You don't need the Musical Alphabet as much as you think. (A Nuclear Surivor's Guide to Music, Part 5)

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Busy Bards Ear Training

Tony Morse

13 episodes

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Do you want to play music by ear, but find that life gives you no time to practice, leaving your expensive instruments to collect dust? Join Tony Morse each week for the easiest sing-along guided tour of applied music theory, intervals, melodies, harmonies, chords, rhythms, and more. Hop in the traffic jam of beginner and veteran musicians improvising the soundtrack to their daily grind.

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You don't need the Musical Alphabet as much as you think. (A Nuclear Surivor's Guide to Music, Part 5)

Busy Bards Ear Training

20 minutes 27 seconds

2 years ago

You don't need the Musical Alphabet as much as you think. (A Nuclear Surivor's Guide to Music, Part 5)

Do you truly need absolute pitches? That is, do you need to think of music in terms of A, A#, B, C, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, and G#? Well….Yes and No.

Absolute pitches and the musical alphabet are very important for helping you pick an absolute, fixed pitch, to build your template of music (scale) off of. But once you have that established….is knowing the musical alphabet really the key to creating music? Well. Why don’t you go grab a piano and start making music right now! Harder than you thought? Exactly. There’s something else you need to make music.

And luckily, our hero is going to introduce that concept to the village of fools in this weeks episode of “A Nuclear Survivor’s Guide to Music, Part 5!

(00:00:00) You walk in on the villagers practicing rhythm….and wish you just stayed in your tent.

(00:01:25) Should we learn the pitches A-G#? I suppose a little bit…

(00:03:20) Learning what a half step is

(00:05:41) The Octave: The Same note but at a higher or lower pitch

(00:07:20) Moving up and down in half steps.

(00:08:50) Naming the Absolute Pitches

(00:11:30) The Group has many questions about absolute pitches.

(00:13:25) How Musicians use absolute pitches to communicate to other musicians so they can play songs instantly.

(00:14:00) Shouldnt you have everything you need to start making music? Not Quite….

(00:15:46) The Two Paths you could take when it comes to pitches…The easy one…and the in-depth one.

(00:17:15) The Final Review: Everything you need to remember about absolute pitches for now.

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