The SUPER BASICS Of Music Theory (Simple Explanation Of Fundamentals)

hello internet so nice to see you today we talk about the super basics of music theory for people who are starting from absolute zero and they have no idea where to begin from so be warned if you know something about music theory already this may not be the video for you but at the same time you may have a friend or two who are just getting started with music theory or in music in general in this case please do send them this video I'm sure they will appreciate it also many of the things I'm saying in this video are explained in more detail in the free ebook beginning music theory that you can get by clicking on the link on the top right of the screen so here are the super basics of music theory super basic number one there are seven notes ABCD efg but the distance between those note is not the same specifically the distance between B and C and the distance between E and F it's one fret on your guitar while the distance between all the other notes it's two frets on your guitar which means that for instance between a and B there is another note and this knot can be called either a sharp meaning one higher than A or B flat meaning one lower than B the same happens for all the other notes so for insert the node between C and D is called the C sharp or D flat so now you have a total of 12 notes and the distance between any of those two notes is called a half step or a semitone and it corresponds to one fret on your guitar super basic number two there are things that we call chords a chord is simply a group of three or more notes that is usually played at the same time and that sound nice together now of course to define exactly what I mean when I say that the sound nice together we require a much longer explanation than the one I'm giving in this video so let's just focus on the practical bits for now let's say that the most common kind of courts are courts of three notes called trials and the most common trials that you hear in everyday music are major triads and minor triads now let's see how to find the notes in a triad let's say I want to find the notes in the a major triad how do I do it since it's the a major triad I start from the north and this is one of the three notes to find the next note I move for half step higher and I find C sharp and from here I move other three half step higher and I find e the notes in the a major triad are a C sharp E if I were to find the notes for instance in the C major triad I will do the same starting from C so my first note is C when I move for half step higher and I find e then I move three half step higher and I find G the note in the C major triad RC e G what about the minor triad the procedure is similar but this time you move up 3 and then up for meaning if I want to find a note in the a minor triad I'm starting from a and that's my first note I move up only 3 half step and I find C then from there I move up other 4 half step and they find in the note in the a minor triad are a c e let's say i want to find a note in the F minor triad I start from the f note and that's my first note I move up 3 half step and I get to these a flat and then from there I move up other 4 half step and I get to this see the note in the F minor triad our F a flat C when you play a major triad which means you play those 3 notes at the same time the result is a chord that tend to sound happy and stable when is that you play a minor triad that is you play the three notes of the minor triad at the same time the result is a sound that has been defined as said or at least as not happy if you play a few chords one after another on your guitar or in any other instrument you get a chord progression and must the music you hear every day is simply made by chord progression a chord progression will sound like this for instance disease C a minor D minor G [Music] incidentally if you want to know more about chords and chord progressions on guitar I suggest to check out my course complete chord mastery click on the link on the top right also before we go ahead our pagers are simply chords in which you play the notes not all together but one after the other for instance that's a C minor chord and that's a C minor arpeggio the notes are the same is just how I play them super basic number three there are some things we call scales mosque A's are simply sets of seven notes though some scale of five six or eight notes unlike the notes in a chord the note in the scale are usually not meant to be played at the same time instead they are meant as collections of notes that tend to work well with each other and from where you choose not to create your melodies there is no rule in music theory that says that you absolutely have to limit yourself to one scale or even to the notes of a scale when you write a melody but most of the time most melodies you hear do stay in the same scale which means I use only notes in a specific scale the most common scales you are going to encounter at the major scale in the natural minor scale as you've seen before the distance between two notes close by in our previous collection it's a half step twice that it's a whole step the major scale it's a collection of notes taking at those distances whole whole half whole whole whole half what does it mean if I start from a and they want the a major scale I take my a No being the first note and then move up a whole-step with to the B note then I move up another whole step to the C sharp note and a half step to the D note that a whole step to eat a whole step to F sharp a whole step to G sharp and finally a half step coming back to e so the notes in the a major scale are a B C sharp d e f sharp G sharp a the a major scale sounds this way if I want to visit with another scale say the F major scale I do exactly the same so starting from F up a whole step G up a whole step a up a half step b-flat up a whole step C up a whole step D up a whole step e up a half step F the notes are F G a B flat C D E F the F major scale sounds this way the natural minor scale works exactly the same way as the major scale the only difference is the formula of the intervals for the natural minor scale the formula is whole half whole whole half whole whole so if I want the a minor scale I start from a I move up a whole step for B and a half for see a whole for the whole for e half for F whole for G and another whole coming back to a so the notes of the a minor scale are a b c d e f g i can the same starting from any i don't know and incidentally if you're interested in this case a mode i suggest to check out my other course called master of the modes which is a complete course on scales and modes on guitar super basic number four chord and scales are meant to work together specifically we say that a court is in a scale if all the notes of the chord are inside that scale so for instance the c major chord c e g it's inside the c major scale which is c d e f g a b on the other hand the c major chord it's also in the F major scale F G a B flat C D E a chord can be in more than one ski not only that but the F major scale contains more than the C chord specifically the F major scale contains the F major chord the G minor chord the a minor chord the B flat major chord the C major chord and D minor chord there will be another triad in the F major scale called the a diminished triad but we are not going to cover this in this video now chords that are all in the same scale tend to work well together meaning that if you play them one after the other they will always sound good there will never be a problem that will never be something a sounds bad or out of place again there is no rule in music theory that say that you have to limit yourself to the chords in a specific scale but this is a good starting point and many songs you hear do limit themselves to a single scale in the key of F I can take those chords and play them in any order for instance I can play F major b-flat major C major and F [Music] or I could play f major D minor G minor C [Music] you can do the exact same thing with any major scale or with an in natural minor scale the only thing you need to do right now is to write down those case and find out what chords are inside but luckily for you I already did all the work for you and it will find every note and every chord in any major or minor scale in the free ebook beginning music theory that you can download by clicking on the top right link did I mention that this ebook is completely free now of course does I adjust the super basics of music theory they are meant to get you started and to give you an idea of how music theory works but there is much more to be learned and much more fun to be had by knowing out the scales and those chords and those notes work together to make the music you like again you can start by reading the free ebook or you can just have a look at the many other videos I have in this channel if you like this video smash on that like button and don't 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Length: 10min 42sec (642 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 23 2019