The Minor Sixth (Part 1) - rallymoore on music theory

Here we whimsically explore the minor sixth interval in one of its simplest contexts, demonstrated through a variety of well-known music. This video is for amusement rather than being a rigourous lesson in music theory, but this and future videos in this particular series can still benefit your musicianship simply by drawing your attention to common patterns and constructions within music composition and chord structures.

Eventually, I would like to do a whole series where we approach music theory more formally from first principles: acoustic resonance, oscillatory dynamics, the overtone sequence, and principles of assonance and dissonance. However, this more academic viewpoint does not replace or discount the practical value of working with the usage patterns of individual intervals, chords, scales, keys, or modes.

Although this is the first video uploaded on my channel here, I work with a much wider range of topics. I encourage you to visit my website--rallymoore.com--to find more of my original music, artwork, and video projects. In particular, please subscribe to the channel so that you'll be notified when the premier of my main video project--'Ghosting the Machine'--drops in the near future. I will also be featuring a sneak-peek of the first hour of this show, which will be accessible through my website, as indicated at the end of the video. Thanks for watching.