I, IV, V, & Beyond: Using Music Theory to play like a pro!

I, IV, V, & Beyond: Using Music Theory to play like a pro!

This course is designed for the amateur musician of all styles and abilities who is desperate to enhance their musicianship, by way of the mastery of basic theory, harmony, melody, and ear training. Whether you are a composer, arranger, songwriter, or improviser, this course will teach you how to discover new harmonies and melodies within the music that you create, as well as re-harmonizations within the songs that you love! A strong foundation in basic music theory will allow you to grasp the more advanced concepts by the end of the course, at which time you will not only be creating new and original sounds within music that you perform, but you will be creating new and original sounds within the music that you CREATE as a composer, arranger, songwriter, or and improviser!

This course focuses on the harmonic functions of Tonic, Subdominant, and Dominant (I, IV, V) within the major scale and their expected behaviours and resolutions. By mastering their qualities and tendencies, you will be able to manipulate their behaviours within a harmonic setting, while at the same time, discovering new harmonies and melodies that can lead to or from these chords. This knowledge will strengthen your musicianship as well as your ear training and your awareness within your musical settings, but most of all, you will be making musical decisions along the same lines as the pros that you love! And you will never run out of original material or inspiration, as the manipulation of basic concepts will yield endless possibilities for harmonic progressions.

Check out the lecture previews below, and you will have a better understanding of how the course progresses. We even have a whole section focusing on Classical and Pop progressions that use the very tools that you will be learning here!

Have fun, and I hope that you'll be happy with the musician that you become after your journey with I, IV, V....And Beyond!

Harmonic and Melodic freedom, through the mastery of basic theory, for musicians of all styles and abilities

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What you will learn

• Musicians of all styles, genres, and abilities, will have the tools and processes needed to create original, complex sounds based on a mastery of simple harmony
• Students will progress farther in advanced harmonic and melodic concepts for composition and improvisation than in any other curriculum previously studied
• Mastery of simple harmonic concepts will provide students unlimited original content, creating an end to writers block or the inability to discover new sounds

Rating: 4.9

Level: All Levels

Duration: 10 hours

Instructor: Carmen Spada