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Price
$25
Course Type
Online
Duration
6 hours
Date
Various dates throughout the year
Entry Requirements
All Levels
About this course
If you would like to be able to look at sheet music without feeling intimidated, understand how guitar chords work, learn your choral music more quickly, this course will help you. This course is a detailed primer in music basics. Taught by Bill Neely, who developed the Udemy course, Adventures in Classical Music, a comprehensive history of classical music.
Beginning with a short history of Rock and Roll, this course first identifies the component elements of music”rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, tempo, dynamics, and form. Then, it goes on to show how those elements come together to create music”any music whether a pop song or a classical symphony.
What are the requirements?
- I don't use a textbook for this course.
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 40 lectures and 5.5 hours of content!
- Section 1 includes a short history of Rock and Roll and relates these component elements to the styles that make up rock and roll and its predecessors.
- In 25 lectures, you will learn the component parts of music”rhythm, pitch, melody, harmony, form, etc.
What is the target audience?
- This course is intended for the beginner, although many students with some training have reported that they too have benefitted from the class.
