BEGINNER COURSE OUTLINE
DAY 1 NOTES
Definition
Identification of notes
Naturals, Sharps, Flats
Numbering of Alphabets
Pitch and Intervals
DAY 2 SCALES
Types (Pentatonic, Hexatonic, Heptatonic)
Diatonic Scale
Major scale and formula
Minor scale and formula
Major scale fingering
Minor scale fingering
DAY 3 (SCALES 2)
Harmonic minor scale and formula
Melodic minor scale and formula
Harmonic minor scale fingering
Melodic minor scale fingering
Modes of the major scale
DAY 4
Chromatic scale
Arpeggio in 3rds in major scale
Arpeggio in 3rds in minor scale
Arpeggio in 3rds in harmonic minor scale
Arpeggio in 3rds in melodic minor scale
DAY 5 (CHORDS)
Types of harmony
Chord definition (triads)
Major triads
Minor triads
Diatonic triads
DAY 6 (CHORDS 2)
Diminished triads
Triads derived from the harmonic minor scale
Triads derived from the melodic minor scale
DAY 7 (INVERSIONS)
Inversions major triads
Inversions minor triads
Inversions from harmonic minor scale
Inversions triads from melodic minor scale
DAY 8 POWER CHORDS
Power chord voicing+major triad
Power chord voicing+minor triad
Power chord voicing+triads derived from the harmonic minor scale
Power chord voicing+triads derived from the melodic minor scale
DAY 9 EXTENSIONS
Definition of extended chords
Major 7ths
Minor 7ths
7ths of diatonic scale
DAY 10
7THS OF THE HARMONIC MINOR SCALE
7THS OF THE MELODIC MINOR SCALE
DAY 11 VOICINGS
Closed voicings
Open voicings
Shell voicings
Rootless voicings