May the 4th Be With You

May the 4th Be with You!

Ok, so I’m about a week late on this, but listen to how cool intervals of a 4th can sound together.

Works best if you find a nice rich synth sound.

You don’t even have to know how to count to 4. Just use the circle of 5ths as a magical sort of musical cheat sheet. Pick a letter on the circle of 5ths, any letter. Play that note, then move counterclockwise on the circle. Play that next letter. And again counterclockwise, one step. Play that letter. Starting to sound cool.

I can usually play about 3 notes with each hand on the keyboard. So that would give me 6 notes, each an interval of a 4th apart. Sounds really cool.

I also teach how to make a sus4 type chord in the video. Pick 3 notes in a row on the circle of 5ths. If you use the middle note as the chord root, you have a sus4 chord based off that root. Try it anywhere on the circle of 5ths. It works with any group of 3 consecutive notes around the circle.