 next week.
@@JazzBuff23 Hope u live another 83 ! happy birthday already!
@@Toddespiel Another 83 might be pushing it, but I hope to get another ten or fifteen. Thanks for the B Day wish.
Yo im still 16
Without a doubt im the youngest here
I've been avoiding music theory for way too long now..
waddup20 I think you will find it useful and fun.😎
-Every band student ever
Same. My production is showing it lol so I'm here to learn and grow and hopefully make some better stuff with it
@to-fall-upwards I agree. The master needed a little help :) and yes that's me singing lol but hey, baby steps
@@tessampalmer6946 and every singer ever ;)
Take a shot every time he says something is easy
Conman 1016 take a shot everytime he says C D E F G A B or major and minor and chord.
God Dawg I don’t want to die!!
@@conner6693 what about getting shot XD ¿
blacked out
I've died
I was doing very well until the lesson started.
Everyone was. I'm glad I learned music theory correctly and not from this video.
@@jugglerjoe do you know a better video? It would be really nice to have different explanations
Joe_1984 Wdym correctly😂 The guy isn’t teaching wrong
"Scales are easy! One is WHWHWHWHWWW and the other is HWHWHWWWHH. What could be simpler than that?"
lol :)
You might want to remember it this way: Major is 2 1/2 3 1/2 (read two and a half, three and a half). Minor is 1 1/2 2 1/2 2
lol!!!
@Prasun great tip! Thank you! :)
I also felt that just throwing a lot of theory at us in the style "this is just how it is, absorb it" is not the greatest way. My reaction is always "but why??", because I hate to memorize things, I want to truly understand the reasons behind things.
a lot of people in these comments are complaining that this guy is teaching them WHAT the elements of music theory are - notes, scales, chords etc. - but not WHY they are the way they are. but there's a good reason he's not bothering to explain why - because in a lot of cases there isn't really a reason.
let me explain: when you were growing up, did your parents have any weird traditions you couldn't really explain? maybe your mum always set the table with a full cutlery set - fork, knife, spoon - even when she didn't need to cause you were only eating soup. or maybe your dad wouldn't let you open any of your christmas presents until after you'd had your christmas dinner, even though all your friends got to open theirs as soon as they woke up. and there was no real reason why they did those things, except that was just the way they liked to do it.
that's what music theory is.
music theory is thousands of different people over hundreds and hundreds of years saying "this is how we like to do it. there's no real reason why, we just think it sounds nice." and now if you try and make music that doesn't follow those rules, it sounds weird. that's why music from other cultures often sounds so strange to us. if you look outside western music, there's actually loads and loads of music that doesn't follow any of these rules because they came up with their own set of unexplainable traditions. some cultures use different scales, different chords, some of them have extra notes in between the ones we use. that's just how they like to do it.
the point is, we can explain why our music sounds the way it does using these rules, but we can't really explain why the rules themselves exist (in most cases - I will admit I'm oversimplifying a bit here).
Thanks 💯% for this comment. I left the why out for exactly that reason. Everyone must figure out why themselves.
@Seraph909 agreed!!
joshuahijs I know you’re right but I still don’t agree I NEED HELP !! I’m not about to automatically know why he telling me this
after taking music theory this year as a huge reasoning person, the "why" has ALWAYS bothered me. To hear that their simply isn't one is both comforting and frustrating.
@@gabbybyrd6749 True that!! I've spent years wondering 'why' so I can figure it out from a 'how' perspective. Suppose I just need to go with the flow. I've learned the 'what' and always felt like there was something missing from my knowledge for some reason, and have always searched for it. Suppose I've found it, in a manner of speaking lol! :)
bro im cooked
Literally No One:
UA-cam at 3 in the morning: You Need To Learn Music Theory.
guess I'll die
this is so me rn HAHAHAHHA its 3 am where im at and im trying to learn this crap HAHHAHAHAHA
2am :)
ITORODOG it’s literally three am 😂
I read this in George Carlin’s voice
Gosh, Exactly same here! 3am London
"Modes...modes are just as simple as everything else"
Me - "dang"
SAME
It is currently 3 in the morning....i shall be back bc music theory is something i really want to learn well! Thank you for this \m/
You are most welcome! Get some sleep my friend! :)
Same here 😩 I want to sleep but I need this in my life!!
Ebony Johnson yes! Must b fine arts major! Lol. Good luck.
It is possible to see birds your whole life, and then one day you SEE a bird, and from that moment on, their presence weaves a new colour into the cognitive tapestry of your life. This is how I can best describe what has happened to me recently with music. There are no regrets arriving at this point so late, but it is worth losing sleep for, as time enjoyed with a lover.
Richie Helf 2:41 for me
Hey man, I just wanted to say I have looked for hours and hours for videos on Music Theory only to get bogged down with more and more info, because the preexisting knowledge required to understand what people are talking about is already so advanced, that someone who doesn't take any classes has a hard time understanding. This video was very straightforward and covered an expansive amount of basic and foundational knowledge for me. Like many fields, it seems that music teachers on youtube have very huge "expert blindspots" that keep them from being able to communicate things in simple wording. Thanks for the video.
I completely agree
Of course my friend! Happy to help. :)
Alex Taylor I AC2ALLY DIDENT NO WUT A MAJOR OR MINOR SCALE REEL LEE WERE, OR A MAJOR, MINOR, DIMINISHED, AUGMENTED, OR PURFECT INTERVAL WAS. OR HOW CORDZ WUR MAID. OR DAT DER WUZ CORD SKALEZ, OR TRITONEZ. OR HOW TO ACTUALLY USE D CIRCLE OF 5THS -- Oops, you'll have to excuse me, that was my apparent sense of not caring while still having to contradictorily make a public display of how much I don't care... I mean "troll."
Hi Brandon, Knowledge is one thing.Teaching is a different skill. Teaching is about getting it across. I think as a teacher myself you have added a very important comment about youtube teachers. I studied Music for four years and gained a degree in Music Education which is about the art of teaching the knowledge and skills(Not about being a performer)This video meets my approval and I'm glad you've found something to help you. I wish you well in one of the best subjects in the world. I retired from teaching after 37 years and am now concentrating on writing and performing which is totally different to teaching music.
Brandon Cooper o
Literally summoned up my music semester within 2 hours. Teachers trying to make things complicated, this video explained it simple as possible.
Simply, quiet simply simple making it more simpler than how simple it was before.
That’s why music school dumb as fuck just pick up a bunch of books instead of putting down a bunch of money
@@vishalmeena9095 When it becomes too simple you lose the environment it's made for
*Me*: Looks up “h musical note”
*UA-cam*: YOU NEED TO LEARN MUSIC THEORY
The note H is actually a thing
How would you play it *without* playing A an octave higher or using microtonal tuning on an actual instrument?
It is, rather confusingly, another name for the note B, used in some Central European countries
That’s not in the English naming system, hence why everything I’ve mentioned *is meant to* be in English as well.
@@pianoplayer3002 yes, but it is still interesting how other countries have named these notes
Me : okay i can do this
*10 minutes later
Me : okay enough for today :')
Howd it go?
Actully that's what you are supposed to do.
Learn it in chunks...
I know how you feel. I'm 20 minutes in and I'm taking a break lol
40 minutes in and I have a headache but I understood it.
Totally!, Well, just a short break (and this is how I end up here reading comments instead of watching the video). Well, if people can learn this I can do it too... bit I don't know how start and how... how? XD
Why do I feel like I need to check out “Music Theory In One Lesson” on Amazon? Weird..
Uhh... Maybe I should try watching it again.... but stoned this time.
Music theory teacher: come on this isn't hard, it's not rocket science!
Rocket science teacher: come on this isn't hard, it's not music theory!
Every time I try to watch im always like alright cool this is pretty interesting 15 minutes later 😪
so true😅😅
I have self studied music theory quite a bit and this is probably the best video I have found so far! Tysm for this!
You are very welcome my friend 😊
Timestamp :D
Introduction and Musical Distance 0:25
Scales 3:13
Scale Degrees (Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor 7:38
Interval 11:36
Melody and Transposition 22:10
Major and Minor Chords 25:49
Chord Progression 28:49
Roman Numerals and Chord Transposition 32:27
The Tritone 35:22
Other Types of Chords and Their Function 40:14
Inverting Interval 48:40
Inverting Chord 53:33
Circle of Fifths 56:22
Modulation and Borrowing 1:03:11
Modes 1:08:53
Thank you soldier
Thanks for your hard work on this index 👍
You have great potentials❤
The problem here is cramming a lot of undefined terminology brought in really quickly at the start of the video. People new to music will be overwhelmed and confused in the first 5 minutes trying to cope with all the new terminology that you're just blasting through without really explaining what you're talking about. For example, you bring in the concept of "musical distance" without explaining that what you are actually talking about is the distance (interval) in pitch between one note and another, or that what you are demonstrating is a series of adjacent notes. This will be fine for the average intermediate player that's getting around to connecting things together, but for a beginner very confusing.
Tried my best :)
Thank you! When I listened to this years ago, I was lost as well for the same reasons along with the "obviously" sentiments.
It's not "obvious" for us.
17 minutes in and having a breather to digest, I'm going to finish this. Tips for anyone totally new, keep at it, things do start to make sense out of the mumbo jumbo, even if it doesn't to begin with. Familiarise yourself with the language and the basic threads that run through all methods of teaching music theory, it will start to fall into place, as it is finally doing for me, don't give up!
I have autism and these video made a little sense to me. Am starting to like music theory now 🙂
I appreciated this
Thank you sir
THIS IS GREAT!!! My boyfriend is a musician and I haven’t taken any music classes beyond elementary school so it’s really hard for me to talk to him and ask questions about music when I don’t even know how to describe what I’m hearing or what I have questions about. This is my very first exposure to music theory and I am keeping up! I’ve been taking notes, pausing, rewinding and rewatching and I actually understand! I’m 40 minutes into the video and about 4 hours into watching. I’m so thankful for how clearly and concisely this is explained!
btw did you watch the whole vid,is it useful,did you understand,is it good?i didnt watch it yet and want to be a guitarist,but i dont lnow how hard and how much time it needs,so u have any idea ?
That's so sweet and humble of you. Keep up the good work! You're doing great!
You are learning music theory for better conversation with your boyfriend? Lucky guy!
It is so hard as the boyfriend attempting to communicate. I almost have the opposite problem, because I’ve lost the ability to not use music theory to describe what I’m hearing.
@@sleepdeep305 I just showed him this post and he said “yes I agree with him” to your comment 😂
Title:Understanding Music Theory in 1 Hour 15 Minutes and 55 Seconds.
😂
Took an entire semester of music theory and left that class more confused than ever. Watched half of this video so far and you've made it so much more simple to understand. Thank you!
I am glad to have helped!
“ simple” and “ easy” must have different meaning in the music theory.
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you dont really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor falls, the major lifts
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
My mind can't help drifting away to these lyrics.
I am the opposite of most of the comments here. As a guitar player, I don't know how I'd get by without at least a decent understanding of these concepts. I'd be paralyzed. Even playing by ear, I don't know how I'd ever figure out how "adult chords" work, on my own. I'd still just be playing simple power chords and triads or stumbling across stuff that sounds good by accident. And I'd still mostly be working in just pentatonic and blues scales. This stuff is great and should never be feared or scorned, only embraced.
Theory was my gateway too.
I'm an organist myself so I am also familiar with music theory. But I have 2 guitarist friends who don't know anything about music theory and they are exceptionally good players. It seems like playing everything by ear can work well.
I still wouldn't recommend it.
There are "adult chords"??? That explains the family chords
@@sou_desu8587 I'm pretty sure he means more complicated chords and not your basic cowboy chords
I bought your book- brilliantly written. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
Thank you so much! It warms my heart to hear this. :) Do you have any requests for lessons?
Please note that the title says "Understand", not "Master". :) It takes a lifetime to master music.
allmighty30011 If you thought one youtube vid was even trying to cover the full content of a Doctorate then you ain't ever gonna get one. This is a really good introduction.
If you troll on my channel one more time, I will ban you. If you find an error in my video, point it out. But if you show up just saying vague things, and not proving them, then you are not only a worthless troll, but you are also going to lose access to my channel and this video.
Point out where my video has incorrect information. It doesn't.
Who else has been up since 3 a.m. watching, trying to be somewhat productive with their life?
15 minutes shy off 3 a.m so i guess i'm guilty in that department
3 am it is! So yes, me🖐😂
3:08 AM to be specific
I ... don't understand it. Like literally nothing. I don't think it's you, the comment section is more or less filled with lots of people that are very thankfull.
I have the suspicion that I am simply bad at understanding music theory xD
I was starting hopefully but as hard as I try: I don't see the concepts. I mean: I think I can cite what a chord or a melody is. Maybe even a scale - however, I kind of get lost trying to memorize what scale is what and how they're built. To be honest: a lot of the systems and concept appear as 'made up' I am unable to see a lot of the internal logic. Then again, I don't think it is due to your style of teaching. There are too many people greatly benefitting from this video.
I'm now halfway through and more or less completely fell out. But I will keep this video definetly in my watch later list to come back sometime.
Try an examine what you are currently playing. What are the chords? What is the scale those chords are built from?
PrimordialNightmare it’s not you. I’m the same way. People learn differently. Try learning theory from step 1 and even kids books because they simplify things much better. This video mushes so much together at once. I use kid sources for learning many things, like spanish. I need to be told A B C very simple. I think you need to start back at the very beginning and be led through it.
you're not internalizing the scales or the knowledge because you don't trust or believe in the knowledge which is why you should maybe get a teacher. what I find in music is that if I'm not internalizing the knowledge I just remember it mechanically through my fingers and keep playing it until my mind grasps it. its best sometimes if you know something is essential but are hesitant to learn it, to just learn it and ask questions later. if you don't know any songs or anything really on guitar then yeah scales will probably never mean much to you.
Got the same problem unfortunately. I simply don't understand more than the circle of fifths. I'm actually keeping this video for later but right now I'm trying to focus on reading sheet music and so on and so forth.
What you need to understand is that music theory is a descriptive discipline, not an imperative one.
Music theory doesn't tell you how to do music, instead it just tries to _describe_ how music might work and _simply puts labels on things, and gives them names_ . That might be why you feel like some things are just made up. Because in a way they are. We just decided to give them names because they exist and they seem to be common/useful sounds and concepts of our music.
i FINALLY finished this video with notes and everything, AND I understand it. Im so happy for myself. Now Im gonna study my notes and get it down pack ahhhj
The tritone section was like learning
Astrophysics
And why the universe has always been cake and why Tintin stole plutonium and created Boruto
This is underrated
All this stuff is in Chinese
I'm Chinese and I got lost too
What
Its the dark corrupted and twisted version of Chinese
其实我认为中文比乐理难多了
我觉得像阿拉伯语
I was following along with this from the beginning trying to understand and learn because I know nothing about theory and struggling to understand it, and all of a sudden about 3/4 of the way thru you started using the word ACCIDENTALS, but you never explained what the hell it means. So I began to scroll back to see if I missed it somewhere, but NOPE, you just pulled it out of thin air. So I gave up on this video and started looking for an explanation of ACCIDENTALS in other theory videos. I give this video a thumbs down. You must explain every thing and term or the beginner gets completely lost.
Will do better next time :)
I wonder if there's a book where I could read up on this. Preferably in one concise lesson.
If there was such a book, I would hope that this video author would intersperse an ad for said book every 3 minutes or so
There is one at Barnes & Nobles. Called Music Theory or something similiar. It's a yellow book.
😂🙏
Got seriously lost towards the end >-< but thank you
You are very welcome! Just let it sink in. :)
Me too i don’t understand the Tritone thing
@@dylanovandekerckhove9566 I understand what tritones are and how to resolve them, but I really don't get what he tries to illustrate at 39:15. Yes, we can play both the C chord and the A chord with the notes in the C major scale, but we can also play Dm and probably many more which he didn't point out. I really don't see how all that is linked to the tritone?
@@EctoMorpheus Ross please answer this
@@rossthemusicandguitarteacher please answer ectomorpheus question??
*starts spacing out half way through* wtf is this algebra class
My take home from this: you can’t be a musician unless you are a robot.
The problem with this video is that it starts in the middle of the subject, explaining how scales and chords work. I want to start at the beginning: what is a scale; in fact, what is a note?
Check out the free mobile version of it for that info! www.musictheoryinonelesson.com
@J Guy excellent comment!!
it might help if you learn to play an instrument -- guitar (strumming, etc) or piano. then 6 months later once you can play several songs and wonder how are chords constructed then come back to music theory.
I teach basic music concepts to my ukulele students. You have introduced a lot of information, and quite well for folks who are familiar with it. The issue is lack of interaction, discussion, when attempting to learn from videos. I believe students benefit from private instruction that allows Q & A and starting at the beginning.
@@ukuleleuniverse this is why anyone can get Skype lessons: rossthemusicteacher.as.me/
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The fabled G Mega Sharp
Pepa
No No Ross those ##### aren't sharp signs - sharp signs are like this ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ ♯ - Those ##### would get lost on the stave lines ☺☺☺☺☺
(hope that humour doesn't fall flat)
DelTangBrav That pun...
DelTangBrav That just wasn't natural
My brain started to boil around 56 minutes but wow. I’ve been playing for years and this connected some dots for me. Awesome!
Quantum mechanics along with the study of dark matter and string theory is easier to understand than all this insanity.....seriously.
Well said! I completely agree.
Music and quantum mechanics both take a lot of time practicing theories and memorizing formulas, don't worry you'll get the hang of it!
I doubt this heavily. Maybe if you've never played and read music before it is harder.
I totally feel the same. Not that quantum mechanics is easy, but at least in science there's always this fundamental motivation to describe observed things in a mathematical way or in a logical pattern. (well, maybe quantum mechanics is a bad example for being logical in some ways, lol)
But you can logically build up your understanding from that notion, at first looking into the basic concepts and then going into more and more conclusions.
However in music theory it seems that the fundamentals are just made up relations between notes, that apparently sound "good" for one thing or the other. Sounds a bit too subjective for me. I can not even really tell the difference listening to those scales, they all kinda sound the same.
On the other hand, maybe music theory is just another language like mathematics, with the difference of being a bit closer to our human languages, in the sense of being more ambiguous and therefore leaving more room for "poetry".
From a scientific standpoint it actually helped me a bit, to understand that the note A4 is often determined to have a frequency of 440Hz. The half or double of a frequency sound the same and are therefore the same note with a different pitch (like A3 220Hz, A5 880Hz). And the other notes are basically 12 steps inbetween, that are determined in a logarithmic fashion (cause of the double-half thing). In a different universe, I guess we could've ended up with different seperations, like a system based on ten, like our numbers. Although then you could go into golden ratio, fibonacci sequence etc. and maybe these notes are seperated this way, BECAUSE they sound good to us. I don't know.
What is still a riddle to me, is why they use this weird lettering octave system with sharps and flats, instead of just a system based on 12. Well, I guess the way we label things is not always logical.
@@ChacUayabXoc Sharps and flats make sense within a key, and are much easier to put into the staff than 12 different notes.
I suspect it is like if a normal person were to look at complex equations. It would look like gobbledygook. Likewise, untrained ears aren't as good at this than trained ones.
Like math, music notation is a way of writing objective facts (ie this frequency should be made with the instrument) in a certain way (the actual number 4 doesn't have to mean four, just like 四 doesn't mean four to someone who can't read it, whereas it does describe the objective fact of four whatever it is you're counting). What makes music so unique is that it can be interpreted in different ways, like literature. A certain violinist may use a certain vibrato here, a certain bow stroke there, may play slightly sharp to denote tension, may do yadda yadda. It's quite a marvel.
finally a useful video in a recommended section. Thank you sir. I love you.
Why thank you!
@janis vogel Love can be platonic.
The most difficult part of learning all theory is getting lost creatively playing the new theory you do learn.
You speak the truth. You have to take some time to let it all sink in, and that means playing the ideas!
I gotta save this video and come back. Watched the whole thing, got confused about 15 minutes in but I will study it. I've been playing piano and guitar for 22 of my 26 years. But I'm not good with instantly knowing what chord or note to go to next. I still have to play around with chords to get my sound. So I mainly need to learn because I want to be able to know what chord I need to go to next on the first try without playing around. I'm gunna look into your book. My birthday is Nov 10 and told my wife I wanted some books. So I'll have to add yours to my birthday list lol. Thank you. I'm sure I'll comment again when I start studying the video and (hopefully) book more.
Also how long is the wait for a free journal? I put my email in and it said thanks or something.
My God. . . 22 years?? I have been playin for a collective 2 years (spread out my whole life because I pick it up then lose motivation and drop it). I will never be good ;( I don't even know the basics. What do I do? I'm running out of time before i have to go to college and high school makes it so hard for me to practice this stuff with all of the bs work 👎
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You have time. Really. If you just set aside 40 minutes a day, which is very possible, and never miss a day (seriously NEVER), then you’ll be flying high and learning so much.
I came here to learn how to draw music in a DAW so I can start producing music..
Yet I didn't expect that I'd have to crack the Da Vinci Code to start making music
sameeee
Woww this is what I needed to get into guitar seriously, I been up 7 hours now studying this video and everything is connecting. Thanks for your great lessons, this channel truly deserves millions of subscribers, cause everyone really would benefit from this without having to search through the endless junk feeding wrong or confusing information.
This isn’t for dummies is it? 3 minutes in and don’t really have any clue what he’s talking about
This lesson not easy for beginners.
Fair enough 😎👍
Scales are simple but for beginners like me how to use it is the problem 😭
I attended a performing arts school and was in the music magnet. They had me taking music theory 8th grade - 12th grade and I never truly understood the class until I saw this video.Wish I had this back then. Thanks for this video!
You are so welcome! Thanks for the kind words.😎
This is the only time where the auto-generated captions are actually helpful
I'm learning English in order to get this lesson
It doesn't help
Legend
I've mastered English
This is without doubt the best music theory video on UA-cam. You did what all the other fake-ass-ebook-salesmen tried to do.
Thank you for this 🙏🏽
You are most welcome my friend. :) I do write e-books, but I am trying my best to avoid the weird marketing gimmicks. All of my big videos are free to the world, because I really want to spread the knowledge. Thanks for the awesome comment!
Wonderful! Wonderful! I know what I need to do! Study
@@rossthemusicandguitarteacher Happy people like you exist, thank you
Rick Beato:
ua-cam.com/video/kax-bxN3T8E/v-deo.html
So simple and easy to follow without complicating the concepts too much. Thanks!
You are welcome! Thank you!
There is a lot of assuming of prior music knowledge. Not something for a beginner.
You lost me about 35 minutes in. I tried my best but my mind melted and now I'm a statue.
I was lost on 43:00 lol
18:63 and I've slumped into the both hands rubbing my temples going whaat the fuck
- a musician who learned by ear
I got as far as chords make it a flat by lowering the middle cord. then the count three, well the A is back here. I get it. After that he started to go so fast, I was lost. Not my first music theory experience, this was a review but,im lost. Gonna need to take the terms and ideas elsewhere to learn. Major and minor cords large or small Roman numbers, okay then he is circling again but why?? cluelessness. started watching ,3 days ago, taking notes, saw it to near half three times. Now I need a new course to get thru the speed zone. Why are we doing the circling? Resolve the tritone?? Very clear resolution?? Not feeling the clear at all. I'm seeing fog, thick as pea soup. Day 4 with notes folks
Alex Donchak How wonderful to have learned by ear!! Then get the theory. I learned it note by note as a kid. I don't think I could do Twinkle Twinkle without the book in front of me. Most closely resembles Fred Flintstone's aunt comes to visit and brings her violin and her hedgehog bow.The story line,Hedgehog gets a better gig and Fred replaces her bow with his lawn mower hedgehog. "Poor Fred"
Caprise Adams same here. Lost it when he started talking about Tritones
"You may be asking yourself why there are different spacings between each note"
Ross, you understand me already! We're gonna get along fine.
You don't get it do you, or stolen and they think it's there's and vice versa. We are also missing notes. There's also 2 ways to name every mode and a whole bunch of chords that are completely disposable. There's also a missing mode in the major. And now they are trying to call harmonic modes which really are just variations of the scale, we just move it over one 7 times different times.
I have read the comment a few times, and I must admit that I have zero clue what you are talking about. I conclude that you were probably drunk when writing this.
Instead of wwhwwwh we do ttsttts, tone,tone,semitone
Cool! Where are you from?
Ross the Music and Guitar Teacher i am from australia
Ross the Music and Guitar Teacher I am from Greece and I use that too
Amber Rhys-Jones same
It's like that also here in Brazil (tom, semitom).
THANKYOU! I am 58 years old. All my life I have wanted to learn this. When I was 10 I learned the guitar, basic chords to play along (or try to) but never knowing what it all meant. Now I am begining to understand. This is a precious resource. Thankyou.
Stay safe!
This is the first music theory lesson I've watched without seeing piano keys.. interesting)
I prefer to keep theory independent of any specific instrument. :)
Introduction and Musical Distance 0:25
Scales 3:13
Scale Degrees (Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor 7:38
Interval 11:36
Melody and Transposition 22:10
Major and Minor Chords 25:49
Chord Progression 28:49
Roman Numerals and Chord Transposition 32:27
The Tritone 35:22
Other Types of Chords and Their Function 40:14
Inverting Interval 48:40
Inverting Chord 53:33
Circle of Fifths 56:22
Modulation and Borrowing 1:03:11
Modes 1:08:53
I need to watch this video everyday until it gets stuck in my head
This Isn't Good For My Dyslexia
Had to purchase the book because you broke it down in such away that something complicated seemed much more easier to absorb. thanks so much! You just created a music monster! LOL
That moment you in the middle of high school, seriously considering studying music at university but only know how to play an instrument and no theory and the lazy f music teacher wouldn't let you join his class a 2yrs who's so now you realise your basically F-ed unless you can figure out music theory so that in a few year you can take the music theory exams.
Bro they teach u all this shit in music college. I’m a music Ed major and they have mandatory theory classes built specifically for people with no prior knowledge. Ur not fucked, ur fine!
@@rosalindhoffman449 that's actually sick, thanks for the information
@@akhmedthemerchant4741 ur welcome! Furthermore, no one bashes you for not having prior training. The mentality is basically that if you got in on whatever your main thing is - singing, an instrument, etc. - you're legit, and no amount of retakes needed to pass Theory 1 is going to change that:)
But why did that B dim resolved to C maj? I'm sorry for the dumb question but I'm just too confused
Not stupid at all! It is because of the tritone between b and f wanting to resolve that way to the c and e.
I've tried learning music theory 100 different ways. In one of my college classes, it became very obvious when the 'circle of fifths' lesson clicked right away for some and never quite for others. Every time it's the same story, "I will teach you how easy it is!" yet it's become apparent to me that the people who find this "easy" have some different kind of memory or brain wiring. It's not that I don't understand the logic; it just takes so much time to compute and count it all out - like I need a scratch pad to see where I am. I love music and love to play music - and have always wanted to grasp theory to truly channel what's inside my heart and mind - but I just don't think it's in the cards. Although I'm starting to realize that quite a few of the artists that inspire me probably comprehend just as little theory as I do.
Set yourself small, attainable goals - like individual songs (church music lol; Amazing Grace, Stand Up Stand Up for Jesus... songs that are simple and enjoyable so that you are encouraged to continue).
I learned theory over the course of a few years, with a saxophone teacher, playing constantly. It requires dedication and resources (if no teacher, then some more dedication). You can do it, especially if your heart and mind are driving you forward.
I believe in driven people =)
I had a teacher for saxophone, but I've taught myself piano and I'm better at piano than sax at this point. You can do it!!!
Its great to take in lectures and listen and learn... but unless you are playing an instrument so that you can really process/make sense of/HEAR what the HELL is going on.... its not going to be as meaningful.
When something like that happens you need to associate every step of the theory that you´re learning to your principal instrument. Correctly locate the notes, and you should be good then
@ Does that still apply if you produce music digitally?
Many things in life are extremely simple operations which, when seen as a whole, are difficult (not impossible) to master. I recommend learning which notes are a 1/2 step away from each other and then just looking at what notes are in that scale and learning those scales. I have never found it easy or useful to learn W and H patterns for a scale.
WH patterns only good to know conceptually, the best way to memorize it all is with key signatures.
Play it on 1.5x and thank me later.🌸
3yrs later and this is the #1 comment
I apologize for Alex Taylor everyone! He has been banned from my channel. Feel free to ask questions. :)
Thank god!
I believe theres a mistake in the video when you bring up the chromatic scale at 18:00 you say that c to db(Flat) is a minor2 when a normal minor 2nd is just c to D. Can you annotate the video or correct me if im wrong
Hi Frosty! Quick answer for you. :) C to D is a M2, because it is one full step. C to Db is a m2, being a half step. :)
Ross: I agree with Alex Taylor and say this in reply to him....... Typically it begins with something obvious and moves on quickly till confusion is all that is left. This man (you Ross) is no exception, he begins with: " here is our Swahili alphabet" and then drones on for an hour in Swahili. All the other Swahili fluent Swahili speakers say Bravo Maestro that it always true! He has forgotten the time when he did not understand this stuff. That is not to say I don't, I did my homework. At the same time we need to understand anyone who thinks one hour flat, done; is kidding themselves. He knows that, we know that, no offense meant or taken. The presenter shows us he has mastered the language of music and may sell some books.
Nobody is going to master this material in an hour. This video is meant to be a good overview, to get you moving in the right direction. Cheers!
This is a great course. I’m coupling this with Rick Beato’s UA-cam channel (and his book) and the Udemy class Intro to Music Theory
Thanks! Rick is solid. Please share this with your friends 😎
Oral, dance, tabla , harmonium, violin, guitar, etc.
Primary tamak( santhali)
Even today all the political parties use.
I really like when he says "It's pretty easy".
My Music teacher (teaching Music Theory) - Com'on ..its not a Rocket Science !
Also My Physics teacher (teaching Rocket Science) - Com'on its not a Music Theory !
Me - 🤪
Okay, stupid questions, what are sixths and seventh? Can you go below and have a fourth? Is there a circle of sixths? I see people writing patterns like this when they talk about sixths 1-1-1-1-1 2-3 2-3 what does it mean?
Whole that video is “actually quite simple”
Hey Ross, im actually an old student of yours not that you remember me by any means. cool to see where youve made it in a few short years
Jeff Roberts I do actually remember! Thanks for saying hi.😎
You didn't start with the basics, how are you sure the people watching your video actually know what are Whole steps and Half steps?
Whole and half steps are the basics and they are covered
i am from Belgium and i find it unfortunate that we use do re mi fa sol la si do instead, makes it hard to watch these learning videos
The solfege system is not with out it's uses. Very good for learning to sing.
@@rossthemusicandguitarteacher The problem is that the notes you call G , C, B etc. we call G = sol , C = do so it's really hard to understand what you mean at the same time trying to remember which letter was which note. Not about learning to sing
@@Pixeliarmus solfeggio is very useful to know! You should know both.
Why is the melodic minor scale different when it is played descending than when it is played ascending?
Or are these just two different scales?
Would be awesome if someone could help me here :D
It comes down to why harmonic and melodic minor scales were born in the first place. To solve the problem of having the preferred 7th note. In natural minor scale it doesn’t have the suspenseful 7th note that major scale has. This is why harmonic minor was born. It has that suspensful 7th note but it creates a unusual gap between 6 and 7. This is why melodic minor was created.
A melodic minor scale is basically a natural minor with a raised 6th and 7th note. When ascending it gives a good suspension when played through 7 to 1(root). But descending, it has no purpose to be played that way.
Visuals could have been a bit better, and to be honest, was good up until modulation. Felt like it fell into the bad teacher theory where you've either gotten bored and wanted to speed it up (leaving the student behind), or just forget that some of us are still REALLY new to all of this and need it simplified a tad bit more. I feel like this is common for teachers and why I've never really found one I enjoy. I feel they never really look at it in the sense of beginners, either because most teachers have been at music their entire life and it is so instinctive they don't realize this, or they just don't realize how difficult it can be to someone on the outside of music theory.
Overall, pretty good though. Did have to pause and actually watch a few other videos/google things inbetween.
Otherwise, quick question, why do music teachers LOVE ignoring the fact that a lot of the super basics could be done using natural scales? Why would you just not introduce modes with the idea that each one has a natural scale for it? Maybe no one else thinks that is super important, but it has been a key foundation at least for me for modes. "Wait.. what's in this mode? Let me just build the natural and I can see it." It helps to get rid of the sharps and flats, which means one less thing a student has to deal with when learning and you can start visualizing it easier. This video easily could have shown this by using C as a starting point.
Thanks for the great explanation. One error though--- at 48:12, the dim7 chord should show intervals as 1, ♭3, ♭5, double flat7 (enharmonically 1, ♭3, ♭5, ♮6 which you did mention), and the top line should read 1 2 b3 4 b5 6 bb7
Good catch! :) Thanks for the heads up.
@@rossthemusicandguitarteacher please tell me you put an annotation to fix this error?
sum ppl. think they. cant learn..i believe they just have to have things explained different so they can relate to the material..
the teacher leaves out 1 pc. of info.that he takes for granted and the student remains lost..ive seen it happen alot..thanks for the info..good job explaining the material..
You are welcome and thanks for the good words. :)
This is happening to me... I'm not sure what piece of info it was but I didn't get it.
Like almost everybody else doing music theory, you don't explain the fundamentals of resonance and why the pattern is like it is. It's arbitrary for one, just an agreed pattern to find a flow between one octave and others. If you understand the math and physics of it, which are actually fairly straightforward, you understand it all, and the rest is just detail, To use an analogy, don't give a man fish , teach him how to fish and he will be free. You're just handing out fish.
Can't wait to see the video you put out, maestro!
@@rossthemusicandguitarteacher I'm not in the business of making videos, but I can spot glossed over explanations easily. Memorizing formulas instead of understanding principles and underlying patterns is low grade teaching. Up your game instead of getting defensive and you'll be a better teacher.
love the nonchalant attitude towards the difficulty level of music theory when its been such a problem for me to learn in the past
The music is about 10 times louder than the speech. When I turn it up enough to hear you, the music hurts my ears.
Yeah I made this when I wasn't as good at the microphone as I am now. Heh
Me: *still trying to figure out how scaling works*
Ross in Intervals: "This is also quite simple..."
I am not qualified into any musical education(have took some short ones befor but didnt work well). All i’ve been doing is find pieces of information on the internet by my self but those are always just small pieces. After watching this lesson, i’m fully understood what is happening
Sincerely thank you for this video. I didn’t expect some one would cover everything like this
uchiha itachi Only for some stuff “Ask and you shall receive”