Bass – Music Theory

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Music Theory – Harmony

  • The Musical Alphabet

  • Music Notation

  • Notes on the Staff

  • How to Read Tablature

  • Accidentals

  • Enharmonic Spellings

  • Dynamics

  • Ear Training

  • The Major Scale

  • The Minor Scale

  • The Blues Scale

  • Scale Manipulation

  • Intervals

  • Major Pentatonic Scale

  • Major Pentatonic Scale with Added b3rd

  • Harmonizing the Major Scale

  • Arpeggios

  • Chord/Scale Relationships

  • Chord Substitution and Reharmonization

  • Relative and Parallel Minor

  • The Modes of the Major Scale

  • Key Signatures

  • Determining Key Signatures

  • Melody

  • The Circle of Fifths

  • The Chromatic Scale

  • Chord Construction

  • Chord Inversions

  • Chord Qualities

  • Triads

  • Seventh Chords

  • 9th Chords – Major, Minor & Dominant

  • 11th Chords – Major, Minor & Dominant

  • 13th Chords – Major, Minor & Dominant

  • Add9 Chords – Major & Minor

  • Suspended Chords

  • Altered Dominant Chords

  • Extended Chords

  • Slash Chords

  • Chord Progressions

  • Modulation

  • Chord Embellishment

 

Music Theory – Rhythm

  • Note and Rest Values

  • Rests

  • Ties

  • Dots

  • Rhythm and Meter

  • Keeping a Steady Beat

  • Maintaining a Steady Tempo

  • Subdivisions

  • How to Count and Play at the Same Time

  • Time Signatures

  • Rhythmic Ties

  • Syncopation

  • Polyrhythm and Polymeter

 

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