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Music Music Fundamentals Music Theory

Have fun learning music basics! No-Anxiety Music Theory.

Learn to understand the elements of music theory and how they fuse, unite and partner to become the music we love.
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (12 ratings)
678 students
Created by William Neely
Last updated 5/2016
English
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What you'll learn

  • Section 1 includes a short history of Rock and Roll and relates these component elements to the styles that make up rock and roll and its predecessors.
  • In 25 lectures, you will learn the component parts of music—rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony, form, etc.

Requirements

  • I don't use a textbook for this course.

Description

If you would like to be able to look at sheet music without feeling intimidated, understand how guitar chords work, learn your choral music more quickly, this course will help you. This course is a detailed primer in music basics. Taught by Bill Neely, who developed the Udemy course, Adventures in Classical Music, a comprehensive history of classical music.

Beginning with a short history of Rock and Roll, this course first identifies the component elements of music—rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, tempo, dynamics, and form. Then, it goes on to show how those elements come together to create music—any music whether a pop song or a classical symphony.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is intended for the beginner, although many students with some training have reported that they too have benefitted from the class.

Course content

6 sections • 40 lectures • 5h 20m total length

  • Preview02:35
  • Preview09:33
  • 1.22 History of Rock and Roll, part 2 (2 of 3)
    07:42
  • 1.23 History of Rock and Roll, part 3 (3 of 3)
    09:59

  • 1.41 Elements and Rhythm (1 of 2)
    10:06
  • 1.42 Elements and Rhythm (2 of 2)
    07:23
  • 2.1 Rhythm, part 2
    10:57
  • 2.2 Compound Meter
    05:52
  • 2.31 Additive meter and misc (1 of 3)
    06:57
  • 2.32 Additive meter and misc (2 of 3)
    06:21
  • 2.33 Additive meter and misc (3 of 3)
    07:00
  • 2.41 Characteristics of Melody (1 of 2)
    05:59
  • 2.42 Characteristics of Melody (2 of 2)
    06:00
  • 2.51 Melody and Notation (1 of 2)
    06:55
  • 2.52 Melody and Notation (2 of 2)
    06:43

  • 3.11 Melody Structure and Harmony (1 of 2)
    06:31
  • 3.12 Melody Structure and Harmony (2 of 2)
    06:08
  • 3.21 Harmony and Phrase Structure (1 of 2)
    05:43
  • 3.22 Harmony and Phrase Structure (2 of 2)
    06:09
  • 3.31 Harmonic Progressions (1)
    06:56
  • 3.32 Harmonic Progressions (2)
    08:55
  • Texture (non-musical)
    02:48
  • 3.41 Musical Texture (1 of 2)
    09:04
  • 3.42 Musical Texture (2 of 2)
    05:23

  • 4.1 Timbre and the human voice
    10:09
  • 4.2 Instruments of the orchestra
    14:15
  • 4.3 The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
    19:26
  • 5.11 Musical Form (1 of 2)
    05:53
  • 5.12 Musical Form (2 of 2)
    08:22
  • 5.21 Building Blocks of Form (1 of 2)
    09:37
  • 5.22 Building Blocks of form (2 of 2)
    05:31
  • 5.3 Bringing all the elements together
    09:54
  • 5.4 Ravel’s Bolero
    16:09

  • S1 Pitch and Notation
    09:41
  • S2.1 Accidentals and Key Signature (1 of 2)
    10:10
  • S2.2 Accidentals and Key Signature (2 of 2)
    05:30
  • S3 Rhythmic Values of Notes
    08:55
  • S4.1 making Music—Pitch and Rhythm come together (1 0f 2)
    08:27
  • S4.2 making Music—Pitch and Rhythm come together (2 0f 2)
    07:05

  • Wrap-Up
    04:14

Instructor

William Neely
Instructor / Developer, Adventures in Classical Music
William Neely
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 781 Reviews
  • 5,994 Students
  • 5 Courses

In addition to teaching Adventures in Classical Music at Santa Rosa Junior College and @ Udemy, Bill has also  taught this course on the Skillfeed and LearnSocial platforms. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, and has lived in San Francisco, California since 1977. He attended University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he got his Bachelor's Degree in Music Education, with a minor in Music History and Conducting. After that, he went to University of Colorado in Boulder, where he got a Master's Degree in Vocal Performance. He has been on the faculty of Santa Rosa Junior College since 2000, where he began to develop this music appreciation course for online delivery. Prior to Santa Rosa Junior College, he had taught at Napa Valley College.

In his other life, he is a classical singer in the San Francisco Bay Area, enjoying performing in many operas, musicals and choral concerts. He has sung in the chorus with San Francisco Opera in 11 productions. As a soloist, some of his favorite solo performances have been the title roles of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, and Leigh/Wasserman's Man of La Mancha as well as Baron Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca, Count Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Danilo in Lehar's The Merry Widow, Voltaire/Pangloss in Bernstein's Candide and most recently, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus.

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