That's a bold claim that explaining something to me will prevent me from ever being confused again. My ability to be confused is very well developed.
@kozmobluemusic
3 ай бұрын
my parents call me an “accidental”
@Better-Piano
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@Dextopher
3 ай бұрын
this video couldn’t have been better timing, I’m learning about accidentals this week in my music fundamentals class, thanks mr. charles 😁
@Better-Piano
3 ай бұрын
Awesome!! Hope this helps!
@40HoursDaily
3 ай бұрын
Two videos in one day! Haven't even watched this one yet but you sure know how to bring joy into people's day!😊
@eliasgc49
3 ай бұрын
I remember reading guitar chords for a piece in G-flat Major and theres a random E major chord inside it, but upon inspection i realised its supposed to be F-flat Major (Flat Leading Note Chord), so the context really matters there
@NichtWunderkind
3 ай бұрын
This channel deserves more views
@Hollycb12
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for these videos, Charles
@Better-Piano
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching them!
@MusicManMatt
3 ай бұрын
“Accidentals are instructions.” Wait wait wait that’s why we read the accidental before the note on paper?!?! Well that woulda made theory a lot easier
@Better-Piano
3 ай бұрын
"Do THIS to the following note:"
@ryanallen8273
3 ай бұрын
What's the song called you play in the background of the intro I need to know so I can learn itttt. I've heard it on another KZitem channel and now you're using it here and I can't find it anywhere please do telll
@Better-Piano
3 ай бұрын
Ahhh, so that comes from Epidemic Sound and I believe it's called "Got That Feeling" by Peter Sandberg!
@Aaron.T_82816
3 ай бұрын
TLDR: Sharps and flats depend on scale degree, key and overall context of how they translate to writing/composition 😂
@trelligan42
3 ай бұрын
I find your explanation convoluted and emotive; it seems to be simultaneously for someone above and below my knowledge level. There are two rules when writing a scale, which always includes 7 notes (the eighth is a repeat in another octave). 1) Always use all 7 letters, ABCDEFG without skips or repeats. 2) Always use either all sharps, or all flats, never both. These two rules encapsulate what you were calling 'organization' by ensuring a consistent written score. I will not comment on the chord progression part, as that's above my knowledge. #FeedTheAlgorithm
@Gottenhimfella
3 ай бұрын
He is explaining WHY those rules exist. This is helpful to a lot of people, because firstly, those rules have limited applicability. For instance, you are talking only about the two simplest scales: major and minor. There are screeds of other scales (about sixteen important ones in jazz, for instance), many of which do not have 7 notes, for starters. Secondly, if a person understands how a rule came to be needed, then they can reconstruct the rule from first principles when memory of a dry rule is not preserved. Lastly: If you insist on rules: A more useful (and more generally applicable) pair of notation rules to remember would be: 1) Intervals of a second should be represented on a line and the adjacent space 2) Intervals of a third should be represented on two adjacent lines or spaces The other intervals follow on in this way in alternation, whether major, minor or augmented in all cases. Those rules (which arise from his explanation in the clip) work at every level of musical sophistication, the ones you cited are only useful if you don't plan to progress any further than notating or recognising basic scales.
@lawrencetaylor4101
3 ай бұрын
I hit the dislike flat key for this video.
@leiocerayt
3 ай бұрын
Not first.
@Better-Piano
3 ай бұрын
NOPE that was ME
@leiocerayt
3 ай бұрын
@@Better-Piano (I meant viewer, not owner HAHA XD)
@Better-Piano
3 ай бұрын
Knowing whether we're going to use sharps or flats can be confusing at first, but the important thing to remember is that the system is meant to make reading and understanding things EASIER!
@CharlesCornellStudios
3 ай бұрын
NO, it's meant to confuse and make people SAD. Get with it.
@Better-Piano
3 ай бұрын
@@CharlesCornellStudios Just say you hated learning to read music bro
@CharlesCornellStudios
3 ай бұрын
@@Better-Piano Nuh uh, I've ALWAYS known how to read music, literally since before I could read WORDS.
@Better-Piano
3 ай бұрын
@@CharlesCornellStudios Whatever, nobody believes you. Go practice.
@CharlesCornellStudios
3 ай бұрын
@@Better-Piano No u
@eliasgc49
3 ай бұрын
Same principle applies to why double sharps and double flats exists
@googlamonster5086
3 ай бұрын
So it's a verb, not an adjective.
@michaelgriseri
3 ай бұрын
C major = B# Fb Abb I'm going to bed now...
@kozmobluemusic
3 ай бұрын
*[screams in number notation]*
@Better-Piano
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@DavidBarnish
2 ай бұрын
This was so insightful! I love your videos. Keep doing more!
@lastnamefirstname8655
3 ай бұрын
interesting, thanks better piano.
@Better-Piano
3 ай бұрын
You bet, lastnamefirstname
@lastnamefirstname8655
3 ай бұрын
@@Better-Piano good lessons and information as always!
@pianooctopus765
3 ай бұрын
You missed one VERY obvious problem with mixing sharps and flats: key signatures. Using the G-flat example, how on earth would you write a key signature with both a B-flat and a B-natural?? Also, I guess this whole sharp-flat context thing answers the question on whether C-major has no sharps or no flats: it has no sharps. Cuz if you think about it, the A-minor harmonic scale uses a G# as the accidental. And most of the accidentals in C-major/A-minor pieces are sharps anyway. So I guess the key signature for C-major is 0 sharps.
@Gottenhimfella
3 ай бұрын
Indeed. Another very good reason for naming the fourth degree of G flat major as a Cb is that the key signature has 6 flats, and as there are only five black notes, it follows that's as many flats as we can achieve if we rely only on flattening white notes which have a black note immediately below them. Hence we have no alternative but to flatten one of the "other" white notes (which have white notes immediately below them). And we're in luck, because the sixth flat in a key signature is: yay! C flat. So the solution is rather elegantly built into the key signature system. I guess if he'd mentioned things like this, however interesting and useful, the clip could have grown arms and legs... But seeing as how no-one reads long comments except those with unquenchable thirst for ideas, I'll indulge myself by pointing out another elegant feature of the key signature system: it can be inferred from what I wrote above that seven must be the maximum useful number of flats (or sharps) in a key signature, because as well as only five black notes, there are only two places in the octave where two white notes are adjacent, so only two "emergency" black notes are available to supplement the five actual ones. Musicologists seem to enjoy pretending that we are at liberty to carry on by adding double (or even triple) sharps or flats to a key signature, leading to perversions like Gb minor or Db minor. I don't even know what the symbol for a triple sharp looks like.
@Kosmokraton
2 ай бұрын
The first part, 100%. As for the second, I don't know about that. I can certainly think of plenty of pieces in C with a lot more flat accidentals than sharp accidentally. I think asking if it's 0 flats or 0 sharps is like asking if you've got a positive 0 or a negative zero. It's both. The best way to phrase it would be zero accidental. I don't think noting that A harmonic minor has a sharp is really pertinent... C harmonic major has one flat. But both of these scales are modifications of the Greek modes, around which the key signature system is formed. The modifications are divergences from the key signature system, not a part of it. (Also, triple sharp is #x.)
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