Mahalo! How much information is in the series…. I’m on my second time watching it. Quite literally have taken me from understanding 20-30% of what I learned previously and now I understand it 100% for those of you looking for a playlist series which takes you through all the possibilities and how to train your brain to understand Music this is it. So in-depth the doctor will make you a superhero.
Hey Dr. B,., just a suggestion, maybe you could do a special video on your Gilded Age project, its background and the research behind it? I’ve watched the trailers and they look really nice but don’t really provide much information. From what I’ve pieced together, it seems to be a research project on this specific period of music in the Hudson valley area coupled to a series of performances where you and others play authentic music of the time in these beautiful locations, but I’m still curious about the details: What period exactly is the “gilded age”, why did this region have its own musical tradition and how was it influenced by specific American and European composers of the same time? I’m sure if you make a more comprehensive video on this, it will also generate a lot more interest in your Facebook page (which I’ve already subscribed to). If this video already exists and I overlook it, ignore everything I said. All the best!
Thank you for this interesting and well structured lesson Dr. B! I guess at 28:32 I recognized a part of Chopin's 1st ballade. I'll check it out. Edit: It turns out its even the same chord (F7subs6). Bar 168, about 6 1/2 minutes into the pieces. Once again: Thank you very much Dr. B! It is such an amazing feeling, if you can indentify, what you just have learned!
In that last bar with "wrong" example in B-flat major, It sounds bad not only because 7th is higher than 6th, there are three parallel fifths between T and A
I have a question coming from someone hopeful to get a piece published soon but the 'rules' of harmony were associated with the work of Bach. Now he and many others said that these supposed 'rules' were to be followed as a basis for creating mostly four part harmony. Most people see a consecutive fifth and immediately gasp in fear because they broke that 'rule.' The one that annoys me most in 4 part is doubling the major third. I mean give me a break, if it achieves a better musical result what is the harm in writing one. We are no longer in the time period where people thought the tritone was the interval of the devil. Now it's, we can't double major thirds or cross voices. I'm not saying we should break them just because we want too but break when a better musical result can be achieved. Now it's all good having these progression charts and chord five can only go to one or six, you aren't allowed to double major thirds, only use these certain inversions, never have chord 7 in root position. These 'rules' are advisories so my question comes from, at what point do you stop limiting people on what they can and can't write because otherwise writing music turns from a fun creative thing to a mechanical working of logical progressions in which is useless because we may as well get robots to produce that?
This is why i don't like the patreon idea. It divides us into two social classes, people who no longer have access to all the videos just because they don't give away money, and a privileged "middle class" who pay to have access to extra information. Also some of us, me for instance follow lots of interesting channels; imagine the cost if we started paying all of them. Thirdly you tube is essentially still a free service (although they are moving away from that as we can see). You can create a channel, make videos and upload them and it won't cost you anything. In fact if you become popular enough you begin to make money. And yet for some reason people think they should ask us to pay for their videos. Why? We never asked them to start making videos. We never asked them to create a channel. They say please support me on patreon because it helps them make videos? I may as well say please support me in paying for my guitar lessons because it helps me become a better guitarist. Why should you help me become a better guitarist? Being a successful RU-vid channel is an entire job, and a good one for some, it's the job people have chosen and they try to make it successful but for some reason unlike other jobs they seem to think that it's legitimate to ask members of the public for money! I don't think it is. This guy, for example, teaches at a college and has I'm sure a pretty good salary already, also he's on a sabbatical. Essentially paid leave to go off and do other stuff which could also involve making money. So economically he's probably in a much better position than many of us. I think if he wants to run a RU-vid channel or some other website then it's up to him to pay for it. Sorry. I'm not going to take part in the patreon system whether I can afford it or not. I don't agree with it. Maybe my reasoning is wrong if anybody thinks it is I'm perfectly willing to listen.
@@Ana_crusis Normally, people just release videos earlier on patreon or have other miscellaneous rewards or even no rewards at all. Not a single channel in my subscriptions that has a patreon puts exclusive video content on it.
@@SpaghettiToaster I never said once that it was exclusive did I? Also It's not at all about merely releasing a video earlier . They release some information in one video and then, just as this guy says he is going to do, they put more detailed longer videos (also pdf's etc) on their patreon channel. That is exactly what I said in my comment I fail to see why you don't understand what I wrote
