What is up kalimbakers,
welcome to another video tutorial.
and today we are going to understand the
basic theory of kalimba or basic music theory
or how we can do our own arrangement without depending on tabs,
numbered version of tabs
Well, I'm not saying that tabs are not important,
they are important. They are learning materials
just like this video.
But what if you want to go a little bit higher
or to the next level of your music, right?
and you want to do it by your own you
don't want to depend on other people
that is actually one goal
that we can do personally
Also, I saw this post from a member of KMP
 (Kalimba Music Philippines), she said
that she hopes one will make a tutorial 
on how to arrange notes, or how to
do the piano or guitar chords to kalimba
When I saw this it caught my attention
because this is what do.
I'll just put the link right here.
I arranged these music
by my self, and I think I can help.
I just want to share my ideas on arranging the notes
or arranging your own music.
Also, a friend asked me to give a sample of 
harmony and melody.
Their concern is the same
but before we know
 how to arrange our own music
or how to arrange our own piece in kalimba,
first, we need to know the basic music theory
that I will share today.
So if you're interested to learn those
basic music theories, stay right there,
I'll be back.
[old intro playing]
So four things for our basic music theory
first we are going to talk about
pitch, melody, harmony, and tempo
As for pitch, it can be high, low, or middle.
So for example in our kalimba we have
here C4 and E6, right?
Why it sounds like this?
Alright, C4 to E6
that's the pitch range of kalimba.
I'll go ahead and put the link in the card, 
so you can check it out.
my previous video about comparison of 
the keyboard and kalimba
You can just watch it.
And go back to this video.
Now, when we combine these pitches, 
each tine has a different pitch level.
When we combine them together in a 
meaningful way,
we then create a melody.
A melody is basically the way we sing a song.
For example, happy birthday to you
[melody]
That's the melody of the song.
When we combine two or more pitches,
we then create a harmony.
They harmonize together .
Later, I'll show you a video, an example
so we can understand more
Because we didn't take up music, right?
So it's better to understand the theory 
in layman's term.
in a simple way
You know, so many people may be able to 
understand.
And this is how I understand it too.
So I'll share it with you.
So I put here the video of melody.
Then here goes harmony.
And tempo
Now, that's the last thing, tempo
Tempo is what makes your music 
more musical.
Even the professional musicians recommend
the use of metronome.
A metronome is a device; it's downloadable from
the app store,
so we can monitor our tempo (timing)
So we can play in the correct speed or tempo
Even experts, they are using metronome.
So I also recommend that to you.
Whenever you practice or memorize a certain song,
use a metronome.
So let's go ahead and see the video,
For us to learn more 
about the four things I told you.
Alright, so what you just saw is a 4/4
time signature arrangement
of Amazing Grace in key of C using our kalimba and
the beauty of this instrument is that
you don't need to separate harmony and
melody
then you'll proceed to recording,
No. You can play both
 harmony and melody at the same time.
okay that's why you'll see a lot of
people uploading videos in YouTube and
they are doing amazing things with just
one instrument the thing is our standard
tuning of kalimba is C, and for most
of us it's a hassle
It's hard to tune it everytime
because the song is in key of G, right?
We're going to discuss what they call--
key center. Kalimba is in C.
C chord progression, C family, 
everthing in C.
But what if the song that you want is 
in key of D?
You're going to tune them higher?
What if it's in A? It's even higher.
So, it's hard, right?
And how are you going to survive that? 
All songs are not in key of C.
So today, we're  trying to learn more
about music and we're going to transpose
those things, from G, we'll make it C.
from A, we'll make it C. 
B, let's make it C.
So it's easy, and we just tune our kalimba
once.
and how are you gonna arrange it by
yourself for example you don't want to
read tabs or tabs for your song is not
available in the internet
What are you going to do?
What you can do is to 
identify the melody first.
Write the melody first.
You need to write it down.
That's how we learn, write it down first, 
then find out the chords (or the other way around)
Chords are always available in the internet.
Then we put the chords (or chords first then melody)
Look at that example, you can replay the video
Amazing Grace
You'll see that I have the melody there.
in this part of your screen.
Then I have here the harmony.
Do the melody first,
practice the melody.
Study it. Memorize it.
Then put the harmony 
(or the other way around)
Then use a metronome, so you will gain 
the confidence that you're making music,
knowing that you're in the right tempo.
So that's what I mean,
you can do it by your own.
As long as you are guided 
by this music theory that we discuss.
We have here the keyboard,
and we are going to study where 
the chords are.
for kalimba and keys
In my last video, I told you that 
kalimba doesn't start in C3.
I mean C2. It doesn't start in C3. 
It starts from C4.
Just a quick information about keys.
You'll see 2 blacks here, then 3 blacks here.
And so on, it's just repeated throughout.
For us to easily see where C is, you'll see
2 blacks here, beside them is C.
2 blacks, beside is C
2 blacks, beside them is C.
just for another information
Of course, you don't need that
Kalimba's pitch range is
from here to here. So from here going there.
That's also the numbers you see, 
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 1'
So that's what you see. It's just repeated.
We don't need the blacks, unless you want
to tune your kalimba with a blues key.
or jazz or chromatic, but kalimba has its minor, 
it's complete.
For us to easily see, maybe I'll try to zoom in.
So you'll see the comparison of  chords.
So let me give you a quick one for melody making. 
From keys going to kalimba.
You already know that this is C4, right?
This is 1 in kalimba, the center.
This is also 1'
And this is also 1''
All in between, it's also the same.
If you need to, you can actually put number here.
If you don't want to memorize it.
But it's just in order, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 
then just repeat it.
Then just additional two notes.
I've seen a lot of cover of Still by Hillsong.
We are going to try it here.
In kalimba, that's how you're going to do it.
Just transfer the number.
For example, it begins here.
It can be here or here.
So it goes like this.
It's like that.
This is 1, and you know this is 2, and 3.
3, 5, 1'' (with two dots), then 7 and 6,
6, 6, then 5, 5
So that's how it is. 
Write it down.
And then go to your kalimba, 
try to practice it.
And that's how we form the melody.
Okay, so we're going now to the chords of kalimba and keys.
You can see in your kalimba, you have 1, 3, and 5.
In keyboard, it's here. It's just repeated.
You'll see number 1,
 and the next two tines going to the right.
That's the complete C chord.
Now number 2,
D, then the next tines going to the left.
That's D minor.
Then in number 3, E minor.
The following tines going to the right, 
that's the E minor chord.
And it goes like this on keys.
Now, as for number 4
There are two tines, going to the left.
That's F chord.
It goes like this on keys.
Same thing with 5, and so on.
The following tines, until B diminished.
When we arrange it to music,
That's what we call-- chord progression. 
For example, C, F, A minor, G.
That's the harmony that we can do in kalimba and keys.
I hope you learned something from that.
Alright, so that's how we arrange our kalimba music.
If you don't have tabs or you don't want to look at tabs,
and you want to figure it out by yourself.
Two ways:
First, identify the melody,
then followed by harmony.
or the other way around:
Find the harmony or the chords
then next is melody.
And then, when you have them together,
in kalimba, play a metronome, tempo.
That's what we learn in our music theory for today.
And I'll show you how to transpose the chords.
Let me show you this one.
Guitar Progressions
It's too crowded, but
I just want to point the the keys
A, B, C, D
That's what we call  key center.
Going to the right, that's their family.
Just to explain what it means by family chords
or chord progression
As for A going to the right,
that's its family.
C, going to the right,
that's its family.
So in our kalimba,
that's it, it's in C.
3 principal chords, same in kalimba
minor chords, 6, 2, and 3.
If you are in the major chord
or you fall to that note,
it sounds happy.
When you get to the minor, it sounds sad
or there's a tension.
And I think that's also how our life is.
Sometimes, you go to minor
And then you feel sad, but then there's a relief
That's why there's a major chord.
So that's the feeling.
saying too much already
Anyway, I'd like to introduce this one instead of that. 
This one is simpler.
And you'll see here,
C, D, E, F, G, A, B
Those are the key centers.
They are the root notes.
That's why it's important to understand the major scale.
because this is the major scale itself.
So from C, going to the B diminished.
So 1 to 1
That's the major scale which
I discussed in my previous video.
You also see the number, roman numeral 1
two, three, four, five, six, seven,
then another 1.
So it's the same with kalimba.
This is the thing about this chart.
For example, the song that you want is in key of G
but your kalimba is in key of C,
how are you going to transpose it?
feel free to pause the video you can
download this chart so for example the
chord progression for the song that you
want is in key of G when it comes to C
That's the family, going to the right.
now so G for example the chords go 
G, C, and D
Just taking those strong chords
You are playing G, C, and D.
That's the harmony in the guitar.
How are you going to transpose it to kalimba?
Here you will understand that
G, C, D is actually 1, 4,5
So you just say 1, 4, 5
And if you go to C
basically you understand 
what I mean 1, 4, 5 means C, F, G
E, B C sharp minor, and A
what we're going to do is to apply the
formula
1 5 6 4 means C G A minor and F alright
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this thank you very much for listening
and I mean for watching I'm just here to
help and that's what I wanted to I want
to share my ideas for free so maraming
salamat I'm also learning by myself and
I do this because I want to serve others
and I'll see you again kalimbakers, bye.
