Punkademic Music Theory Comprehensive Complete: Part 10, 11, & 12 TUTORIAL
For years I’ve been teaching Music Theory in the college classroom. These classes I’m making for Udemy use the same syllabus I’ve used in my college classes for years, at a fraction of the cost. I believe anyone can learn Music Theory – and cost shouldn’t be a barrier.
My approach to music theory is to minimize memorization. Most of these concepts you can learn by just understanding why chords behave in certain ways. Once you understand those concepts, you can find any scale, key, or chord that exists. Even invent your own. If you’ve tried to learn music theory before, or if you are just starting out – this series of courses is the perfect fit.
Dr. Allen is a professional musician, top-rated Udemy instructor, and university professor. In 2017 the Star Tribune featured him as a “Mover and a Shaker,” and he is recognized by the Grammy Foundation for his music education classes.
This class is a Comprehensive class – it will have many parts, going through my entire annual curriculum.
MUSIC THEORY COMPREHENSIVE COMBINED: PARTS, 10, 11, AND 12 is three courses in one: It includes my three top Music Theory Comprehensive courses: Part 10: Diminished!, Part 11: Melody & Motives, and Part 12: Secondary Dominants.
Throughout this class, If you get stuck, you can review the videos or post a question, and I’ll back to it as fast as possible (within a day).
In this class, we will cover:
- Tools of Music Theory
- Identifying types of diminished 7 chords
- Whole diminished chords
- Half diminished chords
- Training your ear to find diminished chords
- Expanding tonic with leading tones
- The viiº6 chord
- Doubling in the viiº chords
- Tendency tones
- Unequal fifths
- Resolutions for viiº7 chords
- Expanding tonic with viiº
- Harmonizing with viiº7
- Mystical properties of the whole diminished chord
- Pivot chords
- 4/2 Chords as tonic expansion
- Using ii4/2
- Neighboring 4/2 chords
- Passing 4/2 chords
- Why phrases are important
- Identifying Phrases
- Finding Motives
- Labeling Motives and Phrases
- Melody Augmentation
- Melody Diminution
- Melody Inversion
- Melody Extension and Truncation
- Countour, Rhythm, Transposition, and Interval Alterations
- Harmonizing altered melodies
- Musical Sentences
- Musical Periods
- Antecedents
- Consequents
- Performing Phrases
- Hypermeter
- Phrase Rhythm
- Analyzing Bach
- Identifying Sequences
- Melodic Sequences
- Harmonic Sequences
- Diatonic and Chromatic Sequences
- The Descending Fifth Sequence
- Alternating Inversions in Sequences
- Ascending Fifth Sequences
- Descending Third Sequences
- Secondary Dominants
- Chromatic Chords
- Tonicization and Modulation
- Secondary Leading Tone Chords
- Leading Tones To Five
- Tonicizing Other Scale Degrees
- Leading Tone of Anything
- Analyzing Beethoven
- Resolving Secondary Dominants
- Embellished Resolutions
- Irregular Resolutions
…and much, much more!
