Partial List of Basics of Music Lessons

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Orientation

• Using Basics of Music: Lessons
• Using Basics of Music: Exercises
• Using Basics of Music: Music Notation and Composition

Notation System

• Intro to Notation
• Notating Pitch

Meter: Basic Duration and Simple Meter

• Basic Durational Symbols
• The Rest

The Piano, Accidentals, and Steps

• The Piano and Basic Accidentals
• Accidentals

The Major Mode

• The Major Scale
• The Key Signature

Meter: Simple and Compound

• Compound Meter
• Playing Compound Rhythms

The Minor Mode

• The Minor Mode
• Relative Major and Minor Scales

Intervals

• Introduction to Intervals, Interval Size
• Interval Categories

Harmony: Triads

• The Triad
• Inverting Triads

Harmony: Seventh Chords

• The Dominant Seventh Chord
• Chord Symbols

Instrument: Guitar

• Romanza Part 6: Finishing Up
• Romanza Part 5: The Full Bar