Simple and Compound Meter

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Lesson 1 - Staffs, Clefs and Ledger Lines
Lesson 2 - Note Duration
Lesson 3 - Measures and Time Signature
Lesson 4 - Rest Duration
Lesson 5 - Dots and Ties
Lesson 6 - Simple and Compound Meter
Lesson 7 - Odd Meter
Lesson 8 - Steps and Accidentals
Lesson 9 - The Major Scale
Lesson 10 - The Minor Scales
Lesson 11 - Introduction to Major Chords
Lesson 12 - An Introduction to Minor Chords
Lesson 13 - Scale Degrees
Lesson 14 - Key Signatures
Lesson 15 - An Introduction to Major Scales
Lesson 16 - Key Signature Calculation
Lesson 17 - Generic Intervals
Lesson 18 - Specific Intervals
Lesson 19 - Introduction Staff and Clefs
Lesson 20 - Writing Intervals
Lesson 21 - Interval Inversion
Lesson 22 - Introduction to Chords
Lesson 23 - Triad Inversion
Lesson 24 - Diatonic Triads
Lesson 25 - Roman Numeral Analysis
Lesson 26 - Voicing Chords
Lesson 27 - Analysis #1
Lesson 28 - Seventh Chords
Lesson 29 - Diatonic Seventh Chords
Lesson 30 - Seventh Chord Inversion
Lesson 31 - Composing with Minor Scales
Lesson 32 - Nonharmonic Tones
Lesson 33 - Phrases and Cadences
Lesson 34 - Circle Progressions
Lesson 35 - Common Chord Progressions
Lesson 36 - Triads in First Inversion
Lesson 37 - Triads in Second Inversion
Lesson 38 - Analysis #2
Lesson 39 - Building Neapolitan Chords
Lesson 40 - Using Neapolitan Chords
Lesson 41 - Analysis #3
Lesson 42 - Instrument Ranges
Lesson 43 - Introduction to the pentatonic scale
Lesson 44 - Introduction to Modes
Lesson 45 - Degrees of the scale
Lesson 46 - Introduction to Triads

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