Instructional Videos

• The Notation System

• The Staff and Clefs
• Ledger Lines and the Grand Staff
• Notes and Rests
• Dots and Ties

• The Piano, Steps, and Accidentals

• The Piano and Basic Accidentals
• Accidentals
• Chromatic Steps
• Diatonic Steps
• Enharmonics

• Major Scales and Key Signatures

• The Major Scale
• Key Signatures
• The Circle of Fifths (Major)

• Compound and Simple Meter

• Compound Meter

• Minor Scales and Key Signatures

• Minor Scales, Relative Major and Minor, and the Circle of Fifths
• Harmonic Minor
• Melodic Minor

• Intervals

• Introduction to Intervals
• Interval Categories and Quality for Perfect Intervals
• Intervals: Quality for Seconds and Thirds
• Intervals: Quality for Sixths and Sevenths, and Interval Inversion

• Harmony

• Identifying Triads
• Diatonic Triads

• Already Embedded in Basics Lessons or Exercises

• Duration
• Example of a Major Scale Composition
• Adding Barlines and Complete the Measure in Simple and Compound Meters
• Melodic Minor in Context
• Example of a Melodic Minor Scale Composition
• A "Trick" for Finding Fourths and Fifths
• Example of Composing a Melody to a Chord Progression

• Guitar

• Vals Part 1: Measures 1-8
• Vals Part 2: Measures 17-24
• Vals Part 3: Measures 25-32
• Vals Part 4: Finishing Up