PREREQUISITES: All Course Modules to this Level
- 6 lessons
- All quizzes
- Review
- Final exam
Putting It All Together Musically
Understanding the profound importance of the Major Scale, this course now teaches you how to apply that knowledge. You’ll assemble keys, changing them to suit your needs; you’ll make chords fit into your music; and find creative ways to construct and write your own ideas. You’ll even improvise over them now that you can also play lead guitar!
By the Time You're Done, You'll Be Able To:
- Determine the chord types in any major key for four-part harmony.
- Apply harmonic analysis using Roman numerals to better see what’s going on in a progression. Determine key, any outside chords in use, voice leading, and musical motion to better understand what is being played. Know what works and what doesn’t with complete confidence and zero guess work.
- Fathom the principle of cadences and the ways that chords move, interact and resolve. The insight releases you to develop a multitude of ideas using all the skills and knowledge you’ve gained.
- Understand the use of chord substitutions such as tri-tone or 7b5 chord substitutions. Learn common yet subtle ways to spice up everyday chords by exchanging others.
- Understand specific chord types and their uses — the characteristics and functions in keys such as dominants, major sevenths, minor sevenths, and minor 7b5 chords.
- Recognize and employ secondary dominant chords in a progression.
- Become familiar with the Nashville Numbering System, the advanced notation used by many pros.
- Use intervals to understand extended chords such as 6ths, 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths; altered dominant and diminished chords; 6/9 chords; and suspended chord types.
- Learn how to transpose. Transposition skills let you know exactly which chords to play so that a singer can perform in a preferred key.
- Harness the secrets of modulation, a tried-and-true method the pros use to liven up their music. They move from key to key within the same song.
- Construct original songs using your acquired skills, employing real-world, unique strategies to make songs fresh and interesting.
- Analyze, identify, and use cadences in your own compositions — from authentic to plagal and everything in between!
The only Course that has a fixed price is “Notes on the Neck.” If someone wants to continue, after that course, it becomes a monthly enrollment/tuition of $60.00 per month. As soon as they complete one course, or lecture, they are moved on to the next. Under this arrangement, once their tuition is paid, a student can complete 1 0r 12 lessons a month, it all depends upon them.
Notes on the Neck
Lead Guitar - Phase 1
Triads and Chords
Major Scales
Major Keys and Diatonic Harmony
Lead Guitar - Phase 2
Advanced Composition
Congratulations