quartz/content/notes/music-theory.md

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music-theory

What is it

"the language behind music"

tools to understand communicate and interpret music.

understands chords notes melodies etc.

trying to get be "fluent"

Notes

vibrations at different freqiencies

only 12 notes

white notes - a-g

black notes - sharp and flat a-g

multiples of the frequencies at differnt multiples. each multiple an octave

semitone - gap between each note e.g., f-f#

Key/scale

common combinations of notes that we know sound good together.

usualyy 7 notes in a key (major and minor)

C major - all white keys

scale - same as key basically.

you can play a different set of notes (a scale) over the base key. e.g., a blues-e (pentatonic something) solo over e major

root note - note that we start the scale on

major

major pattern - 2 wholetones 1 semitone 3 whole tones 1 semitone