Music Theory Lecture - What Every Pro Musician Needs To Know

This is my first music theory lecture on what every professional musican needs to know. I discuss everything from, key signatures, intervals, buliding triads and seventh chords, extended notes and upper structures, chord construction, harmonic analysis, mode to chord relationship, the major, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales and modes. I also explore the construction of auxiliary scales like:

Tonic Diminished
Dominant Diminished
Whole Tone
Augmented Scale
Multiple Pentatonic and Blues Scales

And much, much more!

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[keikorono]

0:12 Circle of Fifths
1:57 Scale Degrees
4:37 (7th)Chords/Modes
7:59 ****
10:01 Building Triads
13:13 Suspended Chords
15:18 Building 7th Dominant Chords
18:42 Upper Extensions
21:13 Inversions
24:18 (7th)Chords/Modes Melodic Minor Scale
26:35 (7th)Chords/Modes Harmonic Minor Scale
28:13 *Auxiliary Scales*
31:48 Common Chord Progressions

[TLCHobbies]

My theory teacher came up with "I-Do-Pot-Leave-Me-A-LOne" for the modes.

[andrewdaigneau]

We all know the real title should be “60, 000$ tuition for four years in under an hour” 😄 you’re an absolute gift to planet earth and for poor aspiring musicians like me.

I play a portion of this every week and pause where I lose you and practice that all week then come back and repeat. thank you for all your efforts in spreading musical literacy🙏🏼

[lancecass]

Everyone says great lesson. This isn't a lesson, it's a speech on what lessons you need. Made little sense when I first saw it, then I went all over and learned theory, now I'm back to see how far I've come, and I understand what you're telling us now. Feels great to finally understand this. Thanks for the Direction Rick!

[postmodernjustice]

I'd like to add one of the most important things about modes, and it is the thing that makes understanding them far easier: Each of the most commonly used modes - major, natural minor, lydian, mixolydian and dorian - is exactly the same as a related diatonic scale. So, very often, you DON"T NEED TO CHANGE what "mode" you are playing, the chord change accomplishes this for you. To go with the example in the video, to use Db Lydian against the IV chord in the key of Ab, you just keep playing in Ab major, because Db Lydian is the exact same notes as Ab major. To use Eb Mixolydian against the V chord in Ab, again, just keep playing in Ab major, because Eb Mixolydian is the same notes as Ab major. To use F minor mode against the VI chord in Ab, just keep playing in Ab major, because F minor is exactly the same notes as Ab major.

Chord changes automatically change your mode for you. By the way, this explains why the I, IV, V and vi chords (in any order) are such a popular chord progression. Without changing your melodic note choices, using those 4 chords automatically gives you Major, Lydian, Mixolydian and Minor modality.

[MyTubeUtoo]

Music - The more I learn, the more I realize that there's a *LOT* more to learn!

[mammothband]

At 8:33 when talking about the modes of each chord what is never stated is that all those modes share the same notes....the notes of Ab all F Aeolian is simply an Ab major scale starting on Dorian is an Ab Major scale starting on the key changes to C major the same Dorian, G Mixolydian and C Ionian all share the notes C, D, E, F, G, A & B...you just start on different scale degrees to get the corresponding in case people thought they had to memorize 8 different only 2

[AimeeNolte]

Woohoo! Look at him go!! Give a man a whiteboard....Keep it up, Rick! Great lesson!

[TullMorse]

Sharps: Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle
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[coffeemachtspass]

39:00 “Don’t let this be overwhelming.”


Um. Ok. Too late.

[TheZenytram]

in less than an hour we have here months of studies.

[SeanWilsonPiano]

Extremely good lesson Rick... most people would have to pay for this kind of quality teaching!! Looks like I also need to plug in some theory knowledge gaps

[jeffmaestro]

I think I missed the first seven classes leading up to this

[Aksomaniac]

I'm shocked this is free. Beato you're an angel.

[NahreSol]

Rick, I'm trying to get through your "Rick's Best Videos" playlist, the only problem is that all these video are so good and I want to watch them over and over again before I move on... You're great!!

[summereellsmusic]

I'm quite happy that I already know most all of this as a high school senior. That speaks worlds for my amazing teacher!

[j_laf]

As someone who has a very basic understanding of music theory and wants to learn more this has been really helpful. A little overwhelming but manageable if taken a little at a time. Thanks for this

[DavidDiMuzio]

Rick, you know I LOVE all your lessons, but this was just what the doctor ordered. Really inspired me to fill in some holes. I've been going through the circle of fifths and all chord/key spellings daily since first watching this video a few days ago.

[TheMyjournii]

Oh my gosh!! where have you been all my life!!! I needed this so much!!!! can't wait to learn more!!!!

[manuelgasse]

I watch your videos at 0.75 speed. Makes you look a bit drunk, but also makes me feel a bit less.