Learn Music in a fun and engaging way! Introduction to Music

Sound is the vibration that two clashing objects produce. This waveforms are perceived by the ear and interpreted by the brain. In this lesson we will see what characteristics define a sound.

We will talk about the history of musical notation, and how it evolved through time until what we know today of modern sheet music, staves, notes, etc.

Links:

Hymn to Nikkal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZqUrMPoXk

Delphic Hymn to Apollo https://youtu.be/5mIXEBxW89s

There are two simple requirements for this course:

- Staff paper

- A tuner. It can be a physical tuner, or an app/software. You can find free digital apps and tuners in the web.

- In this lesson you will learn about the different elements of a staff.

- You will learn the musical notes.

- This lesson is theory and practice.

I will show you in this video the difference between the placement of notes on a keyboard vs. guitar.

I totally recommend seeing this video, even if you don't play guitar.

In this lesson we are going to learn what rhythm is. We are also going to learn the name of  each note and the value it represents. This is a theory and practice lesson.

When you finish the dictations please send them to my email so I can correct them fedemusicacademy@gmail.com

In this lesson we are going to learn what pitch is. We are going to do some exercises so you can internalize what pitch is. This is the beginning of solfege. This lesson will help you develop your musical ear. The objective is to learn how to transcribe music to musical notation. This way you can learn songs easier, but most importantly you can play those songs later just by reading the notations you wrote.

Music has a lot of different volume changes. This makes music more pleasant and fun. Classical music emphasizes this characteristic more than modern music. We will learn what the different symbols mean, and their functionality in music.

One of the most important characteristics of a sounds is its timbre. This is what is going to identify it as unique. We are going to learn what timbre is, and why each sound sounds different than another. Why a violin sounds different than a piano: than an oboe. We ill also learn how we can use timbre effects on our playing.

Harmonics is the basic physical phenomenon that happens behind the difference in timbre. We are going to explain why this is so, and how we can exalt some of those harmonics with different playing techniques.