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Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music
Part 1: Start Me Up!
An Ultra-Brief History of Music Notation
Lines, Lines, Everywhere There's Lines: Staff lines (3:06)
More Lines: Bar lines and double-bar lines (1:56)
Where's the Beat? Notes and stems. (5:55)
The Sound of Silence: Rests (4:33)
PART ONE REVIEW
Part 2: You Got Rhythm
Meter: How notes are grouped into measures (6:52)
Down for the Count: Counting out rhythms (8:48)
New Notes: Eighth and sixteenth notes (10:22)
Seeing Dots: Dotted notes (8:14)
Triplets (7:02)
PART TWO REVIEW
Part 3: Clef Notes
The Wind-up and the Pitch (4:42)
A Note By Any Other Name Would Sound as Sweet (2:40)
Going Over the Clef (6:21)
No Trouble with Treble (3:29)
At the Bass of the Clef (3:13)
I Got Rhythm (Clef) (4:27)
PART THREE REVIEW
Interlude: Coming to Terms with Music
Musical Terms, Directions, and Repeats (16:47)
Part 4: See Sharp or Be Flat
Accidentals on Purpose (5:57)
The Piano Keyboard (7:54)
Major Scales (9:32)
Unlock the Secret of Key Signatures (12:52)
The Guitar Fingerboard (11:35)
PART FOUR REVIEW
Part 5: Interval Training
Intervals (12:30)
Minor Scales and Key Signatures (12:40)
Scales a la Mode (8:42)
More Scales: Blues to Bebop and Beyond (11:15)
PART FIVE REVIEW
Interlude: How to Conduct Yourself
Conducting Basics: What You Need to Know
Part 6: Strike a Chord
Triads (11:09)
Chord Extensions (11:34)
Chord Inversions (11:29)
Chord Progressions (16:35)
PART SIX REVIEW
Part 7: Faster, Longer, Flatter, Sharper, and More Meters
The Faster and the Slower (4:58)
Double Flats & Double Sharps (4:57)
More Meters (9:02)
PART SEVEN REVIEW
Postlude: Take a Bow and Now What?
Take a Bow! (5:36)
Major Scales
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