For your plaisir: You should have a look at Johann Mattheson, Die Wohlbestallte Organistenprüfung. Shure, you cannot read baroque German. But you can see the astonishing amount of Transpositions here. When Bach was in Leipzig, Mattheson in Hamburg tested in this way all the students, that wanted a good job as an organist. Transposing must have been very important for the baroque organist.
Everyday I learn so many new stuff from this Chanel I'm forever grateful to you sir 🙇🏻♂️. Hope you keep teaching us more,may you and your family stay healthy and happy forever 😊
Thanks Gareth - I found this most helpful just for playing and especially for sight reading - seeing chord structure and melodic lines will help me play at sight without quite so much panic. I'll put more practice into voicing chords to become familiar with them. As you say Rome wasn't built in a day ... I have a few steps to take from my current standard of Grade 2 playing.
To go up a tone, change the treble clef to alto clef and the bass clef to mezzo soprano clef and Bob’s your uncle! To move down a tone the treble clef changes to tenor clef and the bass clef changes to alto clef. You idea of interval reading is excellent especially when learning to read in clefs.
That was impressive, and a video I will be coming back to often. I learned figured bass from you and started thinking in scale degrees with the Rule of the Octave. When I applied that to Prélude in Do Majeure by Bach, I was able to play it relatively easily in Sol Majeure.
HI, I have a question involving layering chords. Over a Bminor drone, I have two chords that fit beautifully over the Bminor and I'm not sure why. I don't even think they're in the same key. Is there a musical term for this? I feel like I've stumbled on something way over my head, haha! Thanks for any help. I really enjoy the down-to-earth approach of your videos.
A drone often provides what we call a pedal point or pedal note. It’s a note or notes that we sustain or repeat while writing melodies/ chords around it, some of which harmonies and some of which don’t.
Transpose is one thing, but staying in pitch. I will be playing a guitarist/singer who sings fairly low compared to the original songs, but you play the chords that he does then transpose down?? rather than playing the original chords and using transpose, but you don't know how he sounds until you meet up, so I play to the cd until it matches sometimes its up to 11 half steps? Hopefully I am doing this right ?
Like you, Gareth, I find the "transpose" button to be unsettling. I think it has a lot to do with our generation. My mother has "perfect pitch" . She once watched one of my nieces play a piece on a keyboard while using the transpose button. She ended up leaving the room because the keys being played did not match the pitches should have emanated from the keyboard. By The Way, Great Video! Thanks so much.
Thanks Carl. I completely agree. Transpose buttons completely don’t work for me. Anyway, it’s great to be able to think and hear the music in any key. Great story about your mother!
Hello i love your videos but i want to ask you... is there like a schedule or plan for music theory ..i want to start from scratch is there a plan of subjects that i should know about? For example i know i should start by learning sheet music and rhythm reading but what should i learn next? Thank you
So if someone asks me to transpose "up a tone", how do I know which key signature to change to? I noticed that moving up a tone in the video went from one b to one #, or two steps clockwise in the circle of fifths. Is this how it works - one step around per semitone, or is this coincidence and I'm missing something?
