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Music Theory Lesson 5. Mainly theory. Better videos coming in a few months. June 09

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  • hi sir im one of the viewers..despite i try a lote but i dont understand how a note takes sharp in major scale.can you please explain it through a simple formula or somehow help me..thanks alot

  • Yeah, if you changed the black keys on a piano/keybord into white ones and, changed them to the same size as the other white keys, the notes going to the right would be raised in pitch. Those going to the left would be lower in pitch. Where the black ones were previously, those to the right would be sharps, those to the left would be flats. Raised=sharpened. Lowered=flatened.

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  • @KvnNavarro92, yes this applies to any instrument including guitar

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  • Thank you !

  • @WReubenE I wasn't sure myself, but I think I understand it now.

    Think of it this way: if you convert the pattern of tones and semi-tones for a major scale into whole numbers, you get 2,2,1,2,2,2,1. This pattern then tells you how many keys (including black keys) to move along from the key you've chosen.

    And that's how he's landing on sharp notes. The major scale is defined by the pattern of tones and semi-tones beneath the part where he's writing them in.

  • You're a wonderful instructor and i couldn't show more a liking to your theory lessons.

    To viewers who feel discouraged by theory,I would like to say it is not your fault,it's a fault of poor instructors who leap into subjects you havent even been taught yet.I just experienced this 5 minutes ago when someone showed me a clef and asked me to find the root key based on a line on a dot that i could not read because i have not yet been taught-naturally i became frustrated and felt belittled.

  • will this help me in gi-tar?

  • Your videos have helped me so much thank you!!!

  • THE BEST MUSIC TEACHER

  • finally, a light bulb. i've been trying to understand what degrees were when applied to modes with no understanding.

  • i didnt realized how some notes landed to black key took sharp but some of them somehow landed to black key(throgh the major scale) but didnt take ...thanks

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