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So today in my class my teacher humiliated me in front of everyone because I didn't understand this topic even though I've been paying attention and taking notes. This video has helped me so much you don't even understand. I was told Id probably fail since I didn't know a question, and now with having this method Ill hopefully prove them wrong. Thank you so much!
Thank you for this. I always taught my students this little trick: to quickly find the name of a key in flats (besides F Major) always check the next to the last flat. That will tell you the key. For # keys always move half step up from the last sharp.
Also useful! I do cover those tricks in my updated key signatures video, though I do find the extra rules and complications a bit cumbersome. Students tend to mix and match the rules. (ie. Up a semitone from the second last flat?)
"Kinda like the way you probably memorized all the street names in your neighborhood, but you probably never studied them" :D Dude, awesome teaching, keep going.
I'm 60 + and still keen to learn music in the keyboard and the sharps and flats were really complicated for me and I'm delighted with the way you share your experience. Thank you.
After 16 years of playing music and taking lessons and learning on my own, I find today that you helped me really understand this. I've been studying your videos for a couple of days and for the first time in my life I kinda start to understand music and think about what might be the key of a song I'm learning based on the first chord... Things I've seen my teachers do but never fully understand... What can I say, except for THANK YOU!!!
I had been trying to remember this rules for the last 2 years... Now I'm done in 6 minutes! Thank you a lot! You are a great communicator and clear teacher!
I took violin for 5 years and never understood key signatures or how to find them. 20 seconds of this video and I already understood more than I ever did before, it finally clicked for me!
This has really helped me! I played piano for churches for many years, but I never took the time to learn these basic facts. It's amazing how you took a difficult subject and simplified it so I can understand. Than you!
Thank u so much. After not really listening to an explanation of these things from a great teacher and having to pay the consequences nine years later, these videos have really helped. Keep ‘em coming.
Omg this made it so much easier! I've been procrastinating to learn since I felt that it was really cumbersome to remember... Didn't think this could be summarised so well within a 6 minutes video!
Oh my gosh. This just blew my ever-loving mind. Thank you so much. And thank you for explaining it with such a nice voice and no extra stuff or droning on like a lot of videos. Just the facts and easy illustrations. Great!
I'm a student from Sri Lanka... i understood nothing when my teachers taught us these scales... but only after watching this video once... i could easily and joyfully learn them all so fast😍🔥 You're a Legend.😍🔥♥️
WoW! WoW! WoW! WoW! WoW! WoW! I'm 56 years old and have been trying to memorize this since High School! I think I can memorize it all now! THANK YOU!!!!
I play most heavy metal on electric guitar and I understood intervals, chords, and modes of the major scale. But I still didn’t understand key signature. Lol. This is helpful. Thanks.
I had to learn everything off by heart as a kid, so I never had the beauty of using tricks and things to help. As a violinist, I have always dreaded having to figure out if the note is flat, sharp or natural especially when it is a note in 3rd position and over, so this video is fairly helpful whenever I get a new piece to practice. Thank you, on behalf of violinists :)
I did years of sight reading competitions in school, and take my children to an old-fashioned shape note singing school every year, and have never understood how to figure key signatures.... i've always waited for someone else to say what key we were in, and then I could read the music... teaching my children music theory now, and I want to fully understand. This was a great, easy to understand, and straight to the point video. Thanks so much!
i literally almost started crying when the notes i was playing didnt sound right there was damn near no information online on how to read the notes correctly you legitimately have no idea how grateful i am because as far as i know, nobody taught me what you did in just the first 30 seconds
60 minutes compressed into 6mins effectively... Mind blowing! One has to surf a lot over internet to gather this information, is on one side and watching your 5-10mins videos on another side...
After suffering through all those wanna be fun vids on this topic, it is incredibly refreshing to see something so simple, well compiled, explained and presented. Very well done.
I’ve been playing the cello for 8 years now, but relied strongly on the physical side of playing so my theory has never been great. I’m aiming to take grade 8 at some point but haven’t done any exams since grade 4. To take grade 8 I need to pass grade 5 theory so am revising for that. This made life so much easier! You explained it super clearly and I understood right away! Many thanks :)
As someone entirely self-taught with music theory, your video clarified my understanding with key signatures. Big thanks! I'll also share a link to your video to explain key signatures for someone else; your video does it a lot better than I can.
I’ve been taking music theory lessons for so long, never understood a thing, and somehow this video made me felt like a ton of knowledge got punched into my brain. Tysm!
I have been looking for this for 2 years, I start music an media classes in Jan. this is first time these signitures have been giving that I am confident I can learn this. Thanks that is just the way of putting them in an order that my mind can grasp. Awesome lesson!
Thank you for a clear explanation! I grew up in a terminology of "diez" and "bemol", and "Do re mi" etc. So re-learning is not so easy, but videos like yours are very helpful! In my life I get to learn different, alternative perspectives all the time, that's my karma I guess. Thank you.
U ARE LITERALLY AMAZING IK IM LIKE YEARS LATE BUT U JUST SAVED ME SO MANY HOURS OF TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS I- I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH I UNDERSTAND THIS NOW THANK YOU TANK YOU THANK YOUUUUUUU
thank you so much ive been in orchestra for 4 years and was taught how to play but never things like naturals, sharps, flats, positions and other things like this, they just seemed to understand unlike me, thank you!
Thank you!!! I needed this info for a uni audition! I can read sheet music, and I did GCSE music... but I don't understand theory at all Edit: F# major, is my favourite key signature and has been for about 6 years, I love it so much!
You are a godsend. Music theory exam tomorrow! It’s all key signatures. Now I’m hoping you have a video on all the relative and parallel minor key signatures
Great video! I did learn to play the violin when I was a kid, but now I can't remember anything and this video is good to start with. Tho I think I'll rewatch it a few more times to make sure it stays in my head. And I'm getting subscribed!
Welcome back! Yeah, this stuff takes a while to really sink in. The more you live with it and actually work it out on your instrument, the faster things will settle down. Good luck!
They call it “evergreen content”! Even if the production values don’t hold up in the future(and I do think my videos have gotten a bit slicker since the first), the content is basically good and useful forever.
Hey somebody else uses a fat cats mnemonic, years ago I learned FCGDAEB by making up: FCGDAEB "Fat cats get dough and eat bread" BEADGCF"bead gets cats fat" Admittedly the flats mnemonic doesn't make much sense, but meh it worked for me.
I've loved all these theory videos and shared them widely! My wish list would include "Everything you need to know about Minor Scale Triads so you don't fail music school in seven minutes".
Wow! That actually helped a lot I just got a bad grade on my music pace and had to restart it because i had no idea how to do this stuff and this really helped thanks.
Worth watching, i was so anxious to know the whole thing that you just taught us and it has been a long time since i was trying to learn but now iam breathing free phew!! 🤩 Thank you God bless you brother 🙏
Take private lessons online with me! Trumpet, brass, theory, composition & arranging, improvisation, or whatever musical/life coaching you’d like to work on. More information at www.bradharrison.ca/lessons
My guy where have you been?
I’ve been here the whole time!
So today in my class my teacher humiliated me in front of everyone because I didn't understand this topic even though I've been paying attention and taking notes. This video has helped me so much you don't even understand. I was told Id probably fail since I didn't know a question, and now with having this method Ill hopefully prove them wrong. Thank you so much!
I’m sorry to hear that happened to you! Great to hear this was helpful though. All the best!
@@BradHarrison Update, I got a 97% on the quiz!!! :)
Hey! That’s great! Congratulations!
Ps I appreciate the update!
@CoryxKenshin ReUpload Humiliating doesn't help at all. It makes you not want to learn or ask questions.
this guy expained what my school can't do in 6 years in 6 minutes
Literally
No fr why am I just seeing this video years later
My favourite is:
“Fame Can Get Dull, And Even Boring...
But Even Actors Deserve Good Cash Flow”
Nice! I like it!
haha this made me giggle
It makes sense and easy to remember! Thanks bro/sis!
Fat Cajuns Get Drunk At Every Bar
James Lee, the best!
Thank you for this. I always taught my students this little trick: to quickly find the name of a key in flats (besides F Major) always check the next to the last flat. That will tell you the key. For # keys always move half step up from the last sharp.
Also useful! I do cover those tricks in my updated key signatures video, though I do find the extra rules and complications a bit cumbersome. Students tend to mix and match the rules. (ie. Up a semitone from the second last flat?)
Yes this strategy is what I learned as a kid and it stuck.
That's how I was taught, too.
yes this was also the trick my piano teacher taught me 20 years ago.
Same was I was taught as well.
you may have just saved my life with this..This was one thing I was having such trouble with
Great! Good luck!
Same😜
"Kinda like the way you probably memorized all the street names in your neighborhood, but you probably never studied them" :D Dude, awesome teaching, keep going.
Thanks so much!
I'm 60 + and still keen to learn music in the keyboard and the sharps and flats were really complicated for me and I'm delighted with the way you share your experience. Thank you.
After 16 years of playing music and taking lessons and learning on my own, I find today that you helped me really understand this. I've been studying your videos for a couple of days and for the first time in my life I kinda start to understand music and think about what might be the key of a song I'm learning based on the first chord... Things I've seen my teachers do but never fully understand... What can I say, except for THANK YOU!!!
So glad things are coming together for you. All the best!
I had been trying to remember this rules for the last 2 years... Now I'm done in 6 minutes! Thank you a lot! You are a great communicator and clear teacher!
I took violin for 5 years and never understood key signatures or how to find them. 20 seconds of this video and I already understood more than I ever did before, it finally clicked for me!
Excellent! Glad I could sort that out for you!
This has really helped me! I played piano for churches for many years, but I never took the time to learn these basic facts. It's amazing how you took a difficult subject and simplified it so I can understand. Than you!
Thank u so much. After not really listening to an explanation of these things from a great teacher and having to pay the consequences nine years later, these videos have really helped. Keep ‘em coming.
The first 30 seconds literally just changed my entire theory of making music. Thank you for a clear explanation with visuals and sound.
Same haha 😂
I was taught "Father Christmas Gave Dad An Electric Blanket", "Blanket Exploded And Dad Got Cold Feet".
Oh same 🙂😌
👍👍"Blanket exploded and dad got CHARRED feet" is more accurate🙂
Hahaha that's good.
This is awesome man.
OMG i wasn't taught this but I made it on my own 😮
Omg this made it so much easier! I've been procrastinating to learn since I felt that it was really cumbersome to remember... Didn't think this could be summarised so well within a 6 minutes video!
check my comment above. it's something that I just realized recently and may help make things even more clear for you.
Finally, reading sheet music is made easier thanks to this video.
I remember when mr. Harrison showed us this video in class. at 3:40 everyone was laughing, great video and great teacher!
*Brad* was your teacher?
U JUST SAVED MY LIFE WITH THIS I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE SIGNATURES ONLY COUNT FOR THAT ONE SPECIFIC LINE, NOT ALL THE NOTES THANK YOUUU
Oh my gosh. This just blew my ever-loving mind. Thank you so much. And thank you for explaining it with such a nice voice and no extra stuff or droning on like a lot of videos. Just the facts and easy illustrations. Great!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!
I'm a student from Sri Lanka... i understood nothing when my teachers taught us these scales... but only after watching this video once... i could easily and joyfully learn them all so fast😍🔥 You're a Legend.😍🔥♥️
Amazing! Glad you found it helpful!
‘You’ll never see a random combination of sharps and flats in a key signature’
Bela Bartok: *proceeds to mix C# and E#*
WoW! WoW! WoW! WoW! WoW! WoW! I'm 56 years old and have been trying to memorize this since High School! I think I can memorize it all now! THANK YOU!!!!
I play most heavy metal on electric guitar and I understood intervals, chords, and modes of the major scale. But I still didn’t understand key signature. Lol. This is helpful. Thanks.
Finally a video which actually makes sense and is simple
Great! Glad to hear it worked for you!
Well done! This has really helped with teaching music theory during online learning.
I had to learn everything off by heart as a kid, so I never had the beauty of using tricks and things to help. As a violinist, I have always dreaded having to figure out if the note is flat, sharp or natural especially when it is a note in 3rd position and over, so this video is fairly helpful whenever I get a new piece to practice. Thank you, on behalf of violinists :)
Excellent! Glad I could clear some stuff up for you.
Thanks!
Thank you!!
YOU. ARE. AMAAAZINGGGG. THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS OMG. YOU'RE LITERALLY SAVING ME WITH MY THEORY TEST TOMORROW.
Honestly the BEST video on learning key signatures!!
Super helpful video! I have a test tomorrow on this and I went from knowing nothing to really having a good grasp on this concept. Thanks!
I did years of sight reading competitions in school, and take my children to an old-fashioned shape note singing school every year, and have never understood how to figure key signatures.... i've always waited for someone else to say what key we were in, and then I could read the music... teaching my children music theory now, and I want to fully understand. This was a great, easy to understand, and straight to the point video. Thanks so much!
Excellent! So glad it helped!
I’ve learned it like this: “Fat Cats Get Dizzy After Eating Birds” and “Big Elephants At Dinner Gobble Curly Fries”
Love it!
This works backwards too Birds Eating After Dizzy Get Cats Fat.
i literally almost started crying when the notes i was playing didnt sound right
there was damn near no information online on how to read the notes correctly
you legitimately have no idea how grateful i am because as far as i know, nobody taught me what you did in just the first 30 seconds
So glad you found the video idea helpful! Lots more similar stuff on the channel if you’re interested. All the best!
Who else is watching this because their music teacher assigned this to them on quarantine?
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Welcome!
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this has to be the best thing ive ever watched regarding key sigs
i was entertained and educated at the same time.. what more could i ask for? Amazing my guy! Keep it up
60 minutes compressed into 6mins effectively... Mind blowing! One has to surf a lot over internet to gather this information, is on one side and watching your 5-10mins videos on another side...
Thanks a lot man
Today is my exam and i didnt know anything about key signatures on the scales
i finally have understood
Thanks a lot
After suffering through all those wanna be fun vids on this topic, it is incredibly refreshing to see something so simple, well compiled, explained and presented. Very well done.
You worked hard for my sub and you deserve it. This was very helpful. Thank you!
I was struggling on reading Clair De Lune and teaching myself the notes, but this finally cleared it up.
Great Video!
I was going 'round in circles' trying to understand this concept, but this video demonstrates it so clearly. Thanks!
Haha "round in circles"? Would those be circles of fifths or circles of fourths?
How is it that in 7 years of music my teacher never helped me understand, yet this dude did it in six minutes. Mr ashby needs to watch this man
I’ve been playing the cello for 8 years now, but relied strongly on the physical side of playing so my theory has never been great. I’m aiming to take grade 8 at some point but haven’t done any exams since grade 4. To take grade 8 I need to pass grade 5 theory so am revising for that. This made life so much easier! You explained it super clearly and I understood right away! Many thanks :)
Brad should deserve a ton. These help so much in class.
this video was so helpful! Im almost 15 and started piano last year on my birthday because of corona my teacher can't teach me so this is helpful
As someone entirely self-taught with music theory, your video clarified my understanding with key signatures. Big thanks!
I'll also share a link to your video to explain key signatures for someone else; your video does it a lot better than I can.
Your teacher lets you study in class before the test: Kalm
Your teacher only lets you study for 5 minutes: Panik
You put it on 2x speed: Kalm
@Katz school has ended: kalm
I’ve been taking music theory lessons for so long, never understood a thing, and somehow this video made me felt like a ton of knowledge got punched into my brain. Tysm!
So great to hear!
This video really helps! I'm always falling behind in my group theory lessons... and this video made me understand all the problems!
Excellent! Glad you found it helpful!
Bro has just eased music classes for me. God bless you
I have been looking for this for 2 years, I start music an media classes in Jan. this is first time these signitures have been giving that I am confident I can learn this. Thanks that is just the way of putting them in an order that my mind can grasp. Awesome lesson!
SUBBED! you’re a lifesaver. I have a midterm tomorrow but this gave me relief!
Anyone else here so they don’t get embarrassed by their teacher?😭
😂
Yeeesssss😅
I’m the teacher
Thank you for a clear explanation! I grew up in a terminology of "diez" and "bemol", and "Do re mi" etc. So re-learning is not so easy, but videos like yours are very helpful!
In my life I get to learn different, alternative perspectives all the time, that's my karma I guess.
Thank you.
Music theory has always somewhat confused me, but your videos are clear as day! Thank you!
I've tried every video for my music students but this is by far the best one. THANK YOU so much for making it so simple to explain :)
This could not be explained any better than that. Great job!
Huge relief. Best explanation and graphics to follow. The circle is nice but your method is much easier to remember.
Dude. This video helped me understand key signatures. Thank you so much for helping make this clear, Brad!
U ARE LITERALLY AMAZING IK IM LIKE YEARS LATE BUT U JUST SAVED ME SO MANY HOURS OF TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS I- I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH I UNDERSTAND THIS NOW THANK YOU TANK YOU THANK YOUUUUUUU
Great demonstration. To the point with simplicity.
I’m just starting out as a self taught, and this is clear as it can ever get. thank you so much! I can finally ready sheets other than C Major
WOW!!! THANK YOU, FOR THIS CONCISE TUTORIAL!!!!!!
Thank you so much for this video! I just could not wrap my head around how key signatures worked, but your diagram was very helpful!
A can't express how appreciative I am for this video.
Great video! What a help! I've been struggling with remembering what notes are sharp or flat in various key signatures. Thank you!
Wow, not the first time someone has tried to explain this to me, but this is by far the *clearest*
Excellent!
Automatic sub... thank god for this man I’m not gonna fail
You will never know how grateful I am for this my friend
Thank you for making this lesson so easy for children like us, it really helped us learning 🙏
Most underrated music channel by far
i have an exam in like 5 hrs on key signatures n this rlly came in clutch LMAO
This video is better than my years of experience of following teacher Holy Moly ! Thank you so much !
This video is great!!! You helped me a lot :) the way how you explained it is most efficient of ever! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much. I haven't understood this for 3 months and you are the first person to properly explain this. Thank you!
Love it and learned a great method! But dude, slow down for us newbies haha
@Bianca Gabela oh how do you do that??
@@EmilyJeanVoice yeah and then it gets laggy
Playback speed?
thank you so much ive been in orchestra for 4 years and was taught how to play but never things like naturals, sharps, flats, positions and other things like this, they just seemed to understand unlike me, thank you!
Thank you!!! I needed this info for a uni audition!
I can read sheet music, and I did GCSE music... but I don't understand theory at all
Edit: F# major, is my favourite key signature and has been for about 6 years, I love it so much!
This has got to be one of the most beneficial music theory videos I’ve ever seen. Thanks
Huge thank my teacher never explained this to me so this helped a lot
Tysm for helping! This really made me understand. Just yesterday in orchestra I didn’t know what the teacher was even talking about.
Thanks for this man. And R.I.P father Charles
Suppose the flats were first, and the sharps were second? Like Charles became Father Charles because he lost his father, then ended the second battle?
Yoooooo this video is PERFECT. THANK YOU
You are a godsend. Music theory exam tomorrow! It’s all key signatures. Now I’m hoping you have a video on all the relative and parallel minor key signatures
I do! Check my channel for the vids on minor scales and another on parallel scales.
Good luck! Let me know how the exam goes!
@@BradHarrison Found it! Sent it to my classes group chat. They say thank you!
~tidings from UNCA music theory 1 class
Excellent! All the best to your music theory class!
Neat and straightforward instruction!
I'm in 8th grade and has been playing violin for 3 years and I still didn't know any of this, but this is very clear and helpful, thank you
Great video! I did learn to play the violin when I was a kid, but now I can't remember anything and this video is good to start with. Tho I think I'll rewatch it a few more times to make sure it stays in my head. And I'm getting subscribed!
Welcome back! Yeah, this stuff takes a while to really sink in. The more you live with it and actually work it out on your instrument, the faster things will settle down. Good luck!
These videos are completely amazing. I just wish I'd found them years ago. Thank you so much. It's really helpful.
Thank you this is the. Best video ever I can never remember using the circle of fifths but with this device it's so easy
No it's not..
Nothing can be the best video
But there is the PERFECT SONG!
Life is fun ft. Boyinaband
That's the official video name
It's been three years since this video's been uploaded, but it's still teaching the kids of the present. This video was so helpful, thanks so much!
They call it “evergreen content”! Even if the production values don’t hold up in the future(and I do think my videos have gotten a bit slicker since the first), the content is basically good and useful forever.
Absolute lifesaver for gcse music
Thanks so much for this video, you have no idea how helpful this is and makes reading key signatures so much easier!! Thanks
Tip to remember the order of sharps and flats:
BEAD.GCF (Bead go call Frank)
FCGDAEB (Fat cats gulp dandelions and eat bushes)
Hey somebody else uses a fat cats mnemonic, years ago I learned FCGDAEB by making up:
FCGDAEB "Fat cats get dough and eat bread"
BEADGCF"bead gets cats fat"
Admittedly the flats mnemonic doesn't make much sense, but meh it worked for me.
In the first 30 seconds, you explained to me what my music teacher couldn't in 2 years...
I've loved all these theory videos and shared them widely! My wish list would include "Everything you need to know about Minor Scale Triads so you don't fail music school in seven minutes".
Triads are definitely on the todo list!
Wow! That actually helped a lot I just got a bad grade on my music pace and had to restart it because i had no idea how to do this stuff and this really helped thanks.
I think I would have actually failed my music test if it weren't for this video.
Worth watching, i was so anxious to know the whole thing that you just taught us and it has been a long time since i was trying to learn but now iam breathing free phew!! 🤩 Thank you God bless you brother 🙏