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| Music Symbols add character |
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| Notated music makes use of a variety of other symbols to indicate dynamics, articulation, tempo, ornamentation, and other aspects of music. |
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| Reading Music - Notating Rhythm |
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| The basic unit of rhythm in music is the beat. The beat is not necessarily played explicitly, but the pulse created by the steady succession of beats underlies everything that is played. |
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| Reading Music - Staves And Form |
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| Music is read from left to right, top to bottom, just like English. It is written on specially printed paper called manuscript paper. Each line of printed music is represented on a staff, which is a series of five parallel horizontal lines. |
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| Abbreviation Symbols |
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| Ever wanted to know the correct abbreviations for major,minor,flat or sharp symbols? Below is a list of possible choices.... |
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| Interval Inversions |
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| When intervals are inverted their original quality of either consonance or dissonance may change. This is beacuse the register of the two notes, and spacing between them have been altered. Examples of Interval inversions is a perfect 4th to a perfect 5th or unison becomes an octave etc.... |
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| Arpeggio's in a Key |
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| Guitar101 writes "Here is a cool but simple excercise using arpeggios for every chord in a key. In this example the key is G using all 7 diatonic chords" Welcome Guitar 101 our newest Author! |
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| Guitar Harmonics- Part 1 |
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| Each time we play a note on the guitar it produces a series of harmonics,overtones or upper partials. All guitars produce notes that consist of a fundamental and a number of harmonics.(The basic building blocks of sound). Together these components of each note are known as it's harmonic series and in this context,the fundamental is also known as the first harmonic. The balance or blend of the fundamental and harmonics in relation to each other determines the instruments "tone". Every guitar or instrument does not produce the exact same tone because every guitar produces a different balance of harmonics. |
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| Time Signature Primer |
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Time signatures tell you how many and what kind of notes per measure there are. The number on top is the number of notes per measure, and the bottom number is what kind of note.
Looking at 4/4, you saw the 4 on top. You already knew that meant there were 4 somethings per measure. Then looking at the bottom number probably confused you. The bottom number can be 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. Look at this chart. |
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| Cadences |
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Here is a list of the six well known cadences in modern music. Practice each one and try to incorporate them into your own chord progressions. Each cadence is in the key of C for this lesson.
Cadence = A repeated pattern
This would be a simple definition.
1. Traditional Full = I IV V7 I
In the key of C this would be C,F,G7,C
2.Jazz Full =II-7 V I Maj7
In the key of C this would be D-7,G7,Cmaj7
3. Traditional Deceptive = V7 VI
In the key of C this would be G7,Am
4. Jazz Deceptive = V7 III-7
In the key of C this would be G7,E-7
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| The Relative minor and Tonic chord functions |
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| A Relative minor is built on the sixth note of the major scale. In the key of G the Relative minor would be E minor. In the key of A the Relative minor would be F# minor. The relative minor chord which is the 6th note in the major scale is always the Aeolian mode which is the same in all keys. In the key of C major the chords can be classified. The C I, Em iii, and Am vi produce the tonic sound. The Dm ii and the F IV produce the sub-dominant sound. The G V, and Bm (flat 5) VII are the Dominant chords. Play the Bm flat 5 or the G7 and listen how it wants to go back to the C chord. |
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| Did You Know? |
An arpeggio is a chord played one note at a time
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| Archived Files |
| Tuesday, May 06 | | · | Music Symbols add character |
| Saturday, April 19 | | · | Reading Music - Notating Rhythm |
| · | Reading Music - Staves And Form |
| · | Abbreviation Symbols |
| Friday, November 22 | | · | Interval Inversions |
| Sunday, August 18 | | · | Arpeggio's in a Key |
| Monday, August 12 | | · | Guitar Harmonics- Part 1 |
| Saturday, July 27 | | · | Time Signature Primer |
| Sunday, June 16 | | · | Cadences |
| Thursday, June 13 | | · | The Relative minor and Tonic chord functions |
| · | A little theory on the 12 bar blues |
| Monday, June 10 | | · | Model Interchange Chords |
| Wednesday, May 08 | | · | Dom7 Chromatic Voicings/Tensions |
| Friday, May 03 | | · | Chord Tension Chart |
| Sunday, April 21 | | · | Drop 2 Type Voicings |
| Tuesday, April 16 | | · | Using Major 3rds |
| Saturday, April 13 | | · | The Four Types of Triads and Their Inversions |
| Sunday, March 17 | | · | The DIM Chord is your best friend! |
| · | Renaming Chords |
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