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Thank you!
I’m starting to see that this is like subtle interplay inside the chords in relation to the progression.
-and I sure fit in that notorious group!
Hopefully it’s going to change.I found this on the net:
Let’s say we are in the key of C, where G7 is my V chord and C my I.
So while the tritone in G7 (B and F) resolves to the third in C (C and E), the bass (playing the root) goes from the V (G) to the I (C).
If you go from the V down to the I, that is considered a “falling fifth”.
You could of course also go from the G below to the C above. This is not such a strong resolution, but entirely fine. One reason why the following fifth feels like a stronger resolution is because of gravity. It is deeply ingrained in us that something that is higher up has more kinetic energy and more energy is being released when it falls to the ground. Lifting something up from the ground takes energy letting something fall to the ground releases it.
—So while in the demonstration to find what the next 5th is we look at the higher 4th to know what the note the lower 5th would be, …For the song examples, it is actually the lower toned 5th that would be played.
So in other words, it’s a descending 5th because we’re not going up the scale to a higher register, we are playing a lower note than the one before.
Is that right?Hi,
so I’m looking for a musical theory “reason” as to why we call it the descending cycle of fifths.
I’ve watched the video several times and it seems more logical to go by ascending cycle of fourths.
As you go around the circle you are going UP a fourth. It’s only a fifth if you turn around and count back to the note you just came from.- which takes more work than to just follow along in fourths. In your answer to David, you say we usually think in terms of descending 5ths instead of ascending 5ths, but we’re ascending in 4ths.
I can just go ahead and believe it to move forward, but it somehow feels like there’s an exact theory reason why it is done this way.So I tried chrome, didn’t work, but I saw that if I turned my phone sideways then the testimonials came out normal. I had someone else try to login with their phone and she noticed these almost invisible 3 bars to the far right of the select page window and there it all is!
I didn’t see those bars, I was always tapping right on select page.
All good now, lol
Thanks Richie, I’m digging the class and learning quite a bit!
