The Circle of Fifth (and Fourths) has a lot more information in it. For example, in jazz, sometimes the chord built on the tritone in a key is substituted for the V7 dominant chord in a ii V7 I (2 -5 -1) progression. Magically, you can find the tritone chord on the Circle by looking directly opposite to the V chord. For example, the tritone of G is Db(=C#). This makes sense because the tritone note is the exact center of the octave interval so it's half-way around the circle in each direction. You can find the relative minor of a chord by looking 3 spaces clockwise, which is the vi chord. Then its neighbor counterclockwise is the ii and clockwise is iii. The Circle is easy to memorize when you notice that the notes on the right side spell "B E A D" going up, and on the left side also BEAD going down but with flats. That just leaves FCG to remember, plus the last one at the bottom which is the tritone of C (F# = Gb). And the Circle lets you know which notes are sharps or flats in any key, but that's too much information for this little comment.

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

All this is true. ...there's a lot you can learn from the circle of 5ths. I see that you know it well.

Intuitively I knew there must be a symmetry in a scale, but alone I could not see where sit the mirroring plane. Thanks for revealing it here.

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for ackonowledging one of the amazing things about this concept.

Thank you I knew of the tetrachord but had not thought it through. Doing your 2 5 1 round the circle exercise I was half understanding why this leads to that. Now clear.

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad to help out!

A lightbulb video. It hasn't sunk in, but I'm an incandescent bulb in an LED socket. It takes a lot more energy for me to see the light. I think I'm not wasting my time just moving around the keyboard by fourths and fifths. I'll keep noodling, but I'll start using your sauce.

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad to know that I could "shed some light"!

@rebanelson607

Жыл бұрын

Not sure if you're familiar with the Edna St. Vincent Millay poem but "...ah my foes and o my friends, it gives a lovely light."

The chart @11:20 also shows how negative harmony works. Going to C like this (D > G > C ) works as well as ( Bb > F > C) as long as the melody doesn't clash.

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

T^hanks for the tip...I'll check that out.

Hi Kent, it's so nice to see one of your videos pop up on my feed again, man I wish I'd had you as a music teacher at school! Hope your well, thanks for another great video!

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Daniel. Welcome back, and I'm glad you liked it!

Great stuff Kent. How orderly and mathematical…. Mind blowing…. Thank you ..hallelujah

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it...great comment...thanks!

Subdominant is not "sub" because it is one tone below the dominant, but because it is a fifth below the tonic as opposed to the dominant which is a fifth above the tonic. There is no "circle of fourths," there is only a circle of fifths going up or going down (or left and right). The direction does not change the name of the circle.

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment.

Excellent tutorial - thanks Kent! I learned all this the hard way (by rote) - you’ve just refreshed my memory. Of all the jazz lessons around, I’d recommend this lesson be studied a thousand times by newbies until they can visualise it in their sleep :)

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the affirmation...I appreciate the comment very much!

I actually learned all this in music school - or already knew it when I went there - but this is an excellent presentation!

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

You went to better school or after the 70's ...yes?

Favorite video so far!

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for telling me!

One of the best explanations I've heard yet.

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Great that you're telling me...a million thanks!

This is good stuff. I have the familiar chords and cadences book, but this made those first few pages come alive. I am still a beginner on piano. Fortunately, I have sung in choirs for some 25 years, and I am now learning how they make the sausage. Maybe in five years I will be ready for Bekeley Online. At that point, I want to be able to play Linus and Lucy like Vince did.

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

If you want to play like him. study his albums and try to imitate his playing, phrase by phrase...it's all about your ears, and developing your hands to translate.

@arthouston7361

Жыл бұрын

@@KentHewittpiano88 Thanks! I am definitely going to take that advice. Do you have a link that you can share for your book that people often reference in these comments sections?

What music school worthy of the name doesn’t teach this stuff? It’s fundamental.

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

I take it that you didn't go to music school?

My music theory teacher called it a one step separator between the lower and upper tetrachords. I was already familiar with the tritone. It seems like the only piece you're still missing is the concept of 9. They way I teach about tetrachords is to take the upper tetrachord and move it into the lower tetrachord position, then adjust the new upper tetrachord to maintain the same "whole step, whole step, half step" pattern. (Basically sharping the 7th scale degree.going up the cicle.). Then I go the other way by moving the lower to the upper and flatting the 4th scale degree to restore the pattern. What I learned from the lesson is how it related to the tritone, though I'm still not completely clear on how it works. That gives me something to work on. Thank you.

Epic Kent

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Great!...thanks!

Thanks Kent!

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!

Susscint synopsis Kent thank u

lesson "if u love chords and cant stop rewinding the tape until u get them just right youll never need a lesson or school. the tape is the teacher and you are the school"

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

That's true.....thanks for the comment!

Excellent lesson ,thanks

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

just want to send you some luv Kent, noodled on hobby guitar for years and, now retired, bought myself digital piano. Mercy, been playing the wrong instrument for 50 years. Thanks Mister, so much nonsense on this KZread, it’s cats like you that make it all worthwhile. “…otherwise it’s just floating around in outer space or something” Ha

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for telling me, Stuart. I'm glad you found your right instrument.

PLEASE TURN ON MOBILE NOTIFICATIONS TO GET INFO WHEN NEW VIDEOS ARE POSTED BY THIS CHANNEL.

OMG that squeaky pen in headphones is like having mice on your shoulders, scream whining about the quality of your cheese!... so I filtered with EQ pretty tough. Maybe, for future vids, could you aim the mic's null area towards the whiteboard pen? Otherwise, maybe noise reduction in Rx or in Audacity software, with an isolated squeak or 2 as your "noise sample" for that automated process? Aiming the mic's null, to whatever extent is possible, is probably the best solution, IMO. Or you could keep the squeaks... maybe most other ways people listen don't accentuate those frequencies?

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

This is an old video...made in my early years around 2015, when I was using just the external mic in the Canon S95 Powershot camera. Check out the sound on my newer videos.

So the tritone of the key center is opposite on the circle position dividing the circle in half

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

That's exactly correct! Check this in depth video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/opprrMukc9mZiZs.html Go to 7:48

great lesson

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support! And for telling me that it's valuble whether you learned it in school or not.

Is theory important to learn before you start playing or waste of time till you practice?thank you for the knowledge

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Theory is good to know in advance of practicing...but you need to really think about what it all means when practicing...it will make your practice more meaningful...I think.

@ratrindade3617

Жыл бұрын

Theory with no practice takes you nowhere. If you have to choose just one between practice and theory, go with practice. But the theory is a tool to make your practice more efficient if you want to learn faster

you didn't learn about the Tri tone in school?

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

I studied classical music (not jazz) in college. I think it was talked about in classical music as a "forbidden interval"...the "devil's interval" .but in jazz it's a means of a transition to another harmonic position.... which is fascinating.

I went to music school in socialistic Yugoslavia we did learn all of the above.

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad the curriculum has improved. What years were you there and did they relate this info to jazz?

Um - I did learn ALL of this in music school.

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Abviously you went to music school after the 1970's. I'm glad to hear the ciriculum improved.

@donaldedmonds365

Жыл бұрын

As a teenager in the 1960s I was taught all of this from a book entitled Harmony book for beginners, written by Preston Ware Oram in 1905. This book was used in the better music schools from 190until the present

@garygimmestad4272

Жыл бұрын

@@KentHewittpiano88 Well, what I'm challenging is the teaser. Why the fake hype?

@JayM928

Жыл бұрын

@@garygimmestad4272 well, unless he changed the title, it says “I should have” not “you”

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

Sorry, Gary, my apologise. I already had a business degree.... so I shouldn't have assumed the better music schools wouldn't have taught this. I probably should have titiled this video "Music Theory I Wasn't Taught in Music School"..yes? I'm just trying to pass on some info to those who might benefit.

The LGBTQAI minus rainbow 🌈 colours included in your promotion is repulsive for me, therefore I cannot be a part of your program, regardless of how informative your information is..

@KentHewittpiano88

Жыл бұрын

It was not intended to offend anyone..should I take the colors out?...this is about the love of music.

@mokopuppet116

Жыл бұрын

Your loss

@vonaudio5435

Жыл бұрын

I'm offended that you're offended by Gods sign to Noah - that the world will no longer be destroyed by water, "the rainbow 🌈" - is something you're offended by. What other signs or miracles of God offend you?