music theory is easy.

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How to learn music theory in 12 minutes! Music Theory is spaghetti code made over the course of thousands of years and I'm going to be honest, anyone who has tried to explain it feels like they're trying to explain their dreams more than an actual musical concept. At this point we should probably just do a clean slate and make it actually easy to understand, because it is easy, but alas we're here. There's a couple videos out there that are alright. Guy Michelmore is good. But I wanted a video of music theory that I felt would be the most comprehensible and no bull way to explain it. If you already know music theory you might have some questions What about augmented chords? I forgot about those but they're simple to understand once you understand other fundamentals. It's a chord made up of two major thirds (the spacing between your first and third will be the same between your third and fifth). Kind of scary to use but they have a use. But you also have to go our of your way to learn about them, not really worth knowing unless you're actively seeking them out. They should not have the same weight as major, minor, or even diminished chords. What about rhythm? I had that explained but I opted to not talk about it just because I think I made it took boring in this video, and because I intended this video for people who use DAW's, rhythm is pretty easy to understand on applications, only thing you should really care about is BPM (or tempo) and time signatures like 4/4 and 3/4. Sometimes someone will tell you a song is in 6/8 which to me speaks more to the spaghetti code part of music. Like what do you mean you don't use the greatest common denominator? But 99% of the time you're going to make a song in 4/4 and you will never really change that so I don't think you should worry about it unless you actively want to pursue other signatures. What about tonics and diatonics and all the vernacular you missed? Because there are too many names for notes already and I think its useless unless you are an actual professor, and at that point you're not making music, you're teaching it, and I made this for people who want to make music, not people who watch me wanting my knowledge of theory to be perfect. ITS CALLED A Gb MAJOR NOT AN F# MAJOR. If I was writing sheet music, yeah, you could hurt me real bad but I'm using ableton so it affects literally nothing and B is easier to understand as a note instead of Cb. This video is not academic and flats exist to complicate DAWs and your mind when you start out. I think after some practice of understanding scales you can properly define them with the correct sharps and flats, if you only use sharps to label notes its not going to harden in your brain like cement. The only thing I would say I glossed over are specifically defining intervals, just because I didn't focus on giving things names in this video (like a major third and a minor third, or how the distance between a I and V is actually a PERFECT fifth. But I think you should know what they actually are before you give them their name just like the people who discovered them) Does this guy suck at piano? Probably. I need to practice more. ok that's all the garbage spewed out. Enjoy music theory! Twitter: https://twitter.com/AHeartOfNoMad Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NoMad746 Subscribe: https://t.co/bM4MPubBuz