Tag: Music Theory

The chord that makes Christmas music sound so Christmas...

Hint: Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" uses it.

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How To Arrange Chords into BEAUTIFUL 4-PART HARMONIES

Writing a 4 part harmony can be very difficult if you don't understand the...

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VoicePlay - This Is Halloween

From 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'

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How Much Music Theory Do We Really Need?

A lot of people ask whether music theory is even necessary to learn – and i...

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Riffs and Runs Vocal Workout - Female Riff Exercises

The Riffs and Runs Vocal Workout features the exercises presented in my pop...

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How To Read Music

Like an actor's script, a sheet of music instructs a musician on what to pl...

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Perfect Pitch (and why almost nobody is tone deaf)

Perfect Pitch is the ability to recognize and produce notes by name on comm...

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How Pythagoras Broke Music (and how we kind of fixed it...

How does music work? What did an Ancient Greek philosopher have to do with...

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Circle of Fifths: Everything You Need to Know

The circle of fifths is a unique pattern of the 12 pitches in western class...

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Note Naming: Everything You Need to Know in 9 minutes

One of the most important skills in learning to read and write music is not...

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Minor Scales - Everything You Need To Know In 7 minutes

Minor scales are directly related to major scales, with a few extra rules....

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Key Signatures - Everything You Need To Know in 6 minut...

Key signatures are easy...when you know how they work. This video explains...

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Major scales: Everything you need to know in 7 minutes

Learning to write major scales can be tricky at first. But, all major scale...

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Music Theory Basics in 30 Minutes

In this video Rick explains his method for understanding the basics of musi...

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Music Theory Masterclass

Richard John Beato is an American YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalis...

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