This course is divided into three sections: 1 - the personal experience with music; 2 - the logical, historical, mathematical aspects of music; 3 - the abstract power of music.

This collection is the first of five dealing with the rudiments of music.

This collection is the second of five dealing with the rudiments of music.

This collection is the second of five dealing with the rudiments of music.

This module addresses the following music fundamentals topics:
1 Minor Keys and Scales
2 Learning Major and Minor Scales
3 Ear Training

This module addresses the following music fundamentals topics:
1 Intervals and Inversions
2 Quickly Recognizing Simple Intervals
3 Consonance and Dissonance

This module addresses the following music fundamentals topics:
1 Triads
2 Naming Triads
3 Beginning Harmonic Analysis
4 Seventh Chords and Inversions

Understanding Basic Music Theory is a comprehensive insight into the fundamental notions of music theory: music notation, rules of harmony, ear training, etc. It covers most of the topics needed to understand and develop one's musical skills.

Although it is significantly expanded from "Introduction to Music Theory", this course still covers only the bare essentials of music theory. Music is a very large subject, and the advanced theory that students will want to pursue after mastering the basics will vary greatly. A trumpet player interested in jazz, a vocalist interested in early music, a pianist interested in classical composition, and a guitarist interested in world music, will all want to delve into very different facets of music theory; although, interestingly, if they all become very well-versed in their chosen fields, they will still end up very capable of understanding each other and cooperating in musical endeavors. The final section of this course does include a few challenges that are generally not considered "beginner level" musicianship, but are very useful in just about every field and genre of music.