Perfect 4ths
Lesson 8 from: Music Theory for Electronic ProducersTomas George
Perfect 4ths
Lesson 8 from: Music Theory for Electronic ProducersTomas George
Lesson Info
8. Perfect 4ths
Lessons
Introduction
00:58 2Basic Music Theory Terms
08:07 3Keyboard Layout and Octaves
06:19 4Working out Major Scales
08:58 5Perfect 5ths
06:42 63rds - Part 1
08:05 73rds - Part 2
07:39 8Perfect 4ths
04:36Chords and Inversions - Part 1
10:05 10Chords and Inversions - Part 2
09:13 11Chord Progressions - Part 1
10:22 12Chord Progressions - Part 2
08:26 13Inversions
08:53 147th Chords
09:48 15Chord Extensions
08:09 16Suspended Chords
02:40 17The Circle of 5ths
04:30 18Minor Scales
08:09 19Chords in the Natural Minor scale
09:56 20Harmonic and Melodic Minor
09:30 21Write the Chords, then the Melody
09:03 22Write the Melody, then the Chords
18:01 23Arpeggios
08:00 24Writing Bass Parts
11:35 25Writing Bass Riffs and Adapting Melodies
14:10 26Song Analysis - Chords, Part 1
10:17 27Song Analysis - Chords, Part 2
05:58 28Song Analysis - Melody
08:55 29Song Analysis - Arrangement
07:30 30Song 2 Analysis - Arrangement
05:04 31Song 2 Analysis - Chords
08:55 32Song 2 Analysis - Melodies
06:34 33Song 3 Analysis - Chords
11:41 34Song 3 Analysis - Melodies and Arrangement
06:55 35Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 1
10:22 36Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 2
18:47 37Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 3
18:49 38Create a Song from a Drum Beat - Part 4
08:21 39Create a Song from a Chord Progression - Part 1
08:16 40Create a Song from a Chord Progression - Part 2
08:07 41Create a Song from a Melody - Part 1
07:27 42Create a Song from a Melody - Part 2
09:05 43Modes Intro
04:10 44Ionian
00:43 45Dorian
04:31 46Phrygian
02:09 47Lydian
01:35 48Mixolydian
02:13 49Aeolian
00:39 50Locrian
01:50 51Dorian Mode Example
09:12 52Pentatonic Scales
12:27Lesson Info
Perfect 4ths
Hello. In this lecture, we're going to be looking at perfect fourths. So previously, we had a look at perfect fifths and perfect fourths are quite similar to perfect fifths. They basically mean they can fit in a major scale or a minor scale. So in C major, the fourth one up would be an F and remember to go back to tone tone semi to tone tone tone semi toone to work this out. You really do need to internalize this. It basically allows you to work out all the notes in the major scale. So let's hop into Ableton live here and I've just written in the pattern tone tone semitone, tone, tone tone semitone. So the fourth note in C major is 1234 is this F and the fifth note is this G, these are both perfect 4th and 5th. So this means in C minor, it will have an F and G and C major, it will have an F and A G. It's just a way of saying it will fit in a major scale and a minor scale. So the fourths are quite useful, we don't really use them for building cords, but they're really useful for inversi...
ons. So if we put down the root, which is ac and the fourth, which is 1234 and F, this is the interval of 1/4. But if we invert this, so if we put the F down here, this actually gives us the interval of a perfect fifth. So these forts are really useful for actually creating intervals. You will hear that this gives a very different sound. Let's get the right note. So we count down this way as well. So if we continue the pattern, so it's 12345, it's 1/5 down. So above is 1/4 up, 1234, the f and below 12345, it's 1/5 down. So if we flip it and invert it, we can turn this fourth into 1/5. This gives a very different sound to us and just gives us a few more options when we're adding and inverting chords. Just remember about the perfect fourth. You can use it in both a major and a minor scale. So that's it for this lecture. I just wanted to show you how you can use 1/4 in your, your music and writing chords. The easiest way I like to do this is to invert it, put it down an octave and then you've got a th which can be quite useful when building and creating different sounding chords at the moment. We've got quite rigid sounding major, minor, minor, major, major, minor, diminished major chords. But if you want to experiment and try some new different ideas, inverting the fourth can give you some new flavors and textures to your chords. Of course, you want to try and stay in key for now. If you're new to music very but experiment and try new ideas and use your ear. Most importantly, theory does help. But if you don't manage to train your ear and you don't write the music that you think sounds good, there isn't really that much point. So just go through an experiment and one of the easiest ways you can do this is putting in the fourth and then dropping it down an octave below the route. And this way you can create some new interesting chords. So let's write in C major here. So we have the root the third and the fifth. So it's 12345 can count up with our major scale here. Then if we put the F down here, we've got a complete different sounding chord. Take out the F add there. It still fits, gives a really different flavor to our cord. You can even add the sea below. So this just allows us to create some new interesting ideas because if we just keep it too rigid and too obvious, you're not really creating anything that's unique or just sounds a bit different and interesting for the listener and this is the easy way and a little cheeky shortcut of doing this is stick in the forth, drop it down an and experiment with this as it's a perfect fourth similar to the perfect fifth. It's going to almost fit all the time. So it gives us loads of new options to work with. So thank you for watching this lecture and I'll see you in the next one.
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