What You Will Learn!
- Students will learn how to read and identify note/rest types and values
- Students will learn how to read, identify, and use different types of music clefs
- Students will learn how to read, interpret, and apply dynamic symbols and articulation patterns to music for both classical and jazz
- Students will learn how to identify, recognize, label, and build Major note intervals.
- Students will learn how to use The Circle and The Cycle for Major Keys.
- Students will learn the formula for building any Major scale.
Description
Course Overview:
This course is intended for all audiences with musical interest. Whether you are a musician looking to enhance your own skills, you are interested in teaching jazz theory, or you are someone who doesn't perform but is interested in music "mechanics", this course is tailored for all audiences levels. This is a basic music theory course. Topics like how to read time signatures, clefs, and dynamics are what this course is about. The course also introduces you to some intermediate topics like Intervals (only major intervals are covered in this course), The Circle of Fifths, and the Cycle of Fourths.
This classroom consists of video lectures, practice assignments, PowerPoint materials for the students, audio files for ear-training, and a final comprehensive self-assessment at the end of the course for you to see what you may or may not need to go back and review.
If you have any questions about the content in this course, feel free to contact Veezy. Veezy also offers online lessons in saxophone (all ages and levels), guitar (beginners) and piano (beginners). Reach out to her if you would like to set up private instrument lessons.
About the instructor:
Veezy Coffman is a performing artist, novelist, and craftsperson. She focuses all of her music, literature, and visual artwork around the jazz era in the hope that she can keep that part of America's culture alive. She is based in West Virginia, and she currently works as both a solo jazz artist around WV, KY, and OH.
Veezy is a dual major in music and business. Her main instrumental focus is the saxophone, and she has secondary instrumental proficiency in guitar, piano, and vocals.
Who Should Attend!
- Beginner - Intermediate music audiences
