Music Theory Level 1: Part Five

Welcome to Music Theory Level 1: Part Five

Counterpoint

In this course you will gain a complete and comprehensive understanding of counterpoint. This course forms part of the complete Music Theory Fundamentals Guide.

This is a class designed for the average person who is ready to take their music career (or music interest) and turn it into a business. Whether you are an active musician, an aspiring musician, or an aspiring music manager or agent - this class is perfect for you.

For years I've been teaching Music Theory in the college classroom. My approach to music theory is to minimize the memorization. Most of these concepts you can learn by just understanding why chords behave in certain ways. Once you understand those concepts, you can find any scale, key, or chord that exists. Even invent your own. If you've tried to learn music theory before, or if you are just starting out - this series of courses is the perfect fit.

In Part 5: Counterpoint, we will cover:

• My approach to Music Theory
• Tools of Counterpoint
• Second Species Counterpoint
• Metric Accents and Diminutions
• Resolutions
• Passing Tones
• Consonant Skips and Leaps
• Neighbor Tones
• Writing Compelling Melodies
• Third Species Counterpoint
• The Cambiata
• Double Neighbor Tones
• Fourth Species Counterpoint
• Rhythmic Displacement
• Suspensions
• 4-3, 7-6, and 9-8 Suspension Types
• Consonant Suspensions
• Chains of Suspensions
• Fifth Species Counterpoint
• Free Counterpoint
• Worksheets and Music for Practice

You will not have another opportunity to learn Music Theory in a more comprehensive way than this. All the tools you need to successfully learn Music Theory are included in this course and the entire course is based on real-life experiences - not just academic theory.

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• Melodic Embellishment in Second Species Counterpoint
• With more notes comes more options.
• Getting Started
• Before we jump in, let's learn a little bit about how we are going to learn. There are a few free tools I like to use that will help you learn music theory.
• Third Species Counterpoint
• Moving on to Third Species, we add one new big wrinkle.
• Fifth Species Counterpoint
• All bets are off!
• Second Species Counterpoint
• Second Species Counterpoint uses all the rules of first species, plus some more.
• Writing Second Species Counterpoint
• Next, we will look at how to create some music with these rules.
• Fourth Species Counterpoint
• Moving on to Fourth Species, we now have ties and suspensions.