How Music Works, part 1: Music is Relative (subtitles in 6 languages)

This animated video is the first in a series which will show you how music really works and how you can learn to improvise or compose your own music. In this first video we discover that almost all modern popular music comes from just seven notes, and that these seven sounds can actually be created anywhere on our instrument. In other words, the actual names of the notes don't even matter. This astonishing realization is the key to many important personal discoveries for the creative musician.

First of all, we discover that we can understand music just by listening to it. We can learn to recognize these seven sounds in the music all around us just as easily as we can see the colors in a painting. We don't need to resort to abstract theories about "right notes" and "wrong notes" in order to know which notes to play. Instead we can study the raw materials of our art DIRECTLY and get to know them for ourselves, just exactly the same way people study other art forms like painting, poetry or sculpture.

We also discover that we can create our OWN music just as easily as we might draw a picture or write a poem. Once we can see for ourselves the raw materials of our art, suddenly we have unlimited creative possibilities that we can explore with complete freedom.

In future videos we will go even deeper, showing how these very simple sounds can be combined and altered to produce the exotic and sophisticated sounds of modern jazz music. But it all starts with this simple little constellation of sounds called the major scale, and that is what we explore in this video.

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[aminedest]

"Music is relative", Big brain moment right here !

[christopherguzman]

Best course I ever took. This should replace all music lessons. Amazing.

[VoodooJeff]

Great video! 20 years ago I uncovered the same understanding and have been teaching it since 1996 using archaic hand drawn illustrations. When we, as teachers, simplify an idea and make the theory easier to digest our students can spend more time putting it all to good use instead of struggling to make sense of it.

[joebates]

As one of your students, I just had to comment on this video. I wish my Dad were still alive to see it. He loved music, and I I know he would have been blown away by this terrific simple explanation of how it works. I hope tons of music seekers see it. I wish I had many years ago.

[markaries]

Now I'm going all the way back and re-lay my foundation stronger.... Awesome!

[cajunoutlaw]

I didn't know about your blog so thank you very much for the link, you just keep making things more enjoyable!

[emmanuelrosenblatt]

I'd like to add to your introduction stating "Great improvisers are able
to play any melody they can imagine in any key. They can do this because
they have discovered a special insight about harmony that most of us
didn't learn in school."
It seems to me that the above 'special insight' is of elusive value until you have developped a good grasp on how to make that improvised melody "groove".
I have been struggling with rythm and pulsations for several years and the part dealing with mastering the relationship melody/harmony is (in part thanks to your help) always far more easier for me than developing the ability to improvise a "groovy" melodic rythm (in Jazz).

Cheers,

Emmanuel

[gurayozcana]

The most simple way to explain music. I bought your method and i recommend it for everyone. Thank you so much such a great explanation. Warm regards from Turkey, Güray Özcana

[JimLarranagak]

I’ve purchased some of these courses and I learned a lot!

[tubatim]

Excellent.  Really enjoying your book and exercises.  Looking forward to "How Music Works, Part 2".  Thanks.

[fianiramadhania]

Goddang I've been very confused trying to learn basic music theory before this video. Thanks a lot man!

[brandyspianostudio]

Love this! I bought your book and I'm going to dive more into it. Thank you .

[hugomeza]

Finally a video that can explain and teach music. This was very helpful. You guys should do more like these going deeper into video lessons

[Sam-lkci]

My friend explained this to me today and I was amazed. Am just a music beginner.

[alexizvely]

Thank you! This is the simplest explanation I've seen ever.

[kmaskell]

A very enjoyable video. It's a little ethnocentric - not every culture on Earth chops their scales up the same way - but the overall principles are sound.

[smithmeister]

It's our ear and mind that has driven the complexity, much like the palate has done for cooking, or the eye for aesthetics or art.

[manudev]

Thanks a lot. Learn too much from this❤

[alexmwesa]

I totaly agree. I have been looking at multiple definations of music on youTube and its all wrong. Your defination explains why music is universal across cultures, despite the differences in style, its governed by relationships in pitch and rhythm, weather one's taste for a particular song is, or is not poison, the definations still remains and thats what makes music universal.