Punkademic Music Theory Comprehensive: Part 1 - How To Read Music TUTORiAL

Last updated 4/2022
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A Complete College-Level Music Theory Curriculum. This is Part 1: Reading Music & The Symbols of Music Notation

What you'll learn
Read Music Using Proven Techniques
Understand All the Symbols (Not Only the Notes) of a Music Score
Read, Play, and Count Rhythms Accurately
Chords on the guitar
Augmented triads
Diminished triads
Finding fifths by finding thirds
The thirds inside of a chord
Finding chords by formula
Inversions
Roman numeral analysis
Diatonic chord progressions
Building triads (chords)
Popular song analysis
How to identify key signatures
What it means to be "in key"
Analyzing melodies
Writing melodies with major scales
Solfege
Scale Degrees
The pattern of a Major Scale
Ordered Pitch Class Collections
Chromatic and Diatonic scales
Accidentals
Ties
Time Signatures
Dotted Rhythms
Downbeats and Upbeats
Tempo
Beat and Beat Divisions
Identifying Notes on the Keyboard
Identifying Notes on the Staff
Naming Octaves
Intervals
Clefs
Half-Steps and Whole-Steps
The Black Keys (not the band!)
The White Keys
Pitch Classes
Pitch Names
The elements of the Score

Requirements
I'll be using a piece of software in this course that I would like students to get. Don't worry - it's free! And works on Mac and PC programs. I'll tell you more in the first few videos.

Description
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Overview
Section 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 My Approach To Music Theory

Lecture 3 Tools You Will Need For This Course

Lecture 4 Update! MuseScore 3.0

Lecture 5 Download: Staff Paper

Lecture 6 Asking Questions

Lecture 7 About Notation Software Programs

Lecture 8 A Really Big Table of Contents

Section 2: All The Little Dots

Lecture 9 The Elements of the Score

Lecture 10 Pitch Names

Lecture 11 Pitch Classes

Lecture 12 Octaves

Lecture 13 Worksheet No. 1 (DOWNLOAD)

Section 3: The Keyboard Layout

Lecture 14 Why We Use a Keyboard

Lecture 15 The White Keys

Lecture 16 The Black Keys (Not the band...)

Lecture 17 Half-Steps and Whole-Steps

Lecture 18 A Little Review of What We've Learned So Far

Lecture 19 Worksheet No. 2 (DOWNLOAD)

Section 4: Pitch Notation on the Staff

Lecture 20 Staff Overview

Lecture 21 Clefs

Lecture 22 Treble Clef Refresher

Lecture 23 Naming Notes and Intervals

Lecture 24 Octave Names

Lecture 25 UPDATE: Naturals

Lecture 26 Worksheet No. 3 (DOWNLOAD)

Section 5: Notating time on a Musical Staff

Lecture 27 Rhythmic Subdivisions

Lecture 28 Dots

Lecture 29 Rests

Lecture 30 Time Signatures

Lecture 31 Ties

Lecture 32 UPDATE! Triplets

Lecture 33 Languages

Lecture 34 Worksheet No. 5 (DOWNLOAD)

Section 6: Score Symbols and Conventions

Lecture 35 Dynamics and Repeats

Lecture 36 Accidental Behavior and Naturals

Lecture 37 Form

Lecture 38 Worksheet No. 6 (DOWNLOAD)

Section 7: Putting it All Together

Lecture 39 Places to Find Scores Online

Lecture 40 Update: Key Signatures

Lecture 41 Tips for Practicing Notes and Rhythms

Lecture 42 A Bunch of Practice Music! (DOWNLOAD)

Section 8: Wrap Up

Lecture 43 Thanks & Bye! (For now!)

Lecture 44 Bonus Lecture: What are Scales (And Why Do We Care?)

Lecture 45 Bonus Lecture: Discount Offers & Mailing List

This course is designed for students who have either never tried to learn music theory before, or tried and couldn't come grasp the concepts.,This is a course for students who want to understand everything about music theory, for the ground up.