2:25 What is streaming about 3:24 story idea 5:30 Colors and shapes 6:20 diagram samples 6:49 fretboard and the circle of fifths 8:40 Music Theory Is to see sound 10:16 notes are represented by letters and intervals by numbers 12:20 Geometry of the music: Clarify the difference between numbers (intervals) and letters (notes) 13:31 patterns are intervals, distances between notes represented by squares and circles 17:40 Squares and circles 18:30 interval patterns, major and minor patterns 22:27 23:10 colors 23:50 intervals geometry 25:56 Colors referring notes 27:03 Relationships between notes 33:10 outliers book, about symbols
@@mikegeorge360Mike, thanks so much for this information. I will watch your other videos; I think this one is fundamental for understanding the others on your channel.
Just the fact that octaves are separated by 2 blocks of "whole whole half" with a whole step in between was mindblowing for me. It's all just the same, and the different keys are just the same pattern repeated to be able to start from any arbitrary point. The letters and numbers really confuses everything. I played classical piano as a kid and have been playing guitar for 15 years and am a good singer, but I've always had a hard time actually applying all the theory stuff. This to me seems like a real key, I will absorb all of this stuff! Thank you Mike for being so pedagogic!
This was so eye opening! Thanks so much! One idea I just had though, following your insight that English names makes things harder than necessary. Since colors and shapes are hard to type, and you don't always have colors available (you could be printing in black and white, using e-readers, or even be color blind), I just created different names for the notes based on your approach. Since 99% of the idea is yours anyway, if this makes sense to you, you can take it. The idea is this: 1 The first syllable is the last of the previous note in the fifths. 2 The last syllable is the first of the next note in the fifths. As a consequence of the sequence, you may note that: 1. The words where the first syllable contains an 'i' are the squares. 2. The words where the first syllable contains an 'a' are the circles. By the way, all of the first syllables are unique, so for singing out and loud one may skip the second one. Also, I've been careful to make consonants that sound close get different vowels to avoid confusion, like 'k' and 'g'. And yes, these are Japanese syllables, so each note gets two Hiragana/Katakana. So, we get: Circle of fifths: - C: kasi - G: sita - D: tani - A: niha - E: hami - B: miya - Gb: yaki - Db: kisa - Ab: sati - Eb: tina - Bb: nahi - F: hika Chromatic: - Ab: sati - A: niha - Bb: nahi - B: miya - C: kasi - Db: kisa - D: tani - Eb: tina - E: hami - F: hika - Gb: yaki - G: sita
I saw this on Colorful Music Theory Channel. I never knew someone improved or have the same concept following the color order of circle of fifths. That channel was all about piano. Now, i see a guitar based channel using this.
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Thank you for your support. The "Theory" playlist the Library includes a post with diagrams for this video. And the full music theory course goes into much more detail: www.mycolormusic.com/library
Could you write sheet music using your colors and shapes? I feel like they would make sight reading a breeze and with the addition of showing rhythm and even clearer visuals of the intervals maybe they'll give even further insights
SO the colors are no more than a mnemonic device for associating tones. It's super confusing when musicians talk about the color of a tone, when it's really no more than an association, and sound doesn't really have any scientific correlation to sound.
Come here for music theory explanation and get a better understanding of common core math.... lol. My world is crumbling and my mind is completely blown.
OK, I've watched this and looked at the live comments (have not scoured all comments). I appreciate the color relationships attached to the circle of fifths because they are both cyclical by nature as opposed to numbers one thru seven and letters A thru G. However: (1) My father was colorblind and one of my nephews is as well - so "relegating the black dots to the dustbin of history" would make their musical training nearly impossible. (2) The circle of fifths, and this theory, does not have any information as to which octave one is in - you say the staff/dots is terrible and should be replaced... but how would you write out even a simple melody, let alone an entire musical score for multiple parts, without it? Again, I appreciate the color/shape method for learning basic theory, but at some point things called "songs" come into play - and now you have to learn all the "archaic" symbols for distinct pitches, time signatures, and those dots with their stems & flags to communicate the duration of the notes. So - at the end of the day, you have to learn BOTH of these things. If I were teaching a day one beginner, I might use the color/shape thing to engage their curiosity and as you mentioned, give them some expectation of success. But eventually, if they want to play and write, they'll need to know notation. Not sure what that would have done to my brain if I'd learned this visual thing first, then got introduced to notation. Sure, some incredibly talented musicians never learned to read music, but they had someone else do the notation for them eventually. Considering there were centuries before radio & recorded music, the ONLY way to "hear" a song was to see the sheet music, and play it on your instrument (unless, I suppose, you happened to be lucky enough to hear a symphony or opera or a marching band, etc. and just memorize it from hearing it that one time...)
While I really like the video (although I haven't gone through the entire 1.5 hrs of it yet), I believe there is a fundamental error in the application (or interpretation) of the shapes. As I see it... The chromatic notes: C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C C# ... The chromatic notes with your 'shape coding', where [] = WHOLE step & () = HALF step: [C] (C#) [D] (D#) [E] (F) [F#] (G) [G#] (A) [A#] (B) [C] ... If any note is described as "me", we can interpret the shape pattern you've used in 2 ways: 1. The shape describes the interval TO "me" FROM the PRIOR note, which gives: C [D] [E] (F) (G)
2:25 What is streaming about
3:24 story idea
5:30 Colors and shapes
6:20 diagram samples
6:49 fretboard and the circle of fifths
8:40 Music Theory Is to see sound
10:16 notes are represented by letters and intervals by numbers
12:20 Geometry of the music: Clarify the difference between numbers (intervals) and letters (notes)
13:31 patterns are intervals, distances between notes represented by squares and circles
17:40 Squares and circles
18:30 interval patterns, major and minor patterns
22:27
23:10 colors
23:50 intervals geometry
25:56 Colors referring notes
27:03 Relationships between notes
33:10 outliers book, about symbols
I love this - thank you, Andres.
@@mikegeorge360Mike, thanks so much for this information. I will watch your other videos; I think this one is fundamental for understanding the others on your channel.
Just the fact that octaves are separated by 2 blocks of "whole whole half" with a whole step in between was mindblowing for me. It's all just the same, and the different keys are just the same pattern repeated to be able to start from any arbitrary point. The letters and numbers really confuses everything. I played classical piano as a kid and have been playing guitar for 15 years and am a good singer, but I've always had a hard time actually applying all the theory stuff. This to me seems like a real key, I will absorb all of this stuff! Thank you Mike for being so pedagogic!
This was so eye opening! Thanks so much!
One idea I just had though, following your insight that English names makes things harder than necessary.
Since colors and shapes are hard to type, and you don't always have colors available (you could be printing in black and white, using e-readers, or even be color blind), I just created different names for the notes based on your approach.
Since 99% of the idea is yours anyway, if this makes sense to you, you can take it.
The idea is this:
1 The first syllable is the last of the previous note in the fifths.
2 The last syllable is the first of the next note in the fifths.
As a consequence of the sequence, you may note that:
1. The words where the first syllable contains an 'i' are the squares.
2. The words where the first syllable contains an 'a' are the circles.
By the way, all of the first syllables are unique, so for singing out and loud
one may skip the second one. Also, I've been careful to make consonants that
sound close get different vowels to avoid confusion, like 'k' and 'g'.
And yes, these are Japanese syllables, so each note gets two Hiragana/Katakana.
So, we get:
Circle of fifths:
- C: kasi
- G: sita
- D: tani
- A: niha
- E: hami
- B: miya
- Gb: yaki
- Db: kisa
- Ab: sati
- Eb: tina
- Bb: nahi
- F: hika
Chromatic:
- Ab: sati
- A: niha
- Bb: nahi
- B: miya
- C: kasi
- Db: kisa
- D: tani
- Eb: tina
- E: hami
- F: hika
- Gb: yaki
- G: sita
Wow super in depth. I'm extremely excited to nerd out to all of this. Thanks for putting in the additional effort.
Be encouraged.
Be blessed.
-Skylarr
Asante. You are helping people greatly @MikeGeorge
Are you going to write a book about all this stuff ? That would be a revolution in the understanding of music theory !
I saw this on Colorful Music Theory Channel. I never knew someone improved or have the same concept following the color order of circle of fifths. That channel was all about piano. Now, i see a guitar based channel using this.
Good lesson - would like to know more theory, but I have a great ear and can play whatever I hear.
Great Video
Thankyou🎉 so 🍄 I love music and this helps clarify everything❤😊 Sheila Duke😊
Hi paid to get the full article for your videos by signing up for the locals app but can’t seem to find them. Can you point to me to the right page on locals?
Thank you for your support. The "Theory" playlist the Library includes a post with diagrams for this video. And the full music theory course goes into much more detail: www.mycolormusic.com/library
Could you write sheet music using your colors and shapes? I feel like they would make sight reading a breeze and with the addition of showing rhythm and even clearer visuals of the intervals maybe they'll give even further insights
Where is the library
I love your idea to Link the colors and shapes. However why F and Bb are purple? Bb is not a part of C major scale. Should it has other color?
🙏🍀🎼🎶🎵🎸✌️
SO the colors are no more than a mnemonic device for associating tones. It's super confusing when musicians talk about the color of a tone, when it's really no more than an association, and sound doesn't really have any scientific correlation to sound.
Come here for music theory explanation and get a better understanding of common core math.... lol. My world is crumbling and my mind is completely blown.
The lesson on the chinese characters was really interesting... who knew?
OK, I've watched this and looked at the live comments (have not scoured all comments). I appreciate the color relationships attached to the circle of fifths because they are both cyclical by nature as opposed to numbers one thru seven and letters A thru G. However:
(1) My father was colorblind and one of my nephews is as well - so "relegating the black dots to the dustbin of history" would make their musical training nearly impossible.
(2) The circle of fifths, and this theory, does not have any information as to which octave one is in - you say the staff/dots is terrible and should be replaced... but how would you write out even a simple melody, let alone an entire musical score for multiple parts, without it?
Again, I appreciate the color/shape method for learning basic theory, but at some point things called "songs" come into play - and now you have to learn all the "archaic" symbols for distinct pitches, time signatures, and those dots with their stems & flags to communicate the duration of the notes.
So - at the end of the day, you have to learn BOTH of these things. If I were teaching a day one beginner, I might use the color/shape thing to engage their curiosity and as you mentioned, give them some expectation of success. But eventually, if they want to play and write, they'll need to know notation. Not sure what that would have done to my brain if I'd learned this visual thing first, then got introduced to notation. Sure, some incredibly talented musicians never learned to read music, but they had someone else do the notation for them eventually. Considering there were centuries before radio & recorded music, the ONLY way to "hear" a song was to see the sheet music, and play it on your instrument (unless, I suppose, you happened to be lucky enough to hear a symphony or opera or a marching band, etc. and just memorize it from hearing it that one time...)
While I really like the video (although I haven't gone through the entire 1.5 hrs of it yet), I believe there is a fundamental error in the application (or interpretation) of the shapes. As I see it...
The chromatic notes:
C C# D D# E F F# G G# A A# B C C# ...
The chromatic notes with your 'shape coding', where [] = WHOLE step & () = HALF step:
[C] (C#) [D] (D#) [E] (F) [F#] (G) [G#] (A) [A#] (B) [C] ...
If any note is described as "me", we can interpret the shape pattern you've used in 2 ways:
1. The shape describes the interval TO "me" FROM the PRIOR note, which gives:
C [D] [E] (F) (G)
Try to listen from around 15:00 onwards and you will realize that "[] = WHOLE step & () = is also WHOLE step"
damn. i am year late. the algorithm dont know me at all
Huh?
I'm sorry but maybe it's just me but the Circle of 5ths is way easier to learn. This system is way too complicated and makes no sense.
haven't watched the video yet, but organized this way, the circle of 5ths makes a rainbow... makes sense to me