Basic Parts of Music Theory
Music Theory Sound Waves
Music Theory Amplitude & Frequency
Music Theory Octaves
Music Theory Chromatic Scale
Playing the Chromatic Scale on Guitar
Finding E on the Guitar
Playing Octaves on Guitar: Part 1
Playing Octaves on Guitar: Part 2
Guitar String Names
Finding Notes on the Guitar
Fret Markers for Guitar
Naming Notes in Music Theory
Guitar Dyads & Chords
Guitar Harmonics
Guitar Intervals
Finding the Octave E on Guitar
Summary: Octaves are double the frequency of a particular notes wave length. Learn more about octaves and music theory from a professional musician in this free video.
Pete Pidgeon has taught guitar to beginners, experts and even at the college level since 1995. He's given private instruction since 1986. Pete received his Bachelors Degree in jazz...read more
"In this clip, I'm going to discuss what an octave is. Essentially, if you start with a note where your wave is going on here. We only really need to look at one full cycle, because it's just repeated all the way down the string. An octave would mean if you would take this wave length right here and you double the frequency. Which would mean, instead of having this going on, you now complete the whole cycle half way through. So here, I'd be going down and up like that. So this wave, the one I just drew would be an octave higher than the one before it. An octave would be the same note. So for example, an A note, if this was an A note, this would also be an A, but an octave higher. So, for example, bah, bah, bah. They're both As, but this one would be higher by what's called an octave."
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