Music theory concepts ranked by importance

MUSIC THEORY TIER LIST! Start learning the piano today with your free trial of Skoove: #a_aid=davidbennett 🎹 Music theory can certainly be a massively useful tool for musicians looking to unlock their potential. However, you certainly don’t need to every single facet of theory to reap the benefit! So today I’m going to rank different music theory concepts on their importance and value to hopefully give you a better idea of what is need to know and what is nice to know! The outro song is my track “Running Man“ and is available on my Spotify: 🎶 And, an extra special thanks goes to Douglas Lind, Vidad Flowers, Ivan Pang, Waylon Fairbanks, Jon Dye, Austin Russell, Christopher Ryan, Toot & Paul Peijzel, the channel’s Patreon saints! 😇 SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: 🎹 0:00 Introduction 1:42 Note names 2:20 Triads 2:58 Seventh chords 3:43 Inversions 4:37 Upper chord extensions 5:23 Ear training 6:30 Intervals 7:17 Major scales 8:11 Pentatonic scales 8:51 Minor scales 9:32 Modes of the major scale 10:19 Modes of other scales 11:10 Exotic scales 11:58 Transposition 12:46 Key signatures 13:17 Roman numeral analysis 14:15 Note values 15:22 Articulation 16:13 Time signatures 17:24 Tuplets 18:20 Rhythmic solfège 19:38 Cadences & functional harmony 20:27 Clefs 21:15 Dynamics 22:24 Polyrhythms 23:24 Polymeters 24:41 Tritone substitution 25:54 Microtonality 27:01 Harmonic series 28:06 Temperaments