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Fundamentals

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The Musical Alphabet

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Octaves and Middle C

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Reading the Staff

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Sharps, Flats, and Enharmonics

5

Semitones vs Whole Tones

Hearing Pitch in Context

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Hearing Scale Degrees

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Building the Major Scale

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The Circle of Fifths

4

Three Minor Scales

↳ builds on Major Scale Construction

Intervals

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Naming Intervals

↳ builds on Major Scale Construction
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Consonance vs Dissonance

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Song Anchors for Intervals

↳ builds on Interval Naming & Quality
4

Intervals Beyond the Octave

↳ builds on Interval Naming & Quality

Chords

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Triads as Stacked Thirds

↳ builds on Interval Naming & Quality
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Adding the Seventh

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Major and Minor Sixth Chords

4

Sus4, Add2, and Add4 Chords

↳ builds on Triad Construction as Stacked Intervals
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9ths, 11ths, and 13ths

↳ builds on Seventh Chords
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Root Position and Inversions

↳ builds on Seventh Chords
7

Close, Open, and Arpeggiated Voicings

Harmony in Time

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Tonic, Subdominant, Dominant

↳ builds on Triad Construction as Stacked Intervals
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Authentic, Plagal, Half, and Deceptive Cadences

3

Pop, Diatonic, and Blues Progressions

4

Dominants of Dominants

5

Minor-Key and Modal Color

↳ builds on Minor Scales: Natural, Harmonic, Melodic
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Altering the 9th, 11th, and 13th

↳ builds on Extended Chords: 9ths, 11ths, 13ths
7

The ii-V-I Progression

Modes & Advanced Scales

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The Seven Modes

↳ builds on Major Scale Construction
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Pentatonic and Blues Scales

↳ builds on Minor Scales: Natural, Harmonic, Melodic
3

Modes of Melodic Minor

↳ builds on Modes of the Major Scale
4

Whole Tone and Diminished Scales