As Much MUSIC THEORY As I Can Teach In 1 hour

started streaming play some notes at the beginning or something [Music] what's up everyone okay we're gonna do a thing here never done before i'm gonna teach you as much music theory as i can from scratch in one hour okay we're also going to have a mega sale our annual mega sale 65 off my beyo book bundle 700 pages pdf and 45 off my beater ear training course if you ever thought about getting it and you're wondering when the lowest price is going to be it's today i don't mean to be that guy but i'm gonna teach you stuff anyways right here on the video okay we're gonna start from the beginning but we're gonna get pretty in-depth here okay in one hour we can do a lot in one hour so think of this as a mega white board lecture okay music theory now for those of you that don't know your key centers i drew the circle of fifths this is something that you want to memorize okay in this circle of fifths it has in the interior the number of sharps or flats in each key these are major keys okay k of c has zero sharps or flats g has one sharp d has two sharps as three sharps if you go this way in a flat direction f s one flat b flat has two flats e flat is three flats okay okay great well what are those flats well down here we have an order of sharps and order of flats okay now there's a way that you can remember these bob evans ate donuts got crazy fat that's the flat one i'm reading this billy wrote that for me i just memorized it i'm i'm good at memorizing but people need these things bob bob evans ate donuts got crazy fat no offense if there's a bob evans out there could be bill evans could be uh anybody um and the order of sharps fat cats go dead after eating burritos go dead okay fat cats go dead after eating burritos there's other ones on here that i'm sure some of you have that are that are actually better than these even but these are your order of sharps and flats okay so how do you use this chart very simple let's say i take a key a major you take the alphabet and you write from a a b c d e f g you write seven letters here now you look at your order of sure you look where a major is on here right you say a well that's got three sharps what are the three sharps take the first three f sharp c sharp g sharp so go in here f sharp c sharp g sharp that is an a major scale that's simple right let's say that we uh can't find our eraser billy where's our where's my eraser uh oh it's right here hold on hold on let's say we take a flat scale like uh i don't know i will say uh e a flat major so i'm gonna put a flat in the key signature there no let's not do a because we just did a let's do e flat major e flat uh so write out f g a b c d right i wrote out seven letters starting from e there's three flats in there what are the first three flats b flat e flat a flat so b flat we already have e flat so there's your e flat major there's your three flats b flat e flat a flat so that's e flat major um you could use a better eraser than that billy or paper towel of help actually um okay once you know this key centers here right you can figure out what any major or minor key is you say well what about minor keys well minor keys are related in this way okay um every major key has a relative minor every minor key has a relative major if i go here and i put a that's a minor it's always a minor third below e b a goes down to f sharp i i write them in lowercase uh letters here because that's usually what you do for minor keys e goes down to beam uh to uh d um c sharp minor b is g sharp minor i don't have quite enough room here but f sharp is d sharp major uh let me go over here this is b flat minor this is f minor i should have written it a little bit closer i'll write it on the other side even though that doesn't look look good here this is c minor uh this is um g minor and this is d minor it's confusing to me because i don't usually write these on the other side all these are in my biato book you go in circle fifths basically the first thing you learn other than intervals okay f sharp is d sharp minor okay or g flat is e flat minor okay those are the flats for those so those are called relative minors what's up billy so we say relative minor so that's a that means it shares the same key signature as the relative major key okay so a major right shares the same key signature has the same number of sharps and flats as f sharp minor okay well so what does that mean that means if i want to write an f sharp minor scale i start at f sharp right i write out the same letters g a b c d e i write out seven letters i go here there's three sharps whatever they f sharp c sharp g sharp c sharp g sure this gives me an f sharp minor scale okay natural minor the other name for it is aeolian but we just call it the natural minor scale okay so this is how you figure out major and minor scales well we have another way that i like to talk about major minor scales okay and it's this way i like to use a number system one two three four five six seven this is what i call the major scale okay so that would imply a certain uh set of notes in c major c d e f g a b c okay so here's your c major scale all white notes there right no black keys in it because c has zero sharps or flats all right now if we say that every major key is one through seven here you can derive any other scales using this formula based off a major okay so it's like well what is even saying i don't even understand okay let's say i want to write a minor scale if i take a major scale and i'll write a c major scale here f g a b and i tell you that the formula for a minor scale is flat three flat six flat seven so i flat the third flat the six flat the seven i go down here e flat a flat b flat okay this is a c minor scale it's also c aeolian we'll talk about that in a minute aeolian is the other name for natural minor okay like i said this is all in my beato book and all these things are tested in my beato ear training course i'm having my mega sale today i'm going to keep selling um so only one we do in the year of this 65 percent off my biato book uh instagram youtube transcription bundle 700 page pdf and my beato ear training course it's the lowest price that we've had this is the formula for miners for a minor scale okay so every scale has a formula it doesn't matter what kind of diminished scale whole tone scale you know mixolydian scale they all have formulas and what you do is you memorize the formulas okay we're going to talk about chords first using this same numbering system we're going to take a major scale one right here again one two three four five six seven there's our major scale and i'm gonna say we're in this key of c major once again and there's a series of chords that are in this key they're called the diatonic chords of c major 1 2 3 4 five six seven they're built off each scale degree or each note if i take the first third and fifth note of the scale i get a c major chord right that's the what we call the one chord if i build a chord off the next set of notes uh whoops d f a you just go every other note that's a d minor chord d minor that's the two chord the two minor chord okay and this continues on i'm going to show you on the keyboard okay so here's a c major scale okay all these white notes if i take c e g so the first note the third note the fifth note of the scale that's c major if i just move up each scale degree d minor e minor f major g major c it's every other note in the scale a minor b diminished and then back to c okay those are the triads of c major so all keys all major keys have the same succession of triads in them okay so we're going to do c major c major d minor minus means minor shortcut e minor f major g major a minor b diminished the one chord the four chord and the five chord that means the chords built on the first note of the scale the fourth note of scale and fifth note of the scale are all major chords one four five one okay those are your major chords major diatonic chords two three and six are minor they're indicated with minor roman numerals so one four and five is major two three and six are minor chords and then on the seventh scale degree we have a diminished triad okay these are called the diatonic chords of c major you also have a series of seventh chords if i add an extra note so i'm skipping it see i'm skipping a note so it's every other note of the scale you have a series of seventh chords so this is your c major seven then d minor seven e minor seven f major seven g seven a minor seven b minor seven flat five it's going fast isn't it right so your siri your seventh chords these are your triads your triads in c major your seventh chords in c major are going to be c major seven d minor seven e minor seven f major seven g seven a minor seven then b minor seven flat five we call that a half diminished chord okay and the roman numerals are the same except i got one major seven two minor seven three minor seven four major seven right just copy what it says there five seven six minor seven and seven minor seven flat five right shortcut for this is half diminished this is a half diminished symbol okay these are the seventh chords of c major okay all major keys follow the same pattern major seven minor seven minor seven major seven dominant seven minor seven minor seven flat five the triads are the same major minor minor major major minor diminished okay you just have to memorize it it's all in my be auto book you start at the beginning and you start memorizing understanding music theory is memorization okay the same thing when you watch on these when i do my top 10 spotify things you see me figure out the songs really fast i'm using what i call predictive ear training when i hear the first chord in a song i'm like and i said mention this two weeks ago or so i made your training video i said okay hmm i hear a um i hear an f major chord right i hear this chord or let's say it's down here [Music] and then the next chord i'm like okay well i don't know what key it's in because there's three major chords just in the key of c and f is one of them could i be in the key of f major i don't know but if i hear this part next oh i hear a c and f well i still could be an f major but if i hear this g then i know oh i'm definitely in the key of c major because f c and g are in the key of c major okay so when i'm listening to a song a pop song or whatever typically they're going to be one four five or six sometimes on good songs you have different chords okay and i've demonstrated with bands like radiohead or the beatles or whoever i mean there's there are people that still write songs that don't use those same four chords everything i did in my video the other day when i was talking about songs songwriters songs from the 70s essentially were songs that are way more sophisticated they have moving lines that have way more chord changes that modulate all over the place those kind of songs you really need to understand this stuff for okay but the predictive ear training that i'm talking about is i hear one chord i'm like okay i that chord's a major chord so it's one of the it's either going to be one four or five in a key as soon as they hear the second chord i pretty much know what the rest of the chords are gonna be so i can instantly react that's what my ear training course does it teaches people to instantly react you listen to the interval of the uh from the bass if i hear duh i'd say oh that's a perfect fourth down i hear f major then i hear c major then i hear g major and then i hear a minor so i'm seeing you the bass notes there because i can hear the relativ [Music] is what i did so f c g a but i hear f down a perfect fourth upper perfect fifth up a major second i'm hearing those intervals and as soon as you hear the interval of the bass note and the quality of the chord whether it's major minor you got it okay that's why they they're so easy to figure out these songs any song is easy to figure out if you know music theory and you know basic if you can hear intervals and and hear the quality of chords okay so this formula stays the same for all major keys okay now if i if i do the same thing here i'm going to start again with c major so c d minor e minor f major g a minor b diminished okay so each of these like i said one two minor three minor four major five major six minor seven diminished each of these has an associated mode you know about modes right you've heard about modes well the one chord has a mode that goes with it and it's always ionian ionian is the one mode the one chord mode okay so ionian the two mode is dorian that goes with the two chord is this weird for me to write it this way i don't care this is how it is in my book actually it's actually really easy the three chord uh well it's easy unless you can't spell like like me um is phrygian the four the fourth mode is lydian uh lydian mixolydian goes with the five chord i'll abbreviate aeolian goes with the six chord and locrian goes with the seventh chord ionian is the one more one mode dorian is the two mode fridging is the three mode lydian is the fourth mode okay it goes with the fourth chord so that's how you memorize this you simply say the one chord ionian two chord dorian three chord phrygian four chord lydian five chord mixolydian six chord aeolian seven chord locrian that's simple it's actually that simple it's just memorizing but these particular modes if they are just out in the on the ether and i have a mode and i say okay i say rick uh let's say i have a thing like this okay this what kind of a chord is this and i'd ever think oh that's probably a that sounds like a lydian chord because i hear i hear that scale that goes over that chord that's a lydian chord because i'm really describing that really describing that chord i have c major in the bass and i have these notes this note up here this f sharp note the sharp four that note is the lydian note that's the note that really differentiates this from a major scale if i had let's say something like that i'd call that maybe an ionian chord right this might be a mixolydian chord okay because it has a particular sound to it [Music] okay so every mode has a sound because it has a formula okay the mode formulas go like this ionian once again we already went over this one two three four five six seven it's a major scale okay what do you do to a major scale to get dorian i'll write out the notes here you flat the third and you flat the seven that is the formula for the dorian mode so if i take a c major scale these notes and i flat the third and i flat the seventh note flat third and then i flat the seventh that is the dorian the c dorian mode okay so this is really what do you do to a major scale to get these these are called parallel scales okay has the same tonic tonic being c so what do i do with a c major scale to get c dorian to get c phrygian to get c lydian to get c mixolydian and you get c a only and c locrian i told you it was going to go fast right so each of these things has a formula the third mode uh brother cannot spell phrygian today uh ah two times lydian mixolydian sorry if i'm abbreviating aeolian it's all in my book logarian and ear training course okay the formulas phrygian has a flat two it has a flat six flat seven and a flat three flat two flat three flat six flat seven lydian i already said is a major scale with a sharp four mixolydian is a major scale with a flat seven aeolian is a major is a is a minor scale or a major scale it's really a minor scale but it's a major scale you flat the third flat the six and flat the seven that gives you an aeolian which is natural minor one two flat three four five flat six flat seven locrian has one flat two flat three four flat five flat six flat seven these are the formulas for the modes the formula means what do you do to a major scale to get these particular modes okay so if i take a c major scale and i follow this formula let's say i want to get c mixolydian i take c major scale [Music] and i've flat the seventh note of the scale b flat that's c mixolydian let's say i want to get a a phrygian scale if i i flat the two flat to three flat to six flat to seven that's phrygian um aeolian flat three flat six flat seven locrian flat the low grade is one flat two flat three four flat five flat six flat seven back to one okay so i'm just i know what all these things are i know the formulas all these i'm executing them i'm taking a major scale i could take d major scale and chain and and once you know this circle of fifths you know how to create a scale then you can actually create the modes from any of these major scales that's why learning the circle of fifths is so important it's the basis of everything really right knowing what notes are in each key okay so these are the formulas for the modes of the major scale all right discount code rb 1000 this is the um our annual sale 65 off uh my beyo book youtube instagram transcription bundle if you check out my quick lessons on instagram a lot of those are in there uh the transcriptions of them and then my beato ear training course 45 off that being able to recognize these sounds right like when i hear a sound a chord it's one thing to hear just major minor chords but when i hear that i'm like [Music] i hear those notes as they're being played why because i have a trained ear and when i go da da i go i don't know the names of the notes i don't have perfect pitch but i hear da da da da da and i say oh that's an add 9 chord well i'm looking at it and i know it's a c hat nine chord you guys know it's a cd9 because you're seeing it on the screen now right c9 if i da da da da that would be a lydian add nine chord because it's got the sharp four and the two okay i could put uh in it instead one two four five right anything that i want to to sing when i hear it i know what the chords are i know what the relationship is if i hear something like this i hear this [Music] right so i'm hearing all those notes in the chord out of here to see oh that's the major seventh that's the third sharp five natural six okay so um i can identify these chords by the sound of them so when i hear a chord progression even if there's an extra note if i hear a chord like this or i did i played by accident that's a minor 13 with the 11. i just know it by the sound once again talked about this last week developing a vocabulary of recognized sounds okay it's really important if you want to learn how to figure out songs fast like when i did my singer songwriter thing this week part of that exercise of making the video was actually figuring out the arrangements because basically it's like me doing 20 what makes this song great so i'm listening to to whatever neil diamond and i'm hearing the there's a whole brass section to it and i figure out that i was like whoa that's amazing then there's a string part and i quickly write them out right so i'm looking at the notes i write i get my staff paper i just write the note names down and as the thing is being played i play right along whatever the string part is whatever the horn parts are if they're in six i recognize it instantly right this is without perfect pitch this is using relative pitch you can't separate music theory and ear training ear training is music theory because you have to know what to call things and that brings me to my next point some of you might have said well why didn't you start with intervals well i want to talk about intervals now because intervals are really important to music they are the building blocks of music but i think that you should understand keys because um understanding keys helps you to learn songs faster intervals are more uh the the elements of chords how they're broken down the atomic elements of chords right so our intervals we have the minor second major second minor third major third when we indicate a minor second interval it's with a lower case so the number of half steps one half step two half steps three half steps four half steps then you have the perfect fourth p four means perfect that's five half steps then you have the tritone that could be augmented fourth or diminished fifth that's six half steps uh perfect fifth minor sixth uh major six i wish it all fit i'm gonna have to erase this sorry sorry for those of you that are here for that i'm gonna erase that uh major six minor seven major seven and then perfect eighth is the octave so these are the number of half steps seven eight nine eleven twelve twelve half steps in an octave okay so these are the half steps so from c to d flat is a minor second that interval is a minor second it's one half step okay you can see it on the piano keyboard here right c to d flat two half steps is a major second three half steps is a minor third four half steps major cert five half steps is a perfect fit uh fourth six half steps is a tritone could be augmented fourth diminished fifth depending on the context perfect fifth okay right here seven half steps minor six is eight half steps when i say eight half steps i mean that's one two three four five six seven eight a major six intervals nine half steps minor seventh interval is ten half steps major seventh interval is eleven half steps and a perfect eighth or an octave is 12 half steps okay you build chords from intervals you build everything from intervals melodies they're all built from intervals so be able to figure out a melody you have to understand what the intervallic relationships are now you can do it a couple different ways because you can use chord progressions to hear to hear melodies right you can hear that let's say i've got um [Music] the melody goes that note it's like well that sounds like the four chords so i'm using i hear that note it's like yeah that's part of the five chord there i mean i can from the chord progression i can tell what the melody notes are too right but really the value of knowing intervals is to understand melodic lines and uh and how to figure them out by ear instantly so if you're hearing something you know exactly what you're hearing you understand if i go [Music] so that note i heard i wanted to play that note that major seventh interval that b i played okay so any interval that i want to hear if i'm playing a melody if i'm improvising i can play it and play the right note hopefully every time sometimes your chops don't quite get to the notes you know it's tricky that's the value of knowing this knowing these intervals you can see it right there with the demonstration of hearing these things right so this is an important thing to memorize as well every chord has a formula a major chord let's say c major c e g has a series of intervals a major third here a minor third from e to g and between the outer voices is a perfect fifth that's the formula the intervallic formula for a major chord so c major major third minor third perfect fifth that is the structure of a triad okay make sense [Music] a minor chord has the opposite intervals so c minor would be c e flat g right so on the bottom we have the minor third and the top we have the major third and on the outer voices we still have the perfect fifth okay so cd is a minor third uh c to e flat's a minor third e flat to g is a major third and c to g is a perfect fifth so that is the formula for a c minor chord or any minor chord if i want f minor minor third major third perfect fifth there's your formula every chord has an intervallic formula i prefer to use the number system though i think it's actually easier and the number system goes right back to my one so if you know major scale is one through eight right what's the formula for a major uh for a major chord one three five first third fifth note of a major scale minor one flat three five whoops geez diminished triad is one flat three flat five and an augmented am i off the screen yet i'll go to over here augmented is one three sharp five okay those are your formulas for your basic four triads well i happen to talk about other triads too like one four five that's c sus4 so sus4 triad is one four five a sus2 triad one two five and why do i talk about these because they're important yes they're in versions of each other they can assess to a sus4 css4 and fss2 are just the same notes just reordered but they very commonly come up in tunes right i also talked about the lydian triad one sharp four five okay lydian one sharp four five whoops am i off the screen yet one no one sharp four or five that's a lydian triad um then there's some more esoteric sus4 flat five um phrygian triad is another common one one flat two five okay uh once again these are all in my book not only are they in my book they're in the ear training course too and you might say why would you have these things well i'll tell you a lot of pored voicings orchestral jazz chords rock words whatever you can take these little triads and put them over different bass notes i can take [Music] and i play to see i sing the note before i play it that e so that that's giving me [Music] okay that is a huge aeolian chord there i'm hearing this [Music] that sound i hear the e and i hear that [Music] that scale over it right that's the aeolian scale but i hear this little harmonic segment in the middle of the chord voicing and i recognize that right and i use that [Music] okay so my ear knows what all those intervals are i'm like oh that's an aeolian voicing i hear [Music] one flat three flat six the nine or the second and then the third again right [Music] those are all aeolian sounds beautiful to me that's i love that sound [Music] okay that's why these little uh type voicings here if i have this and i put in the bass that's a minor 11 chord i just know if i put da that would be a aeolian voicing right or a minor with a sharp five minor some sure so these little triads all chords are basically triads over bass notes if i play e minor put a c in the bass well that's c major seven c major seven is really an e minor chord with a c in the bass okay so there's chords within chords within chords that's why this stuff is so important to know there are so many layers of it okay we're going to talk about another layer we're going to move beyond the diatonic chords of the key of c and we're going to get the other chords what do we call the secondary chords okay so the key of c major we got c d minor e minor f g a minor b diminished okay remember minus equals minor that's very better minus oh the sale for today's live stream is my mega annual sale i do once a year discount code rb1000 65 off my biato book instagram youtube transcription bundle 700 page pdf and 45 off my beato ear training course i only do this sale once a year i don't even do it at uh on black friday or anything right these are the diatonic chords of the key of c major i'm gonna say c with a circle on it okay one once again two three four i keep writing these out the more i write them out the more you're gonna remember okay now they have a series of secondary chords that we called secondary we call secondary dominant chords okay they're related to the two chord three chord four chord five four and six chord secondary dominant chord here is a that's the secondary dominant chord that's called the five dominant chords are always called the five chords a five of two well there's a five of three chord here which is b major b major is a fifth above e minor so this is called the five of three then you have the five of four which is c major this uh whoops sorry good thing i have an eraser five of four then you have the five uh five of five which is d major this is five of five billy how am i doing on time is uh e major this is five of six these are called secondary dominant chords secondary dominant chords okay if you're gonna move out of the key of c your first layer of chords you would typically go to are these chords right if i'm in the key of c and i have um let's say i want to use uh a secondary dominant like um c then i go to b major then i go to e minor okay that would be this b major is a secondary it's a five of three okay so one i could go one four oh five of three to 3. sounds cool right that's using a secondary dominant if you want to write songs you learn these extra chords right they're borrowed chords we can call them and there's another series of chords that come from other keys from from the parallel keys right you can have um there's another series of borrowed chords that come from for example c minor c minor has a a different set of chords c minor okay this is the parallel minor key um uh if we look at oh we don't have our circle fifth so c minor has the note c d e flat f g a flat b flat c okay so there are three different chords in this key built off these three black notes okay because all the c majors all the white keys and these three e flat a flat and b flat have our major chords right so in this key our borrowed chords from the key of c minor we have the the e flat which is the flat three major we have b flat which is the flat 7 uh flat 7 major very common to use flat 7 major and we have a flat which is the flat 6 major okay so if i'm in the key of c okay and i go to a flat whoa what is that then maybe go to a flat was a flat six major here they're like wow that is really cool or i go one two flat three major to four maybe the four minor which we're going to talk about right now c major okay i played a four minor chord probably the most common borrowed chord that you're gonna see the four minor chord that would be f minor that is written like this okay four minor chord you can also have a four major chord g minor this would be uh i'm sorry i mean a five minor chord lowercase so that'd be g minor so you're in the key of c let's say i go c f [Music] g major g minor [Music] back to c i love that i love that g minor to c major is a really cool sound right you hear the four minor or the five minor right i made it minor minor seven but that's okay i like that that'd be g minor seven that sounds cool or you can maybe go five minor seven right i want to see sus that to me is a really so 1 4 5 minor you hear all these things you can you're like wow i could totally use that in the song well what other chords you have well basically you could have a flat two major it's a d flat major is your flat two major that's another borrowed chord you have the major three e major major three chord very common okay you can have your uh augment you could have your sharp four so i could have f sharp major so this is going to be your um sharp four major like this or it could be g flat and you'd be flat five major right g flat would be flat five major these things the e major is very common we always use that that's like the radiohead right [Music] except that i didn't do the four minor right radiohead [Music] okay um so these are other borrowed chords here uh we have a flat major we have a flat minor so you can have a flat minor which would be your minor six um uh would be a minor six chord right here right not a minor six chord but uh and then you have um then you can have your minor your flat seven minor b flat minor is flat seven minor okay these are borrowed from other keys you're like well where do you use these things well you know i demonstrated uh everything in its right place radiohead in one of the videos recently [Music] there's your flat two major kind of a [Music] oh so moody right you got your flat two major flat three major four major one flat two flat three and four right it's great sound much more emotional when you start taking these borrowed chords and using them then boring one four five six chord progressions or four one five six or four one six five or six five four one or six five one four that pretty much accounts for most pop songs here on the radio usually you hear two five when i did it rocket man the other day the verse in rocket man i uh what was it he said so racket man two uh this is the two chord and to give f g minor to the five chord two then okay then we're at e flat major e flat b flat over d c minor c minor over b flat f ellen john changes keys all over the place why because he's a great writer he's a genius i mean these these chord progressions of these songs are so good this is why i go back and i talk about these old songs because they had amazing chord progressions and melodies not only that they had incredible arrangements too um and there's so much to be gathered from it take modern sounds right get your get your laptops open it up open up ableton and use these devices to create contemporary music that borrows the harmonic structures but with contemporary sounds that's a whole reason to go back and learn from things from the past right people have been over this territory for years all these kind of things right these borrowed chords though give you all the knowledge that you need to have to write songs not only that but they teach you how to hear any chord progression right if you can follow the intervallic relationship of the bass note and know what the chord qualities are whether they're major minor or maybe they could be add 9 chords or lydian triads or whatever once you can figure out what the base structure is and follow the chords above it's easy did i mention that we're having a sale today our annual mega sale i don't mean to be a sales guy here but i want you guys to actually take something from this other than screenshotting the board here okay you need to have it where you look at it you pull it up on your ipad or your tablet and you study this stuff and you memorize it you take a pencil you know i have my ipad pencil that i write with and i write notes on the things rb1000 is the discount code for uh the my biato book youtube instagram transcription bundle 65 off and my beato ear training 45 off it's the biggest sale that we've had that we will have all year in 2021 i want you guys to learn this stuff if there's any time you're like you know i'm am i going to get the biato book yeah maybe i'll get it today or am i going to check out the ear training course yeah i'm going to check it out today and honestly that's what supports this channel if you want to support the channel that's how you can do it i mean that's really the only way this video won't be demonetized but you know when i did my peter frampton video that was demonetized when i do all my list videos the lydia video i did even though there's covers they're demonetized it's revenue sharing but it's not it's nothing right um and you know probably 60 of my videos are demonetized it's just that's just the way it is it doesn't matter i want to use songs to teach i want to use classic songs i don't use all kinds of songs they can be brand new songs to teach when i'm going over the top uh the songs on spotify i'm talking about the chord progressions on there taylor momsen she had her song that was in seven i'm talking about the time signature that it's in i play the riff i talk about the chord progressions i talk about the melody the type of notes that are being used all these things are you need to to have this language music theory is the language of how music is put together right that's why this stuff is so important to study how do you study it well this is the really the key for me i'm a i'm a visual learner believe it or not you think that i'm i'm an audio learner i i made a video about how i i have a um a learning disability a reading comprehension i can read i never read books i don't i i just because i don't i can't comprehend them because i think i i've always had add or adhd or whatever it is i'm undiagnosed but i'll read i made a video about it you should check it out um it was i made it the other day i can read three pages of something and if i get to the bottom of the third page i have no idea what i've read i couldn't tell you anything about it nothing and but when i look at something though if i look at the circle of fists i just stare at it and i can see it in my mind when i tell stories on my channel i can see them as if they're right in front of me i'm transported back to 1974. i'm transported back to 1985 or 1991 and i remember what it was like seeing smells like teen spirit come on 120 minutes at midnight uh in in august of 1991. i remember the debut of the video and i was like what is this i mean i knew nirvana already but it just blew me away but i can see these things right i can see the pages when i'm looking at theory that's why i can write out all the formulas for these things because it's like i'm looking at a piece of paper in front of me i can see it but most people don't learn that way that's why you have things like bob evans ate donuts got crazy fat when i read that i can't remember that for some reason i don't know why if i look at it i can remember it now but when i just read it it just kind of goes in one ear and out the other i just memorized it from i just know it from seeing it on the paper and that's why having things to uh to uh devices that you use to retain this stuff are really important right that's why i like to use groupings so once again in a major key there are groupings and i remember this for my first guitar lesson 1 4 and 5 are major chords right two three and six this was in my first guitar lesson our minor chords and the seventh chord oh bad uh is diminished that triads these groupings are very helpful learning with groupings okay they call it chunking actually it's a memory thing right you learn in chunks if you were to learn a long number pi 3.1415 926-535-8979-323-84626-433-83278 one eight eight nine seven one six nine three nine nine three zero five so that's chunking right there i was reciting pi okay why because i can see pi in my mind but i see it in chunks three point one four one five nine two six five three five eight nine seven nine three two three four okay i think billy's over there billy are you looking at pi right now to make sure i'm right no uh anyways if those of you that want to check me on pie there you can check me on pie uh but this is how you learn things you learn them in groupings like this well this grouping here 145 that's the blues oh it's just a one four five progression that's what they mean one chord four chord five chord one chord i did inverted five chord there um so that's the that's the the that's the deal with with learning right you take them in chunks you find relationships between things like in the if you're learning the modes three modes that are related the three major modes are ionian uh lydian and mixolydian why because they're the one four and five modes they're the major modes they're they go with major chords right and lydian that goes with a four chord is a sharp four major scale with a sharp four mixolydian is a major scale with a flat seven there's only one note different than the major scale the minor chords get a little trickier okay so you just have to memorize those but your minor modes are dorian phrygian and aeolian and then your diminished mode is locrian okay so these are when i go and write out the formulas and i'm just like oh yeah ionian one through seven dorian has a flat three flat seven virgin has flat two i'm sorry flat two flat three flat six flat seven lydian sharp four mixed lydian flat seven aeolian flat three flat six five seven low cream flat two flat three flat five flat six flat seven i see it in my mind that's why i can write it out this is the whole key to you learning these things in my beyo book you go through and you start at the beginning and you start to memorize these things you write them out look at the page take a piece of paper right draw a circle on it make a make a clock c g d a e b f sharp d flat a flat e flat b flat f back to c zero c has zero sharps and flats g major is one sharp d major is two sharps a major is three sharps e major has four sharps b major has five sharps so on and so forth you just write this stuff down and you will retain it eventually this is how you actually learn music theory once you learn the scales and then you learn all the chords associated with each key you can learn any song you can learn any melody right you gotta train yourself with the intervals that's the other thing uh for the hearing part of it and then you develop what i said last week is your um your vocabulary of recognized sounds right vocabulary recognized sounds when you hear a sound you know what it is you know a major add9 you know a minor 11 you know a minor 11 there you know uh lydian try it just whatever it is you know those sounds right you know uh you know mixolydian no matter what it is you just kind of hear the sound you're like yeah i recognize i recognize that i did this stuff with my son dylan i knew he had perfect pitch but i started you know i would play voicings like you know um voicings like this i said dylan what is this he'd say um e c d g a f sharp and i'd say a flat a flat right so i sang e c d g a f sharp i sang it all in different octaves i could go e c d g g a i can't sing those notes e c d g a f sharp okay that's a very complex voicing i don't have perfect pitch but i can hear intervals right even if they're out of order i sang it i went even though it's doesn't matter as long as you know what the notes are right and recognize those interval relationships you can hear really complex things film scores whatever you're a polytheia tune you hear a animals as leaders tune or plenty and you're like yeah i know what that is i know what that is ooh sometimes with toast and i'm like what is that oh okay i know that toast and play some really complex things you gotta really be sharp to hear these things um same thing with modern classical music or film scoring music typically will have more sophisticated because you have multi-layer and you have your multi-layer recordings that you hear uh where you have to hear okay the brass are doing the trumpets are doing this the trombones are doing this there's a bass trombone here what's the elbow playing oh the elbows doubling the clarinet oh the flutes are inactive above with the piccolo and active above that we have the tuba here the strings are voiced like this oh actually the cellos are in davizi meaning meaning the cello parts are split or the violas are split into three parts they're hard to hear but this is where this stuff starts it starts right with that circle of fifths okay discount code rb1000 mega sale 65 off my beater book youtube transcription bundle and 45 off my ear training course the ear training course will start with basic intervals it'll be uh start with seconds [Music] major second right minor second then it goes to thirds major third minor third once you learn once you've been through all the intervals then it'll just play uh play intervals for you and you'll you'll have to decide from all them same thing with all these chords when it gets to the triads it doesn't just do major triads minor triads diminished as augmented rides it does lydian tries those phrygian triads does um it does sus4 triad two triads then you get into added note chords major add nine you could be like major add nine over a over the seventh [Music] super chats oh you guys are amazing phil thank you pearl thank you for the super chats did i miss super chats billy oh yeah i missed a lot of super chats listen people that contribute to super chat i go back and i look at it after it's so greatly appreciated i mean that's that's another way to support the channel and um i'm sorry i don't get to the questions you guys kind of know when i get on a roll and i'm doing the whiteboard i can't see i can't without my glasses i can't i can't even see from here with my glasses doesn't matter and i don't want to disrupt the flow people really always complain rick stop disrupting the flow with stuff not saying that super chats disrupt the flow they don't but you guys are great and i want to just tell one quick story before i finish here just before i went on my daughter layla was brushing it was combing her hair and got this huge comb her hair stuck she got her hair cut yesterday got her hair stuck she's eight in this comb and i couldn't figure out how to get it out she got her hair cut yesterday and it was so tangled and i was i was like i'm doing my live stream but i'm upstairs and i have this i put hair conditioning in her hair and i'm trying to get it untangled then i brought her down here and i was trying to find something to cut the comb i couldn't figure it out i couldn't i couldn't get it untangled finally i just had to calm down and i untangled it strand by strand and got it off the comb and she cried for a second i was like lately it's gonna be fine we're gonna totally fix this it's going to be no problem and that was uh that's the lesson of life right there that these things are way more important that was the most important thing to her and that was the most important thing to me before i came on here so anyways you guys are so great thank you so much for watching check out my store the sale is going on now it'll go on through the weekend and uh if you were on the fence about getting this you can think about this a way to support the channel uh rb 1000 65 off my beato book youtube instagram transcription bundle 45 off my biato ear training course thank you so much that's as much music theory as i could teach that was a lot of music theory in one hour we'll see you guys later

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Length: 62min 20sec (3740 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 25 2021