Understanding Music Theory in One Hour - Animated Music Lesson

Understand the underlying concepts covering music theory today! After this one hour course, you will understand the musical alphabet, chords, intervals, inversions, melodies, scales, modulation, borrowing, modes, and more!

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[pmadamson]

Congratulations. I am a Qualified Music Teacher in the Uk and am very concerned about many so called Music teachers online who just set themselves up without the correct musical knowledge and/or qualification. You have impressed me with your approach and teaching.
Congratulations. I would love to see youtube offering a kind of approval system so beginners can visit approved sites. You would certainly be given the teaching mark if I was on the panel. All I need now is for you to tell me you are not qualified(LOL)
Either way, your knowledge is very good.

[DaisyFarm_]

For anyone who needs to watch in chunks

1.Musical distance: 0:30
2.Scales: 3:12 (For anyone who wants to remember major and minor pattern, Major, WWHWWWH, Minor, WHWWHWW)
2a.Scale degrees: 7:38
3.Intervals: 11:36
4.Melody and Transposition: 22:10
5.Major and Minor Chords: 25:50
5a.Chord progressions: 28:46
5b.Roman Numerals and Chord Transposition: 32:28
6.The Tritone: 35:23
7.Other types of chords and their functions: 40:14
8.Inverting Intervals: 48:38
9.Inverting Chords: 53:34
10.The Circle of Fifths: 56:22
11.Modulation and Borrowing: 1:03:11
12.Modes: 1:08:53

[SatireDaily]

The most amazing thing in music, for me, is when everything I've been trying to learn over the last year just somehow instantly clicks and makes sense. Everything falls into place and holy scoobysnacks I know music theory!!!!

[JazzBuff]

I just found this site and also ordered your book on Amazon. I'm 82 and I just bought a piano and am starting to learn. I'm a pilot and own my own plane, but they pull;ed my medical and I can't fly. I'm a golfer, but I had four recent back operations and I can't play. I believe the brain needs to be worked out just as any muscle does and flying kept me sharp. Same goes for golf and now I hope piano will do it for me. I've always been a jazz buff and love music.
I don't know why there has been a lull in comments here, maybe this post will start a new group of comments.

[kumarrishabh]

I am a Physics Student and after watching this I think 'Quantum Mechanics is quite simple'.

[KyuzaPiano]

Literally summoned up my music semester within 2 hours. Teachers trying to make things complicated, this video explained it simple as possible.

[joshuahijs]

a lot of people in these comments are complaining that this guy is teaching them WHAT the elements of music theory are - notes, scales, chords etc. - but not WHY they are the way they are. but there's a good reason he's not bothering to explain why - because in a lot of cases there isn't really a reason.

let me explain: when you were growing up, did your parents have any weird traditions you couldn't really explain? maybe your mum always set the table with a full cutlery set - fork, knife, spoon - even when she didn't need to cause you were only eating soup. or maybe your dad wouldn't let you open any of your christmas presents until after you'd had your christmas dinner, even though all your friends got to open theirs as soon as they woke up. and there was no real reason why they did those things, except that was just the way they liked to do it.

that's what music theory is.

music theory is thousands of different people over hundreds and hundreds of years saying "this is how we like to do it. there's no real reason why, we just think it sounds nice." and now if you try and make music that doesn't follow those rules, it sounds weird. that's why music from other cultures often sounds so strange to us. if you look outside western music, there's actually loads and loads of music that doesn't follow any of these rules because they came up with their own set of unexplainable traditions. some cultures use different scales, different chords, some of them have extra notes in between the ones we use. that's just how they like to do it.

the point is, we can explain why our music sounds the way it does using these rules, but we can't really explain why the rules themselves exist (in most cases - I will admit I'm oversimplifying a bit here).

[girlscoop]

Hey man, I just wanted to say I have looked for hours and hours for videos on Music Theory only to get bogged down with more and more info, because the preexisting knowledge required to understand what people are talking about is already so advanced, that someone who doesn't take any classes has a hard time understanding. This video was very straightforward and covered an expansive amount of basic and foundational knowledge for me. Like many fields, it seems that music teachers on youtube have very huge "expert blindspots" that keep them from being able to communicate things in simple wording. Thanks for the video.

[Capstfu]

I’m gonna re watch this until I remember every second

[molly]

THIS IS GREAT!!! My boyfriend is a musician and I haven’t taken any music classes beyond elementary school so it’s really hard for me to talk to him and ask questions about music when I don’t even know how to describe what I’m hearing or what I have questions about. This is my very first exposure to music theory and I am keeping up! I’ve been taking notes, pausing, rewinding and rewatching and I actually understand! I’m 40 minutes into the video and about 4 hours into watching. I’m so thankful for how clearly and concisely this is explained!

[sikereslegyakurvakkozt]

Science teacher : c'mon guys..it's not music theory...
Music teacher : come on guys! it's not rocket science...

[kevinquevem]

THANKYOU! I am 58 years old. All my life I have wanted to learn this. When I was 10 I learned the guitar, basic chords to play along (or try to) but never knowing what it all meant. Now I am begining to understand. This is a precious resource. Thankyou.
Stay safe!

[DanneoYT]

Timestamp :D
Introduction and Musical Distance 0:25
Scales 3:13
Scale Degrees (Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor 7:38
Interval 11:36
Melody and Transposition 22:10
Major and Minor Chords 25:49
Chord Progression 28:49
Roman Numerals and Chord Transposition 32:27
The Tritone 35:22
Other Types of Chords and Their Function 40:14
Inverting Interval 48:40
Inverting Chord 53:33
Circle of Fifths 56:22
Modulation and Borrowing 1:03:11
Modes 1:08:53

[antoneeyuh]

Took an entire semester of music theory and left that class more confused than ever. Watched half of this video so far and you've made it so much more simple to understand. Thank you!

[everyonesalama]

17 minutes in and having a breather to digest, I'm going to finish this. Tips for anyone totally new, keep at it, things do start to make sense out of the mumbo jumbo, even if it doesn't to begin with. Familiarise yourself with the language and the basic threads that run through all methods of teaching music theory, it will start to fall into place, as it is finally doing for me, don't give up!

[RichieHelf]

It is currently 3 in the morning....i shall be back bc music theory is something i really want to learn well! Thank you for this \m/

[waddup]

I've been avoiding music theory for way too long now..

[burntwarrior]

Woww this is what I needed to get into guitar seriously, I been up 7 hours now studying this video and everything is connecting. Thanks for your great lessons, this channel truly deserves millions of subscribers, cause everyone really would benefit from this without having to search through the endless junk feeding wrong or confusing information.

[mintchocolateik]

"This next part is very simple" *starts speaking alien language*

[ValiceTrance]

I have self studied music theory quite a bit and this is probably the best video I have found so far! Tysm for this!