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The Basics of Music Theory made simple!

1.5 hours on-demand video

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Brief Introduction

Here you will learn the fundamentals of music theory, that will help you compose your own music.

Description

You should by the end of this course know the basics of music theory in these specific topics:

Should be able to read and write in stave notation, know the different types of notes and their values and should be able to be fluent in the treble clef stave notation specifically. Every note that exists should be briefly covered here i.e. A-G
You should have learned what the key signature is and how it works in play with a scale. You should know the different types of patterns for different scales as well as the names of notes in the scale. You will have learned about relative major and minor key signatures and about accidentals etc. From patterns you should be able to work out the keys and scales of specific notes. You should know how keys represent notes of a scale. All the different Keys Signatures that exist will be shown briefly.
Will be able to use a time signature and know different types of time e.g. duple, triple time etc. Should know what an irregular time signature is. Should know how to apply and read a time signature. Should know how to change time signature.
Should understand the basic dynamics and tempo terms as well as terms for setting a change in dynamic or tempo. You should know the basics of accented notes and what they do. You should also know how to set the tempo and dynamics directly. Things like crescendo, diminuendo, accelerando will be covered.
You should understand what a rest is and how similar they are to regular notes. You should be able to apply them in the same way as notes learned in the first video. You understand the multi-bar rest method.
You should be able to combine all that you've learned to answer harder questions, which should give you the tools to start writing your own music.

Requirements

Requirements
I try be efficient with time so you can learn quickly and easily
If in a video you dont understand, quite often it will become clear in an example.
You may need some video player or flash player like vlc or something.

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