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This inspires me. as a 20yr old music freak, as a composer, and as an aspiring teacher. Love you, Prof! Love your lecs!

Thank you from 2024!! Brushing up on theory before Berklee!

Thank you so much sir... The world need people like you♥️♥️

Tertian harmony (also called tertiary harmony. Is this what you meant?

I love these formulas so much. Before these vids I'd imagine shifting the circle of 5th to derive the minor keys from the major keys. I like this way more.

Sir, you give me a free theory class, thank you.

Would kill to listen to you analyze a song like In Bloom by Nirvana or a Beatles song if you’re into that and How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead. Love these videos!

Ok first thing C to F is 4th and it's the circle of fifth you're teaching. How and why?

Dr B please please please upload more videos I’m dying to learn music from you. You are so good at it damn 😭😭😭

had to give consonants and dissonants another 20 minutes to actually understand it

I have been writing my Major Scales and doing the step by step process for almost a year now it’s like magic everything make sense Triad Chords and 7th Chords pretty much everything. Thank you Dr.B!

Dear Dr.B ,I can’t Thank you enough for your kindness to spread knowledge for free to all of us. You make music theory so much fun and nourishing to the soul like the great music theorists and Philosopher Al-Farabi said “ and through knowledge one can achieve happiness” Thank you 🙏🏻

25:45 this is the most replayed (therefore, most misunderstood) part of this video, which is the explanation of applying the Descending Melodic Minor formula. It’s the only part I also didn’t understand. I think it’s because Dr B. left the Ascending Melodic Minor scale there, and didn’t start from scratch again with writing out the Gb Major Scale that we are applying the formula to. For anyone else confused, just rewind to 23:36, and pretend to apply the Descending Melodic Minor formula (lower the 3rd, 6th, and 7th notes), and then you can go back to 25:45 and it will make more sense. Dr. B, I still don’t understand why, at 26:42, you chose to work backwards to explain “on the way down”, but I’m happy to leave that, and I’m sure I’ll understand it after learning more. Many thanks for these videos!

this is hard

With that much restriction, I think my composition is virtually ready!

it's also in Steve Taylor's song "It's Harder To Believe Than Not To"; ruclips.net/video/-l42chS9glw/видео.html

I can't explain how much I needed this. Thanks a lot professor❤

Seven years ago! lol, I just found this and you explained it so well! Thank you. I really like how you are whiteboarding and writing these out as real lessons. Thank you so much.

Any suggestions for how we can test our understanding of these concepts?

No (other) church modes in classical music?

Awesome to hear you talk about punk rock! Would love for you to check out the albums My War by Black Flag and Fun House by The Stooges. And the Buzzcocks compilation album Singles Going Steady is pretty great! 🙏🏼

Neapolitan chord in minor Neapolitan minor 1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 7 Neapolitan chord in major Double harmonic major 1 b2 3 4 5 b6 7 Other scales: Locrian nat 7 1 b2 b3 4 b5 b6 7 Persian 1 b2 3 4 b5 b6 7 Any scales that contain the intervals b2 4 b6 7 Ionian Aug b2 1 b2 3 4 #5 6 7

Thank you, thank you!🙏🏼

Thumbs up!

Can you advice me a book with the music theory you teach?

Can you make another video. I can't understand😢.

goin g into MUS Theory 3 getting a head start by watching your lecture!!

We Love Dr B!!! we appreciate the depth and detail....a true educator!!!!

It’s easier if you use Fat Cat system so you don’t have to memorise the scales. It’s a much better tool and easier to use quickly. Same with BeadGCF. Happy to share the concept

At 25:35 isn’t there an example of a hidden 5th between the outer voices ? Thank you very much

I think my issue understanding this is how on earth did people ever figure this stuff out? I can memorize, but it's so crazy how music just works like this so visually simple but mathematically complex

31:38 Man this is so true. I have so many unfinished ideas and fragments because I never took the time to craft them out to completion. Having these tools is very helpful to flesh out ideas beyond just the initial raw creativity. I've also read many books on theory and these videos are clearer and more concise than anything I've seen.

Hello Dr. B. Thank You very much for teaching music theory, You are an amazing teacher. You are truly a blessing to the entire music community. Is there any chance You could teach grade 1-5 full course in the future? Best regards, best wishes, and lots of love from Poland.

How would you differentiate between a V7/IV and a regular C7 for instance?

I love Dr B

This rules are pure gold to make studies (études) with only one main focus and avoiding in the same moment all kind of "smart musical events" on other aspects of musicmaking. Yes, this all makes sense to me, as an autodidact music composer.

I barely scraped by to pass my theory 2 class so my teacher admonished me to study this stuff over the summer. Thank you!

THANKS❤❤

Agree, very complex!

I am pretty sure that the book and audio examples are from "Tonal Harmony" by Kostka, Payne & Almen if you want to follow along (I have the 7th edition with CD.). Thanks for the lessons Dr.

Finally! Its the perfect explanation! I wanted so bad to learn this. Thanks!

Lovely

That music is the final chorale setting from Cantata BWV140, not 179. Probably the first or second most popular of Bach's church cantatas.

Hey Dr B! I just got a typewriter and I’ve been typing all my longhand notes from your lectures! I think I’m coming along with my part writing 👍

Watching this a beginner learning music theory, every second is a gold mine of knowledge, I can feel myself getting stronger with every word that’s said. Saving my life with easy to digest yet important information taught in such a coherent way. Thank you!

What about the leading tones in the viiº6 and penultimate V?

As a beginner i felt this video was very easy to follow and also think you managed to maintain this video very informative to advanced composers as well. Thank you so very much. I wish you all the best.

These are only the basic cadences in the common practice. There are much more.

Hi! thank you so much for these excellent lectures! I was wondering if theres also a lecture on the different modes and how to analyze and construct them?