Theory Lessons

• The Staff, Clefs, and Ledger Lines

• Note Duration

• Measures and Time Signature

• Rest Duration

• Dots and Ties

• Steps and Accidentals

• Simple and Compound Meter

• Odd Meter

• The Major Scale

• The Minor Scales

• Scale Degrees

• Key Signatures

• Key Signature Calculation

• Generic Intervals

• Specific Intervals

• Writing Intervals

• Interval Inversion

• Introduction to Chords

• Triad Inversion

• Seventh Chords

• More Seventh Chords

• Seventh Chord Inversion

• Diatonic Triads

• Roman Numeral Analysis: Triads

• Diatonic Seventh Chords

• Roman Numeral Analysis: Seventh Chords

• Composing with Minor Scales

• Voicing Chords

• Analysis: O Canada

• Nonharmonic Tones

• Phrases and Cadences

• Circle Progressions

• Common Chord Progressions

• Triads in First Inversion

• Triads in Second Inversion

• Analysis: Auld Lang Syne

• Building Neapolitan Chords

• Using Neapolitan Chords

• Analysis: Moonlight Sonata