TheoryWorks I: The Six Steps to Learning New Music

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Introduction
- Welcome!
- "Nice Work If You Can Get It:" The Six Steps to Learning New Music
- Download "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
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Step 1: Research and Listen
- Listening to "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
- QUIZ: Listen and Learn
- Week 1 Assignment: Listen and Learn
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Step 2: Scan Your Score
- Piano/Vocal Scores
- Elements of a Score
- Spotting the Time Signature
- Noting Key Signatures and Accidentals
- QUIZ: Scan Your Score
- Week 2 Assignment: Scan "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
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Step 3: Mark Your Beats
- I've Got Rhythm
- Note Values
- Rest Values
- QUIZ: Note and Rest Values
- Dotted Notes and Ties
- Syncopation
- Triplets
- Dotted Notes, Ties, and Triplets: Quiz
- Time Signatures: Simple Meter
- Feeling Time Signatures
- Understanding Swing
- QUIZ: Time Signatures
- Warm Up: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
- Week 3 Assignment: Mark Your Beats in "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
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Step 4: Conduct and Speak
- Conducting in 4
- Conducting in 2 and 3
- Cut Time vs. Common Time
- Time Signature Changes
- QUIZ: Conducting and Beat Patterns
- Progressive Conducting Exercises
- Warmup: "Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little"
- Week 4 Assignment: Speak and Conduct
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Step 5: Plunk Your Melody
- Plunking Your Melody
- How Notation Works
- Orienting Yourself to the Keyboard
- QUIZ: Keyboard Identification
- Vocal Ranges
- Reading the Treble Clef
- Reading the Bass Clef (And, "Ghost Notes")
- Double Flats and Double Sharps
- Basic Piano Skills
- QUIZ: Note Identification
- Progressive Piano Exercises
- Warmup: "Ten Minutes Ago"
- Week 5 Assignment: Plunk Through "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
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Step 6: Sing and Conduct
- Singing with Dynamics
- Singing and Conducting
- Final Activity (Part 1): Prep a Song of Your Choice
- Final Activity (Part 2): Sing and Record "Nice If You Can Get It"