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A blog where I will post my notes about music theory as I learn lessons from musictheory.net.

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Day 9 - The Major Scale

Day 9 - The Major Scale   A scale is a selection of notes within an octave. There are two major scales within music theory: the major scale and minor scale. The major scale is constructed with the formula “W, h”. “W” represents a whole step, and “h” represents a half-step. C Major consists of C, D E, F, G, A, B,C. The first note is C, which goes a whole step to D. From D, it goes another whole step to E. From E, it goes a half-step to F. From F it goes a whole step to G. From G, it goe
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Day 8 - Odd Meter

Day 8 - Odd Meter   An odd meter is meter that contains both simple and compound beats. 5/8, for example, is five eighth notes, which can be simplified as a simple (two quarter notes) and compound (three quarter notes) beat, or a quarter and dotted quarter note. The order doesn’t matter - you can have the three-note beat come first, and it would still be 5/8 time. Another example of odd meter is 7/8 time, which consist of two quarter notes, and one dotted quarter note - or a pair of tw
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Day 7 - Simple and Compound Meter

Day 7: Simple and Compound Meter   Time signatures can be classified into a certain meter - simple and compound. Furthermore those can be broken down by the number of beats in a measure: duple, triple and quadruple; simple means that each can be broken down into two beats. 2/4 is classified as simple duple - duple refers to the two beats (in this case two quarter notes) per measure. Simple means that they can be divided into two larger notes. 2/2 and 2/8 are also simple duple - two hal
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Day 6 - Steps and Accidentals

Day 6 - Steps and Accidentals   Half-step/semitone: distance from one key to the next - Key 1 and Key 2 (a white key and a black key in the example) are next to each other, so they are a half-step. Sometimes half-steps don’t always correspond to white key-black key; sometimes they can be two white keys as shown in the lesson’s second example on semitones.   Whole step/whole tone: the combined distance of two semitones - Key 1 to Key 3 is a whole tone - if you play Key 1 (whit
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Day 5 - Dots and Ties

Day 5 - Dots and Ties   Augmentation dots and tenuto ties: markings used to alter a notes duration.   Dots increase duration by ½. A dotted quarter note, for example, is equal to a quarter note and an eighth note, or alternately three eighth notes   Ties merge notes of the same duration, allowing them to cross barriers such as measure lines. In the example given, there are two groups of quarter notes in 4/4 time, separated by a bar. If you use a tie to combine the 4
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Day 4 - Rest Duration

Day 4 - Rest Duration   Rests: periods of silence in a measure.   There are five types of rests, corresponding with each type of note: whole rest, half rest, quarter rest, eighth rest, and sixteenth rest. A whole rest looks like a box descending from the fourth staff line. A half rest looks similar, though it’s a box ascending from the middle staff line. A quarter rest resembles a sideways stylized V almost, and eighth rests and sixteenth rests resemble lines with apostrophes
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Day 3 - Measures and Time Signatures

Day 3 - Measures and Time Signatures   Bar lines divide the staff into measures; measures are segments of musical notation denoting the notes according to the time signature.   Time signatures: amount and types of notes in a measure. If you have two measures containing time signatures in 4/4 and 3/4 time, that means each time signature contains a certain number of quarter notes - 4 and 3 quarter notes respectively; a 4/4 time signature therefore contains two half-notes (or a
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Day 2 - Note Duration

Day 2 - Note Duration   Note duration: length of time a note is played - there are four types of notes; whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note, sixteenth note   Whole note: longest duration in modern music, looks like an eyeball   Half note: half the duration of a whole note, looks like a lopsided oval with a straight line sticking out of it. Two half notes equal one whole note.   Quarter note: One-fourth of a whole note, resembles a half note, w
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Day 1: Staff, Clefs, and Ledger Lines

Day 1 - Staff, Clefs, and Ledger Lines   Staff: what notes are drawn on; consists of five lines and four spaces. Each line and space represents a note on a keyboard.   Clefs: symbols that say where each note goes. Two kinds of clefs - treble (or G) and bass clef. Treble clef looks like a curved G with a tail, and bass clef looks like a curvy apostrophe and colon.   Treble clef: staff line is known as G, any note on treble clef line is G. Note above G is A (there is
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