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Music Theory Audio Course

Music exists, first and foremost, in the soul, mind and body. It is something we feel before we understand it. Your introduction to the wonderful world of music theory, this course will help you to decipher the language used to describe the intoxicating combination of art and science that is music.

You’ll be guided through the fundamental underpinnings of modern western music theory and the building blocks used to create melodies and chords, leaving you well-prepared to tackle any piece that you might encounter in your development as a musician.

Course overview:

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What Will You Learn?

You’ll learn the 12 notes of the musical alphabet, be able to differentiate between the two systems that exist for writing music in treble and bass clefs, understand the rhythmic values of notes and discover many rhythmic concepts.

You’ll explore the major and natural minor scales, learn how to write both generic and specific intervals on the stave, and become familiar with the diatonic triads of major and minor keys.

The course provides a detailed analysis of the role played by seventh chords in western music theory, how to construct major seventh, minor seventh and dominant seventh chords, and the role of seventh chords in major and minor scales.

An introduction to the concept of modes in western music theory is also included.

By studying this course, you will:

Learn how to read music and interpret notes and intervals
Become familiar with the major and minor scales
Understand the diatonic triads of major and minor keys
Explore the role played by seventh chords
Become familiar with the concept of modes

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.

Introduction
Part 1: The Musical Alphabet
Part 2: The Treble Clef
Part 3: The Bass Clef
Part 4: Reading Sharps and Flats
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Part 1: Note Duration
Part 2: Rests and Rest Duration
Part 3: Time Signatures
Part 4: Reading Music in 3/4 Time
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Part 1: The Major Scale
Part 2: Understanding Intervals
Part 3: Enharmonic Spellings in Scales
Part 4: Scales, Triads and Chords
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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
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Part 1: Generic Intervals
Part 2: Specific Intervals
Part 3: Diminished and Augmented Intervals
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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
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Part 1: The Diatonic Triads of Natural Minor
Part 2: Diatonic Triads of the Harmonic Minor Scale
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Part 1: What is a Seventh Chord?
Part 2: Minor Seventh Chords
Part 3: Dominant Seventh Chords
Part 4: Diatonic Seventh Chords
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Part 1: Reviewing the Major Diatonic Sevenths
Part 2: Diatonic Sevenths of the Natural Minor Scale
Part 3: The Diatonic Sevenths of Harmonic Minor
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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
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All of our courses vary in length but most of our courses will take you between 50 - 250 hours to complete. The length of this course can be found in the Accreditations section above.

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