Music Theory can be intimidating to learn as a beginner with no prior knowledge, however, it can improve your music writing skills significantly! As someone who never received a formal education on music theory, I'm here to teach what I believe to be the most important concepts a beginner should learn. I strongly believe in the concept of learning from your peers, so just remember I was once in your shoes!
I've decided that this winter break I am going to throw myself into music and your videos have helped a TON. I haven't had any instruction on anything musical past a unit in middle school. Keep it up I really appreciate it, and your music is good too! (i mean why learn from people who can't put it into practice right?)
"You gotta know where the box is before you start thinking outside of it". Someone commented that once on a music theory video and it always really stuck with me.
This 8 min vid sums up a semester of grade school music theory but it feels like the semester was better because I had time to process it in between info
@@themusicman2800 the difference between a music school and this video is that the music school teaches this in much more detail than this video which is for BEGINNERS :)
hi, maybe i can help you. i have my first music production episode. how to make an Awesome bass! th-cam.com/video/t02DbSIfsXM/w-d-xo.html. if you need more to know, jut ask me.
I've been playing the piano for years now and never thought to learn theory, when you got to the triads part and talked about how to make major and minor chords i tested it out on my piano and FREAKED
I'm up to actually learn it, but I;m starting with theory.. what exactly do your recommend me to work on the practical part? Can you suggest me a channel or something easy to start? Btw, should I learn chords first?
@@adrim888 seeing as you're learning theory first, practical usually follows. However if you want to get a feel for the piano, find a tutorial on some music you like (I recommend Amosdoll music) and learn those. By doing this you will find it easier to play certain chords, recognise certain progressions etc.
As an amateur beat making connoisseur, thank you. Music theory and chords have been my biggest enemy with how CLEAN an instrumental sounds and this cleared it up almost completely.
as someone who's been studying music for roughly three years, this is actually a pretty well done video compared to a lot of other "for beginner's" music theory content that i've watched
I've taken piano lessons for 5 years and was playing really advanced songs. I had no music theory my teacher believes that first you have to listen to music then play and then read and learn theory. So when I'd played for 6 months I was playing better than people that had been playing for 3 years. Not all but a lot of people at the concerts I played at thought that I'd played for way longer than I had. But one thing is that I never used the music sheet. They thought that was impressive but I think it's much more impressive to be able to just read and play at the same time. Even a music teacher in school wants me to play piano for a musical even though I don't take music as a course in school. I think it's fun but if you are in the same situation as me. Learn the theory, it opens up so many new opportunities. I can't take requests instantly. I have to learn the song by hard.
@@tonyhawksmovingcastle Well I think he was saying something similar to what my situation is. I've played piano for years, but am still only average because I never learned theory, or sheet music or anything. If there's a song I like, I just look it up on TH-cam and follow along on guitar hero style tutorials and learn it from sight and about a week or so of hard practice
I remember watching this back in my first year of highschool because we had this terrible music theory teacher that would explain things her way and no one coud learn anything from her. But thanks to this video I passed that subject with an A. Thank you for making this video.💕
my boy this is the best beginners guide I've ever encountered. Your editing style, explanation technique and over all length on each subject is exactly right. I have ADHD and have had a difficult time learning music theory I have learned random chunks of it over the years but never linearly and never completely so it's a very scatterbrained way of trying to learn something, While I already knew pretty much all of the info in this video I was still captivated because of the style and clarity it was presented in. Please do more videos delving deeper into theory and please go all the way into the more complex stuff with but presented the same way this video was presented if you can. Great job, keep up the good work.
Dude I've watched a few other music theory for beginners videos already, and I gotta say yours is by far the most comprehensive. That last tip about expanding on the triads and making c major 7 was exactly what I needed
I learned most of this stuff in elementary school. man my music teacher was awesome. no idea how she convinced a group of 2nd graders to understand time signatures.
This is 3rd video I watched after searching for music theory basics. First two were overwhelming and made me cry, I'm autistic. This one however was way easier to follow and you explained this way better. Thanks a lot man
I’m taking notes, since quarantine has started our band instructor has left us high and dry and I’m currently learning 3 instruments so thank you for your knowledge, kind sir.
The way you started the video I love what you said not everyone has money for lessons to do the things that they’re passionate about so thank you very much for making this!!❤️💯🙏🏼
This is actually a really good basic music theory lesson. You cover all of the main concepts in the simplest-possible ways. A lot of "music theory" seems more complicated than it really is because so much of classical music theory terminology is in Italian words. I have just one thing to add: sheet music, music theory, and strange terminology is not music. No study of music can be productive without sound. Do not stuff your head with words and math. Play an instrument, and you will learn music.
Ya well my band consists of the voices in my head and we all play 420bpm sing only backwards, and use cups of hydraulic fluid as our instruments for brand recognition.
I didn’t start music courses until I was two years out from graduating from high school. That was back in 2016 and I learned nothing from it because I hadn’t been taught the absolute basics of music theory In eight minutes, you just taught me everything I needed to know and now so many more things make sense. Thank you so much
thank you sir. perfect pacing, perfect structure, no long winded meandering, all the essential information and nothing else, no irritating vocal tics or asmr inside the mouth, you didnt feel the need to show your face. just perfect choices all around excellent work
I took music in high school for 5 years but due to a lack of people wanting to take the class and a terrible teacher, I gained practically no knowledge besides how to shabbily play the Titanic theme. I literally just learned more from your 8 minute video than all of my formal classes combined. You made a lot of information easy to digest rather than dragging it out. Very easy for beginners to understand, thanks~ You got yourself a new subscriber (^o^)/
Dude, thank you so much. The beginning of the video, for me, was just a repeat of what i learnt in 2 - 3rd grade, but when you explained how to construct majors, minors and their according cords, it opened a whole new can of worms i wasn't expecting to find. This video was genuinely really helpful.
this was the most helpful 8 minutes in my life, you really explain it having in mind the person watching has no idea, because all the videos i see assume you have the basics and im sat there not knowing what an eq or 3/4 is and basically anything explained goes right past me
me, a guy who has had 5 years of classical piano education: "ah yes, the simple times..." also the "just use 4/4 if any of this went over your head" now that sounds like me when i try to explain simple music theory to my friend who's trying to learn music theory. i'll just send her this video, since everything you said was correct! thanks!
I love you. Bless This video teaches me the basic things I absolutely need and felt that I was lacking, in a very quick and concise manner, using a DAW piano roll interface that I'm familiar with. This needs to become the standard method of teaching music theory! Like geez, why do other people need to make it so complicated and drawn out? Thank you so much for making this video.
the editing especially in the beginning really impressed me! as an editor myself i can appreciate your editing as i can see it mustve taken an eternity😭😭
came out nearly 3 years ago but you rly just made my day. i been wanting to learn music theory but didnt know how to start or what to do and this just comes in my recommended so big ups to you and youtube recommended
I use the number of notes for each space to remember major and minor Major: 1 1 2 1 1 2. Minor: 1 2 1 2 1 1 Which means 1 note (space) 1 note (space) 2 notes (space) for the major. Same thing goes for minor.
it's better to use half steps and whole steps, it's just counting the distance between notes It's probably just as easy and everyone uses it major scale would be: whole whole half whole whole whole half And you'll see it's the same pattern, but getting used to this terminology helps a lot i know this comment is 1 year old lol, just in case a beginner comes across it
"Simplicity is the key". Simple yet understandable. To those who struggle. Just undrrstand it. If you are a music lover. Or who really understands music. Thanks bro for this.😊
Thanks this helps a lot, my grandma had an old parlor style piano and when I was bored I would tinker with it, eventually I got pretty good but I never really knew why certain keys in succession worked well and why others didn't.
@@kuchenlieferant3176 It is not different, I can assure you. The only Country that changes that if I'm remembering correctly is Germany and they have a difference between B and Bb they actually use "H" to denote Bb I believe.
I took a piano class in school and you explained things very well. Wish this video was out when I was in school, would have helped so much. Thank you for a great Video!
I'm a grade 6 guitarist and here's a note on chords. The technical way to determine a chord is dependant on what kind it is. If it's a major chord, a 4 note chord would be the root (the first), third and fifth note of the major scale. For example, C, E and G. The fourth note would be an octave of the root note (in this case C) A minor chord is the same except you flatten the 3rd note. So for instance, a C minor chord would be consistent of C, Eb and G and the fourth note would be an octave of the root note (C). Dominant, major and minor 7 chords are more complicated but seeing you guys are beginners I won't get into it. I hope I was being useful.
Congratulations, the beginning is - in my opinion - the best one about the subject. That's because I actually LEARNED A LOT instead of dropping out because I have no idea what it's built on. Tempo, time signatures, frequencies and notes sections are presented exactly in the order and in such a way what I find the most easily approachable. All others start from a more arbitrary point, usually notes, leaving me wondering why C is a C and not a D, why is an octave an octave, and distract me from learning the actual thing. In the beginning 3 minutes I finally understood more than I've learned from any other musical theory video. And I thought this would be the subject I would never understand, because I've watched so much "music theory for beginners" videos without getting a single a-ha moment. Also, another congrats that this was easy to listen even at 0.75 speed, even if that wasn't intended as such.
I play the ukulele and I'm interested in playing other string instruments so I only understood fingers to notes equals chord. And I quit piano years ago so this was very helpful.
great explanation for me this also works really good knowing minor and major keys major: whole whole half whole whole whole half (last note is same as the beginning) minor: whole half whole whole half whole whole (last note is same as the beginning) (whole is skip 1 note, half is direct note after the other one)
As I'm a beginner I was very much interested in this video but it was quite difficult to follow certain parts. But as I learnt some basic stuff through other materials and had a minimal knowledge, i revisited this video and let me tell you this is really amazing the way you have put together all necessary information in a short video. Now my understanding of chords and scales is higher than i could have imagined :) thank you for this!!
Man I can't thank you enough for the knowledge you imparted to me in just 8'🙏 I've been searching for music theory for so much time and most of them are just too complicated and long, your video was very interactive as well,ty❤
Minor note, you probably don't ever want to call it an A# major chord. The A# major chord has an A#, a C##, and an E#. It's probably supposed to be Bb. Great video!
Even tho it still hard to understand out of all the videos I have watched about this u made it the most simple and straightforward and I learned more in this one video then the other 5 30 minutes one all together
I am putting together a playlist of theory videos for my students and this one almost made it but there are some errors that I can't get over. Right around 3:12 you correctly identify A0, but the very first C on a piano is C1, not C0. Even if somewhere in the world some people might call it something else, C1 is the standard. I really want to include this video for my students, particularly because of some of the little tricks you include. Any chance we can get a re-edit for little corrections? : )
The whole world as far as it is concerned in modern teaching uses the following pattern: A0 B0 -> C1 D1 E1 F1 G1 A1 B1 -> C2.... And continues on up. So you are correct.
I'm very, very thankful for both the fact that you actually SHOWED this using examples instead of text and the fact that everyone in this comment section is struggling. Boy, if I would only get the hang of this, I might perhaps graduate from my Arts and Culture studies.
This video is amazing. I have been making music by ear for nearly 3 - 4 years, and I’ve picked all these up along the way, but nothing has been this to the point.
as someone who did three years of music gcse and got barfed out at the end having SCRAPED a pass,,,, this singlehandedly taught me the relation between scales and chords, as well as how time signatures work (kind of), which is something those three years convinced me i would never understand. thanks!
I just wanted to pause this video to thank you for teaching me something pertaining piano keys as I am currently teaching myself how to play and learn music .
Good video for beginners for the most part, it's well explained. Just a mistake and a few extra stuff to point out: The numbering system for octaves is actually A0 B0 C1 D1 E1 ... C2... A7 B7 C8, and not A0 B0 C0 D0... as said in the video. When you mention the minor scale; you explain the natural minor scale. There is also melodic and harmonic minor albeit the natural minor scale is probably used the most in modern popular music out of these three. You mention the Dorian mode. In the video, you use the D dorian scale/mode. (This is basically the all white keys from D to D). Relative to a major scale though, this would be 1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 8. There are 7 modes to check out. For example, C dorian would be C D Eb F G A Bb C. After this video, you basically know Ionian and Aeolian (just fancy names for major and natural minor scales respectively, also most popular) modes. So that leaves 4/5 more to check out if you want to get more acquainted. The way that 7th chords are presented in naming is correct, although the most popular 7th chords would be dominant 7th chords. This just means that you have the 7 actually flat compared to the major 7th, then it would be called C7. (C E G Bb) ie 1 3 5 b7 Maybe the next stuff to learn are the diminished, augmented, and suspended chords ;). Just thought writing this might help those who are interested to learn more.
Augmented chords are practically nonexistent in tonal music and "suspended chords" generally speaking are contrapuntal rather than harmonic in nature. Also, melodic and harmonic minor "scales" are just mixture between minor and major scales and not really proper scales you should learn, because the way you should mix them is on a note by note basis.
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Music Theory can be intimidating to learn as a beginner with no prior knowledge, however, it can improve your music writing skills significantly! As someone who never received a formal education on music theory, I'm here to teach what I believe to be the most important concepts a beginner should learn. I strongly believe in the concept of learning from your peers, so just remember I was once in your shoes!
I've decided that this winter break I am going to throw myself into music and your videos have helped a TON. I haven't had any instruction on anything musical past a unit in middle school. Keep it up I really appreciate it, and your music is good too! (i mean why learn from people who can't put it into practice right?)
THANK YOU❤
Hey, what software do you use?
It's a DAW called Ableton Live 😃
@@InspirAspir Thanks!
Musician: It isn’t rocket science
Rocket Scientists: It isn’t music theory
My music teacher said that once 😂
😂😂Omg
Music Theory is a lot easier I think.😅
@@wansakuga3301 they are both incomparable tbh, a person who masters rocket science is a genius, as well as a person who masters music theory
@@HCXVII 👍🏼👍🏼
"You gotta know where the box is before you start thinking outside of it". Someone commented that once on a music theory video and it always really stuck with me.
Woa....
I like this comment. Its not your typical cut and paste youtube trend comment.
Yoo
Wisdom words at its finest.
you mean learning the basics and fundamentals first before going to a more advance stuff
actually putted a smile on my face when I realized im not the only one music theory is giving a migraine
It's not even hard he just sucks
That's why collage people have headaches all the time 👀
@@onedeep9771 ok cool
@@onedeep9771 okay please explain it since it still hurts my head
@@onedeep9771 Do not be disrespectful. People learn in different ways.
I'm a non-musician...I have my exams next week...And I'm watching this with full attention, taking notes.
Arre mauj kro sab online hai😅
@@guyinpyjamas Tabhi to pass hogye😂
same bro ... pr kuch smjh ni aya .. i wanna learn piano in futute
@@chungmyung6767 Samee!!
ughhh same- my semester finals start in 3 days and im out here makin notes on music theory lmfaooo
I learned everything and nothing at the same time
Same
Same
This. This is the comment.
Same, but there is always room to learn again and more 😅
You just described my high school years
My mind: Did you understand anything or should I repeat the video
Me: yes
lil tino they were still talking fast when I slowed the playback💀
What
This 8 min vid sums up a semester of grade school music theory but it feels like the semester was better because I had time to process it in between info
First time Watched: Really I didn't get anything
10th time Watched: Okay Now I get something.
baaa haaa...my mind too...lol...Im going to save it to watch 20 times...
"I'll pretend I understood everything..."
Me too
Let's be friends \(◉‿◉)/
Wkwk lucu lucu
@@igxniisan6996 woah your username is fancyy
reading each topic might be helpful then go back watch this video
me: trying to actually understand
he: if any of this went over your head (sigh) just use 4/4
me: ok
😭fr
nah use free time
I’ve been a singer for what, 5 years now? Was so confused even though I’ve been counting for ages
The problem was that he didn’t explain note values before going into time signatures
Me: ""4/4 it is then."
me with a full 7 years of music school: why did i spend all those years to learn what he basically described in less then 10 minutes...
I think you might want to get a refund if they took 7 years to teach you that.
woah!!😱
@@themusicman2800 the difference between a music school and this video is that the music school teaches this in much more detail than this video which is for BEGINNERS :)
@@themusicman2800 They teach very very slowly 👀
@@ThePansosaiko He's speaking from experience.
me learning color theory: child's play
me learning music theory: _screaming_
Lol
I relate to this so much it hurts.
*confused screaming*
Learning music theory I picture Kevin from Home Alone screaming! 👀
It's the exact freaking opposite for me bro xD.. I wish I understood color theory so bad!!
He: this is a note
Me: slow down smartypants
Carlitox b 😂😂😂
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hi, maybe i can help you. i have my first music production episode. how to make an Awesome bass! th-cam.com/video/t02DbSIfsXM/w-d-xo.html. if you need more to know, jut ask me.
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YT employee alert..
I've been playing the piano for years now and never thought to learn theory, when you got to the triads part and talked about how to make major and minor chords i tested it out on my piano and FREAKED
I'm up to actually learn it, but I;m starting with theory.. what exactly do your recommend me to work on the practical part? Can you suggest me a channel or something easy to start? Btw, should I learn chords first?
@@adrim888 seeing as you're learning theory first, practical usually follows. However if you want to get a feel for the piano, find a tutorial on some music you like (I recommend Amosdoll music) and learn those. By doing this you will find it easier to play certain chords, recognise certain progressions etc.
@@IcedKwoffe thank you :)) ill start this week! Got some theory on chords and now its making some sense hehe
@@adrim888 glad I could help :)
Lmfao
You lost me at “let’s begin”
Jose no fucking lie. Lol
Jose same lol
HAHAHAHA
Lost me at “I”
Lost me at the title
Him: “let’s talk about TEMPO”
Me: “woah woah woah slow down”
why do you think he set to 999 BPM
Guys if he was talking to fast, just slow the video down XD
Nice pun lol
“You normally go from 40-250” speedcore go brrr
Tempo - 0:46
Frequencies - 2:06
Notes - 2:56
Scales - 4:15
Chords - 5:53
A hero
A god
this is a very nice guy right here, I respect him more than I respect myself.
skinny legend u r
Tnx💜
Common joke in aeronautical science: "Come on guys, this isn't music theory"
This joke is straight up fire.
Come on*
@@quack2889 oops thank you! Didn’t notice that
@@olivyae3057 no problem :)
"We're musicians, not mathematicians."
This dude-
yeah i saw the video
As an amateur beat making connoisseur, thank you. Music theory and chords have been my biggest enemy with how CLEAN an instrumental sounds and this cleared it up almost completely.
as someone who's been studying music for roughly three years, this is actually a pretty well done video compared to a lot of other "for beginner's" music theory content that i've watched
I've taken piano lessons for 5 years and was playing really advanced songs. I had no music theory my teacher believes that first you have to listen to music then play and then read and learn theory. So when I'd played for 6 months I was playing better than people that had been playing for 3 years. Not all but a lot of people at the concerts I played at thought that I'd played for way longer than I had. But one thing is that I never used the music sheet. They thought that was impressive but I think it's much more impressive to be able to just read and play at the same time. Even a music teacher in school wants me to play piano for a musical even though I don't take music as a course in school. I think it's fun but if you are in the same situation as me. Learn the theory, it opens up so many new opportunities. I can't take requests instantly. I have to learn the song by hard.
but how did you learn the songs? just by memorizing the keys and where to press?? im genuinely curious mnfdgsdfh
neta da bcharts q vcs n conseguiram queimar yeah that’s how i learned
@@tonyhawksmovingcastle I'd like to know too
@EliT sorry, I know it's probably not funny but this made me chuckle 😂
@@tonyhawksmovingcastle Well I think he was saying something similar to what my situation is. I've played piano for years, but am still only average because I never learned theory, or sheet music or anything. If there's a song I like, I just look it up on TH-cam and follow along on guitar hero style tutorials and learn it from sight and about a week or so of hard practice
Wrong.
Scales are pieces of fish skin.
Duh.
😂 😂 😂 💀
Snake also
Oh shit you're right
😋😋✌️✌️
LoL!!!!
You somehow explained everything I learnt in 7 years of classes in 8 minutes. HOW ?
You only learned this much in 7years??
@@laraerdelyi4299 well I didn't really like it-
@@franchementjesaispas5861 I learned this in 1 year of 7th grade orchestra 😭
I think that’s your teacher’s problem at this point
I remember watching this back in my first year of highschool because we had this terrible music theory teacher that would explain things her way and no one coud learn anything from her. But thanks to this video I passed that subject with an A. Thank you for making this video.💕
my boy this is the best beginners guide I've ever encountered. Your editing style, explanation technique and over all length on each subject is exactly right. I have ADHD and have had a difficult time learning music theory I have learned random chunks of it over the years but never linearly and never completely so it's a very scatterbrained way of trying to learn something, While I already knew pretty much all of the info in this video I was still captivated because of the style and clarity it was presented in. Please do more videos delving deeper into theory and please go all the way into the more complex stuff with but presented the same way this video was presented if you can. Great job, keep up the good work.
00:00 - Introduction
00:46 - Tempo
02:07 - Frequencies
04:16 - Scales
02:56 - Notes
05:55 - Chords
Thanks 😊👍
Isn't it given in description
The hero we need but not the one we deserve
thx pro
Brain: how many times are you gonna repeat the vid??
Me: Yes.
Music Theory, pfff, I dont know that song
Omg me neither
J MinGi ARMYYYYY
i have 5 yrs of musical knowledge and this guy comes in and solves all my problems- WAY 2 GO MUSIC LESSONS COS YT JUST SAVED ME!
Dude I've watched a few other music theory for beginners videos already, and I gotta say yours is by far the most comprehensive. That last tip about expanding on the triads and making c major 7 was exactly what I needed
I learned most of this stuff in elementary school. man my music teacher was awesome. no idea how she convinced a group of 2nd graders to understand time signatures.
this is probably the only video that really helped me out. Good editing + Interesting visuals + Simple explanation = Amazing way to teach!!
Agreed.
This is 3rd video I watched after searching for music theory basics. First two were overwhelming and made me cry, I'm autistic. This one however was way easier to follow and you explained this way better. Thanks a lot man
i learned to play piano from this video and now i have songs on spotify, had to come back to say thanks
Go away troll 👀
me after watching this video : *wot.*
Nd we didn't understand anything😂😂
@@dashan2194 true🤣🤣
But hey it's just a theory
A MUSIC THEORY
For fuck sake
AnD~ rEsT
Charles Dinzel Ponce 😭😂😂😂
Lol. I've got music theory on my channel for you. The brain doesn't hurt. I promise 😆🎹🎼
Thanks for watching! :)
I’m taking notes, since quarantine has started our band instructor has left us high and dry and I’m currently learning 3 instruments so thank you for your knowledge, kind sir.
The way you started the video I love what you said not everyone has money for lessons to do the things that they’re passionate about so thank you very much for making this!!❤️💯🙏🏼
This is the best and most straight forward begginer music theory video I've ever watched
Omg please make this more often, this really helps beginner producers!
mediteate for real I wish he had more
Piano With Corey we don't know what we don't know
@@CoreyLennox The whole "chord" section is still pretty tough for me
You're genius. Putting all these in a totally new approach in 8 min. Amazing.
Oh my God, how did you just make 8 failed years of concert band lessons click in under 10 minutes?
Magic
This is actually a really good basic music theory lesson. You cover all of the main concepts in the simplest-possible ways. A lot of "music theory" seems more complicated than it really is because so much of classical music theory terminology is in Italian words.
I have just one thing to add: sheet music, music theory, and strange terminology is not music. No study of music can be productive without sound. Do not stuff your head with words and math. Play an instrument, and you will learn music.
This has gotta be the most info dense video on TH-cam ever.
i think theory is CRUCIAL so i’m glad you made this. hopefully this is gonna help people
Gavin Taylor Music helped me
2:04 *um, I'm actually in a progressive neoclassical folk djent band, we only write in 21/32*
oh yeah I use polyrhythms with all of that stuff in too
Ya well my band consists of the voices in my head and we all play 420bpm sing only backwards, and use cups of hydraulic fluid as our instruments for brand recognition.
@@plantinapot9169 damn, I wanna listen to that stuff lol
We only perform for the old gods though, they’re the only ones who, like, understand
I exclusively produce extratone so I don't really understand the tempo part. Whatever, ugh
Can I have a part 2 pls?
yes
Please
Pls
I want it too
yessssssssssss plsssssssssssssssssss we want PART 2
I didn’t start music courses until I was two years out from graduating from high school. That was back in 2016 and I learned nothing from it because I hadn’t been taught the absolute basics of music theory
In eight minutes, you just taught me everything I needed to know and now so many more things make sense. Thank you so much
thank you sir.
perfect pacing, perfect structure, no long winded meandering, all the essential information and nothing else, no irritating vocal tics or asmr inside the mouth, you didnt feel the need to show your face. just perfect choices all around
excellent work
I took music in high school for 5 years but due to a lack of people wanting to take the class and a terrible teacher, I gained practically no knowledge besides how to shabbily play the Titanic theme. I literally just learned more from your 8 minute video than all of my formal classes combined.
You made a lot of information easy to digest rather than dragging it out. Very easy for beginners to understand, thanks~
You got yourself a new subscriber (^o^)/
Cheers, appreciate it! Glad to hear it helped out 😁
best one i've ever seen...
weird finding a video and seeing a comment from 3 mins ago
akira genesis weird finding a video and a comment from 10 months ago
@@episodeedits9133 it just keeps getting weirder and weirder
Dude, thank you so much. The beginning of the video, for me, was just a repeat of what i learnt in 2 - 3rd grade, but when you explained how to construct majors, minors and their according cords, it opened a whole new can of worms i wasn't expecting to find. This video was genuinely really helpful.
Noting out the white keys from c and dragging to the desired root note is the solution I e been looking for. Thank you!
this was the most helpful 8 minutes in my life, you really explain it having in mind the person watching has no idea, because all the videos i see assume you have the basics and im sat there not knowing what an eq or 3/4 is and basically anything explained goes right past me
Shout out to the month it took for them to edit.
I’m literally a baby, if the graphics keep me I’m there lmao
Super informative 😭😭❤️❤️
me, a guy who has had 5 years of classical piano education: "ah yes, the simple times..."
also the "just use 4/4 if any of this went over your head" now that sounds like me when i try to explain simple music theory to my friend who's trying to learn music theory. i'll just send her this video, since everything you said was correct! thanks!
I love you. Bless
This video teaches me the basic things I absolutely need and felt that I was lacking, in a very quick and concise manner, using a DAW piano roll interface that I'm familiar with. This needs to become the standard method of teaching music theory!
Like geez, why do other people need to make it so complicated and drawn out?
Thank you so much for making this video.
the editing especially in the beginning really impressed me! as an editor myself i can appreciate your editing as i can see it mustve taken an eternity😭😭
i just wish i was as good at editing as i am at making music.. unfortunately i cant even play a song on the piano let alone make one!!!
came out nearly 3 years ago but you rly just made my day. i been wanting to learn music theory but didnt know how to start or what to do and this just comes in my recommended so big ups to you and youtube recommended
I use the number of notes for each space to remember major and minor
Major: 1 1 2 1 1 2.
Minor: 1 2 1 2 1 1
Which means 1 note (space) 1 note (space) 2 notes (space) for the major. Same thing goes for minor.
it's better to use half steps and whole steps, it's just counting the distance between notes
It's probably just as easy and everyone uses it
major scale would be: whole whole half whole whole whole half
And you'll see it's the same pattern, but getting used to this terminology helps a lot
i know this comment is 1 year old lol, just in case a beginner comes across it
I knew about 75% of this video already, but thanks for the triads and chords info really helping with the music production speed
as someone who only knew the difference betweet major and minor chords before, I can say that this video is really helpful
"Simplicity is the key". Simple yet understandable. To those who struggle. Just undrrstand it. If you are a music lover. Or who really understands music. Thanks bro for this.😊
Thanks this helps a lot, my grandma had an old parlor style piano and when I was bored I would tinker with it, eventually I got pretty good but I never really knew why certain keys in succession worked well and why others didn't.
I love how I learned more from a 8 minute video than my 1 year music class oof
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But hey cheers, appreciate it 😁
At 3:24 the piano keys go from B0 to C0 which is incorrect. The correct order would be B0 to C1. Be careful with octaves
TheBest Around Thank you! I am a beginner and got very confused.
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as far as i know an octave starts with a c but i think its different in other coutries (sorry for poor english if anything was wrong)
@@kuchenlieferant3176 It is not different, I can assure you. The only Country that changes that if I'm remembering correctly is Germany and they have a difference between B and Bb they actually use "H" to denote Bb I believe.
I took a piano class in school and you explained things very well. Wish this video was out when I was in school, would have helped so much. Thank you for a great Video!
I'm a grade 6 guitarist and here's a note on chords. The technical way to determine a chord is dependant on what kind it is.
If it's a major chord, a 4 note chord would be the root (the first), third and fifth note of the major scale. For example, C, E and G. The fourth note would be an octave of the root note (in this case C)
A minor chord is the same except you flatten the 3rd note. So for instance, a C minor chord would be consistent of C, Eb and G and the fourth note would be an octave of the root note (C).
Dominant, major and minor 7 chords are more complicated but seeing you guys are beginners I won't get into it.
I hope I was being useful.
Congratulations, the beginning is - in my opinion - the best one about the subject. That's because I actually LEARNED A LOT instead of dropping out because I have no idea what it's built on. Tempo, time signatures, frequencies and notes sections are presented exactly in the order and in such a way what I find the most easily approachable. All others start from a more arbitrary point, usually notes, leaving me wondering why C is a C and not a D, why is an octave an octave, and distract me from learning the actual thing. In the beginning 3 minutes I finally understood more than I've learned from any other musical theory video. And I thought this would be the subject I would never understand, because I've watched so much "music theory for beginners" videos without getting a single a-ha moment. Also, another congrats that this was easy to listen even at 0.75 speed, even if that wasn't intended as such.
me being big confused
yes yes Yes YES i will watch again bc thats what big brain ppl do
Pratice it with the real instrument does help
I play the ukulele and I'm interested in playing other string instruments so I only understood fingers to notes equals chord. And I quit piano years ago so this was very helpful.
I am self-learning from home. This is great. Thank you for tutorial.
great explanation
for me this also works really good knowing minor and major keys
major: whole whole half whole whole whole half (last note is same as the beginning)
minor: whole half whole whole half whole whole (last note is same as the beginning)
(whole is skip 1 note, half is direct note after the other one)
As I'm a beginner I was very much interested in this video but it was quite difficult to follow certain parts. But as I learnt some basic stuff through other materials and had a minimal knowledge, i revisited this video and let me tell you this is really amazing the way you have put together all necessary information in a short video. Now my understanding of chords and scales is higher than i could have imagined :) thank you for this!!
Man I can't thank you enough for the knowledge you imparted to me in just 8'🙏 I've been searching for music theory for so much time and most of them are just too complicated and long, your video was very interactive as well,ty❤
I wrote everything down in my notes while also testing it out on my piano. It’s super helpful!
Minor note, you probably don't ever want to call it an A# major chord. The A# major chord has an A#, a C##, and an E#. It's probably supposed to be Bb. Great video!
Even tho it still hard to understand out of all the videos I have watched about this u made it the most simple and straightforward and I learned more in this one video then the other 5 30 minutes one all together
dude this is so good. love your tricks for quickly figuring out notes in each scale and triads
thank you so much, finally i have some theory about scales that i actually understand
I am putting together a playlist of theory videos for my students and this one almost made it but there are some errors that I can't get over. Right around 3:12 you correctly identify A0, but the very first C on a piano is C1, not C0. Even if somewhere in the world some people might call it something else, C1 is the standard. I really want to include this video for my students, particularly because of some of the little tricks you include. Any chance we can get a re-edit for little corrections? : )
The whole world as far as it is concerned in modern teaching uses the following pattern:
A0 B0 -> C1 D1 E1 F1 G1 A1 B1 -> C2.... And continues on up. So you are correct.
Wow, that's what I call a good tutorial! I understood everything!
I'm very, very thankful for both the fact that you actually SHOWED this using examples instead of text and the fact that everyone in this comment section is struggling. Boy, if I would only get the hang of this, I might perhaps graduate from my Arts and Culture studies.
Hey! Which part did you get stuck on?
This video is amazing. I have been making music by ear for nearly 3 - 4 years, and I’ve picked all these up along the way, but nothing has been this to the point.
This is literally one of a few videos that actually explain chords
This is the best music theory tutorial man thanks!! Earned my sub
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@@peterg9798 Okay you done? Stay quiet please.
@@younghenny8010 naaah, what are you gonna do about it
as someone who did three years of music gcse and got barfed out at the end having SCRAPED a pass,,,, this singlehandedly taught me the relation between scales and chords, as well as how time signatures work (kind of), which is something those three years convinced me i would never understand. thanks!
I just wanted to pause this video to thank you for teaching me something pertaining piano keys as I am currently teaching myself how to play and learn music .
3:10
So just a friendly comment. We actually start octaves at C. So it would be A0, B0, and then C1. Just to let you know!
I finally decided to learn music theory and this is the perfect video.
Good video for beginners for the most part, it's well explained. Just a mistake and a few extra stuff to point out:
The numbering system for octaves is actually A0 B0 C1 D1 E1 ... C2... A7 B7 C8, and not A0 B0 C0 D0... as said in the video.
When you mention the minor scale; you explain the natural minor scale. There is also melodic and harmonic minor albeit the natural minor scale is probably used the most in modern popular music out of these three.
You mention the Dorian mode. In the video, you use the D dorian scale/mode. (This is basically the all white keys from D to D). Relative to a major scale though, this would be 1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 8. There are 7 modes to check out. For example, C dorian would be C D Eb F G A Bb C. After this video, you basically know Ionian and Aeolian (just fancy names for major and natural minor scales respectively, also most popular) modes. So that leaves 4/5 more to check out if you want to get more acquainted.
The way that 7th chords are presented in naming is correct, although the most popular 7th chords would be dominant 7th chords. This just means that you have the 7 actually flat compared to the major 7th, then it would be called C7. (C E G Bb) ie 1 3 5 b7
Maybe the next stuff to learn are the diminished, augmented, and suspended chords ;).
Just thought writing this might help those who are interested to learn more.
i have no idea what you just said 🏃
Augmented chords are practically nonexistent in tonal music and "suspended chords" generally speaking are contrapuntal rather than harmonic in nature.
Also, melodic and harmonic minor "scales" are just mixture between minor and major scales and not really proper scales you should learn, because the way you should mix them is on a note by note basis.
However, I agree that Dominant 7th chords should have been touched upon. Those are the most popular ones by a mile in functional harmony.
You probably won't see this but, wow, I have been trying to understand this for weeks and you just completely made it click...thank you 😌
As someone who is experienced in music theory and is music producer, this tutorial was engaging enough to keep me interested, bravo
0:46 idk what the f is wrong with me but when i heard that ”TEMPO!” i laughed like 5minutes
THIS ACTUALLY HELPED ME ALOT THANK YOU 😭
This was extremely helpful and fun, so thank you for all the time you put into making & editing this. It really is helping a ton of us!!
Dude you are better then my music teacher back in Highschool, got my sub!
It has been 1 year since I started learning fingerstyle guitar and finally someone was able to explain it to me how music theory works! Thank you~