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List of Lessons
Pitch
1
Intro to Notation
2
The Musical Alphabet
3
The Staff and Clefs
4
Remembering Treble Clef Notes
5
Remembering Bass Clef Notes
6
Ledger Lines
7
The Grand Staff
Duration and Tempo
1
Anatomy of Notes and Rhythm
2
Compare Durations with a Grid
3
The Rest: Notating Silence
4
Drawing Stems, Flags, and Beams
5
Dots and Ties
6
Tempo
Meter
1
Beat and Meter
2
Reading Musical Time: Time Signatures, Measures, and Barlines
3
Playing Simple Rhythms
4
Playing Eighth Notes
5
Playing Dotted Quarters
6
Intro to Compound Meter
7
Playing Basic Compound Rhythms
8
More Common Compound Rhythms
The Piano Keyboard
1
The Piano Keyboard
2
The Piano Keyboard: Steps and the Black Keys
Major Scales and Key Signatures
1
The Major Scale
2
Intro to Notating Scales
3
The Key Signature
4
The Circle of Fifths
5
Key Signatures: Reading Notes in Context
Minor Scales and Key Signatures
1
The Minor Scale
2
Relative Major and Minor
3
Adding Minor to the Circle of Fifths
4
Intro to Minor Variants and Harmonic Minor
5
Melodic Minor
6
Melodic Minor in Context
7
Parallel Minor
8
Recognizing Major and Minor Scales
9
Key Signatures: Scales in Context
Intervals
1
Intro to Intervals: Size
2
Interval Families
3
Major and Minor 2nds and 3rds
4
Quality for 4ths and 5ths
5
Major and Minor 6ths and 7ths
6
Augmented and Diminished for Major/Minor Intervals
7
The Unison and Octave
8
The Complete Interval Chart
9
Using the Major Scale to Find Intervals
10
Interval Inversion
Review
1
Pitch and Rhythm Review