Lessons with Impresario!

Here you go! I think I got it right, it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

D minor scales.mus

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Okay, I understand the exception to the rule, and sharping the C up and down.

I don't understand A major to D major, what does that even mean?

lol.

A Major is a CHORD. You know what a chord is, right? It's when you stack notes on top of one another to get a certain sound. Like, a C major chord is C E G. A C minor chord is C Eb G. It's when those notes are PLAYED together to make a coherent, identifiable sound.

I can't believe you've never heard of that terminology.

BUT, anyway... our next lesson will therefore be "Chords and their Uses". lol

No, I understood what a chord meant, I just didn't understand going from chord to chord, but now I do. I thought we were talking one note, not chords, sorry.

I can't wait for the next lesson, that's why I originally applied for lessons :D

Heheh. We are going to try a NEW method of teaching chords, btw. You are my guinea pig. So be ready. Cause we are tackling dissonance as MUCH as consonance.

Alright! Let me see if I know those words: is dissonance chords with notes far from each other compared to the close notes that form chords in consonance?

Also, can I be a wombat instead :D The panda has a wombat XP

Hey. I saw your offer and I could not pass it up.

I started the violin player in 4th grade and I have been playing it for the last 9 years. The last two years of high school I was able to reach the highest orchestra in my school which is really good for a high school orchestra. I am in my first year of college.

classroom wise, I never have had a theory class. But with my last two years in high school, I was able to pick up some theory but not a lot. i have finale software so I have been writing down some melodies that come in my head but since I do not have a lot of theory knowledge, I never got that far with them.

I guess I am trying to get a stronger foundation in music theory out of this.

Sorry, but I am not currently taking any more students. If that is what you are asking. I have school, so I am really busy!

Lol that's twice. Does anyone read the giant ***********READ THIS FIRST************* post?

CHORDS!!! YAY.

There have been SOOO many resources on chords. SO many things used with them. I cannot do it all myself, SO, I want you to work through these over the next week, and come back with some basic knowledge of WHAT they are. I cannot teach you "chords". I can only teach you HOW to use them. Trust me, I have read ALL of these, and they are comprehensive of what you need to know.

So, here:

Music Theory/Chords - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

Music Theory - Chords & Symbols

Introduction to Chords

Music Theory: Chords

Chord Naming

Bonus reading (you MUST read this.. but you don't have to understand it all)

Music Theory/Complete List of Chord Patterns - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

Beginner's Guide to Modal Harmony

Bach's Changes

Assignment:

1. Read EVERY link here.

2. Come back with a SMALL (two-sentence min. 4 sentence max.) summery of what each was about and what you learned.

3. Come back with ANY and ALL questions you have on the subject.

Hey there! I'd be a fool to try an do this in one sitting, so I'm just going to keep editing this post whenever I read an article. I'll start reading tommorow, I have homework now.

Music Theory/Chords (wikipedia)

I understood the pictures more than the words here, but overall I understood which notes to use for different types of chords. I learned that the 1, 4 and 5 chords are major, the 2, 3 and 6 chords are minor and the seventh is diminished. When talking about notes, major is normal, minor is flat and augmented is sharp??? Then what is perfect and diminished??? I understand how to juxtapose different chords to make the same chord, and how inversions make different chords in the scale. In the diminished seventh chord, is that a bb7 or a b and then a b7?

Figured Bass:

I don't know how a piano player could memorize all that, it must be impossible! Do we do that now in music, write out the numbers instead of chords or is that just a 'how we got to now' thing? I understand the difference between I and ii now, the big is major, the little, minor!

The next one with the video was pretty basic, a recap of lesson one, I got it all! I just have to remember what all the words mean. Like a minor third is this many steps, etc.

The fourth lesson was also a recap, but much harder. I don't know how I'll remember names like 'major minor seventh' or 'augmented minor minor triad'. Do I need to, or can I just print off what steps it has?

I am back after a long time! I finally got finale (pun thing intended) on my computer again, as well as time. Well, besides that math test I have to study for but that comes second...

Article 5 - naming chords

It looked very complicated, but if you read it, it wasn't really. Of course I couldn't memorize what 7 or +11 or -Am meant, but if I had it down I could easily come up with a scale name.

Bonus ones:

List of chords - I didn't understand some of the text, but the message was clear and I got the boxes, which are I'm assuming the important part. Why does the 5 sometimes have brackets around it? And why do some chords have lines or slashes in between them?

The next one was fun to read, I thought it was weird that only certain notes were allowed by churches. The history behind it was all sort of strange really. I don't see the need to know it though... perhaps you could explain?

And finally, the last one. Even looking at the meanings and finding out which chords they were I didn't understand why it was strange. Will I understand better after you teach me chord order/placement?

Also, do you have unlimited staves on your finale?

Morivou? I don't want to be naggy, but its been a week since I've seen you here. I'm assuming you're busy because of your school stuff you were talking about in the I'm a junior... thread?