Happy New Year

Wishing all my readers the very best for 2008. Have a very happy and peaceful new year.

I hope it brings you good health, fortune, love, happiness, peace, prosperity and whatever you need. Blessings.

xx

Start Here - The Course

I am going to start by introducing you to a fantastic music course I have found. It helped me through my studies and it is available on a Creative Commons licence.

the licence states that:

You are free:

• to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
• to Remix — to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

I am going to use excerts from it, and I will always credit the author when I am referring to the work. I will distinguish when this blog uses my own words and when they are not my own words by including the CC Copywrite logo and the Authors name. When it is my own words I will not need to publish the logo.

The Course is available here in full:

Summary: This course introduces the basic concepts and terms needed to discuss melody and harmony. It is intended for teens or adults with no background in music theory but some familiarity with reading common notation and playing an instrument (or singing). Concepts covered include interval, major and minor keys and scales, triads and chords.

Instructor: Catherine Schmidt-Jones

This collection contains:

Modules by: Catherine Schmidt-Jones, Russell Jones

NaBloPoMo 07

I have decided to participate in the National Blog Posting month. I think it will help me to give my postings a boost and be more focused. So you should expect to see a posting a day, every day for the whole of November, in theory. Wish me luck!

Music Theory for Beginners

I had the best of intentions when starting this blog, and then got sidetracked for a couple of months!

Hopefully now I will be able to devote more time to it.

So where were we?

Music Theory for beginners.

I have written an introductory article here entitled "You Don't Have to be a natural to Understand the Basics of Music"

Summary: Anyone can learn to write music by following some simple rules.

First of all, learn to listen and appreciate music as if you are a musician.

I will expand on these simple rules over the next few weeks, write more articles on the subject, and link to useful articles elsewhere on the web.

I hope you enjoy this introductory article.

The Art of Music Theory

I am going to share with you my thoughts and learning curve about the Art of Music Theory.

Hope you enjoy to read as we learn all about the Technology of Music, and how theory becomes Art.

:)