Welcome to Music Theory Level 1: Part One
How to Read Music
This course introduces you to the basics of how to read music, including music notation, the keyboard and music scores. This course forms part of the complete Music Theory Fundamentals Guide.
This is a class designed for the average person who is ready to dive into music! Whether you are a beginning musician, an active musician, or an aspiring musician - this class is perfect for you.
For years I've been teaching Music Theory in the college classroom. My approach to music theory is to minimize the memorization. Most of these concepts you can learn by just understanding why chords behave in certain ways. Once you understand those concepts, you can find any scale, key, or chord that exists. Even invent your own. If you've tried to learn music theory before, or if you are just starting out - this series of courses is the perfect fit.
In Part 1: How To Read Music, we will work through all the elements of notated music, and how it all works, covering:
- My approach to Music Theory
- Tools you will need to learn Music Theory quickly and efficiently
- Music software: Notation programs
- The elements of the Score
- Pitch Names
- Pitch Classes
- Octaves
- The White Keys
- The Black Keys (not the band!)
- Half-Steps and Whole-Steps
- Clefs
- Intervals
- Naming Octaves
- Identifying Notes on the Staff
- Identifying Notes on the Keyboard
- Beat and Beat Divisions
- Tempo
- Downbeats and Upbeats
- Dotted Rhythms
- Time Signatures
- Ties
- Accidentals
- Form in Music Notation
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