Musicians Institute Common Course Guide
Basic elements of music notation: pitch, musical alphabet, staves, bar-lines, clefs, grand staff, ledger lines, accidentals
Major scales
Major key signatures
Diatonic intervals
Simple intervals
Triads: major, minor, diminished, augmented
Diatonic triads in major
Key centers
Roman numeral analysis of diatonic triads in major
Diatonic triadic chord progressions in major
Harmonic minor
Melodic minor
Relative and parallel relationships
Natural, harmonic, and melodic diatonic harmony in triads
7th chords: major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, minor 7 flat 5, diminished 7,
Major and natural minor diatonic harmony in seventh chords
Major and minor key centers
Rhythmic notation, eighth notes and rests
Minor key signatures
Roman numeral analysis, major and natural minor diatonic harmony
Major pentatonic scale
Minor pentatonic scale
Blues scale
Modes of the major scale
Natural minor scale
Harmonic minor scale
Melodic minor scale
Triad construction
Slash chords
Chord symbols
Extended chords
Altered chords
Other chord types and poly-chords
Inversions as slash chords
Chord progressions utilizing slash chords
Diatonic 7th chord progressions in major and natural minor
Construction of 7th chords diatonic to the variations of natural minor: harmonic, melodic, dorian; including mi(ma7), ma7(#5), dim7
Modes of melodic minor, construction and usage: locrian #2, altered dominant, lydian dominant
Modes of harmonic minor, construction and usage: phrygian dominant
Key centers: progressions utilizing seventh chords
Roman numeral analysis, progressions utilizing seventh chords
Relative and parallel relationships
Symmetrical scales: whole tone, diminished, half/whole diminished
Secondary dominants
Diatonic major scale melodies, without rhythm
Simple intervals
Triads: major, minor, diminished, augmented
Major key diatonic triad chord progressions
Eighth note rhythms
Diatonic major scale melodies, notated with rhythm
The construction of triads
The construction of intervals
Diatonic triads in major
Five note major scale diatonic melodies
Melodic interval identification
Harmonic interval identification
Triad (major, minor, diminished, augmented) identification
Diatonic triadic chord progressions in major
Rhythmic notation identification
Transcription of major pentatonic, minor pentatonic, and blues melodies in numbers
Blues chord progression identification
Minor scale variation identification:natural, harmonic, melodic, dorian
Diatonic 7th chord identification
Natural minor and the variations of minor diatonic harmony in triads: notation identification
Natural minor scale melody notation identification
Rhythmic identification utilizing triplet figures
Identification of major and natural minor chord progressions in diatonic 7ths
Identify the correct notation: two bar sixteenth note rhythmic notation
Identify the correct notation: three bar sixteenth note rhythmic notation
Identify the correct notation: two bar melodies in major or minor utilizing 16th notes
Identify the correct notation: two bar variations of minor
Seventh chord recognition: ma7, mi7, dom7, mi7(b5), ma(ma7), dim7, ma7(#5)
Identify the correct notation: variations of minor chord progressions in diatonic triads
Quarter and eighth notes and rests with syncopation
Sixteenth notes and rests with syncopation
Eighth, quarter, and half note triplets
Quarter, dotted quarter, and eighth note rhythms with ties across beats and bars
Eighth, dotted eighth, and sixteenth note rhythms with ties across beats and bars
Eighth, quarter, and half note triplets with dots and ties
6/8 rhythms
Cut time rhythms