Notes, Scales & Keys - Forget about the circle of fifth | english
Channel: Odo Sendaidokai
Date: 2022-02-08

#Bitwig #Musictheory #Scales

There is a german tutorial for every english tutorial I made.

This episode is about notes, where they are, how to recognize them, what they are called, what the keys major and minor are, and how you can play all major and minor keys right off the bat. Also, after the video you can throw away the circle of fifths.  :)

"Making the sound where it's made".

German speaking Community

- artist hub https://sendaidokai.de/
- Discord https://sendaidokai.de/contact/ (german)

00:00​ Introduction
00:20 Orientation with patterns (12 keys / Semitones / Half Steps / Whole Steps)
02:41 C the start fo the Pattern ( C major - 7 keys)
04:20 The history of the A standard tuning pitch (440 Hz)
05:05 How are the white keyes called? ABCDEFG with the german Sonderweg "H" (B)
06:23 How are the black keys called? # - sharp (up) / b -flat (down)
08:40 The easy secret of the major scale: W W H W W W (H)
12:55 The easy secret of the minor scale: W H W W H W (W)
17:59 Relative Key between major & minor (same key signature) - 3 half steps up=major / down=minor
19:16 Wrap up without white wales or hippos with wiggeling hummus wheels
21:20 Don't like, subscribe or click the bell, if you want me to stop producing tutorials


Many of these explanations you can implement to some extent and in similar devices not only in Bitwig, but also in other DAWs like Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, Studio One, Cubase or what they are all called.

I would be very happy about constructive feedback, either here on Youtube, on the Peertube page or on my german blog here https://hyperblog.de/index.php/klangwerk/ . You can also comment there without registering. Or visit me on the biggest german synthesizer and music forum Sequencer.de https://www.sequencer.de/synthesizer/threads/odo-sendaidokai.157614/

Recommend me and share my videos if you like them. I would be very happy about that.

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All Resources are mostly german language.

- What else I do and the Discord channel, you can find here https://sendaidokai.de/
- Discussion on Sequencer.de https://www.sequencer.de/synthesizer/threads/bitwig-tips-tricks-austausch-unter-usern.151443/

- I use Bitwig on Linux (Kubuntu 20.04) with the https://kx.studio/ PPA and activated Jack audio server, via Cadence (configuration, start/stop Jack) and Claudia (LADISH frontend) to wire all audio inputs and outputs properly together.

- Cover Art is made by Odo Sendaidokai with Gimp

- For recording the videos, or for the livestreams I use OBS https://obsproject.com/