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1.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
2. 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
3. Measures and Time Signature
Description: Learn about measures and the different types of time signatures.
Terms Covered: Bar lines, measures, time Signatures
4. 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
5. Dots and Ties
Description: Learn about symbols that alter the duration of a note or rest.
Terms Covered: Augmentation dot, tenuto tie
6. 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
7. Odd Meter
Description: Learn about meters with different-sized beats.
Terms Covered: Odd meter
8. 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
9. The Major Scale
Description: Learn how to construct a major scale.
Terms Covered: Major scale
10. The Minor Scales
Description: Learn how to construct the three types of minor scales.
Terms Covered: Minor scale, natural minor, harmonic minor, melodic minor
11. 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
12. Key Signatures
Description: Learn about the symbols used to designate scales.
Terms Covered: Key signatures
14. 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
15. Generic Intervals
Description: Learn how to measure the distance between two notes on the staff.
Terms Covered: Generic intervals (diatonic intervals)
17. Interval Inversion
Description: Learn how to figure out the inversion of any interval.
Terms Covered: Inversion
18. 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)
19. 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)
21. Diatonic Triads
Description: Learn about the natural triads of a scale.
Terms Covered: Diatonic
22. Roman Numeral Analysis
Description: Learn how to apply a roman numeral value to any diatonic chord.
Terms Covered: I, i, ii, iiº, iii, III, III+, IV, iv, V, v, vi, VI, viiº, VII
23. Seventh Chords
Description: Learn about the different types of seventh chords.
Terms Covered: Major 7th, minor 7th, dominant 7th, half-diminished 7th, diminished 7th
24. Diatonic Seventh Chords
Description: Learn about the natural seventh chords of a scale.
Terms Covered: I7, i7, ii7, iiº7, iii7, III7, III+7, IV7, iv7, V7, v7, vi7, VI7, viiº7,
VII7
30. 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
31. Circle Progressions
Description: Learn about the root of modern chord progressions - the circle progression.
Terms Covered: Root motion, circle progression
32. Common Chord Progressions
Description: Learn about the basic pattern of major and minor scale chord progressions.
Terms Covered: Dominants, pre-dominants
35. Chord Doublings
Description: Learn about the proper way to double chords for four voices.
Terms Covered: Doublings
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