The Complete Idiot''s Guide to Music Theory

Chapter 10:Chord Progressions 137 IV-I-IV-V As this progression shows, you don’t have to start your chord progression on the ton ...

138 Par t 3:Tunes Here’s what the progression looks like in the key of C: C / / / F / / / Bdim / / / Em / / / Am / / / D / / / G ...

Chapter 10:Chord Progressions To demonstrate, let’s look at the chords behind some of the melodies we first examined back in Cha ...

140 Par t 3:Tunes Old Johann was able to wring the most out of a very simple chord progression; in this case nothing more than I ...

Chapter 10:Chord Progressions Mary Had a Little Lamb Finally, let’s figure out the chords to “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Just as t ...

Par t 3:Tunes Writing a Melody to a Chord Progression You don’t have to start with a melody; you can base your tune on a specifi ...

Chapter 10:Chord Progressions The Least You Need to Know ◆Every note of the scale has an associated chord, notated by a Roman nu ...

Par t 3:Tunes Exercise 10-5 Create the following types of cadences in the key of A. 144 Exercise 10-6 Figure out which chords go ...

11 Phrases and Form In This Chapter ◆Understanding the parts of a piece of music ◆Analyzing song structure ◆Discovering head tun ...

146 Par t 3:Tunes Parts of a Song When you’re writing popular music, there are accepted parts of a piece of music that you have ...

Chapter 11:Phrases and Form 147 Bridge The bridge is kind of a break in the middle of the piece. Most bridges sound completely d ...

Par t 3:Tunes Let’s look at a song that has a verse, a chorus, a verse, and another chorus. The form of this song would look lik ...

Chapter 11:Phrases and Form 149 Classical Music Forms Within the genre that most of us know as “classical” music, several distin ...

150 Par t 3:Tunes ◆Mass A vocal work based on the Roman Catholic mass. The five pas- sages of the mass that are frequently set f ...

Chapter 11:Phrases and Form 151 If you’re serious about continuing your music education, you’ll study each of these forms in muc ...

152 Par t 3:Tunes Exercises Exercise 11-1 Compose a 32-measure song in the ABCA form: verse, chorus, bridge, and verse. Use the ...

Learn how to train your ears so you can write down the music you hear; then discover how to create simple accompaniment parts on ...

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12 Transcribing What You Hear In This Chapter ◆Understanding why ear training is important ◆Discovering how to actively listen ◆ ...

156 Par t 4:Accompanying Maybe you’re playing organ in the church choir. The guest vocalist this week approaches you just before ...