Haven’t listened to it but I’m guessing 4/4.by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
I agree, it’s clearly a system that has grown into second nature for him, but when we get thrown into the deep end of it we haven’t had that slow ramp of understanding and it takes some unpicking.by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Sorry, I got the page numbering wrong (I was looking at the printed page number not the pdf number!). Ok in that 1st example, the song is in C, it’s saying C is the root, and the b7 chord (no 5) would be C E# Bb; this is the 2nd chord in that first bar. The 1st chord is a tritone away, so it’s an F# with a flat 7 (no 5), but he’s saying it’s still built off (or harmonised with) the 1 Master Cby Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
He explains it in the glossary page viiby Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Tredective for the interval and 12-tone or chromatic for the scale?by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
:)) And youby Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Well, it’s simply because it’s the word that was invented to describe the 7+1 notes of the major scale, where the top note has double the frequency of the bottom note. You could use the word tredective to describe the 12+1 notes of the chromatic scale but there’s no need because octave’s definition has morphed from specific to general to mean doubling the frequency, regardless of how many notes tby Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Awesome, cheers, Vizby Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Cool. Dorian is just natural minor, except with a major 6th instead of a minor 6th. In the case of G minor that 6th is the E. Dorian pieces are instantly recognisable, wither due to the raised 6th in the melody, or due to a major IV chord in the harmony. (Natural minor pieces have a minor iv chord).by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Happy Easter. It’s in G minor as you say, and is often scored with 2 flats. However throughout the piece the Eb is often naturalised (raised) as per the Dorian mode, as the piece is mainly in G Dorian. So the editors have the choice: either score it with 2 flats in the key sig (you wrote time sig in the title by the way), and naturalise most of the Ebs, OR score it as G Dorian (1 flat), so thby Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Hi Rex, I can’t quite understand the point you’re making but when I play a scale, I play it from root to root, so that the base (and bass!) note is obvious, therefore the key is obvious. If I play DEFGABCD, I’m playing the scale of D Dorian. I have never understood why some guitarists continue playing higher than the top of theb scale, it’s probably because unlike the piano the fingering is diby Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
If you recall that A Minor is the relative minor of C Major, you will notice that the missing 4th and 7th of C major penta (the F and the B) are the same notes that are missing from A minor penta, except with A minor, the F and the B are the 2nd and 6th. Clever eh? Then when you start learning modes, you will understand there are 3 major modes (lydian, ionion and mixolydian) and that the nby Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
It’s very common really. Clocks (coldplay), the beginning of The Long Run album (the eagles) to name the first two off the top of my head. I’m certainly not an expert!by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
It’s a slow 4/4, with a 3-3-2 rhythm spanning each bar.by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
If you really need to accentuate it more - I mean, what you’ve written and how it sounds seem pretty aligned to me :)by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
That’s just 4/4 with the 2nd bar of each pair “pushed” or “forced”. So the first example is correct. Great production btw.by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Well, the time signature denotes how many, of what type, of beats are there in a bar; it doesn’t say anything about the grouping of the bars themselves. So 4/4 means “four crotchets per bar”. Grouping bars into sets of 3 or 5 is fine and quite normal. Even grouping whole sets of bars into threes is normal - like Under Pressure by Queen, in which everything seems to be in threes.by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Hi there, and Happy Christmas to you. Can I ask, what do you mean, ‘the musical sections’? And do you mean each bar has 3 beats, or that the bars are bunched together in groups of 3 bars?by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Hi, I’ve been wanting to reply to this for days but sherry got the better of me. Your question is expressed well by your first sentence - “Do you have to start on the root note to be in a certain mode?” The answer depends on if you are talking about actual music, or about scales. If actual music, the answer is of course NO. Drunken Sailor is in Dorian, and the first note “Hooray” is onby Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Whenever you get a i minor and a IV Major (forget the 7 for a sec), you are playing a song written in Dorian.by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Well, there’s no such thing as C# either really, that’s your problem. Your piece is in D flat!by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Well, seeing as it’s clearly a minor droning chord throughout, it’s Dorian. Working out whether it’s major or minor is pretty much the first step. Then if minor, you’ve got a few options; this is clearly Dorian due to that raised 6th.by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
You can certainly learn piano. In fact you must! It's much easier to understand how music works if you have a working model of it in your head, and the piano is the best working model of music there is. It's much more intuitive than the guitar in layout. Many good guitarists learned piano when they were children.by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
It's just a 'pushed' note.by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
That's really a V-I cadenace from D to G; it's a D7 3rd inversion (ie with C at the bottom), the D itself is absent (bear with me) you have the F# and the A from the D major triad, and finally there's that D# instead of the D, which is a sort of chromatically suspended flat2 note. Don't know its name.by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Hi, The "default" minor scale is the "natural minor" scale (called Aeolian). It's one of the "diatonic modes" and is a relative of the major scale (called Ionian). So E Natural Minor - the scale you are talking about - is a relative of G major, in other words it has an F#. If you harmonise the G major scale, when you get to chord vi, which is a vi minor triad, thby Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
It is exactly as you say. It starts on a V chord, 1st inversion, and yes that's unusual, and well that's the special thing about that song. It's a fantastic start to a song!by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Hi, the Ib7 chord is indeed changing the tonic to a temporary (or "secondary") dominant, so it can resolve nicely to the the IV chord in a V-I cadence. The flat 6 chord is indeed borrowed from f minor. He doesn't use a minor iv chord, it's a minor v chord (the c minor), which is also from f minor. So the majority of the 2nd theme is in f minor before returning to the "happy" pby Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Yep. You can always tell phrygian whenever the vii chord is minor (and or the II chord is a bII major)by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Ah-ha well there you go! Phrygian it is :)by Viz - Music Theory Questions and Answers