MUSIC THEORY & EAR TRAINING for SONGWRITERS, LEVEL 1
WATCH CLASS 1 VIDEO HERE:
LEVEL 1 Sample Curriculum:
- The Major Scale: construction, intervals, building blocks of chords
- Understanding and recognizing Intervals
- Chords & Chord Function: forming Diatonic Harmony
- Developing Effective Chord Progressions
- Cadences
- Melody as comprised of 4 Component Parts
- Writing from a Motif: 4 Strategies Once You Have a Simple Idea
- Melody-Harmony Relationship: Creating emotional, strong melodies and chord progressions
- Rhythm, Time Signatures, Feel, & Phrasing
- Scansion & Prosody in a Lyric/Melody
- Major & Minor Relationships
- 7th Chords
- Hinting at Level 2: What Lies Beyond the Key
- Regular assignments with feedback to integrate concepts of class
ACCESS THE CLASS 1 HANDOUTS REFERENCED IN THE VIDEO HERE
LEVEL 2 Sample Curriculum:
- 7th chords
- chord tensions and extensions
- secondary dominants
- parallel major and minor
- modes and modal interchange
- multiple songwriting assignments and critical listening designed to expand your harmony/melody capacities as a writer and composer
