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  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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