It's a sad fact
that most people, including piano players, regard music theory
and harmony as some abstract concept that has very little to do
with the songs they play on their pianos.
Nothing could be further from the
truth.
Knowing music theory
and harmony is the key to opening a whole new world of exciting
insights into the songs we play, and enable us to do things on
the piano we never dreamed we could do, to say nothing of
enjoying the process a hundred times more.
You
Will Learn...
How notation works -- a
huge advantage in sight-reading.
The hierarchy of rhythm
-- solving rhythm problems before they begin.
All kinds of scales -- the
"ladders of notes" every song is composed of. Major
scales, 3 types of minor scales, chromatic scales, whole
tone scales, modal scales.
How transposition and
modulation works -- playing songs in different
keys, and getting from one key to another smoothly.
Complex time signatures,
and what they tell you.
Perfect, major & minor
intervals -- helps ear training greatly.
Two-part and four-part harmony.
Figured bass such as IV,
V7, ii6, I6/4, etc. and how it relates to chord symbols
such as Fm7, F6, Dmaj7, etc.
Harmonizing melodies with
all these chords.
Open & close voicing,
inversions, tetrachords, cut time, pick-up notes, secondary
chords, form, cadences, non-harmonic tones, arranging
for voices, arranging for piano, arranging for brass,
arranging for strings, transposing instruments, key
relationships and many other exciting insights into the
inner workings of music!
And many, many other truths
about music and how it all works in any song.
Theory
& Harmony Month One
(Workbook #1 & Audio CD #1)
Beginning Theory Lessons
1-30:
Staff & Clef Signs; Line & Space Notation; Hierarchy of Note
Values; Measures; Time Signatures; Dotted Notes: Ledger Lines;
Repeat Signs; First & Second Endings; Ties & Slurs;
Accidentals.
Theory & Harmony Month Two
(Workbook #2 & Audio CD #2)
Intermediate Theory Lessons
31-60:
Key Signatures; Flat & Sharp Keys; Sixteenth Notes & Rests;
Dotted Eighth Notes: Alla Breve; Intervals; Whole & Half
Steps; Tetrachords; Major Keys; Circle of Keys; Triple Meters;
Syncopation.
Theory & Harmony Month Three
(Workbook #3 & Audio CD #3)
Advanced Theory Lessons
61-90:
Chromatic Scales; Enharmonic Tones; Dynamic & Tempo Markings;
Minor Scales; the Moveable "Do" System of Transposing; The
Interval & Scale Degree Methods of Transposing; Complex Time
Signatures; Perfect, Major & Minor Intervals; Augmented &
Diminished Intervals; Two-Part Harmony; Major Triads; I - IV -
V Triads; V7 Chord.
Theory & Harmony Month Four
(Workbook #4 & Audio CD #4)
Elementary Harmony &
Arranging Lessons 1-30: Triads; Harmonizing with I and V
Chords; Passing & Neighboring Tones; Harmonizing with I and V
Arpeggios; Harmonizing with I, IV, and V Chords; Harmonizing
with I, IV, and V7 Chords; Writing Melodies; Harmonizing with
i, iv, and V7 Chords in Minor Keys; Recognizing Major Chords.
Theory & Harmony Month Five
(Workbook #5 & Audio CD #5)
Intermediate Harmony &
Arranging Lessons 31-60:
Close & Open Positions in Voicing; Inversions of Triads;
Inversions of V7; Inversions of Minor Chords; Four-Part
Writing; Arranging for Voices; Secondary Chords (ii, iii, vi,
vii); Transposing Instruments -- Sax, Clarinet, Trumpet,
Trombone, French Horn, etc.; Arranging for Brass, Woodwinds,
and Piano.
Theory & Harmony Month Six
(Workbook #6 & Audio CD #6)
Advanced Harmony & Arranging
Lessons 61-90:
Form in Songs (Such as ABA, ABAB, ABCA, etc.);Cadences;
Non-harmonic Tones: Modulation; V9 Chord; viidim7 Chord;
Arranging for Strings; Key Relationships.
So there
you have it. Six months of exciting learning. You will
fill out each workbook as you go, guided by the voice on
the audio CD (that would be me :). It's a great course
and you'll love
it. But more than that, you'll love
learning all about music from the inside, and how it all
works together!
If all
this sounds complex, don't worry. You'll start
right at the beginning and work your way gradually through
everything from beginning to advanced harmony. Tuition for the entire six
months of this wonderful music theory course is just $295.00,
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and harmony is not just an option you can take or leave:
it is part and parcel of the "stuff of music". No
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stuff about the nervous system & the skeletal system and blood
vessels and how the lungs and heart works and all that stuff
-- I just want to operate". And yet the majority of piano
players ignore the very thing that would take them to the
next level in their playing and knowledge -- music theory
& harmony.
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