Class one (Feb 21):
1. Class Introduction
2. Review of basic music reading
3. Knowledge – Hearing Music Theory – Using Music Theory
4. Pythagoras’s Discovery & the monochord
5. ½ step & Whole steps
6. Root & Quality
7. The chromatic scale
8. The Major Scale (The Magic number 7)
9. Tonal centers
10.Major Key Signatures
Class two (March 6):
1. Critical Listening of Beethoven: “Symphony No. 5 & 9”
2. Parallel minor (Norwegian Wood)
3. The origins of music notation & Solfege
4. Minor Key Signatures
5. Mutating The Major Scale
6. The natural minor scale
7. The Harmonic Minor Scale
8. The Melodic Minor Scale (Traditional & Real)
Week Three (March 20):
1. Critical Listening of Richard Struass: “Also Sprach Zarathustra”
2. Discussion of Equal Temperament
3. Music Form & Structure
4. Motif & Theme is discussed
5. Symphonic Form is Discussed
6. The Major & minor Pentatonic
7. The Blues Scale
8. The altered blues scale
9. Chromatically approaching scale tones
Week Four (April 3):
1. Blues Form is discussed
2. Harmony is introduced
3. The Intervals of the major scale
3. Using non-diatonic notes with the pentatonic scale
Week Five (April 17):
1. Critical Listening Analyzing Beethoven’s Symphony “No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro Con Brio”
2. The Interval charts
3. Interval inversions
4. Resolution
Week six (May 1):
1. Meter Duple, Triple Simple & Compound
2. Triads
3. Dissonance & Consonance is introduced
2. Introduction to chord substitutions (Direct sub. Relative Maj & min sub)
3. Using substitutions and rhythm to arrange the harmony of a song.
Week seven (May 15):
1. Chord Inversions
2. 7th chords
3. The Dom7 Chords evil little secret
Week eight (May 29):
1.Different ways chords are written in charts
2.The Difference between Motifs, Phrases & Themes
3.Tensions or extensions are introduced
Week nine (June 12):
1.Altered chords
2.Examples of altered chord (She’s So Heavy & Purple Haze)
3.Tension & Release
4.Altered chords in the blues
5.Compound Intervals
6.Available Tensions
7.The Chord Family Chart
Week ten (June 26):
1. The Major Chord Scale
2.Seeing thirds within chords
3.Chord functions & tendencies
4.More chord substitutions