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Rick Beato music theory (transcription)

date: 01.07.2018 20:00

I made these notes for myself while I was watching Rick Beato's Music Theory Lecture - What Every Pro Musician Needs To Know just be able to revisit this stuff quickly without going though the video again. These are roughly written notes and they are not really complete, I stopped at some point where it was difficult to follow.

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Circle of 5th

You have to memorize it (you should know it cold)

Order of sharps: F#, C#, G#, D#, A#, E#, B#

Order of flats (reversed order of sharps): Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Cb, Fb

So, you we have 4 sharps in the key: take first 4 sharps, E major or example has F#, C#, G#, D#

What you do with this once you know it?

Triads:

Major: I, IV, V

Minor: ii, iii, vi

Dim (diminished): vii•

Sevenths chords

Maj7 = Imaj⁷, IVmaj⁷

Minor7 = ii⁷, iii⁷, vi⁷

Dom (dominant) = V⁷

Half Diminished = VII^7b5

You have to know how to spell them in major key.

You have to know corresponding modes in every key, this shows you relationship between modes and chords:

• Imaj7 = Ionian

• ii⁷ = Dorian

• iii⁷ = Phrygian

• IVmaj⁷ = Lydiain

• Vmaj⁷ = Mixolydian

• vi = Aeolian

• ​vii = Locrian

For example: if you are in a key Bbmaj (B flat major), the 4th chord (E flat lydian) is the 4th mode of B flat major. Let's say you are in the key F major and you wanna know ii mode — it's G dorian.

Chord progression

Let's say we have this chord progression: (Song: all the things you are) (First 5 bars).

|​ vi⁷ | ii⁷ | V⁷ | Imaj⁷ |

| Fm⁷ | Bbm⁷ | Eb⁷ | Abmaj⁷ |

|​ IVmaj⁷ |

| Dbmaj⁷ |

You have to know what key it is. The first step is to look to a Dominant chord, so it's Eb7, Eb7 is the Vth chord only in one key. So the scale that you play over each of these chords corresponds with scale that goes withing these roman numerals.

So vi mode is Aeolian, we we play F Aeolian.

ii⁷ we play Bb Dorian, then Eb Mixolydian, Ab Ionian and Db Lydian.

So, is you are soloing over this progression you gonna play: F Aeolian, Bb Dorian, Eb Mixolydian, Ab Ionian, Db Lydian.

So need to understand chords — scale relationship.

All these 5 chords were in Ab major scala. Now let's add more chords to this progression:

C major:

|ii⁷ | V⁷ | Imaj⁷ |

|Dm⁷ | G⁷ | Cmaj⁷ |

Dor, Mix, Ionian — scales to play over these chords

This is just basic knowledge you have to have: the chord — scale relationship.

How do you build these chords? (10:00)

Triads:

Major = 1 3 5 or M3 → m3 and P5 (perfect 5th) between 1 and 5

Minor = 1 b3 5 or m3 → M3 and P5 between 1 and 5

Aug (Augmented) = 1 3 #5 or M3 → M3 and A5 (augmented 5th) between 1 and 5.

Dim = 1 b3 b5 or m3 → m3 and d5 (diminished 5th) between 1 and 5.

This is how you build basic triads.

Other triads: (13:20)

Sus⁴ = 1 4 5, C F G in the key of C.

Lyd^▵ (triad) = 1 #4 5, C F# G in the key of C.

Phrg^▵ = 1 b2 5, C Db G in the key of C.

Sus² = 1 2 5 (it's an inversion of Sus⁴).

Q (quartal voicing) = 1 4 b7 (two P4)

Q⁺ = 1 4 7 (P4 → A5)

Sevenths chords (15:22)

Maj⁷ = 1 3 5 7

Maj^7#5 = 1 3 #5 7

Dom⁷ = 1 3 5 b7

Dom^7#5 = 1 3 #5 b7

Dom^b5 = 1 3 b5 b7

Min^Maj7 = 1 b3 5 7

Min⁷ = 1 b3 5 b7

Min^7b5 = 1 b3 b5 b7

Dim⁷ = 1 b3 b5 bb7 (double flat 7)

These are basic dominant chords that everybody should know.

Upper extensions (19:00)

C⁷ = C E G Bb Db D#

1 2 5 b7 b9 #9

Inversions

Cmaj^▵ = C E G (root position)

E G C, E C G (1st inversion)

G C E, G E C (2nd inversion)

Any combination of these 3 notes is a C major chord, doen't matter what inversion it is.

When you have 4 note chord you have extra inversions there.

Cmaj⁷ = C E G B

Other modes to understand (24:18)

Melodic minor

Harmonic minor (26:35)

Aux scales (28:23)

Common progressions

In rock you have: I, IV, V

In jazz you have:

ii7, V7, Imaj7,

iii, VI, ii, V, Imaj7

I, vi, ii, V

ii^7b5, V^7b9, i⁷

Beato book!