Music Theory Is Simple..., But I still don't get it!
Phil66
Mar 9 2018, 10:16 PM
Learning Apprentice Player
Posts: 10.149
Joined: 5-July 14
From: The Black Country, England
I watched this but I didn't really understand. Probably overthinking it.

Hopefully some of you will get something out of it wink.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3vYVGMgZYY

You are at GuitarMasterClass.net


Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!


--------------------


SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE





Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.

Israelmore Ayivor
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post
Mertay
Mar 9 2018, 10:35 PM
GMC:er
Posts: 5.667
Joined: 27-May 13
From: Turkey / izmir
QUOTE (Phil66 @ Mar 9 2018, 09:16 PM) *
...



http://www.piano-keyboard-guide.com/wp-con...tures_chart.gif

Would this picture help while watching video?

You are at GuitarMasterClass.net


Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!


--------------------
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post
Sensible Jones
Mar 10 2018, 12:39 PM
GMC:er
Posts: 7.277
Joined: 2-January 09
From: London-ish. UK.
ohmy.gif
Great post Phil!!!!
Wish I'd have had it explained that way back in School!!!

You are at GuitarMasterClass.net


Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!


--------------------
I'd rather have a full Bottle in front of me than a full Frontal Lobotomy!!
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post
Phil66
Mar 10 2018, 04:13 PM
Learning Apprentice Player
Posts: 10.149
Joined: 5-July 14
From: The Black Country, England
It made more sense today when my brain was cider free dry.gif Obviously he is taking to people who already know which notes in each key a sharp or flat though.

I still want to know, why, mathematically there is no note between B & C and E & F

smile.gif

You are at GuitarMasterClass.net


Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!


--------------------


SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE





Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.

Israelmore Ayivor
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post
klasaine
Mar 10 2018, 04:51 PM
GMC:er
Posts: 4.552
Joined: 30-December 12
From: Los Angeles, CA
Technically, there are lots of notes between B and C. Western music is based on a 12-note scale. So if you go from A to A (the next octave up or down), it makes one "cycle" so to speak, which is divided up into 12 notes in between (representing the keys of a piano). However, on an instrument like trombone or violin or fretless bass or your voice it is possible to hit many notes in-between. Sounds out of tune to our ears, but is in fact widely used in various forms of microtonal and world music.
In terms of your question, B to C or E to F is the same musical "distance" as F to F# or A to Ab. They're half-steps.

It's a complicated subject, but here's some more info if you're curious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_keyboard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtonal_music

There is music (and instruments) where there are say for example 14 semi-tones spread evenly across an octave. And some music of 14 (or any decided upon amount) unequal intervals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Partch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8NIpPhXpfQ

Happy you asked?

You are at GuitarMasterClass.net


Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!


This post has been edited by klasaine: Mar 10 2018, 04:52 PM
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post
Mertay
Mar 10 2018, 05:24 PM
GMC:er
Posts: 5.667
Joined: 27-May 13
From: Turkey / izmir
and something for fun smile.gif

You are at GuitarMasterClass.net


Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!


--------------------
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post
Phil66
Mar 10 2018, 06:50 PM
Learning Apprentice Player
Posts: 10.149
Joined: 5-July 14
From: The Black Country, England
Thanks Ken and Mertay,

Actually I am glad I asked Ken, I hate to do things without understanding, a friend of mine just accepts chord names as "just the name of the chord" whereas I like to know. My problem is I struggle to remember musical theory for some reason, it doesn't seem very intuative, things like accidental notes, they aren't really accidental though they may have been classed as accidental at sometime. It's like in the 12 notes of when music, why couldn't it just have been A-L.

Always looking too deep I am rolleyes.gif

Cheers

You are at GuitarMasterClass.net


Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!


This post has been edited by Phil66: Mar 10 2018, 06:50 PM


--------------------


SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE





Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.

Israelmore Ayivor
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post
klasaine
Mar 10 2018, 07:36 PM
GMC:er
Posts: 4.552
Joined: 30-December 12
From: Los Angeles, CA
QUOTE (Phil66 @ Mar 10 2018, 10:50 AM) *
It's like in the 12 notes of when music, why couldn't it just have been A-L.


In the beginning of music codification: Greeks, Pythagoras, et al ... there were no in between tones. The pitches and the distances were slightly different than our modern western pitches but there were (as far as we can tell from the limited surviving written information) no sharps or flats. Just 7 named tones. Over time, instead of adding letters of the alphabet we just filled the in between slots. Sort of like using 2.1 and 2.5 etc. instead of readjusting the whole number line.

You are at GuitarMasterClass.net


Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!


This post has been edited by klasaine: Mar 10 2018, 08:42 PM
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post
Phil66
Mar 10 2018, 09:06 PM
Learning Apprentice Player
Posts: 10.149
Joined: 5-July 14
From: The Black Country, England
Ahhh, I see, and there wasn't enough space for B#/Cb and E#/Fb?

That Pythagoras has a lot to answer for along with his buddies, they made geometry so tricky with its sines and co-sines and tangents and co-tangents and the right angled triangle with its hypotenuse and theta etc and then they went and did the same with music laugh.gif

You are at GuitarMasterClass.net


Don't miss today's free lick. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!

Don't miss today's free blues, jazz & country licks. Plus all our lessons are packed with free content!


--------------------


SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE





Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.

Israelmore Ayivor
Go to the top of the page
 
+Quote Post

Reply to this topicStart new topic
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:

 




RSS Lo-Fi Version Time is now: 29th March 2024 - 01:32 AM