From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Fun with theory, part 1

Fun with theory, part 1

- Okay, it's fun with theory time. And this is part of the music learning experience where you kind of put the Mandolin down. We're going to use our brain a little bit, on this segment. And that's okay, you know? We like to jam. We like to play tunes. But then sometimes somebody will throw something at us. Or use a musical term that we've never heard of. So it's great to learn a little bit about the language of music. And a lot of it has to do with numbers. And many of you have looked at a piano and maybe even studied a scale. Or played a few notes on a piano. But basically there are eight notes on a scale, okay? If you're on a C scale, you're going C,D,E,F,G, A,B,C. So when you get to G you come back around to A. There's no H, I and J in music, yet anyway. Unless you're in Germany, then there's an H. But we won't worry about that. So what I'd like to talk about is the idea of the three principal chords of any given key. And the way this works is they are the one, the four, and the…

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