- What about that music
theory, you might think.
Why should you learn that?
I have some basic knowledge
I want to share with you,
and we'll take it from the beginning.
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Hello friends,
I'm Ante, and welcome to
the Music Nerd Revolution.
Nice to see you again,
and I'm super excited
about today's episode.
Some basic knowledge in music theory.
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The title of this episode is
Music Theory with C Major Scale
and I want to learn you
some basic knowledge.
Of course, you can write songs without
basic knowledge of music theory.
I did that from the start.
However, when I learned music theory,
everything is much more
comfortable and so much more fun.
To find C major scale on
a piano is quite easy,
because the keys are the
same in every octave.
If you learn the patterns,
you will find the tones in every scale.
To play the C note, you
locate the white key
that is to the immediate left
of each group of two black keys.
There is a C.
The notes in C major scale
are C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C.
To build a melody or record,
you need to learn intervals.
An interval is the
distance between two notes.
How far apart they are.
An interval can sound
in two different ways.
Harmonic.
(soft piano music)
And melodic.
(soft piano music)
Notes on a chord that
are displayed together
have harmonic intervals.
The most common chords are
major and minor chords.
To play a major or minor chords,
you take three notes
and build them together.
To play a C major chord,
you take C, E, and G.
The C is the first note,
and is called tonic note.
The E is the third note,
and it's called mediant.
And the G is fifth note in the scale,
and is called dominant.
The third note, or the mediant,
can equally be a minor or a major third.
Does it sound complicated?
You can think of the notes as numbers.
The first note in C major scale
is C, and that is the first note.
The second is D.
The third is E.
The fourth is F.
The fifth is G.
The sixth is A.
The seventh is B.
And the eighth is C,
and that is the octave.
The first, the third, and the fifth note
build a major or a minor chord.
The third note in a scale decides
if it's a major or a minor chord.
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I am going to have more
music theory episodes.
It is so much fun.
And if you learn the basics,
you will have a better
feel for your songwriting.
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