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MUSIC THEORY LESSONS – SIMPLIFYING

Important! Check out our complete music theory course in PDF.

What is Music?

Music Note

Timbre

Tone and Semitone

Guitar Notes and Piano Notes

Music Scales

Enharmonics

Pitch and Intensity

C Major Scale Guitar

Degrees and Music Intervals

Augmented, Diminished

Octave

Definition of Chord

Music Intervals – Another View

Chord Notation

Bar Lines

Guitar Fingers

Arpeggios

Music Theory Terms

Chord Names Piano

Chord Names Guitar

Chord Symbols

Tonality

Chromatic Scale

Improvisation in Music

Relative Minor and Major

Music Modes

How to play an instrument

Pentatonic Scale

Intro to Blues

Blues Scale

Harmonic Functions

Supertonic and Mediant

Submediant and Leading Tone

Tritone

Deceptive Resolution

Chord Inversions

Modulation

Target notes

Octave Displacement

Chromatic Approach Notes

Chord Progressions

Applying Chord Progressions

Other Cadences

Circle of Fifths and Fourths

Secondary Dominants

Extended Chord

Suspended Chords

Disguised Chords

Tone vs Tonality

Parallel Key

Closely Related Keys

Scales Application

Avoid Notes

Harmonic Minor Scale

Melodic Minor Scale

Symmetric Scales

Altered Scale

Chromatic Approach Chord

Diminished Chord

Diminished Scale

Quartal Harmony

Equivalent Chords VII°=V7(b9)

SubV7 Chord

Interpolated Chord

Borrowed Chords

How to Modulate

Bebop Scale – Bebop Jazz

Whole Tone Scale

Lydian Dominant Mode

The IVm6 Chord

The II7 Chord

Improvising with Outside Notes

Improvisation in Blues

Improvisation in Jazz

Reharmonization Techniques

Blues Harmony

Rhythm Theory

Offbeats

Rhythm Exercises

Mathematics and music

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WHAT IS MUSIC THEORY?

Music theory (or theory of music) is the study of the whole structure or system
that forms music in its key aspects of melody, harmony and rhythm, including
special methods for analysing, classifying, composing and understanding music.

When we look at great musicians creating highly arrangements, that motivation
suddenly comes forth: “I need to learn music theory!” After all, who does not
want to learn how to securely improvise, whatever the harmony: Who doesn’t want
to know how to arrange music, innovate, make changes to the chords, play with
scales, and carry out innovative solo performances?

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THE PROBLEM WITH MUSIC THEORY BOOKS

However, all this motivation suddenly peters out when we see those boring books
about music theory. Let’s face it, most books and booklets on music theory are
very boring, do not give good explanations, are often confusing, or are
appropriate only for people who are already experts in the field.

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MUSIC THEORY FOR BEGINNERS

The best solution for some students of music theory (a few) ends up being the
payment of a fortune so that a good teacher can teach what the books do not,
especially when starting out in the field. The bulk of the people, however, end
up making do with the technical basics, living with superficiality, while the
ocean is still covered.

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MORE THAN JUST A COURSE IN MUSIC THEORY

The main goal of this site is to provide a solid theoretical base about music,
in a way that is simple and easy to understand, differently from everything else
that you have seen out there. We shall close the gaps in your knowledge,
whatever they may be, until you can use your creativity in its essence, with
solid knowledge. We hope that this site will not be just another site to forget,
but that this site shall be a reference and shall (really) solve your
complications.

So welcome to Simplifying Theory! Music theory is not that difficult. You shall
see for yourself!

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Do you speak French? Check out our French Website

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