Natural

It’s time that I talk about a big important symbol that can change the whole music sheet or music but only for one note or…..perhaps the whole song.

I’m talking this thing called a “Natural”

Almost looks like two capital L’s normally and upside connecting.

Here’s what it looks like on the staff paper/music sheet.

See how it shows that the natural is placed between the note meaning the blank box has to be either in between 2 lines on have on line in the middle of the note.

See how the box is now between the line? It’s the same thing with a sharp.

You could only use this symbol is there is a sharp or flat present next to the time signature when you start on your music. It will sound simply as like you’re playing the note on the Key of C Major only it’s just for the one note though out the whole song unless you change it back to the sharp/flats in the next measure but that is up to you.

I like to thank you all for reading my blogs. It has been a pleasure your time reading these introductions I wanted to show you.

Double Symbols/Game Changers

Only one more post to end my Introduction to Music Theory.

The rest will be up to you my dear bloggers if you want to proceed or advance in Music Theory.

We talked about what you need, what to write, what should be in those lines, how to count them, what clef to use, now what happens if you add these things I like to call “Game Changers”  

I am going to talk about the 4 basic one in this blogs and one important symbol in the next blog.

For start this should be memorized in your head how each note should sound in a key signature but let’s pretend that it isn't there and show you how they look imaginable.

The flat next to a note is just simply lowering down the sound.

This sharp next to the note just raises the sound higher than before

SO those are the really starter ones but now what if we add one more flat or sharp?

How to they look like? Well this this is how they look.

That’s how the double flat looks like. Simply right? Just adding another flat to the flat making the sound much much much! lower than it was before.

Now you probably think that a double sharp has two sharps next to it but IT DOESN’T!

That’s how a double sharp looks. It just raises the sound of the note much much much! higher. Now if anyone asked how a double sharp looks like you’ll sound smart enough to answer it instead of thinking its two sharps next to a note.

Triads and Chords

Alrighty then this blog I will be talking about triads and Chords.

Triads are basically notes/circles on top of each other making a chord or smooth sound. Depending on what Key you are playing it’ll sound differently.

A chord is having two or more notes sounding together.

Im going to use the Key of C as an example for this.

Take a look at the picture below.

This is the Key of Major C exposed to you.

On the top of the picture is just one note/circle there but that specific note is whats called your “Root” Meaning it’s the main one.

On top of the one note/circle is the name of that Specific note. Remember in my previous blogs about the do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do? Well the first "do" is your “root” or what it says on the top of the picture is your Tonic. Another way of saying it is that where you started in that Key. Which in case you start at C in the Key of C Major

Now let’s look at the bottom notes/circles that are stacked up on top of each other.

Check out this picture.

These staked notes/circles are called triads.

They make a chord with the bottom note/circle as your root, the second note on top of the root is your 3^rd note, and the third note on top of the 3^rd circle is the 5^th note above.

As you can see see the first one is the root position triad which is the basic neutral chord easily because its laid out there in 1,3,5 where the root is the lowest note.

Then you got the 2^nd form of inversion called first inversion meaning the root goes up an octave and the 3^rd note goes in the bottom as the lowest note in that triad and doesn't move same as the 5^th note

Lastly the 3^rd form called second inversion meaning that again the root goes up an octave and ALSO! The 3^rd note goes up an octave also leaving the 5^th to stay where it is and becomes the lowest note in that triad.

So the root position is the neutral sound of the chords

First inversion sounds a bit higher

And Second inversion sounds the highest.

Important Terms To Checkout

In my latest blogs I have talked about some terms you should know that are the basics that should be important to know so you could be able to communicate with your musician.

Here are new terms that you should get to know before trying to communicate with future talent.

Coda: The end of a phrase meaning when you see the word “Coda” in your music sheet it means to start over in the beginning or where it tell you to start again.

Chorus: Is where the catchy phrase or lyrics come in with the instrument. In my opinion I think the chorus the first thing you should work on as in making a catchy tune or lyrics that won’t be forgotten and then from there you can work the rest of the song to match the feeling of the chorus or the build up for it.

There are four parts in Harmony and each one has a different roll from top to bottom

Soprano- The highest voice in this 4 part harmony. People with high pitched voices make a good roll for this part. Find someone that could be able to break glass with his or her voice and you got yourself a soprano.

Alto- The second highest voice in this 4 part harmony. This is more like a support for the soprano. Everyone always has to have some support no matter what it is in music.

Tenor- The second lowest in this 4 part harmony.

Bass- The lowest in this 4^th part Harmony 

An example of a bass of the 4 harmonies is in the video of my previous blog of the guy with the lowest voice in the world and for soprano it would be Ariana Grande or Adam Levine