You are an excellent teacher. I was looking for an answer to a different question, but started watching and your clarity and teaching style drew me in. Grateful for a clearly taught and useful lesson. Thank you.
Thank you for your video! I finally understand how it is "computed" whether a note in a scale is called a sharp of one note or a flat of the next. I went through several videos trying to understand how that is done, but it was your video that explained it well enough for me to finally get it. Thanks again!!!
Thanks for another great video! It really makes sense of how notes and chords are named. It may seem complicated, but it's a lot more straightforward than trying to teach primary school kids spelling, punctuation and grammar! I'm thankful every day that I've retired! 😌
I really appreciate all of the great work you have put into your channel with so many helpful videos like this one. I find your pacing to be just perfect for me. You explain a lot of information clearly without going too slow or over-simplifying. When I watch a video for the first time I often only understand a small portion of it, but it's enough to hold my interest and then I get more out of it after watching again later on. If you went more slowly I wouldn't have the patience to watch again and if you went more quickly I would be lost and not able to watch the whole video the first time through.
I ran into confusion while using MuseScore and wondering if a chord should have a flat or sharp in it. Not quite into my 2nd year without prior music (and pretty old to boot), you explained it perfectly for me. Thank you so much!
Thank you. My biggest question, when I’ve been learning piano always ends up being why? Why do we give the black notes the names they have and why do they change? I feel like I have a better understanding now.
I'm finding my keys a bit too sharp, they're hurting my hands. Have tried gardening gloves but they're having an impact on my dexterity. Have you had this issue? Any advice?
Hi🙂 I'm a big fan of bepop, stuff from Bird, Miles, Monk and Dizzy makes me Dizzy 🙂 I am in love with this music! I can deeply feel it! So what can you recommend me as beginner? specialy, Wich scales schould I concentrate at? Wich Chords? And how can I generally get play this type of music in the long term?
You have great taste! The jazz/bebop 'language' is generally a fair bit more musically sophisticated and to learn that, it's important to have a solid foundation in the fundamentals to build upon. By that I mean obviously the technical side, so practicing even classical stuff and the standard sorts of exercises will help with that. But also a good understanding of basic theory etc, major scales minor scales, building chords, chords of the key, intervals and being able to recognise and play all that stuff easily. Jazz chord voicings tend to use chord extensions, by which I mean adding more notes on beyond 7 chords, so you need to be comfortable with all the basic triads first and 7 chords before you can add more things on and easily see those other notes around them. In terms of scales, of course the standard major and minor scales are the backbone, then pentatonics, blues scales too and learning the major scale modes will be useful as well. Learning about chord numbers and chord progressions is important as in Jazz they often discuss things in those terms, there’s a lot of 2 5 1 progressions for example. I think a great way to get comfortable with foundational chords and progressions etc is to learn ‘pop’ accompaniments, Beatles tunes and that kind of things. Learn some blues too, that’s an important music jazz is rooted in. One final thing, ear training and simple improv practice will be a vital thing if you want to play this music authentically at some point, make sure that you begin that and try and work things out by ear a lot! Getting that bebop vocabulary down is very much a combination of knowing what you’re doing as well as a lot of time transcribing the greats to get a feel for the stylistic elements of that language. Learning the basics of reading will also help too even in a heavily improvised music. If you don't know her, check out Aimee Nolte's channel, incredible musician, jazz pianist and singer
How about when ever u go semitone up u call it flat cause only one version of note can stay in scale so u cant make it sharp. Same way if you crossover to other block like going to black from white in upward direction with tone interval like from E to F# or From B to C# u call later the sharp cause u skip that inbetween note. So if u go to F# from E in any scale its F# always F#. But if u go to F# from F ..its a semitone distance so its flat note so Gb. Same way u if u are going forward but in downward direction i.e. from a black key to white key by a semitone it cant be flat cause u cant go from flat to its normal note. So that black key must be sharp. But if u go from black key to white key with a interval of tone distance downward it got to be flat. Like at corners. From Bb to C or Eb to F ...cause that missed key inbetween must be accounted for. See if there is any exception to this simple rule.. I guess not... But its just flying observation of mine. So all in all. If u go upward direction a semitone.. then that next black key is flat ..up a tone distance black key is sharp. Reverse the logic for downward trend if u go to white with semitone distance that prev black key is flat.. and if tone that prev black key is sharp. And I guess u can extend the logic to directly deal with chords pattern as well. And remember if one black is sharp or flat all sequencial black keys are sharp or flat too. Or simply think if scale starts with black key it has to be flat cause its prev note semitone apart is pure note. i.e. 7th note of scale. 🙏🙏🙏
If you have a scale that starts on a flat/sharp note, why have 2 key signatures for that same scale? Why not just choose one and eliminate the other for convention.
Okay lets see which mixed scale has sharps Db scale... Nope! They all flats. (C#) ..remember u call it Db scale not C# cause it has normal C. And calling C a B# ..I think its too much in my opinion. Though technically u can pseudo proof it right. 😀 D scale ...Yep! Both sharps Eb scale ... Nope! ..all flats. E scale ... Yep! all sharps. F scale ...Nope just one flat Gb scale ... Nope all flats G scale ...yep ..1 sharp Ab scale ...Nope... all flats A scale ...Yep.. all sharps Bb scale. ...Nope 2 flats B scale ...Yep all sharps. So no mixed scale of sharp and flats and D, E, G, A & B has all sharps other have all flats. I mean if me diagnosing things right. 😀 I mean this way u can have just one and only one copy of certain note. Or all different notes in scale. But if its useful that much I dunno.. cause I guess after much experience u start recognising physical Ab black as G# or Ab. No matter how u address it ..it will generate just that physical key in your mind instantly. That is another thing that in music sheet or even playing by ear u prefer address it certain way for consistency or ease. But with enough experience I guess no matter which way someone address it u will instantly get that key image in mind. Baaki yeh alag baat hai hum kuch logic nikal saktey to memorise chord across black and white domain.
like for the comment ! but,,,,, i dont understtand how u count 1 or ( ! ) with alphabetic order MEANWHILE u ''invisible shift '' pressed + number 1 to make it ( ! ) ....... for it be the same combination .......u can not press 1 + shift o make a ( ! ) .......... i mean wtf !!! who does that ! and wtf is Baaki yeh alag baat hai hum kuch logic nikal saktey ????
Can't believe how long it took me to find an explanation like this, thank you!
My 10 year old just announced, "I understand that now". Hallelujah. Thank you for your content.
This video is crazy helpful. As a beginner I was quite confused by this and hadn't come across a good explanation.
Im a piano teacher this video is Excellent😊👍. Well done, very comprehensive. Not many like this on TH-cam. Good job mate.
Super clear! Love the aha moments I got from this
You are an excellent teacher. I was looking for an answer to a different question, but started watching and your clarity and teaching style drew me in. Grateful for a clearly taught and useful lesson. Thank you.
Thank you for your video! I finally understand how it is "computed" whether a note in a scale is called a sharp of one note or a flat of the next. I went through several videos trying to understand how that is done, but it was your video that explained it well enough for me to finally get it. Thanks again!!!
Thanks for another great video! It really makes sense of how notes and chords are named. It may seem complicated, but it's a lot more straightforward than trying to teach primary school kids spelling, punctuation and grammar! I'm thankful every day that I've retired! 😌
I'm glad it helped. Yes, I imagine that could be challenging at times!
Great as always! Thanks for the awsome job!
Guitar player here learning on keyboard to loop with my guitar and harmonica. Your videos have been a huge help! Thank you!
I really appreciate all of the great work you have put into your channel with so many helpful videos like this one. I find your pacing to be just perfect for me. You explain a lot of information clearly without going too slow or over-simplifying. When I watch a video for the first time I often only understand a small portion of it, but it's enough to hold my interest and then I get more out of it after watching again later on. If you went more slowly I wouldn't have the patience to watch again and if you went more quickly I would be lost and not able to watch the whole video the first time through.
I'm getting back into piano after quite some time off. Really appreciating your excellent tutorials! Thanks!
No probs, hope they're helpful for you!
A really well presented lesson with clear explanations throughout. This video would benefit any music student.
This answers exactly what I was looking for. It helps a lot thanks
I ran into confusion while using MuseScore and wondering if a chord should have a flat or sharp in it. Not quite into my 2nd year without prior music (and pretty old to boot), you explained it perfectly for me. Thank you so much!
great job explaining this thank you so much!
Clear explanation, thank you.
that was very helpful, thank you!
So helpful thank you
Thank you.
My biggest question, when I’ve been learning piano always ends up being why? Why do we give the black notes the names they have and why do they change? I feel like I have a better understanding now.
I'm finding my keys a bit too sharp, they're hurting my hands. Have tried gardening gloves but they're having an impact on my dexterity. Have you had this issue? Any advice?
If it’s a ‘major’ issue, then ‘flatten’ the note and then it’ll be a ‘minor’ one
@@PianoFromScratch That's done it, thank you so much!
I'm pointing to a black key on the piano. I ask you "what's this note name?"
What would you say?
Hi🙂 I'm a big fan of bepop, stuff from Bird, Miles, Monk and Dizzy makes me Dizzy 🙂 I am in love with this music! I can deeply feel it! So what can you recommend me as beginner? specialy, Wich scales schould I concentrate at? Wich Chords? And how can I generally get play this type of music in the long term?
You have great taste! The jazz/bebop 'language' is generally a fair bit more musically sophisticated and to learn that, it's important to have a solid foundation in the fundamentals to build upon. By that I mean obviously the technical side, so practicing even classical stuff and the standard sorts of exercises will help with that. But also a good understanding of basic theory etc, major scales minor scales, building chords, chords of the key, intervals and being able to recognise and play all that stuff easily.
Jazz chord voicings tend to use chord extensions, by which I mean adding more notes on beyond 7 chords, so you need to be comfortable with all the basic triads first and 7 chords before you can add more things on and easily see those other notes around them. In terms of scales, of course the standard major and minor scales are the backbone, then pentatonics, blues scales too and learning the major scale modes will be useful as well. Learning about chord numbers and chord progressions is important as in Jazz they often discuss things in those terms, there’s a lot of 2 5 1 progressions for example. I think a great way to get comfortable with foundational chords and progressions etc is to learn ‘pop’ accompaniments, Beatles tunes and that kind of things. Learn some blues too, that’s an important music jazz is rooted in. One final thing, ear training and simple improv practice will be a vital thing if you want to play this music authentically at some point, make sure that you begin that and try and work things out by ear a lot! Getting that bebop vocabulary down is very much a combination of knowing what you’re doing as well as a lot of time transcribing the greats to get a feel for the stylistic elements of that language. Learning the basics of reading will also help too even in a heavily improvised music. If you don't know her, check out Aimee Nolte's channel, incredible musician, jazz pianist and singer
@@PianoFromScratch Thank you very much for the objective, professional and precious hints!
How about when ever u go semitone up u call it flat cause only one version of note can stay in scale so u cant make it sharp. Same way if you crossover to other block like going to black from white in upward direction with tone interval like from E to F# or From B to C# u call later the sharp cause u skip that inbetween note. So if u go to F# from E in any scale its F# always F#. But if u go to F# from F ..its a semitone distance so its flat note so Gb.
Same way u if u are going forward but in downward direction i.e. from a black key to white key by a semitone it cant be flat cause u cant go from flat to its normal note. So that black key must be sharp.
But if u go from black key to white key with a interval of tone distance downward it got to be flat. Like at corners. From Bb to C or Eb to F ...cause that missed key inbetween must be accounted for.
See if there is any exception to this simple rule.. I guess not... But its just flying observation of mine.
So all in all. If u go upward direction a semitone.. then that next black key is flat ..up a tone distance black key is sharp.
Reverse the logic for downward trend if u go to white with semitone distance that prev black key is flat.. and if tone that prev black key is sharp.
And I guess u can extend the logic to directly deal with chords pattern as well.
And remember if one black is sharp or flat all sequencial black keys are sharp or flat too.
Or simply think if scale starts with black key it has to be flat cause its prev note semitone apart is pure note. i.e. 7th note of scale.
🙏🙏🙏
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If you have a scale that starts on a flat/sharp note, why have 2 key signatures for that same scale? Why not just choose one and eliminate the other for convention.
Okay lets see which mixed scale has sharps
Db scale... Nope! They all flats.
(C#) ..remember u call it Db scale not C# cause it has normal C. And calling C a B# ..I think its too much in my opinion. Though technically u can pseudo proof it right. 😀
D scale ...Yep! Both sharps
Eb scale ... Nope! ..all flats.
E scale ... Yep! all sharps.
F scale ...Nope just one flat
Gb scale ... Nope all flats
G scale ...yep ..1 sharp
Ab scale ...Nope... all flats
A scale ...Yep.. all sharps
Bb scale. ...Nope 2 flats
B scale ...Yep all sharps.
So no mixed scale of sharp and flats and D, E, G, A & B has all sharps other have all flats.
I mean if me diagnosing things right. 😀
I mean this way u can have just one and only one copy of certain note. Or all different notes in scale. But if its useful that much I dunno.. cause I guess after much experience u start recognising physical Ab black as G# or Ab. No matter how u address it ..it will generate just that physical key in your mind instantly.
That is another thing that in music sheet or even playing by ear u prefer address it certain way for consistency or ease.
But with enough experience I guess no matter which way someone address it u will instantly get that key image in mind.
Baaki yeh alag baat hai hum kuch logic nikal saktey to memorise chord across black and white domain.
like for the comment ! but,,,,, i dont understtand how u count 1 or ( ! ) with alphabetic order MEANWHILE u ''invisible shift '' pressed + number 1 to make it ( ! ) ....... for it be the same combination .......u can not press 1 + shift o make a ( ! ) .......... i mean wtf !!! who does that ! and wtf is Baaki yeh alag baat hai hum kuch logic nikal saktey ????