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The Staff, Clefs, and Ledger Lines
Description: Learn how to read notes on the
staff and use ledger lines.
Terms Covered: Staff, Treble Clef, Bass Clef, Ledger
Line(s), Great Staff
Note
Duration
Description: Learn the different types of
note values and how they relate to each other.
Terms Covered: Whole note, half note, quarter note,
eighth note, sixteenth note
Measures and Time Signature
Description: Learn about measures and the
different types of time signatures.
Terms Covered: Bar lines, measures, time Signatures
Rest
Duration
Description: Learn about the different
types of rest and how they relate to each other.
Terms Covered: Whole rest, half rest, quarter rest,
eighth rest, sixteenth rest
Dots
and Ties
Description: Learn about symbols that alter
the duration of a note or rest.
Terms Covered: Augmentation dot, tenuto tie
Simple
and Compound Meter
Description: Learn about the different
types of standard meters.
Terms Covered: Simple meter, compound meter, duple
meter, triple meter, quadruple meter
Odd
Meter
Description: Learn about meters with
different-sized beats.
Terms Covered: Odd meter
Steps
and Accidentals
Description: Learn about the half steps,
whole steps, and how to write them on the staff.
Terms Covered: Half step, whole step, natural, sharp,
flat, double-sharp, double-flat
The
Major Scale
Description: Learn how to construct a major
scale.
Terms Covered: Major scale
The
Minor Scales
Description: Learn how to construct the
three types of minor scales.
Terms Covered: Minor scale, natural minor, harmonic
minor, melodic minor
Scale
Degrees
Description: Learn about the special names
for each note of a scale.
Terms Covered: Tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant,
dominant, submediant, leading tone, subtonic
Key
Signatures
Description: Learn about the symbols used
to designate scales.
Terms Covered: Key signatures
Key
Signature Calculation
Description: Learn about my special method
of figuring out key signatures.
Terms Covered: -
Intervals
Description: Learn how to measure the
distance between two notes on the keyboard.
Terms Covered: Minor intervals, major intervals,
augmented intervals, diminished intervals, tritone
Generic Intervals
Description: Learn how to measure the
distance between two notes on the staff.
Terms Covered: Generic intervals (diatonic intervals)
Writing Intervals
Description: Learn my easy method for
writing intervals on the staff.
Terms Covered: -
Interval Inversion
Description: Learn how to figure out the
inversion of any interval.
Terms Covered: Inversion
Introduction to Chords
Description: Learn about the first two
basic chords - the major and minor triads.
Terms Covered: Major chord (major triad), minor chord
(minor triad)
Introduction to Chords II
Description: A continuation of the first
lesson; learn about augmented and diminished triads.
Terms Covered: Augmented chord (augmented triad),
diminished chord (diminished triad)
Triad
Inversion
Description: Learn how to invert triads.
Terms Covered: -
Diatonic Triads
Description: Learn about the natural triads
of a scale.
Terms Covered: Diatonic
Roman
Numeral Analysis
Description: Learn how to apply a roman
numeral value to any diatonic chord.
Terms Covered: I, i, ii, iiš, iii, III, III+, IV, iv, V,
v, vi, VI, viiš, VII
Seventh Chords
Description: Learn about the different
types of seventh chords.
Terms Covered: Major 7th, minor 7th, dominant 7th,
half-diminished 7th, diminished 7th
Diatonic Seventh Chords
Description: Learn about the natural
seventh chords of a scale.
Terms Covered: I7, i7, ii7, iiš7, iii7, III7, III+7,
IV7, iv7, V7, v7, vi7, VI7, viiš7, VII7
Seventh Chord Inversion
Description: Learn how to invert seventh
chords.
Terms Covered: -
Composing with Minor Scales
Description: Learn how composers use the
different minor scales.
Terms Covered: Merged minor
Introduction to Analysis
Description: Learn how to analyze basic
pieces of music.
Terms Covered: -
Nonharmonic Tones
Description: Learn about tones that don't
exactly fit into a given chord.
Terms Covered: -
Phrases and Cadences
Description: Learn about the division of a
song into pieces and basic chord progressions.
Terms Covered: Phrases, half cadence, authentic cadence,
perfect authentic cadence (PAC), imperfect authentic cadence
(IAC), deceptive cadence
Circle
Progressions
Description: Learn about the root of modern
chord progressions - the circle progression.
Terms Covered: Root motion, circle progression
Common
Chord Progressions
Description: Learn about the basic pattern
of major and minor scale chord progressions.
Terms Covered: Dominants, pre-dominants
Triads
in First Inversion
Description: Learn about the many uses of
the first inversion triad.
Terms Covered:
Triads
in Second Inversion
Description: Learn about the many uses of
the first inversion triad.
Terms Covered:
Chord
Doublings
Description: Learn about the proper way to
double chords for four voices.
Terms Covered: Doublings
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