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 Rhytm in music.  Time sygnatures before the notes mean how many notes will be included in one tact and which type of notes it will be. A note ac also be a silence between another notes. Notes also have different durations whole nute which fills the enitre tact. For example time signatures 4/4 means that in tact you have. First number tells us how many beats we have in tact and second number tells us which kind of note it will be, like whole note, half note or quarter note... This time measures are very important in dancing. For example waltz has always metrum 3/4 and tango has always 2/4, so tango is faster. Time measures are an iron rules to make music for dancing. In 70s thanks to John Lennon adding the extra tact with irregular tempo has come into a fashion. It's sound maybe a bit stragne, but it gives a deep, interesting and sad mood of the song. For example like in song Across the Universe. https://youtu.be/YfT0irsgB3Q?si=5WIABAkKjAxPZT9k

The circle of fifths

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 This is my second post and today I have watched short video about composing sounds in music with the rule called the circle of fifths. There are the sounds that are differ by 3 and half tones. It is the easiest way to build chords for example. If you have a chord C for example, the next chords in progression will be F or G. For example Hey Joe of Jimy Hendrix is just C -> G -> D-> A-> E and back. If you want to have a weird but sounds that suits each other in your progression you have to pick sounds from the opposite sides for example (G-> C#). There is a popular band called Radiohead and their style is based on progressing chords from opposite sides of the circle. In jazz improvisation you are playing different keys of sounds over and over.(Key of the note is a collection of notes that fit together which I mentioned in my last post). the closer in the circle, the less the keys differ and sound more boring, but it is hard to change a key that is far from t...

Understanding music theory

I have watched today short film about understanding music theory and in this blog I will tell you what I have learned. Basicly the music consists of 7 sounds CDEFGAB which are distinguished by individual tones while the sound between EF and BC differs by a semitone. You can also raise for example note A by a semitone and then you will get D#( DIS or Es), but you can't do this with note E, because the you will get just F. It's very easy to see on the piano as well as you can see that music consists of the same 7 notes in different octaves. To create or improvise music you have to know the music theory and scales, that are based on it. Scales are series of whole steps and half steps.(Whole step is tone, half step is semitone). When you learn the whole scale, then you can play the notes from it and it will always sound good.  https://youtu.be/DxSKfnk0D18?si=GTcWrX2wfqPFJXNn