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Lesson 1: The Grand Staff |
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The combination of a
staff line with a treble clef and bass clef is called the grand staff. A staff
has five lines with four spaces... |
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Lesson 2: Notes |
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Do you know the
alphabet? One important thing about musical
note-names: they follow the letters of the alphabet
when ascending... |
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Lesson 3: The Keyboard |
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A solid understanding of the principles of music theory
requires a solid understanding of the piano keyboard... |
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Lesson 4: Note Durations |
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In order for someone
to play music, and not just the notes in a random
way, they will need a kind of map to tell them which
note to play, when to play it, and for how long... |
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Lesson 4.1: Fingering the keyboard |
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In order to play
notes on the piano and not trip over your own
fingers, there are methods shown on the staff to
help you know which finger (or thumb) to use to
start playing the notes you see written... |
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Lesson 5: Note Durations, Part 2 |
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Adding a dot to a
2-beat note (half note) results in a note that is
three beats long... |
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Lesson 5.1: Books And Hand
Practise |
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For the finishing
touch to these lessons, you need to go to your local
music store and purchase a book... |
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Lesson 6: Measures |
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Music is often divided up into units called measures or bars.
Each measure has a certain number of beats... |
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Lesson 7: Small Intervals |
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An "interval" is the space between two notes.
Shall I be obvious? A small interval is a situation where there are two notes
close together... |
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Lesson 8: Major Scales |
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A scale is a series of notes that proceed up or down
by step. ('Step' means by tone
or by semitone)... |
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Lesson 9: Key Signatures |
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We've all seen key signatures - they're the collection
of sharps or
flats at the beginning of each staff. We also know what they mean.
When we see the following key signature... |
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Lesson 10: Intervals |
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In Lesson
7, you learned how to name "small" intervals. These were intervals
that occupied the space of a "second" - the semitone, whole tone, and the
tone-plus-semitone. Now we are going to learn how to name intervals that
are larger than a second... |
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Lesson 11: Inverting Intervals |
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In the previous
lesson you learned how to write intervals, and how to identify
given intervals. In this lesson, you will learn how to invert them... |
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Lesson 12: Minor Scales |
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So to find the relative minor of a major scale, find
the sixth note of the major. That note is the note upon which the relative
minor would be built... |
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