I was recently made aware of the fact that if you look at the upper part of the keys where the black and white keys are there are actually equal (or extremely close to equal) distance between each key and for that reason you could take a piece of paper place it above the black and white heys and jot out a scale, chord interval or any other melodic/harmonic pattern and slide it around and transpose thd pattern to any key and use it as a composition/arranging tool or checklist. That was a total game changer for me in teaching music to someone new to music and music theory as i have always thought of piano as a non-isomorphic (or non-symetrical) instrument in contrast to ex guitar where one fret up of down always equals one half step, resulting in learning one chord or scale pattern you have simoultaneously learned it in all keys as the pattern on the fretboard stays the same. This is the next level version of this!! Thank you so much for your passionate dedication!! 🤩 I am definitely going to buy the print out version and try using it in my teaching praxis (if that is ok with you??) and share the word around!! 😊🙏
Best explanation of modes I've seen, the strip is genius and it's great to hear the different modes exemplified in a single key so you can compare their sonic flavor.
This is one of the best crash courses in music theory I've ever found. Ill be recommending this to anyone and everyone that wants to learn music. Subscribed.
Sharing this video with as many people as I can. Thank you for putting such an educational video together, and the accompanying PDF. As someone else said in the comments: you make the world a better place.
I've been looking for something like this for years. Coming from a rock background but wanting to move into jazz, I've been finding progress slow and it's hard to remember all the chord structures and relationships. And you made this just as I got my new keyboard! Thank you so much dude! I will come back to this video regularly.
I literally just love this video. I have an interesting idea that could make your videos look really cool. You could use a multiply effect on your visuals and make them look like they’re actually on the wood.
I love how this uses major Roman numerals even though it's in Aeolian. This makes sense because it's the relative minor of the key. The only downside to this graph is that the Chord functions in other modes will be confusing. Because the 1 on their respective modes will be labeled differently
Yes, that's right. I go on a bit later in the video discussing why I feel re-numbering roman numerals for each mode is a hassle, though having the tonic in each mode defined by a I or i symbol would make more sense. In any case, it's a trade off that I think simplifies things in the long run.
Nice video! Good strategy for learning chord scales. The video is confusing for beginners I sent it too. The PDF was easier for them to follow. Starting with the theory of sound and waves confused them for nothing. Good work but could use some re organizing if target audience is total beginners.
I made my life easier and got me a sequencer KORG SQ-64. You can set the scale and key, then every key you press is in key. Having said that, this paper strip is a great idea, but having slight color blindness can be a bit challenging. I was considering to place colored dots on my keyboard to a desired scale before playing/composing.
The piano keyboard is isomorphic if you cut off the keyboard horizontally at the bottom of the black keys (which is why the dots can work). The bottom half of the white keys are there as a helpful cheat code (for one of each of the modes... C ion, d dor, etc). Playing with your fingers high up all the time and not tripping on the raised black keys, however, is difficult :)
Did no one else have a thin cardboard sheet with chords printed out you could slide it up and down behind the keys and it would show you which keys to play for each type of chord in any key? I think now because a computer can do chords people just click a mouse and expect the computer to just put together what sounds good and they don’t know what what chords are being used but brag they don’t need to. Very lazy but it’s made me appreciate and learn chords more now
@@KeenBulldozerhaha he’s the type that brags they don’t need to know chords or notes and clicks the mouse a few times and lets the computer do everything and claims he wrote a song which sounds bad 😂
Whole step is an interval, meaning distance between two notes (pitches). A whole step is 2 semitones (so like between C and D) Whole note is a duration. It means a note that gets 4 beats or counts. You're talking about how long a note is held
A better metaphor is not color vs Harmony. It's more like superimposed images or visual illusions. So for instance, an afterimage of staring at an outline and then looking at a blank surface, or crossing your eyes while each one is looking at a different color. This is because harmony in music, or two different fundamentals, is totally different from a singular color. The eye doesn't have that ability because that ability does not exist, in ears or eyes. They're not the same thing
It's not a metaphor my guy, it's pure physics. When two light frequencies (like red and green) are mixed, our brain blends them into a single perceived color (yellow), making it impossible to distinguish the original wavelengths. In contrast, when two notes are played together, we can hear both frequencies simultaneously. The negative afterimage effect happens when photo receptors in your eyes get fatigued, causing the opposite color to appear when you look at a blank surface. It’s a temporary optical illusion and doesn’t change how light frequencies mix. Check out Music by the Numbers by Eli Maor-it's a great resource on this topic.
I believe the standard size for a piano should be the 178 mm version, sometimes the 179 mm one. Can you confirm that it wasn't an error in measurement? I believe the instruction images show what length needs to be measured. If you still need the 181 mm, I can send you a custom version.
8:51 you dont play a c in ur arpeggio for c dorian. Ur playing Bb D F which as far as i understand is the second chord in C dorian. Does that mean even when you change modes you still use the scale degrees for the relative major mode? At that point whats even the point of a mode? Srry if my comment seems accusatory I just never really “got” modes. Maybe this is an editing mistake which happens but I imagine it isnt?
So the example at 8:38 is in C Dorian, which means that the ii chord is our tonic. The chords in C Dorian are the same as in Bb Ionian (that's why the I chord you pointed out isn't the C minor chord but the Bb major chord). Here, the emphasis is put on the C minor chord, which is the ii chord. By playing a certain chord longer than the others or by starting your progression with a specific chord, you imply in the listener's mind that it's the home base of that bit of music. This is explained in more detail in the 'Chords in Other Modes' section, including the justification for not re-numbering roman numerals for each mode. The other example you pointed out is in a different key, you can see the paper strip has been slid sideways. I know the video is very dense, there's a lot covered, but if you have other questions, don't hesitate.
clever and very niche but not suitable for people with colour deficiencies or visual impairments as is - the colour strip's way too busy for me and adds a new level complexity to the whole shenanigans of music theory -- you end up memorising patterns either way. I rather keep them "black and white" where whole and half steps are very obvious by their physical size. Good luck.
Dude, the lo fi clipping is more brutal than a meshuggah track. That, combined with the pitched 808, that is often out of key, i Makes it impossible to focus all on what you are trying to communicate. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rS0_rkKde-Q.html Such brutal sonic onslaught. If that's what you going for, you achieved it.
I like how it sounds. I spent a lot of time tuning the kicks and snares to the tonics or fifths of each key and the places where they go out of tune a bit are intentional.
