Hello and welcome to inside piano.
This video is a prelude to following series
of videos about basic piano major and minor triads and the question is why is
it so important for us to learn these basic concepts.
Learning piano has always
been hard because of its mathematical properties and has been explained to us
that way by many teachers throughout the years and yes it is important for us to know them
But the truth is that music is a language and it should be interpreted as such
Because when we see music as a language instead of as mathematics
Our brain interprets it as words instead of as I calculated number of notes
Base on a mathematical equation.
See the difference?
In a sense this words are mathematical
expressions on their own but now the math is happening in the background
out of the way of our creativity.
So music has its words, grammar and syntax
to speak piano we need to know what those are.
Major or minor triads and all
the basic stuff.
Those are our words and we use them to speak.
Harmony and
counterpoint on the other hand, are our grammar and syntax and we use them to
make sense of these words to make sure we're saying them correctly but harmony
and counterpoint are useless if we don't know any words.
That's why triads are so
important they are our vocabulary.
Let's say the C major traid
1.5 on the left hand
The notes of the chord
and all of the notes in between
all of these notes that fall into our natural finger position
With these we make up our syllables.
Syllables are the beats that make up the
word.
To keep it simple let's create the syllable just by using the notes of the triad
C Major triad
See how it's changing its nature?
but it's just still the C major triad.
And that is how we articulate the words.
For now it is important that we
understand the role these basic elements play in the formation of more
complex chords because triads are also the basis to the more complicated stuff
all that harmonically sophisticated stuff is just the result of how we blend
these basic elements.
Let me show you what I mean by that...
Let's say we used a major triad over different Tonic let's say we play F
major on the left hand
1, 5, 1
then we play the C triad which is the triad of the 5th degree
And we have an Fmaj7/9 chord
And now because we know that by playing the major triad of the 5th of the chord
In this case C.
We can play Maj7/9 chords on any given key
If we are on C it would be G major triad over C if we are on A
It would be E major triad over A
If we are on F# it would be C# major triad over F#.
And so on...
So you see we achieved that sophisticated sound
by blending 2 basic elements.
Let's say we use the major triad of the tritone
over a dominant chord.
Let's say F, the tritone of F is B. So we play F7 on the left hand.
And thee major triad
on the right hand.
And it makes an F7b9#11, but for us is just B major triad
Over F7 it simplified it because we know our triads.
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