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title: "music-theory"
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# What is it
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"the language behind music"
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tools to understand communicate and interpret music.
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understands chords notes melodies etc.
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trying to get be "fluent"
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# Notes
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vibrations at different freqiencies
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only 12 notes
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white notes - a-g
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black notes - sharp and flat a-g
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multiples of the frequencies at differnt multiples. each multiple an octave
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semitone - gap between each note e.g., f-f#
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## Key/scale
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common combinations of notes that we know sound good together.
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usualyy 7 notes in a key (major and minor)
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C major - all white keys
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scale - same as key basically.
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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
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root note - note that we start the scale on
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major pattern - 2 wholetones 1 semitone 3 whole tones 1 semitone
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numbering notes - each note in a scale is given a number: 1 is the root note, then 2, then 3 etc
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accidental - a flat for sharp note
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# Chords
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multiple notes at the same time
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set emotion - guide the user through story
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usually in the same key
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most common - triads - 1 3 5 - play skip play skip play
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# Major vs minor
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major - happy
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minor - sad
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usually
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major - root 4 3
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major - root 3 4
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you can have minor chords in major scales
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# Melodies
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notes can be within or not in the current chord
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melodies with the pentatonic (remove 4th and 7th note) something are good
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