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Music Theory: Exploring Sound, Rhythm, and Melody on the MIDI Grid
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About Music Theory: Exploring Sound, Rhythm, and Melody on the MIDI Grid
Trailer
Does Music Theory Matter?
MIDI Sequencer Vs. Traditional Notation
Creating a Practice Schedule
Sound Waves and the 12-Pitch Palette
Sharps, Flats, Whole Steps, and Half Steps
Tension, Resolution, and Musical Forms
Musical Density
Simple Meters: Duple, Triple, and Quadruple
Simple Note Lengths
Triplets
Six Major Intervals: Major 2nd, Major 3rd, Perfect 4th, Perfect 5th, Major 6th, Major 7th
Four Minor Intervals: Minor 2nd, Minor 3, Minor 6th, Minor 7th
Diminished and Augmented 4ths and 5ths
The Interval Project
Major Scales
Relative Minor Scales
Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales
Recapping Basic Scales
Major and Minor Triads
Diminished and Augmented Triads
Playing Triads
Two Types of Chords: Major 7th and Dominant 7th
Two Types of Chords: Minor 7th and Half-Diminished
Three Diminished Chords
Reading and Playing Chord Symbols
Finding the Diatonic Major Chords
How These Chords Function (Tension and Resolution)
Exploring Songs Made with Diatonic Major Chords
Sketching Songs
Finding the Diatonic Minor Chords
How These Chords Function (Tension and Resolution)
Exploring Songs Made with Diatonic Minor Chords
Chord Knowledge and Songwriting
Compound Meters: Duple, Triple and Quadruple
Syncopation
Complex Meters
Chromatic Scales
Whole-Tone Scales
Diminished Scales
Listening to a Diminished Scale in Context
Note Possibilities: Major Chord Extensions
Note Possibilities: Minor 7th and Half-Diminished Chord Extensions
Note Possibilities: Dominant 7th Chord Extensions
Inversions: Root, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Positions
Rootless Chords
Basic Principles of Voice Leading
Modulation
Modal Harmony
Common Chord Progressions
What You Will Learn?
- Create 30-60 seconds of music that includes a melody and chords. You may also choose to add a bass line and drum loop. Use your toolkit of theory concepts—scales, chords, rhythms, progressions, and harmonies—to create music that fulfills your creative vision..
- Learn how music works so that you can create music more efficiently and creatively. This class from composer, DJ, and producer Fernando Arruda is an introduction to why music matters, how sound works, what musicians mean by individual notes, and basic constructions about note density, chords, and rhythms..
- The class is tailored for today’s computer-based producers, musicians, and DJs—it uses no traditional notation, and instead focuses on how to apply core musical concepts to a MIDI grid (the “musical instrument digital interface” used in all audio software)..
- Whether you use Ableton, Pro Tools, Logic, or another audio program, you’ll be able to apply these concepts to creating, composing, and mixing the sounds you really want to bring to life..