Music Theory Level 1: Part Four

Welcome to Music Theory Level 1: Part Four

Modes and Counterpoints

In this course you will learn all about musical modes, how they are used, and how composers have used them throughout history. You will also begin an exploration 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 4: Modes and Counterpoints, we will cover:

• My approach to Music Theory
• Tools you will need to learn Music Theory quickly and efficiently
• How Modes Work
• The History of Modes
• Identifying the Musical Modes
• Incorporating modes into popular music
• Analysis of popular and classical music, including the Simpsons TV Theme Song, and the Beetles.
• Interval Exploration
• Compound Intervals
• Rules for Inversion
• Augmented Intervals
• Diminished Intervals
• Enharmonic Equivalence
• Labeling Dissonance
• Counterpoint in Species
• The Rules of Counterpoint
• Compositing with Counterpoint
• Types of Contrapuntal Motion
• Creating music with Counterpoint

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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• 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.
• Deeper Into Intervals
• In previous classes in this series, we've learned a lot about intervals. But not everything. In this section we will cover some gaps and introduce some new intervals.
• Introduction to Counterpoint
• Counterpoint is one of the most important concepts in writing music. Many composers claimed the study of counterpoint was even more important that the study of harmony.
• Modes (The Musical Modes, AKA The Church Modes)
• We've learned how to work with the major scale and the minor scale. But what if there was more than that? More possible "types" of scales? There are - and they are called Modes.
• Consonance and Dissonance
• Now that we've explored some more dissonant intervals, we should talk about how the consonant and dissonant intervals work together.
• Using Modes
• Now that we know what modes are, we should look at how to use them, and how other composers have used them.
• Writing Note-To-Note Counterpoint in Strict Style
• Now that we know the basic rules, we will dive in and write our own piece!