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Music Theory Comprehensive: Part 2 - Chords, Scales, & Keys
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Introduction
Welcome & Overview -
Tools we will use in this course
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Update! MuseScore 3.0
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DOWNLOAD: Staff Paper
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Chromatic & Diatonic ScalesWhat are scales, and why do we care?
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Definitions: Chromatic and Diatonic
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Ordered Pitch Class Collections
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Chromatic Scales
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The Major ScaleThe Whole-Half Pattern
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Scale degrees and Tonic
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Scale Degrees and Solfege
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How to Practice
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DOWNLOAD: Worksheet No. 1
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Scales and KeysUsing major scales (writing a melody)
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Melody Analysis
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What does it mean to be "in key"?
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DOWNLOAD: Worksheet No. 2
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Major KeysMajor Key overview
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What is a key signatures?
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Identifying key signatures
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DOWNLOAD: Worksheet No. 3
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Chords!What are chords?
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Song analysis
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Triads
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Building Triads
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The Diatonic Chord Progression
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Inversions
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Roman Numerals
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Song analysis, version 2
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DOWNLOAD: Worksheet No. 4
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Dissecting TriadsThe inside of a triad
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The third holds the power
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Finding chords by half-step
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Finding fifths by thirds
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DOWNLOAD: Worksheet No. 5
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More with TriadsDiminished Triads
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Augmented Triads
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Adding more octaves to triads
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Chords on the Guitar
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DOWNLOAD: Worksheet No. 6
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Pieces for AnalysisAnalysis Overview
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Analysis: Canon in D (Pachabel)
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Non-Chord Tones
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Minuet in G File
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Analysis: Minuet in G (Bach) - Part 1
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Analysis: Minuet in G (Bach) - Part 2
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Analysis: Minuet in G (Bach) - Part 3
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DOWNLOAD: PDF of full Analysis
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DOWNLOAD: Worksheet No. 7
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7th ChordsWhat are 7th Chords?
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The 4 Types of 7th Chords
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Major 7th Chords
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Minor 7th Chords
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Dominant 7th Chords
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DOWNLOAD: PDF of Minuet in G including 7th Chords
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Blues and the Dominant 7th Chord
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7th Chord reference sheet
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DOWNLOAD: Worksheet No. 8
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Wrap UpWhat comes next?
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Thanks & Bye!
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Bonus Lecture
Update!
Hi Everyone –
MuseScore recently release version 3.0. In this class you will see me using Version 2.
You are welcome to use Version 3 – there is no significant changes to the look and feel of it, so you should be able to follow along just fine.
But there is a change to the price:
MuseScore, as a desktop application, is still free – so please use that. But if you search for MuseScore as a tablet application, you will find a rather expensive program. This is not the version IÂ am using in this class. IÂ am using the desktop application (for Mac, but the PCÂ version is fine, too). You are welcome to use the tablet version, but please note it is not a free program.
That’s it! On to the class!
j.