Major and Minor Basics - Intervals, Triads, and Scales

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This is episode 6 of the music fundamentals series!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:37 The Musical Alphabet
05:11 Intervals
08:30 Triads
09:02 Major Triads
09:53 Minor Triads
11:37 Major Scales
14:02 Minor Scales
15:12 Relative Minor
17:23 Parallel Minor

I apologize for my typo in the Part 1 title card. Of all of the words I could've spelt wrong... 😝

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Bad Moon Rising
Let It Be
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Perfect
Yellow

Minor Key Songs:
House of the Rising Sun
Oops I Did It Again
Losing My Religion
California Dreamin'
Levitating

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[HardRockVermont]

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[h_msk]

Great video, very clear, coherent and well paced, one of the best music theory channels out there for sure.

[astha_yadav]

Such an information-packed, well-structured video!
Learnt so much very grateful :D

[carsenbusette]

Great video, I'm learning these music theory concepts well !

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[kumareshnatarajan]

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[darkkartist]

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[atamaminami]

Hadn't yet seen this approach to defining scales! Hadn't yet realized the Major scale had all the major intervals of the root, I just memorized it as Whole-Whole-Half-Whole-Whole-Whole-Half, focusing on each interval instead of the root note. It was helpful when starting up, and this new method I'm sure will help complement that one. Immediately had to look up which scale has all perfect intervals but also all minor ones, seems to be the Locrian mode?

I was waiting for you to mention the Tritone later in the episode, and I'm quite curious why it was (I assume) saved for later.

Thanks for the video, and looking forward to the next one! :D

[Rcck.]

15:26 With a C major scale, why we choose 6th and name it A minor scale? why the 6th? does it have special connection? Why we can't pick the 4th instead of the 6th from a C major scale and get F minor from that?
Or maybe there are 7 degrees starting point and the 6th is just happened to be called "minor" scale?

[DellaButcher-Monsees]

Really enjoying your videos and finding them very helpful. However is there a reason you skip the 6th interval (about 6:20). You just jump from P4 to P5. Is there a name for this interval?

[MUHAMMAD-hwes]

Hi Music Theories, quick question... when you're showing the intervals from the root note C, you follow each note in order and call it minor 2nd to major 2nd to minor 3rd to major 3rd etc, but after the perfect fourth, which is the note F, you jump directly to G for the perfect fifth. Although you mention that G has indeed 7 half steps. Can you explain why F# isn't the perfect fifth and also what interval is F# in this case. Just started out music theory, loving the series so far. Thank you!

[justmasterjustred]

After this video, would you think this is enough knowledge to get familiar with the circle of fifths?

[oscare.quiros]

So, are you saying that do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, and si are not western music notes?