Music Theory Everyone SHOULD KNOW | Chords, Progressions and Keys

what's up everyone okay this is a another primer lesson here of music theory that everyone should know okay before I start I have discount code for my store anything in my store DJ green arrow great to see you RB nine hundred thirty percent off everything I want everybody to have the Beato book to understand these basic principles of theory we're gonna go fast but you can always stop this stuff rewind it watch it I have speed whatever you need to do I'm not going to play I mean I'll demonstrate some things on my guitar here so you can hear the sound of it but we're gonna move quickly here pause the video look at it whatever you need to do but it's all in my book it will make sense more when you read it over and over there's a lot of memorization I also have coffee mugs for sale that have music theory on them they have the modes in the major scale and they have the keys there's about six different ones okay okay this is the key of C these are the Triads in the key of C and they're called the primary chords now I just did a video about the ten levels of harmony there's really a hundred levels of harmony or hundreds of levels of harmony but some of the basic things I did I took a one six four five progression and I talked about how to reharmonization note Roman numeral analysis and in Nashville they call the Nashville numbering system these are the numbers of the chords okay they use uppercase Roman numerals like that to indicate a major chord lowercase Roman numerals to indicate a minor chord and here on the seventh it's minor plus we make it diminished okay those are the primary chords in the key of C by the way all the people like Griselda that that leave super chats thank you I won't be able to answer questions because I want to go quickly on this okay I want to talk about this really quickly but I appreciate that okay so the first thing that I did so I talked about the one six four five progression okay so that means in the key of C C major a minor F major G major I did it in b-flat in the video then you have your secondary chords your secondary dominant chords these are chords that are related think of this as your the primary colors and then the secondary colors okay so your primary colors are red blue and yellow right that's all right yeah now when you mix the primary colors together when you mix blue and red together you get green right is that right oh geez am i screwing this up you know the analogy here okay so your secondary chords in the key are a these are called secondary dominant so I'm going to put sec dominance okay these are actually related by fifth to the primary chords B major C major D major and E major okay there is no secondary dominant to the seventh chord because it's an unstable chord I talked in the video about this concept that there are tonic chords there are predominant chords and dominant chords okay your tonic chords in a major key are one three and six dominant chords do they want to move somewhere so these secondary dominant chords here want to move to their primary chord okay that's when you get progressions like C major to a major then D minor to G major right okay so this is a secondary dominant this is called a five of two and this is your two chord this is your five chord this is your one okay this is a very common progression so the five of to the secondary dominant chord wants to move to its primary chord the chord that falls on the on the note a and the C major scale is actually a minor but we've made it a major okay so I'll show you here so if you have a the primary part so if we didn't see a minor E minor G that would be one six two five this with a with the secondary dominant a major it's gonna be one major six or five seven of two five of two two two two five so listen to the difference here's the primary chords four one six two five one five seven of two two five okay different sound the the secondary dominant chord has it that half-step that helps you lead into D minor in a stronger fashion half step resolutions are always the strongest okay so each of these secondary dominant chords let's say we did a different one let's say we had I'll play you the sounds of them okay so let's say one five seven two two two two two five seven I won't say five seven did you just try it's one to five of two two two two five of three two three five of four - four - five - five - five - five of six - six okay now you guys here are these things all the time in music right you might only have one to five of three to three or you might have one to five of four to four or you might have one to five of five to five or one to five of six to six that's in thousands of so these secondary dominant chords are used all the time it's a way to strengthen your chord progressions and make them more interesting okay so this is these are these are how you get much more interesting chord progressions alright so these secondary dominance are always a fifth away says a is a fifth away from D B is a fifth away from E C is a fifth away from F ok D is a fifth boy from G E is a fifth away from a ok that's how this works this is how you memorize them so if I were to change the key let's say we did a different key you'd have to go we'll go like this let's say we took the key of I don't know let's say we take the key of key of G okay and I write out the primary chords so that would be G major you always have to memorize your memorize the order of chords right G major a minor B minor C major D major E minor F sharp diminished now how do I know this well I know all the notes in the key of G major okay this is your one chord to chord remember two is minor threes minor fours major five is major six is minor and seven is diminished all right always run uses the same order okay so these are primary chords now your secondary chords are always going to be a fifth away from two three four five and six a fifth away from a minor is gonna be a major a fifth away from B major is f sharp major these are all major chords right so this is your 5 of 2 this is gonna your 5 of 3 your 5 of 4 okay what's a fifth away from C G major that's your five a four five a four then you have a major which is your five of five then you have B major which is your five of six okay always a fifth away a is a fifth away from D G is a fifth way from C F sharps the fifth away from B he is a fifth away from a minor ok so these are your secondary dominance now you can also have secondary dominant 7th chords okay so that in order to have that you just put a seven here and you make these all 7th chords and these are be called secondary dominant 7th ok all I've done is I've added a third in the top of all these chords ok so you've got so in the key of G you got G major - b7 a minor f sharp seven to be minor to G seven to C 10 a seven to D to B seven take a minor sounds like I'm doing a Simon & Garfunkel song every time I do that that's a lot of time I mean Paul Simon would use a lot of these secondary dominance in his in his son so what people like staying The Beatles that use all that all these kind of things okay now let's talk about some other types of simple chord substitutions that you see commonly in music for example the four minor chord many of you have heard that the four minor chord okay so let me go back to the key of C because people were complaining that I didn't do stuff in the key of C before so I'm going to go C major D minor E minor F major G major a minor whoops let me do like this make sure that you guys can see all these a minor and B diminished okay okay so this is one two the repetition is really where you get this stuff four five six and seven okay now when somebody says a for minor chord that means the chord that's normally there is major if I were to make it minor that would be f minor and you'd write it like this you just use a lower case for minor that's a borrowed chord from a different key for minors are typically used in the Beatles and things like that so four minor would be like this usually for minors follow four majors so if I had a progression like this let's say I go why [Music] okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] or minor one okay so that's the parallel Sammy said that parallel minor but four minor chords you can have a five minor you can have a a three major what would be an example of three major I'll tell you a three major would be like this it'd be sorry it'd be a major okay and you write it like this so where would you use a three major well you could use it like this [Music] okay so what did I just do there I use the three major and I used a four minor okay so that chord progression is like Radiohead like in um what is it their first single was a creep yeah [Music] and [Music] thank you not in that key actually so it's got two borrowed cords two paralleled major or they have apparel a major chord in a parallel minor chord okay so that's that's where these things come from that's when you say parallel it's when you make major minor or minor major so all of these things in addiction is secondary dominance you can have parallel major and minor man I can't spell parallel very well I'm just gonna row PA are parallel okay so let me talk about your parallel chords here you did C minor D major E major F minor G minor a major and we won't worry about B okay so these are all your parallel majors and minors okay so you've got one minor to major three major this is fun four minor five minor six major right so for you songwriters out there this these are incredibly helpful just right here just taking just the basic chords of C major taking the parallel major or minor so I'm taking the parallel meaning I'm making what if it's major up here I make it minor down here if it's minor beer and make it major it down here that's it okay so if you just know those and you know your secondary dominant chords right and I did this a a B major C major D major and E major okay those are your secondary dominant chords right this is five of 2/5 of three 504 five of five and five of six okay this little matrix here that I just created uh you could write hundreds and hundreds of songs without ever leaving this okay this is all in my be auto book discount code is RB nine hundred thirty percent off anything in my store but the Beato book especially I want you guys to have this so that you can understand this these are the most important basics of music theory to know just knowing what chords are in what key what the parallel majors and minors are and what the secondary dominance are if you just know that you can write hundreds of different chord progressions pretty much most pop popular music is found within these well frankly honestly most jazz is - okay in jazz you get some fancy dominant chords you get some fancy they add nights and 11s than 13s the chords but those are just cool those are just ways to color the chords so they sound a little bit more interesting okay this is before we get into third related keys and things like that but these are the basic basic basics of chord progressions okay well then you say to me well okay Rick well how do I even know what notes are in keys well that you have to memorize the circle fists and the circle of fifths just like the the chords in a major key we're native talking about minor keys now I'm just talking about major keys the circle of fifths is something you need to memorize okay you have to memorize the order it goes in C major G major D major a major E major B major f-sharp major D flat major a flat major E flat major B flat major F major I just went around it how do I know that because I've written it a million times these are things that you memorize he asked me is this is Starbucks espresso it is actually it's a Starbucks it's a coffee with almond milk actually that's what it is so there there is a certain amount of memorization you have to memorize those chords in that order those keys in that order and then you have to memorize how many sharps and flats are in them when you start on C there are zero I'm gonna talk about it okay so you guys have this so if you memorize the circle of fifths and you memorize your and you memorize major keys that one four and five like a blues our major two three and six is minor and seven is diminished that's all you do my first lesson ever my first guitar lesson my my teacher Glenn said he said mate and major Keys he wrote a little chart like this he goes major chords in a key r14 I have it still in a book in the old Ernie Ball book five minor are two three and six and then diminished is seven and you put a little box around it there and I just as soon as I saw him do that I was like oh wow it's that easy one four five two three six and then seven the piece of cake right I never forgot it all I needed to do was see it one time and I had it then you said okay you got to learn the circle of fist because you got to know what notes are in each key because you have to create the scales in order to plug this chord progression legend in okay so then he wrote down the second thing he wrote down for me was the circle yes I think yes you that was the first thing he wrote you draw a circle and it's a clock okay there are twelve one two three four that that that that that that there's my 12 right okay you start with C major here you put F sharp major down here okay I'm sure I've G flat all right so C major is zero sharps or flats then you go g d EI e b that's on the sharp side and then on the flat side is d flat e a flat E flat B flat and okay these are all sharps so this has one sharp two sharps three sharps four sharps five sharps sorry my circles not very good six sharps or six flats five flats four flats three flats two flats one flat okay okay so this is your circle of fist well you say well okay G major has one sharp well what sharp is it okay that's why you have to know your order of sharps and flats and we're not talking about the keys of C flat major or F flat major you don't have to worry about those once you understand this you'll note you'll already know those okay so your order of sharps people have certain things for them I'm sure that some people will write in the in the comment section here but your sharps go in this order F sharp C sharp but when you say something to use some you know C sharp G sharp d sharp a sharp B sharp but hate that a sharp and be sure if you memorize this these are all related by fifths F sharp to C sharp G sharp d sharp Asia it easier be sure if I reverse the order then you have the order of flats so B flat right I'm just going backwards now a flat a flat D flat G G flat C flat and F flat that's actually seven so if you remember if you memorize that right there the order of sharps and flats you'll know key of G has one sharp it's F sharp key of E flat has three flats B flat E flat a flat key of E s four sharps F sharp C sharp G sharp d sharp key of F has one flat B flat key of a-flat has four flats B flat E flat a flat D flat you just plug in the numbers then write so one two three four five six seven if you memorize that you can figure out any scale so if I want to know what a G major scale is it's all the regular notes with one sharp F sharp so you go g a b c d e f sharp and there's your D major scale key of D has 2 sharps F sharp C sharp so when those notes happen to scale D e F sharp G a B C sharp D you just plug them right in B F major has B flat in it F G a B flat C D E there's your F major ok so once you can create those scales once you have that stuff memorized then you just plug in the major and minor Keys a major minor chords that happened in the key and that one diminished chord and then write down your parallels and then write down your secondary dominant so ok so we're gonna pick a key here let's say we'll take a major ok so we're gonna take a major now a major has three sharps in it so I'm gonna leave the sharps down here sharps and flats write out all the letter names BCD e/g that's how I usually teach people just write out the letter names and then put in where the where the sharps or flats are this has three sharps C sharp F sharp G sharp right you go down here F sharp C sharp G sharp so the first three you plug them in they don't they don't all they don't fall in the same order it's not F sharp is not first you know cuz they're in the scale happens to be where it wherever it lays in the scale once I do that then I go like this I go so this is the key of a right so then I go a B minor C minor D major they're there and they're there there we go so I just put in my 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ok then I go in and I say ok well what are my parallel chords right a minor B major C sharp major D minor E minor F sharp major and we don't worry about that and then what are our secondary chords secondary dominance ok F sharp major and then G sharp D is gonna be a he is gonna be B and F sharp is going to be C sharp ok this will give you pretty much everything that you're gonna need to know about any chord progression so if you're writing a tune or analyzing a tune you're like oh let me see where can I go here I'm really bored with this progression you're playing around you're like you're planning your keyboard you're programming something you know you're dragging little MIDI bars are out because you're doing some EDM music and you don't want to do 1 6 4 & 5 you say well what other Keys you do then you make a little chart like this you figure out what key you're in making a little chart with your parallels and then your secondary dominance and grab a key grab a chord from one of those other keys and see if it fits in there nicely what would a good use of a diminished chord be well that's gonna be for another episode because this is a lot of information to take in at once you need to think of some great pneumatic devices for these I'm sure some people have been pacing them in here but but I'm gonna leave you with this discount code on the Beato book RB 900 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Length: 29min 23sec (1763 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 20 2019