Course Highlights
  • By the end of this course, you will have improved your tracks by understanding how to build chords and melodies that work together.
  • Understand and apply minor chords
  • Use the circle of fifths to generate new ideas for your own tracks
  • Work within minor keys to write compelling melodies and basslines
  • The Piano Roll editor
  • Octaves
  • Using Octaves in Bass Lines
  • The Black Keys (not the band!)
  • Finding C and Middle C
  • The Perfect 5th
  • Finding Fifths
  • Being "in key"
  • The pattern of a key
  • Moveable Patterns
  • The major and minor third
  • Building triads
  • Chord progressions
  • What is diatonic?
  • Finding all the chords in a key
  • Using roman numerals
  • Inversions
Curriculum

2 Topics
Class Overview
Asking Questions

6 Topics
The Piano Roll Editor
Octaves
Using Octaves
The Black Keys (not the band)
Finding C and Middle C
Section 1 Summary

5 Topics
The Perfect Fifth
Finding Fifths
Being "In Key"
The Pattern of a Key
Fifth Examples

4 Topics
Moveable Patterns
The Major and Minor Third
Building Triads
Chord Progressions

5 Topics
What is Diatonic?
Finding All The Chords
Roman Numerals
Example Song Analysis No.1
Inversions

5 Topics
7th Chords Overview
Diatonic 7th Chords
Maj7 (Major 7) Example
Dominant 7th Chords
Blues and the 7th Chord

4 Topics
The Fourth
The Second
The Sixth
Song Analysis No. 2

2 Topics
Wrap Up
Some Extra Video Resources

6 Topics
Question 1: Making the F# and C# chords in D Major
Question 2: Inversions
Question 3: Changing Keys
Question 4: Can I use the Ableton Trial version?
Question 5: Using MuseScore
Bonus Lecture: Discount Offers & Mailing List

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Music Theory for Electronic Musicians, Part 1: Chords

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