How To Play Songs In Any Key
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2019
- Here's the method I've used for many years when it comes to thinking about songs in different keys. Basically, don't think about notes. Just think numbers.
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What else do you want me to talk about or explain?
The basics of finding the tones to a song 🙌🏾
Maybe you could explain "the roadmaps" for writing in a major or minor key?
Super-ultra-hyper-mega-meta-lydian scales
Recite the first 100 digits of pi but write a song about it
Reading music plz?
C, E-flat and G walk into a bar. Bartender immediately says “Sorry, but we don’t serve minors.”
Eb replies, "We're actually a major sixth. Bb is running a little late..."
@@grantmalone major sixth without fifth plus nine?
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@@Anorexiaification A fifth is the drink order
The next song I write, I'm definitely including a CmajJacobCollier chord.
Tim Cronin Cmajacob
I died there xD
@@Jeremy-ly5iq best notation
It's just a DMaj7 on top of a CMaj7 lol
Ah yes. The classic fifteenth chord.
“Improvise for Real” is a book/teaching method that teaches this exact concept for anyone that wants more in this methodology.
I bought this book and they use a "La-based minor" approach to numbering the notes/chords which is in my opinion not a so good way to do it. They number this way : in the major scale, the numbers are "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1", but in Dorian the numbers are "2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2". So now, the "2" is not a tension note that wants to resolve to the tonic "1", but IS the tonic (a stable note). All the names describe something that SOUNDS different based on the mode, it doesn' make sense. You want to name the tonic "1" because it sounds like "One", the most stable note in ANY mode.
A better approch would be to use "Movable Do" with a "Do-based minor" approach.
Major : Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1)
Minor : Do Re Me Fa So Le Te Do (1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 1)
David, I think both are valuable. In IFR you end up thinking things like “when 2 is the home chord, things sound sad but also mysteriously hopeful.” I’d say it helps me see relative modes better as well. In “moveable Do” if you were transitioning from A minor to F Lydian (both relative modes of C major, so same notes) you’d have to think, “Right now A is Do and I have Do, Re, Me, Fa, So, Le, Te, Do. But I now want Fa to be my new Do, and now I have Do, Re, Mi, Fi, So, La Ti Do.” In IFR you’d just think, “I’m considering 6 home right now, let’s transition and make 4 feel like home.” Each note still has the same name 1-7 (because it’s still a mode of C major), they are just in a different context. What IFR focuses on is that the context feels different but the relationship between each note is still the same.
You get similar benefits from chord analysis too...a chord built on 6 is always minor etc.
@@ryanjackson5437 You described IFr very well. But it is precisely why I don't agree with it entirely. When we change to a relative mode, note names stay the same but the feel of each note is different. This is an absolute non sense to me. In the book, he starts by saying that music is relative to the tonal center and that even children do feel it without even thinking. It is like breathing for music. I agree. But keeping the same names for something that feels different is the opposite of what we are trying to achieve with naming the sounds...
I want to add that, in IFR, it we modulate to parallel modes the things get very messy... Say you are in Dorian "2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2" and then the piece becomes Lydian. Now you have "2 3 #4 #5 6 7 #1 2" (I don't even know if I did it correctly). So IFR doesn't solve the problem of modulation to parallel key. The only way to solve modulation or parallel mode switch is to take it for what it is : a new tonal center or a new mode based on the current tonal center. And so we have to adjust our solfege to the new situation and not keep the old tonal map to name the new unrelated situation.
David you’re spot on. I suppose if I was going to a parallel mode, I’d have to rename the notes in relation to the new relative Major (that’s a mouthful...and a bit of a brain twister). An analogy came to mind...IFR names each note like people in a setting. For instance my family will look and act differently at thanksgiving, at a wedding and at a funeral but my relation to each person is still the same. My mom is still my mom even though I might not cry on her shoulder at thanksgiving like I might at a funeral. IFR is similar...1-5 is the same relation no matter what mode you’re in, but it feels different and you might not use it the same in different contexts. But that’s part of the beauty of it. Realizing that Lydian is just Major starting on the 4 is like going on an adventure with your family the first time...you already know and love all the people, but they are acting more heroic and courageous. In some ways you realize you can treat them the same but some things don’t feel as significant as they did. But each system has its shortcomings. Honestly I’d imagine committing to one method is more important than analyzing music “with the best method.” That said, I’m no professional and definitely have loads to learn!
@@ryanjackson5437 I do understand the family and context analogy. But to a kid, which context is the most easily accessible : the tonal center or the relative major scale ? You won't ever hear a kid say "wow this song feels so Dorian" but you will hear him hum the tonic easily.
I want to add 5-1 cadence feels the same in ALL the modes, no matter the context. It is the Dominant to the tonic, the most recognizable cadence in all Western music. And won't ever hear a musician in the world say "we are going to end this phrygian song with a strong "7 to 3" cadence". Even just writing that makes me laught... It doesn't make any sense at all...
I think I made up my mind : Lydian is not a major scale starting on 4, it is its own scale with its own mood, it is a major scale with a raised 4th. And they are tons of scales which have not relation to the major scale (melodic minor, harmonic minor, diminished scale, whole half, whole tone etc...).
A scale convey a mood not because of its relation to its relative major scale but because each note has a specific interval to the tonic. A minor scale feels minor because of the lowered third (b3), not because the b3 is the tonic of the relative major. A phrygian mode feels dark and evil because of the minor second interval between the tonic and the b2, not because the tonic is the major third of the relative major scale...
La-based minor or IFR are used for one main reason : it makes sight singing easy for choir and singers because the Do ("1") is always the key written on the sheet, no matter the mode. The singer doesn't even have to figure what mode he is singing.
"Musicians are lazy, and we don't want to think of more things than we absolutely have to"
Me: *FRANTIC NODDING AND AGREEMENT*
So true there
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D-G-Y-CA YACAN'T JUST DO THAT BE-CUZZ YOU G-GOTTA KNOW HOW TA DO ALL THIS OTHER STUFF FIRST
I saw this comment exactly as that part of the video played and I am incredibly impressed at the accuracy of your phonetic typing
Old comment but yes you are right 😂
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How to play a song in any key:
1. Pitch correct in garage band.
2. Use the transpose setting on the keyboard.
3. Git gud.
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Basically, learn your scales kids. It ain't gonna get easier any other way.
Give them to me so I can learn then
Charles: Just think numbers
Jacob Collier: CmajJacobCollier thanks
THE NUMBERS MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEANNN
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Lmfaooo so glad someone said this!!!😂😂
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The numbers represent the intervals of each key 😊👌
Actually this is useful. Especially with bands. As a gospel musician myself, we say numbers to help us stay connected with each other
Kelly Coleman Jr. Please teach me how the number system works!
Learning the "nashville number" charting sped up my transcribing by ear big time. As a bassist, learning a song for the band, I'll listen to it once and chart it by the numbers, to learn the bones of the song....then will re-listen to see if I missed any cool signature riffs.
My music teacher: YOU MUST REMEMBER TO PLAY BETWEEN THE NOTES, FEEL THE CADENZA INSIDE YOU AND PLAY WITH ABSOLUTE PRECISION WITHOUT LOOKING AT YOUR SHEET MUSIC
Charles: .......and as we all know, musicians are lazy and we don't want to have to about more things than we absolutely have to.
I'm getting some mixed messages here.....
Jayden, yeah. We're both lazy as heck and don't want think harder than we have to, AND constantly thinking about "feeling the cadenza" and playing perfectly. It's why we all have anxiety and are at least a little crazy.
@@LiliKoblentz I'm glad I'm just a little crazy though.
*Twitches in psychopathy*
Without looking at your sheet music? My teacher does the opposite when we play with sheet music. Hmm..
@@user-mindmeld this is the funniest thing i’ve seen all week😭
I'm literally a freshman majoring in music right now!!! Thank you Professor Cornell!
idk why people get scary when its time to talk about diminsh chords, bruh they will not bite u
I loved diminished chords. It's like good ass barbeque sauce. You don't need it, but you should use it.
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the term is chordophone daddy.
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"Why do we learn scales? So that when we play in a different key our hands will be familiar to the shaping of the notes" man i never knew how to explain that question to my kids but you answered it perfectly.
Excellent video! Thinking in numbers enabled me to instantaneously play or improvise songs (adding chords to any melody) in any key and by ear once I began to look at basic chords in terms of the number of note intervals separating the root and melodic notes played on the down beats (where the root note is more often than not 1, 3, or 5 intervals below the melodic notes played on the down beats).
When I play by numbers in this particular way, I don’t have to think at all because I just look (play by SIGHT instead of by ear) at the note I’m about to play in my right hand to pick my root note for the next chord and play the chord by holding my hand in a fixed claw position to play or roll the notes at 5, 8, and 10 intervals above each root note.
We love Charles ❤️
Thanks for the great advice! As a beginning musician, I appreciate tricks and tips.
This came at the perfect time. This is what we're learning about in music class at school. Thank you so much this is helping heaps!!
Love the quick teaching content! A quick tutorial about jazz basslines would be awesome! Love you dude!
Love this! Thank you! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge ♡
Thank you! I'm really working towards getting better in improvising on the piano, so all of these are extremely helpful!
you are a great teacher. you really give the information time to marinate in the brain and you thoroughly explore the topic
This is so good for learning songs for a longer period because you don't need to remember the exact key and chords. If you remember the numbers you can play it everywhere on the keyboard. Consequently you also learn to associate different number sequences repeating in different songs to different kinds of sounds and moods. When improvising and playing for fun you then don't have to think how do I get that same kind of feeling like in that one song I don't remember the chords to, you just remember the numbers.
Thanks for the lesson. You make it look so easy! Love the outro music.
I have no clue what he's talking about. But those jazzy chords make my soul relax.
"which is diminished, kind of"
Mattias Cheung I was wondering about that. Does he mean it’s kind of diminished because that’s not full diminished?
@@jordanolson Yeah, it's a diminished tirad (three notes - 1,b3,b5) but not a full diminished chord (four notes - 1,b3,b5,bb7) and that chord, the " 7 chord " isn't fully diminished in it's "full form" of four notes. It becomes 1,b3,b5,b7 , called a half-diminished chord. Don't know if this helps, hope it does.
A diminished chord is minor chord whose fifth is flattened. Every major scale has a diminished triad on the 7th scale degree, in this case, it’s a B diminished chord (B, D, F). He probably just said “kind of” mistakenly but he could have also mean that its not a diminished 7 which is a diminished chord with a minor 7 added.
I’d love to hear you talk about famous jazz pianists (Guaraldi, Brubeck, Monk, Tatum, Costa, etc...) and play a tune or two explaining what their “signature sound,” is/was, and perhaps how they influenced you?
Great video! Love your explanation!
I loved my college music theory class so watching this just made me feel warm and fuzzy inside
I love this new educational (but still funny) direction that your channel is going in. Cool to get to know you as a musician and as a person, in addition to seeing your musical interpretation of memes. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for this!! 🎹
You are amazing! 😌
You may have just helped me learn how to visualize what I want to improvise! Thank you, my good sir!
I like your vids man, guys like you really motivate me to keep playing. thx.
Thanks for making this video, Charles. Finally someone else out there has put in to words the way my brain has always thought about playing the piano! 😭
I'm for sure showing this to my classically trained piano playing wife who has never understood how I just improvise stuff and play any song...
exactly! I also think about them in numbers, and I don't know music theory or how to read sheet music
Cmaj Jacob Collier is the best way I've heard anyone describe a chord
I would love if you did many videos on stuff like this it would be beneficial i usually go by ear with the piano but the way you explain it is simple💯
Man this is awesome thanks so much!
My God. UA-cam algorithm showed me a different one of your songs. Instantly subscribed and I see this? This is incredibly cool, great work!!!
I love how you do comedic stuff and musical stuff
I need more of these sort of pragmatic theory lessons. so valuable
I was not expecting this video to be sooo helpfull.
This was so helpful 😭😭 thank you!!! Can you do a video on sight reading 😅
This is how I was taught to transpose and accompany. I play harp, and mostly Irish Traditional music. It makes things so much easier. Especially when finding a good key for a singer
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THANK YOU SOOO MUCH.... trying to get back into theory is intimidating. This helps so much. Now I just need to take the time to really learn piano.
Excellent video. Once I made this connection it was definitely a light bulb moment. Transposing music while playing chords, even on the fly, is pretty easy once we get past the letters.
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3:49 "The *key* here is that.."
Nice pun there
Very practical indeed, but still [you] have to get a good memorization of the chords shape prior to be able to use this method effectively.
Very good. Thanks,
This is fantastic
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Everyone, listen to father, he speaks wisdom!
This is the kind of video I'd want to share with every beginner that comes to me.
I've been a professional musician for 30 years and I never had one lesson. And yeah, it sucks sometimes. I had to work all this stuff out on my own. It's still nice to hear it explained to me in a way that I can understand. It lets me know I must be doing something right. Thank you!
This is the same concept used in song writing in Nashville, Tennessee. Referred to as the Nashville number system. It’s really helps transcribing keys, and if you have a group of people in a room who you want to write a song with you lay down a copy of your number chart and hopefully every musician there should know what to do.
Me, with a music degree, knows how to do this: watches the whole thing 💖
Even though I already have a pretty expansive theory knowledge base, I could listen to you talk music theory all day. I love how you break it down in a way that's accessible. Honestly, have you considered going into music education? I think you'd be great at it! 😁
THANK YOU!
Great video would love too see an upper camera so you can film what you play(also melodies and how too accompany them with chords would be a lovely video)
7:47 Yeaaah, Sunday morning rain is falling!
Love your vids
This is a very good explanation, although I feel that you can’t really stress “practice your scales” enough. It’s very important, it’s very true that you can’t just get good at piano so quickly by knowing some tip, practice to gain natural knowledge to add to your playing. Very helpful explanation!
Perfectly explained!
In terms of transcription, it's nice to refer to notes in a scale as 1-2-3-etc but when you refer to their corresponding chord or 'degree', it's better to write Roman numerals, so I/II/III/IV etc. It prevents ambiguity
that one kid that says -
excuse me sir , in Gb major the 4 chord is technically Cb 🤓
that melody at around 8:00 was so good
I like these little master class videos
I was doing this before I found out about theory, but using the number in semitones sometimes. On bass or guitar, I find that root motion can be important to how a chord progression works, so choosing to voice the bVI in minor below the root would be -4 semitones or -3 scale degrees but choosing to voice it above would be +8 semitones or +6 scale degrees. Then my progressions could be written in sequences of integers, for example
0 - -2 - -4 - -5
in minor is the i-bVII-bVI-V progression.
Kind of useful and scale invariant, and I refined the approach when I learnt the requisite theory
Love your videos !!
this was absolutely perfect, I'm looking forward for other piano tutorials (especially jazz tutorials if possible :D, "How To Play Any Songs In A Jazz Style" for example)
Just come across you you’re great man,
I’ve got something maybe u can put the what inversion you’re playing when u the chord up
Really great videos 👍
That helped me and I’m a guitar player.
That CmajJacobCollier was perfect.
I know nothing about music theory, but I still enjoy your content!
wow mindblown here!
Been playing piano all my life, and picked up accordion some years ago.
And i've been wondering why the flats feel funny to me on the accordion, and on the piano its never been a problem.
but all the songs in folkmusic is in keys of C,G,D,A,E and not in the flats so when i played other styles that went to the flats it feelt weird!
This makes so much sense!!!
Thank man gotta go work my scales! XD
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So useful thank you.
Thanks bro
Tix Bro Needed This Concept😅
Why does your keyboard sound so satisfying? How'd you record it?
When you decide to play a specific song in a particular key and for the very first time, I’m curious to know what mental steps or short cuts you perform to figure out the song’s first and opening note so that you play the song in the chosen key? For example, what method do you use to figure out that to play Mary Had a Little Lamb in the key of C, you start the melody on note E?
Charles: *numbers*
Me: what do they mean?
Well said. Numbers is the way man :)
Thank you
This is definitely something I've had explained to me before. But I like hearing how other people think through it, and it's still helpful to hear!
theres no way I can apply this myself yet, but it was super interesting 👏🙂
When he said Jacob Collier my heart was like yes a true musician knows another
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Sigh. This is just the kinda stuff I'm looking for at the moment and you explain it so well. You're explaining it at just the right level
I didn't realize I knew how to do this as a kid cause I would just play things by ear and figure out the next note. I'm not a musician. I mean I whistle well, but you know what they say about people who whistle.
They're good blowers.
I digress.... Thanks for this explanation though. I didn't even know I was doing this when playing (now whistling).
I know nothing about piano or music and didnt understand anything what he explained
I still watch and love his videos tho😂❤
I have NEVER understood how to transpose anything. Ever. I'm such a numbers kind of person and my brain is currently exploding. Thank you so much!
I seem to be the only person I know who's learning piano and really looking forward to learning scales. It seems to be the way to learn masses of chords, right?
You definately have to make a few more episodes of numbers. I use numbers often but tricky things are.... How do you label inversions? How do you label secondary dominants? How do you label Slash chords? And more important....how do you memorize a numbers chord progression??? Because numbers are pretty abstract.
You’ve got a video on how to learn the shapes for each key?
Quick question,.... how? What a genius...!
This got me so jazzed to play piano again
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Super informative video! Thanks so much for this. Real quick tho: at 4:12, you talk about playing in Eb major and say 3, you then play “G minor” which is correct but the video said “F minor” by accident. I just thought I’d bring light to this. Again, thanks for your videos. :)