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Music Theories
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 24 มี.ค. 2020
Welcome! This is a channel for those who love all things music, including pop, history, and analysis! You do NOT have to be a musician or even understand music theory to enjoy Music Theories’ content.
Where do I begin?! I’ll give you the highlights.
•I am a vocalist, multi-instrumental performer, as well as a songwriter
•I have taught music both privately and in a classroom setting
•I have a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music
•I began my channel in April of 2020, as a fun project to work on during those months of quarantine, turns out it was way more fun than I thought it’d be
•Since then, MT has continued to grow and has inspired me to work towards a graduate degree in Musicology
But aside from all of that, I’m looking to connect with people who also love music and love learning!
Follow on Instagram and TikTok @musictheories_
Where do I begin?! I’ll give you the highlights.
•I am a vocalist, multi-instrumental performer, as well as a songwriter
•I have taught music both privately and in a classroom setting
•I have a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music
•I began my channel in April of 2020, as a fun project to work on during those months of quarantine, turns out it was way more fun than I thought it’d be
•Since then, MT has continued to grow and has inspired me to work towards a graduate degree in Musicology
But aside from all of that, I’m looking to connect with people who also love music and love learning!
Follow on Instagram and TikTok @musictheories_
Music Concepts You SHOULD Know - No Music Theory Required!
Hi Music Geeks! Here is a very brief introduction to the 8 basic elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony, dynamics, song form, timbre, texture, and tonality. You do NOT need to know music theory to gain a basic understanding of these elements.
There will be a series to follow this video where I explain each of these concepts in more detail. But for now, this video will give you a fundamental understanding of why each of these things is important! Thank you for your support!!
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:57 Rhythm
02:17 Melody
03:25 Harmony
04:14 Dynamics
05:30 Song Form
07:31 Timbre
08:22 Texture
10:31 Tonality
Read the scripts here:
musictheories.blog
Music Fundamentals Playlist
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Jurassic Park Theme
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Never Enough - The Greatest Showman
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I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
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Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra
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Galway Girl - Ed Sheeran
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz
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Mr. Brightside - The Killers
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Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard
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Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel
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Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
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Appalachian Folk
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Lonesome Valley - O Brother, Where Art Thou
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Eastern Tradition Music
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There will be a series to follow this video where I explain each of these concepts in more detail. But for now, this video will give you a fundamental understanding of why each of these things is important! Thank you for your support!!
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:57 Rhythm
02:17 Melody
03:25 Harmony
04:14 Dynamics
05:30 Song Form
07:31 Timbre
08:22 Texture
10:31 Tonality
Read the scripts here:
musictheories.blog
Music Fundamentals Playlist
th-cam.com/play/PLCP4tarJe44vVD5zMafMkkiTvG4EOTIzU.html&si=XTrTMsSICcahT40c
Follow my socials (:
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Links
Jurassic Park Theme
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Never Enough - The Greatest Showman
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I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
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Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra
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Galway Girl - Ed Sheeran
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz
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Mr. Brightside - The Killers
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Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard
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Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel
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Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
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Appalachian Folk
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Lonesome Valley - O Brother, Where Art Thou
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Eastern Tradition Music
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Re-watch the series again, and things are making more sense the second time around, slowly but surely
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Tax-funded music is the most retarded thing I've ever heard. I'm not paying more money to the government so that Timmy Twofucks can listen to some Gen Alpha garbage, especially when I've already invested in physical music.
I'm not paying for any music in this economy.
What an excellent presentation. Well researched and delivered. Will be sharing with my students. Well done and thank you.
this is amazing.
This video is great and really helped me in writing my Internal Assessment for maths. Thanks !!!!!
This is where I left science and where I go back to it. Music is so beautiful and elegant. Thanks for the precise explanation.
Glad you enjoy it!
the major triad at 7:56 is the one from 12 EDO which has frequency ratios 2^(4/12) for the major third and 2^(7/12) for the perfect fifth. it IS NOT stable!! you can literally HEAR the wobbliness caused by the major third being tuned sharp if you compare to the perfect ratio based tuning.
Thank you! I am a absolute biegnnier and this vedio was really helpful
You're so welcome!
Damn here before 10k geat videos come on alogirthm
So close 🙌🏻 thanks for watching!
I appreciate you, Im busy learning on my own, and believe you me, its tough😵
You got this!
@@MusicTheoriesChannel some days are easier than others
Check out the song ‘music is math’ from the album ‘Geogaddi’ by the electronic music producers ‘Boards Of Canada’ I reckon they create their music using an electronic calculator from the 70’s.😂
Lol! I checked it out - very cool! Sounds like a lot of digital instruments for sure
Very interesting. Great video. Genre very well maybe unequipped for the modern industry.
I don't understand anything?? What?
What specifically is confusing?
Really seen you
Basically, when it became easier to download your songs from the internet for free than it was to go to the store to buy a CD, was when the music industry as we knew it died.
That definitely was a huge turning point!
you a hero!
This video is very good, comprehensive, well researched, and useful (to me). THANKS!
Glad it was helpful!
Music is life for me
Same!
Thanks so much
in brazil, we call the perfect 5th and perfect 4th as "quinta justa" and "quarta justa" or just 5th and just 4th, i believe thats because the 5th and the 4ths in the 12 equal temperament maintains the same ratio as in the just intonation, and for some reason they call if perfect in english
6:22 Root m3 m7, it reminds me the beginning of Close to you by The Carpenter ("Why do birds ...")
Yes! You got it!
Thanks for sharing all your hard work 🎸🎶🎵
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thank you. This is the perfect way to teach i think, start from the absolute basics and show examples to the learner, nothing abstract.
That's the idea! Thanks for watching!
Your my music teacher
Please, remove this video! I respect all the work you had to make an analysis but your analysis is completelly flawed and wrong! For many reasons: 1 - Your point of view is ethnocentric, and gets close to be called racist or offensive. When you talk “periods” in music, you are talking about “Western” music. What about Asian music? What about African music? Then, when you concentrate on XX century music, it U.S. music (mainly), or, to be precise, music genres originated in U.S. What about ALL THE REST OF THE WORLD?!? In case you don’t know, the rest of the World does have genres, yes, and you don’t have a clue how they are important. The differenciation of music genres in the rest of the World is important for several reasons: a) Generally, each genre has its way of dancing. It is not like when you go to the U.S. and kids in clubs or festivals dance anything the same way (little jumps or shaking the head). Genres like salsa, samba, soukous, bhangra, etc., ARE NOT DANCED THE SAME WAY. You have to know which genre it is prior to know how to dance it. If you claim that, if you wish, you may dance them as you want you are only contributing to the prejudice that “white folks can’t dance”. b) Many genres are associated with a mood or a thematics in the lyrics. A bolero is always a romantic tune, expressing a deep degree of lyricism that you won’t find in dancehall, for instance. So, outside the U.S., when composers decide to write about a particular theme, the choose which genre to use. c) Some genres are a question of national identity and pride. Some genres are strongly connected to ethnic identification, such a way that if you confuse a genre from one country with another from another country, or if you claim that the song “X” may be played in any genre, you will get a reaction that ranges from you to be called ignorant, to the least, to you be persecuted to the worst. Do a research about what tango is for Argentinians, fado for Portuguese, morna for Cape-Verdeans. 2 - You are mistaking (or confusing) several concepts. That doesn’t allow you to make a clear analysis. For instance, there is a difference between electronic music and synthetic music. Do your research. Also, “popular music” and “pop” are not the same thing (even if the label “pop” comes from the world “popular”). a) Popular music is a broad CATEGORY of music genres which are addressed to the general public. You can see it as “commercial music”. It opposes to classical music (erudite or art music), it opposes to folk music (traditional music). b) Pop is music GENRE, carachterized by 4/4 time signature, accentuation on the first beat and highlighting the backbeat. c) Popular music in U.S. encompasses pop, rock, metal, disco, funk, EDM, etc. Reggaetón is popular music in Latin-America, but reggaetón is NOT pop. Kizomba is popular in Angola and in other countries but it is NOT pop. 3 - Finally, how can you talk about music genres without mentioning what defines the music genres (rhythm, time signature, structure, harmonic progression, instrumentation, etc.)? Are you even a musician? Do you even play some instrument? Maybe it doesn’t matter for the music that YOU hear. But, please, take a broader viewpoint, and you will see that all that stuff is utterly important in other music genres. In Cuban music if you go “out of clave” or if you mistake a son clave for a rumba clave it is considered a “sin” (and you will probably be expelled from the band…) for these concepts are important to DEFINE the genre. Another example of how these concepts are important: waltz has a 3/4 time signature, house has a 4/4 time signature. If you don’t understand how the f*** that is important to define those genres, you are not the best person for talking about these subjects. Again, please remove the video.
Thanks
This is too complicated and advanced for me, overwhelming! I need something more basic. 😮?
Are you familiar with your basic major and minor scales? For example, do you know the notes of an A major scale without looking?
@@MusicTheoriesChannel yes I do! I've studied theory up to G5 bit of G6. I watched some other videos on modes more basic, I think I'm getting it!? 🤔 ?
I get goosebumps from lots of music mostly classical piano, I also am able to voluntarily induce goosebumps whenever I want which I have been able to do for as long as I remember, it was thought to be impossible but many claim to be able to do it there is little research done but its thought to be rare.
We never know but he is my fav composer
True! He was incredible!
awesome videos. luv it
Thanks so much!
At 0:30 where music theory cheat poster is shown, the interval initials is shown wrong for melodic minor. It should be - W H W W W W H
I didn't make the poster, just a graphic I added in but I will definitely have the correct intervals when I cover melodic minor!
Thanks
My pleasure!
Brilliant presentation! Loved the charts, diagrams, and demos. Especially the graphic equalizer demo.
Glad you liked it!
Favourite Motown song has to be "Whats going on" but really all of the songs were well written and performed by top class musicians.
Motown musicians were so talented!
The fact that there was someone thousands of years before modern computers, astronomy, physics and chemistry that was already contemplating the notion that everything is mathematics, is crazy.
Right???
I remember being in band class in grade 7 or 8 and my teacher said tone is everything. However, tone always seemed like a vague, mysterious concept. Just like energy from physics.
Now you know!
Why don’t more people collect cassettes? Because: - It’s a completely outdated technology (1963) - It’s an analog system in a digital world - there are better and more user friendly options now - most brands don’t make cassettedecks anymore - they don’t produce high quality blank tapes anymore - cassettes aren’t promoted anymore - Dolby has ceased their licensing for new cassette decks since 2016 - it’s not proffitable anymore to sell cassette decks - every smartphone is also a music player already - great recordings needs some technical knowledge and time to make - it’s not the eighties - … The real question is: Why would people collect cassettes? - nostalgia
Nostalgia is definitely a huge part of it
Wow this was Good! Well produced too! Am off now in search of an explanation of why humans find particular pitches satisfying. Is that where sharps and flats come in? What is their wave form? Do we just like repetitive stuff?
Thank you! Humans' relationship to music is sort of a mystery in many ways, but I think what it comes down to is conditioning. This is clear when people who are used to Western music listen to music from the East - they often feel out of place or reject it entirely because its not familiar to them. But I do have other videos that might help answer the question further - check out "The Overtone Series" and "Consonance + Dissonance" !
I have to conduct an entire choir this year and I have no idea what I’m doing. This helped me a ton, thanks!
Ohh boy! Best of luck!
A very famous TH-camr once said about vinyl “It’s not about the sound quality. It’s about the vibe quality.”
Makes sense to me!
5:57 Sounds like an airplane beep
It really does 😂
I was actually looking for some information about the motown's recording sound but I loved your video! thank you very much 🙏 ...I've found their production process very interesting and fitting for today's Spotify thing. thanks again!
Happy to hear that! Thanks for watching!
10:39 Sounds like modern rap 😂😂😂
Ahead of his time 😂
15:26 With a C major scale, why we choose 6th and name it A minor scale? why the 6th? does it have special connection? Why we can't pick the 4th instead of the 6th from a C major scale and get F minor from that? Or maybe there are 7 degrees starting point and the 6th is just happened to be called "minor" scale?
This is a great question! I have a video that answers this in depth: "MODES - What are they good for?" th-cam.com/video/h_7DtDVCuUc/w-d-xo.html But to answer your question quickly, its because they share the same notes. If we write out the notes of the A minor scale (A B C D E F G), we get the same notes as a C major scale starting on the 6th. This applies to every single major scale as well. For example: The G major scale is G A B C D E F#. - it's 6th degree is E, and E minor shares those same notes in its scale (E F# G A B C D) The long answer has to do with how we perceive the order of those notes. Even though they are the same notes, because they are in a different order we have a different concept of the tonal center. This is the case for each degree of the scale, even the 4th. But when we start the C major scale from the 4th (F), it doesn't sound minor. It actually sort of sounds brighter than major - this is the Lydian scale. This is what we call Modal!
Black Sabbath and The Simpsons! First things that come to mind when I think of a tritone!!
Yes!
Equalize your outro music before adding the voiceover, not after, otherwise the TONE of your voice changes at the end in comparison to the rest of the video.