Music Theory Monday | 06: Harmonic and Melodic Minor Song Analysis
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Whats sus mean? Also a little confused about the 5 to 6 .
Erdna Seyer
2024-09-04 01:17:45 +0000 UTCAwesome lesson!
Spaceman Chewy
2021-03-17 20:08:09 +0000 UTCHaha. I’ll check out your questions
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-02-18 22:33:21 +0000 UTCWho is this guy? This hair, this voice. Just kidding. Nice video!...bit heavy. Gonna write some questions in the community, tell Scott when he is back to help please.
DeDé
2021-02-18 21:40:14 +0000 UTCAhmad - Fantastic question. Its all about priorities! The goal of melodic minor is essentially to give us those Major IV and V chords, the notes themselves are optional in the melody and in the other chords. Great question
Scott Paul Johnson
2021-01-26 01:43:27 +0000 UTCHey Scott, I'm learning a lot from your videos/classes. Thanks a lot. But I have one question about melodic minor, specifically in relation to "Paint it black". Since you're sharpening the 6th and 7th notes, how is it that you can play a D chord in the chorus? Why is it not a D# chord? Since the 7th is sharpened, that should mean that the root of the 7th chord is a D#. Or do the sharp 6th and 7th notes only apply to the 4 and 5 chords?
Ahmad Alamad
2021-01-26 00:24:35 +0000 UTCScott, really nice lesson! Just a small (probably not simple) question if you don't mind. If we speak about soloing or even any song with vocal what should be created first? melody or accompaniment ( chord progression)? Perhaps, you have already answered somewhere on this question but I did not see the answer.
Konstantin
2020-09-23 20:03:00 +0000 UTCThanks for the lesson Scott. You’ve mentioned this idea of a “perfect cadence” when talking about moving from the dominant V to the I chord. What is “perfect cadence” precisely?
Jackson Huang
2020-08-01 02:05:11 +0000 UTCI want to do a lot more like this!
Scott Paul Johnson
2020-04-27 18:39:28 +0000 UTCMore videos like this please. Seeing how theory works in “real world” examples are great.
Erick Walsh
2020-04-26 14:39:59 +0000 UTCEar training is so awesome. I'll scheme a series about it. And yes, these concepts are heavy. I might keep hammering on some core theory concepts to bring everyone on board.
Scott Paul Johnson
2020-04-24 01:34:51 +0000 UTCRobert. This is a hard concept. I'll have to dig into it more in future videos.
Scott Paul Johnson
2020-04-24 01:33:37 +0000 UTCI think I'll make song analysis into a regular thing because its helpful for everyone.
Scott Paul Johnson
2020-04-24 01:19:13 +0000 UTCEar Training would be awesome! This lesson was pretty difficult to understand. Have to investigate more into these concepts I guess.
Marcus Fessele
2020-04-22 07:19:02 +0000 UTCOne thing I’m still wrestling with, for give my slowness, is when u say, for instance, the “G shape pentatonic”, i am having a hard time memorizing the notes in the scale because the “G shape” doesn’t include all the notes. Any thoughts? Thanks,
Robert Morrow
2020-04-21 04:09:28 +0000 UTCGreat video. I find this kind of song analysis incredibly helpful to not only make these concepts really sink in, but also excited to apply it to songwriting. Would love to see more like this in the future. The Music Theory Monday videos have filled in a lot of gaps in my music theory knowledge. Looking forward to the modes content too - thanks Scott!
Davin
2020-04-20 22:49:45 +0000 UTC
