Upon completing our Comprehensive Music Theory for Beginners course, you will have achieved the following learning outcomes:
- Mastery of music notation, including staff, clefs, ledger lines, note heads, stems, and rest values
- Understanding of time signatures and rhythms, including simple and compound time, dotted notes, ties, and syncopation
- Proficiency in major and minor scales, key signatures, and the Circle of Fifths
- Ability to identify and work with basic intervals and their inversions
- Development of ear training skills for recognising intervals by sight and sound
- Knowledge of triads, chord inversions, and diatonic harmony
- Familiarity with seventh chords, extended chords, and chord voicings
- Comprehension of musical phrases, cadences, and various forms, such as Binary, Ternary, Sonata, and Rondo
- Experience in modulation techniques, including tonicisation, secondary dominants, and pivot chord modulation
- Capability to analyse music, understanding harmony, melody, rhythm, and form in different genres (Jan LaRue Method)