Scales Introduction
Lesson 1 from: Music Theory Essentials: Chords, Scales and ModesTomas George
Scales Introduction
Lesson 1 from: Music Theory Essentials: Chords, Scales and ModesTomas George
Lesson Info
1. Scales Introduction
Lessons
Scales Introduction
03:08 2Working out a Major Scale
06:45 3Working out a Major Key from a Melody
05:51 4Major Keys and Scales
01:54 5Major Scale on a Score
02:56 6Triads
03:37 7Inversions
03:21 8Working out the Chords in a Major Scale
09:27Different Ways to Write out Chords
04:11 10Working out Major and Minor Triads
07:01 11Diminished and Augmented Triads
05:22 127th Chords
12:16 13Extended Chords
06:34 14Suspended Chords
06:02 15The Circle of 5ths
12:48 16How to Change Key
14:54 17Natural Minor Scale
11:21 18Chords in the Minor Scale
05:59 19Harmonic Minor Scale
07:15 20Melodic Minor Scale
11:12 21Modes
03:54 22Ionian Mode
00:47 23Dorian Mode
03:14 24Phrygian Mode
03:14 25Lydian Mode
01:21 26Mixolydian Mode
02:11 27Aeolian Mode
01:03 28Locrian Mode
03:56 29Section introduction
00:17 30Song Analysis 1 - Capsize
15:25 31Song Analysis 2 - Floating
18:07Lesson Info
Scales Introduction
Hi in this lecture, we're going to talk about scales. So why do we care so much about scales? Why are scales so important if you ever did piano lessons or maybe guitar lessons, you might have spent a lot of time playing scales but not really knowing why you need to know scales. And to be honest, scales are super, super important scales really show us the patterns of music without knowing scales, we can't create chords without known scales, we can't really create melodies. We do actually have two different types of scales. We have chromatic scales and diatonic scales. So chromatic scales really mean that you can play any notes. So on the piano chromatic would be literally all of the notes. So one after the other going along, this is a chromatic scale and diatonic quite simply means the notes fit in a scale or a pattern in diatonic music. Sometimes you can have a few notes that go out of the scale. But generally when the notes fit in this pattern or scale, it means diatonic. Sometimes yo...
u might hear someone say there's a chromatic section in the song. All that really means is there's a bit that goes out of the pattern where the notes are a little bit more random. The notes are a little bit more wild. Sometimes chromatic music can sound quite strange, quite dissonant. But all chromatic really means is any of the notes. So notes that don't necessarily fit in a pattern or scale apart from the chromatic scale, which is quite simply all of the notes on the piano keyboard and a diatonic would be maybe a major scale, a minor scale and there's a few other scales we're going to look at as well. So like I said, scales are super important because they allow us to work out chords, they allow us to work out melodies, they allow us to actually know how to build music. And in this course, I'm going to show you how you can actually work out a major scale and a minor scale through a few simple patterns. I'm not going to get you to memorize loads of things in this course. It's just a couple of simple things that we're going to look at in the next lecture about a major scale. That's all I really wanted to say about scales. Cos sometimes when you're learning an instrument, scales can seem kind of boring and dull, but they are super important. So please don't miss any of these lectures about scales, especially if you're new to music theory because they can really help you out when you're composing your own music. So what I'm going to teach you is the rules of music theory. However, you can break these rules, but you do need to know the rules before you break them. But I do recommend going through learning how to create a major scale, minor scales and other types of scales as well. And then you can experiment, then you can create some distant music, then you can create something that's a bit more free. But if you look at the top musicians, the ones who create more free music, the ones that don't necessarily always stick to the rules, they also know what the rules are and when to break them. So thank you for watching this lecture just about scales. In the next lecture. We're going to have a look at creating a major scale.
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