(Music Theory for Beginners)
(Music Playing)
Hi, My name is Sam Dhanasekaran and welcome to this Music Theory video series.
In this video let us take a look at scales.
By now we know that
an Octave contains twelve notes.
Calling it as Note 1 and go right
after playing all that twelve notes in this Octave.
Right? Which is.
I will end at C of the next Octave. So in between I played all the notes.
But what if I want to make things a little more interesting? What if I want to play only a certain set of notes
before reaching the same piano key in the next Octave?
Hmm. Let me make a pattern.
From my first note which is
C
I am going to play every third note until I reach the next C.
That would be
1,2,3, D#, 1, 2, 3
F#, 1, 2, 3, A, 1, 2, 3, C. So I reached C.
So now
if I want I can call it as a
Scale.
Ok? And I can say the scale consists of C, D#, F#, A and C.
And
how did I
make the scale? By using
this method where I played every third key. And I can
do the same with other
notes also. Start with E,  Start with F and then go every third
Ok? I'm just giving an example how we can construct own scale.
Ok? The problem is it needs to
sound good and
all the other things. But but before doing all that let us see
the popular scales which have been popular for many years and how
they were constructed.
Ok? So again, Scales is
a set of
notes in an Octave
that are constructed based on a certain
pattern.
Ok. Here I say that I am going to play every third note. But it is up to you. You can say that I am going to play
ah
the third note from wherever I'm starting and then I'm going to play
the next note and then I'm going to play the second note. Whatever you want to do.
Ok? And if it sounds good who knows, your scale will become popular.
But
let's
take a look at the popular scales which have been popular
for many years. Many decades.
OK? Thank you for watching.
