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I have been involved with music since junior high school. I am now seventy-two years of age. In all my years I have never knew about the Alto clef. Why is that? As others have already said I am most thankful for your videos, they definitely bring better understanding to a lot of music mysteries! THANK YOU!!!
that cleff is used for differfent intstruments i am not really sure cause i dont remember which. BUt i think cello, clarinet? violin can be in alto cleff too (i believe they call it "C" cleff as well) for piano you just deal with treble/base clef Whats confusing is if you are trying to find same pitch of piano + another instrument you gotta transpose to get same pitch. I don't know details but to get same note as trumpet i think you gotta play a 6th above (or was it a 6th below) gahh
Alto clef is mostly used by viola and sometimes by the occasionally used alto trombone. It’s an odd duck. Bb trumpet sounds a major second lower than concert pitch, so it transposes a major second up. Alto sax, which reads treble clef(weird, right?), sounds a major 6th lower than concert pitch so their music transposes a major 6th up. I also did a video on “Concert Pitch and Transposition” that you might find interesting!
this is super helpful! ive been interested in learning the violin for a while but i didnt really know how to go about it and wanted to get more basics down before taking lessons... its very well explained so anyone can understand, currently going through all your theory vids 😊🙏 cant wait to start!! thank you for all your hard work!
wow I already know all of this and more but I still watched it till the end cause it's interesting and I would recommend it to everybody that wants to learn this, this video is perfect
Thank you so much Brad. The way you use visuals is truly amazing. Even though I understand all that you do I really enjoy the way you do it. All teachers could do with having your videos at hand.
Glad you enjoyed! It’s a style many people seem to enjoy. Hopefully people find it to be a good overview to prep them to do their homework, and a good reference if they need to review. All the best!
Wow! i have been struggling for years totally blind to what it all means you have just opened a new world for me, like below again another 72 year old . I have just brought a keyboard and are going to learn my music reading now Thank you so much
honestly, you break things down to make it really understandable (Usually when i dont know what something means in sheet music and look it up it gives me these really fancy words or doesn't even give the definition...).
That’s so nice to hear! Honestly, the hardest parts of these videos is the script. Putting things in the right order so everything is sequential, assumes as little knowledge as possible, and doesn’t jump around a bunch of related topics takes forever. All the best!
This video is great! You do an exceptional job at breaking down this foundational information in small bits and easy digests. I just wish piano teaches could explain music theory the way you do. Simple and clear!
All of your videos are super helpful! I am getting ready to learn playing the piano, but couldn't understand anything. Found a few of your videos and everything is much easier. Thank you very much!
What really helps with clefs is knowing one inimately. I know the treble clef, so the bass clef to me is just two steps lower then the treble clef. It's a hack, but it works.
Hacks can be useful! Sometimes you just need to survive. I do recommend actually learning clefs you have to play in regularly. It mostly happens on its own with repeated exposure but it does make reading so much faster and better.
If you don't do much music I can see why its boring but get into music and its actually pretty interesting and clears up lots of mistakes you might make.
I didn't know sharps and flats continued to the rest of the bar in notation. That explains a weird piece I saw before. For anyone wondering why the clefs are for different instruments, The bass clef(F clef) specifically notates the notes Directly below middle C(C4). The treble clef(G clef) notates directly above middle C. The Alto clef has middle C in the middle of the stave
I love your work!! I never could wrap my head around any sort of theory up until your videos Please dont ever stop, i look forward to your future videos
I find your tutorial style refreshing and easy to digest! I do know how to read notes but mostly in the treble clef. I love your jokes at the end of the video by the way!
damn that part with the sharps flats and accidentals blew my mind i hadnt known it changes every note until the bar this explains why i had so much trouble attempting to transpose music.
Thankyou so much for sharing this learning video, i ever joined a course but they never explained about this clearly. I'm very excited to watch your other videos ✨
Thank you so much ever since pandemic came I've been not going to any of my online classes I thought that it was boring and it wouldn't do anything bad to my self , but then I realized now that It was affecting me I forgot how to do the notes in music and anything (I was a third grader by that time and I'm now a 6th grader im suffering on my music class) I had lots of bad grades on my card on music and I dont want my parents to get disappointed because of me so really thank you I dont have any familiarity with any notes in music hope youll do more
Glad you enjoyed! Yeah, pandemic has been hard. Hope you’re doing better these days. Just remember that music is a language and you got good at reading and speaking by practicing tons, all the time. Practice steadily, try to value accuracy over speed, take your time, and try to have some fun too. I started music young but didn’t get serious until my mid teens. You’ve got lots of time.
The wonderful thing is that your language and your explanation is simple. I didn't really need to focus a lot to understand this video, it really helped me
@@BradHarrison Thank you very much. I am learning piano by myself without help and I was not good at reading them. This really helped me. I hope you will continue (. ᴗ ❛.)
This looks fascinating. I have absolutely ZERO musical knowledge before this. Seems like I have a TON of questions still plus the addition of now having to memorize EVERYTHING. This is going to be tedious haha. Great video though, it seems your videos make the most sense so far out of every one I've watched. You answer most of the questions I wondered and did it well. Thank you!
Excellent! Yeah, music is a complicated language. Start small with just a few notes and simple rhythms. Then build and add more information and complexity. Also, experiment and listen and play by ear while you’re working on learning notation. It takes a while but keep at it and try to have fun too. It’s hard work but it’s so good and satisfying when you start to get some chops together. Good luck!
ALL those notes are effected not just those in the octave. Thank you so much!! So all those notes are sharp/flattened unless they're marked as natural. I did start to wonder but I didn't understand the question until seeing the answer at the very last 30 seconds of the video. It's a bit silly considering there's a lower E that could really be used without any issue and would make far far more sense than the E an octave higher that doesn't seem to be used when looking at sheet music as a novice with no tutor. Once again thank you for the video and channel as YEAH!
2 mindblowing things that I took away that always confused me: Treble and bass are stylized off of G and F The way you decide whether to use certain Enharmonic equivalents is determined by what is easier to understand/makes more sense on the sheet
I like this educational video. I enjoyed so much! Thank you! In the minute 4:54 you said that there are some other chefs but the most important are the F clef, the C clef and the G clef... my question is: wich one other clefs are there and who are they? do they really exist? Would you tell me something more about these clefs you hear about please? Because in reality there are some other clefs.... those chefs I invented two years ago for some musical instruments.... and I'd love to share with you some day... when I finish my book. Greetings from Tijuana!
This was in a BL anime playlist for some reason and while I don't really have interest in learning music at this moment, this was informative and easy to understand. Glad this was mistakenly put in the playlist
man, i dont understand that much of music language and english isnt my first language, but i have to admit that i didn't understand that much, but the video is good for what ive learn :)
Wow!!! This was so helpful If i was you i would watch this video!!! But can you do a tempo video!!! I can play the piano because i broke my hand and i watch theory vids instead!!! I've Watched the dynamics video a hundred time and this one a million!! Keep the work up!!! THANK YOU!!!!
Never knew the idea about those God knows what, stylished clefs, and they've got one good one of the most logical idea behind it in the whole theory, at least for me, and I know these only now, but yet I have finished 8 grades in Keyboard, now you know my level of understanding in all of these :'( but I really like your video, your voice is calm like some of those great youtubers who make awesome learning content like ex1urba or krwzuegt? not sure, but they have very calm voice too! Oh, and like TED videos, you have the energy of that, and I'm gaping at your subscribers count, like I expected you to have 1m subs, even at the start of the video with the animation and just the voice, the production quality Ig, alas, just wait and keep uploading, and you'll be there in no time. Very thankful for these useful little things that I never realised, like the clef's relation with the letter, and the clef's relation with the note at it's centers, and the Alto clef! Nice.
He does such a great job of putting all the information together. I'm a music teacher, and I refer my students to these videos. To me, these are the best overall videos for music theory.
