Jonathan Shaw
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Thursday 2/7

Objectives

1.  Solfege  - Do Re Me
2. Rhythm Review
Quarter / Half   Notes / Rests
3.  Quarter Note Reading Quiz
4.  Whole Notes / Eight notes
5.  Rhythmic Transcription/ Dictation
6.  Key Chords
7.  Chords / Harmony


Rhythm Review

Quarter Note =  ?  Beats

Half Note =  ?  Beats

​
What is a Rest? 

​What is BPM?
-Tap Exercises from Last Class

​-Sight Read Exercises Below

Rhythm Quiz 

Rhythmic Transcription /  Dictation

Key Chords  
A Tool For Composition

Solfege - Do-Re-Me

Intervals

Webster Definition: 

In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches. An interval may be described as horizontal, linear, or melodic if it refers to successively sounding tones, such as two adjacent pitches in a melody, and vertical or harmonic if it pertains to simultaneously sounding tones, such as in a chord

Simpler : 

The space between two notes.
This could pertain to two notes played one after the other, or two notes played simultaneously 
Example...

These are important because certain intervals sound more 'right to our ear than others!

This is because of how their frequencies line up 
when played overtop of each other 

Units of Measurement:

Remember with scales, we always measure in half steps and whole steps - we can measure intervals in this way too - 



Picture
List of Intervals Measured by Step
Name/Scale Degree                         
Step Measurent
  • Perfect 1              =               0 half-steps
  • minor 2                 =                  1 half-step
  • Major 2                 =                2 half-steps
  • minor 3                =               3 half-steps
  • Major  3               =              4 half-steps
  • Perfect 4             =             5 half-steps
  • Augmented 4                =                       6 half-steps
  • Perfect   5                =                 7 half-steps
  • minor 6               =             8 half-steps
  • Major   6                =               9 half-steps
  • minor   7               =            10 half-steps
  • Major  7                 =           11 half-steps
  • Perfect   8  (octave)    =                12 half-steps

Chords / Harmony

Where Scales deal with notes played in succession (one after the other), and intervals could be played simultaneously or separately,
​ Chords deal exclusively with notes that are played or sounded simultaneously.

Webster Definition:
a group of (typically three or more) notes sounded together,

For our Purposes, we will always talk about at least 3 or more notes. (if there are only two notes, it would be an interval, not chord)


A chord with 3 Notes is called a Triad

We will think about chords in terms of their relationship to a scale

​Just like there are many variations of scales, there are many variations of chords.  The two most common are Major and Minor, most chords we will talk about are some kind of variation on these chords


Our Major Pentatonic Scale has both major and minor chords within it


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