The Essentials of Music Theory, Essentially
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
- Week 09
This was probably the biggest video I've ever made (so far).
But- I genuinely really enjoyed learning this book!
Speaking of that:
www.alfred.com/alfreds-essent...
What a freaking adventure it was to make this too, my goodness.
I can't wait to do one of these again, but what topic do you think?
It doesn't just have to be restricted to music.
Chapters:
Introduction 0:00
Unit 1: 0:35
Unit 2: 2:08
Unit 3: 4:06
Unit 4 5:42
Unit 5: 7:27
Unit 6: 9:52
Unit 7: 11:11
Unit 8: 14:18
Unit 9: 17:14
Unit 10: 19:35
Unit 11: 20:54
Unit 12: 22:22
Unit 13: 24:22
Unit 14: 26:24
Unit 15: 29:01
Unit 16: 31:10
Unit 17: 33:13
Unit 18: 34:22
END: 35:58
Music Used:
New Days - Persona 4
Menu 2 - Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2011
Human Community - Steins Gate
Demo - Konductra
Confidential Data - Grisaia Phantom Trigger
Select - Dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU & ESPGALUDA Perfect remix
Kichijoji 199X - Persona 5: Royal
Walking on Sleeping - Steins Gate
Activity Log - 3DS Software Library
Menu 2 - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Powdered Peaks Battle - Miitopia
One Winged Angel - Final Fantasy VII
Extra Main Menu - Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi
Snow Sisters - Under Night: In-Birth
Stage Builder - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Graze the Roof - Plants Vs. Zombies
(LEUCINE) - 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim
Main Menu - Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
The Almighty - Persona 4
Trebhum Shrine - The Eternal Cylinder
Rainbow Road - Mario Kart Wii - Розваги
20:35 I love how the song used is intentionally or not in cut time
this looks like a video that has 1.3m views
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Fr
Great music taste
I can’t believe this only has 226 views, I like your straightforward approach
Thank you!
11 days later:
Look- alikes jingle is definitely the best choice for each lesson
I'm not sure to think that this is really 'the essentials', more like the "whats" of the most common knowledge without going much into the underlying "whys" that connect the pieces together. If interested, you may want to learn about tone frequency, the harmonic series (overtones), pure intervals vs.12 tone equal temperament, why the diatonic scale is built as it is (ie. by getting close to pure intervals or by stacking fifths), voice leading as well as alteration and/or transposition to get other modes, scales and keys (including their unique possibilities for chords and melodies) while being able to interpret their relations to each other very well. Also, playing a bit around with some nonwestern scales can help contextualise the western concepts as well as add a lot on their own.
That's where things may start to make more sense than just being a random list of rules. But the video was very entertaining and I had a lot of fun, so keep it up!
I have this same book, also lacking the CD, which I found to not really matter. It's a pretty good basic music theory book to learn the standard concepts that need to be memorized in understanding Western music notation.
It doesn't go into analysis of the reasoning behind most concepts, but I've found that it's worth its purchase price for what it offers.
It's fairly well organized so it can easily be used to refer back to for occasional reminders of particular terms.
This video does a remarkably good job of covering everything in the book.
As a guitar player I immediately am lost in Unit one with sight reading 😅
Cool video :)
I needed this video so much thank you
good choice of music 👌
Thank you!
Just so you know, Phrygian is pronounced Fridge-ian
Thank you- I definitely messed up a few pronunciations 😅
nice video ngl
here before this blows up
(it deserves to, anywho)
Omg thank you!!!
I'm only on unit 5 but I would hard disagree with the authors that these are the essentials of music theory. They're the essentials of reading music, but that is closely related but separate arena.
i was the 200th person to like this video
Very nice! However I think it's too easy for Unit 18, No cadences no nothing.
The whole essential bunch in 40 minutes:
Introduction to Music Theory Basics
Notes, Pitches, and Staff Notation
Treble and Bass Clefs
Grand Staff and Ledger Lines
Note Values and Time Signatures
Introduction to Note Values
Time Signatures such as 4/4
Rests
Further Exploration of Time Signatures
Time Signatures like 2/4 and 3/4
Dotted Notes, Ties, and Slurs
Repeat Signs and Eighth Notes
Explanation of Repeat Signs
First and Second Endings
Eighth Notes
Dynamics and Tempo Marks
Dynamic Signs (e.g., piano, forte)
Tempo Marks
Articulation Symbols and Advanced Repeat Symbols
Introduction to Articulation Symbols
Advanced Repeat Symbols (DC, DS, Coda)
Flats, Sharps, and Scales
Explanation of Flats, Sharps, and Natural Notes
Whole and Half Steps
Enharmonic Notes
Introduction to Scales
Key Signatures and the Chromatic Scale
Key Signatures for Major Scales
Introduction to the Chromatic Scale
Exploration of Intervals and the Circle of Fifths
Introduction to Intervals
Perfect and Major Intervals
Relationship to the Major Scale
Introduction to the Circle of Fifths as a Tool for Key Relationships
Introduction to Intervals
Augmented and Diminished Intervals
Chromatic Intervals
Solfège, Transposition, and Time Signatures
Solfège and Transposition
Sixteenth Notes and Rests
Common Time and Cut Time Signatures
Introduction to 3/8 and 6/8 Time Signatures
Eighth Note Triplets, Pickup Notes, and Syncopation
Triads, Scale Degrees, and Chord Inversions
Introduction to Triads
Scale Degrees and Their Names
Dominant Seventh Chord
Chord Inversions and Figured Bass Notation
Major Chord Progressions and Relative Minor Keys
Modes and Composing Melodies
Harmonizing Melodies and Blues Chord Progressions
Motives, Phrases, and Musical Forms
Introduction to Motives and Phrases
Harmonizing Melodies
Introduction to Musical Forms: Binary, ABA, Rondo
Conclusion and Further Exploration