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Basic Music Theory - Joe Procopio
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Ebook: ISBN: 978-1-4835669-6-2
BASIC MUSIC THEORY
By Joe Procopio
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Some Signs And Symbols
Naming Musical Tones
Knowing Kinds Of Notes
Dotted Notes
Time Signatures
Understanding All Time Signatures
The General Meaning Of Step And Stepwise
Whole Steps And Half Steps
The Specific Meaning Of Sharps And Flats
Finding Sharps And Flats
The Specific Meaning Of Whole Step And Half Step
Enharmonic Tones
The Chromatic Scale
Reviewing Half Steps And Whole Steps
The Tetrachord
The Major Scale
Keys And Key Signatures
The Major Keys (With The Relative Minor)
The Relative Minor
Intervals
The Specific Naming Of Intervals
The Harmonic Series
Naming Altered Intervals
Further Alterations Of Intervals
Compound Intervals
Two Methods For The Specific Naming Of Intervals - Method I
Method II
A Summary For Naming Intervals
Chords
Chord Qualities - The 5 Basic Chord Qualities Of Triads
A Guide To The Various Letter Names Of Triads
Seventh Chords
The 5 Basic Chord Qualities Of Seventh Chords
Inversions - Naming Chords That Are Inverted
More Inversions
A Guide To Some Of The Various Symbols Used To Name 7th Chords
Naming Chords With No Root The Augmented Triad And The Fully Diminished Seventh Chord
How Knowing 4 Augmented Chords Means Knowing All 12
How Knowing Only 4 Fully Diminished 7th Chords Means Knowing All 12
A Guide To A Few Less Frequently Used Chords
An Easy Method For Learning 7th Chords
The 48 Chord System
The 4 Most Common 7th Chord Qualities {Learn All Your Chords }In One Easy Exercise
ADDENDUM {A Reference For Keys, Scales and Chords}
BASIC MUSIC THEORY
By Joe Procopio
NOMENCLATURE:
SOME SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
Understanding the language of Music is based on learning a system of names ~ nomenclature.
The tone C shown here in the diagram below is the same tone in all 4 clefs:
Musical Notes or Tones
A Musical Tone is the sound of anything that vibrates with an even number or regular vibrations that can be measured. Noise, on the other hand, is generally defined as vibrations that are irregular and uneven.
A Sharp raises the sound of a tone.
A Flat lowers the sound of a tone.
A Natural means the tone is neither sharp nor flat.
A Double Sharp (also written as ) raises the sound of a tone twice.
A Double Flat lowers the sound of a tone twice
NAMING MUSICAL TONES
Musical tones have names that use only 7 letters of the alphabet.
The Musical Alphabet: A B C D E F G
In the Treble Clef the names of the musical tones are:
In the Bass Clef the names of the musical tones are:
In the Treble Clef the note A is on the 2nd space:
In the Bass Clef the note A is on the 1st space:
Since A is on the 2nd space in the Treble Clef, notes written above A are in alphabetical order:
Notes that are below the 2nd space are still alphabetical but in order to find them you have to think the alphabet in reverse or backwards:
Finding and naming notes in the Bass Clef is similar to the method used for the Treble Clef. The important difference is that the note A is found on the 1st space of the Bass Clef.
To find