Music Video Lesson: What Are There 2, 3, & 4 of in Music?

You're watching LivingPianos.com. I'm Robert Estrin with a really interesting observation.

What are there two, three, and four of in music? Now those of you who are music theory aficionados, you might want to stop right now, pause it, and see if you can figure out what the heck I'm talking about.

Alright, what are there two of? I could actually start with what is there one of? I never thought of that. What is there one of? A chromatic scale.

It doesn't matter where you start or stop, it's all the same.

Which brings us to what are there two of? There are two, believe it or not, only two different whole tone scales. Watch.

Go up a half step.

Go up one more half step.

You're back to the first one again.

See that? So I think you see where I'm going with this. So what are there three of? There are only three different diminished seventh chords. What's a diminished seventh chord? A diminished seventh chord is a chord built all with minor thirds. That is, three half steps apart. So, we build the first one. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. If you do one more, one, two, three, it's the same chord.

That's your diminished seventh chord. Go up a half step.

You have another one. That's a second one. One more.

That's the third one. Now you get to the next one. You're back to the first one again.

So, there's one chromatic scale, two whole tone scales, three diminished seventh chords. So you probably see the pattern here, right? So what are there four of? There are only four different augmented triads. What are augmented triads? Augmented triads are chords containing two major thirds. Major thirds are a total of four half steps. As follows. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. There's one. Go another four. One, two, three, four. And you got the same note.

Go up a half step. There's your second one. There's your third one.

And here's your fourth one.

And you go to one more.

You're back to your first one.

Interesting patterns. Did you ever realize that before? The one, two, three, and four of music.

This is what it's all about.

And I wonder if anybody else has any observations of, could we go further? I didn't even think about this for this video.

Fourths? I don't know. Are there four of these? Five of these? My mind is spinning now. If any of you have any way of going further with this one, two, three, four of music, leave it in the comments here at livingpatterns .com. I'm interested. I'm going to, after this, I shoot this video, I'm going to start thinking about this and maybe I'll leave it in the description if I come up with any epiphanies of more patterns like this in music. I hope this is interesting for you. Again, I'm Robert Estrin. You're watching livingpianos.com, your online piano store. See you next time.

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