Music Theory in 19 Minutes

Music theory can seem difficult ... and even mysterious. But in this video, you'll see that it's actually simple. Here, we'll walk through the essential patterns and principles of music -- including octaves, intervals, note names, scales, the circle of fifths, modes, chords, and progressions. ALL IN 19 MINUTES!

Some of the basics at the start are similar to Guy Michelmore's well-done "Music Theory in 16 Minutes." By the end, though, you'll definitely see and understand music theory like never before. It's the few extra minutes here that make all the difference....

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Songwriting is fun when you can actually see what you're doing. I use the familiar patterns of color to explain music theory so you can write songs.

[maxt]

Two position of symmetric whole-tone scale are really helpful easily learn all whole-step patterns available on the piano layout

[arirushan]

Although this video showed me things I have already know, but it also showed me a lot of new things I haven't know yet, and some other new thing I habn't able to comprehend yet.
Really worth your time to see it and replay it some couple more.

[arthur_sparks]

The connection to colors blew my mind. The letters were always too abstract and confusing for me. Great job!

[sheiladuke]

Thankyou for making music 🎉 even more of a relaxing pleasure 😅 than a chore 😊❤❤ 😂Sheila Duke😊😊😊

[tilaaan]

I have never thought that sounds and sight can be correlated the way you demonstrated. This is magical. It is also the clearest explanation for circle of fifth that I have come across. Thank you so much Mike. 🙏

[x]

This is the best music theory tutorial on YouTube. Well done.

[carissalarue]

I LOVE HOW CLEAR YOU ARE!!! Seriously!!! Your info is phenomenal!! 💞

[bradymartin]

Hey Mike, been watching your music theory collection for a while now - whenever I got time. The way you explain is outstanding, really easy to follow. For me, I learned the chords on the fretboard, without knowing why it is as it is and finally I'm learning this! Thank you for your effort!

[lawrencetaylor]

I had seen some of your other videos based on this, and I was always wondering about the circles and squares. Finally. This was brilliant. And I'm colour blind so that part is useless for me, but I can see the genius behind your thinking.
Merci beaucoup.

[maxotto]

I'm a complete beginner at guitar, I learned a few basic riffs and chords before stumbling on this series, this is really helping me understand what I'm doing before I'm even capable of doing most of this stuff which is fantastic, I never have to be in the dark

Bravo

[spendingmoneymani]

dude. This is fucking gold. I hope your channel blows dude. Holy shit.

[curtpiazza]

Wow! This is great stuff! Combining the audio and visual! Great intro to theory in just 20 min! Very practical info for any instrument!

[PhilipBowenMusic]

Hey Mike this is really well done! Going to show this to a couple of my private lesson students!

[tsunayoshisawada]

As an artist whose somehow familiar with color theory(or atleast with the color wheel😂) this is very helpful for someone like me whose also developing my musical skills. Like it's very mindblowing how you manage to simplify those things by relating music into colors. At this point, i guess by now, we could really say that MUSIC really brings COLOR into lives😂

[Dr]

This is just great. I watched numerous videos and heard many explanations trying to make sense of it, but this one just clicked. Thank you so much!

[davidhall]

Mike.
You deserve far more views for your efforts! 😊
The incredibly informative insights thru blending of the eternal infinite nature of the underlying symetry in music, colour, geometry, maths, frequency, vibration and the thought/feeling experience encoded into the Twin Helix nature of DNA... within the Circle of Life. 😊
Thank you Man for sharing... ❤

[nandakumarkulandaivelu]

Dear Mike, , you are uniquely gifted person..so profound a concept..so mystifying the theoritisation, , at a point, , the teacher and the student, ,swallow down at, ???blindspot ..without explanation..your explanation.OR.t would say..YOU HAVE DECODED, , salute, , DrNanda..India

[MiguelisNoisy]

This is cool! In leaning this system would you memorize the colors associated to each note? Been learning music theory my whole life and it has never clicked, this definitely made some new connections. Cheers!

[homesh]

hey Mike, loved the way you have made music theory so visually easy. Would love to see some videos on time signatures and rhythm.

[sishasfaith]

Amazing video!!! 🙏🏼🎹 I learned piano as a kid and it’s my favorite instrument. This made perfect sense to me and makes me love piano and music even more 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼