Popular Music with Attitude.

[Zloth]

Bit of both actually. Watched the whole thing since it is of interest to me. He did an excellent job at explaining everything. Unfortunately, he explained just the tonic part. Few things he skipped but assuming it was because it is deeper into the music field.

Oh, he's got a BUNCH of other videos on music theory stuff. He likes to use examples in popular songs if he can find them (especially Radiohead).

And yeah, of course music is easy! Well, mostly. Knowing how to speak Italian helps.

And then there's this whole clef business. When writing out music, you would obviously want to put middle C in the middle, right? If you've got a particularly high or low instrument, you just do the same thing with the C that's an octave above or below in the center. That way, it's easy for everybody to read everybody else's music.

But nooooooooo!

We get this treble and bass clef business. They take a nice, wholesome clef with middle C in the middle, and they rip it apart! Bass clef gets the bottom, treble gets the top, and NEITHER gets middle C! To do middle C on either of them, you have to draw the note off the given lines and put your own little lines in! Seriously!?

But wait, what about a piano. That thing covers a huge range but is played by one person. Surely.... NOT! The player's right hand is supposed to play in treble clef while the left plays in bass clef!! <insert Star Trek double-facepalm meme>

And that is why viola players, who use a clef with middle C in the fraggin' middle, are the only sane people in an orchestra.

 

[Charagma]

Oh, he's got a BUNCH of other videos on music theory stuff. He likes to use examples in popular songs if he can find them (especially Radiohead).

And yeah, of course music is easy! Well, mostly. Knowing how to speak Italian helps.

And then there's this whole clef business. When writing out music, you would obviously want to put middle C in the middle, right? If you've got a particularly high or low instrument, you just do the same thing with the C that's an octave above or below in the center. That way, it's easy for everybody to read everybody else's music.

But nooooooooo!

We get this treble and bass clef business. They take a nice, wholesome clef with middle C in the middle, and they rip it apart! Bass clef gets the bottom, treble gets the top, and NEITHER gets middle C! To do middle C on either of them, you have to draw the note off the given lines and put your own little lines in! Seriously!?

But wait, what about a piano. That thing covers a huge range but is played by one person. Surely.... NOT! The player's right hand is supposed to play in treble clef while the left plays in bass clef!! <insert Star Trek double-facepalm meme>

And that is why viola players, who use a clef with middle C in the fraggin' middle, are the only sane people in an orchestra.

Well I can see that you have read the curriculum for the year for lvl 1 entry music theory. That is just the beginning of all the how's and why's. Different dots next to notes means different things (Short notes, longer than usual notes etc), and Arrow to the right under a note does not mean we are going louder from here and a slur and ties looks the same on paper but sounds different when played. O and let's not forget there are several Clefs some played 15 higher, or 8 lower etc. Some even indicates that it is for both treble and bass together.

Fun and games! all the time with notations. LOL