#15 Music Theory: Scale degrees, Tonic & Dominate

[PlacidDecay]

Watch some...piano lessons!

[EBoo77]

Thank you so much for this video! I am currently taking a music class and have an exam in 6 hours and this helped tremendously!

[maxpanchoo]

no canadian 'about' in this vid?

[PIANODAWN66]

I think your great and so funny, i love the little stories you come up with.

how old were you when you started studying music? sometimes i feel left behind, your lessons help.

only thing is can you bring the board closer to the screen or write a little larger, it's kind of difficult to see on screen what you are doing.

Dawn from the uk

[TZLproductions]

Your an awesome piano teacher!! I hvae really gotten better since taking your lessons :) but this lesson confuses me D: i will watch again though :)

[massgilms]

lol at the police sirens in background... lypurs been robbing banks again

[TheDavid2222]

I have memorized how to create the circle of fifths, but I still don't know how to use it properly. Is there a video that explains how to use it?

[rkwiseman]

Andrew, I'm a piano teacher and share many of your analogies/videos to help my students further comprehend theory. You are a terrific teacher, and I'm so blessed by your kindness and love for music!

[Fluffypopcicle]

@rkwiseman

yeah, he is great. this video cleared up the "is 2 degrees up 2 notes later in the scale or 2 half steps up?" question. 2 notes later in the scale, not 2 half steps up. there was a dork on youtube who thought it meant 2 half steps up, i just wanted to make sure.

[australiandj]

procrastinates too much & gives out lame analogy's

[australiandj]

theres cops outside lol

[phionahchin2000]

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[louieismael]

It sounds like cadence...

[letsrock5]

hello Andrew. Is the 6/5 chord´s shape correct? Isn´t the 2nd interval on the top?

Thanks

[jpghn]

Hi Andrew!

I am your student from Brazil!!

I want to thank you for the classes!

Im following from the first one and hope to go on until the last...

Im enjoying .... the way you teach make things simple and easy!!!

thank you!

[reazon]

Nice work on the lessons! 2 Q's; when making a song, you pick a certain scale is the whole song supposed to be made up of those seven notes? can, or do you combine multple scales together. Imean when u play and u are all over the keyboard, is it usually the same notes just different octaves? also choosing which chord to play with a paticular note any rule or guidle lines you should follow? I know it isnt going to be a consise answer I am just looking for the overall goal besides it sounding good

[LoveDragonsForever]

Awww man, I stopped doing these lessons and I'm think about starting again, I keep getting random inspirations, Lypur have you got any tips for easing of hand tension of aching hands? =/ It's the reason I stopped playing for a bit.

[SHAWNGALEADROCK]

great vids man keep it up!

[Tossphate]

Hmm. I'm someone that has been following your vids from number 1. But this is all getting pretty abstract now, and I dont know how to tie this to actually playing piano. I think this sort of thing is best taught in person.

Thanks anyway!

[kdakan]

@Tossphate the last part is abstract, on roman numeral inversions with interval numbers (used for church organ playing). but the first part (chord functions, the sub/super dominant /mediant) is essential for "understanding" and composing or improvising music. the fun for many is playing improvisation so it's great help for them. you can substitute I chord with III or VI (its submediant or supermediant), IV chords with ii or add lower fifth degree before any chord (like ii - IV- V- I he's done)

[Avatarhackpiano]

Im about a month into my piano lessons thanks to your highness awesomeness andrew, but u sayd something in another lesson that made me stop myself from playing the mozartesque pieces that im studying, u sayd something like "the alternating notes in moonlight sonata actually come from "this" scale" "Thats where beethoven got all those cool notes from" I realized that i know nothing of scales. What im trying to say is will it gimp me if i dont practice scales, should i memorize all of them?

[Lypur]

@Avatarhackpiano it's good to know a little bit of both. Do scales and pieces every day with practise :)

[1091Floyd21]

I'm falling asleep! Keep having to rewind!

[piggemz]

i'm homeless, jerk.

[minimerules1231]

Please make the volume of the piano and your voice the same in your future videos. Also please make them both louder so I don't have to turn my speakers way up and then get blasted with the piano. It makes it very hard to watch your videos once other people in the house have gone to sleep it is limiting how much time I can spend watching your videos without disturbing them or worrying about whether using headphones might damage my ears. Ears are very useful tools in the field of music:-D

[SaeBap]

Slap a compressor on that audio , I can hardly hear anything..

[djfredm]

this is a great help with my theory class. One question though, my teacher says that in harmonic progression I should avoid using minor ii and iii within the circle, Whats your opinion and if this is correct what could I substitute for them?

[Lypur]

^_^ if you're teacher has an opinion, stick with that!

[stvo2009]

If Buddy Holly would have given piano lessons, he would have taught like this dude.

[FingerstyleTV]

whats up with the siren in the background?

[QofLife]

so is the music flow part of the entire piece or a part or??

[edytasss]

Could anyone help with V7, V56, V34 and V2? I don't really get this and some others too. Where does it come from? In which order they appear? Thanks a lot for the explanations.

[LOveTwiNz]

Awesome video of course I can't thank Andrew enough. :D

[azanasas]

Can someone please explain the whole V7-chord thing?

I'm really confused because I don't understand where the F in G-B-D-F comes from? ):

I thought it would be an F# because that's the seventh tone in the Gmaj-scale ?

Thanks

[azanasas]

Oh, I found out. It's F because it's a minor seventh in 7-chords, if there was anyone else wondering. :P

[133839297]

azanasas,

V7 = 1 3 5 b7, a minor seventh... So, instead of a F# we got a natural one.

G-B-D-F# = G7M

G-B-D-F = G7

The G7 is a V7 chord in the Cmajor key, where there is no F# available.

[azanasas]

ok, I understand now, thanks

[skullishi]

Auch von mir vielen Dank für diese interessante Lektion, pass auf dich auf! xD

[92jacko]

Grazie per questa interessante lezione,

stammi bene :)

[domesticbark]

Awesome! I know stuff about music. Thanks alot for these lessons. I've had a keyboard for almost 10 years now and I haven't learned to play it. I've wanted to, but my parents never put me in lessons. This is helping with my break up as well. Investing myself in music makes me feel better :D I'm very grateful. It takes time to learn to play a song that I'm not skilled enough to play! I've gotten better though ^^

[arrieweb]

Thank You very much for best lesson, Dear Sir.

[WoodbridgeHigh]

Funny.. cause i've learned alot from this user "Lypur". he doesnt look 'dorky' at all, :) he looks COOL! :)

[lonelystoner39]

@WoodbridgeHigh actually he does lol, no offense (andrew). but id rather take lessons from a guy that looks like he plays piano than a guy who looks like he plays . . . like . . . football or cricket or hockey or beer pong and builds houses and stuff

[nazorulesall]

@WoodbridgeHigh ive come back to view all my old comments.........woooooow on this one lol, glad maturity came into play in my life

[malissa456]

thanks =)! i couldn't read that stuff at the end with the inversions, but i'll figure it out!

[DuskY1991]

I'm not sure if i got all this, since i'm partially sighted and can't really see what you are doing on the whiteboard... So alot of it is happening in my mind, listning what you are doing ont he piano and trying it myself to get a better idea and stuff.

Thank you for your good explanation.

[carlos123gallardo]

im surprised these vedios dont have more views, hes a great piano teacher, im glad i found this gem.

[Iwonttellmyname]

Can you explain something to me? At 21:11 you use V7. For example for Cmajor scale it is V7 = G,B,D,F (G is the fifth note from C and F is the seventh note from G). The first inversion is then B,D,F,G which is indeed V56 as you say. But second inversion is D(=1st note),F(=3rd),G(=4th),B(=6th) so this should be V46? But you say it is V34. Isn't it just the last two notes that are relevant?

[mcyoash]

yes i didnt get this either can someone explain to us how this works? i know this comment is old so maybe u know it by now, please if you can help me i'll be grateful. Thanks.

[lpbimo]

i think it explains formation of inversions for 7th-chords, just like inversions for C-major he described a few seconds earlier

[mcyoash]

i know that, look at the comment below me and you'll see what im asking.

thanks though.

[emmma36]

I think i get it... the V chord in a C major scale it's a GM (G-B-D), so, a G7 it's G-B-D-F... and then works as in the other inversions.

V7, because the distance between the G and F is a 7th ; V65, because the distance between B and G is a 6th and between G and F is a fifth... knowing that you can figure out the rest.

[crazycat947]

Be more specific about what you don't get. I can help you.

[Lypur]

Lol...i just realized there are sirens going on at 2:10

[Recarta]

Heh. I thought that was outside my window.

[Naerbu]

My AP music theory teacher's method of teaching this is very cofusing. i think you are a great teacher.

[Lypur]

thanks! this topic was hard for me to explain this simply for you guys, I hope i did a good job!

[thelupe23]

hey can u do a lesson on modes? dorian locrian etc.

thnx keep me posted!

[Kjutte1]

The major scale has 7 notes and thus 7 modes. Play C ionian /major) frmo F, and youre in F lydian IF you choose F as root. It's pretty simple really. Play F on bass, and play white keys, it'll sound totally different from playing C bass and white keys. Or if you play E, then you're in phrygian (e in bass), etc etc. Basically your scale contains 7 modes and to use them you need to change your root, but play the same notes, yuou can also modulate to another key.

[gremboul]

a lesson on modes is a great idea!

[janken919]

You dabbled a little on chord progression in this video called "Music Flow" for eg. 1-4-5-1,what about a 1-8-7-8-7-3-2-1 in E major. I'm quite new to all this, so you'll have to excuse all my questions.

[janken919]

Hi, why is the 4chord marked as an "X" and not IV, I'm confused.

[Lypur]

The "X" here isn't a chord, it's a sign of a variable. Sort of like the X CAN represent a IV or a iii chord or vi chord etc. It's any chord that can be a predominate function chord. ^_^ Sorry if I confused you here.

[janken919]

Okay, I got it now. I just wanted to say that I've learned alot from watching your videos. I still haven't figured out the "Circle of Fifths" yet, but I'll get back to that later.

Do you have any videos on Chord Progressions or the explanation of Consonance and Dissonance? Keep up the good work and try to stay a little more focused in your videos.

[GoodMuzik08]

Thankyou for the tutorials. Teaching myself to play (4 months into it)& these vids are very useful. Kinda got stuck on the 4 chord inversion part though. G.B.D.F being V7. How do you calculate the V6/5, V4/3 & V4/2. Please help lol

[janken919]

no more analogies please, but this is still very useful.

[missmew1]

Andrew: I've followed your videos up until this point and have done everything you've said. thanks for helping me make so much progress, you are really a great teacher.

[Aezoz]

this is confusing to me i dunno how u get the notes for the music flow part.

[teddyacosta]

mr andrew my name in teddy and I enjoy you class but I really wish that we can see the blackboard, is so far from the camara that I can hardly see the note, it's will be so nice if you just put the board closer, but above all you are wonderful, I love the way you teach thank you  teddy

[angelic720]

thank you so much for this video! i really needed this for my theory test i have tomorrow.

[Oxenpar]

Why hasn't these vids more views?!?!?!

[Lypur]

good question. You gotta tell more people ^_^ spread the word!

[Oxenpar]

I will, mate! :P

[GetDamage]

It's your tag words. I think if you add free how to piano lessons, you will get more hits. Your tag words doesn't say "piano" or "keyboard lessons" at all, but I will help spread the word. I notice in this lesson, none of the chords have any flats or sharps, is it because the chords are in the key of C? That's why V7 doesn't contain any sharps?

[freedomgundam1993]

once again,another great video!

i especially like tidal wave of volcano part,lol that really motivated me on learning boring music theory!

[MissDahlet]

I am learning theory, and it is a little boring, but I taught myself this little "jingle" to help remember the scale degrees.

"Tom........Saw........Mary...­...Sleeping......

Downstairs..........Last......­..Tuesday....

[thomandy]

Awesome - Ill watch it now! ;) hehe

I like to comment before I watch :P