Hey Michael! When building a scale, it's a common practice to follow the letter names as they appear in the musical alphabet. No repeating or skipping letter names. You can build the scale on D#, you'll just need plenty of double sharps: D# E# F## G# A# B# C##. This makes things confusing, so it's better to start on E flat. I hope this helps!
I'm a beginner and having a hard time using my guitar as my fingers are weak to strings and guitar's structure. I'd like to know your keyboard's model since it seems to have lesser keys and I don't a have enough space in my room.
a key is the organisation of 7 notes that sound good together but for C major you showed 8 notes with the next C included. Is it 7 without including the next scale?
This video is very comprehensive, the visuals are very helpful too. How would the pattern work in different instruments. Is it possible to translate this method to guitar, uke, etc? I'd like to see a part two. Thanks a lot
Hi Alien. Thanks for watching. The pattern works with all instruments, it's just taking the time to learn where the notes are on each instrument. The piano is the easiest to explain this because the notes are easy to see. We'll definitely consider translating this to guitar and uke!
Excellent lesson, very professional video, and fun. Really accessible, and able too take complex things and describe it in simple language, isn't easy.
This was immensely useful. I always tried to learn things about scales but it never quite sat right. This is the first thing that I’ve ever watched where why flat/sharp can be the same key but a seemingly different note by name. Explained very well here, thank you!
Here's where I always get confused. If you're gonna end up playing notes out of order to make melodies, then what's the point of learning that order in the first place? Like, what am I supposed to do with that order?
I'm teaching myself guitar in quarantine and in my gap year before uni. Thank you so much! This clears a lot of things and I'll definitely check out other of your videos to enhance my musical knowledge. Although I was still confused with the white keys being semitones.
Excellent! I am amazed at the spontaneity of your explanation. It's really so clear that any common man can also understand the music content. Thank you LANDR.❤️
Should make videos explaining why the names of some notes changes in some scales like they are called used flat instead of sharp. Is there a fixed chords to a melody or it depends on us and open to variations (and to what degree)- that's my biggest question nobody has answered.
OH MY GOODNESS!!!! Thank you SO MUCH i have been breaking my brain on multiple videos nlt understanding some of the explaination and your video is so helpful !!! It cleared so many mistunderstanding and questions
Thanks Peggy. Im learning the clarinet and this scale concept, I just found baffling until you explained it. Now I can crack on with my F and G major scales Cheers!!
Thank you! This was extremely helpful. I had a very negative experience in school being taught this and it left me quietly anxious about my knowledge - a mental block had fallen over me and yet I was still singing and playing instruments and pretty good at sight reading and playing by ear. So I felt like an imposter because I was skilled but so ignorant. This simple, cheerful video gave me my lightbulb moment. Thank you.
Respectfully, we understand the SEQUENTUAL ORDER of KEYs structures. So when PLAYING a song in the KEY-OFF, does that mean playing ALL CHORDs, SEQUENTIALLY of that 'KEY' repetitively recycled throughout the entire playing of a 'KEY' SONG, being played or ONLY Playing a few chords of that 'KEY' structure, being used in throughout the ENTIRE playing of a specifically 'KEY' SONG?
Pretty good lesson Peggy ... Now how to make POP songs with songs???? NOT boring songs please! Try " I Will Always Love You " by Whitney Houston. Those kind of songs are good! Keep it step by step SLOW pace to follow along! 🌠💐🌠💐🌠
I’m a little confused on something she said, it’s kind of conflicting with what I’ve been taught. At 1:21 She said that a sharp raises a note by one step, and that flats lower them by one step. But wouldn’t it be a half of one step? A half step? If I’m missing something, someone let me know.
I saw so many vedios on musical scale but I didn't understand any of them and I was searching for something that clear my doubt,I literally get all the thing in this vedio by watching just once, scale concept is literally most confusing thing.
A note in a higher octave will be double the frequency of the same note in a lower octave. ie C4 = 262HZ and C5 = 262 x 2 HZ (hertz is cycles per second)
Peggy oh Peggy( do) lend me your ears and I promise the beauty in brevity to say: iI am A pro actor writer and - thank you in advance for your consideration- soon to be musician. if you have any desire to act and are willing to barter arf and arf I have the credentials to impress every self proclaimed new guru who was also taught by warren robertson only I can act and teach and there is no definitive correlation between the ability theory and communication. The other day (I was suffering through an industry educator tell her paying audience what Aristotle meant by the comic in his treatise The poetics. It is comforting to see she has not succumb to the woke pressure to exclude all dead white men from the discussion ;however I am not convinced I would want her on my team any more than I feel comfortable talking about drama as if it where a spectators sport .She was describing a three act restoration comedy as we have no information on the poetics that deals with the comic and only retrieved from the sac of Constantinople( in one of its renditions) his take on the tragic; hence, Nietzsche's 'THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY. There is one disclosure that i have to cop out and then you can trust my qualifications : that includes working for and acting with some of the biggest names in the bizz and even the odd authentic poet. I am interested in you in every aspect of your being and that includes first and foremost your romantic life . If you are taken there was no hope for me to have a professional relationship with you in the first place. In any event: the balls in your court. but your smoking hot to serve: when you have matched your racket to my ball I have no doubt it will be found pounded into the hazzard. What say you?
total noob question. how come there's not a black key in between each white key? Who standardized the instrument to being that way, and doesn't it seem like a kinda restrictive choice? I never understood that as a kid and I couldn't get over it and instead I started playing drums
I'm not following. Why if you start the minor natural from a "sharp" as opposed to a "flat" do you need to call and reference other notes so bizarrely, such as calling F, E#, and G, F##?
One thing that's never mentioned is, do the letters mean anything? Why call them A A# B C C# why not A B C D E F G H I ect or why give them letters at all and not call them something unique, I'm always looking to try and find this answer and find some relationship or work out why letters and why give them sharps and flats and not call them something unique
This got me farther by far than countless sites and other videos trying to understand why scales were what they were. One question though: why in the 'don't use this version' explaining why we start with flats in scales, not sharps, does the sample wrong version keep the sharps on the whole steps, but the correct version not keep the flats? (EX it went D#, E# but in flats it went E flat, F)
I can't understand why scales starting on black key cannot be said sharp moreover in this part of video 1:24 we could say it as d#,f &g instead of d# e#&f##??
I just starting to learn piano and guitar! Every time I heard someone say “play this in c major” or something to that extent, I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about and made me feel like a noob! Very informative video!
Great video, thanksa million. However at 1:20 you say "sharps raise a note by one step and flats lower a note by ne step".... pretty sure that should be a "half-step" instead of "one-step" (as per explanation at 2:20) ?
It would be cool if they had a keyboard where, once you press a note, and then a particular button up top, it highlights all the keys in the scale. some little LED light on them or something.
You called a half step , a step , more than once , earlier . I guess you just meant STEP to mean , to go to the NEXT note., because later on , you said it correctly. You should be consistent so people do NOT get confused .
So basically I done messed up getting a Kalimba where the tines start at B and I got hella hashtags 😂 Should have got one tuned to C without the letters etched so I could sticker them
very confused -she says whole step is going to note over, not black key. half step is black keys. but then she goes half step and hits the white key. what?! at 3:50
What topic should Peggy cover next?
I wanna learn some guitar if possible
LANDR minor:)
Adding that to the list...
#sadmusic
@EVOLVING SUNS AUDIO in UK that is, but in US it is called whole steps/half steps
This is exactly how music theory should be taught . Great job
Exactly 😺
no boring
Brilliant explanation. I get it!
@@messianic_scam well, that is becoz she is a pretty woman and knows how to talk. :)
Agreed
Thank YOU! You have explained this the easiest way possible.
Finally it all makes sense. Thank you!
These are the comments we live for! Glad to hear it.
You made it easy to learn and it helped me a lot 💜
I'm so glad!
I have been confused about this for a while now. You made it so simple for me
I'm so glad!
THANK YOU!!
You're welcome!
Amazing thank you 😘
You're welcome 😊
It was very helpful. thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Great video
Thanks.
damn she did a great job explaining this while keeping it entertaining. props 🔥🔥
Cheers Basement Beats!
Great info. Thought she was gonna do minor as well.
Maybe for the next one!
Minor scales, in case you haven't seen it! :) th-cam.com/video/lzLkebsh0TY/w-d-xo.html
4:51 I understand you're demonstrating why starting on the flat is better, but I didn't understand why you went D# -> E# -> F##?
Hey Michael! When building a scale, it's a common practice to follow the letter names as they appear in the musical alphabet. No repeating or skipping letter names. You can build the scale on D#, you'll just need plenty of double sharps: D# E# F## G# A# B# C##. This makes things confusing, so it's better to start on E flat. I hope this helps!
I'm a beginner and having a hard time using my guitar as my fingers are weak to strings and guitar's structure. I'd like to know your keyboard's model since it seems to have lesser keys and I don't a have enough space in my room.
a key is the organisation of 7 notes that sound good together but for C major you showed 8 notes with the next C included. Is it 7 without including the next scale?
Correct, it's 7 notes.
Playing in one key means to use only those keys?
“Every sound you hear comes from an object that is vibrating!”
“My psychiatrist says otherwise.”
oh no
Spiritually..also true.
Lol
This video is very comprehensive, the visuals are very helpful too. How would the pattern work in different instruments. Is it possible to translate this method to guitar, uke, etc? I'd like to see a part two. Thanks a lot
Hi Alien. Thanks for watching. The pattern works with all instruments, it's just taking the time to learn where the notes are on each instrument. The piano is the easiest to explain this because the notes are easy to see. We'll definitely consider translating this to guitar and uke!
Hi
Yes, please! I'm learning to play a ukulele, my first instrument.
Can you do minor as well? Your lessons are very informative
Awesome idea!
You asked, we delivered! th-cam.com/video/lzLkebsh0TY/w-d-xo.html
@@LANDRmusic and we love it!
She looks so peggiest of all peggy
Excellent lesson, very professional video, and fun. Really accessible, and able too take complex things and describe it in simple language, isn't easy.
That's awesome. Thanks for the feedback!
Your very welcome, I'll enjoy checking out other vids and I'll try and get the fundamentals back in my hamster 🐹 brain.
Wow you’re an angel! You taught me more than I learned about music theory scavenging the internet for the last couple of months 💖
Glad to hear it Nahid!!
Absolutely brilliant. I wanted so hard to learn the basic yet "hearing all the time" theory of music. Thanks a lot for this. I'm very happy
Glad it was helpful!
Yo she looked baked lol all good I'm baked too 😂
2020 vision.
Still baked in 2021...
This was immensely useful. I always tried to learn things about scales but it never quite sat right. This is the first thing that I’ve ever watched where why flat/sharp can be the same key but a seemingly different note by name. Explained very well here, thank you!
Here's where I always get confused.
If you're gonna end up playing notes out of order to make melodies, then what's the point of learning that order in the first place?
Like, what am I supposed to do with that order?
I was taught that scales were “Tone Tone Semi-Tone Tone Tone Tone Semi-Tone”
Ah, so it's all in a set of notes that sound good together, and that never skip a letter.
You explained scales better than 1 year of music school 👏🏻
I LOVE YOU everything clicked in my brain thank you so much you are brilliant
I'm teaching myself guitar in quarantine and in my gap year before uni. Thank you so much! This clears a lot of things and I'll definitely check out other of your videos to enhance my musical knowledge. Although I was still confused with the white keys being semitones.
I think this gonna be my favourite youtuberbut i can't express i have just a word that I understood
thanks , very good tuto ,
an advanced chord tuto like neosoul , harmony tuto will be great explain by Peggy im sure :)
That's a great idea.
Excellent!
I am amazed at the spontaneity of your explanation. It's really so clear that any common man can also understand the music content. Thank you LANDR.❤️
The WWHWWWH really helped me find the correct key to do adlibs in. Thanks for that tip!
I need more and more videos on composing songs o different emotions
OMG! where have you been all my life! Blessings!
Should make videos explaining why the names of some notes changes in some scales like they are called used flat instead of sharp. Is there a fixed chords to a melody or it depends on us and open to variations (and to what degree)- that's my biggest question nobody has answered.
Video in the works for flats VS sharps ;)
You are the first musical person who has suggested that the Alphabet starts with the letter A. Thank You!
Fucc that im back on FL studio 🏌🏽♂️
The half step and the whole step pattern thing made it easier and I'm happy that I found this video from my recommendation, I can't believe it!
How do I know in which Octave a key is played?
Peggy is the reason I watch this lol, nice explanation LANDR! 💯
OH MY GOODNESS!!!! Thank you SO MUCH i have been breaking my brain on multiple videos nlt understanding some of the explaination and your video is so helpful !!! It cleared so many mistunderstanding and questions
Thanks Peggy. Im learning the clarinet and this scale concept, I just found baffling until you explained it. Now I can crack on with my F and G major scales
Cheers!!
That's so awesome this helped you with your clarinet playing. Clarinet is a beautiful instrument.
@@LANDRmusic thanks! yeah it is a nice instrument. Im learning it for the blues and jazz side of things.
It's a great instrument for jazz for sure! My favourite jazz clarinetist is Eddie Daniels. th-cam.com/video/O2ayaC4TaKs/w-d-xo.html
I know I've watched too much Hamilton when I heard her introduce herself and my brain immediately went to "THE SCHUYLER SISTERS!"
Thank you! This was extremely helpful. I had a very negative experience in school being taught this and it left me quietly anxious about my knowledge - a mental block had fallen over me and yet I was still singing and playing instruments and pretty good at sight reading and playing by ear. So I felt like an imposter because I was skilled but so ignorant.
This simple, cheerful video gave me my lightbulb moment. Thank you.
Respectfully, we understand the SEQUENTUAL ORDER of KEYs structures. So when PLAYING a song in the KEY-OFF, does that mean playing ALL CHORDs, SEQUENTIALLY of that 'KEY' repetitively recycled throughout the entire playing of a 'KEY' SONG, being played or ONLY Playing a few chords of that 'KEY' structure, being used in throughout the ENTIRE playing of a specifically 'KEY' SONG?
Pretty good lesson Peggy ... Now how to make POP songs with songs???? NOT boring songs please! Try " I Will Always Love You " by Whitney Houston. Those kind of songs are good! Keep it step by step SLOW pace to follow along! 🌠💐🌠💐🌠
I’m a little confused on something she said, it’s kind of conflicting with what I’ve been taught. At 1:21 She said that a sharp raises a note by one step, and that flats lower them by one step. But wouldn’t it be a half of one step? A half step?
If I’m missing something, someone let me know.
Do you have MINOR scales explained, or it follows the same formula as W W H W W W H?
I saw so many vedios on musical scale but I didn't understand any of them and I was searching for something that clear my doubt,I literally get all the thing in this vedio by watching just once, scale concept is literally most confusing thing.
A note in a higher octave will be double the frequency of the same note in a lower octave. ie C4 = 262HZ and C5 = 262 x 2 HZ (hertz is cycles per second)
You explained that perfectly, i understood everything with ease and i thank you for that🤘
You're very welcome!
free gold. 🎭
i don't get @4:53. Isn't the correct WWHWWWH pattern for that is D#,F,G,G#,A#,C,D,D#
Watched x 2 ..So it was only 3 mins for me ✨🌼🌿🌸🕯🎶🧘♀️🎶🕯🌸🌿🌼✨🤔😂🤣✨
Peggy oh Peggy( do) lend me your ears and I promise the beauty in brevity to say: iI am A pro actor writer and - thank you in advance for your consideration- soon to be musician. if you have any desire to act and are willing to barter arf and arf I have the credentials to impress every self proclaimed new guru who was also taught by warren robertson only I can act and teach and there is no definitive correlation between the ability theory and communication. The other day (I was suffering through an industry educator tell her paying audience what Aristotle meant by the comic in his treatise The poetics. It is comforting to see she has not succumb to the woke pressure to exclude all dead white men from the discussion ;however I am not convinced I would want her on my team any more than I feel comfortable talking about drama as if it where a spectators sport .She was describing a three act restoration comedy as we have no information on the poetics that deals with the comic and only retrieved from the sac of Constantinople( in one of its renditions) his take on the tragic; hence, Nietzsche's 'THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY. There is one disclosure that i have to cop out and then you can trust my qualifications : that includes working for and acting with some of the biggest names in the bizz and even the odd authentic poet. I am interested in you in every aspect of your being and that includes first and foremost your romantic life . If you are taken there was no hope for me to have a professional relationship with you in the first place. In any event: the balls in your court. but your smoking hot to serve: when you have matched your racket to my ball I have no doubt it will be found pounded into the hazzard. What say you?
total noob question. how come there's not a black key in between each white key? Who standardized the instrument to being that way, and doesn't it seem like a kinda restrictive choice?
I never understood that as a kid and I couldn't get over it and instead I started playing drums
I'm not following. Why if you start the minor natural from a "sharp" as opposed to a "flat" do you need to call and reference other notes so bizarrely, such as calling F, E#, and G, F##?
Wow, Scales are like a color palette, explains it so well. Especially if I am a graphic designer trying to learn music. Thank you!
One thing that's never mentioned is, do the letters mean anything? Why call them A A# B C C# why not A B C D E F G H I ect or why give them letters at all and not call them something unique, I'm always looking to try and find this answer and find some relationship or work out why letters and why give them sharps and flats and not call them something unique
This got me farther by far than countless sites and other videos trying to understand why scales were what they were. One question though: why in the 'don't use this version' explaining why we start with flats in scales, not sharps, does the sample wrong version keep the sharps on the whole steps, but the correct version not keep the flats? (EX it went D#, E# but in flats it went E flat, F)
Wow, this was very well edited and very well explained. Very helpful, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
So double W, H. Triple W, H. Got it! I'm using a keyboard(piano) to assist me with my bass guitar learning journey.
This was Great
Need more Lyrics on the screen
I can't understand why scales starting on black key cannot be said sharp moreover in this part of video 1:24 we could say it as d#,f &g instead of d# e#&f##??
i was surprise there's a E# and F## which is equal to G.... OMG it' s confusing....
Does this mean if I pick a scale to compose in, I should never use notes outside that scale? Thats the answer I'm trying to find right now!
I just starting to learn piano and guitar! Every time I heard someone say “play this in c major” or something to that extent, I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about and made me feel like a noob! Very informative video!
Thanks. Useful video. She highlights things others won't, others won't even mention.
Thank you ma'am
the student will become more eager to learn if the teacher/instructor very georgeous like you mam.... hahahah
Great video, thanksa million. However at 1:20 you say "sharps raise a note by one step and flats lower a note by ne step".... pretty sure that should be a "half-step" instead of "one-step" (as per explanation at 2:20) ?
It would be cool if they had a keyboard where, once you press a note, and then a particular button up top, it highlights all the keys in the scale. some little LED light on them or something.
You called a half step , a step , more than once , earlier . I guess you just meant STEP to mean , to go to the NEXT note., because later on , you said it correctly. You should be consistent so people do NOT get confused .
So the WWHWWWH formula is always the same? That's really nice to know! 😆
Strange, so you say that there is just 7 notes, but each piano key produces distinctively different sound. Too arbitrary for me.
I’m going to be starting to learn the Keyboard for my studio time scales what can I improve do you understand what I’m doing
You didn’t explain why a scale is a scale? In other words, why wwhwwwh? Is it because the tonal vibrations?
Channel is dope. I was looking for scales and noone ever tells tranpose button on keyboard helps at that point. Why?
So basically I done messed up getting a Kalimba where the tines start at B and I got hella hashtags 😂 Should have got one tuned to C without the letters etched so I could sticker them
I am completely new to notes, scales, and basically all music outside of drums, and you explained this very well!
Glad to hear it Kace!
I was lost at first, but then it started to make sense.
Until you totally confused me all over again.
I’m not sure that this helped me...
Sharps and flats raise and lower the notes by one "half step" is how I teach it. Not "one step". But it may just be my preference.
Thank you sweet Peggy. You make learning fun and easy🥰🥰🥰
very confused -she says whole step is going to note over, not black key. half step is black keys. but then she goes half step and hits the white key. what?! at 3:50
Good lesson, very clear but at 1:20 you say sharps raise a note by one step and flats lower a note by one step. They move the note by a half step.
Noted!
PSA The symbol is called a pound sign, a "hashtag" is a specific use case of the pound sign
How can you figure out what chords are regularly-often played in each key?
For the major scale the formula is wwhwwwh? What about the minor scale?
Thank u so much for this video❤ could u tell me the difference between scale and key?
When discussing the black keys did you mean a half step or semitone ? A full step is a tone
The flat and sharp not lower or higher the notes by half a step not 1 full step, when u play the next note it's known as going 1 full step
I feel that was a good video but I’m too musically stupid to get any of that. 😂
Tq giving this knowledge love from Assam ❤
Lovely it was well done thanks so you have any other videos. God bless you
Thanks for watching. Check out this playlist for similar videos: th-cam.com/play/PL21Q42X3VpTspw92DrTVuhx3GetvGeqmq.html
i need a video on how to make cord progression from the two scale from Magor and minor please
*I'm watching this for the first time and you are such a genius.*
Thanx i am sa re ga ma pa dha ni sa guy it was very helpful
Gracias 🙏🏾 you’re a great teacher of music