Let's talk about different ways to perceive pitch, and some of the foundations of how pitch is formed.

Taking what we learned in the last class, let's deepen our knowledge of pitch by testing out your ears in the following 'pitch games'.

If you're ever wondered how to name all of the keys on the keyboard, this class will help you by breaking things down from various angles.

Let's go over the building blocks of scales - tones and semitones! 

Taking what we learned in the last class, let's now work on identifying the various tones and semitones.

Let's - talk - scales!
From forming scales with their building blocks (tones and semitones), to talking about the various ways of creating major and minor scales.

Now, I'll challenge you with identifying major and minor audio examples in various contexts.

Don't know your finger numbers?  This game will help you learn them quick and easy.

Let's talk about how to not only write a melody, but keep your melody in key so it feels natural.

Now let's talk about staying in key while accessing all of the available chords.

Once you know how to access chords within a key, you can start to arrange them together within progressions.  Let's talk about how to get you starting with creating your own chord progressions.

Once you can create a melody in key, and work with chord progressions, you can start to put it all together.

Now that we have the basics of harmony and melody and can put it together.  Let's discuss how pop music uses these exact same principles.

Now that you have the basics, let's talk about how small changes to these fundamentals can lead you into various styles of music.

Let's recap what we talked about, next steps for you, and sing your praise as we wrap up this course.