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  Diatonic 7th Chords ********************** Adding A Seventh degree of a scale to a triad makes it a Seventh Chord  Diatonic would mean the chord notes stay within the main scale . ********************** Diatonic 7th Chords   Chord progressions using Diatonic 7th chords  Me Playing Diatonic 7th Chords In F Major and  D Minor 

Week 8   Theory Lesson     Diatonic Triads and Inversions Diatonic means   : Involving only the notes of the Scale without alteration.   A Diatonic Scale is a Normal scale with 5 tones and 2 semitones . A Diatonic  Triad . .   This is the 1st , 3rd, and 5 th Notes of the  scale   This can be on each note of the scale but these  three notes will have the same accidentals as  the main key   Diatonic Intervals.   When the Bottom note  of a root position Diatonic Triad is placed at the Top one octave higher  its called  a 1st inversion Diatonic triad .When the bottom not of the 1st insertion triad is inverted  It’s called 2nd inversion Diatonic . Me Playing Diatonic Inversions of : G major and E minor                 G  Major Diatonic Inversions                                 ...

                              LESSON 6                        CHORD    INVERSIONS A Chord or Triad is inverted when the bottom nots are moved from the Bottom of the             STACK OF 3RDS   to The TOP. For example if E, the Bottom note in E major root position Triad ,is moved to the E at the top of the Stack its now E major 1st inversion *** Common inverted Chords are :                  Root Positions  Chord (not inverted ) First Invertion, Second Inversion  Third Inversion   *( in a 7th Chord)        DIATONIC TRIADS IN INVERSIONS  Me  Playing  Diatonic Inverted intervals                          G Major       ...

                                 LESSON  7                                 SEVENTH     CHORDS A Seventh Chord is a triad with the 7th degree of the Scale added .  The Chords in root position are usually stacked up in 3rds They can be Major ,  Minor  or Augmented.       The 5 most Common 7th Chords are        Major    7th     /   MM    = Major Major       Dominant 7th  /     Mn      = Major Minor       Minor        7th  /     mm = minor minor       Half Diminished  7th /  Dm =Diminished minor     Diminished  7th /  d im 0r dd = Fully Diminished    ...

WEEK # 5      LESSON   5 MODES   MODES ARE Scales starting on different notes of a staff , but with the same key signature as the main key  Example  in C Major : Scales Staring on  C to C          IONIAN                                  D to D         DORIAN                               E TO E       PHRYGIAN                               F TO F        LYDIAN                               G TO G      MIXOLYDIAN                              A TO A  ...

  Week 5 Lesson  4   Minor Scales Notes 1. The Minor Scale has a lowered 3rd note 2. To find a relative minor start on the major 6th degree of a scale 3. A natural minor has a lowered 3rd , Lowered 6th and Lowered 7th 4 . A Melodic Minor scale  ascends with  a lowered 3rd , Raised 6th and 7th notes of the scale  but descends lowering the 6th and 7th notes of the scale 5.  A Parallel  minor scale  just start on the same note as the major scale   example :  C minor is parallel  to C major scale. . *********************************************************************************** ME PLAYING A SHORT SONG WITH D HARMONIC AND NATURAL MINORS  CALLED   MINORING   OPUS 1 a minor fugue   Bach r

                  MUSIC THEORY*      LESSON # 3        TOPIC: : MAJOR SCALES *   Major Scales are the succession of notes forming the Solphege tones we know as Doh, Re, Mi, Fa ,La, Ti , Doh , Its like a musical staircase  that can move up and down the staff at the composers L * Major scales are the bright sounding scales ,That consist of Tone and Semitone steps  as follows:   ( T=TONE   , S=SEMITONE )          T,T,S,TTTS       DEGREES  OF A MAJOR SCALE         in  C major  (as in all Major keys )          1th     OR          C  is called the   TONIC           2th    OR          D  is called the   SUPERTONIC         ...

                                 Lesson 2  Lesson notes   .. Special attention was given in  class to reading,ie..  Counting ,   playing rhythmic patterns in music            Some Music passages Look very Challenging to count / play.                                         TIPS: Notes to remember  : . For better reading of mixed notes and rests, 1 . Try counting in eighth notes  or Sixteenth notes. 2.  Clap the rhythm first  3.  Play or count eighth , sixteenth notes  throughout the song . example for a quarter note on B ...i would play two eighth notes or four sixteenth notes  to help me count if needed . Next i would play the song slowly  now that  iv'e gotten the timing right . 4 . Next i would pi...

   Note to  ❤ Self . ......Music is the art of Sound , Pleasing or displeasing to the ear ...     TOPICS COVERED 1.     In Class study of Major and Minor  2nds =  Major is a tone   & Minor is a semitone 2. Chromatic Scales  =Dont skip any note 3.Diatonic  equivalents =    Notes with the Same sound and different names 😃   💗📯   NOTES TO REMEMBER   1. 2.                                                   CHROMATIC    SCALE                                                         Just for fun      Bonus with a few off notes 😃   

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