Post by Johncoyne on Apr 3, 2010 21:31:13 GMT -5
Conjoin's Music Theory Tutorial
Unit 1.
Chapter 1.
Chapter 2.
Hey guys-
Due to the invention of the spoiler tags, I'm putting every past lesson in spoilers. Ok, here's the lesson:
Today's lesson is laying out the framework for later lessons. We're going to make A PROJECT!
Ok, boys and girls! Get out your colored pencils and your crayonss and your glue! We're making a project. In all seriousness, we are actually making a project. Now, has anyone ever been in a class where they give you a little reference guide that you can look back on that shows graphs and stuff? No? Well... uh... we're making one of those. Here's how ti works:
I want y'all to make a diagram showing how to read treble and bass clef. Sounds easy, right? But here's the catch, I'm not telling you how. You guys have to research it and make it however is easiest and most helpful to YOU. If you already know how to read, you don't have to do this part. Also, you have to define (and draw) these things on your guide:
Notice that I gave you the definition for the dot. You have 10 things to define, but they fly by. The dot is the most useful one for me to give you there.
The deadline for this project is next Saturday. If you need any help with making it, feel free to ask, but I'm going to be UBER BUSY next week. I'll try to check my e-mails and PM's once a day, though.
Feel free to collaborate (a.k.a. cheat). Everyone does that in school anyway.
If you don't want to do the work and you want to drop out, feel free to do so. I should have told you that it would be a bit of work.
Fanks,
Unit 1.
Chapter 1.
Introduction
This is the first Unit/Chapter/Lesson of Conjoin's Music Theory Tutorial! In this part, I'm going to discuss what's going on with this, how I'm teaching it, who I am, and the structure of it. Well, I might as well just dive right into it.
Above, you see the words unit and chapter. I plan to have 4 units, and around 10 chapters in each unit. This chapter is called the introduction (obviously). We are in the first unit.
In this unit, we're going to talk about reading music, intervals, scale building, and the circle of fifths. In the next unit, we'll talk about basic chord building, chord progressions, and song structure. The unit after that will be a more advanced version of Unit 1, and the one after that will be an advanced version of Unit 2.
Now, about me. My name is Conjoin, but you can call me John. I'm 14 years old. That's right, I'm only 14. A lot of people think I'm older for some reason. Because I'm only 14, I don't know everything there is to know about music theory. However, the little bit that I know, I'm pretty solid on. By teaching it to you guys, I'm learning it even better myself.
Now, I apologize to the older more experienced people who are interested, but I don't have much to offer you. If I need any help, however, I will contact you.
Now, there is a very good reason behind teaching this to you guys. I want to revolutionize online learning. Do a Google search right now on Music Theory Tutorial. There are tons available that have much more information than I have to offer. However, they don't specifically tailor their tutorials to your needs. Music Theory isn't really the most desired topic to learn, but I picked it on purpose. I picked it to start off small so i can get the hang of this.
In this series of tutorials, there will be online projects, online worksheets, and a whole lot of fun. I want to be able to do group projects, an eventually collab songs. You read right. By the end of this series, you will be able to create a 2-minute song in whatever genre of music you like.
Finally, I want to tell you how these lessons are going to be displayed. I will be writing most of these in text, and I will have some video if I need to show what something looks like on a piano. This post will have the current chapter and the one before it. In other words, in the next chapter, this one will still be visible. In Chapter 3, that chapter and Chapter 2 will be visible. This one will be saved to a txt document and it'll be saved and linked to at the top.
If you have any feedback or if you want to sign up right now, PM me, e-mail me, or post a reply in this thread.
This is the first Unit/Chapter/Lesson of Conjoin's Music Theory Tutorial! In this part, I'm going to discuss what's going on with this, how I'm teaching it, who I am, and the structure of it. Well, I might as well just dive right into it.
Above, you see the words unit and chapter. I plan to have 4 units, and around 10 chapters in each unit. This chapter is called the introduction (obviously). We are in the first unit.
In this unit, we're going to talk about reading music, intervals, scale building, and the circle of fifths. In the next unit, we'll talk about basic chord building, chord progressions, and song structure. The unit after that will be a more advanced version of Unit 1, and the one after that will be an advanced version of Unit 2.
Now, about me. My name is Conjoin, but you can call me John. I'm 14 years old. That's right, I'm only 14. A lot of people think I'm older for some reason. Because I'm only 14, I don't know everything there is to know about music theory. However, the little bit that I know, I'm pretty solid on. By teaching it to you guys, I'm learning it even better myself.
Now, I apologize to the older more experienced people who are interested, but I don't have much to offer you. If I need any help, however, I will contact you.
Now, there is a very good reason behind teaching this to you guys. I want to revolutionize online learning. Do a Google search right now on Music Theory Tutorial. There are tons available that have much more information than I have to offer. However, they don't specifically tailor their tutorials to your needs. Music Theory isn't really the most desired topic to learn, but I picked it on purpose. I picked it to start off small so i can get the hang of this.
In this series of tutorials, there will be online projects, online worksheets, and a whole lot of fun. I want to be able to do group projects, an eventually collab songs. You read right. By the end of this series, you will be able to create a 2-minute song in whatever genre of music you like.
Finally, I want to tell you how these lessons are going to be displayed. I will be writing most of these in text, and I will have some video if I need to show what something looks like on a piano. This post will have the current chapter and the one before it. In other words, in the next chapter, this one will still be visible. In Chapter 3, that chapter and Chapter 2 will be visible. This one will be saved to a txt document and it'll be saved and linked to at the top.
If you have any feedback or if you want to sign up right now, PM me, e-mail me, or post a reply in this thread.
Chapter 2.
Hey guys-
Due to the invention of the spoiler tags, I'm putting every past lesson in spoilers. Ok, here's the lesson:
Today's lesson is laying out the framework for later lessons. We're going to make A PROJECT!
Ok, boys and girls! Get out your colored pencils and your crayonss and your glue! We're making a project. In all seriousness, we are actually making a project. Now, has anyone ever been in a class where they give you a little reference guide that you can look back on that shows graphs and stuff? No? Well... uh... we're making one of those. Here's how ti works:
I want y'all to make a diagram showing how to read treble and bass clef. Sounds easy, right? But here's the catch, I'm not telling you how. You guys have to research it and make it however is easiest and most helpful to YOU. If you already know how to read, you don't have to do this part. Also, you have to define (and draw) these things on your guide:
- Dotted Whole Note
- Whole Note
- Dotted Half Note
- Half Note
- Dotted Quarter Note
- Quarter
- Dotted Eighth Note
- Eighth note
- Dotted Sixteenth Note
- Sixteenth Note
- The Dot- by adding the dot, you are increasing the duration of the note by half. ie: 1 beat+the dot= 1 and a half beats. 2 beats+the dot=3 beats.
Notice that I gave you the definition for the dot. You have 10 things to define, but they fly by. The dot is the most useful one for me to give you there.
The deadline for this project is next Saturday. If you need any help with making it, feel free to ask, but I'm going to be UBER BUSY next week. I'll try to check my e-mails and PM's once a day, though.
Feel free to collaborate (a.k.a. cheat). Everyone does that in school anyway.
If you don't want to do the work and you want to drop out, feel free to do so. I should have told you that it would be a bit of work.
Fanks,
