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Lecture 4 on the Overtone Series
Lecture 1: Structure of music and "Great Composers
and Great Music."
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Lecture 2: What is the Overtone Scale.
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Lecture 3: Hearing the overtones
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Lecture 4: Using the overtones to form chords.
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IV. The next overtone will be a 3rd from the last overtone,
or E
This new overtone is always a 3rd above the 3rd overtone.
Let's hear this overtone, using the same exercise
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1. Silently press the E that is an octave higher and hold. |
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2. Strike the lower C. |
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Hear how this overtone is getting fainter? |
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Now we have the first four overtones on this series, starting with the low C.
AT this point it is obvious that we have formed the C major Chord. This overtone series is the nucleus of the music we hear today from hymns, blues, jazz or classical.
This triad with its' tonic-dominant relationship, is the foundation of Western tonal music. Remember, there is an overtone series starting on every tone, so this is only one out of
HOW MANY?
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