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0:00 Introduction.
0:30 1: Open air.
2:04 2: Tip of the iceberg.
4:01 3: Under the surface area.
8:08 4: Sinking deeper.
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15:00 5: Daytime doesn't reach down here.
20:50 6: Running out of oxygen.
29:45 7: The ocean floor.
44:10 Conclusion.
The Music Theory Iceberg Explained
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@Skyward07 yeah you’re right. That was my mistake. I’ve edited that part out of the video now (although the edit is still pending)
I would buy a poster of this
Mu Chords sound like they could be potentially played by cows
I am sorry, but you haven’t completely explained the negative harmony and how to add the remaining notes of the scale, the first reflection is the 5th, but what about the rest of them? and why does your diagram has only 6 positions? Please, elaborate on that! Thank you
@R P the diagram I show allows you to find any negative chord in the key. You just have to reflect each note of the chord over that diagram and then you’ll find the negative version 😊
It’s a great way ti conceptualize music. Well done.
How far “deep” is an AP Music theory class in this iceberg in your opinion?
Edit: I took the class and exam, so I know the contents of AP. But since people could overestimate how much they know of an entire subject, I’m looking for answers from people that have studied all levels of the “iceberg”, not just AP Music theory.
I took the course and exam, definitely only 3 layers down at the most
Taken both AP theory and theory in college, this goes about 3 layers deep
My first year of community college music theory was basically just reading keys, rhythm, Roman numeral notation, and ear training. My second year was extended chords, relationships between keys, things like Neapolitan chords, secondary dominants, chromatic mediants (and other forms of chromaticism), irregular time signatures, and some John Cage type stuff. And more ear training.
I’m guessing a high school AP class would cover at least a little more than my first year at community college, especially since you’re expected to be informed by your band/orchestra/choir experiences.
I’ve never taken an AP exam. I’m not sure we even have them in the U.K. in the same way as in the US. Although maybe it was just my uni that didn’t use it. I’d be interested to see what they contain!
@David Bennett Piano Modes, part writing, counter point, melodic ear training, harmonic ear training, secondary dominant, cadences, embellishing tones, cadential 6/4, inversions, seventh chords, etc,. That’s most of what was covered in my class. It is equivalent to a full year of music theory in college (supposedly)
Quality stuff. Always informative. Thanks for uploading!
Thank you!
That pitch = rhythm thing was MIND BOGGLING
Actually this exact thing was sort of being investigated a couple centuries ago, with a machine called Savart’s Wheel. Basically it was a wheel connected to a wooden tongue by a ratchet mechanism, in such a way that you’d hear different pitches depending on how fast you’d spin the wheel. That’s what there was for tuning instruments before diapasons were invented.
I just checked it out in Wikipedia, it was a really cool machine.
Even more mind blowing is that Rhythm = Pitch = Color. The visual spectrum of light lies 40 octaves above middle C in the hundreds of terahertz range. For instance, A440 is the color orange, and an Ab major chord is an almost pure red, green, and blue.
@KungFuBlitzKrieg Hoh my gos
@KungFuBlitzKrieg Yes except sound waves and electromagnetic waves propagate differently, it’s analogous not physically identical, but still awesome to consider!
I found it pretty obvious
A video about obscure music theory and you went fully 33 minutes without throwing up your hands and passing the baton to Adam Neely, nice job!
@Q yeah and that happened 33 minutes deep into the video
That was utterly superb. Thank you for doing this!
interesting note about Deutsch’s scale illusion: Tchaikovsky kinda used it with two violins in the 4th movement of his 6th symphony and its so cooooooool
Oh yea! 😍
It is interesting that different instruments allow direct (felt rather than understood) acces to different concepts – even to some of the lower tiers. Everybody ever using a synthesizer with a LFO going into audiorange will experience Pitch=Rhythm for instance, or people playing an instrument without fixed tuning will feel just intervals.
This made me realize how deep can get the knowledge of something and how many stuffs I need to learn about music theory
Great iceberg ❤️
All the concepts were absolutely fascinating but I was blown away by pitch = rhythm. Such a seemingly nonsensical idea that actually makes perfect sense!
This is a really awesome video! Just one question, and I was only hearing the audio for the video, but isn’t Cbb=Bb? I heard in the video it say Cbb=B.
Your momma Bb. jklolroflmfao.
David Bennett Piano as of 48 minutes ago: “yeah you’re right. That was my mistake. I’ve edited that part out of the video now (although the edit is still pending)”.
small note: the melodic minor scale is actually #6 and #7 going up but natural 6 and 7 going down. This results in the ear being pulled to the tonic going up and to the dominant tone going down
Not In jazz theory
6:59. It does mention at the bottom that that is only for ascending but he forgot to say it vocally
This is the single greatest music theory explanation I’ve ever seen. It’s very succinct and well explained and it should be Day 1 viewing in every single Music Theory 101 class going forward.
Thanks Matt!
Dude, where have you been my whole life? This is just what the regular Joes like me need. No nonsense, no bs, straight ELI5 explanations so we can get a grasp and then go deeper into it. Thanks a lot, subscribed now.
Thanks!!
@David Bennett PianoDude, thank YOU for bringing culture to the masses.
It’s just code. Great video. Thank you! I’ve learned so much from how effectively you can teach theory to newbs like me. Cheers!
There’s a small mistake at 5:45, for a D Dim7 Chord you need a b natural, aka C flat not C double flat! Amazing video otherwise!
@David Bennett Piano I just keep telling people “Your momma Bb”. Actually…could you edit the mistake back into the video so I can roast a few more hundred people with that one?
LOL. I thought I wasn’t processing it right because I hadn’t finished my second cup of coffee. I kept saying out loud in probably a very distressed tone, “C flat is B natural, C double flat is B flat”, over and over, getting louder each time. Finally, I had to come to the comments. I am so relieved. I sure hope nobody heard me. I would probably have had to talk to a mental health professional (or worse) if someone had called the authorities.
@BC ElginTex Uhhhh your momma Bb.
@marzeepants LOL, yeah, I saw that, earlier.
@BC ElginTex Oh wow, you got served twice then. I’m an absolute savage. Just ruthless.
Great video as always.
One note: C double flat actually a B flat, not a B natural, so a d diminished 7 chord would be written as D-F-Ab-Cb, and not an example of a situation in which you’d use a double flat (unless it’s too early in the morning and my brain isn’t working).
Yeah, I thought I misheard him, but I think it’s a genuine mistake. It got me thinking “how can you go *double* flat and end up at a note that’s just a semitone away?”
Great video nonetheless
Damn I didnt know you make music! 🙂
love this guy. great content. makes me curious enough to finally learn music.