Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory CD-ROM Course

Table of Contents

Lesson
Title
Some section titles include...
1
The Grand Staff
Music on the Staff; Drawing Clefs...
2
Notes
Writing Notes; Naming Notes in the Treble Clef; How Notes got Their Names...
3
The Keyboard
Introduction to the Keyboard; Middle C; Naming the Black Notes...
4
Note Durations
Note Durations; Musical Mathematics...
5
Note Durations, Part 2
Note Flags; Note Beams; Note Stem Direction...
6
Measures (Bars)
Measures; Time Signatures...
7
Small Intervals
What is an Interval? Semitones; Whole Tones...
8
Major Scales
Writing a Major Scale; Descending Scales...
9
Key Signatures
The Order of Flats; The Order of Sharps; Identifying the Key...
10
Intervals
Intervals; Interval Quality ...
11
Inverting Intervals
Inverting Intervals; Simplifying Inverting Intervals...
12
Minor Scales
The Three types of Minor Scales; Double-Sharps and Double-Flats...
13
Time Signatures
Simple Time Signatures; Compound Time Signatures...
14
Measure Completion
Three Steps to Measure Completion ...
15
Tonic/Dominant Triads
Building Chords on Notes of the Scale; Dominant Triads; The Important Dominant Triad Rule...
16
Key Identification
Establish the Key Signature; Look for the Leading Tone...
17
Triads/Roman Numerals
Four Kinds of Triads; Roman Numerals; Minor Keys...
18
Octave Transposition
Transposing Up One Octave; Transposing Down One Octave...
19
Triplets/Other Tuplets
The Triplet; Other Odd Groupings; Filling in the Missing Tuplet...
20
Key Transposition
The Three Methods of Transposition; Atonal Music...
21
Triad Inversions
Two Major Inversions...
22
Cadences
Music Takes a rest; The Authentic Cadence; The Perfect Authentic Cadence...
23
Modes
The Seven Modes; Why Use Modes?...
24
Other Clefs
The Alto Clef; The Tenor Clef; Why Other Clefs?...
25
Score Formats
The Short Score; The Full score, or Open Score...

Each lesson consists of a text lesson, a compresensive set of worksheets to help cement the concepts you're learning, a quiz, so that you can be sure you know what you've learned, and of course the 25 computer videos of Gary actually teaching each lesson.  Click [here] for a brief video demo (note that the resolution of this demo has been reduced for easier web access).

  The course starts off with the basics, but as you can see, by the time you've completed Lesson 25, you really know your stuff!