The Strange Nature of Music Intervals

In music, intervals are everything. You could say they're more important that the notes themselves. But they're also confusing for one main reason ... because of the numbers we use to label them. So let's take a closer look at these symbols to really make sense of them.

BOOKMARKS
0:00 Welcome
1:02 Tab: Looking at an old (traditional) chord book
2:25 Tab: A diagram from Lesson 5
5:10 A closer look at the numbers
8:46 Another view (scale degrees)
11:26 A funky type of ruler: the real world vs. harmonic space
13:24 Circle of fifths to Chromatic scale
15:00 Reverse time lapse ... Pangaea map
16:45 Back to the linear format
19:14 We're measuring musical space
21:34 Scale degrees are really just mapping the major scale
22:24 Pentatonic scale on piano
24:25 Technique vs. Theory (image from Lesson 5)
26:07 Update -- ChordBook 1 on-track for release in early May
26:42 C: Unfortunate notation is accidental
27:13 C: Accidentals are not accidental
28:40 Q: Once you learn open & barre chords, you can go on to learn theory?
32:54 Q: Do you say that music theory is necessary for songwriting?
36:30 Q: How did you come up with the connection between color and the chromatic scale?
39:00 Q: 1-7, then 8 are based on major scale ... then modified for scale intervals?
40:27 Q: What makes a not consonant or dissonant?
43:40 Q: Any ways to remember key signatures? (Course part 3 deep dives into this)
49:36 Closing

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