In all chapters Harmony, the lesson plan makes extensive use of text, images, audio and video clips. There are many note examples, for example, Harmony Chapter 1.7 Major and minor seconds about major seconds:
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Now, in addition to all the note examples, I have also made
For Ear Training Exercise Degrees and melody level 4, level 5 and level 6, I have made new questions.
The purpose of this exercise is to learn to notate the degrees I, VI, II, IV, V and V7, or tonic, subdominant, dominant and dominant seventh by ear.
For Ear Training Exercise Degrees and melody level 2 en level 3, I have made new questions.
The purpose of this exercise is to learn to notate the degrees I, IV, V and V7, or tonic, subdominant, dominant and dominant seventh by ear.
For Harmony exercise 7a: embellishing tones, I have made 50 new questions from which 8 questions are randomly chosen, this allows you to do the exercise several times without repeating the same questions.
Melody tones do not always belong to the particular chord being used. These tones are called nonharmonic tones or embellishing tones
To Ear Training level 2, I have added a new exercise: Ear Training exercise 2c: scale degrees entry-level.
Ear Training exercise 2c: scale degrees entry-level is a preparatory exercise for Ear Training exercise 2d: scale degrees. This exercise is intended for students who find this exercise difficult. The melodies for Ear Training exercise
For Ear Training exercise scale degrees level 2, I have made new questions, or better, new melodies. These new melodies are shorter and the tonic is easier to hear.
The goal of this exercise is to be able to recognise on which tone of the scale a melody ends, or at a fragment or phrase
Upon request, I have added English subtitels to all videos. It was a lot of work but the videos are now clearer to follow. Especially for not native speaking users.
Music theory is not only explained by videos but also with images. Some of these images contains text. I had to translate this text from Dutch to English but I also had to translate note names. In Dutch a F sharp is called 'Fis'. A lot of images contains note names, so I had to
After four weeks of translating Dutch into English text, with help of the American-Dutch composer Christina Viola Oorebeek, and one week of recording and editing I finished all the 231 videos accessible on this site.
Here you can see an example of a video belonging to Harmony Chapter 2.4 Triads:
