Category: Music Theory

Note Naming Training Software | NoteCard

11 July, 2008 (10:54) | Music Theory, Notation, Practice Resources

Recently I ran across a neat little freeware program called Notecard. It’s a good little notereading trainer for Windows (also runs via wine on linux and possibly mac). Basically you are presented with a staff (you can choose treble or bass clef or both.) You can be quizzed on notes and answer [...]

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Roman Numeral Chord Analysis

16 May, 2008 (13:01) | Music Theory

I think I hear the eyes glazing already. Don’t worry this isn’t going to get too deep, this will just be an introduction to the idea of looking at chords by roman numerals. I thought it would be a good follow up to the article on scales as we use the scales to [...]

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Good Online Music Theory Lessons, Practice and Utilities

22 February, 2008 (03:08) | Links, Music Theory

MusicTheory.net is an excellent resource for the beginner, intermediate or even more advanced student of music. The site is run by Ricci Adams and there’s even a downloadable offline version of the site. The exercises and lessons are all flash based, so as long as you have a flash enabled browser you should [...]

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Three Chord Songs

1 February, 2008 (08:16) | Music Theory, Three Chord Songs

Two and Three chord songs can be a good, easy way for people to practice and play with the idea of playing by ear. In any given major key, there are three chords that are most common. In music theory notation we use roman numerals to identify these I, IV, V (one, four [...]

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Shaped Notes (Shape Notes)

15 August, 2006 (13:44) | Music Theory, Notation

This site may turn out to cover much more than I had originally expected. So far, I’ve got two posts about me. That’s NOT what I plan to do, but I wanted to go ahead and give a general picture of who I am and what my interests are and another that was [...]

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