Tonalidades mayores y tonalidades menores - Cómo enseñar este concepto a alumnos pequeños

Let's do an exercise to learn to recognize what's major and minor in a It's a musical piece. If we were in my living room, I wouldn't have told you this at first, but what you're gonna do is Doing it now is taking a tennis ball and every time I say hop, you're gonna throw it. Ball and when I say hip, you go throw, then you throw the ball or you throw the ball If you say hip-hop. The list? Are you ready? Let's go. - What? - The hip. Do you notice the difference? When I was saying hip, when I was asking you to throw the ball, always I was playing one way and when I was playing another way, sorry, yes, another way That's how it was when I told you to hop. What was that, how did the music feel? That's how I'd ask the students. I wouldn't start by saying what I told you at the beginning, which I won't mention anymore, but how What's going on? Then you start saying, well, is that when I play it like this, how does the music sound? You can say that if you listen to it happy, light, luminous, etc. when I play it in opposition. A este, dramatic, sad, obscura, etc. and that is the difference. Then, now I'm not gonna say hip and hop, now I'm just gonna say ya. When I say yes, you have to either throw the ball or throw the ball, depending How are you sounding? If you're sounding sad and I say yes, throw the ball. If I say, if I play like this, happy and I say yes, then you throw the ball. And all this is while you're walking to the pulse of the music. - I'm not going anywhere. Very well. Then you notice that now I'm, yeah, or sea, when I'm playing in a way It's for the boots and when the other one is to launch it. In music we call it a esto mayor or menor. When I'm playing the music that's heard most, say, cheerful or bright, it's major. And when you're a minor, then. La música menor can be sad, dramática, oscura, vaya, it is different, but it is muy difícil To find music in a lower tone than you hear, that you hear happy. However, the music may have a different feel. Because even if you listen to the mayor, you can have a lot of pain, the music, etc. But what we're doing now is just recognizing between those two, between major and minor. Now let's do something, you're not going to be with the ball. Now it's gonna be, you can do it walking or you can do it sitting wherever you are and alone Like palming or touching lightly the pulse of the music. If the music I'm playing is mayor, when you finish you're gonna say mayor. And if I'm playing minor, when you finish you're gonna say minor. He's the mayor. It's minor. Now when you make the move, like we all do with movement here, we're gonna make it mayor. You're going to do it like this, Mayor. When you're young, you're young. Ooh, the hands up and down are always the same, but what changes is the one in the middle. Now let's see, let's see why you have to change the middle only. See, you're mayor, you're mayor, you're minor, you're minor. Another, another, another. And one more. And now let's see, when I play more than two notes at the same time it's called an accordion. Because if I play a minor chord, it's different than the major. What's the difference? This is minor and this is mayor. If you notice, the only thing that changes is this note, the middle note. So the notes, let's say the movements for the note are, or, are the same. But it's smaller, it's smaller. It's smaller or it's bigger, bigger. And why smaller and bigger? For this. The smallest distance between one sound and another on a piano is this mid tone. And after that there's another medium tone. So from here to here, how much is there? Un tono completo. It is a complete tone. - I'm going to go. So, from here to here I have a tone and from here to here I have a medium tone. O sea, tone and meeto da menor. Two tonos me from the mayor. So, that's why it's bigger, it's bigger and it's smaller. That's why I make them bigger and smaller. Now let's do an exercise. You're just sitting there. I'm going to play three notes. I don't want you to see so much of the keyboard. It's not about seeing the keyboard. It's about listening. And you listen, I'm going to play it twice. The first time I touch you, you listen. The second time you sing it, you say it's a major or a minor, depending on what you're listening to. And for the third time I sing it saying that it is. For example. Well, I didn't touch him twice, did I? Once again. And now you. Now what follows. And that's how I'm going to have these different qualities in the sound. The majority of the music. Popular music. A lot of music before the 20th century. Obey these rules. See if it's in major or minor mode. En estos dos. This is the first time. But lately the music has too many aristas. Even from the ancient times. Music cannot be contained in something as simple as a major and a minor. Because even if I'm playing something that's in a major tone. For example, I have a major chord first. And then this is minor. And another minor. And then a mayor. So let's say my central tonality, my center of gravity is major. But all the centers of all the tonalities have three major chords. Three minor chords and one diminished chord. The mayor of Acorde. A minor chord. - It's a minor. The mayor. Diminished. And this diminished generates a lot of tension. It creates so much tension that everyone uses it for something surprising. So, that's why this diminished chord is generating so much tension. But well, that's my explanation about what's major and minor. I hope it serves you. And please, leave your comments. If you have any questions or if you're not clear, tell me. Because sometimes we explain things in a certain way. But when we can't see the students a la cara. It's hard to know if we're getting along. Or if you need another kind of explanation. - I'll see you later.