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I have been involved with music since junior high school. I am now seventy-two years of age. In all my years I have never knew about the Alto clef. Why is that? As others have already said I am most thankful for your videos, they definitely bring better understanding to a lot of music mysteries! THANK YOU!!!
that cleff is used for differfent intstruments i am not really sure cause i dont remember which. BUt i think cello, clarinet? violin can be in alto cleff too (i believe they call it "C" cleff as well) for piano you just deal with treble/base clef Whats confusing is if you are trying to find same pitch of piano + another instrument you gotta transpose to get same pitch. I don't know details but to get same note as trumpet i think you gotta play a 6th above (or was it a 6th below) gahh
Alto clef is mostly used by viola and sometimes by the occasionally used alto trombone. It’s an odd duck. Bb trumpet sounds a major second lower than concert pitch, so it transposes a major second up. Alto sax, which reads treble clef(weird, right?), sounds a major 6th lower than concert pitch so their music transposes a major 6th up. I also did a video on “Concert Pitch and Transposition” that you might find interesting!
Wow! i have been struggling for years totally blind to what it all means you have just opened a new world for me, like below again another 72 year old . I have just brought a keyboard and are going to learn my music reading now Thank you so much
wow I already know all of this and more but I still watched it till the end cause it's interesting and I would recommend it to everybody that wants to learn this, this video is perfect
Thank you so much Brad. The way you use visuals is truly amazing. Even though I understand all that you do I really enjoy the way you do it. All teachers could do with having your videos at hand.
Glad you enjoyed! It’s a style many people seem to enjoy. Hopefully people find it to be a good overview to prep them to do their homework, and a good reference if they need to review. All the best!
this is super helpful! ive been interested in learning the violin for a while but i didnt really know how to go about it and wanted to get more basics down before taking lessons... its very well explained so anyone can understand, currently going through all your theory vids 😊🙏 cant wait to start!! thank you for all your hard work!
honestly, you break things down to make it really understandable (Usually when i dont know what something means in sheet music and look it up it gives me these really fancy words or doesn't even give the definition...).
That’s so nice to hear! Honestly, the hardest parts of these videos is the script. Putting things in the right order so everything is sequential, assumes as little knowledge as possible, and doesn’t jump around a bunch of related topics takes forever. All the best!
What really helps with clefs is knowing one inimately. I know the treble clef, so the bass clef to me is just two steps lower then the treble clef. It's a hack, but it works.
Hacks can be useful! Sometimes you just need to survive. I do recommend actually learning clefs you have to play in regularly. It mostly happens on its own with repeated exposure but it does make reading so much faster and better.
This video is great! You do an exceptional job at breaking down this foundational information in small bits and easy digests. I just wish piano teaches could explain music theory the way you do. Simple and clear!
I didn't know sharps and flats continued to the rest of the bar in notation. That explains a weird piece I saw before. For anyone wondering why the clefs are for different instruments, The bass clef(F clef) specifically notates the notes Directly below middle C(C4). The treble clef(G clef) notates directly above middle C. The Alto clef has middle C in the middle of the stave
All of your videos are super helpful! I am getting ready to learn playing the piano, but couldn't understand anything. Found a few of your videos and everything is much easier. Thank you very much!
I find your tutorial style refreshing and easy to digest! I do know how to read notes but mostly in the treble clef. I love your jokes at the end of the video by the way!
If you don't do much music I can see why its boring but get into music and its actually pretty interesting and clears up lots of mistakes you might make.
I love your work!! I never could wrap my head around any sort of theory up until your videos Please dont ever stop, i look forward to your future videos
The wonderful thing is that your language and your explanation is simple. I didn't really need to focus a lot to understand this video, it really helped me
@@BradHarrison Thank you very much. I am learning piano by myself without help and I was not good at reading them. This really helped me. I hope you will continue (. ᴗ ❛.)
damn that part with the sharps flats and accidentals blew my mind i hadnt known it changes every note until the bar this explains why i had so much trouble attempting to transpose music.
Thank you so much ever since pandemic came I've been not going to any of my online classes I thought that it was boring and it wouldn't do anything bad to my self , but then I realized now that It was affecting me I forgot how to do the notes in music and anything (I was a third grader by that time and I'm now a 6th grader im suffering on my music class) I had lots of bad grades on my card on music and I dont want my parents to get disappointed because of me so really thank you I dont have any familiarity with any notes in music hope youll do more
Glad you enjoyed! Yeah, pandemic has been hard. Hope you’re doing better these days. Just remember that music is a language and you got good at reading and speaking by practicing tons, all the time. Practice steadily, try to value accuracy over speed, take your time, and try to have some fun too. I started music young but didn’t get serious until my mid teens. You’ve got lots of time.
ALL those notes are effected not just those in the octave. Thank you so much!! So all those notes are sharp/flattened unless they're marked as natural. I did start to wonder but I didn't understand the question until seeing the answer at the very last 30 seconds of the video. It's a bit silly considering there's a lower E that could really be used without any issue and would make far far more sense than the E an octave higher that doesn't seem to be used when looking at sheet music as a novice with no tutor. Once again thank you for the video and channel as YEAH!
Thankyou so much for sharing this learning video, i ever joined a course but they never explained about this clearly. I'm very excited to watch your other videos ✨
This looks fascinating. I have absolutely ZERO musical knowledge before this. Seems like I have a TON of questions still plus the addition of now having to memorize EVERYTHING. This is going to be tedious haha. Great video though, it seems your videos make the most sense so far out of every one I've watched. You answer most of the questions I wondered and did it well. Thank you!
Excellent! Yeah, music is a complicated language. Start small with just a few notes and simple rhythms. Then build and add more information and complexity. Also, experiment and listen and play by ear while you’re working on learning notation. It takes a while but keep at it and try to have fun too. It’s hard work but it’s so good and satisfying when you start to get some chops together. Good luck!
I have a question, when it comes to the treble & bass clef on the piano. Does it basically refer to which hand to play which notes? Like, do the notes in the treble clef refer to playing only the right hand & the bass clef notes refer to only playing on the left hand?
That's common practice and true in most cases but not a hard and fast rule. You'll find piano scores with two treble clefs or two bass clefs. The clef just orients you on the piano(the keyboard is so long!). But generally the top staff is right hand and bottom staff is left, even if the clefs aren't treble and bass 100% of the time.
@@BradHarrison Okay that makes sense, thank you! I figured the top & bottom staffs were to the right & left hands, but does that mean depending on the clef being used, you only use a certain section of the piano? Like, going from middle C, do you only use one to maybe two octaves worth of keys from the right of middle C for treble clef & do you only use one to two octaves from the left for bass clef?
Basically. Any note is possible but the clef defines a specific section of and orientation with the piano. Check the visual where they clefs line up with the piano at 3:30.
@@BradHarrison Ohhhh I see! Looking at it all the way its set up, it does make sense. Basically it's treble clef to the right, bass clef to the left, & alto clef in the middle. And if the sheet music has either both treble or both bass clefs, I would just play either further to the right, or to the left of the piano, right?
man, i dont understand that much of music language and english isnt my first language, but i have to admit that i didn't understand that much, but the video is good for what ive learn :)
This was in a BL anime playlist for some reason and while I don't really have interest in learning music at this moment, this was informative and easy to understand. Glad this was mistakenly put in the playlist
Never knew the idea about those God knows what, stylished clefs, and they've got one good one of the most logical idea behind it in the whole theory, at least for me, and I know these only now, but yet I have finished 8 grades in Keyboard, now you know my level of understanding in all of these :'( but I really like your video, your voice is calm like some of those great youtubers who make awesome learning content like ex1urba or krwzuegt? not sure, but they have very calm voice too! Oh, and like TED videos, you have the energy of that, and I'm gaping at your subscribers count, like I expected you to have 1m subs, even at the start of the video with the animation and just the voice, the production quality Ig, alas, just wait and keep uploading, and you'll be there in no time. Very thankful for these useful little things that I never realised, like the clef's relation with the letter, and the clef's relation with the note at it's centers, and the Alto clef! Nice.
2 mindblowing things that I took away that always confused me: Treble and bass are stylized off of G and F The way you decide whether to use certain Enharmonic equivalents is determined by what is easier to understand/makes more sense on the sheet
I like this educational video. I enjoyed so much! Thank you! In the minute 4:54 you said that there are some other chefs but the most important are the F clef, the C clef and the G clef... my question is: wich one other clefs are there and who are they? do they really exist? Would you tell me something more about these clefs you hear about please? Because in reality there are some other clefs.... those chefs I invented two years ago for some musical instruments.... and I'd love to share with you some day... when I finish my book. Greetings from Tijuana!
Please tell me if if you HAVE to spend a lot of time on intervals.. I don’t even remember them brought up years ago when I took piano and I have been teaching two of my granddaughters …thank you much‼️😁
Intervals are pretty useful for analysis of chords, melodies, etc. They’re really fundamental but I found they mostly just seeped into my brain by being aware of the intervals in major scales. Learn your scales, be aware of intervals, eventually they’ll just become part of your vocabulary.
thank you. If i am in a key signature, and use a natural accidental, does this natural affect just that note, or it affects all of the next same notes inside that bar?
Yep, the accidentals affect all the same notes in the same bar. If you’re in G major and F is sharp, but you have an F natural in the bar, all the proceeding Fs in the bar are natural unless you add another accidental.
Wow!!! This was so helpful If i was you i would watch this video!!! But can you do a tempo video!!! I can play the piano because i broke my hand and i watch theory vids instead!!! I've Watched the dynamics video a hundred time and this one a million!! Keep the work up!!! THANK YOU!!!!
There are definitely better and worse ways to write certain things, and it can really annoy musicians when things are written unclearly. It can make simple music easy to screw up. But those cases aside, most complications in music theory actually maintain consistency and reduce exceptions and complications later on.
He does such a great job of putting all the information together. I'm a music teacher, and I refer my students to these videos. To me, these are the best overall videos for music theory.
When talking about the clefs, what does it mean to say, for example, "G-clef is centered on and defines the note G?" I get the "centered on" part, but not the "define" part.
The treble clef has the G on the second line. If you look at where the little twirly circle part of the treble clef ends, it’s centered around and defines the G. Look up the French violin clef and you’ll notice the same treble clef shape but it’s on a different line. Hope that helps!
does the first note always refer to the 4th octave? e.g., in the bass clef, G is the starting note. So which G should I play? I'm assuming it's G4? the fourth octave of the G note?
If middle C was separated by one more ledger line from the staff below ,or above there would be no need for the clefs to have differing nomenclatures as they do at present ,making reading music even more difficult than it is .Moving up or down the keys would be a matter of repetition , so an E is read as an E on the bottom line of each staff (and uppermost space )all the way through the whole keyboard .The middle C would still mean middle of the piano roughly ,but would not be situated mid way between treble and bass staffs !The treble clef stays where it is and the bass clef moves done one line or 2 notes .This way sight reading would be less difficult
Musics notation is a bit of a mess because it evolved over hundreds of years and stuff just kept getting added. It’s sort of like the English language. But I think we’re stuck with it. There have been attempts to come up with other systems and nothing seems to catch on.
I've always thought the same. We only really need one clef, with an octave modifier in place of the Clef. I'm learning the cello, so need to learn all three clefs and it's a right pain for my ageing brain...
@@RobManser77 hay Rob ..you know the lines of the past shape the future ..but what if one of them was wrong ..or not thought out ..considering the many more octaves we have at hand these days a one octave format would hold up ..thanks for that
@@ant16181 With your entirely reasonable suggestion for clefs, the bass and alto symbols would effectively be fancy symbols used as octave modifiers. Eg a squiggle instead of a 2, and a different squiggle instead of a 3. Whoever unnecessarily decided the different clefs should start on different notes, so the ledger lines don't mean the same notes as the treble clef, needs to be dug up and kicked in the bollocks.
It will help you to know that: The alto clef is a C clef, showing the line C as the middle line. The treble clef is an elaborate letter G, so it's the G clef and it shows the line G. The bass clef is an elaborate letter F, so it's the F clef, and it shows the line F.
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I have been involved with music since junior high school. I am now seventy-two years of age. In all my years I have never knew about the Alto clef. Why is that? As others have already said I am most thankful for your videos, they definitely bring better understanding to a lot of music mysteries! THANK YOU!!!
that cleff is used for differfent intstruments i am not really sure cause i dont remember which. BUt i think cello, clarinet?
violin can be in alto cleff too (i believe they call it "C" cleff as well)
for piano you just deal with treble/base clef
Whats confusing is if you are trying to find same pitch of piano + another instrument you gotta transpose to get same pitch.
I don't know details but to get same note as trumpet i think you gotta play a 6th above (or was it a 6th below)
gahh
Alto clef is mostly used by viola and sometimes by the occasionally used alto trombone. It’s an odd duck.
Bb trumpet sounds a major second lower than concert pitch, so it transposes a major second up. Alto sax, which reads treble clef(weird, right?), sounds a major 6th lower than concert pitch so their music transposes a major 6th up.
I also did a video on “Concert Pitch and Transposition” that you might find interesting!
@@BradHarrison You are just great!
What's even more fun is there are even more clefs, including the soprano clef, mezzo-soprano clef, and tenor clef!
@@BlondieHappyGuy What a coincidence, that's how I started out with music, slide trombone in junior high school but it only lasted a year.
I'm a student who didn't study for a test- This pretty much has everything in it!! Thank you!!
Lucky you!
Old teaching style did not help me at all. No wonder huh! At 65 I'm now learning at my own pace. Thank you. You are the best piano teacher online.
The extensive examples to non-music things work so well and, I feel, make the concepts very understandable to beginning musicians!
I like this comment, very well said
This is the best explanation a beginner can get for understanding music. Wish I had it when I started 50 years ago.
This is so useful, I started learning the piano, but, gave up, then my sister started playing beautiful music and I decided to start again
Wow! i have been struggling for years totally blind to what it all means you have just opened a new world for me, like below again another 72 year old . I have just brought a keyboard and are going to learn my music reading now Thank you so much
This is the best music lesson I have ever seen on TH-cam. Explained very well with clarity
I agree. Hey, how long have you been playing piano?
wow I already know all of this and more but I still watched it till the end cause it's interesting and I would recommend it to everybody that wants to learn this, this video is perfect
Excellent! Thanks for watching and I truly appreciate the support and recommendations.
Awesome. How long have you been playing piano?
This was so clear and precise and easy to understand. Thank you!!!
You are right. I agree. How long have you been playing the piano?
THIS IS SO AMAZING, It fixed every misunderstanding in my life.
I am a veterinary medicine student but i decided out of no where to know how to read music notes
This was really helpful
Thanks 💙
Excellent! Welcome! Music is a big complicated language but start small and expand over time. Good luck!
Thank you so much Brad. The way you use visuals is truly amazing. Even though I understand all that you do I really enjoy the way you do it. All teachers could do with having your videos at hand.
Glad you enjoyed! It’s a style many people seem to enjoy. Hopefully people find it to be a good overview to prep them to do their homework, and a good reference if they need to review. All the best!
Dude, I have just discovered your channel and it's amazing! No more 30 minute boring videos to learn music theory... Thank you!!
Thanks for the kind words! I try to keep things moving and somewhat light and lively. So glad you’re enjoying the videos. All the best!
this is super helpful! ive been interested in learning the violin for a while but i didnt really know how to go about it and wanted to get more basics down before taking lessons... its very well explained so anyone can understand, currently going through all your theory vids 😊🙏 cant wait to start!! thank you for all your hard work!
Fantastic! Best of luck with the new instrument!
honestly, you break things down to make it really understandable (Usually when i dont know what something means in sheet music and look it up it gives me these really fancy words or doesn't even give the definition...).
That’s so nice to hear! Honestly, the hardest parts of these videos is the script. Putting things in the right order so everything is sequential, assumes as little knowledge as possible, and doesn’t jump around a bunch of related topics takes forever. All the best!
I've studied music theory for so long, and just now getting to notes on the threads. This was so helpful thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
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What really helps with clefs is knowing one inimately. I know the treble clef, so the bass clef to me is just two steps lower then the treble clef. It's a hack, but it works.
Hacks can be useful! Sometimes you just need to survive. I do recommend actually learning clefs you have to play in regularly. It mostly happens on its own with repeated exposure but it does make reading so much faster and better.
This video is great! You do an exceptional job at breaking down this foundational information in small bits and easy digests. I just wish piano teaches could explain music theory the way you do. Simple and clear!
So glad you found it helpful!
I didn't know sharps and flats continued to the rest of the bar in notation. That explains a weird piece I saw before.
For anyone wondering why the clefs are for different instruments, The bass clef(F clef) specifically notates the notes Directly below middle C(C4). The treble clef(G clef) notates directly above middle C. The Alto clef has middle C in the middle of the stave
Teaching myself the piano and wanted to learn how to read music. Thank you so much for this video!! 😀
All of your videos are super helpful! I am getting ready to learn playing the piano, but couldn't understand anything. Found a few of your videos and everything is much easier. Thank you very much!
Excellent to hear! Good luck and keep at it. It can be slow going at times but keep up the habit and you’ll be awesome before you know it.
I have never watched a video that made it this easy to learn! Thank you! I had a huge aha moment!
Excellent!
I find your tutorial style refreshing and easy to digest! I do know how to read notes but mostly in the treble clef.
I love your jokes at the end of the video by the way!
Thanks so much! Glad you’re enjoying the videos! Appreciate the support. All the best!
That was fantastic.60 years after piano lessons and now I understand.
Much appreciative. Your lessons are damn concise and easy to understand. Why haven’t I heard of the mnemonic FACE until now…
Best explanation I've found so far hats off and thank you 🎉
This is something that seems boring, but so very necessary to know !!!! Thanks so much, Brad !Thanks so much, Mr. Brad !!!
If you don't do much music I can see why its boring but get into music and its actually pretty interesting and clears up lots of mistakes you might make.
@@ThanosJr1209 Actually I'm totally heavily into music, I wasn't being negative, saying how important to learn more.
Yes, it's very Important, Right?
I’m a beginner and note reading is a little overwhelming for me. However this video helped me make it easier.
Excellent! Welcome to music.
This was amazing thank you. Just what I needed!
Have u ever thought of shortening that name
@@adonaiyah2196 what's wrong with it?
Amazing. Clear explanation. It saves a lot of time ! Many thanks !
I love your work!! I never could wrap my head around any sort of theory up until your videos
Please dont ever stop, i look forward to your future videos
I am teaching young children to read music. This gives me some ideas on how to approach the lessons.
Wow Brad!!! Your teachings are fantastic. Such a huge help!! Thanks so much 🎼🎶🎹
I like the way you explain all the note naming. Very easy to understand. 😍 This very helpful to me. Thank you
Wow i don't even know music theory but certainly now I can understand and read sheet . Thank you so much 🙏
I don't know how mny things I've learned from this vid.. this is so helpful. Gonna download it
wonderful you have opened the door for us!
THANK YOU
I have this course as elective like literally ur life saver thankyou❤
this helps me understand rhythms timing harmony and melody making as a musician. ill watch the whole series soon.
The wonderful thing is that your language and your explanation is simple. I didn't really need to focus a lot to understand this video, it really helped me
Excellent!
@@BradHarrison Thank you very much. I am learning piano by myself without help and I was not good at reading them. This really helped me. I hope you will continue (. ᴗ ❛.)
damn that part with the sharps flats and accidentals blew my mind i hadnt known it changes every note until the bar this explains why i had so much trouble attempting to transpose music.
Thank you so much ever since pandemic came I've been not going to any of my online classes I thought that it was boring and it wouldn't do anything bad to my self , but then I realized now that It was affecting me I forgot how to do the notes in music and anything (I was a third grader by that time and I'm now a 6th grader im suffering on my music class)
I had lots of bad grades on my card on music and I dont want my parents to get disappointed because of me so really thank you I dont have any familiarity with any notes in music hope youll do more
Glad you enjoyed! Yeah, pandemic has been hard. Hope you’re doing better these days. Just remember that music is a language and you got good at reading and speaking by practicing tons, all the time. Practice steadily, try to value accuracy over speed, take your time, and try to have some fun too. I started music young but didn’t get serious until my mid teens. You’ve got lots of time.
ALL those notes are effected not just those in the octave. Thank you so much!!
So all those notes are sharp/flattened unless they're marked as natural. I did start to wonder but I didn't understand the question until seeing the answer at the very last 30 seconds of the video.
It's a bit silly considering there's a lower E that could really be used without any issue and would make far far more sense than the E an octave higher that doesn't seem to be used when looking at sheet music as a novice with no tutor.
Once again thank you for the video and channel as YEAH!
Thankyou so much for sharing this learning video, i ever joined a course but they never explained about this clearly. I'm very excited to watch your other videos ✨
The way you explain is fantastic ...thanks alot.
Thank you for this video. I have never learned notes before. I got lots of knowledge from this. Thank you very much.
you made me understand how piano works in less than 3 mins.
Excellent! In some ways it’s a very simple instrument, which is why the music gets to wildly complex and demanding.
Love it. The last point about that chromatic cluttered bar gave me a laugh. Never really thought about that before.
Nice. I’m not in school anymore but I always wanted to learn clarinet. Finally got one and kinda first time venturing into music.
Nice! Have fun!
This looks fascinating. I have absolutely ZERO musical knowledge before this. Seems like I have a TON of questions still plus the addition of now having to memorize EVERYTHING. This is going to be tedious haha. Great video though, it seems your videos make the most sense so far out of every one I've watched. You answer most of the questions I wondered and did it well. Thank you!
Excellent! Yeah, music is a complicated language. Start small with just a few notes and simple rhythms. Then build and add more information and complexity. Also, experiment and listen and play by ear while you’re working on learning notation. It takes a while but keep at it and try to have fun too. It’s hard work but it’s so good and satisfying when you start to get some chops together. Good luck!
A best way of making all, to start the process of study.
Thé most helpful vidéo I’ve seen on this subject! Thanks ! The visuals are very well done and helpful
Oh how marvelous! Thank you for this very helpful tutorial!
Thank you for helping me to make sense of the key signatures and note naming
WHAT A CONTENT!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Thanks for starting us off on a high note! 🙏🎶
Thanks. Watching this video is very clear, basic way for learn basics 😁
I have a question, when it comes to the treble & bass clef on the piano. Does it basically refer to which hand to play which notes? Like, do the notes in the treble clef refer to playing only the right hand & the bass clef notes refer to only playing on the left hand?
That's common practice and true in most cases but not a hard and fast rule. You'll find piano scores with two treble clefs or two bass clefs. The clef just orients you on the piano(the keyboard is so long!). But generally the top staff is right hand and bottom staff is left, even if the clefs aren't treble and bass 100% of the time.
@@BradHarrison Okay that makes sense, thank you! I figured the top & bottom staffs were to the right & left hands, but does that mean depending on the clef being used, you only use a certain section of the piano?
Like, going from middle C, do you only use one to maybe two octaves worth of keys from the right of middle C for treble clef & do you only use one to two octaves from the left for bass clef?
Basically. Any note is possible but the clef defines a specific section of and orientation with the piano. Check the visual where they clefs line up with the piano at 3:30.
@@BradHarrison Ohhhh I see! Looking at it all the way its set up, it does make sense. Basically it's treble clef to the right, bass clef to the left, & alto clef in the middle. And if the sheet music has either both treble or both bass clefs, I would just play either further to the right, or to the left of the piano, right?
You bet!
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man, i dont understand that much of music language and english isnt my first language, but i have to admit that i didn't understand that much, but the video is good for what ive learn :)
This was in a BL anime playlist for some reason and while I don't really have interest in learning music at this moment, this was informative and easy to understand. Glad this was mistakenly put in the playlist
"Sasaki and Miyano" on Ani-One if anyone is wondering which playlist I found this on
Hahaha. Not the support I was expecting, but I’ll take it!
👏 Very good instruction. Thank you! I will watch it again.
Thanks! This masterpiece made me fail music class in 10 minutes instead of 9!
But srsrly luv Ur vids
VERY informative and quick 👍🏾
Absolutely brilliant thank you for sharing very helpful
Thank you
Thank you so much.. This video is all in one.. Basics are so throughly covered.. Thank you again.
Never knew the idea about those God knows what, stylished clefs, and they've got one good one of the most logical idea behind it in the whole theory, at least for me, and I know these only now, but yet I have finished 8 grades in Keyboard, now you know my level of understanding in all of these :'( but I really like your video, your voice is calm like some of those great youtubers who make awesome learning content like ex1urba or krwzuegt? not sure, but they have very calm voice too! Oh, and like TED videos, you have the energy of that, and I'm gaping at your subscribers count, like I expected you to have 1m subs, even at the start of the video with the animation and just the voice, the production quality Ig, alas, just wait and keep uploading, and you'll be there in no time. Very thankful for these useful little things that I never realised, like the clef's relation with the letter, and the clef's relation with the note at it's centers, and the Alto clef! Nice.
Thanks! I’ve seen a boost in activity on the channel lately and it feels good to be connecting with more people. Hope it continues! All the best!
@@BradHarrison Nice of you to reply, , made me glad :)
2 mindblowing things that I took away that always confused me:
Treble and bass are stylized off of G and F
The way you decide whether to use certain Enharmonic equivalents is determined by what is easier to understand/makes more sense on the sheet
Very helpful, I’m learning . Appreciate very much.
The joke at the end confirms that I understand the video. Fantastic! (and funny :D)
Idk why but I find your voice so satisfying 💀
Thanks! New video coming soon and I just upgraded my mic. Let me know if you think the new gear was worth it!
Thanks...Great Demonstration, explanation, presentation...
Tysm I finally learned the bass notes!!!
I like this educational video. I enjoyed so much! Thank you! In the minute 4:54 you said that there are some other chefs but the most important are the F clef, the C clef and the G clef... my question is: wich one other clefs are there and who are they? do they really exist? Would you tell me something more about these clefs you hear about please? Because in reality there are some other clefs.... those chefs I invented two years ago for some musical instruments.... and I'd love to share with you some day... when I finish my book. Greetings from Tijuana!
So glad you enjoyed!
There’s the soprano clef, mezzo soprano clef, tenor clef…so many!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef
This channel deserves far more views
I know right?
Please tell me if if you HAVE to spend a lot of time on intervals.. I don’t even remember them brought up years ago when I took piano and I have been teaching two of my granddaughters …thank you much‼️😁
Intervals are pretty useful for analysis of chords, melodies, etc. They’re really fundamental but I found they mostly just seeped into my brain by being aware of the intervals in major scales. Learn your scales, be aware of intervals, eventually they’ll just become part of your vocabulary.
thank you. If i am in a key signature, and use a natural accidental, does this natural affect just that note, or it affects all of the next same notes inside that bar?
Yep, the accidentals affect all the same notes in the same bar. If you’re in G major and F is sharp, but you have an F natural in the bar, all the proceeding Fs in the bar are natural unless you add another accidental.
For the lines on the bass cleft, Grizzly Bears Don't Fly Airplanes is a really good one that goes with All Cows Eat Grass, since they're both animals!
Wow!!! This was so helpful If i was you i would watch this video!!! But can you do a tempo video!!! I can play the piano because i broke my hand and i watch theory vids instead!!! I've Watched the dynamics video a hundred time and this one a million!! Keep the work up!!! THANK YOU!!!!
Very helpful explanations!
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That was great and informative ❤️❤️
What kinda program do you use to make such visual motions?
7:55 I'm a programmer trying to learn music for game dev purposes, and today I learned music can have spaghetti code.
There are definitely better and worse ways to write certain things, and it can really annoy musicians when things are written unclearly. It can make simple music easy to screw up. But those cases aside, most complications in music theory actually maintain consistency and reduce exceptions and complications later on.
I have been in music for a long time, why am I watching this?
why do i keep watching these. i already know how this stuff works.
He does such a great job of putting all the information together. I'm a music teacher, and I refer my students to these videos. To me, these are the best overall videos for music theory.
Thanks, folks!!
These videos are so helpful, thank you so much.
When talking about the clefs, what does it mean to say, for example, "G-clef is centered on and defines the note G?" I get the "centered on" part, but not the "define" part.
The treble clef has the G on the second line. If you look at where the little twirly circle part of the treble clef ends, it’s centered around and defines the G. Look up the French violin clef and you’ll notice the same treble clef shape but it’s on a different line. Hope that helps!
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Fantastic teaching!
This make music theory look so much less intimidating thatnk you so much
I watched this even though I knew all of this and still felt smarter after watching this xD
Excellent!
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🎶 great video..very helpful
does the first note always refer to the 4th octave? e.g., in the bass clef, G is the starting note. So which G should I play? I'm assuming it's G4? the fourth octave of the G note?
Good question. Bass clef bottom note is G2. If you go to the spot where I lay the clefs on the keyboard, you’ll see how they all line up.
@@BradHarrison alright noted, thank you so much for replying!
If middle C was separated by one more ledger line from the staff below ,or above there would be no need for the clefs to have differing nomenclatures as they do at present ,making reading music even more difficult than it is .Moving up or down the keys would be a matter of repetition , so an E is read as an E on the bottom line of each staff (and uppermost space )all the way through the whole keyboard .The middle C would still mean middle of the piano roughly ,but would not be situated mid way between treble and bass staffs !The treble clef stays where it is and the bass clef moves done one line or 2 notes .This way sight reading would be less difficult
Musics notation is a bit of a mess because it evolved over hundreds of years and stuff just kept getting added. It’s sort of like the English language. But I think we’re stuck with it. There have been attempts to come up with other systems and nothing seems to catch on.
I've always thought the same. We only really need one clef, with an octave modifier in place of the Clef. I'm learning the cello, so need to learn all three clefs and it's a right pain for my ageing brain...
@@RobManser77 hay Rob ..you know the lines of the past shape the future ..but what if one of them was wrong ..or not thought out ..considering the many more octaves we have at hand these days a one octave format would hold up ..thanks for that
@@ant16181 With your entirely reasonable suggestion for clefs, the bass and alto symbols would effectively be fancy symbols used as octave modifiers.
Eg a squiggle instead of a 2, and a different squiggle instead of a 3.
Whoever unnecessarily decided the different clefs should start on different notes, so the ledger lines don't mean the same notes as the treble clef, needs to be dug up and kicked in the bollocks.
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It will help you to know that:
The alto clef is a C clef, showing the line C as the middle line.
The treble clef is an elaborate letter G, so it's the G clef and it shows the line G.
The bass clef is an elaborate letter F, so it's the F clef, and it shows the line F.
Good tip! 5:32.
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