I’m curious about your thoughts on things like V/V/V-V/V-V-I. It’s rare I’d imagine but I’ve even seen V/V/V/V. And how about something like this: |E G |C B |E |- | I V-of- flat- V I flat-VI VI. That’s a harmonic progression from the very end of Please Please Me by The Beatles. Tonicization of a non-diatonic chord? The bridge in the song The Word also by The Beatles has a I-bVII-bIII-IV progression but the bIII can also be analyzed as V/bIII resolving to bIII. And then there’s the famous I-bVII-IV-I Hey Jude outro which has also been analyzed as I-IV/IV-IV-I and referred to as a double plagal cadence. I guess I was wondering if you’re aware of or have heard of these kinds of things . Love this channel 🙏

Best music teacher on YT, hands down. Thank you!

Beautifully explained! Thank you!

What an excellent instructor.

Awesome videos and much appreciated! I just wish you didn't flip the circle of fifths. I think that's going to confuse new students when they look it up as a refresher.

Best video I've seen on mode mixture.

Absolutely fabulous! He has saved me! Everything that seemed to opaque and hard to understand just seems clear after I listen to Dr. B. Thanks so much!!!

man, i love music so much

Thank you so much for these lessons! I am doing this old school way by taking notes with pen and paper. I have also notebook for writing scales and other things again and again and again. I started playing music and learning music theory after my 30's and these videos help me a lot.

@ChristopherBrellochs What is the name of the textbook you open at 13:51 ? I would like to get myself a copy of it!

You can find unequal fifths (at least when only using diatonic notes) by focusing on the 7th and 4th of the scale (if in major), or the 2nd and 6th of the scale (if in minor). Adjust accordingly for the other modes. It's cool too, because the 4th is always the new flat in the flat scales, and the 7th is always the new sharp in the sharp scales, so it makes sense that they'd make up this new interval when introduced into the scale😊

Nice DOC, If you send link of scholar music so proud

It's incredible how much easier sight reading becomes when you know what chords to expect!

I noticed that if you start with a natural minor scale (Aeolian) and lower the 2nd degree you get Phrygian. Interesting talk!

Only 2 lessons in and everything is already connecting!! Don't know where you are now in life, but know that your videos are still helping growing musicians in need🙏 Personally, I like to find natural minors via "deducting" 3 accidentals. So if E major has 4 sharps, E minor has 1 sharp (always F). If D major has 2 sharps, D minor has 1 flat (always B). If Ab major has 4 flats, Ab minor has 7 flats, and so on. In natural minor, since the 7th, the 3rd and the 6th tones respectively are always the latest sharps added to the scale, this would always land you at a key signature identical to the relative major (doesn't work with Harmonic and Asc. Melodic unfortunately). Another helpful shorthand: adding a # to the scale name adds 7 sharps to the key itself, opposite with flats. Very helpful for intervals, if you're finding ignoring the accidental and adding it later too distracting.

hi do you have any video about borrowed chords?

For the 1st example I6 V34 I, why not play Bb in the soprano on I6, in order to have parallel 10ths with the bass ?

Great review. I love how you are so clear and organized with your talks

Holy shit, that progression flow chart has completely changed how I think about progressions!

Oh my! This is really finally starting to click. The first example blew my mind with how it all worked!

"Hello, music theory gurus!" 😂

what is the fourth movement in sonatas symphonies and string quartet

You are the best teacher here on youtube.

He said there is no g# major scale @23.52 but when i looked it up on Google i found it ?? Im a rookie can some one explain what he meant there?

I don't understand the use of the Circle of 5ths at the very beginning of this lesson. Dr B states he like the circle turned a specific direction with the flats going down the clockwise direction because the move in perfect 5ths. I have always count a 5th like this C(1), D(2), E(3), F(4) & G(5). What we are looking at on his circle is C to F clockwise and C to G counter clockwise. Can someone enlighten me?

why is it here in Portugal apparently we dont recognise the augmented and diminished for 7, 6, 3 and 2 intervals?

Dr. B…while we await the return of HBOs The Gilded Age. I noticed you haven’t posted any of your “Ask Dr. B” videos. Why I respect that you’re quite busy with your professorship and consulting on “The Gilded Age.” I have a question about the disregard of avoiding consecutive parallel 5ths or Octaves, which seems to be a musical dilemma (please smile…I am.) The solution I stumbled upon to avoid the consecutive parallel 5ths or Octaves is to play-what I call “Chords within chords”-to create my my version of extended chords. By “chords within chords” I play the 7th chords listed over the triad chord progression chords (or vice versa) in major or minor keys: • vi7 over I • iii7 over v • ii7 over IV • V7 over vii° • IV7 over vi • viiø7 over ii • I7 over iii Moreover, I sometimes substitute these chords for the chords in my chord progressions. As I am not a music professor…(or musician…my musicality is from being a quasi-DJ) nor do I play any instrument…can you please explain (in harmonic musical terms) why this-chords within chords stacking or substitution works-in diatonic chord progressions, and modal chord progressions…thanks. DjNivekone

Holy shit.. What a gold mine. A wealth of information.

Dr. B if natural minor scale and melodic decending minor scale have same formula, what is difference between both the scales?

Brian Kelly (KZbin guitar teacher) has the circle of fifths tattoo on his inner forearm

cannot explain it any better sir, thank you very much Dr. B!

Your passion for musical knowledge really inspires me, Dr B

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This inspires me. as a 20yr old music freak, as a composer, and as an aspiring teacher. Love you, Prof! Love your lecs!

Thank you from 2024!! Brushing up on theory before Berklee!

Thank you so much sir... The world need people like you♥️♥️

Tertian harmony (also called tertiary harmony. Is this what you meant?

I love these formulas so much. Before these vids I'd imagine shifting the circle of 5th to derive the minor keys from the major keys. I like this way more.

Sir, you give me a free theory class, thank you.

Would kill to listen to you analyze a song like In Bloom by Nirvana or a Beatles song if you’re into that and How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead. Love these videos!

Ok first thing C to F is 4th and it's the circle of fifth you're teaching. How and why?

Dr B please please please upload more videos I’m dying to learn music from you. You are so good at it damn 😭😭😭

had to give consonants and dissonants another 20 minutes to actually understand it

I have been writing my Major Scales and doing the step by step process for almost a year now it’s like magic everything make sense Triad Chords and 7th Chords pretty much everything. Thank you Dr.B!

Dear Dr.B ,I can’t Thank you enough for your kindness to spread knowledge for free to all of us. You make music theory so much fun and nourishing to the soul like the great music theorists and Philosopher Al-Farabi said “ and through knowledge one can achieve happiness” Thank you 🙏🏻

25:45 this is the most replayed (therefore, most misunderstood) part of this video, which is the explanation of applying the Descending Melodic Minor formula. It’s the only part I also didn’t understand. I think it’s because Dr B. left the Ascending Melodic Minor scale there, and didn’t start from scratch again with writing out the Gb Major Scale that we are applying the formula to. For anyone else confused, just rewind to 23:36, and pretend to apply the Descending Melodic Minor formula (lower the 3rd, 6th, and 7th notes), and then you can go back to 25:45 and it will make more sense. Dr. B, I still don’t understand why, at 26:42, you chose to work backwards to explain “on the way down”, but I’m happy to leave that, and I’m sure I’ll understand it after learning more. Many thanks for these videos!

this is hard

With that much restriction, I think my composition is virtually ready!

it's also in Steve Taylor's song "It's Harder To Believe Than Not To"; kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y52XY5aeiJ6aotk

I can't explain how much I needed this. Thanks a lot professor❤