Joop
Beethoven
- Jan 23, 2023
- 20
Music is my hobby, composition and playing. Which is why I would like to discuss it. I've been blue to say the least for so long, it's good to share my interest with likeminded people who would also understand my problems.
Many people think music is just nonsense. That it's just a matter of taste. But I beg to differ! In music there's value. I will teach you now this value :)
So embark with me on a musical journey, it's worth giving it time. And if not hopefully nothing too MAJOR was lost.
The first thing you should know is that there are 12 notes in an octave.
It looks like this:
As you can see that is 12, that pattern repeats throughout the whole piano.
Don't worry that applies to all music, not just piano, it's just the piano is a good way to understand music.
Remember that all those notes are completely equal! In their quality or something.
The black notes don't make different sounds or anything like that.
Now lets talk about what's a major scale.
A major scale is simple a set of 7 notes (though we mention the first note again when playing or talking about the scale), that have particular jumps in between.
There is whole-tone jump and half-tone jump. In short W or H.
Major scale has this pattern: W W H W W W H
Let's pick some note on the piano and see which notes do we fall down on:
C D E F G A B *C*
What are the chances! We started on this white note and managed to make a list of notes based on the requirement of W W H W W W H
Consisting only of white notes!! That is called the C major scale. This scale is very easy because you don't need to think much in order to come up with it.
You can just focus on the white notes on the piano and will click C major notes.
If you notice that pattern now repeats because the final note is C. Which is also the beginning, so the pattern can repeat there.
The notes are C D E F G A B *C* (see? the last one is actually the first one, cursed doppleganger!)
Why is that important? If you play that scale in order you'd notice that it actually makes melodic sense, feeling complete.
But in addition to that it's helpful when writing music.
The next thing you should know, is what are chords. Chords is actually a combination of 3 notes, IN A SCALE. It's important to be in some scale, please don't do it out of scale... That would make me even more depressed than I already am. Let me give you an example within C major:
As you can see, I picked the note C and created a chord.
Chords give color to melody and to music. They set the mood.
This is only the basic of the basic. Once all of that becomes your inner muscle - you will see that it goes much deeper than that.
If there are any questions DM or write below! Will try to answer ASAP. I will soon enough continue and write a continuation.
A piece that expresses great sorrow by Bach, I know it may sound a little strange to you.
And if it's not to your taste, that's understandable... Once you will grow musically enough you will understand it. Just trust me.
Many people think music is just nonsense. That it's just a matter of taste. But I beg to differ! In music there's value. I will teach you now this value :)
So embark with me on a musical journey, it's worth giving it time. And if not hopefully nothing too MAJOR was lost.
The first thing you should know is that there are 12 notes in an octave.
It looks like this:
As you can see that is 12, that pattern repeats throughout the whole piano.
Don't worry that applies to all music, not just piano, it's just the piano is a good way to understand music.
Remember that all those notes are completely equal! In their quality or something.
The black notes don't make different sounds or anything like that.
Now lets talk about what's a major scale.
A major scale is simple a set of 7 notes (though we mention the first note again when playing or talking about the scale), that have particular jumps in between.
There is whole-tone jump and half-tone jump. In short W or H.
Major scale has this pattern: W W H W W W H
Let's pick some note on the piano and see which notes do we fall down on:
C D E F G A B *C*
What are the chances! We started on this white note and managed to make a list of notes based on the requirement of W W H W W W H
Consisting only of white notes!! That is called the C major scale. This scale is very easy because you don't need to think much in order to come up with it.
You can just focus on the white notes on the piano and will click C major notes.
If you notice that pattern now repeats because the final note is C. Which is also the beginning, so the pattern can repeat there.
The notes are C D E F G A B *C* (see? the last one is actually the first one, cursed doppleganger!)
Why is that important? If you play that scale in order you'd notice that it actually makes melodic sense, feeling complete.
But in addition to that it's helpful when writing music.
The next thing you should know, is what are chords. Chords is actually a combination of 3 notes, IN A SCALE. It's important to be in some scale, please don't do it out of scale... That would make me even more depressed than I already am. Let me give you an example within C major:
As you can see, I picked the note C and created a chord.
Chords give color to melody and to music. They set the mood.
This is only the basic of the basic. Once all of that becomes your inner muscle - you will see that it goes much deeper than that.
If there are any questions DM or write below! Will try to answer ASAP. I will soon enough continue and write a continuation.
A piece that expresses great sorrow by Bach, I know it may sound a little strange to you.
And if it's not to your taste, that's understandable... Once you will grow musically enough you will understand it. Just trust me.
I was just meaning they are not to my taste and I am not impressed from pieces that seem to me like a firework show with no girth behind.
