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Music Theory Audio Course

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Course Syllabus

What will I learn on the course?

Module 1: Reading Music

7 parts

Introduction
Part 1: The Musical Alphabet
Part 2: The Treble Clef
Part 3: The Bass Clef
Part 4: Reading Sharps and Flats
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise

Module 2: Rhythm and Note Duration

6 parts

Part 1: Note Duration
Part 2: Rests and Rest Duration
Part 3: Time Signatures
Part 4: Reading Music in 3/4 Time
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise

Module 3: Scales, Intervals and Triads

6 parts

Part 1: The Major Scale
Part 2: Understanding Intervals
Part 3: Enharmonic Spellings in Scales
Part 4: Scales, Triads and Chords
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise

Module 4: Understanding Minor Scales

7 parts

Part 1: Understanding Minor Tonality
Part 2: Seeing the Natural Minor Scale Differently
Part 3: The Harmonic Minor Scale
Part 4: The Melodic Minor Scale
Part 5: Building Minor Chords
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise

Module 5: Generic and Specific Intervals

5 parts

Part 1: Generic Intervals
Part 2: Specific Intervals
Part 3: Diminished and Augmented Intervals
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise

Module 6: Understanding Diatonic Triads

6 parts

Part 1: The Foundations of Chords
Part 2: Diminished Triads
Part 3: Finding the Diatonic Triads of the Major Scale
Part 4: The Roman Numeral System
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise

Module 7: The Diatonic Triads of Minor Keys

4 parts

Part 1: The Diatonic Triads of Natural Minor
Part 2: Diatonic Triads of the Harmonic Minor Scale
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise

Module 8: Understanding Seventh Chords

6 parts

Part 1: What is a Seventh Chord?
Part 2: Minor Seventh Chords
Part 3: Dominant Seventh Chords
Part 4: Diatonic Seventh Chords
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise

Module 9: Diatonic Sevenths for Minor Keys

5 parts

Part 1: Reviewing the Major Diatonic Sevenths
Part 2: Diatonic Sevenths of the Natural Minor Scale
Part 3: The Diatonic Sevenths of Harmonic Minor
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise

Module 10: An Introduction to Modes

9 parts

Part 1: What is a Mode?
Part 2: The Second Mode
Part 3: The Third Mode
Part 4: The Fourth Mode
Part 5: The Fifth Mode
Part 6: The Seventh Mode
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points Exercise
Conclusion

Who Would Benefit from This Course?

If you’ve never studied music theory before or need a refresh of the fundamentals, this is your course. It provides an overview of the elementary concepts that a beginner needs to master before delving deeper into music theory.

By the end of the Music Theory Diploma Course, you will be well-equipped with the fundamental knowledge necessary to continue learning about music theory, having covered a wide range of essential musical concepts from staves, scales and time signatures to triads, seventh chords and modes.

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