The Staff, Clefs, and Ledger Lines

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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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