Temas Videos (Teoria)

1- Getting Started: Treble clef and Bass clef!

 Name of the notes: pitch names and how to notate
 How are they represented in these different Clefs
 Why 2 different clefs? Importance of Middle C

2- Whole Step and Half step

 What is the difference and how to utilize them
 Sharp, Flat and Natural
 Double Sharps and Double Flats

3- Scales: Major Scales

 What is a Major Scale and how to identify one
 How is a Major Scale structured and how can you discover all 12
Major Scales
 Examples

4- Scales: Minor Scales

 What is a Minor Scale and how to identify one
 Types of Minor Scale: Harmonic, Melodic and Natural
 How is a Minor Scale structured and how can you discover all 12
Harmonic Minor Scales, all 12 Melodic Scales and all 12 Natural
Scales
 Examples
5- Scales: Relatives
 What is a relative Major Scale and a relative Minor Scale
 How are they similar and how to easily discover them
 Examples

6- Tips and Tricks

 Know in what Scale a Piece is written
 In what order do Flats and Sharps appear
 Using the keyboard to your advantage

7- Basics of Rhythm and Tempo

 What is a beat
 What is rhythm
 What is tempo
 Name of the signs used
 Value of the signs used – easy diagram

8- Time Signatures
 What is a time Signature and what does it represent?
 Simple
 Compound
 Irregular
 Duplets vs Triplets

9- Musical Terms
 What is a ledger line?
 What is an 8ve?
 What is an enharmonic note?
10- Musical Terms
 What is a ledger line?
 What is an 8ve?
 What is an enharmonic note?

11- Key Signature

 What is a Key Signature
 How does it affect a piece of music

12- Rests
 The importance of silence
 What are the signs for different rests
 Breve rest

13- Dots, Ties and Slurs

 Dot and double dot
 Ties Vs Slurs: what’s the difference

14- Scale Degrees

 Scale Degrees name
 Why are they named liked that

15- Chromatic Scale

 What is a Chromatic Scale and how is it structured
 How do you build a Chromatic Scale
 Important rules in building a Chromatic
16- Alto Clef and Tenor Clef
 Why more clefs and where did they come from
 How to write in Alto Clef vs How to write in Tenor Clef: easy trick
 Where does the Middle C belong

17- Intervals
 What is an interval
 Harmonic vs Melodic Interval
 Using C scale as a reference
 Major and Minor Intervals
 Perfect, Augmented and Diminished Intervals
 Compound Interval
 Examples

18- Transposition
 What is a transposition
 Why use transposition
 Tricks to make Transposition easy
 Examples

19- Triads and Chords

 What is a Triad and a Chord
 Major Chords
 Minor Chords
 Diminished Chords
 Augmented Chords
 Seventh Chords, Ninenth Chords, etc
 Root and Inversions: 1st Inversion, 2nd inversion and 3rd inversion
20- Cadences
 What is a Cadence
 Perfect Cadence
 Imperfect Cadence
 Plagal Cadence
 Passing notes and auxiliary notes
 How to easily discover what Cadence is in front of you
 Examples

21- Musical Terms

 Arpeggio
 Alberti Bass
 Anacrusis
 Fermata
 Pedal marking

22- Dynamics and Mood

 What is a Dynamic in a Piece: From Pianissimo to Fortissimo
 What is the mood of a Piece: From Traurig to Lustig

23- Legato and Staccato

 Legato vs Staccato
 Portato
 Staccatissimo
 D.C : what does it stand for?
 D.S : what does it stand for?
 Fine
24- Repetitions
 Double bar line
 D.C : what does it stand for?
 D.S : what does it stand for?
 Fine

25- Ornaments
 What is an Ornament and how does it affect music
 Acciaccatura vs Appoggiatura
 Trill Vs Turn

26- Figured Bass

 What is Figured Bass and how to understand it
 Examples

27- Musical Form

 Phrase, Sentence and Paragraph

28- Grouping of notes and rests

 Simple Vs Compound
 Important rules
 Examples

29- Performance directions

 What is their importance
 How to memorize them

30- ABRSM theory exam

 What to expect
 Tips and Tricks