I teach on my channel a lot for “composers in crisis”, and for filmcomposers and musicians who can read.If you get lost, confused, and need the basics, check
1. Basic course in music theory (urgently)
2. The content of the channel Music Matters.
This one can help. It is the only serious channel I can mention…
However ….
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My channel is there exactly because the way this teacher and – many others – teaches leads to problems that ONLY in the praxis of musical composition can be felt heavily. For other students who are only writing exams, for example, to teach the placement sixth-chords I would first analyse a shot choral of Bach, Haendel, or Schutz and then > present rules of Bach and the figured bass in closed position<. I would not focus on making the student write chord progressions in wide position. I would focus on 1) SCORE of MUSICAL piece, for the theory 2) focus on making him play an example and later harmonise a choral line in closed position using only root- and sixth-chords. From there I comment the results.
Another problem is the style. American teachers have this problem of teaching harmony as if it were geometry: it comes direct from mental nowhere… This tradition comes back to our great Schoenberg, who teached in USA etc. So for example here he teaches already the 4/6 chord, while still presenting the basic of the sixth-chord. The 4/6 chord is taught outside of any stile. This is for many NOT a problem. For the composer it is a BIG problem. Because we compose music as historical statements inside musical idioms for specific musical tastes, and these are the elements that give criteria for bad or good, correct or incorrect. When we exemplify the 4/6 chord as passing chord, we are going to a point in history of music where the style is harder to learn. This conflicts with the goal of learning the sixth-chords. This is why we learn sixth-chords better within the baroque approach, and next to root chords ONLY. The 4/6 chord comes in the cadence.
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This praxis of the Music Matters channel is VERY well etablished by Schoenberg. You blame Schoenberg, not the channel owner ..
Remember that Schoenbergs goal as teacher was “THE MUSICAL LOGIC”.:He wanted to EXPLORE ALL POSSIBILITIES.
His method is great for THIS and has a huge philosophical component that helps to prove his thesis at the final of this Harmonielehre: any chord should combine with any chord.
But this method makes your learning SLOWER, from the practical point of view: he has zero focus on style, improvisation and harmonization.
Schoenberg does even expressly demand to NOT exercise harmony on piano. The written exercises are still super important, but until you are prepared to start doing the same thing on piano. As soon as they bring you out of practicing them on piano, I find it a problem.
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The most basic the topic is, the more careful I am to teach this on youtube, because here I require more to know to whom exactly I am talking.
You can’t at the same time introduce someone in the art of music while still wanting to be a viral youtuber.
Anyways, this following this channel might help you understand many of my statements:https://youtu.be/f1M9Ei7lKlk?si=yl0pK12dRv-PQh2J
I consider doing a video about youtube channels that I recommend, and the problem with many others.