Understanding the number system and how to use it is EASY! But we do have to differentiate between the different ways we might use it to refer to what we're playing...But after that, it's EASY!

Yes. It's like solfege ("Do-re-mi") from chorus, but expressed numerically, and much easier to understand especially with the piano.

The timing of this post is crazy good lol. This weekend I’m teaching basic music theory at my church for our team(it’s made mostly of volunteers). This was one topic I had planned to cover, gave me some good ideas how to make it clear for beginners!

Your child-like excitement of music - seen in other of your music videos - is the secret of your success❤

Nice video! Funny how this is used in classical music too, just Roman numerals. People think music theory is complicated. It’s not. Gospel musicians call everything from the scale. 2 5 1 of the 4 just becomes 514. It makes more sense to just keep it consistent. You’re really just labeling the Bass note. These chord qualities change and are not consistent or diatonic. That’s where things get complicated. 1625 could be lots of chord qualities and show up often as different ones, even sometimes through a tune...ie make every chord dominant in the solo section lol. I recently realized the diminished scale allows this flexibility with qualities. Heck, Barry Harris said the 1st chord of the blues is Bbmajor6.

Interesting video! It surely has helped me a ton.

Great video!

This one trick definitely changed my playing Charles! Great that you're freely sharing the knowledge which I spent hours on KZfaq and with teachers trying to understand - once you get to a proficiency, you no longer start using note names, especially in scenarios where you're learning on the go or if the singer changes key whenever the hell they want (singers always in charge, we are merely their jukeboxes). I reccomend everyone go and learn this to the best of your ability as it will pay off MASSIVELY and allow you to play anything at any time without restricting yourself to certain keys (YES, YOU CAN PLAY IN B 😂).

nice. thanks better piano!

I use the numbering idea all the time when transposing songs. That's how I am able to do it. I look at a chord and am like, "Oh, that's the 5 chord, so I need to play the 5 in whatever key I'm putting it in." And it works marvelously. Also, why is it that I have never met anyone else who can play in all 24 keys?? I'm like "why can't you play in Gb major? it's only one extra flat from Db major" :) Maybe one day...

-not- charles, can you do a video on the difference between standard tertiary vs quartal and quintal harmonies, and their use cases?

and 251 is prime

Thinking in scale degrees basically make it so that i didnt really care much about key signatures. Very useful.

So I assume its the same in minor keys 😁

Crazy video! Dumb question, so a ii V i changes depending on key? I always just thought it was 3 specific keys.

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don't talk to me about no Dm-G-C or F#-B-E we only talk about ii-V-Is in this house!

...'By doing a little bit of math'... - it was never by best subject 😬 But great explanation!