The Best CHORDS For Modal/Exotic Scales | Music Theory Q+A

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00:00 Could you suggest some music theory books to start with?
00:58 Negative Harmony: how did you arrive at half diminished from the G7?
03:30 Why choose these chords to flesh out a Dorian flat 2? Is that in the manual?
06:00 Where do scales that share ethnic names accurately derive from?

When I was a child, I was a royal pain in the B.

I still am.

("Are you still a pain in the B, or are you still a child?" Both of course!)

See, I could not leave my parents alone for a moment because I was always asking questions about anything and everything.

Yes, I know it's normal for kids to ask "why" for every little thing, but I was taking it to another level.

Whenever my parents answered my "whys?" with a "because!" (like every parent does when they are exasperated)...

... I retorted "this is not a proper answer" :)

(Don't worry, I'm being punished for this. My daughter seems to have inherited that very same behavior...)

Until the day my mother tried to divert my relentless onslaught by answering me: "Because... because it's written in the book"

That stumped naive-7-year-old-me at first...

... but after a moment I asked: "ok... mmmh... but the people who wrote the book... how do THEY know?"

Reportedly, my father nearly chocked on his coffee while laughing.

The point is: it's not a question of authority... I just want to know why :-) (and precisely how, and where, and when...)

And many kids are like that... and this is why these kids learn faster than adults :)

So imagine my reaction when I read this comment on my YT channel the other day:

"Why choose these chords to flesh out a Dorian b2? Is that in the manual?"

Forget for a moment the Dorian b2... the important point is not what scale or what chords...

... the 'problem' is the "in the manual" part.

When we go from "Why?" to "Is that in the manual?"... then the learning stops.

(To be clear, I do not blame the commenter - I blame the educational system that teaches people to 'give the right answer to the test' rather than 'to find out why')

So here in this video I explain why some chords in a scale are 'better' than other chords in a scale and why. And you can apply this to any scale

In this video we also answer:

- Could you suggest some music theory books to start with?
- Negative Harmony: how did you arrive at half diminished from the G7?
- Where do scales that share ethnic names accurately derive from?
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