TheoryWorks I: The Six Steps to Learning New Music

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome!

    • "Nice Work If You Can Get It"

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  • 2

    Navigating A Score

    • Piano/Vocal Scores

    • Tempo Markings

    • Treble and Clefs

    • Time Signatures

    • Accidentals and Key Signatures

    • QUIZ: Scan Your Score

    • Assignment: Scan a New Score
  • 3

    Rhythm

    • I've Got Rhythm

    • Note Values

    • Rest Values

    • QUIZ: Note and Rest Values

    • Dotted Notes and Ties

    • Triplets

    • Dotted Notes, Ties, and Triplets: Quiz

    • Time Signatures: Simple Meter

    • Feeling Time Signatures

    • QUIZ: Time Signatures

    • Warm Up: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"

    • Assignment: Mark Your Beats in "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
  • 4

    Notated Pitch

    • Plunking Your Melody

    • How Notation Works

    • Orienting Yourself to the Keyboard

    • QUIZ: Keyboard Identification

    • Reading the Treble Clef

    • Reading the Bass Clef (And, "Ghost Notes")

    • Basic Piano Skills

    • QUIZ: Note Identification

    • Progressive Piano Exercises

    • Singing with Dynamics

    • Warmup: "Ten Minutes Ago"

    • Assignment: Plunk Through "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
  • 5

    Major Scales and Key Signatures

    • The Major Scale

    • The Circle of Fifths: Keys with Sharps

    • The Circle of Fourths: Keys with Flats

    • Memorizing the Major Key Signatures

    • Enharmonic Key Signatures

    • QUIZ: Major Key Signatures
  • 6

    Minor Scales and Key Signatures

    • Natural Minor Scales

    • Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales

    • How to Tell if a Song is in Major or Minor

    • QUIZ: Minor Key Signatures

    • Assignment: Major and Minor Modes
  • 7

    Intervals

    • Interval Reference Points in Musical Theatre

    • What Are Intervals?

    • Defining "Harmony"
  • 8

    Chords

    • Thinking Bigger

    • Spotting Major and Minor Thirds

    • Major and Minor Triads

    • Augmented and Diminished Triads

    • QUIZ: Triads

    • Triad Inversions

    • Analyzing Harmony Over Time

    • Assignment: Ear Training
  • 9

    Score Analysis

    • The Grammar of Chords

    • Roman Numerals

    • Chord Progressions in a Major Key

    • Dominant 7th Chords

    • Finishing the Sentence: Cadences

    • Assignment: Analyzing "You Oughta Be Here With Me"
  • 10

    Musicianship Throughout College

    • The Six Steps to Learning New Music

    • Locating Sheet Music

    • Vocal Ranges

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