This is a class designed for the average person who is ready to take their music career (or music interest) and turn it into a business. Whether you are an active musician, an aspiring musician, or an aspiring music manager or agent - this class is perfect for you.

For years I've been teaching Music Theory in the college classroom. These classes I'm making for Udemy use the same syllabus I've used in my college classes for years, at a fraction of the cost. I believe anyone can learn Music Theory - and cost shouldn't be a barrier.

My approach to music theory is to minimize the memorization. Most of these concepts you can learn by just understanding why chords behave in certain ways. Once you understand those concepts, you can find any scale, key, or chord that exists. Even invent your own. If you've tried to learn music theory before, or if you are just starting out - this series of courses is the perfect fit.

Throughout this class, If you get stuck, you can review the videos or post a question, and I'll back to it as fast as possible. 

This class is Part 1. In it we will focus on how to read music, and the symbols we use to notate music.

In this class, we will cover:

• My approach to Music Theory

• Tools you will need to learn Music Theory quickly and efficiently

• Chromatic and Diatonic scales

• Ordered Pitch Class Collections

• The pattern of a Major Scale

• Scale Degrees

• Solfege

• Writing melodies with major scales

• Analyzing melodies

• What it means to be "in key"

• Key signatures

• How to identify key signatures

• Popular song analysis

• Building triads (chords)

• Diatonic chord progressions

• Roman numeral analysis

• Inversions

• Finding chords by formula

• The thirds inside of a chord

• Finding fifths by finding thirds

• Diminished triads

• Augmented triads

• Chords on the guitar

• Full Analysis: Canon in D (Pachabel)

• Full Analysis: Minuet in G (Bach)

• 7th Chords

• Major 7th Chords

• Minor 7th Chords

• Dominant 7th Chords

• ...and much, much more!
  
  

And of course, once you sign up for this course you automatically get huge discounts to all the upcoming parts of this class.

You will not have another opportunity to learn Music Theory in a more comprehensive way than this. 

All the tools you need to successfully learn Music Theory are included in this course and the entire course is based on real-life experiences - not just academic theory.