Music theory secrets: 94 strategies for the starting musician

Pitch and rhythm basics

Major scales and major key signatures

Minor scales and minor key signatures

Other scales

Scale degree and names and intervals

Triads

Chords

Roman numeral analysis

Inversions of the chord and figured bass

Nonchord tones

Singing with solfege syllables

Transposition

Advanced concepts.

1. Pitch and Rhythm Basics

Secret 1 Pitch Basics

Secret 2 The Treble Clef or G Clef

Secret 3 The Bass Clef or F Clef

Secret 4 The Alto Clef and Tenor Clef

Secret 5 The Grand Staff

Secret 6 Rhythm

Secret 7 Time Signature

Secret 8 Meter

Secret 9 Simple Meter

Secret 10 Compound Meter

Secret 11 Asymmetrical Meter

Secret 12 Counting in Simple Meter

Secret 13 Counting in Compound Meter

Secret 14 Practice Makes Perfect

2. Major Scales and Major Key Signatures

Secret 15 The Scale

Secret 16 The Major Scale

Secret 17 The Major Tetrachord

Secret 18 Key Signatures

Secret 19 The Order of Flats

Secret 20 The Order of Sharps

Secret 21 The Sharp Key Signatures in Major

Secret 22 The Flat Key Signatures in Major

3. Minor Scales and Minor Key Signatures

Secret 23 Minor Scales

Secret 24 Parallel Minor

Secret 25 Relative Minor

Secret 26 Natural Minor Form.

Secret 27 Harmonic Minor Form

Secret 28 Melodic Minor Form

4. Other Scales

Secret 29 The Chromatic Scale

Secret 30 The Whole-Tone Scale

Secret 31 The Pentatonic Scale

Secret 32 Dorian Mode

Secret 33 Phrygian Mode

Secret 34 Lydian Mode

Secret 35 Mixolydian Mode

Secret 36 The Seven-Note Blues Scale

Secret 37 The Bebop Scale

Secret 38 Less Common Scales

5. Scale Degree Names and Intervals

Secret 39 Scale Degree Names

Secret 40 The Interval

Secret 41 Major Intervals

Secret 42 Perfect Intervals

Secret 43 Minor Intervals

Secret 44 Augmented Intervals

Secret 45 Diminished Intervals

Secret 46 The Tritone

6. Triads

Secret 47 Major Triads

Secret 48 Minor Triads

Secret 49 Augmented Triads

Secret 50 Diminished Triads

7. Chords

Secret 51 The Major Seventh Chord

Secret 52 The Major-Minor Seventh Chord

Secret 53 The Minor Seventh Chord

Secret 54 The Diminished Seventh Chord.

Secret 55 The Half-Diminished and Fully Diminished Seventh Chord

Secret 56 Other Chords

8. Roman Numeral Analysis

Secret 57 Roman Numeral Quality

Secret 58 Roman Numerals in Major Keys

Secret 59 Roman Numerals in Minor Keys

Secret 60 Four-Part Roman Numeral Analysis

9. Inversions of the Chord and Figured Bass

Secret 61 The Root-Position Triad

Secret 62 The First-Inversion Triad

Secret 63 The Second-Inversion Triad

Secret 64 Figured Bass

Secret 65 Root-Position Figured Bass

Secret 66 First-Inversion Figured Bass

Secret 67 Second-Inversion Figured Bass

Secret 68 Seventh-Chord Figured Bass

Secret 69 Lead-Sheet Inversions

10. Nonchord Tones

Secret 70 Nonchord Tones Defined

Secret 71 The Passing Tone

Secret 72 The Neighbor Tone

Secret 73 The Escape Tone

Secret 74 The Appoggiatura

Secret 75 The Anticipation

Secret 76 The Suspension

Secret 77 The Pedal Tone.

Secret 78 Using Nonchord Tones to Improvise

11. Singing with Solfege Syllables

Secret 79 Sight-Singing

Secret 80 Solfege Syllables in Major

Secret 81 Solfege Syllables in Natural Minor

Secret 82 Solfege Syllables in Harmonic Minor

Secret 83 Solfege Syllables in Melodic Minor

Secret 84 Other Methods of Sight-Singing

12. Transposition

Secret 85 Concert Pitch Instruments

Secret 86 Transposing Instruments

Secret 87 Transposing Parts

Secret 88 Transposing Using Solfege Syllables

Secret 89 Transposing Keys

Secret 90 The Transposition Table

13. Advanced Concepts

Secret 91 Four-Part Analysis

Secret 92 Part-Writing Rules

Secret 93 The Sequence

Secret 94 Form.