Course Overview

We believe that you will be able to complete the course in 4 weeks. If you choose to do so, your schedule might look like below. After each video you will do a test to check that we are on the same page. Upon finishing a topic, you will have the opportunity to hand in a voluntary assignment, where you use what you have learned and enable us to give you feedback. In the end of the course you will do a final test on the whole course. When you have reached this point, you can be very proud of yourself!

Preliminary Schedule

Week 1

Basic Concepts 1 (video)

Knowledge Test – Basic Concepts 1 (quiz)

Basic Concepts 2 (videos)

Introduction to Rythm

Note Values

Knowledge Test – Note Values (quiz)

Week 2

Pauses

Time Signature and 3/4

Knowledge Test – Pauses & Time Signatures (quiz)

Voluntary Hand-in 1: Basic Concepts

Week 3

Harmony

Introduction to Harmony

Introduction to Major Chords

Introduction to Minor Chords

Summary of Chords

Knowledge Test – Harmony (quiz)

The ”Circle of Fifths”

How to construct chords

Knowledge Test (quiz)

Voluntary Hand-in 2: Harmony

Week 4

Genres & Instrument Applications

Listening with New Ears

Knowledge Test - Listening

Turnarounds (chord sequences)

Knowledge Test - Turnarounds

Playing the 1-4-5 turnaround (Genre 1)

Playing the 1-4-5 turnaround (Genre 2)

Voluntary Handin 3: Turnarounds