Music Theory

 Week 5   Minor Scales and Minor Keys Minor scales sound different from major scales because they are based on a different pattern of intervals . Starting the minor scale pattern on a different note will give you a different key signature The scale that is created by playing all the notes in a minor key signature is a  natural minor scale .  a relative minor is always three half steps lower than its relative major he pattern for the minor scale starts a half step plus a whole step lower than the major scale pattern Picture 1 Picture 2 Self Recording Video 1 Video 2

Week 4 - Major Scales and Major Keys Notes A scale is a list of all the notes in a key. Major scales all follow the same interval pattern. A major scale is simply a sequence of eight notes that has two important characteristics:  it consisting of all of the seven letter names in alphabetical order and ending on the same letter as the one started on, such as CDEFGABC or EFGABCDE There are 12 major scales in total. There is a specific order of sharps and flats in major key signatures.                                                 Picture 1     Picture 2 Picture 3                                                                                     ...

 Week 3 Simple and Compound Meters Compound Meters   are meters in which the beat divides into three, and then further subdivides into six. Duple Meters   have groupings of two beats,  Triple Meters  have groupings of three beats, and   Quadruple Meters  have groupings of four beats. You can determine these groupings aurally by listening carefully and tapping along to the beat. A  beam  connects notes by beat. Beaming changes in different time signatures Time signatures in compound meters express two things: how many divisions are contained in each measure (the top number), and the note that  gets the division (the bottom number). Sheet Music   MY VIDEO:               VIDEO REFERRENCES: https://press.rebus.community/sightreadingforguitar/chapter/unit-9-simple-vs-compound-meter/ https://akreaptheory.weebly.com/chapter-4.html https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/music/music-basics2/notes-rhyt...

  Week 2 Introduction to Pitch Class Pitches  are individual tones with individual frequencies. The concept of pitch, then, does not imply octave equivalence. C4 is a pitch, and it is not the same pitch as C3. The same goes for D4 and D3, E2 and E1 and so on and so forth. Pitch classes are defined as a group/ selection  of notes  with the same letter name but different octaves .  only a few of these pitches are audible to the human ear The pitch class C stands for all possible Cs, in whatever octave position. Helpful Images My Video ADDITIONAL VIDEO REFERENCES